377 The Truth 4 (1/2)

Their plan for those two men was for them to kill the wicked concubine if they had failed. However... didn't the Han Emperor already kill the wicked concubine on their behalf? So, how could the target suddenly change to the Emperor?!

If someone searched for the perpetrator, they planned to let those two men point at the eunuch who hired them to begin with. No matter who the eunuch's master was, they didn't care. It wasn't their business anyway to care about the power struggle inside the palace --- they just needed to get their revenge and leave the mess behind.

”Is this Feng Yong Rui's doing?” Yao Ling whispered softly at Yao Ying. However, why would he do that? He was so loyal to the Han Emperor, so it didn't make sense for him to do this.

The latter murmured his agreement, ”I think so as well.” Feng Yong Rui was very powerful inside his mind, thus, he was very sure that this must have something to do with him. He saw with his eyes how many people in the place who were actually Feng Yong Rui's men --- all of them weren't arranged for one or two days because most of them had quite high positions inside the palace.

Arranging them with such a meticulous method would need a long term plan and Yao Ying believed that Feng Yong Rui must have been planning this for a long time. But... for what?

They felt that something wasn't right but they couldn't understand which part. Xiao Fang, who was always a bit slow, felt confused as well, but she tried to find a reasonable reason for this matter.

Yao Ying and Yao Ling's suspicion was slightly dispelled when Xiao Fang said, ”Maybe father wants to avenge the grievance for us?”

If Xiao Fang had put it that way, it was certainly making sense. They could see how much Feng Yong Rui doted on Xiao Fang. However, Yao Ling didn't think that it was that simple.

When Yao Ling was going to think more about it, her name was called from behind by a man, ”Yao Ling...”

She turned around happily because she recognized the voice. She quickly saw Rong Qiu and her worry turned into relief, and relief turned into happiness. ”Father!” She yelled loudly and quickly hugged Rong Qiu without paying attention to where she was.

Yao Ling looked at her father up and down, feeling slightly relieved when she didn't find something amiss. However, she still asked perfunctory questions, ”Are you okay? What happened to you? Did the Han Emperor do something to you?” She kept bombarding Rong Qiu with questions that made the latter didn't know whether he should laugh or cry. How could he answer so many questions all at once? His daughter looked like a mother hen and he wondered which one the elder here? He found it really funny ah~!

Yao Ying could only shake his head at Yao Ling's behavior, but he didn't prevent her from doing so because he knew how worried she was all this time. He just wanted to let the woman be happy for a little while.

Lin Jian gave a suggestion, ”Can we talk about this later? We should leave the palace first before catching up. Xiao Fang's father will deal with the aftermath so we don't have to stay in the palace anymore.”

Lin Jian was able to see that several people were looking at their direction while whispering to each other --- they didn't need to be gossiped at this time, after all, the palace was quite in a mess. It was better if they appeared low-key around this time.

Everyone nodded in agreement. Ah Man already prepared a way out for them but he didn't follow them back to the prime minister's manor. He let someone else sent them home with two big carriages.