Chapter 52: Fire at Fengming Palace
"Lin Fu, come here."
Thinking of Chi Yan, Emperor Yongping was somewhat moved.
That was the last gift given to him by Empress Yuan, a precious horse.
When he first saw Chi Yan, it was only three years old. Seventeen years have passed in the blink of an eye.
It had been exactly seven years since Empress Yuan left him.
In these seven years, he never rode the Red Flame again.
Maybe it was because it was too old and he couldn't bear to ride it anymore.
Or maybe it was because whenever he saw the red flame he would think of Empress Yuan and he didn't want to ride anymore.
"Your Majesty, you..."
Lin Fu had already approached Emperor Yongping, but he noticed that his eyes looked a little distant, so he waited for a while before he dared to remind him.
"Well, you are like this..."
Emperor Yongping whispered to Lin Fu.
Afterwards, Lin Fu walked out of Yu's study with a smile on his face.
Fengming Palace
After the Imperial Master left, the Queen remained on the couch, staring at the main hall door while holding back her urgency.
The soft couch and the stools where the palace maids stood were sprinkled with medicine when the imperial teacher first arrived.
The mice do not climb up, but can gnaw the legs of the couch and stool from below.
"Why haven't you come back yet?"
The queen was so anxious that her eyes turned red.
She has a worm valley, but she doesn't have a physique that attracts insects. Why do these snakes, insects, rats and ants find different ways to oppose her?
"Your Majesty, why don't you let the Ministry of Internal Affairs come up with a solution?"
Green Lotus had been standing on the stool for a long time without moving, and the stool was somewhat unstable due to being gnawed by mice.
She was worried that if she didn't ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to exterminate the rats, she would be finished once the stool fell.
"No, if you dare to spread the matter of Fengming Palace, you will be in trouble."
There was no way the Queen would let anyone know that she was carrying the wormwood.
This continent has a strong worship of gods and a strong hatred of demons and evil spirits.
In her worm valley, she did not find any auspicious birds or beasts such as phoenixes, butterflies, and white tigers.
Otherwise, she would have packaged herself as a goddess long ago.
In Fengming Palace, there were either snakes, cockroaches, lice, or rats.
These things have always been dark and tiresome.
If outsiders knew that these things often appeared in Fengming Palace, she would be in big trouble.
Saying that she is tainted with evil spirit is a small matter. If she is regarded as an evil star, then there will be no place for her in this continent.
"My lady, why not burn it with fire? Rats are afraid of fire."
It was Green Radish who came up with the idea.
Among the four maids-in-waiting in Fengming Palace, she is the most thoughtful, but also the most flexible-minded.
"No, if the rats are burned and run around, the whole Fengming Palace will be burned down. This Fengming Palace is the Queen's bedroom, it must not be burned down."
Hongye immediately objected.
The queen listened to their argument, thoughtful.
She moved into the Fengming Palace after she was crowned queen, and it was not as nice as the Fenghua Palace where she lived when she was a concubine.
But the Fenghua Palace...
"Hongye, set fire to the rats and let's move to another place."
The queen seemed to have made up her mind that she had had enough of such a tiring life.
The Fengming Palace is gone, but there is still the Fengyi Palace.
The Fengyi Palace is where the queen should truly live.
Back then, if she had not disliked the fact that it was the place where Empress Yuan lived, she would not have had to live in Fengming Palace and suffer the suffering she has today.
When Long Wei heard that the empress wanted to burn down Fengming Palace, he immediately left to report to Emperor Yongping.
"As long as the fire doesn't spread to other palaces, leave it to her."
Emperor Yongping was worried that he couldn't find out who had cuckolded him.
With the Queen busy as she is, those two will surely show their courtesy, right?
"Ah~ huh?"
[Why did the Queen want to burn down Fengming Palace? Oh, she must have been scared by the rats, so she wanted to burn down Fengming Palace so she could move. Your Majesty, please don't let her move back to Fenghua Palace, there are......]
Chu Qinshu was being coaxed to sleep.
So, when he heard her words, Emperor Yongping immediately stopped patting the swaddling clothes.
Unfortunately, I only listened to half of it.
Emperor Yongping: "......"
He wanted to wake up the little guy in his arms.
But I don't know if she will continue.
Forget it, let’s not wake her up.
If she cries again, he will feel bad.
Why not let the Queen live back in Fenghua Palace? There must be something wrong with Fenghua Palace, right?
He wanted to see what the empress would discover after moving back to Fenghua Palace.
Half an hour later, the Imperial Guards discovered thick smoke coming from the direction of Fengming Palace and hurried to Yu's study to report.
"Quickly dispatch personnel to put out the fire and make sure the Queen is safe."
Emperor Yongping was quite anxious.
He was so anxious that he almost carried the sleeping Chu Qinshu to Fengming Palace.
"Your Majesty, the little princess has fallen asleep. Let me take care of her. It's not suitable for her to go to a place with a lot of water."
Aunt Yao was anxious and chased Emperor Yongping to ask for Chu Qinshu.
"That's right. Then you can carry her back to the side hall first."
After Emperor Yongping handed Chu Qinshu over to Nanny Yao, he took Lin Fu and hurried to Fengming Palace.
He had to go and see if there was any suspicious man approaching the queen and showing his courtesy.
......
At this time, Fengming Palace was in a mess.
Even though the queen had made adequate preparations in advance, she did not expect that these rats were much smarter than she imagined.
As soon as the fire started, the mice ran away to avoid it, and they would not approach any place where the fire had passed.
In the end, all the screens and decorations were burned, but the rats all ran away through their rat holes.
In winter, the weather is dry and once a fire starts, it is difficult to put out.
What's more, the Queen did this on purpose, making it even more difficult to win.
When Emperor Yongping arrived, the imperial guards had just broken open the gate of Fengming Palace.
The queen was only thinking about burning down the Fengming Palace so that she could move to another place, but she forgot to have the bolt behind the palace gate open.
If not for the large number of Imperial Guards, she would have been reduced to ashes along with the Fengming Palace.
"Quick, quick, rescue me."
When the queen saw the guards rushing in, she threw herself on them. The two guards who were thrown onto her had no chance to dodge and fell to the ground.
They were here to put out the fire and save lives, so there was no reason for them to hide.
So, the two men, one on each side, carried the empress and escorted her out the door.
Emperor Yongping looked at this scene with a ferocious look in his eyes.
His cuckold turned out to be a member of the Royal Guard?
Their property will be confiscated and their entire clans will be exterminated. These two guards and their nine clans will never live to see the sun tomorrow.
"Your Majesty, the Queen..."
When the two imperial guards saw Emperor Yongping, they wanted to hand the empress over to him.
Whoever's daughter-in-law is helping her, they are just saving people.
However, why did the emperor look at them in such a... fierce way?
"You... Where are the maids in Fengming Palace? Where are the eunuchs? Are they all dead?"
Emperor Yongping roared angrily.
The two guards were so frightened that they knelt down as soon as they loosened their grip.
"Your Majesty, please don't worry. We are all inside trying to save people. The Empress' maids are all fainted behind the door. They should still be alive."
The queen fainted while the guards were holding her up.
Now both of them let go, she had no support, and Emperor Yongping didn't want to have anything to do with her anymore.
She fell to the ground like a puddle of mud.
"Lin Fu, take these two away and interrogate them thoroughly. Also, have the empress sent to Fenghua Palace for resettlement, and have someone summon the imperial physician to examine the empress."
After Emperor Yongping gave these instructions, he left angrily.
The two guards kneeling on the ground were stunned.
Who did they offend?
Saving a life but still being made a criminal? Taking him back for trial?
Lin Fu was actually even more confused than them.
But since the emperor had given the order, he had no choice but to order people to carry it out one by one.
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