After rebirth, I teamed up with the scumbag's mistress

Liu Yuefu followed the eunuch all the way until they stopped near the big tent in the center of the camp.

Looking up, I saw that many people had already arrived, and more people were being led over by maids or eunuchs.

The emperor was sitting on a carved red wood chair in front of his tent, drinking from a covered bowl on a high table beside him. On the other side of the high table sat a beautiful woman wearing a yellow robe with exquisite embroidery. She was the empress.

On one side of the emperor's seat stood several young men in luxurious clothing, and the fourth and fifth princes were among them. Obviously, they were also princes. On the other side stood two concubines, one was Concubine Ning, and the other was Concubine Liang, who had not been seen for a long time.

When almost everyone had arrived, the emperor slowly said, "Old Fifth, please tell me about your investigation results."

Liang Jiuan stepped out of the line and said respectfully, "Yes."

"Call the witness." Liang Jiuan said in a deep voice.

Immediately afterwards, two guards tied up the eunuch who delivered the message yesterday and knelt in front of the emperor.

The guard took the rag out of his mouth.

"Father, this man called me out at dinner time yesterday, saying that my seventh brother was looking for me. But when I went there, I didn't see my seventh brother. I was also worried about Madam Liu's condition, so I didn't stay long. So I left this man in my tent and went to see Madam Liu first." Liang Jiuan glanced at the man, "I asked this man to wait for me in the tent, but my servants told me that he had tried to escape many times, but they caught him every time and he failed."

In fact, when Liang Jiuan went there and waited for a while, the Seventh Prince still didn't come. He knew that he might have fallen into a trap, so he forced the man back to his tent and wanted to interrogate him to see what conspiracy he had.

But before he could be tried, he was summoned by the emperor.

Liang Jiu calmed down for a moment, "Later, when I returned to the tent, I was summoned by you, the Emperor."

Liang Jiuan said to the man, "Tell His Majesty everything. Who ordered you to do this?"

But this person said nothing.

A young man in light blue clothes at the side said hurriedly, "Father, Fifth Brother, this man is not mine. He is not a eunuch in my palace."

The emperor glanced at him indifferently without saying a word, but slowly stroked the Buddhist beads in his hand.

"If you don't tell me, do you think that person will protect you?" Liang Jiuan asked back.

"If I am wrongly punished and leave my fiefdom, do you think they will let you go?

The eunuch thought about the threats that the man had made to him at that time, and that he still had parents and family. If he told anyone about it, not only would he lose his life, but his family members would probably also lose their lives.

So he gritted his teeth and slammed his head against the ground. In an instant, blood started flowing from his head... He fell to the ground, and blood kept flowing out of his head.

A smile instantly appeared in the eyes of the purple-clothed man in the crowd, and the corners of his mouth tilted slightly. "What else can you, Liang Jiuan, use to fight me now?"

Liang Jiuan walked forward and felt the man's pulse, and found that he was dead.

Now there are no witnesses...there is no evidence to prove the crime.

"Jiuan, what do you say now?" The emperor sat high up and spoke in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, please wait a moment." Liang Jiuan looked out without blinking.

Soon, a black horse came riding in the wind, stirring up a lot of dust. The guard on the horse came close to Liang Jiuan, turned over and dismounted. He took out something from his arms, which was a book.

Liang Jiuan handed the book to the emperor, and then he slowly said: "My eunuchs found out that the man who just died was not my seventh brother's eunuch at all, so what my seventh brother said is true. This man is not a eunuch of any prince, but a eunuch of the Imperial Household Department, named Zhang Zhengde."

"The book in your father's hand contains the sales record of my Ning'an Hall's medicinal herbs. If I remember correctly, the page from the first four days clearly records that a woman named Fang hired a doctor at Ning'an Hall and purchased a large amount of precious medicinal herbs."

"And this Fang is none other than Zhang Zhengde's mother. She bought these medicines to save Zhang Zhengde's father. I felt pity for Zhang Zhengde's filial piety in saving his father, and wanted to give him a chance to surrender, but he was so stubborn." Liang Jiuan said with a little regret.

"My son has always been kind-hearted. How could he kill his father and do such a treasonous thing?" Concubine Ning couldn't help but say.

"Go on." The emperor said, stroking his Buddhist beads.

"Zhang Zhengde didn't have money to pay for father's medical treatment, so he tried every way to raise money and borrowed money everywhere. Everyone in the Imperial Household Department knew about this, and father would know it as soon as he asked." Liang Jiuan said with clear eyes, "It's just that his actions happened to attract the attention of someone with ulterior motives, that is, my fourth brother."

"Fifth brother, please don't slander me with empty words!" said the Fourth Prince in purple clothes.

"You know clearly whether I have slandered you or not. Although the money given by Fourth Brother did not come from the banknotes in your own private treasury, nor from your mother's family, it was indeed very smart. But Fourth Brother probably could not have imagined that Zhang Zhengde was afraid that you would turn against him afterwards, so he deliberately stole your jade pendant." Liang Jiuan spread out something on his palm as he spoke. It was the Fourth Prince's personal jade pendant.

"There was also a note for his family. He gave it to his most trusted young disciple in the Imperial Household Department, saying that if anything happened to him, the jade pendant should be given to his family and asked to leave the capital, the farther away the better, because the Fourth Prince might hunt him down. The reason why it appeared in my hands is because of this young disciple, whose life I once saved. When something happened yesterday, he came to me and told me about it." Liang Jiuan said slowly.

His eyes actually darkened. The person behind the scenes should be the second brother. With the fourth brother's brain, he couldn't think of such a complicated plan. But the second prince's fox tail was really well hidden. He was just killing people with borrowed knives, without any flaws.

This time, I have to let it go. Bringing down the Fourth Prince is enough to make him feel the pain.

"Father, he lured me away with the excuse of being my seventh brother, and then hired someone to stab you with my dagger. Fourth brother has always been very agile, but how could it be such a coincidence that he happened to be with you in the big tent at that time?" When Liang Jiuan said this, the emperor narrowed his eyes. So it was the fourth brother's plan? Directed and acted by himself? But the fourth brother was not so smart since he was a child.

But this time, if it weren’t for the fifth brother’s eagerness to save people and the testimony of the Liu family’s daughter, it would be even more difficult to explain.

This is a dead end. In the worst case, Lao Wu will be expelled from the capital. Good move! You are indeed my good son.

"You are really my good son!" The emperor patted Gao Ji beside him heavily, again and again, and Gao Ji made a series of dull sounds.

The Fourth Prince knelt down in a hurry, his face pale, but he secretly glanced at the Second Prince, as if asking for help.

But the second prince had a cold expression and said nothing.

"Deprive the Fourth Prince of his fief of 500 households and confer him the title of King of Xichuan. Go to his fiefdom in Xichuan immediately and he is not allowed to return to the capital without being summoned!" The emperor put down his teacup heavily and said coldly.

"Everyone, please go away." He walked into the tent with a cold face.