Although Prince Chen tried his best to dissuade Jiuzhu, he still failed to stop her. She dragged Prince Chen who was trying to persuade her, walked to Yun Yanze who was lying on the ground, and kicked him again.
Yun Yanze let out a scream and rolled over twice on the spot like a gourd, wailing continuously.
All the elegance and grace vanished into thin air.
"You were gossiped about, and His Highness not only spoke up for you, but also ordered that no one should spread the news. And you, a prince of royal blood, who is high and mighty, actually seduced a palace maid and asked her to help you assassinate my Highness?!" Jiuzhu's anger finally broke out, "I'm telling you, Yun Yanze, you're lucky today. My Highness didn't get into any trouble. If he had, I would have killed you."
"Ahem." Emperor Longfeng reacted, turned his head and winked at the stunned Liu Zhongbao. Liu Zhongbao came to his senses and quickly turned around to ask the palace servants serving outside the hall to move away. These were not words they wanted to hear.
Yun Yanze's mouth was full of blood after being thrown down. He listened to Jiuzhu's angry scolding and barely managed to sit up: "Princess Chen is so courageous. You are so angry today because of Yun Duqing. When Yun Duqing falls in love with someone else in the future, you may regret helping him today."
"Me!" After hearing this, Prince Chen also wanted to step forward and kick him.
"Your Highness' feet are precious, let me do it." Jiuzhu pushed Prince Chen away and kicked Yun Yanze in the chest. Yun Yanze fell to the ground and spit out blood.
Liu Zhongbao shrank his neck, thinking... this kick might have caused internal injuries.
Princess Chen is such a kind girl on weekdays, but she must have been very angry to do such a thing today.
"Even if my prince has fallen in love with someone else, I will never regret what I did today." Jiuzhu usually always had a smile on her face, but now she was not smiling, and she looked at people with an extremely sharp look. Emperor Longfeng looked at his daughter-in-law and thought of the three brothers of the Ming family.
They were like this back then, standing in the court and angrily denouncing the treacherous and corrupt officials, with firm eyes and backs straight, like green mountains and green pines.
"I won't do such a thing." Prince Chen leaned close to Jiuzhu's ear and whispered, "If I fall in love with someone else, you can kick me out."
Liu Zhongbao glanced at the miserable state of the Fourth Prince and turned his head away silently. The oath made by the Fifth Prince was quite cruel.
"Jiuzhu." Emperor Longfeng was worried that if he continued to let his daughter-in-law kick him like this, she would be charged with murdering the prince, so he said, "Sit down and have some tea first."
"Thank you, father. I am not tired." Jiuzhu smiled at Emperor Longfeng obediently: "If you still want to beat the child, I am willing to share your worries."
"I am deeply touched by your filial piety." Emperor Longfeng laughed dryly, "Your fourth brother is thick-skinned and I am afraid you might hurt your foot."
"Thank you for reminding me, Father. I feel pain in my feet." Jiuzhu nodded: "I was so busy helping you that I didn't notice this."
"Come, come, sit down, I'll give you a massage." Prince Chen quickly helped Jiuzhu sit on the chair next to him and whispered in her ear, "Don't be anxious yet, wait and see what the emperor says."
"Hmph." Jiuzhu took a sip of tea and said, "If I don't beat him up, I won't be able to get rid of the hatred in my heart."
You even want to kill your own brothers, you beast!
"Yun Yanze, do you realize your mistake?" Emperor Longfeng looked at his fourth son, who was lying on the ground in a miserable state, with an unclear emotion in his eyes.
"As a prince, what's wrong with me wanting to seize the throne?" Yun Yanze stood up shakily, his mouth full of blood foam, his long hair disheveled, looking like a ghost: "Father, didn't you also ascend to the throne by stepping on the blood of other uncles?"
The emotions in Emperor Longfeng's eyes gradually faded away, and finally turned into cold calmness. He looked at his son without saying a word, nor did he stop him from speaking.
"I am older than Yun Duqing, but you secretly picked Miss Sun as his concubine. Have you ever thought about me?" Yun Yanze sneered, "Since you are unwilling to give it to me, I will fight for it myself. It's just that I am unlucky. I didn't expect Yun Duqing to have an extra helper. If Ming Jiuzhu hadn't appeared and disrupted all my plans, he would have died in the royal horse farm long ago."
"Crack." Jiuzhu put the teacup on the table and it broke.
She rolled up her sleeves and stood up expressionlessly.
"piggy……"
"No one can stop me now." Jiuzhu walked up to Yun Yanze, jumped up and punched him in the face, and Yun Yanze fell down.
She grabbed Yun Yanze's collar, tightened her lips, and punched him in the face. The tall Yun Yanze was like a little chicken that couldn't struggle in her hands.
“Little pig, little pig, Ming little pig.” Prince Chen ran to Jiuzhu in two or three steps, and used all his strength to pull away her hands that were holding Yun Yanze’s clothes, and hugged her in his arms, stroking her back again and again with his hands: “I’m fine, don’t be angry, don’t be angry. Don’t be afraid, be good.”
The stiff back gradually relaxed under the comfort of Prince Chen. Jiuzhu reached out and hugged Prince Chen's waist, her voice trembling: "Your Highness..."
"What are you standing there for?" Emperor Longfeng glared at Liu Zhongbao, "Why don't you fetch some water for the princess to wash her hands?"
"Yes... yes!" Liu Zhongbao came back to his senses. After walking out of the palace gate, he was blown by the night wind and his mind gradually became clear.
What did Princess Chen learn during the years she lived among the people? She is completely different from the frail members of the Ming family.
No, Ming Jinghai, the head of the Ming family, is also a ruthless man who can chop down bandits with a sword.
The Ming family had a general in their ancestor's family tree. They used to think that the Ming family had just made it up in the family tree, but now it seems that it might be true.
Emperor Longfeng looked at his fourth son twitching on the ground, then looked at his fifth son and his fifth daughter-in-law hugging each other, and sighed: "When you were born, I treated you all with the same feelings."
Yun Yanze forced himself to open his eyes. He looked at Ming Jiuzhu who was hugging Yun Duqing and smiled.
How ridiculous, identical?
Prince Chen held Jiuzhu's head in his arms to prevent her from seeing Yun Yanze's current expression.
"Fifth brother, you won." Yun Yanze said tremblingly: "But it's not you who won me, but because you have a mother who is favored by the emperor and a princess who helps you mess up the situation."
"Are you jealous of me?" Prince Chen raised his eyebrows and smiled. No one knew better than him which expression would make his brothers most angry. "But in this life, whether you hate or envy me, you just can't have these. Aren't you angry?"
Yun Yanze glared at him hatefully and spat out blood again.
"The fourth prince, Yun Yanze, murdered his brothers and sisters. This is unfilial and unrighteous. I am deeply disappointed. From today on, his status as a descendant of the Yun family will be abolished, and he will be demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in the Tianlao of the Imperial Clan Court, and he will not be allowed to leave for the rest of his life."
"Father." Jiuzhu still remembered Sun Caiyao lying in Mingyue Palace. She let go of Prince Chen's waist, walked to the center of the palace and knelt down: "Father, the Fourth Prince's Consort knows nothing about what Fourth Brother did. I beg you to forgive Miss Sun for the sake of the Sun family's loyalty and good deeds for generations and the benefits they have brought to countless people."
"I have failed to educate my son well, and I feel ashamed of the Sun family. Now I allow Sun and Yun Yanze to divorce, grant them the title of Xiangjun, and grant them one hundred taels of gold. In the future, you can decide on your own whether to marry or not." Emperor Longfeng was indeed a benevolent monarch. Upon hearing Jiuzhu's words, he issued the second decree without hesitation.
"Thank you, father. Long live the emperor." Jiuzhu put his hands on his forehead and knelt down to kowtow to Emperor Longfeng.
“Father, why don’t you just kill me? Why bother pretending to keep me alive?!” Yun Yanze knew the Tianlao Prison of the Imperial Clan House, where all the royal relatives who had committed serious crimes were imprisoned.
If you can't get out for your whole life, what's the difference between that and death?
“Although you are unfilial, I cannot help but be kind to you.” Emperor Longfeng walked down the steps and came to Yun Yanze step by step: “Fourth Brother, do you remember what I taught you when you were eight years old?”
Eight years old?
Yun Yanze's memories of being eight years old were filled with the ridicule of the guards guarding the palace and the weeds growing wildly in the yard.
"Choose the good and follow it, and change the bad." Emperor Longfeng sighed, "But you don't even know where you are wrong, how can you change?"
"In the eyes of my father, I have made mistakes at every step and have done everything wrong." Yun Yanze laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes. "Aren't you going to send me to the clan house? Why bother saying that?"
Emperor Longfeng closed his eyes and said, "Come here, escort the Fourth Prince to the Tianlao Prison of the Imperial Clan."
The Imperial Clan Affairs Bureau was in charge of royal affairs and enjoyed a high and mighty position. However, the prison cellar in the Imperial Clan Affairs Bureau was dark and lonely.
People imprisoned here will not be tortured, nor will they be deliberately starved.
But no one talked to them, no one went to see them.
They are the forgotten royal family, reminiscing about their past glory and wealth day after day until the day they die.
"Your Highness, the Fourth Prince." Liu Zhongbao bowed and saluted through the prison door: "This is the last time I will call you this."
He looked at Yun Yanze, who was lying on the bed, unconscious or not wanting to pay attention to him, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has made plans for your marriage. You have been delicate, sensitive and suspicious since childhood. Your Majesty originally wanted to find a cheerful woman as your princess. If the girl from the Sun family had been engaged to His Royal Highness Prince Chen, perhaps the girl from the Ming family would have been engaged to you later."
Yun Yanze, who was lying motionless, opened his eyes.
"But your mother and your maternal family sent someone to kill Miss Ming. If she knew the truth, you two would not have a good ending even if you were engaged." Liu Zhongbao seemed to think that these words were not enough to stimulate Yun Yanze, and continued: "Perhaps this is destined by God."
The little girl who was murdered that year was Ming Jiuzhu?
No wonder the Ming family pressed the Zheng family step by step and didn't even give them the slightest bit of face at the New Year's Eve banquet.
He and Ming Jiuzhu?
Yun Yanze felt as if he had heard a lot of jokes today. He struggled to sit up and shouted in a hoarse voice: "You are lying to me."
"Your Highness, everything I say is true." Liu Zhongbao laughed, "You have fallen to this point, why would I lie to you?"
Yun Yanze murmured: "Impossible, impossible..."
If Ming Jiuzhu was engaged to him, she would not have gone to the Royal Stables with Yun Duqing, and everything that followed would not have been possible.
Yun Duqing will die at the Royal Stables!
Liu Zhongbao bowed deeply and said, "The Imperial Observatory said that the fifteenth day will be a good day to enthrone the crown prince. The whole world will celebrate then. Your Highness, please wait for the extra meal that the clan office will give you. This old servant bids farewell. Your Highness, please take care of yourself from now on and take care of yourself."
He flicked his whisk and turned away.
Hearing Yun Yanze's unwilling roar from behind, Liu Zhongbao gave a mocking smile.
A long, long time ago, he still remembered how Concubine Zheng looked so superior when she kicked him and called him a castrated dog and a lowly slave.
A lowly slave like him knows best what words can make his down-and-out masters regret and feel sad, and they will never be able to let it go until they die.
"Eunuch Liu, does the emperor have any other instructions?" The guard from the clan house came over with a flattering smile.
Liu Zhongbao knew that this question was meant to inquire of him whether there was any possibility for the Fourth Prince to be reinstated.
"The emperor has issued an order to demote the fourth prince to a commoner, remove him from the clan tree, and never leave the clan prison for the rest of his life."
"I understand. Thank you for telling me, sir."
In this case, there is no need for special treatment.
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