Chapter 204 Afterwards
There was no court today, and at 6 o'clock, Prime Minister Zuo was summoned by the emperor to the imperial study.
"Your Majesty!" Zuo Xiang clasped his fists in salute, but looking at the emperor, he always felt that there was something different about him today, as if his butt was a bit bigger than usual.
"Ai Qing is here!" The emperor said, standing by the window, "What happened last night?"
Sure enough, what was supposed to come came.
"Your Majesty, I have failed to live up to your expectations!" With a plop, Prime Minister Zuo simply knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to admit his mistake.
"Don't tell me that you let someone run away!" The emperor turned his head and stared at the left prime minister, his face as cold as frost.
The left prime minister looked ashamed, took off the official hat on his head, and put it on the ground, "Old minister, I deserve to die later. I ask your majesty to let me resign and return to my hometown!"
"Okay! Very good!" The emperor laughed angrily, "We have already noticed Yun Di's purpose and asked you to set up a trap in advance, but now you tell me that you let the assassin escape!"
"Such a big thing has happened, why didn't you come and report it?" the emperor said angrily.
"Your Majesty, you told me personally that no matter what happens, I will make your own decision, and you will report the result tomorrow."
The emperor hesitated, as if he had really said this, "Ahem!" The emperor coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment, "Stop those useless things, you let the assassin run away, how should I punish you? ?”
"I am terrified. I know that I will inevitably die. I have sent someone to prepare a coffin. Please ask Your Majesty to grant me death."
"You old thing!" The emperor was furious and kicked the left prime minister to the ground. "I know that there is no one around me, and I still count on you to do things for me, so you are advancing at the expense of retreat! You really think that I don't dare to kill you Can’t do it?”
"I don't dare, but before your majesty kills me first, there is something I would like to ask your majesty to take a look at!" Prime Minister Zuo took out the fake drawings from his arms and presented them to the emperor.
"What does this mean?" The emperor took the drawing without knowing why.
"Last time, when Miaochun Pavilion was bombed, I started to make plans and changed the firearm blueprints in advance. This time, my son made a mistake and took back the fake blueprints from the two assassins. At the same time, he also exposed the second prince's identity. Wolf ambition." Zuo Xiang said respectfully.
The emperor thought for a while and said, "Get up!"
"Where is Qi Delong now?"
"Your Majesty, Qi Delong has been transferred to the prison cell of the Criminal Department by the old minister. The old minister has ordered him to go down and be under strict supervision. The guards are all the old minister's confidants."
"That's good!" The emperor put down the blueprint, "You can only be wary of one or two, and you can't take down Yun Di without any evidence. Do you have any plans for this?"
"Your Majesty, the second prince has been secretly dealing with the Tao family, the imperial merchant in Jinling City." The left minister began to make suggestions for the emperor, "Now the Tao family is very popular in Jinling City, and most of the merchants in Jinling City have already The Tao family is following the lead, and your majesty can do something about the Tao family."
"Jinling City!" When the emperor heard about Jinling City, he thought of his former friend and said faintly, "I heard yesterday that the Xue family is unwilling to join the Tao family. The family business is only supported by two weak women. Now Xue Ruyue is in the palace again, and she appealed to me yesterday to ask me to rescue the Xue family. But we can do something about this matter."
"Hiss!" The emperor walked to the dragon chair and sat down, but as soon as his swollen buttocks touched the dragon chair, he felt a sharp pain, and he jumped up from the dragon chair without caring about his appearance, covering his buttocks.
"Your Majesty! What are you doing?" Zuo Xiang was puzzled. How could he be fine and still eject?
"It's okay! It's just that I was a little tired last night!" The emperor pretended to be calm and covered up his embarrassment. He almost didn't sleep last night. It was the first time he knew how scary a woman was. Now that he thinks about it, he is still frightened, especially the evil whip in the hands of the imperial concubine. Every time he raised it, he felt pain and pleasure.
"Xuebin! What do you think about leaving this matter to King Qi?" The emperor quickly changed the subject, "You see, Yuntao and Xue Ruyue were in love with each other at Hanfeng Temple, and they were interested in each other. He should be a good choice.”
"Uh..." When Bi Yuntao was suddenly mentioned, the Prime Minister felt like he had swallowed a fly, and he felt so uneasy in his heart.
Who would feel better if the cabbage that their family worked so hard to grow was just eaten by pigs? Especially now that he was still ambiguous with Xue Ruyue, this made him feel even more uncomfortable as a father. Everything good happened to him, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became.
"I don't think it's appropriate!" Zuo Xiang directly rejected the emperor's proposal without thinking. "What you did is a big deal! Ever since something like that happened between King Qi and Ruoxi, they have been at the forefront of the storm. Now let him step in to deal with it." The Xue family’s incident will probably only arouse the second prince’s vigilance and take precautions in advance.”
"Yes! What you said makes some sense." The emperor took a sip of tea and nodded, "Then I'll think about it carefully. Xue Ruyue didn't get a reply from me, so she has to stay in the capital for a while longer. It’s not like I’m in a hurry.”
"Remember to take good care of Qi Delong, he is still of some use to me! If you have nothing to do, go down first! I want to be quiet!" The emperor said, "As for your punishment, because you have worked hard for me, there is no merit. There is also hard work, so forget it.”
"Next time if you mess up something like this for me, don't blame me for not missing the old friendship between you and me!"
"Yes!" Zuo Yingying said, bowed and exited the imperial study, leaving the emperor alone.
The emperor closed his eyes and rested for a long time before he spoke, "Guizi, how did you go about the matter that I asked you to send someone to investigate and protect the Xue family?"
"Go back to the emperor!" Eunuch Gui quietly walked out from behind the screen, "I have sent someone to go. This is a letter that has been sent over the past few days. Please let the emperor read it."
The emperor took the letters and looked at them one after another. With every turn of the paper, his frown deepened.
"It seems that the Xue family's life has not been satisfactory these years!" The emperor sighed faintly after reading the last letter, "You have lived in such poverty these years, why don't you come and beg me? Is it possible that between you and me? Has the relationship between us become so thin?"
Thinking of the resolute and strong woman who made him fall in love, struggling to support the Xue family alone, the emperor's heart throbbed.
If you miss it for a moment, you will miss it forever.
At that time, it was just for fun that I went out to Beijing for a trip. Only when I returned did I learn that she was married.
Now that their children have grown up, I don't know if it was always arranged intentionally for them to meet each other and have feelings for each other.
In this case, I will try to find a way to bring them together, and my efforts will not be in vain.
Eunuch Gui watched the emperor close his eyes and meditate, quietly retreated, and dismissed the surrounding guards, leaving the emperor alone and feeling sad.
"Sneeze! Sneeze!" Bi Yuntao was caught off guard by the sudden sneeze. He rubbed his itchy nose and muttered, "I thought, scolded and muttered, who is scolding me!"
"Pfft!" Meng Ruolang wiped off the smear on his face and looked at Bi Yuntao dully, "Brother! Can you help someone when you sneeze next time?" Just as he was about to wake up, he was filled with Bi Yuntao's sudden sneeze. There was no trace of saliva on his face, and he accepted it all.
"Ah! I'm sorry!" Bi Yuntao apologized with a smile, but there was no trace of apology on his face. "I don't know who was scolding me. It was too strong at the moment and I couldn't control myself at all."
"Okay!" Meng Ruolang said angrily, "By the way, I've been here for so long, why haven't I seen that girl Lan?"
"Her!" When Meng Ruolang asked about Lan, Bi Yuntao's smile immediately faded, and he squinted his eyes and looked at Meng Ruolang with an evil look, "She didn't have a good rest last night, I asked her to go back to her room to sleep. Yes! What, you have something to do with her? "
"It's my sister who has something to do with her." Meng Ruolang said, "She wants me to ask Lan about what happened when you and Xue Ruyue were trapped in the mountains."
"What are you looking for her for? I didn't tell her what happened. Go back and tell Ruoxi. If she wants to know, let her come to me on her own."
Since coming out of the mountains, Meng Ruoxi has not come to visit her once. Of course, last night's visit to the Shura Field does not count. She was not visiting a sick person last night! The cruelty is comparable to a war without gunpowder smoke!
Hearing Meng Ruolang mention Meng Ruoxi, Bi Yuntao felt very unhappy. You were sick and I rushed around anxiously, greeting you with greetings. But you're lucky. Now it's my turn to be injured and hospitalized. Not only have I not come to visit you, but I haven't even said a greeting. It's just too much of a lie. You don't have me in your heart at all. When my injury is healed, let's see how I deal with you.
"Hehe!" Meng Ruolang apologized with an embarrassed smile and asked her to go back and tell her sister truthfully that he was really an old man who drank poison and thought he had lived too long.
"Since Lan has gone to bed, I'll come back another day!" Meng Ruolang noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere and quickly stood up to leave.
Meng Ruolang left Prince Qi's Mansion and was on the way back to Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion. In fact, the purpose of his visit to Prince Qi's Mansion today was to remind his eldest brother, but after seeing Lan being eaten to death by his eldest brother, he gave up.
Presumably, even if the eldest brother knew that Lan had an ulterior motive for approaching him, he probably wouldn't care. Maybe he would know Lan's purpose and might help Lan.
Now, it’s okay if you don’t know, big brother. As the saying goes, he who doesn’t know is not guilty! If Lan's purpose is revealed and he is caught by the emperor, the emperor will not hold him accountable too much without his eldest brother knowing about it.
Now that I think about it, the reason why Lai Lan chose to take action last night was probably because the imperial concubine was secretly helping. He would not forget that Huang Guifei came from the same country as Lan. Since Lan had other purposes, he would naturally go to Huang Guifei for help. I should have thought of this a long time ago!
No, why are you worrying so much here? As long as it doesn't delay sister's affairs, Lan and the others can do whatever they like! Now, by accident, my sister's matter has made further progress. Successfully making the emperor pay attention to the second prince is also good news.
Meng Ruolang returned to Zuoxiang's Mansion with her thoughts in mind, found Meng Ruoxi, and explained to her what happened last night.
