Even the ministers at the front heard it.

At this moment, the noisy palace square suddenly became quiet again. Everyone stared with wide eyes at Tie Shicheng, who was cursing the sky the moment before and was struck by lightning the next moment.

Tie Shicheng still maintained his heroic look with his finger pointed towards the sky. It was obvious that he had not recovered from the lightning strike just now.

"Shicheng...are you okay?"

Pei Zhong hunched his back, staring intently at his brother who had been struck by lightning. When he noticed his eyes were still twitching, a bright light suddenly appeared in them.

Tie Shicheng did not answer Pei Zhong's words, but raised his head and looked tentatively towards the sky again, fearing that another thunderbolt would strike him down, which would be too much for him to bear.

However, Tie Shicheng was still very happy about this thunder tribulation. He opened his burnt mouth, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and smiled, then smiled again...

After making sure there wouldn't be any more lightning, he jumped up in joy and said to Pei Zhong, "See? I'm not dead! I was struck by lightning, but I'm not dead!"

After that, he said to the ministers outside: "Did you see that? This general was also struck by lightning, but this general is fine! The emperor, the queen, and all the princes will be fine too!"

As soon as Tie Shicheng finished speaking, all the ministers ignored the restraints of the Imperial Guards and the Yulin Army, and walked up to Tie Shicheng, touching and looking at Tie Shicheng, who was almost blown naked.

"...What does it feel like to be struck by lightning?"

After knowing that this thunderbolt would not kill him, Pei Zhong immediately asked the question that had arisen in his mind again.

Pei Zhong's question was also the question in everyone's mind at the moment, and everyone nodded and asked.

Tie Shicheng felt his body, then laughed heartily, "Being struck by lightning just made a loud noise, which scared me a lot, but it's nothing else. Besides, I feel like I'm more sharp-eyed and sharp-eared now! Hahahaha..."

Tie Shicheng was not lying. He really felt that his hearing had improved after recovering from the temporary deafness at the moment of the explosion.

However, others did not think what he said was true. They just thought that he was not killed by the lightning and was just happy to have survived the disaster.

"Since this lightning strike didn't kill anyone, it means the emperor, the empress, and all the princes are definitely fine! God bless my nine states! God bless my nine states—"

A minister clasped his hands together and thanked God.

The other ministers simply knelt on the ground and prayed for the emperor and the queen.

In a small corner that no one noticed, Ye Lixuan, the former Vice Minister of Works and current Minister of the Temple of Rites, frowned and looked at everything in front of him. As all the ministers knelt down, he also followed suit.

But at this moment, the heart that was originally eager to try sank to the bottom again.

Just when Qian Yeming and Baili Xiao got into trouble, he immediately sent someone to inform King Cheng Qian Yechen, asking him to contact his old subordinates and make preparations for ascending the throne.

Originally, such a good thing would never happen to them, but who knew that a thunderstorm would suddenly strike when the queen gave birth? Who knew that the emperor, the queen, and all the princes would die in this thunderstorm?

These people are dead, and there is no legitimate prince other than the Baili brothers.