HBWnovel Chapter 97 Was She Wrong?
Chapter 97 Was She Wrong?
A group of courtiers waited for the court in Jixian Garden, from sunrise in the east to three poles in the sun, after Bu Gonggong passed on the emperor's will in the original words, they stayed for a while asking questions, and then they didn't know what to do.
Some well-informed ministers said that last night the Jinwu Guard made some noise on the long street, but they didn't know why.
The emperor...couldn't be going out in the middle of the night, what happened again?
Then the guessing became more and more outrageous.
It was nearly noon when the emperor ascended the palace.
In the main hall, Gao Jing, the governor of the capital, fulfilled his promise:
Wen Xu, who participated in the first book, was the mastermind behind the spread of Wendao Xindan on the black market and among the courtiers. Cen Kong, the eldest son of the Minister of War, Cen Lian, was invited to testify;
The second book, since he participated in the case of General Xia Jia back then, he testified falsely, and implores His Majesty to vindicate Xia Jia.
In the daytime, we had to thoroughly investigate Wen's family, except for the transaction books provided by Fang Miaoer, we finally had a solid witness that could be put on the table for inspection.
During the joint investigation by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple during the daytime, it is important to see how much information and benefits will be exchanged behind the bait Wen Wenxindan.
To say that Wen's family was investigated, sooner or later.
As for the old case...
What's more, anyone with a little brain can see that Xia Jia's case back then was far deeper than that of Wen's family - Gao Jing testified falsely back then, but he had no selfish grievances with Xia Jia, why did he perjure himself?
If the things to be covered up behind this are revealed, it may be another bloody storm.
Another thing happened next, which made the ministers present dumbfounded:
There was a commotion on the long street last night, but it was not the emperor's accident, but Princess Duanshu's assassination of King Yuanning.
A few days ago, the princess received a secret letter and sued Qianlu, the close servant of King Yuanning, for killing King Rui by driving a snake.
But when the Ministry of Criminal Justice opened the coffin of King Rui for an autopsy, the prince's body was nowhere to be found.
From this moment on, the princess knew that whether it was the emperor's cover-up or not, it would be difficult for her to punish Qian Lu and seek justice for King Rui.
Princess Duanshu has had her own ideas since she was a child. As a princess, she seldom suffers. Now that her father is enmity, it is easier to get on top.Therefore, since it was difficult for the emperor to make decisions for her, she simply did it herself.
It's just that she didn't expect that the prince's kung fu is better than those killers in the rivers and lakes, and he dealt with all the killers alone, until the Jinwu Guard supported him.
What's more, before dawn, the emperor would personally go to the torture room of the Chamber of Internal Affairs to intimidate and lure the assassins, breaking the psychological defense of several killers.
At noon, Chen Xingning brought a decree to the princess's mansion, to the effect: I guarantee Yuanning King and Qianlu that they were not the two who killed King Rui, but it is a fact that you bought the murderer to assassinate the current prince, because of your filial piety Loyalty, I will give you two ways to go: first, wait, and then give you the truth; second, follow the law.
Of course, a normal person would not choose the second path.
Chen Xingning returned to the main hall, and the ministers were silent.
Just as Bai Tian wanted to ask him what other details he had obtained from the princess, Chen Xingning suddenly knelt down on both knees, kowtowed to the ground, and said, "Your Majesty, please allow me to report the details in private."
After speaking, he didn't get up.
He rarely looked like this, he must have found out something that was difficult to speak openly in the court.
After retiring from the imperial court, Chen Xingning followed the daytime to the imperial study.
Seeing his muddy face during the day, he said to Bu Ge: "There is no need to wait here."
Just as Bugo closed the door, Chen Xingning knelt down again.
Bai Zhou sighed, and said: "Look at your appearance... is Miss Xia involved?"
Chen Xingning raised his head, his eyes were full of loneliness, after a while, he finally managed to say: "Your Majesty is wise."
As he said that, he took out a letter from his arms, which was the letter to inform Princess Duanshu about Qianlu.The handwriting on the letter could not be discerned, it was scribbled and chaotic, and it was even extremely difficult to read.
Bai Zhou said: "This...you can't see anything, the paper and ink are very ordinary. The handwriting is also..."
Chen Xingning said with a bitter voice, "Your Majesty, hold the paper up to the light."
Bai Tian looked at it according to his words, and saw that the paper was light-transmitting evenly, although it was thin but tough, it was an extremely rare and good product, but Chen Xingning obviously didn't want him to see these, and after a long time of careful observation, he didn't see any clues, so he couldn't help complaining , The ancients wrote a lot of articles on paper.
Seeing that he really couldn't see anything, Chen Xingning said, "Your Majesty, please see where the signature is signed."
During the day, he looked carefully again, only to find that each piece of paper had a very thin and tiny gold leaf on the inscription, making it into the shape of a hexagonal star.
If Chen Xingning hadn't mentioned it bluntly, it would have been extremely difficult to find out.
Chen Xingning said: "This is a paper from Weichen, because we both have the word 'star' in our names, but she always treats me..." As he spoke, he smiled wryly and shook his head, "So, Weichen hasn't Point it out to her. Weichen went to her residence just now, and found that the torn pages of the account books written by Fang Miaoer are in her hands..."
As he spoke, he took out another letter from his pocket and handed it to Bai Tian.
It is a love letter written by Fang Miaoer to the prince.
From this point of view, the person Jin Guangjuli fought against King Yuanning was sent by Xia Sixing.
Her purpose was to exchange letters for ledgers.
No wonder that person made his move as soon as they met that day. Thinking about it, he was disturbed by the two before he put the account books in the cabinet, so he did his tricks, making them think that he was here to cut off the beard.
"If you don't tell me about this, no one will know."
Chen Xingning sighed: "Since she intends to provoke, she won't stop here..." He kowtowed heavily, "I beg Your Majesty, give her a way out!"
Bai Tian was expressionless, looking at Chen Xingning, one of them knelt on the ground, the other sat at the table, the imperial study room was silent for a while as if no one was there.
During the civil turmoil in the palace, Xia Jia was the victim, and so was Xia Sixing. Bai Tian wholeheartedly helped her put things right, but the girl probably used the imperial power and Bai Bai from beginning to end.
During the day, she didn't know what else she had done.
At least this time, she put King Yuanning in danger.
Is she wrong?
She was not wrong to take revenge on the royal family who ruined her family.
The day is emperor.
Facing the royal family who ruined her family, it was extremely difficult for her to build trust.
She is very clever, she has always pretended to be calm and breezy, and even deceived the daytime.
If it wasn't for Chen Xingning's love and coincidence, she might still have a long way to go.
In front of such a girl, the ruthlessness of the daytime softened by three points.
He let out a long sigh: "Xing Ning...you get up first."
Chen Xingning just raised his head and didn't get up. Bai Zhou knew that he really liked that girl.
"Your Majesty...she...Miss Xia hurt the prince, and I am willing to accept the crime on her behalf."
"Bullshit!"
Bai Tian got up, went to Chen Xingning and held his elbow: "You get up first, I didn't say that I would punish her."
As soon as these words came out, Chen Xingning's eyes immediately brightened.
He has a handsome appearance, and he always has a heroic and tough look at ordinary times, and he is also fierce in business affairs. It is unimaginable during the day, and the emotions of his children can be influenced by Chen Xingning in such a way—suddenly lonely and sad, and then suddenly bright.
Just because of a girl in my heart.
The reason why she didn't care about Xia Sixing was because the Dayao royal family owed her, but how much did she do secretly, and what else would she do?
It must be clear and must be stopped.
Thinking of this, Bai Zhou said: "You treat her... just as usual, as for the others, I leave it to others to investigate."
In this way, even if one day Xia Sixing knew that the emperor suspected and questioned her, the conflict would not be passed on to Chen Xingning, and there would be no game of loyalty and betrayal between the two of them.
Of course Chen Xingning understood the emperor's good intentions and was extremely grateful.
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Wen's family was thoroughly investigated, and the pit was dug deeper and deeper.
Lexitang's books are kept clean, but in fact there are two books, one open and one dark.
Seeing that it will be late autumn in a blink of an eye, the case of the Wen family is still unsolved.The more you investigate, the more things will become more. When you pull up the big carrot of the Wen family, the mud you bring out is more than three catties.
Tao Di came here every few days to report the progress of the case to Bai Tian, and asked the emperor to show the following.
He is an official of the Ministry of Punishment, and he understands that everything in the world has a degree, and that things that are either black or white only appear in an ideal country, and that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. Even if you are delusional.
During the period, Wen Yibin handed over two invitations for memorials in the mansion, and wanted to wear a sin mask, but he ignored them during the day.
Because the content in Wen Yibin's letter was not what Bai Bai wanted.
Xiao Ke'er has proved that Peng Qi and Wen Xu have had several contacts.So I waited during the day, waiting for the people from the Wen family to sit still, or maybe Peng Qi couldn't sit still.
On the day of Hanlu, there was a strong wind, and after noon, the clouds were dark and heavy.It was as dark as night, and I was reading in the imperial study during the day, so Bugo lit the lamp.
Only he and King Yuanning knew that his health was improving, and even Bugo kept it a secret.
Bu Ge saw that the emperor was holding a book called "The Story of Smoke and Sand" in his hand, but he didn't know what was written in it. Anyway, the emperor has read it these days.Even the usual nap after lunch is saved.
Finally, I couldn't help nagging: "Your Majesty, you should rest for a while, the weather is bad today, and my eyes hurt from reading too many books."
Bai Zhou looked up at him, with a half-smile, he didn't know what was going on in his mind, and suddenly asked him: "If you betray your close relative, you can live alone, otherwise you have to die with him. If it were you, what would you do?"
Bugo was stunned, then scratched his head, frowned and said: "The slave's close relatives are long gone, and I don't know what it's like to be with them. The slave doesn't understand the complicated entanglement that His Majesty said. .”
When he answered, there was no sadness in his expression, as if he was talking about a very ordinary thing, this kind of fate arrangement, he has long been used to it.
If he sighs and mourns, it's nothing, the more this is the case, the more delicate sourness grows in Bai Tian's heart, trying to comfort him with a word or two, but he can't find anything to say, so he can only pat him on the shoulder with a wry smile.
At this time, someone came to report, and the Wen family made another report.
It's not so much a booklet, it's better to say it's a pair of silk.
Bugo helped to unfold it, and a smell of medicine that smoked the book came to the face.
It was a book written in blood. I don't know how many years it was written, the color of blood has already become as deep as ink.
The letter had been torn to shreds, almost to pieces, and then glued to the back silk inch by inch.
Bai Zhou smiled, Wen Yibin finally brought sincerity.
"Xuanwen Yibin come to see me."
But the little eunuch who delivered the story bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this is from Mr. Wen Xu, not Mr. Wen Yibin."