Chapter 189: Imprisonment
Li Zhaonian raised his eyes slightly.
Li Yanchang said slowly: "This is the daughter of the late general Shen Zhongan, Shen Yu!"
"Tell me! What is your plot to sneak into the palace disguised as a man?" Li Yanchang pressed on, "You saved the deposed prince at the hunting ground, and thus got promoted. I think this might be a conspiracy between you and Li Jincheng!"
There was no panic on Shen Yu's face, she just looked at Li Jifeng quietly.
Li Jifeng calmed down from the series of shocks and realized that she had been staring at him.
Why is she staring at me? What can I do?
Li Jifeng suddenly had an idea in his mind, and he winked at the eunuch beside him. The eunuch came closer, and he turned his head and whispered something, then looked at Chen Yu in the hall. This time she had lowered her eyes.
"What a woman!"
"Isn't General Shen's daughter Shen Yu already dead?"
"This is a crime of deceiving the emperor."
Chen Yu remained silent in the midst of the chaotic discussion. It was so subtle that Li Yanchang chose to expose her at this time.
Her mind was racing. Li Yanchang had the advantage over her being a woman but kept it to himself and kept trying to win her over.
Now it is obvious that Li Yanchang has changed his mind. She has become an abandoned child in Li Yanchang's heart.
There must be a reason why Li Yanchang stopped trying to win her over. What was it?
"You have no excuse, right?" Li Yanchang said, "Come here, Shen Yu is guilty of deceiving the emperor, be beaten to death immediately!"
"It seems that it is not yet the King of Qi's turn to give orders in this palace." Li Zhaonian said coldly.
Li Yanchang snorted contemptuously, "Fourth brother wants to protect her?"
Li Zhaonian ignored his words and said, "Chen Yu is the chief military officer appointed by my father. Now my father is still asleep, so we have to wait until he wakes up before making any decisions."
"Your Highness is right." Jiang Yuanqing said, "Besides, although she is a woman, she is no less capable than a man. We should find out what she is planning first."
Li Jifeng stood up and said, "In that case, you guys can continue chatting while I go to the toilet."
Li Jifeng walked out of Xuanhui Hall and walked faster and faster along the corridor, but he was not heading towards the Gongfang.
He rode all the way to the Beilin Palace and rushed in two steps at a time, just in time to see Xie Tingzhou rushing out from Qingpu Residence.
Li Jifeng thought that his secret agent passed on the message really damn fast. He almost died running all the way here. Fortunately, he understood Chen Yu's eyes at that time and barely caught up.
Li Jifeng stepped forward to stop him, "You can't go."
"Get out of the way!" Xie Tingzhou stared at him.
Li Jifeng was panting, wondering what the hell was I trying to do?
"It was Shi Yu, oh no, it was Chen Yu who asked me to come. You are usually so smart, why are you so stupid now? The King of Qi just wants you to go, do you understand?!"
Of course Xie Tingzhou understood.
He knew that as soon as he made a move, the King of Qi would be able to link Chen Yu's crime of deceiving the emperor to him, and it would become that Bei Lin intended to rebel.
Li Jifeng continued, "He just wants to force you out."
"I asked you to get out of the way." Xie Tingzhou said.
Li Jifeng was so angry that he jumped up and down, "Don't you understand what I'm saying?"
"I'm not going into the palace." Xie Tingzhou said calmly, "I'm going to meet two people."
Li Jifeng breathed a sigh of relief, and then he felt that his chest hurt from running just now. He rubbed his chest and said, "Let me tell you, just now in the palace, Shen Yu was very calm. After Li Yanchang exposed her, she didn't refute at all. I guess she already had a plan in her mind. She is so smart, don't be too anxious."
Xie Tingzhou lowered his eyes and whispered, "I know she has been growing up, and I won't hold her back."
Li Jifeng nodded, "If you need any help, we are all brothers, just ask, but..."
He drawled, "But I'm just an idle king, so I can't do much."
Xie Tingzhou raised his eyelids and looked at him, "Now I do need your help."
"What?"
"Stop acting in front of me. It makes me tired." After Xie Tingzhou said that, he turned around and left.
Li Jifeng stood there, and after a while he smiled, looking at Xie Tingzhou's back and said, "You're used to acting like this, right? This is the way to survive in the palace, hey!"
Xie Tingzhou turned around and raised his eyebrows slightly to indicate that he should speak frankly.
"We are all actors. Big brother, let alone second brother, your acting is not as good as mine." Li Jifeng said with a smile.
Xie Tingzhou twitched the corner of his lips slightly and left without saying a word.
Chen Yu was not imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice or the Censorate, but was detained in the Dali Temple.
This was not her first time entering the Dali Temple. When she came to Beijing, she also stayed here in order to identify Ge Liangji.
The damp hay on the hard bed smelled unpleasant, so she sat against the wall and buried her head in her arms.
She knew she would not die, so she was not afraid, but she was panicked and had to figure things out in a short period of time.
After an unknown amount of time, as if by telepathy, she suddenly raised her head and saw Xie Tingzhou standing at the prison door.
The two men looked at each other across the bushes. After a while, Xie Tingzhou turned his head and signaled to the jailer beside him.
The jailer opened the door and reminded, "Your Highness, it will only take half an hour."
"Thank you." Xie Tingzhou said.
He stepped into the cell, walked forward and looked down at Chen Yu, "Are you scared?"
Chen Yu looked at him. She was not afraid at first, but people were so strange. They could bear anything when no one cared, but once someone hurt them, they learned to be weak.
"A little bit." She reached out and grabbed his fingers, which were held in Xie Tingzhou's hand.
"Don't worry." Xie Tingzhou comforted him, "I won't let anything happen to you."
There is not much time left for the two of them, and neither of them is the kind of person who only cares about their love affairs and ignores the overall situation.
Chen Yu said, "The imperial guards took me out of the palace to hand me over to the Dali Temple, and asked the palace maids to search me. Fortunately, I didn't keep the account book on me. The guard room in the palace must have searched it as well."
"Has Emperor Tongxu seen it?" Xie Tingzhou asked.
"I have read it." Chen Yu said, "After reading it, he wanted to find Li Jincheng's confession, but the Ministry of Rites did not submit it that day. Then the news of Li Jincheng's death came, and he fainted before he could give any orders. Li Jincheng sent his confession for 15 consecutive days without any response from Emperor Tongxu. He stopped writing, which must be his intention to die."
Xie Tingzhou frowned, "You were right not to present the account book directly. Now the two parties are fighting, and the two are evenly matched. The prince can't suppress Li Yanchang. No matter what he brings out now, the two parties will fight. The prince will let people hold the handle to say that he is excluding dissidents. It can only be like Emperor Xu wakes up."
Chen Yu held Xie Tingzhou's hand tightly, "I'm afraid he won't wake up, or someone won't let him wake up."
Xie Tingzhou looked at her and motioned for her to continue.
"Li Yanchang has tried to win me over many times but failed. Why did he deliberately expose me today?"
Xie Tingzhou: "He wants me to move."
"No." Chen Yu said, "It won't do him any good if you take action at this moment. You're not the first person he wants to deal with, so why would he drag you in at this moment? I think the breakup drama we played has paid off."
Yes, Xie Tingzhou suddenly realized something.
They usually hide themselves very well. After Chen Yu took the position of Du Yuhou, she never set foot in Beilin Palace. Xie Tingzhou went to her house late at night, so no one should know.
"I thought about it for a long time." Chen Yu continued, "He kept it a secret for so long, but chose to expose me now because I have become a discarded pawn in his eyes."
Xie Tingzhou understood immediately, "He has a better candidate."
The two men looked at each other and uttered a name at the same time, "Jiang An."
Jiang An is the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, who are responsible for patrolling the imperial palace. Once Chen Yu is removed, the entire palace is under Jiang An's control.
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