You must know that a country is not just about the emperor and the people, the courtiers are also very important.
Xiao Chengyi knew Mu Rufeng's concerns and said: "Everything has exceptions. I know you are worried about what the courtiers will think of me.
Since I dare to do it, I am not afraid of their questioning, and I have already reorganized this court before coming to Mobei.
After I ascend the throne, I will definitely reorganize the court, please rest assured, I can handle it."
"Well, just be sensible."
After hearing what he said, Mu Rufeng stopped worrying and said, "Go back."
Everyone returned to the Sun Mansion together, and not long after, Wei Xingyang came back with his people.
Xiao Chengyi asked him: "Didn't I ask you to handle the funeral affairs of the Sun family? Why did you come back so soon?"
Wei Xingyang said: "Xiaoguan found a suspicious person in the Sun family's ancestral grave. When I asked him, he didn't say anything. I thought it was strange and brought the person back."
He turned around and motioned to his men to bring him up.
I saw the guards escorting a man in his forties in. The man was wearing a shabby gown and looked a little haggard.
He knelt on the ground and didn't speak.
Xiao Chengyi looked at him and asked in a deep voice: "Are you the man who deceived Miss Sun?"
The man stiffened when he heard this. He slowly raised his head and looked at Xiao Chengyi: "How did the prince know it was me?"
Xiao Chengyi said: "The fact that you appeared in the Sun family's ancestral grave shows that you feel guilty about the Sun family. Moreover, there are many scars on your fingers. It seems that they were often carved by something.
The man who deceived the Miss Sun family was holding a jade pendant with a dragon pattern that looked like a real one.
I once suspected that that person was good at jade carving, and you are right about all these things. The most important thing is that your facial features look very similar to Sun Shangwei's."
After hearing his guess, the man was filled with admiration. Even though he didn't say anything, it was as if the regent had seen it with his own eyes.
Thinking of the past, he said with tears in his eyes: "My name is Chen Minghe, and my father is a jade carving craftsman in the palace.
My mother died early, so my father entrusted me to a temple to be taken care of by monks. Because of his excellent jade carving skills, he worked in the palace as a servant.
In my spare time, my father would visit me and pass on his jade carving skills to me.
I also longed to be able to work in the palace like my father, but suddenly one day, my father did not come to see me at the agreed time.
Worried in my heart, I went to the capital to find him, only to find out that my father had been executed by His Majesty because there was something wrong with his jade carving that angered Long Yan.
Just because of a piece of jade pendant, my father lost his life like this. I am not willing to accept it. But that person is your Majesty and the emperor. What can I, a commoner, do?
I was confused and didn't know where to go for a while, so I became a beggar, wasting time every day until I met her.
It was snowing heavily that day, and I shrank in front of the temple gate in the cold, thinking I was going to die.
She came out of the heavy snow, saw me, and asked me to give me a piece of clothing to keep out the cold.
At that moment, when I looked at her figure, I suddenly felt a light appeared in my life. From then on, I often waited for her in the temple just to take a look at her.
Gradually, I became obsessed with wanting to get her, so I used the money she gave me to clean myself up from top to bottom.
I originally wanted to express my feelings to her, but unexpectedly heard the news that she wanted to enter the palace and participate in the draft.
I thought of my father, why can the emperor kill people at will, and can kill any kind of woman? But I can't?
At that time, there was a message saying that His Majesty was paying a private visit incognito, so I hatched a plan.
I used the dragon-patterned jade pendant my father left to me to deceive the girl who wanted to enter the palace, take away her innocence, and blame all of this on the emperor."