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Chapter 26 Wen Heng Must Die on the Emperor's Birthday
As soon as Gu Changfeng stepped into the door of Wen Le Xian, the proprietress noticed him. Although it was such a cold weather, she still fanned herself in an elegant manner, twisting her waist with each step, and walked to his side with deep affection and led him to the second floor.
"Prince, you haven't been here for a while. How have you been recently?" The proprietress's eyes flickered, as if there was more than one distinguished guest here.
The innermost room on the second floor was the one Gu Changfeng had been to last time. He stopped in his tracks. Due to the "psychological shadow" from last time, he didn't want to go to that room again.
"Fortunately, I heard that you have imported some green tea from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I want to try it." Gu Changfeng saw that there was a private room with the lights on. He thought that there must be a "hidden plot" here. "Let's go to this room. Isn't there anyone there?"
He pointed at the room next door and a smile appeared on his face.
The proprietress' eyelids twitched fiercely, "It's not impossible, but this place is not as comfortable as the one you usually go to..."
Gu Changfeng was determined. The more the proprietress resisted, the more he wanted to go. "It's okay. Wen Lexian doesn't have an uncomfortable room, right?"
This question stumped the proprietress. She was too embarrassed to say anything else. "Yes, yes, then please take a seat first, my lord. I will ask the waiter to pour you some tea."
"There's also candied osmanthus rice cake. Give me one too." He stuffed the change in his hand into the proprietress's pocket, signaling her not to spread the news that he came here for tea today.
The proprietress understood what was going on and said nothing more. She turned over the doorplate of this wing and whispered, "Prince, please come in."
Wen Yuexian is the largest and most luxurious music hall in the capital. Its only "shortcoming" is that the sound insulation between individual private rooms is not very good. Generally, officials or lovers who come to Wen Yuexian for private meetings will choose to sit in the next private room. Those who take the initiative to sit next to other private rooms can only be there to eavesdrop on the conversation on purpose.
One is that the wife comes to catch the adulterer, and the other is like Gu Changfeng, who comes to hear which two officials are going to join forces to do something bad.
The proprietress took the money and went downstairs with a smile.
While waiting for the waiter's tea, Gu Changfeng stood by the window and gently pushed open a window, and the sound from next door came over.
A middle-aged man said, "Why, are you sure you've made the contact?"
Another young man said, "Yes, father, I used two people to make sure he would ask for us..."
"That's good. I can trust my son to do things."
Gu Changfeng was confused. The two must have been gesturing while talking, so he couldn't hear clearly. But why did the younger man's words sound familiar? It was as if he had heard it somewhere before.
The middle-aged man smiled with satisfaction: "You are worthy of being my son. This way, after the success, no one can shake your father's position." He seemed to pat his "son" on the shoulder, "You have to hurry up too. The final exam will be in two months. You must take the position of assistant minister."
Minister? What minister?
"Father..." the young man asked, "I'm not sure I'll get the position. Wen is so good at his studies. I'm afraid that after the final exam, he will ask the emperor for the position of Minister of Rites. After all, his brother was a Minister of Rites..."
The middle-aged man interrupted him, "It doesn't matter, I will make him die on the birthday of the Saint. No one can stop you and me."
!!!
Here, here, the ones speaking are Zhou Chaoyang and his father Zhou Ling!
Gu Changfeng listened for a long time and finally understood why the young man's voice sounded familiar. Didn't he just talk to him yesterday? Why did he suddenly attack Wen Heng?
Zhou Chaoyang breathed a sigh of relief. "A few years ago, my father replaced Wensheng and made him half disabled. Now the emperor wants to help Wenheng and grant him an official position, but I'm afraid it's difficult to do so. I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm afraid that Wenheng wants to retaliate against us, even if the order was from the late emperor..."
"Shut up! You can say things like that outside!"
There was soon no movement in the next room, and by the time Gu Changfeng came to his senses, they were no longer discussing the matter.
The waiter knocked on the door. "Your tea and snacks are here."
Because of the proprietress's instructions, the waiter did not call out "Prince", but it still alarmed the people next door, and soon the Zhou father and son left.
Gu Changfeng was eating osmanthus cake and thinking, it turned out that Wensheng, Wenheng's brother, relied on his relationship with the concubine to get the position of Minister of Rites. However, he did a terrible job. The late emperor had long wanted to replace him with a more capable person, Zhou Ling. So he secretly asked Zhou Ling, the then Minister of Rites, to frame and poison Wensheng. From then on, Wensheng was dismissed from his post and was in poor health, so he could never serve again.
Wen Heng probably didn't know that this was the order of the late emperor, so he would seek revenge on the Zhou family and compete with Zhou Chaoyang, the son of the Minister of Rites, for the position of Vice Minister of Rites.
The emperor agreed to Wen Heng's request and promised to give him an official position in consideration of his three years of worshipping Buddha for the dowager empress. He would definitely choose the position of Vice Minister of Rites.
Therefore, Zhou's father and son could not tolerate him, fearing that he would be retaliated against them, and wanted to make Wen Heng "die an untimely death" as soon as possible.
If he died in the academy, not only would he and Zhou Chaoyang, who were classmates, have a rift, but he would also offend Gu Changfeng, who presided over the academy, which would be troublesome. If he died on the emperor's birthday, Zhou Chaoyang would not be suspected, and the blame would be directly placed on the "assassin". Wen Heng died to save his master, which would be a glory to the family, and the hatred between the two families would be resolved.
The emperor could compensate the Wen family to shut them up.
The Wen family will not suspect the Zhou family, and the Zhou family will also eliminate this increasingly powerful hidden danger.
Xiao Wo belatedly reported the good news: "Congratulations to the host for discovering the hidden plot and unlocking the real reason for Wen Sheng's downfall. Now I will issue you the following rewards: 1 detoxification candy bean, 1 amnesia card."
Gu Changfeng: “…”
"Wow."
He wanted to joke: "If I hadn't come today, what would have happened if Wen Heng was poisoned to death at the birthday party?"
Xiao Wo was silent, then said: "I will hint that you drink his wine, and then Zhou Chaoyang will give you the antidote."
What this means is that no matter what, Wen Heng will escape this assassination, because he is the other protagonist.
Gu Changfeng nodded. No wonder he was asked to ask the emperor how he planned to celebrate his birthday. Not only did he want to make some money from the court, but he also wanted to get rid of his biggest threat. He had to curry favor with him. Anyway, the Ministry of Rites was in charge of birthdays. It was the easiest to arrange an assassin. Although he might be punished by the emperor, if he made a big deal, the merits would be offset, so it was worth a try.
These two people dared to kill people under the emperor's nose. They are really brave.
However, Gu Changfeng was not sure whether his identity had been exposed, so he directly asked the waiter to send a letter to Suixia Academy, asking Zhao Si to announce that the prince had been in the palace all day and had not left the palace.
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