Chapter 221: Identity Revealed
After Princess Yu's crimes were made public, Prince Yu volunteered to guard the Taimiao.
It takes more than half a day to travel from the Taimiao to the Imperial Mausoleum. Now the people who should have been guarding the Taimiao have come to the Imperial Mausoleum, forcing Wei Qingyan and Shi Yu to be on guard.
Shi Yu rode his horse to Prince Yu, "Uncle Prince Yu?"
Prince Yu was walking with his head down. When he heard the voice, he looked up, put his hand in front of his forehead, and squinted his eyes, as if to see the person in front of him clearly.
When he saw that it was Shi Yu, he asked in surprise, "Prince Rong? Why are you here?"
Shi Yu looked at Prince Yu, who used to have an immortal-like appearance, but after not seeing him for such a short time, his hair was already gray and his back was hunched. He actually walked into the cemetery alone.
He had not deliberately concealed the fact that he had come to the imperial mausoleum, and he had come in a high-profile manner that day. Anyone who paid the slightest attention to affairs in the capital would have known about it.
Prince Yu was in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, so it was understandable that he was unaware of what was happening in the capital. He curved his lips slightly and said, "I have come to pay my respects to the late Emperor on behalf of Your Majesty. Why is Uncle Prince Yu here?"
"Uncle came to see Mom and Dad."
Prince Yu also smiled, but it was a smile filled with bitterness, "I've failed as a father. I don't even know where my son's body is.
I wanted to come and beg my parents to help me find Chengze. I also wanted to come to their grave to fulfill my son's duty. I'm old now and I don't know how many days I have left to live, so every visit is a good one."
He spoke as if he was back home, "Brother Yu is going back to Beijing? Then you should go and get busy first."
Shi Yu nodded, "Take care, Uncle Yu."
"Well, uncle knows. You too, even though you're feeling better now, you still need to take better care of yourself. I'll go to the Worship Hall later to talk to your father. He'll be happy to know you're better..."
Prince Yu rambled on and on for a long time. When he came to his senses, delaying Shi Yu for quite a while, he patted his forehead and said, "Look at my brain, it's confused again. You should leave now."
This time, after he finished speaking, he turned around and went into the cemetery.
After leaving the mausoleum, Shi Yu saw a carriage outside the mausoleum and guessed it was Prince Yu's carriage. He called Jingzhe and said, "Check whether Prince Yu has been to the imperial mausoleum before."
Jingzhe received the order and left.
He returned not long after, "Master, ever since Prince Yu went to guard the Imperial Ancestral Temple, he has come to the Imperial Mausoleum once every ten days or half a month. Just as he said, he just sits in front of his parents' grave for a while before leaving."
Shi Yu and Wei Qingyan looked at each other and nodded, "Got it, let's go."
When they arrived at the palace gate and only he and Wei Qingyan entered the palace, Wei Qingyan made a gesture towards the dark.
A person slipped away in the dark. He was the secret guard that Shi Yu had given to Wei Qingyan before. Since he followed Wei Qingyan, he was no longer under the control of Prince Rong's Mansion.
Shi Yu didn't want to use the secret guards of Prince Rong's mansion to follow Prince Yu because he hadn't found out what exactly happened with Dong Zang.
Fortunately, Wei Qingyan understood what he was thinking.
Thinking of this, the bad mood that had previously made him feel disgusted by the late emperor's raising of a little ghost improved a little.
But the emperor's mood was extremely bad.
After listening to the two people's stories, his eyes, which had been red due to poor sleep in recent days, were burning like flames.
"There really is a little ghost!" The emperor slammed his fist on the bed.
Several people listened to the meaning of these words, wondering if he had seen it before?
Lan Shu asked the question that was in her mind.
The emperor's face turned ashen, and he gritted his teeth as he said, "That year, when there was a flood in the south of the Yangtze River, the late emperor asked me to handle the matter. I was busy in the imperial study until midnight.
When I was about to return to the East Palace, I saw a pale-faced villain making faces at me. I happened to be reading your ghost storybook those days.
I thought it was just the influence of the book, but when I was bathing, the candle suddenly went out and that pale face appeared again, smiling at me with blood flowing from all seven orifices.
"No wonder you screamed in fright." Lan Shu felt a little guilty.
She even laughed at him at that time for being so timid despite being a prince.
The emperor noticed her self-blame and shook his head, saying, "It's not your fault."
Even he himself thought that it was just hallucination caused by the trauma of his childhood. Who would have thought that there was really a little ghost in the palace.
Did that little devil appear in the imperial study to follow him?
When he was still the crown prince, the late emperor allowed him to work alone in the imperial study. All the ministers in the court said that the late emperor had great trust in him. He was also very grateful to the late emperor, so he worked even harder to do his job well in order to repay the late emperor's trust.
He smiled bitterly in his heart. How could the late emperor be worried if there was a little devil staring at the imperial study?
The first half of Shi Jin's life was simply a joke, and the royal family was also a joke.
After all, they had been brothers for over twenty years. The emperor said the same thing Shi Yu had said before, "Dirty, he's too filthy."
No one in the palace could understand the emperor's feelings better than Shi Yu. He called out, "Royal brother..."
The emperor knew he was trying to comfort himself, so he waved his hand, calmed down, and got back to business. "Have you always suspected that Prince Jing wasn't the late emperor? And now it seems that this little brat has taken over Prince Jing's body?"
Wei Qingyan replied, "Young Madam Wei protected Prince Jing earlier because she thought Prince Jing was the late emperor.
Anyone who could have hidden this from Madam Wei must be someone who was particularly familiar with the late emperor and was also aware of the affair between the late emperor and Madam Wei. From this point of view, it is highly likely that Prince Jing is the little ghost."
The late emperor kept a little ghost, and the little ghost lived with him day and night, so he must be the one who knew the late emperor's temperament best.
"And those secret guards who left the retirement base, I'm afraid they're also related to the little ghost..."
At this point, Wei Qingyan's expression changed slightly, and he looked at the emperor, "The late emperor raised a little ghost, so he must have let the little ghost spy on the civil and military officials. If so, I'm afraid the little ghost has a lot of leverage over the civil and military officials."
Once people enter officialdom, few are completely clean. Even if an official is honest, there may be relatives who act in his name.
If the little devil arrives in Beijing and uses this evidence to force officials to support him, it will probably cause a lot of trouble.
After Wei Qingyan's reminder, the emperor quickly realized this, but he still had his own questions, "Since he has been possessing King Jing's body for many years and has all these evidence in his hands, why didn't he take action before?"
"It must be due to the suppression of the late emperor."
As for why he was acting so recklessly now, Wei Qingyan couldn't figure it out for the moment.
The emperor had never been exposed to the matter of mysterious arts, and Wei Qingyan had no idea what he couldn't figure out, but there was one thing he felt he should confess to his daughter.
"I have received news that King Jing has indeed contacted many military generals, including three generals of the National Protection Army. I have summoned the three generals of the National Protection Army to come to the capital."
After a pause, he looked at Wei Qingyan, "The National Protection Army was established by General Wei, and then it was in your hands for many years. I want to return them to you.
Qingyan, are you willing?"
The other three did not expect that the emperor would suddenly reveal Wei Qingyan's identity.
"You..." Lan Shu was the first to speak, but she didn't say a word in the end. What could she say?
The emperor, as the Son of Heaven, had already known the identities of the two children, but he followed the children's wishes and did not point it out, which was extremely rare.
The fact that the previous emperor raised a little ghost was a heavy blow to the emperor. Now there was also King Jing who was possessed by a little ghost and was ready to make a move. There were really not many people he could trust.
If her daughter accepted the National Protection Army, it would mean that she would have to reveal her identity. Huang Shaling's revenge had not yet been completely avenged, but she also knew that her daughter's heart was with the National Protection Army and the world.
Lan Shu chose to keep her mouth shut and let her daughter make her own choice.
"These princes and princesses I have raised around me are either dull-witted or have bad personalities. I used to be worried about them.
I am even more puzzled. They grew up in such a good environment, and the teachers I found for them were all virtuous and capable people, so why did I end up without a successor?
Today, I understand that it was probably because of the evil deeds of the previous emperor that the retribution fell on his descendants. I don’t know what will happen to the Great Wei in the future.
But that brat pretended to be the late emperor and deceived Madam Wei into trusting him, probably just to get the remaining 80,000 National Defense Army. If I hand them over to you, I can rest assured, and you and your daughter will have someone to rely on."
Wei Qingyan couldn't let the National Protection Army fall into the hands of the little devil, so she responded, "Okay, but I have a condition."
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