After rebirth, I became a treacherous minister Black Moonlight

Meng Qianqian was stunned: "Why are they betting on this? Who bet on this--"

Before she finished saying the word "meet", she suddenly felt a big hand grabbing her waist.

He lowered his head and placed a gentle kiss on the corner of her lips.

Meng Qianqian’s eyes widened instantly.

Her breathing stagnated and everything around her became quiet; the only sound she could hear was the thumping of her heart.

His palms were burning hot, and the heat penetrated through her thin summer shirt and fell tightly on her cold skin.

She didn't dare to move, she just stood there, her mind going blank.

It was not until the sound of patrolling Jinwu Guards was heard not far away that Meng Qianqian suddenly came to her senses. She took a step back in panic and ran away with a red face.

Back in the inner hall, her heart was still pounding, and her cheeks and lips were incredibly hot.

"Really? Why would the two of them make such a bet for no reason?"

"Also, if they don't understand, does Lu Yuan also not understand? How could they... do this to me at this time?"

Han Ci was on duty that night. After patrolling the Zhuanghe Hall, he brought a message to Lu Yuan who was temporarily staying in the Taihe Hall.

"Xiao Jiu asked me to tell the Grand Commander that she was angry."

Lu Yuan frowned: "A man kissed a woman, but the woman was very angry. Why?"

Han Ci said: "She said she had contact with a patient with the plague. If you do this now, you might get infected! Wait, Grand Commander, what did you just say? Who kissed who?"

"nothing."

Lu Yuan walked out with a blank expression.

Han Ci stretched out his hand: "Grand Commander."

"Don't call me."

boom!

Lu Yuan bumped his head against a pillar and saw stars.

Han Ci: "You didn't let me remind you of the newly built pillars."

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But after Meng Qianqian returned to the inner hall, she realized that she had been so busy fleeing that she had forgotten the porridge for the retired emperor.

The emperor looked at her red face with amusement and said, "It looks like she has been coaxed into submission."

Meng Qianqian whispered: "Why are you also a naughty boy?"

Once the porridge leaves his hands, it will never enter the mouth of the emperor again, so Meng Qianqian goes to make it again.

When she was halfway through, she turned around suddenly and saw a shadowy figure standing at the door.

Her heart skipped a beat and she almost picked up a butcher knife.

Princess Wanping said calmly, "I am hungry too."

Meng Qianqian calmly covered the butcher knife with firewood: "Ten taels of silver per bowl."

I thought Princess Wanping would be furious, but she threw a purse at Meng Qianqian and said, "Two bowls."

The other bowl was given to her maid.

Meng Qianqian opened it and took a look. Wow, there were two big gold ingots!

"Send it to this princess' room."

"To eat myself..."

Princess Wanping threw another gold ingot to her.

Meng Qianqian: "Send it to the princess as soon as it's out of the pot."

You're a bastard who doesn't make money.

After the porridge was out of the pot, Meng Qianqian took out the food box and filled it with four bowls of porridge, two bowls for Princess Wanping and two bowls for the emperor and herself.

After being tormented by Lu Yuan, she was also hungry.

The emperor was sitting on the bed eating porridge, and she was sitting on a futon not far away eating porridge, glancing at the emperor while eating.

The emperor smiled and said, "Girl, do you have something to ask me?"

Meng Qianqian blinked: "This is a big deal."

The emperor said, "Speak, I forgive you for being innocent."

Meng Qianqian thought for a moment and said, "I'll talk to you after you finish eating."

"It seems like a big deal." The emperor smiled and finished his bowl of porridge. "Can you tell me now?"

Meng Qianqian put down her bowl and spoon, and sat upright: "What I want to ask is about the Chu family's case."

The retired emperor's expression paused slightly, but only for a moment.

"What you really want to ask is whether I have anything to do with the Chu family's case, right?"

Meng Qianqian put down the bowl and spoon, turned sideways, knelt down and faced the emperor: "Please forgive me."

The Emperor said, "You are one of the Twelve Guards. It is not surprising that you are investigating the Chu family's case. Tell me, how much have you found out?"

Meng Qianqian said truthfully: "I have only seen the autopsy results of Marshal Chu. There are many doubts, but the court has made a final conclusion and insisted that it was Madam Chu who killed him."

The emperor nodded and said, "You think the court closed the case too hastily. There must be a powerful person behind the scenes who stopped the investigation of the case. Yes, that person is me."

Meng Qianqian was shocked: "It's you?"

After these few days of contact, she found that the retired emperor was not a bad person. She was almost about to rule out the retired emperor's suspicion, but the retired emperor told her that he was the one who closed the case?

The Emperor closed his eyes and said, "I ordered the case to be closed, but the King of Chu and his family... were not killed by me."

When he mentioned the King of Chu's family, a trace of uncontrollable grief flashed across his face.

Meng Qianqian suddenly felt that the case seemed to be developing in a direction she had never thought of.

The Emperor said sadly, "The King of Chu is my son. His mother is used to the free life at the border, and she is unwilling to return to the palace with me, nor is she willing to let her son get involved in the endless disputes of the royal family."

Meng Qianqian asked: "Does the King of Chu know his own life experience?"

The Emperor shook his head: "He doesn't know. Every year I only hope that he will come to the capital to report on his work, so that I can meet him."

In this case, the King of Chu is the son of the retired emperor, and the Grand Marshal of Chu is his grandson. Even if the Twelve Guards only obey the Grand Marshal of Chu, the retired emperor does not need to bother them at all.

The Emperor said painfully, "But his life experience... is known by the Crown Prince."

"Did the prince destroy the Chu family?" Meng Qianqian frowned, "That's why you closed the case so hastily."

The Emperor said ashamedly, "The Great Zhou was in danger at that time and could not withstand the scandal and turmoil of the royal family. Moreover, the Chu family had just been lost at the border, and the Twelve Guards were leaderless. If they knew that the prince was the murderer, I was worried that they would join forces with Beiliang and harm the Great Zhou."

From the perspective of the retired emperor, the Twelve Guards, who are only loyal to Marshal Chu, might actually do such a thing.

The Emperor sighed, "Later, the Crown Prince fell ill and was awakened by nightmares every night. He said in his dreams that his brother came to seek revenge on him..."

Is this how the prince fell ill? Meng Qianqian was silent.

The emperor's eyes were red and his throat was swollen and painful. "The most painful thing in the world is to see the young die. I lost two sons... I lost my daughter-in-law, my grandson's wife and my grandson..."

Meng Qianqian never expected that the truth of the matter would be like this.

Did Lu Yuan also know this, and that’s why he stopped her from investigating further?

As she digested the truth, she thought of something else and asked the emperor, "Is there someone named Xiaojiu in the Chu family?"

The Emperor said, "No, the King of Chu has only one son. Although the Great Marshal of Chu is married, he is still young and busy with wars, so he has never had any children."

Isn’t she the daughter of the Chu family?

But what about those memories?

What is her understanding of the Twelve Guards and the Chu family?

It seems I have to ask Chen Long.

Only Chen Long knows who she is.

The kiss happened, the case was solved, I continue to ask for double the monthly tickets, jiu mi~