"How ridiculous!" The emperor smashed the pen in his hand and threw it at Jiang Siyuan's face. "I trusted your procuratorate so much, but people got hurt, and you only realized it now?!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down!" Jiang Siyuan knocked his head heavily to the ground without saying a word of rebuttal.
After all, the guards of the harem were the Imperial Guards, so the emperor didn't vent his anger on Jiang Siyuan. He turned around and hit the commander of the Imperial Guards, Li Biao, and said, "Li Biao, it's your duty to protect the palace! The Overwatch Council can see it, but you don't know it at all?"
When Li Biao received the news, Jiang Siyuan and Lu Zhixing were already kneeling before the emperor.
Although he was a close confidant of the emperor, he was a member of the prince's party, so he was discussing with his subordinates what gift to give at the prince's birthday banquet.
"Your Majesty, I, your humble servant, your humble servant..." Cold sweat kept dripping down Li Biao's forehead. Even if he knew about such a big thing, he probably wouldn't dare to intervene. Who else could have killed Lu Zhixing except the prince?
Seeing him like this, the emperor was even more furious. A commander of the imperial guards who guarded the palace city only knew how to curry favor with Lu Yanzhou all day long, but completely forgot about his business!
The emperor stood up and kicked Li Biao, knocking him to the ground. "You bastard! I think someone is here to kill me and you don't even know!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please calm down." Li Biao got up and kept begging for mercy.
"In broad daylight, there is an assassin in my harem who kills people! And even injures a prince like this! Where can I put my face? Will an assassin come to kill me tomorrow?!" The emperor snorted coldly.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. I will find out who is behind this!" Li Biao patted his chest repeatedly, trying to suppress the emperor's anger.
The emperor was more than furious! Killing someone in the harem in broad daylight was a challenge to his authority! The knife was at his neck!
No matter who was behind this, the emperor would not let them go. "Why don't you investigate quickly?! If you can't find out within seven days, you won't have to lead the Imperial Guard anymore! Prince Jing, where are those dead assassins?"
"In reply to your Majesty, it's in the side hall. Commander Li can check it out at any time if he wants." Lu Zhixing answered coldly while holding the hand in his own.
"Your martial arts attainments are the best in Dayan Dynasty, yet even you were injured by an assassin. The person behind this must be no ordinary person." This is also what the emperor is afraid of.
Lu Zhixing stood aside with a cold expression, "Luckily, it was me who encountered the assassin. I fought for half a day before my arm was injured. If Song Yuyue were here, wouldn't he have died tragically on the spot?"
"Where is Song Yuyue?" The emperor then remembered that the place where the assassin appeared was where Song Yuyue lived.
Then the mastermind behind the scenes is about to be revealed. The only ones who have a grudge against Luoxue Villa are the three Lin women in the capital.
The emperor felt relieved. Song Yuyue was Lu Zhixing's woman, the apple of his eye.
When she disappeared, Lu Zhixing almost went crazy. He even led people to search the Prince's Mansion and the harem, so he couldn't be the mastermind behind it.
It is also unlikely that it could be Crown Prince Lu Yanzhou. He does not have the ability to find someone who can hurt Lu Zhixing, nor would he dare to kill someone in broad daylight in the harem.
"When I went there, there was no one in the yard. I think she went to the Queen Mother's palace. She has been serving my grandmother with my Queen Mother these days." Lu Zhixing lowered his eyes and touched his arm.
"Call the queen!" The emperor immediately waved his hand.
The Queen quickly arrived with Song Yushu. After paying her respects with a puzzled look on her face, she asked the Emperor, "Your Majesty, what has happened?"
"Don't you know that there is an assassin in this palace?" The emperor's face was full of suspicion. He never trusted the queen and he didn't look happy when he saw her.
The Queen's long armor clenched her palms, her face filled with shock, fear, and anger. "There's actually an assassin in the harem in broad daylight?! What are you talking about, Your Majesty? My concubine and A Yue have been copying scriptures in the palace since early this morning, hoping to pray for our mother. How could we know what happened? Besides, I can't control the harem now!"
Speaking of this, the emperor's suspicion was slightly reduced. He knew what the queen had in her hands, and with the queen's intelligence, she couldn't do such a thing.
"I just asked you one question, but you responded to me with a hundred!" The emperor shook his sleeves unhappily.
The Empress was in a rage, King Jing had a cold expression, and only Li Biao, with the power of a bully, shouted at Song Yushu, "Song Yuyue, do you know what happened where you live?"
Before Song Yushu could answer, Lu Zhixing spoke first. He kicked Li Biao to the ground and said, "The assassin appeared in her palace, so she is the victim. What's your attitude?"
Li Biao clutched his chest and climbed up in panic, "Your Majesty!"
The emperor had experienced the previous events and was not surprised by Lu Zhixing's attitude. Li Biao was so stupid that he wanted to suppress Song Yuyue at this time, but he had chosen the wrong person.
"Alright, although Prince Jing's attitude is bad, he's not wrong." The emperor frowned and glared at Li Biao, "Hurry up and find out where those dead assassins came from! Don't embarrass yourself here!"
Li Biao looked at Song Yushu and was about to say something, but the emperor interrupted him, "Why don't you leave quickly?!"
Li Biao could only glance at Lu Zhixing, then left in embarrassment, holding his chest.
After he left, the emperor raised his chin towards Jiang Siyuan and said, "Li Biao is a fool. I don't place my hopes on him. Do you know that?"
"I understand." Jiang Siyuan immediately accepted the order.
"Empress, if Lord Jiang comes to your palace to investigate, you must tell the truth. Do you understand?" The emperor stared at the queen and spoke word by word.
The empress looked at the emperor's distrustful eyes and laughed self-deprecatingly, "I don't know what happened in this palace. How can I disobey your majesty's order?"
"Prince Jing, you should go back home to recuperate, but don't go out casually during this period." The emperor didn't care about Lu Zhixing's injury at all, or even didn't care at all. He only cared about what role Lu Zhixing played in it.
"Your son obeys your command." Lu Zhixing didn't care about the emperor's attitude. After all, the emperor had never had any fatherly love for him since he was a child.
The emperor took one last look at the pale Song Yushu and said, "Master Song, you don't look very well..."
Song Yushu had been kneeling on the ground. Only after hearing the emperor's words did she raise her head. "Your Majesty, I haven't recovered since I escaped danger a while ago. I still need to take medicine every day, so I look pale."
"Since Yue'er entered the palace, she's been serving either the Queen Mother or me every day. She's already in poor health!" The Queen snorted coldly, "There's an assassin where she lives! Killing her! Isn't she afraid?!"
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