The country is the matchmaker!Princess Black Lotus is reborn as a poisonous concubine

Li Qing hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I have already interrogated the housekeeper and servants of Ye Mansion. Normally, Master Ye's study is inaccessible to others. No outsiders have visited Ye Mansion recently, except..."

Li Qing paused for a moment, looked up at the stern-faced Emperor Rui, and plucked up the courage to say, "In the past half month, no outsiders have visited the Ye family, except His Highness the Fifth Prince."

Ye Mingzhi made so much noise just now that everyone forgot that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince pointed out that the real mastermind behind the Shansui Mansion assassination case was Zhuo Chengyi.

Zhuo Chengyi's face was as white as a sheet at this moment, and he could no longer pretend to be calm and indifferent. He noticed the gazes of everyone coming at him. He lowered his head, with a dark expression on his face, and walked slowly to the center of the hall. Then his knees sank and he landed heavily.

"Father, this matter has nothing to do with me. I hope my father will understand everything!"

Ye Mingzhi suddenly looked at Zhuo Chengyi who was kneeling in front of him.

Is he trying to distance himself?

Put all the blame on him?

Emperor Rui closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was a hint of the emperor's unique coldness in his eyes.

"According to people's testimony, you ordered him to set the fire in the arsenal. The physical evidence proves that Ye Mingzhi is inseparable from the matter, and your close relationship with Ye Mingzhi," Emperor Rui glanced at the people in the audience. Zhuo Chengyi, "Do you still need me to make it clear? There are witnesses and material evidence, how can you two still argue?"

Zhuo Chengyi opened his lips, not knowing what to say, so he had to close them.

Yeah, what else could he say? It seemed that no matter how he tried to defend himself, he couldn't get away from it. No matter how much he argued, it would be in vain.

He was defeated, he was completely defeated. Zhuo Lingchu had calculated every step, including Zhuo Taining's witness, including the Ye Mansion's physical evidence. He had no way out.

Zhuo Chengyi remembered that the arrowhead in Ye Mingzhi's hand had been destroyed, and he never doubted Ye Mingzhi's sincerity towards him. Then, the arrowhead that appeared in the court must have been secretly sent by Zhuo Lingchu to put it into Ye Mingzhi's study.

Haha, Zhuo Lingchu's people have already penetrated deeply into the Ye Mansion without anyone noticing. What else can he not admit defeat?

Is there anywhere in the world that Zhuo Lingchu can't reach?

Zhuo Lingchu was the one who personally established an airtight intelligence and espionage network in Dashuo.

He was so confident that he could defeat Zhuo Lingchu.

"Ye Mingzhi, how did you collude and conspire with the fifth prince to try to make the brother of the King of Qi and the prince hate each other? I don't want to continue to pursue those details. As a cabinet minister, you do not abide by your duties. Sharing political affairs for me is a waste of the position of cabinet minister. From now on, Ye Mingzhi will be demoted to the rank of fifth-rank Hanlin Academy lecturer. Ye Mingzhi, do you have anything to say?"

"My lord, I have nothing to say," Ye Mingzhi knocked his head heavily on the ground, "My lord, thank you for your kindness!"

Ye Mingzhi really had nothing to say. At least his life was saved and the Ye family members were not implicated.

Probably because of Concubine Hui, Ye Mingzhi was only demoted and received no other punishment. He was already thankful.

Moreover, from now on, he has no great value and can no longer work for Zhuo Chengyi.

Blessings come with misfortunes, and misfortunes come with blessings. As long as he knows that what he has experienced is actually a blessing from God for him.

However, after this incident, he became the laughing stock of the whole Xijing City. Just as people in the world laughed at Meng Shangshu who was demoted, they would also laugh at him, a cabinet minister who once stood in a high position.

However, compared to the lives of hundreds of people in Ye Mansion, those are just clouds.

However, Ye Mingzhi was too happy.

"Zhuo Chengyi, as a prince, because of your brotherly love and bad thoughts, I will punish you by being imprisoned in the prince's mansion for half a year, and you will be punished for half a year..."

Emperor Rui had just ordered Zhuo Chengyi to step back. From the corner of his eye, he saw Zhuo Lingchu staring at him coldly, with a displeased expression on his face. Emperor Rui suddenly felt his heart tightening, and he couldn't help but said: "Fifth Prince, Ye Mark this, if your plans are inappropriate and the emperor's heirs are harmed, you will be fined twenty pieces of board each, drag them out!"

Zhuo Lingchu's expression softened slightly.

Zhuo Chengyi, who was pampered and pampered, could not stand the test, "Father, please forgive me!"

Cabinet ministers have never been punished with such humiliation. This requires them to take off their pants. "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

After the two were dragged away by the imperial guards, there was silence in the hall for a long time until Emperor Rui winked at the chamberlain beside him and waved to the audience with a cold face.

The eunuch in front of the imperial family shouted in a sharp voice: "Retreat from the court."

Everyone could see that Emperor Rui was in a bad mood. After everyone shouted "Long live my emperor, long live my emperor", they stepped back and walked out of the hall.

Zhuo Lingchu was quite satisfied with the result.

After half a year of confinement, haha, after half a year, when Zhuo Chengyi was able to leave the house, the Xijing court had undergone earth-shaking changes. Where could Zhuo Chengyi go?

Zhuo Chengyi is considered useless.

Another one was eliminated, and in the end only Zhuo Taining was left.

Zhuo Lingchu had a faint smile on his face, completely ignoring Rui Emperor's gloomy expression behind him, and walked out of the hall in a swaggering manner.

Zhuo Chengyi would never know that his and Ye Mingzhi's plan of "the mantis stalks the cicada, with the oriole behind" was actually the one sent by Zhuo Lingchu to hint to Ye Mingzhi.

Ye Mansion is close to Xingming Palace. Ye Mingxia faces the rear. If the weather is good, he will take off his official robe in the carriage and walk back to the mansion by himself to see all kinds of life and experience folk fireworks.

One day, while walking at the entrance of an alley, he saw two children snatching toys.

The two children look exactly the same and dress exactly the same, so they must be twins.

"This is mine. Mom told me to play with it!"

"Mom said that she played with you yesterday and played with me today. Give it back to me quickly!"

"You remember wrongly. It was you who was playing yesterday. It's my turn today! You are the big bad guy!"

At first, the two just fought over each other with words, but then they became more and more excited. By the time Ye Mingzhi passed them, the two of them had already taken action.

This person pinched the other person, and the other person kicked the other person. Both of them were determined not to give up until they achieved their goals.

What the two brothers were fighting for was a wooden car with extremely exquisite craftsmanship and rotating wheels. It seemed to be extremely rare on the market. No wonder it aroused such fierce competition between the brothers.

Ye Mingzhi sighed in his heart. Having too many sons is a headache. He was glad that he did not have many sons. Of his two legitimate sons, the eldest son was not very bright, but the second son was honest and responsible. The two of them got along well with each other, and there would be no such headache for him.

Don’t worry about scarcity but worry about inequality. This saying applies not only to national political affairs, but also to trivial matters at home.