Chapter 500 Stalemate
After dinner, someone came to report and He Yanli left.
Not long after, Zi Yuan ran in quickly, saw the figure she wanted to see, and walked over quickly.
"Princess!"
Qiao Wanyan was a little surprised, "Ziyuan? Were you brought here together?"
He Yanli actually brought Ziyuan with him? What about Lu Jinye?
Zi Yuan nodded, "Someone suddenly knocked me unconscious in the kitchen that day, and when I woke up I was in Yueling City. Those people wouldn't let me leave the room, and just now someone opened the door and brought me here."
"Have you seen Lu Jinye?"
Zi Yuan shook her head, "No. The guard said Yue Ling is very safe now, and if the princess feels bored, she can go out for a walk. The young lady told me before that she wanted to see Yue Ling's Epiphyllum, why don't we go and see it?"
Qiao Wanyan rested her chin on one hand and looked out the window. At the same time of year, the climate in Yueling was much more comfortable than that in the capital.
"Maybe tomorrow. I feel too lazy to move today."
The maid at the door said, "Princess, there is a flower room in this mansion where the Epiphyllum is planted. It is not too far from here. If you want to take a look, you can go and take a look first."
Qiao Wanyan: "Alright."
In the flower room, a maid was tending to the flowers and plants.
"I really envy Sister Qi and the others for being able to serve in Luoning Pavilion. I heard that the princess from the capital is the daughter of the Qiao family. She is very beautiful!"
"I've heard from those wandering merchants that the daughter of the Qiao family, the head of the capital's aristocratic family, is a beauty that is rare in the world. I really want to see how beautiful she is!"
"It must be very beautiful, otherwise why would the prince bring people here? Otherwise, how about we go to Luoning Pavilion secretly to take a look?"
The man curled his lips, "Are you crazy?"
The other person accidentally looked back and was stunned and said stiffly: "I'm crazy..."
Qiao Wanyan looked at the dazed little maid with a teasing smile on her face.
The other person also looked in the direction she was looking and immediately pulled her arm, and then the two of them greeted each other together.
"Your servant greets Princess Duanhua."
Qiao Wanyan said calmly, "Get up, no need to be polite."
This mansion is a residence owned by He Yanli in Yueling. He bought it many years ago and decorated it personally.
The servants in the mansion felt very happy that there was no master here, only a master who was easy to talk to and in charge. The servants in the mansion did not have so many intrigues in their daily lives.
The two young girls serving in the greenhouse were the most gossipy in the entire mansion.
But within one day, the entire Yueling City knew that the young lady of the Qiao family, the head of the Dayu family and the first first-rank princess since the founding of Dayu, was now in Yueling.
Yue Ling was not far from the Thirteen Cities of Beiming, and had heard about the love, hatred and vengeance of the lord of the Beiming fiefdom in private.
Princess Duanhua is engaged to the Crown Prince. Prince Jing wants to interfere and hook up with the future sister-in-law, but he is sent back to his fiefdom.
Princess Duanhua and Prince Jing were in love with each other, but the Crown Prince forcibly stopped them from asking for an imperial decree to grant their marriage, thus breaking up the loving couple.
Princess Duanhua faked her death in the capital, gave up all her honor and ran to Yueling to live with Prince Jing forever.
Yue Ling was thousands of miles away from the capital, and the rumors became more and more outrageous until they gradually became the version that everyone liked.
When He Yanli was returning to Yue Ling from the camp, he heard passers-by say that he was going to marry Qiao Wanyan, and the wedding date was set at the end of this month.
On September 16th, there was finally some movement in the capital.
The emperor was critically ill, and Crown Prince He Zhiyu led the cavalry battalion to attack the city.
The palace was trapped, and the two sides were in a stalemate and the fighting situation was grim.
On the palace wall, Xu Shujian looked down at the tens of thousands of troops, and all he could see was a sea of darkness.
At this point, he still didn't get the letter of apology.
The old emperor was a tough guy. He didn't love anyone, so naturally there was no weakness that could force him to submit. Physical torture was not something he couldn't endure for someone who had gone through mountains of swords and seas of blood to secure his throne.
Inside the palace gates are the lives of the emperor and the detained families of court ministers.
This stalemate lasted for more than half a month.
Inside the Changping Palace were the officials’ families who were detained there.
Yun Heng stood in the corridor. "His body can't hold on for much longer. No amount of panacea can save a person whose insides are festering. If you don't get the confession, the emperor will die and the army outside will rush in."
Xu Shujian looked calm and was not panicked by the current predicament.
He just looked at the bright and refreshing autumn weather and said, "We are all gamblers in this world. If I win, I will be the crown prince of the previous dynasty who will restore the country. If I lose, I will be the remnant of the previous dynasty and a traitor."
Yun Heng didn't understand these people. He just wanted to study medicine and stay by Wan Yan's side.
If you make a mistake, there will be no recovery. Why bother?
If I die, I won't be able to be with her anymore.
But it’s better this way. If everyone becomes a gambler and some die or become disabled, there won’t be so many annoying people around Wanyan.
The best scenario would be that Jiang Qiyun also died in it.
Yun Heng lowered his eyes when he thought of this. How could a doctor like him wish for a life to disappear?
Jiang Qiyun doesn't have to die. It would be better for him to remain alive and become a human pig.
"Your Highness, He Zhizui spilled the medicine and said that he would never write a confession even if he died."
He had been through a lot of mental torture these days, but his desire to survive was extremely strong. Seeing that Su Xiao was fine after drinking the medicine, he drank it all up in big gulps.
It seemed that he was hoping that his body would get better soon, so that he could wait for Tsuru Chiyu to lead the army into the city to rescue him.
But after a month, no one came.
The hope deep in his heart gradually began to collapse. The physical torture could not be cured. When he opened his eyes, he saw the hall full of rebels. He began to give up on himself.
Xu Shujian showed no emotion when hearing this. "Then drink it. Master Yun's medicine can keep him alive. He can't die right now."
He paused after he finished speaking, "But he is still so dishonest at his age. Let's remove the tendon of his other foot as well."
Yun Heng turned and left after hearing this.
Minister Qiao asked him to do a small favor, which was just to save the emperor's life. As for what Xu Shujian was going to do, it had nothing to do with him.
He was not a good person to let Wanyan go to marry. His current fate was his own fault.
Xu Shujian stood with his hands behind his back, "Go and get Concubine Shu."
The guard said, "Your Highness, that dog emperor is selfish, and Concubine Shu, a woman with no foundation, cannot persuade him."
Xu Shujian said calmly: "The days of waiting are too boring. Concubine Shu is He Zhizui's favorite concubine. It is her duty to serve the emperor. Let her pick He Zhizui's tendons."
He remembered that Concubine Shu was the daughter of the Situ family.
Concubine Shu, I had a feud with her.
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