The people from the West Factory looked at each other with a look of embarrassment on their faces. One of them bowed and said, "Mr. Tang, the factory ordered us to come and invite you into the palace. He is waiting for you at the gate of the palace!"

He said politely, but it was not because the ferocious Xichang man suddenly became gentle and pure, but because these people were assigned to Tang Fan by the palace to handle the case, even Wang Zhi had never been domineering to him, so he followed the rudder and was polite.

Of course, if Tang Fan refused to follow them and Wang Zhi's order was there, these people would still be like when Tang Fan entered the palace that night, and would take him away without saying a word.

This is called soft first and then hard, and polite first and then soldiers.

Tang Fan naturally understood this, so he could only stand up and rub his stomach. He felt that he was not swollen like he had just now, and then said: "Let's go."

"Thank you, Lord Tang, for your compassion." The other party smiled, and asked about his opinion. "I don't know if Lord Tang wants to ride a horse or sit in a sedan chair, we are all ready!"

Tang Fan would certainly not be pretentious and polite when he had a sedan chair sitting. He immediately got into the empty sedan chair carried by two sedan chairmen in front and behind.

Perhaps he was oppressed by a happy and upset boss like Wang Zhi for a long time, and the efficiency of the West Factory was really not enough. As soon as Tang Fan sat in, he felt that the sedan chair suddenly seemed to rise into the air and began to move forward rapidly. What was rare is that the sedan chair was just swaying slightly, which was not much bumpy than the flat ground. He lifted the curtain and looked out, and saw that the scenery on both sides seemed to fly backwards, swishing by, and was dazzled. After watching for a long time, he was still a little dizzy. He quickly put down the curtain and closed his eyes in the sedan chair for this period of time.

After closing his eyes, he fell asleep directly. When he woke up with a slap on his shoulder twice, he saw the people from the West Factory leaning into the sedan chair and saying to him: "Sir, the palace gate has arrived."

Tang Fan opened his eyes and felt that his body had improved a lot. After taking a nap, the feeling of stomachache disappeared. He couldn't help but stretch and bent down to leave the sedan chair.

Wang Zhizheng was waiting there, his face full of impatientness. Seeing that he finally arrived, he turned around and walked in without saying a word.

"Go away quickly, I won't be able to see you if you're late!"

"What?" Tang Fan was puzzled by this sentence without beginning or end.

"Yuan Liang committed suicide by swallowing gold." Wang glanced at him and said.

Ah? Tang Fan was really surprised now.

"What the hell did you do?"

"I did nothing, I did nothing!" Wang Zhi said angrily.

"What's going on? Why did Yuan Liang just leave for a long time... Does the prince know about this?" Tang Fan asked hurriedly.

Wang Zhi called him to enter the palace, so he naturally wanted to understand the causes and consequences, so he took the lead and briefly talked about the matter through the journey to Ciqing Palace.

Only then did Tang Fan realize that after he and Wang Zhi parted ways, Wang Zhi entered the palace and went directly to Yuanliang to ask about the cause of Han Zao's death.

Yuan Liang naturally asked three questions and didn’t know them, and two were recommended to five.

Seeing that he refused to confess, Wang Zhi said to himself that I was concerned about the prince and wanted to cover it up for you. If you still refused to admit it, don’t blame me.

He threatened Yuanliang and said that he already knew about his collusion with Furu. If Yuanliang refused to tell the truth, he would report to the imperial concubine. Yuanliang would die even worse by then. Even the prince, Wu Yaohou and others would probably be implicated.

No matter how threat is, Wang Zhi has not figured out what to do.

Han Hui took action against Han Zao, but he had to choose when Concubine Wan happened to send the soup. This was inevitable that the cooperation between the two sides would be indispensable.

One is Yuanliang. Yuanliang is the one who sent Han early to the palace, and the only palace man who can have some connection with Han Hui.

Second, there must be someone around Concubine Wan who must calculate the time to deliver the soup, discuss it with Yuanliang in advance, and then choose this time to attack.

Tang Fan had already inferred from Wang Zhi before:

Concubine Wan is jealous and revengeful. She hates someone, and she will never change her mind. Just like before the prince, Zhu Youzhang appeared, the women in the harem plus children, and there will be only the consequences of completely destroying Concubine Wan. Because the emperor favored and agreed, no ministers in the court dared to speak out, so that the emperor had no son at all, and was about to lose his descendants.

At this time, the prince appeared, and he was already six years old. In other words, he lived under her nose for six years, but Concubine Wan was kept in the dark by the palace people. He didn't know how this huge sense of deception made Concubine Wan, who had always dominated the harem, bear it. So even if she knew that the prince was already sensible, she might hold grudges in the future, and even took action to kill the prince's biological mother Ji. The eunuch Zhang Min, who helped conceal the existence of the prince, was so scared that she swallowed gold and committed suicide, because she was afraid of being retaliated by Concubine Wan.

So in this case, based on Concubine Wan's human nature, she would definitely rather support the son of another concubine to be the crown prince than let Zhu Youtang become the crown prince.

Since she was unwilling to let Zhu Youtang be the prince, why would she give mung bean and lily soup to please the prince? It can be seen that her original intention must not be like this. She would send the soup here. It must be because of repeated persuasion by someone close to her that Concubine Wan changed her mind.

There are very few such candidates who can serve Concubine Wan in close proximity and persuade her, and the great palace maid Furu, who is deeply trusted by Concubine Wan, must be one of them.

Therefore, Tang Fan and Wang Zhi inferred that if Yuan Liang colluded with the people around Concubine Wan, then Furu would definitely be the most likely one.

But Wang Zhi could not go directly to Guifei Wan to explain the situation. In this way, the collusion between Yuanliang and Furu was exposed. Yuanliang was the prince's close attendant. Concubine Wan would inevitably think that the prince wanted to frame him and would definitely settle the score with the prince. Then Wang Zhi's goal of trying to please both sides could not achieve it.

Also, Furu is a palace maid with Concubine Wan, so why should he collude with Yuan Liang and get these things done?

Therefore, Wang Zhi had to think of a way to catch the murderer behind the scenes without giving Concubine Wan an excuse to clean up the harem.

Of course, this is not that Eunuch Wang is compassionate, but that he wants political speculation.

Okay, no matter what purpose it is, it is good. In short, Eunuch Wang has also tried his best.

It was not that he didn't want to arrest Yuanliang directly back to the West Factory for interrogation, but that the movement would be a big deal and Concubine Wan would notice it. So Wang Zhi could only take the opportunity to investigate the case first, sending someone to secretly investigate Furu, while privately finding Yuanliang and telling him that Furu and Han Hui had already been recruited, so that Yuanliang would better know more and he would take what he should do, so as not to implicate more people. At that time, all kinds of torture would be launched, and he would not die even if he wanted to die.

Faced with Wang Zhi's future and the whole story was poured out, Yuan Liang naturally could not argue anymore, but he was very calm and told Wang Zhi that he was responsible for his work and hoped that he would not involve anyone. He was entrusted by Concubine Ji and watched the prince grow up, and he could not drag the prince into the mud because of this matter.

Wang Zhi said disdainfully, "You need to explain this?" If I wanted to make things worse, I would have gone to the imperial concubine to receive the merits."

Yuanliang received his guarantee and said that he hoped to see the prince again, and he still had something to say to the prince.

Wang Zhi agreed.

Then, Wang Zhi hurriedly left the palace and came to find Tang Fan.

After hearing this, Tang Fan was silent for a moment and asked, "He committed suicide after seeing the prince?"

Wang Zhi nodded: "It's a gold swallow, so you won't die immediately. There will be some time left for a while. The only one who understands the inside story from beginning to end is you and me. I asked you to enter the palace because of you. I want you to ask you to understand why Yuanliang did this, whether he was for personal reasons or had other plans behind his back. Also, we have to discuss how to deal with Furu so that he can hide it from the imperial concubine."

When Yuanliang said he wanted to see the prince again, Wang Zhi had already expected that he would do this, because if he wanted to protect the prince, only when Yuanliang died would all the things be considered clean. At that time, Furu was charged and Han Hui would deal with it again, and there would be no evidence of death.

While talking, the two had already arrived at Ciqing Palace.

The prince came out to see them soon. His eyes were a little red and his expression was calm. He didn't know if he had known anything. He just said to Wang Zhi and the others: "Wang Neichen, Tang Prison, and Yuan Eunuch are very ill. He, he wants to see you..."

After doing the whole show, Wang Zhi nodded and said seriously: "Please lead the way."

The prince said, "You follow me."

It has to be said that the people who served the prince in the Eastern Palace were very loyal, because these people basically risked their lives and secretly helped Ji raise the prince without hiding Concubine Wan. When they watched him grow up, no one knew that this child would be the prince in the future, and no one knew whether the child would die early. They also knew that if the concubine discovered them, they would be a catastrophe. Even so, these people still did this.

There is no reason, it can only be said that no matter how dark the place is, there will be kind human nature. It is precisely because of these people that the prince did not become crooked. He still yearns for light and has a pure and kind heart. Tang Fan can see his heart from his articles and fonts, and he also firmly believes that the prince has nothing to do with this matter.

No matter how wind and rain are blowing outside, the East Palace has become a small world, and many people use their lives to protect the little prince. This is not something that can be touched by any gold, silver and treasures, so even Wang Zhi’s Western Factory forces have not been able to penetrate it before.

To be honest, Tang Fan was also very surprised that there was such a place and a group of people like this, why did Yuanliang do this?

The prince brought Tang Fan and the others to an inconspicuous small room in the Eastern Palace.

At this time, Yuanliang was lying on the bed, his face was completely yellow, completely different from before, and he was as angry as a slept in his spring, and it seemed that he had not had much time left.

Swallowing gold to commit suicide is a more difficult and painful way to die than hanging kimono. However, in the palace, hanging kamin is not a very easy thing. It requires tools and is easy to find poisons. Relatively speaking, swallowing gold is much more convenient. With a status like Yuanliang, there must be a lot of private houses accumulated over the years. Just cut some broken gold into small pieces and drinks to get suspense. This is also a common method used by people in the palace. When they were discovered because they were concealed by the birth of the prince, the inner official Zhang Min was worried that he would be retaliated by Concubine Wan, so he committed suicide.

Having said that, Concubine Wan had a bad temper and often beat and scolded the servants and servants around her. If Furu had a desire to retaliate because he could not bear Concubine Wan's behavior, Tang Fan believed it, but he didn't know why she didn't poison the Concubine directly, but had to use such a roundabout way, this was another doubt that needs to be resolved.

However, although Yuanliang was heading towards death step by step, his face was calm. When he saw the two of them coming, he invited the prince out first. Before Tang Fan and the others asked, he took the initiative to say, "I know what you want to ask, I will say it. But I would like to ask you one thing, this matter has nothing to do with Your Highness from beginning to end. After I die, please don't involve you in the palace, okay?"

Wang straight faced with no expression: "Stop talking nonsense, just finish speaking, why do you do this?"

Yuanliang sighed, looking gloomy: "When I first entered the palace, I was assigned to the Inner Palace Library to help clean it. At that time, I was young, ignorant, often offended people, and was beaten. Thanks to Sister Ji in the library, I always protected me and taught me to read and read. When I was punished and had no food to eat, I distributed my examples to me. In my life, I will never forget her kindness."

"Until one day, I found that Sister Ji was a little strange. She couldn't eat and vomited frequently. I was worried that she would get sick, so I asked again and again. Sister Ji told me that she might be pregnant."

"After knowing that the child is His Majesty, I am both happy for her and worried for her. What I am happy is that there were no offspring in the harem at that time. If Sister Ji could give birth to a boy, she would definitely be a concubine. Maybe the child could be named the crown prince. What I am worried about is that Concubine Wan had the final say in the harem. Even the queen was deposed for offending her. Now Concubine Wan has no offspring. Can she tolerate her sister giving birth to the child?"

"Sure enough, after a while, when Concubine Wan heard that Sister Ji was pregnant, she sent a palace maid to force her to have an abortion. Sister Ji was well, and there were many people who had received her favor like me. After the palace maid forced Sister Ji to give her a bowl of abortion medicine, we did not make things difficult for her anymore. Instead, we went directly to the Concubine that the medicine had been taken and Sister Ji did not respond. She should have been sick, not pregnant."

"Fortunately, the medicine did not play much role, and Your Highness was born in the end. You see, the hair on your head is now sparse because of the fetal toxins left by the drug attack at that time."

Recalling the past, Yuanliang's eyes became distant and his eyes became wet.

"After your highness was born, Sister Ji took him to hide from the sky every day. Sister Ji was in poor health and there was no case. Your highness's mouth food was all about us, and we had to hide it from the eyes and ears of the imperial concubine. We lived a frightened life every day."

"We have to survive until the age of six in the high school. Zhang Min confessed his high school's existence in front of His Highness. We are all happy and happy for Sister Ji, thinking that her good days are finally coming. Who knows that Sister Ji died just a few months after His Highness was made the crown prince."

He shed tears and every word he cried: "Everyone said good people will be rewarded, but I don't understand why Sister Ji is such a good person, why can't she have a good ending?"

Not to mention Yuan Liang, even Tang Fan can't answer this question.

There are always many people in this world who do things that harm the interests of others and even their lives for one's own benefit.

You said that Concubine Wan could not give birth to a son, and the prince was also appointed. Is it good for her to persecute Ji?

From the standpoint of Concubine Wan, she would of course say that there is, because she hates Ji's ability to give birth to a son, but she cannot, because she hates Ji's existence for so many years, and hates herself as a fool because she is afraid that the prince will ascend the throne in the future. Ji's will be the empress dowager, and she is just a concubine...

If Concubine Wan needs it, she can naturally come up with a lot of reasons.

In her heart, there is no word for forgiveness, no tolerance, no concession.

Now all the officials in the court, including the premier prime ministers in the cabinet, do nothing all day long and just live a life of just one's life, but they can enjoy wealth and glory.

When Concubine Wan harmed all the women in the harem and the imperial heirs, they were in vain to be the pillars of the country, but they did not dare to say a word, for fear that Concubine Wan would blow the pillow and she would lose her black hat and let her do whatever she wanted.

On the contrary, the palace ladies and eunuchs who were usually looked down upon by civil servants tried their best to save the prince, but in the end they had no good ending.
Chapter completed!