Chapter 448: The Truth
Perhaps Emperor Qinglong never thought of hiding his true intentions.
Or maybe Emperor Qinglong was too conceited.
I just feel that no one has the courage to check his private vault.
No one would be so bold as to suspect themselves of the baby girl's disappearance.
So Lu Zhiheng's men just did a quick check and found out the clues.
The whole process went so smoothly that even Lu Zhiheng's confidants suspected that this was a trap set by Emperor Qinglong.
But even the wine from Emperor Qinglong’s private storehouse disappeared - could this be a coincidence?
Coincidentally, Song Tingchen's people went to check carefully and found that the number of deaths reported by the captive animals in the Beast Garden was basically the same as the prey that the hunter in the small town was suddenly able to hunt later.
Those ordinary rabbits and pheasants are fine.
Just the so-called wild boars, wild wolves, elks, tigers and leopards, they all match perfectly.
Song Tingchen's palms felt cold.
This news was like a sharp sword, suddenly piercing his heart so hard that he couldn't even breathe.
All those moments that were wrong suddenly flooded into Song Tingchen's mind.
His fingers were shaking, and he felt a layer of fine, dense cold sweat on his back. He was so depressed that he could hardly breathe.
No wonder!
No wonder Emperor Qinglong behaved so strangely when he volunteered to thoroughly investigate the missing baby girl case!
No wonder Emperor Qinglong suddenly asked him what he would choose if one day he had to choose between the king and Su Tan!
I see!
At that time, Song Tingchen thought that Emperor Qinglong had misunderstood that Su Tan might be involved in a rebellion, and he took great pains to explain for Su Tan.
It turned out that it was simply because Emperor Qinglong might have anticipated that Su Tan would figure out the truth one day.
It turns out that everything has a traceable path!
Song Tingchen felt like a huge rock was suddenly pressing down on his heart.
He clenched his palm tightly with his fingertips, leaving a deep blood mark without realizing it.
His finger bones were cold.
I closed my eyes with all my strength.
Song Tingchen couldn't help but think that maybe he had misunderstood something.
Perhaps there really was a prince so bold as to bribe the people in the Beast Garden to take the prey out, and then transported it here without anyone noticing.
Song Tingchen thought so.
Perhaps he subconsciously still believed that his king was definitely not such a person.
Or maybe he felt that such an answer was too ridiculous.
In the end, Song Tingchen just couldn't believe that Emperor Qinglong would be like that and not take his people seriously.
When the confidant found out these things, his expression was extremely ugly.
He even realized that he had learned some secrets that he shouldn't know, and perhaps he wouldn't even survive the night.
He couldn't help but kneel down, not knowing whether he was trying to persuade Song Tingchen or himself, "General, this is a serious matter."
"It's better not to tell the former wife and His Royal Highness Prince Chen yet."
Song Tingchen was about to say, of course I won’t tell.
Su Tan’s sarcastic expression at that time suddenly appeared in my mind.
I remembered how she mocked me at that time, saying that I only listened to one side of the story and that even if I knew some things, I would just cover them up.
Song Tingchen's body shook.
My heart is almost bleeding.
He smiled bitterly twice.
It turned out that what Su Tan said was absolutely correct, he didn't understand himself at all.
Song Tingchen closed his eyes tightly and said, "Just pretend you don't know about this for now."
"Don't tell anyone."
How dare the confidant do that?
When he suddenly learned about this, he was scared out of his wits and felt that his life was in danger.
How dare I leak it out?
The confidant almost wanted to cry, but could not help but said to Song Tingchen: "General, since the former wife and His Royal Highness Prince Chen are both wary of you, I think they will find out something. You might as well go and ask around."
"Perhaps I have been misled."
"The former madam is very good at fortune-telling. She must be able to find out more than me!"
After his confidant said this, Song Tingchen just nodded tiredly.
"I understand. You go down first."
How could the confidant dare to go down at this moment? He was afraid that he would be killed as soon as he left.
In order to save his life, he even knelt on the ground and gave Song Tingchen all kinds of advice.
He knew how loyal his general was to His Majesty.
It has even reached the point of being almost blindly loyal.
No matter what, the general will not allow anyone to tarnish His Majesty's reputation here.
At this moment, Your Majesty has been involved in such a major case. Perhaps in order to protect Your Majesty's reputation, the general will kill all those who know about it.
In order to save his life, he almost immediately said: "General, I believe that His Majesty would never do such a thing. There must be some misunderstanding."
"If it was His Majesty who did it, then the former lady should have known about it long ago."
After all, Su Tan has always been good at calculating, and many things cannot be hidden from her eyes.
If it was really Emperor Qinglong who did it, Su Tan would never have been entangled with them until now.
The true face of Emperor Qinglong should be exposed at the very beginning.
After hearing this, Song Tingchen felt a little relieved.
He just lowered his head, his heart still blocked and a little upset.
"I was just wondering, if it wasn't Your Majesty, who else would have the ability to deceive His Majesty?"
He still couldn't figure it out.
The confidant said, "Perhaps the scheme of the person behind this is so malicious, just to use a seemingly correct result to alienate the relationship between Your Majesty and the master."
"General, you must not fall into that villain's trap at all costs."
Song Tingchen shook his head.
He knew that the person behind this had evil intentions.
He would never fall into a trap easily.
But - but Song Tingchen closed his eyes, and couldn't help but think, if this was not done by Emperor Qinglong, then who did it?
Regardless of whether the real purpose of the person behind the scenes was to alienate him and Emperor Qinglong, the other party had already achieved his goal at this moment.
At least for now, Song Tingchen has no way to trust Emperor Qinglong wholeheartedly.
I can only say that the other party is really calculating.
Seeing his gloomy expression, the confidant immediately added, "General, now that you know the evil intentions of the person behind this, you must not fall for his anger, and you must not casually disclose these matters to His Royal Highness Prince Chen and the ex-wife."
Although he didn't know what was going on, he always had a premonition that the truth of this matter was extremely important to Su Tan.
If Su Tan knew that the real murderer might be Emperor Qinglong, given his temper, he would probably send Emperor Qinglong to death immediately.
Although, such a statement is too bold and too disrespectful to the imperial power.
But in the eyes of his confidants, Su Tan was indeed that kind of person.
I think in Song Tingchen's eyes, Su Tan is the same.
Song Tingchen only felt unprecedented fatigue.
He lowered his head, hearing his own voice muffled and painful, "What if it turns out that Your Majesty did this?"
"What should we do then?"
He raised his head and stared closely into his confidant's eyes, as if he was asking the confidant or himself.
The confidant's heart trembled when he saw his gaze. He immediately said: "This..."
"No matter what, we must at least stand on His Majesty's side!"
"General, even if it's been discovered that His Majesty did this, you should at least ask His Majesty why he did it. Perhaps His Majesty's original intention wasn't to harm those baby girls, but was for the good of those people?"
Even though his confidant himself didn't believe what he said, he felt it was too much nonsense.
But it doesn’t matter whether he can deceive himself or not. At least he has to make Song Tingchen, who is overly loyal, believe it.
Otherwise, if Song Tingchen suddenly became bloodthirsty and took his own life, where would he go to seek justice?
Song Tingchen lowered his eyes.
He said slowly: "Yes, no matter what, we should go and ask His Majesty."
At least he didn't believe that Emperor Qinglong was such a person.
He absolutely did not believe that Emperor Qinglong could be so cruel and ruthless!
no way!
As Song Tingchen thought this, he suddenly walked quite far away, and his confidant had to use a lot of effort to catch up with him.
The confidant asked breathlessly, "General, why did you run so far all of a sudden?"
"what are you up to?"
Song Tingchen shook his head.
"There's nothing for you to do here, go and take care of your own business."
He wanted to see what Lu Zhiheng and Su Tan were doing.
He also wanted to know what Lu Zhiheng and Su Tan had found out.
At least he wanted to be sure of one thing.
He absolutely could not believe that Emperor Qinglong would be so careless about human life and would not take the life of a child seriously.
That cruel and ruthless person could be anyone, but it couldn't be the monarch he had always relied on.
If Emperor Qinglong was so cruel and murderous that he did not even spare ordinary children.
So who has he been loyal to all these years?
For whom are you sacrificing your life and blood?
Song Tingchen persisted in his stalemate, unable to help but deceive himself. He was always unwilling to believe that the monarch he had always respected was so incompetent and cruel.
It was just like how Su Tan had brainwashed himself into thinking that the person he had loved for so long shouldn't be so selfish and cold-hearted.
That time and that moment is just like this moment.
Even Song Tingchen himself did not realize that his current self-deception was exactly the same as Su Tan's back then.
He just subconsciously chased out, wanting to see what Su Tan and Lu Zhiheng were talking about.
Who knew that they would walk into a dense forest and see a pair of figures standing in front of them.
From a distance, they look like a perfect couple.
If it isn’t Su Tan and Lu Zhiheng, then who else could it be?
Lu Zhiheng's voice was actually very soft, but Song Tingchen had excellent hearing due to years of running around on the battlefield.
In addition, he had spent too much time with Su Tan in the past, and because of her nourishment, he had a pair of good ears that no one else had.
He heard Lu Zhiheng's voice fall into his ears.
"I've already checked, Su Tan. It's just as you expected."
"I lost. I never thought that my own father would be even more cruel and disgusting than I imagined."
At this moment, Lu Zhiheng is no longer as cynical as before.
His voice was deep, filled with resentment and murderous intent.
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