Qianyin Pavilion immediately took the cloak from the eunuch, bowed forward and gently draped it over Emperor Mingde, "Your Majesty, not to mention that our imperial kitchen has nothing, even the weaving workshop is empty. When Emperor Song came to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to hand in the bill this morning, he knew something had happened. He quietly sent twenty loads of things over. Your Majesty has this cloak, and the Empress Dowager also has one."

Qianyin Pavilion finished speaking and took the hand warmer handed over by the eunuch. It was burning with the best silver charcoal without a trace of smoke. He wrapped it in a cotton satin cover and placed it in the hands of Emperor Mingde.

Emperor Mingde glanced at Qianyin Pavilion, and a hint of relief flashed in his eyes.

By his side, there is Gu Tai outside and Qianyin Pavilion inside.

Although Gu Tai is a man of many things to do, he is quite good at doing things.

Qianyin Ge is worthy of being someone who has stayed in the harem all her life. She can always make him feel comfortable and at ease in every aspect of her service. She is thoughtful and considerate.

now,

Ten years after ascending the throne, he finally toppled the three huge mountains that were pressing down on his head: the Crown Prince, the Grand Tutor, and the Duke of Zhenguo.

He can finally secure his throne and enjoy all the happiness and glory that this position brings him.

But the Great Qi was now in turmoil from east to west and north to south. Everyone was vying for the vacant position in the court.

He needed his own people, so if Gu Tai did something wrong again, he could not punish him, let alone depose him. Putting all the faults on the Su and Wang families was just to win the eyes of the court officials and the people.

But, Qianyin Pavilion’s reminder was correct.

At this time, money was needed everywhere. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was robbed and the national treasury had been in deficit for many years.

At this time, the Song Dynasty merchant who could send him money must not be touched. All the men in the Su family were dead, leaving only the old, weak, women and children, who could not cause any big waves.

What's more, Madam Su II is related to the Song family, so it is better to keep her in hand than to kill her.

"The crimes of the Su family are extremely serious. All the ministers in the court who have any connection with the three clans will have their property confiscated and be exiled. All the remaining men of the crown prince's gang will be executed, and all the women and children will be exiled."

Emperor Mingde glanced at the ministers who were lying on the ground. Some of them fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

Among them were those who were teacher and student of Taifu Wang, those who were related to the Su family by marriage, and those who were ministers close to the prince.

Emperor Mingde wanted to maximize the hatred among ministers and people towards the Su and Prince families.

With this approach, no minister dared to say a word more, for fear of getting themselves into trouble by accident.

"The Right Prime Minister is responsible for escorting the exiles. The exile area extends three hundred miles to the north. Three hundred criminals from the Zhao Prison will be exiled with them."

All the ministers fell to the ground in silence, with cold sweat on their backs.

Exiled to the northern border, they had to go another 300 miles deep. That was the border of the Western Yan Kingdom, the Northern Frontier Dynasty and the Great Qi Kingdom. There was no one living in the desert for thousands of miles, and hundreds of beasts lived in the deep jungle. A group of old, weak, women and children, plus 300 criminals from the Zhaoyu Prison, were traveling with them. This was even more terrible than direct execution.

After ten years in power, their Emperor Mingde became increasingly cruel and sinister.

…

Outside the East City Gate, on the moat-lined avenue, a green-covered cart and two prisoner vans were running wildly forward...

"Young Master, it's the Zhaowei and the Imperial Guards who are chasing us."

Su San's chest was wet with blood. As he rode forward, he kept glancing behind him out of the corner of his eye.

After leaving the East City Gate, Su Zhenbei stopped pretending to be unconscious. The prisoner car was too bumpy. He half leaned on Gu Yueyan, his face was as white as paper, and blood was flowing from the corners of his lips. He had broken flesh and tendons in many places, and the six soul-suppressing nails were causing him unbearable pain every moment. If he hadn't used 20% of his strength to press on after this frantic run, he would have bled to death by now.

But in such an emergency, it is understandable that he woke up briefly from his coma and was seen by others.

So he simply stopped pretending to be unconscious.

"We are fugitives now. If they catch up with us, they have the right to kill us on the spot."

After leaving the East City Gate, there were no more people watching and no more smoke, so no one pretended. The people chasing him, although they were assisting the officials in catching the fugitives, were all real people, the emperor and Gu Tai's men.

Su San gritted her teeth.

"The Emperor and Gu Tai are so despicable that they want the young master to be known as a fugitive even after his death."

Su Zhenbei smiled faintly, his eyes were as cold as ice.

"As long as we rush to Shili Pavilion quickly and meet the exiled officials, we will not be fugitives."

"I understand, hurry up!"

Su San whipped the horse again. The horse's eyes had just gotten a little pepper water in them, and it had been whipped by Su San. It raised its hooves and neighed. Some wooden strips had been pulled out of the prisoner's carriage, and with the wild gallop, it creaked and almost fell apart.

Hua Shan screamed.

She covered Su San's chest, blood rolling down from her fingers. Su San's eyes went dark and he fell headfirst. Hua Shan, who had been sitting behind him on the side of the prison cart, hugged him. But Su San was too heavy, and they were about to fall to the ground.

Ye Ranqing, who had fallen into the corner of the prison van as soon as he came out of the East City Gate, reached out his hand, grabbed the two men and pulled them up.

The prison carriage with no one driving it slowed down, and another prison carriage driven by Chief Steward Su caught up with it, and the two prison carriages ran side by side.

"Something happened to Su San?"

Before Huashan could reply, she heard Gu Yueyan shout, "Seventh Aunt!"

Everyone couldn't help but look at Ye Ranqing.

Blood, at some point, dyed Ye Ranqing's clothes red.

"Seventh brother's wife?"

Song Jinhe jumped out of the prison van and went to check on Ye Ranqing.

"Something happened back there."

The speeding green carriage stopped. Nanny Su reached out and lifted the curtain, then spoke to Old Madam Su.

"Turn back, quick."

Old Madam Su hugged Su Mibao tightly and calmly ordered Nanny Su.

Who was just hit?

Sumibao has a black line on his forehead.

We finally managed to break out of the encirclement. As long as we hurry and don't get caught by Gu Tai and the people sent by the Dog Emperor, we will be safe once we reach Shili Pavilion.

In the original book, there was no unexpected appearance of her, no smoke bombs or anything like that. Naturally, there would be no such plot of being hunted down. So, she is now confused and has to cross the river by feeling the stones.

According to the original records, Prince Su and several other families were escorted by officials from the Ministry of Justice to Shili Pavilion outside the city, and then handed over to officials specifically responsible for exile. This episode in the capital came to an end.

Then comes the drama of the Su family being exiled.

However, she had no idea how their accident could be connected with their safe farewell at Shili Pavilion.

"Jinhe,"

The green carriage turned back to meet the two prisoner vans. Old Madam Su lifted the curtain and anxiously looked at the situation of the two prisoner vans.

"Su San is unconscious, and my sister-in-law was chopped."

Sister-in-law?

What sister-in-law? Su Mibao's first reaction was that Gu Yueyan was stabbed by someone? Then she thought again, no, the person her mother called sister-in-law was the eldest lady of the Zhenguogong Mansion.

That is, the wife of the missing general, her stepfather's sister-in-law.

Oh, Sumibao remembered. This person really has no sense of existence.

The eldest lady of the Su family, that is, her aunt, was a middle-aged, weak and sickly woman with no children, who had been vegetarian and chanting Buddhist scriptures all year round.

When she was exiled, she had been following the prisoner's car with Painted Fan Song Ma and the others. When the long street was in turmoil, Song Ma pushed her into Su Zhenbei's prisoner's car and she had been hiding in a corner. She was stabbed by someone and fell into a coma.

Ye Ranqing entered the prison van and squeezed beside her. She didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that her sister-in-law was always timid and was so scared that she lowered her head and kept silent.

It was not until the hem of Ye Ranqing's skirt was stained with Du Liniang's blood and discovered by Hua Shan that everyone realized that something had happened to Du Liniang.

"What can I do? There's no medicine or treatment. If the bleeding continues—"

Song Jinhe hasn't finished speaking yet.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Arrows shot towards me.

(End of this chapter)