Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 166: A Case Never Judged

A fire broke out at Yuxiu Pavilion on Wansui Mountain, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

When the eunuchs and laborers in the inner palace discovered it, they were instantly horrified and started to work on putting out the fire.

As the eunuch in charge of the Inner Palace, Li Guang was the first to arrive at the scene to direct the fire. His heart was bleeding as he watched the fire in Yuxiu Pavilion getting bigger and bigger.

It's spring now, how could there be a fire here? This is too weird!
Even if he wanted to hide this, he couldn't. He weighed his fat body and ran towards the Qianqing Palace like a running wild boar.

"Emperor, Your Majesty."

Li Guang's voice trembled.

Emperor Hongzhi frowned, with an ominous premonition rising spontaneously. He stared at Li Guang and said tremblingly: "Don't tell me that the Wansui Mountain has been flooded!"

Li Guang was also shocked. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, saying, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it is because of my poor supervision that the Yuxiu Pavilion on Wansui Mountain was burned down. The whole pavilion was burned down!"

Emperor Hongzhi sat on the dragon throne in a daze for a long time, his face changing from initial shock to gradually filled with anger.

Li Guang was so frightened that his face turned as pale as paper. He thought Emperor Hongzhi was going to blame him.

But he obviously misunderstood. Emperor Hongzhi's anger was not because of Li Guang's poor supervision, nor because of the fire in Yuxiu Pavilion, but because there was a traitor in the East Factory!
Yang Peng!

He stared at Li Guang and asked, "Did Yang Peng go up the mountain today?"

Li Guang hurriedly said, "Yes, Captain Yang went up the mountain today."

Emperor Hongzhi was furious. Chen Ce said that Yang Peng was a member of the civil service group, but Emperor Hongzhi did not believe it. But now the facts are before him!
It's not that he didn't suspect that Chen Ce had his own people in the inner palace. He even suspected that Zhu Houzhao was acting in collusion with Chen Ce.

But he ordered people to put Zhu Houzhao under house arrest. In other words, Chen Ce could not contact Zhu Houzhao.

That means the Wansui Mountain fire has nothing to do with Chen Ce?

Emperor Hongzhi was still skeptical and said, "Go check the prison of the Ministry of Justice to see who has visited that kid in the past two days!"

Soon someone came back to reply that not many people had seen Chen Ce, only Xu Jing, Tang Yin and his group, and the Jinyiwei.

Tang Yin? How come he is also involved with Chen Ce?
Emperor Hongzhi now felt that his brain was not enough, but no matter what, Xu Jing and Tang Yin could not have any contact with the Empress.

Then the only possibility is Jinyiwei.

"Go and call the co-governor Wei Wenli to come to me!"

"Here!"

Not long after, Wei Wenli came to Emperor Hongzhi with a nervous heart, clasped his fists and bowed to him, saying, "I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"Did Chen Ce tell you what you did?"

Wei Wenli's heart skipped a beat, wondering why the emperor asked this question. Chen Ce had naturally explained what he had done.

He didn't know whether this matter would have any impact on Chen Ce, but since the emperor asked, it meant that this matter was of great importance.

The Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal army. Wei Wenli should not hide anything from Emperor Hongzhi. The crime of deceiving the emperor is too serious. If the matter is leaked, the consequence will be the confiscation of property and the extermination of the clan!

Wei Wenli thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Chen Ce did not tell me what I had done. I went to the prison of the Ministry of Justice at the request of the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince asked me to ask the Ministry of Justice to release him. I only told Chen Ce about this."

Wei Wenli deceived Emperor Hongzhi.

Not Jinyiwei either!

In fact, Emperor Hongzhi had already leaned towards Yang Peng as a traitor, but he just wouldn't give up.

"understood."

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand, signaling Wei Wenli to leave, and then said to Huai En: "Go to the East Factory, bring a few people with you, and convey my order."

"I have been sincere to him, Yang Peng, but he has been colluding with the civil officials behind my back. Since he likes to be a dog of the civil officials, let him go to hell!"

"kill him!"

Huai En said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "As you command."

...East Factory.

Yang Peng didn't know why, but he always felt uneasy.

Someone sent him a letter last night. The letter said some incomprehensible words and asked him to go to Wansui Mountain and set fire to the mountain today.

Yang Peng didn't care at that time until just now, when he heard that Wansui Mountain was on fire.

How does this connect with last night's letter?
Yang Peng couldn't figure it out, but the letter had to be delivered to the emperor anyway. It was too late last night and he was delayed by other things today, so he completely forgot about the letter.

Yang Peng put the letter in his arms, then walked quickly along the stone path within the red walls of the palace.

As soon as he finished turning, he almost bumped into Huai En head-on. After seeing who it was, Yang Peng bowed and said, "It turned out to be Eunuch Huai En."

Huai En stared at Yang Peng with a fake smile and said, "Why is Captain Yang in such a hurry?"

"To tip off?"

Yang Peng didn't understand Huai En's words, but as the emperor's attendant, he was still very important, so he hurriedly asked, "What do you mean, eunuch?"

Two strong men have come behind Yang Peng.

Huai En said in a shrill voice: "Do it."

In an instant, a thin wire strangled Yang Peng's neck.

Yang Peng's eyes widened, and he squeezed out a voice: "Eunuch, what, what does this mean?"

Huai En said coldly: "According to the emperor's words, since you are willing to be a dog of the civil servants and betray the emperor, then go to hell and be a dog!"

Yang Peng struggled with his hands, his eyes were bloodshot, he widened his eyes, and coughed dryly: "We, our family, don't understand..."

"We are to the Emperor, to the Emperor..."

His hands kept grabbing at something in the air, his eyeballs were about to bulge out, his pupils were bloodshot, the wire was getting tighter and tighter, he wanted to argue, but he was feeling aggrieved inside.

He didn't know how he got involved with the civil servants and why he betrayed the emperor.

He couldn't understand it. He had always been loyal to the emperor, so how could he collude with the civil servants?

It was obvious that someone was framing me.

But he couldn't open his mouth, not a single word came out. Even though he was full of grievances, he couldn't refute!

“Unfair, unfair…”

He could no longer speak. The palace walls were covered with bloody marks from his fingernails. His body was stiff, as if he had been strangled to death.

A eunuch searched him and found a letter. Huai En sneered and said, "Sure enough, he has colluded with the civil officials long ago. The emperor really has a keen eye!"

……

Ministry of Punishment.

The clerk was writing furiously until a man from the Ministry of Justice came to report to the doctor of the Ministry of Justice that there was a fire on Wansui Mountain.

The clerk who was recording Chen Ce's confession almost dropped the brush in his hand!
Damn it!
Is it really possessed by a ghost?
He had just recorded Chen Ce's confession not long ago. Chen Ce said that something possessed him and controlled him to kill people. He also said that Wansui Mountain was going to catch fire and so on.

The clerk even thought Chen Ce was a lunatic.

But now...Wansui Mountain is really on fire?!

He didn't lie? Was he really possessed by a ghost and killed someone?

Otherwise, how could he know what was happening in Wansui Mountain when he was imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice?

This... how should the punishment be for someone who is possessed by a ghost and kills someone?

(End of this chapter)