Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 149 The fog is heavy
Wang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then his expression returned to normal and he said, "The queen mother is really good at joking, why... how can I not be surprised... My minister is just..."

Sheng Shaoqing turned his head and asked Wang Shan directly, "Master Wang, do you still think those letters just now are fake?"

Using hands and feet, Wang Shan crawled to the side of the letter that he had just knocked to the ground, picked it up tremblingly, and opened each letter, "No! No! These are not written by me!"

Sheng Shaoqing snorted coldly, "How dare you deny it now?"

"Your son Wang Yu was involved in the case of the theft of forbidden items in the palace. You threatened Wang Yuan to let Wang Qing take the place of Wang Yu, and then you gave Wang Yuan a township seat as a consolation in order to settle the matter hastily. Am I right? "

"Yes... no no no!"

"I didn't force him! He came to me on his own initiative..."

Sheng Shaoqing: ……………

An embarrassing gust of wind whizzed past, instantly cooling the hall.

Sheng Shaoqing glanced at Wang Yuan, seeing that he was still kneeling beside him without saying a word just now, but when Wang Shan said this, he suddenly said excitedly, "I took the initiative to find you?"

"Will I send my son out to die?! Mr. Wang, don't you think what you said is ridiculous?"

"Since the matter is clear, it's normal for you to say this in order to alleviate your crime, but... even if you say something indiscriminately, you can't just say it casually, right? Will the empress dowager really believe your nonsense?"

Sheng Shaoqing stared at Wang Yuan for a long time, and then turned to look at Wang Shan who was kneeling in front of the case. A moment ago, he was arrogant and domineering, but now the person who talked nonsense was kneeling in front of her, and his body began to tremble.

Wang Shan was even angrier when she heard Wang Yuan say this, "Back then! Back then! Someone told me that if you find someone to replace Yu'er, Yu'er would be able to suffer less pain. I... I did this. thought."

"But...later, you were the one who told me later that Qing'er...Qing'er and Yu'er are similar in stature...it's...that's when I noticed...to..."

Wang Shan was already talking intermittently under extreme tension, but Wang Yuan said in a calm and unhurried manner, "Master Wang, you just said that everything should be based on evidence. Is there any evidence for what you said?"

"I will keep all the letters you wrote to me properly, just in case today is the day when you take advantage of me and my son, and in the end you will bite us back! How can there be such a shameless person like you in the world! "

Wang Shan reacted belatedly, picked up the letters and read them again, pointed at Wang Yuan and tremblingly said, "You...you framed me?"

"Wang Yuan! For, for...you dare...to frame me?!"

Wang Yuan replied with disdainful eyes to the angry Wang Shan, "My lord, you also said just now that you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately, but you should make it clear, what am I for?"

"What's more, the evidence is in front of you, you can't help but deny it! You say that I framed you, what evidence do you have?"

After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he acted pitifully in front of Sheng Shaoqing again, kowtowed repeatedly and cried, "I... my minister was wronged! The son of my minister was forced to take the blame for someone else, and now that person wants to beat him up and take the dirty Splashing water on my minister, I am wronged!"

Sheng Shaoqing looked at Wang Yuan, who was excellent in singing and writing, and said softly, "Whether you are wronged or not, you will know in a while..."

Wang Yuan looked at Sheng Shaoqing in astonishment, Sheng Shaoqing ignored Wang Yuan, and only asked Wang Shan, "You said you didn't write this letter?"

Wang Shan nodded repeatedly.

Wang Yuan said anxiously, "The queen mother should not trust him! A person like him can say anything in order to get rid of the crime!"

"That is to say, you admit that you ordered Wang Qing to take the blame for Wang Yu?"

"I!"

"I!!"

Wang Shan didn't expect the queen mother's thoughts to be so clear, she didn't dare to say the word "no", she only struggled for a moment, then lowered her head and nodded.

"But... Kechen didn't, I didn't force him! It was really Wang Yuan himself who proposed it. In order to make up for him afterwards, I promoted him to an official position. I thought it was not a serious matter, as long as Wang Qing replaced me. It’s all just suffering, but I didn’t expect…”

"Didn't expect me to investigate strictly?"

Wang Shan nodded, "I am also a parent, how can I not know the heart of my parents? So, I also thought about whether I could save Wang Qing. But... but... but Wang Yuan...he later proposed The request is getting more and more outrageous, he dared to replace his own plaque with a plaque that can only be used by Wang's suzerain, and asked me to help him transfer to Chenliu."

"I was in a hurry, so... I didn't pay any attention to it."

"My lord, you are too irresponsible! When did I want these?!"

Wang Shan glared at Wang Yuan, "Well, you bastard, dare to do it but dare not admit it?! You... you came to Chenliu last time, you..."

As Wang Shan talked, he realized that something was wrong. There seemed to be no evidence left behind for what he said. Even if there were no such letters created by Wang Yuan, whoever looked at them would think that he forced Wang Qing to replace his son. Sent in jail.

The look of complacency in Wang Yuan's eyes was even more obvious, but because Sheng Shaoqing was in front of him, he didn't dare to act presumptuously.

Wang Shan felt more and more that it was a mistake to come here today. It was probably a trap that Wang Yuan had set up long ago, and he was just waiting for himself to fall into it!
"You! You actually"

"Could it be that you sent the person who offered the plan at the beginning? Then you hinted that I would use your son to take the blame. You... You actually set up a scheme to frame me? You really worked hard to frame me!"

Wang Yuan turned around with a puzzled expression on his face and said, "Why don't you understand what Master Wang said?"

But in Wang Shan's view, there was only one sentence written on Wang Yuan's face: I did it, what can you do to me?

Wang Shan was in a hurry and wanted to argue with Wang Yuan, but Sheng Shaoqing shut Wang Shan upright, "Did you threaten him, and what's the difference?"

Wang Shan looked up at Sheng Shaoqing, and there were letter papers with his own private seal scattered all over the floor in front of him. The Queen Mother's words meant that he must be punished, so he had no choice but to bow down in despair, "I plead guilty."

"Oh?"

Sheng Shaoqing signaled to the document to record that the process that Wang Shan himself is very familiar with can now be used on himself. He waited until the document was finished before he opened his mouth and said, "The humble minister Wang Shan, because he loves the child suffering in prison, ordered Wang Yuan His son replaced my son, and later, in order to bribe Wang Yuan, he promoted him against the law."

After Wang Shan finished speaking, the clerk brought the written confession to Wang Shan. Wang Shan pressed his fingerprints and listened to Ji Wenxuan, "As an official of the imperial court, Wang Yuan used his power for personal gain. It will be investigated by the magistrate, and it will never be used in the future!"

Sheng Shaoqing clapped his hands in satisfaction, "It will be easier if you plead guilty."

Seeing this, Wang Yuan immediately stood up and flattered, "The queen mother is wise! Get rid of such a wicked official for Chen Liu as soon as you come!"

Sheng Shaoqing said coldly, "Did I wake you up?"

"Ah?" Wang Yuan could only kneel down in embarrassment.

"Do you think that you can escape because you are forced to do nothing?"

Sheng Shaoqing stood up, walked around Wang Yuan, walked behind him and said, "Tell me, when did you realize my identity?"

Wang Yuan smiled awkwardly, "I...I don't understand the Queen Mother..."

"Don't understand what I said?"

"You and Guo Song sang really a good show?"

Wang Yuan turned his head in shock, but he looked at Sheng Shaoqing with a little more innocence.

Sheng Shaoqing was a little nauseated by the "simple and clear" eyes performed in this way, "Turn your head away, don't disgust me!"

A few large characters stood out on Wang Yuan's head: "The Queen Mother actually noticed it?!" He also followed Wang Yuan's head and turned back.

Wang Yuan turned his head back silently, and saw Sheng Shaoqing walking down the hall, picking up the letter papers, and walking back.

"Come on, take a look."

Wang Yuan pushed, "This... this... I look at this..."

"I'm here to let you see, do these letters look like they were just written?"

Wang Yuan swallowed his saliva, "This...these are all evidences of Wang Shan intimidating the minister, this minister...the minister has seen it all."

"Don't admit it yet?"

Sheng Shaoqing thought to himself that Wang Yuan really has a strong psychological quality, and he is still stubborn!

"The water marks on these letters are not dry yet, yet you dare to take them out to make up for them. Do you think I'm stupid, or are you thinking that Prime Minister Ji is stupid?"

Sheng Shaoqing scolded half of the people in the hall with one sentence, and the dejected Wang Shan seemed to be enlightened suddenly after hearing this, "Yes! Yes! Minister..."

Wang Shan met Shang Sheng Shaoqing's sharp gaze, "Sin...sin minister...as soon as I got those letters, I felt something was wrong!"

"Since the Empress Dowager knew it from the beginning, why do you still have to press the guilty minister? Believe me now. These are all ghosts created by Wang Yuan alone!"

Sheng Shaoqing silently rolled her eyes, she knew why Wang Shan was being calculated so thoroughly, just this brain... It was exactly the same as his good-looking dude son who got cheap!
"you shut up!"

Sheng Shaoqing turned his head and asked Wang Yuandao intently, "I guess Guo Song's defection from the beginning was intentional, right?"

"I'm afraid you already knew about it when I first set foot on this land?"

Fortunately, she thought that she and Prime Minister Ji were scheming, but in the end they were turned against the generals, and they were still calculating from the beginning to the end!
Sheng Shaoqing glanced at Ji Wenxuan, and sure enough, Ji Wenxuan's face turned green.

Wang Yuan still said stubbornly, "The queen mother... what did the queen mother say... I don't understand..."

"Do not understand?"

"Come and make him understand."

Ji Wenxuan clapped his hands, and Steward Lai from Wang Yuan's residence was brought to the hall.

When Wang Yuan saw Steward Lai, his eyes straightened, "This... this is the steward of Weichen's mansion... what does this matter have to do with him...?"

Sheng Shaoqing smiled and said, "Wang Yuan, you think you can play with everyone in the applause, but in the face of absolute power, you are nothing more than flies on a giant tree."

"I advise you to confess as soon as possible, otherwise, I don't guarantee any consequences."

Wang Yuan struggled for a moment, "I knew the identity of the Empress Dowager from the very beginning, but..."

"I... forged these letters, but I did these because I was eager to save my son!"

"Wang Shan refused to rescue my son, so I had no choice but to think of another way. I suddenly heard that the Empress Dowager might want to pay a private visit in disguise, so...then I sent someone...to wait day and night..."

"Later, the Empress Dowager really came. I...I must find a way to let the Empress Dowager know about it, so I asked Guo Song to disclose it on purpose in the inn. Later...and...Prime Minister Ji said that the Empress Dowager came to look for relatives and My wife's relative... I will use my plan to recognize this relative, thinking that maybe I can start from here."

"It's just that my unsatisfactory nephew disrupted my plan again. I can only follow the trend and invite you back to the mansion."

"So, you let Madam find these letters on purpose?"

Wang Yuan smiled wryly, "If Madam found out such a confidential thing so easily, my Madam would have gone to Beijing to file a lawsuit to save her son."

"No wonder Wang Shan looked at Guo Song so strangely, it was you who found someone to act."

"But... you are still dishonest."

Wang Yuan looked at Sheng Shaoqing in surprise, and Sheng Shaoqing continued, "Who are you still hiding for?"

"I heard that I want to visit privately via Weibo?"

"Standing on the sidelines again?"

"This Chenliu isn't too big, but with so many places, how do you even get me to come here?"

Sheng Shaoqing saw the strange thing coming out of Wang Yuan's head, and said hastily, "Don't tell me that theory of fate."

Before Wang Yuan recovered from the shock of how the queen mother knew that he was going to talk about fate, he was anxious, how should he make it up now?
"How about you answer my question?"

"Who told you that I would come here, who told you to frame Wang Shan, and what benefits did he promise you?"

The story told by Wang Yuan seems to be seamless, but if you think about it carefully, it is not without loopholes.

Even if Wang Shan wanted to make people replace him, how did Wang Yuan know, and how did he implement it?
Sheng Shaoqing didn't think that Wang Yuan had the ability to allow people to sneak into the palace, and he could also place his own people in the palace.

Therefore, among the Wang families far away in Chen Liu, there must be Wang Yuan's helper, and this person can also see her whereabouts.

"minister………"

"If you say it now, I may still think that you are being frank and lenient, but if you say it later, I will be merciless!"

Wang Yuan hesitated whether to speak, when suddenly there was a piercing sound in the air, and a sharp arrow flashed past Sheng Shaoqing's eyes, and pierced into Wang Yuan's chest.

Before Wang Yuan could speak, he lowered his head in surprise and stared at the big hole in his chest that was shot through. Blood gushed out of it, instantly staining the front of his chest, and then he turned his head and looked outside the door in disbelief. .

Sheng Shaoqing was scared out of his wits by the bloody scene. As soon as he ran in front of Wang Yuan, he saw his lips trembling and mouthing, "Wang... Wang... Jun..."

"What did you say?!"

Sheng Shaoqing went to question again, but Wang Yuan only spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell straight down.

Sheng Shaoqing helped Wang Yuan close his eyes, turned his head and shouted at Lin Jin, "It's Xiujian!"

A black shadow flashed past the door, and then disappeared in an instant.

"Escort! Escort!"

There was a sudden chaos in the hall, and the hidden guards brought by Ji Wenxuan poured out from all directions and surrounded the courtyard. Lin Jin only gave a few words and chased after the shadow.

(End of this chapter)