Chapter 291 Secluded East Palace

Bei Jingchu took a step and walked away. Her footsteps echoed in the silence in the empty cell.

After going out, Zhou Huanjiu went into the palace with her.

Bei Jingchu did not take the sedan chair lazily, because it was too slow.

The two held hands, and she ran on the palace road, holding up her slightly heavy skirt, heading towards the Xuanshi Hall.

Zhou Huanjiu went to Renshou Palace to find the Queen Mother.

The palace path is very long. I felt it was long when I was young.

As I grew older, I felt that it wasn’t that long anymore and I could walk across it quickly.

But today I feel that it is still very long.

He arrived at the Xuanshi Hall panting, and when he entered the door of Yu's study, his forehead was covered with sweat.

There was also heat trapped in the clothes that could not be released.

Eunuch Jiang came forward and said, "Oh, my Lord! Why are you here like this?"

"But what happened?"

Bei Jingchu said directly: "Father-in-law, I want to see Aye, is Aye free?"

"Please wait a moment. I will go and ask."

After a while, the door opened again and Jiang Zhixian greeted her: "Your Highness, please come in."

I see my father every day, but this time I was actually nervous.

The open door looked like a dark abyss, with the shadowy figure of my father sitting inside.

The dark dragon robe exudes a subtle solemnity.

Bei Qin's advice echoed in his ears: "Don't go. Be obedient."

She clenched her fist and felt a little pain as her nails dug into the flesh.

It's time to cut my nails when I get home. Once my thoughts are free, I feel a little more relaxed.

Bei Jingchu walked in, lifted her skirt and knelt down, asking Aye to show mercy.

He just raised his eyes and asked, "Why is this a special leniency?"

"The law is the law, there is no grace."

The sun is warm, but the cold is biting.

"Jinruo has already asked me to change Beiqin back to her name and sever ties with Beijunwan."

Bei Heng sneered, which was the kind of laughter that Bei Jingchu had often heard before, when he was extremely speechless, he would laugh out of anger.

"How naive! As long as he has been the son of Yitian Beilunwan, he will never be spared from this crime."

He asked Bei Jingchu: "What do you think the law is?"

She replied: "It is a tool to punish the guilty and maintain the stability of the government."

"If you knew that, why did you do such a stupid thing?"

"The so-called punishment is for the world to see!"

"Kill one to warn the rest, kill the chicken to warn the monkey!"

"Does it matter whether he is innocent or not? Does it matter whether he is the thief's biological son or not?"

"As long as they have any connection with the rebels, they cannot be let off."

"Under severe punishment, there will always be a constant stream of people who breed greed. If you are soft-hearted, how can you accomplish anything great!"

The emperor stood up and walked down the steps, his voice full of anger: "It's not easy for you to get rid of your inexplicable pity for the world, but I find that you are still very soft-hearted towards those close to you."

"Bei Jingchu, you are not a Bodhisattva sitting alone on a high platform, feeling sad for the world. You are the prince of Dai Viet!"

"Except Dai Viet, there is nothing and no one worthy of your love."

"I remember telling you when you were young that if you ever have a power struggle with your siblings in the future, I hope you would spare their lives."

"Then I will tell you now, if they commit treason, you will also kill them all, leaving no one alive among their descendants."

"If you give them repeated warnings and they still compete with you for power, they should be killed anyway."

Bei Heng exuded a strong murderous aura.

He has always been gentle and kind, far from the tyrant in the original book.

Only now can we realize that he is truly a ruthless and brutal man, and an emperor with a noble character.

Bei Jing didn't know how to answer at first, and then Eunuch Jiang came in and reported: "Your Majesty, the Minister of Military Equipment Zhou Huanjiu wants to see you."

“No.”

After saying this, he added: "Anyone who has a close relationship with Bei Qin will not be allowed to enter the palace before he dies."

He glanced at Bei Jingchu and ordered, "The Crown Prince is not feeling well. Please rest in the East Palace for half a month."

"No one is allowed to go out without an imperial decree."

Bei Jingchu walked out in a daze. The guards outside were already standing in front of the door, escorting, no, escorting her back to the East Palace.

Zhou Huanjiu looked at her in bewilderment, walked over and asked, "What... is going on?"

Bei Jingchu avoided her eyes and said, "Aye is determined to kill everyone in Princess Xianning's mansion, and he's afraid that I'll mess things up."

"Before the execution, I was confined to the East Palace."

"Why did you come back so early? Where is Grandmother?"

Zhou Huan said in despair, "Aunt Hui said that the Queen Mother is seriously ill and will not see outsiders."

"I don't know if I'm right. I guess it's an excuse."

"I knelt outside the Renshou Hall and begged for a meeting."

"Then Aunt Hui told me...told me to stop doing meaningless things."

"I thought there was hope that His Majesty would see you here."

"Why is this happening? Is there no room for maneuver?"

No?

no.

Bei Jingchu stayed quietly in the East Palace, counting the days.

The sun rises and the moon sets, and the days go by, and the date of my friend's death is clear.

At least he had money. There was a lot of gold in her purse, so he wouldn't have a bad life in prison.

If you keep a calm mindset, it can even be nourishing.

Those who have nothing to do every day no longer have to work hard on paperwork and worry about endless official duties.

It’s a pity that she won’t get back the money she lent.

It's so heartbreaking.

One day, Lei Nian'er couldn't bear it anymore and hugged her distressedly.

"Your Highness, I will send the guards away to let you out, and we will go to rob the execution ground."

Bei Jingchu leaned into her arms and said softly, "Okay, then it's changed from one person dying to the whole army being annihilated."

......

So quiet.

Just wait quietly like this until the day when the gate of the East Palace reopens.

At noon, the spring sun is unusually poisonous.

It's another sunny day, and it's scorching hot.

Bei Jingchu straightened up his body which had not moved for a long time, and the joints between his bones were creaking.

"Let's go collect the bodies."

Life remained unchanged, except that the position of Prince's Secretary was vacant.

However, at the court meeting in the East Palace, there was no young man who arrogantly held his big teacup and drank tea.

It’s just that it’s more stressful when you encounter difficulties because there’s no one to talk to.

It’s just that Zhou Huanjiu spent more time buried in his own laboratory room and was rarely seen.

Princess Guangde became a Taoist nun and lived in seclusion in a temple.

This was the first time that Bei Jingchu had an unpleasant ending with his father since he was born, and the incident even got him into a state of confinement.

Some people who thought they knew the situation began to wait and see. Even the officials of the Eastern Palace became fence-sitters and clung to other forces and hurried away.

There are countless people who take advantage of others' misfortunes.

For example, the Zhang family, the mother of the third prince, thought that they had come to an opportunity.

In the Yanjia Palace, Concubine Zhang De taught her son: "Take advantage of this time to visit your father more often."