"Confused!" Cheng Ning shouted coldly after hearing this: "How dare they hide such a big thing and not report it?"
Li Piao's purpose is obvious. If she escapes to Yanjing, her purpose must be Wei Yanzhou!
Maybe at this time, someone is watching him somewhere, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
If so, this hunting ground is simply unsafe.
No matter how many guards there are, if Li Piao had already arranged it, who knows if there are traps all around!
Cheng Ning asked: "Are the two people you heard talking from Dali Temple?"
People from Dali Temple have always arranged things like exile and arrest.
Zhou Kuo nodded: "I don't dare to show my face, but I see that one of them is from Dali Temple and I have interacted with him before, and I don't recognize the other one."
Seeing Cheng Ning's serious expression, he understood that this matter must be of great importance.
The people in Dali Temple concealed this matter simply because they were afraid of being punished.
I just don’t know if the Minister of Dali Temple knows about this.
"Chunhua, did Wang Xi not go hunting with His Majesty? Ask him to go find the Minister of Dali Temple."
Regardless of whether the assumption is true or not, the danger should be eliminated in time now.
If something goes wrong, it will be too late.
Chunhua hurriedly ran away with a look of panic.
Zhou Kuo wiped his sweat again: "It shouldn't be a big deal, right? Li Piao is just a woman."
"If the intention is to avenge her father and brother, then the power of a woman cannot be underestimated. I hope she doesn't have time to act now."
Cheng Ning and Zhou Kuo walked out and looked at the guards' arrangements along the way.
"Empress, I originally thought you would pretend that you didn't hear me." Zhou Kuo suddenly said.
Cheng Ning stopped and looked at him confused.
But Zhou Kuo's eyes were clear, with a few hints.
Suddenly I understood what he meant.
It is estimated that Zhou Kuo regarded Li Piao as the second Cheng Ning. If Cheng Ning had not entered the palace as a concubine, then what happened to Li Piao would be what happened to Cheng Ning.
The whole clan was also destroyed. If it were Cheng Ning, I'm afraid he would have followed this path.
"I understand what Mr. Zhou means," Cheng Ning said, "but the positions are different."
She knew Wei Yanzhou would be in danger, but she didn't do anything. Cheng Ning thought she couldn't do it.
But what if one day, her father and brother are like this too?
This is an obvious thing, she will also be murderous towards Wei Yanzhou.
Although the death of the Li family was expected by the public, they had done all kinds of bad things and had been suffering from illness for a long time.
But from the standpoint of Cheng Ning and Li Piao, they are both sons and daughters. Is it possible that they can remain indifferent to the death of a close relative?
If Li Piao really did something, Zhou Kuo would admire her.
Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, at least filial piety has been fulfilled.
He really thought that Cheng Ning would not interfere. If something happened to Wei Yanzhou, he would have no heirs, and the only one who could succeed him would be King Yong.
And it would be much easier to save the Cheng family from King Yong than from the emperor, right?
It's not that Cheng Ning didn't expect it, but she knew that she and Li Piao were different.
If she were Li Piao, she would not let Li get to this point.
But she is Cheng Ning, and Cheng Ning will not let the Cheng family come to this point.
She exhaled a thick breath: "Master Zhou, what do you think of Your Majesty?"
His Majesty? Wei Yanzhou?
Zhou Kuo thought for a while and said: "The methods are violent and the results are great."
These two words should not be used together, one is derogatory and the other is complimentary.
But using it on Wei Yanzhou is not considered a violation.
Hearing what Zhou Kuo said, Cheng Ning knew that he was not optimistic about Wei Yanzhou becoming emperor at first.
She nodded, and a thorn sprouted from the path, blocking the way.
Zhou Kuo stretched out his hand to push it away for her, waiting for her to walk over first before following her.
"I have the same view as you. Even now, I still don't think he is the most suitable person to be emperor."
Cheng Ning's voice was soft: "But he is really skillful in killing off officials and treating chronic diseases, and he also has the determination not to be affected by the world's scorn."
Wei Yanzhou has done well enough.
It may be difficult for people to recognize the scheming and means, but the goal is always achieved.
Zhou Kuo's expression changed for a few moments, and he wanted to speak but didn't know what to say.
"The same goes for you. Mr. Zhou's Fuyin has been silent for a long time, but he is willing to use it after hearing your name, which means that he is willing to use Chunchen in his heart."
This is true.
Zhou Kuo nodded solemnly and bowed to Cheng Ning: "Wei Chen understands what the empress means."
A minister should not doubt his ruler.
Cheng Ning can put aside the Cheng family's affairs and treat Wei Yanzhou fairly, but there's nothing Zhou Kuo can't do.
In the final analysis, he was just a minister, which, based on his inference just now, was an insult to Cheng Ning.
Zhou Kuo felt a little ashamed: "If I had the heart of the empress, I would not think about these trivial matters all the time."
"Actually, it has nothing to do with my mind. I often have things that I can't figure out."
At first, I was thinking about why Wei Yanzhou was so cruel to the Cheng family, but now I am thinking about why Wei Yanzhou concealed the past events.
I can’t sleep when I can’t figure it out.
Zhou Kuo saw Cheng Ning's side face, and there was a touch of sadness lingering on her face.
He was not an inexperienced young man, but Cheng Ning's behavior made him feel inexplicably blocked.
"Empress——"
Cheng Ning's eyes were solemn, and there was a hint of coldness in his eyes: "Shh!"
Zhou Kuo took his foot back when he was about to step on a dead branch.
From the other side of the dense forest, Xie Zhiyun's voice came.
Looking over from the green leaves, Zhou Kuo's face suddenly turned pale.
Because he had just met the person who was talking to Xie Zhiyun!
Cheng Ning saw his interested expression and asked with his eyes: What's wrong?
Zhou Kuo pointed with his hand, pointing to the man dressed as a slave in brown clothes, and mouthed: Dali Temple.
Is this person from Dali Temple?
Cheng Ning's expression also changed.
"Don't worry, Prime Minister, everything has been arranged." The man said with a flattering look on his face, "Nothing will go wrong."
"Just make sure," Xie Zhiyun's voice came: "Act as planned, go ahead."
The man took his life and ran away quickly.
Xie Zhiyun and others went out after they had gone far, obviously to avoid suspicion.
Cheng Ning and Zhou Kuo stood there with solemn expressions on their faces: "What do they plan to do?"
