Chapter 607 Would we be considered chivalrous heroes?
Xie Shang took Jiang Fenghua away from Qingzhou City. She had been exhausted for several days, and after getting into the carriage, she was finally able to rest and dozed off against the carriage.
After saying goodbye to Situ Sheng, Xie Shang returned to the carriage and saw that she looked very tired. Without waking her, he immediately ordered someone to drive the carriage away from Qingzhou.
The carriage hadn't gone far when Situ Sheng went mad and began to bid farewell to the Emperor and Empress.
At this moment, Jiang Fenghua was suddenly awakened by the sound outside the carriage. She mumbled in her sleep, "I think I heard someone calling for the Emperor."
Xie Shang quickly covered her ears and pulled her close to his chest, saying, "You must be dreaming!"
The carriage moved slowly forward. Jiang Fenghua stared at Xie Shang and said, "Am I dreaming? I was so sleepy after I got in the carriage that I fell asleep."
"You must be dreaming. You must be tired from following me around these past few days. Thank you for your hard work." Xie Shang changed the subject.
“I don’t feel tired at all, but the prince seems to be very tired. He’s frighteningly fierce when dealing with officials.” She added, “It’s alright if the prince is fierce. It’s good that the prince is standing up for the people. We are so grateful that the prince sent food in time.”
Xie Shang smiled and said, "Just now, the people of Qingzhou crowded outside the city gate to see us off. Seeing the hope in their eyes, I felt quite good. Perhaps this is the mission of the royal family and the meaning of being a prince!"
"Wouldn't we be considered to be upholding justice and eliminating evil?" Jiang Fenghua blurted out.
Xie Shang was stunned. "Let's forget about it!"
Meanwhile, the sudden riot in Qingzhou City that day caused Bai Yuhan to miss the opportunity to report to the authorities. In the end, she had no choice but to leave the city with Young Master Yun's group.
When she saw Xue Nu again outside the city, she almost fainted.
Xie Minmin sneered, "If you have to blame someone, it's only because Miss Bai is really unlucky to have fallen into our hands again."
Bai Yuhan stared blankly at Xie Yun, whose eyes were cold and aloof, and asked, "Are you all in cahoots?"
"Take her away and keep her under guard," Xie Yun said to Xue Nu.
Xue Nu was furious because Bai Yuhan had run away, and slapped her across the face. "Behave yourself. You think someone's coming to save you? You'll never escape in this lifetime."
Bai Yuhan had never felt so wronged. She glared fiercely at Xue Nu, "I have no grudge against you, why did you hurt me?"
"If you have to blame someone, blame yourself for being a friend of the Emperor and Empress. You've been implicated because of them. When you get to the underworld, remember to seek revenge on them."
Bai Yuhan said, "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its debtor. I was killed by you. I will haunt you even as a ghost. Humph, I've seen through you. You're just a bunch of clowns who tried to fight the Emperor and Empress. When you couldn't win, you ran away like stray dogs."
Xuenu grabbed her by the neck. "Shut up, or I'll kill you."
Bai Yuhan said defiantly, "I believe you. Just kill me now. Anyway, I'll never be able to go home in this life. I don't know where you're going to take me to cheat and swindle. After I die, Her Majesty the Empress will definitely avenge me."
Xue Nu wanted to say something more, but Xie Minmin said, "Alright, stop arguing with her. Take her away. She's still useful. We can't kill her yet."
She thought that if the soldiers caught up, they could at least take Bai Yuhan hostage.
Xie Minmin walked to Xie Yun's side. "Second Brother, what should we do now?"
Xie Yun ignored her. He kept thinking that Xie Shang had already found helpers, but Fan De easily escaped from the city. If it were him, the first person he would arrest would be Prefect Fan.
When Qingzhou was suffering from a severe drought, he suspected that a natural disaster might befall the region, and sure enough, locusts followed the drought.
Prefect Fan was timid and had embezzled a lot of money through petty theft. Pretending to be poor and honest was his consistent style, so he had already approached Fan De and even secretly took his family away.
Fan De was very obedient. He wrote a memorial to the emperor and obtained disaster relief funds. In the end, he used the disaster relief funds to redeem his family. He wanted to make the natural disaster worse and make the emperor extremely worried. As long as they could endure until winter, everyone would not be able to survive and people would die. The people would be dissatisfied with the court, and naturally, someone would rise up in rebellion. At that time, he would persuade his father, the king, that for the sake of the people of the Great Zhou Kingdom, his father would no longer be able to remain indifferent.
The affairs of the Southern Kingdom were also part of his plan, and in the end, the Southern Kingdom also submitted to Xie Shang. It is unknown whether he was unlucky or Xie Shang was too lucky.
Xie Yun pondered deeply: Now that Fan De has also escaped, could it be that Xie Shang knew someone was directing Fan De to cause trouble in Qingzhou, and that he deliberately let Fan De go, or that Fan De had been under surveillance all along?
When Xie Yun finally decided to kill him to silence him, Fan De had already fled to the Northwest to find his family.
Thinking back to when he was in the vassal state, he was also forced to leave. Fortunately, he ran fast, otherwise he would have been captured by Tu Jun. Tu Yue and his sister were simply incompetent. Their maternal clan, the Ye family, also suffered a crazy revenge from the Fourth Prince's maternal clan. Overnight, the vassal state fell into the hands of the Fourth Prince again.
Xie Yun was furious, his fingers clenched. This time, they had once again used the refugees to enter the city and make them flee in a sorry state. When Xie Shang went to Wangyue Tower to search for Bai Yuhan, he had already guessed that the person who captured Bai Yuhan was his man. In the end, he did not take action to capture her, and calmly let Minmin, Xue Nu and the others go.
Xie Yun pondered in his heart: their identities couldn't have been leaked, so where exactly did things go wrong?
Xie Minmin said, "Qingzhou is now under Xie Shang's control. He will definitely find a way to help the disaster victims. Second brother, where should we go now? Should we stay in Qingzhou or go home?"
Seeing that Xie Yun remained silent, she continued, "The disaster in Qingzhou has dragged on to the point where the victims can no longer survive. As the emperor, he cannot possibly be unable to help the victims. At that time, those rumors will be dispelled on their own. Second brother, do you still want to stay?"
"Actually, Father hasn't wanted to fight for the throne all these years. Even if Second Brother has turned the Great Zhou Kingdom into chaos, leaving him too preoccupied to care for himself, so what? We can still only stay in the Northwest."
Xie Yun said coldly, "That's why I'm unwilling. Why should we stay in the Northwest? Why doesn't Father fight for it? We are also descendants of the Xie family, yet we have to stay in this place and suffer, generation after generation, only able to stay in this bitter and cold Northwest."
Xie Minmin was also unconvinced, "But my father always says that the winner is king and the loser is a bandit, so he doesn't want to fight anymore."
"The Empress Dowager also supports our father becoming emperor. Back then, it was Emperor Huijing who killed our grandfather and banished our father to a place like the Northwest." Xie Yun made up many excuses, but in fact, he just wanted to be emperor. If Prince Kang became emperor, they would be princes and princesses, and their fate would be different.
Xie Minmin didn't say anything more. She went to Hengyang Palace to pick up the Empress Dowager, but she didn't expect to run into Jiang Fenghua who came to deliver Emperor Huijing's relics.
Since then, the Empress Dowager has changed. I wonder if my second brother can get her to support our father in seizing the throne again.
Xie Yun said coldly, "Since that's the case, then don't let them return to the capital alive."
Xie Minmin couldn't understand how her gentle and refined second brother could have turned out like this.
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