The rain seemed to be getting heavier again.

The previous thundercloud struck again, and the light of lightning passed through the window lattice and curtains, illuminating the bed.

Xu Jian clearly saw that Lin Yunyan's eyes were red.

How can you not be sad?

If the truth is as they inferred, it would be more heartbreaking to them than an accidental leak, or someone deliberately planning to kill someone.

The fire was not an accident, but the fatal consequences were.

After the lightning flash, the vision was once again shrouded in darkness.

Xu Jian has good night vision and can clearly see the outline of Lin Yunyan.

He raised his hand and gently landed on Lin Yunyan's cheek, wiping the corners of her eyes with his thumb.

"Cry if you want to," Xu Jian said.

Lin Yunyan's eyelashes trembled and she said: "I can't cry..."

You must exercise restraint when guiding Li Shao, be calm when answering in front of the emperor, and even more calm when facing the empress dowager, for fear of making the empress cry too.

Her emotions were tense all night, and she could hardly control herself several times.

But now, when she no longer needs to suppress and can release, Lin Yunyan can no longer cry.

My heart felt heavy, weighed down by tens of thousands of mountains. My throat was sore and my eyes hurt, but I couldn't cry aloud.

Amidst the thunder and rumbling, Lin Yunyan adjusted her posture and leaned against Xu Jian.

Xu Jian stuffed a pillow behind her and simply hugged her half-relying on her. She didn't speak any more and just stayed with her quietly.

Between the curtains, there was only the sound of two people breathing.

The lightning and thunder outside still continued, sometimes dazzling and sometimes deafening.

In Lin Yunyan's heart, the quiet and powerful heartbeat in her ears finally overshadowed the lightning strikes, and time after time, her ups and downs of emotions gradually calmed down.

After a long time, she asked: "After looking through the case files tomorrow, do you want to report this inference to the Holy One?"

"No matter how reasonable the inference is, it is still an inference. Let Eunuch Cao go check on the monkey-faced eunuch first, and then we have to listen to what my father-in-law thinks." Xu Jian said.

Lin Yunyan responded in a low voice, and then said: "I'm not very confident..."

She spoke nonsense, but Xu Jian understood what she meant: "I know."

This inference is very beneficial to Li Shao.

In other words, it is completely stuck on the "guilt" of the Holy One.

Over the years, the Holy One could not let go of Dingguo Temple because he had made mistakes.

"If I hadn't brought all the guards and monk soldiers down the mountain, I would have left more people on the mountain..."

"If I hadn't had a dispute with the queen, I might have been able to rescue the person in the hall that night..."

These two words have always been on His Majesty's lips.

Now, these two "ifs" can almost give a clear answer.

The monkey-faced eunuch lit a fire just to mobilize the guards and monk soldiers who rushed down the mountain to return to the temple. Whether the saint came down the mountain or not, there would be such a fire.

The late empress did not argue with the Holy Emperor, so she would not light the sleeping incense in the east room.

The people at the foot of the mountain come to ask for help. Whether the Holy Spirit personally leads the guards to rescue him or just sends out manpower, when the hall burns down, people can run out from inside...

The person who set the fire was certainly the real culprit, but the various coincidences surrounding the Holy Spirit led to the tragic ending.

Lin Yunyan can distinguish between wrongs and debts, and the Holy Spirit can also understand the truth, but it does not mean that he will not feel more guilty.

The truth is the truth, and the emotion is the emotion.

The authorities are obsessed, and the Holy Spirit will become even more obsessed after being trapped in the situation for more than ten years.

"The Holy Lord has a kind and self-denying temperament and is good at reflection," Xu Jian said softly, "This is his advantage, but it can also become his shortcoming, just like when facing Dingguo Temple, he cannot cut through the mess quickly.

The late empress has passed away, and he cannot restore it or make up for it. All his emotions have been poured into Li Shao."

Lin Yunyan nodded.

This is inevitable.

They had already expected it, but they had not thought before that the most likely truth would hit the Holy One exactly that night.

Xu Jian combed Lin Yunyan's long hair with his fingers and said: "I just told you to risk your life and live, but now there is no such opportunity.

The one who will never forget that night is not only Your Majesty, but also the Empress Dowager and you.

The Holy One admits that he has made mistakes. He is ashamed of Li Shao. What have the Empress Dowager and you done wrong? He will be even more ashamed of you."

"Li Shao is his son." Lin Yunyan said.

Emotions can be divided into closeness and distance.

"The Empress Dowager is the late emperor's middle palace, and is the Holy Mother's direct mother," Xu Jian said, "the words "respect and filial piety" are words that the kind-hearted Holy One dare not forget.

He wanted to find out the truth about Dingguo Temple before choosing to fight for the throne. Compared to those in Yongji Palace and compared to Li Mi, the Holy Emperor had no background at all and did not have any advantage.

He can stand out only because of the full support of the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager helped His Majesty ascend the throne, and also tried her best to support him in the first few years after he succeeded to the throne. After the Holy Emperor was able to fully assume the responsibility of the government, he retired without any regrets.

Once Li Shao's actions touch the Queen Mother's bottom line, the Holy Emperor will not just indulge him."

Lin Yunyan pursed her lower lip.

The Empress Dowager's bottom line now is the Shen family and her.

"It's hard work for your mother-in-law to still worry about me at such an old age..." Lin Yunyan sighed.

Xu Jian smiled: "She must be happy that she can still worry about you."

Saying this, Lin Yunyan thought of what the Empress Dowager had said.

What the empress couldn't let go the most was that after she passed away, she couldn't find anyone to ask for help.

Once upon a time, the empress died in the late spring of the seventeenth year of Yongjia. This time, the knot of the cause of King Ding's death was solved. Lin Yunyan hoped that the empress could live longer.

"Step by step, before Li Shao is unable to stand up," Lin Yunyan organized her thoughts, "We have to find out the person behind the scenes. I suddenly want to know what he thinks about the accident at Dingguo Temple.

Unexpected.

Because the first empress died, the Holy Emperor, who had no intention of fighting for power, got involved and eventually won the throne.

That man's intestines are probably blue."

It can be heard from the voice that the little princess's mood has completely calmed down.

Xu Jian couldn't help but curl her lips and said, "I'll let you interrogate him then and see what kind of rhetoric he has."

He took away the pillow and the two of them lay down one after another.

There was still not much sleepiness, so Lin Yunyan simply shared the Qianfu incident with Xu Jian.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "The oil lamp was so hot that I closed the door and the window and held it in front of me for a long time. I moved it little by little. It was so hot that my face hurt."

Her voice was low and soft, almost like a coquettish one.

Xu Jian couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and pinched her cheek gently. It still felt as soft and delicate to the touch.

"Apply more ointment," he said.

Lin Yunyan asked again: "Speaking of which, how could the thunder strike so perfectly?"

She only heard Xu Jian say that he wanted to draw thunder to Qianfu, but she never expected that he would draw two thunderbolts, and they would hit the main courtyard and the house where Li Shao lived when he was a child.

"They are all foreign methods. I have only heard about them before. I will take this opportunity to give them a try."

Sudu said he was shocked."

Lin Yunyan understood.

Many things are like this, some are artificial arrangements, and some are coincidences.

Otherwise, how can we say that humans are not as good as God?

Dingguo Temple is like this, and so are they who lead thunder.

It was obvious that God was on their side tonight.

The two cuddled up and talked.

Like hindsight, tiredness gradually came over her, and Lin Yunyan fell asleep before her eyes.

Xu Jian was still awake and patted her back gently, preventing the lightning and thunder from waking her up in her sleep.

In Yuqing Palace, Li Shao couldn't sleep at all.

The memories of the old year are really not wonderful. First, there was Ning'an around him, and then he went to the imperial study room, where he continued to analyze the words. Li Shao's mind couldn't be free, so he had no extra mood. At this moment, he completely calmed down, and fear came one after another as the night fell.

His hands seemed to be still hot from the oil lamp, and his breath was filled with acrid smoke. When he closed his eyes, the fire illuminated the dark night. He saw his little self standing in front of the collapsed hall, with his mouth open, wanting to cry.

He couldn't howl anymore.
To be continued...