But how dare the Fourth Prince do that! Just because the Second Prince and Concubine Ying were standing behind him, did he dare to defile a princess personally chosen by the Emperor?
Isn't he afraid of being destroyed and risking the future of the Xu family to betray him?
This is not right, there is clearly something wrong.
And why is the Fourth Prince here now? Isn't the Moon Viewing Festival tomorrow? Why is he already in the Outer Palace? This doesn't make sense.
Soon the old nanny and the palace maids packed up everything and quietly retreated. As the sky darkened, Xu Yixing's head became heavier and heavier. She felt that the little strength she had to keep her eyes open was almost gone.
His eyelids fluttered and he completely lost consciousness.
The nights in the outer palace are usually lonely and boring. The palace servants either take a lazy rest or gather in groups of three or five to chat and play to pass the long night.
As its name suggests, the Outer Palace naturally refers to the imperial palace outside the imperial city. So why is it not called the Temporary Palace?
It's very simple, because it was used as a palace when it was first built.
That was an old story before the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty. The emperor at that time was not on good terms with his mother and had personally said that he would sever the mother-son relationship and never have any contact with her again.
When our emperor ascended the throne and the dynasty changed, he realized how ignorant his behavior was when he was young. Not to mention the blood relationship still exists, how would the people of the world view an emperor who was not filial to his biological mother?
So the emperor decided to mend his ways and wanted to bring his mother into the palace and honor her as the empress dowager. But he had once said that he would sever ties with her, and the emperor's word must count, right?
So, our clever ministers from various ministries came up with an idea for the emperor: just build a new palace outside the capital and invite the empress dowager to live in it. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?
Thus, this outer palace was built. However, many people speculated that the founding emperor had a conflict with the Empress Dowager and didn't want to see her all the time, which is why he built this thing outside of Kyoto. Of course, no one dared to speak out.
Later, the Outer Palace became the temporary palace of emperors of all dynasties, but it was still called the Outer Palace in name.
The palace servants who lived here were either too poor to bribe their superiors or had been punished for their mistakes, so their lives were extremely hard. Except for the days when the emperor went out, they lived like prisoners under torture.
But today was different. All the palace maids in the outer palace had changed into new clothes and were serving carefully without even daring to breathe.
It’s not just because the emperor is coming today, more importantly, the emperor has brought hundreds of officials and seven princes!
This was probably the largest palace banquet that this group of outer palace people had ever experienced.
Not to mention how to behave in front of the emperor, after all, the people close to the emperor are all very smart, but they can show their faces in front of the princes and ministers.
If you are lucky enough to be noticed or praised by someone, maybe your life will be better in the future!
At this moment, the seven princes were holding a banquet in the pavilion behind the outer palace mountain, looking like brothers in harmony.
Only Lu Anyuan felt a little uneasy. Around noon, someone called away General Xu, who had just come to the outer palace with his father.
The old general left in a hurry, his face filled with anger. He even apologized to his father and left the mountain. This had never happened before. Something serious must have happened to the Xu family!
Lu Anyuan has already asked Ah Da to follow General Xu back to Beijing to take a look, but there is no reply yet, which makes it difficult to calm down.
As the banquet was drawing to a close, someone came up to the Second Prince and replied. He then smiled and apologized to everyone, saying that he was drunk and was going back to his room to rest.
As soon as the Second Prince left, everyone followed suit. Lu Anyuan paused every few steps, circled behind the mountain, and threw stones at the small pond for fun.
There were hurried footsteps approaching, and Lu Anyuan turned around to see the Fourth Prince, whose face was filled with anxiety. He was accompanied by the guard, Fan Shi. Lu Anyuan had asked Ah Da to test him once, and he knew he was an expert. Bringing him to the banquet today showed that the Fourth Prince really valued him.
However, Lu Anyuan never found out whether Fan Shi belonged to his fourth brother or his second brother.
"Fourth brother?"
"Something happened!" The Fourth Prince ignored the rules and grabbed Lu Anyuan. He put his hand over his ear and whispered, "Just now I saw my second brother suddenly change his bedroom and go to the empty Yanji Palace behind him, and he brought a girl with him!"
Lu Anyuan sneered: "Fourth brother, why do you still care about which beauty the second brother brought back? The Queen's wife didn't say anything!"
"Oh!" The Fourth Prince lowered his voice even more: "My nanny went into Yanji Palace this afternoon and told me that the girl was tied up and taken in. It seems to be Xu Yiyan!"
"What?!" Lu Anyuan pushed the Fourth Prince away and strode away.
Is this the reason why General Xu left?
Something is not right! Lu Anyuan stopped immediately and went back to the mountain: "Fourth brother, your nanny is not kidding us, how could Yi Yan be here?"
"No! How could she dare to tell us something that didn't happen? She saw him when she was helping Second Brother clean up the new palace. He had been tied up all the time. If it was normal, why would Second Brother suddenly change his place?"
Lu Anyuan’s mind was a little confused. Could it be that his second brother didn’t want the Xu family to have anything to do with him and wanted to force Yixing to death in this way?
Son of a bitch!
Anger took over his mind again, and he obviously forgot that if the second prince was a bastard, then he was too.
He rushed to Yanji Hall in anger, but found it was pitch black. There seemed to be no one there, and no sound from inside.
Lu Anyuan stopped, he wondered if he was being fooled by the Fourth Prince. No matter how brave the Second Prince was, he wouldn't dare to do anything to Yixing in the outer palace.
However, adhering to the principle of better killing than letting the criminal go, he still entered the room and walked step by step towards the bed curtain.
The bed was dark, and it seemed that someone was lying on it.
Lu Anyuan lifted the curtain slightly with trembling hands. It was indeed Yixing!
But she was lying on the bed in her gorgeous clothes, with her makeup so white that it was scary, but her eyes were closed, and it was unclear whether she was alive or dead.
"Yike! Yike!"
Lu Anyuan shook the person on the bed, but the person showed no sign of waking up.
Damn it! It was indeed the Second Prince's doing. No matter what he wanted to do today, if Xu Yixing was found lying on the bed in the palace tomorrow, her reputation would be ruined. Not to mention marrying her, even her life would be in jeopardy.
Lu Anyuan felt that he was furious and wanted to go to the Second Prince to fight him to the death. However, at the moment, Xu Yixing was more important.
He took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, picked up Xu Yixing and walked out of the hall.
Just as he reached the door, Lu Anyuan heard some movement in the distance. A burning lantern entered the courtyard from outside, accompanied by a man's voice:
"Is it here? Am I right?"
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