mtlumby2d Chapter 375 Waiting for today to become evidence
Chapter 375 Waiting for today to become evidence
"You! You are slandering!"
"You say it's slander, then it's slander. I really think it's the truth. Didn't His Royal Highness Prince An just now say he wanted to search my Zhenguo Mansion without any evidence?"
The Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion was cleared of suspicion, and Luo Xiyao was speaking quite rudely at this moment.
Under normal circumstances, she would never dare to point at Prince An's nose and curse him in front of the emperor. But now, it was only because she had just been wronged and the emperor was in the wrong, and she was too embarrassed to criticize her, so she was a little presumptuous.
The two men were arguing with each other, the Minister of Revenue and the guards were trying to sort things out, and the ministers below were whispering to each other.
For a moment, the hall was even more lively than the market, making Xie Rong's head buzz.
"Enough! Shut up!" Xie Rong shouted.
The hall immediately became quiet.
Xie Rong rubbed his temples and was about to say something when the imperial guards who had gone to search Prince An's mansion came back.
The Imperial Guards held a stack of letter paper and a small box in their hands and knelt down to report, "Your Majesty, we have found these two items in the study of His Highness Prince An. Please take a look."
Xie Qian'an frowned, feeling that the box looked unfamiliar. He wondered what was wrong with it that it was brought to the hall by the Imperial Guards. Just when he wanted to take a closer look, it was taken away by Li Shunquan.
Li Shunquan took the thing and glanced at the letter at a hidden angle. After just one glance, his face changed drastically. He tried his best to calm down and presented the thing.
Xie Rong glanced at the letter, and his pupils suddenly dilated.
He snatched the letter with both hands and read through them one by one, his hands trembling slightly. When he saw a letter, his hands were shaking with anger.
He stood up suddenly and walked towards Xie Qian'an step by step from the platform.
Xie Qian'an noticed that Xie Rong's mood was a little strange, and his heart tightened. He thought carefully about what he had missed.
But no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't guess why the emperor changed his expression.
He was always cautious in his actions and would burn most of the correspondence after reading it.
Even if he wanted to gain the support of some ministers and use leverage to threaten them, he hid the leverage in a safe place outside the palace, not inside the palace.
So he really couldn't figure out what those guards had found that could make his father so terrified.
Seeing that the emperor was about to walk in front of him, Xie Qianan said: "Father——"
"Snapped--"
A loud slap rang out in the quiet hall.
Xie Qian'an covered his face in disbelief.
My father always criticized his children with words and rarely hit them, but now he slapped him in the face in this hall in front of all the officials. What a humiliation it was.
But even so, Xie Qianan did not dare to express his anger, but only said coldly: "Father, why?"
Xie Rong threw the letters at his face and shouted angrily, "You evil creature! What have you done? How dare you collude with the State of Chen! And even dare to murder your third brother!"
The flying letters scattered all over the floor, and the sharp paper scratched Xie Qian'an's handsome and elegant face, leaving a blood mark.
Xie Qian'an squatted down to pick it up. When he touched the contents on it, his face suddenly changed. He frantically pulled the letter paper away and explained to Xie Rong: "Father! Father, I didn't do it! I didn't write these!"
Xie Rong angrily said, "You evil creature, you still dare to quibble? These were all found by the Imperial Guards in your study. If it wasn't you, who else could it be?"
"Your Prince An's Mansion is heavily guarded. How could anyone sneak into it and put these things into your study?"
Xie Rong threw the letter paper with quite a bit of force, and some of it floated to the ministers' feet. When the ministers picked it up and took a look at it, their faces suddenly changed.
Just now everyone was saying that the Duke of Zhenguo was collaborating with the enemy and committing treason, but the contents of these letters were clearly more similar, all asking about the deployment of troops at the border, who was leading the troops, and which places they would pass through.
Everyone couldn't help but think of King An's last defeat.
Is it really defeated, or...
The ministers had a lot of thoughts in their minds, and Xie Qian'an was also shocked and confused.
He suddenly looked at Shen Qionghua, but saw that Shen Qionghua had no intention of concealing her smile.
It turned out to be her who did it!
Needless to say, he guessed that it was Shen Qionghua's work today.
Unexpectedly, she saw through his plan and even turned the tables on him.
But he couldn't figure out how Shen Qionghua had put these things into his study, which was always heavily guarded.
Also, he would tidy up his study every day, and this thing must have been placed there, but he didn't even notice it.
Xie Qian'an looked at Shen Qionghua with gritted teeth.
Shen Qionghua opened her red lips slightly and uttered three words silently.
Those three words are...
Xie Qian'an's eyes suddenly widened, Zhou Lingfu!
It was Zhou Lingfu who put this thing in his study.
Yes, she ran out of the deserted courtyard when Lin Xiyan came to the palace.
At that time, he was afraid that she would run into Lin Xiyan and tell her everything, so he asked everyone in the mansion to look for her.
Afterwards, he discovered that Zhou Lingfu had taken the opportunity to run into his study and smashed it to vent her anger.
At that time, he thought Zhou Lingfu was extremely stupid and only knew this little trick, so he ordered people to clean up the study and buy all the things, and then put the matter behind him.
Now that I think about it, smashing and looting to vent my anger was just a cover-up; the real purpose was to put these things into his study.
Waiting for today to become evidence of his collusion with the State of Chen!