White Hedge Dream

Chapter 186 Timing

"First Prince?"

In Hanliang Hall, Bai Ying sat up from the bed after hearing the news.

Wang Degui waved his hand, and the two imperial doctors on duty in the room hurriedly left.

Wang Degui stepped forward and supported Bai Ying: "Mother, be careful."

In fact, she was fine. The Queen made a big fuss last night. Her fainting was due to good timing. It would not really hurt her at all. Instead, she lay down all night just to pretend, and her back and legs ached.

Bai Ying supported Wang Degui and walked a few steps: "Why are you mentioning the crown prince again?"

She had never met the former prince, but she was not unfamiliar with him. It was precisely because the prince died and the emperor gave beauties to other princes that she had the opportunity to marry King Changyang.

She was very grateful to the prince for dying well.

"The reason the late emperor and the late prince had an open conflict was because the former prince was raising private soldiers." Wang Degui was very familiar with these old events and told Bai Ying.

After hearing this, Bai Ying asked: "So, what that person is saying now is that the former Crown Prince did not raise a private soldier, and it was not framed by Empress Chiang. It was all caused by this Du family?"

Wang Degui nodded: "Yes, Mrs. Du wanted to marry the then third prince, Prince Guangping. Prince Guangping was ambitious and wanted to replace the prince, so in order to help the third prince, Mrs. Du framed and framed the prince."

Bai Ying said, pacing slowly, what about the first prince? What does it matter if he was framed or if he was really ambitious? Everyone is dead, why are you bringing this up now?

"Whose person is that?" she asked.

Zhang Ze or Princess Jinyu?

Wang Degui shook his head: "No, this person is a secretary of the Ministry of Justice. He has been an official for many years and has mediocre qualifications. He is just qualified to attend the Great Court."

No one belongs to anyone? Bai Ying was surprised.

"It is said that when the late emperor was here, he was responsible for sorting out the case of the former prince, but in the end it was dropped. He always felt that the case files were unclear and it was a knot in his mind, so he never gave up for so many years and kept investigating in private." Wang Degui said.

Is that so? Bai Ying frowned: "Then your Majesty must believe him."

Such a pure minister, who has no cliques, has a low official position, and has no interests involved, must be trusted by the emperor.

Different from Zhang Ze.

In fact, the emperor did not trust Zhang Ze, but Zhang Ze did what he wanted. Otherwise, when he checked the empress this time, Zhang Ze would have said that she was a party member of the Empress Chiang Kai-shek. However, the emperor did not immediately throw the empress into prison, but only kept her in prison. It was not until Princess Jinyu came forward to testify that the emperor ordered the imperial guards to capture the queen.

Wang Degui nodded, and when he was about to say something, a servant's voice came from outside: "Your Majesty, there is new news—"

Wang Degui hurriedly let him in and asked, "How's it going?"

The young chamberlain said: "Just now, Shangguan's consort knelt down and begged Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the case in which the late prince was framed."

Shangguan's consort? Bai Ying looked at Wang Degui in surprise. What does this have to do with him?

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Of course it's none of his business.

Princess Jinyu was sitting on a stool, her fingernails in her sleeves almost cut off, her teeth clenching in her closed mouth, looking at Shangguan Xue who was kneeling in the hall.

It’s about his sweetheart who he still misses even after he dies!

Shangguanxue!

This time, without looking at her eyes, he suddenly jumped out and knelt down!

"…..Your Majesty, the prince is wronged…"

"Sure enough, it was these traitors who deceived the late Emperor. In addition to the Crown Prince, His Majesty, you princes have also been framed."

".These traitors have driven a wedge between the late emperor and his son, and turned the father and son of the Tian family into enemies..."

"Your Majesty, I am deeply saddened. I am in pain and cannot bear to live. I feel sorry for the late prince and your majesty."

Shangguanxue knelt on the ground with tears streaming down his face, sobbing uncontrollably.

The emperor was still a little confused at first, but these words brought back the difficult days in the past, and he shed tears. Yes, the days were really sad back then. His father had a weird temper, Empress Chiang was eyeing him, and the courtiers were adding insult to injury.

Seeing the emperor's reaction, Princess Jinyu was heartbroken. She slipped off the stool and knelt down, tears streaming down her face: "Your Majesty, brother, he is so heartbreaking."

She was so heartbroken!

how so!

She regretted so much, why did she ask so many more questions?

Seeing the princess kneeling down and crying, the emperor couldn't help but stand up.

"Check, check, check this Du family for me!" He shouted, pointing at Zhang Ze, and then thinking that Zhang Ze had not found out about this matter, he immediately waved his hand and looked at the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice who was kneeling in the hall. "Get up, get up and talk, what's your name?"

Although the Shu Lingshi had never confronted the emperor, he did not panic. He stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, Wei Xing."

The emperor looked at this official with a simple face and serious eyebrows. Over the past many years, this person has never given up. He is a pure minister with a strong character.

"You come to investigate the case of Du's murder of the late prince." The emperor said, and then looked at the officials of the Ministry of Punishment, "Your Ministry of Punishment, please investigate this matter for me!"

The officials of the Ministry of Punishment responded one after another.

Zhang Ze glanced at Shangguan's consort who was kneeling on the ground crying and almost fainted, and then at Princess Jinyu who was clenching her hands and beating the ground hard. His eyes fell on Wei Xing who suddenly appeared in the palace, and he frowned. .

For the sake of the late prince, have you never given up?

The former prince is dead, and the former emperor is also dead. Are the officials at that time still alive? What is the character of the late prince that everyone has forgotten?

That's right, it was indeed not Empress Chiang who framed him, because there was no need for it.

The former prince regarded himself as the eldest son, was unruly and narrow-minded, and often complained about the late emperor behind his back. The emperor had long had a grudge against him, and the prince already had the intention of colluding with ministers to raise private soldiers. If others dug a hole for him, there was no need to push him away. Just jumped in, no matter how framed it was by others!

There is no room for two tigers in the same mountain. The father is unkind and the son is unfilial. Sooner or later they will kill each other.

This man surnamed Wei suddenly jumped out and said that there was no one behind him and it was all based on his passion, but he didn't believe it.

Who is it?

What do you want?

Zhang Ze's eyes fell on Princess Jinyu again. Was he the person who provided personal and material evidence to the princess? The purpose is to uncover the past affairs of the former prince, but Princess Jinyu breaks her promise?

Thinking of this, Zhang Ze couldn't help but smile.

The person behind this is so awesome, he actually has a plan to prevent Princess Jinyu from breaking her promise.

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"I don't care whether the people behind this are powerful or not, or what their intentions are. I only care whether the queen dies or not this time!"

Bai Ying stood up and looked at Zhang Ze with an annoyed expression.

"You're still laughing. Originally, Yang's case was settled today, but now it's been delayed again!"

By asking what the queen had cursed last night for the record, Zhang Ze came to see Bai Ying and told him personally what happened in the court.

The emperor said to find out the Du family first, and then talk about Yang's case.

"Will the Du family retract their confession?" Bai Ying paced back and forth, "Are you going to say that it was you who instigated it, that you forced them to identify Yang family?" Wang Degui stretched out his hand to support him and whispered, "Mother, please walk slower."

Zhang Ze said: "It's nothing unusual to say that I forced a confession. Everyone talks about me like this. Your Majesty is tired of hearing it and won't care. As for the Du family, your Majesty hates them for doing such a thing. You won't believe anything they say." It's just a dying dog barking. It has some influence. The queen won't die for a while, but don't worry, Yang will shed her skin even if she doesn't die, so she is no longer a threat to the empress."

He looked at Bai Ying and smiled.

"My dear, don't be afraid."

Bai Ying pouted: "What do I have to be afraid of? If I were afraid, I wouldn't be able to get here today." He sat down angrily and raised his hand to beat the pillow next to him, "I just feel unlucky. Why is my luck so bad? It's all over. , got kicked in again!"

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"Xiao Lang, Xiao Lang."

On the boat in the afternoon, the footsteps of Shangguan's consort broke the peace.

Although he built this building for Shangguan Yue, he almost never came to avoid angering the princess.

Shangguan Yue ran out of the house wearing her underwear, "Why are you here? If you have any orders, just ask someone to call me."

Shangguan's consort's face was full of smiles, but his expression seemed sad.

"I can't wait, I can't wait." He said, urging Shangguan Yue, "You're wearing too little. Come in and tell me." He pushed Shangguan Yue into the house.

The room was warm, the curtains were drooped, and it was dark.

The bedroom door on the left opened, and Shangguan Yue was obviously awakened from her sleep.

Shangguan's consort's gaze fell to the right, and he saw a closed door over there.

This was his first time to visit Shangguan Yue's resting place on the building. The room was quite small. What was that room used for?

But he just looked at her and thought about it, without asking.

Ji Xiang came in with tea, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Consort, sir, the living room has been tidied up."

Shangguan's consort waved his hand: "No, just say it here."

Ji Xiang couldn't help but glance at the door on the right, that's all, even if she avoided it now, no matter what the consort said, the young master would still tell her.

He stopped talking, backed out, and closed the door.

Shangguan's consort didn't bother to drink tea and talked about what happened in the court in one breath. When he heard that Shu Lingshi stood up, Shangguan Yue couldn't help but feel numb.

"Xiao Lang, did you arrange this person?" Shangguan's consort asked excitedly.

The person he arranged was actually a princess, but she was let down.

Then this person...

He didn't believe that someone had actually been sorting out his father's case for so many years. He had checked it out himself. His father's case was unclear and not worth the attention of unrelated people.

This person can only be arranged by humans.

It's Bai Li, what Bai Li said, that hope.

But there are some things that you know, the fewer people you have, the safer you are.

Shangguan Yue looked at Shangguan's consort and nodded: "I asked Shopkeeper Cai and others to prepare it." He added, "But I haven't had time to ask how exactly it was done..."

Shangguan's prince-in-law interrupted him by stroking his palms: "Well done, well done." As he spoke, tears flowed down again, "I have finally waited for this day. It was so sudden. I, I was in the court at that time and heard what Wei Xing said. , I thought it was a dream, like a dream, I have been preparing for a long time, I have been waiting for this day—"

His voice was choked and his words were incoherent, and he raised his sleeves to cover his face.

Shangguan Yue looked at the choked Shangguan Prince Consort, and her own eyes became sour.

Shangguan's consort had been preparing for so long, but he didn't tell him and instead found someone else. But Shangguan's consort saw the opportunity and pounced without hesitation.

"Thank you...Father." Shangguan Yue leaned over and kowtowed, murmuring.

His voice was soft when he called his father, and Shangguan's consort was immersed in sadness and did not hear it.

"Get up quickly and say thank you." Shangguan's consort said, raising his sleeves to wipe away his tears, "I'm here to say something to you, and I'm going back to the Criminal Department immediately to keep an eye on you."

His face was filled with joy.

"This case can be attributed to the estrangement between the former crown prince and the late emperor. The late emperor was deceived, not only to the crown prince, but also to other princes. For His Majesty, this is to prove to the world that he and the late emperor were deeply affectionate as father and son. good opportunity.”

"This is a good time!"

"I must keep a close watch and work hard to give it to your father..."

He looked at Shangguan Yue.

"...Mother's charges are cleared, and your family's identity is restored."

Shangguan Yue knelt on the ground and bowed again.

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The steps of Shangguan's consort had gone away, but Shangguan Yue still lowered her head on the ground motionless, seeming to be asleep.

Until the door on the other side rang.

Shangguan Yue tilted her head and saw Bai Li standing by the door smiling at him.

"Congratulations to Mr. Shangguan," she said.

Shangguan Yue raised her body, and he didn't ask her how she did it. He just saluted solemnly: "Thank you, Miss Bai."

Bai Li smiled and said, "You're welcome, it's just our luck."

Any luck? Shangguan Yue thought, alas, this kind of good luck was actually due to their bad luck.

He stood up, smiled and nodded: "Yes, we are lucky."

The plot of this section is about solving Shangguan Yue’s identity, which is almost solved.