Bai Meng personally took people to the Prince Yihe's Mansion. The old prince and the prince saw the commander-in-chief's half-smiling look, and heard that they and his son were being invited to the palace to meet the saint. They suddenly had an ominous premonition. A feeling of imminent disaster.
This ominous premonition became more and more obvious when I came to Wende Hall. Until I saw two guards in black leading a plainly dressed woman and a little boy who looked exactly like the young Zhao Yinhe, the old prince and The prince was desperate, and they finally knew what they were about to face.
Before Song Jue could say anything, the father and son knelt down on the ground at the same time, kowtowed to Song Jue and said, "It is my fault, please forgive me."
"Oh? Forgive me?" Song Jue raised his eyebrows and sneered, "Old prince, prince, what are you guilty of?"
"The guilty minister..." The father and son looked at each other, "The guilty minister has the crime of deceiving His Majesty and not repaying the knowledge!"
"What a crime of deception! What a crime of knowing but not reporting!"
Song Jue slapped his dragon case hard. Bai Meng stood beside him and saw that his palms turned red instantly, and couldn't help but feel distressed.
"Old prince, prince!"
Bai Meng tugged on Song Jue's sleeve where no one else could see it, which meant that the rest of the matter could be left to him.
Song Jue coughed slightly, nodded slightly, leaned back a little, and decided to watch the show quietly.
"Old Prince, Crown Prince!" Bai Meng slowly walked up to Prince Yihe and Crown Prince Zhao Jinhe, and looked at Zhao Yinhe, who was also kneeling on the ground with a very calm expression, and the mother and son who were already shaking. Squatting down slightly, he asked, "It seems that the Second Young Master's matter was not hidden from the two of you! When did you two know that the Second Young Master had married a wife and had children? Was it before the marriage was arranged, or was it just recently? How many days?" Seeing the Crown Prince Zhao Jinhe open his mouth, Bai Meng added, "Your Highness, Crown Prince, you have to think carefully before you say anything! Your Prince Yihe Mansion has already committed many crimes. The third son escaped from marriage before, and now the second son has The young master has made such a fuss again, and both the old prince and the prince are insiders..." Bai Meng stood up and looked at him condescendingly, "If you don't tell the truth, Prince Yihe's Mansion will probably disappear in Xijing City. !”
"Thank you, Commander Bai, for reminding me. I know what to say." Zhao Jinhe kowtowed to Song Jue and said respectfully, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the guilty minister only found out in the past few days. To be precise, I only found out about it during the New Year’s Eve dinner. The second brother of the guilty minister took this woman and the child back to his house on the eve of the New Year’s Eve, saying that this was his wife and son, the person he loved most in his life. Since he met the princess , after getting engaged, he has been stuck in deep self-blame and hesitation, and finally he decided not to be a person who abandons his wife and children, so he brought the mother and son to confess to us."
"Second Young Master, you are very courageous!" Bai Meng nodded and walked to Zhao Yinhe, "Do you know the price of confessing or even regretting the marriage?"
"I know, the future is ruined."
"Is it just that the future is ruined?" Bai Meng sneered, "Deceiving Your Majesty and insulting the majesty of the royal family is a serious crime of confiscating the family and exterminating the family." He looked at the woman and the little boy, "This so-called wife and son of yours will be destroyed." Buried with you, your gray-haired father, your brother's family, your poor third brother who only knows how to study, and even hundreds of people in Prince Yihe's house will all be implicated because of you. Lose your life.”
"I...I didn't think about this."
"Haven't you thought about it? Second Young Master, you have thought about it a lot!" Bai Meng sneered, walked back to Song Jue, and picked up the pile of letter paper from the dragon case, "We can't find anything from your study. What a good thing!" He looked at Zhao Jinhe and said, "Your Highness, your second brother really wants you to die."
"Bai Meng, why don't you spit on others!"
"Spite?" Bai Meng shook his head and flicked the letter in his hand, "The witnesses and physical evidence are all there. Second Young Master, it's too late for you to deny it. As the second son of Prince Yihe's palace, from the day he was born, From the beginning, you were destined to have nothing to do with the position of the Crown Prince or the throne. Unless His Royal Highness the Crown Prince died suddenly, you could become the new Crown Prince of Prince Yihe's Mansion. And over the years, you have worked hard for this. You started trying it a long time ago, right?”
Zhao Yinhe glared at Bai Meng but didn't say a word.
"It doesn't matter if you don't say it. Your diaries and letters are very detailed." Bai Meng looked at the old prince and Zhao Jinhe, "Old prince and His Royal Highness, you two should still remember that His Highness started about ten years ago. He began to suffer frequent assassinations, which even alarmed His Majesty. His Majesty specially sent shadows to protect the Crown Prince, but it still could not prevent the Crown Prince from being harmed. Almost four years ago, the assassination came to an abrupt end. We have investigated for a long time, but no one is very convincing. conclusion. However, now I understand why the man behind the scenes stopped plotting."
"Help the old prince and the prince up." Song Jue looked at the shadow standing aside, "Please sit down."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The old prince stood up tremblingly. Zhao Jinhe quickly ran over to support his father and asked his father to sit down slowly. "The guilty minister... I really don't have the face to meet His Majesty, this evil son..."
"Old prince, please be patient and listen to what the commander-in-chief has to say." Song Jue smiled faintly and nodded towards Bai Meng, indicating for him to continue.
"Old Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! The man behind the scenes is the Second Young Master. And when he stopped, it happened to be this child..." Bai Meng pointed at the little boy who was shrinking in Liang Shu's arms, not daring to look up, "He was born That day, after this child was born, the conspiracy against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ended." He flipped through the letters in his hand, picked out the ones related to this part, and handed them to the old prince and the Crown Prince. "This is physical evidence. It was written by the Second Young Master himself. There is absolutely no mistake."
"You..." The old prince became more and more angry, and the more he looked, the more he gasped. He pointed at Zhao Yinhe, trembling with anger, and almost couldn't speak clearly. "You bastard, you just want your eldest brother to die so much! You are brothers!"
"Old Prince, calm down!" Bai Meng's expression was indifferent. He looked at Zhao Yinhe who was silent, "The second young master probably has never regarded His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the third young master as brothers. He is a target that must be eliminated. A fool who can be exploited. The reason why the Second Young Master stopped plotting against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was that the old monk from the Great Buddha Temple said that he was killing too much and it would affect his son. Therefore, he was forced to stop and he would end up in trouble. He doesn't care what kind of end he gets, but he cares about his son. But he has never given up on getting rid of His Highness the Crown Prince, and his acquaintance with His Highness the Princess has given him another opportunity."
"I understand!" Zhao Jinhe nodded, "He pretended to agree to fall in love with the princess and want to get married to the princess, and then chose to take the initiative to reveal the fact that he had a wife and children before getting married. Once this fact is revealed by His Majesty, The princess learned that the Prince Yihe's Mansion would be facing a disaster, and the entire clan would be killed without exception. And he could bribe the jailor or someone else in advance..." He looked at his second brother, " I know that a large number of your close friends are from the Ministry of Justice, and they all owe you a huge favor. We can’t say whether they will rescue you, your wife and your children by then. But I think you should be able to do this.”
"His Royal Highness is wise. This is what the Second Young Master planned. I have to say that killing people without showing blood is really very clever!" Bai Meng narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "It can also get rid of a serious problem on your mind. , and you can live the life you want as you wish.”
"Commander!" Song Jue waved to Bai Meng, "Isn't the Second Young Master's goal to get the position of Crown Prince? If Prince Yihe's palace is gone, his ultimate goal will not be achieved."
"Your Majesty!" Bai Meng walked to Song Jue, bowed slightly, and said, "The second young master's ultimate goal is to kill the prince. As long as the prince dies, it doesn't matter to him whether Prince Yihe's Mansion still exists. It doesn’t matter anymore.”
"Zhao Yinhe, can you plead guilty?"
"Now that things have happened, it is impossible for me to deny it." Zhao Yinhe said with a cold face and no expression, "These are all what I did. No matter how your Majesty punishes me, I will not regret it."
"Oh? Even if you lose your life, you don't regret it?"
"People die for money, and birds die for food. As long as I try my best, I will have no regrets!" Zhao Yinhe looked at Liang Shu, "I'm sorry for implicating you. If there is an afterlife, let's continue our relationship!"
"Your Majesty, the guilty minister..."
"Old Prince, I know what I know, no need to say more." Song Jue waved his hand, "Zhao Yinhe, I will fulfill your wish. From now on, Zhao Yinhe will have nothing to do with Prince Yihe's Mansion, because Zhao Yinhe deceived the king. Wang Shang, vainly attempting to kill his father and brother, is an unpardonable crime. He is temporarily imprisoned in a sky jail and will be executed later in the year. The Prince Yihe Mansion deprived him of his title and demoted him to a commoner, never to be used again!" He looked at Liang Shu, and then at him. The child in my arms, "Take the child and leave Xijing City to live a good life, and you will never step foot into Xijing City."
"The guilty minister..." The old prince and Zhao Jinhe knelt down and kowtowed at the same time, "I obey the order and thank you for not killing me!"
