Chapter 680: The Deposed Princess Strikes Back at the Female General 127
"The auspicious time has arrived. Kneel! Your Highness Prince Yi, please light the lamp!"
The singing voice sounded again and again, spreading throughout Hongfu Street.
The people below knelt down one after another. The Northern Army only maintained order and did not discipline the people. They also did not lead the people in advance drills. Ordinary people naturally did not understand the rules so well. Lively children were still walking around. The people gathered together in twos and threes, talking lively.
One of them knelt on the ground and slapped his thigh, sighing, "I said he didn't look like the emperor. How could an emperor be that young? It turns out he is Prince Yi."
"I know! He's the one who beat the northern barbarians to a pulp. He's so awesome!"
"Isn't he scary? With his green face and fangs, he looks ferocious, but he can stop a baby from crying. He doesn't look that scary. Isn't this normal?"
"You're stupid! How can you win a war if you're not aggressive?"
"Who is that next to her? She looks like a woman."
"Princess Yi, who else could it be?"
"I haven't heard of Prince Yi getting married, but that Prince Rui has been marrying one after another."
After today, Prince Yi is no longer just a vague shadow in the hearts of the people. The people in the capital will remember Prince Yi's expansion of territory, and they will also remember Prince Yi climbing high buildings, lighting sky lanterns, and praying for the people.
Yuwen Yi held a huge sky lantern and said with a smile, "Huan'er, you come here. I'm clumsy and I'm afraid I'll break it."
The sky lanterns lit up and slowly rose into the sky.
Afterwards, brilliant fireworks rose from the Moon Landing Building, lighting up the entire night sky. The people burst into huge cheers and knelt on the ground to make wishes to the sky lanterns.
Yuwen Yi led Ji Yunhuan down the Dengyue Tower, and the eunuchs in the palace pretended not to see it.
The accompanying officials gathered around and poured out compliments. Even though Ji Yunhuan shook Yuwen Yi's hand, even though Ji Yunhuan was so bold as to light a sky lantern, they did not dare to raise any objection.
This is the power of power.
Climb high and look far, all the people admire you, all the officials submit to you, enemies die one after another, and your lover will always be by your side.
Today, Prince Rui is imprisoned, the emperor is exhausted and has lost the support of the people, while Prince Yi commands a large army, is young and energetic, and is the most likely to ascend the throne. The officials all have a plan in mind, and no one dares to say anything to spoil the fun.
Yuwen Yi didn't look very happy when he heard these compliments, and even felt a little impatient.
Now he just wanted to hug Huan'er and go back quickly. Who wanted to listen to this nonsense!
"You are all pillars of the court. I am ashamed to receive such praise. You have all worked hard. It is getting late. I am not in the mood for a feast. Please go away."
The officials looked at each other, feeling uneasy, but Prince Yi did not attend anyone's banquet, which might be because he was really tired. No one dared to argue with him and they could only disperse.
The prince's procession went to Prince Yi's Palace in a grand manner, but Yuwen Yi was not there.
Hongfu Street was crowded with people, and the procession was too slow. Yuwen Yi hugged Ji Yunhuan's waist, jumped on the roof, and arrived at the Duke's Mansion in a few breaths.
The two had just finished washing up and had no time to do anything when someone came from the palace.
Xia Zhu was not surprised at all when she met Prince Yi at the Duke's Mansion. She did not beat around the bush and said anxiously, "Your Highness Prince Yi, Miss Ji, the Queen Mother is ill."
"When I first returned to the palace, he was still conscious, but had a slight fever. The Queen Mother did not make it public, nor did she allow anyone to go out of the palace to invite Doctor Yue. She only invited the imperial physician in the palace. After finally getting him to drink a dose of medicine, his condition worsened at night. He had a high fever and fell into a coma."
"That's how the Empress Dowager was disturbed. The Emperor was sleeping soundly, so the Empress did not disturb him. She just asked me to go out of the palace to ask for Doctor Yue. If Miss Ji is free, please go to the palace to see the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager kept saying that she was sorry for the Duke's Mansion, and she must be thinking about Miss Ji in her heart."
Ji Yunhuan's eyes were slightly red, and she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart. In fact, she felt that she had let the Queen Mother down and hurt her heart.
She brought Yue Lanshan into the palace, and Prince Yi also followed them into the palace.
Yue Lanshan felt the queen's pulse and seemed remarkably calm among the panicked imperial doctors. "The medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor is fine. The queen mother is suffering from a heart disease. No matter how good the medicine is, it will be useless."
"I said it many years ago that the Queen Mother worked too hard and needed to take good care of herself so that she could live out her days. Unfortunately, the Emperor is not doing his job well, so the Queen Mother has to worry about him. Today, the Queen Mother was overwhelmed with thoughts and caught a cold, so she had an attack."
The imperial doctors breathed a sigh of relief, because the Queen Mother's fever got even worse after she drank the medicine. They were really afraid that they would lose their lives.
In other words, Yue Lanshan is outspoken and even dares to scold the emperor, but they don't have the courage to do that.
Ji Yunhuan changed the Queen Mother's cooling towel. The Queen Mother didn't know what she was dreaming about, tears welled up in her eyes. She grabbed Ji Yunhuan's hand and murmured unconsciously: "Xiaohua, is that you? You're back, you're here to pick me up..."
“Grandma, I’m Huan’er.” Ji Yunhuan choked up and said, “Open your eyes and look at me. Huan’er has no relatives anymore. Grandma, please don’t leave…”
Yue Lanshan sighed and pulled Ji Yunhuan up, "I'm scared of you. You're crying like this. If your mother knew, she would crawl out from underground and fight me to the death."
"Don't worry, I have this miracle doctor here, so he won't die. Just take good care of him from now on."
Ji Yunhuan had been staying by the Queen Mother's side. The Queen Mother was sometimes lucid and sometimes confused. She often pulled Ji Yunhuan and called him "Xiaohua", mistaking Ji Yunhuan for Hua Qianshu.
Yuwen Yi left the palace after guarding it for one night as he still had a lot of things to do.
After the envoys from various countries attended the celebration, they would be escorted back by the Northern Border Army. It was called escort, but in fact it was surveillance. Although Yuwen Yi had to stay in the capital, he had to arrange all these matters.
The emperor might have been frightened, so he skipped the morning court and hid in his bedroom, seldom seeing people.
Yuwen Yi entered the Ministry of Justice. As the emperor was not in show-up, he, the Prince Yi, became increasingly busy.
At dusk, Yuwen Yi would go to the palace to see Ji Yunhuan and then visit the Empress Dowager.
Many concubines and princes were also serving the empress dowager, but they were all guarding outside. The empress would not let so many people in to disturb the empress dowager.
Yuwen Yi did not keep the secret and said directly: "All the followers of Prince Rui have been arrested, but most people in the court are on the side of Prince Rui, so only those who are most implicated have been arrested, especially the Xiao family. The assassins were all secretly raised by them. They were involved in the assassination of the emperor. His Majesty sentenced the entire family to be executed and ordered Concubine Xiao to commit suicide."
"Minister Nie followed the clues and found out that the poisoning case many years ago was actually done by Concubine Xiao. The fifth prince is innocent. Concubine Xiao poisoned me and then put the blame on the fifth prince. This is killing two birds with one stone."
The Fifth Prince was already in tears after hearing this. Years of injustice had finally been redressed. Concubine Shu was crying inconsolably and hated Concubine Xiao to the core. Her son's life was ruined just like that!
"Your Highness, I feel that the bitch will definitely not commit suicide peacefully, so leave this matter to me, so as not to dirty your hands. I will go to the cold palace and personally send Concubine Xiao off!"
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