The arrival of Nangong Yu and Nangong Yue made Su Qiqi and others even more powerful.
King Jingbei had already seen Nangong Yu's resourcefulness during the trip to escort the Fire Dragon Banner. He made him a confidant and often invited him to the study to discuss matters.
Nangong Yue has a laid-back nature. Apart from visiting his sister and Qin Chuan, he spends most of his time following Xiao Kai to wander around teahouses and restaurants in the city, secretly searching for clues about the fire at Zhongfu Temple.
Within a few days, they got sporadic information from the mouths of some aristocratic family members and Jianghu people, and deduced that the janitor monk was still hiding in the government office.
After Xuanyuan Yin recovered, he cast another spell to spy on the information about the Grand Master's Mansion and the Magistrate's Office. It was learned that the real gatekeeper had been poisoned to death and buried in the rockery in the garden behind the prefecture.
Xuanyuan Yin, under the instruction of King Jingbei, asked the kid to secretly dig out the body of the janitor and place it at the entrance of the government office.
Soon, many people gathered around the entrance of the government office to watch the excitement. Everyone looked at the corpse, pointed and commented. When the gatekeepers saw this scene, some hurriedly drove away the crowd, while others hurried into the back hall to find the prefect.
Before the magistrate came out, someone among the people watching suddenly recognized the deceased as the gatekeeper of Zhongfu Temple. For a time, the mystery of the Zhongfu Temple fire once again aroused heated discussion among the people in the city.
After receiving the news, the Grand Master summoned the magistrate angrily and scolded him severely.
The magistrate had no idea and was very aggrieved by the scolding. After returning from the Taishi Mansion, he gathered all the government officials together, reprimanded them, and asked them to find out within a time limit those who leaked the news, stole the corpses and caused trouble.
In the next few days, government officials searched and arrested people aimlessly throughout the city, causing people to panic. Many shops were closed, and people did not dare to go to the streets in broad daylight. There was a deserted and desolate scene everywhere.
In the palace, the emperor was also preoccupied all day long and did not think about food or food. When Empress Yan saw that the emperor looked unhappy, she was afraid that he would anger her and her father, so she secretly asked her personal maid to go to the Taishi Mansion to report the news, asking her father to be more restrained recently and not to act rashly, so as not to get into trouble.
Master Yan was also on pins and needles after reading the secret letter sent by the Queen's personal maid. He didn't expect that the situation would get out of control, and that someone would dare to oppose him so blatantly and steal the body of the janitor from the prefect's office, disrupting his plan.
They are all that idiot from the prefect! I finally managed to kick away Magistrate Lin, who was close to King Jingbei, and promoted him from a magistrate in a remote rural area. I didn't expect that he couldn't hold up the wall with mud. He just let a living person run away. He couldn't even see a corpse. ! All his cultivation was in vain... The more Master Yan thought about it, the angrier he became.
Although he had scolded the stupid prefect during the day, Master Yan still felt very aggrieved at the thought of having to clean up the mess he left.
Seeing that Master Yan was so angry that the veins on his forehead were beating, the housekeeper hurriedly poured a cup of tea and handed it to the Master, asking him to take a sip of tea first to calm his nerves.
The grand master frowned, took a sip of hot tea, and sighed: "Alas! God's will is unpredictable... I'm afraid I'm in trouble this time..."
After saying that, he handed the tea cup to the butler, sat down on the armchair, and thought hard about the solution.
The butler didn't dare to take a breath, so he carefully put the teacup back on the table, then slowly backed out of the door and gently closed the door.
After a few days, the emperor finally couldn't sit still and once again summoned Master Yan to the palace to discuss matters. The two talked secretly for a whole day and decided to give up the car to save the handsome man.
Soon, the prefect became a prisoner. Because he had a personal enmity with the abbot of Zhongfu Temple, he set fire to the abbot, and then killed the abbot and silenced him. He was punished for both crimes and sentenced to execution.
On the day of the execution, all the people watching applauded. Su Qiqi, King Jingbei and others felt even heavier when they heard the news.
They expected that Master Yan might find a scapegoat to smooth things over, but when they saw such an ending, they still couldn't suppress their feelings of dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, there is insufficient evidence to bring Master Yan down yet, so they can only endure it and wait for the opportunity.
On the surface, the capital city was calm for a while, but Su Qiqi knew very well that this was just an illusion before the storm!
Several forces in the DPRK are secretly competing, waiting for someone to open the door first, so that under the banner of "clearing the emperor's side", they can defeat their opponents and realize the grand ambition of unifying the country.
Master Yan naturally did not give up. As soon as the storm of the fire in Zhongfu Temple subsided, he couldn't wait to send people to the Weiyuan Escort Bureau to steal the ancient Bagua Mirror.
Because Su Qiqi had foreseen it and took careful anti-theft measures, Master Yan's plan to steal the treasure failed again. The double blow made Master Yan so angry that he vomited blood and had to take leave to recuperate at home.
The emperor lost his most important helper and couldn't help but feel depressed. He got drunk for several days and smashed things in his palace to vent his anger.
Seeing their master losing his temper, the eunuchs were too frightened to do anything. The whole harem was in chaos.
Just when the emperor was lingering on his bedside due to excessive worries, Beiyi once again provoked trouble, tore up the alliance, and directly sent hundreds of thousands of troops to invade the border areas. When the emperor received an urgent document from the soldiers guarding the border, he became even more furious and died soon after.
Grand Master Yan did not have the support of the emperor and no capable descendants to help him. Seeing that the situation was not good, some of his colleagues and disciples in the court turned against him and defected to other forces. Although Grand Master Yan was used to the ruthlessness of official circles, he could not avoid the sadness of "a tree fell and the hozen scattered".
Soon, he reported illness and returned to his hometown. When he was leaving, only Queen Yan came to see him off with a few maids and eunuchs.
The officials who had previously catered to him in every possible way seemed to have been relieved beforehand, and none of them disappeared.
After Master Yan left the court, other forces in the court did not take this lesson and calm down.
Zheng Shangshu, who had been secretly preparing to make a move, felt that his opportunity had come and jumped out impatiently, hoping to take advantage of the chaos.
He secretly speculated in his mind about the candidate to succeed the monarch. After several comparisons, he confidently determined that King Jingbei would be the best candidate for the new king.
Thinking that he had the foresight to persuade the emperor a few years ago to marry his sister to Prince Jingbei as a concubine, he felt secretly proud. He stroked his short beard with joy and continued to outline a bright future in his mind - if he actively suppressed Taishi Yan's party and helped King Jingbei ascend to power smoothly, maybe King Jingbei would like his support. Gong, I will make my sister my queen in the future...
He was making his wishful thinking, but he didn't know that fate played a trick on him. His whims not only ruined the lives of himself and his sister, but also made him a clown in the historian's works...
