flstandardbreds Chapter 168 "Your Highness, Prime Minister Wen...died while saving his wife..."
Chapter 168 "Your Highness, Prime Minister Wen...died while saving his wife..."
Shen Changle stretched his neck to listen to the noise outside.
After hearing that the imperial carriage had returned to the palace, he hurriedly asked Bai Zhi:
"How's the Emperor's uncle? Did the two of them fight?"
After Baizhi investigated, he came back to report:
"Don't worry, Your Highness. It's just the same as usual. We just had a few arguments."
Only then did Shen Changle breathe a sigh of relief.
"Because of the affairs between our father and mother, my brother has always been against concubines since he was a child!
I didn't expect that the emperor's uncle would actually send Miss Jin to the palace. Isn't this deliberately provoking bad luck for the emperor's brother? "
Baizhi nodded as if he understood, listened quietly, and didn't ask any more questions.
Shen Changle said nothing more than "Yes, as you command..."
No feedback whatsoever.
I couldn't help but miss Jiang Ci'an again.
If Ci An were here, I could have a few words with her...
I lay in bed for a long time before falling into a deep sleep.
On the second day, the wives of each family came to attend the party.
To Shen Changle's surprise, Mrs. Wen, who had made an appointment in advance, did not show up.
Just when she was confused, the old housekeeper came hurriedly to report...
"Your Highness!"
He glanced at the guests at Shen Changle's banquet, seemed to be hesitant to speak, and his face was full of anxiety.
Shen Changle saw through the situation and asked Baizhi to take the ladies to Yipinmei Garden to taste wine and appreciate plum blossoms.
Leave the old butler to talk alone.
"What's wrong? Grandpa Lang, what happened?"
"Your Highness, this is terrible! Madam Wen was kidnapped on her way to a banquet, and the Prime Minister has filed a complaint before the Emperor, accusing Your Highness of colluding with the Prince to detain his family!"
"what?"
Shen Changle slammed the table and stood up. Perhaps his lower abdomen was stretched and he felt a slight pain.
The old housekeeper hurriedly supported her, and Xuanque also stepped forward quickly.
Holding her, he whispered:
"Your Highness, Ye Ling is at home, do you want to..."
"Have him go quickly! He must find out Madam Wen's whereabouts before the Prime Minister!"
"Yes!"
Seeing her stroking her belly, the old housekeeper panicked.
I feel a little regretful. Should I not have told His Highness?
But the prince was summoned to the palace, and he really had no backbone!
"Your Highness, please take care of yourself and don't disturb the fetus..."
"I'm fine, where's the emperor's uncle?"
Shen Changle grabbed the old but powerful hand of the butler and asked in a deep voice.
"The prince went to the palace as soon as he received the news... Prime Minister Wen's reputation for loving his wife is well-known, and the prince is worried that Prime Minister Wen is deliberately forcing the emperor to abdicate!"
Shen Changle nodded, holding her stomach, and paced back and forth.
I have thought carefully about these things recently.
Suddenly he raised his eyes and ordered Xuanque:
"Send someone to investigate Yan Lan's residence on the outskirts of the city!"
She doubts...
This matter has something to do with her!
"Yes!"
Xuanque took the order and left as quickly as possible.
The old housekeeper helped her dismiss the ladies in the Plum Garden and waited for news from all sides.
"Your Highness, I have received a letter from the palace: Prime Minister Wen has left the palace!"
Wenzhixue left the palace?
Could it be that we have found the whereabouts of Mrs. Wen?
"Your Highness, I have received a message from the palace. The leader of the imperial guards has left the palace in plain clothes, without any soldiers!"
In casual clothes, without soldiers...
It must be his royal brother who sent him to follow Wen Zhixue!
"Your Highness, Aunt Yan is not in the house."
Yan Lan’s absence from home must be related to her!
Could it be that she disobeyed orders and kidnapped Mrs. Wen?
but……
It shouldn’t be!
Does she have the ability to cry, make a fuss, and even threaten to hang herself?
It would be almost the same to say that Madam Wen had tied her up!
"Your Highness—Madam Wen has been found! Concubine Yan is with her, and Prime Minister Wen…died while trying to save his wife…"
Died while saving his wife?
Shen Changle couldn't sit still any longer. How could Wen Zhixue die?
How could a selfish and vicious person like him die so easily?
She asked the white pheasant:
"Is Ye Ling back?"
White Pheasant leaned over and replied:
"Not yet, I'll go wait outside the door!"
The old housekeeper was also very anxious.
Keep looking out.
"It's been a whole day, why hasn't the prince come back yet..."
Shen Changle felt warmed at the sight of his worried look.
In the palace, the emperor's uncle was the only elder who always cared about her and her brother, which made her roll her eyes in anger.
But in the palace...
He is just a young prince of twenty-seven years old!
Every time I go out or come in, Grandpa Lang is always worried about me...
Thinking of this, Shen Changle couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him.
He ordered Xuanque to harness the carriage and take a few people to the palace gate to meet the emperor's uncle.
Xuanque took the order and retreated, and Baizhi also came in with Ye Ling.
"Your Highness, Ye Ling is back."
Ye Ling knelt on one knee, her eyes slightly closed under her half-covered face, concealing the sharp coldness that had not yet completely faded.
"Your Highness."
"No need to be so polite, Ye Ling. Were you present when the Prime Minister died?"
Ye Ling stood up and clasped his fists in reply.
"Your Highness, I am present."
"Then tell me quickly, what's going on?"
"Yes, when I arrived, Madam Wen and Concubine Yan had both been kidnapped.
At Madam Wen’s suggestion, the kidnappers sent a letter to Prime Minister Wen…”
Ok?
What does it mean that the kidnappers sent a letter to Prime Minister Wen at the suggestion of Mrs. Wen?
"You mean... this kidnapping was planned by Madam Wen?"
"According to my observations, that's exactly what's going on. Furthermore... Aunt Yan seems to be cooperating!"
Hey, that's weird...
"Go on, how did Prime Minister Wen die when he arrived at the meeting place?"
"Yes, after Prime Minister Wen arrived, the kidnappers pretended to be Madam Wen's enemy and forced him to choose between the two."
pick one of two……
Are you so thoughtful?
"How do I choose the Liberal Arts major?"
"Prime Minister Wen... chose Concubine Yan."
Well, it's unexpected, but reasonable...
Looking at her calm expression, the old housekeeper couldn't help but ask:
"Your Highness has already guessed this result?"
"Well, yes."
"Why? Although I don't know who this Concubine Yan is, Prime Minister Wen has always been known in the capital for loving his wife!"
Seeing the old housekeeper puzzled, Shen Changle chuckled and explained:
"Huh, beloved wife? That Yan Lan is his mistress!
As for why we know that he would choose Aunt Yan, there are two main reasons:
One is that, judging by his obsession with Yan Lan over the past twenty years, he still can't let go of the person he can't have;
Secondly, since the kidnapper is pretending to be Madam Wen's enemy, if he chooses Madam Wen, I'm afraid neither of them will be saved!"
If the kidnappers were truly Mrs. Wen's enemies, forcing Wen Zhixue, known for her loving wife, to make such a choice...
Isn’t the purpose just to see Mrs. Wen suffer?
If he chose Mrs. Wen, what if the kidnappers got angry and killed both of them?
However, the old butler was still full of questions.
"But...why did Madam Wen do this?"
"Don't give up..."
She could understand Mrs. Wen.
after all……
For the past twenty years, she has always thought that Wen Zhixue loved her deeply!
How could she accept it once she knew that the harmony they had enjoyed for the past twenty years was all an illusion?
"She deliberately had the kidnappers impersonate her enemies to increase her own chances of death, hoping to force Wen Zhixue to choose her..."
Unfortunately, it backfired.
"What I'm really curious about is why Wen Zhixue was the last person to die?"