N-A-A Chapter 158 Sin
Chapter 158 Sin
When Rong Heqing saw her expression, he suddenly found it very funny and couldn't help but let out a short laugh.
This smile immediately attracted the attention of Lu Yanghou's family.
The wife of Marquis Luyang looked unhappy when she saw her.
She felt bad about detaining Chenyu and not letting her return home, and sure enough, something happened today.
"I wonder what Princess Duan is laughing at? Do you have any instructions?" Lady Luyanghou asked, trying hard to suppress her nausea.
Rong Heqing shook his head. "I don't have any advice. I just hope that Madam can still say this calmly and decisively in a while."
The wife of Marquis Luyang's face changed. She was about to speak, but was pulled back by Marquis Luyang.
"Chen Yu, you speak."
The emperor ignored their little episode and just glanced at them majestically.
Chen Yu nodded: "Yes."
Madam Luyanghou and Su Mingzhan immediately gave Chenyu a warning look, but Chenyu didn't take it seriously and said in a deep voice, "My name is not Chenyu, but Li Chenyu, from Lijia Village. I wonder if the Marquis still remembers Lijia Village?"
Lu Yanghou's heart tightened, but his expression remained calm, "What Lijia Village? What are you talking about?"
"Don't you remember? Then let me remind you."
Chenyu curved her lips, but there was no smile in her eyes.
"On a winter night five years ago, you were ordered to chase the barbarians. As a result, you made a mistake and let them escape. You were afraid of being punished by the general, so when you passed by Lijia Village, you became malicious and led your soldiers to slaughter everyone in Lijia Village, even the babies in their swaddling clothes. Since you couldn't use the babies' heads to claim credit, you burned them together, and Lijia Village was reduced to ashes."
"You committed a heinous crime, yet you said you didn't know. Should I praise you for being a noble person who forgets things, or should I praise you for being open-minded?"
Chenyu looked at Lu Yanghou indifferently. Lu Yanghou's heart tightened and his pupils trembled slightly. "You are talking nonsense! Who instructed you to slander me like this--"
Before he could utter the word "Hou", he suddenly lost his voice.
Chenyu took out a token from her bosom and said, "Can the Marquis deny this?"
That token belonged to Marquis Lu Yang's subordinates back then, and it can be found with just a little effort.
Marquis Luyang could not deny it.
You can't say that Chenyu stole it. The military token is so important, how could it be left outside?
Rong Heqing looked at Marquis Lu Yang's changing expression, stood up, took the token and handed it to the emperor, "Father, please take a look."
The emperor looked at Marquis Lu Yang deeply, took the token and looked at it carefully, then sneered, "Su Mo, what else do you have to say?"
Marquis Lu Yang was sweating coldly, "Your Majesty, I—"
"Marquis Lu Yang, are you thinking that this token is a fake?" Rong Heqing turned his head and looked down at him, and said softly: "Then we can ask the people from the Ministry of War and the generals of that year to come to the palace to see whether this token is real or fake."
"It's fine if it's fake, but if it's true, you lied in front of the emperor, which is a crime of deceiving the emperor. Your crime is even more serious! Think it over before you speak."
As soon as Rong Heqing opened his mouth, he completely cut off Marquis Lu Yang's retreat.
His face changed drastically and cold sweat rolled down his face. The emperor's eyes fell on him and he was playing with the token in his hand, as if he was playing with his death warrant.
Marquis Lu Yang's mind raced, but he couldn't think of any excuse, and his head was buzzing.
Madam Luyang was incredulous. "Your Majesty, the Marquis has made great military achievements over the years, and everyone in the court has witnessed it. He fought with real swords and guns. How could he kill innocent people and take credit for it?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. The merits that father has made over the years are not fake, otherwise you would not have made him a marquis. The murder of an innocent man and claiming credit for his crimes has yet to be verified. How can you easily convict him?"
Su Yunzhi looked at Chenyu with a complicated expression and said in a sad tone, "Chenyu, even if my parents have some conflicts with you, it is for my own good. Whether you resent or hate me, just come at me. Why bother to frame them?"
"Framed?" Chen Yu sneered, "Now that things have come to this, if you are willing to deceive yourself, I am too lazy to waste my words with you."
"But you may have made a mistake about one thing." She turned her head and looked at him calmly, "Anyone could frame him, except me."
"what?"
Su Yunzhi was stunned and puzzled. Su Mingzhan said sternly, "Why not? Aren't you like that now?"
Mrs. Lu Yanghou's hands were shaking with anger, "You bitch—"
"Ahem..." Rong Heqing coughed lightly to interrupt the words of Marquis Lu Yang's wife, and said calmly: "Madam, be careful with your words in front of His Majesty."
The wife of Marquis Luyang was so frustrated that her eyes turned red. She looked at Marquis Luyang and said anxiously, "My Lord, please say something!"
Marquis Lu Yang's lips trembled, but he didn't say anything.
Chen Yu chuckled, "What can he say? Tell him how he switched his daughter and threw her away? How he brought his illegitimate daughter back home and raised her as his own daughter?"
These words were like a bolt from the blue, and everyone present except Rong and Qing was shocked.
"What did you say?!" Lady Lu Yanghou opened her eyes wide in astonishment and asked again in disbelief: "What did you say?"
Chenyu looked at her with pity, "Madam, have you never had any doubts? Look at Su Mingzhan, no matter his appearance or personality, he is nothing like you."
Madam Lu Yang turned around and looked at Su Mingzhan in a daze. Su Mingzhan hurriedly shook her head: "Mother, don't listen to her nonsense. If I'm not your daughter, whose daughter could it be? Don't you know that you gave birth to me?"
"When the midwife delivered the baby, did she give the lady a bowl of soup? The lady didn't even see the baby's face. How could she be sure whether it was a boy or a girl, or whether it was round or flat?"
Mrs. Luyanghou's heart skipped a beat and her vision went dark.
The emperor had not expected such a connection to exist and was so shocked that he was speechless for a moment.
"If she is not my daughter, then who is? What about my daughter?" asked the wife of Marquis Luyang in disbelief.
Rong Heqing sighed, "It's so far away, yet so close at hand."
The emperor suddenly looked at Chenyu.
Chenyu did not hide anything and admitted frankly: "Yes, I am the child who was abandoned that year."
She described in detail how she was taken away by the midwife, how she was abducted to Lijia Village, what she suffered, and how she ran out and heard the conversation between the soldiers.
The most important thing is her experience of entering Jingwei.
Jingwei was very cautious and would cover her eyes whenever she went in or out, so Chenyu didn't know where Jingwei's lair was.
The emperor frowned after hearing this.
"You have suffered a lot these years. It is rare that you can stick to your original intention and not go along with Jingwei."
When he looked at Lu Yanghou, his face suddenly darkened.
"We have all the evidence, Su Mo, can you still say that Chen Yu framed you?"
The emperor was furious. He stood up and threw the sign in front of Su Mo.
Su Mo looked at the name on the sign and kowtowed fiercely, "I am young and hot-tempered, and was bewitched for a moment. I beg Your Majesty to forgive me!"
The last bit of hope in Marquis Lu Yang's wife's heart was shattered. She suddenly stood up and slapped Marquis Lu Yang, "Su Mo! You beast!"