study--
Fu Yunchen pushed open the bookshelf, revealing the secret room behind it.
Only he knew about this place.
Dozens, even hundreds, of memorial tablets are placed inside. Each tablet represents a life, and some even represent an entire family!
The air was cold and damp, like the dead of winter; every breath you exhaled was accompanied by white mist.
The reason is simple: there is a bed made of ancient, cold jade in this secret room.
Fu Yunchen lit the candles and offered incense.
"Ancestors of the Fu family, your unfilial grandson Fu Yunchen has some news to tell you. Emperor Xiaozhi has pardoned the Fu family's crimes. If you know this in the afterlife, you can rest in peace."
After saying that, he kowtowed with tremendous force, 'bang bang bang~'.
“But the mastermind and the enemy are still here, and this unfilial grandson will never give up.”
In an instant, the chill in the sealed room was amplified by a sinister aura!
...
The Empress Dowager was furious when she heard the imperial edict issued by Emperor Xiaozhi in court.
She immediately disregarded the palace rule that the empress dowager should not interfere in politics and went to find Emperor Xiaozhi.
"Your Majesty, why have you pardoned the Fu family? Back then, you only confiscated their property and did not exterminate their entire clan because Your Majesty had just ascended the throne and it was not appropriate to carry out a massacre. Now, Your Majesty has first issued an edict of self-reproach and then exonerated the Fu family. Isn't this an admission of wrongdoing to the people? Where is Your Majesty's imperial might?!"
The Empress Dowager was furious and shouted at Emperor Xiaozhi.
All the palace servants knelt on the ground, trembling with fear, not daring to move an inch.
Eunuch Song mustered his courage and said to the Empress Dowager, "Your Majesty, His Majesty's health has just recovered. He must not get angry or upset, or exert himself. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable. Please calm down, Your Majesty."
"You dog of a servant, how dare you speak to me! Drag him out and give him forty lashes!" The Empress Dowager couldn't do anything to Emperor Xiaozhi, but she could easily deal with a servant as a warning to others.
Emperor Xiaozhi was aware of his own health, so he tried his best not to get angry or agitated.
"Mother, why take your anger out on a mere servant? Come at me instead."
Hearing his unhurried and nonchalant tone, the Empress Dowager grew even angrier, "Do you know that the Fu family cannot be forgiven, or there will be endless troubles in the future?"
"Why will this lead to endless troubles? May I ask, Mother?" Emperor Xiaozhi looked at the Empress Dowager, the mother he had never understood.
From the moment he became emperor, he was merely a puppet of his mother, who reviewed all the memorials and personally affixed the imperial seal and dragon stamp.
He didn't truly assume power until he was thirty, though he was still somewhat influenced by her tyranny.
"You will regret this!" The Empress Dowager abruptly waved her phoenix robe and turned to leave without telling Emperor Xiaozhi the reason.
Emperor Xiaozhi looked at the Empress Dowager's upright shoulders and back, and then looked at himself, his hunched body making him look more like that seventy-year-old man.
Eunuch Song knelt on the ground, saying, "This servant deserves to die for displeasing the Empress Dowager."
“She came for me; you are the one being blamed.” Emperor Xiaozhi helped him up.
Eunuch Song remained fearful and uneasy.
"But why is the Empress Dowager so wary of the Fu family? Go and summon the Director of the Imperial Censorate."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
...
The Grand Commandant's residence, Fuying Pavilion.
Mu Run sat on a branch of a cherry tree, doing needlework.
She was making a pair of men's socks, but didn't want Qiaoyu and the others to see her, so she secretly hid them in a tree to make them.
Suddenly, the half-closed door of Fukuoka Pavilion was pushed open.
Qiaoyu and a young man entered the courtyard.
"Why are you at the Grand Commandant's residence again? Didn't you say you couldn't come anymore?"
"Sister, we're out of money at home. Mom and Dad sent me to ask you for some."
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P.S.: I caught a cold and have a terrible headache, so I couldn't write anything. The midnight update will be postponed to 8 PM tomorrow night. Get some sleep, everyone! Thank you to Hetu and Ales for the donations, muah! Goodnight~
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