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Crossdressing Female General vs Alluring Malicious Beauty (23)
Jiang Huan sat within the carriage, and although he was extremely worried, he understood his own limits, and did not rush out.
Not long after, the sounds of fighting outside died out. An utterly clean Gu Shengyin pulled back the carriage curtain and boarded the carriage again.
“Are you alright?” Jiang Huan asked rather nervously.
Gu Shengyin shook her head: “It was just a group of rabble, a few of them have been tied up by your coachman, to be sent to Dali Temple soon.”
Her eyes lowered, hiding her expression: These people were all suicide runners she had found after great effort. She had sworn to them that she would guarantee their wives’ and children’s peace and prosperity, for the price of their lives.
When they end up at Dali Temple, they would follow her instructions, and seemingly reveal bits of information. When the Dali Temple personnel investigate, they would naturally be able to connect this assassination attempt with the last attempt with the cookie crumb hints they were given.
Gu Shengyin cannot deny that this plan was shamefully underhanded, but the reality was that if you are soft-hearted, others will kill you.
Jiang Huan saw that her mood was a bit off, but simply thought that she was in a bad mood due to the situation they had encountered, and didn’t think much about it.
The situation didn’t stray from Gu Shengyin’s predictions: since this assassination attempt implicated Rong-wang, the emperor was furious, and personally ordered the Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate.
When the officials of Dali Temple received the emperor’s decree, they naturally would not dare to treat the matter carelessly. Each and every one of them invested a hundred and twenty percent effort and care in the case. With the ‘evidence’ that Gu Shengyin had already carefully prepared, once the officials discovered the ‘truth’, their hearts would grow cold. (t/n: with fear)
“Zhang-daren, this

” Dali Temple’s deputy head Li Zheng stood at attention, sweating as he watched his boss.
This investigation actually involved an imperial princess, there was no way for them to make a judgement on the case.
Moreover, in such a scenario, it was possible for His Majesty to kill those in the know in order to protect Princess Shuhe.
Minister Zhang of the Dali Temple had experienced the good and bad of an official’s work for many years, and is much calmer than Li Zheng: “This matter, do not speak of it to anyone outside of you and me. For now you’ll enter the palace with me to meet the emperor.”
“Yes.”
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On the other end, the emperor heard that the investigation had been completed, immediately summoned the officials of Dali Temple to report to him.
“You say these are the results of your investigation?” The emperor looked at the two of them coldly.
Zhang-daren‘s expression did not fluctuate: “Reporting to Your Majesty, this case is of utmost confidentiality. This minister and Li-daren alone worked personally on every aspect of the investigation, and reported the results to Your Majesty immediately. In regards to the authenticity of this matter, it is up to Your Majesty to decide.”
He left the choice up to the emperor, meaning that since this situation was confidential, and the only two officials who knew would never dare to speak of it. In regards to what the ‘truth’ would be, it would depend on what kind of truth the emperor wanted.
The emperor watched the two kneeling below for a long while, murderous intent flashing through his gaze, before finally calming himself: “You may rise. You no longer have to worry about this matter. We will naturally give General Fu and Rong-wang a verdict.”
The two adjourned with great relief.
After they exited, Li Zheng gave his boss a deep bow: “My lord’s wisdom, this subordinate official admires.”
Zhang-daren smiled and stroked his goatee, but did not speak.
The emperor entered Princess Shuhe’s palace with a gloomy face.
After Princess Shuhe was captured during her plan to elope, the enraged emperor had placed her under house arrest within the palace, and even her biological mother, Imperial Concubine Fang, was refused visitation rights.
Hearing that the emperor had arrived, Princess Shuhe’s eyes flashed with joy: Imperial Father had always loved and spoiled her, there was no way he would really punish her.
She tidied up her appearance, and went out to welcome him.
“Imperial Father
”
Pah!
She was greeted by a dizzying slap.
Imperial Father = Fuhuang; Imperial Concubine = guifei;
Ari’s Corner:
not too sure if I’ll get next week’s update out in time, since I might be a bit too busy to translate this week
I left a few ‘daren‘s and ‘wang‘s in there because constantly saying minister this and lord that and official this was annoying because it’s not quite what it means (it’s basically ‘-sama’ in japanese); also using Prince Rong just feels wrong because ‘Rong’ is his title not his name. So he’s a ‘king’ bestowed the title of Rong, while his name is Jiang Huan, and his courtesy name is Shi’an.