The divine doctor's concubine emptied the palace and went into exile

Chapter 337 The truth back then

The two snow bandits took him to the main hall, where they saw a masked man lying on a high platform, with Lin Mu and Liu Qin sitting on both sides of him.

I guess that must be the village chief.

"Village leader, this old man said he knows something about Shangnian."

Shang Ruoyi's eyes fell on Zheng Qi and she said calmly, "How many have you been here?" She picked up the fruit in front of her and snorted, "I don't even want to listen. I'll just bury you alive."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Qi hurriedly said, "No, no, no, village chief, I know, I really know!"

"Everyone knows about this, but they still bring up some trivial things. What do you think of me as the village leader?" Shang Ruoyi sat up. Her laziness didn't seem like a lady from a rich family, but she looked like a mountain king. "If you can't say something important and fatal, then you don't have to say anything."

Seeing her like this, Zheng Qi hurriedly said, "Shangnian has been enjoying his own private income for many years, and accepted bribes during the Spring Examination, and manipulated the court officials to accept their fate."

Shang Ruoyi narrowed her eyes and sneered, "You want to use this incident to overthrow Shang Nian? Do you think the emperor doesn't know what Shang Nian did?" She waved her hand and said to the two snow bandits, "Drag them away!"

The two snow bandits came forward and speared him, ready to take him away. Zheng Qi tried his best to wave them away, as if he had made up his mind: "Dingguo Palace!"

Shang Ruoyi raised her eyebrows, finally what she wanted to hear was said.

"Dingguo Palace?" Shang Ruoyi said coldly, "What does it have to do with Dingguo Palace?"

"It was Shangnian who framed us and used a fake letter to accuse the Dingguo Palace, forcing the Dingguo Palace into exile."

"Is there any evidence?"

Zheng Qi was stunned for a moment when he heard this. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Shang Ruoyi sneered: "Sir Zheng, if you want to live, you must show your sincerity. Otherwise, what's the point of just saying that Shang Nian has done something without any evidence?"

Zheng Qi frowned slightly and said in a low voice: "If you talk about evidence, it is not without, but I am very curious about one thing."

"You said."

"Since the village chief said he had a grudge against Shangnian, why didn't he just kill him directly, but instead looked for evidence of his crime?"

"Heh." Shang Ruoyi chuckled, her eyes full of teasing: "Sir Zheng has been in a high position for many years, maybe he has forgotten the hardships of life before entering the officialdom. If I let you go back to those days now, I wonder what Sir Zheng would do? Would he accept it calmly, or would he rather die than live?" She straightened her body slightly, looked down at him from the high platform, and said leisurely: "Sometimes, death is the best relief. Only by living can you experience all the sufferings in this world."

Zheng Qi felt a chill run down his spine when he heard that. Seeing the coldness and impatience in her eyes, he quickly said, "I have evidence, but I need to go back to the mansion in person to give it to you."

"Master Zheng, why don't you understand?" Shang Ruoyi sneered: "If you can't give me the answer I want today, your fate will be no different from that of others."

Zheng Qi originally wanted to leave a way out for himself, but now it seems that this way out will have to be given up.

"Five years ago, the Ding Kingdom Palace was ambushed at Qijing Pass, causing heavy casualties to the army. This was also Shangnian's doing."

Shang Ruoyi was shocked.

The tragedy of Qijing Pass back then is something no one dares to mention.

Corpses were floating all over the ground, blood flowed like a river, and the bloody smell lingered in the air for a long time.

This is also Shangnian’s work?

"Go on." The murderous aura on Shang Ruoyi made Liu Qin and Lin Mu around her look sideways.

"Shangnian instructed the emperor to plant a spy in the Dingguo Palace, who overheard the battle route and copied a wartime geomancy map. Shangnian sold it to the Beiling royal family."

"evidence!"

"This happened a long time ago. Even if there is evidence, I don't know where it is. I only found out when I overheard the conversation between Shangnian and the spy. However, I have evidence of the frame-up of Prince Ding's mansion. It is hidden in a black box on the second shelf of my study. In the interlayer, there is a note. It is a letter from Shangnian to the spy. My grandson is naughty and likes slingshots. He accidentally shot down a bird and tied a note to its leg. This is what was written on it."

"How do you know it's Shangnian?"

"I have been in the court for decades, and I know everyone's handwriting by heart." He looked up at her and said, "Captain, can this save my life?"

Upon hearing this, Shang Ruoyi said in a deep voice: "Whether what you said is true or false, I must get evidence." She waved her hand, and the two snow bandits took him away.

"Master, I will send someone to his house to look for the note." Liu Qin stepped forward and said.

Shang Ruoyi shook her head, her eyes fell on the door, and she said lightly: "You don't need to do anything."

As soon as he finished speaking, He Jingheng's figure slowly appeared.

"Did you hear everything?"

He Jingheng nodded. His expression was cold and his face was as dark as water. He was surprisingly calm.

But the calmer it was, the more worried Shang Ruoyi became.

"how do you want to do it?"

He Jingheng raised his lips slightly: "Killing someone means paying with your life, and debts mean paying with your money. This has been a matter of course since ancient times." His eyes fell on Shang Ruoyi: "Will you go out for a walk with me?"

The two of them came to a mountaintop. He Jingheng sat on a rock, looking at the starry sky, and whispered, "It was a night like this in the past. I followed my father to the battle. Halfway through the journey, we finally found a place to rest. We thought we were extremely secretive, but we didn't expect that what was waiting for us there was an ambush that had been planned for a long time. The enemy attacked us while we were still asleep. Of the 80,000 troops, less than 20,000 survived."

Such a number made her feel shocked.

Looking at the scarlet color in his eyes, Shang Ruoyi knew that neither Shang Nian nor Emperor Tianshun could escape.

"If I kill Shangnian, will you blame me?" He Jingheng suddenly asked after a while.

Shang Ruoyi was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud. It turned out that this was the thing that really troubled him.

"You killed him, why should I blame you?"

"Even though he didn't fulfill his responsibility to raise you, he is still your father after all."

Shang Ruoyi lowered her eyebrows and smiled, "Who told you that he is my father?"

"what?"

"I'm not very clear about the details, but there is one thing I know very well. My father is not Shangnian. My mother was taken in by the Wei family. She is not a girl from the Wei family, but a daughter of the Beiling Li family. As for my biological father," Shang Ruoyi said in a low voice, "I'm not sure if it's that person."

The heavy stone in He Jingheng's heart finally fell to the ground.

When he heard Zheng Qi talking about what happened a few years ago, he wanted to rush back to the capital immediately and skin Shangnian alive, but when he thought that he was Shang Ruoyi's father, he became vaguely worried.