Chapter 151: Returning to One's Ancestors

Although she said she would not plead for Prince Lian, the Queen Mother was still thinking about him.

Coming here today, there is indeed suspicion that he is playing the emotional card, and he also wants to give the descendants of Prince Lian's mansion a chance to survive.

The crime of treason is punishable by the extermination of nine generations of the family. Even if Prince Lian is of royal blood, it is unlikely that his branch will escape.

However, Yan Fengxiao interrupted at this time.

"Queen, I'm afraid this is inappropriate."

The Queen Mother's face turned pale instantly.

She looked at Yan Fengxiao with trembling eyes.

"What does your Highness mean?"

Yan Fengxiao looked at the Queen Mother with cold eyes, and his voice was like a sharp knife piercing her heart.

"If Prince Lian succeeds in his rebellion, his descendants will surely become princes and princesses. Do you think Prince Lian will let these princes and princesses go?"

The Queen Mother's expression changed instantly.

"Some of his children are still very young, and even ignorant. They are all blood relatives. Killing each other is already the limit. You can't be so heartless as to wipe out the whole family!"

Yan Fengxiao said calmly, "Those who don't know better can be handed over to others to raise. Let them forget their identities and just keep their lives. As for those who know better, kill them all. Leave no one alive!"

"you……"

The Queen Mother's voice trembled.

"You know Yuan'er. She said she liked you..."

"That woman? She deserves death even more."

Yan Fengxiao's words were extremely cold, and when he mentioned this person, the disgust between his eyebrows was obvious.

Of course he found out. When he was fighting on the battlefield, Qin Mingzhu, who was left in the capital, was bullied by this woman. Although Prince Lian was defeated in the end and had to give away 100,000 war horses, he did not forget what the other party had done!

Seeing the Queen Mother's expression, the Emperor of Southern Yan narrowed his eyes and said, "I agree. I will leave this matter to the Crown Prince. Queen Mother, please return. If you wish to be surrounded by the ancient Buddha and the green lamp, I can recommend a good place for you."

The Queen Mother's face turned pale and she was trembling all over.

After Yan Fengxiao finished speaking, he gave an order outside: "Come here, send the Queen Mother back to the Cining Palace!"

"yes!"

A palace maid came in and helped the empress dowager leave.

The Queen Mother knew what the two were thinking, and she realized that she could not save anyone.

The children in Prince Lian’s mansion who have not grown up and are ignorant will be sent to remote places by Yan Fengxiao and watched over by people, so that they will grow up as ordinary people all their lives.

As for those descendants who grew up, they were all executed!

This is the consequence of a failed power grab!

If there were no such deterrent, wouldn't everyone be willing to try to rebel?

Yan Fengxiao's ruthless methods can indeed intimidate countless Xiao Xiao.

…

In the palace of Concubine Ming.

It was already dark outside, and a maid came trotting into the palace.

"Your Highness, there's been a fight in the cold palace. The queen was strangled to death. Her body is now placed at the entrance to the cold palace..."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Ming just sat there quietly, sipping her tea in small sips.

She thought about the tit-for-tat with the Queen over the years, and felt a little melancholy for a moment.

"It's really a bargain for her to die like this."

"Mother..."

Yan Liuchen, who was standing not far from her, suddenly spoke.

When the imperial concubine heard her son's voice, she sighed and then nodded.

"I know what you're thinking. You don't want to stay in the Imperial City and become a thorn in your side. Since you want to venture out to the border, then go ahead. You'll be able to have your own fiefdom in the future, and then I won't have to worry about you anymore."

"Thank you, Mother, for your help!"

Yan Liuchen bowed his head and saluted.

This was his decision, to leave the imperial city and go to the border to fight.

Even if he is a prince, there are differences.

Princes with and without military merit will be treated differently after they are crowned kings in the future.

He was also preparing for his own good future. He couldn't compete for the throne of the emperor, but he would find a way to maintain the future prosperity and wealth for himself and his mother!

This is the only thing he, as a son, can do for his mother...

As Prince Lian and other rebels were successively executed, the once panic-stricken city of Yanjing gradually returned to its former tranquility.

Because the matter was resolved too quickly, the Northern Frontier Kingdom didn't even have time to react, and Prince Lian, who had been cooperating closely with them, was gone.

Not long after, an obituary came from Northern Frontier, stating that the eldest prince of Northern Frontier had died due to severe poisoning and lack of medical treatment.

It can be said that in this hostage exchange, the Northern Frontier lost both the lady and the soldiers, and all their calculations failed!

Of course, if the emperor was really poisoned to death, Li Zhongke might not necessarily trust Yan Fengxiao, and it would be hard to say what the situation in the capital would be like at that time.

It was because Yan Xuanjing and his men failed to completely control the city's imperial guards that everything went so smoothly. Otherwise, it would have been fraught with danger...

One month after Prince Lian was executed...

The Emperor of Southern Yan still claimed to be ill and did not attend court, and he blamed all the trivial matters in the court on Yan Fengxiao.

He said that he was old and needed to take good care of his health.

Qin Mingzhu stood by and watched the emperor sitting in the main hall of the East Palace. He picked up little Yunyu and stretched out his hand to tease her, his smile very forced.

The old emperor has nothing to do now, so he doesn't go to the harem, but goes to the East Palace.

After he came, he did nothing but snatch her son away and took him around everywhere.

Qin Mingzhu's eyelids twitched, and she looked at the time: "Your Majesty, it's time for Yu'er to have dinner."

The emperor smiled and scratched Yun Yu's little nose with his hand.

"This kid is just like his father."

Qin Mingzhu blinked and took a look at her son's facial features.

They were so young, how come she couldn't see any resemblance?

However, she seemed to have heard people say in her previous life that Yun Yu and Yan Fengxiao looked very similar, but later they said that the child was left in the Yan family to be raised, and it was normal for him to look more like the Yan family members as he grew up.

She really never thought in any other direction.

The emperor finally raised his head and looked at Qin Mingzhu. He had a gentle smile on his face, which seemed a little different from the majestic emperor he once was.

"Mingzhu, the wedding date is set for three days from now. I have already had wedding gifts prepared for you two..."

When Qin Mingzhu heard this, her heart suddenly tightened. Although they had already been married once, she felt inexplicably nervous as the date was approaching.

"Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty..."

The emperor smiled and waved his hand.

"No need to thank me, but I remember this child's name is Yun Yu, right?"

Qin Mingzhu nodded slightly, feeling a little nervous. Although it seemed that the Emperor liked Yun Yu very much, from the perspective of outsiders, Yun Yu was not Yan Fengxiao's biological child...

"Feng Xiao has now returned to his ancestral home, so of course this child can't take someone else's surname like his father. From now on, he'll be called... Yan Yunyu!"