Chang'an is good

Chapter 637: It's not a hope, it's a promise
Luo Guanlin knew what the Grand Tutor was going to do today, but he never expected that the Grand Tutor would use such words to reveal Li Yin's crimes...

The Grand Tutor said that it was Li Yin who killed the former crown prince.

The Grand Tutor also said that the former Crown Princess Xiao was originally a woman, and that the former Crown Princess Xiao was not Li Xiao, but Li Shang.

Why did the Grand Tutor say this? Was he deliberately throwing out such nonsense to provoke controversy, so that he could better carry on with his plan in front of others? Perhaps there was another purpose that he had not thought of? Or...

Luo Guanlin's ears were noisy, and his heart was even noisier. If it were three years ago, he would have immediately felt extremely dissatisfied and angry upon hearing this, and would have regarded this as an offense and insult to the late crown prince. But now... he actually hesitated, hesitant about whether this matter was true or not!

There were many officials who were as dissatisfied and angry as Luo Guanlin was three years ago. The members of the Li clan were even more shocked and angry. Some of them no longer cared about being decent and respectful and angrily accused Master Chu of making ridiculous remarks.

Li Lu was also very surprised.

I was surprised at what Master Chu said and at the sudden change that happened before my eyes.

This surprise made Li Lu miss the reaction of Ma Wan beside him. Ma Wan, who was originally calm and numb, raised her head at some point, and her eyes were like rocks thrown into a pool of stagnant water, breaking the waves and causing the water surface to shake and change.

Li Lu subconsciously looked at his father. However, as the new emperor, his father was surrounded by eunuchs and officials, so his expression was hard to discern, but his voice still sounded calm:

"If there are any shortcomings, please teach me, Master..." Li Yin's eyes were filled with confusion: "But Ah Xiao has been gone for many years. Master, as Ah Xiao's teacher, you should not tarnish his heroic name anyway."

Master Chu's voice was as cold as an ice blade: "Your Highness Prince Rong, are you 'warning' me that I shouldn't do such an outrageous thing for a person who has been dead for many years?"

He could tell that this was Li Yin's "final warning" to him.

However, the old man showed no fear, and his voice became louder and louder, mixed with a hint of long-suppressed anger and sorrow: "Just because someone is dead, does that mean we don't care about the truth?"

"She devoted herself to the people of Dasheng, was covered in wounds, and was willing to go to the purgatory of Beidina... She was willing to sacrifice her life to protect the country. It's not that she can't die, but she can't die in obscurity!"

The old man's sharp, tearful eyes swept over the crowd: "You, including this old man, and the people of this world, have all been protected by his kindness!"

"Since I have received her kindness, I must know who she is and what she has done!"

"And how can the man who killed her be worthy of taking her place in a high position with a false face!"

His students are dull, so he doesn't need to care, but as a teacher he is born sharp, and now that he knows it, he can't pretend he doesn't know... She wants to give up her three sons for the sake of the world, but as a teacher he can't agree, so these three sons must be retrieved by him!
Last time, he didn't have the chance to do anything, but this time, he also wants to go to the battlefield for his stupid student.

Those who serve the people of the world should get help from the people of the world.

He, Chu Hui, is also one of the people in the world!

During the farewell conversation in Taiyuan City, he had told her that she must return with a great victory and gain power throughout the world.

He also said that when she returns triumphantly, no one in the world will dare to disobey her - those words were not the teacher's hope for his students, but a promise from the teacher to his students!

He stood here for this promise, to speak out for her in the past and to pave a smooth path for her in the future.

He will not retreat, and the murderer will never retreat either.

Today's situation has been determined. This coronation ceremony will be the cage that locks up Li Yin, and this altar will be the place of his judgment!
Now that this trial, which begins with past events, has begun, no one can abruptly stop it.

In full view of the crowd, from the moment the venerable old man on the altar took off his official hat, Li Yin was doomed to not be able to escape unscathed.

The mixed voices everywhere were difficult to suppress.

Li Lu looked at his father quietly, with a bit of worry on his face and some emotion in his heart.

It makes no difference whether the Taifu is the chief priest today or not. The Taifu has gained popularity among the people with his prestige, and his words are destined not to be ignored.

What can my father do at this time? Take him away and execute him? Then take away those who question and obstruct him? But the coronation ceremony has not been completed yet, and the seal of the emperor has not been handed over to my father. What can my father use to accept the worship of all officials? Is he going to be a new emperor recognized only by himself? How can I not worry about my father suddenly falling into such a difficult dilemma?

This was the coronation ceremony that my father had been longing for, but at this moment, this grand ceremony and the emperor's royal robes tied my father's hands and feet. The benevolence and magnanimity shown to the world also became heavy chains, binding my father here, and he had to accept this sudden trial...How can one not be moved by this situation?

For the coronation ceremony, my father had turned the capital into an airtight iron barrel, blocking all misfortunes from the capital. However, the real misfortune occurred inside the capital, inside the iron barrel that my father thought he had a firm control over...

Li Lu almost wanted to clap his hands and laugh in his heart. What a surprise and irony!
Li Yin's expression became unusually calm, with only silent judgment left in his eyes.

Amid the chaos of voices, a member of the royal family stood up and questioned the tutor in anger.

"…The Grand Tutor is unworthy of being the leader of all scholars in the world, yet he actually used such unsubstantiated words in public to defame the former Crown Prince, slander and frame the new Emperor, and disrupt the sacrificial ceremony! I wonder what the Grand Tutor is trying to do, and who is driving him?!"

I'm afraid he is still determined to support the Crown Princess!

But the princess went to Beidi, and most likely died, and most of the Chu family followed the tutor back to the capital - how dare he have such a different mind? He didn't want to live, and his family's lives, just to bring discredit to the new emperor?

This act of seeking death and destroying one's own reputation is simply insane!

And precisely because this action was too crazy, everyone was caught off guard!
Putting aside the unclear truth, everyone who was caught off guard was shocked by the Taifu's actions and did not understand why he did so.

What exactly is the purpose of the Grand Tutor doing this? Status, position, and reputation? ——But the new emperor will give you all of these.

Everyone knows that the Taifu was invited to the capital three times by the new emperor. This is already a good story... It also makes people subconsciously believe that the Taifu who was forced to return to the capital has already recognized Prince Rong Li Yin.

If the Grand Tutor wanted fame, there was no need for him to go far away instead of near... Besides, this wasn't seeking far away at all, it was clearly seeking death!

Or was what the Grand Tutor said... indeed true? Was this elderly man simply seeking belated justice for his former student?

Many people present were aware of the temperament of the Grand Tutor. As everyone was wavering and having different thoughts, an unexpected voice suddenly rang out.

Many voices were questioning Master Chu, but this voice was the opposite.

"Every word that Grand Master said is true!"

That was the voice of a young woman.

She was wearing the royal attire of a prince's consort, with jade beads dangling from her hair crown. She stood out as she stepped forward.

"The former Crown Prince Xiao was a girl, and it was Li Shang! The one who poisoned her was Li Yin, the Prince of Rong! I know, and I can testify!"

As she spoke, she met many gazes coming towards her. Her neatly made-up face showed a bit of panic and confusion. For a moment, she seemed to have no idea what she was doing or saying, and was even unsure of who she was.

After taking the medicine for a long time, her mind became numb, as if she was gradually turning into a piece of emotionless wood.

Until just now, she suddenly heard the truths that "the late crown prince was a girl" and "the late crown prince was killed by Li Yin", which had been engraved deep in her mind, and then she suddenly felt a little emotional.

Standing up was a subconscious and instinctive action. At this moment, Ma Wan felt a splitting headache, as if countless silk threads were pulling at her floating mind, trying to lock it back into the cage.

The remaining trace of unwillingness in her struggle made her bite her trembling lower lip suddenly. The pain awakened her consciousness, tears filled her eyes, and finally she was able to wake up a little.

She is the daughter of the Ma family!
She is stupid and useless, she doesn't know people well, but she will never let herself be manipulated after knowing the truth!

She can die, she is not afraid of death, but she cannot die quietly like Princess Rong!

And she remembered that she had heard some days ago that the empress was assassinated and her grandfather died after being seriously injured and unconscious for many days while protecting the emperor... She screamed like crazy because of this, so she was given several times the amount of medicine.

Who assassinated the empress? The Tubo rebels? The remnants of the Bian army?

No...it's Li Yin!

He wanted to ascend the throne legitimately, but the empress would not abdicate... So after he forced the man out of Taiyuan, he waited for an opportunity to kill him!
Li Yin killed her grandfather and was also the enemy of her Ma family!

Ma Wan suddenly pointed at Li Yin and shouted, "It was he who instructed Yu Zeng, the head of the Palace Office, to poison and kill the former Crown Prince Li Shang who was in Beidi!"

She mentioned a specific person, Yu Zeng.

Amid the commotion, she continued, "This is what Princess Rong told me before she died!"

"I have evidence!" Ma Wan subconsciously groped for her wide sleeves: "Golden lock, the evidence is in the golden lock..."

At this time, the old man's voice sounded from above the altar: "Here is the evidence—"

Ma Wan turned around and said, "Yes, it's this golden lock!"

She remembered: "...I asked my maid Lan Ying to take it out! This is the relic of Princess Rong!"

At this moment, her thoughts were straightened out and Ma Wan seemed to be more sober. With tears in her eyes, she pulled off the pearl crown of the prince's consort on her head and dropped it to the ground.

"Please, Grand Master, please, please, please the heavens, please ...

After he finished speaking, he turned around and knelt down in front of the altar, kowtowed heavily to the ancestral tablet of the Li family and made a request. His powerless body trembled violently and his voice was sobbing.

Master Chu had opened the golden lock in public, taken out the contents, and handed it to Zhan Mian, asking him to read out the testimony of Princess Rong.

Zhan Mian's voice trembled, but he read it out word for word.

Some shocked officials didn't care about anything else and walked forward to check.

Li Yin listened quietly, feeling a little surprised.

That woman actually left behind something like this, and she actually knew about that.

She was a very incompetent person. After she realized that he was going to send Lu'er to Queen Ming as a hostage, she began to fear her husband.

She was incompetent and could only be afraid, but she dared not do anything, and gradually she was afraid to even see him. She felt guilty towards her son, but she dared not tell the truth for fear of father and son becoming hostile. She felt sorry for her equally useless son, but she could not do anything, so she could only linger on.

He could understand such a stupid and incompetent entanglement, and he also needed such a wife who was content and respectful, but... he really didn't expect that she would use this stupidity and incompetence as a cover to hide such a secret.

He said that what happened back then was clearly so secretive, and after so many years, how could Chu Hui suddenly find out about it for no reason... It turned out that the incident at today's coronation ceremony was a gift left by his cowardly deceased wife.

In the brief moment of thinking just now, he almost had a bizarre guess... Fortunately, although the world is full of changes, it has never deviated from "common sense."

Since it is still within common sense, he can only deal with it with "common sense".

Before that, he'll have to take one more look.

Now that you are trapped in the game, you have to take a look at the overall picture of today's trial.

Only by knowing the whole picture can we clean it up once and for all...

There was murderous intent in Li Yin's calm eyes, his pupils were as dark as a deep cave, and he watched quietly the drama of skinning and bone removal before him.

There was an uproar because of Ma Wan's testimony and the testimony left by Princess Rong in the golden lock.

Li Yin said nothing and did not argue.

Someone spoke up for him, concluding that the golden lock letter was a forgery with ulterior motives, and that both Princess Rong and Yu Zeng mentioned by Ma Wan were dead. In the final analysis, there was no evidence at all!

"...How can you force such a heinous crime on the new emperor based on a few empty words that cannot be proven!"

"It's not like there's no evidence."

A voice that seemed to have crawled out of purgatory and was filled with a chilling aura came from the side of the altar.

The man who spoke walked forward, no longer bowing or lowering his head, no longer concealing his original aura and demeanor. He walked to the front of the altar, raised his hand to take off the eunuch's crown on his head, held it in one hand, and revealed his original face to everyone.

It was a handsome man's face, with fair skin, long eyebrows and phoenix eyes.

He said, “I am the witness.”

An official had already recognized him and said in a trembling voice in disbelief: "Yu... Yu Changshi?!"

"It is indeed Yu Changshi..."

"He's still alive!"

"..."

Yu Zeng was not an ordinary eunuch. He first served the late crown prince and then held an important position beside the Emperor Shengce. Almost all the well-known officials in the capital had seen him.

In addition, although he was a eunuch, he had a good-looking appearance and was not difficult to recognize.

Most of the eunuchs in the palace were familiar with him, but the eunuchs in the palace had already been replaced after the Bian Chunliang Rebellion, and most of them were replaced after Li Yin entered the capital. Most of the eunuchs in charge of today's ceremony were new faces.

However, there was still a person who followed Li Yin and was in charge of this matter, and there was a possibility that he recognized Yu Zeng - but that person had been removed from his position as general manager in Ganlu Palace six days ago.

This situation had already been planned long before the Grand Tutor agreed to Li Yin's request and nodded to go to the capital. It was inevitable that Yu Zeng would appear here smoothly.

(I really want to write more but my ability is so poor. Please save up some articles, everyone! I am scratching my head every day and hovering on the edge of stopping.

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