Great, it's just a lackey, we're saved!

Chapter 266 The Most Improbable Person!

Tan Lin's gaze seemed to possess a penetrating insight into people's hearts!

The princess felt a chill run down her spine as she was stared at.

My mind was filled with a thunderous roar, as if something was breaking through the fog and emerging from the ground!

After a long pause, she finally spoke, her voice slightly unsteady: "Mr. Tan, are you referring to... Minister Xie?"

"No, impossible! Minister Xie is long dead, how could it be him?"

The princess lost her balance and stumbled backward, but Zhou Wei immediately reached out to support her.

"Princess, what are you talking about? What Minister Xie?"

Jiang Yueli was emotionally agitated, and Zhou Wei hadn't reacted yet, so she could only try her best to appease the princess.

Tan Lin then said, "The truth does sound absurd, but once we eliminate all the wrong people, what remains is the truth."

"Does the princess still remember when Lord Xie and his entire family were executed?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Wei finally realized what was going on.

She looked at Tan Lin with some shock.

I never expected that Tan Lin would suspect someone who had been dead for more than ten years!

Xie Pengju, Minister Xie, is that even possible?

Zhou Wei went through all of Xie Pengju's conditions.

The Northern Scholar was a man of extraordinary bearing and exceptional strategic acumen; he was a man of exceptional intelligence.

He had known the Great Zhou Emperor for many years, almost becoming sworn brothers, and ultimately helped him conquer the world!

Shortly after the Great Zhou Emperor ascended the throne, he was executed along with his entire clan for treason.

“No, no,” Zhou Wei felt this was too complicated, her brain cells were running out of steam. “Mr. Tan, if Xie Pengju is a fake emperor, then wouldn’t he be ordering his own death? Why would he do that?”

"Naturally, it's to make Xie Pengju's disappearance more natural," Tan Lin replied calmly. "As the Minister of Revenue, if Xie Pengju were to vanish without a trace, do you think the people of the world wouldn't be suspicious?"

"The only way to prevent people from suspecting him is to frame him for a crime and make everyone in the world think he is dead."

Tan Lin's words seemed to carry a tremendous force, relentlessly pounding at the Princess.

Jiang Yueli's mind was in turmoil, but she did not completely lose her rationality.

The words Ning He had said to her in the past became incredibly clear at this moment!

“Alas, my father has tried his best for more than ten years, but he has not been able to overturn the case for the Xie family.”

"Almost all the witnesses who testified that Lord Xie colluded with the Great Chu back then are dead."

"My father spent a lot of manpower and resources searching for the old people of the Great Chu, but these people seemed to have disappeared."

“Sometimes my father would come home and tell me that there had been progress in the Xie family’s affairs, but the next day I would see him sighing in disappointment, saying that the clues had gone cold again.”

“Yue Li, Father always says that he feels like there is an invisible hand preventing him from overturning the Xie family’s case.”

Ning He's words kept echoing in Jiang Yueli's ears.

Now everything has an answer!

It turns out that it wasn't that Prime Minister Ning was unable to seek justice for the Xie family, but rather that Xie Pengju had deliberately orchestrated this case!

Knowing the truth, Jiang Yueli closed her eyes in anguish.

If everything was planned by Xie Pengju alone.

What about Xie Yuan?

What role did Xie Yuan, the only son of the Xie family, play in this matter?

Did he know that his father was not dead, but had transformed himself and was now sitting on the throne of the emperor?

Jiang Yueli had a million questions in her mind, but she couldn't find the answers.

The moment Tan Lin deduced the fake emperor's identity, many things changed.

Tan Lin noticed that the princess's expression was becoming increasingly cold and stern.

He sighed deeply: "Actually, I don't know whether speculating on the truth is right or wrong."

Jiang Yueli slowly came to her senses and gave Tan Lin a grateful look.

"Mr. Tan, please don't say that. I am extremely grateful to have your help, which allowed me to see the truth of the past."

"Before meeting you, sir, Yue Li felt as if she were looking at the moon in a well, and everything she saw was an illusion!"

"If it weren't for your meticulous explanation, Weiwei and I would probably have been kept in the dark for a long time."

Zhou Wei nodded repeatedly, and Tan Lin seemed to have appeared out of nowhere like a cheat code.

The missing information has been filled in!

Although most of what Tan Lin said was speculation, Zhou Wei knew that what was taught at Zhengshan Academy was not simple.

Before making a prediction, Tan Lin had already considered all the possibilities in his mind.

The remaining one is the closest to the truth among all the possibilities!

After learning that the fake emperor was Xie Pengju, Zhou Wei became extremely interested in this literary figure from the north.

What exactly made him come up with this idea to switch identities with the Emperor of the Great Zhou?

Zhou Wei even thought of something extremely terrifying.

“Princess, if Xie Pengju switched identities with His Majesty after you were born, then what about the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince…”

It is highly likely that he is not of the Jiang family bloodline!

Jiang Yueli shook her head: "I can't be sure about this matter either, or rather, there are still many confusing aspects to this matter."

"Now that I think about it carefully, there are many mysteries surrounding Xie Pengju."

"What he was doing before he met my father seems to be unknown to everyone, and he has never mentioned it."

In other words, Xie Pengju seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

Zhou Wei couldn't help but glance at Tan Lin.

Only people like Tan Lin and Zhu Qi, who come from blessed lands, seem to have appeared out of nowhere.

Could it be that Xie Pengju is also a cultivator from a blessed land?

After thinking it over, Zhou Wei felt that this was highly likely!

Jiang Yueli also thought of this, and her expression became somewhat anxious.

"The matter of the Spirit King's Mansion must be resolved quickly. It seems that all the truths I want to know are within the blessed land."

Tan Lin agreed, saying, "There are still many details to be considered in this matter, but resolving the issue of the two princes is the priority now."

"Those in the Lingwang Mansion, like the steward, must be people close to the fake emperor, sent specifically to the fiefdom to monitor the two princes."

"It seems that the princess's two brothers have not had a good time these past few years."

Zhou Wei sneered. It wasn't just not easy; it was practically inhuman torture.

That dilapidated little courtyard to the west is probably where the prince usually lives.

No wonder they were both engrossed in eating at the welcome banquet.

Zhou Wei strongly suspected that the people of the Spirit King's Mansion had never properly fed the two of them.

“Princess, I’ve wanted to say this for a long time. Neither of the princes’ faces nor hands resemble those of pampered princes.”

"I'm afraid they'll be forced to do backbreaking work every day, won't they? These lackeys are truly despicable!"

The identities of the Third Prince and the Fourth Prince are unknown, but the Spirit King and the Nie King are definitely of Jiang blood.

He is the eldest princess's half-brother!

If the eldest princess doesn't suppress the people sent by the fake emperor in such a way, she will suffer greatly.

How can she face her father, the Emperor, and Consort Rong?

Consort Rong was a kind person. As the Empress, she never mistreated the concubines and palace servants.

Even though the fake emperor ordered that no one in the palace should mention her.

However, the old palace staff who had received favors from Consort Rong would still secretly burn paper money for her on the anniversary of her death every year.

As a mother, if she could see her two sons living a life worse than pigs and dogs from heaven, I don't know how worried she would be!