Waking up with a baby

Chapter 61

When the word came out, everyone was shocked.

"Removed? They are the Prime Minister and the Minister of Dali Temple!"

"Shh, the holy will is unpredictable. If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die. What's more, since His Majesty ordered a thorough investigation, if it is true, the two adults are really audacious."

"The Jiangnan Cloth..."

"I can't say I can't, have you forgotten that Youyouwei is not only the father-in-law of Cong Jia Wang, but also the father-in-law of the current emperor? Your Majesty will definitely not sit idly by."

Some people rely on their unrelated relatives to work in the palace or in the official's mansion, know some inside information, and chat with others in a hurry. After a short period of silence, there is an instant commotion.Xue Bai pretended that he didn't hear, and said to Prime Minister Zhuang and Lu Tingwei: "Since Prime Minister Zhuang and Lord Lu are here, why don't we first think of a way to explain to Brother Huang."

Lu Tingwei was first accused, and then heard Xue Bai's words, and he couldn't reply for a long time.

Prime Minister Zhuang's expression was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he smiled nonchalantly, making it clear that he did not take Xue Bai's words to heart, "My lord, you don't have to worry about how the next official will explain it, but how should you explain it when you falsely pass on the imperial decree? "

After all, Xue Wei has been jealous of Xue Bai for a long time, and the young master's property will be taken over by his son in the future. If it belongs to You Qing, it will belong to Xue Bai. Naturally, Xue Wei will not let this happen, so even if he knows Knowing that the young master was framed by others, he calmly indicated to himself that he was on this side.

"Master Zhuang is very worried. This is what the emperor himself said. This king will not falsely pass on the imperial decree."

Xue Bai glanced at him, and said vaguely: "The imperial examination is related to the lifeline of a country, which is more important, and the emperor can clearly distinguish it, but I don't know whether the distinction between Zhuang and Zhuang is clear."

"As the prime minister, the next official can of course make a clear distinction."

Even though Xue Bai's expression was as usual, his manner was elegant, and he showed no signs of pretense, Prime Minister Zhuang still looked calm, but he was already thinking about how to avoid dismissal and put aside any ties. "My lord is right. The imperial examination is a very important matter. Therefore, when I heard that Mr. Ji sued the lower officials, the lower officials immediately set off to come, hoping to know that there was something real."

"If there is, who did it, planted the blame on the king."

"village……"

Lu Tingwei opened his mouth. When he came to the court for the first time, his first reaction was to refuse to admit it, but at this moment, what Prime Minister Zhuang said made him even more disturbed. In addition, Lu Tingwei thought about it again at this moment. I was the one who came forward to negotiate with Zhang Yuanwai, and what's more, the person who killed Jiang Tian also claimed to be his housekeeper. Prime Minister Zhuang stayed out of the matter from beginning to end, innocent.

After thinking this through, Lu Tingwei's complexion suddenly turned pale. He looked at the maid kneeling in the hall, forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and asked in a low voice: "I think I treat you well, why are you lying?" Consecutive articles?"

"Lies all over the place?" The maid asked blankly, "My lord, he is the chief manager of our Lu residence."

"Is he the head of the Lu Mansion?"

Lu Tingwei went up and slapped her, and said with a gloomy expression, "Why don't I know that there is such a housekeeper in the Lu residence?"

The maid covered her side face, tears filled her eyes, she hesitated to speak, "My lord..."

"What are you doing with her?" Prime Minister Zhuang blamed with a little dissatisfaction: "Since she insisted that this person is the head of the Lu family, why don't you ask other people. It is excusable for one person to admit his mistake. So many people present believe that he is the chief steward of your house, so..."

Prime Minister Zhuang smiled, obviously slapping Tianzao, "But if the housekeeper in my house can admit his mistake, then what's the matter?"

He looked kindly at the rest of the Lu family who came to the court, and asked, "Recognize him, this is the housekeeper of your Lu family?"

Prime Minister Zhuang paused for a few seconds, and then said: "My lord found the man, and he must have suffered a lot in order to let him confess honestly, so he was covered in blood. If you can't see the facial features clearly, you should come closer. Look, this is not only related to whether Mr. Lu ordered others to assassinate Jiang Tian, ​​but also related to whether Xiao Youwei of Jiangnan Buzhuang is guilty or not."

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, he is the head of the Lu family, Guan Shanhai."

"...he is."

"It's him, my lord."

All the servants who came to the court believed that this person was the head of the Lu family. Lu Tingwei's face was extremely pale when he heard the words, and he was almost sure that these people had been bought. As for who the buyer was, he had an answer in his heart.Lu Tingwei asked with difficulty: "I have always treated you leniently, but you actually, unexpectedly..."

He did not continue, but clenched his fists with both hands, looked directly at Prime Minister Zhuang, and said slowly: "The prime minister often goes in and out of the Lu residence, so the prime minister must know Chief Guan Guan. If the prime minister comes to recognize him personally, this person is very important." Mountains and seas?"

Prime Minister Zhuang twisted his beard and said: "Even if this person is Guan Shanhai, if the truth says otherwise, the servants of the Lu family will not dare to speak out against the truth, besides, the truth and you have always been close, so you should avoid suspicion, otherwise it will be unfair. "

What he said was very generous. Lu Tingwei recalled when he had a rift with him. After thinking about it, he offended Prime Minister Zhuang only in the matter of Lu Yan and Zhuang Qiutong. After all, Lu Yan was himself. No matter what, Lu Tingwei is for Lu Yan's daughter.

It's just that since Lu Yan left in anger that day, he hasn't been seen yet.

Lu Tingwei suppressed the boredom in his heart, and still wanted to know whether Prime Minister Zhuang wanted to tear himself apart completely, "Prime Minister, but it's okay, the servants of Lu's mansion dare not speak out, but the prince and Master Liu are here, they own justice."

Prime Minister Zhuang sneered, "Justice..."

Xue Bai, who was sizing up the two of them, raised his eyebrows slightly. He noticed the back and forth between the two of them. Ji Qiu Falcon, this king will give them justice."

"Master Zhuang, Mr. Lu, since you categorically deny that the person who assassinated Jiang Tian was sent by you, can you admit that you have detained Ji Qiu Falcon privately?" Xue Bai's expression was indifferent, "The officers and soldiers who broke into Ji's mansion that day were dressed in black Colored armor. This king remembers that Lord Qin, Minister of the Ministry of War, made a rule a few years ago that officers and soldiers serving in different places should wear armor of different colors, and the officers and soldiers of Dali Siqing should wear black armor."

"Lord Lu, as the minister of Dali Temple, you don't know about this matter?" Xue Bai paused, his eyes glanced at Prime Minister Zhuang, "Or you were instructed."

Prime Minister Zhuang didn't come forward himself, because he expected this day, not to mention that he had long believed that Lu Tingwei was useless, so he said decisively, "What? It really happened?"

Prime Minister Zhuang frowned, and asked Lu Tingwei sadly, "Why are you so confused?"

"I know that you are blaming yourself because of Qiu Tong's incident, but I don't want you to make such a bad plan." Prime Minister Zhuang pondered for a moment, and asked as if awakened from a dream: "So Jiang Tian really sent someone to kill him?"

"I?"

"No wonder so, no wonder so! There is absolutely no reason why you don't understand the chief steward of your mansion. I didn't tell you the truth before, but I just thought someone was framing you, so I deliberately found someone who looked similar to the chief steward of your mansion, but I didn't want to How can you be so confused!" Prime Minister Zhuang didn't wait for Lu Tingwei to answer, and murmured to himself: "The truth has never blamed you, why do you want to persecute yourself and frame others like this? Qiu Tong heart Xu Wangye, The prince has no intention of being interested in her, so you designed to frame the concubine's biological father, and Ji Qiuxuan refused to marry Qiutong, so you put him in the dungeon, causing him to miss the imperial examination."

"Lu Tingwei, you are so confused!"

In a few words, Prime Minister Zhuang put all the blame on Lu Tingwei, and then he said to Xue Bai in tears: "My lord, I really don't know that my brother-in-law would commit such a heinous crime, and I don't know that he has the courage to commit such crimes." So much so, deliberately murdering Youyou, and killing Jiang Tian, ​​just to put Youyou to death."

Lu Tingwei opened his mouth, but he couldn't argue, so he had to ask unwillingly: "From the very beginning, is this your idea?"

Prime Minister Zhuang didn't answer, but just asked: "Up to now, are you still stubborn and unwilling to admit your crime?"

Lu Tingwei hated him, "I'm confused? I'm really confused. I don't know whether you are a human or a ghost all these years!"

Prime Minister Zhuang looked at him sympathetically, "Lu Tingwei, you are the Minister of Dali Temple first, and then the brother-in-law of the truth. Since the prince is here, let the prince be a personal witness—"

"The truth will never tolerate you, and will treat you softly."

The accident happened suddenly at this moment, someone squeezed in from the crowd in front of the court, she rushed straight to Prime Minister Zhuang, stabbed Prime Minister Zhuang's abdomen heavily with the dagger in her hand, and laughed endlessly.

"Hypocritical! Extremely hypocritical!"

The corners of Lu Yan's eyes were red, and she stared at the unbelievable Prime Minister Zhuang. After a while, she turned her head to look at Lu Tingwei. After he recognized that such a embarrassed and crazy person was Lu Yan, he stood there as if struck by lightning.

The officers and soldiers hurried forward to restrain Lu Yan, and someone carefully pushed Prime Minister Zhuang who fell to the ground, "Prime Minister Zhuang? Prime Minister Zhuang?"

Blood gurgled out, soaked his clothes, and flowed across the ground. Prime Minister Zhuang covered his wound and said angrily, "Lu Yan, you..."

In the middle of speaking, Zhuang Chengxiang's face turned pale, and his mind was slightly blurred. He pointed at Lu Yan and said, "You...you..."

When the people around saw it, they immediately said, "Quick! Ask a doctor to come over!"

Mr. Liu frowned and said, "Who is here? He openly broke into the court and assassinated court officials in public!"

"Uncle, you are hypocritical, and my cousin is also hypocritical, you all are hypocritical!"

The courtroom was in chaos, and Lu Yan yelled at Prime Minister Zhuang. After she finished laughing, she slowly said to Lu Tingwei: "Father, she did the same to me! She did the same to me!"

"Since you were young, you thought I was not as intelligent or talented as my cousin, so you wanted me to learn more from her." Lu Yan had tears in her eyes. I won't favor my cousin again."

"But she framed me!"

Lu Yan cried and laughed, "She framed me."

Since Lu Yan left in a fit of anger that day, she has not returned home. She was walking aimlessly on the street until she was taken in by a kind farmer. She learned to do some simple things from the farmer's wife every day. Work, after a long time, I have forgotten a lot of hatred.

As for her meeting Prime Minister Zhuang and pushing the blame on Lu Tingwei, it was just an accident. The peasant woman got up early in the morning and asked Lu Yan to accompany her to Zhuque Street. Only then did she witness Prime Minister Zhuang and Lu Tingwei go to court.

Lu Yan cried bitterly to Lu Tingwei: "Father, I didn't push her into the water. It was my cousin, it was Zhuang Qiutong who fell into the water on purpose, just to force the prince to marry her, it wasn't me at all, it wasn't at all!"

Speaking of this, Lu Yan sobbed and asked, "Father, why don't you believe me?"

Lu Tingwei was in a complicated mood for a while, he took a few steps closer, "Yan'er..."

Lu Yan cried and said, "Father, it hurts so much, you beat me that day, it really hurts so much."

Lu Tingwei saw that his heart was pierced, and he hurriedly comforted: "It's my father's mistake, it's my father's mistake, and my father will never do this again."

"after?"

As soon as Prime Minister Zhuang spoke, the wound would break out in cold sweat. His eyes were red and he panted heavily, "It's only right and proper to kill someone to pay for their life. Both of you, father and daughter, have vicious thoughts and want to live?"

Saying that, Prime Minister Zhuang pointed at Lu Yan, "Come here, drag her out and beat her a hundred times!"

Jiao Didi's daughter's family, let alone a hundred blows, can't bear fifty blows.Lu Tingwei trembled and said, "You are killing her!"

Prime Minister Zhuang coughed violently, "She is so rampant, since you are not willing to discipline her, naturally I, my uncle, can only discipline you. Now that she dares to assassinate me, she may do something even more outrageous in the future ! Come on!"

Lu Tingwei said coldly: "Who dares!"

Prime Minister Zhuang asked with a gloomy expression, "Dare you!"

When he finished speaking, he said to Xue Bai and Lord Liu who were silent: "Your lord, Lord Liu, you have seen that Lu Tingwei himself has committed a lot of crimes, and he insisted on protecting Lu Yan who deliberately assassinated the king. Father and daughter love each other deeply, why don't they be sent to death row immediately and beheaded as a punishment."

Xue Bai didn't respond, his eyes passed over a peasant woman in a coarse cloth dress with a particularly demure demeanor, and nodded slightly to her, signaling that the peasant woman did not need to stay here any longer. Seeing this, the peasant woman pursed her lips and smiled, and left quietly go.

As for Mr. Liu, Xue Bai didn't make a sound in such a big scene of gods fighting, so he naturally didn't want to show off the limelight.

Prime Minister Zhuang's words completely angered Lu Tingwei. He knelt down in front of Xue Bai with a "plop", and decided to die.Lu Tingwei said word by word: "My lord, I will not deny the crimes that should be confessed, and I will not want to die for others for no reason!"

Lu Tingwei sneered, "Prime Minister Zhuang has a good plan. He only ordered that he never show up, and occasionally he would use my name. He even bribed the servants of my Lu Mansion. pity--"

"Even if Jiang Tian's death, I have no evidence to prove that Prime Minister Zhuang did it, but you must not forget, Prime Minister Zhuang, that in the past 20 years or so, you have not acted righteously and sat upright. As a loyal minister, I still have the evidence that I should have."

"Prime Minister Zhuang, it's only right and proper to kill someone to pay for his life, so I'll give you the exact words!"