Su Shi asked: "What things have been confirmed?"
"The actions of the secret guards in the past five years have been recorded. It took me ten days to read them all." Zhou Jin said solemnly: "In the past five years, my father has used a total of 763 secret guards to deal with One hundred and seven people were followed and investigated for five years. During these five years, five people died, 65 people were still living in the capital, and 37 people left the capital. But whether they were people living in Kyoto or people who left the capital, Everyone in Kyoto has at least two secret guards who are secretly investigating. From the records of the secret guards, we can confirm the following things."
Su Zhou had obviously known about it for a long time, so his expression did not change. However, Su Shi was shocked after hearing this, because he did not expect that the emperor would spend such a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources to investigate this matter.
As a result, he naturally lost confidence in his own judgment just now.
Because if the emperor is putting on a show, first of all, who does he want to show this show to? Secondly, is it worth spending so much manpower, material and financial resources to make a play?
Su Shi was in a daze, and Zhou Jin continued to narrate: "The first thing the secret guards confirmed was that the three imperial doctors had no problem with their judgment on the cause of the prince's death. In fact, in addition to these three imperial doctors, the emperor secretly assigned We asked two imperial doctors to investigate the cause of the prince's death, and their conclusions were no different. And in the past five years, there was nothing suspicious about these three imperial doctors."
"Does the prince have any hidden health problems?"
Zhou Jin replied with certainty: "No, the prince's brother has absolutely no hidden diseases. Both the imperial doctor who diagnoses the prince every day and the five imperial doctors can prove it."
Su Shi thought for a while and continued to ask: "The second thing confirmed by the secret guard is that no one deceived the prince."
"Bewitching the prince?" Su Shi was a little confused and couldn't help but ask.
Zhou Jin nodded and said, "Do you still remember the story you just told about a Taoist priest?"
Of course Su Shi remembered.
"Monks and Taoists, the so-called outsiders, are best at deceiving people. My father was worried that the prince's brother would be bewitched by some people, which would lead to such abnormal behavior, so he sent secret guards to investigate every day of the three months before his death. His whereabouts and people he came into contact with.”
Su Shi sighed at this time: "But nothing was found."
Zhou Jin nodded helplessly: "Among the people that the prince brother has come into contact with in the past three months, not only are there no monks or Taoist priests, but even the people he has come into contact with have not come into contact with monks or Taoist priests."
Su Shi suddenly frowned. Zhou Jin saw his expression was different and immediately stopped talking.
"Did you think of something?" Su Zhou also noticed something strange about Su Shi and asked.
"If there are no living people, then have the dead people been checked?"
"Dead person?" Zhou Jin and Su Zhou asked in confusion at the same time.
Su Shi sighed: "These are the people who were buried with the prince."
Zhou Jin and Su Zhou's expressions changed at the same time. It was obvious that they had not thought of this. Not only had they not thought of this, not even the emperor had thought of it.
Zhou Jin's expression became a little hesitant. She hesitated for a while before saying: "The prince's brother died suddenly. In the anger of the father, a total of thirteen eunuchs, maids and guards who served him were killed on questioning. But we all know that these ten The three people who serve the prince's brother personally are actually loyal people, and there is absolutely no way they have any different intentions."
Su Shi smiled bitterly and said: "In addition, these people are dead, so when the secret guards were investigating, they never thought of investigating these people again."
Zhou Jin finally nodded and sighed: "That's right, the secret guards didn't even think about investigating those thirteen people when they were investigating." At this point, she smiled bitterly and said: "Don't talk about those secret guards, even we didn't even think about it. never thought about."
Su Shi was also a little helpless, because it had been so long, and now when he wanted to check it out, things had changed and everything had disappeared.
"Is there a third one?"
Zhou Jin obviously hadn't gotten over her annoyance yet. It wasn't until Su Shi asked that she cheered up and continued: "The third confirmed thing is that there is nothing suspicious about the one hundred and seven people, so..."
Su Shi continued: "So the emperor finally believed that the cause of the prince's death was not suspicious, so he stopped the investigation."
"Yes." Zhou Jin said: "But when my father saw that I still wanted to continue the investigation, he handed over all the files investigated by the secret guards to me. If you are interested, I can ask someone to move them to the general's mansion."
Su Shi shook his head hurriedly and said, "Not interested."
He really didn't have any interest. First of all, Zhou Jin took ten days to read it, which meant that there were a lot of files. He was not willing to sit in the general's mansion for ten days and read those boring files.
Second, Zhou Jin had already read the file, but still found nothing, which meant that the secret guard had not found any useful clues at all. It would be useless for him to read it again, so why waste time.
"any left?"
"there is none left."
Su Shi sighed: "It means that 763 secret guards were used to track down the prince for five years, and then it was verified that the cause of the prince's death was not suspicious, the people the prince came into contact with were not suspicious, and no one was deceiving the prince."
"yes."
Su Shi smiled bitterly and said, "Then what are you still pursuing?"
Su Zhou said in a deep voice: "Then how should we explain the prince's abnormality during that period and what he said to us?"
Su Shi rubbed his temples and said distressedly: "Perhaps only the prince himself can explain it."
Su Zhou stared at him and suddenly said: "You are willing to come here today, obviously not to make sarcastic remarks."
Su Shi closed his eyes and thought for a while, then looked at Su Zhou and said, "I still want to know something."
"What's up?"
"Why does Qin Zhidao, Mr. Qin, also want to investigate the cause of the prince's death?"
"Because Mr. Qin and the prince are both teachers and friends, and the prince also values Mr. Qin very highly. A man who knows his own truth dies. Since Mr. Qin knows that the cause of the prince's death is suspicious, of course he must investigate it."
"The prince also summoned Lord Qin during that time?"
"Yes." Zhou Jin answered Su Shi this time.
"When? What did the prince say to Mr. Qin again?"
"On the twenty-seventh day of the winter lunar month. That day, the prince summoned Lord Qin to the palace. The two talked about political affairs for half an hour. Before leaving, when the prince's brother sent Lord Qin away from the palace, he suddenly looked at Lord Qin with a solemn face and said: 'Qin My lord, even if there are great changes in this capital, I still hope that your lord will put state affairs first and not worry about trivial matters.'"
Su Shi couldn't help but be startled, because no matter how he heard this sentence, it felt like he was asking for funeral arrangements.
"Master Qin didn't know the reason at that time and wanted to ask Brother Prince what he meant by this sentence, but Brother Prince went straight back to the house, so Lord Qin had no choice but to suppress his doubts and prepare to ask Brother Prince again in a few days." At this point. , Zhou Jin sighed and said: "Master Qin naturally didn't know that that meeting would become an eternal farewell."
"And Mr. Qin also had doubts about the cause of the prince's death because of those words, so he investigated the matter."
Su Shi clenched his hands into fists and tapped his forehead lightly, because he felt more and more that this matter was extremely bizarre.
What Zhou Xuan said to Qin Zhidao was simply a prophecy.
The great changes in the capital naturally refer to his death, and he asked Master Qin not to worry about other things, as if he did not want Qin Zhidao to investigate the cause of his death.
This made Su Shi feel extremely strange, because from the conversation between the prince and Su Zhou, Zhou Jin and Qin Zhidao, he seemed to really think that the 29th of the winter lunar month was the day of his death.
Then on the twenty-ninth day of the winter lunar month in the seventh year of Hexing, the prince died.
