Chapter 115: Eating melon
Feng Ling just arrived in Beijing this morning. Along the way, he suffered a lot in order to shake off the tail behind him. After arriving in Black Water City, he spent a lot of time and effort to find what Rong Chen wanted, and then rushed back exhausted.
He asked Feng Ling to return to Blackwater City to investigate the matter between him and Shu Wan.
Feng Ling brought back, in addition to the portrait of Shu Wan in his hand, the marriage certificate they had signed when they had made the engagement, and the divorce letter written by Zhao! It really was a divorce! However, this divorce letter was written when he was dead. Now that he is not dead, can it still be called a divorce if he does not agree? Rong Chen's mouth curled up with a smile. The little girl still refused to admit it. With these things, let's see how she can deny it.
"By the way, master, there is something I don't know whether I should report to you!" Feng Ling suddenly remembered something that happened outside the city when he entered the city today.
"Speak!" Rong Chen spoke concisely.
"Yes, master!" Feng Ling replied, "When I entered the city this morning, I met a carriage. Sitting on it was the prince of Beishuo!" He reported with some hesitation. He had not taken this matter to heart before. It was reasonable for Beishuo, who had just married her, to send people to congratulate the Queen on her birthday.
But the thing is that the person who came was clearly a prince, but there was no news about him before.
It was only after seeing Shu Wan that he suddenly remembered that Shu Wan was now a fake princess. There couldn't be any unknown connection between these two things.
Rong Chen in the carriage was so frightened when he heard this that he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Rong Chen guessed the ins and outs of the matter and the purpose of the person who secretly brought Prince Beishuo to the capital almost in an instant.
"My subordinates have failed in their duty!" Feng Ling was glad that he remembered it early, otherwise he would have missed the big thing!
"Is it possible to find out where the person is now?" Rong Chen put down the portrait in his hand, leaned out his head and asked.
"I'll check it out right away!" Feng Ling knew the seriousness of the matter and was about to leave immediately.
"I'll go there myself!" Since this concerns Shu Wan, Rong Chen can't sit here and wait for the result with peace of mind. He has to go and check it out personally before he can feel at ease.
"Yes!" Feng Ling had never seen Rong Chen so anxious.
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Shu Wan didn't arrive early, and most people were already sitting in their seats.
After Shu Wan greeted Yu Wenyan, he sat in his seat and didn't say anything.
Quite a few people came over to greet her, but she mostly just brushed them off.
"Why did Princess Shuyin come here alone?" Yu Wenzhu looked at Shu Wan with a haughty look. In her opinion, if Rong Chen ignored Shu Wan, she would win. "Where is the Imperial Master?"
"That's an interesting question! The Imperial Master is definitely where he should be." Shu Wan smiled, "This princess didn't help you keep an eye on him!"
"You..." Yu Wenzhu was choked, "Hmph!" Finally, she snorted coldly and turned away.
Anyway, the Imperial Master already hated Shu Wan, so she had already won.
No matter how sharp Shu Wan's teeth are, she still defeated him! After the banquet started, Rong Chen still didn't come. Shu Wan glanced at his seat. When she left at noon, Rong Chen had already got on the carriage. Logically, he should have arrived one step later than her.
Did something happen on the way? Shu Wan thought with some worry, but then she changed her mind and thought, what does Rong Chen do to her?
The so-called banquet was extremely boring. Shu Wan dozed off with his head tilted. When the banquet was halfway through, he finally saw Rong Chen.
He walked in as if nothing had happened and sat in his seat.
The attitude was defiant and some people were quite dissatisfied in their hearts, but since Emperor Chi Yan and the Queen didn't say anything, they didn't say anything.
Shu Wan wanted to ask him why he came just now, but there was a seat between them, so Shu Wan had to give up.
"Princess Shuyin, I have prepared a surprise for you today!" Emperor Chi Yan looked at Shu Wan and said with a smile.
"Ah?" Shu Wan was a little confused. Why would they prepare a surprise for the Queen on her birthday? Surely it wasn't a surprise! "Thank you, Your Majesty. What is the surprise?"
"Please come in!" Emperor Chi Yan did not answer Shu Wan, but shouted at the entrance of the palace.
"Prince Beishuo is here to see you!" A eunuch's sharp voice immediately rang out from outside.
The blood in Shu Wan's body froze in an instant, and he almost forgot to breathe.
Prince Beishuo? Fu Shuyin's relative! Exposed. It turns out that Emperor Chiyan had already begun to suspect her.
What should she do? As soon as Prince Beishuo comes in, she will be exposed immediately.
Should she deny it to the death? Should she just say that she didn't know the other person and that someone had framed her?
Just when Shu Wan was feeling extremely confused, the Prince of Beishuo walked in.
Shu Wan sat in his seat without moving, but his hands were clenched so tightly in his sleeves that he could no longer feel his fingernails digging into his flesh.
The more this happens, the more we need to stay calm.
Don't panic. If you act panicky, you're done.
Yes, just say that she doesn't know this person, and that this person is not the prince of Beishuo at all. At worst, she can ask them to find someone from Beishuo to identify the two of them. She can use this method to delay time, and then she can find a way to get away.
Although she thought so in her heart, Shu Wan couldn't help but feel nervous, and her whole body was stiff.
She quickly calculated in her mind what chances she would have of escaping if she was exposed by this Prince of Beishuo.
"Fu Jin of Beishuo greets His Majesty Chiyan. May Your Majesty be blessed with good health!" Fu Jin first bowed slightly to greet the emperor.
"Prince, there is no need to be so polite. Please stand up!" The Red Flame Emperor was full of smiles. "Your country's Princess Shuyin is now marrying Beishuo, so our two countries are related by marriage. Please take a seat, Prince!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fu Jin curled his lips slightly to express his gratitude, then walked straight to Shu Wan, "What's wrong? Sister Shuyin, are you scared when you suddenly see your brother? You can't even call me big brother." He spoke with a hint of sarcasm.
Shu Wan, who thought he was going to die just a second ago, had his pupils dilated unconsciously when he heard this.
"Brother!" She spoke blankly. At this moment, countless thoughts flashed through her mind, trying to find a reasonable explanation for this unreasonable thing.
She felt that this was the only possibility.
This Fu Jin has never seen the real Fu Shuyin.
So now when I see her, I can only greet her by pretending that we are very familiar with each other.
"Brother knows everything that happened on the road!" Fu Jin squatted in front of her and spoke with a double meaning, "Don't be sad, sister. As long as you are safe, it's okay. If the things are gone, they are gone. Brother will give you a new one. Don't worry, sister. Those daring bandits will be caught and brought to justice by brother himself!" He seemed to be talking to Shu Wan, but also as if he was looking at someone through Shu Wan.
"The old emperor actually dared to team up with Prince Li to cause Shu Yin to lose her life. I, Fu Jin, must make them pay with blood! If the Imperial Master had not told me the truth, I would still be in the dark. The person pretending to be Shu Yin must have put in a lot of effort. In addition, she almost lost her life saving Shu Yin. I must protect her no matter what. After all, she is Shu Yin's only friend!"
Shu Wan concentrated slightly and heard what Fu Jin was thinking at this moment.
There was too much information for Shu Wan to digest all at once.
This Fu Jin knew that she was a fake Fu Shuyin! It was only because Rong Chen ran over to tell her the truth about Fu Shuyin's murder that Fu Jin, grateful for Shu Wan's kindness in saving Fu Shuyin, cooperated with her to cover up the lie.
Shu Wan glanced at Rong Chen. It turned out that Rong Chen was so late because he had gone to do this.
But don't think that Shu Wan will forgive him if he does this.
Rong Chen received Shu Wan's eyes. He understood what Shu Wan was thinking at this moment. He was a little confused. How did Shu Wan know? He must have just guessed! "Yeah!" Shu Wan nodded in a depressed mood. After surviving the disaster, she didn't feel happy at all. She only felt sad and regretful.
Fu Shuyin never knew until her death that there was someone in this world who secretly loved her.
"Princess Shuyin, you and your sister have been reunited after a long separation. This is a blessing!" Emperor Chi Yan spoke at the right time, "Princess, do you like this surprise I have prepared for you?"
"Thank you, Your Majesty. I like it very much!" Shu Wan raised his eyes and looked at the Red Flame Emperor as he spoke word by word, "If there is a chance, Shu Yin will definitely repay Your Majesty for this kindness!"
Facing her scrutinizing gaze, Emperor Chi Yan felt inexplicably guilty, as if Shu Wan saw through everything.
Shu Wan was just thinking about how to repay Emperor Chi Yan for this great gift when someone gave her the opportunity.
Just at this moment, a court official walked into the hall and knelt down.
"Your Majesty, there is something in my mind that I have been thinking about for a long time. I don't know whether I should say it or not. But after thinking about it, I feel that since I am the emperor's servant, I should share your worries. So, today I have to make this matter known to you even if it would be disapproving of the whole world. Otherwise, I will have a guilty conscience for the rest of my life!" The court official who spoke did not directly say what he wanted to report, but instead started with a series of nonsense.
"My dear Minister Cai, what do you want to say?" Emperor Chi Yan looked nonchalant. "No need to be so, just say it!" He raised his hand.
When Shu Wan saw Yu Wenyan's mouth curl up, she immediately felt something was wrong.
She went to listen to the Red Flame Emperor's thoughts.
"This time, we must depose the Queen and the Crown Prince. They have been staying in positions that do not belong to them for too many years. It is time for my son Yan'er to become the master of the East Palace!"
Shu Wan was shocked. Is this prince really the hand of the Red Flame Emperor? Is he thinking about bringing him down every day?
Shu Wancai was just thinking this when Mr. Cai's next words came like a bolt from the blue, striking her and everyone present dead in the ashes.
"Your Majesty, I want to sue the current Queen!" Lord Cai did not stand up, but kowtowed heavily. "The Queen has an improper relationship with a foreign minister, and the current Crown Prince is not your Majesty's!" Everyone recognized every word he said, but when they put them all together, they didn't recognize it.
"Your Majesty!" The queen was so frightened that her face turned pale. She quickly knelt in front of Emperor Chi Yan, "I am innocent. Why did this person slander me? Please, Your Majesty, I am innocent!" She could never have imagined that someone would throw dirty water on her like this.
The prince naturally knew the seriousness of the matter, so he quickly knelt down.
"Father, this is a false charge. I beg you to investigate!"
"Cai Kun, you are so brave!" Emperor Chi Yan was furious. He grabbed the fruit plate in front of him and threw it at the unlucky guy named Cai Kun.
Cai Kun's head was immediately covered with blood, but he still knelt there very firmly.
"Your Majesty, my death is not a pity, but I cannot watch Your Majesty hand over the vast territory to others!" He kowtowed heavily after saying this, looking so disloyal. Anyone who didn't know him would have been fooled by him.
Shu Wan shook his head. The Chiyan Emperor was cruel to others and even crueler to himself. In order to pull his wife and son down, he actually directed and acted out such a tall green hat! "Father!" At this time, Yuwen Yan stood up, "What Lord Cai said is nonsense. Father, please put this man in the sky prison immediately, execute him on a certain day, and punish his nine clans, so as to give justice to the Queen and the Prince." He spoke righteously and spoke for the Prince.
Fortunately, the prince at this time still believed that Yuwen Yan was his family after all, and at the critical moment, he would still speak for himself.
It's not his fault that he thought so, because he could never have imagined that the people who directly rubbed the royal family's reputation on the ground were his father and brother! "Come here, take them away, no need to detain them, strangle them immediately!" The Red Flame Emperor was so angry that his face turned red and his neck thick, and he ordered, "All his relatives will be imprisoned and sentenced to death by chariot torn apart!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, and it seemed that he would faint in the next second.
"Yes!" Immediately, the imperial guards came in and dragged Cai Kun out.
"Your Majesty, everything I said is true!" Cai Kun shouted without giving up, "I have evidence! I have evidence in my hand!"
"Your Majesty!" At this time, someone else came out to stop him.
"Today's matter concerns the reputation of Your Majesty, the Queen, and the Crown Prince. Your Majesty must not be careless!" He said righteously, "If you kill Lord Cai like this, I'm afraid today's rumors will spread everywhere. By then, even if the Queen and the Crown Prince are innocent, it will be difficult to stop them from talking!" What he said sounded fair.
But in fact, this is just part of the Red Flame Emperor's plan.
"Master Yue, what do you mean by this?" the Queen roared, "Do you think that the slander against me by that audacious traitor Cai Kun is true?"
"Your Majesty, please calm down. This is not what I meant. I believe in you, but the people of the world do not. They only believe what they hear. So, what we need to do now is to expose Mr. Cai's conspiracy and make the truth known to the world. Only in this way can we avoid damaging the reputation of your Majesty and the Crown Prince. Otherwise, even if Your Majesty determines that the Crown Prince is a prince, it is not legitimate for him to succeed to the throne!"
(End of this chapter)
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