Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2487 Reconciliation 29.0

The entire flower hall suddenly became very quiet and no one spoke for a long time. The information they learned from Mr. Jiang was very different from what they heard from Mr. Ke.

Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, Xue Ruitian and Bai Meng looked at each other and sighed at the same time. They originally thought that Mr. Ke was really a pitiful man who was caught by the unscrupulous troupe owner and had to submit to him. But now it seems that in the entire troupe, perhaps the one who really has the final say is not the troupe owner, but this seemingly pitiful pillar of the stage.

"You really can't judge a person by his appearance!" Xue Ruitian touched his chin, "This Mr. Ke is incredible."

"What's wrong? What makes you so emotional?" Mr. Jiang looked at them and handed his empty cup to Meilin. "From your looks, is it possible that what you asked him is completely different from what you learned here?"

"Some of the information can be matched, but some of the information is very different. From the beginning, Mr. Ke probably had no intention of telling us the truth. He tried to deceive us whenever he could."

"Well, only the drunkenness and the Queen Mother's banquet were true. The rest were all true and false."

"Speaking of which, I can actually understand why they didn't tell us that he and the Grand Empress Dowager are aunt and nephew." Shen Cha sighed, "The Grand Empress Dowager should have told him not to tell anyone casually because she has many enemies. I just said that all of us are in direct confrontation with the Grand Empress Dowager and are standing on the opposite side of her. If Mr. Ke revealed his identity to us, I'm afraid his life would be in danger. It's not that we want revenge, but that all of the Grand Empress Dowager's relatives were implicated by her. It was because no one knew about Mr. Ke's relationship with the Grand Empress Dowager that he escaped."

"Yeah!" Shen Haolin nodded, "But he didn't tell the truth about this musician."

"Not a single word of truth?" Mr. Jiang raised his eyebrows. "This is very interesting. What did he say?"

Shen Cha repeated what Ke Dajia had said before, such as how he drank too much and went out to relax, met an ignorant lecher, and accidentally beat him to death during the struggle. Then he talked about how Mian Bai, who was a musician at the time, met him and helped him deal with everything.

After saying that, she sighed softly, looked at the helpless faces of the people around her, and spread her hands towards Mr. Jiang.

"He probably doesn't know. Such words may fool people who have never been to the palace, but we..." Xue Ruitian touched his chin, "We grew up in the palace and won't believe his words. Xiaobai and I wanted to expose him in person, but Haolin stopped us. We wanted to see what nonsense Mr. Ke could come up with."

"It's true that I couldn't hide it from you. You were right not to show it at the time. You don't know his true origins yet, nor do you know what he is trying to hide. It won't be too late to expose him after you figure out his intentions. He didn't want to admit his relationship with the Grand Empress Dowager, so he didn't dare to explain why Mian Bai was by his side. He could only find an excuse to fool her."

"After all, this is the imperial palace. If it is true as he said, that someone was killed by accident and sent out of the palace silently, it is not something that an unknown musician can do." Bai Meng thought about it, "Besides, when I took over as the commander of the imperial guards, I carefully read the records of entering and leaving the palace for nearly 30 years. Even for the opera troupe, the identity and number of people entering and leaving had to be checked. It is impossible to hide the body in a box and secretly take it out of the palace. When entering and leaving the palace, every box and every package had to be opened and checked, and even the body had to be searched. How could a body be taken out? Even the Empress Dowager could not ignore the palace rules and cover up such a big thing for him. So, it can only be..."

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a lie they made up after discussing it, right?" Seeing Bai Meng nodded, Shen Cha sighed, "The purpose is to cover up the relationship with the Grand Empress Dowager. As long as they are not insiders, I think they can fool them."

"That's right." Bai Meng nodded, "The only thing to blame is that the Empress Dowager has offended too many people. If they knew that she had weaknesses, then..." "Also, it was not easy to find this nephew, and she probably didn't want to tell the world, so only a few people knew about it."

"Yes, apart from the late emperor and me, no one knows that he is the nephew of the Grand Empress Dowager." Mr. Jiang nodded, "According to the Grand Empress Dowager, the fewer people know, the better it is for him and the royal family. After all..."

"If people knew that the Empress Dowager's nephew was an opera singer, it would damage the reputation of the royal family. That's why she wasn't worried about the late emperor and me knowing the truth. After all, we are all members of the royal family and would never do anything that would bring shame to the royal family."

"Yes." Xue Ruitian nodded. "So it seems that the real boss of this troupe is Ke Dajia, not Mian Bai, right? On this point, Ke Dajia must have lied."

"Not necessarily." Shen Cha waved his hand, "Let's not speculate. Let's wait until Lao Wu finishes the interrogation."

Master Jiang looked at the children and chuckled, "It doesn't matter. No matter who is in charge, the outcome is set. After today, they will never be able to go on stage again, right?"

The children didn't say anything. They looked at each other and nodded slightly.

"So, don't worry about it. Just punish them according to the law. It's a pity that Mr. Ke can't perform on stage anymore. But this just fulfills the wish of the Empress Dowager before she died."

"That's true." Xue Ruitian thought for a moment and looked at Shen Cha, "I kind of understand it now."

"I understand too." Shen Cha sighed, "Mian Bai keeps saying that he has a backer, someone he can rely on. This backer and this person are not referring to the Grand Empress Dowager, but the Ke family."

"Yes, in his opinion, if he uses Mr. Ke's identity to threaten us, maybe we really have to let him go for the sake of the royal family's face."

"Unfortunately, the Empress Dowager herself doesn't have a very good reputation. Everyone knows that she is a member of the Qinglian Sect and what she has done. If Mr. Ke's identity is exposed, her reputation will only get worse."

"That's right." Master Jiang nodded. "I hope he can recognize this and honestly confess everything he has done, so as to avoid physical pain."