Chapter 538 Escape
Jump off a cliff...
Shen Wan was stunned by these two words. She looked at Xie Jingyu and asked, "Why would they jump off a cliff?"
Xiao Yun and the Prince of Song were both cowards who loved life and feared death. It took a lot of courage for them to dare to jump off the cliff.
If he was captured by Prince Yuzhang and his men, he could at least live a few more days. If he fell off a cliff and didn't die immediately but became disabled and unable to move, he would have no choice but to wait to be torn apart by wild beasts.
No matter how Shen Wan looked at it, he felt that something was wrong.
Xie Jingyu asked Chen Ping, "Is there a steep cliff or a stream at the bottom of the cliff?"
"It's the water."
Shen Wan asked, "Are they trying to escape by jumping off a cliff?"
Xie Jingyu said, "Perhaps the Prince of Yuzhang and his men are not chasing Xiao Yun and the Prince of Song..."
Shen Wan's expression changed, "You mean they might have escaped a long time ago?"
Ever since Prince Qing wanted to borrow his son, the Crown Prince of Qing, to escape from Kyoto, Xie Jingyu had been on guard against his escape and had sent people to keep an eye on Prince Qing and Duke Song. How could he possibly let him escape right under his nose?
Originally, Xie Jingyu also thought that this was impossible, but today at the Queen Mother's place, after Xie Jingyu learned that the eldest son-in-law was missing, the Queen Mother and Princess Qiyang sent people to the place where the eldest son-in-law was away from the capital to work to look for him. Many people had seen the eldest son-in-law there...
It is unlikely that the people sent by the Queen Mother and Princess Qiyang to search were bribed by Duke Song. Xie Jingyu suspected that Duke Song and Prince Qing were afraid that the Queen Mother would suspect them, so they had someone disguise themselves as the Prince Consort and deliberately left traces of the Prince Consort in that place. In other words, Prince Qing and Duke Song had masters of disguise on their hands.
Because Prince Qing openly used the Crown Prince to leave the capital, and even drugged his own son, making the Crown Prince Qing's condition worse, so Xie Jingyu did not think that Prince Qing was just bluffing. By the time he reacted, Prince Qing had already escaped to who knows where.
Shen Wan asked, "Then the Duke of Song and Prince Qing who were imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice's death row are also fake?"
This is a nonsense question.
Even Xiao Yun and the Prince of Song had escaped, but the Duke of Song and Prince Qing were still able to stay and wait for death.
They were eager to overthrow Duke Song and Xiao Yun, and Lady Yaoguang helped them do it. However, because Lady Yaoguang was seriously injured, she was taken away for treatment, which alerted the enemy.
The whereabouts of Lady Yaoguang is unknown. No one has ever seen her alive or dead. This is like a sword hanging over their heads. How could Prince Qing and Duke Song dare to take it lightly? If they are not careful, they will be sent to the guillotine.
Even if the emperor wants to kill them, the empress dowager will not protect them.
Shen Wanqi was so angry that she couldn't eat. Xie Jingyu picked up some food for her and said, "Even if they escape, there will be no place for them in Ning Dynasty."
Even so, Shen Wan was unwilling to give up.
and--
Thinking of Xiao Yun and the Third Prince of Beiyue colluding with each other, Shen Wan became even angrier, "They must have gone to seek refuge with Xia Houyi!"
Xie Jingyu said, "When they were in power, Xiahou Yi didn't take them seriously, let alone them now that they have become destitute."
"If they really go to Xiahou Yi, I will ask Xiahou Yi to hand them over."
If someone else said this, Shen Wan would definitely think it was bragging.
But Xie Jingyu is not an ordinary person.
He could do it in his previous life, let alone now.
Xiahou Yi came to Ning Dynasty to stir up trouble, hoping that Xiao Yun and Duke Song would join forces to get rid of Xie Jingyu. However, not only did he fail to kill Xie Jingyu, he was forced by Xie Jingyu to flee to Beiyue and seek help from Xiahou Yi. With Xiahou Yi's narrow mind, it would be strange that he would look down on them.
They had tasted the bitter taste of trying to get the skin of a tiger at Xiahou Yi's hands before, and they still dared to provoke Xiahou Yi. Of course, Xiao Yun and the others had no choice.
Originally, Chen Wan and Xie Jingyu suspected that the Duke of Song and Prince Qing on death row in the Ministry of Justice were fake, and it was confirmed that night.
There was a fire in the Ministry of Justice prison.
Left xiang burned.
Duke Song and Prince Qing were burned beyond recognition.
This result was both expected and unexpected.
When he woke up in the morning and received the news, Shen Wan asked Xie Jingyu in confusion, "Why wasn't the Left Prime Minister burned to death?"
"The Left Prime Minister is real."
Shen Wan, “…???”
Duke Song and Prince Qing fled for their lives, even without the Left Prime Minister...
They fled without Queen Song, and they could also explain that it was inconvenient for them to escape because Queen Song stayed in the palace, so they had to abandon her.
But the Left Prime Minister had supported Xiao Yun for many years, and his children were even in-laws with Prince Qing. He actually abandoned the Left Prime Minister. No one knew what the Left Prime Minister was feeling at this moment.
The Left Prime Minister and the Duke of Song joined forces to support Xiao Yun, but the Left Prime Minister did not know the relationship between Xiao Yun and Prince Qing, because Xiao Yun was a legitimate son and had the greatest hope of sitting in that position among all the princes. If the Left Prime Minister knew that Xiao Yun was the son of Prince Qing, how could he take such a big risk to support a fake prince? I am afraid he would have switched sides long ago.
As early as the day when Lady Yaoguang disappeared in Princess Shunyang's mansion, Duke Song and Prince Qing had prepared a response plan. Only by making everyone think that they were dead could they live in hiding. When the Ministry of Justice caught fire, they were burned to death and the Left Prime Minister was seriously injured.
If Zuo Xiang is real, no one will doubt that they are fake.
They are really two old foxes!
After breakfast, Xie Jingyu left the study. Prince Yuzhang climbed over the wall to find him, looking tired. "Chu Yang and I have been searching all night, but we still can't find Prince Cheng and the Duke of Song who fell into the water..."
Xie Jingyu said, "No need to look for it."
Prince Yuzhang was surprised by what he heard, "Not looking for it anymore?"
"Those two are fake."
The Prince of Yuzhang was stunned for a moment, and then he started cursing.
One night.
He and Chu Yang and other officials searched along the river under the cliff for a whole night. They were almost exhausted, but they found out that they were two fakes.
This was because Xiao Yun and the Prince of Song were not present, otherwise the Prince of Yuzhang would definitely have hung them on a tree and whipped them to death.
Although the Minister of Justice had some doubts about the Duke of Song and Prince of Qing being burned to death in the death row of the Ministry of Justice, as arranged by Prince of Qing and Duke of Song, the Left Prime Minister was the real one, and the bodies were burned beyond recognition, so the Minister of Justice had no evidence to prove that they were not the real Prince of Qing and Duke of Song.
The Ministry of Justice failed to provide adequate supervision, resulting in a serious criminal being burned to death. At the morning court session, the Minister of Justice knelt down and apologized to the emperor.
The Emperor was about to punish the Minister of Justice, but just as he was about to do so, Xie Jingyu sent someone to pass on a message to Eunuch An, who quickly reported back to the Emperor, "Your Majesty, the Prince of Jingbei suspects that the Duke of Song and the Duke of Qing who were burned to death are fakes. The Prince of Cheng and the Duke of Song who fell off the cliff yesterday are also fakes..."
The Emperor was not satisfied with letting Duke Song and Prince Qing be burned to death, not to mention that the two were very likely to have escaped.
The emperor immediately ordered the Minister of Justice, "Find out for me whether they are fake or not!"
Duke Song broke his leg when he was young. A coroner would be able to tell whether it was true or not after performing an autopsy.
As expected, there were no signs of broken leg bones on the body of Duke Song, so it was undoubtedly fake.
The Minister of Justice reported the truth to the emperor.
The emperor was furious.
He immediately sent people to chase after Duke Song and Prince Qing.
If he is alive, I want to see him in person; if he is dead, I want to see his body.
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