nashuaworldcup Chapter 188: Ouyang Yushi leaves
Chapter 188: Ouyang Yushi leaves
Capital
In Queen Liu's palace.
It was a rare sight for Xiao Yinchen and Queen Liu to sit together in peace and harmony, showing their affection for each other.
"Queen, are you still feeling uncomfortable today?" Xiao Yinchen touched Queen Liu's belly and asked with concern.
"He feels much better when he woke up today. I guess the prince knows that his father has come to see him, so he stops making trouble." Queen Liu smiled gently.
"Thank you for your hard work, Queen." Xiao Yinchen held Queen Liu's hand.
"It's not hard. It is my concubine's blessing to bear children for the emperor!"
Their eyes met, and then they both quickly moved aside at the same time.
Queen Liu sneered in her heart. She had cursed and threatened to banish her to the cold palace a few days ago. Now that she was pregnant, she immediately changed her attitude. Ha, man.
Xiao Yinchen was still very annoyed with Empress Liu. If she hadn't been pregnant, he would have avoided coming. But a few days ago, Prime Minister Liu actually joined forces with the ministers to put pressure on him.
In addition, he had been on the throne for two years, and there were so many concubines in the harem, but he didn't have any children. Those censors didn't do their work all day long, and they just kept complaining about his lack of children. Now that Queen Liu was pregnant, it solved a big worry for him. He was willing to give her face.
"I heard that the emperor has put Censor Ouyang under house arrest?"
"Well, that old man is like a sick man. It's time to teach him a lesson. Let him know who is the king and who is the minister!" When Xiao Yinchen thought of being scolded by Ouyang Jinyan in the court, he wanted to drag him out and chop him up.
Maybe he had offended too many people with his broken mouth. A few days ago, someone reported that Censor Ouyang had accepted bribes. Xiao Yinchen knew that this was false. Although Ouyang Jinyan was very annoying, his character was still guaranteed.
But because he really couldn't stand Ouyang Jinyan anymore, he took the opportunity to confine him to his house and didn't need him to attend court anymore. This saved him from doing nothing and just pointing fingers at him and scolding him every day.
"Your Majesty..." Eunuch Zhang walked over and looked at Queen Liu, seeming to be hesitant to speak.
Xiao Yinchen knew that Eunuch Zhang had something to report and it was not convenient for him to say it in front of Queen Liu.
Then he stood up and said, "Queen, I still have something to deal with, so I will go back first."
"Well, state affairs are important. Your Majesty, please go quickly." Queen Liu let go of Xiao Yinchen's hand, reluctant to watch him leave.
Until he disappeared from sight, Queen Liu took the handkerchief from the nanny and wiped her hands vigorously, then threw it on the ground.
There was disgust and nausea in his eyes.
Wait a little longer until the baby comes out...
Xiao Yinchen didn't know what the queen was thinking. He was asking Eunuch Zhang, "What's the matter that makes you so anxious?"
"Your Majesty, there is news from Qingzhou."
"But what about Mr. Yue's news?"
Eunuch Zhang answered cautiously, "Yes, the secret guards sent news that it was Master Yue from Qingzhou. That is... that is..."
"Why are you hesitating? Who is it?"
"That Young Master Yue is Concubine Yun! Yun Changshan's daughter Yun Yue..." Eunuch Zhang spoke in a lower and lower voice.
"What? Why is it her?" Xiao Yinchen stopped in shock.
"Not only her, but also those who died in the cold palace are there. Even Master Huang Shide who went home to recuperate is there. And... and Concubine Liu and Princess Anle..."
Xiao Yinchen's face instantly turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and said, "How brave! It's him, it must be him! Apart from my good brother, who else has such courage and ability!!"
Xiao Yinchen didn't believe that he could sneak out of the palace relying solely on those women.
Xiao Yinchen asked again: "Where is Fubao?"
"I heard that Master Yue has a child, but I don't know if it's Fubao."
Zhao Yingcheng clenched his fists. Thinking of when Fubao disappeared in public, and the women in the cold palace were also replaced, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
If my royal brother wanted to attack me at that time, would I have disappeared quietly?
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"Your Majesty, what should we do now? Should we capture those women?"
"What are you arresting? What's the reason? There are 10 troops behind them."
"Besides, do we in the royal family have no shame? If everyone in the world knew that the late emperor's concubine and my concubine escaped from the palace together, we would be laughed to death by the people of the world!!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I am stupid..."
"But I won't let them go so easily!!!" Xiao Yichen's eyes were like a venomous snake, vicious and cruel...
"By the way, is Censor Ouyang's daughter among those who escaped?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Go! Send someone to raid Ouyang's house now! Arrest all the people in Ouyang's family! We can use him as an excuse for corruption and bribery."
"Yes, I'll go right away." Eunuch Zhang wiped the cold sweat from his head and left quickly.
Xiao Yinchen returned to the study with a gloomy face, drove everyone out, and sat alone in a chair, thinking about something.
Half an hour later, Eunuch Zhang came back sweating profusely: "Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened!"
Xiao Yinmo just felt pain in his head. This sentence was like a curse. Every time he heard it, bad things would happen.
"what happened again!!"
"The Ouyang Mansion is empty!!! Censor Ouyang, his wife, and eldest son are all missing!! The few servants in the house said that they were given money and released on the day they were confined..."
"Bring him back!!! Send someone to bring him back!!! No!! Go find them!! Kill him!!! Don't let him go to Qingzhou alive!!"
Xiao Yinchen suddenly figured it out. No wonder Ouyang Jinyan had been cursing this and that in the past few days. It turned out that he was planning to leave! He was so stupid that he just helped him.
Thinking that he was an emperor, the most noble person in the world, and that nothing could go smoothly for him, and that he was played around by these people, he was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Quick, call the imperial physician, call the imperial physician..."
At the same time, in the study of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Prime Minister Liu was holding a secret letter from Qingzhou. This secret letter was sent back by someone on the day Lin Hongyun died.
Prime Minister Liu read it carefully, then took out other letters from a box beside him and read them again.
These letters are all the things about Mr. Yue collected during these days.
Prime Minister Liu's eyes lit up as he could not help but mutter, "Interesting, really interesting! This Yunyue has a lot of secrets..."
After being banished to the cold palace, this woman actually opened a shop outside the palace, helped Concubine Liu and Princess Anle escape from the palace, and faked her own death to take the concubines in the cold palace to Qingzhou... It would not be surprising if all of this was done with the help of the crown prince.
But as far as he knew, the prince was still imprisoned by the emperor when the shop was opened.
The most interesting thing is the incident of Wuyuan City distributing grain to refugees. It is said that all the gold, silver, money and grain in several shops of the grain merchant surnamed Lin disappeared overnight. At the same time, the citizens outside Wuyuan City were actually distributed grain.
According to them, the person who gave them the food was this man called Yue Gongzi.
Not only that, words were also written in the room where the grain merchant named Lin kept his property.
This familiar behavior reminded him of the night when he lost his money.
According to the intelligence collected, the period when money was lost in the capital was just after Master Yue left the military camp. Prime Minister Liu had a bold guess in his mind.
"Master Yue, what a great Master Yue. I just don't know if it was Xiao Yinmo who helped you, or if you have some magical powers..."
The prime minister thought that Yunyue had stolen so much gold, silver and jewelry that even the emperor's private vault was emptied. He was afraid that he was now the richest man in Tianchen.
If all this money came into my hands, wouldn't I be...
"Someone, call Zang Feng over here."
Soon, a man wearing a dark robe and carrying a black sword on his back was led in.
"Master." The man saluted, and then stood still like a long sword unsheathed. His eyes were as sharp as cold lightning. A cold aura gushed out from him, as if it could freeze everything around him into ice.
This man is Prime Minister Liu's secret weapon, the leader of his secret guards, Zang Feng.
"Cang Feng, I have something for you to do. Go to Qingzhou and help me capture someone..."
The two stayed in the study for a full hour before Zang Feng and Prime Minister Liu both went out, one to the palace and the other out of the city gate.