When Emperor Xiao Ping was alone with Su Wanti, he often made some unreasonable requests. Su Wanti had no choice but to sit beside him and feed him spoonful by spoonful.
After he finished eating, he wiped the corners of his mouth with a silk handkerchief, and Emperor Xiao Ping's mood improved.
"Your Majesty, have you encountered any troubles?"
Su Wanti handed the jade lotus leaf bowl to Eunuch De and turned to ask Emperor Xiao Ping.
Emperor Xiao Ping's expression eased slightly, and he took a memorial and placed it in her hand. "Take a look at this?"
Su Wanti quickly threw the memorial down, patted her chest and said, "Your Majesty, please don't harm me. The harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs."
"This matter involves the future and destiny of you and the princess. I think you should know." Emperor Xiao Ping was firm.
Su Wanti's beautiful almond-shaped eyes were full of doubts. After hearing what Emperor Xiao Ping said, she opened the memorial and began to read it.
This memorial was submitted by Xiao Huaihe, in which he requested to be transferred to serve as an official in another place.
"Young Marquis Xiao is going to serve as an official in another place?" she muttered softly.
Emperor Xiao Ping heard this and snorted coldly, saying, "Look where he is going to be an official."
Su Wanti looked at the location written on the memorial and read out, "Jing County."
She narrowed her almond-shaped eyes and thought, "Jing County is a transportation fortress in the south. Why would he, an editor in the Hanlin Academy, want to go to Jing County?"
Emperor Xiao Ping sneered, picked out three more memorials from the pile, and handed them to Su Wanti, "Take a look at these again."
Su Wanti looked at them one by one, and they were all petitions requesting to be transferred to other places.
Wencheng, Jigang, and Shanping counties.
These places are the transportation fortresses in the west, east and north respectively...
Su Wanti felt something was wrong and looked at the names on the three memorials. They were Prince Qi, Prince Jing and Young Marquis Yan.
"Your Majesty, these are all candidates for the succession to the throne."
Seeing that Emperor Xiao Ping's face had turned gloomy again, she asked tentatively:
"Perhaps because the adoption process has been put on hold, their position in the capital is awkward, so they want to go out of town, right?"
Although she tried to find reasonable explanations for the other party, she was sneering in her heart. These people were so stupid. Even she could see that there was something fishy. How could Emperor Xiao Ping not see it?
Do they really think that Emperor Xiao Ping, who appears to be kind, is an easy person to deceive?
At this moment, Emperor Xiao Ping's eyes were deep and his face was as gloomy as water.
"They are already royal relatives, so inheriting the title and becoming the royal heir is a pleasant surprise for them. Unfortunately, it has given rise to greed."
Emperor Xiao Ping unfolded the four memorials one by one, placed them in front of him, and continued:
"They sit in the court, serving as subjects, yet they don't understand that what I give them is what they deserve, and what I don't give them is not what they deserve. Now, they have developed rebellious hearts and covet what I have. I must let them know who owns this world and who holds the imperial power."
"What is Your Majesty going to do?" Su Wanti was curious. To be honest, she wanted to see what Emperor Xiao Ping's skills were.
Emperor Xiao Ping chuckled, took the red pen and wrote on the four memorials, and said in a deep voice: "If they want to go abroad, then go. If they don't go, don't even think about coming back."
After he finished reviewing the memorials, he threw the four memorials aside and looked at Su Wanti who was sitting quietly beside him, with a hint of uneasiness in his eyes.
"Wan'er" he said softly, as if afraid of scaring her.
Su Wanti raised her eyes and asked in a gentle voice, "Your Majesty, are you done with your work?"
Emperor Xiao Ping pulled her over, hugged her soft and fragrant body, and said, "Wan'er, Xiao Huaihe was once your husband. Later, I might take action against him. Will Wan'er resent me?"
Hearing this, Su Wanti almost laughed out loud. She was just waiting for Emperor Xiao Ping to deal with Xiao Huaihe. The more cruel the means, the better. She would only feel happy. How could she feel resentment?
She would thank him greatly!
However, in order to make Xiao Huaihe die more miserably, she decided to act it out.
In just a moment, Su Wanti's almond-shaped eyes were filled with tears, and she looked pitiful. She raised her head slightly, looked at Xiao Huaihe, and her voice choked with sobs.
"Your Majesty, you only know that Xiao Huaihe was my husband, but you don't know how he treated me."
She pressed the corners of her eyes with a silk handkerchief, wiped away her tears, and said in a sad voice,
"My parents saw that Xiao Huaihe was a rare talent and heard that he had good character, so they betrothed me to him. After I entered the Marquis' Mansion, I always wanted to be a good wife and mother."
"But Xiao Huaihe actually brought my concubine's sister back to the Marquis' Mansion and made us his wife. He also hated me. On our wedding night, he scolded me and left. He has ignored me since then. I have always thought that there is something wrong with me and that I cannot win the favor of the Lord. That's why I thought of going to Master Xuankong to ask about marriage—"
At this moment, she felt extremely aggrieved and cried so hard that Emperor Xiao Ping's heart was broken.
Su Wanti raised her misty eyes, full of affection, "It was not until I met Your Majesty that I knew what a real man was, what it meant to be moved by love—"
She slightly raised her pink and white face, her eyes as warm as water, looking at him with love and admiration, and a blush rose on her cheeks.
Emperor Xiao Ping stroked the soft and fragrant shoulders of the lovely woman in his arms, and felt distressed when he thought of her experience in the Marquis' Mansion.
His disgust towards Xiao Huaihe became even deeper.
He could let those three people die happily, but Xiao Huaihe must die miserably.
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The next day, Xiao Huaihe and others obtained the emperor's approval and transfer order and prepared to go to other places to take up their posts.
Before setting off, they met secretly again, all of them were full of pride and ambition.
At that time, they could never have imagined that within half a year, they would all die.
When the prince of Qi was hunting, his horses went mad and he was trampled to death by them.
Prince Jing ate something unknown, but he went crazy for a few days and died suddenly.
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