He conspired against her in his previous life, and he flirted with her on their wedding night again

Inside the house, Shen Wan sat on a small couch, touching her belly, feeling the baby's little hands and fists.

She will be able to see her child in just over a month, and Shen Wan is feeling particularly anxious.

She played with the child and glanced at the clepsydra from time to time. Xie Jingyan should be back soon after finishing his wedding banquet.

Haitang brought the teacup into the room and saw Shen Wan checking the clepsydra. She said, "Princess, the prince has returned home. He went to the study."

Shen Wan frowned.

Whenever Xie Jingyan leaves home, the first thing he does when he comes back is to look for her. Why did he go straight to the study after coming back from the wedding today?

You drank too much and are afraid of making her feel nauseous?

Shen Wan asked, "Is the prince drunk?"

Haitang shook her head, "Your Majesty doesn't look drunk."

Shen Wan got up and went to the study to find Xie Jingyan.

The door was not closed, so Shen Wan went straight in, but Xie Jingyan was not at the desk, but changing clothes behind the screen.

Shen Wan walked over and around the screen and saw Xie Jingyan changed into night clothes and putting a mask on his face.

The purple-gold mask covered his evil face, leaving only a pair of deep eyes exposed.

Shen Wan asked, "What are you going to do?"

Xie Jingyan said, "I'm going to the residence of the Minister of Justice."

Shen Wan, "...???"

Shen Wan was a little confused.

Didn’t he just come back from a wedding banquet at the Minister of Justice’s residence?

Besides, there is no need to dress like this when going to the Minister of Justice's Mansion.

Shen Wan said, "You look like a thief..."

Xie Jingyan pinched Shen Wan's nose and said, "The Minister of Justice is waiting for me to be a thief and search his study. I'm afraid I've been waiting for a long time."

Shen Wan, "...???"

Why does this sound so outrageous?

The Minister of Justice is hoping that Xie Jingyan will go to his house to steal?

Is there any mistake?

Why don't they steal from their own people instead of their enemy's house?

Shen Wan was a little worried, "Are you sure you didn't misunderstand the Minister of Justice's intention?"

The study is a very important place and you cannot just enter it casually.

If this is misunderstood and misunderstood by the Minister of Justice, it will be bad.

But Xie Jingyan would not lack this confidence.

Xie Jingyan was afraid that Xu Ji would guess that the Prince of Yanping and his men would replace his wine, so he served wine without water, and toasted others with wine mixed with water or just water.

After all, it was too outrageous for a son to instigate outsiders to search his own father's study and even told him about the secret compartment. He was not sure whether Xu Ji was pretending to be drunk, so he would not do such a thing.

He asked Chen Feng to check and found out that the wine Xu Ji offered at the wedding banquet was real wine and not mixed with water.

I'm afraid Xu Ji's alcohol tolerance is not worse than his.

With that kind of alcohol tolerance, it's impossible for him to get drunk like that after drinking just that little bit of wine in Prince Ling's Mansion.

Xu Ji was pretending to be drunk that day!

Xu Ji was the son of the Minister of Justice, so it was impossible for the Minister of Justice not to know how well he could drink.

Xu Ji pretended to be drunk and said those words to him, which must have been tacitly approved or even agreed by the Minister of Justice.

In order to get him to look through the study, Xu Ji even pretended to be drunk. Xie Jingyan really wanted to know what was in the study of the Minister of Justice that he couldn't just give it to him, but he also wanted him to see it.

He has to go this time.

If Xie Jingyan hadn't been busy at the banquet, he would have gone to the study of the Minister of Justice.

No one could persuade Xie Jingyan to stick to his decision, so Shen Wan didn't try to stop him, and Xie Jingyan jumped out of the window and left.

Under the cover of night, two nimble figures flew over the eaves and walls and headed towards the residence of the Minister of Justice.

He easily climbed over the courtyard wall and found the study of the Minister of Justice.

Xie Jingyan was skilled in martial arts and had even better hearing. As soon as he entered the yard, he knew that the guards in the dark had discovered him, but he did not show up to stop them and chose to remain ignorant.

It turned out to be the instruction of the Minister of Justice.

Without any hesitation, Xie Jingyan jumped through the window into the study of the Minister of Justice.

As for the Minister of Justice, after seeing off all the guests, he was finally able to sit down and rest after a busy day. Just as he picked up the tea and was about to take a sip, a secret guard appeared beside him and reported in a low voice, "Prince Ling has entered your study."

The Minister of Justice heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Just pretend you don't know and let him come and go."

However, the Minister of Justice relaxed too early. He only drank two sips of the tea. When he was taking the third sip, a secret guard came and almost choked him to death.

The secret guard passed on the message, "Prince Ling wants to see you."

Minister of Justice, "..."

Xie Jingyan wanted to see the Minister of Justice, so he asked the secret guards outside the study to pass a message to the Minister of Justice. No matter how tired he was, he had to go.

Pushing open the door of the study, the Minister of Justice saw Xie Jingyan sitting on the small couch. He was confused for a moment. Was this his study or Prince Ling's study?

Xie Jingyan sat there, looking at the orange-red silk in his hand, on which the phoenix pattern could be faintly seen.

The Minister of Justice walked in. Xie Jingyan looked up at him, holding up the silk in his hand and said, "The one who asked you to protect the bloodline of the Yan family was the Queen Mother?"

There was an almost imperceptible tremor in his voice.

God knows how shocked he was when he found the secret compartment and saw the imperial edict placed in the brocade box.

The Queen Mother disliked him, and even less so her mother.

He could never have dreamed that when the Yan family was ordered to be executed, the Queen Mother would actually let the Minister of Justice use his position to protect the Yan family's bloodline.

How could the Queen Mother do such a thing?

But this imperial decree is not fake.

The Minister of Justice wanted Xie Jingyan to see the imperial edict, but he didn't want Xie Jingyan to ask him questions in person.

The Queen Mother gave him a secret order, not allowing him to leak a single word.

He didn't know Prince Ling well enough. Prince Ling was not the kind of person who would be led by the nose by others. Now he was in a difficult situation.

The Minister of Justice said, "It was indeed the person the Queen Mother asked me to save."

Xie Jingyan looked at the Minister of Justice and asked, "The Queen Mother asked you to save one or two people. Do you need to issue a secret decree?"

The Minister of Justice said, "I dare not lie to Prince Ling. I asked the Queen Mother for it..."

"I want to know everything that happened when the Queen Mother asked you to save people."

Xie Jingyan's voice was steady and did not allow for any doubt.

Things have come to this point, and the Minister of Justice has no choice but to speak out.

He told Xie Jingyan everything he wanted to know, including how the Queen Mother asked him to save people.

The story began when something happened to Concubine Chen, and the Emperor, in a fit of rage, had everyone in the Yan family imprisoned.

The Yan family committed a capital crime, and the Ministry of Justice handled major cases like this.

Old Tutor Yan and more than a dozen members of the Yan family were imprisoned in the death row of the Ministry of Punishment. The young girl of the Yan family, Yan Qing'er, developed a high fever on the second day of being imprisoned in the death row of the Ministry of Punishment due to fear.

Prisoners imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice, even if they are suspects, are not allowed to see a doctor without the emperor's permission.

Every year, the Ministry of Justice has many prisoners who die of illness in prison before they can be executed.

Yan Qing'er was so sick that she was talking nonsense. Old Madam Yan felt sorry for her little granddaughter, so she knelt down in front of the Minister of Justice and begged him to get a doctor. At that time, the Yan family firmly believed that the emperor would not execute the Yan family. Their family would be sent to the death row of the Ministry of Justice, but would be released soon.

The Minister of Justice felt sorry for the eight-year-old child who was implicated in such a situation. Old Madam Yan even knelt down to him, but the Minister of Justice did not dare to ask for permission from the Emperor when he was angry to find a doctor for the people in the Yan Mansion. At that time, Yan Qing'er was so sick that she had fainted.

The Minister of Justice was moved with sympathy and said, "The person has already died. There is no hope of saving him."

"Come here, take the man out and bury him."

The confidant wrapped Yan Qing'er in a straw mat and took her out of the death row of the Ministry of Justice.

The Minister of Justice brought the person back to Xu's house and called a doctor for her.

On the same day, the emperor's imperial edict to execute everyone in the Yan family arrived at the Ministry of Justice.

As soon as he received the emperor's edict, the empress dowager summoned her into the palace.

He was really scared that day.

He paid his respects to the Queen Mother, who dismissed the palace maids and looked at him, "As the Minister of Justice, it shouldn't be difficult for you to save one or two death row prisoners, right?"

Really, the Queen Mother's words frightened the Minister of Justice so much that his legs went weak.

He thought that the Empress Dowager had found out about his rescue of the little girl from the Yan Mansion.

Those who shelter criminals will be labeled as accomplices and convicted together with them.

The Minister of Justice knelt on the ground, "Even if I had a few more courage, I would not dare to do such a thing."

The Queen Mother said, "Please help me save two people."

The Minister of Justice was stunned. "Who does the Queen Mother want me to save?"

The Queen Mother said, "The Concubine Chen has made mistakes, and her death is not a pity, but I have seen all the contributions that Old Master Yan has made to the court. I cannot bear to see the Yan family extinct from now on. Please help me preserve one or two bloodlines of the Yan family and send them far away."

"Is it possible?"

The Minister of Justice thought that the Queen Mother was testing him, and said, "The Emperor has issued an order to execute the entire Yan family. If I do this and the Emperor finds out, it will implicate my whole family. I dare not do so."

The Queen Mother said, "If the Emperor finds out by accident, I will protect you."

The Minister of Justice said, "The Queen Mother is kind-hearted. I am willing to help her save people, but please give me some peace of mind and give me an imperial decree to save my life."

The Minister of Justice said, "The Queen Mother saw that I really didn't dare to do it, and she was eager to save people, so she wrote this imperial edict to me personally..."