Chapter 8: Just a Dog of the Palace

The palace maids dared not say a word.

Song Yulan sighed, stood up and started practicing calligraphy. She had to complete the task assigned to her by the emperor as soon as possible.

Xie Ruizhu had been waiting in the palace for Song Yulan to come and help her copy the scriptures, but after waiting for the whole morning, she didn't see her come, and she immediately got angry.

"Why hasn't Song Yulan come yet? The emperor favored her last night, and this bitch has become so arrogant?"

"Go, have someone call her over to me."

Xie Ruizhu angrily threw the brush in her hand, and the ink splattered all over the scripture she had just copied.

This copy of the scripture is destroyed and needs to be re-copied.

Xie Ruizhu became even angrier.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the palace maid's reply made her so angry that she tore up the scripture.

"Say what you just said again!"

"Concubine Song said that she is not feeling well and may not be able to come to share the worries of Your Majesty in the next few months." The palace maid replied tremblingly.

"You are such a jerk, Song Yulan!" Xie Ruizhu's back teeth were about to break.

"It's just one of my dogs. After being pampered for one night, it actually forgot its last name. Am I so easy to use?"

She smiled sinisterly, picked up a pen, wrote a letter, and asked someone to send it out of the palace to her father.

Song Yulan's father was just a small official in Beijing. For him, killing the Song family was as easy as killing an ant.

She wanted to see if Song Yulan would kneel on the ground and wag his tail to beg for mercy in front of her like he did yesterday when he knew her father had lost his official position.

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Xie Shun received a letter from his daughter, but he had no time to deal with it.

Since yesterday, many bases of the White Lotus Sect have been destroyed!

The statues of gods and Buddhas that were made based on him were also covered in feces, and he was almost mad to death.

Who is the bastard who did this? Once he finds out, he will make them pay.

Before he could find out the truth, Xia Yuanguang reported him to the emperor the next day.

They said he founded a cult and incited the people, causing them to live in misery and countless people to die in vain.

Although Xie Xuan had already prepared for the truth to be revealed, he did not expect it to happen so soon.

He was captured by the emperor's men before he even had time to evacuate the core members of the Xie family.

"Your Majesty, I am innocent! What does this White Lotus Sect have to do with my Xie family?" He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to protest his innocence.

After receiving his daughter's letter, Xia Yuanguang immediately sent people to investigate the origins of the Xie family and the White Lotus Sect.

Originally, he wanted to wait until he found more evidence before making any decisions. But during the investigation, he discovered that the emperor had already taken action.

So he did not hesitate, and as quickly as possible, compiled all the evil deeds he had found out about the White Lotus Sect followers in the capital and submitted them in the form of a memorial.

Although there is no conclusive evidence to prove that Xie Falcon was the founder of the White Lotus Sect, many talented members of the Xie family were involved in it, and the Xie family could not escape.

"The emperor will decide whether it matters or not." Xia Yuanguang was very calm.

He, a court official, was unaware of this, but his daughter, a concubine in the harem, knew about it and was able to pass on the news to him.

All of this must have been secretly instructed by the emperor, otherwise how could his daughter know about it.

He was not panicking because he had the emperor's support behind him.

Xie Xuan wanted to defend himself, but Lu Yanshi did not give him a chance.

"Xie Qing, you should go home and rest for a few days. Once this matter is cleared up, you can come back to court."

"Yes, I will obey your order." Xie Xuan agreed with a frustrated look.

I have to say that the people sent out by Lu Yanshi are quite capable.

Ten days later, everything was clear.

The fact that the Xie family participated in the founding of the White Lotus Sect was established.

It’s just that the founder has not been found out yet, but these evidences are enough to thank my family.

All the sons of the Xie family in the court were dismissed from their posts. Those who participated more were directly imprisoned and awaited execution in the autumn, while those who participated less were exiled to the border.

Fortunately, Lu Yanshi sent soldiers to violently suppress the remnants of the White Lotus Sect in advance, so there was no major unrest.

Lu Li also learned about this from the melon-eating system.

[Wow, grandpa is so awesome. He actually told my father about this. This way I don't have to worry about it anymore.]

[Thanks to my father's thunderous measures, if the White Lotus Sect really became powerful, the Great Xia Dynasty would have been destroyed long ago.]

[It's just a pity for my father. He killed so many people this time. I'm sure many people behind his back call him a tyrant.]

Lu Yanshi felt warm at heart when he heard his daughter felt sorry for him.

He doesn't care about reputation.

He came to power by killing his father, so his reputation is not very good. There is nothing wrong with adding the title of tyrant.

As long as he can make Daxia prosperous and strong and the people don't suffer, it doesn't matter how much abuse he bears.

In the harem, Xie Ruizhu also learned that her father had been dismissed from office and executed, and she fainted on the spot.

After waking up, she changed into plain clothes and went to the emperor crying to beg for mercy.

Unexpectedly, the emperor was not in the study reviewing memorials at this time, but in the Weiyang Palace.

A surge of blood gushed out of Xie Ruizhu's throat, and the smell of rust filled her entire mouth. Her body was swaying and she was about to fall. If it weren't for the palace maids who came forward to support her, she would have fallen to the ground.

She wanted to ask the emperor to give the Xie family a way out, but she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of Xia Shuyi.

But now the situation forced her to bow her head.

"Your Majesty, the Concubine requests an audience."

When Lu Yanshi heard the message from the palace maid, a hint of impatience flashed across his eyes.

“No.”

Lu Yanshi could tell with his toes that Xie Ruizhu must have come to plead for the Xie family.

But he didn't intend to change his mind, so he didn't want to see her.

The palace maid responded and went out to pass on the message. Xie Ruizhu knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, please see me. My father also assisted Your Majesty with all his heart and soul. I hope you will spare his life for all the hard work he has put in for Daxia."

The shrill cries, one louder than the other, made Lu Yanshi very upset.

Xia Shuyi was serving on the side, not daring to say much.

She didn't say anything, but Lu Li's words came one after another.

[Tsk, is he working like a slave, or is he just lining his own pockets? This bad woman is really good at confusing right and wrong.]

[Your father has even created a deity and is planning to rebel later, and you still have the nerve to say that he has been working like a slave for my father. Bah, bah, bah, shameless.]

[And isn't she under house arrest? How could she come to my mother and talk nonsense? ]

All the memories that Xie Ruizhu had brought back to Lu Yanshi were shattered by Lu Li's complaints.

Even though Xie Falcon had supported him to the position, he didn't need to show mercy to him now that he had committed an unforgivable crime.

Keeping such people around will only bring harm.

Xie Xun's death is also a good thing for Xie Ruizhu.

Thinking of this, Lu Yanshi sent someone out to pass on the message, demoting Xie Ruizhu to Zhaoyi.

Xie Ruizhu didn't expect that her plea would fail and she would be demoted instead. She was completely dumbfounded.