Chapter 136: Grievances
"Your Highness, Lord Liu is here, and now he is waiting outside the hall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Lu Zhi suddenly walked in, interrupting the conversation between the two, Liu Yan looked at Shang Chu Shenxia, saw him bowing slightly, and nodded to Lu Zhi to invite him in.
"Your Highness." Liu Zhengsheng walked all the way with the wind, and hurriedly saluted.
"Lord Liu doesn't have to be polite." Liu Yan looked at his anxious face, changed his sitting posture and said, "Lord Liu looks very anxious, I don't know what is coming to me?" ”
Liu Zhengsheng straightened up, raised his eyes and looked at Chu Shenxia, Chu Shenxia went to get the crutches on the side, and said with a smile: "I won't disturb you, Lord Liu, please take a seat." ”
"No, no." Liu Yan stretched out a hand to stop Chu Shenxia from getting up, and then turned his head to Lu Zhi and said, "Go and get a chair for Lord Liu to sit on." ”
Seeing that Liu Zhengsheng didn't speak, Liu Yan said again: "It's okay, even if Lord Liu doesn't say it in front of me, a strategist, he will use various methods to know, maybe what Lord Liu said, he happened to tell me." ”
It happened that Lu Zhi moved a chair, and Liu Zhengsheng sat down before he said: "The emperor once decreed that ministers were not allowed to discuss the case five years ago in private, but the officials are bold, and what I want to talk about today is the headless case." ”
Liu Yan's eyes were shocked, and he looked at the person in front of him a little restlessly, and stabilized his heart that was about to jump out, and then said calmly: "What does Lord Liu want to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it, I will never run to my father to sue Lord Liu." ”
Although Liu Yan's voice was already very peaceful, Chu Shenxia still heard a violent tremor in his voice, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at his expression, wanting to remind him with his eyes, be more vigilant, and beware of trouble coming out of his mouth.
It's just that before Liu Yan turned his head, Liu Zhengsheng had already moved his gaze, Chu Shenxia quietly put away his gaze, and said with a faint smile: "Otherwise, I'd better go down first, so as not to disturb the two of you." ”
King Qin's case. Chu Shenxia has been paying close attention for several days, and he probably knows a hundred times more details than Liu Yan, where is Liu Yan willing to let him go, he hurriedly held him down and said, "It's okay." These days, which minister has come to see me, and you are not on the sidelines? ”
Liu Zhengsheng's gaze turned on the two of them, knowing that if he didn't speak again, he would spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and after thinking about it secretly. opened his mouth and said: "Before the lower official said these words, I want to ask Your Highness, do you believe the charges against King Qin and the queen back then?" ”
Without waiting for Chu Shenxia to stop it, Liu Yan had already blurted out and said resolutely: "Naturally, I don't believe it." ”
After saying this, Liu Yan realized that Chu Shenxia was staring at him with a pair of burning eyes, and hurriedly told him that since Liu Zhengsheng said so, it means that he also believes that King Qin is wronged, so why not say it yourself?
Liu Zhengsheng nodded slightly. finally said the right thing, "What His Royal Highness said is exactly the same as what the lower officials think, after the case of King Qin, although I relied on the identity of the Liu family and was not executed, I was also implicated, and was demoted by the emperor to a small household servant, and since then I have been pressed by Situ Jue, and I can no longer turn over." ”
Speaking of this, he paused, and glanced at Chu Shenxia. continued: "Recently, His Highness has been looking for clues about the case back then, and I know all about it, and there are even some clues. I deliberately left it to His Highness. I came here today to tell His Highness that if His Royal Highness is willing to overturn the case for King Qin and the Queen, it is incumbent on me and the Ji family! ”
When Liu Yan heard him say this, he was naturally very excited. Leaned out half of his body and was about to open his mouth to answer, but the gaze of the person next to him was too scorching, so burning that people couldn't ignore it, he endured the throbbing in his heart, and slowly sat up straight and said: "This matter, I'm afraid it can't be moved to the surface now, only if I have enough evidence can I overturn the case for Uncle Qinwang, and it is precisely because I can't find evidence that I feel distressed, it's better to do this, wait until we collect evidence in private, and then make a decision, how about it?" ”
Liu Zhengsheng naturally couldn't say a word, his eyes turned around on Chu Shenxia's face, and he lowered his head and said, "Yes." ”
As soon as the conversation changed, he pretended to regret and said: "It's just that I have discovered some new clues in the past few days, and I originally thought that His Highness could strike while the iron was hot, but now I think it should be redundant." ”
"How so?" Liu Yan was really excited, and said happily, "All clues will definitely come in handy, you and tell Chu Shenxia all the clues you find, and we will work together to collect enough evidence to prepare for the future reversal of the case." ”
"That's natural, but the clues found this time are a little different from usual." Liu Zhengsheng looked embarrassed, but his eyes kept looking at Liu Yan.
Liu Yan didn't know what he was thinking, but even so, he couldn't help but follow his words and ask, "What's the difference?" ”
A hint of joy flashed in Liu Zhengsheng's eyes, and then he sighed faintly, and said: "Wei Shuming, His Royal Highness should know that this person has always been on guard since I entered the court as an official, and at that time I had frequent contacts with King Qin, and King Qin was also very jealous of this person. Does Your Highness know that he once led his troops into battle, but he returned alone? ”
Seeing Liu Yan nodded, Liu Zhengsheng snorted coldly, and said indignantly: "Those 23,000 soldiers, King Qin and I don't believe that they are really dead, almost investigated, King Qin actually discovered a shocking secret!" It was precisely because of the discovery of this shocking secret that he was killed. ”
Liu Yan's heart tightened, his whole body tensed nervously, and he couldn't help asking, "What is the shocking secret?" Can Uncle Qin Wang be put to death?! ”
"At that time, I didn't know, I only knew that King Qin left Jincheng for three months, and after he came back, he frequently met with the queen, and within two days, seven maidservants died in the queen's palace one after another, as His Royal Highness knew, the corpses all had no heads." Liu Zhengsheng said and couldn't help but stand up.
His eyes were indignant, and his tone was sonorous and powerful: "Who would have expected that King Qin would be affected by this headless case, and then he found out his dealings with the Wu State of the previous dynasty, so he was detained as a disobedient person." How good the relationship between the emperor and King Qin was in the past, after all, he was the biological brother of a fellow mother, and he resisted the pressure in the court and spoke for King Qin. It's just unthinkable that King Qin was charged with fornicating with the queen again, and the emperor saw it with his own eyes! ”
Speaking of hatred, Liu Zhengsheng shook his sleeves violently, in order to vent the hatred and hatred suppressed in his heart, Liu Yan had been listening to him with bated breath, and at this time he couldn't help but be angry, slapped the table case angrily, and said loudly: "In a fit of anger, my father beat the queen into the cold palace, and put Uncle Qin Wang under house arrest in the mansion, and even sent someone to search King Qin's mansion to the bottom." This search unexpectedly found many private messages from the queen colluding with King Qin to recruit troops for Liu Yu and attach himself to the throne, and even said a lot of words about plotting to kill his father and help the prince ascend the throne. Therefore, the father believed the words of the court that the queen and King Qin had bad intentions, united with the previous dynasty, and wanted to kill the king and establish the new emperor. ”
Although Chu Shenxia also felt that a generation of virtuous ministers had been slandered, he did not have such a big reaction as the two of them, and compared to their enthusiasm and generosity, he seemed to be a little cold-eyed.
I still couldn't hold back at the moment, and broke the atmosphere they created with a loud voice, "Lord Liu has said so much, but he still hasn't talked about the point, what new clues?" ”
Liu Zhengsheng and Liu Yan really calmed down a lot, Liu Zhengsheng reacted first, sat down again and said: "Oh, over the years, I have been following the weak clues left by King Qin all the way to investigate, and at the beginning of this year, I finally found it!" ”
Liu Yan also sat down busily, pricked up his ears and listened carefully to him: "Those 23,000 soldiers are really not dead, and now they are hiding in Qixia Mountain, and there seems to be a very important person living in Qixia Temple, and he is very tightly guarded. ”
Chu Shenxia and Liu Yan looked at each other in unison, wasn't the Qixia Mountain mentioned by Liu Zhengsheng the place where the two went not long ago? Isn't that in Qixia Temple Liu Yu's biological mother, Concubine Rong, the fifth princess of Jin?
"What? Looking at the appearance of His Royal Highness and Mr. Sirs, it seems that they know something? Liu Zhengsheng took in the strange looks of the two of them and asked.
Chu Shenxia's eyes tightened, and he grabbed in front of Liu Yan and said, "Oh, Your Highness and I have been there before, and the guards are indeed tight, so does Lord Liu know who is behind the 23,000 soldiers?" ”
"Guard! Technique! Ming! Liu Zhengsheng almost gritted his teeth and said these three words, and the hatred in his eyes made people feel stunned.
Liu Yan was silent when he heard his name, and gradually understood in his heart that the person who designed to frame King Qin back then was the abolished prince Liu Yu who was implicated back then, his former eldest brother!
Liu Yu, the word Ziwang, when his father gave him the word, he was full of expectations, but he didn't expect that it was such a white-eyed wolf that caused his father and brother to turn against each other, forcing the original wife to commit suicide.
Before his death, Uncle Qin Wang wrote seven words in a row, and he refused to swallow his breath and close his eyes until he died.
What made him even more heartbroken was that the ministers who defended Uncle Qin Wang were all punished and killed, and after the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, they were even more unanimous, and they pushed Uncle Qin Wang to a dead end.
Liu Zhengsheng suddenly knelt on his knees, and his tone was no longer as indignant as Fang Cai, but with a deep sense of sadness, "Your Highness, Xia Guan once swore that if he couldn't replace King Zhaoxue in this life, he would commit suicide in front of his grave." ”
"Why did Lord Liu come here? How did it come to this?! Liu Yan hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up.
Liu Zhengsheng's eyes were already red, and when he saw Liu Yan's somewhat moist gaze at this moment, his heart settled down a little, and he said in a dumb voice: "There are more and more clues now, and there is only a thin veil left behind the headless case, and the truth is about to come out, and the lower official begged His Royal Highness to overturn the case for King Qin." ”
"I will, even if you don't say it, I will, it's just a matter of time, but at the moment, it's really not appropriate to startle the snake, even if we are anxious, everything has to be done slowly." Liu Yan tried his best to persuade him.
Liu Yan's words really impressed Chu Shenxia, at this time, he could still remain calm, and the thoughts in his heart were not shaken by emotions, which was really rare.
(To be continued.) )