Chapter 81 The Rebellious Brothers

Song Zhimian knew some things about the King of Zhou, but not much.

The rumors circulating outside about the Prince of Zhou are that after Emperor Xiao Xuan ascended the throne, the Prince of Zhou harbored ill intentions and wanted to overthrow Emperor Xiao Xuan and become emperor himself.

However... the conspiracy was later exposed, and the entire Zhou Prince's Mansion was wiped out.

The Zhou king and the current emperor are actually brothers, born of the same mother...

All others knew was that when the imperial family bestowed poisoned wine upon King Zhou, many pleaded for his life, but the Empress Dowager, his biological mother, kept the palace gates tightly shut and did not plead for him...

Perhaps she also knew that pleading was useless in matters of treason!

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"Those people were captured, but His Majesty did not order the Imperial Household Department or the Court of Judicial Review and the Ministry of Justice to take them away."

Instead, they interrogated those people in front of so many people in the Linde Hall.

You were already unconscious at the time and were taken to the East Palace by Xiao Huaijin, so you don't know what happened there.

"I watched everything over there before Xiao Huaijin dragged me here," Princess Yongxin continued.

Song Zhimian can no longer feel the pain in her back.

On the contrary, she even somewhat enjoyed the feeling of Lianqiao applying the ointment to herself.

She blinked her big eyes at Princess Yongxin, hoping she could tell her everything that had happened in Linde Palace after she fell into a coma.

Princess Yongxin did not disappoint Song Zhimin, and quickly recounted everything that happened in Linde Palace afterwards.

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After the woman standing on the ball, who was also the daughter of the King of Zhou, took out five muskets from the ball, the atmosphere in the Linde Hall suddenly became extremely tense.

Everyone knew how powerful these muskets were.

Even a child holding these muskets would deter others from approaching, let alone those who had been plotting for a long time...

Just as those men with muskets pointed their guns at Emperor Xiao Xuan above.

Before they could fire, many chains suddenly flew out rapidly from above their heads, on the roof of the Linde Hall.

In an instant, these people's hands and feet were bound by chains.

The muskets in their hands also fell to the ground.

The Great Yu Emperor's secret guards, who were supposed to appear immediately, finally emerged.

The jugglers causing trouble in the Linde Hall were immediately apprehended by the secret guards.

The Zhou king's daughter and several loyal guards were left hanging precariously in mid-air.

Apart from the King of Zhou's daughter, everyone else had their tendons in their feet and hands severed by the secret guards immediately.

The Linde Hall was filled with screams...

The clumsy assassination ended abruptly.

No one dared to speak; they all watched as Emperor Xiao Xuan slowly descended from above.

Only then did everyone realize that everything today was under His Majesty's control.

The reason the secret guards hadn't come out earlier was because His Majesty felt it wasn't the right time yet...

Emperor Xiao Xuan slowly walked down the steps, first glancing at the five muskets that had fallen to the ground.

"Lord Zhou, these are the five muskets that were stolen from the firearms workshop, aren't they?" Emperor Xiao Xuan asked in a cold voice.

Lord Zhou, who was sitting in the far corner, immediately came out and went to check on things.

After carefully inspecting the five muskets, Lord Zhou immediately gave his reply.

"Your Majesty! These five muskets are indeed the five that went missing from the firearms workshop!"

Emperor Xiao Xuan nodded, signaling Lord Zhou to put away the five muskets, before looking at the woman still hanging in mid-air.

"You must be Qingyao!"

When your mother was pregnant with you, it was the time when your father committed a crime.

"I never expected that you would reappear in this palace after twenty-five years!" Emperor Xiao Xuan said slowly.

Everyone in the Linde Hall stared in astonishment at the woman hanging in the air.

Is this the daughter of the King of Zhou?

But……

When King Zhou rebelled, wasn't he given poisoned wine?

Moreover, everyone in the Zhou Prince's Mansion had been beheaded, so how could there be any survivors!

Where did this Zhou king's daughter come from now?

The key point is that the imperial family also knew, they even knew, what the Zhou king's daughter's name was.

In other words, this woman had been under the watchful eye of the heavenly family since birth...

When King Zhuang, who was sitting below, heard that the woman was the daughter of the King of Zhou, his face turned deathly pale...

Emperor Xiao Xuan strolled leisurely among the captured acrobats.

The Crown Prince and the Prince of Zhao followed closely behind Emperor Xiao Xuan.

Emperor Xiao Xuan remained calm. After looking at the group of people, he looked up at Xiao Qingyao, the daughter of the Prince of Zhou, who was still struggling in mid-air.

"What? Still not convinced?" Emperor Xiao Xuan asked softly.

Xiao Qingyao struggled for a while, looking at her companions who had grown up with her, all of whom had faces full of pain, her eyes looked at Emperor Xiao Xuan as if they were poisoned.

"You damned emperor! I've become a ghost..."

"Don't bring up whether you do ghost things or not."

You are not the only one in this world who hates me.

It is only right that you hate me!

After all, apart from your mother, all your relatives died at my hands.

But I do not regret killing them.

If I had to choose again, I would still kill them all. However, if given the chance, I would not turn a blind eye to King Zhuang rescuing your pregnant mother.

"In that case, you wouldn't be here causing trouble!" Emperor Xiao Xuan's tone remained calm.

Prince Zhuang was so frightened by Emperor Xiao Xuan's words that he immediately knelt down.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! I was also acting because..."

"I know you meant well!"

King Zhou is our younger brother, our own brother, someone we grew up with.

Actually... I will forgive him no matter what he does.

You are all my brothers, my brothers born of the same mother. How could I not feel sorry for you!

King Zhou has committed a grave error that is intolerable to Heaven. It is not that I cannot tolerate him, but that the people of Dayu cannot tolerate him.

The soldiers in the north will not tolerate him!

"Get up! I gave you that opportunity to rescue Princess Zhou back then, and I never intended to blame you for it!" Emperor Xiao Xuan sighed.

King Zhuang stood up shakily.

He couldn't bear it at first; he only knew that his brother had rebelled and committed a grave mistake.

Neither Emperor Xiao Xuan nor his mother were willing to say what the specific mistake was.

He knelt outside the Hall of Diligent Governance for a whole day, only begging his elder brother, the Emperor, to spare the life of Prince Zhou.

Even being reduced to a commoner and exiled to the north would be acceptable...

But his elder brother, who always doted on them, refused to even see him, and instead ordered that the King of Zhou be given a cup of poisoned wine.

Everyone else in the Zhou Prince's mansion was killed...

In order to leave a bloodline for his younger brother, he secretly had someone give the pregnant Princess Zhou a drug that would make her appear dead...

Later... he thought that Princess Zhou would live in seclusion, far away from the capital.

Unexpectedly, that girl actually showed up in the capital.

They even appeared in the capital in this way...

Prince Zhuang was starting to regret it...

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"You dog emperor, the victor is king and the loser is villain. Wasn't your poisoning of my father a fabricated crime?"

"You did this for the throne..." Before Xiao Qingyao could finish speaking, she was lashed across the face with a whip.

The pain made her immediately shut up.

Emperor Xiao Xuan glanced at Xiao Qingyao.

"Qingyao! I don't want to kill him either! But do you know what your father has done?"