"How dare you mock the Emperor! You deserve to die! Even the Second Prince has been fooled by you."
Just as the old Taoist was about to reveal the truth, Lone Wolf, a follower of King Rin, pierced the old Taoist's heart with a sword.
"Who told you to kill him? Father hasn't found out who was behind it yet!"
Seeing the old Taoist priest dead, King Lin, Li Muchen, became fearless and feigned extreme anger, while Lone Wolf was filled with trepidation.
"Your subordinate deserves to die. I was too angry. I beg the Crown Prince for forgiveness and the Emperor for mercy."
"Father, look..."
Li Muchen wore a helpless expression. Emperor Li Hongwen had long known that his son had become a member of the Feng family and was not of one mind with him. So, he angrily flicked his sleeve and shouted in a deep voice,
"Censor Xu and Censor Yan colluded with the old Taoist priest to instigate me to kill the virtuous prince. Their crimes are unforgivable. Their entire families shall be executed."
Although the Prince of Lin was deceived, he almost made a grave mistake. He was punished with thirty strokes of the cane and confined to the Prince of Lin's residence for half a year.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please don't! Prince Lin has also been deceived by treacherous people! Please, Your Majesty, show leniency."
Upon hearing this, Empress Feng Meiling stumbled forward, only to be kicked away by Emperor Li Hongwen.
"Get out of the way! Anyone who dares to plead for mercy today will be killed without mercy!"
He was furious. The Feng family was simply too much, daring to plot against his son. If the Feng family weren't so powerful, he would have wiped them out in one fell swoop.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty..."
Empress Feng Meiling wanted to say something more, but then she heard a weak voice from afar.
"Instead of pleading for others, Your Majesty should think about yourself. You had someone poison my mother, causing her to have a difficult childbirth. Shouldn't this matter be put to rest?"
"King Longxuan? What brings him here?"
"Blood Purple Rose" glanced nervously at the outside world and immediately felt the killing intent intensify.
"You shouldn't have come."
"Blood Purple Rose" tugged at Li Mufeng's collar, but he angrily shook her off, a flash of disgust crossing his eyes before his bloodshot eyes turned to Empress Feng Meiling.
“Father, I have found the nanny who served the Empress back then, as well as the midwife who delivered my mother. They can all testify that my mother did not die in childbirth.”
As Li Mufeng spoke coldly, Wang Feng led several men to bring up the two middle-aged women.
"Your Majesty, spare me! Your Majesty, spare me! It was the Empress! The Empress ordered me to poison Consort An! Please, Your Majesty, have mercy on me! Waaah..."
"Your Majesty, spare me! Your Majesty, spare me! It wasn't that I deliberately concealed the fact that Consort An was poisoned. It was the Empress who forbade me to tell Your Majesty."
At that time, Consort An was poisoned and weak all over, so she was unable to have children. In order to save the young prince, she begged a commoner to perform a cesarean section to remove the child.
I'm so scared, but Consort An is determined to give birth to Your Majesty's child, sob sob...
The woman was moved, so she dug out the child, intending to show it to the Emperor. But the Empress ordered her to strangle the little prince. If the Emperor hadn't arrived in time, the little prince wouldn't have survived! Waaah…”
The two women eagerly recounted their past stories, causing Empress Feng Meiling's expression to change drastically.
"Nonsense."
Then he lunged at Emperor Li Hongwen.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent. It was Prince Longxuan who deliberately sent people to frame me. I don't know either of them at all."
"You wicked woman, you dare to plot against my concubines and kill my son! You deserve to die!"
Emperor Li Hongwen already knew the truth and didn't need witnesses. However, without someone to testify, he couldn't convict the Empress. Today's performance was merely a formality. Emperor Li Hongwen, with an expression of sudden realization, pointed at Empress Feng Meiling with undisguised rage.
Just as he was about to order Feng Meiling to be banished to the cold palace, Feng Meiling suddenly vomited blood and collapsed to the ground, dying.
"Mother...Mother..."
Li Muchen let out a heart-wrenching scream, but was unable to go forward because he was being held back by two imperial guards.
Wang Feng stepped forward to examine it, then stood up and bowed.
"Your Majesty, Prince Longxuan, has the Empress been poisoned?"
"Poisoning? For no reason at all, why would I be poisoned?"
Amidst the murmurs around him, Emperor Li Hongwen's fox-like eyes darted about.
“If we investigate the cause of the poisoning in detail, it will inevitably take up a lot of time, and many things may change in the meantime. Perhaps…”
Li Hongwen thought about it a lot, and finally made up his mind, shouting in a deep voice.
"You wretched woman, you're wise enough to commit suicide out of fear of punishment, which saves me a lot of trouble. Drag you to the mass grave and feed the dogs. The royal family will never allow such a vicious person to reside in the royal ancestral hall."
"Father, Father, no, no! Mother is your woman too, you can't be so heartless to her! Please, please let Mother enter the ancestral temple! Waaah..."
Li Muchen struggled and shouted, but Emperor Li Hongwen had long been impatient. He waved his hand, and the imperial guards dragged Li Muchen away.
The people sighed with dismay, lamenting the ruthlessness of the royal family. But when they thought about the empress's wrongdoings, they felt that she deserved her punishment.
"Miss Han, you said you can bring rain, is that true?"
Everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
"Blood Purple Rose" shifted her gaze from Li Mufeng and spoke in a clear, melodious voice,
"Your Majesty, I can indeed create rain artificially."
After saying that, he shouted at Zhao Hu,
"Could you please go and bring that thing over here for me?"
Zhao Hu glanced at Li Mufeng, and seeing that he didn't say anything, he led the two of them to move the "rocket launcher".
"What's this?"
Emperor Li Hongwen circled the "rocket launcher" and asked questions in confusion.
"Your Majesty, this is a 'rocket launcher,' used to bring rain."
"Rocket launcher, what's that?"
The ministers whispered amongst themselves, and the common people were also buzzing with discussion.
"Does this thing really make rain?"
Who knows!
"If only it could rain, then Baojun County would be saved."
...
"Li Mufeng, I helped you bring rain, please forgive me? That jade..."
"Blood Purple Rose" tried to tug at Li Mufeng's clothes, but he shook her off again.
"Your Highness, Miss Han has done enough for you, please don't treat her like this."
Seeing that the two seemed to have a misunderstanding, Chu Yunmo added fuel to the fire by deliberately saying something.
Chu Yunmo's silence only fueled Li Mufeng's anger, who unleashed a punch on him.
"Get out! You have no right to speak here. Who do you think you are? Don't you dare offend my eyes."
"Young master."
Seeing this, Mu Chun quickly helped him up, and then tried to draw her sword, but Chu Yunmo held her down, looking pitiful, and tugged at Xue Ziwei's clothes.
“I’m sorry, Miss Han. I think I misspoke and angered the Prince. I just couldn’t bear to see Miss Han being wronged. If I’m an eyesore to Miss Han and the Prince, I’ll leave.”
After Chu Yunmo finished speaking, she turned to leave, but was stopped by "Xue Ziwei".
"Need not."
After speaking, a flash of anger appeared in her phoenix eyes as she looked at Li Mufeng.
"Don't go too far. Yes, I'm the one who lost that thing, but I didn't ask you for it; you forced it on me."
"Take your anger out on me, why drag others into this?"
"Blood Purple Rose" didn't say those words because of Chu Yunmo, but out of spite. She was angry at Li Mufeng's attitude. After all, she was once the number one assassin on the Xia Kingdom's assassin list, and she had never been treated like this before. Now she was being so humble and subservient. Li Mufeng was too ungrateful.
That jade pendant is important, but it's already lost. Just find a way to get it back for him. Why act like the sky is falling?
"Alright, yes, you're right. It's all my own fault. You two are a perfect match, and I wish you a long and happy marriage."
Li Mufeng was furious, instantly consumed by jealousy. No wonder she lost her jade; she had never loved him, it was all one-sided on his part.
Seeing her brazenly protecting Chu Yunmo in front of so many people, Li Mufeng was furious and turned away in anger.
"Wind, wind..."
Emperor Li Hongwen called out twice in a hurry, but seeing that Li Mufeng had no intention of acknowledging him, he sighed helplessly.
Watching Li Mufeng's departing figure, "Xue Ziwei" clenched her fair fingers.
"Has Miss Han fallen in love with him?"
Chu Yunmo watched the two of them with great interest, a vague and inexplicable feeling passing through her heart, and a tightness in her chest.
"None of your business."
"Blood Purple Rose" shoved Chu Yunmo away and went straight to the "rocket launcher," asking Space Xiaoyou for two "rain bombs."
"Bang bang."
With two loud bangs, Li Mufeng, who hadn't walked far, turned around to see large raindrops falling from the sky, and the people cheering with joy.
"It's raining, it's raining, it's really raining."
"Princess Longxuan is amazing; she actually made it rain."
"A fairy, she must be a fairy descended from heaven."
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Princess Consort of Longxuan!"
May Miss Han live a thousand years!
...
Perhaps due to excessive excitement, the common people and officials shouted in unison. Emperor Li Hongwen's eyes shone brightly, and he once again regretted letting Li Mufeng divorce "Xue Ziwei".
In the pouring rain, the two locked eyes, as if a thousand words were unspoken, but then the sound of swords being drawn rang out all around them. With a "whoosh," an arrow shot directly toward "Blood Purple Rose's" back...
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