After coming out of Prince Dai's Mansion, Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Bai Meng took Mei Lin and Mei Zhu back to the Duke's Mansion. Along the way, they were all thinking about Prince Ning. The more they thought about it, the less they could figure it out. They seemed to be being Shrouded in fog, I can't get out.
"The child prodigy who solves the case, the wise king, and the one who is willing to sacrifice himself for the cause of justice." Shen Cha sighed heavily, looked at Shen Haolin, and then at Bai Meng, "Putting these words together, it doesn't look like someone who can seek power. Someone who usurps the throne and will plot evil.”
"It can be seen from the attitude of Prince Dai that he is not a crazy person. Otherwise, Prince Dai would still have him in his heart if he didn't come back now." Bai Meng winked at the two people, "Please pay attention. Are you there? When it comes to His Highness Prince Ning, the prince's expression is not very good."
"Commander, you don't understand this. From His Highness's point of view, His Highness Prince Ning is someone else's child." Mei Zhu smiled and came to Bai Meng's side. "It's like the father-in-law of our country will always be the child of another family." It’s what many elders say about other people’s children, and the children in those elders’ homes have always hated our father-in-law!”
"Xiaozhu, you are wrong. I understand the mood of His Royal Highness very well." Bai Meng patted herself, "I am the child who hates your father-in-law. I remember when I was very young, my grandfather always said, Look at the children of Shen Guogong's family. Look at them. They are better than you everywhere. They are first in literature and first in martial arts. Look at yourself. Although you are not that bad, you are not making progress. Can you? If you don't go out and fool around every day, can you use those thoughts on serious matters?" He spread his hands and said, "Look, the conflict between me and your father-in-law is not just a day or two, but has been accumulated over time since childhood. Also. It’s just that I have a good temper and don’t care much about this, otherwise, I would have been beaten eight hundred times a day.”
"Eight hundred times?" Shen Cha raised his lips, "Commander, are you sure you can beat my brother?"
"Xiaocha, life is full of difficulties, so don't add insult to injury." Bai Meng sighed, "Actually, His Royal Highness is not a narrow-minded person, otherwise, he would not speak for His Highness Prince Ning. But this Prince Ning Your Highness...we should really go see him and find out why he is willing to bear such a reputation."
"Didn't I say it, for the sake of so-called righteousness?"
"Haolin, do you believe it?"
"I don't know. I've never encountered it myself, so I can't talk nonsense. But..." Shen Haolin pondered for a moment, "Don't you think it's a little strange?"
"Weird? It's very strange!" Bai Meng nodded towards the oncoming patrol and turned sideways to let them pass first, "His Royal Highness Prince Ning, Mrs. Marquis Wu Ding, and even the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty and us who were implicated. , and there are many people we know and don’t know, who seem to be trapped in a maze by something. This maze is full of twists and turns, false and true, true and false, once we accidentally fall into it A trap, at least it can be like His Royal Highness Prince Ning, who was imprisoned, or more seriously, like the old Madam Wu Dinghou who lost her life."
"I think so too. As far as this game of chess is concerned, we are both the chessmen and the chess pieces. It depends on how we go next." Shen Haolin looked at the thoughtful Shen Cha and said, "What are you thinking about? ?”
"What kind of shocking secret could set up such a big game? This secret involves not only our generation, but also the previous generation, the generation before that, and even counting on, there may be unclear connections. Now think about it. Look, the late Emperor, the Queen Mother, father, mother, Uncle Xue, Aunt Xue, and several older uncles, they seem to have never been truly happy, truly happy." Shen Cha looked at the two people around him , "Have you two ever felt like this?"
"When you say that, it's true." Bai Meng touched his chin and recalled, "Before my grandfather passed away, besides what he told me, he wanted to say something else, but he didn't say it in the end. "
"The same goes for father and mother, as well as Uncle Xue." Shen Haolin also added, "I hesitated to speak. I thought they didn't trust us, and I promised them that they would take good care of the tea and wine, and bring them with us." The Shen family army is guarding Jiaping Pass and will never let foreigners step in. But now that I think about it, that is not what they seem to be worried about."
The three people looked at each other and sighed at the same time. The more the case was investigated, the more psychedelic it became, and they were getting more and more clueless.
Ever since Shen Haolin and Shen Cha returned to Beijing, Bai Meng rarely returned to his Grand Commander's Mansion. He either stayed in the palace or set up camp at the Duke's Mansion.
This is what Song Jue means. Bai Meng lives here to prevent some blind people from coming to the Duke's Mansion to cause trouble.
Shen Haolin and Shen Cha welcomed Bai Meng to live here and specially prepared a yard for him to make his stay more comfortable.
"There were too many people on the street just now. There are some things I can't say." After entering the study, Shen Cha took off his outer cloak and handed it to Merlin. He washed his hands first and said while washing, "The late Emperor Before he passed away, he specially called us, His Majesty, Qiyun, and Xiaojiu to his side, and said some heart-to-heart words to us, do you still remember, brother and commander-in-chief?"
"Remember, it has a profound meaning. I still haven't figured out what it means."
"Don't be bound by fate, be brave enough to break free." After washing his hands, Shen Cha sat at the tea table and began to make tea for everyone, "Don't you think this is not like the late emperor's usual style? In my impression The late Emperor never said anything like this."
"Don't be afraid of difficulties and move forward bravely." Shen Haolin nodded, "Such resolute words are indeed not in line with the late emperor's gentle personality."
"It's because of this that I've always wondered why the late emperor left such a paragraph at the end." Bai Meng smiled bitterly, "But now it seems that the late emperor had expected that we would be involved, and that's why he We were warned at the last moment. But have these adults gone a little too far? Now that we have been involved, and since they know that we will definitely be part of this network, they can't talk to us openly and honestly? Do we have to investigate, do we have to go back to their old ways?"
"It's not like we're following the old path again!" Shen Cha filled two bowls of tea soup to Shen Haolin and Bai Meng and handed them over. "The direction of their original investigation must be different from ours now. They may think that our investigation The direction is the right one, so I want to see how our ending is and whether it is the same as theirs."
"What if we fail?"
"And our next generation, sooner or later someone will break through this net. Looking at it..." The three people touched the teacups lightly and said in unison, "It's really not easy for us!"
