Chapter 1492: Chapter 1499: Confrontation (7)

Nangong Yi received the letter handed over by Cai Wei and asked a question.

Cai Wei laughed and said, “You’ll know once you read it!”

Nangong Yi opened the letter and found it was one written by Nangong Shi to Li Kaifeng. One of them was even about the message he told Li Kaifeng that Cai Wei had been taken by Saknu, no wonder Li Kaifeng was able to detect that the substitute in the Imperial Court was fake.

After reading these several letters, Nangong Yi laughed secretively and tucked away the last one, holding the others he said, “Aren’t you looking for evidence of Li Kaifeng colluding with Nangong Shi? I just happen to have a few letters here written by Nangong Shi to your Great General. Take a good look with keen eyes, if you still don’t believe, dig out the writings that Nangong Shi wrote before and compare the handwriting.”

After speaking, he ordered Yang Yong to take the letters down and distribute them to all the officials for inspection.

As the letters were passed down, the affair of Nangong Shi colluding with Li Kaifeng was also exposed, and the officials who saw the letters were furious. It turned out that Li Kaifeng really had connections with Nangong Shi, and they had trusted him so much in the past, even letting him imprison the Duke Li Guo’s family and surround the Palace to search!

Li Kaifeng’s followers were also dumbfounded, never expecting such solid evidence to have been obtained by the Emperor and the Empress. At this point, they could no longer deny it.

At this moment, one of the quick-witted followers suddenly shouted, “Your Majesty, handwriting can be easily imitated. Could it be that someone has forged the Great General’s handwriting to frame him?”

Upon hearing this, Li Kaifeng, as if grasping at a lifeline, struggled to lift his head and said, “Exactly, I have never received… letters from Nangong Shi, these letters… were someone imitating… the handwriting of the abolished prince to, to frame… me.”

“It really is a case of ‘refusing to shed a tear until seeing the coffin!'”

With a cold smile, Cai Wei stood up amidst the astonished looks from all officials, and walked toward the inner room of the Eastern Room.

Suddenly, the curtain of the Eastern Room was lifted, and Nangong Shi stumbled out looking disheveled. Seeing that he had actually returned to Great Jin, and even to the Palace, his eyes doubled in shock, and when he turned his head back to look at Cai Wei, his shocked eyes turned to awe.

He nervously approached and knelt in front of Nangong Yi, kowtowing, “Guilty official Nangong Shi greets Your Majesty, long live the emperor for ten-thousand years!

Nangong Yi glanced at Cai Wei, his lips slightly curving and a hint of emotion in his eyes, but then he sternly said, “Nangong Shi, I ask you, have you had private correspondence with Li Kaifeng?”

Nangong Shi straightforwardly replied, “Your Majesty, yes!”

“Guilty official wrote several letters to him when in Liaodan, and he replied as well, but those letters were left in Liaodan, I did not bring them with me.”

Nangong Yi then asked, “Which other individuals in this Imperial Court have secretly contacted you? Name them now, and I promise you will not die!”

“Yes! Thank you, Your Majesty!”

Nangong Shi kowtowed, raised his eyes, and looked over at the stunned officials, his gaze swept over them revealing surprise, anger, indifference, and avoidance.

Observing everyone’s expressions, Cai Wei understood everything.

“Your Majesty, the officials who have been in contact with this guilty official are Li Kaifeng, Wang Zhuo, Jia Yanhui, Zhao Chengzhi, Shen Youji, Zhou Cangwu, Lian Cheng, Jiang Yuansheng, Kou Xun, and others. The guilty official has corresponded with them, but the letters were all left in Liaodan, and the guilty official has also written them letters, but it is unknown if they have kept them.”

As soon as Nangong Shi’s voice fell, those whose names had been called started crying out their grievances, “Your Majesty, it’s unjust! This traitorous official is clearly framing us, we never had any dealings with him…”

Cai Wei laughed and said, “Gentlemen, there’s no need to protest so. Whether true or not, once we get the letters from Liaodan, everything will be clear. However, until the truth is ascertained, I request that you all stay within your residences, do not move around, and do not contact outsiders, lest you be treated as fugitives guilty of crimes!”