Empress can't eat enough

Chapter 85 Perfunctory
Hearing the Son of Heaven's questioning, Prince Li Xiaochun immediately knelt down on the ground and begged, "Your Majesty, my brother deserves to die! My brother deserves death!"

"The old fairy said... that he was an old friend of the late Concubine Gao when she was young. He originally lived on the fairy island in the sea. Entrusted by Concubine Gao's spiritual sense, he came to the capital to visit King Gu Huan. He said... that King Huan was guilty, But the crime does not lead to death, so I ask my subordinates to be merciful, and not to impose severe punishment on him and torture his body."

"Do you believe it?" The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at him.

"Chendi...Chendi dare not believe it..."

"Gao Guifei's divine sense..." The Son of Heaven sneered, "So, Gao Guifei became a god after her death? Why did you ask someone to find you instead of asking me directly?"

"My brother...you don't know!" Li Xiaochun was trembling, thought for a while and said, "I didn't do anything, just... just sent a bottle of golden sore medicine to King Huan."

"It's just... it's just King Huan... he got the medicine from my younger brother, so he made an inch of it, and asked my younger brother to send a blood letter to Ping Ning. My younger brother was soft-hearted and agreed."

"What was written in the blood book?" the emperor asked.

"I read it, and it's just words that I hope that the young Marquis of Pingning can intercede with his father, the Marquis of Pingning. I wish that Marquis Pingning can remember the old love and protect his hard-earned title of prince."

"However, young Marquis Pingning asked his younger brother to bring a message to King Huan just after he came down to court. He only said four words: powerless."

The emperor snorted coldly, and muttered: "Traveling the crown prince, and still want to keep his prince? Leaving his life is already cheap for him..."

Li Xiaochun finally relaxed a little, even though the emperor didn't believe that he ran into some old god, but the emperor had no doubts about what he said "confessed".

He thought for a while, and then asked tremblingly: "Your Majesty... for the sake of the late Concubine Gao, are you going to treat King Huan lightly?"

Hearing the words, the Son of Heaven gave him a hard look, and shouted: "Where in the world are there any gods and immortals? The sixth brother has lived half his life, and he believes this?!"

"My brother is guilty!" Li Xiaochun hurriedly shut his mouth.

The emperor immediately asked eunuch Cao to pass down an order to let Wei Yuan, the servant of the Ministry of punishment, investigate the matter thoroughly, and limited him to find out the truth within three days.

Wei Yuan received the emperor's oral order at the Ministry of Punishment, and the eunuch in the palace couldn't help but sigh when he sent him away.

Gu Qingzhi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, stroked his beard and laughed, "I don't know, I thought there was no one in the court... Why did all the cases fall on the head of Wei Shilang?"

"Master Gu was joking." Wei Yuan smiled helplessly.

He knew that the Son of Heaven was looking for a job for him. While urging him to find Zhou Qingyao's loyal people as soon as possible, he also told him to beat him with some trivial matters. His son-in-law is doing business.

But what to do?Some of the results he found in the past two days are not what the emperor wants to see... He is still struggling, should he report it to the emperor!

However, he said that it was not complicated to find out the matter of meeting the real immortal with Prince Li Xiaochun. After talking with Li Xiaochun, Wei Yuan had the answer - because he was very familiar with the old Taoist who played the role of the real immortal and the apprentice of that old Tao!After Li Xiaochun's description, he had a guess in his heart.

It gave him a headache.

He can't tell the emperor that it's his own daughter who pretends to be a ghost?
Fortunately, it was Wei Yingning who found out that his father was investigating this matter, so he found him immediately and gave him a trick.

"If it has been verified by many parties, it will prove that the prince and the prince have met a god and real person, and the saint will not go into the matter?"

"You're really getting bolder," Wei Yuan gave her a gouged look, "How dare you even fool a saint?"

Wei Yingning just smiled innocently.

"Forget it." It can only be such a result, Wei Yuan can't be so upright that he doesn't even care about his own children.

"Did father have any new clues recently?" Wei Yingning asked, turning the topic around.

"Yes, yes..." When this matter was mentioned, Wei Yuan frowned. "It's just that after checking and checking, many people were involved, and in the end it was inevitable that the investigation would go back to the crown prince. This matter is very strange..."

"I think my father will be able to find the truth." Wei Yingning didn't ask any further questions, but only had this comforting word. "Father, it's getting late, I have to go back."

"Forget it! Go back quickly." Wei Yuan was about to say the words for Wei Yingning to analyze and analyze together, but he had to swallow them back.

For this reason, there seemed to be a stagnation in his heart, and there was nowhere to vent it.

All the way back to the mansion, he was even more discouraged when he thought about his changes in the short six months he had been in Beijing.

It is said that it is difficult to be an official in Beijing, and it is indeed difficult to do so.In the past, no matter where he went, he could do things without violating his heart, be true to others, and treat people with sincerity. Now...he always has to think about one thing over and over again, worrying about this, worrying about that, and restraining his hands and feet. Yes, it is very hard to punch.

The three-day period is coming soon, and he will finally enter the palace to answer.

"Your Majesty, after investigation, it has been verified that the so-called gods and real people of the Prince He have indeed come and gone without a trace. There is no way to check. This minister believes that what the Prince He said is true..."

"What did you say?" The emperor interrupted him, somewhat surprised.He didn't expect that Wei Yuan would give him such an answer after working hard for three days. "Wei Shilang, if three days is not enough for you to find out the matter, you can express your affection to me. I am not unreasonable, so I can forgive you for a few days."

"Returning to Your Majesty, even if Your Majesty gives this humble official some more time, I am afraid that this humble official can only give His Majesty this result. Those two Taoists indeed came and went without a trace, and no matter what, they could not be found. I thought to myself, the world is full of wonders, so I don't know if the two of them are really immortals on the overseas fairy island."

Wei Yuan said these words calmly on the surface, but he was laughing at himself in his heart: such words, he felt like he would say something like a dead man.

The Son of Heaven didn't make a sound, but it's not good to let it go, after all, the old fairy with white hair and childlike face, and many people in the Prince's Mansion have seen it.Although they didn't know where the old fairy came from, they saw with their own eyes that the old fairy really flew away.

Forget it, his original intention was not to get to the bottom of it.For Wei Yuan to answer him like this, I'm afraid it's just perfunctory.

"How's the investigation on Zhou Qingyao's matter?" If you don't investigate the trivial matters, then you should have some clues about this major matter, right?The emperor thought so.

"Your Majesty," Wei Yuan replied, "This humble minister is stupid. Although he knows that there must be a force behind Zhou Qingyao, he still has to figure out the truth behind it."

The Son of Heaven pursed his lips tightly, walked back and forth for two steps, and looked at Wei Yuan again, Long Yan was rather displeased.

"Your Majesty..." Wei Yuan thought for a while, and boldly asked, "You can trust both the Crown Prince and King Huan, right?"

"Is this related to your finding out the truth?" the emperor asked him back.

"To tell the truth, Your Majesty, the more I searched, the more facts I found..." Wei Yuan was a little hesitant, because he wasn't sure, and now was the time to say these words.But if he doesn't say it, it's probably too late.

He wanted to clear his son-in-law King Huan from the charges, but he also didn't want to be led by the nose by some force.

(End of this chapter)