Chapter 245: Emperor Liang’s Face
Emperor Liang supported Concubine Yu and held her in his arms with pity. "Empress, how did Yu'er offend you? Don't you know that fifty lashes of the cane will cost her life?"
Queen Pearl looked at Emperor Liang as if he were a monster. She had never imagined that there was someone in the palace that Emperor Liang cared about. Could he be faking it?
"Your Majesty, my stomach hurts so much! Concubine Yu suddenly ran up to me, and I thought she was going to do something to me? Your Majesty, you misunderstood me!" Queen Pearl sobbed and cried.
Emperor Liang was so annoyed by the two women's crying that he shouted impatiently, "Shut up! Where's the imperial physician? Hurry up and call him! Yu'er, tell me what's going on?"
Imperial Concubine Yu glared at Empress Pearl with a smug look, then leaned delicately on Emperor Liang's shoulder and replied, "Your Majesty, the Empress said her dowry hasn't been sorted out yet. I wanted to help her, but she didn't appreciate it and even wanted to beat me to death! Your Majesty, you must make the decision for me!"
Emperor Liang patted Concubine Yu's back gently to comfort her, but when he looked at Queen Pearl, his eyes were filled with anger. "Pearl! Yu'er is my childhood sweetheart. She also wants to be close to you. How can you say such vicious words without considering the monk's face and the Buddha's?"
Queen Pearl clutched her belly and said aggrievedly, "Your Majesty, how can I have the mind to tidy up the storehouse in this state? Your Majesty, I really didn't mean it!"
Concubine Yu snorted inwardly. The Queen was clearly lying. She was perfectly normal when everyone came to pay their respects. But when she asked to see her dowry, she started to have a stomachache? This was too much of a coincidence!
"Your Majesty, I just want to see the Empress's dowry. It is said that all the dowries will not be delivered to the palace until dark! Which sister in the palace has so much dowry? I am just curious and want to broaden my horizons!" Concubine Yu relied on Emperor Liang's favoritism and continued to talk relentlessly.
Emperor Liang glared at Queen Pearl with discontent and shouted in a deep voice, "Pearl, hurry up and have the treasury opened! I'd like to broaden my horizons, too. I hear that your Yumu Kingdom is the richest of the ten maritime nations!"
Queen Pearl knew exactly what Emperor Liang was planning. Although her dowry was generous, it wasn't as much as Concubine Yu said it would take from day to night! Emperor Liang was playing along with Concubine Yu, he was simply trying to steal her dowry!
"Your Majesty, I will open the warehouse for everyone to see after I recover, okay? I am really not feeling well today!" After all, they were on someone else's territory, and Queen Pearl planned to use a delaying tactic first, and then think of a solution.
It was clear that Emperor Liang's patience was limited. He waved his hand and ordered the guards outside the palace, "Open the Queen's storeroom immediately! I want to inspect it myself!"
Queen Pearl finally saw the ugly and greedy face of Emperor Liang. She heard the noise outside the palace, but her mother-in-law had not returned from calling the imperial physician. She could no longer pretend. The dowry in the storeroom was prepared by the prince himself! It was all her wish!
She paced forward and tried to stop him, "No!"
At this moment, the invisible Lin Xiaoyue had seen enough of the excitement, and she appeared next to the Pearl Queen first. She turned the wooden hairpin on her finger, and a tiny poisonous needle pierced the back of the Pearl Queen's head.
Before the Pearl Queen even felt the sting of the poison needle, she had already stopped breathing.
"Bang!" Queen Pearl finally fell to the ground.
At this time, no one in the hall cared about Queen Pearl's life or death. They all followed Emperor Liang to the outside of the hall to see Queen Pearl's dowry in the warehouse.
Lin Xiaoyue was not interested in the dowry. She had just seen Queen Pearl being very close to an old woman named Shan Po Po in the hall. It seemed that Shan Po Po was brought by Queen Pearl from Yumu Country.
Shan Po Po left Jinxiu Palace to call the imperial physician, and she hasn't come back for such a long time. She must be controlled by Emperor Liang's people!
Now we have to report back to Yumu Country the news that Emperor Liang tried to steal Queen Pearl's dowry and killed her. We can only rely on this mother-in-law!
So, Lin Xiaoyue planned to walk out of the main hall to look for Shan Po Po. Shan Po Po was going to ask for the imperial physician, so she should be able to see him as long as she walked towards the Imperial Hospital!
As Lin Xiaoyue had guessed, not long after she walked out of Jinxiu Palace, she saw Grandma Shan being controlled by two guards!
Lin Xiaoyue twisted the wooden hairpin, and two poisonous needles shot out from the front and back, and the two guards fell to the ground instantly.
Granny Shan discovered someone was coming to save her and asked in surprise, "Who? Is he a friend or an enemy?"
Lin Xiaoyue was invisible, so she stood under the tree and said, "Neither enemy nor friend! Queen Pearl was killed by Emperor Liang. If you return to Jinxiu Palace now, you will die! I can rescue you from the palace, but your life and death from now on depends on you!"
Grandma Shan ran towards Jinxiu Palace in disbelief, but before she even entered the door, she heard someone inside saying that Queen Pearl was dead. Grandma Shan took a few steps back in grief and anger. She didn't expect that in just a few days, Emperor Liang would kill Queen Pearl!
Emperor Liang is so cruel!
"Good man! Save, save me!" The more Grandma Shan thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she stumbled back.
Lin Xiaoyue still stood under the tree and asked, "Where do you want to go?"
The fan-shaped grandmother blurted out, "The fisherman's wife from the capital!"
Lin Xiaoyue knocked Shan Po Po unconscious, and then with the help of the power of space, she carried Shan Po Po on her back and left the palace.
The capital city is huge, and Lin Xiaoyue was exiled after traveling through time, so she had no idea where the Fisherman's Wife was. Fortunately, the space could find a place. After Lin Xiaoyue told the space about the Fisherman's Wife, the space took them to the Fisherman's Wife.
It turns out that Fisherman's is a restaurant that mainly serves seafood. Yumu Kingdom is an island country on the sea, and the people make a living by fishing. Fisherman's is the contact point of Yumu Kingdom in the capital, so the seafood here should be very fresh and delicious, right?
If time wasn't urgent, Lin Xiaoyue would really like to sit down and taste the seafood here. She walked to the fisherman's backyard, threw the fan on the ground, and hid away.
Soon someone found Grandma Shan and took her to a room in the backyard. Lin Xiaoyue followed directly because she was invisible.
Lin Xiaoyue followed him into the room and saw that it was a study. A man with a pigtail was sitting inside. When he stood up, he was not much taller than Lin Xiaoyue, but his fierce aura still made people tremble, so Lin Xiaoyue just stood at the door, leaning against the wall.
The man woke up the fan-girl and asked unkindly, "Why are you here? Where's Pearl? Didn't the king ask you to stay with her?"
Grandma Shan clutched the man's hand tightly and said, "General Lie, quickly send a message to the king. Tell him that Zhenzhu was murdered in the palace! It was Emperor Liang who did it!"
The man named General Lie didn't believe what the mother-in-law said. He slapped her and cursed, "What nonsense are you talking about? Zhenzhu just married into the palace. Why would Emperor Liang kill her? Did you get some favor from Emperor Liang? Are you here to spread false information?"
The corners of the fan mother-in-law's mouth cracked, and she covered her face and cried bitterly, "General Lie, I really am not talking nonsense! Just send someone to Jinxiu Palace and you will know! Emperor Liang wants to get the dowry that Zhenzhu brought into the palace, and then kill her!"
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