CWTGD Chapter 400 - Trapped Beast, Dog Jumps Over the Wall
"Your Majesty has gone to bed, please return, Lord Lu."
In front of the second gate, a eunuch came to answer.
Lu Chongyuan's expression was almost unbearable: "This old minister has something very important to ask Your Majesty, and there is no time to delay..."
The eunuch standing in front of him just lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty has ordered that you do not see anyone."
"But……"
"Lu Langling, please go back."
Lu Chongyuan opened his mouth and wanted to say that his Majesty's safety was at stake and he wanted to force his way into the palace as he had done before. However, when he looked up and saw the guards with swords and heavy armor standing behind the eunuch, all his words died in his throat.
The dimly lit palace was like a giant beast with its mouth wide open to devour people's hearts. The heavily guarded Forbidden Palace was no longer something he could enter as he wished.
He was no longer the powerful Minister of the Central Secretariat who could enter the palace to meet the emperor without an imperial edict. Emperor An's cold treatment of him made people in the palace follow suit and flatter the powerful and bully the weak.
Now that the emperor is not around, if anyone dares to trespass, he will probably be killed on the spot.
The eunuch remembered Eunuch Feng's instructions, and after delivering the message, he turned around and went back to the palace. Lu Chongyuan watched through the palace gate as the figure in the corridor disappeared, and then he led Xilin, who was holding a lantern and wanted to say something, away.
"My lord, didn't we come here to see His Majesty? Why are we just leaving like this?" Xilin asked in a low voice.
Lu Chongyuan said awkwardly: "We won't be able to see your Majesty tonight."
How could he forget that the eunuch Feng who served the emperor personally took people to Jiyun Lane. Logically, he should have known that Xiao Yan was no longer in the capital, but until now no news has been heard, and Emperor An was completely unaware of it. It was obvious that someone was covering it up.
He always thought that he had thought highly enough of Xiao Yan, but he never expected that he could even bribe the people in front of the emperor. When the palace was purged earlier, the Lu family's spies were completely eliminated, and those who were later sent into the palace with great difficulty could not get close to Emperor An at all.
Xilin was shocked: "What should we do now?"
Lu Chongyuan looked at the night and whispered, "Go back first and wait for the morning court tomorrow."
Eunuch Feng could stop him, but he couldn't stop all the court officials.
He didn't believe that Emperor An would be able to sit still after knowing what Xiao Yan was going to do outside the capital!
Lu Chongyuan was ordered by Emperor An to be under house arrest and unable to attend court. He wrote letters overnight and had them delivered to the residences of several court officials, asking them to ask to see Emperor An the next day to pass on his message. However, his plan was well planned, but during the morning court the next day, news came from the palace that Emperor An had a headache and would not attend court for three days.
The affairs of the court were temporarily handed over to Grand Tutor Liang and other veteran ministers such as Cao Dejiang. Emperor An lived in the Imperial Dragon Terrace to recuperate. Not only could Lu Chongyuan not see Emperor An, even the ministers' requests for an audience were rejected by the palace.
Lu Chongyuan had no choice but to find Master Liang, but the letter he sent was returned to him intact.
Lu Chongyuan held the letter in his hand and said, "You said that Master Liang didn't see you?"
The servant who delivered the letter lowered his head and said, "No, I went there and asked to see the Grand Tutor and explained my purpose. The Liang family welcomed me into the mansion and only said that Grand Tutor Liang was entertaining guests and would see me later."
"I was waiting outside, but who would have thought that someone from the Liang family would come out not long after and return the letter that the young master had sent unopened. They also said that Grand Tutor Liang was busy with something important today and couldn't spare the time. They said that they would find time to come to the mansion to visit the young master after they were done with their work."
Lu Chongyuan's face looked extremely ugly. He didn't write anything important in the letter. He just wanted Master Liang to find a way to let him meet Emperor An. Now Emperor An had a headache and would not see anyone. Only Master Liang and Cao Dejiang could occasionally come to the palace to answer his questions.
Master Liang had always relied on him in the past, and he cared the most about the interests of the aristocratic family. It was reasonable for him not to refuse such a simple matter.
But now...
Seeing that the letter was crumpled into a ball by Lu Chongyuan, the servant whispered, "I felt something was wrong at the time. After leaving the Liang family, I didn't come back directly. I hid outside the Liang family and waited for a while, and then I saw Cao Gong coming out of the Liang family."
Among all the ministers in the court, only Cao Dejiang could be called "Duke Cao".
Lu Chongyuan's forehead was bulging with veins: "That old bastard Cao Dejiang!"
Seeing Lu Chongyuan getting angry, Xilin quickly waved his hand to dismiss everyone in the room. When only two people were left in the room, he could not help but get anxious: "Master, Cao Dejiang has always been at odds with people from aristocratic families. How could he get involved with the Liang family?"
"For what else? That old bastard surnamed Cao is actually helping Xiao Yan!"
Lu Chongyuan no longer had his usual calmness. He was filled with rage and smashed the things on the table to the ground.
His eyes were red like a trapped beast, and he was gasping for breath as he stood in front of the table with his hands.
"Cao Dejiang has always boasted of being noble and upright, thinking that he is innocent. He always thinks that the aristocratic families are clumsy and self-interested, and that the officials protect each other and collude with each other. But now, he, a censor, is actually colluding with Xiao Yan, a eunuch, to help him deceive his superiors and subordinates."
"You are such a shameless old man who is so pretentious!!"
Lu Chongyuan was so angry that he wanted to tear Xiao Yan to pieces. When on earth did he become so powerful that he not only won over Eunuch Feng, but even Cao Dejiang, who never got involved in these matters, secretly protected him!
It was obvious that as long as he met Emperor An, he could expose the fact that Xiao Yan was not in the capital, and with the help of Emperor An, Xiao Yan would be killed without a burial place, but everyone was against him.
For three whole days, he was trapped in the Lu family and couldn't go anywhere. Jingzhao Prefecture, the Ministry of Justice, and the Dali Temple went in and out of the Lu family every day in the name of investigating cases. The people who mixed in with them kept a close eye on them, and Xiao Yan must have received the news and rushed back to the capital.
If he doesn't take action now, when he returns to Beijing, not to mention the old affairs in the South, the Lu family will be wiped out by the Queen Lu incident alone!
“We can’t just sit there and wait for death.”
Lu Chongyuan gritted his teeth and paced back and forth like a trapped beast. After a while, he suddenly stopped and said, "Go call Nighthawk over!"
"Lord?" Xilin was shocked.
Lu Chongyuan tightly grasped the corner of the table: "Since they refuse to let me see His Majesty, then I will force His Majesty to see me. As long as I can reveal that Xiao Yan is not in the capital and let His Majesty know that he went to the South, His Majesty will not forgive him!"
Emperor An can understand everything he does now before the events in the South.
…
The sun set, but the sunset glow did not disappear, and the sky gradually darkened.
Tang Ning has not been to the academy these days, and has been staying in Heli Hall every day.
Xue Ru already knew that Xiao Yan was not in the capital. When her elder sister left the academy early that day, she instructed Hang Li and others to let her lie to the academy teacher. Later, someone from the palace came to ask her elder sister when she left the academy, and Xue Ru realized that something was wrong.
After returning home and seeing the worried Rong Yue and Gu Helian, and hearing about what was happening outside, the intelligent Xue Ru guessed the truth.
She brought the dinner to the Leaping Carp Terrace, saw Tang Ning curled up on the chaise longue, and said softly:
"Sister."
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