After hearing his friend's discouraging words, Yan Qingci left quickly without even looking back.
After everyone left, Xiao Lichen called out, "Heiyan, Qingzhu, let's go to the palace immediately under the pretext of visiting the Empress Dowager."
There was actually a clue about that matter, and he had to figure it out.
Xiao Lichen couldn't bear the itch in his throat and coughed, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, scaring his two personal guards so much that their faces turned pale.
A guard rushed out to ask for the doctor, but was stopped by Xiao Lichen in a stern voice.
"Take me to the palace first. I'm afraid the evidence will be destroyed if we're late."
The two guards couldn't bear to refuse their master's wishes, so they took their people and left the teahouse immediately.
As for Tao Yuwei, she was sitting in the car heading to the palace.
Inside the carriage, the head maid Yunxiao kept comforting her, telling her not to get angry about the Sixth Prince's malicious intent towards her.
Tao Yuwei was no longer in the mood to eat delicious food.
Xiao Yangyao's determination to marry her into the mansion has not changed at all.
She couldn't tolerate it any longer, and she didn't have the time to guard against this scum who was secretly plotting against her all day long.
This time when she entered the palace, she was bound to put a stop to Xiao Yangyao's plan to marry her.
She ignored the fact that Xiao Yangyao was a prince and insulted him in the street with a purpose.
Emperor Jianchang disliked the Sixth Prince for many years because his biological mother climbed into his bed. One time when she entered the palace, she remembered that she had witnessed the Emperor getting drunk and scolding the Sixth Prince for being as stupid as a pig. She was not lying.
As Princess Anle, personally conferred by Emperor Jianchang, she has always been treading on the edge of what the emperor can tolerate.
After entering the palace, he first reported Xiao Yangyao to let the emperor know that his disliked son also had delusions about his position.
The carriage stopped at the palace gate. Tao Yuwei jumped off the carriage swiftly and showed the waist badge awarded to her by Emperor Jianchang, which allowed her to enter and leave the palace freely, to the imperial guards guarding the gate.
When you see the badge, let them go immediately.
Not long after, Tao Yuwei arrived at the emperor's study as if she were familiar with the place.
When the chief eunuch heard that she was coming, he immediately came out to meet her.
"Princess Anle, His Majesty is busy meeting with ministers. How about we go to the side hall and rest first?"
Tao Yuwei shook her head. "It's too boring to stay here. I'm going to go to the Imperial Garden for a while."
Looking at the big sun above her head, Tao Yuwei walked towards the imperial garden in the palace. The maid Yunxiao ran to the toilet because of diarrhea.
She chose to walk into a pavilion close to the lake and sit down to rest.
The pavilion is mostly surrounded by vines, making it look very hidden.
There was a slight sound of footsteps. Tao Yuwei thought it was Yunxiao coming to find her. She looked out of the pavilion and saw a panicked palace maid running towards the lake with something in her hand.
The palace maid threw the thing in her hand into the lake with all her strength. After throwing the thing away, she looked around a few times with concern. After finding nothing unusual, she quickly left the imperial garden.
After everyone left, Tao Yuwei immediately ran out of the pavilion.
It’s terrible. Something happened to her.
What the palace maid threw into the lake just now must have been something extraordinary.
She wanted to leave immediately and didn't want to get herself into trouble. But just after she took a step, she remembered the plot in the book. What the palace maid had just thrown away was an important piece of evidence.
This piece of evidence involves a decades-old cold case.
Tao Yuwei ran to the place where the palace maid had thrown something just now, and she connected her consciousness with a frog nearby.
"Little frog, something just fell into the lake near you. Please help me. I'll treat you to a flying insect."
The frog hiding under the water surfaced and croaked at her, "Okay, little girl, you must keep your word."
Tao Yuwei squatted down and assured the frog, "Of course, help me get the stuff out, and I'll catch some flying insects for you."
The frog immediately jumped into the water. Tao Yuwei was not slow either. She walked to the grass in the nearby garden, raised her hands and waved them continuously to catch the small flying insects around her.
After catching a dozen flying insects, Tao Yuwei returned to the lakeside. A frog was already waiting for her on the shore with something in its mouth.
After getting the food, she gave all the flying insects in her hand to the frog to eat.
After thanking the frog, she didn't even bother to see what was in her hand. She immediately stuffed it into her sleeve and left the imperial garden.
When she arrived outside the imperial study again, the head maid Yunxiao was already waiting for her there.
The chief eunuch, Eunuch Zhao, hurriedly welcomed her into the imperial study with a smile on his face.
In front of the bright yellow desk, Emperor Jianchang was quickly reviewing memorials.
Hearing footsteps, he put down the pen and raised his head.
Seeing Tao Yuwei come in, he laughed heartily and then asked her kindly, "Anle hasn't been to the palace for a while. I have some peaches that were sent as tribute from below. You can take two boxes with you when you leave."
Tao Yuwei looked at the emperor in front of her, who was kind and yet overly indulgent to her. It was hard for her to imagine that he would eventually die of poison.
"Uncle Emperor, I am very angry today and I have come to you to seek justice for me."
Tao Yuwei told Emperor Jianchang without any hesitation how Xiao Yangyao forced her to marry.
Emperor Jianchang was furious upon hearing this and immediately issued an edict, "The Sixth Prince's misconduct has affected the reputation of the imperial family. He is to be confined to his own house for one year to reflect on his mistakes."
Just like that, Xiao Yangyao chased to the palace with a twisted arm in his hand, but what greeted him was the news that he was taken away by the Imperial Guards for reflection.
Tao Yuwei happily expressed her gratitude to Emperor Jianchang, "Uncle Emperor is the wisest monarch in the world."
After flattering for a while and making Emperor Jianchang laugh, Tao Yuwei decided to leave the palace with the reward of fresh peaches.
Before she reached the palace gate, she was stopped by someone.
"Anle, stop right there!" A sharp and angry voice came from behind, and Tao Yuwei frowned when she heard it.
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