"Your recklessness is unsettling. Who knows what accusations Prime Minister Li might level against me? I only learned today that Prime Minister Li is incredibly adept at making baseless accusations. Don't you dare harm me."
That's what they said, but their hand movements were the opposite.
The guards of the Prime Minister's residence never expected that Marquis Zhongyong would say one thing and do another. Before they knew it, Xie Jinyao's sleeve was rolled up.
He Ming spotted the scar immediately and exclaimed, "That's Xie Jinyao! Everyone in the slave quarters can attest to the scar on her hand."
Li Heng felt a tightness in his chest.
He learned about the feud between He Ming and Xie Jinyao while investigating Xie Jinyao's affairs, and thus also learned about He Ming's stubbornness.
If he were to refute a single word, he could indeed summon everyone from the entire slave quarters.
Before she could come up with a solution, Luo Lanqiao, who had been dragged there by her mother, weakly raised her hand and said, "I can also testify that she is Xie Jinyao. I checked and there is no woman with this appearance in the Ming family of Southwest China."
Chen Banjun looked at Duke Xiao.
Duke Xiao did not want to offend his son-in-law, but he also did not want his whole family to go to Lingnan to grow lychees. With his old bones, he was afraid he would not even be able to reach Lingnan.
Then the only option was to walk up the steps in front of the Prime Minister's residence. "What this girl said is right, the Ming family indeed does not have a Mingyue."
"Therefore, Mingyue is Xie Jinyao."
The Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, with a booming voice, concluded, "Li Heng, do you have anything else to say?"
Li Heng had never felt so humiliated. He could only clutch his chest and slowly collapse to the ground, muttering, "She lied to me, she actually lied to me..."
He didn't specify whether she was Xie Jinyao or Xiao Shi, intending to observe the situation before making a decision.
Xie Tingzhou knew he was faking fainting and glanced at Wang Jingshuo in the crowd.
Wang Jingshuo understood and waved his arm, shouting, "Xie Jinyao died in the slave quarters, but came back to life and is still hiding in the Prime Minister's mansion, causing the mansion to be destroyed and its people to die."
Although he is lifeless now, who knows if he will come back to life? We must dissect the body to see what's going on, and then burn it completely to remove the remains.
The people were indeed frightened by the rumors and echoed them.
Knowing he was powerless to stop it, Li Heng could only continue to feign unconsciousness.
The steward of the Prime Minister's residence understood his thoughts and wanted to send the man to the residence to recuperate, but was stopped by the Marquis of Zhongyong.
"There are doctors on site, and there are ready-made carriages, so let's send the carriages up."
Prime Minister Li probably also wanted to know what exactly was sleeping beside him.
With no room for negotiation, the steward had no choice but to lift Li Heng into the carriage.
Xie Jinyao was also dissected on the spot in front of the Prime Minister's residence by the coroner, except that a curtain was drawn around her.
Chen Banjun's reason was, "I heard that the Prime Minister insisted that the royal family could not tolerate him and deliberately smeared him."
His Majesty has been wronged, and we are worried that if the body is taken elsewhere for autopsy, Prime Minister Li will then again accuse the royal family. Therefore, we can only trouble everyone to act as witnesses.
Upon hearing this, Li Heng, who was inside the carriage, felt a metallic taste rise in his throat again.
The pungent smell subsided, and a surge of hatred ignited in his chest, causing him to clench his fists tightly.
The autopsy wasn't really to investigate what Xie Jinyao was, but rather to confirm how many months along the fetus in her womb was.
Therefore, not long after, the coroner came out and said, "The body is no different from a human body. It should be that after Xie Jinyao died, she was possessed by ghosts and monsters. However, the fetus in her womb was only about four months old."
Li Chenghai has been dead for five months.
The crowd erupted in uproar.
Wang Jingshuo said from the crowd, "What Madam Shen said is true, the child is Prime Minister Li's."
Following the crowd who had come all the way from Fahua Temple to watch the spectacle, someone chimed in, "The Su family swore on their lives that Li Chenghai was infertile, and Prime Minister Li knew that too, which is why he played the father-in-law-son charade."
At the time, Prime Minister Li dared not swear an oath, and afterwards he pretended to be pitiful, saying that His Highness the Crown Prince had smeared him.
"Things are already so clear, yet they still blame it on the royal family. This Prime Minister Li is utterly disrespectful to the royal family."
Naturally, the person who spoke was someone Xie Tingzhou had arranged in advance.
The others mixed in with the common people chimed in, “That’s right. They behave themselves improperly and then treat us like fools.”
It's a fact that Li Chenghai had an affair with Ye Zhengqing, it's a fact that he married two wives, and the fact that Madam Shen didn't even want the family property and insisted on a divorce, and that his children and grandchildren severed ties with him, is enough to show that he has problems.
"Xie Jinyao was struck dead by lightning. Although His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, he cannot summon lightning. Prime Minister Li is just trying to save face by making baseless accusations. Alas, His Majesty is kind-hearted to tolerate such a minister."
...
The people were talking about it.
Li Heng wanted to use public anger to frame Ye Zhen, but Xie Tingzhou and Ye Zhen put their ideas to use, and the boomerang ultimately hit itself back.
After being awakened by the imperial physician, he vomited blood again and this time he truly fainted.
Li Heng's reputation was completely ruined by this incident.
Fearing punishment from the emperor, he voluntarily requested leave to stay at home, but the emperor really didn't have time to punish him.
Because the Western Yue Dynasty had sent troops to Dayuan, the border city had entered combat mode. The emperor was worried about his father and was busy sending people and food to the border city.
Meanwhile, the new emperor of Dongwu and his entourage also arrived in the capital.
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