Chapter 208 The Crown Prince is Deposed [End of Text]
"The prince sent you? Why?"
Xiao Zhuzi's lips moved up and down, but before he could speak, Huipin asked on Yunwan's behalf, "Were you the one who pushed the Third Prince into the water? Was all this your plan?"
Although she was asking a question, her tone was extremely firm.
Since he came to kill the third prince at the behest of the crown prince, it was obvious who was behind the drowning incident today.
Xiao Zhuzi lowered his head and said nothing, obviously agreeing.
His admission caused Concubine Lu to collapse. She stared at Xiao Zhuzi intently: "What did you say? Are you here to kill Hui'er tonight?"
The prince sent people to harm Hui'er, so what did she do tonight?
Was it unnecessary? And you're getting yourself into trouble?
Lu Fei's psychological defenses gradually collapsed, and she suddenly felt regretful, regretting that she had acted impulsively tonight and had been interfered with by others.
Realizing what stupid things she had done out of hatred, and what the consequences would be, she began to fear.
"Your Majesty! There must be a misunderstanding here! I didn't mean to hurt Hui'er! Someone is using me!"
She crawled towards Emperor Jingxuan, tears streaming down her face, "Your Majesty, Hui'er is my child, whom I raised with great effort. How could I bear to hurt him? Even if he is not my biological child, I have already treated him as my own!"
Her crying did not move anyone.
Huipin sneered, "I saw with my own eyes that you tightly covered the Third Prince's mouth and nose, and you're still trying to argue?"
I knew Concubine Lu was not a good person, but I didn't know that people could be so vicious that they would harm the son they raised for many years to achieve their goals. What else could she not do?
She even began to sympathize with the third prince for having such an adoptive mother.
"Father."
A faint voice was about to be heard. The Third Prince had woken up at some point and came out supported by palace servants.
Yun Wan was shocked, "Chenghui, you're awake? Why did you come out?"
She led him over to her, and the palace maid brought a stool for him to sit on.
The Third Prince said gloomily, "It was noisy. I was woken up by it."
When she saw him, Concubine Lu's expression brightened, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.
"Hui'er! Hui'er! Please help your mother to plead with your father! Your mother really didn't intend to kill you!"
She spoke in panic and her body, which was held down by the palace guards, kept struggling.
"I saw it."
The third prince sat obediently on the round stool with his hands and feet together, and suddenly said something.
Everyone listened quietly.
The Third Prince looked at the disheveled Concubine Lu and said weakly, "Someone is covering my mouth and nose. I can't breathe. It's very painful."
His eyes were blank, lost in memories: "I heard my mother's voice. She told me not to blame her. I tried to open my eyes, and then I saw my mother's face..."
"Mother wants to kill me."
He looked at Concubine Lu and spoke word by word.
One sentence cut off all of Lu Fei's fantasies.
The Third Prince turned to look at Xiao Zhuzi, very disappointed. "And you, you pushed my arm and that's why I fell into the water. It was Ah Sui who didn't give up on me and refused to let go."
Xiao Zhuzi was the palace maid who had been with him the longest. Even when his father arranged for him to live alone and assigned him many palace maids to serve him, he never thought of replacing Xiao Zhuzi.
Under his gaze, Xiao Zhuzi didn't dare to look up.
Finally, Emperor Jingxuan ordered: "Drag him away."
"Lu is guilty of attempting to murder the heir to the throne and frame the Empress. Her crime is unforgivable. She will be stripped of her title of Consort, demoted to a commoner, and banished to the Cold Palace, awaiting her fate."
Although he was said to be awaiting his fate, everyone knew that Lu would definitely die.
His chilling gaze fell on Xiao Zhuzi, "As for this slave, take him away and torture him severely."
........
In the second half of the night, the prince woke up from a nightmare and sat on the bed, sweating profusely and gasping for breath.
Feeling uneasy, he called out to his confidant, "Is the matter settled? Where is Xiao Zhuzi?"
Confidant: "Your Highness, Xiao Zhuzi hasn't returned yet."
"Was he caught?"
The prince was frightened by this thought and broke out in a cold sweat. He muttered to himself in denial: "No, no."
"That bastard must have realized that the matter was not done properly and was afraid of being punished by me, so he simply hid himself."
He asked Xiao Zhuzi to plan to push Asui into the water, preferably to drown him, and then put the blame on that idiot Qi Chenghui, killing two birds with one stone.
As a result, the stupid servant couldn't even do this and pushed Qi Chenghui into the water. Fortunately, he still had a brain and knew to make up for it later by pushing the disgust onto Asui.
Thinking of this, he became more and more certain of this guess. He looked up and shouted, "What are you doing here? Go find it quickly!!"
However, no matter how much psychological comfort he received, the prince was still very nervous and could not sleep all night.
The next day, there was a commotion outside the door, and he stood up and walked out.
"What are you arguing about so early in the morning?" He said in an unhappy tone.
When he saw that the person coming was Jiang Fusheng, his expression changed slightly.
Jiang Fusheng didn't give him a chance to ask questions. He smiled and held out his hand: "Your Highness, His Majesty invites you."
The prince had no choice but to quickly wash up and follow.
Council Hall.
When the prince stepped into the hall, he found that there was not only Emperor Jingxuan but also several ministers. When they saw him come in, they all looked at him with different expressions.
The Crown Prince was apprehensive and looked up, "Father, are you looking for me?"
Emperor Jingxuan said nothing, but waved his hand and threw a bloody confession letter at his feet.
"Look at what you've done!"
After seeing the confessor written on the silk book, the prince's brain started buzzing and his face turned pale.
.........
The crown prince was deposed, no doubt about it.
When the news came out early in the morning, the people who heard that the third prince had woken up and were about to set out to find out the truth about the fall into the water yesterday were dumbfounded.
Wasn't it agreed that we'd make a decision today after the Third Prince woke up? How did it end like that? And the Crown Prince was even deposed?
What happened without their knowledge?
After asking, everyone fell silent.
There is nothing wrong with the crown prince being deposed.
When the news reached Yun Wan, she and Huipin were in the third prince's room.
"Brother, open your mouth, ah~~~"
Asui sat on a small stool, trying to use his two exposed fingers to pinch the medicine spoon to feed the third prince medicine.
He also reminded her: "It's a little hot, drink it slowly."
Pei Qian stood aside, holding the medicine bowl in both hands.
The Third Prince took a sip and said with a bitter face, "Fourth brother, how about I do it myself?"
He was afraid that he would die from the bitterness of drinking it, and he was also afraid that Asui's hand would not be steady and the medicine would spill on him.
Pei Qian thrust a bowl of medicine toward his lips and urged, "Don't talk! Drink quickly! Drink more! Drink until you're full! Your illness will heal!"
The Third Prince: ......There is nothing left to live for.
Yun Wan and Huipin looked at each other and saw helplessness in each other's eyes.
Yun Wan was about to get the candied fruit on the table, but when she stood up, her vision suddenly went dark and she fainted.
Soon after, the news spread throughout the palace, overshadowing the news of the crown prince being deposed:
"The Queen has fainted!"
"The Queen is pregnant!!!"
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