29: All parties are suspicious and just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger?

“If you don’t understand, then forget it.”

Lin Qinghuang no longer spoke about the matter.

Xie Weilou stretched out his foot and said to Qinghuang, “Lin Qinghuang, my feet are cold.”

Lin Qinghuang said indifferently, “Your body is depleted, your essence is damaged, you have kidney deficiency, and your yin and yang are insufficient, so it’s natural to feel cold.

Go to the brothels less, otherwise, you might not make it through this Winter.”

Xie Weilou said softly, “If you warm my bed and let me have a taste to replenish myself, I’ll make it through.”

“If you dare to spout nonsense again, I’ll make sure you don’t even make it through today.”

Lin Qinghuang’s face hardened, and she glared fiercely at Xie Weilou.

“It’s already so cold, why must your warm lips utter such chilling words?”

Xie Weilou said wistfully.

“......”

Lin Qinghuang closed her eyes, not wanting to bother with this fellow.

An hour later.

“Reporting to Commander Lin, we found a lot of golden tea at Zilan Teahouse, and it has now been sealed.

However, the Zilan Teahouse seems to be backed by Third Prince…”

Zhang Long saluted Lin Qinghuang.

“Understood!

You may go.”

Lin Qinghuang waved her hand, then picked up a pen and paper and quickly wrote a memorial.

Things were becoming more and more interesting.

Since those people wanted to contend, she would let them contend among themselves; she only needed to truthfully present the information she had found.

As for where her blade would ultimately point, that depended on what she could uncover.

Wanting to use her as a blade? It wouldn't be that easy.

——

Two hours later.

Lin Qinghuang’s memorial was presented through Great Commander.

Imperial Palace.

Qiankun Hall.

A pale-faced, dignified middle-aged man sat on the bed.

He looked at the memorial in his hand and said coldly, “Immediately tell Third Prince to come see This Emperor!”

This middle-aged man was Xia Emperor.

A eunuch hurriedly went to deliver the imperial decree.

After a while.

A young man entered the main hall.

He was dressed in a white robe, spotless and exceedingly handsome: “Son greets Imperial Father!”

This was precisely Third Prince, Yan Wuchen!

Xia Emperor looked indifferently at Yan Wuchen: “Do you know why I called you here?”

Yan Wuchen paused for a second: “Son does not know.”

“See for yourself.”

Xia Emperor threw the memorial to Yan Wuchen.

Yan Wuchen took the memorial, glanced at it, and his pupils constricted.

He immediately kowtowed and said, “Imperial Father, someone is falsely accusing Son.”

“Falsely accusing you?

The deaths of Zhang Zai and Xu Pan are both connected to golden tea, and your Zilan Teahouse also sells golden tea.

Do you think this is a false accusation?”

Xia Emperor said with a grim face.

“I…”

Yan Wuchen lowered his head, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

At this moment, he understood that it would be difficult to argue this matter.

Because Zilan Teahouse was indeed his, and he also sold golden tea, but the deaths of Zhang Zai and Xu Pan had absolutely nothing to do with him.

However, if he said that, who would believe him?

Xia Emperor said indifferently, “I will punish you to face the wall for half a month to calm down.

Also, the Winter Hunt matters you were in charge of will be handed over to your Eldest Brother.”

“Son understands.”

Yan Wuchen dared not refute.

“You may leave!”

Xia Emperor waved his hand.

Yan Wuchen lowered his head and retreated.

“Useless thing.”

Xia Emperor said coldly.

After leaving Qiankun Hall.

Yan Wuchen’s face immediately turned exceedingly gloomy.

He quickly returned to his residence.

He had been set up today, very well indeed!

“Greetings, Third Prince.”

The guard saw Yan Wuchen return and immediately stepped forward to salute.

Yan Wuchen said coldly, “Immediately go investigate the deaths of Zhang Zai and Xu Pan.

Also, thoroughly investigate the matters of Zilan Teahouse for This Prince.”

Zilan Teahouse just happened to sell golden tea for him, allowing him to earn a fortune.

Now that Zilan Teahouse had been sealed and much of the golden tea confiscated, he had suffered a huge loss.

Now that Xia Emperor already knew about his sale of golden tea, if he continued to sell this tea in the future, he would certainly pay a huge price.

The path to accumulating wealth through golden tea was temporarily unfeasible.

Someone had cut off his financial path and framed him, how could he not be angry?

The guard hurriedly went to handle it.

After one stick of incense.

The guard returned and handed a letter to Yan Wuchen: “The information has been found.

The deaths of Zhang Zai and Xu Pan are connected to golden tea, and the information about golden tea was given to Lin Qinghuang by someone in the palace!”

Yan Wuchen took the letter, read it carefully, and said with a grim face, “Information given by someone in the palace?

What a Yan Junlin, retaliating against Yan Wuhai is one thing, but he even dares to provoke me, using the golden tea matter to scheme against me, and also telling Lin Qinghuang the news about Zilan Teahouse selling golden tea.

This is going too far!

Since you are heartless, then don’t blame This Prince for being impolite.”

If Lin Qinghuang had investigated the golden tea matter herself, it would have taken a lot of time to trace it back to Zilan Teahouse, and he would have had enough time to react and erase the traces of golden tea at Zilan Teahouse.

But this time, someone in the palace directly sent a message, stating that Zilan Teahouse was selling golden tea, which gave him no chance to react.

In this palace, who was most likely to pass on the information about golden tea to Lin Qinghuang?

Naturally, it was the mastermind behind the Zhang Zai and Xu Pan cases, First Prince!

Yan Wuchen crushed the letter in his hand and said coldly, “The Winter Hunt is about to begin.

Imperial Father has entrusted this matter to Yan Junlin.

Go and prepare; I must give Yan Junlin a grand gift.”

“Your subordinate obeys.”

The guard bowed and quickly left.

——

Second Prince’s Residence.

A young man dressed in a blue robe with a gloomy face was scattering bait into the pond.

He was Second Prince, Yan Wuhai.

“Reporting to Your Highness, His Majesty summoned Third Prince and punished him to face the wall for a month.

The Winter Hunt matters have also been handed over to First Prince.”

A guard reported to Yan Wuhai.

Yan Wuhai said indifferently, “Eldest Brother played a good hand, killing two birds with one stone!”

The guard hesitated for a moment and said, “This matter could have been done by Third Prince, after all, he was selling that golden tea… and the deaths of Zhang Zai and Xu Pan are also inextricably linked to golden tea.”

Yan Wuhai said, “Third Brother wanting to add fuel to the fire is understandable, but he wouldn’t leave Zilan Teahouse as a flaw.

After all, he also suffered a considerable loss this time.

This clearly shows it was Eldest Brother’s doing, killing two birds with one stone, a good scheme!”

The guard looked at Yan Wuhai: “Now that First Prince is in charge of the Winter Hunt matters, should we…”

Yan Wuhai looked at the pond: “Observe the changes quietly!”

“Understood.”

The guard bowed.

At the same time.

First Prince’s Residence.

Yan Junlin, dressed in a black robe, was enjoying fine wine, a rich smile on his face: “I imagine Second Brother and Third Brother’s faces must be very ugly right now.”

“Don’t be too happy.

You might not be the true winner in this matter.”

An indifferent voice sounded, and Yan Ruyu walked over.

Yan Junlin looked at Yan Ruyu in surprise: “Why do you say that?”

Yan Ruyu said indifferently, “The matter of Zilan Teahouse selling golden tea was not discovered by Lin Qinghuang, but rather someone in the palace gave the information to Lin Qinghuang.”

“Oh?”

Yan Junlin raised an eyebrow.

The deaths of Zhang Zai and Xu Pan were indeed his doing, and the golden tea was also something he brought out, naturally for the purpose of a killing two birds with one stone scheme.

He not only wanted Lin Qinghuang to investigate Yan Wuhai, but also wanted Yan Wuchen to lose a chunk.

After all, he felt that something was amiss with the three forces approaching Yan Wuhai before, and someone might have been deliberately scheming, aiming to watch from the sidelines, and that person might be Third Brother Yan Wuchen.

Therefore, this time, he set a trap for Yan Wuchen.

But he did not tell Lin Qinghuang the news that golden tea was sold at Zilan Teahouse.

After all, it’s good to leave a way out when doing things; framing Yan Wuchen with golden tea was enough, and this would also give Yan Wuchen a chance to react, not making things too extreme.

However, someone in the palace directly sent a message to Lin Qinghuang, giving Yan Wuchen no chance to react, and Zilan Teahouse was directly wiped out, completely making things extreme.

This didn’t seem like a good thing either.

Yan Ruyu said faintly, “It seems there’s someone else behind this!

Fourth Prince, Fifth Prince, or Sixth Prince?

You set a scheme to kill two birds with one stone, but someone is setting a scheme to kill three birds with one stone, watching from the sidelines.”

Yan Junlin said with a grim face, “In the struggle for Royal Power, there must be people lurking and watching from the sidelines.

This won’t do; they must all be dragged out, otherwise, if he keeps hiding in the dark, it won’t be a good thing.”