Emperor Dongling glanced at Eunuch Wei.
"Is this even a question? All the servants of Renhe Palace will be imprisoned and await trial. Anyone who knew about it and participated in it will be convicted.
The Renhe Palace burned down and was rebuilt. There will no longer be a Renhe Palace. It's heartbreaking to see it!"
Isn’t it?
It’s so disturbing to think about how arrogant Concubine Xue was when she was in power!
Eunuch Wei bowed and agreed, and was about to leave the imperial study.
Emperor Dongling called out, "Let's go to the prison and take a look."
"Your Majesty, please don't go to that filthy place, okay?" Eunuch Wei tried to dissuade him.
Emperor Dongling thought about it.
"Forget it! The secret guards sent a message saying that there is some progress in confusing the royal bloodline. We should wait a little longer until the secret guards come back with evidence. It won't be too late to go then."
Big prison.
In the prison area where death row prisoners were held, Prime Minister Xue and Xue Huaian, Concubine Xue and Liu Heng were imprisoned in three adjacent cells.
Xue Huaian looked at Prime Minister Xue with a dejected expression: "Dad, the truth has been revealed. The secret guards who arrested me have two charges: one is the murder of the emperor and empress, and the other is the confusion of the royal bloodline."
Prime Minister Xue's lips trembled: "The Xue family is finished!"
After a while, he got up, walked to the prison door, grabbed the door pillar, and whispered to Concubine Xue opposite him.
"Lin'er, what did you do? Why does the emperor know everything?"
After struggling all the way, Concubine Xue was now leaning against the prison door exhausted. She was used to a life of luxury and could not bear to sit in such a filthy place as the prison.
Hearing Prime Minister Xue's question, he raised his head and said in despair: "I don't know, I don't know anything! I can't even figure out why there is dove poison in the porridge!
We were clearly just one step away from success, and they were clearly about to drink it, but we failed at the last moment, failed at the last moment! "
Prime Minister Xue frowned: "Poison?"
"Yes, the silver needle turned black the moment it was tested. The imperial physician said there was dove poison in the porridge, and even the purple poison was revealed.
The only people who can touch the porridge are Nanny An and the Emperor."
Prime Minister Xue understood the key after just a moment's thought.
"There is only one possibility. The emperor deliberately placed the poison there in order to find out the poison in the porridge and prove our guilt."
Concubine Xue was incredulous: "How is that possible?"
Prime Minister Xue continued, "Everyone knows that the Emperor's food must be tested with a silver needle before it is eaten.
If we dare to give the emperor the poisoned porridge, we will surely be able to pass the silver needle test."
"The Emperor must have thought of this, and he simply poisoned the person himself, just so we could catch him red-handed.
The Emperor wants to exterminate our Xue family and has dug a huge pit for us to fall into."
Concubine Xue was stunned: "Dad, are you saying that the Emperor knew we were going to poison you?"
"The Emperor knows everything!"
The military tent of the border commander.
Nangong Yunzhan looked at the forged letter in his hand that he had found from the deputy general and couldn't help but shudder.
Today, there was nothing to do in the army, so he took a group of his men into the mountains to hunt.
Everything was fine at the beginning, everyone was talking and laughing.
But after entering the forest and dispersing to look for prey, everything changed.
Deputy General Sun, whom he regarded as a brother, did not go hunting. Instead, he treated himself as his prey and actually shot an arrow at him from behind.
At that time, with a "swoosh" sound, the cold arrow flew through the air and headed straight for his vital points.
If I hadn't been prepared, if the secret guards around me hadn't shot down the arrow, I would have died today.
Afterwards, a letter was actually found on him.
The recipient of the letter was Emperor Zhao Zhengxiong of Beiyue, the enemy country that he had defeated and was forced to flee in fear. The letter was signed with his own name, and the handwriting was entirely his own.
If this letter is used by someone with ulterior motives, the consequences can be imagined.
Nangong Yunzhan thought about the reminders in his father's letter and the words of the secret guard who came to deliver the letter. He gritted his teeth and burned the letter. After watching the letter completely turn into ashes, he stood up and went to another tent.
Inside the tent, the smell of blood filled the air, and a man covered in blood was tied to a wooden stake.
Hearing footsteps, he looked up and saw Nangong Yunzhan approaching, begging for mercy: "General, please consider that I have been at your service for many years and spare me this time."
"Lieutenant General Sun Wei, you're about to kill me, and you're asking me to spare you? Have you ever considered sparing my entire family? Don't you know the consequences of your letter?
I treated you like a friend and a brother, letting you participate in everything and keeping nothing from you, yet you actually stabbed me in the back."
"I was blinded by my own greed and was taken advantage of."
"What benefit did Liu Heng give you? Do you want to work for him?"
Deputy General Sun looked at Nangong Yunzhan in astonishment: "You know all this?"
"Yes, I know everything! I knew everything more than a month ago!
At first, I couldn't accept it at all, didn't want to believe it, and even doubted myself, wondering if I wasn't good enough to you.
"You said you've been at my service for many years, but have you ever thought that I was the one who trained you from an ordinary soldier to a lieutenant general step by step?
I treat you as my own brother, caring for you and protecting you everywhere."
"Over the past month, I've given you countless opportunities, even proactively asking if you had any difficulties or if you encountered any hardship.
You, however, are determined to keep going down this path, and won't turn back until you hit a wall. You are determined to kill me, and you are determined to put that letter that will kill hundreds of people on me."
"Sun Wei, they say people's hearts are made of flesh and blood, but yours is made of stone and I can't warm it no matter what I do.
At this point, how can you still have the nerve to ask me to spare you?"
Lieutenant General Sun finally stopped begging for mercy.
"I was wrong. I was bewitched. I will die as an apology. Please spare my family."
"You still care about your family? Then why haven't you thought about my family? My Nangong family has been loyal for generations, and you almost ruined us.
Don’t even think about letting your family go. You will reap what you sow. It’s all your own fault!
I will not show mercy. Tit-for-tat is my usual style.
You should be very clear about this!"
Soon, the news that Sun Wei attempted to surrender to the enemy and commit treason but failed and committed suicide out of fear of punishment was made public to the entire army. An urgent letter and evidence of treason in Sun Wei's handwriting were urgently sent to the capital.
What awaits Sun Wei's family will eventually be the end.
After dealing with all this, Nangong Yunzhan called his father's old subordinates and bowed to express his gratitude.
"Uncles, this time it was all thanks to your cooperation that Sun Wei was able to reveal his true form. It was because I was too young and didn't know how to judge people that I almost made a big mistake that harmed myself and my family.
In the future, I will learn more from you, listen more to your opinions, and strive to become a general like my father."
"Major General, you are already very outstanding. I believe that after going through this crisis, you will grow even better."
"I just wonder if the general and his men can survive these calculations?"
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