Book with Emperor

Chapter 260

The re-investigation of Xiao Deng's case really caused a lot of turmoil in the court. Half of the officials headed by Prime Minister Feng asked the emperor to dismiss the matter in the early court, and even scolded Xie Heng bloody. The bookcases were piled up to half a person's height.

Qin Guanyue sat under the dragon chair in the court hall, and waved his hands with a smile, as if he didn't hear or see.

"After such a commotion, no one mentions the matter of the prince anymore." Qin Guanyue was quite satisfied with this.

Xiao Sheng suddenly remembered something, "How will Mrs. Liu deal with it?"

Qin Guanyue smiled slightly, "She has a good place to go."

The crown prince has never been a big deal, only Liu Wuxin, she has too many debts to settle with this woman.

Inside the prison of Dali Temple.

In the dark cell, Liu Wuxin was sitting blankly against the cold and damp wall, wondering what she was thinking.She didn't raise her head slowly until the sound of footsteps stopped in front of the cell.

"……Who are you?"

The official in front of her was nearly forty years old, and she was wearing the red official uniform of Dali Temple, but she had never seen it before.

The man has a nondescript goatee, and looks like a charlatan. He smiles and cups his hands, "The main hall of Dali Temple is Jinchengyuan."

Liu Wuxin glanced at him, her expression indifferent, "If I remember correctly, it's still the twelfth lunar month, and it's not time for execution."

"The girl is joking." Jin Chengyuan waved his hand to let the jailer leave behind him, leaving only the two of them in the cell.

He squatted down to look at her without any particular consideration, and asked with a smile in his eyes, "Does Miss Liu know her crime?"

Liu Wuxin's expression was calm, "The crown prince conspired to commit a crime, and all the people in the crown prince's residence will be punished."

"wrong."

Jin Chengyuan grinned and stared at her, "It's the crime of killing the only grandson of the protector, the crime of framing Han, the crime of murdering the concubine and her imperial heir, and the crime of instigating the prince to commit treason. It is the crime of bribing courtiers!"

Liu Wuxin's eyes trembled, her hands clenched her dress tightly, trembling slightly, "...I can't understand your lord's nonsense."

"How can you not understand? Miss Liu is so smart, from a brothel kabuki to the crown prince's side concubine, and almost pregnant with the emperor's heir to replace the crown princess, how can she not understand?"

"..."

Liu Wuxin took a deep breath, let go of her fingers, and looked at him coldly, "What do you want to say?"

"Miss Liu is so calm, is she really not afraid of death, or..." He leaned over to her ear and whispered, "Do you really think someone will come to save you?"

Liu Wuxin's breathing stopped and she panicked completely.

"Miss Liu's methods amaze even a grown man like me. I am in a prison, and I can still get on with the ministers of the court."

Jin Chengyuan clicked his tongue, and his eyes fell on her stomach, "But I don't think you have an emperor's heir in your belly, Mr. Zhao, don't you be deceived?"

When he said the word "Emperor's Heir", Liu Wuxin closed his eyes in despair.

Seeing the darkness on her beautiful face, Jin Chengyuan couldn't help but snorted coldly, "It's just that Miss Liu is too greedy. If she only wants to save her life, it's fine. She even wants to take the opportunity to assassinate the emperor and seize power. It's too greedy."

"Greedy?" Liu Wuxin sneered, raised his eyes and looked at him sarcastically, "How can your lord say such naive things in officialdom? Or is your lord even more hypocritical than me, and you have to pretend to be a dying person? "

"If I wasn't greedy, I would still be a whore in a brothel, being bullied and played with; if I wasn't greedy, I would have died in the streets and alleys." The corners of her mouth raised a sharp arc, "My lord, I am not greedy, but If you want to live, if you don't ask, you will die."

Jin Chengyuan didn't speak, just looked at her quietly.

Liu Wuxin, on the other hand, was the complete opposite, wishing to tell all the hardships she had suffered.

"I don't have Han Lingyi's good background, nor Qin Guanyue's good fortune. When I met a master like Gong Yue, I was able to participate in the court and discuss politics as a woman, and monopolize the power."

She cried and laughed, "If I had their background, why would I commit myself to that idiot of the prince! Why should I use these insidious means, why should I harm others! God is so unfair to me! Why should I Be a lowly concubine! Why should I be humbled!"

"I'm not reconciled!" She roared with red eyes, "Let me be a lowly person, I'd rather die!"

Jin Chengyuan said lightly, "Unfortunately, the days worse than death are still long."

Outside Longquan Hall.

Manager Wang just came out of the dormitory with the cold food, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the emperor who had just come down to court, and his expression changed immediately.

"... Kowtow to the Emperor Master!"

"Pingshen." Qin Guanyue went straight to the bedroom, but saw that the main hall was empty, "Where is Your Majesty?"

Manager Wang said cautiously, "... His Majesty is in the side hall."

Qin Guanyue responded and entered the side hall alone.

The layout of the side hall is simple, more like a small study than a resting place, with some traces of life.

Ning Zhao sat in front of the low tea table, wearing a nightgown, but he did not diminish the power of the emperor, and he did not see the decadence of being under house arrest in the palace.

Qin Guanyue walked to the tea table but didn't sit down, but just looked down at the man in front of her.

Ning Zhao glanced at her lightly, then continued to drink tea, "You come to see me alone, aren't you afraid that I'll kill you right away?"

Qin Guanyue was too lazy to talk to him, and threw a volume of imperial decree in front of him, "Look at it."

Ning Zhao opened the volume of imperial edict, his expression paused, "An edict of guilt?"

"Ten years ago in Dashui, Cangzhou, you designed Prince Cen to take over the disaster relief job, and then killed him by the governor of Cangzhou. Later, Yue Qingli went to New Moon City to atone for his sins because of his ineffective protection of Prince Cen, but at that time New Moon City has already become a dead city because someone in the court secretly intercepted the prefect Xiao Deng's rescue note. On the night Yue Qingli arrived at New Moon City, someone set fire to New Moon City, and 50 relief money disappeared. fly."

She breathed a sigh of relief and slowly recalled, "I remember that the late emperor thoroughly investigated the New Moon City. In addition to Xiao Deng who died in the fire, a dozen officials related to Xiao Deng were successively arrested. The confidants of the three princes who had the most advantage in competing for the throne at that time."

"This is the end of the New Moon City matter. Three years later, in the first year of your succession, you secretly instructed the royal doctor Huo Qiu to participate in Yue Qingli's collusion with Xiao Deng, embezzling disaster relief money, intending to rebel, and took the opportunity to kill Yue Qing." Leave."

Qin Guanyue straightened her sleeves, and said slowly, "Huo Qiu was killed by me, and only Yang Chuo was left as a participant. It took me a lot of effort to pry his mouth open. So this guilt Zhao, you have to read it carefully."

"The Yue clan garrisoned troops in Yongzhou, and they had long wanted to plot rebellion and usurp the throne. Your criminal edict is not only for rehabilitating the Yue clan, but also paving the way for him, a road that will be bloodless." Ning Zhao looked at the girl in front of him with a tone of voice. Slightly contemptuous, "Qin Guanyue, if you want to be a rebellious minister, you should soften your heart."

"Tomorrow morning above the imperial city, His Majesty will read out the imperial edict in public. If there is a word that does not match, I still have a copy of the edict."

Qin Guanyue's expression was cold, "It's just that the main character has been replaced by the real envoy who planned everything back then, the head of Qin Tianjian, Gong Yue."

Ning Zhao's complexion changed, and he jumped up against the case, a long sword flew out from under the table case, he grabbed the sword and pointed it at the center of Guanyue's eyebrows, and said in a deep voice, "How dare you—"

"Why didn't I dare?" Qin Guanyue didn't even blink, "If Qin Tianjian knew Gong Yue's real identity, maybe he wouldn't even need me to kill Gong Yue."

He opened his mouth to speak, took another deep breath, and asked, "You want to hurt both?"

"Of course not." Qin Guanyue gently pushed aside the blade in front of her eyes, "So Your Majesty had better not disobey my arrangement."

She turned to leave, and Ning Zhao spoke again behind her, "The letter—"

"I wrote it." Qin Guanyue said without hesitation, "He taught me my handwriting, and I am [-]% sure of imitating it. I bet you have not been with him for a long time, and you have long been unable to tell the authenticity of his handwriting . As expected, you did not recognize it."

Ning Zhao closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he saw the letter that night, he actually recognized something wrong with the handwriting, but he thought it was caused by Gong Yue's poisonous hair, so he didn't think much about it.

Or, he hadn't received a letter from Gong Yue for too long, so he subconsciously convinced himself that it was true.

The letter was only a few lines, the prince intended to seek rebellion, and asked him to call Qin Guanyue into the palace to test him out. If Qin Guanyue confessed frankly, he would hand over the banning order to her and ask her to help him draw out the help behind the prince.

"You were also the one who spread the news that the third son of Prince Xihe County had entered Beijing."

From Lou Binghe to Ningsi, then to the Han family, the crown prince, and finally him and Gong Yue, it is Daxi's imperial authority.This situation has already started since he wanted Qin Guanyue to enter the court to replace Gong Yue.

Ning Zhao murmured, and asked after a moment of silence, "He won't let you plan all this, what's wrong with him?"

"Dead, or completely disabled." Qin Guanyue said coolly, "After all, there is no antidote for the lotus in the palm."

"..."

There was no sound behind her, and she didn't care what the other person's expression was at the moment, and walked straight out of the bedroom.

Director Wang was guarding outside the hall, he was secretly relieved to see her come out safely.

The weather is getting colder and colder, but the streets are full of festive atmosphere. Even though there have been too many changes in Beijing recently, it has not affected the lives of ordinary people.

Qin Guanyue exhaled softly, rubbing the stove in the palm of her hand.

"Block the imperial city, and no one will be allowed to enter or leave until dark tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)