When Lu Qipei returned to the Princess Mansion, it was already dark.
Qi Yang was naturally waiting for her, and when he saw her coming back, he asked, "Why did you come back so late, what did Brother Chu ask you to say?"
When Lu Qipei saw Qi Yang, he complained first: "The king of Chu is so stingy. He invited me to Tao Ranju during dinner time, but he only ordered a pot of tea, and he didn't even invite me to have a meal." Looking at Qi Yang pitifully: "A Ning, I'm hungry."
Hearing that, Qi Yang could not take care of the King of Chu's purpose, so he hurriedly ordered Zhi Ting to pass the meal. In fact, when he learned that the concubine was invited to Tao Ranju by the King of Chu, who would have thought that she didn't even have a meal? Right now, the princess has already eaten dinner, and there is no meal prepared in the kitchen. If you want to pass the meal, you have to cook it now, and it will take some time.
Lu Qipei knew what to do, and after changing into his regular clothes, he brought a plate of cakes to his stomach.
Seeing her like this, Qi Yang couldn't help but complained that the King of Chu was stingy, and even felt pity for his consort. However, the topic turned twice, and then turned back: "What the hell is going on today?"
Lu Qipei didn't hide it from her after acting like a spoiled child. He nibbled on the milk cake and told Qi Yang what happened today.
Hearing the last Qi Yangxian couldn't help laughing: "It seems that I blamed Brother Chu Wang wrongly before. He is not stingy, he is full of anger by you, and he forgot to eat dinner."
Lu Qipei raised the corners of his lips and laughed, his appearance was inexplicably two points of pride.
After laughing, Qi Yang picked up a piece of milk cake, fed it to Lu Qipei's lips, and asked, "The king of Chu is so smart, you shouldn't have paid attention to him in the first place. How are you going to end up in such a troubled field?"
Lu Qipei obediently bit the milk cake and ate it, then lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "The prince's health is getting worse and worse, and these princes can't sit still more and more. From what I see, it's time to kill the chickens to warn the monkeys."
The Gyeongju provincial governor's case is not big or small, at least according to Lu Qipei's three-year experience in Dali Temple, there is nothing in this case that can alarm her. In fact, the official position of the prefect of this state is not too small, especially for the King of Chu and others, they simply don't have much power in the court, so they can only spend their efforts on the local area.
It is not easy for the King of Chu to win over a prefect. More importantly, if he can protect the prefect of Qingzhou this time, others will definitely think highly of him. In the future, it will be much easier for him to use methods to win people's hearts.
In addition, it was his plan to pull Lu Qipei into the water - if Lu Qipei really helped him this time, then there will be one or two in this matter in the future, and if he has more handles, he can be regarded as inserting his hand into the Dali Temple. . Otherwise, he will pass the so-called "evidence" to Qi Yang, and then let Nanping go out to promote it, and the good loving couple will have to be broken up!
After three years of tying up her interests, even though Lu Qipei is now only a young minister in Dali Temple, there are also a lot of forces in the prince's lineage behind her. If she is separated from Qi Yang and even the prince, then for the King of Chu and others, the benefits may not be less.
The young couple understood all this, and Qi Yang shook his head and sighed: "I really don't have any smart brothers. He will send the handle to you so eagerly, and it's not enough to fold the governor of Qingzhou, he still has to It's a pleasure to pay for yourself."
Lu Qipei smiled and took the man into his arms: "I have to dig a bigger hole for him."
In the middle of March, the governor of Qingzhou was arrested and brought to Beijing. Knowing that he was from the king of Chu, he all waited to watch the king of Chu lively.
Lu Qipei was still investigating the case in her Dali Temple. The letter from the King of Chu changed from one letter every three or two days to one per day, as if he was afraid that no one would know that she had something to do with the King of Chu.
Qi Yang has also been very irritable recently. The spring flowers are full of Yanyin, so she met with Nanping a few times. The latter always looked at her with his chin upside-down, and his eyes were even higher, revealing not secret pride.
To be honest, Qi Yang has never been treated like this since he grew up, and he almost laughed angrily for a while.
Finally, Qi Yang's patience ran out. In the evening, he grabbed Lu Qipei, who had just returned to the house, and opened his mouth to ask, "Have you dug that hole?"
Lu Qipei was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he responded with a soothing smile: "Almost there. But if Your Highness can't wait any longer, there will be a court meeting the day after tomorrow. How about making them anxious for a while?"
Qi Yang said that he was fine, but he turned his head and put the matter down.
Two days later, at the court meeting, Lu Qipei stood in the ranks and did not move, and the censor took the initiative to impeach. The object of impeachment was naturally the King of Chu, and the charge was that the King of Chu had accepted bribes, and together with his ministers, wasted lives and sought the people's land and property.
The evidence piled up piece by piece, and the King of Chu and the governor of Qingzhou were tied together, and the main messenger became the King of Chu.
The king of Chu defended the palace, but he was not favored by the emperor, and the evidence is now solid. The emperor was furious and did not listen to his sophistry, and immediately ordered Yu Lin to escort the people back to the palace to be confined, and ordered the Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the case.
Before being taken away, the King of Chu looked at Lu Qipei, his eyes full of panic and help, how could he be so arrogant
Lu Qipei watched King Chu being taken away by Yulin, and silently retracted his gaze, noncommittal.
That night, the Princess Mansion welcomed a guest, Nanping.
Nanping and the King of Chu are not siblings, but just like the prince and Qiyang, the princes and princesses in the palace are often in a group. Especially those who have no siblings, formed an alliance with each other early, and advancing and retreating together can also make life a lot easier.
Now that the King of Chu is in trouble, of course Nanping cannot stay out of it. She came this time not for Qi Yang, but for her consort, but she was also a princess, so how could she be alone with her sister's concubine
So in the end, I couldn't avoid Qi Yang, and when I arrived at the flower hall, the three of them sat together.
Qi Yang cooked tea casually, quietly admiring the ugly face of Nanping on the opposite side. Finally, the tea was cooked and the three of them poured a cup, and then asked calmly, "I don't know why Huangjie came to my house at night?"
Nanping, however, no longer has the aloofness in front of Qi Yang recently. She pursed her lips and looked at Lu Qipei, but saw that Lu Qipei was drinking tea unhurriedly, and occasionally exchanged glances with Qi Yang, her eyes were still full of affection, and the two of them were still so dazzling.
The two of them could wait, but Nanping couldn't wait. She didn't touch the tea poured by Qi Yang, and said straight to the point: "Today's court meeting, the King of Chu was trapped, and now the case has been handed over to the Dali Temple for trial, and I hope Lu Shaoqing will investigate. "
Nanping bites the word "Mingcha" very hard, which obviously means something.
Lu Qipei seemed not to understand, and nodded calmly, "Don't worry, princess, I will handle it fairly."
Nan Ping looked at her, the lights flickered, and the young Junxiu's face was full of calm, and the sentence "fair treatment" was obviously not a lie. She suddenly felt more uneasy in her heart, and the hands hidden in her sleeves could not help but twist into a ball, but she still managed to maintain her composure: "The King of Chu is innocent, he was framed by others, I believe Lu Shaoqing will be able to recover. He's fair, right?"
Lu Qipei laughed, and when she laughed, she seemed like a bright moon, and few people were not attracted: "If His Royal Highness the King of Chu is innocent, the Dali Temple will give him justice, and the princess can rest assured."
Nan Ping was also swayed by her expression, and immediately realized that Lu Qipei spoke twice today, but he pushed back twice - she is not as the King of Chu said, because the handle is restrained, on the contrary, she is in a state of falling into trouble!
Looking at Lu Qipei, and then at Qi Yang, who was always calm, Nan Ping felt a chill in his heart.
Compared with the King of Chu, Nanping was obviously more impatient. Facing Lu Qipei's indifferent appearance, she finally couldn't help but blurt out, "Lu Qipei, do you think you can sit back and relax if Brother Chu has something to do?"
Hearing this, Lu Qipei chuckled lightly, but remained unmoved: "Lu Mou has always sat back and relax, what is he doing with His Royal Highness the King of Chu?"
Qi Yang listened to the conversation between the two and didn't interrupt, as if he didn't care about Ji Feng in their words. Seeing that Lu Qipei drank more than half of the tea, and even brought the pot to refill it for her, the husband and wife were in harmony, and it tickled his teeth.
Nan Ping finally stood up a few times and stopped hiding: "Lu Qipei, you are not afraid of letting people know about your good deeds, so I will have a good talk with my imperial sister." After she finished speaking, she looked at Qi Yang, A sneering smile appeared on his face again: "My good imperial sister, you don't know yet. Your good concubine brought his illegitimate son back to the princess' residence. Are you still happy to raise him?"
Without the expected panic, nor the expected rage, Qi Yang took a sip from the teacup and replied, "Lu Sheng is very cute, I am very happy to have it."
Nan Ping was stunned when he heard the words, and immediately narrowed his eyes slightly: "You don't believe me?"
Qi Yang drank the tea without saying a word, looking at her as if looking at the clown jumping beam.
Nan Ping was so angry that she said three good words in a row, but she thought she was very confident, so she said again: "You don't believe me, you can trust these evidences?" : "If you don't believe me, I still have witnesses."
Qi Yang took the paper that Nanping threw angrily, and Lu Qipei curiously leaned over to watch it with her. However, there are many testimonies in this stack of papers, including the doctor who diagnosed Lu Qicheng at the time, and the wife Wen who later delivered Lu Sheng's birth. There are many people's testimonies, and they have almost checked everything before and after Lu Sheng's birth. .
It is a pity that there is no testimony from the servants of the Lu family, otherwise the King of Chu and Nanping would at least know one thing, that is, Lu Sheng's biological mother used to serve in Lu Qicheng's room and had nothing to do with Lu Qipei.
After reading it, Lu Qipei sighed: "Qi Bozhi's family is very strict."
Qi Yang nodded in agreement, looking at the stack of so-called testimony evidence, she didn't even raise her eyebrows.
The unsophisticated reaction of the two was completely beyond Nan Ping's expectations, especially Nan Ping paid a lot of attention to Qi Yang and knew a lot about it. Looking at Qi Yang's expression, she knew that she was not trying to force face in front of her, but she really didn't take this matter to heart.
But why? Do you still believe her? But her evidence is clear, and the concubine didn't even say a word, so Qi Yang trusted her like that? Nanping didn't believe it, no one who came out of the palace was unsuspecting!
In the end, he heard Qi Yang indifferently say: "What if these are true? At that time, the concubine and I were not married yet."