After hearing these words, Shen Shuxuan suddenly raised her head, with tears in her eyes, and said with grief and anger as if she was ready to risk her life: "Even if I tell you, will you be able to fulfill my wish? What if? If you can't fulfill my wish, then I might as well die."
"Of course I can." Yu Jiujiu heard this and said firmly.
"Why can you? You are just a princess and you don't have any power in your hands." Shen Shuxuan obviously didn't believe it. Thinking of the deep hatred hidden in her heart, she couldn't help but feel depressed.
"Just because I am the most favored Princess Lingfu by my father and the emperor's grandmother, and because my grandfather is the current prime minister, and I am the only one who is favored by thousands of people in the entire Daxia Kingdom, what I want to do can definitely be done. "Yu Jiujiu stood tall and straight with her little body, her chin slightly raised, and pride written all over her white and tender face.
She is so confident.
Shen Shuxuan hesitated, but he believed her words a little.
"Besides, isn't your so-called wish just to avenge Gao Yuanzhi's death?" Yu Jiujiu glanced at her, and his calm tone immediately revealed what was on her mind.
Shen Shuxuan suddenly bit her lip, as if she didn't expect that she actually knew.
Yu Jiujiu raised the corners of her lips lukewarmly and gave a symbolic smile.
"Gao Yuanzhi was a good man, but suddenly he slipped and fell into a well and died two days before his father arrived in Xinzhou Prefecture. To the people of Xinzhou Prefecture, this incident was just a topic of discussion about a bizarre incident after dinner. In Xinzhou Prefecture, For many officials, they are just one of the one or two who die every day due to accidents."
Yu Jiujiu stared at Shen Shuxuan with her dark eyes, "But you are different. You and Gao Yuanzhi made a love for life when they were teenagers. At the age of twenty, he gave birth to his daughter Qin Shiyi. Even now, she is pregnant with him again. You know more about Gao Yuanzhi than others. His death was definitely not an accident. You know this.
"You want to hook up with my father and become the imperial concubine because you want to avenge Gao Yuanzhi in the future. However, if you have to become the imperial concubine to avenge him, it means that you know very well who the murderer of Gao Yuanzhi is. Moreover, This person’s identity must be extraordinary, right?”
Shen Shuxuan followed her words and couldn't help but nodded, and replied calmly: "Yes..."
Yu Jiujiu asked her: "Who is this person?"
Shen Shuxuan said blankly: "I don't know..."
Yu Jiujiu immediately frowned, a trace of impatience flashed across his expression.
Shen Shuxuan noticed it at a glance, suddenly came back to her senses, and said quickly: "I really don't know who this person is! I only know that Gao Yuanzhi has been helping the Duke's Mansion these years! His death must be related to the Duke's Mansion. It can’t be separated!”
Yu Jiu Jiu heard the words and remained silent, his dark eyes still staring at her, waiting for her to continue.
Shen Shuxuan bit her lip again, grabbing the quilt covering her body with both hands, and wrinkled the embroidery on it.
She hesitated for a moment, then seemed to make up her mind, and continued: "Gao Yuanzhi and I know each other because he works for the Duke's government, but this is secretly done, and no one knows about it.
"The small door in the courtyard where the emperor lives now is dedicated to Gao Yuanzhiliu.
"What exactly did Gao Yuanzhi do for the Duke's Mansion? My grandfather knows best about this matter, because Gao Yuanzhi always comes through that door to find his grandfather. As for whether other people from the Duke's Mansion were involved, I It’s not clear anymore.
"However, I know that due to the drought in the past few years, the imperial court exempted the people from taxes and did not have to turn in grain. However, the weather started to go smoothly last spring. The grain handed over by Xinzhou Prefecture was more than half less than the amount stipulated by the imperial court last year. Everyone thought it was because of the previous disaster years, but I accidentally heard my father mention that last year’s harvest was actually very good.”
Yu Jiujiu's expression became slightly serious.
The imperial court collects grain every year, and there is a quota based on local production.
She remembered that before the southern tour, her father mentioned that there were many paddy fields on the Liangzhejiang Road, and more than 4 million shi of grain was turned in every year during good years. However, in recent years, the grain paid on the Liangzhejiang Road was far from the quota.
Either the people really can't hand over the food.
Either the food that was handed over was stolen.
Shen Shuxuan said she didn't know who in the Shen family was involved in the things Gao Yuanzhi did for them, but she specifically mentioned the matter of handing over grain. As such a big matter, Shen Qingrong, as the largest official in Liangzhe Road, if There was something abnormal, how could he not notice it?
Unless, he himself has a problem.
"You suspected that Gao Yuanzhi had done it and would be found out, so the Duke of Guo's Mansion sent someone to kill him. The Duke of Guo's Mansion is your family. If you were divorced by the Qin family, you could only rely on the Duke of Guo's Mansion. But If you want to find out the truth for Gao Yuanzhi and avenge him, you must find someone to rely on. After thinking about it, you have taken a fancy to my father, especially after learning that you are pregnant."
Yu Jiujiu spoke calmly about Shen Shuxuan's motives.
It's a pity that Shen Shuxuan really doesn't have any redeeming features that can attract her father's attention.
"This is a good idea." Yu Jiujiu commented very impressively.
It's just that Shen Shuxuan is too stupid.
So stupid that this plan cannot be successfully implemented.
To be fair, Yu Jiujiu felt that if this plan had been carried out by the fake Princess Ningxiang, Li Zhu, I'm afraid it would have been easy to succeed, coaxing her father to willingly raise children for others, and he would be a cuckold.
"However, this idea is definitely not something you can come up with. Who gave you the idea?" Yu Jiujiu asked again. It was not that she looked down on Shen Shuxuan.
It is true that Shen Shuxuan herself is not up to par, there is not a single bit of cleverness in her body, and even if there is, it is just some disgusting little cleverness.
"Yes...it's Eunuch Li." Shen Shuxuan didn't expect that Yu Jiujiu could even guess this, so she couldn't help but said softly.
"Eunuch Li?" Yu Jiujiu thought about it seriously, what kind of Eunuch Li is there in Xinzhou Prefecture?
Suddenly, she thought of someone, "Li Weiran?"
"It's him. He is Yuanzhi's godfather. He has always treated Yuanzhi like his own son. Yuanzhi has no father or mother since he was a child. He relies on Eunuch Li to take care of him and raise him. Yuanzhi works for the Duke's government, and it is also Eunuch Li who pulls the strings. The bridge was built, and it was Eunuch Li who told me that Yuanzhi's death was not an accident, but that the Duke's government must have wanted to kill him and silence him." Shen Shuxuan honestly explained all this.
Yu Jiujiu listened to her words and savored them carefully for a moment.
Then, remembering what Empress Dowager Yin had told her about Li Weiran before she left the palace, a meaningful smile appeared on her face: "It seems that Eunuch Li is indeed very sad about the death of his godson."