Chapter 168 An a.s.sa.s.sination Attempt, The Female Medical Team is Implicated [2]
“How can you be so sure that your team member didn’t do this?” Imperial Tutor She walked over to question Zi You. “I remember that they are the descendants of criminals. Although their families were guilty, it doesn’t mean that they don’t hold a grudge and want to seek revenge.”
Zi You coldly smiled. So, they had been waiting for her. Could it be that the Empress and Imperial Tutor She had a part in this matter in addition to Shangguan Lingluo?
Zi You lifted up her deep pool-like eyes to look at Imperial Tutor She. She coldly smiled. “I can guarantee it because I only told them about entering the Palace last night. After I told them, they never left the fu. So, how can they contact these a.s.sa.s.sins?”
Imperial Tutor She immediately sneered. “They didn’t leave the fu, but you cannot guarantee that people outside did not contact them.”
The Empress immediately said to Imperial Tutor She, “Imperial Tutor She, perhaps Mu Xiaojie didn’t know about this. She had good intentions and was probably used by others.”
Then she said to the Emperor, “Fortunately, some a.s.sa.s.sins survived. Won’t things be clear if the Emperor asks them?”
“Someone, come!” The Emperor was reminded by the Empress and immediately shouted. “Pry open the mouth of the a.s.sa.s.sins!”
“No need.” The leader raised his head decisively. “I am Ganshan Province Rong Tianyi’s subordinate. My brother was killed by you, incapable Emperor. 187 people in Rong fu were either killed or sold. How can I not repay this blood debt?”
The Emperor jumped up angrily. “Rong Tianyi embezzled a large number of military funds. He deserved to die a million times. Zhen not killing his offspring is already letting him off cheaply.”
Rong Yunhe was already in a dilemma. He wanted to repay Zi You’s grace, but also wanted to seek vengeance for his father. He couldn’t help but raise his head and ask resentfully, “My father committed a crime. You can just kill him alone. Why did you also kill my first and second brothers? What crime did they commit?”
“You are Rong Tianyi’s youngest son?” The Emperor was shocked. Then he looked at Zi You and furiously slammed his hand down on a table. He snapped, “Mu Zi You, is this what you meant by using your head to guarantee that they won’t seek revenge against Zhen? You bought them for only four months and they can’t wait to make a move against Zhen. Did you teach them martial arts to kill Zhen?”
“Mu Xiaojie.” At this time, the Empress looked sympathetically at Zi You and faintly sighed. “Bengong knows that you have good intentions, but the children of the criminal officials have lost their rationality because of hatred. They are a group of madmen. How can you treat them like normal people?”
Then she looked at the Emperor and softly and gently comforted. “Emperor, you can’t blame Mu Xiaojie. She’s too young. She doesn’t understand how sinister people’s hearts are. But Old General Mu and Young General should not have lost your minds and let a child fool around! Look how dangerous it was today! If the Emperor……”
The Empress elegantly rubbed her eyes with a handkerchief. She looked like there was still fear lingering in her as she looked worriedly at the Emperor.
This glance, however, was deeply affectionate. It looked like it contained thousands of emotions, wounding the Emperor up.
The Emperor immediately felt guilty. Although this Empress had deep thoughts, her feels for him were real. She had married him when he was a w.a.n.gzi. Over the years, she had toiled and worked hard to take care of his harem for him. She had not done anything too outrageous. It seemed that the first wife was still the sweetest!
Thinking of this, he looked gently at the Empress. Then he turned in extreme dissatisfaction to Old General Mu and Mu YingYi. “Exactly! Zhen put Zhen’s security in your hands. You father and son treat it as a game?! You let your spoiled little yatou to fool around. If she didn’t want to form some whatever female medical team, then how could it be so dangerous today?”
The Emperor slammed his hand down a table and was about to speak, but heard Zi You’s clear voice. “Please calm your anger, Emperor. Can you allow Chennu to ask the a.s.sa.s.sins some questions?”
“What do you want to ask?” Fourth w.a.n.gzi jumped out. His eyes were sharp as he said, “Didn’t you say that you vouch for your team with your head and that they won’t rebel? They won’t take revenge? But this Rong Yunhe is clearly full of resentment towards Fuw.a.n.g. He must have done this matter today with his father’s former subordinates.”
Zi You sneered at Fourth w.a.n.gzi and ridiculed, “Chennu is asking the Emperor. Why is Fourth w.a.n.gzi going above your ident.i.ty and meddling?”
Shangguan LingRan suddenly smiled at this time and asked Rong Yunhe, “Rong Yunhe, your father’s subordinates hate you, right? Hahaha. They have to drag you down right before they die.”
Once Shangguan LingRan’s words were spoken, everyone froze. Zi You’s ridicule deepened. “Shizi Ye, you are correct this time. This a.s.sa.s.sin is indeed punished and kicked out of Rong Tianyi’s command.”
“Huh?” Everyone was surprised again. They looked at the a.s.sa.s.sin, then at Rong Yunhe, and finally at Zi You.
Even the Emperor was secretly surprised. This Mu Zi You wasn’t panicked after being repeatedly questioned by Imperial Tutor She, the Empress, and Fourth w.a.n.gzi. She had been calmly standing there. Her aloof and beautiful face contained a light smile, making her seem more like an elegant, clean, and aloof wintersweet in the ice.
Zi You bowed to the Emperor and asked again, “Chennu dares to ask Emperor to allow Chennu to ask this a.s.sa.s.sin a few questions.”
“Fuw.a.n.g!” Fourth w.a.n.gzi cried out anxiously again. “Mu Zi You……”
“Shut up!” The Emperor finally glared unhappily at Fourth w.a.n.gzi. “Zhen is settling a case here. Why are you repeatedly interrupting?”
After reprimanding Fourth w.a.n.gzi, he told Zi You coldly, “Go ask!” Zhen wants to see what you can find out. Although he did speak the last sentence out loud, he really wanted to know the answer.
Zi You bowed and said, “Thank you, Emperor!”
She turned to the a.s.sa.s.sin and said, with a mocking face, “You are Rong Tianyi’s subordinate and is willing to sacrifice your life to seek revenge for him. You are trying to repay Rong Tianyi’s grace to you, but why did Rong Tianyi kick you out of the fu?”
The a.s.sa.s.sin replied with a sad face, “It’s because he knew that his corruption had been exposed. He was afraid to implicate me, so he made up a reason, beat me up, and kicked me out.”
Zi You’s smile gradually bloomed, like a quietly elegant and holy Tianshan snow lotus. “What a joke. Rong Tianyi knew that his corruption came to light, but he didn’t send his own sons away. He would give up his own flesh and blood’s lives and his own future, but he would protect your life? Can it be that you are more important than his own family?”
Zi You then turned to the Emperor and bowed again. “Emperor, can you please allow me to ask Rong Yunhe and his sister some questions?”
The Emperor was, ultimately, not stupid. He also felt that something wasn’t quite right. He immediately nodded and agreed.
Zi You slightly bowed and said to Rong Yunhe, “Rong Yunhe, tell the Emperor what happened on the 29th of last month and why this man named w.a.n.g Haiji was kicked out of the general’s fu.”
Rong Yunhe looked up at Zi You. He was stunned for five seconds before lowering his head in shame. He slowly said, “This man is named w.a.n.g Haiji. He was a general commander of my father’s. The year before last, he was drinking and causing trouble and killed the senior provincial official’s son. The senior provincial official wanted him to pay with his life, so father had no choice but to kick him out of the general’s fu. He had once told father’s subordinates that father was not loyal. He was father’s confidant, but father actually treated him like that.
“We don’t know where he went. On the 29th of last month, this man somehow found me on the streets. He said that he wanted to seek revenge for my father and a.s.sa.s.sinate…… a.s.sa.s.sinate the Emperor. He asked me if there was some way to enter the Palace. I didn’t know that I was entering the Palace today, so I told him no.
“He then said to me, ‘How can you not have a way to enter the Palace when you’re in the General’s Manor now? Don’t forget who killed your father or how your general’s fu was destroyed. I’ll tell you something. I have inquired already. The Emperor will invite all the officials and their families to the Palace on the 1st. I have already hired a.s.sa.s.sins. We will act together internally and externally at that time.’
“I immediately refused. ‘No, this will cause a disaster to befall the whole General’s Manor. It will bring a disaster to Zi…… Mu Xiaojie. She is the benefactor of me and my sister. I can’t harm her.’
“At that time, w.a.n.g Haiji was furious. ‘You will forget about your family’s vengeance for a woman? Are you still human? Think about how your innocent brothers died.’
“I thought of how innocent my brothers were and was tempted for a while. But I still refused him. ‘I will avenge my father and brothers, but only when I have the ability to rather than using Commander Mu. I will still be an animal if I don’t know how to repay her grace.’
“I then returned uneasy to the fu. I wanted to tell you.”
Rong Yunhe was very regretful as he said to Zi You, “Believe me, Commander. I really didn’t conspire with them about this matter.”
“I believe you.” Zi You lightly smiled. “Because your sister Qiyan told me about this after you returned that night. Qiyan, tell the Emperor what happened.”
“Yes, Commander.” Rong Qiyan looked at her brother full of reproach. She knelt down and kowtowed to the Emperor. “We went to the market on the 29th. After fifteen minutes, my brother told Uncle Jiang that he had something personal to take care of, so he wanted to go off alone. Uncle Jiang couldn’t refuse, but Nubi was suspicious.
“What personal business did my brother have that he needed to hide it from me…… Ah, hide from Nubi? Nubi quietly followed him and saw that brother went to a private room in Jufu Lou. Nubi saw w.a.n.g Haiji and heard their conversation. Nubi was scared and went back to tell Commander. That’s the whole story.”
“Qiyan, why did you tell me?” Zi You deliberately asked.
Qiyan looked up at her and said excitedly, “As you said, Commander, Nubi was like cattle being bought and sold in the slave market. Nubi finally became a human again. Who is willing to be livestock again? When Nubi thinks of those inhuman days, Nubi still has nightmares.”
“Huh! Who believes that?” Fourth w.a.n.gzi stared fiercely at Rong Qiyan. “You don’t want to seek vengeance for your blood debt? Are you still human?”
Zi You looked at Fourth w.a.n.gzi and coldly said, “So, Fourth w.a.n.gzi thinks that everyone should seek vengeance? In that case, won’t the Emperor be uneasy day and night? How many corrupt officials are there each year? How many enemies are beheaded on the battlefield? How many of their families still live? Shouldn’t they all come to find the Emperor for revenge then?”
The Emperor’s peach blossom eyes glared ferociously at Fourth w.a.n.gzi. Although he didn’t speak, the ruthlessness and reproach in his eyes scared Fourth w.a.n.gzi so much that he couldn’t speak anymore.
Rong Qiyan kowtowed and said tearfully, “Emperor, before Nubi’s mother pa.s.sed away, she had Nubi make a vow in front of her not to seek vengeance, but to live well. Mother said that father got what he deserved. He didn’t listen to her, which was how he courted this disaster and implicated Nubi’s innocent brothers.
“Mother wanted Nubi to forget the hatred and not live in pain. Nubi was bought back by Xiaojie and this is how Xiaojie taught Nubi too.”
“But even so, that doesn’t mean that Rong Yunhe and w.a.n.g Haiji didn’t collude.” Imperial Tutor She asked, puzzled, “Maybe he changed his mind and contacted the a.s.sa.s.sins later?”
Zi You looked at the dignified, chubby, and smiling Imperial Tutor She. She sneered. “Huh…… You are amazing, Imperial Tutor She,! The first time you enter the Palace, without knowing where the Jade Palace Hall is located, you can lead more than thirty a.s.sa.s.sins quietly into the Palace and not be found by anyone so that you can all come out of thin air to a.s.sa.s.sinate the Emperor?
“Even if you have the ability, you need to be able to split your bodies to be at two places at once. You may have the ability, but Rong Yunhe does not.”
When she was done mocking him, Zi You bowed to the Emperor. She said, “Emperor, hand this w.a.n.g Haiji over to Chennu. Chennu will have him speak the truth.”
“You cannot, Emperor.” Imperial Tutor She immediately objected. “Rong Yunhe is part of Mu Xiaojie’s team. She should avoid doing things to arouse suspicion.”
Zi You’s delicate face once again bloomed eye-catchingly and vividly. She looked at the Emperor and said confidently, “Emperor, you can listen as Chennu interrogates him to see if Chennu is deceiving you.”
Mu YingYi was so anxious that he had wanted to go up several times to help her, but he was stopped by Old General Mu.
Old General Mu was worried in the beginning too. But he looked at his granddaughter’s calmness and, for some reason, his anxious heart settled down.
At this moment, he was fully convinced that his granddaughter could get out of this trouble. Instead, it would be bad if he rashly rushed to help her.