"Your Majesty, I am innocent." The chief eunuch tried several times before finally getting up from the ground. "I was only helping the Empress to see if the soup for Your Majesty's sobering up was ready. There is absolutely no such thing as what the Crown Prince said. Please investigate."
A eunuch hurried down from the hall, took the things handed over by Lin Su, and hurried back to present them to Emperor Ming Cheng.
It was a message written on a piece of cloth. Emperor Ming Cheng looked at it and said, "It has been done. Prince, don't worry?"
"Are you the Crown Prince's man?" Emperor Mingcheng looked at the eunuchs below and asked, "Is today's incident related to the Crown Prince?"
"You, I have kept you by my side for many years, but I didn't expect that you would be the prince's subordinate." The queen's lips trembled as she looked at the eunuchs below and said sternly.
Now that the matter has been discovered, she can only sacrifice the car to save the king. If it is one of her own people and involves the prince's affairs, I am afraid that the queen's position will be unstable.
The eunuch knelt there, visibly stunned: "Empress, you..."
"Fu Hai, it's not that I won't forgive you, but this palace doesn't tolerate those who betray their master. Since you're the Crown Prince's man, I can't protect you. I will only take care of your nephews and nieces, considering your years of service." The Empress stood up and knelt before Emperor Mingcheng. "Your Majesty, considering his many years of service, please be lenient with him."
The eunuch, who had been trembling all over, now bent down, knocked his head to the ground and said, "I was confused for a moment and was deceived by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Please don't implicate my family and punish me only."
"You're talking nonsense! You were just saying outside the palace that you were the Queen's man." Lin Ting'er rarely saw such a scene. She didn't know why these people were so confused about right and wrong. She was furious. "We just went to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He looked like he was dying. The palace was brightly lit, but the East Palace was dark, with only candles lit in the main hall. When we went there, there wasn't even a servant outside. How could he have the energy to plan such a big thing!"
06 I thought to myself that he really had the energy to plan such a big thing. Our prince is really amazing.
Emperor Ming Cheng was about to get angry, but was left speechless by Lin Ting'er's words.
The entire palace is managed by the Queen, and there isn't even a single servant outside the Crown Prince's palace. It's obvious who's behind this.
"The Empress is quite quick-witted." Lin Su sneered. "As Ting'er said, if the Crown Prince can bribe even the Empress's closest eunuchs, then the entire palace, both inside and outside, is controlled by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
"Your Highness, the Duke of Huguo's mansion is married to His Highness the Crown Prince, so they will naturally speak on his side. I only sent Fu Hai to fetch your Majesty some hangover soup, and I had no idea this would happen. Your Majesty, I spend every day in the harem, how could I possibly have planned such a big thing?" The Empress Dowager tugged at Emperor Mingcheng's clothes and cried, "I am innocent."
Emperor Ming Cheng looked at the empress who was kneeling in front of him. He knew what was going on in the palace. He had also been lax about the prince's affairs, just to make the queen and Jin'er live a smoother life. The prince had no one by his side and was too sick to get up. The queen didn't have the brains and energy to plan such a big thing. She took the opportunity to frame him in order to eliminate dissidents and suppress the prince.
Lin Ting'er was very angry, but Lin Su's eyes signaled her to stand still obediently.
Emperor Mingcheng looked at the eunuch kneeling on the ground and said, "Everything is caused by you. You betrayed the empress and framed the crown prince. You deserve death. Come, take him away and beat him to death."
His tone was very light, as if beating someone to death was the most normal thing.
The servant knelt on the ground and trembled: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I know I was wrong..."
He was dragged out, and the dull sound of sticks continued to be heard, but the person outside did not even scream, obviously because his mouth and nose were blocked.
But within a cup of tea, a guard came in with a bloody stick and reported: "Your Majesty, the man was beaten with twenty sticks and is dead."
If a man is beaten to death with twenty sticks, it is definitely not the buttocks that are hit.
Emperor Mingcheng hummed a sound, but ignored it. Instead, he stood up and looked at the Queen and said, "The Crown Prince is my son after all, Queen, please don't go too far. You won't be able to enjoy a good year."
He unzipped his clothes and left directly. When the sound of departure was heard, the queen fell to the ground and was helped up by several palace maids beside her.
The emperor's words were basically equivalent to a public execution. Even though the queen was sitting on the side, her whole body was trembling slightly. She looked at Lin Su's position from a distance, and her fingers suddenly clenched.
Lin Su, the prince of the Duke of Huguo, she really underestimated this family.
The emperor had already left, so there was no point in continuing the banquet. The royal family members left one after another. Father Lin walked up to Lin Su and the other two and sighed, "Go back."
Lin Su turned around, and Lin Ting'er followed him gloomily. The place where the eunuch had carried out the beating was just outside the palace. There was blood all over the ground. Some of it spread under the steps, and some splashed on the pillars. The eunuchs and palace maids were wiping it away bit by bit with water.
Lin Ting'er was unusually quiet. It wasn't until she got on the carriage heading home that she looked at her father and said, "Father, it was clearly the Queen's frame-up. Why did His Majesty just beat that servant to death?"
"You know everything, and you think the Emperor doesn't know?" Father Lin patted her shoulder and said, "In the palace, sometimes the truth is the least important. What matters is peace and quiet. Tonight, the Third Prince has already been deposed. If the Queen Mother is to be implicated, the country will be in chaos."
"Let's keep the peace..." Lin Ting'er's breath trembled a little, "Brother, don't you find it hard to accept?"
Her brother said he would help her get out of there, but if he was with the prince, that kind of place was not suitable for anyone to stay in. It was more terrifying than a battlefield where people killed people with knives. The battlefield relied on martial arts and skills, but there, all they relied on were a few words and a few objects to confuse right and wrong. It really made people feel creepy just thinking about it.
"I don't think so." Lin Su looked at her and said, "I was the one who caught the eunuch. The moment I caught him, he was destined to die. Ting'er, I was also the one who pushed him."
It is impossible to rely on a eunuch to overthrow the queen. She will definitely sacrifice herself to save herself, and Emperor Ming Cheng will definitely keep quiet. This is the inevitable outcome. What he wants is to plant a seed of doubt in Emperor Ming Cheng's heart, to make him realize that the woman he protects and loves is not so kind-hearted, and the ultimate goal is to choose Xiao Tang out of it.
"That's because he did something bad, he deserved to die." Lin Ting'er said, "Then I helped to capture him. I was also a pusher."
She just felt that she was not suitable for that place, but as for her brother... at that time, the enemies were fooled on the battlefield, and she just followed behind and was responsible for harvesting. In a place like the palace, her brother should be able to adapt well. If not, no one could beat him anyway.
"Alright, alright. Let's put today's matter to rest. If it weren't for the fact that you like that prince, Dad wouldn't bother getting involved in all the mess in the royal family." Father Lin also disliked palace customs.
No matter how thick the armor on the soldiers is, sometimes it cannot stop the gossip of the literati, which is really disgusting.
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