Chapter 299: Frightened Sheng Hong
But this is also a good thing. If Minglan was really that scheming, he would be worried.
"Then what do you want me to do?" Zhao Xing asked.
"I would like to ask Your Highness to send someone to the Kang family to give Princess Kang a warning." Minglan said.
Zhao Xing asked: "Do you think this will work?"
"Fifth sister will also send someone back to tell the eldest lady. As long as His Highness sends someone to warn Princess Kang, it will definitely be useful." Minglan said.
"You are making things too simple."
Zhao Xing stretched out his hand and pinched Minglan's face, and said with a smile: "She threatened you just now, and I sent someone to go soon. If she told Madam Wang, what do you think Madam Wang would think?"
"From what you said, I can tell that Madam Wang is confused."
"She may not be afraid if I send someone to attack the Kang Wang family. After all, she only needs to fan the flames and does not need to do it herself."
Given King Kang's temperament, it's not that he might not be afraid, but he definitely won't be afraid.
It’s not that she’s not afraid of Zhao Xing, but she feels there’s no need to be afraid.
Kang Wangshi is a person who cannot be described as vicious; he is simply a madman.
In the original drama, she targeted Minglan. In addition to her hatred for Old Madam Sheng, she was more upset that Minglan, a concubine's daughter, was able to marry into the marquis's legitimate son.
Gu Tingye has just made a great contribution and will be able to inherit the title in the future.
When she thought about herself again, she naturally felt unbalanced.
Including her poisoning of Old Madam Sheng, in addition to wanting to use it to control Madam Wang after the incident, she may also have wanted to take revenge on Madam Wang.
To put it bluntly, Queen Kang has gone mad because of her unhappy marriage and cannot bear to see others doing well.
If he sent someone to the Kang family to threaten Mrs. Kang, Mrs. Kang would most likely be more keen on instigating Mrs. Wang to take action against Mrs. Wei, seeing that he cared so much about Minglan.
Minglan looked at Zhao Xing in confusion when she heard this. Is this useless?
In her opinion, since the prince had personally sent people to warn her, Princess Kang would naturally not dare to instigate Madam Wang to target her mother.
According to Old Madam Sheng, although Madam Wang was a little stupid at times, she had no intention of harming anyone.
Minglan also agreed with this point.
"You don't have to worry about this matter. I will arrange it. You go back first. I will go to Shuanglan Pavilion to rest tonight." Zhao Xing said.
"Yes." Minglan blushed, stood up and saluted, saying, "I'll take my leave!"
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Zhao Xing teased his daughter in Shulan Pavilion for a while before going to Chunhe Palace for dinner.
After dinner, I chatted with Zhang Guifen for a while and then went to Shuanglan Pavilion.
What surprised Zhao Xing was that neither Rulan nor Minglan came out to greet him.
When they entered the house and saw what they were wearing, Zhao Xing asked with a smile, "When were the cheongsams made?"
The cheongsams worn by both of them were torn by him last time at Jinmingchi Villa.
They were too embarrassed to ask the embroiderer to make this kind of clothes, so they made them themselves.
Zhao Xing had asked several times before, and the two always said that they had not done it well.
Rulan bowed, stepped forward with a smile, and whispered, "Your Highness, please don't tear it up again later."
"Haha."
Zhao Xing put his arms around Rulan's slender waist and sat down in front of the couch.
Rulan sat in Zhao Xing's arms and put her arms around his neck.
"This dress was made by Yanran, a good deed done by Minglan?"
Zhao Xing lowered his eyes. There were plum blossoms embroidered on Rulan's cheongsam.
A plum blossom on her chest seemed to have just opened, but as Rulan breathed and her chest rose and fell, the plum blossom seemed to slowly bloom.
This is not just a physical reason, the embroidery factor is also indispensable.
"It was done by my sixth sister." Rulan said.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Xing looked up at Minglan who was standing beside him. The cheongsam she was wearing was embroidered with orchids, and with her healing smile, she seemed even more calm and reserved.
"Minglan came to me for something, what's your reason?" Zhao Xing lifted Rulan's chin and said.
"I knew I couldn't hide it from Your Highness." Rulan smiled and said, "My mother came today and she said..."
Rulan told Zhao Xing directly that Sheng Hong had fallen ill due to the delay in selecting the prefect of Kaifeng.
Zhao Xing really liked Rulan's straightforward personality. He pinched her face and said, "This matter will depend on your performance tonight."
Rulan bit her lip, shook it, and said coquettishly, "How do you want me to behave, Your Highness?"
"I'll go wash up first and talk to you later." Zhao Xing said with a smile.
Rulan got off Zhao Xing and said, "Then I will help Your Highness wash up."
"No need, Dashuang and the others can serve you, so you don't have to change clothes. It would be fun if I had to take them off myself."
Zhao Xing patted Rulan's butt, laughed, and walked into the inner room.
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Sheng Hong arrived at the Kaifeng government office early in the morning. When he arrived, only the official who was on duty last night was there, and the rest of the officials had not arrived yet.
When they arrived at the public housing, Dong Rong served tea. Sheng Hong drank the tea and began to handle official business.
While they were busy, Dong Rong led San Shui in.
Sheng Hong looked up when he heard footsteps and saw Sanshui. He quickly put down his pen, stood up and said with a smile, "Why is Eunuch Sanshui here? Dongrong, serve tea!"
After giving the instructions, he politely invited Sanshui to sit down.
"Meet Sheng Shaoyin."
Sanshui bowed and said, "Sheng Shaoyin, please don't bother me. I just came here to pass on a message for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and I will leave after that."
Upon hearing this, Sheng Hong bowed and said, "I wonder what your Highness wants to do?" "Your Highness heard that the Kang family has caused deaths several times, and considering that Sheng Shaoyin and the Kang family are brothers-in-law, he wants Sheng Shaoyin to investigate the matter. Your Highness said that Bianjing is the best place under the feet of the emperor, and this kind of disregard for human life is simply appalling. Let Sheng Shaoyin investigate and report to your Highness as soon as possible." Sanshui said.
Sheng Hong was stunned when he heard this. His first reaction was that his aunt had killed someone again.
Ancient laws also provided certain protection for servants who sold their bodies. Regardless of whether they were servants or concubines, they could not be executed at will, even if they had a bond.
Even if someone committed a capital crime, he could only be executed after being notified to the authorities.
Otherwise, they will be fined, and if they beat someone to death without reason, they will be punished with caning.
The Kang Wang family had caused many deaths over the years, and he had helped to clean up the aftermath several times.
But when I think about it carefully, it seems wrong.
If someone really died and the news reached Zhao Xing's ears, it would have spread throughout Bian Jing by now.
But not only did he not hear about it, no one from the Kang family came to him for help.
Could it be that something that happened in the past was exposed?
Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Sheng Hong's forehead.
You know, he has helped a lot in cleaning up the mess. If something really happens, he will be in trouble too.
Sanshui looked at the dazed Sheng Hong and smiled, "Did Sheng Shaoyin hear it clearly?"
"Ah..." Sheng Hong came back to his senses and said, "What did Eunuch Sanshui say?"
Sanshui smiled and repeated it again after hearing this.
"I heard it clearly." Sheng Hong said quickly.
"Then I'll take my leave first." Sanshui bowed.
"I'll see Master Sanshui off."
After sending Sanshui away, Sheng Hong returned to the public housing in a daze, slumped in a chair.
Zhao Xing asked him to investigate the murder case of the Kang family. Isn't that asking him to investigate himself?
"wrong!"
Sheng Hong thought about it for a long time, and suddenly reacted.
If Zhao Xing really wanted to deal with him, how could he let him be responsible for this matter?
Since they are not investigating him, then they really have to investigate Kang Wangshi.
Although Sheng Hong didn't know what Wang Kang had done, he couldn't think of any other possibility except this one.
After thinking for a long time, Sheng Hong decided to go home and ask Madam Wang to see if she knew anything.
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Moriya
Madam Wang was a little surprised when she heard that Sheng Hong had returned.
Since Sheng Hong started to work as an official, he rarely went home during his term.
Sheng Hong has been an official for more than ten years, and this kind of thing has happened only a few times.
Suddenly, Mrs. Wang looked happy.
Could it be that Rulan told His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already issued an order?
Thinking of this, Madam Wang hurried out to greet him.
Before leaving the backyard, I ran into Sheng Hong.
"Sir, has His Highness issued an edict, allowing you to take over as the prefect of Kaifeng?" Madam Wang asked excitedly.
"Hmm?" Sheng Hong was startled when he heard this, but soon understood what was going on. He said in a cold voice, "You went to the East Palace yesterday and asked Rulan to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
When he returned home yesterday, Madam Wang told him that Rulan didn't know.
He also asked Madam Wang whether she had asked Rulan to ask the Crown Prince.
Mrs. Wang repeatedly assured that she did not do so.
But from what Madam Wang just said, it was clear that she was hiding something.
Madam Wang only noticed at this time that Sheng Hong's face was not very good. Facing Sheng Hong's question, her face changed slightly and she shook her head repeatedly and said, "I didn't let Rulan ask."
"follow me!"
Sheng Hong glared at her and walked forward.
Arriving at the main hall of Weiruixuan, Sheng Hong sent all the servants away and said coldly, "Tell me everything that happened in the East Palace yesterday. If you hide anything, don't blame me for not considering the relationship between husband and wife and giving you a divorce letter!"
"what?"
Madam Wang said in disbelief: "Master wants to divorce me?"
"I asked you to tell me in detail what happened in the East Palace yesterday. Didn't you hear me?" Sheng Hong yelled.
Madam Wang shrank her neck when she heard that. After being married for so many years, this was the first time she saw Sheng Hong with such a ferocious expression.
For a moment, Madam Wang was a little scared and honestly recounted what happened that day.
When Sheng Hong heard Madam Wang asking Rulan to ask Zhao Xing, he just glanced at her indifferently without interrupting.
He had already guessed it from what Madam Wang had just said, and was not surprised.
"Is that all you said? Nothing else happened?" Sheng Hong frowned after listening.
Could it be that Zhao Xing was dissatisfied with this and wanted to use the Kang family's affairs to warn him?
"No more." Madam Wang said with a somewhat unnatural expression.
She concealed the fact that she asked Rulan to be on guard against Minglan, and that she got angry with Minglan and had Queen Kang beaten with a stick.
The former naturally could not be said, and the latter was that Sheng Hong did not like her to have much contact with Queen Kang.
However, Sheng Hong and Madam Wang have been married for many years and do not know her very well.
Seeing that Madam Wang looked unnatural, he knew that she was not telling the truth, so he slammed the table and shouted, "If you still don't tell the truth, I will ask Rulan in person when she comes back. If you hide anything, don't blame me for disregarding the years of love between father and wife!"
(End of this chapter)