Sure enough, there is something fishy behind the Buddhist niche, right? Jin Miaomiao sat up straight and stared at Shen Cha with piercing eyes, "Sure enough, my hunch was right, right?" "
"Yes!" Shen Cha smiled, "Your hunch has always been right. You have to have confidence in yourself. You have never made any mistakes. You should have noticed that there is a problem not only with the Buddhist niche, but also with the incense table. The problem is, the incense burner above cannot be moved, and only three pillars of fine incense can be inserted at most. A thicker one or more incense sticks will not work."
"Yes, I asked Her Royal Highness the Princess why the incense burner has such a structure, but she is not particularly clear." Jin Miaomiao asked Shen Cha to take all the remaining pine nuts on the table, one by one. started to peel off. "Her Royal Highness the Princess said that this Buddhist niche was left over from the previous dynasty. The Queen Mother wanted to dismantle the incense burner before, but she gave up after trying it several times and it didn't work. It wouldn't affect anything anyway."
"If you are more curious, you can find that the incense burner is not completely fixed. It cannot move up and down, but it can rotate left and right. Hold the incense burner with both hands, first turn it four times to the left, and then turn it to the right. Move once, then turn left twice.”
"What happens after the rotation is completed? What kind of wonders will appear?"
"The secret passage behind the Buddhist niche is revealed."
Shen Cha stood next to Jin Miaomiao, waiting for her to finish peeling all the pine nuts. She picked up the plate full of pine nuts and walked back to Shen Haolin. The two of them started eating together.
"You two are really embarrassed, you know how to pick up ready-made items." Jin Miaomiao raised an eyebrow, "Where does this secret passage lead to?"
"According to King Tong's description, the end of this secret passage is a very private courtyard outside the city. It is the place where the old lady and her confidants meet. Unfortunately, they have not seen the scene on the street and have not arrested anyone. Show yourself." Shen Cha shook his head helplessly, "Prince Tong said that this is a lifelong regret. If they catch the old lady's contact with the outside world, they will get rid of her earlier and won't let her cause trouble."
"How is it possible to catch them?" Jin Miaomiao shook her head helplessly, "Seriously, if it weren't for the concubines and those who caused trouble, the people who were cleared out and kicked out of the palace before the secret tunnel was built were their informants. .By the way, what happened to these craftsmen later?"
"It's an excuse to build the old lady's mausoleum, and then..." Shen Cha gestured on his neck, "Do you understand?"
"As I thought, kill people and silence them." Jin Miaomiao nodded, "Fortunately, the news has been spread in advance. Even if we can't catch him, we can still know that the old lady is not really concentrating on worshiping the Buddha, but is pretending Under the guise of paying homage to the Buddha, she is making small moves behind her back." She sighed, "How long has the old lady been in silence? And what opportunity did she take to make a comeback?"
"It took about two and a half years to get to know everyone and everything around her before she was ready to implement her plan. She took a fancy to the younger son of the former Prince Su, who was also the cousin of Emperor Chongde, and wanted to We must support him to become Emperor Jiaren’s successor.”
"Is this young son of the Su Wang family outstanding?"
"On the contrary, this young prince can be said to be the most inconspicuous among the royal children of Emperor Chongde's generation." Shen Cha shook his head towards Jin Miaomiao, "He is timid and stupid, so the old lady picked him At that time, he was already eleven years old, but he hadn't even read the Four Books, and he struggled to express one thing. His only advantage was that he was very well-behaved and obedient."
"The only advantage of this is probably the main reason why the old lady chose him." Jin Miaomiao touched his chin, "I seemed to have said before that the old lady wanted to choose an obedient child to be the emperor, so that she could listen to politics behind the curtain. "
"Yes, she does think so. Power is very important in her eyes, more important than her life."
"I want to fulfill my youthful wish."
"Yes." Shen Cha glanced at Jin Miaomiao and then at the small plate in front of her. Seeing her protecting it with her hands, Shen Cha chuckled and waved towards her, "You don't want to eat. You don't have to do this. .”
Jin Miaomiao didn't say anything, and quickly stuffed all the pine nuts in the plate into her mouth.
"Really!" Shen Cha couldn't laugh or cry, "Hey, let's continue talking about the old lady. On the day of Emperor Jiaren's birthday, she mentioned this matter to King Su and Princess Su who came to celebrate his birthday. However, she didn't say that she wanted to train the young prince. As the heir, she just said that she has a close affinity with the young prince, who is very similar to her deceased young son, and she wants to take the young prince to live in the palace for a while. Neither King Su nor Princess Su are people who pursue fame and fortune, they just hope to live an ordinary life. Life, but this does not mean that they have no brains. They know that Emperor Jiaren and the Queen Mother are not on good terms, and the Queen Mother wants her son to enter the palace. It is not just for companionship, there must be other purposes. Therefore, when the old lady first When it was brought up, both of them said no.”
"Rejected? The old lady will never give up. I'm afraid she won't give up so easily on what she wants to do."
"She really didn't give up. In the next month, she kept sending things to Prince Su's Mansion. These things must be given to the young prince by name."
"This is a very cruel move. The young prince is a coward. He was rewarded with so many good things for no reason. He must be jealous of other brothers and sisters in the palace. During his time in the palace, he will be rewarded more and more and things will be more and more. The more expensive it is, the more difficult it becomes. Even if one hundred or ten thousand of them are unhappy, King Su and Princess Su must obediently send the child to the palace for the sake of their little son."
"However, it was Emperor Chongde and Prince Tong who persuaded them to send their children to the palace."
"Ah?" Jin Miaomiao was stunned, "Why the two of them?"
"None of the old lady's actions were out of sight of Emperor Chongde and Prince Tong, including Emperor Jiaren. Emperor Jiaren and King Su had always had a good relationship. The two brothers would occasionally meet up to have a drink, have a meal, and chat. Talking about his own dissatisfaction and so on. But since Emperor Jiaren celebrated his birthday, no matter how he made an appointment with King Su, King Su would always use various excuses not to keep the appointment. Later, Emperor Chongde and Prince Tong told Emperor Jiaren what was going on."
"As the saying goes, a wise mother is like a child. Even Emperor Jiaren knew what the old lady was planning before he even heard the whole story." Shen Cha sighed, handed Shen Haolin a cup of tea, and asked him to moisten his throat. Then he said, "Although he is an extremely selfish person, this selfishness only involves his personal interests. He could not just watch King Su in trouble, so he asked his son and adopted son to persuade King Su to send the young prince away. Enter the palace and ask them to tell King Su that it is more dangerous for the young prince to stay in the palace than to enter the palace. His own mother, he knows very well that if King Su and the princess refuse, the young prince may not be saved, and may even be killed. It will implicate the entire Prince Su's palace."
Shen Haolin heard footsteps coming from outside, and quickly put away everything on the table. After he finished putting it away, he saw the door being pushed open, and Song Qiyun's little head poked in from the outside.
