Wu Wangfu
Song Zhiyi looked at the secret letters delivered to him one by one, and the contents of each secret letter were surprisingly consistent.
Gone, all gone...
He was one step late after all, just one step...
Song Zhiyi's shoulders drooped, his always straight back bent slightly, his head buried between his palms, a tear flowed out from between his fingers.
The plan that had been planned for more than ten years was completely shattered today.
The study was unusually quiet today, so quiet that the servants around felt suffocated.
No one dared to disturb Song Zhiyi, except Princess Wu, who gently pushed open the door of the study and saw her husband sitting dejectedly behind the desk.
Having known him for decades, she had never seen Song Zhiyi so decadent. Even when reprimanded by the emperor or laughed at by the princes around him, he always took it indifferently. Only today, it seemed that there was an aura of death permeating his whole body, draining away all his energy.
Princess Wu walked forward and gently embraced him from behind.
Although she didn't know what happened, she would be with him no matter what happened.
"Your Majesty, I am still here! I will always be with you."
Song Zhiyi felt the warm breath coming from the person behind him, and his icy heart felt a little warmer. "Fourth Mother, I'm done. Everything is over."
With just one sentence, Princess Wu understood what had happened.
She hugged her husband tightly, "It's okay! The emperor is a benevolent ruler, he won't do such a thing. As long as we are alive, we have a chance."
Song Zhiyi knew that she was comforting him, but he still had a faint hope in his heart, "Really?"
Princess Wu nodded, "Really! I will accompany you, and our Qinghe Cui family will also accompany you to make a comeback."
"Fourth Lady, I am blessed to marry you after three lifetimes of hard work."
"Husband and wife are one, that's how it should be."
The next day, the three kings' men in the court brought charges against Song Zhi for colluding with bandits to massacre caravans, seeking money, killing innocent people, and murdering court officials.
Faced with overwhelming evidence, Song Zhiyi did not refute.
Under the attack from three parties and the wrath of Emperor Rongxian, Song Zhiyi was eventually stripped of his title of King of Wu, confined to the palace, and not allowed to go out without being summoned.
Su's House
"Confinement? Why just confinement?" Su's mother was angry and very dissatisfied with the result.
When she thought of what King Wu had done, she couldn't swallow it.
The King of Wu ordered his men to dress up as bandits and massacre civilians, but the end result was that they were simply imprisoned in the palace.
The villagers in Xinghua Village and Lijia Village all died at the hands of King Wu, but he was unable to execute him despite so many lives.
Where is justice for the villagers of Lijia and the people of Dongtu County?
Su Yin tried to comfort her, "Don't be angry, Mom. If they don't give us justice, we will fight for it ourselves."
In the eyes of these superiors, the dead people are just ants.
If the death of the ants can be used by them, they will naturally seek justice. If the life and death of these ants are useless to them, they will turn a blind eye.
This is the reality!
It has been like this since ancient times!
In the eyes of high-ranking officials, the lower-class people are ants, and their deaths are not important to them.
What matters is whether they can be used for their own benefit.
Su's mother held her daughter's hand tightly and said, "We must avenge those who died in vain. We must not let these executioners go unpunished. This is too unfair to those who died in vain."
Su Xiaozhong stepped forward and hugged his wife, "Wife, don't worry! If I dare to do this again in the future, you can whip me."
Mother Su glared at him angrily and said, "How can I hit you? I'll just kick you down."
Su Yin laughed unkindly, "Hahahaha, mother, that's brilliant!"
Su Xiaozhong laughed bitterly and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his wife was no longer angry.
"Yinyin, has the Heng family taken any action?"
"According to the time, the Heng family should have already offered their wealth."
Without waiting for Su Xiaozhong to ask, Su Xinguang learned to answer quickly, "The Dark Chamber just sent a message that Prince Jing's men have entered the cave and started transporting the treasures."
"That's good!" Su Xiaozhong stroked his fake beard, "Emperor Rong Xian is still keeping an eye on the various palaces, wanting to know who is playing a trick on him. We have to reveal this news to Emperor Rong Xian."
"The next person to be imprisoned should be Prince Jing." Su Yin rested her chin on one hand, "Dad, I think this is not enough. We need to make Prince Jing realize that if he doesn't rebel, he will die. This is safer."
Su Xinguang raised his eyebrows, "If that's the case, I have a good idea."
"What?" The father and daughter looked at him.
"Duke Rong's granddaughter-in-law is pregnant. I heard that the chances of this baby being a boy are very high. Old witch Jiang is having one of Emperor Rongxian's favorite concubines fake a pregnancy, preparing to have Duke Rong's child inherit the throne in his place."
"She is preparing to replace the prince with a cat again. She is addicted to it."
"Then why not let our Prince Jing foil their plan."
The three of them looked at each other and knew what to do.
Imperial Palace·Imperial Study
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother's people are here to urge you to go sit with Concubine Jiang."
Emperor Rongxian felt disgusted when he thought of the arrogant and domineering Concubine Jiang.
"I'll go over later."
As soon as he finished speaking, the senior palace maid beside Concubine Jiang brought him some tonic soup.
Emperor Rong Xian didn't even look at the bowl of nourishing soup. "Tell the imperial concubine that I will be there later. If she is sleepy, she can rest first."
In fact, the last sentence was just to save face for himself, because even if he didn't say it, Jiang Mengyun would not wait for her and would rest on her own.
Jiang Mengyun didn't take him, the emperor, seriously at all. Not only Jiang Mengyun, but other people in the Jiang family were the same.
He was an extremely cowardly emperor, but he could do nothing about it.
Eunuch Wang spoke to the senior palace maid beside the imperial concubine, and then he saw Xiao Dezi, who was in charge of intelligence, hurried over.
Xiao Dezi bowed to Eunuch Wang and hurried into the study.
Eunuch Wang was not in a position to say much to the senior palace maid beside the imperial concubine. He said a few polite words and hurried into the study.
Xiao Dezi knelt down at the imperial table and said, "I have just received news that Prince Jing's people have been secretly transporting a large sum of money recently. All of this money was transported out from the valley."
"Col." Emperor Rong Xian chewed on these two words carefully, and after a while, a sneer appeared at the corner of his lips, "So it's you!"
Song Yunhe, oh Song Yunhe, how dare you tease me like this? Do you think I have a good temper?
"Leak the news that Prince Jing had already found the treasure map to Prince Qin and Prince Yun."
“Yes.”
Unsurprisingly, this news reached the hands of those who should know, not only the Second Prince and the aristocratic families, but also Queen Dowager Jiang who was in the deep palace.
"Your Majesty." Cuizhu hurried in, bowed to the Royal Concubine, then walked to the side of Queen Mother Jiang and whispered in a low voice.
"Prince Jing?!" Queen Mother Jiang frowned, "Are you sure?"
Cuizhu nodded, "The news is correct."
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