Chapter 348: Desert Kingdom Defeat
Only then did Concubine Qin realize the terrifying young doctor in front of her. She wanted to give acupuncture to the Crown Princess before. In fact, she didn't care whether the Emperor completely believed in her or not. It was enough for her as long as the Emperor knew that she had medical skills.
After the skillful acupuncture just now, at least the emperor has believed that she is indeed a medical skill, which naturally paves the way for her to treat the Crown Princess.
Everything the young doctor did and said was actually to provide this decisive evidence.
Eunuch Yu was really regretting his decision at this moment. Not going to the secret passage to check before was simply the most stupid decision. If he had gone there and seen that the Crown Princess was not there, he would have cleaned it up thoroughly and there would be no evidence left.
"Your Majesty, I have indeed found these according to the location the Crown Prince said, and there are also unfinished leftovers inside, which shows that he has been in there for quite some time."
Before long, as everyone had their own thoughts, the evidence finally came to them.
The emperor lowered his head and looked at the two wooden plates presented to him. On one side was a somewhat worn-out woman's dress, and on the other side was an emerald green jade pendant with the word "rou" engraved on it. He was naturally familiar with this jade pendant, as he had specially given it to the Crown Princess on the occasion of the Crown Prince's wedding.
"Empress Qin, do you have anything else to say?" The emperor stared at the jade pendant without looking up. No one noticed his deep-hidden anger.
“Your concubine, your concubine…” Concubine Qin was speechless and didn’t know how to start for a moment.
"What do you mean, your concubine? You are a sharp-tongued person! Tell me, how did the Crown Princess's jade pendant end up in your Xiaoyaozhu? What you said before and the evidence now, which one is true? Tell me, which one is true!"
The emperor saw Concubine Qin hesitating and no longer concealing his anger. He felt that he had trusted the woman in front of him just now, but now this was a slap in the face?
"I was bewildered for a moment." Qin had all the evidence at this time. When Concubine Qin saw the emperor getting so angry with her for the first time, she immediately stepped forward and grabbed the emperor's sleeve tightly, tears rolling down her cheeks, trying to gain the emperor's sympathy.
"What I hate most is deception. All of you get out." When the emperor saw that Concubine Qin had acquiesced, he pulled out his sleeve and slapped Concubine Qin hard. Concubine Qin was not aware of the situation and fell to the ground.
"It's the Emperor, it's father." Everyone saw this situation and realized that the Emperor wanted to solve it himself, so they walked out tactfully.
"Su Yue, thank you so much this time." Mo Jingchen walked outside and called Su Yue to express his sincere gratitude. If it weren't for Su Yue, he would have been in trouble today. It was really terrible to have a falling out with a woman.
"Your Highness, you don't have to be polite. This is what I, Su Yue, owe you. I think the Emperor seems to be extremely fond of this Imperial Concubine Qin, so the punishment may not be too severe in the future. Since you have torn your face with this Imperial Concubine Qin, you should be careful in the future."
Su Yue looked at Mo Jingchen and whispered a warning in a voice that both of them could hear.
"Well, thank you for the reminder. Now that my Crown Princess is better, I can finally put my mind at ease." After Mo Jingchen finished speaking, he pulled the Crown Princess over.
"Su Yue, thank you." The Crown Princess looked at Su Yue with a sincere tone. If it weren't for Su Yue, she might still be staying in that dark place, and the Crown Prince might very well be forced to go to war.
"Since everyone is happy, then Prince, don't forget the people in the villa." Shangguan Nanxing came over and pulled Su Yue, looking at Mo Jingchen and reminding him that everything was going well here, but Yun Ye was still suffering.
"Is it true what you said before about people being held captive in Qinyan Villa?" Mo Jingchen understood what Shangguan Nanxing meant and started to ask.
Thinking that her mother was depressed all day long because of her younger brother, if that person she met only once was really her younger brother, her mother would definitely be very happy to know.
"Of course it's true. There's no need to lie to you about my identity." Shangguan Nanxing looked at Mo Jingchen with a firm tone.
"Well, besides the jade pendant, I have other ways to know if it is true, but the most urgent thing now is to rescue him."
Mo Jingchen thought about what his mother had told him, and he decided to take people to rescue them.
"Let's go together." When Su Yue heard Mo Jingchen say this, she was also worried about Yun Ye. After all, Yun Ye's experience was caused by herself.
Not long after Su Yue, Mo Jingchen and others left, a man covered in injuries rushed to the door of the imperial study.
"Eunuch Zheng, I have something to ask my father." After the man said this, he wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Fourth Prince, how did you become like this? Are you seriously injured?"
Eunuch Zheng was shocked to see Mo Jingxuan was covered in wounds. The fourth prince had been at the border the whole time. Now he appeared in the palace like this. Wouldn't that mean...
Mo Jingxuan glanced at Eunuch Zheng and saw that he had a stunned expression and had no intention of reporting, so he pushed the door open and walked in.
She saw her father grabbing Concubine Qin's arm with a fierce expression, while Concubine Qin was half-kneeling on the ground with a look of horror, looking at the angry emperor.
"Xuan'er, why are you back? Why are you like this?" The emperor heard the sound of the door being pushed open and looked up to see who was so bold to come in without notice, but he saw his fourth son, who was supposed to be at the border, looking at him with blood on his face.
"Father, we have lost the border." Mo Jingxuan looked at the emperor with an unwilling tone.
He could never have imagined that the Dongyou had been besieging them without attacking, thus exhausting all their food and water supplies. He asked the Mo Kingdom for help but received no response.
Finally, they could not bear it any longer and came out to fight to the death, but many soldiers were exhausted and were ultimately defeated. Even he was able to escape only after his soldiers fought desperately to protect him.
Their Mo country had been fighting with Dongyou on the border for so long, but Dongyou suddenly changed its strategy completely. He captured a Dongyou soldier and found out that the method of besieging but not attacking was actually thought up by the woman before.
The identity of that woman turned out to be the princess of Dongyou. This woman had used him to kill the marshal before. This princess of Dongyou was truly no ordinary person.
But Mo Jingxuan is not so easy to be used.
"How could we lose? Our defense is solid as a rock." After hearing what Mo Jingxuan said, the emperor stopped paying attention to Concubine Qin and walked up to Mo Jingxuan to ask.
"It is precisely because of the impregnable fortress that we have no way to get out. Dongyou surrounded us without attacking and used up all our food and water. We really can't hold on any longer. We have to go out and fight to the death."
Mo Jingchen paused at this point, and the result that followed was naturally self-evident.
"I have underestimated Dongyou." When the emperor heard Mo Jingchen's words, his face darkened. The loss of the border was not a good thing for their Mo Kingdom.
"Father, your Majesty, I request to be sent as an envoy to Dongyou." After hearing the emperor's words, Mo Jingxuan expressed his plan to come here.
"What? What are you doing in Dongyou?" The emperor was also stunned when he heard what his fourth son said. His son was devoted to fighting, so why was he...
"Father, I want to make peace with Dongyou." Mo Jingxuan said this with a calculating smile on his face. Princess, right? Although he didn't see her face clearly, as far as he knew, there was only one princess in Dongyou.
"How can we make peace if we've already lost?" The emperor asked in confusion when he saw that Mo Jingxuan had an inexplicable smile on his face.
"If Dongyou doesn't want to suffer mutual losses with our Mo Kingdom, then he will definitely agree to peace." After Mo Jingxuan finished speaking, he looked at his father, waiting for the emperor's consent.
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