"However, Your Highness, until I have fully investigated this case, it is best for you to remain in the palace in case I summon you."
After saying this, he clasped his hands together and was about to leave when he heard Lu Anyuan behind him say, "Master Shen, everyone says you are a disciple of my second brother. Now I believe it."
Chen Yue turned his head in disbelief, but Lu Anyuan was worried about Yixing and walked straight inside without giving him a chance to refute.
Seeing Chen Yue leave, Xu Yixing breathed a sigh of relief: "Why did you say he was the Second Prince's man? How come I didn't see it?"
"He has done so much for his second brother, hasn't he?"
Xu Yixing shook her head. It was also her intuition. Ever since she had "used" Chen Yue to kill Mrs. Gu for the first time, she knew that such a loyal minister would never be able to become a vassal of the prince.
So no matter how much trouble Chen Yue caused him, she never thought he did it on purpose. Perhaps he was just being used by people like her.
"You're really smart. I know he's not. I just provoked him on purpose and made him think carefully about whether he was a knife to my second brother."
"You've come back just in time. What was that memorial just now?" Although Xu Yixing was far away, he could clearly see that Chen Yue's expression tightened after seeing the memorial.
"Well, this is a report sent from Minzhou at full speed. Several large salt fields have been discovered in Minzhou. The salt they have transferred has already arrived at the various salt-short states through the docks."
"Oh?" Was it such a coincidence? This would eliminate Shen Yue's suspicions. After all, with official salt, private salt wouldn't fetch the same price. "You must have handled this secretly, right? You asked me to wait three or five days. You must have known it was almost done, right?"
"Indeed, this matter has been going on since last year. Father did not issue an official decree to the world because those barbarians were still exchanging salt. If they knew that the price of salt in Daxia had dropped, we would be at a loss."
Xu Yixing gave a thumbs up. The emperor was so cunning. In order to make money from those barbarians, he even hid it from his own people. What a cruel man!
Although I admire him on the surface, my heart is bleeding. Lu Anyuan, why didn't you tell me? I have so much illegal salt stored in the market, what should I do?
That’s right, the private salt in the capital is not his, but the salt in the warehouses at the border markets is his hard-earned money, all wasted!
After Xu Yixing cursed his father-in-law eight hundred times in his heart, he finally noticed that Lu Anyuan's eyes were a little red. Did he cry?
"What's wrong with you?" She pointed at Lu Anyuan's eyes, confused.
"Nothing. Today is the anniversary of my mother's death. After finishing the meeting in the palace, I went to her former palace to pay my respects. That's why I came back a little late."
"Oh..." Xu Yixing remembered that Lu Anyuan once said that Concubine Yi was not good to him. He didn't expect that he still missed her so much.
Lu Anyuan saw Yixing's thoughts and explained with a smile: "But it only happens once a year, so just treat it as something new."
"Well, how about I go and burn some incense for my mother-in-law?"
"It's up to you." Lu Anyuan smiled with relief. Yixing was willing to do so because he cared about him.
"By the way, Shopkeeper Ge is gone. I suspect he was silenced. Can you help me check?"
"I will serve you, Madam." Lu Anyuan imitated the way they did on the stage, and the two of them bowed to each other. Their funny look was really hilarious!
Xu Yixing didn't know how Chen Yue was searching for the murderer. After getting Lu Anyuan's reply that Master Zhao was up to something, she casually handed a note to Ying Jiu.
And written in beautiful handwriting, it conveyed a message to Ying Si: to poison Master Zhao.
As Ying Si was finally released from the underground palace by Ying Yi, he used the most powerful medicine with bloodshot eyes and stuffed it into Master Zhao's thin lips.
With a click, the person was gone.
Before the immense pain could even reach his brain from his stomach, he collapsed silently behind the second hall of Jingzhao Prefecture, still holding the small note he had gotten from the pigeon's leg.
Lord Shen was busy all day and finally finished his official business in the middle of the night. When he passed through the second hall, he only saw his legal advisor who had been dead for a long time, and the note of "beautiful promise" given to him by someone in his hand.
Chen Yue sat down on the ground, his mind filled with anger and fear. How dare he kill someone in Jingzhao Prefecture!
What frightened him was that he remembered what the Seventh Prince said that day: Does everyone think that he is the Second Prince's man?
Could it be that the Second Prince also thought so, which is why he killed people in Jingzhao Prefecture without restraint, thinking that I would clean up the mess for him?
Absurd! Chen Yue used his brain, and immediately figured out the key point. Although he was not afraid of offending others, if someone took advantage of this to exclude dissidents, that would absolutely not work!
Lord Shen got up, patted the dirt off his body, called the people on duty in Jingzhao Prefecture, and calmly ordered them to embalm the body and perform an autopsy, waiting for him to return from the morning court tomorrow to deal with the funeral!
As for what the top scholar talked about in the emperor's study the next day, no one else knew except Eunuch Kang who was beside the emperor.
As for Eunuch Kang, who had spent the longest time with the emperor, he would never utter a single word. However, the palace maids outside heard the emperor's roars and Shen Yue's contradictory voices coming from the study.
As a result, everyone admired Lord Shen even more. When Lord Shen left the imperial study, they even threw away the black veil on their heads, knelt on the ground and shouted: "If Your Majesty is so, then what does it matter if I don't become the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture?"
After saying this, he walked away with disheveled hair. Even the teacup thrown by the emperor did not have the chance to touch his official uniform and was smashed to pieces.
Xu Yixing didn't know that her "little action" almost caused the emperor to have a heart attack. She only knew that Master Zhao killed her people, so he deserved to die.
However, although she was in the mansion these days, she saw that Lu Anyuan's face looked worse and worse every day when he came back, as if he had drunk the blood of a dead person.
"Are you really okay? You look almost the same color as horse manure..."
"Can't you say something nice?" Lu Anyuan frowned, but even if Yixing said something nice at this time, he probably wouldn't listen.
"The Emperor has dismissed the official from the position of Senior Official. He has been reselecting the Governor of Jingzhao Prefecture these days. However, no matter who is recommended, he always scolds them. This has been going on for four or five days."
Lu Anyuan had a gloomy face. When the news of Shen Yue's deeds in the imperial study spread, everyone was secretly glad and laughed at his arrogance. However, when this matter was finally linked to the court officials, they could no longer laugh.
——The importance of some people can only be reflected when they are not around.
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