Chapter 674: The Deposed Princess Strikes Back at the Female General 121
These words completely hit the emperor right in the heart!
The emperor did not like the eighth prince. On the one hand, it was because his biological mother Jiang Yanliu was of humble origin, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. On the other hand, he did have some doubts about Yuwen Yi's bloodline.
Yuwen Yi looks more like Jiang Yanliu, and he has been tall since he was a child, half a head taller than Rui'er. From his appearance alone, he doesn't look like his son.
Moreover, Yuwen Yi is brave and good at fighting, and has good martial arts skills, but the royal descendants are all required to be well-read. Who would practice martial arts every day? Rui'er is more like him when he was young, a modest gentleman, gentle and decent, which is how a prince should be.
Now that I think about it, everything makes sense. If Yuwen Yi has the blood of northern barbarians, everything makes sense!
The emperor was furious, veins bulged on his forehead. He raised his hand high and slapped Jiang Yanliu hard.
"Bitch! You are truly a despicable thing from a brothel! I spent a fortune to redeem you, and you actually dared to betray me. You deserve to die!"
Jiang Yanliu fell to the ground. Only a fool would sit there and wait to be beaten by the emperor.
She cried so hard that her eyes were red and her face was full of grievance, but it did not stop her from defending herself at all.
"I didn't! I don't know this person at all. It's just a sachet. There are so many people who have similar embroidery skills. Why do you say it was embroidered by me?"
"If a concubine could be wrongly accused of anything, there would be no innocent person in the harem!"
Igor knew he had fallen into a trap, so he seized the opportunity to explain, "This is also the first time I've met Madam Jiang Fei. This sachet was given to me by the girl from Baihua Tower. I fell in love with her at first sight and promised to take her back to the grassland. This is a token of love she gave me."
“Many people were with him that day, and they can all testify.”
Prince Rui opened the sachet and found a piece of paper inside with a Jiangnan tune written on it, which expressed the woman's love.
Prince Rui read out every word and sighed, "What a deep love! It looks like Concubine Jiang's handwriting. The sachet is a coincidence. It is embroidered with apricot flowers, which Concubine Jiang likes. Is the love poem inside also a coincidence? This is too coincidental."
"As for the girl from Baihua Tower, that's clearly your sophistry. Besides, prostitutes are cunning, so how can you trust their words? There's no need to waste time investigating."
The emperor's anger had reached its peak. In his rage, he had no intention of verifying the truth and only wanted to vent his anger!
Yuwen Yi has been taken into custody by the Imperial Guards. Of course he can defeat them, but he did not resist at all. Today's drama has just begun.
Ji Yunhuan knelt down with the crowd, not far from the assassin's body. She took out a bottle of potion from her arms and quietly sprinkled it on the assassin's face.
Tianji Pavilion is best at strange and ingenious skills. The human skin mask made by Su Ziyan is not a rare thing and can be removed with special potions.
The potion needed time to take effect. At this time, the assassin's face was swollen, like a soaked white flour bun, and looked particularly scary.
The emperor cursed angrily and finally issued an order, "The Eighth Prince shall be demoted to a commoner, imprisoned in the Dali Temple, and sentenced to the punishment of being torn apart by five horses. Drag Concubine Jiang away and beat her to death! All the people in Lanyue Palace shall be sentenced to death!"
"Your Majesty! There is something wrong with this assassin!" The Minister of Justice was obsessed with conducting an autopsy and soon discovered something strange about the assassin.
He removed the human skin mask on the assassin's face, revealing a very ordinary face with no outstanding features, the kind that would be hard to find if thrown into a crowd of people.
The Minister of Justice was very experienced. "This man must be a secret assassin. Judging from his facial features, he is definitely not from the Qiner Grassland. Therefore, the assassination should have nothing to do with the Twenty-Eight Tribes."
"I think there are many suspicious points in this matter. The assassin has a Beijing accent and disguised himself as a member of a dance troupe to assassinate Your Majesty. It is obvious that he wants to sow discord between Chen and the northern countries. He cannot bear to see the other countries befriend Chen. His intentions are really sinister."
"But Your Majesty is wise and will definitely not be fooled by such tricks. The alliance has been signed, and peace among the countries is what everyone wants. Your Majesty will definitely not wrongly accuse a good person, nor will he let a bad person go!"
Igor rushed to the corpse and saw it with his own eyes before he was sure that this was not his daughter.
"My Ina is not dead yet, she must still be alive! Your Majesty, this is all a misunderstanding. Ina is missing in Chen Country. Please help Chen Country and make sure to find my daughter!"
King Rui was caught off guard by this sudden change. He never expected that something went wrong in the most critical link.
Su Ziyan was panicking when she saw her favorability rating was dropping. The system was still sounding the alarm. Su Ziyan was furious and cursed in her mind:
"Besides warning, what else can you do? You gave me the formula. You said it was foolproof and would never be discovered. Even if you touched it, there would be no flaws. Unless there is a special potion, it would not fall off even if it was soaked in water."
"You gave me so many formulas, but in this era of backward productivity, few of them can be used. I spent a lot of effort and finally succeeded in making the human skin mask. It was your formula that had problems. Now the human skin mask has fallen off and your favorability has dropped. It's your work error. What does it have to do with me?"
The mechanical sound of the system did not fluctuate at all.
[Warning! Warning! Electric shock punishment is about to be carried out. Please continue to work hard and improve your favorability as soon as possible...]
"Wait! I can get my favorability back in no time. You can't punish me. Don't..."
“Sizzle…Sizzle…”
The electric current ran through her body, and Su Ziyan's brain went blank. She collapsed to the ground, twitching like a dead fish, and she didn't even have the strength to scream.
Everyone was kneeling. In the face of the major case of assassinating the emperor, no one paid attention to Su Ziyan. This little movement was insignificant at all.
Prince Rui glanced at Su Ziyan and then looked away, planning to settle accounts with her when he returned. The most important thing now was to remedy the current situation.
"Even if the assassin is not from the grassland, there is solid evidence that Igor and Princess Jiang have an affair. When Igor was young, he disguised himself as a businessman and traveled around Chen Country. He just happened to have been to Jiangnan!"
"The Eighth Prince's bloodline is in doubt, so it is inappropriate to confer him the title of prince. I think it is better to demote him to a commoner to avoid tainting the royal bloodline."
The emperor had this in mind. After Yuwen Yi was demoted to a commoner, he completely lost the qualification to inherit the throne. No matter how brave and good at fighting Yuwen Yi was, he could not threaten the imperial power, so the emperor felt relieved.
Igor didn't expect that all these old stories would be found out, and he couldn't deny it. "I admire the culture of Chen Country and have indeed been to Chen Country, but I have never seen Concubine Jiang."
The emperor didn't want to hear this at all, and immediately issued an edict: "From today on, the eighth prince's title of prince will be stripped and he will be demoted to a commoner..."
"The Empress Dowager is here~" a loud voice came from outside the Zhai Palace.
The Queen Mother walked in quickly and said angrily, "This is simply nonsense! If the Queen hadn't sent someone to report to me, would you have demoted my grandson to a commoner?"
"It's obviously a lie, but you let Yi'er suffer like this. I don't care about family and national affairs, but I still have to take care of the royal heirs!"
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