Chapter 80 One person dies
"Your Majesty?" The imperial guard raised his head cautiously.
His superior came quickly from behind, saluted the emperor hastily, and then frowned at the imperial guard.
The emperor raised his hand to dismiss Shangguan, then asked, "Oh, the altar is a little new, so what?"
"The temple is constantly visited by incense and offerings, so it shouldn't be this new after all the smoke and fire. I'm afraid... I'm afraid someone must have put up the altar temporarily."
The meaning of this person's words was very clear. He was worried that someone was framing the prince.
"You are very smart." The emperor affirmed him first.
The imperial guard immediately showed excitement on his face.
"Excellent for not concealing his new discovery. I will order a thorough investigation inside the statue." The Emperor turned and ordered, "Reward him."
The eunuch following the emperor responded and immediately led the imperial guards away.
"Has Wei Xing been brought in?" the emperor asked the person beside him.
"Your Majesty, I have brought it in."
The emperor responded: "Well, then let's go back to the palace."
The emperor walked out of Tianguang Temple, but found that the carriage of the Prince's Mansion was still parked there. What a coincidence... His eyes flashed, and he dismissed his attendants, walked forward and lifted the curtain.
"What are you waiting for?" the emperor asked with a smile.
There was no trace of the anger he had just felt in the temple.
"I remember there is something I haven't reported to His Majesty yet."
"What is it?"
"Wei Xing returned to the capital from Kuizhou, bringing with him a concubine who bore him a son."
This was the first time Cheng Nianying heard of this.
Prince Danshuo said this... Then can Wei Yanhua still inherit the things that she should "inherit"?
"I also have one thing in my mind." The emperor said suddenly.
Fu Yi didn't respond, waiting quietly for the emperor to continue.
"Deposing and enthroning the crown prince is a major matter. As you said before, it may cause unrest in the court."
Fu Yi smiled slowly: "In my humble opinion, how to deal with these two things should lead to the same result."
The emperor first glanced at Cheng Nianying, and seeing that she didn't understand anything, he said, "I think so too."
He withdrew his hand, and the carriage curtain fell down again.
*
Wei Xing was brought into Tianguang Temple at this time.
The imperial guards kicked a monk to his feet and said, "Go ahead, lead the way and take this gentleman to search for anything he has missed."
Wei Xing was originally very worried, fearing that Tianguang Temple would find something unfavorable and eventually accuse him of falsely accusing the prince.
If I had known this would happen, I would have just taken the credit for saving the emperor. Why be so greedy?
The thought of regret swirled through his mind, and then it was followed by surprise: "Your Majesty ordered me to search?"
The imperial guards glanced at him coldly: "Hmm."
That arrogance cannot be concealed.
The army in the imperial capital was so arrogant. Wei Xing didn't care to get angry. He was only thinking about how he could change the situation...
But he was afraid of any unexpected events, so he asked cautiously, "I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."
"His Majesty is furious and wants to depose the Crown Prince." The Imperial Guard frowned. "Well, why are you asking so many questions? Go and do what you need to do."
Wei Xing responded and walked forward briskly.
At that moment, the thought flashed through his mind: why did His Majesty send me to search?
But then he found the answer himself - because whether it was in Kuizhou or the investigation of the affair in the imperial capital, he played a key role in it! With such deep involvement, it was natural that such a matter would be handed over to him.
He walked into the main hall and then into the secret passage behind the Buddha statue.
"Ignite." He heard two words.
At that moment, he almost thought he had heard it wrong.
What fire?
Before Wei Xing could make a move, the monk who led the way turned around and rushed back, but there was a loud "bang" and the door of the secret passage was slammed shut.
They...can't get out?
Can’t get out?
"Someone come!" He also knocked on the door vigorously.
But the door was so heavy that it could not be opened and it seemed to block out any sound.
The monk ran up the stairs in despair. Wei Xing had no choice but to follow him up first.
He walked all the way to the platform and looked out from the eyes of the Buddha statue - the armored and cold-faced imperial guards waved their arms, and countless torches flew into the hall, setting fire to everything they hit.
The firelight illuminated the surroundings, bringing Wei Xing endless fear.
"There must be something wrong! I'm not out yet! I'm not out yet! I saved the day!" he roared.
The leader of the imperial guards stood at the entrance of the palace. Hearing the roar, he looked up at him, then pulled out an arrow, tore off a strip of cloth to wrap it around the arrow, and then lit it with a torch.
Draw the bow and shoot the arrow.
It went straight to the eyes of the Buddha statue.
Wei Xing shouted in horror and was unable to dodge.
It turns out that it is really that easy for fire to ignite a person... Wei Xing rolled on the ground and cried out in pain.
He suddenly recalled a detail from today. When his first wife set herself on fire, the Princess of Danshuo County was the first to rush and kick open the door. Later, when she couldn't save her, she was brought back by the Prince. Who was her first words to...
To his daughter...
"Is it Prince Danshuo who wants to kill me? Ahhhhhhh..." Wei Xing couldn't put out the flames. The flames swallowed his eyebrows and hair, and the pain was so severe that he could no longer suppress his screams.
"Ah! Fu Yi! Fu Yi! He is truly a treacherous minister! Ah..."
Followed by a muffled sound.
The palace door was also closed.
The carriage from the Prince's Mansion finally started moving.
It slowly drove away from Tianguang Temple, and faintly heard voices coming from outside: "There's a fire! There's a fire in Tianguang Temple!"
"Put out the fire!"
Cheng Nianying leaned against the window, watching the wisps of smoke and dust rising above Tianguang Temple. Her tense and indifferent expression finally relaxed a lot.
Wei Xing died.
"Do you want to go to the Wei family again?" Fu Yi's voice sounded in his ears.
Cheng Nianying slowly raised her head and uttered, "Hmm?"
Fu Yi saw that she was not in high spirits, so he continued, "I thought you would want to comfort Miss Wei a few more times afterward."
Cheng Nianying lowered her eyes: "I'm not good at comforting others."
"Really?" Fu Yi didn't think so.
He said, "What if you bring her some good news?"
Cheng Nianying finally nodded.
Fu Yi rolled up the curtain and gave an order outside.
Wu Xun was quite surprised when he received the order, and muttered to himself, why is he going to the Wei family again?
*
At that time, the boy was still in the carriage parked outside the Wei family mansion, and he couldn't help wanting to go out: "I miss my father, why hasn't he come yet?"
Zhenniang hugged him and said, "Don't worry, didn't your father say that it will be well soon? Soon we can live a good life."
"But I'm hungry."
"It's very stuffy here too."
"A lot of people just left the door... Who are they?"
Zhenniang couldn't answer.
How would she know?
"Isn't this our home? We can just go and ask!" He jumped off the carriage and rushed to the door.
Zhenniang couldn't stop him and could only hurriedly follow him to the door.
"Who are you?" The servant stopped him with a dark face.
"My name is Wei Yiqing, and I am Dad's son."
"Your father is..." The servant already had a bad feeling.
"Wei Xing!"
Wei Yanhua also knelt beside Jiang and changed her mother's clothes.
It was at this time that the servant came to her to report.
"My father's concubine in Kuizhou has a son..." Wei Yanhua's face turned blue with coldness.
"My mother is lying here, but there's a new visitor coming." Wei Yanhua gasped with a choking pain in her chest, "Let's go, let's go!"
When she arrived at the door, Zhenniang saw her haggard and disheveled appearance and breathed a sigh of relief. She said, "Yanhua..."
"Who allowed you to call my name?" Wei Yanhua interrupted.
"You are not allowed to be rude to my mother like this!" The boy named Wei Yiqing ran up and kicked Wei Yanhua.
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