The anger and gloom in Emperor Longqing's heart were also dispelled by his fear of being involved.
Of course he knew it wasn't Shen Chen and Chu Jingwu.
These two people lived well-behaved in the palace. They were served and followed by eunuchs from the palace, and their every move would be reported.
Apart from Chu Jingwu who was more active and liked to visit the greenhouse from time to time, Shen Chen was usually pestered by Princess Yonghe and could not get away.
What's more, these two people, Chu Jingwu is still a child, and Shen Chen is a person who doesn't take anything to heart and has no ambition at all. How can they possibly control Yuan Yi
The most obvious thing is that what Yuan Yi did was too obvious. He specifically pointed out that Wei An, Shen Chen, Chu Jingwu and the Fifth Prince had conflicting zodiac signs and asked him to put these people in the first three.
Zhao Yuanyi himself confessed that this was to protect Shen Chen and others.
To prevent Shen Chen and others from being implicated.
But this may sound true, but in reality it is really vulnerable - who is the fool when trying to cover up the truth? Is Yuan Yi so sure that the assassination will succeed
After such a long period of preparation, only Yuan Yi took action in the end, and his martial arts skills were not that good.
It looked like an assassination, but in fact, he was just trying to commit suicide.
From the moment he deliberately mentioned the idea of setting up a Taoist temple to pray for blessings and exorcise evil spirits, it was clear that all this was just a setup against Shen Chen and the others, hoping that he would implicate Shen Chen and Chu Jingwu in his rage.
Even Wei An was brought along.
Emperor Longqing thought about it carefully and thought of these doubts. He naturally recalled that Shen Chen and Wei An went to Baoding before. At that time, the secret letter sent by Dong Siyuan wanted to link Wei An and Shen Chen together and wanted to involve the Linjiang Palace.
Now they are actually just changing the soup but not the substance, and their purpose is still to alienate the relationship between Prince Linjiang and him and the court.
After all, the King of Jin was wary of the King of Linjiang, so he tried every means to get him to take action against the King of Linjiang's sons who were far away in the capital, so that the King of Linjiang would be angry and support the rebels.
He smiled, amusedly asking Chu Jingwu to be quiet, and then asked, "Why are you so scared?"
Chu Jingwu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat: "Uncle, this is no small matter!"
He thought about it, then belatedly asked, "Then, the Fifth Prince got into trouble by such a coincidence, was it also his doing?"
Speaking of this, Emperor Longqing's expression became even gloomier.
The King of Jin was really sinister. He wanted to kill his son, let the two palaces fight each other, and kill two birds with one stone, bringing the disaster to the Linjiang Palace, and even implicate Wei An and drag in the King of Zheng.
It is conceivable that he was not wrongly accused before. He was indeed ambitious and began to plan a rebellion as soon as he left the capital.
Shen Chen pondered for a while before saying, "Uncle, I don't quite understand. Can King Jin really reach out so far? Can he accomplish so many things just by relying on Yuan Yi?"
He also took the initiative to help find the doubts, which made him seem more open. Emperor Longqing smiled in an ambiguous way as a response to his question. After a while, he said, "Whether it is true or not, we will know in a few days."
A few days passed quickly.
But these days haven’t been so easy.
After the last incident with Dong Siyuan, the capital was once again shrouded in panic because the Jinyiwei began to arrest people everywhere again.
The first to bear the brunt was Prince Consort Xiao.
Prince Consort Xiao was also unlucky. He hadn't recovered from the blow of Emperor Longqing's banishment and hadn't even packed his luggage when he was thrown into prison for unknown reasons.
After Prince Consort Xiao left, people didn't have much time to catch their breath, as even Xia Song was escorted back to the capital from his hometown.
No matter how angry he was before, Emperor Longqing still left some wiggle room for his mentor, allowing him to retire and return home in peace. But this time, it was obvious that he was not prepared to leave him alive.
Because Xia Song's crime was colluding with King Jin, secretly communicating with rebels, and being a member of a traitor party.
The two words "traitor" are enough to destroy the entire Xia family.
Xia Song controlled the cabinet for decades and was involved in many affairs. Once he was imprisoned, his students all felt insecure.
But the most feared ones are not those who once had a close relationship with Xia Song.
When Princess Chang'an heard the news, her face turned pale.
At that time, Emperor Longqing had already granted them the grace to leave the palace, and they only needed to wait until the time came to enter the underground palace before accompanying them to the imperial mausoleum for burial.
But she didn't feel relieved at all. She was sitting in her own shooting range, but somehow she still felt very uncomfortable.
Nanny Yuan came in to serve her. Seeing her expression, she guessed what was going on and couldn't help but say, "The prince has made a bold move."
Princess Chang'an looked at her and was speechless for a moment. After a long while, she said, "He is too paranoid."
This has always been a problem that Chu Jingxing has had.
But at the beginning, she and Nanny Yuan didn't take it seriously and didn't realize how harmful this paranoia could be.
In fact, this situation was not well set up for Chu Jingxing. Her original plan was to poison the fifth prince directly and put the blame on Queen Fang.
In fact, if she really did it according to her idea, no matter whether the Xia Songxiao family would be completely implicated, the fifth prince would be dead after all.
Once the fifth prince died, Emperor Longqing was deposed.
When the time comes, although it will be difficult to deal with Chu Jingwu and Shen Chen, there are ways.
But Chu Jingxing just couldn't swallow this anger and couldn't bear it.
It has brought things to the point where they are now.
She sighed: "He actually lied to me."
He lied to her out of impulse, in order to implicate Wei An and Shen Chen.
That’s not the point.
The key point is that using such a big chess piece as Yuan Yi has brought about very unsatisfactory results.
So much effort was put in, and Yuan Yi and his team were involved, but in the end the Xiao family was also implicated.
She closed her eyes, her hands holding the porcelain cup trembling: "Don't make plans with this brat, don't make plans with this brat!"
But it was too late to regret now, as her daughter was already married. Nanny Yuan came back this time to tell her that Princess Xianrong had become anorexic and sleepy after leaving the palace. She invited the imperial physician from the Qianjin Department to take a look, and it turned out that she was pregnant.
The rice has been cooked, and she has revealed all her cards to Chu Jingxing.
If anything happened to Chu Jingxing, she would have to die.
Seeing that she was agitated and irritable, Nanny Yuan quickly comforted her: "Your Highness, there is no need to be too anxious..."
She looked at Princess Chang'an and said calmly, "It's not like there's really no way out now."
She reminded Princess Chang'an: "After all, Yuan Yi didn't really confess anything. The reason why the Jinyiwei was able to investigate the Xiao family and Xia Song was not because Yuan Yi really confessed anything, but because Shen Chen and Chu Jingwu wanted Young Master Lin to get hold of Xia Song and the Xiao family's handle."
So as to catch them all in one fell swoop.
But even so, Yuan Yi would not say anything. Chu Jingxing taught him well, but what about the Xiao family and Xia Song
Neither of these two groups of people are Taoists like Yuan Yi. They are from truly famous families.