Chapter 481 Prince Cheng Enters the Capital
The Queen Mother curled her lips, but before she could say anything, Concubine Xie suddenly pointed at Chu Liuzheng and said, "The outsider is naturally her. Cousin, you have been bewitched by her. You don't know how vicious she is. She..."
"Shut up!" Xiao Jingfan held Chu Liuzheng's hand tightly and stared at her coldly, "If you say another word, I'll cut off your tongue."
Concubine Xie was shocked. The disgust in the emperor's eyes made her feel as if she was in a world of ice and snow. Her heart was chilled. She opened her mouth but did not dare to utter a word.
She didn't want to lose her tongue.
"My son." The Queen Mother called out with dissatisfaction and a gloomy face.
"If everything is alright, Queen Mother, please return to the palace. I will go to the Wanshou Palace with Chu to pay my respects another day." Xiao Jingfan didn't give the Queen Mother a chance to continue. He ordered, "Zhou Yuande, escort Queen Mother back to the palace."
"Yes." Zhou Yuande accepted the order and bowed to invite the empress dowager out.
"My son, don't forget. If it weren't for the Xie family, who would be sitting on the throne now?" The empress dowager said this and walked away with a gloomy face.
"Aunt." Xie Jieyu chased after her, holding up her skirt, but was stopped at the door.
Xiao Jingfan said coldly, "Jieyi Xie, serving in the palace, should have been a prudent and exemplary person, guiding her subordinates. However, you neglected your duties, allowing the servants to behave in a disorderly manner, and thus tarnished the palace rules. I order you to be stripped of your title of Jieyi, demoted to a concubine, and moved to the Lanju Pavilion to reflect on your mistakes."
Concubine Xie... no, Concubine Xie was taken away.
Xiao Anzi stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, what should be done with Liuli?"
Xiao Jingfan looked at Chu Liuzheng, "How do you want to deal with this?"
[The culprit ran away, leaving behind an accomplice. What a shame.]
She was indeed safe now, but that didn't mean Concubine Xie didn't want to kill her. If it weren't for that kick from the secret guard, her life would have been at the hands of Xiao Xuanzi.
"It's up to you." Chu Liuzheng knelt and bowed. "I'll go back to the Yangxin Palace first. You can have dinner by yourself."
Without waiting for the emperor to speak, she turned and left, her goose yellow skirt sliding across the threshold, leaving a wet mark.
Chen Xing and Si Yue hurriedly followed.
The emperor, who tried to curry favor but was turned down, said: "..."
Xiao Anzi held his breath silently and called out in his heart: Master, please come back soon, His Majesty is so scary now!
*
From that day on, there were suddenly many voices in the court impeaching the emperor for favoring one person, among whom several officials from the Xie Party were the most active in making memorials.
Xiao Jingfan ignored them all. When he was really annoyed, he issued an imperial decree to demote several of the most violent offenders. The court became much quieter for a while.
As the first snowflake fell, the carriage carrying Prince Cheng to the capital slowly drove into the capital.
The breath he exhaled turned into white mist. Chu Liuzheng stepped on the frozen Moon Pond wearing ice boots, and was helped by Chen Xing and Si Yue to learn how to skate.
"Slow down, slow down." Chu Liuzheng held the hands of the two men tightly, fearing that he would fall on his butt on the ice.
Seeing her tense and tense, Chen Xing deliberately spoke to distract her, "Sister, have you ever heard that after His Royal Highness Prince Cheng became insane, he started calling everyone "beautiful"?"
"I heard about it." Chu Liuzheng said while controlling himself to slide forward, "The person that Eunuch Zhou went to pick up yesterday asked Prince Cheng to call all the beauties along the way. Eunuch Zhou's face turned green."
Chen Xing chuckled, "No wonder His Majesty refused to summon him and asked him to be sent directly to the Imperial Hospital."
If Prince Cheng had called the emperor "beautiful girl", the emperor would probably have wanted to chop him off immediately.
"Princess Cheng came along. I saw her yesterday. She was as thin as a skeleton," Miyue said. "Your Majesty did see her."
[Of course she must see it. The tyrant's men didn't find the blank imperial edict. Now that Prince Cheng has gone mad, Princess Cheng is the most likely person to know about it. No matter how busy the tyrant is, he must make time to see her.]
[Speaking of which, Princess Cheng was quite decisive. After learning that Prince Cheng was incurable and the tyrant had sent troops to take over the fiefdom, Princess Cheng decisively burned the blank imperial edict, pretending it had never happened, thus ending everyone's hope.]
Although Prince Cheng has been secretly stirring up trouble, at least he hasn't exposed it. Now it depends on whether the tyrant still cares about blood ties. Otherwise, everyone in Prince Cheng's mansion will probably suffer the same fate as Prince Li's mansion.
Chu Liuzheng suddenly remembered that he had not found the forged will in Yin Lanci's hand.
[Logically speaking, the will was most likely hidden on Thousand-Foot Cliff. Since Thousand-Foot Cliff burned, the will should have been burned as well, right? The tyrant even sent people to search through the ruins.]
Just in case, Chu Liuzheng checked the system.
[Last Will, Last Will, Last Will...Frog Fun! The last will is actually in Ping Xuan's hands. Is this guy still alive?]
Chu Liuzheng was shocked. He was so distracted that he didn't even care about the nervousness of falling. His footwork was surprisingly quite natural.
Chen Xing and Si Yue looked at each other and slowly loosened their grip.
Chu Liuzheng was completely unaware and slid forward while flipping through the system.
"Well, I thought Ping Xuan was really a good brother. So he took Ping Yu away so he could take the damage for him. Both brothers are currently in a low health state and are recuperating in Xixia."
[Butterfly thought the will in Pingxuan's hand was genuine and wanted to get it from him, but due to Pingxuan's tactics, she didn't dare to force it... Tsk tsk tsk, you butterfly, you really are harboring evil intentions, ready to turn against the tyrant at any time, right?]
【Luckily, the tyrant never trusted you and was on high alert! 】
Chu Liuzheng closed the system and thought about writing another letter to Jiang Yao.
[With Yin Lanci's death, Ping Xuan is now just an ordinary person who can raise Gu. At most, he's good-looking. It will be easy for City Lord Jiang to deal with him. By the way, I can also ask about Feng Jing and Tang Ge'er's situation.]
Having made up her mind, she wanted to take off her ice skates, but when she turned her head, the left side was empty. When she turned her head again, the right side was empty.
Wait! When did she start skating on her own?
"Ah!!" Chu Liuzheng, who had regained his composure, lost his balance and pounced on the ice like a vicious dog snatching food.
Seeing this, Chen Xing and Si Yue, who were standing not far away, jumped up, one of them grabbed Chu Liuzheng's shoulder, and lifted him to the ground.
Chu Liuzheng looked at the ice skates under his feet in shock.
[That was a close call. I almost landed on my face. How would I face people if I had gotten bruised and battered?]
Mitsuki helped her sit down, took off her ice skates, and checked carefully. He was relieved when he found no bone injuries.
"It's okay." Chu Liuzheng rolled his ankle and glanced at the ice surface not far away. "Let's stop here today and come back tomorrow."
*
After returning to the Yangxin Palace, Chu Liuzheng, who was cold all over, drank a bowl of ginger soup, and started writing a letter after his fingers warmed up.
Chen Xing was grinding ink nearby, and when she finished writing, she would send someone to mail it.
When Xiao Jingfan returned, Chu Liuzheng was wrapped in a cashmere blanket, watching the palace maids make warm shoes. Seeing the emperor approach, she waved the maids away and told Siyue, "Bring His Majesty a cup of ginger tea."
Warming himself off the cold by the brazier, Xiao Jingfan took the ginger tea and drank half a cup. He then sat down on the couch, brought the person wrapped in a blanket over, and asked, "Have you sent a letter to Yuecheng?"
(End of this chapter)
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