If Gu Yuanbai said he wanted to investigate, then he would do so cleanly. After a small half hour, all the people from that day came before Gu Yuanbai.
The Xuanzheng Hall of the Grand Interior is splendid and very powerful.
Both sides of the palace guards standing with their heads hanging down, the air a palace mellow fragrance. Red pillars towering, quiet array, such a magnificent momentum, than that day in the middle of the wilderness more people come to fear and tension.
Kneeling below, the Xue Family's household servants did not dare to sweat, and Gu Yuanbai sat on a high seat, looked at the Xue Family's servants, and said indifferently, "Tell me, what was going on that day."
The Xue Mansion slave bowed and carefully said, "Your Holiness, the little ones only followed Lord Chu to the countryside that day, and in no way spied on the Holy Trail, and in no way were they in cahoots with that group of assassins."
After they finished speaking, they waited with bated breath for His Holiness' attitude. Gu Yuanbai said carelessly, "Continue."
They had no choice but to continue, "The little ones had not thought that His Holiness was also there; this is the sin of the little ones, and the little ones are willing to be punished."
The slaves of the Xue Mansion were also a loyal dog to their master.
Gu Yuanbai smiled, "Then you tell me who sent you to follow Chu Qing."
Chu Wei was silent; he was also here, still wearing a greenish-colored regular uniform because of the urgency with which he had been summoned.
His black hair was slightly disheveled by the winter wind, and a thin sweat rose on his forehead. He was licensed by His Majesty and stood straight to the side with his head hanging down as he listened to the words of these Xue mansion slaves.
The kneeling crowd did not dare to deceive the king, "It was the second prince who sent us to follow Lord Chu."
It was then that Chu Wei raised his eyebrows in some surprise as he slightly tilted his head sideways towards these household servants.
Each of these household servants was very strong, with gnarled muscles and stout physiques, and they all looked like they had some high-powered martial arts skills at hand. Yes, if they didn't have skills, how could they be sent by Xue Yuan to kill him? I just don't know if there are any of those people in here who had beaten him up in the middle of the alley.
Chu Wei thought of this but instead smiled, his green shirt and sleeve robe drew a clear stream in the air, saluted and bent down, slightly puzzled, "Second Duke? But I've never recognized this Second Prince."
The household servants in the Xue mansion thumped in their hearts and said, Bad.
They wore bitter colors and racked their brains to figure out how to take the words. Gu Yuanbai, however, no longer wanted to listen to the words of uncertain truth or falsehood coming out of their mouths.
He turned his head sideways, the line of his lower jaw connecting to his slender neck, and said indifferently, "Send someone from the Dong Lingwei to invite the second prince of the Xue Mansion here. Since these people don't dare to talk to him, it will be necessary to go and startle Old Lady Xue a bit."
"Check little by little, and tell Old Lady Xue what the slaves in their home have done in a big way. Find out all the letters between the two dukes' rooms in their mansion," Gu Yuanbai half bent his head, his black hair softly sliding down beside his jade-like face, his residual light glancing over the people kneeling on the ground, "Even their rooms are properly checked over."
The people of the Xue Mansion were busy saying, "Your Holiness, the little ones can say anything!"
Gu Yuanbai laughed and said, "I, however, am not willing to listen."
*
Gu Yuanbai would use Donglingwei as his eyes, as his hands, to see on his behalf how things ended up.
The crowd of Dong Ling Guards were the best of the best, their physical qualities were already strong and their logical thinking was even more meticulous. After half a year of training, their sensitivity and sharpness to clues and signs had reached a new level.
The Dong Ling Guards were polite first, and after politely signaling with Elder Lady Xue, they split up into two groups, each going to investigate what the Holy Lord wanted.
The footsteps of the Dong Ling Guards were very light, and they would not stay in a room for a long time after entering it. In less than two quarters of an hour, the people of the Eastern Plume Guards faded away like a tidal wave and left the Xue Mansion cleanly.
The rooms they had viewed were still in order, with not the slightest bit of chaos in sight. Aside from the fact that the second son of the Xue Mansion was missing, almost nothing else was missing.
It was the second son of Xue who was carried to the palace by the people of the Dong Lingwei and sent to the presence of His Majesty.
His leg was still broken and he became a cripple. If one were to say who had the most unpleasant reputation in the capital, then no one could compare to this Second Prince Xue in front of him.
Gu Yuanbai picked up his teacup and took a sip, his eyes still fixed on the zhang folders and continued to review the government affairs, "This is the second son of the Xue family? I still remember you."
Being remembered by the Holy Lord for that matter was not a good thing. Second Duke Xue was lying on the ground, but he was even more nervous than the people kneeling aside, and spoke with trepidation, "Your Holiness, Herborist Xue Lin, I am grateful that Your Holiness still remembers Herborist."
Gu Yuanbai lifted his eyelids and glanced towards him, "You are unlike your elder brother."
Second Duke Xue said, "I am no match for my elder brother."
Gu Yuanbai stopped talking, wrote the word "may" on the zhengzuo and put it aside. He began to look at the evidence that Dong Ling Wei had placed in front of him, of which, at the top was a letter that had been torn to pieces.
The Dong Ling Guards had utilized their powerful scouting skills to find these fragments one by one from all corners of the Xue Mansion, only there were still some that had dissipated into the wind and rain and could no longer be found.
Qin Sheng, the leader of the Dong Ling Guards, said in a deep voice, "Your Holiness, Elder Lady Xue only said that everything would be decided by Your Holiness."
Gu Yuanbai's expression slowed slightly, "I know."
He sat for a moment before reaching out, his slender fingers alabaster wrench sunk in, and bringing the shredded piece of paper to his face to look at it.
*
A message traveled from the northern border to the capital, which involved many, many uncertain risks.
Xue Yuan couldn't be sure if the words would actually reach the capital and reach Gu Yuanbai's ears.
And in the event that it did reach the capital, after passing through the layers of the stagecoach, what would become of the words in the end?
If there are people in there who are confused and have bad memories and don't take this as a matter of doing something, and maybe people who have a vendetta against Xue Yuan, this statement will be completely twisted.
During the days when he couldn't do anything in the northern border, Xue Yuan thought about everything, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought about the situation in a serious direction. His mental state looked in the eyes of the people around him, grumpy as if he was a lion whose tail had been stepped on and couldn't sleep.
The nearest Khitan tribes had already penetrated deep into the grasslands, and there were no battles to write up. Xue Yuan shaded for a few days and felt that only by dealing with the nomads early could he return to the capital a day earlier.
He asked General Xue for an order, and led his men under the cover of ice and snow to investigate the situation of the Piqi and Tuluyu tribes three times, and found that these two tribes have already been in contact with each other, and vaguely have the intention of an alliance.
The tens of thousands of Daheng soldiers stationed at the border finally made these tribes feel uneasy, they originally thought that the Daheng soldiers would return before the year, but they didn't expect to see their posture, this is to stay until after the year.
Why did you leave it until after the New Year? The Daheng soldiers were to be stationed at the border for so long, and anyone with a bit of brains knew that the coming was not good.
By the time Xue Yuan brought this news back for discussion, in the middle of the capital, the saint had already finished reading what the Dong Lingwei had found out.
Including the cobbled-together epistle that Xue Yuan wrote to Xue Lin.
Xue family servants only thought that the letter was written to Chu Wei's life, this moment are some face gray. But Xue Er knew the content of the letter, but a little better than them, and even some gloating thought, and he did not do anything, this letter is also written by Xue Yuan, to be condemned then to Xue Yuan condemnation.
Gu Yuanbai looked up after reading it, his face cloudy.
"Chu Qing, there's no business for you here," the saint suppressed the fire in his tone, "Tough you've made an extra trip, go back."
A thousand thoughts flashed through Chu Wei's mind.
Did His Majesty find out the reason and think he had nothing to do with it? Or did he find evidence that Xue Yuan wanted to kill him, so he couldn't tell him?
Ran Xue Yuan's people in front of him can not face to turn black and white, will be assassination said to protect, now Chu Wei once gone, they spread lies will not be even more regardless of it?
But Chu Wei is still graceful and leisurely out of the Xuanzheng Hall.
Why need to compete with such villains for such petty gains, how the Holy Spirit views them is the most important thing.
Only the Xue family was left in the palace, Gu Yuanbai leaned on the back of his chair and thought about things, and the palace was so silent that even his breathing seemed to be clearly audible.
Silence is an invisible executioner, pressing down on the spine and the heart.
"Speak, what else have you not said," Gu Yuanbai said in a deep voice, "I'll let you tell the truth."
Xue Er originally wanted to be the first to tell the truth, so that those domestic servants behind him would later put the blame on him. Unexpectedly, the household servants behind him were more direct than him, and spoke even faster: "Your Majesty, it was the Grand Duke who sent a letter back to the Second Duke from the border, and after reading it, the Second Duke sent us to keep an eye on Lord Chu."
It's this torn letter.
There were a few pieces missing from the letter, and the words that were there were unclear, but the words that Xue Yuan had sent to keep an eye on Chu Wei were by no means a good tone, and Gu Yuanbai's gaze moved to Xue Lin's body. As soon as Xue Lin was scared, he opened his mouth and read out the original words from the letter word for word.
Possessiveness and hidden thoughts about Gu Yuanbai were hidden in these words, which made Tian Fusheng, who was in the know, tremble with fear.
"Shut up." Gu Yuanbai suddenly said.
Second Prince Xue obediently shut his mouth and realized that His Holiness' face had become even deeper.
"You also told me earlier that you were sent to protect Chu Qing," Gu Yuanbai suppressed, "is this how you come to deceive the king?"
The crime of deceiving the king is pressed down, how can these people stand it, the light is to kill the head, the heavy is to be linked to the nine clans. Xue family servants immediately raised their hands and hit their own faces, "The little ones were mesmerized by the heart, at that time there happened to be assassins on the assassination, so they were too timid in their hearts to tell the truth."
These people were handed over by Gu Yuanbai to the Dong Lingwei to dispose of. After the people were gone, the saint looked at the things on the table and rubbed his forehead.
Xue Yuan didn't fool him, not once.
Every single one of these things had something to do with Gu Yuanbai, and the secrets he hid in them had absolutely nothing to do with Chu Wei.
But he was so bold, the blatant desire to possess the Emperor filled his mind, Second Prince Xue couldn't hear it, the others couldn't hear it, but how could Gu Yuanbai, who was a party to the incident, not hear the undercurrent of the oath of sovereignty that surged through it.
Xue Yuan followed Gu Yuanbai closely, he was not at all afraid of being seen in his mind, but instead, under such openness, under such shocking worldliness, everyone subconsciously discarded that idea.
This one thing of not being fooled made Gu Yuanbai's anger drop a lot and become calm. But again, such a letter, such something that was too much of an overreach, what did he ultimately see the emperor as?
Seeing as his person, seeing as all he has?
In front of him he said he was his master, but secretly he had already developed a strong desire to control his master.
At one time, he felt both introspective and guilty for letting Xue Yuan be misunderstood by him for nothing under his anger, and at another time, he also felt offended and vaguely more aggressive because of this kind of Xue Yuan's mind towards himself.
Does he think I'm in the bag?
How can he be so bold and still be so big?
Complex emotions mingled, and the mood that finally came out Gu Yuanbai could not say how.
After thinking about it for no more than a moment, he felt a vague ache return to his throat, which had been on fire the other day.
Regardless of anything else, let's just say that Xue Yuan wrote this letter to Xue Lin. He told Xue Lin to write down these people who had been in close contact with Gu Yuanbai and then wait for him to come back... wait for him to come back to do what?
Are you really going to come to the door and scream?
Kissed, touched, twice.
And that time the heart went soft.
Gu Yuanbai pinched his brow and pursed his lips straight with his eyes closed. The color of his lips was so hard that they turned white, a hundred flavors were mixed, one moment anger stood in the upper hand, and one moment the guilt of misunderstanding someone else because of that anger stood in the upper hand again.
He was not saying a word, but the chief of guards on that side said apprehensively, "Your Holiness, in fact, a month ago, Lord Xue had also written a letter to me."
Gu Yuanbai froze and raised his eyes to look at him.
The head of the guards had a strange expression on his face, and he couldn't seem to guess what Xue Yuan really meant: "Lord Xue said that he had a disease where his heart panicked, and that he had to eat flower petals from time to time in order to stop the panic. But where are the flowers in the northern border, so he asked my minister to send him some sun-dried flower petals over."
Gu Yuanbai wondered, "What's the point of saying this to you."
Can't someone from the Xue Mansion deliver it? And why does that sound wrong in every way?
The head guard had difficulty speaking, his face reddening, "Lord Xue said that he was afraid that he was suffering from some great disease that could not be cured. Then he wanted the blessed protection of His Holiness, so he pleaded with me to let me fish out the petals that His Holiness used when bathing and dry them before sending them to him."
Gu Yuanbai: "......" When did he ever use flower petals.
All that guilt in his heart went up in smoke, and all the anger that followed those became incoherent.
Crying and laughing.
Gu Yuanbai suddenly came to his senses.
Why bother?
Wrong is wrong, right is right. Gu Yuanbai did wrong, he admitted his fault, Xue Yuan dare these thoughts, but Gu Yuanbai can not stop people's thoughts, as long as he did not make a practical threat to other people's actions, Gu Yuanbai should not be used to make himself annoyed before these things happened.
In contrast, instead, it was Gu Yuanbai's thinking that seemed to have been limited by the general environment of ancient times.
He was trying to fit in with the current climate, but he should also remain conscious at all times. Gu Yuanbai felt that the most valuable thing in him was precisely the way of thinking that his later life had fostered in him, and this way of thinking told him that no one could control what others thought.
He introspected himself and put everything else down for a while, looking only at his own mistakes.
Gu Yuanbai had agreed to compensate Xue Yuan, and he was wanting flower petals?
Gu Yuanbai turned his head sideways and said toward Tian Fusheng, "Go find all the valuable flowers in the capital and find them air-dried."
He can't send petals that he has soaked, but he can send all the flowers that should and shouldn't bloom in this season.
Since the first snowflake of the northern border was returned, let's compensate him for all the famous flowers of the capital.