mtl008 Chapter 126 Who is Lord Yan?
Chapter 126 Who is Lord Yan?
The two people outside heard the noise and immediately broke through the door and rushed in.
They were all horrified when they saw the scene in the room.
"Your Highness!"
The two men immediately went to see King Kang and shouted, "Someone, come quickly!"
Several nearby palace maids and eunuchs came over after hearing the news, and were also frightened by the scene in the room. Ning Miao quietly slipped out and mixed in behind the palace maids.
Seeing that Prince Kang was not wearing any underwear, several palace maids screamed in fear, some covered their eyes, some left the room, and some ran out to get water.
In the chaos, Ning Miao also ran after him, covering his face.
For a while, Haitang Palace was in chaos.
She ran straight to the gate, and fearing that the two people at the gate would stop her, she screamed at the top of her voice in advance.
"It's on fire! The darkroom in the west is on fire! Something has happened to His Royal Highness Prince Kang! Everyone, put out the fire!"
The two people guarding the door were shocked when they heard this and rushed in.
Ning Miao passed by the two of them in a flash.
The two of them didn't see clearly who ran over, they only saw that it was a palace maid, and then they seemed to hear the palace maid say: "I'm going to Weiyang Palace to inform Concubine Shu."
The two of them didn't care, nor did they have time to pay attention, and hurriedly ran towards the darkroom in the west.
Ning Miao walked out of the Begonia Palace and ran for a while, then stopped when he saw no one was following him.
Then she assumed the postures of the palace maids, clasping her hands together, placing them in front of her, slightly tilting her head, lowering her brows and looking down, and walked straight in one direction.
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There was chaos outside the darkroom at this time.
The palace servants had carried Prince Kang out and put on his underwear.
But there was a blazing fire in the darkroom.
Because lamp oil helps combustion, and fetching water from a copper basin is far away and inconvenient, the fire could not be put out at all.
Soon the guards patrolling nearby were alarmed.
The guards rushed to help put out the fire.
The news soon spread to the Weiyang Palace.
When the emperor, empress and everyone attending the birthday banquet arrived, the fire was almost out.
Fortunately, the darkroom was in a remote location and did not affect the surroundings, but it was still a mess.
The servants of Haitang Palace knelt in the courtyard, and everyone felt insecure.
"Where is Prince Kang?" Emperor Zhaoqing asked in a deep voice.
The eunuch in charge replied in a trembling voice: "His Royal Highness Prince Kang is on the low couch in the side hall, and he hasn't woken up yet."
Emperor Zhaoqing turned and went to the side hall, followed closely by the Empress and Shufei.
Others followed.
When everyone saw King Kang, they were all shocked.
The originally pure white robe was now dirty and bloodstained, even the underwear and hands were covered in blood.
What shocked everyone even more was the wound on his face.
A serious scratch, long and deep, split the originally handsome face.
Shu Fei almost fainted when she saw this, but the maid next to her was quick to support her. She threw herself on the couch and burst into tears.
"Li'er, what happened to you? How did you become like this?"
Emperor Zhaoqing also looked very unhappy, and ordered the palace servants in a deep voice: "Quickly call the imperial physician!"
No one knows what happened.
Prince Ning and Yan Mobai stood in the crowd and looked at each other. They both shook their heads imperceptibly, indicating that they also didn't know.
Emperor Zhaoqing returned to the courtyard again.
Except Shu Fei, everyone else followed along.
Emperor Zhaoqing asked the palace servants of Haitang Palace who were kneeling on the ground: "What happened?"
Everyone bowed their heads to the ground, trembling.
In fact, they don’t know what’s going on?
They only knew that His Royal Highness Prince Kang brought a beautiful woman to Haitang Palace, went to the darkroom, and then this happened.
Even some of Prince Kang's trusted eunuchs didn't understand what was going on.
Clearly, His Royal Highness Prince Kang took the beautiful woman to the darkroom, and Princess Anyang's maid Ling Ling was locked in the darkroom. How come in the end, there were only Prince Kang and the beautiful woman in the darkroom?
Where is the bell?
There were no windows in the darkroom, the door was locked, there was someone guarding outside the door, and Lingling's hands and feet were tied. How could she disappear out of thin air?
No matter whether it was the ordinary maids in Haitang Palace or the few trusted maids of Prince Kang, no one dared to report to the emperor easily.
Because when the fire started, everyone who went in saw that King Kang was not wearing any underwear, and the woman was also not wearing anything underneath, with her lower limbs spread wide open. No one had to guess what had happened before the fire started.
Then, the woman used a hairpin to scratch King Kang's face.
King Kang held a candlestick in his hand, and blood gushed out of the woman's heart.
There is no need to guess, you know what happened.
The woman scratched King Kang's face with a hairpin, and King Kang stabbed the woman to death with a candlestick.
This concerns the reputation of the prince and human lives, how can anyone dare to go back so easily?
Emperor Zhaoqing saw that no one spoke, and shouted angrily, "Speak!"
The eunuch in charge had no choice but to speak with a trembling voice.
"Your Majesty, I don't know what happened, but I found that the darkroom was on fire. When we went to put out the fire, we found His Royal Highness Prince Kang lying unconscious inside, and another girl was also lying on the ground, her whole body was on fire."
The eunuch in charge thought that this reply should not be wrong.
He didn't say anything he shouldn't have said.
Everyone at the scene was shocked, including Emperor Zhaoqing.
"A girl?" asked Emperor Zhaoqing.
The eunuch in charge did not dare to raise his eyes, but fell to the ground and replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, yes, the girl is dead."
Everyone was shocked again.
There are actually casualties.
Emperor Zhaoqing's expression became even uglier, and he said in a deep voice, "Where are the Minister of Justice, the Minister of the Supreme Court, and the Censor of the Censorate?"
The Minister of Justice Liu Yongning, the Censor of the Metropolitan Censorate Yu Wen, and the Minister of the Supreme Court Yan Mobai stepped forward and saluted: "Your humble servant is here."
"Go and see what's going on." Emperor Zhaoqing ordered.
"Yes!" The three of them obeyed the order.
Then, they went into the darkroom which was burnt to ashes.
Emperor Zhaoqing and the others were waiting outside.
As soon as the three of them entered the room, they saw the charred body on the ground.
Even though they were used to trying cases and seeing corpses, the three of them still changed their expressions.
The body was burnt beyond recognition, but one could still vaguely see that the lower half of the body was naked, and in a very shocking posture.
so......
The three of them looked at each other and stepped forward.
Originally, Yan Mobai was walking at the back. The Minister of Justice Liu Yongning and the Censor of the Censorate Yu Wen had already squatted down in front of him, ready to carefully examine the corpse.
Suddenly, a hairpin on the woman's head caught his eye, and Yan Mobai's pupils narrowed sharply.
Double butterfly pearl and jade hairpin!
Breathing suddenly became difficult. He took a step forward and pushed Liu Yongning and Yu Wen away with both hands.
The two were caught off guard, and Yan Mobai was very strong, so they were pushed to the ground from the left and right.
Liu Yongning was old, and although the fall was not serious, his old bones almost fell apart. He immediately frowned to express his dissatisfaction.
"Master Yan, you..."
He didn't finish his words because he saw Yan Mobai pick up a hairpin from the corpse's head with a terrifying expression on his face.
Yu Wen also discovered it.
Having served in the same court for several years, he had never seen Yan Mobai with such an expression.
"But who is Lord Yan?" Yu Wen asked.