Mo Yunchen's face darkened, "Jiang Mengli, do you think that I must marry you?"

Jiang Mengli chuckled, "How could that be? You should marry someone else. Having three wives and four concubines has nothing to do with me."

"Your Majesty, I have something to ask you privately."

This was an indirect way to drive Mo Yunchen out of the side hall.

Without waiting for the emperor to speak, Mo Yunchen bowed and left the side hall.

After the door closed, Jiang Mengli withdrew his gaze and said, "Your Majesty, I want to ask you something."

The emperor nodded and said, "Ask."

Jiang Mengli pursed his lips and mustered up the courage to say, "The Jiang family has been banned from officialdom, and my parents and older brother have been exiled for many years. Can they be allowed to return home?"

These words shocked the emperor and made him frown.

At first, he wished Jiang Dingshan would die in the wilderness and never thought of letting him return to Beijing.

The Jiang family once posed too great a threat to the imperial court.

Seeing him silent, Jiang Mengli continued, "Even if they come back, they will be ordinary people. They will not enter the officialdom, and their descendants will not have the opportunity to pass the imperial examinations."

"The Jiang family was once powerful, but now they have fallen. I can exchange it for the golden medal of immunity from death."

Since ancient times, those who are more powerful than their masters will never have a good ending, and the Jiang family is one of them.

Eighty percent of the Jiang family was wronged, but she would not speak out, after all, it involved the emperor's face.

The emperor frowned and was silent for a moment before saying, "I...I will consider it."

This is no small matter.

Perhaps many officials will object, and he has to consider all aspects.

Jiang Mengli heard this and smiled faintly, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Since you said you would consider it, there is hope.

The emperor paced back and forth in the room for a while, hands behind his back, and then said, "Why don't you ask about the affairs of the Duke of Rong's Mansion? Aren't you afraid that I will be partial to you?"

Jiang Mengli: "This is a matter of state. I don't need to ask too much. Besides, their collusion with the Langya Gang is damaging Your Majesty's country. It doesn't seem to matter to me."

Upon hearing this, the Emperor smiled and said, "That seems to be the case. With the Empress Dowager intervening in the Rongguo Mansion, it will be more troublesome to deal with."

"This time, several generals from the Langya Gang will serve as witnesses. Even the Queen Mother won't be able to stop us. We can make concessions on other matters, but not on this one."

Regardless of whether Jiang Mengli Guan cared or not, he still told her the current situation.

During this period of time, the Queen Mother has been obstructing the investigation, sometimes even threatening to commit suicide to prevent further investigation of the matter.

In the end, the emperor decided to wait until they returned with the Langya Gang captives before dealing with them.

Jiang Mengli just nodded without making any other response.

The emperor opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "Your second master has a son named Jiang Yan. I wonder if you remember him?"

Jiang Mengli frowned and thought about it, but couldn't remember such a person.

At that time, the original owner was still young and had so many relatives that he couldn't recognize them all.

She shook her head. "I can't figure it out. What happened to him?"

Emperor: "I heard that he died in the wilderness before, but he actually fabricated a false image of being burned to death and escaped, and he was working for Fu Hongtang."

"You've seen that man before. He's... the man in black robe who was cheated when he bought food from you. He's your cousin Jiang Yan."

Rumble...

These words were like a thunderclap.

It exploded in her ears.

That person turned out to be a member of the Jiang family, and he was exiled and died as a shield!

Helping the Langya Gang is a serious crime. Could it be that the Jiang family will also be implicated?!

The emperor saw that she looked unhappy and said to her soothingly, "Don't worry, I won't implicate you. I have already executed him, and no one knows his identity."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Mengli immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

If outsiders knew Jiang Yan's identity, the Jiang family would be implicated.

It is possible that those who were exiled would be executed directly.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

The person who came in was Wen Yu.

The first thing he asked after he came in was, "Father, I just heard Uncle Ninth Prince say that you want him to get back together with Miss Jiang? It's not possible now. He...they are not suitable."

The emperor thought it was something else, but he heard this as soon as he came in.

"Why are you so concerned?" The emperor glared at him unhappily. "They should solve their own problems themselves. I will not interfere."

"As for you, you are already quite old, so you should move up the schedule for selecting the Crown Princess."

Wen Yu: “…” The corners of his mouth twitched.

Why are you suddenly talking about your marriage?

Jiang Mengli looked at his somewhat reluctant expression and said with a smile, "Yes, it is indeed time for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to arrange a marriage."

In order not to disturb their conversation, she left the side hall.

The palace banquet was lively, and there were many women present.

Jiang Mengli pretended to be drunk and left the palace without drinking too much.

Outside the palace, she saw Yun Ying and Yun Jian waiting by the carriage.

Then he asked Yun Jian to take her to Prince Yu's Mansion, "Go to Prince Yu's Mansion quickly."

On the way there, she would occasionally lift the curtain to look behind her, afraid that Mo Yunchen would follow her.

Yun Jian was a little puzzled. "Are you in such a hurry to go to Prince Yu's Mansion because of something? Why isn't the master with you?"

"We can't let him come with us." Jiang Mengli lowered the curtain and explained, "I suspect he's not your master, but someone else pretending to be him."

"After returning to Prince Yu's Mansion, find a way to temporarily keep the tiger talisman and the red letter of iron certificate for me. Don't let him know."

Yun Jian was completely stunned.

The current master is not the master! ?

There was indeed something different. He suspected that his master was stimulated by the torture, and he never thought that it was someone else pretending to be him.

The news was so surprising that he couldn't believe it.

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