Chapter 229: Eradication without Warning
Mu Xingci dragged the man to an alley before letting him go: "Yan Li, why are you following Lin Yao?"
It’s not his fault that he didn’t recognize that the person in front of him was his woman. It was just that Yun Wansheng was too serious this time.
Her originally fair and rosy skin was painted rye color, and her double eyelids were turned into single eyelids with fish glue, which made her eyes look much smaller. Add to that the realistic short beard and the thick eyebrows that were pasted on, and even someone who is familiar with her would not be able to tell who she is at first glance?
When Yun Wansheng was asked this question by the man, her mind raced: "Uh..., why is the Regent here?" She tried to make her voice as rough as possible so that she wouldn't sound like a woman.
She didn't expect that this bastard was also following Lin Yao secretly, otherwise how could he appear here out of nowhere?
It seemed that he did not treat them perfunctorily, which made her feel a little better.
"I came here for my own reasons, but it is puzzling that you, a knight, come here. Do you also care about other people's affairs?" Mu Xingci said with a smile.
"How does the Regent know that they are having an affair? If you didn't see it with your own eyes, don't say anything. Maybe they were just meeting to chat?" Yun Wansheng asked tentatively with a slight smile on her lips.
"Do you think a man and a woman alone in a room would just want to chat?"
“Without seeing people sleeping in the same bed with our own eyes, we shouldn’t make random guesses. It would be bad if we wrongly accuse them.
Besides, that woman is the daughter of the Grand Tutor and the young lady of the Shangshu Mansion, so it's best for us to see it with our own eyes." Yun Wansheng looked very upright.
She was not sure whether Lin Yao and the man slept together, so she wanted to find out the truth from the man.
Mu Xingci looked at the man in front of him pretending to be a gentleman and chuckled. "It seems that you are a cautious person. Yan Li, as long as you tell me the purpose of this, I will tell you the truth about their relationship."
"Uh! I have no purpose in coming here. I just accidentally saw the Grand Tutor's daughter having a secret meeting with a man and became curious. We are all men, and I think the Regent should understand." Yun Wansheng said with a dry laugh.
"I do understand, but that's only true for those wretched men. You don't look wretched at all, and you look quite upright. So I'm very suspicious of what you said."
"Thank you for the compliment, Lord Regent, but I came here out of curiosity. Perhaps my dark side has caused you to misunderstand me."
Seeing that he was not telling the truth, Mu Xingci's face darkened: "Yan Li, I am asking you this as a friend. If you still don't tell the truth, then you will have to go to the Ministry of Justice with me."
Yun Wansheng saw that this bastard was about to get angry, and her eyes flickered for a moment before she smiled and said, "Why, are you taking me to jail to be tortured again?"
Since this person is also investigating Lin Yao, there is no need for her to hide her identity anymore. Otherwise, if she doesn't tell him, he will accidentally hurt her, which would be counterproductive.
Mu Xingci suddenly heard a very familiar voice and looked at a strange face, which made him stunned for a moment: "Wan Sheng?" An uncertain tone.
"Yes! It's me!" Yun Wansheng said with a slight curl of his lips.
Seeing her admit it, Mu Xingci couldn't help but pull her into his arms with a mixture of anger and amusement: "You really fooled me."
His voice was filled with the tenderness of longing. They hadn't seen each other for more than ten days, and he really missed her.
Yun Wansheng leaned in the man's arms, her eyebrows slightly curved, without struggling, and let him hold her like that.
Mu Xingci hugged the girl and raised his thin lips: "Are you here to find something to hold against Lin Yao?"
"Yeah! I don't want you to take action before me." Yun Wansheng said in his arms.
"She hurt you, how could I let her go easily. I'm sorry, Wansheng, I didn't stand up to protect you at the first time, which allowed her to bully you again and again, and finally led to her daring to kill you." Mu Xingci said apologetically.
Yun Wansheng listened to the man's reflection and apology, and her eyes couldn't help but warm up: "Since you know she bullied me, will you show mercy to her this time?"
"No! Wansheng, just wait and see! Doesn't she think she's too high to reach? Then I'll not only destroy Lin Yao's reputation, but also uproot the Grand Tutor's Mansion, which she's so proud of. I'll make her fall from the sky to the mire overnight."
Yun Wansheng raised her head and looked at the man with fierce eyes: "So cruel? Are you willing to do that?"
When Mu Xingci's eyebrows met the woman's eyes, he instantly became extremely tender: "I don't owe her anything anymore, why should I be reluctant to let her go.
I've already shown her the way forward, and it was she who kept courting death. Now that something's happened, it's not my fault."
Yun Wansheng looked at him with rare tenderness in her eyes: "It's up to you to decide on this matter."
"Okay! Let's go back!" As he said that, Mu Xingci took her hand and walked towards Shangguan Mansion.
For three consecutive days, Yun Wansheng did not go out. Her life was peaceful, but the Shangshu Mansion was in chaos because of an anonymous letter.
When Zheng Yuanjing saw the contents of the letter, his anger was instantly ignited. He stood up and went to find his parents.
When the Minister of Rites Zheng Jiazhen saw that the letter contained details and facts, he turned gloomy and asked his wife and son to take people to catch the adulterer.
When the mother and son, along with their servants, broke into the house of the wild man mentioned in the letter, they saw their daughter-in-law and the adulterer still naked in bed, entangled in each other's arms.
This shameful scene instantly made Zheng Yuanjing furious, and he went up and beat up the adulterous couple without saying a word.
He wanted to kill that wild man to vent his anger, but was stopped by the Shangshu's wife.
Only after being threatened and beaten did the adulterer confess the truth.
It turned out that it was the Grand Tutor who helped his daughter-in-law to have an affair. Even this wild man was found by the Grand Tutor for his daughter, so that his daughter could have a child as soon as possible and keep her position as the young lady in the Shangshu Mansion.
Zheng Jiazhen and his son could not swallow the humiliation of the Shangshu Mansion by the Grand Tutor's Mansion. The next day, they reported the Grand Tutor to the court, made the family scandal public, and gave him a letter of divorce.
When all the court officials learned that this extremely powerful Grand Tutor had manipulated a second-rank minister in such a way, they glared at him in indignation. No matter how he argued, the other officials did not believe him.
Just when everyone thought this was just a scandal, Yao Cezhi, the Minister of Justice, suddenly stepped forward and made another report against the Grand Tutor.
The evidence of the Grand Tutor's years of oppression of the people, embezzlement of disaster relief funds, countless murders, forming cliques for personal gain, corruption and bribery were laid out in public, leaving the officials stunned.
It’s not because of the Grand Tutor’s crime, but because they smelled an unusual scent. Is it possible that the Grand Tutor will be finished soon?
As expected, the evidence was conclusive, and the Regent showed no favoritism. He executed Grand Tutor Lin Chen outside the Meridian Gate according to the law, without giving his accomplices any chance to plead for mercy.
Just like that, the Grand Tutor who had been arrogant for half his life was beheaded without any warning. Even though he had 100,000 soldiers and horses at his command, they could not save him at this time.
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