The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

The officials became even angrier, their eyes wide open, their voices like thunder, "Prime Minister Ye is really getting more and more ridiculous. A great prime minister is just talking nonsense, and he dares to slander the current prince like this. Isn't he afraid of getting his tongue stuck?"

"Prime Minister Ye is talking nonsense. He actually suspected that the prince was playing dumb. It is really unreasonable."

All those who came this time were high-ranking officials of the first rank, whose status and official positions were not much different from Ye Baijiang's. They were not afraid of Ye Baijiang's power as the prime minister at all and immediately started to argue with him. Only a few of them spoke up for Ye Baijiang.

Ye Baijiang was outnumbered and simply ignored them. He snorted coldly, showing his dissatisfaction.

Seeing that they had finished arguing, Lu Shian took a sip of tea calmly and sighed awkwardly, "Alas, what the ministers said makes sense, and I also want to believe that my brother is innocent.

"But the incident has already happened. Someone reported that you privately kept the city defense map. If I sit back and do nothing, wouldn't that mean you are being wronged for nothing?"

"So what the emperor means is..." The officials asked for his opinion.

Ye Baijiang couldn't wait to answer, "Do you have any city defense maps hidden away? Let's search and we'll know. This Prime Minister always speaks with evidence."

"What my uncle said makes sense." Lu Shi'an nodded in agreement. "Now that things have come to this, if we want to clear our brother's name, we can only search the palace. If we can't find the city defense map, our brother will be innocent, and no one will dare to doubt him."

"What do you think, Qing'er?" He did not forget to ask Xia Younan's opinion, with a sly smile on his lips.

Xia Younan was clear in his mind and replied calmly, "Of course, if you don't do anything wrong, you don't have to worry about ghosts knocking on your door. Since the emperor said that only a search of the palace can prove my Yuan'er's innocence, then for the sake of innocence, we agree to let people search the palace.

"But Your Majesty, I want to know who the person who reported it was? How did he know that there was a city defense map in the palace?"

Humph, today she saw what it means to "the thief cry thief". Lu Shian is so shameless.

Lu Shian also expected her to ask this question, and casually said: "It's better not to reveal the whistleblower. Don't worry, if he wrongly accuses my brother, I will definitely not let him off easily!"

"Very good!" Xia Younan let him fool around and looked at him with clear eyes, "Since you want to search, then go ahead and search.

"But Your Majesty, my son Yuan'er is a fool. He was reported for no reason and had to endure the humiliation of having his house searched. If the city defense map cannot be found later, Your Majesty cannot let the prince suffer this in vain."

"My Lords, don't you agree?" She then turned the topic back to the officials.

The official facing Lu Xiuyuan immediately responded, "That's right, Your Majesty, if someone reports the prince, you should order a search of the palace. If someone with ulterior motives reports the prince every day in the future, will the prince still have a peaceful life?"

Lu Shian looked a little ugly, but he couldn't refute it, so he had no choice but to promise: "What you said makes sense, so we will only search it this time.

"If the city defense map cannot be found, I will bow to you and apologize to comfort you."

"Okay." Xia Younan agreed, smiling, as if he was very satisfied with the condition.

"What if we can find the city defense map?" Lu Shian asked back.

Xia Younan smiled, glanced at Ye Baijiang, and asked in a puzzled manner: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, according to the laws of Qingyuan Kingdom, what crime should a minister be punished for privately keeping the city defense map?"

Lu Shian's expression was full of viciousness, and he answered in a sonorous and powerful voice: "If you intend to rebel, your entire family will be exterminated!"

A row of ellipsis appeared above Xia Younan's head. He clapped his hands, speechless: "The emperor is really awesome. He would even kill himself when he gets ruthless."

Lu Shian was stunned, then realized what had happened and couldn't help looking embarrassed.

Ahem, I got excited and said the wrong thing.

Lu Xiuyuan and I are half-brothers, and the Nine Clans seem to include me, and even... Yanluo.

As expected, Lu Yanluo was also unhappy and shouted mischievously: "Royal brother, I am innocent."

Lu Shian glared at her and changed his words: "Privately keeping the city defense map is a crime punishable by death."

Xia Younan rolled her eyes and waved her hand, saying, "Alright, alright, I and the others have heard what the emperor said, so the emperor should have someone search.

"Hurry up, today is Yuan'er's birthday, and you gentlemen are visiting the palace. I asked the kitchen to prepare a lot of delicious food. Your Majesty, please don't delay our meal."

Humph, I’ll make you lose the mood to eat later!

Lu Shian glanced at her and ordered the eunuch beside him, "Go, let the people you bring search the palace carefully and don't miss any details."

"Yes." The eunuch took the order and left, calling on the people guarding the front hall to search the palace.

"Su Yu!" Xia Younan also called Su Yu over and ordered, "Send all the servants in the palace to follow them, so that they won't miss any place."

"Yes." Su Yu also took the order.

Xia Younan is not a fool. Although the picture has been dealt with, what can't a despicable man like Lu Shian do?

If he had someone carry the city defense map with him, and he couldn't find the original one, he would take out the one he had on him and say he found it in the palace, then she would have no way to defend herself.

Does this girl know something? Lu Shian narrowed his eyes, always feeling a little uneasy.

A quarter of an hour passed, two quarters of an hour passed, half an hour passed...

The people who were sent turned the palace upside down, even the toilets were searched, but they found nothing.

Lu Shian's originally confident expression gradually turned cold, and his heart was filled with bad premonitions.

Xia Younan was casually eating melon seeds, taking turns to eat one with Lu Xiuyuan, which made Lu Shian want to get angry.

"Your Majesty!" A eunuch came running over with small steps, kneeling on the ground and bowing his head, "Your Majesty, your servants have searched the Yu Nan Palace thoroughly, but did not find the city defense map."

Lu Shian's face had completely darkened. He stopped talking, clenched his fists and continued to wait.

One after another, all the people who were sent out to search came back, all kneeling on the ground in fear and trepidation, "Your Majesty, we have searched everywhere, but there is nothing."

"See, I told you that the prince would never do such a thing." An official spoke up.

"Your Majesty, you have nothing to say now, right?" someone else asked dissatisfiedly.

Lu Shian pursed his thin lips into a line, his eyes filled with resentment and confusion.

How could it be impossible to find it? I clearly put it in the same box as those treasures, and I specifically told the searcher to find that box, soak the "landscape painting" inside and bring it back.

They actually...didn’t even find a landscape painting?

He raised his eyes to look at Xia Younan, only to see the woman looking at him with a smile, a smug look in her eyes, as if she had already expected this result.

Thinking of what she had just said, Lu Shian's heart skipped a beat. He looked at her in disbelief, his heart sinking to the bottom.

It seems that this little devil has discovered something in advance.