Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

"But Your Highness, until I have fully investigated this case, you'd better stay in the palace in case I summon you."

After saying this, he clasped his hands and was about to leave, but he heard Lu Anyuan behind him say, "Master Shen, everyone says that you are a disciple of my second brother. Now I believe it."

Shen Yue turned his head in disbelief, but Lu Anyuan was worried about Yixing and walked straight inside without giving him a chance to refute.

Seeing Shen Yue leave, Xu Yixing was relieved: "Why did you say he was the Second Prince's man? Why didn't I see that?"

"He has done so much for his second brother, hasn't he?"

Xu Yixing shook her head. It was her intuition. Ever since she first "used" Shen Yue to kill Granny Gu, she knew very well that such a loyal minister would never be able to become a vassal of the prince.

So no matter how much trouble Shen Yue caused him, she never thought that he did it on purpose. Perhaps she was just being used by people like her.

"You are really smart. I know he is not like that. I just provoked him on purpose and made him think carefully about whether he was a knife to my second brother."

"You've come back just in time. What was that memorial just now?" Although Xu Yixing was far away, he could clearly see that Shen Yue's expression tensed after he saw the memorial.

"Well, it's a report sent from Minzhou at full speed. Several large salt fields have been discovered in Minzhou. The salt has been delivered to various salt-deficient states through the docks."

"Oh?" Is it such a coincidence? In this case, Shen Yue's suspicion would have no basis. After all, with the official salt, the private salt would not be sold at a high price. "You must have handled this matter secretly. You asked me to wait for three or five days. You must have known that the matter was about to be completed recently, right?"

"Indeed, this matter started last year. Father did not make a clear decree to announce it to the world because those barbarians were still exchanging salt. If they knew that the salt price in Daxia had dropped, we would be at a loss."

Xu Yixing gave a thumbs up. The emperor was so cunning. In order to make money from those barbarians, he even hid it from his own people. What a ruthless man!

Although I admired him on the outside, my heart was bleeding. Lu Anyuan, why didn't you tell me? I have so much illegal salt stored in the market, what should I do?

That’s right, the private salt in Beijing is not his, but the salt in the warehouses at the border markets is his hard-earned money, which has all been wasted!

After Xu Yixing cursed his father-in-law eight hundred times in his heart, he finally noticed that Lu Anyuan's eyes were a little red. Did he cry?

"What's wrong with you?" She pointed at Lu Anyuan's eyes, confused.

"Nothing. Today is my mother's memorial day. After finishing the meeting in the palace, I went to her former palace to pay my respects. So I came back a little late."

"Oh..." Xu Yixing remembered that Lu Anyuan once said that Concubine Yi was not good to him. He didn't expect that he still missed her so much.

Lu Anyuan saw what Yixing was thinking and explained with a smile: "But it only happens once a year, so just treat it as something new."

"Well, how about I go and burn some incense for my mother-in-law?"

"It's up to you." Lu Anyuan smiled with relief. Yi Xing had such a heart because he cared about him.

"By the way, Shopkeeper Ge is gone. I suspect he was silenced. Can you help me check?"

"I will serve you, Madam." Lu Anyuan imitated what happened on the stage, and the two of them bowed to each other. Their funny look was really hilarious!

Xu Yixing didn't know how Shen Yue was searching for the murderer. After getting Lu Anyuan's reply that Master Zhao was up to something, she easily handed a note to Ying Jiu.

And written in beautiful handwriting on it was a message to Ying Si: to poison Master Zhao.

As Ying Si was finally released from the underground palace by Ying Yi, he used the most powerful medicine with blood-thirsty eyes and sent it into Master Zhao's thin lips.

With a click, the person was gone.

Before the great pain could even reach his brain, he collapsed silently behind the second hall of Jingzhao Prefecture, still holding the small note he got from the pigeon's leg.

Lord Shen was busy all day and finally finished his official business in the middle of the night. When he passed through the second hall, he only saw his long-dead master and the note of "beautiful promise" given to him by someone in his hand.

Shen Yue sat down on the ground, his mind half filled with anger and half with fear. How dare he kill someone in Jingzhao Prefecture!

What was terrifying was that he remembered what the Seventh Prince said that day: Does everyone think that he is the Second Prince's person?

Could it be that the Second Prince also thought so, which was why he killed people in Jingzhao Prefecture without restraint, thinking that I would clean up the mess for him?

Absurd! Shen Yue used his brain, and immediately figured out the key. Although he was not afraid of offending others, if someone used this to exclude dissidents, that would be absolutely unacceptable!

Lord Shen got up, patted the dirt off his body, called the people on duty in Jingzhao Prefecture, and calmly ordered them to embalm the body and perform an autopsy, waiting for him to return from the morning court tomorrow to deal with the funeral!

As for what the top scholar talked about in the emperor's study the next day, no one else knew except Eunuch Kang who was beside the emperor.

As the person who had been with the emperor the longest, Eunuch Kang would never say a word even if he was beaten to death. However, the palace maids outside heard the emperor's roar and Shen Yue's retorts from the study.

As a result, everyone admired Lord Shen even more. When Lord Shen left the imperial study, he threw away the black veil on his head, knelt on the ground and shouted: "If your majesty is like this, then what does it matter if I don't serve as the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture!"

After saying this, he walked away with disheveled hair. Even the teacup thrown by the emperor did not have the chance to touch his official uniform and broke into pieces.

Xu Yixing didn't know that her "little action" almost caused the emperor to have a heart attack. She only knew that Master Zhao killed her people, so he deserved to die.

However, although she was in the mansion these days, she saw that Lu Anyuan's face looked worse and worse every day when he came back, as if he had drunk the blood of a dead person.

"Are you really okay? You look almost the same color as horse manure..."

"Can't you say something nice?" Lu Anyuan frowned, but even if Yixing said something nice at this time, he probably wouldn't listen.

"The emperor dismissed Shen Yue from his post and is re-selecting the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture these days. However, no matter who is recommended, he always scolds them. This has been going on for four or five days."

Lu Anyuan had a gloomy face. When the story of Shen Yue in the imperial study spread, everyone was secretly rejoicing and laughing at his arrogance. However, when the matter was finally linked to the court officials, they could no longer laugh.

——The importance of some people can only be reflected when they are not around.