No. 1 Girl in the Imperial City

Chapter 311

"What are you laughing at?!" King Ning became a little annoyed. He had always regarded Xueya as a pawn that he could control and use. Now that Ruan Ting said that he was the pawn in Xueya's hands, he naturally didn't want to believe it.

Hearing Xue Ya's laughter again, the anger in his heart burst out uncontrollably.

Xue Ya raised his head and said with a faint smile: "I laughed, Ruan Xiang was indeed smarter, no wonder he was able to become the head of civil servants from a scholar. Unfortunately, some things are destined to be inevitable, otherwise Ruan Xiang would not be able to do so now. Sitting here like us, isn't it?"

Ruan Ting's complexion also became gloomy, and he said coldly: "You are right."

Xue Ya said leisurely: "Mr. Ruan, don't think that everything will be fine after you send the eldest son out of the capital."

Ruan Ting's complexion changed, and just as he was about to say something, the sound of the door opening came from outside.

The three immediately shut their mouths, Ruan Ting continued to close his eyes and meditate, Xue Ya was still leaning against the wall in a daze, only King Ning stood by the iron railing and stared at the slowly opening heavy door.

After a while, the door of the cell was pushed open, and Xie Yan led someone in from the outside.

As soon as he walked to the door, he met King Ning's eyes. Xie Yan's expression was a little indifferent, but he just glanced at King Ning indifferently, and then turned to look at Ruan Ting on the other side.

Following behind Xie Yan were Luo Jinyan and Wei Changting. Wei Changting looked at the entire cell with great interest, and finally set his sights on Xue Ya. He seemed to be very interested in Xue Ya.

Being stared at by such eyes, Xue Ya would naturally not be unconscious.

He opened his eyes and looked at Shangwei Changting's eyes full of interest, and said calmly: "Senior Wei, what advice do you have?"

Wei Changting asked: "We found someone who looks exactly like you in the Ruan family, are you twins?"

Xue Ya smiled and said, "What does Wei Shizi think?"

Wei Changting said: "Probably not, I remember that Lord Ruan's first wife only gave birth to one wife."

"Which one of us does Wei Shizi think is real?" Xue Ya asked.

Wei Changting became more interested, and asked back, "Why can't both be fake?"

"..." Xue Ya seemed to be stopped by his question, and was speechless for a moment.

"Wei Changting." Xie Yan frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice.

Wei Changting immediately put away the joking expression on his face and put on a more serious one.He raised his hand and gestured to the person behind him, then smiled and said to Prince Ning, "His Royal Highness, why don't we chat in another place first?"

Two guards walked over and opened King Ning's prison door to pull him out.

King Ning was a little annoyed, and said angrily: "Wei Changting, you are not qualified to talk to this king!"

Prince Wei was immediately pleased, "My lord, it seems that my subordinates really do not have the right to offend the honorable status of His Royal Highness King Ning."

Xie Yan gave him a slap in the face, and Wei Changting's expression changed instantly, "Even if His Royal Highness Prince Ning thinks that this official is not good enough for you, he has no choice but to let it go. His Royal Highness the Regent wants to greet someone more important."

The meaning of these words is obviously that King Ning is not worthy of Xie Yan's personal interrogation.

King Ning's originally chubby face turned blue with anger for an instant, but Wei Changting just waved his hand lazily to signal the guards to pull King Ning out.

Wei Changting took King Ning out, leaving only Xie Yan, Luo Jinyan, Xue Ya and Ruan Ting in the cell.

The cell suddenly fell silent, and the atmosphere seemed a bit dignified.

After being silent for a while, Ruan Ting sighed and said, "If the regent has anything to ask, just ask."

Xie Yan looked calmly at Ruan Ting who seemed to have completely accepted his fate, and asked, "What is the relationship between Prime Minister Ruan and Ceremony Luan?"

Ruan Tingchui's hands trembling by his side, he sighed a little tiredly and said, "I left Luan Ceremony only after I returned to Beijing after I finished my assignment."

Hearing this, Luo Jinyan frowned slightly, "Ms. Ruan was also a member of Luan Ceremony?"

"Yes." Ruan Ting raised his head to look at Luo Jin and said, "I am not as lucky as Mr. Luo and the prince to be born in a powerful family. I was born poor and sold to Luan Ceremony before I was eight years old. It's just... I don't have the qualifications to practice martial arts, but those with a smart mind are assigned to do some miscellaneous things. Later I heard that people with little ability like us will be sent to the palace."

Everyone present knows what to do when they are sent to the palace.

Ruan Tingdao: "Of course I don't want to accept such a fate, so I thought of a lot of ways. Later, people there found that I was good at reading, so they wanted to train some of my own people in the court, so I had the opportunity to take the imperial examination."

Xie Yan said, "You're not the only one?"

Ruan Ting smiled, "I am the only one who really came out."

How difficult is the imperial examination?For those scholars from a scholarly family or a place where the literary style is at its peak, students from major academies can take up most of the places.

Ceremony Luan wanted to brainwash these people, so naturally he couldn't let them go out to study, so he could only ask Mr. Ceremony Luan to teach them inside Ceremony Luan.Later they discovered that it takes at least several decades to raise a child from growing up to a high position. Instead of spending this effort and not knowing whether it will be effective, it is better to directly bribe and threaten those who have passed the exam and seem to have a bright future. "

Xie Yan asked: "When you first entered the officialdom, Ceremony Luan should have given you a lot of help. Why did you leave Ceremony Luan?"

Ruan Tingdao: "I didn't want to join the Luan Ceremony Division. As long as I have the opportunity, I will naturally try to leave. The people in charge of the Luan Ceremony Division are a group of old men who think they do things but don't understand anything. Every day I hear them daydreaming. I can't help but want to laugh. If I don't leave quickly, I worry that one day I will become crazy like them, thinking that they can control the world with some money and conspiracy. Why don't they think about it? In the end, didn't he also end up with a full family of slashing?"

"Ruan Ting!" Xue Ya, who had been silent in the next cell, said coldly.

Ruan Ting was a little disapproving, and said calmly: "Master Xueya is probably their most satisfying work? I don't know how many times they failed and how many times they died before they finally produced a man who has no rebellious heart and can show his hands to others. Are you still not tired of those old things after more than 20 years? No... After all these years, those old guys are still not dead?"

Xie Yan said: "It seems that Ruan Xiangxiang really knows a lot about Yisi."

Ruan Tingdao: "My lord wants to know about Ceremony Luan from me? I thought my lord already knew where Ceremony Luan's lair is."

Xie Yan said: "It's always right to know more. This king just didn't expect that Ruan Xiang has been shrewd all his life, and now he will choose the wrong path."

Ruan Ting was silent for a moment, and said: "I can tell you what the lord wants to know. But... the lord needs to pardon the Ruan family."

Xie Yan didn't answer, as if he was thinking about whether the conditions proposed by Ruan Ting were worth it or not.

Ruan Ting said in a deep voice: "I have been in Luanyi Division for ten years, unless the prince can let that Mr. Xueya over there speak, otherwise, you will not get more news than me."

Xie Yan was still not in a hurry, and Xueya suddenly said: "I advise the regent to think about it, some things... even you, you can't be pardoned just by saying pardon, right?"

Hearing that Xie Yan and Luo Jinyan exchanged glances, it seems that Xueya can handle Ruan Ting, and there is indeed something in his hands that Ruan Ting dare not refuse.

And this matter is definitely more serious than Ruan Ting who used to be Luan Ceremony.

Xie Yan looked at Xueya and said, "Master Xueya also wants to make a deal with this king?"

Xue Ya glanced at Xie Yan indifferently, but did not answer.

Xie Yan didn't care either, and turned his head to Luo Jin and said, "I'll go and watch the music, there is Lao Jinyan here."

Luo Jin said: "Don't worry, my lord."

Xie Yan glanced at Ruan Ting, and said: "Ms. Ruan made a wrong move in this move, plotting against... is going to kill everyone."

Ruan Ting was silent, of course he understood what Xie Yan meant.

It has reached the point where he is going to kill everyone, even if he still has some secrets, so what?

Could it be more serious than copying and beheading all over the house?
Two quarters of an hour later, Xie Yan and Luo Jinyan came out of the cell.

Wei Changting had already been waiting for them outside the lobby. Seeing the two coming out one after the other, Wei Changting asked with a smile, "How is it? Did you get those two moves?"

Luo Jinyan shook his head and said, "Without the prince's promise, how could Prime Minister Ruan let go so easily? As for that Mr. Xueya..."

"How about it?"

Luo Jinyan said: "I'm afraid that Xueya won't say anything. According to Ruan Xiang...he really seems to have been brainwashed by Luan Yisi."

Xie Yan said: "Ceremony Luan adopts and cultivates talented children from an early age. In the past 20 years, he has always been able to cultivate a few people with outstanding abilities and absolute loyalty."

"Whimsical, people cultivated in that environment may have some outstanding abilities, but..." Wei Changting shook his head.That Snow Cliff may be a good hand in plotting secretly, but once exposed to the sun, it will be difficult to play any role.

"How is the investigation going on in the palace?" Xie Yan asked.

Luo Jinyan said: "The people of Luan Yisi have indeed been entrenched in the palace for a long time, but it is only in recent years that they have really started to develop rapidly. Because your majesty is young, the empress dowager greatly reduced the number of people in the palace, and the management of the empress dowager's palace is also very strict. Strict, but in Empress Dowager Zhu's Palace, there are quite a few of them in the 24th Division."

Speaking of this, Luo Jinyan also looked a little solemn.

It sounds like nothing major happened, but if the emperor is in charge in a few years and the harem is full.These people are almost equivalent to controlling the entire palace, and it will be hard to say what will happen next.

Some of these people may even become His Majesty's confidantes, and it is unknown whether an eunuch will be in power in the future.

Among the people found out in the past two days, there was the little eunuch who used to be by Xie Cheng's side, but Xie Yan replaced it when Xie Cheng moved to the palace.

Wei Changting couldn't help sighing, "These people are really ingenious."

Luo Jinyan didn't take it seriously, "There is no absolute force, nor the ability to really control the court, so we can only find another way? The ability and status of the person who controlled the power left by the remaining achievements should not be high. Moreover, to have such With twists and turns, this person may not be a normal person."

Wei Changting nodded, "I'll get someone's attention later. I'm going back to the Ministry of Accounts first, you two..."

Luo Jinyan said: "I want to enter the palace, I have some matters to discuss with King Ancheng."

Xie Yan stood up and said, "I want to go to the Dingyanghou Mansion first."

The two people in front of him were silent for a moment, they all knew about the death of Marquis Dingyang.

"Let me go with the lord, we should all go to offer incense to the Marquis of Dingyang." Luo Jin said.

The Marquis of Dingyang's mansion did not announce the death of Marquis Dingyang yesterday, probably because they wanted some time to prepare.But this time can't be delayed for too long. This morning, white flags have been hung in front of the gate of Dingyang Hou's mansion.

The three of them were about to go out when they saw Luo Junyao and Luo Jinxing leading a group of people coming from outside.

Several people followed behind them, and two of them were dragging a man who was covered in wounds and whether he was dead or alive.

The man was dragged all the way in with his feet hanging down, and there was even a bloodstain on the ground where his legs and feet dragged.

"I have seen the prince!" Seeing Xie Yan and others, everyone hurriedly saluted.

"Ayan, big brother!" Luo Junyao saw the two, his eyes lit up, and he walked over with a smile on his face.

Wei Shizi, who was ignored, said with a smile: "Princess, where did you catch someone? Who is so short-sighted that it fell into your hands?"

Luo Jun shook his head and said, "Shizi Wei, why not guess who he is?"

Wei Changting glanced around at the people opposite him, and finally fell on Cui Zheyu, raised his eyebrows and said, "Yu Chen?"

Hearing this, Luo Jinyan couldn't help but look over.

Luo Jinxing said with a smile: "It is indeed Yu Chen, who was captured by Yaoyao."

Before they reached the prison, they saw the carriage escorting Yu Chen back, so they came in together.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Luo Jinxing wouldn't have believed that Yu Chen, who he hated so much back then, would have fallen into their hands so easily.

Leng Shuang also said: "It is indeed thanks to the princess, if not for the princess, we might have to let Bai Jingrong go."

Luo Junyao felt a little embarrassed, and said, "Bai Jingrong couldn't take Yu Chen away. As long as we send more people, it will be easy to find him." She also chatted with Bai Jingrong.

Xie Yan raised his hand and rubbed her hair, and said softly, "You have worked hard, Shaking."

"I have no business to do, so I have to pick up some leftovers." Luo Junyao sighed.

"..." Everyone was speechless, this leftover material was a bit too big.

Who has the heart to let this little girl take on any dangerous things? Now it seems that the little girl is not only ungrateful but also a little wronged.

Xie Yan chuckled lightly, pulled Luo Junyao to his side, his eyes fell on Yu Chen who could no longer see his true face, and said in a deep voice: "Put it in the sky prison, and after the third division has passed the trial, you will be sent to the execution ground for execution. .”

All he needed was for Yu Chen to die, to give an explanation to the soldiers who died in vain and to the people of the world, other than that, Yu Chen was no longer worth his time.

Not knowing if Yu Chen heard his voice, he moved slightly and raised his head with some difficulty.

The originally outstanding appearance was almost invisible because it was covered with blood and dust. He fixedly looked at Xie Yan as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say a word for a long time.In the end, he could only slowly lower his head again, still maintaining the same look he had just dragged in.

Xie Yan said: "Let's go."

"Yes, my lord." Everyone responded.

Xie Yan led Luo Junyao and walked outside.When passing by Yu Chen's side, he didn't stop at all, instead he glanced at Cui Zheyu lightly, "Yu Chen must die on the execution ground, don't forget that the reputation of old general Cui and the Cui family has not been restored yet."

Cui Zheyu's eyes turned red, tears almost fell out, she dug her fingernails into her palm, nodded and said: "Yes, my lord."

(End of this chapter)