Chapter 142
The emperor raised his hand to indicate that the Duke of England should not be angry, and rebuked King Li: “Your fourth brother is not at home, why didn’t you come to the palace to report what happened in Yü Wang’s residence? You led the men of the police battalion to besiege the Yuhang Mansion, threatening the princess with your sword in front of so many people, forcing her to cry and beg for forgiveness without any honor, what kind of appearance is this?”
“Father, I don’t want to make such a big fuss! I just want to catch Yu Xiangyi first so that I can report to my father. However, the Princess looks like she will live or die with the royal family, so I had to use force. Don’t look at her pitiful face, but she was so tough just now. She said she would die on her feet and never live on her knees. Now it’s like the child minister is persecuting her.”
The emperor laughed: “This is familiar.”
The English eunuch bowed and said, “This is the family motto of the Rong family.”
The emperor set his tea cup aside: “The matter has come to a head, if we can search out the culprits, then so be it. If not, have you thought about how to explain to your fourth brother?”
The King of Li is confident: “The police battalion has surrounded the Yuhang Mansion from the outside early in the morning, and the guards have seen that the princess left the mansion with two maids, but when she returned, there was one more maid out of thin air, and she was wearing a hood to cover her head and face. Coincidentally, today, Yu Xiangyi in Fengxian Pond to receive guests, flower boat fire, no trace, the police battalion searched the city without success. On her way back to the palace, the Princess must pass by the Phoenix Fairy Pond. Father, don’t you think this is too much of a coincidence?”
“Oh?” The emperor’s eyelids jumped, also felt that all this can’t be explained by coincidence, and asked: “Are you a forewitness, knowing that Yu Xiangyi will go into the Yuhang Mansion to hide, so you set it up early?”
King Li’s heart flinched: “Father, I realize that Yu Xiangyi is still alive, I have been worried that if she survived, whether she has a rebellious party to help her, and whether she has plans in the future. To say, who else has the intention to harbor the Yu family now, the first one is the fourth brother, after all, he is the grandson of the Yu family, it is hard for him to escape the blame. Therefore, my son is secretly keeping an eye on the movements of the Yu Wangfu.”
At this time, the elder government official brought Meng Zhenru in and added more tea to the emperor.
The emperor knew that he certainly did not dare to lie, so he asked: “Today, Yü Wang Fu can have any outsiders into the house?”
The Chief Mansion Officer is terrified, “Your Majesty, I and my family did not see any outsiders. If there were, I would have reported to His Majesty first.”
“The Wangfei brought a few maids into the palace, you always know that, right?”
“Your Majesty, the Wangfei is bringing two personal maids into the palace today.”
“Well, what about when you came back?”
“It was already late at night when I came back, the old minister did not see it with his own eyes and did not dare to talk nonsense.”
“The patrol battalion said that when they came back, there was an extra woman, and none of you saw it?”
At this point, Meng Zhenru glanced at the long government officials, wanting to speak, but afraid of causing trouble, swallowed.
The emperor saw that she is very young, most likely do not dare to lie in front of the emperor, then asked her: “Do you know?”
Meng Zhenru busy kneeling: “slave girl did not see, just guess.”
“You say.”
“Slave girl guess, this extra person, is Linlang right.”
“Why, was she not there originally?”
“Your Majesty, sister Linlang’s father died a few days ago. Wangfei granted her permission to go home to accompany her old mother for the mid-autumn festival, and she went home yesterday. I just saw her come back and guessed that she followed the crown princess back tonight.”
“Do you mean the extra maid by the side of the Wangfei is Linlang?”
“The slave girl doesn’t know if it’s right or not, your majesty might as well summon Linlang and the guards who followed her to find out.”
When King Li heard this, his heart was anxious: “Father, this is just their side of the story, collusion.”
The emperor said to Meng Zhenru on the ground floor, “Go and call those girls, and the guards who accompanied them today.”
Linlang and the girls have had many opportunities to see His Majesty since they were young, and at this moment, none of them are as flustered as Meng Zhenru, and honestly answered the words with no mistakes or omissions.
The more King Li listens, the more he feels like it was planned in advance, and asks, “What are you doing waiting for Wangfei by the Phoenix Fairy Pond when you’re fine?”
Linlang wondered, “Your Highness, the slave girl’s home is near the Phoenix Fairy Pond, before and Wangfei discussed, at night in the Phoenix Fairy Pond to watch the lanterns, waiting for Wangfei’s car drive out of the palace, so that they can come back together. Wangfei sympathetic, know slave girl a woman walking at night inconvenience, the road is not short, specially let slave girl together back, so you can also save a crane hire car money.”
These ordinary life of trivial small things, said into the sense of reason. Li Wang, however, do not believe: “In that case, why are you wearing a hood to cover your head and face?”
Linlang was busy explaining, “The slave girl didn’t mean it. The weather is getting cooler, my mother made a cloak and asked the slave girl to bring it back. The slave girl had a bunch of mooncakes in her hands, it was not good to take the clothes, so she lazily draped it over her body and brought it back, and did not intend to cover anything. I didn’t know that someone was watching Yuhuang Mansion, I didn’t want to cause so many misunderstandings, I’m guilty!”
After saying that, Linlang crouched on the ground and cried gently.
Although the emperor was skeptical, he was certain that Linlang was not lying. This girl, at first glance, didn’t know anything. Because she has been serving at Princess Zhao Ren’s side since she was a child, doing things properly, very understanding, the emperor also has no intention to be angry with her. And asked today’s accompanying guards and allocated to Yu Wang Fu Yu Linlin guards, are with Lin Lang a statement, no error, then asked them to retire together.
Rong Xiangshi saw wrapped his neck back, listening to their reply, suddenly realized: “The original patrol battalion did not see Yu …… Yu what came to be, and did not see her into the Yu Wang House. Just because you can’t find it anywhere else, you have to come to search my house?”
King Li coldly laughed: “Yu Wangfei good trick to steal the beam, people in the mansion or not, you know it in your heart.”
At this time, various teams of people came to report that they did not find any abnormality.
King Li still refuses to give up, saying, “Father is wise, you wouldn’t think that Yu Xiangyi’s disappearance out of thin air has nothing to do with the Yu Wangfu, right?”
“Hmph,” Rong Xiangwang sneered, “So Brother Li Wang has already determined the outcome, even if he can’t find it, the Yuhang Mansion will have to take the blame.”
Rong Xiangwang was also very angry, “Isn’t the Yu family girl dead? You guys are taking a dead person to throw dirty water on my sister, it’s really bullying people too much!”
King Li knew that if he couldn’t find anyone, he would definitely not be able to convince the public, and said confidently, “There are still many secret rooms in King Yu’s residence, I don’t know if Great Chief Duan has ever searched them?”
The Emperor stared at Duan Fei, who had a blank look on his face, and then admitted his mistake: “I was negligent.”
Rong Xiangmian’s face changed, “Brother King Knight really knows everything about our family!”
King Li knew that the matter was sensitive and was not in a position to say more, but only gloated, “Consort Yu, why don’t you take the feather guards to take a look?”
Rong Xiangwang mocked, “Since Brother Li Wang knows everything about the Yü Wang Mansion so well, there’s no need for me to lead the way, Lord Duan can just follow Brother Li Wang to search.”
Rong Xiangwang quietly asks from the sidelines, “There really is a secret room in the Yu Wang Mansion, huh?”
“Who of the high families in this Jinling City doesn’t have a secret room?” Rong Xiangxian was not in a good mood.
The matter of the Yuhang Mansion’s secret room was something that she had released to King Kai through that florist, and across the board, there was nothing unseemly in their secret room. Just didn’t expect King Kai to not only disclose the news of the mansion to King Qing, but also to King Li, he can really be a big mouth.
The Emperor’s expression was peaceful, his gaze like a torch, observing Rong Xiangmian.
She was a bit vain, not waiting for them to finish searching, she knelt down in advance and pleaded her case to His Majesty, “Father, there is a secret room in the Buddha Hall of the Royal Mansion, enshrining my mother’s tablet ……”
The Duke of England heard this and only found it incomprehensible: “His Majesty has already been extraordinarily gracious in granting your mother an additional grant and entry into the clan temple. This is such a heavenly favor, why are you still doing this over the top thing?”
“Xiangmian knows that this is not proper, but my mother was burned to death to save me, so I have had nightmares all these years, it is hard for me to sleep. Now I burn incense in front of the tablet every day to pray, but I can sleep more peacefully, I also ask Father Emperor to grant me permission to leave the tablet, and quietly worship it, so that outsiders do not know about it.”
Rong Xiang see said earnestly, the emperor also has the intention to appease her: “you this child, your mother has been granted, you set up at home in the future to pay homage do not have to hide again.”
“Thank you father for your mercy!” Rong Xiangmian immediately crouched on the ground in gratitude.
But the Emperor still looked serious, just waiting for Duan Fei to come back.
After another while, Duan Fei brought back something. And behind him, King Li, with his ashen face, thought that he had gained nothing.
Duan Fei reported back one by one, ”Your Majesty, there are a total of three secret chambers in the Yu Wang Mansion. One is in the Buddha Hall on the west side, enshrining …… Chu s tablet. One is in the outer study, with dry food and water inside, thought to be used for shelter. There is also a room in the inner study, also put dry food and water, and these things …….”
Want to say, think is inconvenient to say more. Duanfei presented a pile of paper, the emperor took it from Shen Duzhi’s hands, reacted for a moment, and realized that this is the book of blood.
“Take the head of Zhou Xian Yang within one year.”
The corners of the Emperor’s mouth twitched as he lifted one, and the one underneath was:
“The hatred of a fallen nation must be paid for with your bones.”
There were dozens of them in a row, all of them challenging for assassination.
Duan Fei also had a few dolls in his hand with King Yu’s name written on them, pierced with sharp needles.
The Emperor’s brows were furrowed, very bored, “Why are these things still left in the King’s residence?”
Rong Xiangmian said, “His Highness said that the days in Jinling are too comfortable, and if there are no such things to serve as a wake-up call, I’m afraid that in the future, when an assassin cuts off his head, he will still be in his dreams.”
The emperor sighed: “In front of me, he is all glib and one sentence.”
Rong Xiangmei returned, “Your Highness is afraid that Father and Empress Dowager are worried. Father does not need to worry about this, the Yuhuang Mansion is always on guard, and there are feather guards to reinforce it, so it will not be easy for the assassins to get their hands on it.”
The emperor’s heart was unforgiving, raised his hand, signaling Xiang Xiang to get up, staring at King Li with dissatisfaction, “Xian Han, things have come to this, how do you want to end this?”
King Li has already decided that Yu Xiangyi must have been rescued by the Yuhuang family, and he explains the stakes: “Father, who else would have rescued the Yu family except for the fourth brother? Not long after he went to see the song and dance, Yu Xiangyi disappeared, there must be a connection. The fact that we haven’t found her in the royal residence doesn’t mean that she’s not found elsewhere! Yü Wangfei bought a mansion on Cixi Street a few days ago, so she may have moved her people there! I have already sent people to search!”
Hearing this, Rong Xiangmian’s heart burned with rage, and he couldn’t take it anymore, as he took off his tiara and slammed it onto Zhou Xianhan’s face.
The sound was so loud that even the Emperor and the Duke of England were stunned.
King Li was about to counterattack, but was held by Rong Xianghan in a deadly embrace.
With two lines of tears streaming down his face, Rong Xianghuang called out to Linlang, “Go and bring me my book of peace and separation!”