"The palace gates are closed?"
There was a hint of coldness in Yuan Zhao's voice, and she turned around abruptly.
"Yes, Your Highness." Biyun lowered her voice and looked around anxiously.
"When I went down, I found that the Imperial Guards had surrounded the palace gates and even the people from the Imperial Hospital had been detained!"
Yuan Zhao took a deep breath, tightened his fingertips slightly, and thought quickly in his mind.
——The palace gate is blocked, which means there must be unusual movements in the palace.
A sharp glint flashed in her eyes, "Go check immediately! See what happened in the court!"
At the same time, she looked at Gan Tang and said decisively, "Have someone prepare the horses. I will go to the palace to pick them up myself!"
"But Your Highness, the Crown Princess is here..." Gan Tang looked towards the delivery room anxiously. The painful moans coming from inside the room were heartbreaking.
Yuan Zhao took a deep look at the tightly closed door of the delivery room, his eyes dimmed.
"The lives of my sister-in-law and the child must be saved!"
She slowly tightened her grip and immediately looked at Biyun, "Go hire a midwife, and also go to the city to ask the doctor who's best at delivering the baby!"
Biyun immediately took the order and left.
Yuan Zhao took a deep breath, turned around and was about to leave when he suddenly heard a voice behind him -
"Mother! Let me go!"
She turned around and met Shang Yuan Nan'an's piercing gaze.
The girl held a spear in her hand, looking heroic, with a burning fighting spirit in her eyes.
Obviously, she had heard the conversation just now.
Yuan Xuan also came running over with sweat all over his forehead.
"Aunt! I'll go! I can't help Mother here, so please stay and take charge of the situation. I'll go to the Imperial Hospital to pick someone up! I'll definitely bring Doctor Chen over!"
Yuan Zhao was stunned and his eyes quickly swept over the two children one by one.
Nannan is brave and good at fighting, with extraordinary martial arts skills, and is good at charging into battle; Xuan'er is cautious and steady, and is best at adapting to changing circumstances.
She weighed the matter in her mind for a moment and made a quick decision.
"Okay!" She nodded and looked at the two of them. "Let Fushan and Fuyu go with you. I'm afraid the palace will not be peaceful this time. You two must be cautious and take good care of yourselves!"
She knew that she could no longer protect them as children under her wings as she had before.
They have grown up and are capable of taking on important responsibilities.
At the same time, she took off the token from her waist and handed it to Yuan Nan'an.
"Take this order, and if anyone tries to stop you, kill them!"
"yes!"
Yuan Nan'an responded without hesitation, took out his spear and threw his sword to Yuan Xuan.
Biyun brought two horses.
The wind and snow were flying as the two men jumped on their horses and galloped towards the palace gate.
…
The air in the Golden Throne Hall was stagnant.
In the center of the hall, Concubine Shu was wearing a phoenix crown and a red robe, with a cold and sharp expression. Her questions shook the court.
"Yuancheng, as the crown prince, you disregard the rules of propriety!"
"Taking advantage of His Majesty's coma, you bully me, an orphan and a widow, and seize the court, seizing power privately!"
"Now they are colluding with foreign nations and plotting rebellion!"
Her words were so powerful that they immediately sparked discussions among the officials in the court.
"Is what Noble Concubine Shu really saying?"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince has always been steady and composed, how could he possibly be plotting a rebellion?"
"But if it's fabricated, how dare Your Majesty the Imperial Concubine publicly accuse us in the court?"
Concubine Shu sneered, her eyes full of pride and ruthlessness.
She turned slowly and raised her hand to signal, "Bring the person up!"
Several imperial guards walked up to the hall with a thin eunuch.
The eunuch was frail and knelt in the center of the hall, trembling with fear. Cold sweat dripped down his forehead. He prostrated himself on the ground, not daring to look up.
"Your servant... Your servant serves Your Majesty in the Qinzheng Hall..." The little eunuch stammered, his voice trembling with fear.
"Three months ago, I personally heard the Crown Prince argue with His Majesty over the princess's marriage... Then... Then..."
Xiao Anzi's voice became smaller and smaller, his body became more and more timid, and he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.
"What happened next? Tell me clearly!"
Yuan Cheng frowned, his eyes sharp, and asked in a deep voice.
Xiao Anzi's body trembled violently, and he seemed even more frightened.
Concubine Shu stood in front of Xiao Anzi, her eyes were stern, her voice was sad and shrill,
"Xiao Anzi, go ahead and speak! Today, even at the risk of my life, I will eliminate the treacherous villains for His Majesty and save His Majesty from danger!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Anzi seemed to muster up his courage, took out a jade bottle from his sleeve, raised it high with both hands, and presented it with trembling hands.
"This was discovered by me in the Qinzheng Palace after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince left that day... The next day, His Majesty suddenly fainted..."
Immediately, a minister recognized the jade bottle.
"That's a special jade bottle made in South Vietnam for storing poisonous insects!"
The hall was suddenly silent, and all the ministers were shocked.
Yuan Cheng's expression did not change, but his eyes were gloomy as he stared straight at the so-called "evidence", with a hint of coldness flashing in the depths of his eyes.
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole hall was in an uproar.
"How can we prove that it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who did this? Could it be that someone deliberately framed him?"
Some ministers questioned it, but Xiao Anzi immediately refuted it repeatedly, with tears in his eyes and a firm tone.
"I dare not lie! Every word I said is true! I am your Majesty's close attendant, how dare I make up such stories!"
Seeing this, Concubine Shu continued to exaggerate.
"Now that His Majesty is unconscious, and all power in the palace is in the hands of the Crown Prince, don't you all find this strange?"
The ministers looked at each other, not knowing how to respond for a moment.
"absurd!"
At this moment, Yuan Cheng finally spoke. His voice was not loud, but it revealed a cold majesty.
"Based on the one-sided words of a palace slave, you're trying to accuse me of regicide and treason? Imperial Concubine Shu, if you want to distort the truth, you need to provide sufficient evidence!"
Concubine Shu was not afraid at all, as if she had been prepared.
She smiled coldly, slowly pulled out a letter from her sleeve, held it high, and said in a decisive voice,
"Yuan Cheng! Everyone in the court knows that you and Huo Yan are like brothers, and your relationship is extraordinary."
"But you know that Huo Yan has already colluded with Northern Qiang, and there are letters to prove it!"
She shook out the letter and handed it to the eunuch beside her. The eunuch presented it with both hands and handed it to the ministers.
"You've always favored the Huo family! Even after His Majesty fell into a coma, you tampered with the imperial decree and supported Huo Yan, who still had the unresolved Wind Valley case."
"Such behavior is the source of chaos in Dacheng!"
She picked up the jade bottle again, curled her lips and smiled,
"Everyone, don't forget, at the beginning of last year, when the snowstorm hit the south, a witchcraft case broke out. It was Yuan Cheng who specifically sent Huo Yan to investigate..."
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