No sympathy needed
how?
Everyone almost burst into curses.
Great, so that's the idea! General Wei is old, and the new generation of Wei's sons are young, which means that at this juncture, those who go to the southwest will most likely inherit General Wei's legacy.
Not to mention, it is a blessing for Wei Jiazi to go to the southwest. General Wei should do his best to promote this person and train him to become the future pillar of the southwest.
What? General Wei doesn't care about the visitor? The visitor can't gain a foothold in the southwest?
Okay, then the Wei family must be dissatisfied with the court’s arrangements. The Wei family must have collaborated with the enemy, which is why they are suppressing the officials sent by the court in every possible way!
Who is it?! The generals glared at each other, their anger blazing—
Who is the compatible one between them? ! !
"Prime Minister, who do you think is qualified to go to the southwest?" A man next to General Guo had a slightly distorted expression and squeezed out a word through gritted teeth.
Rong Yejin glanced at him, as nonchalantly as if he were looking at a stray dog on the side of the road. "We will have to discuss the matter between the generals in detail later. What's more important now is, has the Imperial Court found any clues in the case?"
Oh shit!
The generals were so angry that their facial features were distorted and their facial muscles twitched.
Liu Tingwei stepped forward and replied, "We haven't found any more clues yet."
He paused and said, "There is no further evidence to prove that the Wei family is guilty, nor is there any evidence to prove that the Wei family is innocent."
"Why are you in the Imperial Court so slow in handling matters?" a general asked sarcastically. "You treat our Dayuan's loyal ministers and generals with such indifference, dragging your feet and letting the Wei family bear this false accusation for nothing?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, the people next to him hurriedly grabbed him, but no matter how fast they moved, they could not stop him from speaking in one swoop.
Liu Tingwei seemed to pay no attention to him at all. He calmly explained to Rong Xiang, "The matter of treason is of great importance. Investigating it is three times more difficult than any other case."
When the general heard this, he exploded again. He opened his mouth but before he could say anything, three or five people around him covered his mouth with their hands. His face flushed but he could only stare at Liu Tingwei.
Rong Yejin smiled and said, "I heard that General Wei, who lives far away at the border, was assassinated. I wonder if they have found out who did it?"
"A report from the border states that General Wei's subordinates harbored a grudge against him and were plotting revenge," Liu Tingwei replied. "After assassinating General Wei, the individual committed suicide out of fear of punishment. The clues have been cut short, and we haven't yet verified the truth."
"waste!!"
The general who was being pulled pushed away the person next to him who was covering the lower half of his face and cursed angrily.
However, Liu Tingwei seemed not to have heard it. He didn't even look at him, let alone respond. He just looked at Rong Yejin in front of him.
Rong Yejin nodded and said, "Thank you, Lord Liu, and the people from the Imperial Court for continuing to investigate the case. General Wei's assassination may be related to the Wei family's conspiracy case."
Liu Tingwei also nodded in agreement.
"Hmm..." Rong Yejin seemed to suddenly remember something and added slowly, "The death of another Wei general also needs to be carefully confirmed."
Liu Tingwei nodded solemnly: "Thank you for your advice, Lord Rong. Everyone in the Tingwei Temple will definitely do their best."
Rong Yejin smiled again.
Thus, no matter how much dissatisfaction and thoughts the crowd had, they had to suppress them. All the civil and military officials turned to face the emperor sitting on the high throne, saluted, and said in unison: "Your Majesty."
"His Majesty."
"His Majesty."
The emperor, sitting on the exquisite and majestic dragon throne, regained his composure and looked up at the ministers below. He immediately caught sight of the smiling eyes of Rong Yejin, who stood at the head of the civil officials. He paused for a moment, then slowly spoke in a hoarse voice, "I will do as you say."
"Liu Tingwei is wavering."
In the study, Rong Yejin explained casually.
Jiang Jingyuan nodded, and then listened to Rong Yejin say, "Even Lin Yanqing has nothing to say about the Wei family's handling of the matter—he does serve the emperor, but that doesn't mean he's dedicated. As for matters at court, as long as they don't affect his conspiracy with the emperor and aren't serious, he won't pay much attention to them and will just turn a blind eye."
Jiang Jingyuan listened as many fragmented thoughts flashed through her mind, unable to grasp them, only to feel a vague sense of strangeness. After thinking for a long time, she could only attribute it to the fact that Lin Yanqing was too special.
Although they were all in the human world, she always subconsciously divided the inside and outside of the palace into two completely different worlds.
——Inside the palace is the mundane world, but outside the palace is like a world of immortal cultivation.
The appearance of Lin Yanqing connected the scenes inside and outside the palace into a complete and complex human world.
A strange feeling arose in Jiang Jingyuan's heart, which even she could not identify, and she could not even explain what kind of emotion and perception it was.
"In fact, most aristocratic families have some connection with immortal sects." Rong Yejin picked up the teacup and said calmly, "The Rong family is no exception."
The fingers of the hands resting on his legs trembled. Jiang Jingyuan raised his head slightly and looked at the expression of the person in front of him.
The girl was dressed in a vibrant goose-yellow, with patches of off-white and hints of tender green. She looked lively and childish. But her eyes, dark as the abyss, suppressed her innocent charm.
Rong Yejin smiled, not elaborating on the relationship between the aristocratic families and the immortal sects. Instead, he asked, "The Empress hasn't told you about the Rong family yet, right?"
Jiang Jingyuan nodded and said "hmm" softly.
Rong Yejin nodded and said in a relaxed tone, "The Rong family's affairs are actually not that complicated. Your Highness only needs to remember what happened since I took over the position of Prime Minister. You can listen to the things before that. If you trace back to my Rong family, no matter how far back everything happens, it will never be further back than that."
Jiang Jingyuan was a little surprised, and the strange feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger: "What does this mean? What will happen in the future? What will happen?"
Her thoughts raced for a moment. "What I said before... What about the conspiracy between Lin Yanqing and the Emperor? Why have so many people in the court been wavering and looking for a way out in the past two years?"
"Are you hinting at something?" Jiang Jingyuan raised his eyes and saw Rong Yejin, who was sitting in front of him, also turned his eyes to look at him.
Their eyes met, Rong Yejin smiled at her, and Jiang Jingyuan clenched her hands under the table suddenly.
Rong Yejin continued, "The previous prime minister of Dayuan was also the previous head of the Rong family. He pretended to be honest to gain a good reputation and drank all day long..."
There were gusts of cold wind in the lonely night.
A woman's scream resounded throughout the entire mansion, extremely shrill.
"What are you doing? What are you doing?! Let him go! Let him go!!!"
By the pond, a thin woman in coarse linen clothes pounced on the man kneeling by the pond, screaming and grabbing his hands.
The middle-aged man, reeking of alcohol, viciously pushed the struggling child in his arms into the cold pool water. When he saw the woman rushing towards him, he pulled out one hand and hit the woman, trying to push her away.
"Let him go! Let him go!!!" The woman screamed continuously. Regardless of the pain in her body, she pulled the man's hair with her backhand, as if she wanted to twist his head off.
Seeing that her bare hands had little effect, the woman's expression became distorted and she decisively pulled out the hairpin that held her hair in place. With one hand she grabbed the man's hair to hold his head in place, and with the other hand she stabbed his eyes mercilessly with the hairpin.
“Get out of here!!!”
The man subconsciously loosened his grip on the child and turned to grab the woman's hand that was piercing his hairpin. He roared, "There's no money left at home, what do we need him for?! We can't afford to support him, I'm telling you, we can't! I even found a decent way for him to die, otherwise I would have boiled him!!!"
"You beast! You're a prime minister, and you can't even raise a child?!" The woman burst into tears, tears streaming down her face, her features twisted with hatred. "I'll raise him! If you can't, I will! I can afford it, even if it means raising ten more! If you can't, just tell me and I'll raise them myself!"
"no!!!"
The man's face flushed red, perhaps from drunkenness or anger, as he shouted, "The court's salary can't support him. If you support him, they'll have a pretext to frame me!"
"You lunatic!!!" The hairpin in her hand fell, and the woman's eyes were red. She hammered him with both hands. The more she felt that her bare hands were not working, the angrier she became. In her rage, she grabbed his head with one hand and dug out his eyeballs with the other, "You die——"
The two men grappled, their features distorted and grimacing, their bodies instantly covered in countless wounds. Despite their equally matched strength, neither could kill the other, leaving both wounded.
The woman suddenly broke down and burst into tears again. "My cultivation... you've ruined me to this point!!! In just a few years, my cultivation has regressed so much! I'm actually on par with a piece of trash like you!"
"mother……?"
The commotion by the pond was so loud that the servants had already been driven away by the men, leaving the children to cautiously grope their way over. Seeing this scene, none of the children panicked, having long since become accustomed to it. Only one girl asked, somewhat bewilderedly, "Mother... Is Seventh Brother... dead?"
The children in the mansion spoke very softly and never dared to make too much noise, but the cold wind still carried her words to the woman's ears.
The woman paused, and tears as big as beans rolled down the corners of her eyes.
Next moment!
The furious man rammed his head into her frail body like a bull.
"Bang!!!"
Blood and flesh were splattered all over the rockery.
The grudges were settled, and Rong Yejin's heart remained calm as he recalled that day. He looked at the girl before him, a faint smile in his eyes. "I wonder if Your Highness has heard about what happened when the Empress entered the palace?"
Without waiting for Jiang Jingyuan's reaction, he continued, "The Empress didn't want to enter the palace back then, so she quietly ran out of the palace at night. When the old Prime Minister discovered her, the entire city was sealed off. The entire capital was covered with wanted posters of the Empress and her former close friends. The next night, the Empress returned on her own.
"Since she came back, she has been locked up in her room until she entered the palace."
Jiang Jingyuan remained silent.
She knew that Rong Yejin had no intention of gaining sympathy for anyone by saying this. The right and wrong and the grudges had been settled, and no one who was still alive needed this illusory sympathy - the dead needed it even less. Verbal sympathy would be less practical than burning more paper money.
Rong Yejin's words had the same purpose as Rong Hou had when he talked about the people in the palace.
——They handed her a knife with their own hands.
"I understand." Jiang Jingyuan looked at him and said seriously.
Rong Yejin curled his lips, nodded, and continued, "Then the old Prime Minister drowned, and the Emperor ordered me to take over the position of Prime Minister..."
He then briefly talked about how he dealt with the court officials who made all kinds of difficulties after he ascended the position of prime minister - it seemed that the emperor at that time was still very sober and wise. He seemed to trust Rong Yejin very much and almost suppressed all the memorials that expressed that Rong Yejin was not capable of taking on the heavy responsibility.
Jiang Jingyuan listened and nodded from time to time.
After a long time.
Rong Yejin looked at Jiang Jingyuan in front of him and said with a smile, "That's all for today."
As soon as he finished speaking, a palace maid came out of the door holding a brocade box. She walked to the table, bent down and placed the brocade box in front of Jiang Jingyuan.
Jiang Jingyuan looked over and saw a small bird with a round white belly and black back lying safely in the brocade box.
Jiang Jingyuan blinked, then heard Rong Yejin in front of him say, "This is a message board. From now on, I will use it to inform you of things happening outside the palace. If you have any questions, you can come and ask me."
Most message cards are made of jade, but this one made in the shape of a bird is quite special... Jiang Jingyuan picked up the chubby round bird from the brocade box. The bird with a white belly and black back seemed to come alive, jumping around in her hand, and pecking her hand with its beak curiously from time to time, but it didn't hurt.
"It seems a bit cute..." This thought flashed through Jiang Jingyuan's mind unconsciously.
After a pause, she looked up at the person in front of her and said, "Okay."
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