Regent, he has my cub

In just two days, Gu Wenhan was imprisoned, Gu's family was confiscated, and the once glorious family collapsed in the blink of an eye.

It's like a building is falling down, and the wind and rain are about to come.

Ji Xuanling's resolute actions inspired the whole court, and some people finally realized it belatedly, and the world changed.

For the first time, they knew that His Majesty could still have such fierce methods.

The accident happened on the night after Gu's house was raided.

In the middle of the night, when the dew was getting deeper, an unknown fire broke out in the Gu family mansion, waking up many sleeping people from their dreams.

"The water is gone! The water is gone!"

Shouts sounded one after another, and some people panicked and didn't even have time to pull their shoes.

"Where are people? What are they doing to eat? Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Gu Qinglin, with disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, wrapped in a quilt, yelled at people angrily.

A servant beside him also got up in a hurry and said tremblingly: "Young...Young master, this fire is fueled by kerosene, it seems that someone deliberately set it on, the fire is too big, I'm afraid...I'm afraid it won't be extinguished for a while .”

Now the only ones left in the mansion are some servants who have signed the death contract, and those who can leave, they all left as early as the day when the news of Rong Guogong's imprisonment came out.

Gu Qinglin almost didn't come up in one breath, looked around, but couldn't find his concubine brother in the noisy and flustered scene.

"Where is Gu Yanlin! Where has he gone!" he shouted.

Nobody knows.

The fire burned for a whole night, and the flames soaring into the sky dyed the night into another color, which was too gorgeous and too hot.

When the news reached the palace, it was just dawn, Yun Youqing slept soundly today, Ji Xuanling didn't want to disturb him, so he put on his normal clothes and went out to watch the excitement.

It is said to be watching the excitement, but in fact there is nothing exciting to watch.

When he arrived in front of the Duke's Mansion, there were not many intact places in the whole house.

Ji Xuanling asked people to park the carriage in an inconspicuous corner, opened the curtain and looked outside at the mansion that was still emitting white smoke.He murmured, sighing in a half-true way: "I don't know what kind of spectacular scene the glow of the fire last night was."

However, now, there are only ruins left, which is in a state of depression.

Gu Wenhan fell down early, but he didn't expect that in the end, the Gu family still could not escape such an ending.

Regardless of the process.

Fortunately, Chen Ying packed up her things early and set foot on the road back to the southwest.

Of course, he had to bring Cao Jian, an eyesore, with him.

Ji Xuanling was about to put down the curtain and turn around, but unexpectedly saw a familiar figure.

He should have rushed over as soon as he heard the news, and before he could catch his breath, he hurriedly grabbed a servant of the Gu family and asked, "Where's Gu Yanlin?"

Why are you looking for the young master?

The servant was moving out some things that were still in good condition, when he was suddenly grabbed by the collar, he was startled, and hurriedly said tremblingly: "The young master has disappeared for several days."

"disappear?"

It was Lu Siyong who came, and after hearing the news that Gu Yanlin was missing, he lost his mind for a moment, then lowered his head, not sure whether it was loss or something else.

A few people from the Lu Mansion quickly caught up with them, and with a bitter face, they asked Lu Siyong to go back with them.

"Young master, please do me a favor, don't embarrass us, the master will beat us to death if he finds out."

Ji Xuanling looked at him with great interest, suddenly curious about his attitude towards Gu Yanlin.

Their ambiguous relationship was discovered before, and when they confronted each other in Taihua Palace, even with Ji Xuanling's guarantee, Lu Siyong finally denied all of it.

But judging by his current appearance, it seems that he was not completely unintentional.

I saw Lu Siyong gritted his teeth, raised his head and finally forgot the dilapidated Duke's Mansion, and said nonchalantly: "It's better to leave, so as not to hinder my son's fun."

The servants of the Lu family looked at each other, and said tentatively: "The young master..."

"I won't go back..." Lu Siyong raised his head proudly, "What are you going to do? My father just doesn't let me see the people of the Gu family, and he didn't say he wouldn't let me go to the village to have fun."

After holding back at home for so long, he has to go and have fun!

Ji Xuanling watched the people go away, with a calm expression, put down the curtain and told the little yellow door who was driving the car: "Let's go..."

After being out for so long, his uncle should wake up.

In fact, as soon as he left, Yun Youqing woke up on his back.I was used to Ji Xuanling hugging him to sleep every night, and when I got up, I couldn't see the shadows of the people around me, so I was unexpectedly not used to it.

Not only that, but the uneasiness in my heart was even more inexplicable.

Chen Ting had already told him that Ji Xuanling had gone to check on the unexplained fire at Gu's house.Intellectually, he knew all this clearly, but his restless heart never settled down from beginning to end.

Yun Youqing took a sip of hot porridge absent-mindedly, stared at the door and called Chen Ting's name for the third time.

"What are your orders from the lord?"

"You go..." Just as he started to say something, Ji Xuanling walked in from the outside.

Yun Youqing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and changed his words: "Give Your Majesty a bowl of porridge."

Ji Xuanling didn't know that his mood was ups and downs like mountains and rivers, so he sat over and stared at Yun Youqing's slightly bulging belly, and said with concern: "Young brat, you didn't bother you today, did you?"

"No..." Yun Youqing avoided his gaze, and after answering, she buried her head in silently drinking the porridge.

Fortunately, he was usually indifferent, and Ji Xuanling was used to it, so he didn't feel anything.

Moreover, Ji Xuanling has not told him about the part of the correspondence between Gu Wenhan and Xiao Qin that involves Old General Yun.

To put it more bluntly, he did it for Yun Youqing's benefit, but in this way, it is no different from Yun Youqing's thought that it was for his own good.

Ji Xuanling had ghosts in his heart, so he talked less.

This is exactly what Yun Youqing wanted.

"The fire in Gu's house was set by Gu Yanlin?"

As the only person not present at the time of the incident, Gu Yanlin was [-]% suspicious.

Although there is no evidence for this matter, they are very sure of it.

"What about others?" Yun Youqing asked again.

Ji Xuanling gave the expected answer: "Run away..."

Gu Wenhan's crimes are indeed unforgivable, but in all the things he did, except that Gu Yanlin was still young when he was with Xiao Qin, almost all other things have the shadow of his son.

Ji Xuanling promised Gu Yanlin not to pursue his fault at the beginning, but now it seems that he doesn't believe Ji Xuanling's guarantee.

Another possibility is that he thinks that what he has done has reached the point where Ji Xuanling cannot tolerate it.

"Forget it, let him go."

Ji Xuanling has no time to take care of this cheating bastard now, and the business is to get rid of his father Gu Wenhan as soon as possible.

He personally watched the case, but it was closed within half a month, and at the same time, no less than ten officials involved in the matter were found out.Ji Xuanling didn't give them time to react at all. With the imperial decree, everything was settled.

If you are interested, you will find that the people Ji Xuanling used in this matter are all fresh blood who have only entered the official career in recent years.

The little emperor who has always been a bit willful in their eyes has actually already been forming his own team.There is no eyeliner placed by the powerful ministers, nor are the ministers who were left to him by the late emperor.

He is a courtier who is completely loyal to Ji Xuanling.

Gu Wenhan was scheduled to be executed at the end of the month, and his downfall gave everyone a warning, even the left minister Lu Yuan, who had been restless with the right minister for a day, tightened his tail and behaved as a man.

The day before the execution, Ji Xuanling announced that Le Zhengchun, whom he had not seen for a long time, came to Changning Palace.

There are some things that he has been unwilling to reveal the truth, and it is time to face them.

Ji Xuanling's eyes were complicated, because he had only discovered not long ago that the Le Zhengchun in front of him seemed a little different from the Yuan Pu he knew.

"Do you know why I called you here today?"

"I don't know..."

Le Zhengchun really didn't know, but he vaguely had some bad premonition.

The room was silent, Ji Xuanling's fingers tapped irregularly on the table, the dull sounds one after another seemed to hit Le Zhengchun's heart, making people unconsciously nervous.

After a long time, Ji Xuanling moved his lips, and finally opened his mouth, "Someone told me that he knew the mastermind behind Yutangshan's assassination."

The moment the words came out, the knocking sound finally stopped, but a fine layer of cold sweat oozed out of Le Zhengchun's palms.

It was still endless silence.

"He also said that Master Lezheng also knows."

After Ji Xuanling finished speaking, he narrowed his eyes when he saw Le Zhengchun's knelt down movement, and the situation in his eyes was suddenly stirred up, and his eyes were as black as ink.

Le Zhengchun fell to the ground, "Your Majesty, forgive me..."

Saying this is almost a default.

Ji Xuan smiled back, "Okay, then tell me, who is it?"

Before Le Zhengchun could speak, he added coldly: "Don't forget that time in Minghe Seven Years."

In fact, Gu Yanlin did not mention the assassination two years ago in the information that Gu Yanlin deliberately disclosed to him, it was Ji Xuanling's deliberate trick to deceive him.

Le Zhengchun seemed to have made up his mind, and finally looked up at him.

"In the seventh year of Minghe, His Majesty was assassinated in Yutang Mountain. The assassins all wore the logo of the Longwu Army. Everyone thought it was the Regent's work, and even the Regent himself almost acquiesced. Why did His Majesty never believe it?"

Ji Xuanling knew that he didn't ask this question to get his own answer.

Ruo Le Zhengchun knew his feelings for the emperor's uncle early in the morning, and he could probably guess that the quarrel between him and him back then was largely due to his whim.

He knew it, but he let it happen.

Le Zhengchun smiled wryly, "Your Majesty's heart is on the prince, so no matter what we do, it will only be in vain in the end."

It's ridiculous that he didn't figure it out until recently.

Ji Xuanling's mood is more complicated than his. Although there are many factors involved in the tragedy of the previous life, in a certain way, what they have done is equally indispensable.

Le Zhengchun went on to say: "In the seventh year of Minghe, I also discovered it by accident. Although the matter was done by the left prime minister Lu Yuan and not ordered by the regent, Lu Xiang is a member of the regent's party. What is the difference between what the regent did. As for the last time..."

He paused, but still chose to continue, "Weichen did have such a plan, but the people sent by the minister died on the way before they could make a move in the future."

If Ji Xuanling met his people at that time, they would never have killed him.

Combined with Gu Yanlin's specious words, Ji Xuanling already had a guess in his heart, but hearing it from him gave another feeling.

Ji Xuanling smiled, "This is your so-called loyalty? How do you make me trust you?"

"Believe it or not, it's up to His Majesty."

Looking at his straight back, Ji Xuanling became even more angry, picked up the ink stick from the desk and slammed it on his forehead.

Le Zhengchun didn't dodge, he endured it, and then heard Ji Xuanling curse: "Le Zhengchun, who do you think you are!"

The ink stick was not dry, except that a bag was smashed out on Le Zhengchun's forehead, and the ink dripped down the side of his face, making him look a bit embarrassed.

Ji Xuanling calmed down a little after venting, but the coldness in his eyes remained unchanged.

"At the beginning you told me that you would be a loyal and upright minister who would leave your name in history, and I firmly believed it. Now it seems that you just want to leave your name in history." Bright Pi, "Faithful? After all, you are just selfish."

Le Zhengchun's straight back began to crumble.

Ji Xuanling still didn't let him go.

"The time I asked you to invite Lu Siyong, you kept procrastinating and even slowing down the progress of the trial. It was because Gu Yanlin knew of your plan to take action. Is what I said right?"

Le Zhengchun was irrefutable.

He also finally knew who betrayed him, but it didn't matter anymore.

Because, as Ji Xuanling said, he has been making selfish decisions for the so-called honesty in his own eyes.

"Go away..." Ji Xuanling finally said.