"Why are you laughing?!" Prince Ning was a little angry. He had always regarded Xue Ya as a chess piece that he could control and use. Now when he heard Ruan Ting say that he was the chess piece in Xue Ya's hands, he naturally didn't want to believe it.
Hearing Xue Ya's laughter again, the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed and burst out.
Xue Ya raised his head and said with a faint smile: "I'm laughing, Ruan Xiang is indeed smarter. No wonder he can become the head of the civil service from a scholar. Unfortunately, some things are destined to be unavoidable, otherwise Ruan Xiang would not be able to do it now."
You're sitting here just like us, aren't you?"
Ruan Ting's face also turned gloomy, and he said coldly: "You are right."
Xue Ya said leisurely: "Xiang Ruan, don't think that everything will be fine just because you send the eldest son out of the capital."
Ruan Ting's expression changed, and just as he was about to say something, there was a sound of opening the door outside.
The three of them immediately shut their mouths. Ruan Ting continued to close his eyes and meditate. Xue Ya was still leaning against the wall in trance. Only Ning Wang stood by the iron railing and stared at the heavy door that slowly opened.
After a while, the door of the cell was pushed open, and Xie Yan led someone in from the outside.
As soon as he reached the door, he met Prince Ning's eyes. Xie Yan's expression was a little indifferent. He just glanced at Prince Ning indifferently, then turned to look at Ruan Ting on the other side.
Following Xie Yan were Luo Jinyan and Wei Changting. Wei Changting looked at the entire cell with great interest, and finally his eyes fell on Xue Ya. He seemed to be very interested in Xue Ya.
Being stared at by such eyes, Xue Ya would naturally not be unconscious.
He opened his eyes and looked into Wei Changting's eyes full of interest, and said calmly: "Prince Wei, what advice do you have?"
Wei Changting asked: "We found someone who looks exactly like you in the Ruan family. Are you twins?"
Xue Ya smiled and said, "What do you think, Prince Wei?"
Wei Changting said: "That's probably not the case. I remember that Mr. Ruan's first wife only gave birth to one child."
"Which of us does Prince Wei think is real?" Xue Ya asked.
Wei Changting became even more interested and asked: "Why can't both of them be fake?"
"..." Xue Ya seemed to be stabilized by him, and was speechless for a moment.
"Wei Changting." Xie Yanjian frowned slightly and said in a deep voice.
Wei Changting immediately put away the joking expression on his face and put on a more serious look. He raised his hand and gestured to the people behind him, then smiled and said to Prince Ning: "Your Highness Prince Ning, why don't we change the place to chat first?
chat?"
The two guards walked over and opened Prince Ning's cell door to pull him out.
Prince Ning was a little angry and said angrily: "Wei Changting, you are not qualified to talk to me!"
Prince Wei immediately became happy, "Your Majesty, it seems that I am not qualified to offend His Royal Highness Prince Ning."
Xie Yan gave him a glare, and Wei Changting's face changed instantly, "Even if His Highness Prince Ning feels that this official is not worthy of you, he has no choice but to give up. His Highness the Regent has to greet important people."
The obvious meaning of this statement is that King Ning arranged for Xie Yan to interrogate him personally.
Prince Ning's pale and plump face instantly turned blue with anger, but Wei Changting just lazily waved his hand and signaled the guards to pull Prince Ning out.
Wei Changting took Prince Ning out, leaving only Xie Yan, Luo Jinyan, Xue Ya and Ruan Ting in the cell.
The cell suddenly became quiet, and the atmosphere seemed a bit solemn.
After being silent for a while, Ruan Ting sighed and said, "If the Regent has anything to ask, just ask."
Xie Yan looked calmly at Ruan Ting, who seemed to have completely accepted his fate, and said, "What is the relationship between Ruan Xiang and Luan Yisi?"
Ruan Ting's hand hanging by his side trembled, and he sighed a little tiredly: "I only left Luanyi Division after I finished my overseas study and returned to Beijing to serve."
Hearing this, Luo Jinyan frowned slightly, "Xiang Ruan was once a member of Luanyi Division?"
"Yes." Ruan Ting raised his head and looked at Luo Jinyan and said, "I am not as lucky as Mr. Luo and the prince to be born into a rich family. I was born into poverty and was sold to Luan Yisi by my family before I was eight years old.
It's just... I don't have the qualifications to practice martial arts, but I am smart and was assigned to do some odd jobs. Later I heard that people like us who have no ability will be sent to the palace."
Everyone present will naturally know what he was sent to the palace for.
Ruan Tingdao: "Of course I didn't want to accept such a fate, so I thought of many ways. Later, people there discovered that I was good at reading and wanted to train some of my own people in the court. Only then did I have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination."
Xie Yan said: "You're not the only one?"
Ruan Ting smiled and said, "I am the only one who has truly stepped forward."
How difficult is the imperial examination? Those scholars from scholarly families or places with flourishing literary styles and students from major academies can take up most of the places.
Luanyi Division wanted to brainwash these people, so naturally they could not let them go out to study. They had to find their own teachers to teach them within Luanyi Division. Later, they discovered that it would take at least several decades to train a child from growing up to holding a high position.
, instead of wasting this effort and not knowing whether it will have any effect, it is better to directly bribe and blackmail those who have already passed the exam and seem to have a bright future."
Xie Yan asked: "When you first entered the officialdom, Luanyi Division should have given you a lot of help. Why did you leave Luanyi Division?"
Ruan Ting said: "I didn't want to join Luanyi Division at first, so I would naturally try to get out as long as I had the chance. The people in charge of Luanyi Division are a group of old men who think they are doing something but they don't know anything. I feel like listening to their daydreams every day."
I can't help but want to laugh. If I don't leave quickly, I'm worried that one day I will become as crazy as them, thinking that I can control the world with some money and conspiracy. Why don't they think about how Yu Ji had all the power in the world back then?
In the end, didn’t you end up with everyone being copied?”
"Ruan Ting!" Xue Ya, who had not interrupted in the cell next to him, said coldly.
Ruan Ting was a little disapproving and said calmly: "Master Xueya is probably their most satisfactory work? I don't know how many times they failed and how many people died before they finally came up with a character who didn't have a rebellious heart and could show off his skills to others.
.Aren't those old guys tired of it after more than twenty years? No...after so many years, those old guys are still not dead?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xie Yan said: "It seems that Ruan Xiang does know a lot about Luan Yisi."
Ruan Ting said: "Your Majesty wants to know the news about Luan Yisi from me? I thought that Your Majesty already knew where Luan Yisi's lair is."
Xie Yan said: "It's always right to know more. I just didn't expect that Ruan Xiang has been shrewd all his life and would still choose the wrong path now."
Ruan Ting was silent for a moment and said: "I can tell you what the prince wants to know. But... the prince needs to pardon the Ruan family."
Xie Yan didn't answer, seeming to be thinking about whether the conditions proposed by Ruan Ting were worth it.
Ruan Ting said in a deep voice: "I have been in Luanyi Division for ten years. Unless the prince can get Mr. Xueya over there to speak, you will not get more information than me."
Xie Yan was still not in a hurry. Xue Ya next to him suddenly said: "I advise the regent to think about it before talking about it. There are some things... Even you can't forgive me just by saying pardon, right?"
Hearing this, Xie Yan and Luo Jinyan exchanged glances. It seemed that Xue Ya could manipulate Ruan Ting and indeed had some handles that Ruan Ting did not dare to disobey.
And this matter is definitely more serious than Ruan Ting once being Luan Yisi.
Xie Yan looked at Xue Ya and said, "Master Xue Ya also wants to make a deal with me?"
Xue Ya glanced at Xie Yan indifferently and did not answer.
Xie Yan didn't care. He turned his head and said to Luo Jinyan: "I'm going to see Qufang. Lao Jinyan is here."
Luo Jinyan said: "Your Majesty, don't worry."
Xie Yan glanced at Ruan Ting and said, "Prime Minister Ruan made a wrong move. He is planning to be treasonous and will have his entire family executed."
Ruan Ting was silent, of course he understood what Xie Yan meant.
He has reached the point where he wants to kill everyone in his family. What can he do even if he has any secrets?
Could it be more serious than having everyone beheaded?
Two quarters of an hour later, Xie Yan and Luo Jinyan walked out of the cell.
Wei Changting had already been waiting for them outside the lobby. Seeing the two of them coming out one after another, Wei Changting asked with a smile: "How is it? Have those two moved?"
Luo Jinyan shook his head and said: "Without the prince's promise, how could Prime Minister Ruan let go so easily? As for Mr. Xueya..."
"How about it?"
Luo Jinyan said: "I'm afraid that Xue Ya can't say anything. According to Ruan Xiang's words... he really seems to have been brainwashed by the people from Luanyi Division."
Xie Yan said: "Luanyisi adopts talented children and trains them from an early age. In the past twenty years, it has always been able to cultivate several people with outstanding abilities and absolute loyalty."
"Fantasy, people cultivated in that kind of environment may have some outstanding abilities, but..." Wei Changting shook his head. That Xueya may be a good hand in conspiracy secretly, but once exposed to the sun, it will be difficult to play any role.
Already.
"How is the investigation going in the palace?" Xie Yan asked.
Luo Jinyan said: "It is true that the people of Luanyi Division have been entrenched in the palace for a long time, but their rapid development has only started in recent years. Because Your Majesty is young, the Empress Dowager has greatly reduced the number of people in the palace, and the management of the Palace has also been very strict.
They are very strict, but there are many of their people in Empress Dowager Zhu’s palace and in the twenty-four divisions.”
Speaking of this, Luo Jinyan also looked a little solemn.
It sounds like nothing major happened, but if the emperor takes charge in a few years and the harem is full, these people will almost control the entire palace, and it will be hard to say what will happen.
Some of these people may even become His Majesty's closest confidants, and it is unknown whether a eunuch will be in power in the future.
Among the people identified in the past two days, there was the personal eunuch who used to be with Xie Cheng, but was replaced by Xie Yan when Xie Cheng moved to the palace.
Wei Changting couldn't help but sigh: "These people are really unique."
Luo Jinyan didn't take it seriously, "Without absolute force and the ability to truly control the court, wouldn't we have to find another way? The ability and status of those who controlled the power left by Yu Ji back then should not be high. Moreover, to be able to do this
With his circuitous thoughts, this person may not be a normal person."
Wei Changting nodded, "I'll ask someone to pay attention later. I have to go back to the household department first, you two..."
Luo Jinyan said: "I want to go to the palace and discuss some matters with Prince Ancheng."
Xie Yan stood up and said, "I want to go to Dingyang Hou Mansion first."
The two people in front of him were silent for a moment. They all knew that Dingyang Hou was dead.
"I will go with the prince. Due to both emotions and reasons, we should go and offer incense to the Marquis of Dingyang." Luo Jinyan said.
The Dingyanghou Mansion did not announce the death of Dingyang Hou yesterday, and probably wanted some time to prepare. However, this time could not be delayed for too long. This morning, white flags were hung in front of the gate of the Dingyanghou Mansion.
The three of them were about to walk out when they saw Luo Junyao and Luo Jinxing coming from outside with a group of people.
Behind them were several people, two of whom were dragging in their hands a man who was covered in wounds and didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
The man was dragged all the way in with his feet hanging to the ground, and there were even blood stains on the ground where his legs and feet were dragged.
"I've met the prince!" Seeing Xie Yan and others, everyone hurriedly bowed to him.
"Ayan, brother!" Luo Junyao's eyes lit up when he saw the two of them, and he walked over with a smile on his face.
The ignored Prince Wei smiled and said: "Princess, where did you catch this person? Who is so ignorant that he fell into your hands?"
Luo Jun said: "Prince Wei, why don't you guess who he is?"
Wei Changting glanced around at the people opposite him, and finally his eyes fell on Cui Zheyu, raising his eyebrows and saying: "Yu Chen?"
Hearing this, Luo Jinyan couldn't help but look over.
Luo Jinxing smiled and said: "It is indeed Yu Chen, who was captured by Yao Yao."
Before they reached the prison, they saw the carriage escorting Yu Chen back, and then they came in together.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Luo Jinxing wouldn't have believed that Yu Chen, whom he had hated so much back then, had actually fallen into their hands so easily.
Leng Shuang also said: "It is indeed thanks to the princess. If it weren't for the princess, we would have had no choice but to let Bai Jingrong go."
Luo Junyao felt a little embarrassed and said: "Bai Jingrong couldn't take Yu Chen away in the first place. As long as we send more people, it will be easy to find him." She just chatted a few words with Bai Jingrong.
Xie Yan raised his hand and rubbed her hair, and said softly: "Thank you for your hard work, Shake."
"I have nothing to do, so I have to pick up some scraps by myself." Luo Junyao sighed.
"..." Everyone was speechless, this leftover material was a bit too big.
Who can bear to let this little girl take on any dangerous things? Now it seems that the little girl is not only ungrateful but also a little aggrieved.
Xie Yan chuckled softly and pulled Luo Junyao to his side. His eyes fell on Yu Chen, who could no longer see his true face, and said in a deep voice: "Take him to the sky prison. After the third division has passed the trial, he will be taken to the execution ground for execution.
.”
He only needs Yu Chen to die and give an explanation to the soldiers and the people of the world who died in vain. Other than that, Yu Chen is no longer worth his time.
Not sure if Yu Chen heard his voice, he moved slightly and raised his head with some difficulty.
His originally rather outstanding appearance was so covered with blood and dust that it was almost impossible to see his true appearance. He looked at Xie Yan intently as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say a word for a long time. In the end, he could only slow down.
Slowly, he lowered his head again, still looking like he had just been dragged in.
Xie Yan said: "Let's go."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone responded.
Xie Yan led Luo Junyao and walked out. When he passed Yu Chen, he did not stop at all. Instead, he glanced at Cui Zheyu lightly, "Yu Chen must die on the execution ground. Don't forget General Cui and the Cui family."
Its reputation has yet to be restored.”
Cui Zheyu's eyes turned red and tears almost fell from her eyes. She dug her nails into her palms and nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty."
