Lu Shiyi chatted with his two husbands, while Meng Xu sat there with a sullen expression, not wanting to interrupt, and just listened to their conversation.
Everything seemed to be in harmony.
As darkness fell, Lu Shiyi grew increasingly sleepy. Seeing this, his husbands got up to take their leave.
"Brother, please rest first. I will come again another day."
Wen Yanche instructed Wen Gong, "Take good care of the young master, and report back immediately if anything happens."
Wen Gong bowed respectfully and said, "This old servant respectfully sees off my lord and all the gentlemen."
"Shi Yi, I will come to see you again tomorrow."
Lu Shiyi smiled and nodded, his eyes filled with fatigue. "Take care, my lord."
During the pleasantries, a servant came to report.
"My lord, gentlemen, a lowly servant boy requests an audience. He says..."
The servant looked around but dared not continue.
Seeing his panic, everyone suddenly became serious, and Wen Yanche asked, "What is it?"
The servant glanced at Lu Shiyi's direction, seemingly hesitant, and replied in a low voice, "My lord, the sweeper Liang Tian said he has news about the day Consort Gu gave birth, it's...it's about Consort Lu. He also said that while the gentlemen are all here, he wants to report it. May I ask, my lord, should we inform Liang Tian?"
Upon hearing this, the husbands were all startled, and Lu Shiyi immediately snapped out of his daze and sat up straight.
Meng Xu asked the servant, "What does he want to report?"
"Replying to Your Majesty, I am not sure either. Liang Tian is waiting outside the courtyard right now." After saying this, she lowered her head.
Meng Xu got up, walked to the door, and looked outside. Sure enough, a young servant was kneeling in the courtyard waiting.
"Lord..."
Meng Xu had just opened his mouth when Wen Yanche interrupted him, "Tell him to wait at Hemian Garden. We'll talk about it when I return to the courtyard."
Wen Yanche didn't want to let anyone in at this moment to upset Lu Shiyi. No matter what that little slave wanted to say, Lu Shiyi's body was too fragile to withstand any blows right now.
He said gently to Lu Shiyi, "You should rest well. I'll be leaving now."
"My lord, please wait." Lu Shiyi hurriedly called out to Wen Yanche, his heart filled with panic.
"My lord, let him in." Lu Shiyi pleaded with Wen Yanche, wanting to hear what the little servant had to say.
"Shi Yi, you're tired, so get some rest. Don't worry about this matter."
"No, my lord."
Lu Shiyi persisted, his mind a jumble of thoughts, terrified that the little servant would say something detrimental to him once she arrived at Hemian Garden.
His eyes were red with anxiety, and his face looked even more tired and pale. "Please, my lord, let him in. He says he wants to denounce me. I want to hear what he has to say so I can confront him face to face."
Wen Yanche thought for a moment, then said, "Alright." He then ordered Liang Tian to be brought in.
The husbands all sat down again, and Meng Xu became suspicious again, feeling that Lu Shiyi's behavior was too nervous.
Could it be that he really did something shameful?
Amidst the speculation, Liang Tian knelt before everyone. He first bowed to Wen Yanche, then took the lead in apologizing, saying, "This servant did not fail to report what he knew. This servant was just too scared before. Please, my lord and gentlemen, calm your anger."
This surprised everyone. "What's going on?"
Wen Yanche said in a deep voice, "Briefly explain what you want to report."
Upon hearing this, Liang Tian slightly raised his head and replied, "Yes."
She went straight to the point: "I am here to denounce Lord Lu. On the day Consort Gu gave birth, I was cleaning the music room in the main courtyard of Wangyue Pavilion. As soon as the news of Consort Gu's impending birth came out, Lord Lu arrived at the main courtyard."
“At that time, I heard Lu Shijun asking the servant a question through the window, so I looked through the crack in the window for a while and saw with my own eyes that Shijun entered Gu Cejun’s bedroom. Not long after Shijun went in, he ran out in a panic and hid behind the flowers to deliberately avoid the steward. After that… you all came.”
After Liang Tian finished speaking, Lu Shiyi's face turned completely black.
How could that be?
Why are there still people in the room?
The husbands looked at him in shock.
Faced with the accusations, he was so angry that he was speechless.
“Shi Yi…” Wen Yanche called out to him softly.
"Shi Yi, what do you have to say? Is there anyone who can prove you didn't go?"
The room remained quiet for a long time.
No one can prove it!
At this moment, Lu Shiyi felt all his strength drained away, his body and mind exhausted. Overwhelmed by fear, he was unable to respond. The expression he subconsciously displayed was extremely complex, mixed with anger, shame, shock, embarrassment and panic, but not with any sense of being wronged.
Seeing this, Wen Yanche understood the situation.
"Liang Tian, are you telling the truth?" Wen Yanche asked again.
“Every word I have said is true, and I dare not deceive you.” Liang Tian did not offer any further explanation, but instead bowed down and kowtowed.
Unexpectedly, Chi Yan then raised a question: "Then why did you choose today to bring this up? Why didn't you say so when you were investigating Wangyue Pavilion?"
"I...I was terrified then, afraid of disturbing the noble lady's health, which I could not bear...I dared not tell the truth. I...I thought that today, with all the gentlemen here and my servant having safely given birth, I could confront my servant face to face!"
"You dare to confront the emperor?" Chi Yan rolled her eyes at him. "I'm afraid someone instructed you to do this."
"I dare not!" Liang Tian said in fear.
"Ha." Chi Yan didn't believe him.
Wen Yanche naturally realized that this person's arrival at this particular time was suspicious.
"Langyue, detain him."
"ah!"
Liang Tian exclaimed in surprise, "How come things have turned out differently?"
"My lord, why are you arresting slaves?"
Shouldn't someone who reports someone be rewarded?
"Because you have ill intentions."
Chi Yan felt exhausted talking to an idiot; it was clear he was being used as a pawn.
Liang Tian hurriedly explained, "My lords, I have no ill intentions. This matter is of great importance, and I have thought about it for a long time before daring to speak out. I dare not deceive you, my lord. Please see the truth."
"shut up."
Wen Yanche remained worried about Lu Shiyi and did not want to say more, so he ordered Lang Yue to take Lu Shiyi back to the hospital for further trial.
At this point, Liang Tian dared not say anything more and was led out of the bedroom.
Liang Tian left, but his words of accusation cemented Lu Shiyi's place on the pillar of shame.
Lu Shiyi half-closed his eyelids and stopped arguing.
He had previously insisted that he had never entered the main courtyard, but now someone has come forward to accuse him of not only entering the main courtyard but also the bedroom.
The series of accusations directly prove that he was lying.
One servant's testimony could be used to fool people, but now another one has come along. Who knows if there will be another one next time?
He knew there was no way to explain anything further.
I'm tired, and I don't want to explain anymore.
Seeing his expression, everyone understood.
Meng Xu was sullen and filled with mixed feelings. He finally realized that he had indeed lied to him and his lord, and he wanted to know even more whether Gu Nanshu's child was killed by him.
Seeing his haggard appearance, Meng Xu suppressed his resentment and tried his best to ask him in a soft tone without personal emotion: "Lord Lu, what happened when you went into the bedroom? Did you do anything to Lingzhu? I hope you will tell me the truth."
Exhausted, Lu Shiyi lay back and burrowed into the blankets. After a long while, he weakly uttered, "Whatever you say! You can leave now. I'm tired and just want to sleep."
Lu Shiyi struggled to turn over, too exhausted to face the crowd.
"So you're admitting it?"
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