Rebirth: The wedding night, my whole family was exiled, I raised 500,000 soldiers

When Shen Lanxi heard the news reported by her subordinates, her face changed and she subconsciously glanced towards her mother.

The latter was calm and composed, as if nothing could disturb his mind.

"Call Sun Feng."

"Yes."

She wanted to call Wei Dongzhu as well, but Wei Dongzhu was already walking towards her.

Wei Dongzhu had noticed it long before Shen Lanxi sent people out. Now seeing that she looked solemn and unhappy, something must have happened.

Shen Lanxi glanced at her family, then stood up and walked towards where Emperor Renxiao was resting.

During lunch, something big happened. Zhennan Prince Zhou Ruyuan and Shen Yuantang, the young lady of the Shen family, were found lying in a side room in dishevel.

Zhou Ruyuan had just been married to the daughter of the Minister of Personnel, and Shen Yuantang had just broken off his engagement with the son of the Marquis of Jining. These two openly had an affair on such a big day as today, and it was reported to Emperor Renxiao. The emperor was furious and was about to punish them with a dark face.

When Shen Lanxi rushed over, Zhou Ruyuen kept explaining, Shen Yuantang was kneeling on the ground crying, and there were several ministers and their wives in the room. The scene was very chaotic.

A cold light flashed in Shen Lanxi's eyes and she went in.

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

Emperor Renxiao was furious at the moment, and when he saw her coming, he didn't look happy either. He angrily said with a dark face: "I put the safety of Yongwenyan in your hands, and this is how you take responsibility?"

Shen Lanxi had already figured out the attitude of Emperor Renxiao from the obvious tone of accountability. She immediately knelt on the ground and said sincerely: "It is my fault. I have a responsibility that I cannot shirk. I ask Your Majesty to punish me severely. I have no complaints!"

When people are angry, the more they resist, the more fuel they add to the fire. On the contrary, Shen Lanxi's sincere attitude touched Emperor Renxiao.

Better than the son who keeps explaining. What's the point of explaining now that something like this has happened? Explanation is just shirking responsibility. It's better to take responsibility like Lan Xi.

"Lan Xi, please get up. This matter has nothing to do with you. I have already asked. You and Wei Dongzhu are responsible for the safety outside the Yongwen Banquet. The Prince of Zhennan is responsible for the safety inside the Yongwen Banquet."

What's funny is that the Prince of Zhennan was plotted against within his own jurisdiction. That was his child that he had raised with so much effort, but now he was so easily plotted against. Who is he mocking?

"Uncle, this incident is strange. My sister has no personal relationship with the King of Zhennan!" Shen Lanxi spoke impartially.

Emperor Renxiao naturally knew about it.

It’s because I know that it’s hateful!

It was actually planned right under his nose.

"Lan Xi, I'll leave this matter to you to investigate. You must find the culprit for this." Emperor Renxiao's tone was cold. Once the person was found, he would make sure that person would suffer neither death nor life.

Shen Lanxi: "I accept your order!"

After accountability, we begin to deal with the aftermath.

Many people knew about what happened today. I guess even more people will know about it when the poetry banquet starts.

It would have been a good choice for the daughter of the Shen family to marry Zhou Ruyuan. But it was Shen Yuantang. Zhou Xinrou had even gone to the palace to ask him to make the decision because Shen Yuantang had attacked the Jining Marquis's Mansion.

How could such a person marry into his son's backyard?

After much deliberation, Emperor Renxiao could only accept Shen Yuantang's marriage to his son as a concubine, just to give face to the Shen family.

Shen Yuantang had done such a shameful thing before, I believe the Shen family can understand his painstaking efforts.

Just as he was about to announce the result, a eunuch suddenly came to report in a panic.

He did not dare to report it loudly, but first told Wang Bao in a low voice, and then Wang Bao reported it to Emperor Renxiao.

After hearing what happened, Emperor Renxiao slammed the table in anger and almost broke it.

"What a bunch of bastards! They are totally lawless!"

"Queen, please go and take a look on my behalf."

Qi Yingqun stood up slowly and was led away by the eunuch.

After a while, a eunuch came to report to Emperor Renxiao.

The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. After Emperor Renxiao heard this, his breathing became disordered and he looked furious and irritable.

Zhou Ruyuan and Shen Yuantang, who were kneeling on the ground, didn't dare to breathe.

Emperor Renxiao stood up and paced back and forth in the room angrily. The poetry banquet was about to begin, but no one dared to urge him.

In the end, it was Emperor Renxiao who spoke up and continued to attend the poetry banquet. Such trivial matters in the harem should not interfere with state affairs.

"Lan Xi, stay!"

Shen Lanxi lowered her eyes and waited respectfully beside Emperor Renxiao.

"Lan Xi, go investigate. Once you find out who it is, I will never tolerate it, no matter who it is!"

Shen Lanxi went to carry out her errand with the imperial edict. The literary banquet in the afternoon was not affected at all and was unprecedentedly popular.

No one could see that on the high platform, the majestic and calm Emperor Renxiao's heart was already filled with a storm.

After the poetry banquet was over, Shen Lanxi had already found out something about what Emperor Renxiao had instructed her to do.

"The daughter of the Minister of Personnel had lunch and was on her way to change her clothes when she was pushed into the water. Shen Yuanxu happened to pass by and saw someone fall into the water, so he jumped in to save the daughter."

"Afterwards, this scene was seen by those who came to the banquet. I asked them one by one, and they were told by someone that someone had fallen into the water and asked them to go and rescue him. I have also found the person who asked for help. He was a palace servant who was responsible for rough work in the palace. When I found him, he had already hanged himself."

Emperor Renxiao's face darkened, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, there will be no evidence until we die~!"

Shen Lanxi: "This person is from the palace. I have no right to investigate. Your Majesty, please make the decision."

Emperor Renxiao: "Wang Bao, go check!"

Wang Bao: “Yes!”

Shen Lanxi made a summary of the case: "I suspect that the mastermind behind this is deliberately destroying the reputation of the minister's daughter or drowning her. At the same time, I also asked Shen Yuanxu. He was looking for my sister at the time and happened to pass by there. The book boy who followed him can testify, and the students and servants he questioned along the way can also testify that he asked along the way until he reached the place where the minister's daughter had the accident."

Emperor Renxiao would naturally verify what she said.

Shen Lanxi's first sentence just now reminded him of something.

Some people don't want the daughter of the Minister of Personnel to marry Zhou Ruyuan.

Shen Lanxi continued to report: "I asked Shen Yuantang. Before lunch, a maid who claimed to be from the Jining Marquis's Mansion asked her to go to the pavilion to talk. After she went there as she was told, she was knocked unconscious. After she woke up, she looked like this now."

"I have also verified with the Prince of Zhennan. He drank a cup of tea during lunch and felt uncomfortable. He wanted to go to the wing room to rest for a while. When he woke up, he was already like this."

The last sentence saved face for the two of them. When they woke up, they were caught in bed by everyone.

"I suspect that the three of them, including the daughter of the Minister of Personnel, were all schemed against!"

How could Emperor Renxiao not know that such tactics were clearly intended to frame someone and make things a fait accompli?

When Zhou Ruyuan heard Shen Lanxi speaking for him, he felt bitter in his heart.

"Father, I am innocent. Please help me!"