About half a month later, one day after Gan Qiongying finished speaking with the Regent, she returned to her residence and summoned one of the people she had brought out that day.
He was asked, "Li Songjiang, are you confident now that you can completely imitate the person I asked you to observe? Can you perfectly mimic his voice and behavior?"
Li Songjiang knelt down tremblingly before Gan Qiongying: "Your Highness, this old servant has thoroughly memorized... memorized that person's words and actions, and no one will be able to distinguish them in a short time."
"Do you know that what you did for me, if discovered, is a capital offense, a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of your family?"
"This old servant knows." Li Songjiang's lips trembled as he kowtowed three times to Gan Qiongying. "Your Highness's kindness is immeasurable, and this old servant can never repay it even with his life. I only hope that Your Highness will fulfill your promise..."
"Don't worry, I will have Chen Wa bring Wan Niang out of the building tomorrow."
"You've already witnessed the power of the human skin mask these past few days. You should know that switching out Wan Niang isn't difficult. I'll send someone to arrange a meeting between you so you can confirm Wan Niang's identity."
“Even if a woman of the night is freed from her lowly status, it is difficult for her to find a good home. But I have already found her a new identity as a respectable woman, who died unexpectedly outside the capital recently.”
"The stepmother will have a new life."
"Once I've completely sent Wan Niang away, the person who replaced her will also disappear into thin air, and no one will know where Wan Niang went."
Upon hearing this, Li Songjiang kowtowed again. He was the old man who was skilled in ventriloquism that Gan Qiongying had met at Li Hua's place.
Having been kept in the yard for so long, Gan Qiongying already knew that he could not only imitate human voices, but also human behavior, so lifelike that it was hard to tell the difference.
What's even more coincidental is that the old man's height is almost the same as the regent's, so he only needs to wear specially made shoes to slightly increase his height.
Gan Qiongying never imagined that one day she would need him for this purpose.
Gan Qiongying has been taking him to see the Regent frequently during this period, and he is now able to fully grasp the Regent's behavior and demeanor.
Of course, it's impossible to truly replace the real with the fake. The regent is involved in too many things inside and outside the court, and there are many secrets that no one else knows except the regent. No one can completely replace him.
But a little time is enough, as long as... the Regent is sent to the place Gan Qiongying wants him to go, that will be enough.
Hai Dongqing has traveled between Zhangzhou and the capital several times in recent days. Gu Qing and Gu Ming, whom Gan Qiongying sent there long ago, have now thoroughly investigated the situation in Kou Ningyu.
I had always known that Kou Ningyu was a local tyrant in Zhangzhou, monopolizing the salt and iron industries, and was extremely corrupt. He used the wealth he had plundered from the people over the years as a continuous source of nourishment to support the entire massive Kou clan.
During this period, Gu Qing and Gu Ming discovered that Kou Ningyu was again arresting beggars and vagrants in Zhangzhou, and even secretly sending ordinary people to the mines to do hard labor.
They were given very little food and water, whipped all day long, and locked up in that dark and gloomy place to work. The dead were buried on the spot, and some were not even buried at all, but thrown directly into mass graves to be eaten by wild dogs and crows. It was extremely cruel and inhumane.
Gan Qiongying did not put Gu Ming and Gu Qing at risk, but only let them find out some of the ways that the Kou family's black mine captured people, as well as Kou Ningyu's preference for buying and torturing victims in local brothels.
Gan Qiongying initially wanted to kill the Regent, but she couldn't guarantee that if she really killed one of the male protagonists of the book, there wouldn't be any plot twists that would interfere with her plans.
Although the plot has not played its due role for a long time, if a main character dies, and the plot protection is triggered, then the situation will be unmanageable.
Moreover, letting the regent die like that was far too lenient on him.
He started to tormenting Gan Lin from such a young age, exploiting Gan Lin's weaknesses to repeatedly erode Gan Lin's dignity and will. If Gan Lin had not been so determined, he might have already gone insane.
How could Gan Qiongying let the Regent off so easily?
She insisted that the Regent make Gan Lin pay for all the suffering he had endured before she could die.
Kou Ningyu was the "paradise" that Gan Qiongying chose for the regent.
The Regent has now completely lowered his guard against Gan Qiongying, and even face to face, he has no doubt that Gan Qiongying is capable of doing anything to him.
The final step now requires... shifting the blame eastward, so that when the "Regent" suddenly disappears one day, his people will suspect someone else.
In other words, they're trying to find a scapegoat for this whole mess.
Gan Qiongying has already chosen this person, who is Gan Li, who was recently stabbed in the back by the Regent Prince using the Zhangzhou flood incident as an excuse, and who is now at odds with the Regent Prince.
At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, the regent took all the credit for himself.
In the blink of an eye, the dam collapsed, refugees were everywhere, and a plague even broke out in Zhangzhou, spreading to towns and cities in all directions. This is the most chaotic time.
Just two days ago, the Regent Prince, according to his plan, shifted all the responsibility for this matter onto Kang Guang Prince Gan Li, and Gan Qiongying went along with it.
It was quite a coincidence; it was as if heaven was helping Gan Qiongying.
That day, she asked Chen Wa to investigate why Gan Huiyue and the youngest daughter of the Ministry of Rites official were being chased by refugees. It turned out that the Prince of Kang Guang was behind it all.
This matter is not a big deal; it's just a dirty trick that some spoiled young masters came up with on a whim.
It means that if a man likes a woman, he can have these vagrants rush up and harass her while she goes to offer incense, and then the young man can appear to save her and win her heart.
If rescuing the damsel in distress doesn't work... then try to ruin that woman's reputation.
That day, the youngest daughter of the official in charge of the Ministry of Rites almost suffered a terrible fate. If Gan Qiongying hadn't sent someone to accompany Gan Huiyue to investigate, the fully armored guards of the princess's residence, along with Princess Duanrong's notorious reputation, would have scattered all the young masters, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Coincidentally, two of these young princes were officials and members of the Kang Guang Prince's faction. The Kang Guang Prince was able to get along with the Regent Prince and was then used and framed by the Regent Prince, so he was not a good person himself.
Although he was still young, he had already been corrupted by the vices of the royal family and nobles. He was surrounded by wicked people who used all sorts of evil tricks. Prince Kang Guang was a naive and cruel person. He didn't even think he was wrong when he killed people.
The family of Yan Qingliu, who was a male favorite in Princess Gan Qiongying's former residence, was killed by Prince Kang.
There was also Fan Xi, the son of Wu Zhuang, whose entire family was brutally murdered, which was also related to the men under Kang Guang Wang Gan Li.
Gan Qiongying had promised Fan Xi that she would help him find a way. Since his entire family had died, it was impossible to clear his name. In a way, she helped him and Yan Qingliu deal with Kang Guangwang Gan Li.
Power, since ancient times, has had a far-reaching impact, affecting everything.
With Gan Li's downfall, those around him who committed wrongdoings will naturally face the consequences of their actions.
Thinking of this, Gan Qiongying couldn't help but sigh again. When reading the book, a person as innocent yet cruel as Kang Guangwang always seemed to have a twisted charm through the screen, and there was even a specific term for him: yandere.
But in reality, it only sends chills down your spine.
All these causes and effects were interconnected, and Gan Qiongying ordered someone to reveal the truth of the matter to the official in charge of the Ministry of Rites.
At that time, the official in charge of the Ministry of Rites, who was furious for his daughter's sake, happened to have Gan Qiongying use the official in charge of the Ministry of Rites to hand the Regent another knife.
The Regent Prince, during his court session today, has already used this knife to stab Gan Li in the heart of the matter.
Gan Li is now completely imprisoned in the mansion. It is said that he has already made a threatening statement in the court, saying that he will teach the regent, that traitor, a lesson!
Gan Qiongying was sitting in the main hall at this moment, waving her hand to tell Li Songjiang to go down and be ready at any time.
Gan Qiongying sat there with her eyes closed, deducing the matter bit by bit, going through every possible loophole in her mind.
Gan Qiongying was lost in thought when she suddenly heard footsteps. When she opened her eyes, her gaze was incredibly sharp, startling Li Hua so much that he paused slightly.
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