The two snow bandits took him to the main hall, where they saw a masked man lying on the podium, with Lin Mu and Liu Qin sitting on either side of him.
I guess that must be the village chief.
"Village leader, this old man said he knows something about Shang 뎃."
Shang Ruoyi looked at Zheng Qi and said calmly, "How many times has this happened?" She picked up the fruit in front of her and snorted, "I'm too lazy to listen. I'll just bury him alive."
Upon hearing this, Zheng Qi hurriedly said, "No, no, no, village chief, I know, I really know!"
"Everyone knows this, yet they still bring up some trivial matters. What do you think of me as the village leader?" Shang Ruoyi sat up. Her lazy demeanor made her look nothing like a lady from a noble family. She looked just like a mountain king: "If you can't say something important and fatal, then don't say anything."
Seeing her like this, Zheng Qi hurriedly said, "Shang and these people are selfish and took bribes during the Spring Examination to manipulate the court officials to accept their fate."
Shang Ruoyi narrowed her eyes and sneered, "You want to use this incident to overthrow Shang, do you think the emperor doesn't know what Shang did?" She waved her hand and said to the two snow bandits, "Drag them away!"
The two snow bandits came forward and grabbed him and were about to take him away. Zheng Qi tried his best to wave them away, as if he had made some kind of determination: "Dingguo Palace!"
Shang Ruoyi raised her eyebrows, finally what she wanted to hear was said.
"Dingguo Palace?" Shang Ruoyi said coldly, "What does it have to do with Dingguo Palace?"
"It was Shang who framed them and used a fake letter to accuse the Ding Palace, forcing the Ding Palace into exile."
"Is there any evidence?"
Zheng Qi was stunned when he heard this. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Shang Ruoyi sneered: "If Zheng Da wants to live, he must show sincerity. Otherwise, what's the point of just saying that Shang has done something wrong without any evidence?"
Zheng Qi frowned slightly and said in a low voice: "If you talk about evidence, it is not without, but I am very curious about one thing."
"you say."
"Since the village chief said he had a grudge against Shang, why didn't he just kill him instead of looking for evidence of his crime?"
"Heh." Shang Ruoyi chuckled, her eyes full of teasing: "Mr. Zheng has been in a high position for so long that he may have forgotten the hardships of life before he entered the government. If you were to go back to those days now, I wonder what Mr. Zheng would do? Would you accept it calmly, or would you rather die than live?" She straightened her body slightly, looked down at him from the high platform, and said leisurely: "Sometimes, death is the best relief. Only by living can you experience all the sufferings in this world."
Zheng Qi felt a chill run down his spine when he heard that. Seeing the coldness and impatience in her eyes, he quickly said, "I have evidence, but I need to go back to the mansion in person to give it to you."
"Mr. Zheng, why don't you understand?" Shang Ruoyi sneered, "If you can't give me the answer I want today, your situation will be no different from others."
Zheng Qi originally wanted to leave a way out for himself, but now it seems that this way out will have to be given up.
"Five years ago, the Dingguo Palace was ambushed at Qijing Pass, causing heavy casualties to the army. This was also the work of Shang."
Shang Ruoyi was shocked.
The tragedy of the Battle of Jingguan was something no one dared to mention.
Corpses were floating all over the ground, blood flowed like a river, and the bloody smell lingered in the air for a long time.
This is also the work of Shang 뎃?
"Go and tell me." The murderous aura on Shang Ruoyi made Liu Qin and Lin Mu around her look sideways.
"Shang ordered the emperor to plant a spy in the Dingwang Palace, who overheard the battle route and copied a wartime geomancy map. Shang sold it to the Beiling royal family."
"evidence!"
"This matter happened a long time ago. Even if there is evidence, I don't know where it is. I only found out about it when I overheard the conversation between Shang and the spy. However, I have evidence of the frame-up of Prince Ding's Mansion. It is hidden in a black box on the second shelf of the study in my mansion. In the interlayer, there is a note. It is a letter from Shang to the spy. My grandson is naughty and likes slingshots. The bird he accidentally shot had a note tied to its leg. This is what was written on it."
"How do you know it's Shang's?"
"I have served in the imperial court for decades, and I know by heart what everyone's handwriting looks like." He looked up at her and said, "Village leader, can this save my life?"
Shang Ruoyi heard this and said in a deep voice: "I need to get evidence to prove whether what you said is true or not." She waved her hand, and the two snow bandits took him away.
"Master, I'll send someone to his house to look for the note." Liu Qin stepped forward and said.
Shang Ruoyi shook her head, her eyes fell on the door, and said lightly: "There is no need for you to take action."
As soon as he finished speaking, He Jingheng's figure slowly appeared.
"Did you hear everything?"
He Jingheng nodded. His expression was cold and his face was as dark as water. He was surprisingly calm.
But the calmer it was, the more worried Shang Ruoyi became.
"What do you want to do?"
He Jingheng's lips curled slightly: "Killing someone means paying with your life, and debts must be repaid. This has always been the natural order." His eyes fell on Shang Ruoyi: "Will you accompany me for a walk?"
The next day they came to a mountaintop. He Jingheng sat on a rock, looking at the starry sky, and said softly, "It was a night like this. I followed the king to the battle. Halfway through the journey, we finally found a place to rest. We thought our whereabouts were extremely concealed, but we didn't expect that what was waiting for us there was an ambush that had been planned for a long time. The enemy attacked us while we were still asleep. Of the 80,000 troops, less than 20,000 survived."
Such a number made her feel shocked.
Looking at the scarlet color in his eyes, Shang Ruoyi knew that neither Shang nor Emperor Tianshun could escape the doom.
"If I kill Shang 뎃, will you blame me?" After a while, He Jingheng suddenly asked.
Shang Ruoyi was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud. It turned out that this was the thing that really troubled him.
"You killed him, why should I blame you?"
"Even though he didn't fulfill his responsibility to raise you, he is still your father after all."
Shang Ruoyi lowered her eyebrows and smiled, "Who told you that he is my father?"
"What?"
"I'm not very clear about the details, but there is one thing I know very well. My father is not Shang Ruoyi. My mother was taken in by the Wei family. She is not a girl from the Wei family, but a daughter of the Beiling Li family. As for my biological father." Shang Ruoyi said in a low voice: "I'm not sure if it's that father."
He Jingheng finally felt relieved.
When he heard Zheng Qi talk about what happened a few days ago, he wanted to rush back to the capital immediately and skin Shang Ruoyi alive, but when he thought that he was Shang Ruoyi's father, he began to worry.
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