Chapter 139 It’s too late [Please give me a monthly ticket! ]

Outside the Shanhe Hall, there is a side hall with a number of dark small compartments inside.

Those who have no right to attend the court but have to wait for the summons will wait here after going through many searches in advance. When it is your turn to go to the palace, a young eunuch will come to lead the way, take you through the wide square, and climb the stairs into the palace.

At this moment, the leader of the Longya Gang, Hong Yinsheng, was sitting in one of the rooms. The sunlight outside shone on the ground in patches, which was one of the few sources of light in the room.

He was a big man, sitting on a small chair, looking rather cramped and uncomfortable. He kept looking around, as if waiting for something.

It's not surprising that Hong Yinsheng would appear here.

Although he had been hiding before, he must have his own connections and informants in the city. After all, he had been running the Dragon Fang Gang for many years, so even if things didn't go well, he would have made his own backup plans.

After Hong Yuling was rescued, he immediately determined his daughter's location and contacted the people from the Zhuxie Division.

The Zhuxie Division invited Hong Yinsheng and Liang Fuguo together and had a secret talk with them.

The next day, he arrived outside the Shanhe Palace.

After an unknown amount of time, a tall and thin guard pushed the door open and said with his head down, "It's time for you to go."

Hong Yinsheng glanced at him and said, "Shouldn't the eunuch be here to summon him?"

"You are quite knowledgeable about the rules." The guard suddenly stepped into the compartment, closed the door with his backhand, and raised his face.

It was the face of a middle-aged man, about forty or fifty years old, thin and pale, with a black mole on the left cheek.

"Naihe Dao, Hu Pojia." Hong Yinsheng recited a name.

"Oh?" The guard was a little surprised. "You shouldn't have seen me, even though I have seen you."

"Except when he goes to court, Lu Yuanwang always keeps you by his side. Who doesn't know that?" Hong Yinsheng said.

"Since you have heard of my name, you should know that you are going to die." The man called Hu Pojia sneered.

Hong Yinsheng sighed, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes.

laugh--

The knife light, like a waterfall pouring down from a river, illuminated the entire dark room. From the outside, it looked like a flash of lightning passing through the window.

This was a stunning sword move from a master, condensing a sword energy as wide as a river so as not to disturb anyone outside.

One sword once broke three hundred armors.

Hu Pojia also got its name from this.

But after this knife today, it seemed as if nothing had happened.

The room was still dark, the table was in its original position, and so were the chairs.

Only Hong Yinsheng's gesture changed, he made a seal with his left hand.

"Yin Yang Qian Kun Shu." A trace of surprise flashed across Hu Pojia's eyes, and he flew back, "You are not Hong Yinsheng!"

boom--

The world around him suddenly changed, and his body suddenly came to a beautiful paradise with mountains and rivers, and peach blossoms all over the mountains in the distance.

A smiling man in white stood in the peach blossom forest.

Hu Pojia had seen that man with Lu Yuanwang before, and he had also heard that man's name countless times.

Laughing without limit, Chen Su.

"It's you!" Hu Pojia clenched the long sword in his hand, as if it was the only thing that could give him some courage, "You and Liang Fuguo are in the same group!"

Being able to change one's body shape and face, and to transform the world, can only be achieved by the great magical powers of the Xuanmen Yin and Yang lineage.

"When dealing with you treacherous officials and lackeys, we were indeed in the same group." Chen Su did not deny it and said with a smile: "In addition to protecting Lu Yuanwang, you also helped him eliminate dissidents and murder loyal officials, and you killed many people with your sword. You should have no regrets dying here today, right?"

"No!" Hu Pojia shouted, "Mr. Chen, I helped Lu Yuanwang only to get money and help him get rid of disasters. I didn't know he was doing evil. Please forgive me this time, and I will never help these treacherous officials again!"

"Okay." Chen Su nodded with a smile, "As long as you can beat me, I will give you a chance to repent."

"Mr. Chen, you must be joking..." Hu Pojia's forehead was covered with cold sweat, "How can I defeat you?"

"Yeah, how can you repent?" Chen Su shook her head.

"Mr. Chen! Mr. Chen, please spare my life. I can help you and I am willing to serve you like a dog and a horse!" Hu Pojia begged for mercy repeatedly.

But Chen Su's voice echoed in this world.

"Until the sword is brought to your neck, you do not believe in justice; only when retribution is brought to your head, you will know the right path."

"late."

The falling peach blossoms slowly gathered behind Chen Su and formed the shape of a finger. In his world, he was like the law of heaven.

Flying flowers and picking leaves can kill people.

Hu Pojia was a man of great accomplishment, so naturally he was unwilling to kneel down and wait for death. However, he did not even have the courage to draw his sword with Chen Su. Instead, he turned around and used all his internal energy to fiercely slash through the air.

Roar--

This sword cut out a huge wave that was astonishing and like a dragon. It flew away swiftly and cut open the barrier of this small world!
From afar, one could see the shadow of a dark room on the other side. It was empty, just as it was when the two had left.

Hu Pojia leaped forward like a sharp arrow, turning into a shadow and flying outwards.

Chen Su pointed her peach blossom finger and slowly followed him.

It seemed as if he was about to escape, but at the moment when he was about to pass through the crack, the finger seemed to pass through the space and suddenly landed on him.

"Ah——" Hu Pojia screamed.

My heart is filled with regret.

This kind of person will never know his faults until he dies.

On the contrary, when people mention the right path, they will sneer at it. Only when retribution comes upon them will they believe that there is justice in the world.

Thousands of peach blossoms swallowed his head in an instant.

There was a plop sound in the dark room.

……

A moment later, a headless corpse wearing Hong Yinsheng's clothes was found lying in the room, with blood all over the floor.

And "Hu Pojia" pushed the door open and walked out with big strides.

After he left, several young eunuchs quickly came up from both sides of the door and began to clean up the corpses and bloodstains in the room.

A young eunuch in the lead whispered, "Clean it up quickly and don't leave any traces." After that, he turned around and walked quickly across the square to the bottom of the high steps in the hall, and muttered something to Cao Wujiu on the steps from a distance.

Cao Wujiu turned around, walked to the front steps, and said to Liang Fuguo below: "Lord Zuo Xiang, the witness you wanted to summon committed suicide in the side hall."

"what?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar around them.

Liang Fuguo bowed his head and remained silent, not saying anything for the time being.

Song Zhili stood beside him with a frown on his face, his eyes on his nose, his nose on his mouth, his mouth on his heart. In fact, he noticed something was wrong earlier than anyone else. However, as an outsider today, the Right Prime Minister maintained his usual behavior.

It's none of your business, hang on high.

Those who can stand here are all smart people, and the ability to read the wind direction is the most basic.

It is impossible for a person who was summoned to the side hall next to the Mountain and River Palace to wait for summons to die.

If he wanted to commit suicide, why would he come to testify?
If it wasn't suicide, then who has the ability to come here and kill people?
There is only one situation in which this witness may die, that is, if His Majesty the Emperor agrees that he should die, then he can die.

In the matter of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Justice, the emperor's attitude has actually not been difficult to guess.

Many ministers had long realized that the emperor was dissatisfied with the increasingly rampant corruption in the Ministry of Works over the years, so he agreed to the investigation of the Ministry of Justice in order to use it to give Lu Yuanwang a warning.

The crackdown was very effective. More than half of the officials from the Ministry of Industry were sent to prison, and the Lu family was greatly frightened.

That's enough.

The emperor didn't want to replace Lu Yuanwang.

First of all, he was the father-in-law of the emperor and the father of his beloved Concubine Lu, so there was such a relationship.

Secondly, he has been doing a very steady job over the years.

Although the Ministry of Works was a bit greedy, it did everything it could for the royal family, including the defense of Shuangbei City, the construction of Yuezhou City, the repair of Jingzhou dikes, and the water conservancy of Nanzhou... Lu Yuanwang completed all these national affairs very well without any mistakes.

Apart from the fact that some small actions of the Ministry of Works in the Babel case almost caused a disaster, Lu Yuanwang's official career over the past few decades seemed good on the surface.

Compared with those officials who were either disloyal or incompetent, this father-in-law was a very comfortable person to work with.

Everyone can see this.

But this is the strange thing, can’t Liang Fuguo see it?
He was already quite rash in pointing the finger at Lu Yuanwang. The emperor had warned him in person and indirectly, and all these actions were enough to alert him.

The emperor didn't care whether what Yang Panshi accused was true or false, and whether the person in charge of the Longya Gang was Guo Chongwen or Lu Yuanwang. Or rather, the emperor couldn't have been unaware of it.

He just wanted to give Father-in-law Lu a chance to mend his ways, because he couldn't find another person who was so comfortable to use.

But Liang Fuguo refused to give in.

This made all the officials in the court doubt whether the Left Prime Minister had secretly received some instructions from the emperor?
Otherwise, why are you so stubborn?
But now that the witness had committed suicide, the truth became clear.

It was Liang Fuguo who went insane and was desperate to eliminate Father-in-law Lu, which ultimately angered Your Majesty.

Could it be that this person has been so arrogant in the court for too long that he has no idea how high the heaven is or how deep the earth is?

In short, this made the court officials see clearly the weakness of Liang Fuguo.

"Your Majesty!" This time, the one who broke the silence was an official in the third row, Mu Chunhe, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He bowed and said, "The witness committed suicide, and there may be other hidden reasons. It is still unknown whether what the Left Prime Minister said is true or not. Why not put the two cases aside today and give the results after the Ministry of Justice conducts a thorough investigation."

As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of many court officials behind him turned red.

Mu Chunhe is the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has always been regarded as Liang Fuguo's private territory, and it is full of his die-hard followers.

But this person suddenly appeared and spoke in a very artistic way.

It seems like he is helping Liang Fuguo to save his reputation, but he wants to thoroughly investigate two cases. Which two cases?
One is naturally the Lu Yuanwang corruption case, but your Ministry of Justice has been investigating it, and after such a long time there was only one witness, and he died suddenly.

This sentence is nonsense.

The other thing is naturally the impeachment of Liang Fuguo.

The emperor hasn't said yet that he would file a case and send people to investigate Liang Fuguo, but you have directly given him a label. What is your intention?

Mu Chunhe's jumping out clearly gave Liang Fuguo a push.

He is cutting ties with Liang Fuguo!
People at the level of assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice have all set an example, indicating that Liang Fuguo must have nothing in his hands.

After all, he is not fighting with Lu Yuanwang now. If he was simply fighting with Lu Yuanwang, he would have won long ago.

He is fighting with the emperor!
Mu Chunhe was also a smart man. He was probably afraid of being regarded as Liang Fuguo's accomplice and being purged, so he jumped out and secretly stepped on the enemy.

After hearing what he said, the ministers who came with a mission and who already had resentment towards Liang Fuguo and who liked to kick the man out when he was down could no longer hold back and wanted to jump up and impeach Liang Fuguo.

"Your Majesty, I would like to ask the Left Prime Minister..."

"Your Majesty, I have volunteered to confiscate the property of the Left Prime Minister..."

"Your Majesty, I want to challenge the Left Prime Minister in a duel..."

"..."

For a while, the court was filled with indignation, and it almost became an impeachment meeting against Liang Fuguo. And those who were usually very tough, including the left prime minister, were trembling with fear and kept silent. Those who did not step against him were already courageous.

After arguing for a long time, Emperor Mu Bei finally glanced at Cao Wujiu.

Cao Wujiu raised his voice and said: "All the ministers, be quiet—"

All officials fell silent immediately.

Emperor Mubei cast his gaze on Liang Fuguo's face again and asked, "Mr. Liang, do you have anything else to say?"

Liang Fuguo said calmly: "I have another witness."

"Oh?" Mu Beidi asked doubtfully.

Cao Wujiu also shook his head. This was something Liang Fuguo had not reported before.

Then Liang Fuguo said, "Please summon the crown prince to accompany the reader, the evil-killing officer to walk, and Liang Yue to the palace."

　Good morning.

　　I didn’t sleep again last night, but this time it wasn’t because of insomnia. I stayed up all night revising the previous case.

　　The editor said that the backend data dropped sharply there, and there must be something wrong with that chapter, so we changed it. The basic change was to cancel the setting that the protagonist was knocked unconscious. Other changes were not big, but it was very tiring to change it, and it took a long time.

　　I'll post the chapter first, then go to sleep. I'm afraid that staying up all night will become a habit. I'll finish this volume soon, and after finishing it, I plan to take a few days off to adjust.

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