Just as Song Cook Ding was thinking, he suddenly heard the housekeeper Cui Qi grit his teeth and say, "You guys stay here and watch. I'll go report to the Prime Minister!"
His eyes lit up involuntarily, and he nodded repeatedly, whispering, "Yes, yes, yes, steward, go quickly and let the Prime Minister know how daring these people are."
"snort."
Cui Qi snorted coldly, not bothering to pay attention to him, and turned to go to the inner house.
Suddenly, I heard an indifferent voice coming from outside the door, "Stop!"
Several people shuddered when they heard this.
Although none of them except Song Pao Ding had ever heard the voice of the Rain Lord, everyone knew without thinking that the voice must be that of the Rain Lord.
Butler Cui Qi felt the pressure doubled in an instant.
When he looked back, he couldn't help but frown slightly, wondering if he had heard it wrong.
Or the other person isn't talking to you at all.
Because the other person didn't even look at them, but lowered his head to look at his fingernails.
That hand was indeed very beautiful, with slender white fingers and neatly trimmed nails without any blemishes. It was obvious that it was a well-maintained hand.
Butler Cui Qi frowned slightly and was about to speak.
Yu Huatian spoke again, still looking at his fingernails, and said casually as if talking to himself: "Please let me know if you see Prime Minister Cui..."
He paused for a moment, and just when Cui Qi was about to ask for more information, he casually said, "The bandits in Cuiping Mountain have been eliminated."
It was not a very serious sentence, and the others were puzzled, but the housekeeper Cui Qi couldn't help but feel a buzzing sound in his head, as if something had exploded.
At this time, Yu Huatian slowly put down his hand, raised his head and looked over expressionlessly, and continued indifferently: "In addition, a corpse was found among the bandits that looked very similar to Cui Tingwei, and another bandit actually claimed to be the Minister of Agriculture.
Your Majesty's original intention must have been to kill the evil villain who impersonated you and let the matter go, but for the sake of caution, you still want to ask Prime Minister Cui and the Grand Minister of Agriculture and his son to witness it in person.
After all, the stakes are high.”
Yu Huatian said it lightly, with even a hint of a warm smile on the corner of his mouth.
But Cui Qi felt that his whole body was shaking. He could no longer respond calmly. He could only nod reluctantly, and then stumbled into the inner house.
At the same time, Yu Huatian's words spread throughout the Prime Minister's Mansion at an incredible speed, and everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion was suddenly in a panic.
When Cui Qi stood in front of Cui Cen, he was already crying uncontrollably.
"Prime Minister..."
Cui Qi fell to his knees with a thud, but when he looked up he was stunned to see Cui Cen, who was standing behind the desk with his hands on the table, also had tears on his face.
Cui Qi couldn't help but be stunned, and subconsciously looked around to see if someone had come to inform the Prime Minister in advance, but he didn't see anyone.
However, his eyes noticed two cups of tea on the table beside him, as if Cui Cen had been sitting opposite someone drinking in front of the table not long ago.
Cui Qi was surprised. As the chief steward, he didn't even know that the Prime Minister had met guests today.
However, his pupils shrank slightly and he suddenly thought of something he had accidentally seen before.
He quickly averted his gaze, not daring to look again.
"Cui Qi!"
Just when Cui Qi was secretly frightened, Cui Cen suddenly spoke, which startled him. He then quickly agreed, "Prime Minister."
"Prepare the horses and enter the palace!"
Cui Cen said in a serious tone.
"Yes."
Cui Qi quickly agreed, then stood up and walked out.
Not long after he left, in a dark corner of the room, in the empty shadows, a man in black wearing a cloak, whose gender could not be distinguished, slowly emerged from the shadows.
"Cui Cen, at this point, is there still any point for you to go see the emperor?"
The man spoke slowly and actually called Cui Cen by his name.
The voice was very hoarse and it was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman.
Cui Cen didn't seem shocked when he saw this man in black who suddenly appeared, but there was some fear and resentment in his eyes.
But in the end, he just snorted coldly, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your affairs."
"We're not worried about that. It's just the Emperor, nothing unusual."
The man in black said indifferently, then glanced at Cui Cen and said with a smile: "Don't look at me with such resentment. I've already said that this is not our fault.
You underestimated the Emperor. Even if we launched the attack as agreed, we would still fail in the end. And by then, your Cui family would have no blood left."
Cui Cen frowned and was about to say something, but suddenly Cui Qi's voice rang out again from outside, "Prime Minister, the carriage is ready!"
"knew."
Cui Cen agreed and turned around to see that the man in black had once again merged into the shadows. Only a faint voice could be heard, "I never thought that Cui Cen, a powerful minister, would be so reluctant to let go of the so-called family relationship.
Do you think the emperor will let your son live? You will only bring shame upon yourself if you go there."
"snort."
Cui Cen snorted coldly, but this time he didn't say anything and walked out directly.
To humiliate oneself...
…
At the gate of the prime minister's residence, Cui Cen finally saw Yu Huatian and the corpse on the ground.
But he didn't say anything, just looked at Yu Huatian carefully.
This was actually not the first time the two had met. One was the prime minister, and the other was a close aide to the emperor. How could they not have met before?
But this was the first time we met face to face in such a formal manner.
He was slightly surprised by Yu Huatian's performance. The man who killed his prime minister's mansion was very calm when facing him. He did not seem uneasy at all, nor did he show any arrogance of a villain who had achieved success.
"Lord Yu, the emperor is surrounded by so many talented people. No wonder I lost so completely."
The two looked at each other for a moment, and finally Cui Cen spoke first, and it was unclear whether his tone was genuine praise or ridicule.
But Yu Huatian remained calm and said expressionlessly, "Since the Xiangfu has prepared a carriage, please get in, Minister Cui."
Then he said to Wan Chao beside him, "Escort Prime Minister Cui into the palace."
“Here!”
Wan Chao and others agreed in unison.
Upon seeing this, Cui Cen said nothing more and climbed onto the carriage with his head held high. His expression remained calm, without a trace of panic.
It feels no different from attending court as usual.
But it was already dusk, so it was naturally not time to go to court.
Compared with Cui Cen's calmness, the other people in the prime minister's residence couldn't help crying as they watched the carriage moving away in the setting sun and its shadow growing longer and longer.
At first, it was just sobbing, but slowly it turned into wailing. In the gradually falling night, the entire prime minister's residence was filled with crying...
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