Emperor Yong summoned Lu to the Golden Palace, and Shen Yubai and Shu Linyue also followed.
Lu was supported by Jinhua as she entered. Her complexion was so bad that even Emperor Yong frowned. As soon as she entered, she knelt down and wailed:
"Your Majesty, you must make the decision for me!"
Emperor Yong said in a deep voice:
"You are accusing your husband and mother-in-law of practicing witchcraft. What evidence do you have?"
Lu raised his head, his expression becoming extremely excited:
"There's a secret compartment in my husband's study, which contains an evil object. Under the instructions of my mother-in-law, he used my good fortune and that of my two sons to worship this object in exchange for the Jiang family's wealth and glory!"
Emperor Yong's expression changed drastically after hearing this.
He looked at Shen Yubai and said, "Is there really such a thing in this world that can steal other people's luck and use it for one's own benefit? How come I have never heard of it?"
Shen Yubai said calmly:
"Yes, but performing this kind of magic consumes a lot of energy and has many restrictions.
If the person whose luck is stolen has a strong destiny, the magic will hardly succeed. Even if it succeeds, the thief will suffer backlash tenfold or a hundredfold.
Furthermore, because this technique goes against the will of heaven, even if the person whose luck is stolen is just an ordinary person with an ordinary fate, the thief will succeed for a while, but will ultimately lose his good karma and will sooner or later be punished by heaven and receive retribution.
Therefore, even sorcerers rarely use this kind of magic."
Upon hearing this, Lu became even more excited and said loudly:
"Your Majesty, Your Highness Prince Zhan, what I said is true! I heard my husband and mother-in-law plotting at home with my own ears, and I also saw with my own eyes what was hidden in the secret compartment of my husband's study! It was a jade statue of a Pixiu, but it was covered with ominous patterns, and it was obviously a sorcerer's item..."
She had never seen the Xuanyin Tianlu with her own eyes, but under Jinhua's suggestion and the control of magic, she believed from the bottom of her heart that she had seen this thing with her own eyes.
Mrs. Lu even described the scene of Marquis Wen Ning casting the spell, and then she said with tears streaming down her face:
"He is using me and my own son as sacrifices. I came here today not for myself, but for my two sons!"
When Emperor Yong heard about witchcraft and the jade statue of Pixiu, he immediately remembered the witchcraft doll he found in the Empress Dowager's palace this morning.
He also naturally thought that since the Jiang family had been secretly supporting Tianming Pavilion, it was not surprising that Marquis Wen Ning learned some witchcraft from the people of Tianming Pavilion.
If what Lu said is true, then Marquis Wen Ning can now use witchcraft privately to sacrifice his wife and children to bring good luck to the Jiang family. This beast will dare to use witchcraft to do more things that are detrimental to Dasheng and to him, the emperor, in the future.
As a king, what he hated most was his subjects' strange and superstitious behavior and evil intentions.
He had wanted to take action against the Jiang family before, but he lacked a suitable opportunity.
Now that the Lu family has come to him on their own initiative, he will certainly not let the Jiang family go.
So even though he didn't believe Lu's words, he still gave the order:
"Prince Zhan, I command you to thoroughly investigate the Marquis Wenning's mansion. If you discover anything related to witchcraft, you will arrest the Marquis Wenning and punish him severely!"
Hearing this, a look of joy appeared on Lu's face.
Under Jinhua's brainwashing, she felt that only by sending Marquis Wen Ning to prison would she and her son be truly safe.
At this moment, she couldn't think that she and Marquis Wen Ning were husband and wife, and that they would prosper and suffer together. Her mind was full of Marquis Wen Ning and the Jiang family's ruthlessness and disloyalty. She hated them so much that she wanted them to pay the price.
Emperor Yong asked the female official to take Lu to the palace to rest first, and Shu Linyue also took her leave.
Shu Linyue walked outside the hall and Shen Yubai was waiting for her.
"Princess, would you like to go with me to the Marquis Wenning's Mansion to watch the excitement?" Shen Yubai asked her with a smile.
Shu Linyue's eyes were filled with coldness. "Of course, I've been looking forward to this day for a long time."
On the way to Wen Ning Marquis Mansion, Shu Linyue said to Chen Yubai:
"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Zhan, for your help."
She knew very well that if it weren't for Shen Yubai's careful arrangements this time, the emperor would not have made up his mind to deal with the Jiang family so quickly.
And there is the Xuanyin Tianlu, which was originally a collection of the Shu family, and she was the one whose luck was actually stolen.
But if she told all this to the emperor in person, it would mean that she was admitting that the Shu family was closely related to witchcraft and the descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty.
If she didn't speak out, the injustice she suffered would not be redressed.
Shen Yubai used Lu's family to point out that Jiang Huaizhong used Xuanyin Tianlu to steal luck, which cleverly resolved her unspeakable secret.
Shen Yubai looked at her and whispered, "Using Lu's to make this clear wasn't my idea. It was Jiang Xiancao's."
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