Bai Cheng felt upset, so he asked his subordinates to go forward and negotiate.
Just as they were about to pass through the city gate, a scream suddenly erupted from the carriage behind them: "I don't know! I really don't know! Your Highness, since you died unjustly, go find the person who harmed you! Don't come to me!"
There were many people at the city gate at that moment. As soon as the scream came out, the originally noisy city gate became quiet in an instant.
Bai Cheng's face turned pale with gloom. He gritted his teeth and cursed, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and tell that bitch to shut up!"
He shouldn't have brought anyone here. Who knew so many things would go wrong!
The subordinates who received the order quickly controlled the concubine, and the group hurriedly passed through the city gate.
But it was still too late. Rumors were spreading everywhere. The most widely circulated one was that Bai was a demon who had killed the previous prince and now wanted to attack the prince again.
After returning to the palace, Su Mengyan was naturally not qualified to meet the emperor together, so she returned to the East Palace first.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the East Palace, Concubine Bai's maid arrived.
"Who is Su Mengyan, the Consort Su? The Queen has summoned you."
The maidservant who came over had a somewhat arrogant look on her face. When she saw Su Mengyan, she looked her up and down before she snorted and said, "Let's go."
Su Mengyan knew that Concubine Bai was looking for her for no good reason.
She was wondering when Situ Yao would come back, so she deliberately slowed down her pace and walked slowly into Concubine Bai's palace.
When they arrived at Concubine Bai's palace, two maids came forward to stop them and said, "The Queen is resting, please wait."
After saying that, he left.
Su Mengyan stood there bored, not daring to sit down casually. She didn't know how long it took until her back was sweating and her legs were almost numb, and then a figure slowly came out.
"Kneel down!" Upon seeing Su Mengyan, Concubine Bai immediately snorted coldly and said majestically, "You are so arrogant."
"Your Majesty, please forgive me," Su Mengyan said softly after thinking for a moment, "something happened at the city gate, and I was so scared that my legs went weak, so I walked slower."
The news of what was happening outside hadn't reached the palace yet, so Concubine Bai had no idea what was happening at the city gate. She snorted coldly and said, "What could have happened at the city gate that scared you so much? Tell me about it."
"Your Highness, yesterday Commander Bai took his beloved concubine to the Imperial Mausoleum. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the concubine suddenly started talking nonsense. She said that the Crown Prince's death was unjust, and that every wrong has its perpetrator, and that we should find the right person. Today, she shouted these words again at the city gate, repeatedly, and frightened me to the point of my legs going weak."
Su Mengyan lowered her head and answered, her voice sounding a little timid.
"Are you serious?" Concubine Bai slammed the table and stood up suddenly.
Su Mengyan immediately lowered her head and spoke timidly, "I dare not lie to the Imperial Concubine. Every word I say is the truth. If the Imperial Concubine doesn't believe me, you can send someone to inquire outside. When the incident happened, there were quite a few people gathered at the city gate. Many people must have heard it."
Concubine Bai's face suddenly turned pale.
Her fingertips were almost white from pinching, and she looked panicked: "You should leave first."
She originally wanted to ask Su Mengyan to come over and teach her a lesson, but now she no longer has the heart to do so.
Many veteran officials in the court have begun to remonstrate with the emperor regarding the Second Prince being crowned a king.
If the affairs of the former crown prince were to spread among the people, it would surely be brought to the attention of the emperor. If those in the Hanlin Academy forced the emperor to conduct a thorough investigation of the matter, he would surely be implicated.
Concubine Bai frowned and cursed Baicheng as a waste in her heart.
"Did she give you any trouble?"
Su Mengyan had just walked out of Concubine Bai's palace when she ran into Situ Yao outside.
Situ Yao looked her up and down, and seeing that she was intact, he asked, "Noble Concubine Bai, are you letting me out just like that?"
"I just finished talking to the Imperial Concubine about the incident at the city gate, and she let me out."
Su Mengyan was afraid that Situ Yao would doubt her loyalty again, so she quickly expressed her loyalty and flattered him, "I thought that after entering Concubine Bai's bedroom this time, I would never see His Highness again."
The fear is real, but what I am afraid of is not not being able to see Situ Yao, but the fear of not being able to survive.
"You..." Situ Yao took in her look and expression, and seeing that she was really fine, he said calmly, "Fools are lucky."
Su Mengyan didn't understand the meaning of these words and just took them as a nice thing to say.
But it is a good thing that Situ Yao came to pick me up.
Su Mengyan jumped up happily and went forward, but her legs slipped and she fell into Situ Yao's arms.
I'm not throwing myself into your arms! My legs are just numb!
She hurriedly and awkwardly changed the subject, looking at Situ Yao eagerly and said, "Your Highness, shall we go back now?"
For some reason, he was flattered by her demeanor. Situ Yao did not expose her, but nodded slightly: "Okay, I'm tired, come and help me."
Su Mengyan held his arm and carefully concealed it, thinking that she had not revealed anything, but she didn't know that she had already leaned most of her strength on him.
The two of them were walking back together. Su Mengyan secretly looked up at Situ Yao and saw that his expression was calm, his posture was leisurely and his bearing was extraordinary. If you look closely, you can find that the distance of each step of Situ Yao is basically the same.
She is worthy of being the most handsome person in this book. Everything she does is pleasing to the eye.
When Su Mengyan thought that such a person was destined to be with Cui Mixue in the future, she felt inexplicably upset.
She suppressed her thoughts and patted her head: What she should do now is to let Situ Yao follow the plot, and then she should try her best to survive, and find a way to go back.
You must never have these crooked thoughts!
Situ Yao glanced over and raised his eyebrows slightly: "What are you doing?"
"Ah?" Su Mengyan was stunned for a moment, then shook her head obediently, chuckled at Situ Yao, and said innocently with her face raised, "Nothing, I just suddenly got distracted, thinking about what happened today at the Imperial Concubine's place..."
Situ Yao raised his eyebrows slightly, and he would get revenge for this girl one day.
He raised the corners of his lips slightly and comforted her softly: "Don't think about her, she won't look for you again in the future."
After the incident with the former crown prince came to light, I guess Concubine Bai was no longer in the mood to take care of other things.
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