Chapter 385 Suspicion 1

"What did you say?"

The emperor, who was originally sitting on the dragon throne with a smile on his face, suddenly changed his expression. His dragon eyes were full of disbelief and shock, and his voice unconsciously rose: "How can you say such words casually!"

The civil and military officials standing in the court were also stunned, and looked at the upright and solemn Crown Prince, and the surprised and innocent Prince Yan.

Under the gaze of the crowd, the Crown Prince looked calm and composed, and said with his hands clasped: "Grandfather, you heard it right. What I just said was what Prince An said after he surrendered."

"Since the year before last, Prince Yan has been secretly in contact with Prince An and instigated Prince An to compete for the position of crown prince."

"Prince An was unwilling to live in peace in a corner, and was persuaded by Prince Yan, so he and Concubine Li Shu planned an assassination. Prince Yan was responsible for taking Grandfather to the palace."

"It was indeed Concubine Li Shu and Prince An's people who assassinated Grandfather and Father. But the real mastermind behind this was Prince Yan!"

One sentence was sharper than the other, especially the last one, which was even more powerful.

The officials could no longer hold back and there was an uproar.

Was it true that Prince Yan was the real mastermind behind the assassination in the palace as the Crown Prince said?

The Prince of Yan had been stunned for a long time. He smiled bitterly upon hearing this, and took a step forward and knelt down: "Right and wrong are in the hearts of the people. I don't want to defend myself. I believe that my father will give me justice."

The emperor's face flushed with anger, and he said in a deep voice: "I will not listen to one side, don't worry, I will not let anyone wrong you."

The prince was obviously shocked by the shocking words of the grandson of the emperor, and angrily rebuked the grandson of the emperor: "For such a big matter, how can you listen to the one-sided words of the prince of An? How do you know that the prince of An did not deliberately shirk responsibility? How could the prince of Yan be the mastermind behind the scenes? If the prince of Yan had not blocked the sword that day, your grandfather would have been stabbed by the sword."

"If the prince of Yan really intended to assassinate, he could just pretend to stand by and watch. Why risk his life to block the sword?"

The emperor nodded subconsciously.

The prince said everything he wanted to say.

Emotionally, he did not believe that the filial prince of Yan would do such a treasonous thing anyway.

The Crown Prince also stepped forward and knelt down, his voice still unhurried, steady and powerful: "When Prince An first said this, I didn't believe a word. Everyone has witnessed Prince Yan's filial piety to the emperor's grandfather. I am ashamed of myself, and I don't believe that Prince Yan would be such a vicious and cruel person."

"However, Prince An later took out a stack of letters. The letters were indeed written by Prince Yan. After I read them one by one, I couldn't help but have doubts."

Letters?

Kneeling on the side, Prince Yan's eyes flashed, and he sneered in his heart.

When he secretly contacted Prince An that day, he never wrote a letter. Every time, he secretly sent secret guards to sneak into Prince An's fiefdom, and all he sent were oral messages.

After the matter was accomplished, the secret guards who were responsible for delivering oral messages were also killed by him.

There is no evidence in the world to prove that he and Prince An had secretly contacted each other.

The Crown Prince kept saying that there was such a letter, which was pure nonsense!

"Father, please understand. I have never had any correspondence with Prince An." Prince Yan raised his head, with a face full of injustice and grievance: "I think Prince An must have had someone imitate my handwriting and write letters to frame me."

The emperor's heart was obviously on the side of Prince Yan. Hearing this, his face was stern and he said lightly: "Where are those letters now? Let someone bring them up. I want to take a look personally."

The Crown Prince responded in a deep voice: "These letters are of great importance. My grandson divided the letters into several parts and asked several skilled guards to carry them. I will present them now. Please take a look at them, Grandfather."

The emperor had restrained his anger and nodded coldly: "Okay, I will take a look at these letters in person today."

...

Soon, a pile of letters was presented to the emperor.

At a glance, there were more than a dozen letters.

The emperor started from the first letter.

When the familiar handwriting on the letter caught his eye, the emperor's brows moved.

The handwriting on this letter is exactly the same as that of the Prince of Yan. Even the strokes of the pen are the same. The Prince of Yan has another unknown habit. When writing a stroke, he always pauses for a moment. Therefore, the ink of this stroke is also slightly heavier.

The strokes in this letter are slightly heavier. It is no different from the Prince of Yan's usual writing habits.

If this is really a letter that Prince An had someone forge, it is too realistic...

Hearing is false, seeing is true! The emperor's unbreakable confidence in the Prince of Yan began to waver quietly.

Looking at the contents of the letters again, the emperor's face became more and more gloomy and ugly.

These letters implicitly showed the Prince of Yan's dissatisfaction with the prince, and implicitly hinted that Prince An was the most suitable candidate for the crown prince. Later, the content of the letters gradually became explicit, revealing the intention of instigation everywhere.

In the last two letters, the assassination plan was decided.

There are a few paragraphs that are particularly glaring.

"…Father is old and incompetent, and it is best to fool him. As long as I use some tricks, I can make Father trust me. On the day of the assassination, I will openly assassinate Father first, and I will block the sword for Father to gain his trust. It will also make the prince relax his vigilance, and then I will take action against him at that time, and it will definitely succeed!"

"Once the prince dies, Father will definitely appoint another crown prince. This person must be my second brother! When my second brother becomes the crown prince, I will definitely follow his lead."

"I have no other requests, I just hope that my second brother will treat my mother and elder sister well. Let my mother move out of the cold palace, and let my elder sister leave Ciyun Temple."

The emperor tightly grasped the thin letter paper, and was in doubt.

The content of the letter was clearly the tone of the King of Yan.

When Prince An left the capital, the King of Yan was still a child of a few years old. It is said that Prince An was not familiar with the temperament of the King of Yan. Even if he wanted to forge a letter, he would definitely not be able to forge such a realistic one...

Could it be that all this was calculated by the King of Yan?

The King of Yan took the risk to block the fatal sword, but it was just a self-torture trick? It was just a trick to win his trust and make him not suspect the King of Yan?

The human mind is very strange. When you have faith in a person, you will not doubt him no matter what he does.

But once this confidence is shaken, you will be suspicious everywhere.

Just like a seed, it will take root and sprout when it falls into the soil.

The emperor suddenly remembered Concubine Li Shu's crazy scream before her death.

"You have been old and confused for a long time! You can't see Xu Man's true face, nor can you see her son clearly. It's ridiculous that you praise him everywhere, but you don't know that the person who really wants to rebel is your most beloved Prince Yan..."

The emperor looked uncertain and didn't speak for a long time.