The princess is coquettish and coquettish, conquering the emperor's master

Chapter 168 Chasing a wife while away from home

He Xu was overjoyed, "Yes! Of course I can! Exile is also acceptable. As long as Zhen Ning is not allowed to die, I can accept it!"

"Okay, I will ask my servants to inform Gu Huai'an later so that he can be punished lightly. You two can go back now and wait for the news."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! I would like to express my gratitude to Your Majesty for your great kindness. I will never be able to repay you in this life."

"Well, let's go down."

"Sir, please retire!"

After that, He Xu dragged his slightly old body and helped He Yixuan down.

When the two left the palace, Lingyu suddenly hesitated to speak.

Meng Qing said: "You can ask whatever you want, you don't have to hesitate."

Lingyu folded his hands in front of his belly and said, "Your Majesty, do you really want to let He Zhenning go? She has five lives on her shoulders!"

In just a moment, her long and thick eyelashes covered her pupils and reflected on her cheeks, like dancing butterflies.

She said something extremely intriguing.

"Release? When did I say I would release He Zhenning?"

After hearing this, Lingyu swallowed her throat in a panic. She looked really scary now.

Meng Qing would never let He Zhenning go. He was cruel and cruel, how could he stay?

Not only did he kill five women of marriageable age in the capital, but he also wanted to kill Gu Yinrou. If he let her go, wouldn't it make things even worse?

On the other hand, she couldn't explain it to the five Beijing officials.

She said: "Lingyu, I have something to tell you now, and you must do it immediately."

"Yes!"

Lingyu listened attentively until she finished speaking.

"Go do it."

"Slave, go do it now!"

He Zhenning must die, but she cannot die at the hands of the current emperor.

……

Next to Yuxi on the outskirts of the city.

A group of carriages stopped here, and the Jin envoys sat around, waiting for Xiao Chuji.

The cool stream gurgled in the bamboo forest, twisting and turning like a snake, half-hiding the Qingdai Mountains, forming a beautiful picture.

The young man stood by the stream and looked at the mountains.

Xiao Chuji said with a relaxed expression: "Has Xie Yunzhi been found?"

The man is wearing a sky blue double-breasted round collar robe, a jade flute inlaid with a lark pattern around his waist, a red mole between his eyebrows, and an earring. He has a graceful figure, as if he has descended from an immortal.

Pei Jiuzhi crossed his arms across his chest, closed his eyes and listened to the gurgling stream.

"No, your cousin comes and goes without a trace, I can't find him."

Xiao Chuji glanced at him, "Can't find it? You just don't want to look for it!"

"Why did His Highness say this?"

He snorted coldly, "Don't think that I don't know that you want to stay in Chu country and stay with Lu Youzhu."

"Tsk, how could His Highness think of me like this? I have always been doing my best for my aunt."

"Really? Why did that lonely spy come to report that you lingered in the Qianjin Building every day, entangled in Lu Youzhu and refused to leave?"

"What? I can't find Xie Yunzhi, this little bastard, when I came to Chu. Are you not allowed to pass the time and have fun? People like you who don't have emotions and desires naturally don't understand the hearts of us saints of love. This is called, I’m chasing a wife while I’m away from home, understand!”

"Chasing your wife? I guess you've been out here for a long time. Are you out of your mind? You have a wife, why are you chasing her here?"

Pei Jiuzhi's face suddenly darkened. He didn't like it when others mentioned Xue. He hadn't touched her since he married her, and he even hated her to the core.

"Okay, mind yourself."

Xiao Chuji straightened his lip line and stopped picking on him. "You remember, the queen mother told you more than just this, right?"

"So what?"

Pei Jiuzhi opened one eye and looked at Xiao Chuji contemptuously.

"If Gu's guess is correct, this matter is that the queen mother sent you here to spy on the elder brother's loyalty, right?"

"uh-huh?"

"If he is disloyal to the Jin royal family, how will you treat him?"

He said slowly: "Try every means to intensify the relationship between him and the little emperor."

"I hope you really do it."

"Are you done? I'm going back after I'm done!"

"..."

Xiao Chuji gritted his teeth. At this moment, he wanted to chop Pei Jiuzhi into pieces and throw them to the dogs.

……

In just one day, rumors spread.

Neighbors and alleys are discussing the rumor that the emperor intends to keep He Zhenning alive. Some people say that the current emperor does not argue between right and wrong, while others say that the emperor left He Zhenning alive out of consideration for the hero, and that's why he planned to save her.

However, the decree has not yet been made, so no one dares to speculate.

Many ministers jointly signed a letter asking Meng Qing to give an explanation to the innocent girls who died in vain, and to give an explanation to everyone in the world. For a time, Meng Qing's pressure was increasing.

The Yizhou Party has reached the point where everyone in Yujing is calling for beatings. Some people say that the Yizhou Party simply deliberately let He Zhenning carry out a knife attack in order to weaken the power of other aristocratic families in the capital.

But without evidence, they can only make wild guesses.

In the Xinuan Pavilion, there were piles of memorials on the table, and outside there were kneeling officials from the capital who had lost their daughters.

Meng Qing was very annoyed.

Waves of shouts reached my ears.

"Please, Your Majesty, deal with it fairly and do not engage in malpractice for personal gain. Give me an explanation and give an explanation to everyone in the world!"

In the end, Meng Qing was overwhelmed and asked Lingyu to express her ambiguous attitude.

It was neither clear that He Zhenning was to be killed to pay homage to the dead soul, nor was it clear whether to spare her life and be exiled to Ganzhou. He only told them that the emperor would deal with it impartially.

Dealing with justice, killing is justice, exile is justice, as for how to deal with it, it is all in her mind.

After Lingyu came back, he was a little worried.

"Your Majesty, the rumors you asked your slaves to spread have been spread. But now the situation is getting more and more serious. What should we do?"

"Don't worry, someone will deal with He Zhenning. When the time comes, you can spread the last rumor and the matter will be resolved."

Lingyu nodded as if understanding.

"By the way, now you go find someone to spread the word in the streets and alleys, and say that I am grateful for the kindness of the hero and want to give He Zhenning a chance to be a new man, but also want to kill her to give the world an explanation. I have mixed feelings in my heart. I don't know what to do Whether he is advancing or retreating, he is worthy of being a benevolent and virtuous king who is rare to encounter in the Chu Kingdom."

"Is this...is it really useful?"

"It's useful, go ahead."

"Yes."

Lingyu reluctantly went down to do the work.

Meng Qing couldn't offend both sides now. Although He Xu was just a minister of the Ministry of War, she was in charge of tens of thousands of soldiers and countless cronies. If she killed He Zhenning, she would probably break the hearts of these Yizhou soldiers.

The soldiers in Yizhou have always been very stubborn and only help their relatives but not their husbands. The representative figure is He Xu.

Therefore, if she wanted to kill He Zhenning, she couldn't do it herself.

But there are countless people who want to kill He Zhenning.

However, her actions may make the court officials think that she is indecisive and unruly.

(End of this chapter)