The emperor was furious and sent men to the sixth prince's residence to release all of his birds, declaring that if the sixth prince touched the birds again, his hand would be chopped off! He also placed the sixth prince under house arrest.
Back in the Ganlu Palace, the Emperor was too agitated to handle state affairs and decided to seek comfort from the Empress. However, Chuanwen, who was playing with the whistle he had taken from a pheasant's beak, remarked, "The person who made this mechanism is quite skillful. I wonder if they could have created a cannon or something..."
The emperor shuddered. He had been so busy lately that he had forgotten about Chuanwen's brother. He suppressed his anger, smiled kindly, and asked Chuanwen, "Little girl, are you homesick?"
Chuanwen looked at the emperor, unsure whether to say he wanted to or not.
Why did this old guy suddenly ask me if I missed home?
Zheng Yan almost stumbled, but thankfully he had a strong mental fortitude.
The emperor's smile froze for a moment, and his eyes narrowed even more. "Don't be angry, don't be angry, it's all for the divine artifact!"
Could it be that they've finally had a change of heart and are finally ending my miserable tutoring experience?
Chuanwen nodded hurriedly, "Yes!"
The emperor's smile remained kind. "Then I will accompany you back to see your relatives tomorrow."
Chuanwen's smile stopped before it could widen sufficiently.
Seeing Chuanwen get the short end of the stick, the emperor's mood immediately improved. It was rare for him to get angry at Chuanwen!
A faint smile appeared on Zheng Yan's lips.
At dusk, the sixth prince, who had been confined to his quarters, secretly slipped out through a dog hole and came to the Cold Palace.
Consort Li had just finished reciting scriptures and was about to eat when she saw her son sneaking in. Her face was full of eagerness as she stood up and asked him, "Was your father very happy to see the divine bird? Did he send you to fetch me?"
After the Sixth Prince left yesterday, Consort Li didn't sleep well all night. This morning, she instructed her maid to wait at the entrance of the Cold Palace and to call her immediately if anyone came to pick her up.
After waiting all day, they received nothing but food deliveries.
The sixth prince lowered his head and stammered for a long time. The eagerness on Consort Li's face gradually faded, and she asked anxiously again, "Say something!"
"I...I..." The sixth prince was on the verge of tears. "I've been tricked again! That divine bird was just a pheasant! They put fake feathers on a pheasant to fool me, waaaaah..."
Consort Li slumped onto the stool. She knew it... she knew it! This son was unreliable!
"Then you!" Consort Li grabbed her son and looked him over from left to right. She breathed a sigh of relief when she found that her son was not injured. Fortunately, the emperor did not hit him.
The sixth prince tearfully recounted the punishment the emperor had given him, and Consort Li scolded, "Serves him right!"
The sixth prince was even more heartbroken; those birds were his lifeblood!
Consort Li couldn't bear to see this, so she comforted the sixth prince and told him to go back and study hard, and to consider his confinement as a period of quiet preparation.
"Son, don't worry, your mother will pave the way for you. You just need to behave yourself and not cause trouble."
Consort Li instructed the Sixth Prince, who was puzzled, "Mother, you've already entered the Cold Palace, how are you going to pave the way? Besides, I don't want to sit in that position either."
The unambitious sixth prince unsurprisingly received a slap on the head from Consort Li. "Just do as I say!"
If the crown prince could win people's hearts, she wouldn't think so much. But the crown prince only wants to be a farmer and has no talent for governing the country. Why can he sit in that position but her son can't?
Besides, even though she was in the Cold Palace, she still managed to send the Fourth Prince to prison.
Consort Li smiled sinisterly. She had overheard the eunuch who delivered her meals mentioning that the Fourth Prince believed in the Star Worship Cult and was spreading it among the palace maids and eunuchs. She knew then that her opportunity had arrived.
She deliberately pretended to be very interested in the Star Worship Cult, and sure enough, the Fourth Prince secretly came to the Cold Palace to preach.
Consort Li's original intention was to guide the fourth prince to spread Christianity in the palace, so that the emperor would be disappointed in his son if he found out.
Just as she had hoped, the fourth prince was indeed imprisoned by the emperor.
However, she didn't know that the lousy statue contained gunpowder, and the three concubines were accidentally blown up while worshipping the statue.
If she hadn't tried to appease the Fourth Prince, she wouldn't have instigated the concubines and maids in the Cold Palace to believe in that quack cult, and those three concubines wouldn't have been blown up.
Consort Li was a little scared, so she quickly went to recite the Rebirth Sutra for the three unlucky guys. She told them that if they wanted to take revenge, they should go to the Fourth Prince and the Star Worshiping Cult, but they should never come to her!
Consort Li went to chant sutras, and the Sixth Prince, who was about to walk out of the Cold Palace, was trembling with fear because a voice was calling him from behind the bamboo trees in front of him.
"Sixth Prince~ Sixth Prince~"
It was a woman's voice, soft, melodious and sorrowful. Looking closely, there was a dark figure in the shadow of the bamboo. The Sixth Prince immediately felt a chill run down his spine, and the hair on his body stood on end.
"A ghost...a ghost!"
A piercing scream echoed through the Cold Palace. The Sixth Prince took off running, shouting as he went!
Consort Li, who was chanting sutras, was also terrified when she heard this shrill scream. She chanted even faster, her lips trembling as she muttered, "If you want to take my life, go find the Fourth Prince, go find the Star Worshiping Cult. Don't bother my son, and don't bother me! We are all innocent. They are the ones who killed you!"
In the shade of the bamboo outside, Hu Nuan'er stood there, stunned, looking down at the book in her hand titled "The Cunning Emperor's Favored Concubine in the Cold Palace".
The female protagonist in this story is a concubine in the cold palace. One day, the emperor twisted his ankle while passing by. He came over to help her and was attracted by her beauty.
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