Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

Li Mingda was surprised, "Since my aunt knew about it long ago, why did she still indulge—"

"This is not connivance, it's courtesy. He usually loves and protects me, and I can understand what he needs. This is the way for husband and wife to get along with each other for a long time." Li Yuqiong hurriedly cut off Li Mingda's words, and argued a little excitedly.

It turns out that my aunt knew about the existence of Qing Niang, a prostitute, but pretended to be confused.

Li Mingda vaguely remembered that when she first came to Anzhou City, her aunt and Concubine Pei had a private conversation, and Concubine Pei once said, "Princess really thinks too much this time, I said I will never let you down again", at that time Li Mingda was right Consort Pei was puzzled by the word "never again", it sounded like he had betrayed the princess before, that's why he said "again".And the tone of the aunt's response sounded like she believed him and was very contented, but she didn't expect to be pretending.

Both husband and wife are pretending to be false.

Li Yuqiong saw that Li Mingda remained silent with a sullen face, as if she disapproved of her actions, so she hurriedly explained.

"Son, you'll know when you reach my age. No man will be content and live with only one woman, even if you are a noble royal princess. Men are lustful by nature, just don't show it on the surface , will also steal food in private, just pretending to keep you from knowing. There are only two ways to deal with this kind of thing, either tear your face apart and hate each other;

Li Yuqiong had already recovered from the embarrassment of being exposed by Li Mingda on the spot, and her expression gradually became calm as she spoke, with a warm smile on her lips.

"In fact, sometimes as long as you don't worry about these things, you can live a good life. You may not understand what your aunt told you, but you should remember these words, and you will use them sooner or later."

"What my aunt has seen, my son-in-law does not agree with it. If you have to swallow your anger and feel uncomfortable with each other, why not live alone is more refreshing. What's more, there are good and bad people, and you can't generalize it. It's a bit unfair for my aunt to deny the rest of the people based on Pei Ma. Exaggerating." Li Mingda could bear with it otherwise, but Li Yuqiong taught her to accept it based on what he saw, and Li Mingda couldn't agree.

Li Yuqiong's calm demeanor just recovered was instantly shattered by Li Mingda's words. She stared at Li Mingda annoyed, as if Li Mingda had stabbed him in the stomach with a knife.

As if Li Mingda didn't see Li Yuqiong's anger, he continued to say a few words that made Li Yuqiong even more mad.

"My aunt is from my own family. It's not good for my son to lie to you. No matter what you do, you should tell the truth. Now that the third brother and the others have found out that Qingniang was involved in the case, it is very likely that it is related to the Queen Xi's matter. Pei Concubine's relationship with her Closely, I have to go to the Prince Wu's Mansion tomorrow for questioning."

Li Yuqiong's eyes widened, her upper and lower lips touched and trembled, the flesh on her face was taut with a kind of ruthlessness, as if a hungry wolf had been robbed of the meat in its mouth.At this moment, Li Yuqiong seemed eager to swallow Li Mingda alive.

Li Mingda had never seen Li Yuqiong showing such a ferocious expression before, her heart trembled, and in turn, more doubts and perplexities were suppressed in her heart.She just said that Prince Consort Pei would accept a few questions tomorrow, and before she said that she would be detained, Li Yuqiong was already like this.If this son-in-law Pei committed a capital crime and was to be sentenced to death, what would Li Yuqiong do then?

"Si, he is your uncle. What evidence do you have to prove that he is guilty, and you want to target him like this?" Li Yuqiong's face was pale, and the corners of his mouth trembled, but he showed a forced smile, and his bulging cheeks became twitchy. blue.

"My aunt probably didn't understand what I meant. It's because he has a close relationship with Qingniang and needs to be consulted." Li Mingda explained again.

Li Yuqiong raised her voice and said: "I heard it! It's not surprising that a lowly prostitute commits a crime. She hooked up with the son-in-law first, and made the son-in-law foolish. Bark, messing around! Why are you judging such a woman, it would not be a pity to beat her to death with a stick."

Li Mingda didn't speak, just looked at Li Yuqiong quietly, and when she calmed down after losing her temper, he said goodbye to her.Since it doesn't make sense, let's do our duty of disclosure.

Seeing that Li Mingda was perfunctory and wanted to leave, Li Yuqiong shouted sharply at his back: "No, I don't agree with the son-in-law to go."

Li Mingda: "I'm afraid it's not up to my aunt."

"Since you know how to call me aunt, you have to listen to me. I don't allow it. Unless you and King Wu give me the document of Sheng Yun, I will never let you go." Li Yuqiong said resolutely in a sonorous voice.

"Auntie is going to fight us hard?" Li Mingda asked puzzled.

"So what, in terms of seniority, I am your aunt after all. Whatever I say now, you should follow me and follow me." Li Yuqiong put on an air of arrogance and said with a cold face.

"Sir, I don't understand. I just want to ask a few words tomorrow, and I don't want to yell at Mr. Pei. Why does my aunt stop us like this?" Li Mingda asked Li Yuqiong again in puzzlement.

Li Yuqiong looked back at Li Mingda, and her tone softened a little, "It's clear that you forced me, so why not look after him for my aunt's sake? If you question him and Lu Qing'er in court tomorrow, there will be no problem." It's different from telling the world. Where are you going to put your aunt's face? We have always raised our eyebrows in front of outsiders, and our husband and wife have a deep love. Sis, you will be an aunt and beg you, don't pursue it anymore, okay. Aunt is willing to take yourself I assure you with my life that your uncle has not participated in any strange incidents involving the descendants of the Queen."

"He even broke his promise to his aunt. How can my aunt guarantee his character? Besides, the investigation is based on evidence, guarantees are useless, and favors are useless." Li Mingda understood at this point, The reason why my aunt was so excited to stop Pei Consort from being questioned just now was because of saving face.

"Hmph, anyway, if you want to move me and my son-in-law, then please send someone to Chang'an to deliver the letter first, and then ask for the imperial edict." Li Yuqiong had a tough attitude and was unwavering.

"Aunt really wants to be so disobedient?" Li Mingda asked.

"Don't ask, since you don't give me face, don't expect me to give you face." After Li Yuqiong said, she sent Li Mingda to leave quickly, and it would be better to leave the princess mansion, "My place is small, and I can't accommodate this big Buddha like you. .”

Li Mingda's face turned cold, and he lost his previous patience, "Since the words have reached this point, Auntie wants to do business, so we will do business. Tomorrow, Concubine Pei will go to Wu Wang's Mansion for questioning, and we must go."

"Sister, what are you talking about? How dare you speak to your elders like that? What the hell, if I don't allow him to go, what can you do? I just don't believe that you can put a knife on my neck and force me to submit."

"That's impossible, my aunt also said, after all, you are my elder, how dare you!" Li Mingda turned his eyes and glanced sideways at Tian Hanshan.

Tian Hanshan bowed his head to accept the order, and withdrew.

Seeing this, Li Yuqiong didn't understand why, but she didn't think deeply about it.In her rage, she was angry for a while, then turned her head and saw Li Mingda was still standing in the middle of the room, so she wanted to drive her away, "Just be an aunt and beg you, now you don't get in the way of my aunt anymore, you have a headache, Heart is also uncomfortable."

After Li Yuqiong finished speaking, she covered her head with one hand and her chest with the other.

"Just for a while, please ask aunt to bear it. After this, Sizi will never take the initiative to bother you again."

Li Yuqiong looked at Li Mingda puzzled, not understanding what she meant by what she said, and what she meant by staying here. "Could it be that you think that you can silently beat me just because you are favored by a sage? A sage is a wise king, even his own child. If there is any inappropriate behavior, such as disrespecting the elders, he will still teach you a lesson and reject it. You Do you think you can go beyond the rules with petting? The way you force me to submit now will only make you fall out of favor!"

Not long after Li Mingda finished speaking, Tian Hanshan entered the door and gave Li Mingda a bright yellow bag with both hands.

The bag is made of high-quality bright yellow silk satin, with dragon patterns embroidered with gold thread on the front and back sides, the size of a palm, it doesn't seem to be able to hold much things, but it is just enough to hold a token.

Thinking of the token, Li Yuqiong's heart skipped a beat, and her face suddenly turned pale. Could it be that the saint gave Sizi the dragon and tiger gold medal as if he had come in person?Li Yuqiong immediately forced herself to think calmly, but felt that it was impossible.The dragon and tiger gold medals never came out of the mountain at will, and the sage only announced the existence of this thing to the secret, and never really used it with anyone.How could such a large privilege token be handed over to a little girl for the first time? This is unreasonable.

Although Li Yuqiong comforted herself like this in her heart, the cold sweat on her hands was telling her in a disguised form that she was already guilty and afraid because of this possibility.So what if it's unreasonable, the fact that a saint raised a princess with his own hands has never happened since ancient times, it's unreasonable, but it happened.

At the moment when Li Mingda took out the Dragon and Tiger Gold Medal from the bag, Li Yuqiong was thinking about everything and had already thought a lot.But when she actually saw the Dragon and Tiger Gold Medal in Li Mingda's hands, she was still taken aback, and the hairs all over her body stood on end in fright.

Painful convulsions appeared on Li Yuqiong's face, and she squinted her eyes in powerlessness and despair, staring absently at the things in Li Mingda's hands.

"You, what are you going to say?"

Li Mingda held up the token.

Li Yuqiong's legs trembled, but finally knelt down and shouted Long Live Your Majesty.

"Order Linhai Princess to let Pei consort come to the Wu Palace for interrogation tomorrow, and I will not stop similar things for any reason in the future." After Li Mingda finished speaking, seeing Li Yuqiong was stunned and silent, his voice became more serious, "I can hear that No?"

Li Yuqiong kowtowed with tears in her eyes, shouting words of command.

Li Mingda put away the token, and glanced at Li Yuqiong who had been helped up by the maid, her face was already pale, obviously frightened.

"Brew some calming soup for your princess, and let her rest early. If you look bad, call the doctor to wait in the west wing as soon as possible, so as not to cause any trouble." Li Mingda gave up, and then politely bowed out with Li Yuqiong.

At this time, Li Yuqiong was overwhelmed and weak due to excessive fright. She raised her eyelids tiredly and looked at Li Mingda to salute and leave, but she was too angry to say a word.

"Go and call the son-in-law!" Li Yuqiong tried hard for a long while, and could only utter this sentence with difficulty.

Soon, Consort Pei was called to Li Yuqiong, who was sleeping, and now he heard that the princess had left, and the princess was screaming anxiously, so he didn't shy away from anything, and came here in obscene clothes.The clothes were still half uncovered, exposing a strong chest that was two fingers wide, and the half-covered chest was more of a blurred beauty, which made several maids in the room blush.

Normally, Li Yuqiong would definitely be shy and blushing when she saw her.But today she was not in the mood to appreciate it, even if Concubine Pei happily held her hand as soon as he entered the door, and greeted her gently with a smile, Li Yuqiong couldn't arouse his interest.

"What's the matter with you, I've talked to you several times, but you are always absent-minded, but it's because you're not feeling well?" Prince Consort Pei asked with concern.

Li Yuqiong's frail body twitched violently, and then raised her hand to beat Concubine Pei's shoulder, "Look at what you've done, and now Sizi and the others have discovered it!"

Concubine Pei was taken aback for a moment, then was shocked, and then grabbed Li Yuqiong nervously, "What is it, what do you mean?"

"You and Lu Qing'er." Li Yuqiong gritted her teeth in hatred.

Prince Consort Pei was startled again.

Li Yuqiong: "I have tried my best to stop him from taking you to Wu Wangfu for questioning tomorrow, but I never thought that she would have a dragon and tiger gold medal in her hand. This is why I used her status as an elder to suppress her." It's useless for her, oh..."

After Li Yuqiong finished speaking, she cried even more fiercely.

Concubine Pei had no intention of comforting the person in his arms. He stared blankly at the front, dazed for a while, then grabbed Li Yuqiong's shoulder and asked, "Did you already know?"

Li Yuqiong hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

Concubine Pei patted the bedpost.

Li Yuqiong was taken aback, and looked at Concubine Pei with some dissatisfaction, "What do you mean?"

"It's boring." Concubine Pei's face turned cold, the expression of concern for Li Yuqiong just now disappeared completely, and he sat by the window in a slightly depressed state, resting his forehead with his hands, a little irritable, "What does your niece princess say? "

"Lu Qing'er may be related to the case of Queen Xi, because you have been in close contact with her, so I want to ask you about it. Just now I tried everything soft and hard, but she refused to accept it, and even brought out the dragon and tiger gold medal." Li Yuqiong looked at Concubine Pei, "You have confessed to me recently, what else have you and that Lu Qing'er been doing apart from sex?"

Concubine Pei glanced at Li Yuqiong, his face turned red, then blue, and he remained silent.

Li Yuqiong became anxious, and patted Concubine Pei on the shoulder, "You don't tell me how I can help you. Things have gotten to this point, and I've done what I've done. You still won't tell me the truth? It would really chill me, From now on, I will take my Yangguan Road, and my son-in-law can take your single-plank bridge."

"No, Yuqiong, you know who I am. I have been husband and wife with you all these years. You should know whether I have you in my heart and how I treat you. After all, the outside is outside. It's just me playing around. Never seriously." Concubine Pei clasped Li Yuqiong's hand hastily and explained kindly.

"Then say it." Li Yuqiong shouted.

Concubine Pei was startled, nodded, and explained his acquaintance with Lu Qing'er through Daoming.

"I didn't expect that you have been in a relationship for five years. I thought you fell in love with her in the past two years." Li Yuqiong said with emotion.

"It's not that I don't want to part with her. You also understand my temperament. I just want to make something new, and then I don't care about it. It's Lu Qing'er who has taken a fancy to me, and insists on me, and makes money from silver mines and private salt. She introduced her to me through her secret ways, so I had no choice but to maintain a relationship with her all these years." Concubine Pei explained.

Li Yuqiong stared at him, "Why? Why do you need these dark ways? Could it be that the princess mansion doesn't have enough money for you?"

"Not really, but I can't be said to rely on you. Before I married you, everyone praised me as a dragon and phoenix among men, suave and talented. But since I married you, no one has seen me. Talent, everyone satirized me behind my back, saying that the reason why I was able to get the post of governor was because I was fed by the princess. Thinking that I was the son of the first prime minister, how could I be reconciled to being underestimated to such an extent!" Prince Consort Pei said angrily.

"But you steal silver mines, smuggle salt, and make money, so you can change other people's views of you?"

"If I earn an official job myself, I will not be looked down upon by those people." Concubine Pei said.

"Earn an officer?"

Concubine Pei took a look in private, and after confirming that there was no one there, he whispered to Li Yuqiong, "It's just buying an official."

"Buyer?"

"A big man gave me a promise, asking me to make up this amount, so that in the future he can help me find a title of Duke of the State, and it is even more likely that I will be admitted to the Ministry of Education." Concubine Pei stretched out ten fingers, Signaled to Li Yuqiong.

Li Yuqiong then asked Prince Consort Pei who this big man was.Concubine Pei shook his head, but didn't tell Li Yuqiong.Li Yuqiong wanted to ask more questions, but was disliked by Prince Concubine Pei, so she had no choice but to give up.

"Forget it, the officials didn't mention it in advance, so we can only discuss about Lu Qing'er. You tell me the truth, you really didn't have anything else to do with her. The eight civilians who died suddenly in the prison in Fu County also followed You have nothing to do with it, and you won't know about it? The riots in Ling'an Temple, and the rumors about the Queen's Queen have nothing to do with you?" Li Yuqiong asked again and again.

Concubine Pei nodded, and then raised his hand to do something to Li Yuqiong, expressing that he was really not involved in this matter at all.The relationship between him and Lu Qing'er, apart from the desire of men and women, is nothing but money exchanges.

Li Mingda had been standing under the tree for a long time at this time, and after hearing these words, he was hesitating whether to leave, when he heard Concubine Pei suddenly mention someone, Lu Sheng.

Concubine Pei confessed that he had been involved in the illegal mining of silver mines and smuggling salt for several years with Lu Sheng, and this Lu Sheng was introduced by Lu Qing'er.

Li Mingda remembered clearly that Lu Sheng was the eldest son of Qingniang's stepfather.When she was on trial in Prince Wu's Mansion, Qingniang once said that the reason why she became a prostitute was because her biological mother and stepfather died successively, and her stepbrother coveted her beauty and wanted to take her as a concubine. Forced to marry and stay widowed, it was reduced to where it is today.If this is the case, then according to common sense, Lu Sheng should be Qing Niang's enemy, and he should never communicate with each other until death.Why did she still want to connect for him and introduce Prince Consort Pei to him.Concubine Pei is from aristocratic background, and his status is quite influential, so he is naturally easy to talk in the officialdom, and he is also very accommodating when saying hello to ordinary trivial matters.If Lu Sheng mines silver mines privately, sells salt privately, and cooperates with Pei Consort, it will definitely be the icing on the cake, and it will be a huge benefit to him.

Qing Niang must have lied about her stepbrother, at least her relationship with Lu Sheng is definitely not as enmity as she said.

Another thing is whether the relationship between Concubine Pei and that Qing Niang is really the same as he just explained to Li Yuqiong, and there is no other connection.Besides, you can't completely believe what a liar says.Li Mingda couldn't be sure that Concubine Pei was sincere, the real facts must be as he said just now.It's hard to guarantee that he is deceiving Li Yuqiong, and he deliberately said it was okay when he had something to do.

So Prince Consort Pei is still not innocent in the matter of King Xi, and Fang Yi will still have to ask them to interrogate him tomorrow.

In the blink of an eye, it was early morning, Dongxia was flying, and the sky was cool, so it was the most suitable time to set off.

Li Mingda and Prince Consort Pei rode to the Wu Palace together.They came with Li Mingda, her accompanying guards, and some luggage.Yesterday Li Yuqiong had already opened his mouth to drive Li Mingda away. Naturally, Li Mingda didn't need to be cheeky to continue to stay in the Princess Mansion, so he decided to move into Wu Wang's Mansion temporarily.

The servants of Prince Wu's Mansion immediately came to greet him, moved the luggage into the yard that had been cleaned earlier, and tidied it up.

Li Mingda went straight to the main hall with Prince Consort Pei.

Fang Yizhi and others were already waiting there, but Li Ke was not here today.Li Mingda took a look, smiled, chose a seat near the door and sat down, ready to listen.Seeing this, Di Renjie didn't know where to sit, for he was afraid that he would overdo it.

"You can sit wherever you want, don't worry about me." After Li Mingda spoke, Di Renjie dared to choose a seat nearby.Fang Yizhi was sitting behind a temporary desk in the center of the hall, preparing for the interrogation.

Afterwards, Qingniang was brought up. After a night of sleepless torment and the shock of being locked up in the morgue for an hour yesterday, Qingniang was completely exhausted at this time, kneeling on the ground with a pale face, listless.

Concubine Pei was allowed to sit down and ask questions because of his noble status.

When Qing Niang heard that Concubine Pei was there, she suddenly raised her head that had been lowered and looked over.Concubine Pei also kept watching Qingniang, seeing that she was wearing straw-clad clothes, and her face was full of embarrassment.Concubine Pei's eyes suddenly felt distressed, showing affection.

"She is a weak woman, how could she have anything to do with Queen Xi's affairs, did you arrest the wrong person?"

"I didn't catch the wrong person, so I don't need to bother my son-in-law. I just want to ask my son-in-law if you have any contact with this Lu Qing'er."

"Yes, to tell you the truth, Mr. Fang, I have been to brothels several times and stayed there overnight. But the relationship between me and Lu Qing'er is very simple. I am the customer, and she is the number one in the brothel. As for what to do, I don't need to explain it. Bar."

"Fu Yunzhi pointed out that Lu Qing'er seduced him and opened the door of the prison, so that he killed eight people who were causing trouble in Ling'an Temple at that time."

"I don't know, but it has nothing to do with me." Concubine Pei said calmly.

Li Mingda carefully observed Prince Consort Pei's expression, it didn't look like he was lying.

Qingniang also said at this time: "The son really wronged Qingniang. There is really nothing else between Qingniang and Concubine Pei except for that. The eight people who were poisoned to death, Qingniang really I don't know why they died. Qingniang and the others didn't know each other at all. Even if the prince locked Qingniang in the morgue for another hour, Qingniang wouldn't know them, not a single one of them."

Li Mingda looked at Qingniang's words with a bit of sonority, it didn't seem like she was lying.But she didn't know if she gained confidence after meeting Pei Consort, or if she really didn't do anything that killed anyone.

Li Mingda immediately asked Fang Yizhi whether the identities of the eight dead instigators had been verified.Fang Yi shook his head, expressing that he had no clues.They also sent people to ask nearby villages and counties if anyone was missing, but there was no one.This shows that these people are not from nearby villages and counties, or they are outsiders, or some unknown people hiding in Anzhou City, such as beggars, so it is impossible to verify.

Hearing this, Concubine Pei sneered, "Then what else do you want to ask me?"

Li Mingda looked at Qingniang, and said to Pei Concubine: "Does Concubine Pei have something to tell Lu Qing'er?"

"Excuse me, what is there to tell you? I told you earlier that the relationship between me and her is just a matter between a man and a woman. I just want to have fun for a while. It would be very embarrassing for this matter to be exposed, and it is also me. I'm sorry princess, but if you use this to frame me as having something to do with the queen and the queen, and taking eight lives, I will not admit it! I only admit my own fault, and I will write a letter to plead guilty to His Majesty when I turn around, and ask him to deal with it Me." Consort Pei said calmly.

He had already thought about these words on the way to Prince Wu's Mansion, so it didn't take much effort to say them.With such a smooth and upright tone, others will definitely feel that he is sincere and not lying when they see him.

Fang Yizhi then mentioned Lu Sheng, and asked Qing Niang and Concubine Pei to wait by the side without saying a word.

When Lu Sheng was summoned up, he didn't know why, he still didn't know why people from the Wu Palace came to invite him.When he saw Qingniang was there, he was terrified, and when he saw Pei Concubine was also there, he was even more frightened, very worried that what they had done before would be revealed.

After that, some guards stepped onto the screen to block Lu Qing'er and Concubine Pei, so that Lu Sheng could not see their faces, let alone their expressions.

Fang Yi directly asked Lu Sheng if he knew about the disturbance in Ling'an Temple.

Lu Sheng hurriedly kowtowed to express that he didn't know, "I've never been to the place of Ling'an Temple. The eight corpses in the morgue have been identified by the grassroots just now, and no one knows them."

Fang Yi nodded his head, seeming to believe in Lu Sheng's words.

Seeing this, Lu Sheng heaved a sigh of relief, lowered his head and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then kowtowed to Fang Yi, expressing that he was just a businessman, and usually only cared about doing business, and was not in the mood to care about any disturbances. I haven't heard any rumors about the descendants of King Xi.

"Then what about you and Concubine Pei privately mining silver mines and selling private salt?" Fang Yizhi suddenly heard.

Lu Sheng was stunned, as if he had been struck on the head by two big lightnings one after another, he was caught off guard.His face immediately became flustered, embarrassed, his whole body trembled slightly, he hung his head in silence for a while, and did not respond to Fang Yizhi's question.

"Say!" The guard stabbed Lu Sheng's back with a scabbard, signaling him to confess.

Lu Sheng faltered, then turned to look in the direction of the screen where Consort Pei and Lu Qing'er were.

Concubine Pei suddenly stood up impulsively at this time, wanting to go out to speak, but the guard behind him suddenly pressed his shoulders and asked him to sit down.

"It's easy to investigate things like mining and salt smuggling. You can't do everything with full authority, but wherever you use people, there are loopholes and evidence that you can't cover up. It doesn't matter if you don't say it now , I turned around and had someone search your house, and then I questioned the subordinates you sent to mine silver and sell salt. After all, some people would be afraid of death and confess everything honestly. It would be easier if you directly searched your account book. If you say it first, it counts as you voluntarily surrendered, but your life will be spared. But if you wait for others to talk about your crimes, you will not have such a good opportunity. It doesn’t matter whether you die or not. I’m afraid that your death is not simple enough, and life is better than death. .”

After Fang Yi said it bluntly, he immediately ordered people to search Lu Sheng's home.At this moment, Luoge stepped forward, randomly picked two cruel punishments and explained them to Lu Sheng.For example, cutting in half, or abandoning the market.

"I don't need to say more about cutting in half. It's a bit simple. After cutting it from the waist, after that moment, the upper part still has consciousness. I saw that my lower body was broken... Or talk about abandoning the market, tearing off the beard, pinching the eyes, and peeling the face. , with the belly covered, the heart out, and trampled into mud."

Lu Sheng was frightened out of his wits, and knew that the place where he put the ledger was not safe.Furthermore, as Fang Shizi said, each of the deeds he committed required manpower.She usually hides herself well so that she won't be suspected, and there is Prince Consort Pei as a guarantee, so it's considered safe.But now even Concubine Pei is under suspicion, and Lu Qing'er has also been arrested, they can't get rid of their guilt at all.It seems that Prince Consort Pei's method of persuading him to return the silver did not work well, and this was still investigated.

After all, if the matter is exposed, why not admit it quickly, and still save your life, at least you don't have to die so badly.

Lu Sheng quickly kowtowed, and said straight to Fang Yi: "Damn the grassroots, they have indeed done a lot of theft for money."

Lu Sheng then truthfully confessed that he conspired with Concubine Pei to steal silver mines and sell private salt.

Behind the screen, Prince Consort Pei, who was forced to sit on the stool with his shoulders pressed, looked pale, and at this moment, he almost gritted his teeth with hatred.What Lu Sheng confessed in public has completely put him into it.He never expected that today's interrogation would be the day when he would never recover.

The matter of the silver mine was fine, because he had long guessed that Fang Yi had come here to investigate this matter, so he confessed to Princess Linhai.Princess Linhai asked him to put all the refined silver back into the cave a few days ago, don't touch it again, just return it wherever it came from.Moreover, the princess has already greeted the king of Wu, and asked him to report the discovery of the silver mine. As for the private mining of the concubine Pei, Li Ke also let Li Ke see that he took the initiative to admit and return the silver. Ke also agreed, and gave Princess Linhai this face.

However, the matter of smuggling salt was already two years ago.If he hadn't gotten rumors that Fang Yizhi was coming to Anzhou to investigate the case, Concubine Pei would have almost forgotten about it.When the private salt was sold, there was no rumor about it, and it has been so long, who would mention this again.Concubine Pei couldn't figure out how Fang Yi knew about it.

But now there are hundreds of doubts in his mind, it is useless, since he confessed on the spot, there is no room for refutation, Concubine Pei can only admit it.

After Lu Sheng signed and pledged, Prince Consort Pei was brought out.The two looked at each other in anger and surprise, and then they both looked desperate. After all, they were chickens that fell into the water, and there was no way to escape.

Concubine Pei's crimes can be determined, but the matter of "the descendants of the Queen Xi" has not been solved.

Fang Yi asked Lu Sheng about this, but Lu Sheng showed a confused face, as if he really didn't know.

But Fang Yi couldn't confirm whether this person lied, so he looked at Li Mingda and asked for her thoughts.Li Mingda shook his head slightly at Fang Yizhi, expressing that she also felt that she didn't know.

Fang Yizhi then sent Lu Sheng away and ordered someone to resettle Prince Consort Pei.Li Mingda followed, she had something to ask Prince Consort Pei.It was the letter paper for the case of Queen Xi, and one of them had the same incense smell as Pei Consort Pei's body.

Concubine Pei was tired of being in contact with Li Mingda, but when he heard her words, he was surprised. He was also worried that he would be charged with another crime, so he cooperated with Li Mingda's questioning.

"The incense on my body is all made by the princess. She uses different materials and usages. She learned from a foreigner. Every day, she uses fresh spices and dried flower petals to smear on the washed clothes. Concubine Pei continued, "But I never worry about such things, and I have never touched those spices. The piece of paper you mentioned has absolutely nothing to do with me."

"It turns out that the incense was made by my aunt," Li Mingda paused at the end of the sentence, and didn't say anything more.

Concubine Pei sneered and said, "It must be her. The reason why she was favored by Jinshang back then was because she passed an important piece of news to Jinshang before the incident. She is the daughter-in-law of our Pei family. At that time, my father was still supporting King Xi. What she did back then was a great betrayal of my father and King Xi. Although she still treated my father kindly afterwards, but King Xi had a cruel end. Now she As I get older, I have nightmares every day and my spirit is not good, and I feel sorry for King Xi more and more."

"What do you mean, the matter of resting the queen is a compensation for her betrayal at the beginning?"

Consort Pei: "Isn't it?"

Li Mingda frowned in doubt, "But my aunt doesn't seem to know about this matter."

"Everyone knows how to act, especially your aunt. She is better at acting than anyone else. If you don't believe me, try it." Pei Ma sneered.

"She planned for you and was infatuated with you, so you treat her like this?" Li Mingda asked.

Concubine Pei raised the corners of his mouth and looked at Li Mingda with a sarcasm in his eyes, "Look, you've been cheated. Do you really think your aunt is an infatuated woman who treats people wholeheartedly and treats me well? I'm not afraid to tell you, In terms of flirtatiousness, I am not half as good as your aunt."