Xianzong looked at Zhao Qiumin, who was lying at his feet with a bleeding head and unconscious, and the veins on his forehead bulged. He didn't want to talk to his daughter anymore.
"Kill him," Yu Xiaoxiao suggested to Xianzong seriously.
"You can't just kill a minister as you please! How can we just beat him to death like that?" Xianzong tried to reason with his daughter.
Yu Xiaoxiao tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "How about I don't beat him to death, but we burn him to death?"
Is it impossible to communicate? Xianzong touched his forehead and wondered where the kind and innocent daughter who didn't even dare to kill a chicken had gone.
"Your Majesty," a chief eunuch's voice came from outside the courtyard, saying, "Young and promising, Zhao Beicheng..."
"What's the matter?" Xianzong was too lazy to listen to the eunuch's introduction of the person's name and asked directly.
The chief eunuch said, "The adults are outside the palace seeking to see His Majesty."
“Let them in,” Xianzong said.
The chief eunuch said, "Your Majesty, Gu Chen and his eldest son Gu Xingnuo are also outside the palace seeking an audience."
"Let them in," Yu Xiaoxiao interrupted.
Xianzong said to his daughter angrily: "They are commoners now. How can commoners enter the palace?"
"They are your in-laws," Yu Xiao said, "Is it not customary for the royal family to visit relatives?"
Is it time to visit relatives now? Xianzong moved his mouth, and finally gave up on presenting facts and reasoning to his daughter, and said to the outside of the courtyard: "Let the Gu family father and son enter the palace."
When the two groups of ministers walked into the courtyard of Chuqing Palace, Prime Minister Zhao was also rescued by the imperial physician. After taking a look at Yu Xiaoxiao, he was immediately filled with grief and anger. He was a prime minister, but he was carried in the hands of this person like a chicken and ran all the way to the imperial palace. How could he still live in the world with dignity?
"Father!" After Zhao Beicheng saluted Emperor Xianzong and stood up, he ran to Zhao Qiumin.
Xianzong took a look at Zhao Beicheng, who was also covered in blood, and he still couldn't look at him directly.
"Your Majesty!" Zhao Qiu Ming, supported by his son, knelt on the ground and cried to Emperor Xianzong: "I am devoted to the country!"
"Hmph," Yingnianyun snorted coldly and said to Emperor Xianzong, "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zhao led the imperial guards to trespass into the Gu residence and set fire to the princess's bridal chamber. This is so audacious that he deserves death!"
Zhao Qiu Ming said: "Your Majesty, I had no idea about the fire in the bridal chamber. This was a self-torture trick used by the Gu family to escape punishment. I hope Your Majesty will understand."
The flames of war spread across the courtyard. Those who accused someone of treason could not produce any evidence, and those who accused someone of arson and murder could not produce any evidence either. So the two sides started arguing, neither giving in. It was OK for civil officials to quarrel, as they were careful not to use dirty words when cursing, but it was different for military officers. The way they quarreled was a prelude to a group fight.
Yu Xiaoxiao listened carefully for a long time. She knew that the military officers were greeting each other's mothers. As for the civil officials, the consequence of not being able to understand classical Chinese was that Yu Xiaoxiao could not understand a word of what these people were saying.
Gu Xingnuo slowly moved to Yu Xiaoxiao step by step and asked, "Princess, are you okay?"
Yu Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, "Brother, what are they talking about?"
Gu Xingnuo felt warmed at heart when Yu Xiaoxiao called him "Big Brother". Although this sister-in-law was a royal princess, she didn't have the airs of a royal princess at all. "They hid a set of dragon robes in your dowry," Gu Xingnuo took advantage of the opportunity when the two sides were arguing and no one was paying attention to them, and lowered his head to whisper to Yu Xiaoxiao.
"Ah?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked in a low voice, "What will happen if the dragon robe is hidden?"
Gu Xingnuo was unable to catch his breath and coughed. Seeing that Yu Xiaoxiao didn't seem to be playing a joke on him, he could only whisper to her, "This is for His Majesty's personal use. It is a capital crime for officials and common people to keep it privately."
Yu Xiaoxiao understood now, and immediately looked at Jingzong who was standing behind Xianzong, "Is it that dead eunuch?" Yu Xiaoxiao pointed at Jingzhong and asked Gu Xingnuo.
Gu Xingnuo said: "He was the one who sent the dowry, so naturally he was the one who took it."
After Jingzhong found that Her Royal Highness the Princess was glaring at him, he took a few steps closer to King Xianzong. Killing ministers in the court had to follow procedures, but to kill a eunuch like him, Princess Linglong could do it at any time. He had never heard that a eunuch's life was valuable.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Xianzong was so angry at the quarrel between the two groups of ministers that he couldn't help but yelled, "If he doesn't shut up, I will kill all his clans!"
The courtyard became quiet.
Yu Xiaoxiao flashed in front of Zhao Qiu Ming and raised her hand to slap Prime Minister Zhao on the head again.
Zhao Qiu Ming screamed "Ah".
Yu Xiaoxiao said to Xianzong: "He has spoken, Dad, you should kill all his clans."
The courtyard was even quieter, and everyone looked at Xianzong. How could they break this situation? Were they all here to play with the princess?
Xianzong walked back and forth with his hands behind his back. He didn't want to talk at all now!
"Your Majesty," Concubine Zhao's weak voice came from the closed bedroom, "If my father really did such a thing, he should be killed."
Hmm? Yu Xiaoxiao was stunned. Has this treacherous concubine changed her nature?
"What does my beloved concubine mean?" Xianzong asked Concubine Zhao who was inside the door.
Concubine Zhao said, "Father, who told you that the Gu family was hiding evidence of their treason?"
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