After Li Fei drank tea, she returned to the palace with the sword spike given to her by Du Wanchun and told the emperor about it.
The emperor was sending people to search for Zhou Ruiyuan's whereabouts. When he looked at the sword spike, he was shocked and quickly held it in his hand. "Where did this thing come from?" he asked Concubine Li.
Concubine Li replied: "I'm going to the Zhou Mansion today. Shopkeeper Du gave it to me."
The emperor held the sword spike tightly and said, "This sword spike belongs to the Shi family guard. It seems that the man in black was sent by the Shi family."
"Shi family?" Li Fei was confused. ?.?????.???
Master Shi was one of Master Lu's disciples in his early years. Later, he joined the court as an official because he worked with the Wu family to report the Lu family's merits. Over the years, he has been favored by the emperor and has reached the third rank.
Because he was not as arrogant and greedy as other officials in the court, the emperor never doubted him.
The emperor put the sword spike on the table and said in a cold tone: "I didn't expect that my prince's kidnapping was related to him."
Li Fei was stunned. She recalled Du Wanchun's words and her demeanor at that time, and she suddenly realized.
It turns out that this is the purpose of this sword spike.
Concubine Li was very willing to help, "Your Majesty, Mr. Shi is so bold that he even dares to kidnap the prince. Doesn't that mean he has a treasonous intention?"
The emperor's face became darker and darker, and he thought for a long time with his hands behind his back, "I will investigate this matter carefully."
Mr. Shi’s original name was Shi Dongfu.
At first, he was the most inconspicuous disciple in Mr. Lu's house.
In the past few days, assassins have been sent to Zhou's house every day, hoping to attack Yi'er and Yu'er.
Although they didn't know who kidnapped Zhou Ruiyuan, they had long been prepared for the prince to be killed.
Once the prince dies, the remaining young grandsons will naturally have to be eliminated.
He wanted to kill all the Queen's lineage.
As for why this little official was so cruel to them.
It also originated from a pastry more than 20 years ago.
Mr. Lu had three pieces of cake in his hand and gave one to the Third Prince and the Emperor, who were still princes at the time.
The remaining piece will be given to his most proud disciple.
But he gave it to Lord Zheng, but not to him.
Shi Dongfu always felt that he was talented and thought that Mr. Lu would be his boss, but a piece of pastry made him feel that Mr. Lu looked down on him.
Therefore, he hated Mr. Lu and used the fact that he was Mr. Lu's disciple to say a lot of things in front of the emperor about Mr. Lu's contempt for the emperor.
This also made the emperor increasingly fearful of Mr. Lu.
Now that he was a third-grade official, he had always put himself out of the equation. Now that Zhou Ruiyuan and the Queen were going back to the palace, he felt uneasy and thought of dealing with the younger members of the Zhou family.
Du Wanchun gave the sword spike to the emperor.
The emperor immediately regarded the Shi family as treasonous ministers, and he found an excuse to arrest the whole family, young and old.
Shi Dongfu knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor, begging for mercy and said: "Your Majesty, it is true that I am not the prince I kidnapped, and I don't know where the prince has gone."
The emperor didn't believe it, so he threw the sword spike to him and said sternly: "What about this thing? Why is it in the Zhou Mansion?"
Shi Dongfu looked down, his face pale with fright, "Your Majesty, I don't know where this thing came from."
The emperor waved his hand, and several guards covered in blood were pressed over, "You must know these people, right? Just now, the people from the Ministry of Punishment tortured everyone and asked them clearly. It was you who sent people to the Zhou Mansion to let them take advantage of this." Take this opportunity to kill my good imperial grandsons."
Shi Dongfu froze, looking at the guards covered in blood, he couldn't argue, so he had to agree obediently.
The emperor snorted coldly and said: "What do you have to say now? If you plot to kill my grandson, you have the intention to rebel! I will give you a chance first and hand over the prince immediately, otherwise your family will be a hundred Everyone with multiple numbers will be killed!"
Shi Dongfu was so frightened that he trembled all over, and begged for mercy again in a hoarse voice: "Your Majesty, I really did not kidnap the prince, and I have no intention of rebelliousness, Your Majesty! For the sake of my original loyalty, please let my family go. "
He bit the word "loyalty" very hard in order to remind the emperor that he also had some credit for what happened back then.
However, the emperor was suspicious by nature. He would rather kill ten thousand people by mistake than let one go.
"Someone, please bring Master Shi down to me and question him carefully until he reveals the whereabouts of the prince."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
A group of tall and mighty attendants strode over and pressed Shi Dongfu down.
Shi Dongfu struggled and shouted at the emperor, but it was of no avail.
At this moment, the Shi family, like the Lu family, is about to be executed by the emperor. Unfortunately, he is not as dignified as Mr. Lu.
He also had to be taken to prison and tortured.
