Chapter 282 Pillow
The Empress Dowager looked several years older overnight.
The hair that was originally a little gray is now completely white.
"I know that Marquis Cheng'en has committed a grave mistake, but the Luo family is my maternal family after all. Please spare their lives for my sake."
After seeing Ji Changqing, she said with a look of shame.
"I promise that the Luo family will behave themselves and never overstep the line."
Ji Changqing asked in a deep voice, "Did Your Majesty know in advance that the Luo family was planning to murder me?"
The Empress Dowager shook her head.
"If I knew they had this intention, I would definitely stop them."
Ji Changqing smiled slightly.
"This shows that Marquis Cheng'en is tyrannical and arbitrary, and he doesn't take you, Your Majesty, seriously at all. How can you guarantee that the Luo family will behave properly in the future?"
The Empress Dowager was speechless.
"Your Majesty, you are wholeheartedly concerned about the Luo family, but it's a pity that Marquis Cheng'en doesn't appreciate it."
Ji Changqing continued.
"However, you are right. The Luo family is your mother's family after all. I still have to give them some respect, but—"
He paused.
"The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be forgiven. Let them be exiled to Lingnan."
The Empress Dowager looked at the tall young man in front of her who calmly spoke of the harsh punishment, her fingertips clenched the Buddhist beads in her hand, she was silent for a moment, and finally swallowed her words of plea.
"Thank you for your generosity, Your Highness."
Ji Changqing nodded slightly.
"I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave now. Your Majesty, please take care of yourself."
After saying that, he turned and left.
The Empress Dowager watched him stride out of the hall, turned her head to look at her grandson sleeping peacefully in the cradle, her eyelids drooping weakly.
The Zhao family's luck was finally exhausted.
Marquis Cheng'en originally wanted to quibble, but the pursuit department not only captured Ma Sanhuo who made gunpowder according to his orders, but also found the saltpeter and sulfur mines that the Luo family had mined privately.
The sins committed by the Luo family members on a daily basis were also exposed one by one.
The three charges of illegally mining, illegally manufacturing explosives, and attempting to murder the Prince Regent and the Princess Regent were enough to strip him of his title and confiscate his property.
After the imperial edict of confiscation of property and exile came down, he knew that the Empress Dowager's plea had failed.
Lingnan is extremely hot and humid, wild beasts roam rampant, miasma is rampant, and there is a shortage of medical care and medicine.
At his age, even if he could reach Lingnan alive, he would die of illness there within two years.
Ji Changqing is indeed cruel and ruthless.
All the officials did not expect that Ji Changqing was not idle even after his marriage, and actually raided the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion.
After lamenting, they warned the younger members of the clan.
"Behave yourself! Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be expelled from the clan immediately!"
They don't want to be the next family to be raided.
The atmosphere in the capital was immediately cleared.
Even the number of people going to restaurants for banquets has decreased significantly.
Ji Changqing didn't pay much attention to it. He gave himself ten days of wedding leave.
Every day I am either cooking in the kitchen or lying in bed in the bedroom.
Feng Qingsui had been busy with smallpox vaccinations in and around the capital with his medical officers. He thought he could take a few days off after getting married, but who knew—
"You go sleep in the study tonight."
When she saw Ji Changqing walking into the bedroom after taking a shower and wearing only his underwear, her face immediately frowned.
Ji Changqing paused as he was tying his belt.
"Why?"
"I want to get some good sleep."
Ji Changqing: “…”
He walked over and smiled gently, "I promise not to do anything tonight."
Feng Qingsui: "I can't guarantee it."
Ji Changqing: “…”
Looking at the slightly bluish complexion under her eyes, he sighed softly: "Okay, I'll go to the study to sleep."
Feng Qingsui breathed a sigh of relief.
After turning off the lights, she closed her eyes and lay on the bed, but she felt no sleep at all.
Turn left, turn right, lie prone, lie supine.
The more I sleep, the more awake I feel.
Unable to bear it any longer, he sat up from the bed and went to the study to wake someone up.
"You should go back to your bedroom and sleep."
It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frug
Without her human-shaped pillow, she couldn't even sleep.
Ji Changqing smiled and said, "Okay."
After the two returned to their room to rest, Feng Qingsui hugged the "human-shaped pillow" and quickly fell asleep.
Poor Ji Changqing, with the sweet and soft beauty in his arms, he dared not move at all. He recited the Diamond Sutra silently countless times before he suppressed the lustful thoughts in his heart.
When Wuhua heard that there was no sound from the main house, he put the farewell letter he had just written on the table, put on his bag, and jumped out of the window.
As soon as I reached the top of the eaves, a tall and thin figure appeared in front of me.
"Where do you want to go?"
Wuhua frowned: "It's none of your business."
Candle shadow crosses hands.
"I can't control it, but if you want to go to Xirong, you'd better listen to the news first - the Xirong Emperor is dead."
Wuhua's eyes widened.
"Dead? When did that old immortal die?"
"Three days ago," Zhuying replied, "he was killed by the Seventeenth Prince of Xirong."
Wuhua was slightly stunned.
The seventeenth prince of Xirong...isn't that the backup medicine for the Xirong Emperor?
In order to survive, the Emperor of Xirong believed in all kinds of crooked ways. Not only did he capture yin women and raise snake women, he also dug out his own son's heart and liver to make medicine for elixir.
He had favor with many palace maids, and the children born to these palace maids would be used as backup medicine inducers as long as their horoscopes matched.
These princes did not know that they were lambs to be slaughtered. They were raised in the prince's house and received education like other princes.
Only when the Western Rong Emperor needs medicine will one of them "die young".
The seventeenth prince is an exception.
He had helped Xiao Zhaolin, and Xiao Zhaolin told him about the medicine.
"The prince sold the explosives to Xiao Zhaolin, and Xiao Zhaolin supplied the explosives to the Seventeenth Prince."
Zhuying added explanation.
"The Seventeenth Prince controlled an alchemist and persuaded him to persuade the Xirong Emperor to come and watch him make the elixir. He then placed explosives into the alchemy furnace, killing the Xirong Emperor."
Wuhua's eyes widened: "Is he really dead in the explosion? Could it be that the one who died was a substitute?"
Zhuying: “…”
"He's really dead, and those alchemists are dead too."
He replied.
"The princes of Xirong are fighting fiercely for the throne. Xiao Zhaolin has returned to Sheng State, intending to reclaim the throne and launch a counterattack against Xirong."
The five flowers are a bit regrettable.
She originally wanted to kill the old immortal Emperor Xirong with her own hands.
But it’s a good thing that she doesn’t have to make a trip. She can stay in Daxi and continue to work hard to make a good meal.
After thanking Zhuying, she jumped off the eaves, returned to her room, dropped her bag, changed her clothes and went to bed.
The next day she told Feng Qingsui: "I will not return to Xirong."
Feng Qingsui was surprised.
She had originally planned to go to Xirong with her after her honeymoon.
After listening to Wuhua's explanation, she suddenly realized what Ji Changqing meant last time that they could deal with the Xirong Emperor without going to Xirong.
"Since your wish has been fulfilled, then stay."
She chuckled.
Wuhua nodded heavily.
After receiving news from his eldest brother, Xiao Zhaoning came to Wuhua and asked her, "When the situation stabilizes, will you go to Shengguo to find my brother?"
Wuhua simply said, "No."
Xiao Zhaoning: (⊙⊙)
"Wouldn't my brother be left alone?"
Wuhua: "Don't you still have it?"
Xiao Zhaoning shook his head.
"I want to go out to sea with Zonghebai. I wonder if I can come back alive."
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