Chapter 168: Divergence
King Jingyin asked Yin Ruchen about the incident in detail, and Yin Ruchen told King Jingyin the details of the incident. King Jingyin then asked Meng Lian, who said that Lv Juefeng was the most likely person behind the evil official.
Lu Juefeng felt the seriousness of the situation and his palms were already sweating. He closed his eyes to calm himself down and opened them again, thinking about what he should say to reverse this extremely unfavorable situation for him, but he couldn't think of any words that would definitely have that effect.
"Lü Juefeng, how do you explain?" King Jingyin asked loudly.
"Your Majesty, Sun Guye once asked his subordinates to secretly withhold relief grain and transport it to other places to sell, and his subordinates had to give him a portion of the money they earned from this. If Yin Ruchen and a few others had not ruined his plan and forced his subordinates to distribute all the relief grain to the people, Sun Guye would have succeeded again! This is not the first time that he has instructed his subordinates to sell relief grain privately! He also asked his subordinates to withhold disaster relief funds and give them to him!" Lu Juefeng was unable to answer King Jingyin's question and changed the subject.
"I'm asking you! Give me an explanation first!" Although King Jingyin turned back to the topic that was diverted by Lu Juefeng, he still remembered what Lu Juefeng had said about Sun Guye before. He knew that Sun Guye would definitely do those evil things.
"Your Majesty, Sun Guye..." Lu Juefeng changed the subject again.
"How dare you! If you don't answer my question, you will be deemed to have agreed! Sun Guye cannot escape the blame, and so can you!" Lu Juefeng once again changed the subject, making King Jingyin extremely annoyed.
Lu Juefeng couldn't think of any words to defend himself for a while. He was worried that his defense would bring out his more serious crimes. In addition, he originally wanted to tell the real reason why he targeted Yin Ruchen before, but he just wanted to tell it in a different way so that King Jingyin would not punish him severely. Unexpectedly, Yin Ruchen and Sun Guye's words disrupted his plan, and his crimes were exposed in a way that could easily anger King Jingyin. At first, he wanted to change the subject to divert King Jingyin's attention, and then find a way to create an opportunity to tell King Jingyin those things in other ways. Unfortunately, King Jingyin was already annoyed by his change of subject, so he didn't have the opportunity to tell King Jingyin the truth in the way he imagined, so he had to say with a gloomy face: "I know my crime! I shouldn't have done those things, but I have long regretted it. I hope Your Majesty will give me a chance to correct my mistakes!"
King Jingyin glanced at him and didn't say anything to him immediately. Instead, he turned to Yin Ruchen and asked about Sun Guye's ordering the evil officials to secretly withhold the relief grain for sale. Yin Ruchen recounted the situation at that time truthfully. After the narration, she said, "I feel that the reason why I was wrongly accused because of Liufeng Dart is related to that incident."
"Oh?"
"Your Majesty, I have noticed the three darts used to kill Imperial Physician Feng and the dart that was thrown at you last time. These four darts should be owned by me alone. I designed these darts myself and they are not easy to imitate. After my identification, those four darts are my own." Yin Ruchen said.
"How did your unique dart end up in their hands?" King Jingyin was curious.
(End of this chapter)
