Chapter 251 Don’t Ask What You Shouldn’t Ask
It's just a punishment for the prince.
This is too light a punishment. You have to know that the prince committed an unforgivable crime.
He actually forced a court official to personally break open the small door with hanging flowers that separated men and women?
Even a small secret guard like her knew what that small door meant. Once it was broken, would the innocence of the women in the inner house be lost? A woman's innocence was more important than her life. If her life could be cut short, her innocence could not be lost.
He is the crown prince, how could he not know this? He is clearly trying to push the young lady into the fire pit.
But in the end he was just a punishment?
What's the point of punishment? A fine of one month's silver, but does the prince need that little silver? House arrest, but the prince's mansion is so big, what kind of house arrest is that? So, this can be considered as a light punishment, and the prince was not hurt at all.
Xieyang was not convinced, and Xiaotao and Zhang Yapo were also very angry.
"Miss, why don't we go talk to the prince and let him take charge of this matter?"
Lin Qingjun looked at the setting sun, his mouth twitching slightly.
"Xiayang, I'm very curious, is the prince your former master? Why do you want to let him go so badly?"
She smiled helplessly.
"Don't let him do it. This kind of thing can't be achieved by manipulation. Besides, the prince has done a great job. Could it be that you really want His Majesty to remove the prince?"
"It's impossible to even think about it. You have to understand that the prince is not just a prince."
Behind him is the Feng family.
As long as the prince does not act recklessly and does not commit irreparable mistakes, His Majesty will never do this.
but.
"Perhaps this punishment may seem light to you, but don't forget that he is the crown prince. This is the heaviest punishment for him."
"You know, the Crown Prince has never been hit on the palm of his hand since he was a child, but now, he is suddenly punished by the Emperor?"
"The signal this sends is not ordinary."
"Will the ministers below wonder what the Crown Prince has done? Will they wonder why the Emperor has done this? Will they wonder what the real reason is? Will they wonder if they should switch sides?"
Lin Qingjun analyzed it bit by bit.
When Xiyang and the others heard this, they were stunned for a long time.
"So, a small penalty can lead to so many problems?"
"Yeah, aren't they thinking too much? Switching sides? That's the prince, how can they change?"
"That's right, didn't we say that the Crown Prince is backed by the Feng family? How dare they switch sides?"
Although they disliked the prince, they would like to see him beaten.
But now after hearing what the young lady said, I feel that the ones who are really scary are those court officials.
"Aren't they all loyal subjects? How could a loyal subject behave like this?"
"Xiao Tao, you're stupid. How can all the ministers be loyal? There must be a few treacherous ones, right? Aren't there two right in front of us? One is Lin Zhi, and the other is Xiao Yuan."
Xiaotao twitched her lips, Xiyang was right.
Lin Qingjun smiled.
"You don't need to worry. There are still many loyal ministers in this world. For example, the Marquis of Wu'an is one of them."
"Furthermore, our emperor is a wise ruler, and he truly cares about the people of this world."
"...Even if we want to remove the prince from that position, it won't be done in a day or two, and we won't punish him severely just for a small door with hanging flowers."
At worst, the prince would just say it was a misunderstanding, and that Lin Zhi wanted to please him as the prince by letting him appreciate the inner courtyard garden, but he didn't expect to be blocked by a door.
Lin Zhi naturally didn't want to spoil his fun, so he knocked on the door.
The prince would not mention the Chuihua Gate, the concubine Lin Qingjun, or any beauties at all. To put it bluntly, the prince also has his dignity. If people knew that he did such a shameless thing just to see the beauty of a concubine, where would he put his face?
When Xiyang Xiaotao and the others heard this, they stamped their feet in anger and cursed the prince for being vicious and hypocritical.
Lin Qingjun smiled and burned the note in her hand. She was not surprised by the prince's punishment, nor was she very angry, because she knew that Ji Chenchuan would not let him off easily.
It’s a pity that I didn’t see with my own eyes the cowardly look of the prince in the hall. I believe there must have been another wonderful story in that hall.
Lin Qingjun was not wrong.
The situation in the main hall was even more exciting and tense than in the backyard of the Lin Mansion. What's more, the incident did not happen early this morning, but happened yesterday.
Ji Chenchuan left Anzhuang and threw Li Huwei's body into a mass grave.
However, he did not leave to return to the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion, but went straight to the palace. He used the token given to him by the emperor and was directly led into the imperial study.
At the same time, a Dark Dragon Guard beside the emperor followed him secretly. The Dark Dragon Guard whispered a few words in the emperor's ear, and the emperor's face suddenly became ugly.
Upon seeing this, the chief eunuch Lin Gonggong shrewdly called away the people around him, leaving only the emperor and Prince Ji.
Eunuch Lin was guarding outside the door, with no intention of leaving for a moment.
The young eunuch was puzzled. "Eunuch, you never leave His Majesty's side, why today?"
Eunuch Lin is the emperor's personal eunuch. Except when the emperor is resting, Eunuch Lin never leaves his side, even when the empress comes. However, Eunuch Lin's actions today were really beyond their expectations.
And there was Prince Ji, he was extremely handsome, much more handsome than the crown prince. Even the eunuch was stunned by him. As he walked along, he looked like a god that had come out of a painting.
But they had only heard of some of his names, that he was sickly and weak. It was said that he had just returned to Shangjing and had been away for fifteen years to recuperate. It was a pity that such a handsome prince had a short life?
Eunuch Lin tapped the young eunuch on the head with his whisk. "Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask. Have you forgotten the rules of the palace? Be careful with your words and actions... The more you know about palace affairs, the closer you'll be to death."
But Eunuch Lin didn't say that the reason he was standing outside was because Prince Ji came in holding the token that the emperor had given him that year.
This token was obtained by Prince Ji when he was five years old. I can imagine how many princes from noble families wanted to get this token at that time, from adults in their twenties to boys as young as ten years old.
When they learned of the existence of this token, they tried their best and even brought out the achievements of their ancestors in founding the country, just in the hope of getting it.
Others don’t know, but they know the purpose of this token. Whoever sees the token is like seeing the king, and has the power to mobilize a thousand soldiers.
Let me put it this way, with this token, even rebellion becomes extremely easy.
Thinking of this, Eunuch Lin's eyes flashed.
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