Feng Lai's expression changed, and he heard Xiao Yan say: "Although the old events have been wiped away, there are still traces to be traced. The person who can hide it from the late Emperor and Emperor An at the same time, and make Lu Chongyuan not suspicious, must be someone they trust." .”
"I once met an old servant of the Empress Dowager, and learned from her that after the fire in the East Palace, the Empress Dowager had a dispute with the late emperor. At one time, the late emperor had murderous intentions due to hysteria, but later he suddenly contracted an emergency and became weak. Also, when the previous emperor passed away and a new emperor ascended the throne, some people manipulated the situation so that the Empress Dowager could only be confined in her own palace."
"After the new emperor ascended the throne, someone has been secretly looking after him so that the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother can be protected."
A crazy empress dowager who was not valued by the emperor. All the servants around her were dead and only an old woman was left alive.
If there was no one to look after her secretly, the Empress Dowager would have been dead long before Xiao Yan could return to the palace.
After Xiao Yan finished speaking, he stood up and said, "I should thank Duke Feng for your great kindness."
Eunuch Feng, Eunuch Feng.
One word difference, the meaning is completely different.
Next to her, Tang Ning heard these secrets for the first time, but when she thought about it, it was indeed as Xiao Yan said. If someone hadn't been involved in the matter back then, he wouldn't have been able to escape the palace interception, and it would have been difficult for him to leave the capital completely. She also stood up. , and saluted Feng Lai.
"Thank you Mr. Feng."
Xiao Yan raised his eyes and faced Feng Lai and said seriously: "If I want to protect the He family, I must go through Shengqian. This matter cannot be circumvented by Mr. Feng. Although I have deceived you and forced you to act with me, from now on I don’t mean to hurt you, but if it is really unavoidable, I will also find a way to let you fake your death and leave the palace to reunite with your two grandchildren."
"I don't tell the truth. I really have no choice but to do it. I hope Mr. Feng can forgive me."
Feng Lai's face stiffened, his original fear dissipated a little, and the panic in his eyes calmed down, he just greeted Xiao Yan and the two of them.
He hesitated and struggled in his heart for a moment before telling the truth.
"The body that was sent to the fire was not the work of the Zajia family."
Xiao Yan was stunned.
Feng Lai whispered: "There is a servant named Xu in the East Palace. Does Governor Xiao still remember him?"
Xiao Yan stared for a moment, and a figure appeared in his mind, and then he heard Feng Lai say:
"During the fire in the East Palace, in addition to the missing body of a child, there was also missing a chamberlain who should have been on duty. When the corpses were counted in the palace afterwards, there were all the people in the East Palace, and there were not many of them."
"On that day, both Cao Gong and Rong Taifu entered the palace. Rong Taifu had a dispute with the late emperor because of the rebellion in the East Palace. The emperor and his ministers had a big quarrel and almost destroyed the imperial palace. In addition, the empress dowager went crazy and talked. Li only said that the prince was harmed by others, and the late emperor allowed others to commit murder, which made people excited, and everyone in the palace focused their attention on them."
"Because Duke Cao kept himself safe and did not want to be involved in the treason case, he left quietly without entering the palace. However, the Za family has seen the records of his coming and going from the palace. He stayed in the palace for more than half an hour. When he left the palace, he was injured due to a fall. His legs and feet were broken and he was helped out of the palace by a chamberlain."
"The Za family recognizes that chamberlain."
Feng Lai was still serving as an errand for the late emperor at that time, but his master, the servant Sun, was the person whom the late emperor trusted most. When Taifu Rong had a dispute with the late emperor, Feng Lai did not enter the palace to serve him. Instead, he was sent by Eunuch Sun to keep an eye on the East Palace. On the way there, I met Cao Dejiang, who had broken his leg after falling.
Feng Lai was attentive, and when he sensed something was wrong, he secretly went to the Inner Palace Department and found that there was an additional young eunuch who died of illness and a runaway slave in the records of the Inner Palace.
It was a coincidence that as soon as he went there, he met someone who also went to the Inner Court Division. Feng Lai just turned a blind eye and never revealed the matter. He even helped cover it up and helped Cao Dejiang get him in and out. The time in the Forbidden Palace was moved back half an hour.
Feng Lai pursed his lips. He knew that if he pretended to accept the life-saving grace, Xiao Yan would definitely not make things difficult for him, and might even give him a fortune. However, some things cannot be covered by paper.
Since Xiao Yan informed him of his identity today, I'm afraid there will be big moves.
Although Grand Tutor Rong is dead, Cao Dejiang is still alive, and the Empress Dowager is also still alive. If they talk about this in the future and find out that he pretended to be someone else's credit, then he would not have raised many hands back then. Love will be completely consumed, and he will die without knowing how.
Feng Lai turned sideways to avoid the two men's salutes, with a hint of guilt on his face.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was kind to his servant, but he could not help him much. As for the Empress Dowager, the Cao family has been secretly channeling money to help take care of her. What the servant did was just to investigate the inner court without details, and to beat the palace people and not treat them too harshly. .”
He was originally a eunuch, relying on his master's dignity to survive.
After following Emperor An, he naturally did not dare to take too much care of the people he hated. The only person with a conscience was to know the Cao family's actions and turn a blind eye to cover them up.
He didn't dare to do anything else.
Xiao Yan's expression changed when he heard Feng Lai's words. He didn't expect that someone else had escaped from the East Palace back then, and he didn't expect that Feng Lai would explain to him so calmly.
After he took over the Twelve Prisons of the Inner Court, he only found out that someone had been taking care of the Queen Mother. Feng Lai, who was in charge of the Inner Court before him, had never treated the Queen Mother harshly. He even relied on Feng Lai to survive several serious illnesses. , In addition, there were people who covered up the traces of him and Aunt Xue, and the records in the inner court were incomplete, but neither Emperor An nor the late Emperor noticed.
Xiao Yan concluded that someone was involved, and Feng Lai, who was a powerful internal prisoner and was later favored by Emperor An, was the most likely, but he didn't expect that Cao Dejiang was involved.
Seeing that Feng Lai's face was dull and worried, Xiao Yan still gave Feng Lai a solemn salute.
Feng Lai was startled: "Director Xiao, what are you..."
Xiao Yan solemnly said: "Although it is not entirely your fault, if you had not raised your hand and ignored it and secretly helped to cover it up, this matter would have been extremely difficult to complete."
"I will remember Mr. Cao's kindness, and so will Mr. Feng."
When Feng came to see him, he didn't look like he was lying, and his eyes were open and sincere. His tense heart was completely relieved, and he was even more happy that he had made the right choice by choosing to be honest. For Xiao Yan, who had experienced hatred since childhood, , a person who has waded through blood step by step, it is the next best thing to play tricks on him.
The atmosphere at Yueli Terrace calmed down, and Feng Lai's expression relaxed a bit after everything was said. After sitting down again, looking at Xiao Yan's face made him feel a little guilty and emotional.
"It was just a matter of luck, but I didn't expect that Xiao Langjun actually survived."
Xiao Yan said calmly: "Maybe the injustice was too great and even God couldn't bear to see it. After I escaped from the palace, I had to be helped by noble people to save my life. I had been planning for many years before I could return to the capital."
Feng Lai hesitated after hearing this: "Then Governor Xiao wants to..."
Xiao Yan: "Of course it's for my grandfather and He family Zhaoxue."
