Xiao Jue was stunned for a moment. Of course he knew who Wang Wei was. He was a great Confucianist in the world, and his knowledge was as famous as Su Hong. Many powerful children competed to be proud to worship him.

Although Wang Wei is indeed one of the few calligraphers who are proficient in Qin seal script, no one would believe that he would end up doing such dirty things in person.

Xiao Jie seemed to see the confusion in Xiao Jue's heart, and said with a faint smile, "Eliminate all the impossible, and the last remaining possibility, no matter how absurd, becomes the truth...you will find out as soon as you follow me."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Jie led Xiao Jue straight to a secret courtyard with heavy guards. In the middle of the courtyard was a fish pond. Two giant tortoises were swimming slowly in the pond. , Seven Kings Followed" two lines of seal characters.

Now the emperor is in a coma and the prince is in charge of the country. A group of people from Hanoi County sent the giant tortoise to the capital, and then they were sent to the East Palace. Xiao Jie sent heavy troops to guard it strictly, and no one was allowed to approach.

Xiao Jie looked at the two giant tortoises in the fish pond, smiled and asked Xiao Jue, "Ninth Brother, can you tell the difference between these two tortoises?"

Xiao Jue narrowed his eyes and looked at the two giant tortoises, comparing them separately, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "Seventh brother, the size, color and body of the two giant tortoises are exactly the same, but the seal characters on the backs of the two giant tortoises seem to be the same. Not from the same hand."

Xiao Jie nodded with a smile, then took out two pieces of silk from his sleeve, handed them to Xiao Jue, and motioned Xiao Jue to open them.

Xiao Jue opened it as he said, and found that although the two pieces of cloth were written in seal characters of "Ascension of the True Dragon in the South China Sea, Great Ning's Prosperity for Ten Thousand Years", the handwriting was obviously not from the same hand.

After a moment of stupefaction, Xiao Jue seemed to understand something: "Seventh brother, are you planning to confuse the real with the fake?"

Xiao Jie nodded, his eyes fell on the back of a giant tortoise in the fish pond, and he smiled coldly: "Although there is a lot of noise about Ruizhao now, but few people have actually seen the giant tortoise with their own eyes, Yugui and Silk Book."

"Therefore, I asked the Tao family to spend a lot of money to secretly search for this very similar giant tortoise for me, and then I found a skilled craftsman to help me carve another jade jade that is exactly the same. You only need to replace the seal characters on it with Wang Wei's, and then destroy the original giant tortoise, jade jade and silk script, and once I make these things public, I'll see how the Wang family will explain them to the world."

Hearing this, Xiao Jue couldn't help but gasped. Now he finally understood why his seventh brother could be so calm. It turned out that such a ruthless plan had been brewed in secret, and this time the Wang family was really going to be doomed.

But he still had doubts in his heart: "Seventh brother, since everything is ready now, why didn't you attack the Wang family as soon as possible, but let them stir up trouble outside and continue to slander you."

Xiao Jie smiled coldly, looked towards the direction of the palace wall, and said leisurely: "Because the trouble is not big enough now... After all, the Wang family will only be miserable if the trouble is bigger!"

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Since Emperor Xiao Ji fell into a coma, the strictest curfew has been enforced in Luoyang City, and no one is allowed to go out on the streets after dark.

Therefore, every time night falls, the streets become empty, and people dare not go out to the streets until dawn.

But today, as soon as the people around Nanshi went out, they were surprised to find that a huge stone tablet had been erected at Nanshikou overnight, and a line of big characters was engraved on the stone tablet: "Xiao Jie should be the Son of Heaven."

Nanshi was originally the busiest market in Luoyang City, with countless people coming and going every day, so when the government officials arrived after hearing the news, there were already tens of thousands of people pointing and discussing around the stone tablet. One after another, most of the words were dissatisfaction and contempt for Prince Xiao Jie.

If the content on the giant tortoise, silk script and jade jade was still vague and specious, then the words on the stone tablet have completely exposed Prince Xiao Jie's impatient ambition to become emperor.

Although the government quickly sent people to remove the stele, the matter of the huge stele was still aroused. Many scholars even couldn't get used to it. They secretly expanded the writing on the stele and distributed it everywhere, so as to accuse the prince Xiao Jie of being blind. Monarch father.

The common people were even more disgusted with Xiao Jie. After all, as the saying goes, filial piety comes first. Now that his father has not passed away, Xiao Jie, as a prince, can't wait to become emperor. It is really outrageous.

As the matter of the stele spread more and more widely, the criticism against Xiao Jie in Luoyang City also intensified.

"Zhuangyuanju" is the most famous restaurant in the entire Luoyang city, located at the intersection of Dingding Street and Luoshui, and it is also the busiest and busiest area in the city.

It is precisely because of this that the business of "Zhuangyuanju" is very hot every day, and there is an endless stream of guests coming in and out. It is not only the first choice for foreign merchants going to the capital, but also an ideal place for Luoyang diners to entertain guests and friends.

The restaurant occupies a large area and is three floors high. The first floor is the lobby, the second floor is the private room, and the third floor is the guest room. Noisy, very lively.

This is true for all men, as long as they have a few glasses of wine, they will start to get carried away, can't control their mouths at all, and dare to say anything.

Nowadays, the auspicious incidents related to Prince Xiao Jie are well known in the whole Luoyang city, and naturally become the focus of heated discussions among these drinkers.

Among them, a scholar dressed as a Confucian scholar did not know how many glasses of wine he had drunk. His face was very red and he smelled strongly of alcohol. It was obvious that he had drunk a lot and was not lightly drunk.

Taking advantage of his alcohol, he slapped the table hard, shouted and cursed loudly: "There are many unfilial sons in the world, but no one is more unfilial than him!"

Many people could hear who he was accusing Sang and Huai of scolding, but he still deliberately said, "Brother, I don't know the name of the unfilial son you mentioned?"

Maybe he really drank too much wine, and the Confucian scholar had already given up all his strength by being drunk, and he cursed directly: "Who else am I scolding? Of course it's the one from the East Palace... Oh my God, how can I, Daning, be so arrogant?" A prince, is he so impatient to become emperor? Do you think that everyone in the world is an idiot? Think that everyone will be deceived by the so-called auspicious signs he forged... Uh..."

The words of the young Confucian scholar could not go on, because a long sword had pierced his chest mercilessly...

The crowd around the audience were listening intently, but they never expected that someone would dare to commit murder in front of everyone. Everyone was dumbfounded, and no one thought of reporting to the police...

The murderer was a flesh-faced warrior, he withdrew his long sword, let the Confucian scholar's body fall down, then glanced at the crowd with cold eyes, and said coldly: "Anyone who dares to slander the prince in public will end like this? "

Although the warrior did not declare his identity, from his words, everyone could tell that he was Prince Xiao Jie's man, who was responsible for killing those who dared to criticize the prince in public.

Thinking that he had said bad things about Xiao Jie behind his back before, many people couldn't help being silent, and they all lowered their heads and dared not speak.

The warrior saw it, snorted coldly, and was about to walk away on the spot.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, two people quickly stepped back to the door, blocking the way of the warrior.

Seeing this, the warrior couldn't help being furious: "What are you two, you dare to block Lao Tzu's way, if you don't get out of here, you will lose your life."

The two people blocking the way looked at each other, and took off their outer robes together, revealing the guard uniforms of the Eastern Palace Zhushu underneath.

Everyone in the restaurant was dumbfounded again, why did two people from the East Palace come again.

Since Xiao Jie was formally established as the crown prince, he has organized his original trilogy Qingzhou soldiers into the left and right guard rate and left and right internal rate among the various rates of the Eastern Palace. Lieutenant General Luo Zhao.

When the warrior saw that the other party was actually a member of the Eastern Palace, he couldn't help but panic, and then forced a smile: "The flood rushed into the Dragon King Temple, and the family does not recognize the family. Everyone is from His Royal Highness. If there is any If you offend, I hope the two brothers will take care of it."

Sha Luo smiled coldly: "Your Highness the Crown Prince will be very touched by you for maintaining his reputation so much. Why don't you come with us to the East Palace to meet His Highness the Crown Prince? I'm sure His Highness the Crown Prince will reward you heavily."

Hearing what the other party said, the warrior knew that there was no room for negotiation, so he gritted his teeth and drew his sword directly to attack Sha Luo and Luo Zhao, trying to fight a bloody way out.

But Sha Luo and Luo Zhao seemed to have expected his move long ago, unhurriedly drew out their swords to fight calmly, and did not give the warrior a chance to escape.

The warrior was one against two, and quickly fell into a disadvantage, and was finally subdued by Sha Luo and Luo Zhao, who escorted him away, leaving only the stunned onlookers in the restaurant.

Many people soon realized that the murderous warriors and the leaders of the East Palace were obviously not in the same group, so who the hell was using the name of Prince Xiao Jie to indiscriminately kill innocent people...

Some people have realized that maybe someone is really manipulating everything behind the scenes, with the purpose of discrediting Prince Xiao Jie and preventing him from enthroning as emperor in the future.

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