Chapter 718: Strategy for the Blind Villain (14)

Since the last time Shi Yi and Qu Jingrong read together, Qu Jingrong always avoided her. She went to look for him several times, but was stopped by Ma Jinyang, who used the excuse that he was either reading or going to the toilet, or reading in the toilet.

Shi Yi was also good-tempered and never got angry. It was also possible that she didn't want to get angry about this.

Since Ji Yucheng went to Jiangnan, Bai Yuer, the eldest daughter of the Marquis's Mansion, would come to the Taifu Mansion to talk to her about her lovesickness almost every day.

Bai Yuer was her best friend, so she naturally comforted her from time to time and appeased her everywhere. She almost brought Ji Yucheng back from Jiangnan to relieve his lovesickness.

On this day, Shi Yi was taking a nap in the courtyard when Bai Yuer and the maid hurried over. She heard the hurried footsteps and opened her eyes quickly, and was immediately thrown into the arms of a girl in a white dress.

Bai Yuer buried her head in her arms and burst into tears. The intermittent crying was accompanied by scattered words. Only then did she know that Ji Yucheng was in trouble.

——Ji Yucheng was assassinated in Jiangnan and died on the spot.

"He is the crown prince of the current dynasty. Who has such courage?" Shi Yi was shocked, but Bai Yuer's face was full of grief and indignation.

"It is precisely because he is the crown prince of the current dynasty that anyone has the courage!"

"What do you mean by this?" Shi Yi looked at his maid in the courtyard vigilantly and motioned her to go out to guard the door.

"The eldest princess has been sick for a long time. She has always been right..." Shi Yi covered her lips, shook his head gently to indicate that he should not continue, and asked, "How did you know this?"

"I overheard my father say it." Bai Yuer fell down, her legs kneeling on the ground because of the long-term effort, her expression was full of resentment.

That day, she went to her father's study to check his homework as usual, but was stopped by the housekeeper. The housekeeper said that her father was meeting a distinguished guest.

Although she was gentle, ordinary people did not know that she was very curious. When the housekeeper was not paying attention, she quietly climbed over the corridor and went around to the back of the study. There was a blind spot that she accidentally discovered, and she could see the whole picture of the study.

She originally planned to meet her father, the distinguished guest, and then leave, but when she saw the distinguished guest for the first time, she couldn't move her eyes away. The distinguished guest had an elegant and romantic appearance, and his expression was solemn but occasionally frivolous. His eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Ji Yucheng. He was sitting there but gave people a sense of oppression for no reason. After a long time, she moved her eyes away to look at her father. Her father, who was always serious and upright, was extremely humble in front of this person. She immediately guessed that this person must be higher than her father.

She had met almost all the high-ranking officials in the capital. Her father was a colleague of theirs, so when he was with them, he would definitely not be humble to the point of being a bit flattering. She listened slowly, and her guess in her heart became more and more certain - this person is the current emperor.

It was on this day that she heard the emperor complain about the princess. The emperor said that the princess brought up the old story again to threaten him, and he didn't know what to do. When the emperor was speaking, her father never said a word, but just kept wiping his sweat. She concluded that the "old story" the emperor was talking about must be a major event that was inconsistent with the mortal world.

Today, she went to her father's study again, intending to ask him about it, but she didn't expect her father to be in a hurry. He only told her that the prince was assassinated and died on the spot and left. She was so confused that she immediately rushed to the Taifu Mansion to find Shi Yi.

"The prince is dead, how can I live. He is afraid that he doesn't know my feelings for him." Bai Yuer closed her eyes sadly and cried bitterly, her words full of world-weariness.

Shi Yi hugged her, comforted her softly, and a faint sadness appeared between his brows.

She can still remember Ji Yucheng's bright and noble character. However, such an upright man died in Jiangnan. How brave is the person behind this to dare to do such a thing!

In the Golden Palace, all the ministers buried their heads deeply. The emperor's legitimate son was assassinated in Jiangnan. Overnight, the officialdom in Jiangnan was completely replaced. Even so, the emperor was still not satisfied.

Taifu Qu knew that the emperor was grieving at the moment and did not want to be the first to stand out at this time. He quietly lowered his head and waited for the court to be dismissed, but the emperor called his name abruptly.

"Your Majesty, I am here." He stepped forward and knelt in front of the ministers.

"Send Ji Jingrong back to the palace and place him in the Prince's Mansion." The emperor pulled the skin around his eyes when he closed his eyes, so that people could see that he had fine lines on his face. The fatigue in his words was known to all the ministers, and after being stunned, they were full of surprise: the emperor of the day actually had a prince who was living outside! Among the ministers, only Duke Cheng, Master Qu and Lord Bai did not change their brows at all.

Master Qu thought that if Ji Yucheng got into trouble, the emperor would definitely blame him and the princess, but the emperor's attitude now made him a little unsure. Sending Ji Jingrong to the palace and living in the Prince's Mansion, does this mean that Ji Jingrong is going to be the prince? But Ji Jingrong was born blind, and the ministers must... But at the moment, he could not think too much, and he knelt down and said "yes".

As soon as the news of the accident of Prince Ji Yucheng reached the palace, the queen fainted on the spot. After she woke up, she refused to eat or drink, and only begged to see the emperor. But the emperor felt guilty and didn't want to see her.

The queen dragged her sick body to Dongsheng Hall. Her tired face reminded everyone in the hall that she was a mother who had just lost her child. She looked straight at the emperor, and tears flowed down like a flood. The emperor waved his sleeves, dismissed all the palace servants, walked slowly towards her, supported her, "Why are you doing this? This is your own body."

The woman just looked at him stupidly, stupidly looking at the king of the world, looking at the husband she once thought of, with a questioning tone, "The trip to Jiangnan is dangerous, why do you let Lu'er go?"

"Lu'er is young, has not made any achievements, and can't control the court officials." The emperor was depressed. Everyone in the harem might be happy to see the death of the prince, but the woman in front of him was really sad.

"Then why don't you think more carefully and send more experts from the palace! Now that Lu'er was assassinated in Jiangnan, I will not live either." The woman shook off the hairpin in her hand and pressed it against her well-maintained neck without a single wrinkle. Sadness surged in her eyes, but she was also ruthless. "Once I die, the matter between you and Ji Yun can no longer be covered up. I want to make your incestuous affair known to everyone!"

Her Lu'er, who had been taught by her to be gentle and honest but flexible since he was a child, was the emperor that all the subjects in the world longed for. However, he was killed before he even reached the age of twenty. She would never believe that it had nothing to do with Ji Yun!

As soon as the emperor's hand fell, his eyes, which had never had much warmth, became more inquiring, "How did you know about this?"

The queen laughed out loud, "I see, I see, I have been scheming for so many years, but I still made wedding clothes for that bitch Ji Yun."

(End of this chapter)