Chapter 501: Minister Cui, so romantic
A minister of the court, a sister-in-law of the empress dowager, and the emperor's aunt who had been widowed for many years...
Tsk!
"Minister Cui, you are so romantic." Qian Baokun said sarcastically.
Several old ministers in the court cursed in low voices.
"You...are simply disrespectful!"
"Scum of the court! Shameless as hell!!"
Although Cao Dejiang knew that Xiao Yan was prepared, he did not expect it to be such a shocking thunder. Looking at the staggering appearance of Cui Lin, who was extremely arrogant in the past, he sneered.
"Good for Minister Cui, and Master Liang, and good for you too."
Liang Guangyi's hands were shaking with anger. He swallowed a mouthful of blood and looked at Cui Lin with disgust. He never knew that Cui Lin had done such a thing.
If he had known earlier, he would never have said a word, let alone add insult to injury, which not only caused him trouble.
Cui Lin faced everyone's gaze and felt a chill down his spine. The weakness that he had forcibly suppressed after taking the medicine seemed to surge up again.
He was staggering and managed to stand steady by supporting himself on the table with one hand, but the scene before him was extremely dark.
Xiao Yan looked at Cui Lin and Madam Xuan, who looked like they were about to faint, and gave them some kind advice.
"Master Cui, I think Minister Cui is not doing well. As a son, please help your father and future stepmother."
"Although they share the same fate, they are still in the palace and the trial is not yet over. If they fainted together, the news would only spread that they were deeply in love, and those who didn't know would think that His Majesty had done something to them."
The eldest son of the Cui family's face turned red with anger. He wanted to curse, but he couldn't say a word in response to Xiao Yan's ridicule.
He felt so embarrassed that he wished he could dig a hole in the ground and crawl into it, but facing the staggering and pale Cui Lin, he could only grit his teeth and move forward silently. However, anyone could see how stiff his face was as he supported Cui Lin.
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Cui family looked at Cui Lin and Madam Xuan viciously with an extremely ugly expression.
She was able to marry into the Cui family because they were from a prominent family. She had never suffered such humiliation before. She felt that her face had been peeled off by her own father-in-law. She could almost imagine how many people would laugh at the Cui family after they left the palace.
The sons and daughters of the Cui family, as well as the aunts who married out of the Cui family, would all be dragged down by him, and even she, the daughter-in-law who married into the family, would become a laughing stock of others.
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Cui family clutched the handkerchief tightly in her hand. At this moment, she hated her father-in-law Cui Lin to death.
His mother-in-law had been dead for many years, so it would have been fine for Cui Lin to remarry, and no one in the Cui family would have stopped him. But why did he have to choose a widow, who had ties with the royal family? The two of them even had an affair in private, and were exposed in public.
He is simply...
I am getting old and confused!!
Prince Zeng looked at Cui Lin, whose face was as pale as if struck by lightning, and Liang Guangyi, whose face was ashen because of being blocked, and suddenly felt fortunate that he did not lose his mind and regret it at the last minute.
If he had really been confused at that time, he would have suffered the same fate as Cui Lin now. He suddenly thought of the word "opportunity" that Xiao Yan had mentioned to him before.
He had never understood it before, and he had spoken just now because he was forced by the situation, but now that he thought about it carefully, the so-called "opportunity" was actually with Cui Lin.
It seemed like Cui Lin framed Xiao Yan tonight, but everything he did was actually under Xiao Yan's control all along.
It was he who pushed Cui Lin into the incident of deposing the empress, and it was also he who caused the targeted situation at tonight's palace banquet. Not only did he use Cui Lin to stir up the Lu family's affairs again, he also dragged in Grand Tutor Liang, who had been avoiding intervention, and forced Emperor An to keep all the ministers in the court.
There is also Yu Yanfeng and the unseen Liu Tongen...
Even he was probably included in Xiao Yan's plan.
Prince Hate Yinyin had a feeling that it would be fine for him to be the "first bird to speak out" as agreed before, but if he suddenly changed his mind and thought that Xiao Yan had been set up and had no chance of winning, and turned to Cui Lin and others, he was afraid that Xiao Yan also had something in his hand that could put him to death.
Thinking of this, Prince Zeng shuddered suddenly, and Marquis Wenxin looked at Cui Lin with disgust, and then his gaze fell directly on Xiao Yan's face.
"Prince Zan, you said Xiao Yan is a member of the He family. Do you have any evidence?"
Prince Zan said, "I have brought Xiao Jinan and the others back to the capital, and also captured all the people the Liang family sent to Jiangnan that day. The He family and the Lu family have a deep blood feud, and Xiao Yan would never collude with the Lu family. That's why I concluded that what happened tonight was a setup by Minister Cui and Grand Tutor Liang."
"But Xiao Yan's face..." Marquis Wenxin looked dazed.
The Hateful Prince said, "I've heard that there are some tricks in the martial arts world. As long as you pay the price and endure the inhuman torture, you can peel off your original skin and replace it with a new one, and become completely different from the past."
"Master Xiao, I guess that's what you are like, right?"
Xiao Yan was silent for a moment before he said calmly, "It's just some trivial tricks in the martial arts world. My face is too eye-catching. I'm afraid I'll be killed if I enter the capital."
He paused and looked at the Hate Prince:
"But I thought I could hide it from everyone, but I never expected that the prince would find out."
Prince Zan seemed unfamiliar with him and shook his head: "It's not my ability. If Grand Tutor Liang hadn't sent someone to Jiangnan, I wouldn't have noticed it by chance..."
"That's right." Xiao Yanwei sighed. "Back then, when the He family was convicted, it was Grand Tutor Liang and Lu Chongyuan who led the charge. They used the familiarity and close relationship between the noble families to frame the entire He family, leaving my grandfather and his family speechless. Now that Grand Tutor Liang has discovered my identity, it's no surprise he's using this to plot against me."
Liang Guangyi couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he heard Xiao Yan admit his identity so easily.
When he finished speaking, both Emperor An and the courtiers in the hall looked at him with an expression of sudden enlightenment.
Liang Guangyi lost his voice and said, "I didn't know your identity before tonight!"
Xiao Yan laughed, neither saying anything nor refutating, but his expression made Liang Guangyi feel that he had said everything.
For the first time, Liang Guangyi experienced the feeling of being unable to express himself.
If he had not spoken up to "add insult to injury" before, had not thought of helping Cui Lin to kill Xiao Yan, and had not followed Cui Lin's words to threaten Emperor An, even if Prince Zeng later revealed that he had sent people to Jiangnan to investigate the Xiao family, he would have had an excuse to argue that he did not know what happened tonight.
Since no trap was set, Xiao Yan's identity was naturally unknown. But now he has done everything, and those people sent to Jiangnan have fallen into the hands of Prince Zan.
Xiao Yan is a descendant of the He family. Now, several major families have stepped on the corpses of the He family and sucked their blood. Anyone would think that he had known Xiao Yan's identity for a long time, so he joined forces with Cui Lin to wipe out the roots. Xiao Yan's words "wrongly murdered the entire He family" just now pushed him to the forefront.
Now no matter what he said, others would think he was quibbling.
No matter how he explained, they would still doubt his original intention of destroying the He family bloodline...
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