Chapter 65 Suspicion Xie Jing, Qing Jia.
Yu Qing said, "I told Your Highness to be careful of the Chen family, but you didn't understand."
Xie Jing nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, I'll remember that. From now on, no matter who comes to see me, I won't pay any attention. I will just follow the prince."
Yu Qing: “…”
"Not really," Yu Qing said, "but be more careful in everything you do and don't trust others easily."
There was a huge commotion in the palace yesterday. This must have been the first time that Xie Jing had encountered such an unexpected disaster, so Yu Qing sent him back to his palace safely.
Looking back on the whole thing, Yu Qing later thought about it for a while and realized that things must be more complicated than they seemed.
For example, while the Empress had committed numerous evil deeds, she had remained hidden for so many years, and she must have some means. This time, however, she had fallen deeply into the abyss. First, her own son died, and then her entire family was overthrown. Yesterday, her crimes were uncovered one after another, which was quite revealing, but it was also too much and too coincidental. Yu Qing didn't believe that no one was adding fuel to the fire.
When Prince Rui entered the palace, he must have heard the news and came well prepared. He had arranged a number of witnesses and evidence in advance, just to severely condemn the Queen's guilt.
Yu Qing knew of the old grudge between the two factions. When Xie Tingxuan ascended to power, Xie Tingzhao had been murdered and exiled, having endured humiliation for years. It was only natural for him to seek revenge against them, mother and son.
The Queen was secretly planning and accumulating strength to make a comeback and regain power.
Xie Jing is simply a perfect chess piece among this group of people. He has a noble status and attracts attention. He has been away from the mundane world and ignorant of worldly affairs for the past twenty years, and has no perception of the unpredictable changes in the capital.
The Queen and the Chen family wanted to manipulate him and entangle him in order to drag him into the water, and Prince Rui was also happy to push Xie Jing out as a target and finally use him to expose the Queen.
In the end, it was Prince Rui who overthrew the Queen, so naturally his version of events should be taken as the standard. However, the Queen's accusations and Prince Rui's evidence, to be honest, may not be the full picture, and outsiders have no way of seeing the hidden plots involved.
No matter what, it is a miracle that Xie Jing, the little white flower that accidentally entered the Tian family, was involved in this fight between tigers and wolves, and finally survived unscathed.
Maybe he really has better luck than ordinary people?
"Prince," Xie Jing hesitated, "I have another question."
Yu Qing said: "Hmm?"
Xie Jing asked, "Why did you speak for me in the palace yesterday?"
Yu Qing raised her eyes and saw Xie Jing with a pair of innocent eyes, seeming to be really confused.
"..." Yu Qing said, "Am I helping the Queen?"
Chen Wenhua dared to say that Xie Jing had been to Yongping Lane that night, so it was probably not empty talk. He must have set a trap for Xie Jing in advance.
It is possible that Xie Jing was really lured to the vicinity by them, or perhaps he was unable to reveal his whereabouts at the time, and the Chen family was well prepared, which is why they launched the attack.
On the day of the deposed crown prince's birthday, Xie Jing had indeed left an hour early, Yu Qing knew this.
That night he was neither at Beichensi nor did he return to Xuanwu Street with the guards on patrol.
But Yu Qing gave false testimony without hesitation.
The prince remained calm and spoke firmly, and no one could tell that he was lying.
Xie Jing said, "But the prince is deceiving the emperor for my sake, right?"
Yu Qing said calmly, "There are many people who bully the emperor."
Xie Jing: “…That’s right.”
"Your Majesty won't pursue the truth anymore," Yu Qing said, "unless you betray me."
Xie Jing was stunned and said, "How is that possible? I absolutely wouldn't do that."
"Yeah, so it's okay," Yu Qing said, "Don't be afraid."
Although she was comforting Xie Jing on the surface, to be honest, Yu Qing felt a little complicated and wondered why she suddenly blurted out those words of defense.
She had heard too much noise in the hall and felt annoyed.
Xie Jing knelt on the ground, his expression bewildered. He couldn't explain himself clearly, and his weak self-defense made him look weak and vulnerable. Yu Qing couldn't help but feel anxious for him.
Yu Qing had always been protective of her subordinates. Even though he was a prince, he was now working under her, so he could be considered her subordinate, right?
Moreover, perhaps because she was the one who went to Jiangnan to pick up Xie Jing and became the first person Xie Jing met in the capital, and she saved him once, Xie Jing has always had an inexplicable trust in her. It seems that he does not regard Yu Qing as an outsider at all. He likes to listen to her in everything, and at the same time he always tells her his own affairs without any precautions.
This made Yu Qing feel that he had to take some responsibility for him and could not just stand by and watch.
As for deceiving the emperor, Yu Qing didn't care. As long as the emperor didn't know, it meant he hadn't done it.
Anyway, she has been bullying the emperor for so many years. In comparison, what happened to Xie Jing is not a big deal.
Xie Jing asked, "But the prince helped me without even asking a single question. Is that really okay?"
Yu Qing frowned, not knowing what he was trying to emphasize, and asked, "Why, did you really kill Xie Tingxuan in Yongping Lane that day?"
Xie Jing whispered, "...That's not the case."
Yu Qing said: "That's good."
"I just want to thank you, Prince," Xie Jing said, "You've been so kind to me. When will you come to my house as a guest? I mentioned it last time, but you haven't mentioned it again."
Yu Qing said: "Let's talk about it later."
Xie Jing said: "Okay..."
It was just a small favor, and he wanted to express his gratitude. Yu Qing thought that he was really simple-minded and easily trusted others, which was not a good thing.
Yu Qing thought for a moment and said, "Don't you think it's a little strange?"
Xie Jing: "What?"
Yu Qing: "Think about it, the Queen didn't have any other princes, and you just happened to appear, so they wanted to take advantage of your power. If that's the case, why did she want to kill you in the first place? Isn't that contradictory? Of course, it can be explained that it was a different time and she was impulsive at first, and only later realized your value. But I don't think she is a reckless person. She should have had intentions towards you from the beginning and would not kill you easily."
Xie Jing paused.
Yu Qing said, "So, even though Prince Rui said that she was the one chasing you, and His Majesty has confirmed it, it may not be true at all."
Xie Jing was speechless for a moment. He didn't expect Yu Qing's mind to be so quick. She was unexpectedly sharp and actually hit the point completely.
In fact, they only had evidence of correspondence between the Queen and those entourages. All they could prove was that the Queen had learned about Xie Jing's existence in advance, but they never discovered that she had had direct contact with the killer.
As for everything that happened yesterday, they were all trying to take advantage of the situation to throw the blame on her. In order to convict her of more crimes so that she and the Chen family could never recover, they used everything they could, fabricated some false evidence, and mixed the truth and falsehood together, so that the emperor couldn't figure it out.
Prince Rui was not sure whether Xie Jing's assassination was the Queen's doing.
After checking everyone else in his group, he later turned his attention to the Golden Feather Guard, but the Golden Feather Guard was a complex force, a bottomless quagmire that was difficult to trace.
Duan Zhirui stayed in there for more than two years and gathered a group of people, but in the end he was unable to completely seize power.
The truth has not been revealed yet, and no one knows who attacked Xie Jing. Prince Rui feels that the Golden Feather Guard is a disaster and cannot be kept any longer.
Since he couldn't break the situation from within, he would suppress it from outside. That was why he pushed for the reorganization of the Golden Feather Guard with great vigor and reorganized the new Imperial Guard and handed it over to Yu Qing to lead.
He has also been sending more people to Xie Jing's side. The reason he agreed to let Xie Jing come to Beichensi was not entirely because Xie Jing asked him to, but because he considered it safer here.
Xie Jing naturally couldn't tell Yu Qingming these inside stories at the moment.
Now that Yu Qing has discovered something suspicious, he feels a little guilty, afraid that he will be exposed and discovered by her.
In Yu Qing's eyes, after listening to what he said, Xie Jing remained silent for a long time with a slightly serious expression. He thought that Xie Jing had heard it and noticed the problem.
So she continued, "...So, Your Highness must also be careful of His Royal Highness Prince Rui."
Xie Jing: “…Ah?”
He thought Yu Qing just wanted to say that there was another hidden story behind the pursuit, but he didn't expect that Yu Qing's intention would be this?
Yu Qing looked at Xie Jing, who was confused again, and couldn't help but hold his forehead.
How come Xie Jing becomes sometimes smart and sometimes stupid? Doesn't he usually understand things very quickly?
"He may appear to be treating you well, but he may not actually be as close to you as a brother," Yu Qing said. "Perhaps the assassination attempt was a case of him stealing from the company. If he can eliminate you, he'll have one less opponent. If you survive, he'll use you later."
Xie Jing said: "...I don't think so..."
"Yes, it may not be true. But Your Highness cannot help but consider this." Yu Qing said.
Xie Jing said: "Yeah, I understand."
Yu Qingjian was somewhat relieved that he had finally taught him.
However, after a moment, Xie Jing spoke again and asked in a low voice: "Prince, do you not like your second brother very much?"
Yu Qing: “?”
Xie Jing: "The main thing is that he doesn't seem like a bad guy..."
Yu Qing: “…”
"I was just saying it casually to let you know there's a possibility," Yu Qing said helplessly, "Don't worry about it, His Royal Highness. Just believe him if you want to."
Xie Jing said: "...I'm just curious...is there any conflict between you two?"
Even if Yu Qing had any opinions about Prince Rui, she could not reveal them to Xie Jing, after all, he was her superior.
Let's not talk about official business, but just talk about personal matters. It is hard to accept that Prince Rui did not respect Qing Jia and took the initiative to recommend a girl to her as a second wife.
"It's not really a holiday," Yu Qing thought for a moment, "it's just that the Second Prince... is a bit nosy."
Xie Jing: “…”
There is no way to refute it.
"Indeed," Xie Jing said solemnly, "He has a bad habit."
He remembered his brother going to his mother and gossiping about him, describing him as infatuated and stubborn. His mother had been telling him the whole time that she'd been deceived by the emperor in her youth, only to discover that men were treacherous. Her words were meant to warn him not to make the same mistake. He should be especially careful with powerful men.
Xie Jing held his mother's hand in silence, almost wanting to swear to the heaven that he was not a homosexual.
But thinking about the secrecy of Yu Qing's identity, he finally managed to bear it through. Thinking about it now still gives him a headache.
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Two days later, after all matters were completed, the emperor issued an edict to ban the empress, which was basically equivalent to deposing the empress. At the same time, he also raided the Chen family, and the century-old famous family came to an end.
His Majesty needed some time to recover from his stroke, so he summoned Xie Jing to the palace again, hoping that the Buddhist scriptures would help him recover as quickly as last time. Because Xie Jing had been wronged, the emperor also gave him many rewards. Xie Jing immediately moved a white jade coral to the Beichensi.
On the surface, everything returned to calm.
Yu Qing no longer commented on the open and covert struggles within the royal family.
It wasn't something she should have cared about. She only told Xie Jing about it that once, and her only purpose was to remind him to pay more attention and not be harmed by others in the future.
The only thing she couldn't understand was why Xie Jing had such a good impression of Prince Rui? It didn't make sense.
If Xie Jing entered the palace, the huge Beichensi would become a bit deserted, and there would always be an empty space in his eyes.
After all, there was one less person around, and Yu Qing would occasionally think of Xie Jing when handling official business.
Without him chatting with Yu Qing every now and then, she had no sense of time. She had a pile of tasks to review in the afternoon. When she felt tired, she rubbed her brows, relaxed for a while, and then continued.
As evening approached, Yu Qing rested his chin on the table. The guard at the door asked, "Commander, would you like to add more lights for me?"
Yu Qing finally came back to his senses and said, "No, I can do it myself."
The guard responded and stood outside the door.
Yu Qing lit two lamps herself to illuminate the desk a little. When she looked down, she suddenly froze.
There was actually a word on the edge of a certain draft page.
Jing.
It was her own handwriting.
Not knowing where her mind was wandering just now, she unconsciously wrote this word on the paper.
Yu Qing looked at the pen in his hand, then at the black words on the paper, and was stunned for a moment.
How could I write his name involuntarily?
She stared at the words for a long time, her thoughts racing and she couldn't make sense of them.
Xie Jing.
Xie Jing.
Xie Tingye.
The beauty is as bright as the sun and as elegant as brocade.
Wenhua...
The image of the ever-peaceful and warm courtyard of the Marquis' Mansion suddenly emerged in her mind.
Her gaze slowly focused on the scroll Xie Jing had originally hung on the wall. The Jiangnan scenery was richly colored, but she was fascinated by the poem "Watching the Tide" hanging next to it. One line in it struck her as incredibly familiar.
...The overlapping mountains and lakes are beautiful and tranquil, with autumn osmanthus and lotus flowers stretching for ten miles...
Qingjia......
Qingjia.
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