Chapter 158 Prince Rong Kneels
Shi Yu's voice was calm. "Back then, I didn't tell you because I was doing it for Qingyan's sake and didn't want to embarrass Madam. But now, do you think you are still worthy of me covering up for you?"
He turned his eyes to the coffin and walked forward a few steps to its side.
Suddenly he lifted his robe and knelt down, supporting himself with his hands, and bowed three times, "I'm sorry!"
In order to conceal Wei Qingyan's identity, he could only wait for the corpse to rot before bringing it back to the capital. He felt sorry that he could not bury Abu in time.
He knew that it would be impossible for Madam Wei to bury the body properly in a quarter of an hour, but because she was Wei Qingyan's mother, he did not make excessive malicious assumptions about her and did not open the coffin to check. He felt sorry for that.
Over the years, he often went to the tomb of the national defense general, both because he missed Wei Qingyan and because he owed Abu.
As soon as he learned about the situation in the coffin, he felt that he should make a formal apology.
After paying his respects, he stood up and nodded slightly to Dongzang. Dongzang turned around and quickly brought two people over.
The elderly man carefully looked at Madam Wei, and then said, "I remember her. Back then, she and two others stayed at our house for a night.
The lady complained that the bed was not soft enough, so I had no choice but to buy two new quilts from the village chief that night to cushion the bed.
The middle-aged man next to him nodded in agreement, "That's exactly what happened. Uncle Li bought a quilt at my house, and my father saw that it was difficult for him to carry it alone, so he asked me to help deliver it."
"Where does the old man live?" Gong Mingcheng seemed to understand something and asked.
The old man replied, "My home is in a small county town in Ganzhou."
Gong Mingcheng asked again, "When did this lady move into your house?"
"Three years ago."
"I don't know this person, and it's impossible for me to stay overnight at a farmer's house."
Madam Wei was restless and cried, "Although I don't know why Prince Rong wants to target my Wei family, but now there are only two widows left in the Wei family, me and my mother-in-law, so we can't hinder Prince Rong.
If Prince Rong really had some dissatisfaction with my Wei family and wanted to harm our Wei family, he could have just slashed my neck with a knife. Why did he have to frame me like this?
You are a high and mighty prince, it is so easy for you to bribe a few people, but I am just a woman..."
She stopped talking and covered her face with her hands, crying, with countless grievances in her cry.
But Shi Yu didn't even look at her, his eyes were always on the coffin in front of him and Wei Qingyan standing next to the coffin.
His hands were clenched into fists behind his back.
Dong Zang continued, "Three years ago, Madam pretended to be ill, but she secretly went to Huangshaling. Because she didn't want anyone to discover her whereabouts, she didn't stay at an inn, but instead stayed at a commoner's house."
Fortunately, the prince was worried that Madam Wei would go to the battlefield to look for General Wei, so he sent someone to follow her secretly, and only then was the old man brought to the capital in time.
He continued, "If Madam thinks the old man was bribed by my prince, then what about this one?"
He pointed at a white-bearded old man who had just walked up to the crowd.
Some people in the crowd had recognized the white-bearded old man, and their eyes were filled with suspicion when they looked at Madam Wei.
Madam Wei felt a chill on her back, and her hand holding the handkerchief trembled uncontrollably.
The white-bearded old man took a step closer to her and asked, "Madam, do you still recognize me?"
"It was Doctor Gong." Madam Wei tried her best to remain calm. "Didn't Doctor Gong fall off the cliff while collecting herbs..."
Is he dead?
Doctor Gong was quite famous in the capital, and many noble families would ask him to see patients. Madam Wei couldn't say that she didn't know him.
"Yes, I fell off a cliff that year and was seriously injured. I was carried home, and within two days, my family held a funeral for me.
However, I did not die. I was carried back to my hometown in a coffin and have lived in hiding in my hometown until today.
I just want to ask Madam, I have been treating patients for the Wei family for many years and have never done anything to harm anyone, why would you want to harm me?"
"When have I ever harmed you?" Madam Wei asked in a mournful voice, "Could it be that Prince Rong has bribed you as well?"
"When the news of the general's death reached her, Madam asked me to come into her house to see her. She was fine, but she asked me to announce to the public that she was seriously ill due to grief.
I agreed, and after that I kept my promise and went to the mansion to see Madam every day. But in fact, I just sat there for a while and then left because Madam was not at home at all.
I have never guessed where the lady went. I never ask about the master's private matters. Keeping my mouth shut is something I have always adhered to in my decades of medical practice.
But I found out that the medicine boy beside me had been bribed. Fortunately, the boy had followed me since he was a child and he still had some conscience, so he told me the truth.
Knowing that it was Madam who wanted to harm me, I had no choice but to fall off the cliff myself and take a gamble with my old bones.
Unexpectedly, I won the bet, and my little medicine boy who was bribed by the lady got drunk and got into trouble a few days later.
Madam, even though I knew you were faking illness and that you had left the capital, I never thought of revealing a single word to anyone. Why did you want to kill both of us?
"How could I harm you? You must have been misled..."
"Then tell everyone, was it Madam Wei who harmed Doctor Gong?"
Jingzhe carried a man forward and kicked him on the knee, "Tell the truth about what you did."
Wei Wanyi saw the man's face clearly and her face turned pale.
That person was the one who came to the capital in advance to spread rumors about Wei Qingyan on her way back to the capital from Yongzhou, following the orders of Madam Wei. She was later caught by Wei Qingyan and others and finally handed over to Shi Yu for disposal.
She is Madam Wei's confidant.
Wei Wanyi closed her eyes, her mother could not escape this disaster.
But she also felt that this was right. Her father had said that those who did evil must pay the price. She felt sorry for her mother, but who would feel sorry for her brother and her?
As she expected, the man admitted that he was instructed by Madam Wei to bribe Doctor Gong's medicine boy in order to harm Doctor Gong's life.
It was because Madam Wei didn't want others to know that she left the capital when the national defense general died in battle.
Afterwards, the guards of Anyuan Marquis' Mansion brought several people in the crowd who had been bribed by Madam Wei to speak for her, and brought them to the front one by one.
Those people thought they were just going to get some money and say a few words, but they didn't expect it to involve a lawsuit. They were so scared that they confessed everything.
The evidence is conclusive, Prince Rong did not lie, and Madam Wei did go to Huangshaling.
Everyone pointed fingers and some upright censors even started to curse.
Now that the truth has come to light, they realize that they had impeached the wrong person and lost face, so they have no choice but to vent their anger on Madam Wei.
Madam Wei's body was shaking the whole time, her lips and hands trembling violently, but she still cried out in sorrow, "General, if you are still alive, please open your eyes and see. You and your son sacrificed your lives for the Wei Dynasty, but I was bullied so hard..."
No one had any sympathy for her anymore.
Seeing that she was still pretending, Shi Yu looked at Feng Ruobao with cold eyes.
Feng Ruobao had received the emperor's order before coming here to cooperate with Prince Rong, and he hurriedly said, "Although the madam is the mother of the Protector General, the Protector General is an important official of the court, a minister that Your Majesty relies on.
Today's matter is of great importance. Madam, please accompany me to the palace later so that I can explain it to His Majesty in person."
After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and several eunuchs came forward to temporarily take Madam Wei away.
The time for moving the graves was chosen in advance, and a lot of time had been wasted just now. Feng Ruobao did not dare to delay any longer and hurriedly signaled his subordinates to continue with the relocation of the graves.
When Abu's body was collected and placed back into the golden nanmu coffin given by the emperor himself, and carried to the imperial mausoleum by the imperial guards, Feng Ruobao, Wei Qingyan and his party also entered the palace with Madam Wei.
The people were also curious about why Madam Wei treated her son like this, and they followed the team towards the palace gate.
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