Xiao Yan's voice was particularly cold.
"The official ship that had been inspected repeatedly before leaving Beijing sank immediately. Nearly one million in relief money and food were missing. None of the officers and soldiers who escorted the disaster relief survived. Yet, His Majesty was able to establish himself in the court in just a few years. Do you think that when It’s really possible to marry a daughter of the Lu family.”
"If the daughter of the Lu family is so easy to marry, given your status among the princes back then, Lu Qingfeng was just a mere concubine from a side branch. Why can't you get your wish?"
King Cheng was stunned by Xiao Yan's words.
Xiao Yan mocked: "The Lu family chose Your Majesty early on, and the person you said was forced to separate from you because of the marriage granted by the late emperor also chose someone else early on."
"You are talking nonsense!!" King Cheng hissed: "You are talking nonsense!!!"
Qingfeng was forced to separate from him, and she always liked him.
When the late emperor's decree of marriage came down, she wanted to jump into the lake to keep her innocence. It was the Lu family who used her biological parents to force her, and it was in order for him to ascend the throne that she forced herself to marry Xie Tianyong.
Her innocence was given to him, and even her children only wanted his blood. After marrying Xie Tianyong, she had been secretly helping him, finding out information for him, and even helping him behind the back of the Lu family. It was his fortune back then. It’s hard to lose to Xie Tianyong...
King Cheng looked at Xiao Yan with blood in his eyes: "I don't know what you want to do, but don't try to alienate the relationship between me and her. Our relationship will last until death. You eunuch will never understand!"
"Until death do us part?"
Xiao Yan suddenly laughed as if he heard something funny. He took out two things from his sleeves and unfolded them directly in front of King Cheng.
"what are you doing……"
King Cheng was surprised and subconsciously wanted to retreat, but Xiao Yan grabbed his hair and pressed it in front of the bloody book.
"What you call unswerving till death is that she knew the truth about the disaster relief work and knew that the Lu family helped His Majesty embezzle money for the disaster, but by relying on your trust in her, she intercepted the evidence obtained by your people and kept you in the dark. How many years have you been keeping it in the dark?”
"Your undying determination is because she knew that the Lu family intended to marry His Majesty. She secretly met His Majesty many times, which made him secretly fall in love. Later, she deceived his identity and took the initiative to ask for the adoptive master. She knelt in front of Lu Chongyuan and begged for it. This engagement?"
"What did you say……"
"You know what the governor said, so open your eyes and take a look at this thing!"
King Cheng was forced to raise his head and try to open his eyes wide enough to see clearly what was close at hand. He was originally surprised, but when he saw clearly what was written on the dried blood on the silk cloth, he was a little bit confused. Eyes widened.
"Tao Zian, the magistrate of Rongjiang County, reported to Your Majesty that Lu Chongyuan, the inspection censor, was ordered by the emperor to provide disaster relief, but he disobeyed the prince's wishes and deployed the garrison to blockade Rongjiang, intending to massacre the city and quell the epidemic..."
"There are only a few dozen people infected with the epidemic in the city, and the remaining ones are nearly 10,000 healthy. Before the prince returned to the capital, he ordered doctors to find a cure and set up an epidemic area to isolate the people. However, the mainland thieves wanted to destroy the prince's reputation and massacred the people for an excuse. I begged for five The prince couldn't, and his legs were cut off and he was imprisoned in the government office."
"It was a great fire in the city at night, and I was trapped in the yamen. I heard tens of thousands of people wailing and weeping blood. The fire poured down on the sky and melted the bones of the city. I risked my life to leave this blood book. I hope the sky has eyes to punish the evil thief, otherwise I will die with my eyes open!"
The blood-stained words were soaked into the silk, and the words "I will never die with my eyes in peace" were even more messy.
Xiao Yan looked at the pale-faced King Cheng, lowered his head and said in his ear: "Do you know how your Majesty used to relieve disasters and quell chaos? He ordered people to burn Rongjiang River and slaughter as many people as possible who were infected with the epidemic. He had the support of the Lu family's private army. , colluded with local officials and bandits, massacred the disaster-stricken people and pretended to be uprising bandits."
"He took the disaster money and food that Prince Ru had raised with the He family after he returned to the capital, and deceived the unsuspecting victims into worshiping him as a god. When he returned to the capital, the people of the south lined the streets to send him off, and 90% of it was a huge profit. The official bandits and merchants were all over the place, and the umbrella of all people placed in the Ancestral Temple was stained with the blood of those who died in vain."
Xiao Yan let go of Prince Cheng's hair, and when he saw him lying on the ground, he put away the blood book and word by word.
"This blood letter was handed over to the governor personally by Empress Lu because she resented the Lu family's cruelty after the fourth prince was deposed."
"No one else knows about what happened back then, but Queen Lu knows it clearly. After the cruel prince's rebellion, you and his majesty competed for the throne. If she can produce this bloody letter, even if she only tells you some of the truth, you can force your majesty to give in." , why did you hand over the throne to others and end up where you are now?"
King Cheng lay on the ground with a pale face: "It's impossible...it won't happen..."
He murmured in a low voice. He wanted to say that Xiao Yan was lying to him, that the blood letter was not given to him by the Queen, but the scenes that were almost forgotten many years ago came to his mind little by little.
Before Xie Tianyong returned to the capital for disaster relief, he was busy uniting with the court officials to deal with Xie Tianzhao, who returned to the capital in embarrassment due to the failure of disaster relief. At that time, his men did intercept the news from Nandi and sent it back to the capital. Lu Qingfeng was also there when the things were delivered.
He was deeply affectionate with her at that time and never guarded against it. She said it was some unimportant news, so he casually put it aside without asking any more questions. After that, he never saw that thing again...
Some things simply don't stand up to scrutiny.
After he fell in love with Lu Qingfeng, he asked the late emperor for marriage several times, but she said that her low status might affect his great career and make the late emperor disappointed in him.
After the late emperor granted her a marriage, she suddenly became the legitimate daughter of the Lu family and passed into Lu Chongyuan's lap. She cried and made a fuss, saying that she did not want to marry anyone else and that she only wanted to be his wife.
But the Lu family forced him, and the royal family also forced her.
After he rescued Lu Qingfeng from the lake who wanted to commit suicide to prove her innocence, and after she gave her innocence to him in tears, he had a deep love for her and believed in her deeply.
But why didn't he think about it carefully back then?
The late emperor did not know the daughter of the Lu family, but his intention to marry her was Lu Qingfeng, the legitimate daughter of the Lu family. If Lu Qingfeng and Xie Tianyong had not known each other for a long time, and if the Lu family had not known that there would be a marriage, how could they have arrived so coincidentally? Before the imperial decree, Lu Qingfeng was adopted as the direct branch?
There was also the battle for the throne back then.
Obviously he is stronger than Xie Tianyong in every aspect, and he is only one step away from the throne, but Xie Tianyong can always figure out what he wants to do.
He took advantage of the situation and finally fought hard to defeat the prince, but in the end he fell into Xie Tianyong's hands...
"Lu Qingfeng..."
Lu Qingfeng! ! !
King Cheng was lying on the ground, trembling all over. The more he thought about what happened at the beginning, the more he discovered that there were flaws everywhere.
Xiao Yan folded the blood book and put it away: "Actually, I have always been curious. As the empress, a powerful woman among women, single-handedly manipulates His Majesty and the prince into playing around, will she really keep the prince's blood under her knees? Keep her here? Such a big handle can overturn everything between their mother and son at any time?"
He glanced at Prince Cheng: "The fourth prince and the prince are not similar at all."
Killing people and killing people's hearts is nothing more than this.
