Tang Ning's heart tightened, she didn't expect Feng Lai to ask this directly.
Sure enough, no one who can serve in front of the saint for many years and remain standing in the palace is a simple person.
Feng Lai seemed to be indifferent, but he actually knew about his brother's secret dealings with the queen and her son.
Xiao Yan was also a little surprised. The "deal" between him and the Queen was extremely secretive. For the sake of Queen Anlu, the people in the court who supported the fourth prince to ensure the "balance" between him and the second prince were not his. , but the courtier who secretly befriended Qian Baokun.
Even Emperor An and the people in the court didn't notice it, but Feng Lai actually knew about it.
Seeing that Xiao Yan was silent, Feng Lai's face darkened: "The Za family tried their best to deal with Governor Xiao in the palace and risked their heads to do things with Governor Xiao. Can't they get Governor Xiao to tell the truth in return?"
Xiao Yan said quietly: "What do you want to know?"
"Who are you?" Feng Lai said with a cold expression, "Why are you doing all this?"
He looked at Xiao Yan steadily and said in a deep voice before he could reply:
"You don't need to deny it or deceive the Zajia family. If you were just seeking power, you shouldn't have killed the second and fourth princes and used all your methods against the aristocratic family."
"You alienate His Majesty and the aristocratic family, disrupt the court, and ruin the prince's future. What do you want?"
Feng Lai had some vague guesses in his mind, but those guesses were so outrageous that it was difficult for him to convince himself.
A rootless eunuch who relied on the emperor to gain power in the court, but Xiao Yan clearly wanted to go one step further.
But for a eunuch, that is undoubtedly a foolish dream.
Feng Lai looked at him calmly: "The Za family treats Governor Xiao with sincerity and puts their wealth and life in your hands. I just want to hear the truth when I leave the palace today."
He didn't want to be used as a swordsman for no apparent reason, and end up losing his life inexplicably.
Xiao Yan could see the seriousness in Feng Lai's expression, and also heard the vague threat in his words.
If Feng Lai doesn't get the answer he wants from him today, I'm afraid he will never cover up for him in front of the Holy Father after returning to the palace. Even if he has Feng Lai's handle and his "family members" as hostages, he can If Feng Lai fights for it.
If an old fox before the Holy Spirit really tries to destroy himself, no one will be able to live well.
Xiao Yan looked at Feng Laijue, then softened his eyebrows and turned towards the inside: "Tang Ning, come out."
Feng Lai was stunned for a moment, Song Tangning? He was startled when he heard movement not far away, and in a moment a slender figure emerged from behind the screen over there.
He was surprised.
Why is Song Tangning here?
After Tang Ning walked closer and greeted Feng Lai, Xiao Yan stretched out his hand towards her.
When she saw this, she knew what Xiao Yan meant. She walked over and put her hand in Xiao Yan's palm, and then sat down next to Xiao Yan. The two of them were very close to each other, and the way their fingers were intertwined made Feng Lai's eyes wide open. Tremor.
"you……"
"As Eunuch Feng sees it."
Xiao Yan shook the hand they were holding towards Feng Lai, and then said under his disbelieving eyes:
"I don't want to deceive my father-in-law, but there are some things you may not want to know. But since you ask that now, it doesn't hurt to tell you."
"My family name is He, my father is He Wenzhuo, and my grandfather is He Yin. When I was young, I was educated in the palace together with Prince Ru's eldest son Xie Chen'an. Eunuch Feng must still remember me."
"you you!!"
Feng Lai's expression changed drastically. When he stood up and backed away with a "swish", he almost fell to the ground. When he looked up at Xiao Yan, his eyes looked like he had seen a ghost.
Congratulations to the family.
He is actually from the He family? !
Seeing his fear, Xiao Yan smiled gently: "Speaking of which, I also met Eunuch Feng in the palace back then. It's just that you hadn't come to the Holy Palace at that time, and you were an unpopular chamberlain in the Inner Palace Department."
"You were once punished by the imperial staff for knocking over the snow coral that was the favorite of the then imperial concubine. It was the prince's uncle who begged for your mercy, and the then empress dowager also spoke up, so that the imperial concubine could be exempted from your punishment."
"Later, you acted cleverly, and by chance, you caught the attention of Eunuch Sun who was beside the late emperor, and you were transferred to serve the late emperor. But I didn't expect that you would end up with Emperor An."
Feng Lai's original panic was instantly stained with fear, and his face suddenly turned pale.
Not many people knew about the past events in the palace back then, and even fewer people remembered what happened before he went to the late emperor. After he followed Emperor An, no one mentioned those past events to him for a long time.
He originally suspected that Xiao Yan's identity was fake, but he even knew that the Empress Dowager was still in the position of Empress Dowager.
Xiao Yan is really from the He family!
Feng Lai's calmness and aggressiveness during his previous "confrontation" with Xiao Yan completely disappeared. He only took half a step back and looked up at Xiao Yan, his eyes full of fear.
Xiao Yan let go of Tang Ning's hand and raised his chin slightly: "Look, the governor said that you may not want to know the truth."
Feng Lai's mouth trembled when he heard this: "What do you want to do when you come back?"
After saying that, he panicked again: "I...although I followed His Majesty, I have never harmed Prince Lu or the He family. I didn't know what happened back then."
When the orphan of the He family returned to the court, Xiao Yan acted ruthlessly and left no room at all. He thought of the fate of the Lu family, the death of Queen Lu, and the strange situation in the court today.
Feng Lai was afraid that he would be regarded as the person who framed Prince Ru and the He family and would be turned over by Xiao Yan. He said anxiously: "I did use tricks to gain your majesty's trust, but it has nothing to do with Prince Ru and the He family."
"The Governor knows."
"you know?"
Feng Lai was stunned.
Xiao Yan looked calm: "When there was a fire in the East Palace, the Lu family and Emperor An secretly killed everyone in the East Palace. They wanted to kill everyone in the East Palace. Because I stayed in the palace to accompany my cousin, my uncle's concubine Xue took advantage of the chaos and escaped. , when the bones were inspected in the East Palace afterwards, no one found that a child was missing.”
"There must be palace ban records for the He family's children entering and leaving the palace. It is impossible for Lu Chongyuan and Emperor An not to notice it, unless someone tampered with it and found the bones of other children and sent them to the fire quietly to cover me and Concubine Xue."
He was about the same age as He Yan, the third son of the He family, and had a very similar body shape. Because they had a good relationship, and He Yan was his school companion, he often went to the palace to accompany him.
On the day of the fire in the East Palace, He Yan was indeed in his palace. It was only because he had something to do to see his mother and concubine that he did not go with He Yan, causing him to accidentally die in the fire.
After Xiao Yan escaped that year, the imperial guards chased him all the way, but he was easily led away by Concubine Xue. Afterwards, neither the late Emperor nor Emperor An, nor the people of the Lu family, noticed that a child's body was missing from the East Palace.
You must know that the fire burned the person beyond recognition, and it was impossible to tell whether it was him or He Jiazi who died just by looking at the skeleton.
If it is really discovered that someone is missing, the palace will definitely not give up and dig deep enough to find the person.
However, after the people who were chasing Concubine Xue discovered the traces and called the law, the pursuit in the palace was stopped. He was hidden outside the city by Mrs. Rong for more than a full month, and no one came to search for him.
In other words, everyone believed that there were no shortage of people in the East Palace.
Both Xie Chenan and He Jiazi died in the fire.
Xiao Yan asked: "Eunuch Feng, who do you think was the one who tampered with me back then?"
