Chapter 154 Confusion of Right and Wrong
Looking at Lord Chen with white hair on his temples, Xiao Fuguang hurriedly helped Lord Chen up and said with a serious expression.
"Master Chen, please speak."
Lord Chen was in tears and choked with sobs.
"The Crown Prince passed away suddenly, and the situation is complicated. Pan'er is pregnant, and the future is difficult. I dare to ask the Princess and the Prince to keep Pan'er's pregnancy a secret, so that the Crown Prince's bloodline can continue."
Xiao Fuguang looked at Xuanyuan Jing and saw him nod slightly, and he already had a plan in mind.
"Master Chen, please rest assured. The prince and I will pretend to be unaware of this matter."
Only then did Lord Chen speak to Pan'er.
"Pan'er, good child, you have worked hard taking care of the prince these days. Don't cry, don't be sad. Now that you have a child, it's a good thing. Grandfather will have someone send you back to the Chen family. We will raise this child."
After hearing this, Chen Pan'er looked at the prince on the bed and shook her head slightly.
"Grandfather, Pan'er doesn't want to leave. Pan'er wants to stay here with my cousin."
Xiao Fuguang spoke upon seeing this.
"Miss Chen and the Crown Prince are deeply in love, but Miss Chen, when we chased them to the city gate, we ran into Su Yan who had just killed the Southern Border wizard. Calculating the time, I'm afraid the Emperor and Empress have already left the palace. It will be crowded and noisy here, so Miss Chen should avoid it for now."
Then he took out a talisman.
"The Crown Prince calls me his aunt, so consider this amulet a gift to his child!"
Chen Pan'er was stunned when she saw the talisman in Xiao Fuguang's hand.
Lord Chen spoke hurriedly.
"Pan'er, why don't you thank the princess quickly? What she gave you is a good thing."
After hearing this, Chen Pan'er hurriedly took it with both hands.
"Pan'er thanks you, Princess."
Lord Chen gave the order immediately.
"Come here, send the young lady back and be sure to carefully protect her safety."
Soon Chen Pan'er followed the Chen family away.
Lord Chen looked at Xiao Fuguang and Xuanyuan Jing, with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
"Your Highness, Princess, if there are too many people around later, I'd like to send Pan'er back to the Chen family because she fainted. Could you please…"
Xiao Fuguang nodded.
"We understand what Master Chen meant. Master Chen, don't worry. We haven't seen Miss Chen since we came back from chasing the wizard from Southern Xinjiang."
When the emperor and the empress entered the prince's mansion, they saw guards fainted on the ground.
The two of them hurriedly walked towards the prince's residence with the help of the palace servants.
The queen nearly fell down several times and was supported by Nanny Fang and the palace maids.
When approaching the prince's room.
A smell of blood hit them and Xiao Fuguang and Xuanyuan Jing stood up.
"Greetings to the Emperor and Empress..."
The queen walked past them and ran to the bed.
“Che’er…my Che’er…”
When the queen saw the prince's tragic death, she felt as if her heart was pierced by something and she collapsed on the edge of the bed.
"Che'er..."
The emperor stepped forward and looked at the prince's appearance. He took a step back and almost fell down.
Xuanyuan Jing raised his hand to help.
"Royal brother."
The whole room was filled with the sound of the Queen crying over the loss of her beloved son. Xiao Fuguang couldn't help but turn his back. He really couldn't bear to watch such a scene.
The queen cried so hard that she almost fainted. Nanny Fang and the palace maids beside her hurried forward to support her, fearing that something might happen to her.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, please take care of yourself. His Highness the Crown Prince is the most filial to you. It would be heartbreaking to see you like this."
"My lady, please accept my condolences..."
Emperor Xuanyuan suppressed his grief and swept his eyes across the room, finally landing on Xiao Fuguang and Xuanyuan Jing.
"What the hell is going on?"
Su Ping helped the emperor sit on a chair beside him.
Xiao Fuguang bowed and spoke.
"Your Majesty, please accept my condolences."
"I observed the celestial phenomena at night and realized that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in danger. I immediately went to the Crown Prince's Mansion with the Palace Master and Master Chen to investigate. However, when we entered, we saw that all the guards in the Crown Prince's Mansion had fainted, including the secret guards. The Crown Prince was also..."
"I've investigated and found the presence of Southern Xinjiang witchcraft in the Prince's Mansion. Your Majesty, and the Chen family have both sent people to protect the Prince. A normal assassination attempt would have been impossible to get close to the Prince's courtyard. The Southern Xinjiang wizards must have used flying animals to stun everyone in the Prince's Mansion."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Xuanyuan's face turned ashen, his fists clenched tightly, and his knuckles turned white from the force.
"Southern Xinjiang wizard, it's Southern Xinjiang again."
"Xuanyuan Jing, is there no way to attack Southern Xinjiang?"
Xiao Fuguang was shocked when he heard this. Would the emperor want Xuanyuan Jing to attack Southern Xinjiang? He was already wary of Xuanyuan Jing. If he really attacked Southern Xinjiang because of the prince's death, he would kill two birds with one stone.
"Your Majesty, attacking Southern Xinjiang is not difficult, and even dealing with the wizards there is not difficult either. The difficult part is how to cross the swamps and poisonous forests of Southern Xinjiang. If we can't solve these two problems, the people of Southern Xinjiang don't even need to take action, and our army will be lost in these two places.
Emperor Xuanyuan's face turned gloomy when he heard this.
"So Xuanyuan's crown prince died just like that?"
"I don't want to, and I can't."
"Come here, send people to the southern border. Anyone from southern Xinjiang who leaves southern Xinjiang will be killed without mercy."
Xiao Fuguang and Xuanyuan Jing looked at each other.
At this time, the Royal Guards came in and bowed.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Rong requests an audience, and Lord Su requests an audience."
"Lord Su said that the Southern Border wizard who murdered His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been killed."
Prince Rong and Su Yan arrived in time. It seemed that they were both anxious to confirm whether the prince was dead or not. Xuanyuan Jing glanced at the queen who was suffering beside the bed and bowed to Emperor Xuanyuan.
"Royal brother, the Crown Prince is the heir apparent. Now that something like this has happened, I'm afraid many ministers will come to show their concern. If you want to see Prince Rong and Lord Su, it would be better to move to the front hall and have someone clean up the Crown Prince. We can't let him lose face in front of others."
Emperor Xuanyuan nodded slightly after hearing this, then stood up and walked towards the front hall.
The prince is the crown prince, how can people see him die tragically? As soon as Emperor Xuanyuan arrived at the front hall.
Prince Rong came forward in a hurry. Seeing Emperor Xuanyuan's grief-stricken expression, Prince Rong felt very proud. This time, the position of crown prince was finally secured. However, his face was filled with sadness.
"Father, as soon as I heard that my brother, the Crown Prince, was... I rushed here. He really took it seriously..."
Emperor Xuanyuan sat down with the help of the eunuch. Perhaps because of his grief, he seemed to have aged a lot.
"Prince Rong, the crown prince is dead."
Prince Rong and Su Yan exchanged a glance before looking at Emperor Xuanyuan, whose face was filled with grief and whose eyes even turned red.
"Father, I want to go see my brother."
Emperor Xuanyuan spoke tiredly after hearing this.
"Wait a little longer, let your royal brother clean up the mess."
The emperor was so sad, it seemed that the prince was really dead. Amiruo and Amiya really helped him do a big thing. Su Yan knelt down to Emperor Xuanyuan.
"Your Majesty, please accept my condolences. I was negligent in the matter of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. As the Junior Minister of the Dali Temple, I was late in coming to your aid. The murderer who murdered His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been executed at the city gate. His body is now outside the Crown Prince's residence. Please indicate your presence, Your Majesty."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Xuanyuan looked at Su Yan.
"Are you saying that you have killed the Southern Border wizard?"
Su Yan lowered his head and spoke in a firm tone.
"Yes, someone died after eating at the Yunke Ferry Restaurant. As the Junior Minister of the Dali Temple, I brought the owner of Yunke Ferry to the Dali Temple. Later, the Imperial Preceptor and Lord Chen discovered that the person who died at Yunke Ferry did not die of food poisoning, but from Southern Xinjiang witchcraft. Remembering that the Crown Prince had been murdered by the Southern Xinjiang Saint, I immediately led my men to hunt down the Southern Xinjiang witches. Following clues, we tracked them all the way to the city gates. We saw the two men trying to escape at night, so I acted decisively and executed them on the spot to prevent future trouble."
Emperor Xuanyuan's gaze lingered on Su Yan for a moment, as if weighing the truthfulness of his words.
Prince Rong on the side interrupted at the right time.
"Father, Lord Su has avenged my brother, and he deserves a reward."
Emperor Xuanyuan nodded slightly, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.
"I didn't expect Lord Su to act so quickly. He really did avenge the Crown Prince. But why didn't Lord Su arrest the two?"
Su Yan spoke hurriedly after hearing this.
"Your Majesty, I considered capturing them alive and handing them over to Your Majesty for punishment, but the Southern Border wizards are cunning and could easily escape. I was afraid something might happen, so I had to act hastily. The Prince Regent and the Princess also saw that the Southern Border wizards had already fled to the city gates. If I didn't take action, I'm afraid they would flee back to Southern Border, and then we would lose the chance to avenge the Crown Prince."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Xuanyuan, a flash of provocation in his eyes, "Xuanyuan Jing, you are still one step behind me after all. Let's play slowly."
"Your Majesty, aren't you right?"
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