Chen Qiu came out and got on the car directly. There were a lot of guards surrounding the prison in three layers. Even if someone came to break into the prison, they would only be able to lose more people.
"Have you finished asking?" Ye Chen took Chen Qiu's hand and led her to sit next to him.
"Have you been waiting for a long time? Are you cold?" Chen Qiu felt that Ye Chen's hands were icy cold and was a little worried. Ye Chen had been running around outside all night and there was no heater in the car.
"It's not cold. Let's go back to the palace first and rest in mother's palace before going home. An An is probably still asleep now."
"Husband," Chen Qiu called Ye Chen, in fact, she also wanted to ask.
"Um?"
"Husband, don't you want to go in and see Gu Ruojin? Don't you want to save her? She doesn't know about our son's affairs." Chen Qiu still asked this question. She didn't know what kind of answer she wanted to hear.
If he saves her, she will feel that Ye Chen still can't let go of Gu Ruojin. If he doesn't save her, she will feel that Ye Chen is indifferent to the life and death of the person he once loved the most. Will she think that Ye Chen is cruel?
This was a question that could not be answered, and any answer would be wrong. After asking it, Chen Qiu regretted it. She was making things difficult for her husband because of others.
"I won't go to see her. We have not been the same kind of people since the day we got married. Now I am just Ye Chen and she is just Gu Ruojin. I didn't eradicate Luojiazhuang because of her. It is not up to her to decide whether she participated in harming our son. So we just need to do our own thing and leave the rest to the laws of Dayin. After today, the life and death of the people here will no longer be decided by me." Ye Chen asked the coachman to go back to the palace, where their most important people were.
After returning to the palace, Ye Chen and his family went to the Princess's palace. It wasn't a big deal that they were tired after a day's work, as they were all young people and would be full of energy again after a night's rest. However, the old Duke and Madam Xiao were old after all. After enduring for so long, it was their health that they didn't just lie down on the ground.
After Chen Qiu and Ye Chen helped the old Duke and Madam Xiao to sleep, they asked someone to watch over them. They took An An to the side hall, ate something, and then went to bed.
When they woke up again, it was already noon. The old Duke and Madam Xiao had lit the calming incense given by Jingxin when they went to sleep. After a good sleep, the two old people did not look as listless as before.
The emperor didn't send anyone to call them. Ye Chen knew that there must be unrest in the palace this morning, but the emperor still didn't let any noise get here.
After Ye Chen washed up, he called the eunuch in and asked him to find out what was going on in the palace.
"My Lord, all the gentlemen have entered the palace early in the morning. The Emperor has attended court today and has not left yet." This is the only time in the past 500 years that the Emperor has attended court on New Year's Day, including the previous two dynasties.
"When does the court session begin?" Usually in winter, the court session starts at 3:15 AM. At that time, Shen Qiu and I had just rested, and there was no movement. These adults must have entered the palace later.
"It was the end of Chen hour. The first one to arrive was Lord Chen, who arrived at Mao hour. The emperor didn't see him. He didn't go to court until all the ministers arrived." The eunuch answered Ye Chen's question respectfully.
"Okay, I understand. Please help me check out what's going on ahead. If the emperor is in trouble, please come back to me." These people will definitely ask the emperor for an explanation for what happened last night. After all, there was no reason for arresting people. If it was just one family, it would be easy to explain, but these are the residences of all the adults in Kyoto City. The emperor will feel a little overwhelmed by such a scene today.
After the man left, Ye Chen stood in front of the palace gate, looking at the huge palace. Did his mother look at it like this before? This is almost the highest palace in the entire palace. Standing here, you can almost see the entire palace.
What was his mother like when she was protecting her brother? Did she see things like today many times? How did she get through it?
The wind blew up his robe. It was still winter on the first day of the first lunar month, and he just stood in the biting cold wind. Chen Qiu came out with Ye Chen's cloak and saw Ye Chen like this.
"Why don't you wear a cloak when you come out? The wind here is stronger than other places. Be careful of catching a cold. You'll need to take medicine again. Aren't you most afraid of taking medicine?" Chen Qiu put the cloak in his hand on Ye Chen and scolded him.
"I forgot, and I don't know what's going on ahead. I wonder if my uncle can hold on?" Ye Chen looked at the largest palace in the entire imperial palace with a little worry.
"Don't worry, no matter how kind your uncle is, he is still the emperor. He has been protected by our mother for so many years, but he is not someone who can be bullied, right? Otherwise, who would have protected him when our mother was away at the war? He also had to protect the young empress at that time. At that time, no one could protect them except each other." Chen Qiu comforted Ye Chen. In her opinion, no matter whether they were emperors or empresses, they were not simple people. People who could survive in such a difficult environment and still maintain their original aspirations were not simple people.
"That's true. Uncle Emperor can't always rely on a nephew like me to protect him, right? He is more powerful than we thought. Let's go in. I haven't eaten since yesterday at noon and I'm very hungry." Ye Chen was not worried at all now. His uncle was smarter than he thought.
"Yes, I have asked someone to serve the meal. Come in and have dinner with grandpa and grandma." Chen Qiu took Ye Chen's arm and walked into the palace together.
During the meal, a palace servant came to report that the Queen wanted to see Chen Qiu about something, so Chen Qiu went to the Queen's Yiku Palace.
After entering, the Queen handed Chen Qiu a token, "This is what the Emperor left behind when he left. He said that maybe you and Chen'er could use it."
Chen Qiu took the token, which had the word "Tian" written on it. This was the token of the Ministry of Justice's Tianlao. With this token, you could bring out even the most heinous criminals in the Tianlao.
"Why didn't the queen let her husband come over? Instead, she came to me?" Shen Qiu looked at the token. Should she intervene? She didn't know.
She had no personal grudge against Gu Ruojin, and her life or death had nothing to do with her. But if Gu Ruojin died, her husband would be sad, right? No matter whether he loved her now or not, he would be sad, after all, he had loved her in the past.
Thinking of this, Chen Qiu returned to Xihe Palace, found a set of palace maid's clothes, and left the palace and headed straight for the Heavenly Prison.
After she brought Gu Ruojin, who was dressed as a palace maid, out of the prison, as the carriage started moving, shouts came from inside the prison, "There's a fire, there's a fire." But none of the guards outside went in to put out the fire.
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