The Adventures of the Crying Princess

Bai Yimeng was taken to the palace to recuperate, and everyone in Prince Yi's mansion had long been suspicious of this matter.

Lord Longgu knew that there were spies of the emperor hidden in Prince Yi's Palace, so he secretly contacted people in the palace and got the news that Bai Yimeng was imprisoned in Zongzheng Temple.

Further investigation revealed that the root cause was that one morning, Emperor Chengde received a letter in the imperial study condemning the emperor for shielding the prince and treating people unfairly.

The handwriting, methods and tone are all Bai Yimeng's.

On that day, Emperor Chengde brought the empress to test the situation. Not knowing that Bai Yimeng's words were not right, the emperor issued an order on the way back to the palace to throw the person into the Zongzheng Temple.

According to Wan'angu's informant, His Majesty personally ordered the punishment.

After all, Lord Longgu had experienced great things, so he was naturally calm. He called Yunyin and asked him to secretly go to the East Palace to collect evidence.

He also asked Yun Yi to send people to deliver medicinal materials to the palace, mainly to stabilize Emperor Chengde.

That night, Yuwen Ji found the Dragon Valley Master and told him his guess, "Master, I guess the prince wouldn't be so weak, he probably fought back. The child might be the target of their opponent.

When the emperor took the child to the palace to recuperate, it was impossible for him not to bring the master and uncle with him. It was obvious that they had arrested them this time.

I still don’t know what happened, but I only know that my father was furious that day and smashed a lot of things.”

Seeing that he was not confused and was still very calm, Lord Longgu nodded slightly.

He was very satisfied with his son-in-law's calmness. He told him what happened, "Since the prince already knows, what do you want to do?"

"Master has probably already sent people to investigate the case. Why don't you attack Wei to save Zhao and investigate the prince. This will keep them busy dealing with the child. Maybe there will be some unexpected gains."

"Well, that's fine. I'll also send someone to investigate Xiaoqi's side. Don't worry, the truth will come out soon." As soon as Lord Long left, he sent someone to investigate the matter secretly.

Five days later...

General Long Wei naturally tried his best to investigate Bai Yimeng's case, but he could not find the key point after investigating it again and again.

While patrolling aimlessly that day, he accidentally saved a palace maid who was about to jump into a well to commit suicide. There were many such people in the palace. General Long Wei had seen and saved countless of them over the years.

However, the man's expression was very different from that of a normal person who committed suicide. General Long Wei recognized the abnormality at a glance. After controlling the man, he ordered people to search the well water.

After a thorough investigation, they found that the water well led to the imperial study. After careful interrogation, the man admitted that someone had instructed him to do so.

Lord Longgu found out that the prince's palace had a strange man who was good at imitating handwriting, and he cleverly passed the information to General Long Wei.

General Long Wei integrated the information and presented the whole case to Emperor Chengde. Although the case seemed complicated, the key points were nothing more than the well next to the East Palace and the aide in the East Palace who had excellent handwriting.

"How does this matter relate to the Eastern Palace?" Emperor Chengde looked at General Longwei with scrutiny.

Recently, the emperor has received many impeachment letters from the Eastern Palace, and for a moment he couldn't help feeling confused.

The impeachment of the crown prince was due to Yuwen Ji. Yuwen Ji collected evidence of the crown prince's rape of common women and his occupation of fertile land in recent years. The evidence was not big for the emperor, but it was a big shock to the people.

For a time, the market was full of rumors about the prince. Some people even linked the story together with the fact that the prince kept a male lover, compiled it into a book, and talked about it in major teahouses.

As time went on, the palaces of all the major court officials also got the news. The servants of Prince Yi's palace were gossipy and would gossip about the prince's secrets with their "friends" in other palaces.

A few days later, a vengeful censor wrote a letter to impeach the prince.

Seeing that the emperor was angry, General Longwei hurriedly explained, "This is what happened. At first, I saved a palace servant who wanted to jump into a well to commit suicide. I felt that he looked strange, so to be on the safe side, I sent someone to dive into the well and found that the well actually led to your majesty's study."

General Long Wei took the emperor to visit the well.

"Where is this person now?" The old emperor realized that he might have wronged Bai Yimeng.

"In the Inner Court, would Your Majesty like to see him in person?"

Emperor Chengde also knew how to interrogate, and he hid next door and let General Longwei interrogate him.

General Long Wei did not threaten him much, but just explained to him the interests involved in the matter and that he was a registered servant in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and if he committed a crime, his family would be implicated.

He also told him how it was a crime to frame the prince and the princess, and explained to him how the Ling Chi and other punishments were performed. He also found a piece of pork and demonstrated to him how the Ling Chi was performed.

This man was not a tough guy to begin with. He had heard the sound of whipping prisoners all night last night, and he was already scared to death. He confessed everything, "It was the chief steward of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who asked me to deliver the letter."

General Longwei got a hint from the emperor and summoned the head of the Imperial Household Department. The head of the Imperial Household Department was stubborn at first, but he couldn't stand the rhetoric of General Longwei and finally confessed.

After revealing that it was the Prince's Palace Groom who instigated the confession, Emperor Chengde turned and left. He didn't want to listen any more.

Back in the imperial study, the emperor looked at General Long Wei hesitantly, "Why do you believe her?"

"I don't believe anyone. I only believe what I see." General Long Wei had a blank expression on his face.

From beginning to end, he never gave Bai Yimeng a single word of excuse, let alone visited Bai Yimeng in private. Chengde nodded slightly, "You go down first, and leave me alone."

After General Long Wei left, Emperor Mingde picked up the evidence and looked at it again.

He turned his head and looked at Eunuch Chen, "Call Luo Huainan back."

General Long Wei was called back again, "What does your majesty want?"

"Change your clothes and go see her with me."

"Who?" General Long Wei asked knowingly.

"monkey!"

"I implore Your Majesty to find out the truth before going to the Zongzheng Temple. Your Majesty dotes on Princess Yi, so you should not sacrifice public interests for personal gain." General Long Wei was afraid that if he did not find the truth thoroughly, someone would bring it up and make trouble for him in the future, which would be even worse for Bai Yimeng.

The emperor naturally knew what the old man meant and nodded slightly, "Bring the prince's groom here, and bring the aide who can write here as well."

Soon, the two were taken to the imperial study.

After the meeting, Emperor Chengde separated the two and personally interrogated the Prince's Groom.

It is always difficult to trick educated people, so the emperor was so angry that he tortured them to force the truth out of them.

The aide who could write was originally hired by the prince with a large sum of money. He was shaken after seeing the miserable condition of Xima.

Emperor Chengde tempted him with some money, and he wrote a document in public that was exactly the same as Bai Yimeng's handwriting.

Perhaps in order to show off his skills, he wrote another piece of text that was identical to the emperor's.

The truth was revealed, and Emperor Chengde looked at General Longwei, "Will she forgive me?"

"If he's still alive, he probably will."

Emperor Chengde frowned slightly, "Just lock her up for a few days and she'll commit suicide? That's unruly."

General Long Wei looked calm, "This morning, the Minister of the Zongzheng Temple sent someone to ask what should be done if Princess Yi died in the Zongzheng Temple. I saw that Your Majesty was in a bad mood, and I thought you would not care about her life or death, so I did not tell you."

"Nonsense, he's just staying for a few days. No matter how bad his health is, it won't be that serious... not that serious." Emperor Chengde looked at General Longwei with a smile, as if waiting for other answers.

General Long Wei knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you forgot that you issued an order five days ago to punish Princess Yi. The princess is weak, and she is lucky to have survived until now."

Emperor Chengde looked down at the dozen pieces of evidence, and seemed to recall what he said that day, "I was just speaking in anger, did you take it seriously? You like that girl the most, why would you torture her?"