524 Incident (3)
The corners of You Yi’s mouth twitched.
Song Jingchen called out his name. He knew that His Highness had indeed sold him out!
The Demon Guard absolutely obeyed his orders. He cupped his fists and knelt on one knee. “Greetings, Miss.”
Shen Yijia was not really stupid. She quickly understood that the reason why she could not sense You Yi’s existence was because he was powerful.
Then she thought of the person who had ambushed her in the arena. She asked, “In the arena, someone ambushed me. Were you the one who saved me?”
You Yi said, “I was just following His Highness’s orders.”
As expected.
Shen Yijia nodded. “Then who’s more powerful, you or that person?”
“I haven’t fought him in a long time, so I don’t know,” You Yi said honestly.
He and Night Soul protected different masters. Although they had trained together since they were young, they did not even know what the other party looked like. The same went for him and the other Demon Guards beside Xuanyuan Ce.
Moreover, before the late emperor sent them to their respective masters, his last order was that they were not allowed to attack each other.
In other words, even if Xuanyuan Ce and the king turned against each other and instructed them to kill each other, they would not attack. This meant that there was no chance for the Demon Guards to fight each other.
After receiving a free guard, Shen Yijia immediately instructed him to protect Song Jingchen.
In the end, she realized that You Yi listened to everything she said, except for this order. The other party ignored her.
Shen Yijia stomped her feet in anger.
Song Jingchen comforted her in amusement. “Alright, I still have South Wind by my side. I don’t need him. Besides, I’ll be at ease if he stays by your side.”
Shen Yijia could only give up.
It was impossible to return it. It was free. It would be a waste not to take it!
Ever since she had such a mysterious person by her side, Shen Yijia often suddenly said, “You Yi, I can see you. Don’t hide anymore.”
It was also because she said this, from time to time when the Demon Guards gathered again, the others realized that You Yi’s concealment ability had improved by leaps and bounds, leaving them in the dust.
That would come later.
After the emperor’s birthday, the cases that had been accumulated previously were also brought up.
Apart from the case of the corpses at the bottom of the lake, the most shocking thing was the matter of the county magistrate of Songshan County privately mining iron ore.
When iron ore was mentioned, it often reminded people of weapons.
Forging weapons privately was prohibited.
Everyone’s first reaction was that this county magistrate wanted to rebel.
The person who proposed this case was none other than Grand Tutor Zhao himself.
He claimed that his servants in Songshan County went hunting in the mountains and were killed for accidentally running into one of the miners.
Grand Tutor Zhao felt that something was wrong, so he sent someone to investigate. He did not expect to find that it was an iron mine, and the person who privately mined it was the county magistrate of Songshan County.
County Magistrate Yang knew that his plan had been exposed and did not want to implicate his family, so he set himself on fire.
The emperor was furious. He sent someone to Songshan County and found a confession letter at the county magistrate’s house. The confession letter stated that he had sold the iron ore to foreigners. The people sent by the emperor even found a large amount of money in his house.
The other officials in Songshan County who were involved also unanimously pointed out that County Magistrate Yang had forced them to do this.
Actually, they all knew that there was someone else from the capital who was involved. Unfortunately, other than County Magistrate Yang, the others did not know who it was.
Instead of randomly pulling out people they could not afford to offend, it was better to bite County Magistrate Yang to death.
After all, the dead couldn’t speak.
Apart from the confession, there was also an account book found in County Magistrate Yang’s house.
The amount of money involved in all the transactions and the distribution of the money was clearly written on it.
In the end, it was the same amount of money found in County Magistrate Yang’s house.
The most ironic thing was that the largest portion of the money in the account book had been silently sent to the emperor.
It was the birthday gift he had sent to the capital before he died.
Thinking of the adult-sized golden statue, the emperor was so angry that he took three medicinal pills to recover.
“Yang Kaiming, how dare you act so boldly under my nose? I don’t even dare to think about how many vermin like him there are in my vast Great Xia.”
“Your Majesty, please calm down!” The ministers hurriedly kowtowed and shouted.
“Calm down? How do you want me to calm down?” The emperor swept all the memorials to the ground.
Now that Yang Kai had died, he couldn’t vent his anger even if he wanted to.
The emperor flew into a rage in the imperial court and immediately appointed Grand Tutor Zhao as the imperial envoy to audit the officials everywhere for him.
After the court session, the ministers looked at Grand Tutor Zhao with different expressions. There was envy, sympathy, and wariness.
Lord Zhao was amazing. It was not a small matter to report him accurately.
Grand Tutor Zhao ignored them and quickly caught up to Song Jingchen. “Earl Zhongyi.”
Song Jingchen turned around and glanced at him coldly. “Lord Zhao, what’s the matter?”
A smug expression flashed across Grand Tutor Zhao’s face. “It’s nothing. I just want to remind Earl Zhongyi that it’s not easy to return to the capital. Earl Zhongyi should cherish his blessings.”
“Don’t chase after the past. Otherwise, His Majesty won’t be at ease.”
“Is that so?” Song Jingchen sneered and left.
In Grand Tutor Zhao’s opinion, he was exasperated.