Wang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then his expression returned to normal and he said, "The Queen Mother is really good at joking, how could Wei Chen... how could he not be surprised... Wei Chen is just..."
Sheng Shaoqing turned around and asked Wang Shan directly, "Master Wang, do you still think those letters just now are fake?"
Wang Shan crawled on his hands and knees to the letter that he had just knocked to the ground, picked it up tremblingly, and opened each one, "No! No! These are not written by me!"
Sheng Shaoqing snorted coldly, "Now that things have happened, do you still dare to deny it?"
"Your son Wang Yu was involved in the theft of forbidden items in the palace. You forced Wang Yuan to ask Wang Qing to take the blame for Wang Yu. Then, in order to hastily settle the matter, you gave Wang Yuan a position as a rural official as a consolation. Am I right?
"
"Yes...no no no!"
"I didn't force him! He came to me on his own initiative..."
Sheng Shaoqing:…………
An embarrassing gust of wind whistled by, making the hall feel a little cooler for an instant.
Sheng Shaoqing glanced at Wang Yuan and saw that he was kneeling beside him just now without saying a word. When Wang Shan said this, he suddenly said excitedly, "I took the initiative to find you?"
"Would I send my son out to die?! Mr. Wang, don't you think what you are saying is ridiculous?"
"Now that the matter is clear, it's normal for you to say this in order to alleviate your sins, but...even if you say what you say without hesitation, you can't just say it, right? Will the Queen Mother really believe your lies?"
Sheng Shaoqing stared at Wang Yuan for a long time, then turned back to look at Wang Shan who was kneeling in front of the case. The man who was arrogant and domineering a moment ago and making such nonsense was now kneeling in front of her, and his body had begun to tremble.
Wang Shan was even more angry when he heard what Wang Yuan said, "At the beginning! At the beginning! Someone told me that if I just find someone to replace Yu'er, Yu'er would suffer less physical pain. I...I did this.
thought."
"But... later, it was you who told me that Qing'er... Qing'er and Yu'er are similar in stature... only then... did I notice..."
Wang Shan was so nervous that he started to speak intermittently, but Wang Yuan said calmly, "Master Wang, you just said that everything must be based on evidence. Is there any evidence for what you said?"
"I have kept these letters you wrote to me in a safe way to prevent a day like today where you take advantage of me and my son and bite us back in the end! Where in the world are there such shameless people as you!
"
Only then did Wang Shan react belatedly. He picked up the letters and read them again. He pointed at Wang Yuan with his finger and said tremblingly, "You...you framed me?"
"Wang Yuan! How dare you... dare to frame me for...?"
Wang Yuan returned a look of disdain to the angry Wang Shan, "Sir, you just said that you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately, but you should make it clear, what am I doing for you?"
"What's more, there is irrefutable evidence in front of you, so you can't help but deny it! You said I framed you, what evidence do you have?"
After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he pretended to be pitiful in front of Sheng Shaoqing, kowtowed repeatedly and cried, "Chen...Wei Chen is unjust! Wei Chen's son was forced to take the blame for someone else, and now he has to beat him up and clean up the dirt."
The water was poured on Wei Chen, and Wei Chen was wronged!"
Sheng Shaoqing looked at Wang Yuan, who was an excellent singer and songwriter, and said softly, "Whether you are wronged or not, you will know soon..."
Wang Yuan looked at Sheng Shaoqing in shock. Sheng Shaoqing ignored Wang Yuan and only asked Wang Shan, "You said this letter was not written by you?"
Wang Shan nodded repeatedly.
Wang Yuan said anxiously, "The Queen Mother must not trust him easily! A person like him will say anything to get away with it!"
"That means you admit that you instigated Wang Qing to take the blame for Wang Yu?"
"I!"
"I!!"
Wang Shan didn't expect that the Queen Mother's thoughts were so clear. She didn't dare to say the word "no". She only struggled for a moment and then lowered her head and nodded.
"But... But I didn't, I didn't force him! It was really Wang Yuan who suggested it himself. In order to make up for him afterwards, I promoted him. I originally thought that this matter was not serious, as long as Wang Qing would do it for me.
My son is suffering, but I didn’t expect..."
"Didn't you expect that I would investigate strictly?"
Wang Shan nodded, "I am also a parent, how can I not know the parents' feelings? Therefore, I also thought about whether I could save Wang Qing. But... But... But Wang Yuan... He later proposed
His demands are becoming more and more outrageous, he actually dared to change his own plaque to one that can only be used by the head of the Wang family, and asked me to help him transfer to Chenliu."
"I was so angry that I just... stopped paying attention to it."
"Master Wang, what you said is so irresponsible! When did I want these?!"
Wang Shan looked at Wang Yuan angrily, "You bitch, you dare to do it but don't admit it, right?! You. The last time you came to Chenliu, you..."
As Wang Shan talked, he also realized that something was wrong. There seemed to be no evidence for what he said. Even without Wang Yuan's forged letters, anyone who looked at it would think that he was forcing Wang Qing to replace his son.
Went to jail.
The look of pride in Wang Yuan's eyes became even more obvious, but because Sheng Shaoqing was in front of him, he didn't dare to be presumptuous.
Wang Shan felt more and more that he had come to the wrong place today. He was afraid that this was a trap that Wang Yuan had set a long time ago, just waiting for him to escape!
"You! You actually"
"Did you also send the person who proposed the plan? Then you hinted that I would use your son to take the blame. You... you actually set up a trap to frame me? In order to frame me, you have really good intentions!"
Wang Yuan turned around with a puzzled look on his face and said, "How come you can't understand what Mr. Wang said?"
But in Wang Shan's view, there was only one sentence written on Wang Yuan's face: I did it, what can you do to me?
Wang Shan was furious and wanted to argue with Wang Yuan, but Sheng Shaoqing shut up Wang Shan directly, "Whether you intimidated him or not, what difference does the result make?"
Wang Shan raised his head and looked at Sheng Shaoqing, as well as the letters with his private seal scattered on the floor in front of him. The Queen Mother's words meant that he must be punished, so he had to bow down in despair, "I plead guilty."
"oh?"
Sheng Shaoqing motioned to the document to record it. The process that Wang Shan was very familiar with could now be used on him. He waited for the document to be polished before he said, "The humble minister Wang Shan, because he felt sorry for his son who was suffering in prison, ordered Wang Yuan to
His son replaced my son, and then in order to bribe Wang Yuan, he promoted him in violation of regulations."
After Wang Shan finished speaking, the clerk brought the written confession to Wang Shan. Wang Shan pressed his fingerprints and listened to the confession.
Let the magistrate investigate and deal with it, and it will never be used again in the future!”
Sheng Shaoqing clapped his hands with satisfaction, "It will be easier if you plead guilty."
Wang Yuan immediately stood up and said flatteringly, "The Queen Mother is wise! As soon as you come here, you will get rid of such an evil official for me, Chen Liu!"
Sheng Shaoqing said coldly, "Did I ask you to get up?"
"Ah?" Wang Yuan could only kneel down in embarrassment.
"Do you think you can escape because you are forced to do anything?"
Sheng Shaoqing stood up, walked around Wang Yuan and walked behind him and said, "Tell me, when did you realize my identity?"
Wang Yuan smiled awkwardly, "I...I don't understand the Queen Mother..."
"Don't understand what I'm talking about?"
"What a good show you and Guo Song sang?"
Wang Yuan turned around in shock, but his eyes looking at Sheng Shaoqing were a little more innocent.
Sheng Shaoqing was a little nauseated by the "pure and clear" eyes performed in this way, "Turn your head, don't make me sick!"
A few big words on Wang Yuan's head were: "The Queen Mother actually noticed it?!" They also turned back following Wang Yuan's head.
Wang Yuan turned his head back silently and saw Sheng Shaoqing walking down the hall, picking up the pieces of letter paper, and walking back again.
"Come, take a look."
Wang Yuan pushed forward and said, "This... this... I look at this..."
"I want you to see if these letters look like they were just written?"
Wang Yuan swallowed his saliva, "This... these are all evidence that Wang Shan is intimidating me. This... I have seen it all."
"You still don't admit it?"
Sheng Shaoqing thought to himself that Wang Yuan was really mentally strong, and he was still so stubborn!
"The water marks on these letters are not even dry yet, but you dare to take them out to make up the numbers. Do you think I'm stupid, or do you think Prime Minister Ji is stupid?"
Sheng Shaoqing scolded half of the people in the hall with one sentence. The dejected Wang Shan seemed to have suddenly enlightened after hearing this, "Yes! Yes! Minister..."
Wang Shan met Sheng Shaoqing's sharp gaze, "Sin... Sin Chen... I felt something was wrong as soon as I got those letters!"
"Since the Queen Mother knew it from the beginning, why did she still press the guilty minister? Do you believe me now? These are all the work of Wang Yuan alone!"
Sheng Shaoqing rolled her eyes silently. She knew why Wang Shan was so thoroughly plotted. His mind... was exactly the same as that of his playboy son who had taken advantage of him and acted like a good boy!
"you shut up!"
Sheng Shaoqing turned his head and asked Wang Yuandao attentively, "I think Guo Song's defection in the beginning was intentional, right?"
"I'm afraid you already know it as soon as I set foot on this land, right?"
Fortunately, she thought that she and Prime Minister Ji were scheming, but in the end, she was overthrown and plotted from the beginning to the end!
Sheng Shaoqing glanced at Ji Wenxuan, and sure enough, Ji Wenxuan's face turned half green.
Wang Yuan still said harshly, "The Queen Mother... what the Queen Mother said... I don't understand..."
"Do not understand?"
"Someone comes and makes him understand."
Ji Wenxuan clapped his hands, and Manager Lai from Wang Yuan's mansion was brought to the hall.
When Wang Yuan saw Manager Lai, his eyes widened, "This... this is the manager of Wei Chen's Mansion... What does this matter have to do with him...?"
Sheng Shaoqing smiled and said, "Wang Yuan, you think you can play with everyone's applause, but in the face of absolute power, you are nothing more than a worm compared to a giant tree."
"I advise you to confess as soon as possible, otherwise, I can't guarantee what consequences there will be."
Wang Yuan struggled for a moment, "I knew the identity of the Queen Mother from the beginning, but..."
"I...I forged these letters, but I did this because I was eager to save my son!"
"Wang Shan refused to rescue my son, so I had to think of another way. Suddenly I heard that the Queen Mother might want to pay a private visit incognito, so... I sent someone... to wait day and night..."
"Later, the Queen Mother came indeed. I... I had to find a way to let the Queen Mother know about it, so I asked Guo Song to reveal it deliberately in the inn. Later... and... Prime Minister Ji said that the Queen Mother came to find her relatives, and again to find her relatives.
My wife’s marriage… I took advantage of this and accepted this marriage, thinking that maybe I could start from here.”
"It's just that my unsatisfactory nephew has disrupted my plan again. I can only take advantage of the situation and invite you back to the house."
"So, you deliberately let Madam discover these letters?"
Wang Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "If my wife discovered such a confidential thing so easily, my wife would have gone to Beijing to file a petition to save her son."
"No wonder Wang Shan looks at Guo Song with such strange eyes. It's you who found someone to act in."
"But...you are still dishonest."
Wang Yuan looked at Sheng Shaoqing in surprise, and Sheng Shaoqing continued, "Who are you still hiding for?"
"I heard that I want to pay a private visit incognito?"
"Standing back and waiting?"
"Chenliu isn't a big place, but there are so many places. How could you even get to where I am?"
Sheng Shaoqing saw the strange thing coming out of Wang Yuan's head and said quickly, "Don't tell me about fate."
Wang Yuan had not yet recovered from the shock of how the Queen Mother knew that he was trying to talk about fate, and he was anxious. How should he make up this story?
"How about you answer my question?"
"Who told you that I would come here, who asked you to frame Wang Shan, and what benefits did he promise you?"
The story told by Wang Yuan seems to fit perfectly, but if you think about it carefully, it may not be without loopholes.
Even if Wang Shan wanted to be replaced, how did Wang Yuan know about it and how did he implement it?
Sheng Shaoqing didn't think Wang Yuan had the ability to let people sneak into the palace and place his own people in the palace.
Therefore, among the Wang family far away in Chenliu, there must be Wang Yuan's helper, and this person can also know her whereabouts.
"minister………"
"If you say it now, I may think you are being frank and lenient, but if you say it a little later, I will definitely show no mercy!"
Wang Yuan was debating whether to speak or not. Suddenly there was a sound of piercing the clouds and breaking the wind in the air, and a sharp arrow flashed past Sheng Shaoqing's eyes and plunged into Wang Yuan's chest.
Before Wang Yuan had time to speak, he lowered his head in surprise and stared at the big hole in his chest. Blood gurgled out of it, instantly turning the clothes on his chest red. Then he turned his head and looked out the door in disbelief.
.
Sheng Shaoqing was suddenly frightened out of his mind by this bloody scene. As soon as he ran to Wang Yuan, he saw his trembling lips and mouth gestures, "Wang...Wang...Jun..."
"What did you say?!"
Sheng Shaoqing asked again, but Wang Yuan only spit out a mouthful of blood and fell straight down.
Sheng Shaoqing helped Wang Yuan close his eyes, turned to Lin Jin and shouted, "It's a sleeve arrow!"
A dark figure flashed outside the door, and in an instant the figure disappeared again.
"Escort! Escort!"
There was a chaos in the hall. The hidden guards brought by Ji Wenxuan poured out from all directions and surrounded the courtyard. Lin Jin only gave a few instructions and chased the black figure.
