Chapter 449 Xiao Yan is a good person
A fire broke out in the palace again, and Empress Lu set herself on fire. The huge cold palace was almost burned to ruins.
After the fire was extinguished, the guards found "Empress Lu" who had been burned to charcoal in the ruins. Emperor An was extremely furious and ordered her to be buried.
There was no posthumous title, no funeral ceremony, no mourning hall, and even the custom of people in the palace crying for the deceased before the burial was omitted.
All the servants in Fengxi Palace were sentenced to death, and the guards in the cold palace were fined and beaten with canes. It is said that on the day the deposed queen was carried out of the palace, there was only a very shabby thin coffin, and there were not even any officials to send off the funeral. Only the eunuchs in the palace led a few people to carry the body out of the capital, and then dug a deep pit outside the imperial mausoleum to bury the body.
Afterwards, Emperor An ordered the closure of Fengxi Palace and the death of the Fourth Prince. His cold and cruel attitude frightened everyone in the palace.
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"You said that the Emperor ordered the death of our fourth brother?"
"The poisoned wine was granted earlier, but the Fourth Prince refused to die and made a scene, leading to him being wrongly accused. Later, the deposed Empress burned down the Forbidden Palace. His Majesty was furious. When he learned that the Fourth Prince wanted to see him, he said nothing. The next day, Eunuch Feng personally led a group to the Imperial Prison and strangled the Fourth Prince to death."
The second prince... no, the Hateful Prince, listened to the words of Miao Chun, his close follower, with a dazed look on his face.
He fell seriously ill after he fell into a coma in the palace that day. Emperor An "rewarded" him with the title of Prince because he exposed the affair between Empress Lu and Prince Cheng, which made him a huge joke.
Prince Hate knew without a doubt that outsiders would laugh at him, and that those who had once followed him would abandon him and turn to others. He closed the door of his mansion and slept every day. When he finally woke up, he suddenly learned that the Fourth Prince was dead.
For a moment, Prince Zhe didn't know what expression to show.
Xie Guangzheng is the legitimate son of the Empress and the next emperor chosen by the aristocratic family. He has been suppressed by his legitimate younger brother since he was a child. Almost all the glory has nothing to do with him. In order to protect himself when he was young, he even dared not show any talent or be better than the fourth prince in academic performance.
Prince Hate envied his younger brother and was extremely jealous of him. He always regarded the Fourth Prince as the biggest stumbling block on his way to the throne. He used him as an example everywhere and tried every means to trip him up.
But who could have thought that he would die like this.
He was strangled to death by order of his father.
Miao Chun couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, I heard that the Fourth Prince cried out in injustice until his death. Even after the Empress was deposed and sent to the cold palace, she kept saying that the Fourth Prince was Your Majesty's bloodline. Tell me, could it be that he really isn't Prince Cheng's son?"
Considering the Queen's ability to play both sides between Prince Cheng and Emperor An, and even after marrying Emperor An as his empress, she was still able to deceive Prince Cheng into being infatuated with her for many years, and even to the point of exchanging his own son for her, which later became almost extinct, it is not necessarily possible for her to use Emperor An's bloodline to deceive Prince Cheng.
After all, the Queen knows best whose father the Fourth Prince is.
Upon hearing this, the King of Zang laughed sarcastically: "So what if it is, so what if it isn't?"
My father is such a respectable person. Even if there is even the slightest doubt about Xie Guangzheng's bloodline, my father will not let him live.
It's a pity that he had never thought of this before. He was only concerned about finding the weaknesses of the Lu family and wanted to kill the fourth brother, but he forgot that the one who was cuckolded by the queen and lost face was the emperor of Wei. The one who had raised the illegitimate child for twenty years was the emperor who cared about his reputation more than anyone else.
Prince Zeng reached out and touched his forehead. The wound there had already scabbed over, but a long scar remained.
That day in the palace, my father really wanted to beat him to death.
Prince Zeng turned around and asked, "How's things going with the Cui family?"
Miao Chun whispered back, "Minister Cui waited in the palace until midnight that day for His Majesty to summon him. He fainted, broke his arm, and hit his head. I heard he became ill after being escorted back to his residence by the Imperial Guards. He was so dazed that he could barely attend the morning court session."
"Your Majesty has confined him to his palace on the grounds that he was disrespectful to the Sovereign by failing to comply with His Majesty's order and waiting for an audience."
"The other day, the Second Master of the Cui family was impeached by the Censorate for failing to perform his duties and allowing his subordinates to kill innocent people. His Majesty stripped him of his official title. The eldest wife of the Cui family's uncle, Gao Sheng, was also demoted two ranks for favoring his concubine over his wife and using his official position to run a private business that competed with the people for profits."
Miao Chun felt sympathetic when talking about the Cui family.
"I don't know if Minister Cui hit his head that day. Doctors have been coming in and out of the Cui family these past few days. I heard that someone from the Cui family even went to ask Governor Xiao to pass on a message to Madam Qin to treat Cui Lin. I'm afraid Minister Cui's condition is not very good."
When Prince Zeng heard Xiao Yan's name, he suddenly looked up and asked, "Did the Cui family go to ask Xiao Yan for help?"
Miao Chun hummed, "I don't know where Madam Qin went to see a patient before. She's not in the capital. Governor Xiao is the one who knows her best in the capital. Master Cui went to Jiyun Lane himself last night."
"Did Xiao Yan meet him?"
"Yes, not only did she meet him, but Madam Qin returned to the capital this morning and went directly to Cui's house."
Prince Zeng was silent for a long time, thinking of what Xiao Yan said in front of the emperor that day.
He relied almost entirely on Xiao Yan for what he had today, and it was Xiao Yan who planned little by little to gain a bright future for him. However, because he was too selfish and because he was afraid of Xiao Yan, he secretly investigated Empress Lu's affairs behind his back, hoping to gain face in front of the Emperor, but he didn't know that he was sending himself to death.
When Xiao Yan looked at him that day, his eyes were cold, but later he learned from Doctor Sun that he was able to survive because of Xiao Yan's plea for him.
The emperor hated him so much because he had exposed Empress Lu at the morning court. He had murderous intentions towards him at that time. He even let him die when he saw him bleeding and unconscious, as if he wanted to "end" him quietly.
It was Xiao Yan who pleaded for him, and it was he who risked being reprimanded by his father and asked the imperial physician to treat him...
In fact, Xiao Yan is not such a heartless person. He is even more frank than many people in the court who talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality.
He may have acted a little cruelly and his methods seemed harsh, but he was not a vicious person. Otherwise, why would he let Madam Qin return to Beijing to treat Cui Lin when he was celebrating a feud with the Cui family?
Xiao Yan looked cold and unkind, but in reality he just needed to protect himself when standing before the Saint.
Prince Zeng took a deep breath and said, "Send someone to pass on a message for me, saying that I want to see Governor Xiao."
Miao Chun was shocked: "Your Highness, you hid Queen Lu's affairs from Governor Xiao, and almost got him punished by His Majesty. I'm afraid he won't see you..."
"I know."
"Then you still..."
"Don't worry about it, just go and pass on the message."
Miao Chun was completely puzzled. You know, Xiao Yan was almost punished for this incident. After the Duke's accident, no one from the Governor's Mansion came once. Even the people who had stayed with the Duke had all withdrawn. It was obvious that they had no intention of paying any attention to the Duke anymore.
If they go to see him at this time, how could Governor Xiao be willing to see them?
Miao Chun was nervous, but he couldn't persuade Prince Han, so he hesitated and sent someone to Jiyun Lane. But who would have thought that he would receive a response at night, and Xiao Yan actually came in person.
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