"The corpse has been prepared. To serve as a warning, all ministers, please follow me to the Meridian Gate to watch the execution!" Wen Qingzhu stood up, and Xi'er and Lu Tao followed him down.
Wei Ziying frowned slightly, but thinking of the ridiculous things these days, it would be better to use Fan Ling's punishment to make those who are secretly vacillating restrain themselves.
Wen Qingzhu was sitting in the main seat at the Meridian Gate trial, looking at the five horses each tied with a set of ropes, the ends of which were tightly helping Fan Ling's limbs and neck to keep his body suspended in the air.
As the trial order came down, Fan Yu and Mrs. Fan wanted to rush in outside the palace gate.
Wen Qingzhu raised his hand and ordered someone to let them in.
Fan Yu and Mrs. Fan were escorted to the execution platform. As the whips of the five executioners fell, the five horses began to run wildly in five directions.
The huge tearing force caused Fan Ling's body to slowly fall apart, and then blood burst out from five places. Fan Ling was left in place with only the driving force, his limbs and head were tied to the horse's rope, and he was slowly dragged away.
Mrs. Fan looked at her son who would be subjected to such torture after death, screamed, and finally fainted because she couldn't bear it anymore.
Fan Yu looked at his brother's body parts, which were sent back by five executioners, and finally couldn't help but accuse Wen Qingzhu: "This is torture in the previous dynasty! Taizu explicitly prohibited it! Why does the regent princess have to reuse it! Does the princess want to Are you disobeying Qi Taizu’s order?!”
"So what." Wen Qingzhu raised his chin slightly and looked at him contemptuously, not caring at all.
Fan Yu felt cold all over. He wanted to say something else. Fan Rong walked over quickly, slapped him in the face, and yelled: "You unfilial son! You brought your mother here! Do you know about execution?" Those who are here are eternal sinners!”
"But he is his father's son, the child's brother, and the mother's heartthrob..." Fan Yu looked at his father in front of him, with unprecedented disappointment in his heart.
He looked at Fan Rong with a mocking look on his face: "My eldest brother likes Miss Yun, but you and your mother don't like her, so you sent your eldest brother away to secretly suppress the Yun family. I dare you to say that Yunting's death has nothing to do with you!"
"You... you treacherous son!" Fan Rong did not expect that Fan Yu would mention such an old incident in such a public place.
He raised his hand to hit Fan Yu, but he didn't want Fan Yu to carry his mother with one hand and block his wrist with the other: "Fan Rong! Look at how you look now, how selfish you are, my eldest brother is ruined! You You know clearly that your elder brother has gone astray, but you think that you are powerful and allow your elder brother to get deeper and deeper. You are not worthy of being a father!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fan Yu threw away Fan Rong's hand, turned around and left with Mrs. Fan behind his back.
The guards at the palace gate stopped him. Wen Qingzhu raised his hand and ordered people to let them go.
Watching his son walking further and further away, Fan Rong finally knelt on the ground with a thud and couldn't help but murmured to himself: "Did I really do something wrong?"
After the execution was over, Wen Qingzhu did not deal with other matters. Instead, he found an old person from the Shenxing Department to investigate Fan Rong and his son.
That night, Lu Tao got the results and came back to report to her.
"Princess, is Yunting's death really related to Fan Rong?"
Wen Qingzhu stopped the ink pen in his hand, raised his head and asked, "I remember that at that time, wasn't Yunting insane and unable to extricate herself from her love for Jiang Yuancheng?"
Lu Tao thought for a while, then took out some very private letters and handed them over: "Princess, please read, these are letters from when Fan Ling and Yunting were still young. At that time, Yunting was still a standard daughter of aristocratic families, and Fan Ling’s relationship is also good.”
After reading the letter, Wen Qingzhu was slightly confused: "But the reason why Yunting's temperament changed drastically is indeed related to Jiang Yuancheng."
"During my investigation, I met Su Huo, who once had contacts with Fan Ling. He said that at that time, Jiang Yuancheng had a low status and was just a little prince. Fan Rong was the Minister of War who was deeply trusted by the emperor.
As soon as he hinted that Jiang Yuancheng was such a smart man, he immediately took action and attracted Yunting's attention. At the same time, he secretly drugged her. Not wanting to be discovered by Fan Ling, Jiang Yuancheng used his plan to make Yunting completely disgusted with Fan Ling.
Later, Yunting became obsessed with Jiang Yuancheng and became famous in the capital. Later, Yunting became more and more crazy and almost ruined Jiang Yuancheng's good deeds, so he got rid of Yunting.
Before that, Fan Ling had already left the capital. Jiang Yuan became Fan Rong and got rid of Yunting, but did not get Fan Rong's help, so he secretly planned to attack Fan Yu and pretend to rescue her. "
Speaking of this, Wen Qingzhu understood instantly. She remembered this matter very clearly.
In his previous life, Jiang Yuancheng was favored by Fan Rong because he saved Fan Yu.
But in this life, Wen Qingzhu knew about it in advance and asked Fu Lie to save Fan Yu, taking away Jiang Yuancheng's opportunity to show his courtesy.
"I didn't expect that Jiang Yuancheng plotted against Fan Yu initially because of Fan Rong's hint." Wen Qingzhu sighed. It turned out that everything had been determined for a long time.
Lu Tao nodded: "Fan Ling had been very depressed before he knew about Yunting's death. Later, when he learned that Yunting was dead, he immediately married a wife and had children. His wife and children have not returned to Beijing yet."
"Wait! I remember that Fan Ling's wife and children never showed up, but later Fan Ling secretly helped Jiang Yuancheng for a while, and his wife and children—"
Lu Tao was startled, then suddenly understood, and said quickly: "That's how I ordered people to bring Fan Ling's wife and children back!"
Wen Qingzhu stood up: "No need! If Fan Ling is willing to risk his life and wants to kill Fu Lie, then his wife and children must be in Jiang Yuancheng's hands!"
She narrowed her eyes as she looked out the door, and her voice gradually became lower: "And Fan Ling's wife is Yunting! I just don't know how Jiang Yuancheng will use Fan Ling's wife and children after Fan Ling is dead."
After a moment of silence, Wen Qingzhu told Lu Tao: "Go and ask Fan Yu to come over. At the same time, go back to the palace and ask Yang Jiu to investigate Fan Ling's wife and children, and find the best one you can! If you can't find them, you must make sure that Fan Ling's wife and children are dead." News!"
"Yes!" Lu Tao accepted the order and resigned.
About half an hour later, Fan Yu was brought in.
Wen Qingzhu didn't waste any time and told him his guess directly. At the same time, he asked: "If one day, Jiang Yuancheng uses your eldest brother's wife and children to threaten your Fan family, what will you do?"
"Is the sister-in-law Yunting? There is a high chance that they will fall into Jiang Yuancheng's hands?" Fan Yu didn't react for a moment.
Wen Qingzhu nodded lightly: "Yes, have you never thought that your eldest brother's behavior is strange? He is the eldest son of the Minister of War, and ordinary little things cannot hinder his future at all."
"I don't know. Ever since my eldest brother got married and had children, he has never brought his sister-in-law and nephews back. My mother was very concerned about this, but Fan Rong didn't seem to care. Only then did I remember that when my mother and I mentioned When talking about sister-in-law and nephew, Fan Rong's eyes were full of contempt." Fan Yu was very calm and had changed his name to Fan Rong.
Wen Qingzhu ordered someone to bring a chair up: "Sit down and tell me, I want to know more about your eldest brother in detail."
The palace attendants brought a chair over, but Fan Yu did not sit down. He just thanked her and said, "Princess, just ask directly."
Wen Qingzhu did not force him, and then asked: "I thought about it carefully tonight. You seemed to have told me that your eldest brother has a good relationship with Pei Yi. So, has he always been in contact with Pei Yi?"
Fan Yu recalled carefully, then shook his head: "The eldest brother rarely comes back after leaving home because of his father's obstruction. He is a very careful person."
"That's true. When I pretended to kill you, he didn't come over to look at you." Wen Qingzhu laughed.
Fan Yu frowned and looked at her: "Princess, there is no need to provoke me! The reason why my eldest brother is like this is mostly because of Fan Rong! When Yunting became irritable and suddenly fell in love with Jiang Yuancheng, it was all because of Fan Rong."
"You know?" Wen Qingzhu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"Of course, thanks to the cultivation of the princess and the regent in recent years, I have such ability." Fan Yu's gratitude to them was sincere.
Wen Qingzhu looked deeply at Fan Yu in front of him, feeling very strange in his heart.
Among the four members of the Fan family, Fan Rong followed Yan's trend, Mrs. Fan was vain and strong, Fan Ling was paranoid and cold, but Fan Yu was the only one who was calm in arguments and could still talk to her calmly after suffering such a great disaster.
It seems that Fu Lie made friends with him and really saw that Fan Yu was a talent.
"It doesn't count as cultivation. I can only say that I'll give you a chance. Listen to what you mean. Your eldest brother was not like this before. So tell me, how did Fan Rong force Fan Ling to become like this step by step?" Wen Qingzhu had an intuition that Fan Yu must know more than she thought.
Fan Yu's eyebrows tightened. He had slowly investigated the changes in his eldest brother recently.
Fan Rong didn't stop his eldest brother. He was going to stop him, but he didn't expect that his eldest brother was involved in the conspiracy planned by the emperor and became a victim.
Lu family's Lu Lei died in battle, and it has been found out that it was indeed his eldest brother who did it.
Fan Yu felt uncomfortable in his heart when he thought of this.
The elder brother in my memory was not such a cruel and cold person at all.
After a long time, Fan Yu decided to confess: "Pei Yi does have a good personal relationship with eldest brother. I went back today and found a letter from Pei Yi to eldest brother in eldest brother's room. There was content in it to persuade eldest brother. Just tonight, I I received the last letter from Pei Yi, which stated that he had received his eldest brother’s wife and children.”
"So you were just surprised that your sister-in-law was Yunting?" Wen Qingzhu thought of Fan Yu's incredible face, clearly not believing that his sister-in-law and nephews were in Jiang Yuancheng's hands.
Fan Yu nodded: "I know Pei Yi's abilities very well. He is a person who can make the emperor obey and make the princess and regent afraid, so I believe in Pei Yi's words even more."
"Indeed, I also believe in Pei Yi." After Wen Qingzhu finished speaking, he waved the palace servant over and gave some instructions for him to take to Lu Tao.
Now that Pei Yi has taken Fan Ling's wife and children into his hands, things are about to change.
After Wen Qingzhu finished giving instructions, Fan Yu continued: "I just discovered that my eldest brother has done a lot of things secretly. He first helped Jiang Yuancheng train soldiers, train dead soldiers and secret guards, and also helped him deliver messages. Later, when Pei Yi gained power, He led the troops to deal with the princess because he listened to Pei Yi, who wanted the princess to go to Dingyuan.
At the same time, the eldest brother can also gain the emperor's trust. Taking this opportunity, if the eldest brother works steadily, he can return to the capital. "
"But it's not actually like this." Wen Qingzhu reminded him.
Fan Yu took a deep breath, and his expression became calmer and calmer: "Yes, because Fan Rong felt the danger, he decided to take the credit from his eldest brother, and at the same time secretly asked his mother to pressure him to marry a girl from a wealthy family in the capital. This was something that the eldest brother could not touch. The bottom line."
"So Fan Ling is recuperating at home due to illness?" Wen Qingzhu only knew that when they returned to Beijing, they came back with glory.
Fan Ling, who was chasing him at the beginning, became the target of public criticism and never showed up in the capital. Fan Rong continued as usual and gained the emperor's trust.
Fan Yu sneered: "When eldest brother should have the honor, he was snatched away by Fan Rong. As a result, you returned to Beijing to redress. Fan Rong hurriedly pushed eldest brother to take the blame and punished him privately before the emperor gave the order. The eldest brother was not sick at all, but Fan He was wounded."
He remembered something, and his face became more and more gloomy: "When the emperor was seriously ill, Fan Rong had no choice but to seek help from his eldest brother. As a coincidence, his sister-in-law and nephews were arrested, so eldest brother could only take the risk. Aggravating the emperor’s condition.”