After returning to Beijing, Wen Qingzhu heard that Fu Lie was still dealing with political affairs, so he went to find Jiang Yuanhan first.
As soon as I reached the palace gate, I heard Xiao Fangzi persuading the emperor.
"Your Majesty, you must not do this! The Regent has given instructions that you cannot leave here for the time being!"
Crossing the threshold, Wen Qingzhu saw Jiang Yuanhan holding a sword, his hair disheveled, and surrounded by guards.
The fierce look in his eyes was not the person she was familiar with at all.
Thinking of the booklet Xue Miaomiao gave, Wen Qingzhu felt softened.
He walked behind the guards and waved them all to leave.
Hearing her voice, Jiang Yuanhan looked up and sneered: "How dare you ask them to retreat?"
"Why don't you dare?" After learning about Jiang Yuanhan's condition, Wen Qingzhu's wariness completely disappeared and she walked up to him step by step.
Jiang Yuanhan raised his sword, pointed it at her heart, and said coldly: "Stop!"
Wen Qingzhu did not stop, but continued to move forward. Xiao Fangzi next to him looked anxious: "Princess! Your Majesty!"
Seeing that the tip of the sword had touched Wen Qingzhu's chest, she still did not stop.
The sound of cracking silk was heard, and Wen Qingzhu's steps encountered resistance, but she still moved forward.
"Aren't you going to kill me? Now is the best chance."
When she was about to move forward, Jiang Yuanhan suddenly retracted his sword and turned sideways, his eyes filled with regret.
Why can't I do it myself
His heart hurts so much. Would he rather bear everything than touch his sister
Jiang Yuanhan's legs weakened and he knelt on one knee. The sword blade fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
His right hand tightly covered his heart, his eyes were scarlet and filled with murderous intent, but there was endless tangle deep in his eyes.
"Yuan Han." Wen Qingzhu squatted beside him and patted his back gently.
As Jiang Yuanhan's shoulders trembled, he slowly raised his eyes, revealing a pair of pure and regretful black eyes, and kept shaking his head: "Sister, it's not me! It's not me!"
Wen Qingzhu slowly helped him up, went into the hall and sat down, handed Xiao Fangzi a new prescription for calming the nerves and asked him to cook it.
Sitting next to Jiang Yuanhan, Wen Qingzhu wiped his cold sweat with a handkerchief: "It's okay, let's sit down and have a good chat."
"But he has done a lot of things, and sister doesn't care about it?" Jiang Yuanhan's dark eyes were moist and shining brightly, just like when Wen Qingzhu first discovered him.
Wen Qingzhu took back the handkerchief and looked at him gently: "You are the most important thing now. Just let the regent take care of other things. I will stay with you."
"Sister..." Jiang Yuanhan opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, no words came out.
He lowered his head and asked blankly: "No matter what happens, sister doesn't care about it?"
"Well, the most important thing now is you." Wen Qingzhu's voice was like the spring breeze in March, blowing through Jiang Yuanhan's heart and quieting his whole soul.
Xiao Fangzi brought the soothing soup, and Wen Qingzhu took the soup bowl and handed it to him: "Drink it."
Jiang Yuanhan took it and put it to his mouth when he suddenly paused.
"Isn't this the soothing soup prescribed by the imperial doctor before?" He looked at Wen Qingzhu in confusion, but saw her smiling like a flower.
"You're not sick and don't need to take medicine."
The affirmative tone made Jiang Yuanhan himself a little suspicious, and he didn't quite understand: "But he is still there."
Wen Qingzhu met his gaze and said firmly: "He is you, you are him, you are Jiang Yuanhan, Emperor Zhaowu of Qi State, there is no one else."
On this day, Jiang Yuanhan's mood has been very stable, and there seems to be no sign of illness.
After nightfall, when Jiang Yuanhan went to sleep, Wen Qingzhu walked out of the palace. She looked at the patrolling guards in the palace, and then she realized that none of the emperor's secret guards were there.
After waiting outside the door for a while, Xiao Fangzi retreated.
Seeing that Wen Qingzhu hadn't left yet, he quickly saluted and said hello: "I've met the princess, what else do you want?"
"Why aren't the secret guards around the emperor here?"
Xiao Fangzi was startled and shook his head slightly: "I don't know about this matter. The emperor should have ordered them."
On the way to Xuanzheng Hall, Wen Qingzhu unexpectedly ran into Su Huo.
"Princess, are you from Qianyuan Palace?" Su Huo looked in the direction she came from, thinking slightly.
Wen Qingzhu nodded: "Well, don't worry, the emperor is very calm today. Is there any clue about the arrest of Prime Minister Wei and others?"
Speaking of business, Su Huo raised his hand and pointed inside the Xuanzheng Hall: "Let's go inside first."
When we arrived at the study, Wei Ziying was not there, but the person who was there was Jin Yuanbao.
Seeing Wen Qingzhu, Jin Yuanbao saluted and said hello.
Wen Qingzhu raised his hand, walked towards the desk, and asked him: "Why is Mr. Jin still here late at night?"
"I'm here for Master Fu Yu's affairs." Jin Yuanbao seemed to have agreed with her for checking the government affairs, and did not show any displeasure.
When Wen Qingzhu walked up to Fu Lie, he saw a letter on the face. The handwriting on it was Fu Yu's.
She looked at Jin Yuanbao and asked Fu Lie, "Is this the letter left by Fu Yu?"
Fu Lie nodded and took out a stack of case files from the other side: "Perhaps you should take a look at these case files instead of this."
"These case files..." Wen Qingzhu reached for the top case file. The first one was the case of Hei Jiren, the chief of the Criminal Punishment Department.
After opening it, her face turned pale.
He was poisoned, seriously injured, his hands and feet were cut off, his eyes were gouged, his tongue was pulled out, and his ears were poked out.
Wen Qingzhu raised his head and felt his throat was a little dry: "Who did this?"
"Keep reading." Fu Lie did not answer her question.
The hand holding the case file was shaking a little. Wen Qingzhu subconsciously looked at the remaining pile of case files. He calmed down for a while before continuing to read.
After reading it, Wen Qingzhu put down the case file and turned to look at Su Huo: "Do you know all these cases?"
"I know, although I resigned, half of the cases in it were left before I resigned." Su Huo's face was full of solemnity, and he obviously knew these things.
Wen Qingzhu looked at the case files on the table in silence. There were so many cases, and none of the cases that could be placed with Hei Jiren were ordinary people.
There is only one person in the capital who can do so many things.
After closing his eyes to calm down his inner uneasiness, Wen Qingzhu finally understood what Jiang Dejia meant.
No one can escape harsh rule.
Wen Qingzhu was worried that something had happened to Jiang Yuanhan, and she wanted to see Hei Jiren, so she left the palace.
The backyard bedroom of the Shenxing Division.
Gently opening the door, the woman guarding the bed immediately turned her head. When she saw Wen Qingzhu's appearance, she quickly stood up and came out, knelt down and saluted.
"See Princess!"
Wen Qingzhu stretched out his hand to help the woman up, looked at the face that he had only seen in portraits, and said apologetically: "Mrs. Hei, I'm sorry."
"Princess, there is no need to apologize, and you came just in time. I have something to give you!" Madam Hei quickly took her into the inner room.
Stopping in front of the bed, Mrs. Hei groped inside the pillow core.
Wen Qingzhu looked at Hei Jiren who was not like a human being on the bed, and couldn't help clenching his fists. The incident happened to him in his own punishment department.
The person who killed him was cruel, no less cruel than Hei Jiren.
Madam Hei took out a broken jade pendant, handed it to Wen Qingzhu and said, "Princess, this is what my husband hid in his mouth. I didn't find it until several days later."
As a result, when he saw the fragments of the jade pendant, Wen Qingzhu's eyes suddenly turned cold: Isn't this the jade pendant that the Wen family customized for the Wen family's daughter
After thinking for a while, the appearance of a person appeared in my mind.
Wen Qingzhu put away the fragments of the jade pendant and asked Madam Hei: "You just said that I came just in time. What did you mean?"
Looking at her husband on the bed, Mrs. Hei couldn't help crying: "Actually, he had a premonition before something happened to my husband. He was very anxious in those days and wanted to send a message to the princess, but the message couldn't be sent, so he did Be prepared to die."
Holding back the grief in her heart, Madam Hei turned around and grabbed Wen Qingzhu's wrist: "Princess! I don't ask you to avenge your husband, but please let us go. Those people have never let him go. I can feel it recently. They have already infiltrated the Punishment Department."
"Don't worry, Madam Hei! I'm back and I won't let these people succeed!" Wen Qingzhu tried his best to comfort her, but Madam Hei was still scared.
Suddenly, she laughed again: "That's right! The regent is back! He also brought the Fu family army back. We will definitely be fine!"
"Are you so confident in the regent?" Wen Qingzhu felt that Fu Lie's reputation was better than she imagined.
Madam Hei nodded and said with a thankful face: "Originally, my husband could not survive, but the regent's people came in time and not only saved me, but also saved my husband."
The person on the bed seemed to move, and Madam Hei quickly turned around and held Hei Jiren's handless arm.
She put her face against his belly and said softly: "Don't worry, the princess is here. She and the regent are back safe and sound."
Hei Jiren's body suddenly shook non-stop. Madam Hei looked at his body closely, then pressed her belly against his belly again and said, "Okay."
After receiving this response, Hei Jiren calmed down.
Madam Hei had calmed down a lot at this time. She didn't know whether it was because of what Hei Jiren had said to her, or because Fu Lie was back.
"Princess, before something happened to my husband, he came to see me and told me that if he died one day, I would find Madam and ask her to transfer Yun Wan."
Wen Qingzhu touched the fragment of jade pendant around his waist and nodded.
After going out, she saw the newly appointed chief of the Punishment Department waiting for her at the door.
"See Princess!"
Wen Qingzhu raised his hand: "Get up."
After Director Shenxing stood up, he revealed a pair of familiar eyes.
She had also spent some time in the Criminal Punishment Department and knew that this person was someone Hei Jiren trusted greatly.
"Since you are the person chosen by Hei Jiren, I don't expect you to be very powerful. At least you will have no merits and demerits. Just do everything you are told."
The director of Shenxing nodded and replied: "I obey the order!"
Wen Qingzhu thought for a moment and then said: "Su Huo has entered the palace, and the regent has also taken charge of the government. Just guard the punishment department now!"
"Wei Chen understands!"
After leaving Shenxing Division, Wen Qingzhu returned to the palace. When he arrived at the gate of Qianyuan Palace, he saw Bai Di standing here waiting for her.
"Why are Master Bai here?"
After Bai Di saluted, he looked inside the Qianyuan Palace and said, "It's the emperor's minister who came here. This is what he ordered seven days ago."
"Seven days ago?" Wen Qingzhu thought, she had not returned to Beijing at that time.
After thinking about it, Wen Qingzhu took Bai Di in with him.
Sitting in the side hall, he ordered people to serve tea and then dismissed the rest of the palace.
Bai Di sat at the next table, and after thinking for a while, he took the initiative and said, "Would you like to ask the princess about the whereabouts of Miss Wei and Zhao Meiren?"
Wen Qingzhu narrowed his eyes slightly: "You know?"
"I don't know, but Ye Qian knows." Bai Di met her gaze.
Since Wen Qingzhu left, most matters in the palace have been handed over to Xiao Fangzi and Linlang.
It turns out that when Wei Qinglin and Fu Jue were around, there was no place for her to use them.
Therefore, Bai Di has been taking care of things outside the palace for more than half a year.
But it was Si Gongtai after all, so she couldn't get involved in the internal affairs of the palace, but she knew many of them.
Bai Di added: "Actually, the princess didn't find a problem? Miss Linlang was supposed to help manage the harem, but she never showed up. Now that Miss Wei and Guiren Fu are not here, I guess that Miss Linlang may be recruiting a beauty."