After friendly consultations, Feng Linwen, Bai Xiaotian, and Three-Legged Frog Jinbao finally reached a consensus.
Bai Xiaotian has been out for a long time, and the Yuanchun Festival is about to begin the most important part, where the ministers will taste the dishes and choose the best one.
Of course, perhaps at the very beginning, when there was not much utilitarianism involved in this kind of celebration, everything was based on the principle of fairness and justice.
But now... I can't tell for sure.
As long as there is a profit, there will be people working hard.
Feng Linwen wouldn't care about such a trivial matter.
The most taboo thing for those in power is not being able to rub sand into their eyes.
People have selfish motives, desires, and needs, and that is perfectly normal. What a truly good ruler needs to do is to unite those who are consistent with his own interests, make use of those who have minor differences with him, and double-deny those who are completely contrary to him from body to soul.
The tough demands and having all loyal ministers under his command are not just daydreaming, but also digging their own graves.
A government that is too transparent will make anyone breathless.
From the emperor to the common people, from officials to merchants, from nobles to traffickers and pawns... How many people dare to have a clear conscience, and how many people are truly spotless and have never committed any crime in their lives?
The Yuanchun Festival ended almost perfectly with joy and satisfaction from most of the people.
On the night when Bai Xiaotian returned to the Lu Mansion, Feng Linwen saw the scene from the Crew Bar in his dream.
In the picture, Cheng Penghai is sitting at the table, reviewing memorials as before, but there are always three heads hanging on the wall behind him.
These three heads were pickled. Although they looked a bit scary, they looked like they were all talented people.
They even played a certain role in helping Cheng Penghai handle government affairs.
If you are an ordinary person, you might think that these three heads are Cheng Penghai's special 'secretaries'. Cheng Penghai kept them for this purpose.
But Feng Linmo, who had already unearthed some details about Cheng Penghai, didn't believe it at all.
"If he keeps these three heads, they will be of great use." Feng Linyi embodied the notes of Taoist Yunkong in his dream.
Looking through the letters, Feng Linwen wanted to find clues.
"Wait a minute, there seems to be no connection between this page and this page...one article has been removed!" Feng Linwen looked carefully and noticed something was wrong.
"Old Turtle shouldn't have done it. He didn't have to do that. In other words... it was Cheng Penghai who did it. The note he gave to Old Turtle from the beginning was incomplete." Feng Linwen checked the context again. , carefully looking for flaws in the manuscript.
After a while, Feng Linwen was able to confirm that at least three articles had been removed from this manuscript.
Maybe just more.
"Among these three articles, there should be something particularly important recorded, which may be related to Cheng Penghai's purpose."
"It's just...what is his purpose?"
"If there was no inducement, Cheng Penghai would not be like a fool and tell me the cause and effect. And according to the fact that the late emperor died before the first spring thunder exploded, it can be seen that it was not long before Cheng Penghai took action. ." Thinking of this, Feng Linwen felt a sense of urgency again.
No matter there are several back-up moves, as long as he uses them, he will change from active to passive.
Great advantages will also be destroyed.
Even if his life was saved, it was still a heavy loss.
This is not a situation Feng Linyi wants to see.
After waking up from his dream, Feng Linwen walked out of the palace gate alone without waking up the three sleeping concubines around him.
Following the darkness of the night, without waking up the dozing eunuchs or the patrolling guards, they quietly walked to the Imperial Garden.
He needed to be alone for a while, without being disturbed, to sort out his thoughts.
Suddenly Feng Linwen heard some whispering voices.
It sounded like a woman's voice, with some sadness and sadness.
In the wind of the dark night, the sound spread from the ground like a curse, making Feng Linwen feel chilled all over.
Following the direction of the sound, Feng Linwen followed quietly.
He walked out of the imperial garden and passed through many palaces.
We arrived at the most remote and deserted corner of the entire palace.
When I looked up, I saw the three characters "Liu Fang Palace" written in large letters on the plaque that had long been covered with thick dust.
"Is this... the cold palace?" Feng Linwen was stunned.
Of course, there will not be a so-called 'cold palace' in the palace.
So generally speaking, the cold palace does not have a fixed address.
However, the cold palace is generally far away from the main palace complex, and is a place where unfavored concubines are given away.
Such a palace has been deserted for a long time, so it is called a cold palace.
Liufang Palace was once bustling. When Emperor Jing was in power, one of his favorite concubines lived here.
But suddenly one day, Emperor Jing strangled his most beloved concubine to death in this palace.
Then, Liufang Palace gradually became a cold palace.
After Feng Linwen hesitated for a moment, he followed the gap in the half-open door and entered Liufang Palace.
The weeds growing all around were enough to drown a person's head.
Half of the roof not far away has collapsed, and the other half is whining in the night wind, as if there are many evil spirits lingering here.
The moonlight falls like flowing water.
On the mottled steps, a graceful and dignified woman wearing a luxurious phoenix robe was kneeling there, like a living sculpture.
Murmurs came from the damaged half of the palace.
"Is this...the Queen Mother?" As an emperor, Feng Linwen would of course visit the Queen Mother from time to time.
It's just that they didn't really meet him often. Most of the time, the Queen Mother would hide behind the curtain, deal with him for a few words and then drive him away.
Feng Linfan also did not delve too much into the origin and truth of the Queen Mother because of the previous warning from Kruba.
Now, unexpectedly, it happened to happen under such circumstances.
"Kluba said that the queen mother's body is entrenched in the soul of another person. Could it be that this other soul belongs to a certain dead concubine in the cold palace?" Feng Linwen frowned and asked He hid his aura even more carefully.
Quietly, he seemed to hear the conversations of many women.
Distant yet inexplicably noisy.
It seemed like many remnant souls were forcibly kneaded together by a powerful force.
It is both one way and many ways.
It is both talking to oneself and having a dialogue.
"Hurry up! We don't have much time, let's kill the little emperor! Kill him, Dali will die. Only when Dali dies can we leave from here, and we can be free."
"No! We can't kill him! We can't kill him! He is Yuan Sheng's grandson, we can't kill him."
"You still can't forget that betrayer? Don't you remember? Concubine Shu! It was he who personally ordered you to be thrown into the cold palace, and it was he who personally sent Bai Ling. It's ridiculous... you are still thinking about him. , thinking of him.”
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The noisy conversation made Feng Linwen feel that this desolate palace seemed to be extremely lively.
Suddenly an angry voice ended everything: "That's enough! Not long... soon, he will be back. I... have to wait for him to come back, I want to ask clearly, I want to ask clearly, he Why kill me...why kill me!"
Later, the words sounded crazy again.
