Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Shen Congxing came to the outer hall.

At this time, all the people who had participated in the poetry meeting had dispersed, and the servants were cleaning up, so the outer hall was a bit messy.

The madam of Guangyuntai came in person to ask for the person. When she saw Shen Congxing, she said politely, "Hello, uncle of the emperor!"

Shen Congxing raised his hand: "No need to be polite, what brings you to my house, mother?"

Seeing that the other party was asking knowingly, Guangyuntai's madam smiled and said, "My uncle, you may have forgotten that my daughter Luo Susu is at your house. It's getting dark now, I'm here to take my daughter back."

Shen Congxing frowned: "Didn't the person leave?"

Madam: “Uh…left?”

Shen Congxing: "Yes, I went back after the poetry reading was over."

Madam: "But my carriage is still outside your house. My driver said he has never seen my daughter go out."

Shen Congxing: "This is strange! Could it be that Miss Su Su ran away with some handsome man?"

The madam immediately thought of Qi Heng!

But on second thought, before she left, she brought up the fact that Mr. Liu had warned Su Su, so this girl shouldn't be so brave as to follow Qi Heng, right?

She said unconfidently: "This... Such a grown-up, even if a young master likes her, it's not right to bring her home without saying anything..."

Shen Congxing shrugged: "I don't know about that. We are all young people, so anything is possible. So, how about I send some people to accompany mom and look for her somewhere else?"

The madam looked at Shen Congxing suspiciously: "Is it really not in your house?"

Shen Congxing: "Really not here! I am a great general and the emperor's uncle. If I really like your daughter, I can just redeem her. Why do I have to do this?"

Come to think of it, as the uncle of the emperor, why would he risk his reputation to snatch an oiran?

After all, Keren was lost from the prince's mansion. Instead of looking for her door to door, she might as well ask Shen Congxing directly for her.

The madam bowed to Shen Congxing again and said, "In that case, why don't you send someone to help me find someone? I heard that there are many distinguished guests in the mansion today. I am a woman of my age and I am too old to run around so many doors. You have many talented people under your command, and they are all military officers. It is better for you to help me find someone than for me to run around blindly like a headless fly."

Shen Congxing nodded: "Mom is right. In that case, I will send someone out to look for him. You might as well go back to Guangyuntai first. When I find him, I will send him back to you."

The madam shook her head and wiped her tears: "No, I'd better wait at home. I won't be able to explain to my boss if I go back like this!"

Shen Congxing nodded: "That's right, then I will send someone to prepare a room for you, you stay in there, and I will send someone to report to you if there is any news."

Madam: "No! I will stay here and not go anywhere!"

Shen Congxing tried to persuade her several times but she refused to leave, so he had no choice but to let her sit in the hall.

A group of people in the front yard dispersed into the street, making a huge noise. No one noticed that a small group of them dispersed into the alley and disappeared. When they reappeared, they had changed their clothes and went to stake out near Guangyuntai.

Shen Congxing left the madam alone in the hall, saying he was accompanying his wife. Soldiers who were looking for someone came in and out, reporting their progress to the madam in a formal manner - no progress.

The madam became more and more anxious as she waited. At the second watch, she could no longer sit still and started making a scene in the general's mansion: "I'm going to report to the authorities!"

Shen Congxing had instructed in advance that the madam could come and go freely, so no one stopped her.

The madam went out crying and got in a car to find several employers to complain that Luo Susu was lost in the prince's mansion.

The next day, more people came to the Prince's Mansion to demand people, but Shen Congxing remained unmoved and still said that Luo Susu had run away with other people.

The matter continued to ferment and finally reached Kaifeng Prefecture. Guangyuntai filed a lawsuit and demanded that Shen Congxing give an explanation no matter what.

Shen Congxing displayed an astonishingly reckless attitude, insisting that he did not lose the person. The government office could do nothing about him, so the matter was further brought to the attention of the emperor.

The emperor pointed at the pile of impeachment memorials against Shen Congxing and angrily shouted, "What does he want to do? He blatantly robbed a courtesan. Does he really think that the world belongs to them, the Shen family?"

Li Neiguan comforted him, "Don't be angry, it's not worth it to get yourself hurt! The uncle is probably used to leading troops on the frontier, so his behavior is a bit unrestrained."

"Haha, a little unruly? Is he a little unruly? He has absolutely no respect for the law! He and Gu Tingye are both more domineering than the other, neither of them takes me seriously!"

"Speaking of Marquis Gu, I heard that he had returned to the capital yesterday. Why didn't I see him come to pay his respects to Your Majesty today?"

"What? He came back yesterday?"

"Yes, I also found out by chance. I heard that he brought back a cart of Jiangnan specialties for Madam Sheng. It really attracted a lot of attention along the way."

The emperor was silent for a long time, then suddenly he swept everything on the table to the ground. Amid the clanging sound, the emperor shouted angrily: "Traitors! They are all traitors!"

The next morning at court, the people from the Censorate started by attacking Shen Congxing, saying that he had no respect for the law and had taken a woman for himself.

Shen Congxing: "Your Majesty, I am innocent. I invited Luo Susu to my house just to entertain the poetry party. She left as soon as the poetry party was over. I don't even know where she went."

"Nonsense! Several scholars who attended the poetry gathering said that Luo Susu disappeared after leaving the meeting. It's obvious that you kidnapped her!"

Shen Congxing raised his head and looked back at the red-robed censor and asked, "Which eye of yours saw me kidnapping people?"

The red-robed censor said passionately: "The person was lost in your house. If it wasn't you who kidnapped him, who else could have kidnapped him? You relied on your status as the king's uncle to kidnap women at will. Do you still have the law in your eyes?"

"Haha, a commoner girl? Which commoner girl would sell herself to Guangyuntai to be an otaku? Your family?"

"How disgraceful!" The red-robed censor was so angry that he jumped up and down. "You are really disgraceful!"

The court officials all looked askance, and the emperor also cursed: "Shut up! Do you think this is a street market? You are an official, yet you are speaking foul language like a shrew!"

Shen Congxing bowed his head and said honestly, "It was that gentleman who used foul language to insult me ​​first."

Gu Tingye stepped out and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Shen is so wronged! The courtesan sold her body to Guangyuntai, not Lord Shen's house. She came and went as she pleased. How could Lord Shen care where she went?"

The emperor snorted and did not answer.

Another censor stood up and said, "I also have something to report. I want to impeach Ningyuan Hou Gu Tingye for being disobedient and unfilial and disrespectful to his elders."

Someone stood up to defend Gu Tingye and said, "We are talking about Uncle Shen now, why are we talking about Marquis Gu again?"

The emperor bowed his head and said, "Let him speak."

The censor continued, "Marquis Gu left his 50-year-old father alone in the mountains, sent a circle of guards to surround him, and did not allow the old man to meet other people. After hearing about this, I went to visit him, but he was actually driven away by the guards! He is imprisoning his biological father, which is extremely disobedient!"

The emperor looked at Gu Tingye blankly: "Is this true?"

Gu Tingye: "Your Majesty, my old father is in poor health and cannot stand provocation. He also has many misunderstandings with me. When my eldest brother passed away, he specifically asked me to keep it a secret from my father before he left. That's why I let him go to the farm outside the city to recuperate. It was really a helpless move, not a confinement."

Emperor: "Then why do you send people around him? Isn't it good to have someone to talk to him?"

Gu Tingye: "Your Majesty, you don't know that before... before, someone brought a female assassin to my father, saying that she was... the niece of Li Neiguan, who is beside you, and wanted to find a marriage partner for her. My father was old and confused, so he really married this woman for me. As a result, this woman came to my house and almost succeeded in assassinating me. If I hadn't returned home in time, my wife would have been killed!"

Li Neiguan immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this is unjust! I have never had any niece! I have served the late emperor for so many years, and everyone in the palace knows what the situation is like at home!"

Gu Tingye: "Everyone in the palace knows about this, but how can outsiders know? My father was killed by thieves because he didn't know. Therefore, I can't let anyone get close to him!"

The emperor said: "The person who can let your father help you take a concubine can't be just anyone, right? Tell me, who is it that led the assassin to kill you?"

Wang Shiping, who was standing in the queue, glanced at Gu Tingye out of the corner of his eye.

Mrs. Wang and Minglan had reached an agreement not to attack each other or bring up past events to disgust each other. If Gu Tingye betrayed the Wang family, it would break the agreement. Then the Wang family would also expose all the scandals of Wang Ruofu killing her husband, and everyone would be doomed.

Gu Tingye paused on the ground and said, "Your Majesty...Your Majesty doesn't know!"

The crowd was in an uproar.

The emperor laughed angrily: "You don't know?"