Ren Yaoqi didn't rush to ask what was in the letter from the imperial court to Governor Zhao. She thought for a moment, remained silent, and suddenly looked at Dongsheng: "Is there something else you haven't told me? If that's all that happened, it wouldn't have taken so long."
Dongsheng lowered his head when he heard this, with a look of embarrassment on his face.
Ren Yaoqi smiled slightly, but looked at him with a somewhat indifferent gaze: "If I'm not mistaken, the reason you took so long to send my sister back was because you were thinking about killing her to silence her? To prevent her from dragging down my mother and my maternal grandfather's family."
This is what she thought when she heard that Dongsheng's letter was a secret report from the court.
She would not doubt the loyalty of this group of people to Prince Xian's Mansion.
Dongsheng's face turned pale. Suddenly, his legs gave way and he knelt down in front of Ren Yaoqi. He didn't argue, and there was nothing he could argue with.
He had indeed struggled in his heart for a long time before. If he killed Ren Yaohua and then left, the lineage of Prince Xian would not be implicated.
So he took Ren Yaohua around in circles for a long time, hesitating about where to kill her, but he still couldn't make up his mind to kill her because Ren Yaohua was Prince Xian's granddaughter, and was half his master.
Ever since he could remember, he had been taught to be loyal to the Xian Palace and to sacrifice his life for his master without hesitation. He could not possibly do such a thing as killing his master.
Finally, he led his men to a place not far from the gate of Bailong Temple, and then met Li You and Ren Yaoqi who were looking for Ren Yaohua.
The only thing on his mind at the time was that his soft-heartedness was endangering his master. If that happened, he would be blamed for it.
Even now, if he were given another chance, he would kill Ren Yaohua without hesitation.
Ren Yaoqi looked at his expression and sighed softly, "Get up. You're not wrong. You're a servant of the Li family, not the Ren family. Naturally, you have to put the interests of the Li family first. No one can blame you for this."
Dongsheng stood up with a gloomy face, but he didn't dare to look up. Although he knew that he did nothing wrong, he couldn't face Ren Yaoqi's clear and understanding eyes.
"Did you go back to the place where you picked up the letter?" Ren Yaoqi asked.
Dongsheng nodded.
"And then he disappeared?"
Dongsheng looked up in shock and stammered, "Cousin, how did you know?"
Ren Yaoqi sighed: "If he were here, you wouldn't be so worried and scared."
That person was gone, which meant someone had appeared after Dongsheng, meaning someone might have been secretly watching that person. This also meant Dongsheng was in danger of being exposed. Otherwise, if he had buried that person and destroyed the body, it would have caused more trouble.
"I saw no signs of a struggle around where he fell. He must have been injured somewhere before and was chased there. After I took the letter and left, someone found him and took him away. So my every move may have been seen by others. I heard Qiu Sheng and others mention that when the court does things, they never ask about the reasons, but only the results. That letter is extremely confidential, and I'm afraid anyone who comes into contact with it will..."
Ren Yaoqi was also feeling a little heavy-hearted. She couldn't help but wonder, in her previous life, was Dongsheng missing because she secretly left because she was afraid of implicating her uncle and the others, or was he killed to silence him?
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