Chapter 300 Kill Me!

In midsummer, even the morning breeze in Chang'an is hot.

Cicadas were chirping incessantly in the trees outside, but they were almost inaudible inside Prince Gong's mansion.

As soon as summer came, the servants would catch the cicadas from the trees to prevent their chirping from disturbing the princess's rest.

The moment He Yan heard the news, the surroundings were very quiet.

Everyone clearly heard the sound of the spoon breaking on the ground.

He Yan and Murong Wan's expressions were terribly different, and they walked towards the palace gate with stiff faces.

He Yan had the palace gate opened and asked the imperial guards outside in person whether something had really happened to the He family.

The emperor issued an edict last night, convicting the He family. He Tingfang was also kidnapped, leaving his entire family to be slaughtered.

The whole city knew about this.

The imperial guards did not hide the truth and briefly said that everyone in the He family had been arrested and would be beheaded in two days.

After hearing this, He Yan's mind went blank.

When Nanny Lin helped her back to the yard, her mind was still out of her body.

She sat at the table. On the table were porridge, dragon and phoenix crystal cakes, golden jade wontons, and soup dumplings with symmetrical pleats...

There are seven or eight kinds of dishes to choose from, so you can eat something salty and then something sweet.

The cooks got up while it was still dark to make these.

Only freshly made food tastes good. If it is made in advance and the taste is not good, He Yan will not be able to eat it.

He Yan never thought such a life was luxurious.

Because ever since she could remember, their He family seemed to be very wealthy.

She has two older brothers and a younger brother, and she is the only daughter in the family.

Her brothers and sisters all gave way to her, and when they were young, any new toys in the house would pass through her hands first.

The beautiful dresses and exquisite jewelry in the house... anything she wanted and available in the mansion would be sent to her yard.

From her childhood to her teenage years, she seemed to have never experienced the feeling of not getting what she wanted, and she believed that she could get everything she wanted.

That's why she was so devastated when she heard that she could not become Prince Gong's wife.

But later, the He family even helped her solve this problem and let her marry into the royal palace.

In He Yan's heart, the He family is prosperous and there is nothing they cannot do.

The He family is her support.

She never thought that the He family would fall one day.

It wasn't that they were destitute, but that their entire family was executed and their servants were exiled.

She remembered her childhood, nestled in her mother's arms, while her mother combed her hair and sang to her.

The eldest and second brothers always bought things to tease her, and the younger brother did not dare to get angry with her when he had a quarrel with her.

No matter how difficult the task is, just ask Dad and he will find a way.

But now, all of this is gone.

The brother floating outside might be alive, or he might have already died...

He Yan finally came back to her senses when Nanny Lin wiped her tears.

She then realized that her face was covered with tears and she couldn't stop crying.

Nanny Lin was also panicking. Her hands were shaking as she wiped He Yan's tears. She could only find some kind words to persuade her:

"Princess, you still have to live your life from now on. You still have the Crown Prince and the Princess to take care of."

"The princess has been married into the palace for more than ten years. Even if the He family is gone, the princess is still the princess."

He Yan, with tears streaming down her face, suddenly looked up when she heard the last sentence "The princess is still the princess."

Images of the past flashed through my mind.

She recalled the year when she first married in as a concubine, and discovered that Murong Xun didn't like her and wasn't close enough to her.

She was jealous of Pei Xuan.

Nanny Lin comforted her in her ear:

"No matter how great the Pei family's reputation was in the past, it's useless now. Now it's gone. Her father and brother are dead, so what does it matter if she's in the palace? Is she still the principal wife?"

He Yan's hands trembled as she covered her crying face, crying more desperately.

The servants were all outside, with their heads lowered, their eyes on their noses and their noses on their hearts.

Everyone in the palace knew about it.

When Murong Xun heard this, he was not only surprised but also sad.

The main point he heard was not that the He family had fallen.

It was the He family who framed the Pei family, causing the Pei family to be wrongfully imprisoned, leading to Xuan'er falling into that situation, and finally even falling off a cliff while pregnant.

Now the Pei family has been cleared of all charges, but they can never find Xuan'er again. There is no one like Xuan'er in the world.

Murong Xun only felt that the anger and pain that could not be vented in his heart turned into arrow feathers, piercing his heart full of holes.

It's all the He family's fault...

Murong Xun waved his clothes and rushed to He Yan's yard.

"Your He family is so cruel and vicious!" Murong Xun kicked open the closed door.

Inside the house, He Yan was lying in Nanny Lin's arms, crying bitterly.

Nanny Lin was a little frightened by Murong Xun's aggressive look and whispered:

"Your Highness, the princess just learned the news this morning and is very sad right now—"

Murong Xun grabbed He Yan's hand, and seeing He Yan's tear-stained face, he said coldly:

"You're crying? Why are you crying?"

"Your He family has done something against the will of Heaven. It has destroyed the Pei family and harmed Xuan'er... Your father deserves death!"

He Yan was so distressed after hearing that her family members were executed that she couldn't even recover. Then she heard Murong Xun's words like needles piercing her. She cried,

"You only talk about the He family. The He family never harmed Pei Xuan! When the Pei family was exiled, Pei Xuan was still in the palace."

"You know who killed Pei Xuan! Don't think I don't know who gave her the medicine and who personally brought it to Tingyuxuan!"

Bang!

There was a crashing sound, followed by the sound of porcelain cups shattering.

Murong Xun grabbed He Yan's hand, threw it hard to the ground, and then overturned all the bowls and dishes on the table to the ground.

He stepped on the broken porcelain pieces and said angrily:

"If the Pei family hadn't been framed by your He family, how could the child in Xuan'er's belly be considered a disaster? And why would the palace... grant medicine?"

"...You guys forced me to do this. It's all you guys who forced me to do this!"

He Yan fell to the ground, her newly cut dress was completely ruined by soup stains, and her fair and plump arm was scratched by a piece of porcelain.

She sneered with tears in her eyes:

"The He family is gone, and you know I have nothing to rely on, so you come to vent your anger on me... Fine, if you have the guts, then kill me, just like you did to Pei Xuan, and kill me to please the palace..."

"Shut up!"

The veins on Murong Xun's solar plexus bulged out like a dragon, running straight through his brow bone, and it seemed as if raging fire and magma were surging under the skin of his neck.

He bent down, stretched out his hand to grab He Yan's neck, and said word by word:

"Do you think I really don't dare to kill you—"

He Yan probably didn't expect Murong Xun to actually attack her, and she rolled her eyes because of the pinching.

Aunt Lin cried out loudly:

"Prince! Princess!"

"Your Highness, please let go. This is the princess. She has been with you for over ten years..."

The housekeeper outside the door brought people in quickly to separate Murong Xun and He Yan.

Things are already chaotic enough, we can't let anyone get killed in the mansion at this time.

There was chaos in the yard.

The housekeeper was gloomy, thinking that their palace was unlucky.

Something happened in the family of the previous princess, and something happened in the family of this princess again.

He originally wanted to ask the princess to come in and persuade her, but when he turned around, he found that the princess was gone.

Murong Wan originally wanted to have breakfast with her mother, but after following her mother to the door and confirming with people in person that something had happened at her grandparents' house, her face turned pale and she had no mood to eat at all.

She went back to her yard to calm down, but she couldn't calm down at all.

When she went to her mother's yard again, she vaguely heard a loud noise inside.

Murong Wan clenched her sleeves, turned around and went straight to Murong Ming's yard.

On the way there, she had a stern face and said nothing.

Chunyue, who was following beside her, didn't dare to say anything, for fear that she would be punished because the princess was in a bad mood.

Murong Wan always thought that being "executed" was something far away from her, and only the most vicious and evil people in the society would be beheaded in public.

A man like that isn't even worthy of touching the corner of her clothes.

But my grandparents committed such a serious crime that the whole family was liable to be beheaded.

Murong Wan could not imagine that the emperor, who always seemed to be kind, would issue such an order.

Her mother would be the daughter of a criminal from then on, and although she was a member of the royal family, her reputation would be affected because of this.

Last time, Murong Wan was so angry that she was too embarrassed to face anyone because of Murong Ming's mischief, but this incident was much more serious than Murong Ming's mischief.

When Murong Wan arrived at Murong Ming's yard, she heard the servants at the gate say that Murong Ming was still sleeping in the house and had not gotten up yet.

They are thirteen years old, and they shouldn't enter each other's yard or house at will.

But Murong Wan's eyes were red with anger, and she forced her way into Murong Ming's yard and pushed open the door of the wing room.

Murong Ming, who knew nothing, was sleeping soundly.

He dreamed that he was the head of a royal palace, and he could do whatever he wanted, and no one dared to stop him. He was very happy and proud.

He was drinking with someone, a beautiful woman dancing before him, when he suddenly felt the ground shake and the wine glass in his hand fell...

Murong Ming was shaken awake, opened his dazed eyes, and saw Murong Wan standing beside his bed.

His pupils dilated instantly, he covered his neck with both hands, and rolled to the side:

"What are you doing in my house?! Are you trying to kill me again?!"

He wanted to shout, but saw Murong Wan crying.

Murong Wan looked at her disappointing brother with a pair of angry and hateful eyes, tears streaming down her face:

"Brother, the He family is gone, and mother will have no family to support herself. You can't go on like this. You are the prince of the palace, you have to stand up and support mother. Only if you stand up and support the palace will we have a way out in the future."

"Do you understand?"

"Do you understand?"