Although the prince was puzzled by Ling Buyi's behavior, when faced with Wang Chun's blame, he naturally defended Ling Buyi.
"Zicheng also wanted to know the truth about the past so much that he couldn't think about it for a while. You also understand him. The incident of Gucheng has been weighing on Zicheng's mind for more than ten years.
Nowadays, it is not easy to track down the person behind the scenes, but the result is unsuccessful, so we must also think about it from Zicheng's perspective. "
After Wang Chunwen heard this, he couldn't argue with the prince, so he could only calm down and said: "Of course I can understand Zicheng's mood, but now that these people have fallen out, how will it end?"
The prince didn't have any good ideas about this, so he started to make peace: "Now that Zicheng and Ziyang have been called to the palace by their father to lecture them, I think they will be comforted by their father.
Later, when Zi Yang comes out of the palace, I would like you to go to the Yuan Mansion to persuade Zi Yang and Shan Jian so that they don't get into trouble with Zi. I guess they are all open-minded people and won't dwell on their opinions.
As for Zicheng, I will also go and persuade him. As time goes by, this matter will be over. "
There were no constructive suggestions in what the prince said, but Wang Chun had no choice but to listen to it.
But the situation here under Emperor Wen was really different from what the prince expected, because as soon as Li Hao and Ling Buyi arrived in the palace, they directly confessed to Emperor Wen.
Of course, it was chosen when there was no one around. Anyway, Emperor Wen always transferred people away when he wanted to teach Ling Buyi a lesson, leaving only Cao Cheng nearby to serve him.
This was common practice, so Ling Busuo had already made up his mind.
After all, this matter was originally an open and fair trial, and now that the Yue family has been dug out, none of the remaining people cares too much about Emperor Wen, so there is no need to hide it from Emperor Wen.
After Emperor Wen learned the truth, just as the two imagined, he was not unhappy about the incident. Instead, he offered to help them cover up.
He immediately began to scold him in a loud voice, from inside the palace to the servants and maids waiting outside.
He scolded Li Hao for being incompetent and incompetent, and scolded Ling Buyi for being perverse and unreasonable. He almost got kicked in the face while scolding him.
If Cao Cheng hadn't stepped forward in time to stop Emperor Wen, the two of them would have been kicked several times.
In the end, Emperor Wen pretended that his anger was still lingering and drove the two of them out of the palace, ordering them to spend half a month in retreat.
Naturally, the two of them did not argue. They accepted the order obediently and left the palace to go home pretending to be discordant.
But to be honest, Li Hao always felt that Emperor Wen was not just acting, but was using an excuse to express his innermost feelings, saying what he had refrained from scolding before.
Of course, Li Hao thought that he must have done nothing and was simply implicated by Ling Buyi.
But this also has an advantage, that is, the focus of this incident is drawn to Ling Buyi and Li Hao, and Yuan Shen is really let go without much impact.
After returning to the mansion, Li Hao directly carried out Emperor Wen's order and stayed behind closed doors to reflect on his mistakes. By the way, he rejected all visitors. For example, Wang Chun who wanted to visit was also stopped.
And by doing so, he was also cooperating with Ling Busu, allowing him to interrogate Peng Kun quietly in the mansion.
He deliberately made a noise on the road that day so that he could pick the person up naturally. Now that the person was in his own hands, no one could stop him from checking the case.
Just not going out or seeing guests doesn't mean that Li Hao doesn't care about outside matters at all. After all, it's okay to put some things aside, such as the East Palace matter, but there are some things that must be done quickly, such as finding the fifth percentile. whereabouts.
This guy was really good at hiding. Li Hao mobilized all his men in the capital and searched almost all over the capital, but still couldn't find this guy.
Therefore, Li Hao wanted to change his thinking, so he pulled Yuan Shen down to discuss it together.
Yuan Shen said: "Actually, according to what you just said, most of the capital has been searched, and the rest are only the imperial palace or the residences of some important officials in the court.
But according to the information from the investigation, Fifty percent has no friends in the court, so maybe he has returned to the mastermind behind the scenes.
After all, according to Ling Buyi's speculation, the mastermind behind the scenes is also a powerful person in the court, so isn't this a good match? "
Li Hao heard this and replied: "Actually, I have thought about it before, but it doesn't seem to make sense. The mastermind behind the scenes had killed those assassins before, so why would they come to protect the fifth percentile?"
"What's strange about this is that Fifty Percent may be the henchman of the mastermind behind the scenes, and he presided over the annihilation. After all, we don't know what he did in the past few years."
Yuan Shen still insisted on his own judgment and spoke out to prove it.
In fact, Yuan Shen's words sounded fine, and they did make sense. After all, due to Yuan Pei's obstruction, Li Hao really didn't know what Fifty percent had done in the past few years, and he couldn't say for sure that he really got involved with Ling Yi. We're together.
After all, this guy's brain is too weak, and he really can't stand the tricks of Ling Yi.
It's just that in Li Hao's mind, the two people's personalities couldn't match each other in the past, so he deliberately ignored this point.
After determining the new direction of investigation, Li Hao turned around and found Yuan Wo, and refocused on the Ling family, especially the heavily guarded Chengyang Marquis Mansion.
Because from a safety perspective alone, if it is really Ling Yi Zang's person, the most likely place to place him is in the Hou Mansion.
Anyway, Ling Buyi didn't go back often, so there were basically no outsiders in the house. Others had to notify beforehand if they wanted to enter, so it was impossible to break in without permission.
It's just that the arrangement was like this, but Li Hao didn't have much confidence in it. After all, he had checked the Chengyang Marquis Mansion so many times in the past, but he still couldn't find out the evidence that Chunyu had hidden Ling Yi's collaboration with the enemy.
Now facing Ling Yi, who is infinitely more sophisticated than Chunyu, this hope is naturally even slimmer.
After this, Li Hao didn't pay much attention to it anymore and could only let it happen. Anyway, Li Hao was bound to kill Fifty percent. Let him escape this time and continue the investigation.
Anyway, we can't let this trouble cause trouble for our family. Even if Yuan Pei talks, it's not easy to use. At worst, he will drag Yuan Shen to take the blame. Li Hao doesn't believe that he can really do anything to his two sons. At worst, he will be sad alone for a while. .
As for Chunyu's evidence, it is not important now. I originally found it because I wanted to sell some favors to Ling Buyi at the critical moment and let him support some of his decisions.
But now that Peng Kun is not dead, Ling Buyi can naturally get the truth from him. Whether these evidences are available or not is not that important.
After letting go of his thoughts, Li Hao felt at ease and wanted to spend a few days of rare leisure time without having to be busy dealing with official duties or scheming with others.
But before that, Li Hao had to spend some time to appease Qu Lengjun and Wang Jiao, especially Wang Jiao.
After all, she was not as calm as Qu Lengjun, nor as far-sighted as Qu Lengjun, so after seeing Li Hao being punished by Emperor Wen, she became anxious.
Because she was deeply aware of Ling Buyi's position in Emperor Wen's heart, she was naturally worried about Li Hao's situation when the two turned against each other this time.
He had to ask Wang Chun for help and speak to Li Hao before Emperor Wen and the Crown Prince. Li Hao accepted this intention, but the problem was that it was not necessary, but Li Hao could not explain it in detail.
Fortunately, it was Li Hao who discussed with the prince that the reward for donating money and food finally arrived. The prince himself wrote a plaque with the name "House of Great Benevolence", which made Wang Hao feel at ease.
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But then I felt a little disappointed. It would have been much better if I could have gotten it earlier. How could this icing on the cake be as good as providing help in times of need.
But he was disappointed. Although the timing was a bit off, he thought that the mosquito legs were also fleshy, so Li Hao still ordered people to find a way to get the statue of Nuwa.
Of course, Li Hao didn't intend to force it. After all, Princess Ruyang was Emperor Wen's biological aunt, so it would definitely not be appropriate to grab her directly.
And because of his arrival, the development line of this matter has changed a lot. Li Hao is not completely sure that the letter of Ling Yi and Peng Kun's conspiracy is in the statue of Nuwa.
Therefore, Li Hao had someone cast a statue of Nuwa to replace the statue of Nuwa sent by the Chunyu family. Anyway, the shapes were very similar. Princess Ruyang had just used it for two days, so she didn't think she could understand much. carefulness.
For this reason, Li Hao also specially asked people to make the craftsmanship rougher. After all, the craftsmanship of Chunyu's family's workshop is not even inferior to that of Yuan's workshop. If the workmanship is really good, it will be fake at a glance. .
It took two days to finish the statue of Nuwa, and all that was left was to send someone to replace it, which was not difficult for Li Hao.
After all, Li Hao had cultivated a lot of specialized talents, and among them there were several masters of the cock-crowding and dog-robbers. He brought the statue of Nuwa back to Li Hao that night.
And Li Hao was also waiting in the courtyard, waiting for the moment when the lottery was drawn. For this reason, Li Hao spent a lot of determination to get away from the soft jade Wenxiang.
However, it was obvious that others might not understand Li Hao's mood, so before placing the statue of Nuwa on Li Hao, the visitor directly reported: "Sir, the weight of this statue of Nuwa is wrong, there should be something hollow in the middle. "
These words immediately destroyed Li Hao's expectation of drawing the lottery with his own hands. It felt like he had bought scratch tickets for many years and had no results. Now he was about to win the prize, but he was scratched directly by someone with a bad hand.
Although the award still belonged to him, the sense of ceremony was completely destroyed, so the guy who spoke was glared hard by Li Hao.
When this guy saw this, although he didn't know where he was wrong, he still shut up and retreated.
After looking away, Li Hao was no longer interested in breaking it with his own hands, so he asked Yuan Wo to come over and smash the statue of Nuwa to pieces and take out the contents.
After hearing this, Yuan Wo didn't ask any questions. He just asked someone to bring a hammer and started hitting the statue of Nuwa.
After all, he only knows that there is something hidden inside. If he doesn't know what it is, he will be in trouble if he breaks it and destroys it.
Although the efficiency of slowly breaking it is slower, the safety is guaranteed.
Start tapping from the top of the statue of Nuwa and go down step by step, finally revealing the big hole in the middle of the statue.
After confirming that you only had a few bamboo slips, Yuan Wo stopped being so cautious and settled the battle with the last few hammers. He took out the bamboo slips completely and handed them to Li Hao.
Li Hao took it and took a look. It should indeed be evidence of collusion between Ling Yi and Peng Kun. However, Li Hao did not understand the handwriting of these two people and could only confirm it through the titles on the bamboo slips.
But it doesn't matter if Li Hao doesn't know each other. These two people usually deliver countless memorials to the palace. These two people are not as capable as Lou Niu, who can write in more than ten or twenty fonts. As long as they are translated and compared, it will be clear. .
However, it is somewhat inconvenient to go directly to the palace to read the memorial without explaining the situation.
Fortunately, these memorials are not only available in the palace, but also in the East Palace. It is much easier to see things there.
It's just that it's not convenient for Li Hao to go out now, so he called Yuan Shen and showed him these bamboo slips.
After Yuan Shen saw it, he was immediately shocked: "No way, Marquis Chengyang was the culprit who caused the destruction of Gucheng in the first place. He is related to the Huo family by marriage!"
Li Hao replied: "If you really want to harm people these days, you still care about whether they are relatives. What you said makes no sense.
But I’m not sure yet that this is the truth. After all, I’m not sure it was written by Ling Yi.
I came to you just to ask you to find an excuse to go to the East Palace and look through Ling Yi's memorials.
, right handwriting. "
Yuan Shen did not object to Li Hao's request and directly agreed because he himself wanted to know the truth about the matter.
Then, without even asking about the origin of this thing, he took one of the bamboo slips signed Ling Yi and went directly to the East Palace.
Li Hao waited in the mansion for more than an hour. Yuan Shen returned to the mansion with a solemn expression and said to Li Hao: "Confirmed, this is indeed the handwriting of the Marquis of Chengyang. He is really the chief culprit of the destruction of Gucheng." The culprit."
After saying that, Yuan Shen let out a long sigh. Seeing this, Li Hao asked curiously: "What's wrong? Why are you feeling so sad about Ling Yi's crime?"
Yuan Shen replied: "I'm not thinking of myself, but I'm thinking of Ling Zicheng. If he knew that the man behind the scenes he had been tracking down turned out to be his own father, I don't know how sad he would be."
Seeing that Yuan Shen was worried about Ling Bujie, Li Hao couldn't help but smile and said: "You are just like a cloth seller in a dyeing workshop, worrying about nothing. With the current relationship between Ling Zicheng and Ling Yi, why do you think he will feel sad because of this? And Ling Zicheng really knows nothing about this matter..."
Hearing this, Yuan Shen was stunned for a moment, as if he was reliving the interactions between Ling Yi and Ling Buyi in his mind, and then replied: "If you say so, Ling Zicheng is indeed too distant from Ling Yi. Could it be that he really what do you know.
But if he knew the truth, why didn't he report it to His Majesty? With Your Majesty's favor for him and his feelings for General Huo Chong, the matter would definitely be investigated thoroughly. "
Although Li Hao knew this was the reason, there was no need to tell Yuan Shen. Moreover, Cheng Shaoshang did not reveal Ling Busuo's identity this time, and he did not know how he would explain Ling Yi's sins and expose himself. He is the son of Huo Chong.
So he just said: "I don't know about this, and it has nothing to do with us. What you want to think about now is how to get this thing into the hands of the right person. After all, you have been busy for a long time, and this favor has to be earned." OK."
