Pei Wenxuan was thinking silently about how to answer, when an old man called out not far away: "His Royal Highness."
The two looked over together and saw Xie Lanqing coming from not far away.
Pei Wenxuan and Li Rong looked at each other very quickly, and both saw a bit of surprise in each other's eyes. Xie Lanqing walked up to the two of them and saluted Li Rong: "Your Highness."
"Xie Shangshu." Li Rong nodded as a salute, and then laughed, "Xie Shangshu usually doesn't talk to Ben Gong, why did you take the initiative to say hello today?"
These words are extremely shameful, especially for Xie Lanqing who has been in such a key position as the Minister of Punishment for many years, it is even more difficult to see.
But Xie Lanqing did not change his face, and said calmly: "I heard that His Highness was assassinated yesterday, and the old minister was quite worried. He was afraid that His Highness's young man had no experience in handling the case, so he came here to ask if he needed help from the Ministry of Justice."
"I've caught everyone, and the trial is almost done," Li Rong looked into Xie Lanqing's eyes, "I don't need to thank your lord for your trouble."
"Then Your Highness now knows the mastermind?"
Xie Lanqing asked quite directly. Li Rong put her hands in front of her and watched Xie Lanqing smile without saying a word. Xie Lanqing frowned: "Why didn't your Highness answer?"
"Why do you want to ask, Lord Xie?" Pei Wenxuan interjected at the right time. Xie Lanqing looked at Pei Wenxuan, and saw Pei Wenxuan smiled and said, "Does it mean that Lord Xie has something to worry about, so you specifically need to come to confirm with His Highness?"
"The old minister is just worried that His Highness is asking casually. Lord Pei thinks too much."
Xie Lan had a cold face and was quite dissatisfied. Pei Wenxuan put his hands in front of him and saluted as an apology.
"Since I've cared a lot and asked His Highness for suspicion, the old minister will not ask," Xie Lanqing turned around and said coldly, "His Highness check it yourself."
Xie Lanqing said, and returned to his position. Pei Wenxuan glanced at Li Rong, then laughed: "His Royal Highness, Wei Chen will go back first."
After Pei Wenxuan said the salute, he also returned to his position.
It didn't take long for Li Ming to arrive at the main hall, and he started his morning court as usual. Li Ming looked a little tired and seemed very irritable. After he went to court, he first asked about the weather in various places, then turned to look at Li Rong, and said stiffly: "Ping happy."
"Father."
Li Rong seemed to be restrained when she heard Li Ming's voice, and she knew that Li Ming was not in a good mood today. She hurriedly knelt down and stepped forward, already in an apologetic gesture, Li Ming slowed down a bit when she saw her movement: "I heard that You were assassinated yesterday, but is this really the case?"
"Report to the emperor, this is indeed the case."
"Damn things!"
Li Ming stood up abruptly and shouted: "Even you dare to assassinate, who is it, don't you die?!"
"Reporting to the father, the murderer caught now confessed that he was a member of Chen Guang's family, the former head of the warehouse department, who came for revenge."
"Vengeance?" Li Ming laughed angrily when he heard this. "Others are not dead yet, so what kind of revenge? And he committed such a heinous crime by stealing military pay, shouldn't he deserve to die?! His family still has the face to take revenge?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Wei Chen has a plan to play." In the queue at the censor station, a censor stood up, Li Ming raised his eyes, and said coldly, "I'm talking to the princess, what do you want to play, won't you wait?"
"Your Majesty," the censor continued without turning back, "The matter that Wei Chen wants to report is related to the princess."
Li Ming frowned, and Li Rong also turned her head to look over. After watching for a while, she finally recognized the person. It was Chen Guang's cousin Wang Huan.
Li Rong raised her eyebrows and saw Li Ming waved his hand impatiently. Wang Huan saluted, and then said, "Wei Chen also asked His Majesty to summon Chen Wang's wife."
"Chen Wang's?"
Li Ming was a little puzzled, and Wang Huan respectfully said, "It's Chen Guang's mother, the Chen Wang family."
Li Ming hesitated for a moment, then seemed to remember something, and said impatiently, "Come on."
Li Rong observed Li Ming's expression and thought for a while. After a while, there were hurried footsteps at the door. After a while, an old woman with white hair walked in and said respectfully: " I have seen your majesty, long live long live your majesty."
Everyone looked over, Li Ming seemed to think for a moment, then hesitantly said: "You... it seems to be... "
"Your Majesty," the woman raised her head and said respectfully, "Minfu used to be a female official in the palace. His Highness also looked after His Majesty for some time when he was young. I don't want His Majesty to remember it."
"I remember," Li Ming's expression softened a little, and nodded, "You used to be on a job in the Queen Mother's Palace for a while."
When Chen Wangshi heard this, he quickly kowtowed again, with tears in his eyes. Li Ming saw Chen Wangshi's white hair and whispered: "Mrs Chen is not too young, please give me a seat first. Chaotang, what's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, the women came here today to seek justice for my son."
Chen Wangshi said, raised his head, and cried, "The women of the people came to the court today to sue Her Royal Highness Princess Pingle, tortured my son Chen Guang, and beat him up as a trick. I hope your majesty will see it!"
Li Ming frowned and glanced at Li Rong.
Li Rong had just finished telling the Chen family to assassinate her, and the Chen Wang family came to sue Li Rong for a trick. Everyone looked at Li Rong as if they were watching the fun. Li Ming hesitated for a while before saying: "You said that Pingle beat Chen Guang, you are a woman. How do people know?"
"Your Majesty, although the woman is a womanist, she was so anxious that she asked her servants to take care of her. Finally, she had a chance to see my son. The woman knew what she had done was sinful, and she was willing to bear it with all her might. If you say that every sentence is true, I hope Your Majesty will order other adults to retry the case of military pay and return my son's innocence."
"Apart from you, is there any other witness?"
"In addition to the Minwomen, there are also the servants who visited with Minwomen, as well as other guards in the Inspectorate. It's just that the Minwomen don't know whether they are willing to tell the truth or not."
"Your slave is a person with your surname Chen, and you should avoid suspicion. You can't find anyone in the guards in the supervisory department. That is to say, what you said has no evidence."
Li Ming pondered and said slowly: "And today Pingle accused you of the Chen family's assassination of her, but there is evidence, can you admit it?"
"My Chen family assassinated the princess?"
Chen Wang's eyes widened, and then hurriedly said: "No, it is impossible. Your Majesty, my Chen family has been loyal to the emperor for a hundred years, and I dare not disobey the heavenly family. I wouldn't dare to assassinate Your Highness!"
"Then do you have evidence?"
Li Ming calmly asked, Chen Wangshi's face turned pale, she knelt blankly, and after a long time, she kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I have no old body. The women of the people are no better than the women of the back house, and they can only see my son when they spend all their wealth. On the one hand, you cannot extort confessions by torture, and you cannot bribe others, and there are no masters who forge evidence and confuse right and wrong. But Minwomen believe that in this world, there is a clear and clear God, and there is no evidence for Minwomen, but Minwomen,” Chen Wangshi Calmly said, "I would like to prove my innocence with death!"
After speaking, Chen Wang slammed his head towards the ground.
Li Rong stood up suddenly and shouted, "Stop her!"
The moment she got up, Pei Wenxuan had already rushed out, and everyone else looked at it in shock. When Pei Wenxuan rushed in front of Chen Wangshi, the old woman kept her head on the ground. The pool of blood poured out.
Pei Wenxuan hurriedly turned the person over and put his hand on the tip of the woman's nose. Li Rong calmly summoned: "The imperial physician, call the imperial physician here!"
After saying that, Li Rong came to Chen Wangshi, her hands trembled slightly, Pei Wenxuan raised her head, and shook her head with a sullen face.
After he said that, he stood up, and the imperial doctor rushed in to diagnose Wang Chen's pulse. After a while, the imperial doctor raised his head and said in a panic, "Your Majesty, this lady... has gone."
Li Ming's face was extremely ugly. He seemed to be trying hard to control himself for a long time before he said, "Let's lift it down first."
The guard took the order and hurried forward to send Chen Wangshi down. The courtroom was dead silent. After a long time, Li Ming took a sip of tea and said, "Let's retreat to the court first."
Everyone saluted and then left in silence. Pei Wenxuan walked up to Li Rong and called out in a low voice, "Your Highness."
"I'm fine."
Li Rong calmed down. At this time, Fu Lai walked over and whispered, "Your Highness, Your Majesty asked you to come over."
Li Rong responded, turned her head and said to Pei Wenxuan, "Go back first."
Pei Wenxuan didn't say a word, he saluted Li Rong and Fulai, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I'm waiting for His Highness outside the imperial study."
Li Rong unintentionally responded to him, nodded and followed Fu Lai away.
She was led by Fulai and walked all the way to the imperial study room. When she entered the room, Li Ming stood with her back to her. As soon as she entered, she knelt down and salutes, "Knock on my father..."
"Look at what you've done!"
Li Ming smashed Li Rong's head with a fold, and the fold instantly bruised Li Rong's forehead.
Li Ming saw that Li Rong was injured on the head, he paused for a while, and then he said with a strong tone, and said coldly: "How many times have I told you, be prudent and don't be rash. Look at you now, your trial How can such a big case be so reckless? Is it really impossible to be lawless when I spoil you?!"
"My son doesn't know what the father is blaming."
Li Rong knelt on the ground and said calmly, "Does the royal father think that my son should not try the Qin case and the military salary case?"
"What's your attitude?" Seeing Li Rong's appearance, Li Ming became angry, "Are you threatening me? I asked you to handle these two cases, not for you to cause trouble for me! You don't know that the gentry can't be punished. And to torture officials to extort confessions…”
"I do not have."
Li Rong cut off the opening, Li Ming looked around, he raised his hand and waved, and everyone drove them out, then walked up to Li Rong and squatted down: "Do you think I'm angry that you tortured them? You want to investigate the case, you use your method, I only want the result. What I am annoyed with is that you didn't clean up your head and tail!"
"I didn't." Li Rong raised her head and said loudly, "Father, why don't you believe that I didn't torture them to extort a confession? They wanted to hurt me, wanted to assassinate me, you don't blame them, you actually blame me today? How much resistance is there in these two cases, does the royal father not understand? How much pressure I have endured for the sake of the father and the justice in my heart? Don't the father understand?"
Li Rong said, her eyes were red, she stared at Li Ming: "You know how many of them want to hurt me, but you still have to believe them..."
"Pingle..." Li Ming felt a little guilty when he saw Li Rong crying, "It's not that the father doesn't believe you. It's just your temper..."
"What's wrong with my temper?" Li Rong didn't care about her manners, she simply knelt on the ground and cried, "I'm not good-tempered? I'm not worthy of being a princess and a daughter, right? They want it every day. If you kill me, why do you want my temper? You are my father, so if you don't protect me, you will bully me with them."
"Why do you bring this up?" Li Ming had a headache. "What is bullying and not bullying? You are now a court official, why are you still like a child. What kind of pedigree?"
"I don't want to be decent anymore," Li Rong cried, "I'm inappropriate for this official, you let me go back, Changle Huale has a good time, why should I go into this mess? Why am I? Father, what did you say I drew?!"
Li Rong said, raised her head, and grabbed the shirt on her chest: "Isn't this life and death all for my father? I can't bear to see those noble families forcing my father, did I do something wrong?"
These words hit Li Ming's heart in an instant. He looked at Li Rong, who was crying embarrassingly at his feet, and he couldn't say anything for a while.
He felt a bit sore in his heart, Li Rong cried in pain, Li Ming hesitated for a long time, but he couldn't say anything, sighed, and finally said: "Go back first, don't worry about the military pay case and the Qin case. already."
"I don't care, who cares?"
Li Rong said in a low voice, "Royal father? Or the prince? Or someone else? Whoever cares about this matter will be unlucky. With so much effort, the royal father wants to bow his head again, right?"
Li Ming was silent, Li Rong supported herself, and slowly got up: "Father, the emperor decides, the son doesn't care about anything."
"Rong'er," Li Ming looked at Li Rong's back, which seemed to be lost, and hesitated. After a long time, he finally said, "Then, let Pei Wenxuan decide. He will convict, you should rest assured?"
Li Rong turned her back to Li Ming, and after a long time, respectfully said, "Thank you, Father."
After speaking, Li Rong bowed: "My son retire."
Li Ming responded, and Li Rong wiped her tears and walked out the door. After going out, Fu Lai brought the tea and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, Your Highness is still a child after all, still young."
"I thought she had grown up," Li Ming sighed, "always still young."
Li Rong wiped away her tears and walked out of the imperial study all the way. As soon as she left the corridor, she looked cold.
Today, Li Ming is in a bad mood and is obviously dissatisfied with her, and the matter of Chen Wang's family has been prepared.
Just who influenced Li Ming
Li Rong pondered, and stepped out the door. As soon as she got out of the courtyard, she saw a young man standing on the corridor. He was wearing a black red official uniform, holding a wat board, and was quietly looking at the dead branches in the courtyard.
Hearing voices coming from the surroundings, he turned his head and looked at Li Rong. Seeing that it was Li Rong, he smiled and said respectfully, "Your Highness."
Li Rong didn't expect Pei Wenxuan to be waiting here all the time. She suddenly became a little flustered. She lowered her head to cover up the traces of crying just now. She walked up to him and said hoarsely, "Why didn't you go to the official office?"
"His Royal Highness Fang Cai didn't listen to Wei Chen's words," Pei Wenxuan said, as if he didn't see anything, and sighed, "Wei Chen said that he would wait for His Highness, but His Highness didn't care about it at all. It seems that Wei Chen is in His Highness's heart. The weight is still not heavy enough.”
When Li Rong heard his words, she couldn't help laughing: "How much do you want?"
"No more, no less," Pei Wenxuan tapped lightly on his heart with the wattle board, "The whole heart is fine."
"Your appetite is too big." Li Rong sneered, "Daydreaming."
Pei Wenxuan nodded lightly: "His Royal Highness praised that Wei Chen's biggest advantage is that he has a good appetite, great ambition, insomnia and dreams at night, and good luck on weekdays."
After just a few words, Li Rong was amused by him. She glanced at him lightly and raised her eyebrows: "Didn't you want to sleep in a separate bed with me yesterday? Don't you get angry today?"
"Your Highness is joking, when have I ever been angry with Your Highness?"
Pei Wenxuan said calmly: "Wei Chen just thinks that we need to keep a distance from His Highness. The feelings have not reached that level. We cannot let His Highness tarnish the innocence of Wei Chen and take advantage of Wei Chen in vain."
Li Rong: "..."
Very good, very temperamental.
Seeing that Li Rong's expression softened, Pei Wenxuan felt that the atmosphere was similar. Seeing that there was no one around, he leaned over gently and whispered, "I just went to check. Last night, His Majesty stayed at Concubine Rou's place, His Highness Hua Le. Playing with your majesty, you will be fined ten times to copy the female ring."
Li Rong glanced at Pei Wenxuan, and Pei Wenxuan laughed: "It must be able to solve the confusion of Your Highness."
Li Rong didn't say a word. She and Pei Wenxuan walked on the corridor together. She really understood.
Yesterday, she set up in Butterfly Gorge. With this assassination, the Chen family should be able to continue this assassination today as a bargaining chip, forcing the military pay case and Qin's case to be settled.
And the people behind must have thought of this too. They are unwilling to let these two cases be settled. Once they are settled, it will not only be a matter of a large number of officials changing, but most importantly, there must be many more officials in this batch of changes. If Li Rong's people were to be elected, Li Rong's position in the court would be completely stable.
They were afraid that Li Rong would gain a firm foothold, and at the same time they were afraid that Li Rong would investigate the matter deeply, and the people involved in the assassination were also very frightened, so they should reach an agreement overnight, at least with Concubine Rou, so Concubine Rou let Hua Le as a microphone to say something , so that Li Ming was angry with her today.
Judging from Li Ming's attitude today, Hua Le guessed that it would be unfavorable for her to do things, torture officials to extract confessions, and so on. So Li Ming punished Hua Le, but Li Ming took these words to heart, so he came to trouble her.
When Li Ming has an opinion on her, let Chen Wangshi come up to the court to prove his innocence, and the assassination case will be difficult to investigate. After all, the current "mastermind" is dead, and these cases in Li Rong's hands, No matter how much evidence there is, in the cognition of ordinary people, there will be a little more suspicion.
Whether it was for public opinion or to appease the family, if Chen Wang died in this way, there is a high probability that neither the military pay case nor the Qin case could be re-sentenced.
Li Rong frowned, bowed her head, and before taking two steps, she heard Pei Wenxuan respectfully say, "Thank you Shangshu."
When Li Rong heard this, she raised her head and saw Xie Lanqing standing in front of her.
Xie Lanqing looked quite happy, and raised her hand to salute Li Rong: "His Royal Highness Pingle."
"Where is Xie Shangshu going?"
As soon as Li Rong opened her mouth, her voice became a little hoarse, and Xie Lanqing smiled softly: "The old minister is about to find His Majesty, what's wrong with His Majesty, his eyes are red, and he seems to have cried?"
"The wind and sand are obsessed," Li Rong pretended not to hear the ridicule in Xie Lanqing's words, and replied, "Since Mr. Xie has something to do, then this palace will take the lead."
"His Royal Highness, take a step," Xie Lanqing called to stop Li Rong, Li Rong looked back at him, Xie Lanqing smiled, "Your Highness, the sea of suffering is boundless, turn back to the shore."
Li Rong stared at Xie Lanqing, and after a long time, she laughed: "Thank you, Lord Shang Shu, for your advice, and I will send you a message from this palace."
"Oh," Xie Lanqing raised her hand, "All ears."
"Don't mind your own business and take care of your life." After speaking, Li Rong threw her sleeves and left, Pei Wenxuan saluted Xie Lanqing, followed Li Rong up, Pei Wenxuan chased behind Li Rong, and whispered: "You Don't be angry, why are you angry with this old man? He won't live long anyway."
In the last life, Xie Lanqing was the first high-ranking family official to be cut down after Li Chuan ascended the throne.
Li Rong glanced coldly at Xie Lanqing's back and leaned over to Pei Wenxuan's side. Pei Wenxuan bent slightly and listened to Li Rong whispering in his ear, "I think I know why Chuan'er wanted to cut him."
"Um?"
Li Rong gritted her teeth: "This old man is so irritating."
Pei Wenxuan thought about it, but Xie Lanqing didn't say anything just now. Li Rong was so angry that she was afraid that Xie Lanqing would see her crying.
Pei Wenxuan glanced at the direction where Xie Lanqing left without a trace, and said with a smile, "His Royal Highness said that this old man is not good."
When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan standing by her side, she felt a lot more comfortable. When Pei Wenxuan took her to the carriage, she remembered it and said a little dissatisfied: "Why don't you comfort me?"
Pei Wenxuan Shi Shiran sat opposite her, raised his head and smiled: "What do you mean by Your Highness?"
"Don't pretend to be confused because you understand."
Li Rong raised her hand and tapped him with a fan: "Why are you getting more courageous now?"
Pei Wenxuan knew that she meant that he didn't speak when he saw her crying. Pei Wenxuan thought it was funny, but his face was not obvious. He lowered his head and opened the book, and said lightly: "Your Highness don't want face, I still want face."
Li Rong frowned, and then heard Pei Wenxuan say leisurely, "You haven't lost money yet, so you want my comfort?"
Li Rong was at a loss for words, and couldn't help feeling a little empty. After she thought about it, she would pay Pei Wenxuan the money for the peony when she went back, and when the account was cleared, they would be able to talk properly.
Pei Wenxuan took a peek at Li Rong's expression, pressed his lips into a smile, and pretended to be focused.
He suddenly felt that such a Li Rong was very interesting.
Like a cat trying to reach out its paws to shovel you and feel ashamed, scratching its heart and trying to get your attention.
He had never seen Li Rong like this before, but now that he saw it, it was fresh and interesting, so he kept all his plans in his heart and didn't say anything.
Li Rong was thinking about repaying the money. Seeing Pei Wenxuan's head bowed and the corners of her lips rising wildly, she stopped what she was about to say, and was speechless for a while.
What kind of happiness is this? If you can swing your tail, how can you pretend to be so indifferent and refuse to be at ease
She felt helpless about Pei Wenxuan, and after thinking for a while, she decided not to speak.
Pack.
She thought, she paid him the money, and when she didn't owe him any more, and still took Joe like this, don't blame her for being rude.