Chapter 541: Blood in the Forbidden Palace
As if they had been prepared, several imperial doctors quickly rushed to the East Palace to examine the prince.
After a flurry of activity, a female official in the Eastern Palace who was in her early thirties said to the trembling Wei Miaoqing, "Crown Princess, there is no need to worry too much. The imperial doctors said that His Royal Highness is just weak and tired, and there is nothing serious."
This statement shocked Wei Miaoqing. The person had fainted, and this was still called "nothing serious"? The words "Are the standards for judging the severity of illness in your palace so high?" came to Wei Miaoqing's lips, but he swallowed them back.
After the doctors left, Wei Miaoqing glanced at Li Zhi, who was still unconscious on the bed, and asked the female historian, "Ms. Yan, since His Highness is not feeling well, shall I go to the side hall to rest tonight?"
Ms. Yan frowned slightly and said, "Crown Princess, tonight is your wedding night with the Crown Prince. I'm afraid it's against the rules for you to do this."
She looked at Wei Miaoqing and said, "Besides, the prince is not feeling well, you should be by his side to serve and take care of him."
Wei Miaoqing got a headache after hearing this.
With her background and looks, how could she be good at serving others? And with so many servants, why did she have to be the only one to be tired?
There are really strange rules in this palace.
But Wei Miaoqing did not want to argue with her, so she nodded perfunctorily. Seeing that the lady was about to leave, she hurriedly asked, "Ms. Yan, do you have any food left?"
Ms. Yan looked at her in disbelief—the prince was unconscious, and the princess was asking her for food?
Being looked at like this, Wei Miaoqing also felt puzzled - in such a big Eastern Palace, this lady historian actually wanted her, the Crown Princess, to take the initiative to ask for food?
Wei Miaoqing said confidently: "I haven't eaten for a day. Since I have to take care of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how can I not eat enough?"
Since she was a child, her mother told her that all the so-called respectability and praise that require endurance, hardship and grievance to be gained should be ignored.
Seeing her like this, Ms. Yan had no choice but to ask someone to prepare food.
While waiting for the meal, Wei Miaoqing hurriedly asked the maid who came with her dowry to take off her hair bun.
By the time the meal was delivered, Wei Miaoqing had already finished her bath and changed into comfortable underwear.
After several maids from the East Palace set the table and left as ordered, they could not help but look at each other. They really could not have imagined in their dreams that such a terrifying feeling of relaxation would appear in their East Palace, which was tighter than a fully drawn bowstring and more gloomy than stagnant water sealed in a jar for more than ten years.
After Wei Miaoqing had eaten her fill, she washed her hands and rinsed her mouth, then got on the couch and lay down next to the prince.
However, Wei Miaoqing couldn't fall asleep no matter how much she tossed and turned, so she simply sat up.
She looked at the unconscious Crown Prince Li Zhi beside her, and suddenly felt confused. She couldn't help but say to the maidservant standing by her side: "...Since ancient times, people have regarded reserve as a virtue. Even marriage requires respect for etiquette. Even having sex in private before the wedding is considered out of line...But in this case, out of the blue, I have to take off my clothes and sleep with a stranger. How can I be reserved?"
She said, there is nothing more outrageous than this!
It was so outrageous that it made her spine tingle and she couldn't understand it.
Hearing these strange words from her own girl, the maid stammered and her face turned red.
The next moment, he saw his girl getting out of bed holding a quilt.
The maid whispered: "Girl, what are you doing..."
"You know how I sleep. I might crush him to death or kick him off the bed..." Wei Miaoqing held the quilt and walked towards the beauty bed by the window: "He is so sick, how can he withstand my torture."
The maidservant could not persuade her any further after hearing this, so she could only help her girl tidy up the quilt and brought a jade pillow.
Wei Miaoqing quickly lay down and breathed a sigh of relief.
The maid made a bed on the floor at her feet, and the master and servant talked quietly.
"Mengchan, do you miss home?" Wei Miaoqing asked in a low voice.
Before the maid could answer, Wei Miaoqing looked at the roof and said softly, "I miss home."
"Girl..."
"My brother actually told me last night that he felt guilty towards me." Wei Miaoqing hugged the quilt and spoke in a low voice, as if talking to herself: "But what did my brother do wrong? I entered the palace to be the Crown Princess for the entire Wei family, not for my brother. Just because my brother is the most outstanding person in the family, you want to blame him for everything. Then my brother is too unlucky."
"If I put everything on my brother, just want to sit back and enjoy the fruits of his labor without putting in any effort, and just hide behind my brother and family for my whole life, and be a girl whose only merits are luck and beauty, then I will be too useless..."
So she said to her brother - if her brother insisted on selfishly asking me to be a useless person, he should really feel indebted and guilty.
The brother looked at her and didn't say anything for a long time.
"Under such circumstances, I have no choice, my brother has no choice, and so many people have no choice..."
Wei Miaoqing said, glancing at Li Zhi on the bed: "As the crown prince, this is the case, let alone others."
"I'm much more relaxed than my brother." Wei Miaoqing huddled his shoulders into the soft new quilt again: "At this time, my brother must still be busy with official business."
What would my mother and father be doing?
In the past, she would have been asleep by this time, but now that she has married into the palace, her parents must be thinking about her, right? "Mengchan, I miss my mother a little bit..."
Hearing her girl's whisper, the maid couldn't help but feel a soreness in her eyes. She was about to say something to comfort her, but soon she heard the girl's even breathing from above.
The maid couldn't help but smile and raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes.
The girl in her family is really carefree and really tired.
Being a crown princess is really tiring.
The Crown Princess was so tired that she almost overslept the next day.
Wei Miaoqing was awakened by a maid. When she woke up, Crown Prince Li Zhi had just been awakened by a eunuch.
Wei Miaoqing subconsciously looked at Li Zhi, who was sitting up and listening to the eunuch's words in a daze. She felt that although there was not much expression on his face, he seemed like he was about to cry.
Wei Miaoqing suddenly felt a little pity for Li Zhi.
After the two of them washed and changed their clothes with the help of the palace maids, the prince took the medicine and got on the sedan chair with Wei Miaoqing.
The Crown Prince and Wei Miaoqing sat side by side on a gorgeous sedan chair with a gauze curtain hanging down.
"Last night, I accidentally fainted..." After a while, the prince spoke to Wei Miaoqing in a low voice with a hint of apology in his voice.
Wei Miaoqing, who was admiring the scenery along the way through the gauze curtain, turned her head and was suddenly surprised to realize that this seemed to be the first sentence the prince had spoken to her.
Seeing the prince lowering his head, Wei Miaoqing comforted him, "It's okay, it's okay, as long as you wake up."
Her voice was cheerful and pleasant, but the prince didn't know how to respond, so he nodded and said nothing more.
After the two arrived at Ganlu Palace and just entered the outer hall, the prince's face suddenly changed.
There were sounds of officials discussing matters in the inner hall, but it was only dawn...
The voices stopped only when the palace servants reported to the inner hall that the Crown Prince and Crown Princess had come to pay their respects.
Soon, the palace servant withdrew and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, please come in."
Wei Miaoqing followed the prince into the inner hall, only to find that there were more than ten ministers in the hall, including her brother.
Moreover, her brother and everyone else seemed to have a very solemn expression, and it was unknown whether some big thing had happened.
When the emperor spoke, there was nothing unusual in his tone, but after she paid her respects, the emperor asked the palace servants to take her to a side hall to rest and wait, leaving the prince alone.
Wei Miaoqing magically noticed that the prince seemed to want to leave with her, but obviously he couldn't.
When Wei Miaoqing retreated, he subconsciously looked in the direction of his brother. Only when he saw his brother nodded slightly to him did he retreat with peace of mind.
Just as Wei Miaoqing felt, something big had indeed happened.
Last night, after the banquet in Hanyuan Hall, when all officials were leaving the palace, a group of officials had just walked out of the Forbidden Palace gate and had not yet reached the outer palace gate when they were suddenly assassinated.
The prince's head buzzed and he almost fainted again - after he fainted last night, such a big thing happened!
An official was stabbed outside the Forbidden Palace...this has never happened before!
After hearing who the officials who were killed were, the prince felt even more confused.
Jiedushi of Lingnan Road, Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, Jiedushi of Shuofang…
At this time, everyone in the palace was the emperor's confidant. The prince knelt down suddenly and said, "This matter is due to my negligence... Please punish me, Your Majesty!"
Now he is the one who is in charge of government affairs, but such a big mistake has happened in the palace, and the officials entered the palace yesterday because of his wedding...
The prince repeatedly read the identities of the three people who were killed in his mind, and felt that any one of them was not as important as him! Especially the two Jiedushi...
"This is not your fault." The empress's cold voice came from the top: "The person who took action was not an assassin hiding in the dark, nor was he a spy lurking in the palace..."
The prince raised his head with cold sweat on his forehead. If that was the case, then it was not the fault of the imperial guards in charge of the palace? Then... who was the one who did it? !
The empress spoke word by word: "Jiannan Road Jiedushi, Wan Yantai."
The prince was horrified: "The governor of Jiannan Road actually..."
——Killing someone outside the Forbidden Palace? !
Committing a crime in public, does Wan Yantai want to die?
Even though he had seen many fights and casualties in recent days, the unexpectedness of this incident still made the prince feel unbelievable.
Wan Yantai's move was undisguised. He chose to act alone in a place and time that no one expected him to do.
When foreign officials entered the capital, the number of followers they brought with them was limited, and their every move was under the emperor's surveillance.
Today is the Crown Prince's wedding, and the imperial guards have stepped up their alerts. All officials have been checked repeatedly when entering the palace, and all the swords they carried with them have been unloaded outside the palace.
After a whole day, the banquet was over and everything was under control without any accidents.
Just when everyone was about to relax, no one expected that an accident would happen at this time.
During the banquet, all officials drank to some extent, and the military governors of various regions were no exception. Under the influence of alcohol, they even had a brief illusion that their relationship had become closer.
Therefore, when Wan Yantai, the governor of Jiannan Road, took out his sword outside the Forbidden Palace and suddenly stabbed the governor of Lingnan Road beside him, the latter was almost defenseless.
As Wan Yantai drew out his dagger, the governor of Lingnan Road retreated and fell to the ground, and chaos suddenly broke out all around.
At that time, they were only a dozen steps away from the Forbidden Palace gate, and their servants were waiting not far ahead, but someone was destined not to leave the imperial city tonight.
In the chaos, the Minister of War was also wounded and fell.
The Shuofang Jiedushi drew his sword and fought with Wan Yantai, preventing Wan Yantai from hurting anyone further. Later, with the addition of the imperial guards, the Shuofang Jiedushi seriously injured Wan Yantai.
Wan Yantai was subdued by the imperial guards and forced to kneel down. However, the next moment, he slammed into the long swords pointed at him by the imperial guards, allowing the sharp swords to pierce his body and internal organs.
As blood flowed out of his mouth, Wan Yantai stared at the Shuofang Jiedushi and others, and left a message: [You are stubborn and still want to be loyal to the king who has no morals and is incompetent... It is not a pity to die! ]
At that moment, the Shuofang Jiedushi suddenly noticed something strange.
During the fight with Wan Yantai, he was scratched on the chest and arms by the opponent, but based on his experience, the injuries were not serious.
Until the sword fell from his hand and he fell down uncontrollably.
Wan Yantai's dagger was coated with a deadly poison.
When the Shuofang Jiedushi fell to the ground, he looked at the night sky above the palace wall, but what flashed before his eyes was the vast northern border, and the scene when his good friend the Longyou Jiedushi spoke nonsense to him on the day he decided to go to the capital, and he smiled and raised his fist to hit the other's shoulder.
As a military commander guarding the border, he was not afraid of death. Especially since the unrest in the north, he had been prepared to shed his blood.
But he never imagined that his blood would not be shed on the battlefield to protect the territory from foreign invaders, but in this palace filled with power and calculations.
Before losing consciousness, Shuofang Jiedu used up his last bit of strength and turned to look to the north, but the palace wall was too high, blocking everything.
The Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War also died of poisoning, as well as six imperial guards.
Only then did the prince understand why the atmosphere in the palace was so solemn.
The emperor's face was also shrouded in dark clouds.
After Jiannan Road Jiedushi Wan Yantai came to the capital, Emperor Shengce summoned him privately to test his intentions and attitude.
Wan Yantai knelt down before the emperor, expressing his loyalty to him and claiming that he had no intention of following Prince Rong in treason. The reason why he came to the capital in person was to make his position clear and he did not want to create any rift with the court.
Naturally, the Holy Book Emperor would not easily believe these sweet words.
She guessed that Wan Yantai's move was just a smokescreen, intended to give her the illusion that Jiannan Road was not yet under the control of Prince Rong, in order to lull her vigilance... Therefore, she would never let Wan Yantai return to Jiannan Road easily.
But what was unexpected was that Wan Yantai never thought about going back alive.
On the night of the prince's wedding, two military governors and an official of the imperial court were tragically killed outside the Forbidden Palace... How could the imperial court save its dignity and how could the emperor's majesty be preserved? This almost turned the imperial court and the emperor into a huge laughing stock!
The shock and blow this incident will bring to the imperial court is almost beyond words...
This is the result that Wan Yantai paid with his life... for the great cause of King Rong!
This realization filled the emperor's heart with endless anger, as well as a sadness that even she herself could not explain.
The fingers of the Holy Cemeter Emperor that were holding the relief on the side of the dragon throne were trembling slightly because he was holding too tightly.
Li Yin was able to make a military governor willing to go to the capital to die for him...but she couldn't even let her daughter return to the capital to see him.
How ironic is this? Good night everyone~
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