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

Eager to save people...

With this imperial decree, Xie Jingyan had no reason to doubt it.

But are the empress dowager mentioned by the Minister of Justice and the empress dowager who has never disliked him really the same person?

Apart from the fact that he saved the eldest prince's life, the Queen Mother had never shown any kindness towards him before.

Of course, although the Queen Mother disliked him, she had never done anything to embarrass him before his mother got into trouble.

Xie Jingyan suppressed these thoughts and asked, "Besides my cousin, is there anyone else alive in the Yan family?"

The Queen Mother asked the Minister of Justice to help save two people, but before she said this, her cousin had been rescued from the death row of the Ministry of Justice. Xie Jingyan hoped that his cousin would not be among the two people, so that one more person in the Yan family could survive.

The Minister of Justice said, "Prince Ling, rest assured, the Yan family's children are all alive..."

Xie Jingyan originally had no hope, but when he heard the words of the Minister of Justice, he suddenly looked up and asked, "Are they all alive?"

His voice was trembling, with suppressed surprise in it.

The Minister of Justice blamed himself, "It's a pity that I can't save Old Master Yan..."

The Queen Mother asked the Minister of Justice to protect the Yan family's bloodline. The Minister of Justice asked the Queen Mother for an imperial decree. Besides being frightened at the time and wanting to protect himself and his family, he also wanted to help the Yan family.

As the Minister of Justice, the entire Yan family was under his watch. It would be easier for him to save people than for anyone else, but he didn't dare to. Saving Yan Qing'er alone was enough to make him nervous.

Now the empress dowager asked him to save two people, and he had the imperial edict in hand. If he saved one or two more, even if something happened, the empress dowager would be there to support him. The empress dowager was the emperor's biological mother. If the empress dowager asked the emperor to release one or two people, the emperor would have to obey her. What's more, he was the Minister of Justice, so how could he dare not disobey the empress dowager? If the emperor wanted to hold someone accountable, he could only hold the empress dowager accountable, and could not hold him, the Minister of Justice.

If the matter is really investigated, the Queen Mother will protect him. If the Queen Mother cannot protect him, then if something happens in the future, there will be no ministers to serve the Queen Mother.

After receiving the imperial edict, the Minister of Justice said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will get started on this matter when I get back. The prison of the Ministry of Justice is cold and damp, and even the adults can't stand it. Several young people in the Yan family have fallen ill, and one of them died of illness this morning. If it weren't for the kindness of the Queen Mother who gave them a chance to live, I'm afraid they would have died before the day of execution..."

The Minister of Justice told the truth in order to avoid arousing the Empress Dowager's suspicion in the future.

The Queen Mother had spent her entire life in the harem and knew that raising a child was not easy. Many princes and princesses died young, let alone being sent to a place like the death row of the Ministry of Justice.

Just the screams from the torture were enough to scare the children to death.

The Empress Dowager waved her hand, and the Minister of Justice left with the secret decree.

After the Minister of Justice returned, he set about rescuing people.

Within three days, except for Young Master Yan, several children "died of illness" one after another and were taken out of the death row of the Ministry of Justice.

Young Master Yan was already thirteen years old at that time. He often went to the palace to attend banquets, and he was always present at all banquets, big and small, in Kyoto. Many people had seen him, so it was not easy to get away with it.

Fortunately, Young Master Yan was lucky. There was a man of similar height to him in the death row of the Ministry of Justice. On the day of the torture, with his hair disheveled and kneeling behind the execution platform, no one would notice him.

The Minister of Justice moved the person to another cell, and Young Master Yan was detained in the death row of the Ministry of Justice for a few more days. Only after the entire Yan family had executed the order did the Minister of Justice rescue him.

The Minister of Justice still remembered that when Old Tutor Yan noticed that he was saving people, he knelt down and kowtowed to him.

He couldn't help Old Master Yan to get up even if he wanted to because of the cell door.

He wanted to save Old Tutor Yan and Master Yan and the others, but they were too eye-catching. Although not many people dared to intercede for the Yan family when something happened, Old Tutor Yan had many disciples who would definitely see them off to the execution ground. It was impossible to replace them. Only if they stood in the front to attract everyone's attention would no one notice that Master Yan and several younger members of the Yan family had been replaced.

Old Master Yan was not afraid of death. After knowing that the younger generations were rescued, he felt comforted and went to death calmly.

Xie Jingyan asked, "Where are they now?"

The Minister of Justice said, "Except Qing'er who is raised in the Wang family, the others are in Guzhou, my hometown."

The Minister of Justice did not delay in rescuing the person from the death row of the Ministry of Justice, and sent the person out of Kyoto in the evening of the same day. However, Yan Qing'er was seriously ill at that time and was still in danger. She could not travel long distances. In addition, when she woke up, she could not even remember her own name. He and his wife felt really distressed when they saw this. This was a girl from the Taifu's mansion, who was imprisoned overnight and almost died of illness.

They really couldn't bear to send him out of the city. He was so seriously ill that they were afraid he would die on the way before reaching Guzhou.

The Minister of Justice thought that the Empress Dowager had given him an imperial decree allowing him to save two lives, so he just kept him in the palace.

But he had never taken a concubine, and all the ministers in Kyoto knew that he had only a pair of children, both legitimate children. The sudden appearance of another child was hard to explain, and it would not be good to raise a girl from the Taifu's mansion as a maid, so when she got a little better, he sent her to the Wang family, making up a pretext that she was seriously ill and needed to be raised by a woman dressed as a man, and no one suspected anything.

Yan Qing'er lost her memory, forgetting the happy times in the past and the pain of being imprisoned with her grandparents. In addition, the Wang family loved her, so she grew up carefree.

Yan Qing'er never doubted that she was not the biological daughter of the Wang family. The spoiled child was playful and naughty. When she was not allowed to leave the house by the gate, she pretended to sneak out through the dog hole to play. As a result, she participated in the meat bun eating competition and won it. She became acquainted with the son of Princess Huyang and her husband's husband, and her female identity was exposed. The Princess Huyang and her husband's husband came to propose marriage.

Yan Qing'er looks very much like Concubine Chen, how could he dare to agree?

The Queen Mother asked him to save the person and then sent him far away, but he kept him under her nose, which was disobeying the Queen Mother.

Moreover, after so many years, he began to doubt the Queen Mother's act of saving people and no longer dared to believe it completely.

Xie Jingyan's eyes fell back on the imperial edict in his hand, "Why did Minister Xu let me know about the existence of this imperial edict?"

The Minister of Justice hesitated to speak.

Xie Jingyan said, "I want to hear the truth."

The Minister of Justice said, "When the Queen Mother asked me to save someone, I didn't think much about it. I just thought that the Queen Mother was kind-hearted. But after the case of Prince Yanping, I vaguely feel that the Queen Mother's rescue may not be as simple as I thought."

He was in charge of both cases, and the Queen Mother was involved in both cases.

One was related to the emperor's reputation, and the other was that Du Chengxu, the son of Duke Du, attempted violence but failed, and attacked the son of Prince Yanping, but he slipped and fell into the water and died from his injuries.

In the view of the Ministry of Justice, Du Chengxu's case was an accident and could not be compared with Chen Fei's case, or even be mentioned on the same level.

The Concubine Chen trampled on the Emperor's dignity, but the Empress Dowager remembered the contributions of Old Tutor Yan to the court and kept a trace of Yan's bloodline.

The Crown Prince of Yeonping was the only son of the Prince of Yeonping. He did not intend to kill the Queen Mother's grandson, but the Queen Mother still wanted to kill him.

Xie Jingyan used the golden medal of immunity from death to save the Prince of Yanping, but the Queen Mother also forced the Emperor to demote the Prince of Yanping's Mansion to commoners. She was so aggressive and showed no mercy at all.

The Minister of Justice had been in the Ministry of Justice for more than ten years and had handled countless cases. Based on his intuition in solving cases, he knew that the Empress Dowager must have been unusual in asking him to protect the bloodline of the Yan family.

The emperor asked him to stand up in the council hall and ask for Prince Ling to be made the crown prince.

He has been assigned to Prince Ling's camp by the emperor and all the civil and military officials.

From now on, the honor and disgrace and even the life of the Minister of Justice's Mansion will be tied to Prince Ling.

If Concubine Chen cannot overturn the case, Prince Ling will have little hope of being named the crown prince. The Queen Mother's abnormal behavior back then was most likely related to Concubine Chen's case.

There were some things that were not convenient for him to investigate even though he was the Minister of Justice, so he could only tell Prince Ling.

But I couldn’t tell him directly, so I had to tell him in a roundabout way.

Prince Ling really came to search his study, but after seeing the imperial edict, he wanted to see him, which was something the Minister of Justice did not expect.

However, considering that Prince Ling ignored the Emperor's orders in front of the Crown Prince of Xiliang and the Second Prince of Donglie, it is not impossible for him to meet him in his study, or even just leave his study with the Empress Dowager's decree.