Chapter 140
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The emperor granted marriage to the prince and Liu Ya, but the specific wedding date needed to be decided by themselves. However, he promised that he would reward him with something when they got married.
"You are not a child anymore, it's time for you to get married. You can't act like this after you get married." The emperor looked at the prince crying in the arms of the Empress Dowager and couldn't help but sigh.
It was also because of this arranged marriage that the emperor had the idea of adding some royal bloodline to the descendants of the Cheng family. Moreover, this child must be the emperor's biological child to be eligible to marry into the Cheng family. The descendants of those princes were not worthy.
However, his two princesses are still young and not of marriageable age, so they cannot marry Cheng Yeran. When Cheng Yeran's children are born in the future, they can let their children marry princesses of the royal family, or if they have daughters, they can marry them to princes. He even wants to order Cheng Yeran to have more children and marry them all to princes and princesses.
In this way, not only can the Cheng family bring honor to their ancestors, but they will also become royal relatives in the future.
It so happened that Concubine Li was pregnant recently, and hopefully it would be a little princess. Cheng Yeran also tried his best to give birth to a son as soon as possible, and then they would get engaged after the son was born.
But what should the eldest prince do? Moreover, since the Crown Prince has done something that has brought shame upon the royal family, he must be punished. Even if the Empress Dowager protects him, he still has to put on a show and give an explanation to everyone.
At this time, the Queen Mother came over.
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The eldest prince's mother personally ordered the eldest prince's mother to be executed. She also did not like this child.
The first thing she said after she arrived was that the eldest prince was as shameless as his mother. His mother took advantage of the emperor's drunkenness to climb into bed with him, and he drugged the innocent boy. He deserved what happened to him.
If the Queen Mother were to make the judgment, she would want to sentence the eldest prince to death as well. However, he was of royal blood and her grandson after all, and she couldn't bring herself to kill him.
The Queen Mother said to the Emperor that the eldest prince had lost all face in the capital, so it would be better to give him a fiefdom and let him leave the capital.
However, this fiefdom could not be a very good location. She deliberately chose a poor and desolate place and gave it to him as a fiefdom, and naturally also made him a king.
So the eldest prince became the first prince to be crowned king. Many people said that he turned a disaster into a blessing, but they all knew in their hearts that the place he went to was so poor, how was it different from exile?
Moreover, princes generally prefer to stay in the capital. If they leave the capital, they will lose the qualification to inherit the throne.
However, due to his unpopular background, everyone tacitly agreed that he had no chance of becoming emperor.
Liu Ya waited all night, and finally received the imperial decree granting marriage.
He was confused when he heard the eunuch reading out the contents of the imperial edict word by word.
After the eunuch finished reading the imperial edict, he asked him to receive it, but seeing that he was motionless and dazed, he thought that he was unhappy. The prince had a bad reputation and many noble ladies were unhappy about him. He thought that a country boy like Liu Ya would be happy to marry into a wealthy family, but he didn't expect that even a country boy would despise the prince.
Liu Ya was called by the eunuch several times before she came back to her senses: "Your Majesty, you may not understand that I cannot get married in this lifetime. I signed a letter of commitment with the village chief that I would never get married in this lifetime."
The eunuch had not expected this to happen, but since the imperial edict had been taken out, it was not easy to send it back. "This is the emperor's order. Anyone who dares to oppose it is disobeying the emperor's order. To put it bluntly, your village chief is nothing. How dare he oppose the emperor's will?"
Liu Ya understood at this moment that as long as he had enough power, he could rewrite the rules. What he thought were big things in the past were now trivial matters in the eyes of the upper class in the capital.
Although he didn't want to get married, he didn't dare to disobey the imperial order. Fortunately, the imperial edict didn't require them to get married, so they could just delay it for now.
On the other hand, Prince Jing was also worried about this marriage, not knowing whether it was a good or bad thing.
He understood his son well. That idiot didn't even think of drugging the eldest prince and making him look bad in public. His brain was too simple. When he was unhappy, he would either complain to the emperor and the empress dowager or run to that person and curse him. Sometimes he couldn't win the curse and could only get angry helplessly.
But he asked the prince many times, and the prince said that it was his own idea. Prince Jing has already labeled Liu Ya as something unusual, and he doesn't want the two to get married for the time being. It would be even better if he could find a way to cancel this marriage.
On the day the eldest prince left the capital, Liu Ya and the prince also went to the city gate together.
Although he was a prince, no one came to see him off and the scene was cold and deserted.
When the eldest prince saw the two of them, his face looked very bad.
Liu Ya felt relieved to see him living such a miserable life. Before he took action, he knew he might be punished, but he didn't care. What he wanted was not to live a better life in the future, but to make his enemy suffer. He just wanted to vent his anger. "I still remember what you said to me that day. Although you are a prince, I am the one who laughs last. I will make your fate even more miserable than mine."
The eldest prince said to him with a gloomy face: "I now know that I have offended someone I shouldn't have offended. I apologize to you, but the person you should hate the most is not me. Just like the prince said, I am just a dog of the third brother. Everything was arranged by him. Although I left, he will not let you go."
The eldest prince looked at the prince and said, "You scolded me so harshly that day, and my third brother is a petty person. Be careful. This is my last advice to you."
After the eldest prince finished speaking, he got on the carriage and left the capital.
The prince looked at his carriage and snorted, "You calculated wrongly. He is a demon, how could he be afraid of the third prince?"
After he finished speaking, he glanced at Liu Ya beside him and said, "Is that so?"
Liu Ya was too lazy to pay attention to him. He was too tired these days and wanted to go home and rest.
The prince followed him and asked him shyly, "Can I go back with you today?"
Liu Ya replied to him simply: "No."
"Why? You haven't seen me for several days. I helped you a lot that day, but you didn't even thank me." The prince saw his tired look and felt that this was a good opportunity. "If you feel tired, you can let me do it. I'm also very good."
In fact, the prince never lasted more than three seconds, but he was very confident.
After he finished speaking, he saw Liu Ya gave him a cold look. He immediately shut his mouth and thought, if she wasn't allowed to go, then she wasn't allowed to go. Why was she being so mean?
"Don't regret what you said later." Liu Ya said and pulled the prince back home.
The prince thought he finally had a chance to counterattack, and he was indeed the one to make the move, but it was different from what he imagined.
The prince moved himself while crying, and complained to Liu Ya as he cried, "If I had known it would be like this, I would have let you move it so that I wouldn't have to suffer so much."
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When Cheng Yeran arrived at the place, he originally wanted to conduct a thorough investigation, but then he found that the evidence given to him by the emperor was already very comprehensive and it would be a waste of time for him to investigate further.
So, according to the evidence given to him by the emperor, he arrested the corrupt official, and executed him on the spot according to the emperor's instructions.
A row of corrupt officials were kneeling there, waiting to be beheaded. Many common people gathered below. These people had suffered a lot because of the corrupt officials. There were also many victims whose families had been broken up. They threw stones at the officials, and people were smashed to death before their heads were chopped off.
The people all said that Lord Cheng was a good official. When he left, many of them saw him off out of the city, saying that they hoped he would stay and not leave, as they were afraid that the next official would also be a bad one. What should they do?
Cheng Yeran also told them not to worry and to trust the court. If another bad person came, the emperor would still chop off that person's head.
After this experience, Cheng Yeran was more certain that the emperor was a wise ruler and not a foolish one, but why did the emperor give this credit to him? It seems that he is really an illegitimate child.
He imagined a bloody drama in his mind. The eldest prince's mother was a palace maid who was disliked by the empress dowager and later killed her. The emperor might be afraid that his mother would also be killed by the empress dowager, so he never brought his mother into the palace.
However, the small mountain village where they lived was so far away from the capital that it was impossible for the emperor to place his beloved there.
Is there any other reason behind this? For example, the lazy man’s parents were not his biological parents, but maids and servants around the emperor Bai Yueguang. Bai Yueguang was brutally murdered by the empress dowager, and the maids and servants took the child back to their hometown and raised him as their own child?
But he quickly rejected this idea. He had learned about the lazy man's background before and knew that his parents had always lived in the village.
Could it be that Bai Yueguang fell seriously ill while fleeing with the child and died in their village, and before she died she entrusted the child to the lazy man's parents?
And the couple's child happened to die, so they hid it from everyone and raised the emperor's child as their own?
That makes sense.
Since he was also an illegitimate prince, he felt much more at ease and no longer wondered why the emperor was so good to him.
This idea became even more certain to him after the third prince assassinated him.
He suspected that the Third Prince knew his illegitimate status and was afraid that he would seize the throne.
In fact, the third prince was narrow-minded. He wanted to win over Cheng Yeran, but was rejected. He thought Cheng Yeran looked down on him and wanted to kill him to vent his anger.
In addition, the Third Prince thought that Cheng Yeran stood on the side of the Second Prince and would be a threat to him in the future, so he sent people to assassinate Cheng Yeran on his way back to Beijing.
Fortunately, he was accompanied by a master from the Imperial Palace, and Shao Hui was also very vigilant, but Cheng Yeran was still cut on his arm. It was not very deep, just breaking some skin.
When he returned home, he had one arm bandaged, which scared Shen Yuntang so much that she started crying.
Cheng Yeran originally wanted to throw herself into his arms and act coquettishly, saying that she was injured and needed his caress to make her feel better, and then stay close to him for a while, but when she saw Shen Yuntang crying, she lost all thoughts and quickly hugged him to comfort him.
"I'm fine, it's just a skin injury, not as serious as when you accidentally cut your hand while cutting vegetables last time," Cheng Yeran saw that he didn't believe her.
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, and even wanted to remove the gauze to show him, "Really, I'm not lying to you."
Shen Yuntang hurriedly stopped him, "You don't have to move, go back and rest."
"I have to change my clothes and go back to the palace to be with you." Cheng Yeran helped him wipe his tears.
Shen Yuntang helped him change his clothes. "You've lost weight. I'll make you a good meal when you come back tonight to replenish your body."
"I don't want to eat, I want to eat you." Cheng Yeran bit his face.
Shen Yuntang blushed and whispered, "Then you should come back soon."
"I'm injured and can't do strenuous exercise," Cheng Yeran leaned over to the tip of his reddened ear and said, "How about you do it?"
Shen Yuntang glared at him with a red face, but did not refuse.
This made Cheng Yeran very happy. He didn't expect to receive such good treatment after being injured. He really hoped that the wound would heal slowly.
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