"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, save me! Your Majesty, you promised to protect me! Ah! Help, Your Majesty!" It sounded like someone outside had grabbed Xu Si, and Xu Si's voice trembled as he screamed.
Su Wanyan frowned, about to leave.
But Yu Nanqing grabbed him and said, "Stay with me, they can't touch you for now!"
If Su Wanyan leaves this room, he will be too far away to protect her, and even if he wants to, he will be powerless to do so.
Su Wanyan gently pushed his hand away, saying, "Don't worry, they're all afraid of dying. I have a way."
Yu Nanqing's heart tightened: "Don't go!"
Su Wanyan had already turned and left. Yu Nanqing tried to grab her, but only the hem of her dress barely brushed past his palm. He tried to get up, but his lower body wouldn't move an inch.
He gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and stared at her retreating figure with bloodshot eyes!
"Stop!" Su Wanyan slammed the door open.
The soldiers escorting Xu Si stopped in their tracks. Xu Si, as if seeing a savior, cried out, "Your Majesty, save me! Your Majesty, save me! You promised to protect me! Please save me!"
His face had turned pale with fright.
Su Wanyan looked up and saw that the main courtyard was surrounded by soldiers and palace maids from the palace, with each row of palace maids carrying a lot of gold and silver jewelry.
The soldiers completely surrounded the main courtyard.
A eunuch holding a whisk stood at the head of the table, looking arrogant. When he saw Su Wanyan come out, he immediately put on a smiling face: "Oh, the Princess Consort has come out? This servant greets Your Highness. May Your Highness be blessed."
Although he bowed respectfully to Su Wanyan, his words and expressions showed no respect for her whatsoever.
Su Wanyan looked at the people filling the courtyard and straightened her posture: "Who are you? What are you doing here? And what's the meaning of all these people in the courtyard?"
The eunuch smiled and said, "My surname is Liu, and I am the Grand Eunuch of the Palace. Yesterday, His Majesty heard some bad rumors circulating in the capital, so he specially sent me here today to take a look. His Majesty cares about the Prince and has even bestowed many gold and silver treasures upon him. Your Majesty, please take a look."
Su Wanyan sneered. She knew the emperor would definitely make a move.
With such a grand procession along the way, how could the common people still feel that the emperor was mistreating Yu Nanqing?
"And what about him?" Su Wanyan pointed at Xu Si: "What's the point of arresting him?"
Eunuch Liu's smile remained unchanged: "This dog of a servant is disrespectful to the Prince, and he lied about the inside story of the Prince's mansion, so that the Emperor could not understand the situation in the Prince's mansion in time, causing the Emperor to neglect the Prince. He deceives the Emperor and the Prince, and is outwardly compliant but inwardly disobedient. Such a servant must not be allowed to live. I will naturally deal with him."
“This is the Prince’s residence. Even if something needs to be done, it should be done by me. There’s no need for you to do it, Eunuch,” Su Wanyan said coldly.
Eunuch Liu chuckled: "I'm afraid this won't be as Your Highness wishes. We are acting on the Emperor's orders. If Your Highness doesn't allow it, then we will be disobeying the imperial decree."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the soldier continued to drag Xu Si away.
"Ahhh!" Xu Si cried out in terror, "Your Majesty, save this servant! Your Majesty, you must save this servant!"
Su Wanyan pointed at Eunuch Liu and said coldly, "If you dare to arrest him, I guarantee that tomorrow the entire capital will know how the Emperor has mistreated Yu Nanqing all these years!"
Eunuch Liu's heart skipped a beat: "What did you say?"
I've seen stupid people, but I've never seen anyone this stupid. Is she trying to directly challenge the Emperor?
"Do you think that just because I was able to leave the manor, I didn't have any backup plans?" Su Wanyan glared at him. "Yu Nanqing was living a life worse than death in the manor. The Emperor sealed off the manor, not only leaving him to fend for himself, but also sending people like you to bully and beat him. Yu Nanqing made great contributions to the Great Jin Dynasty, but the Emperor is trying to kill him. He is simply a tyrant!"
She had no backup plan, but that didn't stop her from scaring Eunuch Liu.
"You!" Eunuch Liu's face turned pale: "You are committing treason! I will definitely report these words to the Emperor in their entirety."
"Go ahead!" Su Wanyan showed no fear. "I told you, if you dare to arrest Xu Si today, I dare to let the people of the capital know the truth. Those with nothing to lose are not afraid of those with something to lose. The Prince is terminally ill, and I have no standing in this mansion. I don't know if the Emperor will execute me and the Prince, but you..."
Su Wanyan pointed at Eunuch Liu, then at everyone in the courtyard, a sneer of certainty on her lips: "Once the news gets out of the manor, the Emperor will be furious. You have all failed in your duties, and none of you will escape!"
Upon hearing this, not only did Eunuch Liu turn pale, but the faces of the palace maids and soldiers who had come with him also turned white instantly.
The Emperor ordered them to come here to quell the rumors circulating in the capital.
The purpose of dealing with Xu Si was also to give Su Wanyan a warning, to let her know what she should and shouldn't do.
Unexpectedly, Su Wanyan was not afraid at all. If they failed to quell the rumors this time and instead made things even bigger, it would be even more damaging to the Emperor's reputation...
Thinking about it this way, Eunuch Liu suddenly felt uncertain.
Yesterday, Su Wanyan slipped out of the mansion, and the rumors spread throughout the capital. The soldiers guarding the mansion were immediately beheaded. Now, he looked at Su Wanyan with a gloomy face, and suddenly smiled: "Your Highness, are you out of ideas? Our family is not easily frightened."
"Whether I'm bluffing or not, you can try it and see." Su Wanyan narrowed her eyes and looked directly at Eunuch Liu.
After a standoff, Eunuch Liu gripped the whisk tightly and gritted his teeth: "You win!"
He raised his hand and waved it, and the soldiers holding Xu Si immediately released him.
Xu Si felt reborn and kowtowed repeatedly to Su Wanyan: "Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life! Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, don't be too happy yet." Eunuch Liu was quite angry: "I will report today's matter to the Emperor without missing a single word."
Regardless of whether Su Wanyan had any backup plans, he dared not gamble.
If it's true, he'll have to move his head.
"As I've already said, Father-in-law, please go ahead."
"What audacity!" Liu Gonggong, having been rebuffed, snorted and left the main courtyard.
However, the gold and silver jewelry sent from the palace were left behind, and the soldiers from the palace surrounded the main courtyard, making it impossible to pass through. It seemed that they wanted to prevent Su Wanyan from sneaking out again.
Xu Si crawled shakily to Su Wanyan's side: "Mother...Your Majesty, what should we do...?"
Xu Si had no hope, but Su Wanyan actually saved him. After this incident, Xu Si just wanted to cling to Su Wanyan's coattails.
"Go ahead and weed. I'll call you if there are any other arrangements," Su Wanyan instructed, her eyes fixed on the direction Liu Gonggong had left.
Xu Si responded repeatedly, "Yes...yes..."
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