The Grand Princess

Pei Wenxuan was silently thinking about how to reply, and an old man's call came not far away: "Your Highness."

The two looked at it together and saw Xie Lanqing walk over from not far away.

Pei Wenxuan and Li Rong looked at each other very quickly, and both saw a bit of surprise from each other's eyes. Xie Lanqing walked to the two of them and saluted Li Rong: "Your Highness."

"Xie Shangshu." Li Rong nodded as a salute, and then laughed and said, "Xie Shangshu doesn't talk to my palace on weekdays. How can I say hello today?"

These words are extremely infamous, especially for Xie Lanqing, who has been in a key position like Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry for many years, it is even more difficult to see.

But Xie Lanqing didn't change his face and said calmly: "I heard that my Royal Highness was assassinated yesterday. The old minister was very worried. I was afraid that the young man had no experience in handling cases. So I came to ask if you need help from the Criminal Department."

"I have caught everyone, and the trial is almost done," Li Rong looked into Xie Lanqing's eyes, "I won't thank the lord for bothering."

"His Royal Highness now knows the mastermind?"

Xie Lanqing asked quite directly. Li Rong looked at Xie Lanqing with her hands in front and smiled without saying a word. Xie Lanqing frowned, "Why didn't your highness answer?"

"Why did Master Xie ask?" Pei Wenxuan interrupted at the right time. Xie Lanqing looked at Pei Wenxuan and saw that Pei Wenxuan smiled and said, "Is it because Master Xie has something to worry about, so I need to confirm with your Highness?"

"The old minister was just worried that His Highness would ask casually, Master Pei thought too much."

Xie Lanqing had a cold face and was quite dissatisfied, Pei Wenxuan put his hands in front of him, and bowed as he was sorry.

"Since you care too much and ask your Highness for suspicion, the old minister will not ask," Xie Lanqing turned around and said coldly, "His Royal Highness will check it out by himself."

Xie Lanqing said, then returned to his position. Pei Wenxuan glanced at Li Rong, then laughed: "His Royal Highness, the Weichen will return first."

Pei Wenxuan returned to his position after saying the salute.

Not long after Li Ming arrived at the main hall. As usual, the morning session started. Li Ming looked a little tired and seemed very irritable. He went up and asked about the weather everywhere, then turned to look at Li Rong and said stiffly: "Ping fun."

"Father."

When Li Rong heard Li Ming’s voice, she seemed to be restrained. She knew that Li Ming was not in a good mood today. She hurriedly knelt forward, in a gesture of plea, Li Ming slowed down a bit when she saw her movement: "I heard You were assassinated yesterday, but are you serious about it?"

"Report to the emperor, this is indeed the case."

"Bastard stuff!"

Li Ming stood up abruptly and shouted: "Even you dare to assassinate, who is it, don't you kill me?!"

"To my father, the murderer caught today confessed that he was from the home of Chen Guang, the head of the original warehouse, and came for revenge."

"Revenge?" Li Ming laughed angrily when he heard this. "Other people are not dead yet, what revenge? And he committed such a heinous crime by embezzling military pay, shouldn't he die?! His family still has a face to revenge?"

"Report to your Majesty that the Weichen has the intention to play." In the Yushitai queue, a Yushi stood up. Li Ming raised his eyes and said coldly, "I'm talking to the princess, why don't you want to play?"

"Your Majesty," the Yushi continued without returning, "what the Weichen wants to play is related to the princess."

Li Ming frowned, Li Rong also turned his head and looked over. After looking for a moment, he finally recognized someone who was Chen Guang's cousin Wang Huan.

Li Rong raised her eyebrows, and saw Li Ming waved impatiently, Wang Huan bowed, and then said: "Weichen also asks your majesty to summon the wife of Chen Wangshi."

"Wang Chen?"

Li Ming had some doubts, and Wang Huan respectfully said: "It is Chen Guang's mother, Chen Wang."

Li Ming hesitated for a moment, then seemed to think of something, and said impatiently: "Proclaim it."

Li Rong watched Li Ming's expression, thinking a little bit in her heart. After a while, there was a rush of footsteps at the door. After a while, an old woman with white hair came in and said respectfully:" I have seen your majesty, long live your majesty, long live long live."

Everyone looked over, Li Ming seemed to think for a moment, then hesitated: "You...seem to be..."

"Your Majesty," the woman raised her head and said respectfully, "Minwu was originally a female official in the palace. His Majesty had looked after your Majesty for some time when she was young, and she didn't want her to remember it."

"I remember now," Li Ming said with a calm face and nodded, "You used to work in the Queen's Palace for a while."

When Chen Wang heard this, he squatted his head and tears were already in his eyes. Li Ming saw Chen Wang's gray hair and whispered: "Mrs. Chen is not young anymore, please give me a seat first. Chaotang, what's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the ladies are here today to seek justice for my son."

Chen Wang said, raising his head and crying: "The civil woman came to the court today to accuse Her Royal Highness Princess Pingle, and torture my son Chen Guang, and beat him into a trick. I hope your majesty will learn from him!"

Li Ming frowned and glanced at Li Rong.

Only after Li Rong told the Chen family to assassinate her, the Chen Wang clan came to Li Rongqu to provoke him. Everyone looked at Li Rong as they watched the excitement. After Li Ming hesitated for a while, he said: "You said Pingle beat Chen Guang, you are a woman How did people know?"

"Your Majesty, although the women are women, but they are eager to think about their children, they let their servants go around and finally get a chance to see my son. The women know that they are guilty, and they are willing to bear it. The words and sentences are true, and I hope that your majesty will order other adults to review the military payment case and return my son's innocence."

"Apart from you, is there anyone else who has witnessed this matter?"

"In addition to the local women, there are also domestic slaves who visited with the local women, as well as other guards in the Superintendent Division, but they don't know if they are willing to tell the truth.

"Your family slave is a person of your Chen surname, so you should avoid suspicion. You can't find anyone as the guard in the inspection department. In other words, there is no evidence for what you said."

Li Ming pondered, and said slowly: "But today Pingle accused you of assassinating her by the Chen family, but there was evidence, can you admit it?"

"My Chen family assassinated the princess?"

Chen Wang's eyes widened, and then hurriedly said: "No, it's impossible. Your Majesty, my Chen family has been loyal to the emperor for hundreds of years, and I dare not disobey the heavenly family at all. Even if your highness kills my son, the Chen family will destroy the clan. I dare not wait to assassinate Your Highness!"

"Then do you have evidence?"

Li Ming asked calmly, Chen Wang's face turned pale, she knelt in a daze, and after a long time, she kowtowed and said, "My majesty, no one is old. The women are no more than women in the back house, who have spent all their wealth, can only see my son. On the one hand, you can’t extract confessions by torture, you can’t bribe others, and there are no masters to forge evidence to reverse black and white. But the women believe that in this world there is a clear truth, there are gods three feet above the head, the women have no evidence, but the women,” Chen Wangshi Speak calmly, "I wish to prove my innocence by death!"

After speaking, Chen Wang immediately smashed his head towards the ground.

Li Rong suddenly got up and shouted: "Stop her!"

At the moment she got up, Pei Wenxuan had already rushed out in a vigorous step, and everyone else was shocked watching. When Pei Wenxuan rushed to Chen Wangshi, the old woman kept the posture of protruding her head on the ground. Bloodstained from the pool.

Pei Wenxuan hurriedly turned the person over and put his hand on the tip of the woman's nose. Li Rong calmly called: "The royal doctor, call the royal doctor over!"

With that, Li Rong came to Chen Wangshi, her hands trembled slightly, Pei Wenxuan raised her head, and shook her head calmly.

As he said, he stood up, and the imperial doctor rushed in and diagnosed the pulse of Chen Wangshi. After a while, the imperial doctor raised his head and said in fear: "Your Majesty, this lady... has gone."

Li Ming's face was extremely ugly. He seemed to be trying to control himself for a long time before he said: "Go down first."

The guard received the order and hurried forward to send Chen Wangshi off. There was a dead silence in the court hall. After a long time, Li Ming took a sip of tea and said, "Leave the court first."

The crowd saluted, and then left silently, Pei Wenxuan walked to Li Rong and whispered: "Your Highness."

"I'm fine."

Li Rong eased his emotions. At this time, Fulai walked over and whispered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty is calling you over."

Li Rong replied and turned to Pei Wen preached, "You go back first."

Pei Wenxuan did not speak, and bowed to Li Rong and Fulai. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "I am waiting for your Highness outside the Yushufang."

Li Rong unintentionally responded to him, nodded and followed Fulai away.

She was led by Fulai and walked all the way to the imperial study room. After entering the room, Li Ming stood with her back to her. As soon as she entered, she knelt down and said, "Knock to my father..."

"Look at the good things you did!"

Li Ming zhezi hit Li Rong's head, zhezi instantly bruised Li Rong's forehead.

Li Ming saw Li Rong's head hurt, he paused, and then still insisted on his tone, and said coldly: "How many times have I told you, be steady, don't go in. Look at you now, you are trying How can such a big case be so reckless? Is it true that when I dote on you, there is no lawlessness?!"

"I don't know what his father is blaming."

Li Rong knelt on the ground and said calmly: "Is the father thought that the children should not try the Qin case and the military payment case?"

"What's your attitude?" Li Ming saw Li Rong's appearance, and became angry. "Are you threatening me? I asked you to handle these two cases, not to make you trouble me! You don't know if you can't be tortured by the gentry. Also went to torture officials to extract confessions..."

"I do not have."

Li Rongguo broke his mouth. Li Ming looked around. He raised his hand and waved and everyone drove them out. Then he walked up to Li Rong and squatted down: "Do you think I am irritating you for torturing them? You want to investigate the case, you use your method, and I only want the result. What I am annoyed is that you have not cleaned up your head and tail!"

"I didn't." Li Rong raised his head and said in a loud voice, "Father, why don't you believe that I didn't torture them to confess? It was they who wanted to kill me and assassinate me. You don't blame them. You blame me today? ! Isn’t it clear to my father how much resistance is in these two cases? How much pressure I have endured for my father and for the justice in my heart, don’t my father understand?”

As Li Rong said, her eyes were red, and she stared at Li Ming: "You know how many of them want to harm me, but you still have to believe them..."

"Pingle..." Seeing Li Rong cry, Li Ming suddenly felt a little guilty, "Father is not disbelieving you. It's just your temper..."

"What's wrong with my temper?" Li Rong didn't care about my manners, so she simply knelt on the ground and cried, "I'm not good-tempered? Am I not good enough to be a princess and be a daughter? Why do you want me to have a good temper if you kill me? You are my father, and you don't care if you don't protect me. You have to bully me with them."

"Why are you talking about this?" Li Ming had a headache. "What kind of bullying and not bullying? You are also a court official now, why are you still like a child. In what manner?"

"I don't want to be decent," Li Rong cried, "I'm wrong with this official, you can let me go back, Changle Huale is living well, why should I go to the muddy water? Why am I? Father, what do you think my picture is?!"

As Li Rong said, she raised her head and grabbed the shirt on her chest, "Isn't it all for my father to live and die like this? I can't bear to see those aristocratic families forcing my father to do something wrong?"

This word hit Li Ming's heart for a moment. He looked at Li Rong who was crying embarrassed at his feet, and he couldn't say anything for a while.

There was a bit of soreness in his heart. Li Rong was crying in pain. After Li Ming hesitated for a long time, he couldn't say anything. He sighed, and finally said: "You go back first, don't worry about the military payment case and the Qin case. Up."

"I don't care, who cares?"

Li Rong said in a low voice: "Is the father? Or the prince? Or someone else? Who cares about this, who is unlucky. With so much effort, the father wants to bow his head again, right?"

Li Ming was silent, and Li Rong supported herself, slowly getting up: "Father, let's decide, my son and ministers don't care about anything."

"Rong'er," Li Ming hesitated while looking at Li Rong's seemingly lost back. After a long time, he finally said, "Then, let Pei Wenxuan decide. He comes to convict. You should rest assured, right?"

Li Rong turned her back to Li Ming, and after a long time, respectfully said, "Thank you, Father."

With that said, Li Rong bowed a salute: "Erchen retires."

Li Ming answered, Li Rong wiped tears and went out. After leaving the house, Fu Lai brought the tea up and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, after all, Your Highness is still a child and young."

"I thought she was grown up," Li Ming sighed, "I've always been young."

Li Rong wiped her tears and walked out of the imperial study room. As soon as she left the promenade, she looked cold.

Today, Li Ming's mood is not right, he is obviously dissatisfied with her, and Chen Wang's affairs are also well prepared. It is estimated that just yesterday she set up ambush, and those in the dark came up with today's play.

It's just who influenced Li Ming?

Li Rong thought, stepping out the door, and just leaving the courtyard, he saw a young man standing on the promenade. He was wearing a black-red official dress with a red border and holding a wat board, looking at the dead branches in the courtyard quietly.

Hearing sounds coming from the surroundings, he turned his head and looked at Li Rong. He saw Li Rong. He smiled and said respectfully, "Your Highness."

Li Rong did not expect that Pei Wenxuan was waiting here. She suddenly became a little flustered. She lowered her head to hide the traces of crying. She walked to him and said in a dumb voice: "Why didn't you go to the official office?"

"His Royal Highness just didn't listen to the words of the minister," Pei Wenxuan said, as if he hadn't seen anything, and sighed. "The minister said that he has to wait for your Highness. His Highness doesn't take it seriously. It seems that the minister is in his heart The weight is still not heavy enough."

Li Rong couldn't help laughing when he heard him: "Do you want to weigh?"

"No more, no less," Pei Wenxuan lightly touched his heart with the wat board, "just the whole heart."

"Your appetite is too big." Li Rong sneered, "Daydreaming."

Pei Wenxuan nodded lightly: "His Royal Highness praised, the biggest advantage of Weichen is that he has a good appetite, big ambition, insomnia and dreams at night, and good luck on weekdays."

But after a few words, Li Rong was amused by him. She glanced at him lightly, raised her eyebrows and said, "Didn't you have to sleep with me yesterday? Are you not angry today?"

"His Royal Highness joked, when did I get angry with Your Highness?"

Pei Wenxuan said peacefully: "Weichen just feels that we need to keep a distance from His Highness. If the feelings have not reached that point, we can't let His Highness taint the innocence of the Weichen and take advantage of the Weichen."

Li Rong: "..."

Very good, very tempered.

Pei Wenxuan saw Li Rong's expression slowing down. He felt that the atmosphere was almost the same. Seeing that there was no one around, he leaned over and whispered: "I just checked. Your Majesty stayed with Concubine Roux last night, Your Highness Hua Le Playing with your majesty, was punished to copy the female ring ten times."

Li Rong glanced at Pei Wenxuan, and Pei Wenxuan laughed: "Presumably, he will be able to solve your highness's confusion."

Li Rong did not speak, she walked on the promenade with Pei Wenxuan, she really understood.

Yesterday she set up in the Butterfly Gorge. The Chen family had this assassination. It should be possible to continue the assassination today as a bargaining chip, forcing the settlement of the military payment case and the Qin case.

And those behind it must have thought of this too. They are unwilling to let these two cases be settled. Once settled, it is not just a matter of a large number of official changes, but most importantly, there must be many more officials in this batch of changes. Li Rong's people want to be promoted, and Li Rong's position in the court will be completely stabilized.

They were afraid that Li Rong would have a firm foothold, and at the same time that Li Rong would investigate the matter deeply. The people involved in the assassination were also very frightened, so they should have reached an agreement overnight, at least with Rou Fei, so Rou Fei asked Hua Le to speak as a microphone. , So that Li Ming is angry with her today.

Judging from Li Ming's attitude today, Hua Le estimated that it would mean that she was not doing well, torturing officials to extract confessions, and being too mad. So Li Ming punished Hua Le, but if these words were nothing more than a brain, Li Ming took it to heart, so he came to trouble her.

When Li Ming had an opinion on her, he asked the Chen Wang family to come up to prove his innocence, and the assassination case would be difficult to investigate. After all, the current "mastermind" was dead, and the cases that Li Rong had in his hands, No matter how much evidence, ordinary people will have more doubts in their cognition.

Whether it is for public opinion or to appease the family, Chen Wang's death in this way, the military payment case and Qin's case will likely not be re-judged.

Li Rong frowned, bowed her head, and heard Pei Wenxuan respectfully say: "Xie Shangshu."

When Li Rong heard this, she raised her head and saw Xie Lanqing standing in front of her.

Xie Lanqing looked quite happy, and raised his hand to salute Li Rong: "His Royal Highness Pingle."

"Xie Shangshu, where is this going?"

When Li Rong spoke, her voice became a little dumb, and Xie Lanqing smiled softly: "The old minister is going to find your majesty. What's wrong with your majesty, your eyes are red, as if you have cried?

"The wind and sand are lost," Li Rong pretended not to hear the ridicule in Xie Lanqing's words, and replied, "Since Master Xie is still ill, then this palace is one step ahead."

"His Royal Highness, take a step," Xie Lanqing stopped Li Rong, Li Rong looked back at him, Xie Lanqing smiled, "His Royal Highness, the sea of ​​bitterness is boundless, and the back is the shore."

Li Rong stared at Xie Lanqing, and after a long time, she laughed: "Thanks to Master Shangshu for his advice, my palace will also send a word to the adults."

"Oh," Xie Lanqing raised his hand, "Listen with respect."

"Don't worry about your business, take care of your life." After saying that, Li Rong threw his sleeves and left. Pei Wenxuan saluted Xie Lanqing and followed Li Rong up. Pei Wenxuan followed Li Rong and whispered: "You Don't be angry, why are you angry with this old man? He won't live long anyway."

Xie Lanqing was the first senior official of the family to be cut down after Li Chuan became the throne.

Li Rong took a cold look at Xie Lanqing's back and leaned close to Pei Wenxuan. Pei Wenxuan bent his waist slightly and listened to Li Rong whispering in his ear: "I know why Chuan'er cut him."

"Ok?"

Li Rong gritted his teeth: "This old man is annoying."

Pei Wenxuan thought for a while. In fact, Xie Lanqing didn't say anything just now. Li Rong was so angry that she was afraid that Xie Lanqing would see him crying.

Pei Wenxuan glanced at Xie Lanqing's departure direction without a trace, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness said that this old man is not good."

When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan standing by her side, she felt a lot more comfortable. After Pei Wenxuan sent her to the carriage, she remembered it and said a bit dissatisfied: "Why don't you comfort me?"

Pei Wenxuan Shi Shiran sat opposite her, raised his head and smiled: "What does your Highness mean?"

"Don't try to pretend to be confused."

Li Rong raised his hand and knocked him with a fan: "Why are you getting bolder now?"

Pei Wenxuan knew that she meant that he saw her crying and did not speak. Pei Wenxuan felt funny in his heart, but she didn't show up on her face. He lowered his head and opened the zhezi and said indifferently: "His Royal Highness does not want face, but I want face."

Li Rong frowned, and then listened to Pei Wenxuan leisurely saying: "You haven't lost any money yet, do you want me to comfort you?"

Li Rong was speechless for a while, and she couldn't help feeling a little guilty. She thought it over, and when she went back, she would pay the peony money to Pei Wenxuan, and when the account was cleared, they could talk well.

Pei Wenxuan glanced at Li Rong's expression secretly, and smiled under her lips, pretending to be focused.

He suddenly felt that such Li Rong was very interesting.

Like a cat trying to stretch out its paw and dig you and feel ashamed, scratching its heart and thinking about how to attract your attention.

He had never seen Li Rong before, but now that he saw it, it was fresh and interesting, so he kept everything in his heart and didn't say anything.

Li Rong was thinking about repaying the money. Seeing Pei Wenxuan's head down and the corners of her lips frantically rising, she stopped what she was about to say, and was a little speechless for a while.

What is it like to be happy? How can you pretend to be so indifferent and reluctant if you have a tail?

She felt helpless with Pei Wenxuan. After thinking for a while, she decided not to speak.

Installed.

She thought, she paid him the money, and when she didn't owe him, and still took Joe like this, don't blame her for being rude.