Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 200 Judgment

Bai Meng personally took people to Prince Yihe's mansion. The old prince and his son saw the commander's half-smile, and when they heard that they were going to invite their father and son to the palace, they suddenly had an ominous premonition. A sense of impending doom.

This ominous premonition became more and more obvious when they came to Wende Hall, until they saw two black-clothed guards leading a plainly dressed woman and a little boy who looked exactly like Zhao Yinhe when he was young. Shizi was desperate, and they finally knew what they were about to face.

Before Song Jue could speak, the father and son knelt down on the ground at the same time, and kowtowed to Song Jue, saying, "It's my fault, Your Majesty, please forgive me."

"Oh? Forgive me?" Song Jue raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer, "My lord, my son, what are you guilty of?"

"The criminal..." The father and son looked at each other, "The criminal has committed the crime of deceiving His Majesty and not reporting what he knew!"

"What a crime of deception! What a crime of ignorance!"

Song Jue slapped his dragon case hard, and Bai Meng stood beside him, seeing that his palms turned red instantly, she couldn't help feeling distressed.

"Old prince, son!"

Bai Meng tugged at Song Jue's sleeve where no one else could see, which meant to leave the rest of the matter to him.

Song Jue coughed lightly, nodded slightly, leaned back a little, and decided to watch the play quietly.

"My lord, my son!" Bai Meng walked slowly in front of Prince Yihe and his son Zhao Jinhe, and looked at Zhao Yinhe, who was also kneeling on the ground with a calm expression, and the mother and son who were already trembling. Wei Wei squatted down and asked, "It seems that the matter of the second son was not hidden from the two of you! When did you two know that the second son has married a wife and had children? Was it before the marriage was signed, or recently? How many days?" Seeing the eldest son Zhao Jinhe open his mouth, Bai Meng added, "Your Highness, you have to think about it before you speak! You have already been charged with a lot of crimes in the Yihe Prince's Mansion. The third son escaped marriage before, and now the second The son made such a fuss again, and the old prince and the prince are both insiders..." Bai Meng stood up and looked at him condescendingly, "If you don't tell the truth, Prince Yihe's mansion may disappear in Xijing City !"

"Thank you, Commander Bai, for reminding me that I know what to say." Zhao Jinhe kowtowed to Song Jue, and said respectfully, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the guilty minister only found out about it in the last few days. I only found out during the New Year's Eve dinner. The second brother of the criminal minister brought the woman and the child back to the mansion on the night of the New Year's Eve, saying that these were his wife and son, the people he loved the most in his life. Since he met the princess , After the engagement, he has been caught in deep self-blame and hesitation, and finally he decided not to be a person who abandons his wife and children, so he brought the mother and son to confess to us."

"Second son, you are very courageous!" Bai Meng nodded and walked up to Zhao Yinhe, "Do you know the price of confessing or even regretting the marriage?"

"I know, the future is ruined."

"Is it just ruining the future?" Bai Meng sneered, "Deceiving Your Majesty and humiliating the majesty of the royal family is a serious crime of confiscating the family." He looked at the woman and the little boy, "Your so-called wife and son want to kill you." To be buried with you, your gray-haired father, your elder brother's family, your poor third brother who only knows how to study, and even the hundreds of people in Prince Jardine's mansion will all be implicated because of you, and will be killed because of you. Lose your life."

"I... I didn't think about it."

"Haven't thought about it? Second Young Master, you think a lot!" Bai Meng sneered, walked back to Song Jue, and picked up a stack of letter papers from the dragon case, "From your study, we can find many Missing good things!" He looked at Zhao Jinhe, "Your Highness, your second younger brother really wants you to die."

"Bai Meng, don't spit blood!"

"Spitting blood?" Bai Meng shook her head, and lightly flicked the letter paper in her hand, "There are both witnesses and physical evidence, Second Young Master, it is too late for you to deny it. As the second son of Prince Yihe's mansion, since the day he was born, In the beginning, you were doomed to have nothing to do with the position of the crown prince or the throne. Unless His Highness the crown prince died suddenly, you could become the new crown prince of Yihe Prince's Mansion. And you have worked hard for this over the years. It's been tried for a long time, right?"

Zhao Yinhe glared at Bai Meng, but didn't say a word.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it. Your diary and letters are very detailed." Bai Meng looked at the old prince and Zhao Jinhe, "Old prince, His Royal Highness, you two should still remember that His Royal Highness started about ten years ago. He began to suffer frequent plots, which even alarmed His Majesty. His Majesty specially deployed the shadows to protect the crown prince, but still could not prevent the crown prince from being harmed. Almost four years ago, the plots came to an abrupt end. We investigated for a long time, but none of them were very convincing However, now I understand why the man behind the scenes stopped plotting."

"Help the old prince and the prince up." Song Jue looked at the shadow standing beside him, "Give me a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The old prince stood up tremblingly, Zhao Jinhe hurried over to support his father, and let him sit down slowly. "Criminant... really shameless to see His Majesty, this wicked son..."

"My lord, please be safe and don't be impatient. Listen to what the commander has to say." Song Jue smiled faintly, and nodded towards Bai Meng, motioning him to continue.

"My lord, Your Royal Highness! The man behind the scenes is the Second Young Master. And when he stopped, it happened to be this child..." Bai Meng pointed to the little boy who was huddled in Liang Shu's arms, not daring to look up, "He was born That day, after this child was born, the assassination against His Royal Highness ended." He flipped through the letter papers in his hand, picked out the ones related to this part and handed them to the old prince and the eldest son. "This is physical evidence. It was written by the second son himself. There is no way it will be wrong."

"You..." The old prince became more and more angry, and the more he looked at it, the more he gasped. He pointed at Zhao Yinhe, trembling with anger, and he was almost at a loss for words. "You evil son, you want your elder brother to die so much! You are brothers!"

"Old prince, calm down!" Bai Meng's expression was calm, and he looked at the silent Zhao Yinhe, "The second son probably never regarded His Royal Highness, and the third son as brothers, who must be eliminated. An idiot that can be used. The reason why the Second Young Master stopped plotting against His Royal Highness was because the old monk of the Great Buddha Temple said that he killed too much and would affect his son. Therefore, if he was forced to stop, he himself would end up He doesn't care about what happens, but he cares about his son. But he never gave up on getting rid of His Royal Highness, and the acquaintance with His Royal Highness gave him another opportunity."

"I understand!" Zhao Jinhe nodded, "He pretended to agree to fall in love with the princess and wanted to marry the princess, and then chose to reveal the fact that he had a wife and children before the marriage. Once this fact is known by His Majesty, The princess learned that Prince Yihe's mansion will face annihilation, and the whole family will be killed without exception. And he can bribe the jailer or someone else in advance..." He looked at his second brother, " I know that a large part of your close friends are from the Ministry of Justice, and they all owe you a lot of favors. We can't say whether they will rescue you and your wife and children at that time. But I think you should be able to do that."

"His Royal Highness is wise, the Second Young Master planned it this way. I have to say that the trick of killing people without seeing blood is really very clever!" Bai Meng narrowed her eyes and said slowly, "It can get rid of the serious trouble in my heart. , and you can live the life you want to live as you wish.”

"Commander!" Song Jue waved at Bai Meng, "Isn't the second son's goal to get the seat of the crown prince? With Prince Yihe's mansion gone, he will not be able to achieve his ultimate goal."

"Your majesty!" Bai Meng walked up to Song Jue, bowed slightly, and said, "The ultimate goal of the second son is to want the life of the son. As long as the son is dead, whether the Prince Yihe Mansion still exists or not is irrelevant to him." It doesn't matter anymore."

"Zhao Yinhe, can you plead guilty?"

"At this point, it's impossible for me not to admit it." Zhao Yinhe said with a cold face and no expression, "I did these things. No matter how His Majesty punishes me, I will not regret it."

"Oh? Even if you lose your life, don't you regret it?"

"Man dies for money, and bird dies for food. As long as I try my best, I won't regret it!" Zhao Yinhe looked at Liang Shu, "I'm sorry to implicate you. If there is an afterlife, let's continue our relationship!"

"Your Majesty, the criminal..."

"My lord, I know what's in my heart, so I don't need to say more." Song Jue waved his hand, "Zhao Yinhe, I fulfill your wish. From now on, Zhao Yinhe will have nothing to do with Prince Yihe's residence. He was guilty of vainly attempting to kill his father and brother. He was imprisoned temporarily and executed after a year. The Prince of Jardine's Mansion was deprived of his title and demoted to a commoner, never to be used again!" He looked at Liang Shu, and then at him The child in the arms, "Take the child and leave Xijing City to live a good life, and never set foot in Xijing City."

"Sinner..." The old prince and Zhao Jinhe knelt down and kowtowed at the same time, "Observe the order, thank your majesty for not killing me!"

(End of this chapter)