novelraw Chapter 367 The Prime Minister’s Residence was raided!
Chapter 367 The Prime Minister’s Residence was raided!
Go outside the gate.
In the brightly lit place, Ling Ning stood alone, looking at Yan Li calmly.
If you look carefully, you can clearly see a bit of nervousness in his eyes.
Seeing that Yan Li was walking away safe and sound, Ling Ning's tightly pursed lips slowly relaxed, as if she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sorry." Yan Li said, "I made Miss Ling worried."
Ling Ning slowly shook her head: "It's good that the princess is fine."
"Yan Li." Emperor Zhaocheng turned to look at Yan Li, "Are you going to the palace with me, or are you going back to the palace?"
Yan Li looked up at the sky: "Go back to the palace." ŴŴŴ.
Emperor Zhaocheng was silent for a moment, as if he wanted to stop talking, but in the end he nodded: "Be careful."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty." Yan Li smiled faintly, "The palace is as tightly guarded as an iron barrel. Everything will be fine."
Emperor Zhaocheng quickly returned to the palace surrounded by imperial guards.
Yan Li stared at the Emperor driving away, then looked away for a moment: "Miss Ling, is there anything you want to ask?"
Ling Ningmo: "This is not the place to talk."
"Go back to the palace." Yan Li walked down the stone steps in front of the door, "Miss Ling——"
"Go to the palace with the princess tonight." Ling Ning made the decision before she finished speaking, "Tell grandma and she agrees."
Yan Li was silent, with a complicated expression.
"Prince Jing will also be busy all night tonight." Ling Ning turned to look at the brightly lit Prime Minister's Mansion, with a hint of sigh in her voice, "The collapse of a big mountain is enough to make the entire court unable to sleep tonight."
Yan Lin hummed, "The collapse of the Prime Minister's Mansion was within the Emperor's expectation."
To be precise, it should be part of the plan.
Ling Ning narrowed her eyes and didn't know what she was thinking.
"What?"
"It's nothing." Ling Ning came back to her senses and raised the corner of her mouth with a slight but complicated arc, "놙I think Princess 깇 is too unfathomable."
Yan Li shook his head: "놖Not that powerful."
Ling Ning didn't say anything, but she was thinking in her heart that for a woman, what happened to Yan Li was serious enough.
Prime Minister Gu is such an important minister. Tonight, because he touched someone he shouldn't have touched, his power collapsed. If Prime Minister Gu had the chance to regret it, he would not do anything for fear of being stepped on and crushed. Such a stupid decision.
놙Ling Ning couldn't help but think that Yan Li's kidnapping tonight must have been part of the plan, right?
Yan Li was kidnapped, but she, who was traveling with him, was sent back to his home - it was definitely not sent by people from the Prime Minister's Palace. They were eager to silence her and destroy the in-law between the Protector's Palace and Prince Jing. How could this be possible? Kindly send her back?
So the person who sent her back should be Yan Li's people.
This man was able to send her back, but failed to rescue Yan Li, which proved that she was kidnapped because of his own tricks.
So everything that happens next is logical.
The emperor knew the news, and the Royal Forest Army searched for people throughout the city, and soon found the Prime Minister's Mansion.
In desperation, the Prime Minister's Mansion was worried that the matter would be exposed, so they hid the person in the most secret dark room. They thought that they would be able to escape unnoticed, but they did not expect that they would fall into the hands of the person they kidnapped.
Ling Ning thought silently, maybe the prince's departure from the imperial capital was also planned?
The two arrived at the Prince's Mansion in a carriage, and the guards behind them stopped in front of the gate.
"Is the princess okay?" The housekeeper came over and saluted Yan Li, "We are very anxious. The prince is not at home. If something unexpected happens to the princess, how can we interact with the prince?"
"Don't worry, it's okay."
The butler nodded: "놖Let someone prepare hot water and dinner for the princess."
Yan Lin hummed and walked towards Qilin Courtyard with Ling Ning.
Eat and wash.
Yan Li ordered people to clean up Ling Ning's apartment, but when he turned around, he felt helpless: "Actually, there is no need to worry too much. When the prince left, he arranged for many experts to secretly protect his safety."
Ling Ning held the tea cup and slowly shook her head: "I'm not worried, I just feel a little complicated."
Yan Li walked over and sat down next to her. The two of them leaned on the couch by the window, and they were silent for a moment.
"The emperor had received several accusations against Prime Minister Gu for corruption, accepting bribes and forming cliques for personal gain many days ago, but he held them back for a while." Yan Li said, "It turns out that he probably wanted King Jing to handle this matter. It was possible to establish prestige and gain political achievements, but Prime Minister Gu was too impulsive and would do things he shouldn't do when provoked, so that the emperor couldn't bear it anymore and simply did it. "
Ling Ning was silent for a moment: "So all this is actually part of the emperor's plan?"
Yan Li nodded casually: "That's right."
Ling Ning took a deep breath.
The emperor's heart is unpredictable, and it is indeed true.
"After the fall of the Prime Minister's Mansion, King Yu lost a big support and could no longer compete with King Jing." Yan Li looked at Ling Ning, "The Lord Protector is fighting at the border, and the people in the mansion should pay more attention to their behavior. Don't make it public, otherwise others will tell you the truth."
Ling Ning nodded: "I know."
"I'm tired tonight. I'll ask someone to prepare hot water for you."
Ling Ning shook her head: "I took a shower and changed clothes at home."
Yan Li glanced at the clothes she was wearing and saw that they had indeed been changed, "It seems you are really determined to stay tonight."
Ling Ning's face was complicated: "You scared me so much that I suddenly felt that I was not as bold as I thought."
"Sorry." Yan Li reached out and rubbed her head, "I made you worry."
She can actually understand the feeling of frustration and self-blame when someone she cares about is taken away from her, and she can't do anything about it.
Ling Ning was startled by her action, and slowly raised her eyes. She felt that Yan Li at this moment did not look like a teenage girl at all, but more like a superior with a broad mind who could tolerate everything.
"...Excuse me." Yan Li realized that her action was a little inappropriate, smiled and retracted her hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip.
That night, the two sat and chatted for half the night.
Although they were all women, they did not talk about love, nor about raising children, but about the court, marriage, the emperor, ministers of various families, and occasionally about border wars.
It seemed that there was nothing they could not talk about.
But outside the Prince's Mansion, there was a panic.
The Imperial Guards led people to look for Prince Nanyang in the middle of the night. After breaking into the Prime Minister's Mansion, they not only found Prince Nanyang, but also accidentally discovered the secret vault of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
This investigation actually saved many steps, and the family was directly raided. Hundreds of people from the Gu family were all taken to the prison, waiting for the emperor to personally interrogate the matter.
The imperial city seemed to have turned upside down overnight.
The officials who were in the Gu family were all in danger.
Dong Dong Dong!
The guard knocked on the door of Prince Yu's mansion, and the housekeeper opened the side door from the inside and poked his head out: "What's going on?"
"Something big happened!" The guard said in a slightly urgent tone, "Go and report to the prince, the prime minister's mansion has been raided!"
What?
The housekeeper's face changed, thinking that Prince Yu's mansion and the prime minister's mansion were still relatives, and turned around and ran to the courtyard.
"Prince! Prince! Something big is not going to happen!"