At this moment, the East Palace was filled with smoke.
Concubine Li Yu was kneeling on the ground, with a red slap mark on her left cheek and a trace of blood on her lips. Unlike the Crown Princess who was aggressive, she was unusually quiet.
With her lowered brows and submissive look, she looks even more pitiful.
The prince came in and saw this scene, and quickly helped Li Yu up. After seeing the slap marks on her face, he became even more furious and questioned the princess: "How dare you lay hands on her?"
The Crown Princess felt bitter and aggrieved: "Your Highness, you questioned me as soon as you came here. Do you know what this vicious woman did to me?!"
"The concubine has never fought or competed with you. It's you who has provoked me every time!" The prince scolded, "You have caused a great disaster, and the imperial palace has not yet come to settle accounts with you. You actually want to sentence the concubine to death?!"
"Jing, you are vicious and jealous, you are not worthy of the position of Crown Princess!"
The Crown Princess staggered, barely steadied herself, and said in disbelief, "Your Highness, you actually said that I am vicious?"
"Isn't it?" The prince said with a sinister look, "You are so crazy and insane to use human flesh as mud! How could you do such a thing!"
"I was wronged!" The Crown Princess was shocked, angry and aggrieved, pointing at Li Yu: "It was her! She was the one who ordered people to do these things. I, the concubine, eat that pink osmanthus every day. If I knew that it was raised with human flesh, how could I have blamed it on myself!"
The prince was also aware of this, but now he was furious and spoke harshly, not giving the crown princess any face at all.
"Today, we dug out many body parts and even a human head. Someone recognized that the head belonged to the carpenter you had executed some time ago!"
The prince stared at her coldly: "How many people have you sentenced to death for those few broken trees? Do you want the imperial palace to settle the score for you? You sentenced them to death, so who else has wronged you?"
The Crown Princess' lips trembled as she angrily said, "It was I who ordered the death, but those were just servants. They didn't do their job well, so what if they were ordered to die!"
"After I ordered them to be executed, my servants disposed of their bodies. I never ordered anyone's body to be chopped up and kept!"
The prince sneered: "Then tell me, how did you deal with those corpses?"
The Crown Princess' words were evasive: "I don't know. How could I ask about these things? Maybe he was sent out of the palace and thrown into a mass grave."
The prince kicked over the stool next to him, and the noise was so loud that the princess screamed in fright.
"You actually had the bodies chopped up and thrown into the carp pond! Jing, you are a vicious person!"
"You know that the concubine likes to feed the fish in the carp pond the most. What do you want to do by doing this?"
The Crown Princess bit her lip tightly, knowing that the matter could no longer be covered up, and said coldly: "Yes! I ordered the corpses of those slaves to be chopped up and fed to the fish, but so what? They are just dead bodies anyway!"
"Your Highness, since you know the situation, you shouldn't doubt me. How could those body parts turn into mud?"
The Crown Princess glared at Li Yu fiercely: "It turns out that someone did this on purpose!"
"Don't try to divert the blame." The prince looked at her coldly, "This matter has nothing to do with the concubine. You brought this upon yourself. You ordered the death of so many people. Do you really think no one bears a grudge against you?"
"You had someone chop up the body and feed it to the fish, but it was someone else who chopped up the body and used it to feed your beloved. Do you want to know who did this?"
"Bring the people up!"
As soon as the prince finished speaking, an old eunuch was dragged up.
After looking at the old eunuch, the Crown Princess was filled with disbelief.
The other party was an old man in her palace. The old eunuch knew that he was doomed, so he was very calm at this moment: "I have served the Crown Princess for many years, and I adopted two godsons at the last minute. But because I accidentally broke a branch, you ordered me to be executed."
He chuckled as he spoke, and stared at the Crown Princess with a pair of bloodshot eyes from the torture, like a madman: "Crown Princess, do you despise us lowly slaves for being dirty and smelly and defiling your body?"
"I wonder if the babies raised from the flesh and blood of lowly people like us taste good? Hahahaha! Do they taste good? Do they taste good?"
The old eunuch was crazy and the prince was disgusted and waved his hand, ordering him to be executed immediately.
The Crown Princess was reminded of her past memories and she rushed to the side, holding the spittoon and started to vomit.
The prince looked at her with disgust, embraced Li Yu, and ordered in a cold voice: "The Crown Princess has failed in her moral duties. You are under house arrest starting today."
"Also, cut down all the laurel trees in the Toad Palace and give them to the Queen Palace."
After saying this, he ignored the Crown Princess's complaints and left with Li Yu in his arms.
When he arrived at the concubine's bedroom, he couldn't help but look at Li Yu's face with heartache.
"That vicious woman dared to do such a cruel thing to you. The imperial concubine will not let her off easily. She will be deposed from her position as the principal concubine sooner or later."
Li Yu's attitude was not enthusiastic, and her eyes were filled with sorrow: "In fact, whether it is the principal concubine or the concubine, as long as I can be with His Highness, I will be satisfied."
The prince was touched when he heard this, and he gently embraced his wife in his arms, "Yu'er is so considerate, how can I let you suffer any injustice?"
Li Yu lowered her eyes, her face a little pale: "Your Highness, I really don't ask for wealth and glory, I just want to stay with you."
She pursed her lips and finally said, "If Your Highness had to ask you to choose between the country and me, who would you choose?"
The prince frowned, his eyes showing a hint of displeasure, and his tone became cold: "What's wrong with Yu'er today? You actually said such nonsense."
"Jiangshan is my empress, and you are also my empress. I want both!"
Li Yu was not moved by his domineering declaration. She just showed a bleak smile. She closed her eyes and hummed softly.
But the prince felt that she was very abnormal today. She was no longer as gentle and considerate as usual, and he felt more impatient.
"Please take a rest first, Concubine. The government affairs of the palace are very busy. I will come to see you later."
"Tuo, I respectfully send your Highness off."
Seeing the prince leave without even turning his head, Li Yu still called him, "Your Highness..."
"What is it?"
Li Yu forced a smile and said, "I want to release the koi in the carp pond. I am also praying for Your Highness, so I would like to ask Your Highness to agree."
The prince's expression eased a little after hearing this, and he nodded in agreement: "It's just a small matter, you can arrange it yourself."
After saying this, the prince left.
Li Yu lowered her eyes, dismissed the palace maids who came to serve her, and sat alone in front of the dressing mirror, lost in thought. She looked at herself in the mirror, gently opened her clothes, and tore off a piece of gray scales from her chest.
The scales looked like fish scales, with a faint smell of fishy and rotten smell.
Li Yu numbly dropped the fish scales, looked at himself in the mirror, and murmured, "I have to leave in the end..."
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