After crossing over, I was favored by the villain

Gong Xi sat on the dragon throne steadily. After the prime minister brought the people to the back, he kowtowed and said, "I have brought the two envoys back safely and have fulfilled my mission."

"Prime Minister, thank you for your help. Please lie down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Feng Hanyun and Jin Yan also knelt down, and Lian Xiang followed suit, "Greetings to the Emperor. Long live the Emperor."

"Thank you for your hard work, both envoys. Please take a seat."

The eunuch brought a chair and the two of them sat down in the court. Lian Xiang was the only one kneeling.

"Who is in the audience?"

"I am Lian Xiang, the Lord of Linggao City. I have specially accompanied the two envoys to the Imperial City to meet the Emperor and confess my sins."

Gong Xi was shocked. He asked, "What crime have you committed? Tell me in detail."

Lian Xiang kowtowed again, "Your Majesty, I was once an aide to Prince Yu Jinghuai, and became the Lord of Linggao City. Following the orders of the Lord, I killed an envoy sent by the Emperor. The envoy relied on his military power and lived in the Lord's Mansion. He never asked a single question about the flood, but wrote a memorial to exaggerate the flood in Yuanchi Village in order to gain benefits from it. I couldn't stand his behavior, so I took action to get rid of him. This is my greatest evil. Please, Your Majesty, sentence me to death."

Gong Xi Haoran slammed the table and stood up, "What did you say? How dare you assassinate my minister!"

After hearing this, the Prime Minister stood up and said, "Your Majesty, calm down. City Lord Lian was also killed because this person received the imperial order and did not fulfill his duties. City Lord Lian, do you have any evidence for what you said?"

Lian Xiang took out a letter from his sleeve, and Su Gong presented it to him, "Your Majesty, this is the memorial that the envoy prepared to submit. I happened to see the contents. During his stay in the City Lord's Mansion, the envoy never stepped out of the City Lord's Mansion. He was immersed in eating and drinking with his companions every day, laughing and talking every night, just waiting for Your Majesty to allocate money."

Gong Xi Haoran took a look at the memorial and found that it was indeed consistent with what Lian Xiang said. It reported that the flood was serious, the people were displaced, and a large amount of disaster relief funds were needed and were waiting for allocation.

【Oh, this is well prepared. 】

Jin Yan reminded him, "City Lord Lian, if you have such a report, you can report it to His Majesty. The Constitution of Nanyuan is not an excuse for people like you to kill people. Even if you are following orders from Prince Yu, it is not a reason for you to kill people."

"Obey the orders of Prince Yu?" Gong Xi Haoran grasped the key point.

Lian Xiang continued, "Your Majesty cares about the people and pays close attention to their safety. When I reported this to Your Majesty, I received Your Majesty's order to execute the man on the spot. Your Majesty, everything I said is true. Please examine it carefully."

"Bold Lian Xiang, you are already a minister of Nanyuan State, and you have never obeyed the orders of the emperor, but you dare to obey the orders of Prince Yu. Do you still respect the emperor?"

"Prince Yu promised you something good to allow you to murder an official of the imperial court. What crime should you be charged with?"

"Prince Yu's order actually dared to go against the Emperor's order. Your Majesty, this matter must be investigated."

Jin Yan yawned loudly, [The court is really fake, these people want to step on you when you fall, it's so boring. ]

The Prime Minister stepped forward and saluted, "Your Majesty, please ask Prince Yu to explain."

Yu Jinghuai had been waiting outside the court early, waiting for the emperor to summon him into the palace.

"Announce Prince Yu into the palace!" Su Gong shouted, and Yu Jinghuai was brought into the hall.

After seeing Feng Hanyun and Jin Yan sitting in the court, he frowned, but still kowtowed and said, "Long live the emperor."

"Royal brother, please stand up."

Yu Jinghuai stood up and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"This Lian Xiang said that he was your aide and that he killed my ministers because he followed your orders. Do you know about this?"

Yu Jinghuai deliberately looked at Lian Xiang carefully. During the eye contact, he wanted to skin Lian Xiang alive. Lian Xiang felt the same way. Yu Jinghuai stood still and saluted, "Your Majesty, I have never seen this person before."

"Yu Jinghuai! It was you who asked me to kill the messenger, but now you dare to say you don't know me!" Lian Xiang immediately retorted.

Yu Jinghuai ignored him and continued, "Your Majesty, I have been recuperating in Pinglinjian and I really didn't know what this person did."

Lian Xiang clenched his fists and took out some letters. "Your Majesty, these are the letters between you and me in recent years."

Yu Jinghuai's eyes widened. He had never thought that Lian Xiang still had these letters. "Your Majesty, there must be someone in this world who can imitate my brother's handwriting. How can you use the letters to prove that it was my brother who did it?"

Lian Xiang finally saw Yu Jinghuai's face clearly. He stood up and pointed at Yu Jinghuai's nose. "If you hadn't told me to kill the messenger with my own hands so that the emperor could ask the prince to deal with the flood, I wouldn't have risked being beheaded to kill the messenger. Your purpose is so obvious, how can you cover it up with just a few words?"

He turned to look at Gong Xi Haoran, "Your Majesty, the name of the prince and his purpose are clearly written in the letter. We can find out whether it was written by the prince by just checking."

Gong Xi Haoran took a look at the contents of the letters and found that every page was written in Yu Jinghuai's handwriting. As Lian Xiang said, the word "Bo'er" was written on it.

Yu Jinghuai quickly kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, I have never written this. Everyone knows that I only have one son. The person who pretended to be me must also understand the relationship. He can easily find a pretext to accuse me."

Lian Xiang was so angry that he was shaking all over. He pointed at Yu Jinghuai's nose and cursed fiercely, "Yu Jinghuai, everyone knows that the prince is Yu Zibo, but they don't know that you have a concubine outside, and that the concubine has given birth to a son and a daughter for you. You mentioned this to me before, and you can't say that this was done by someone else impersonating you."

"What? Prince Yu actually has a concubine?"

"Princess Yu is the daughter of General Yan. How dare he keep a mistress outside?"

"That's enough!" Gong Xi Haoran suddenly slapped the armrest of the dragon throne, "Royal brother, do you have anything else to say?"

Yu Jinghuai immediately kowtowed and said, "I am innocent. I and the princess have always been friends and have treated each other with respect. When have I ever kept a concubine? Don't listen to the nonsense of this villain."

At this time, a young eunuch hurried over and whispered something into Su Gong's ear. Su Gong was shocked and quickly informed Gong Xi Haoran, "Your Majesty, the young master of the Shangguan family outside the palace wants to see you. He said he wants to give a gift to Envoy Jin."

"Oh?" Gong Xi Haoran said immediately, "Announce."

"Summon Shangguan Yi to see you!"

Shangguan Yi walked in, followed by a woman, a man and a little girl.

The woman was extremely beautiful and looked well-fed. She was about the same age as Yu Jinghuai, but still had an extremely beautiful appearance. When she saw Yu Jinghuai, she hurriedly said, "Master, are you okay?"

Yu Jinghuai was shocked, "Why are you here?"

Gong Xi Haoran sneered, "Shangguan Yi, please introduce who this woman is?"

Shangguan Yi bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this girl is Prince Yu's concubine, Li, and these two are the son and daughter born to the concubine."

Li was shocked. "Master Shangguan, didn't you say that the master was seriously injured and brought me to see him? The master wanted to explain the distribution of the inheritance, and the emperor wanted to grant me the position of the crown prince?"

Shangguan Yi smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I remembered it wrongly."

"You!" Li collapsed on the ground. Although she was a woman, she knew that Gong Xi Haoran was the emperor. She was deceived and ruined Yu Jinghuai's good deeds.