After the rebirth, the empress took the tragic script of Meiqiang

Chapter 20 Morning Morning

The carriage stopped in an alley dozens of steps away from Donglin Gate. You could see the city gate, but you couldn't see it from the city gate.

The wind outside the city gate was stronger, but luckily Ye Qinghuai was still wearing Lu Yanchen's cloak.

Seeing Lu Yanchen get out of the car, Ye Qinghuai took off his cloak and gave it back to him.

Lu Yanchen took off his cloak, looked at her with a deep expression, and said, "Wei Chen will keep in mind what your Majesty said. But Wei Chen also has some words of advice."

"Sir, please speak."

"Your Majesty will not be able to take such risks in the future. Not every time you will meet a minister by chance." Lu Yanchen said very seriously. After speaking, he thought for a while and then said, "If your Majesty must take risks,

Please be sure to tell Weichen in advance."

Ye Qinghuai smiled and replied: "Okay, students should remember your teacher's teachings."

After saying that, she looked in the direction of Donglinmen. Seeing that there was no one there, she turned back to Lu Yanchen and said, "I'm sorry to bother you today, sir. I'm going back to the palace. Sir, please come back too."

The two of them bowed to each other, and Ye Qinghuai left in the direction of Donglinmen.

As soon as Ye Qinghuai walked to the east door, he saw Li Baoquan standing next to the guard guarding the door from a distance. He was pacing back and forth, and it was obvious that he was very anxious.

Seeing Ye Qinghuai, he trotted over quickly.

Ye Qinghuai saw that his eyes were bloodshot, thinking that he hadn't slept much in the past two days, he couldn't help but feel warm and a little guilty.

"I'm back." Li Baoquan looked her up and down, then led her straight through the door.

The guard at Donglin Gate must have been greeted by him, and he didn't even look at Ye Qinghuai.

Ye Qinghuai followed Li Baoquan and walked a few steps in, then subconsciously looked back at the door.

Contrary to her expectation, there was still a slender figure standing under the dead tree on Zhengde North Street, holding the cloak in his hand, looking motionlessly in the direction of Donglin Gate, even though he saw Ye Qinghuai was safe.

He walked through the door with no intention of leaving.

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After Ye Qinghuai was scolded by Li Baoquan, she was scolded again by Aunt Fanghua when she returned to Jingshou Palace.

It had been a long time since she had been scolded so many times in one day.

"You kid, how can you spend the night outside? Do you know how dangerous it is?" Aunt Fanghua scolded her while changing Ye Qinghuai's clothes.

"No, aunt, I can do it myself." Ye Qinghuai took the ribbon from Aunt Fanghua's hand and tied up the inner coat himself, "Remember to dispose of the clothes I wore."

"Well, if there is another time, I won't help you to be careless." Aunt Fanghua rambled while going to sort out the clothes Ye Qinghuai wore when leaving the palace.

"No one has come to see me in the past two days, right?"

"Not really."

"It seems that there are advantages to not having a sense of existence." Ye Qinghuai joked.

"You are so proud, you-" Aunt Fanghua's voice suddenly broke off, her hands trembled, and the clothes in her hands fell to the ground.

"Your Majesty, where are you injured? Let me see quickly." Aunt Fanghua suddenly turned around and was about to peel off the inner garment that Ye Qinghuai had just put on.

Ye Qinghuai was confused: "I'm not injured."

Aunt Fanghua saw that she didn't look like she was lying, so she picked up the clothes on the ground and rummaged through them: "Then why is there blood on these clothes?"

"What did you say?" Ye Qinghuai was shocked when he heard this and took the clothes from her hand.

There was indeed a small stain of blood on the gray cotton robe. It was not difficult to find. It was just on the outside of the right leg. Because it was dark, I had not noticed it before.

Ye Qinghuai looked at the blood stain and fell into deep thought.

"Could it be your menstruation..." Aunt Fanghua asked.

"No, this location cannot be menstrual blood." Ye Qinghuai denied Aunt Fanghua's guess.

This must have come from somewhere.

But she had only been touched by one person today. The blood stain was either rubbed on Lu Yanchen's sleeve when he was carrying her, or on his cloak.

The fact that it could be stained on her body meant that the blood had not dried yet.

Ye Qinghuai's doubts about Lu Yanchen that had just been dismissed came to mind again——

Why did Lu Yanchen go to the ghost market?

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Early the next morning, the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

There are a lot of things going on in the first morning court after every break, but now that the New Year is approaching, there are not many reports from various ministries, and there are even fewer things that need to be discussed in the morning court. Soon, the Hall of Supreme Harmony fell into silence.

At this time, Du Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, stood up and addressed Ye Qinghuai: "Your Majesty, someone broke into the prison of the Ministry of Punishment three days ago. I and others were incompetent. Although the thief attempted to rob the prison, the Ministry of Punishment failed to catch him.

Prison robber."

After Du Jing finished speaking, he knelt on the ground.

"Why are we only reporting what happened three days ago today?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

"Since the 13th year of Xingrui, there has been no such big omission in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment for 25 years. I originally wanted to catch the culprit, find out the reason, and then plead guilty to His Majesty."

Ye Qinghuai had known about the robbery of Tianlao for a long time, but when Du Jing told the court, it must not only be to plead guilty, so Ye Qinghuai followed his words and asked: "The sky is as solid as gold, but the thieves can

You can come and go as you please, how could something like this happen?"

"This is exactly what I want to report to Your Majesty. There are only three thieves who robbed the prison, but there are some among the guards of the prison who cooperate with them inside and outside."

"Have you found out who it is?"

"It was found out that he was the prison warden on duty that day. After the robbery, the person disappeared. Your Majesty, the person the thieves tried to kidnap this time was the criminal Wang Lisong who was in the sky prison. This man is good at inciting others with his words.

, there are many party members in Shengjing City, and I am worried that something like this will happen again."

After saying that, Du Jing kowtowed heavily on the ground and said: "I sincerely request your Majesty to severely sentence this person and behead him in public to deter the rest of the party from their lawless intentions."

He spoke generously, almost like a loyal minister admonishing him to death.

Ye Qinghuai did not expect that the one who was being robbed in the Tianlao Prison was Wang Lisong. When she heard the name, for some reason, the figure of Lu Yanchen in black flashed in her mind.

On the other hand, Ye Qinghuai was a little confused. Who was this Wang Lisong that allowed these people to bite him? Being exiled was not enough, and he had to be beheaded in the street.

She was about to speak to refute Du Jing, but Chen Yuansi, who was standing at the head of the group of ministers, spoke first.

"Didn't Wang Lisong already plead guilty and be exiled? Why do you want to behead him again? Your Majesty has just taken over the throne, and you are going to build a large prison. What are you doing? Where do you put His Majesty's holy name?"

Chen Yuansi is already sixty-seven this year. He speaks slowly but has a vague dignity.

I have to say that Ye Qinghuai was somewhat grateful to him for stepping forward at this time, whether it was for party struggle or something else.

When he spoke, Gu Shihai also stood up and said: "It is precisely because the emperor's majesty is inviolable that your Majesty should severely punish such bandits in the early days of his rule to serve as a warning. Otherwise, everyone will dare to imitate Wang Lisong."

I have no respect for His Majesty, how can I conquer the people of the world in the future?"

(End of chapter)