Chapter 109 A Heartless Man
Qi Yingmo thought for a moment, "I have a plan."
"Oh? Tell me about it."
"Your Highness, we can do this... that..."
"Then follow your plan."
After hearing his plan, Sikong Yu's expression eased a lot, but when he thought that Moxiang Village was gone, his brows tightened again, "When I first established Moxiang Village, you said that the most dangerous place was the safest, so I chose the address outside the capital. Now that Moxiang Village has been exposed, how do you plan to deal with it?"
Qi Yingmo seemed to have thought of a countermeasure long ago, and he spoke immediately, "Your Highness, two of the nannies in Moxiang Village came from Pingyuan Marquis's mansion. It was Pingyuan Marquis who took the initiative to tame those children. What does it have to do with us?"
No wonder Qi Yingmo deliberately asked Pingyuan Marquis for two nannies after getting Pingyuan Marquis to join the partnership.
It turns out that from that time on, Pingyuan Hou was destined to be the scapegoat.
Sikong Yu's expression changed several times, and he was silent for a while before saying, "But, how do you know that Pingyuan Hou will not bite back when he is forced into a corner?"
"Prince, everyone knows that Pingyuan Hou loves his daughter as if his life, and his daughter Mu Yao is now the concubine of Jing Wangfu. If he betrays you, then the first person to be hurt will not be his precious daughter?"
Sikong Yu did not like Mu Yao, but Mu Yao fell in love with him at first sight.
At the beginning, Mu Yao cried and fasted in front of Pingyuan Hou in order to marry him. Pingyuan Hou had no choice but to lose face and come to him.
And Sikong Yu promised Mu Yao the position of Jing Wangfu's concubine.
After all, Shen Qingwan's value at that time was much higher than Mu Yao's, so Sikong Yu's position as the main wife had been vacant, deliberately hanging Shen Qingwan.
Thinking of this, Sikong Yu raised the corner of his lips lightly, "This prince will pass the news to Pingyuan Marquis's Mansion, let Pingyuan Marquis think that Concubine Mu is pregnant."
Ministry of Justice.
The sentry who was brought back slept in the prison for a whole day and night before he recovered from the effect of the incense.
But before Shen Qingyuan could torture them, they bit open the poison hidden in their mouths and committed suicide collectively.
Shen Qingyuan knew that these guys were all dead men, and even if they were alive, he might not be able to pry open their mouths.
At the moment, he could only start with the six maids.
These maids were usually only responsible for disciplining those children, and the information obtained from them was extremely limited.
Shen Qingyuan had not expected to identify Sikong Yu with these six vicious women. It was a great gain to learn from them that Pingyuan Hou was also involved in the Moxiang Village incident.
With Sikong Yu's ruthlessness, Pingyuan Hou must bear all the charges.
Since the victims of this case were all children, and even the youngest child was only four or five years old.
At this time, the impact was extremely bad, and the emperor was furious and ordered severe punishment for the officials involved.
When Pingyuan Hou's only daughter Mu Yao learned that Pingyuan Hou's mansion was raided, she ran to find Sikong Yu as soon as possible.
"Prince, please save my father?"
Sikong Yu looked at Mu Yao kneeling in front of him, frowned, and said coldly, "Marquis Pingyuan did such a heart-breaking and insane scandal. The emperor did not implicate you and me, which is a great blessing! A daughter who is married off is like water spilled, and you are lucky not to be implicated by Marquis Pingyuan. Don't go out during this period of time. Stay in the mansion and copy the scriptures well. Be alert to yourself and don't do stupid things! Hurting others and yourself!"
His words not only restrained her, but also secretly warned her to draw a clear line with Marquis Pingyuan's mansion.
"Prince! Prince..."
Sikong Yu ignored her and walked steadily without any nostalgia.
Mu Yao looked at his receding back, and fell to the ground powerlessly, tears rolling down her cheeks.
After she married into Prince Jing's Mansion, her father secretly ran around for Sikong Yu.
But now that something happened in Pingyuan Marquis' Mansion, Sikong Yu chose to stand by and watch, keeping himself out of trouble!
When he came to ask for her hand in marriage, he said that he would not marry anyone but her, but in the end he only gave her the position of a concubine.
Now that she begged him to save her father, he cut off all ties with just a few words.
She suddenly felt that the elegant and romantic prince in her heart was very different from Sikong Yu in front of her.
So, why did she fall in love with such a heartless man in the first place?
The Ministry of Justice has been very busy recently in order to send the children rescued from Moxiang Village back home.
Shen Qingyuan hadn't slept for several days. Finally, he borrowed a lot of manpower from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel, and finally sent the children back to their parents.
He solved a big case this time, and all his colleagues in the court looked up to him, and he also firmly established his position as the Minister of Justice.
Although Pingyuan Hou took the blame for the Moxiang Village incident, many officials were caught along his line.
The emperor was angry, and all the officials in the court were in danger, fearing that they would lose the black gauze hat on their heads if they were not careful.
The situation in the court was also quietly turning around. The attitudes of those officials who originally stood on Sikong Yu's side changed, and they began to distance themselves from him.
In the harem, because Shen Chaoyan was under 'house confinement', several cunning concubines tried their best to seize the time to gain the emperor's favor.
No one expected that the hardest-working person among them was Shen Qingwan.
That night, after Sikong Yan reviewed the memorials, he habitually wanted to go to the Feiyan Palace.
Halfway through the walk, he remembered that Shen Chaoyan was not there, so he had to turn back to the Yu Garden and pretend to take a walk.
Li Heguang knew that Sikong Yan had been dealing with court affairs day and night during this period, and he was indeed tired.
When people are tired, they naturally miss their loved ones the most.
"Your Majesty, in two days, Concubine Hua's 'house confinement' will be lifted. Please be patient."
Originally, even if Shen Chaoyan was under house confinement, Sikong Yan could see her anytime he wanted.
However, Shen Chaoyan was not in the palace now, so he had to hold back and not go to the Piyan Palace, lest the spies in the palace discover the clues.
"Come with me to the lakeside."
Sikong Yan put his hands behind his back and walked in front with his long legs.
Li Heguang replied "yes" and trotted after him.
He was about to say something to divert Sikong Yan's attention.
At this moment, a strange sound came from the pavilion not far away.
It sounded like ghosts howling, making one's scalp tingle and their hearts almost stop!
My dear seventh uncle!
If he hadn't been in the palace, Li Heguang would have thought that someone was having a funeral at night and encountered a ghost!
Sikong Yan's brows were also twisted into a ball, "What sound?"
"I'll go and take a look."
Li Heguang walked forward for a long distance and finally saw the woman sitting in the pavilion, "Your Majesty, it's Concubine Wan. She is playing a gourd-shaped flute."
Sikong Yan frowned even more when he heard it, "It sounds so bad, is she trying to kill people with the sound of the flute?"
Li Heguang also wanted to cover his ears, "Yes, how about I go and ask Concubine Wan to stop playing it?"
Sikong Yan was about to nod when the sound of the gourd silk stopped abruptly.
"Your Majesty!"
Shen Qingwan saw them and immediately trotted towards them. She changed her usual indifference and saluted Sikong Yan enthusiastically, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!"
Sikong Yan glanced at her and replied perfunctorily, "I have paid my respects to you and you can leave."
Shen Qingwan saw that he didn't even look at her, and she became anxious, "Your Majesty, I know that you have been busy with state affairs recently, so I specially learned a few songs to let Your Majesty relax."
She sent messages out of the palace several times but all fell on deaf ears.
Shen Qingwan is not stupid, she can feel that Sikong Yu is far less concerned about her than before.
People should learn to adapt.
She is in the harem, and Shen Chaoyan is targeting her everywhere. If she wants to survive, she must hold on to Sikong Yan, this golden thigh.
However, she didn't have any of the skills that the women in the harem had to please men.
Her limbs were not coordinated, so she couldn't dance. She didn't understand music, so she couldn't play the guqin or guzheng. She was tone-deaf and couldn't sing.
She had taken the Hulusi elective in college, but the Great Xia Dynasty didn't have such an instrument. Perhaps, she could start with the Hulusi.
So, after learning that Shen Chaoyan was under house arrest, Shen Qingwan hurriedly asked someone to make a Hulusi.
She asked Caizhu to find out that Sikong Yan would come to Yu Garden for a walk every night.
Tonight, she really saw him.
She hurriedly prepared for her talent show.
"No!"
Li Heguang thought of the terrible tune she had just played and hurriedly stopped her, "Empress Wan, the emperor will discuss state affairs with several ministers later, so you have to return to Yangxin Palace immediately!"
When other concubines played the piano and sang, it was like a lark in the human world.
When Wan played this tune, it was like a lark in the underworld opening its voice!
It was life-threatening!