Having made the decision, Emperor Jingming, who was in a bad mood, did not want to keep his sons in the spotlight, and said sullenly: "Everyone, leave. If anyone causes trouble again in the future, I will not show mercy!"
"Yes." Regardless of what the princes thought in their hearts, they all responded respectfully.
Emperor Jingming watched Yu Jin walk out, thought for a moment and shouted: "Seventh Brother——"
Yu Jin stopped, bowed and asked, "What does the emperor want me to do?"
"Erniu has made a great contribution to solving the case of Mingyue's disappearance. You can bring him into the palace often in the future." Emperor Jingming thought about the closeness he had just shown to him and felt that Erniu was extremely useful and should not be neglected.
Yu Jin raised her lips slightly: "Yes."
The King of Qi watched coldly, feeling increasingly depressed.
The seventh brother was extremely lucky, as he had a dog that could even help him win favor.
Just now, he was watching the cat-dog fight. He thought his father would scold Erniu if he knew about it. But -
The more the King of Qi thought about it, the more powerless he felt.
Is the emperor's heart so unpredictable? Just like he had endured all these years, not only did he not get the emperor's attention, but he was even inferior to the seventh son who was sent out of the palace at a young age.
The Sacred Heart is unpredictable, so he must sit in that seat so that he can take control of his destiny instead of treading on thin ice by guessing the Sacred Heart.
Soon the study became empty. Even Pan Hai had gone out to deliver an imperial edict. Only Xiao Lezi dared not say a word and carefully picked up the reports that had fallen on the ground.
Emperor Jingming sat there for a long time, pressing his eyelids with his fingertips and falling into deep thought: In the past, his eyelids would twitch when something went wrong, but the last two times, there was no movement at all. Could it be that his eyelids would also give up?
Thinking of this, Emperor Jingming developed a deep longing for his previous eyelids.
In comparison, it is much better to have an idea in mind than to be caught off guard by something happening suddenly.
As spring approached, the weeping willows outside the palace wall turned green, but the Prince of Xiang, who was waiting outside, had no intention of appreciating the sight and paced back and forth anxiously.
Soon, Pan Hai appeared before King Xiang and conveyed Emperor Jingming's will.
The King of Xiang was struck by lightning and did not react for a long time.
Pan Hai sighed and said, "Take care of yourself."
Seeing Pan Hai walking back, Prince Xiang suddenly woke up from his dream and rushed over: "Eunuch Pan, did you make a mistake?"
Pan Hai stopped and looked at King Xiang.
The King of Xiang obviously couldn't accept it, and he grabbed the other party's sleeve and asked urgently: "Is this really what the emperor meant?"
"I dare not falsely convey the imperial decree."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. Even if I harmed Cui Mingyue, it was for a reason. How could my father take away my title because of this?"
The saying that a prince who breaks the law is guilty of the same crime as a commoner is just a phrase to appease the people. How many of the royal relatives and nobles were punished for killing people? Most of the punishments were due to more complicated reasons.
Cui Mingyue brought him such humiliation and killed Zhu Ziyu on their wedding night. So what if such a vicious woman died at his hands?
He could accept the punishment, but he never expected to lose his title.
He didn't disobey, so why did he end up like this?
Reluctance, anger, confusion...all kinds of emotions intertwined in the eyes of Prince Xiang, making him look a little crazy.
Pan Hai pulled his sleeves back from the hand of the King of Xiang, thought for a moment, and whispered a reminder: "Think about the Queen Mother."
The King of Xiang was stunned, then suddenly understood.
Cui Mingyue's death was not a pity and no one cared, but her mother was Princess Rongyang, the adopted daughter of the Queen Mother.
It would be fine if Princess Rongyang was alive, but she died. He killed Cui Mingyue, and if the punishment given by his father was too light, he would not be able to explain to the Queen Mother...
When the King of Xiang came to his senses, Pan Hai was gone.
This realization made him realize that there was no turning back, as if he had lost his soul and was walking back without even noticing that one of his shoes had fallen off.
The King of Shu passed by the King of Xiang, the King of Lu passed by the King of Xiang, the King of Qi passed by the King of Xiang...but it was Yu Jin who picked up the shoe that the King of Xiang had dropped, stopped beside him, and handed the shoe over.
Prince Xiang stared at the shoes for a while and looked straight at Yu Jin.
Yu Jin stuffed the shoes into the hands of the King of Xiang and said earnestly, "Eighth brother, look, now you are truly barefoot."
While the King of Xiang was in a daze, Yu Jin patted his shoulder comfortingly and strode away.
The shoe fell to the ground and hit the back of the foot. The King of Xiang finally reacted and chased after him with red eyes: "Seventh Brother, you bastard, you are the one who harmed me... You deliberately brought Erniu over!"
Several people shook their heads after hearing this.
Now everyone knows that Erniu was brought there by the fifth brother. The eighth brother is clinging to the seventh brother, but it has no effect on the seventh brother and only adds to the laughter.
As for whether the seventh brother did anything bad, that is needless to say!
Seeing that he had not caught up with Yu Jian, the King of Xiang grabbed the wrist of the King of Qi as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw and cried, "Fourth brother, you can't just ignore me——"
Disgust flashed across the eyes of Prince Qi, but he dared not provoke Prince Xiang with his words, so he could only comfort him kindly: "Eighth brother, please stop making trouble. Although you have lost your title now, you still have a stable life. If you continue to make trouble, it will be bad if father hates you completely."
The Prince of Xiang was speechless, while the Prince of Qi pretended to be sympathetic and quickly got away.
Yu Jin returned to the palace and told Jiang Si everything that had happened.
Jiang Si looked regretful: "What a pity, I should have gone with you."
Yu Jin thought his wife's hobby was not good, so he coughed and said, "What's so good about a skeleton? You don't even know how King Lu reacted after falling into the well. I guess he won't be able to chew meat and bones in the future."
Jiang Si was silent for a moment, then corrected him, "King Lu is not Erniu, maybe he just doesn't like to chew on meat and bones."
"There's nothing to see anyway."
"I didn't expect Lord Zhen to go there too." Jiang Si still felt it was a pity to stay in the palace.
Yu Jin's face turned cold: "There's nothing to see in an old man."
Jiang Sibai glanced at him and said, "After listening to what you said, it's clear that Lord Zhen let you off the hook, but you're still slandering him behind his back."
"It's normal for him to let me go. I even helped him solve the case." Yu Jin thought about Zhen Shicheng and smiled. "You don't know, if the cases handled by old man Zhen are unresolved, he will be so upset that he will pull his beard when he thinks about them. Look how much trouble I solved for him."
Jiang Si suddenly felt guilty.
The fire on the pleasure boat that year was also a mystery. I wonder how much worry Lord Zhen must have had.
"Ah Zhen, after this incident, I'm afraid King Qi and his men will be wary of you."
Yu Jin smiled indifferently: "Let them be on guard, as if being on guard would work."
Ginger seems to stroke his forehead.
It's rare to find someone as confident as Ah-Jian, but seeing him so confident makes me happy.
The hostess, who was in a good mood, turned around and told the kitchen to add more food for Erniu.
Yu Jin: “…”
The news that Prince Xiang had committed a crime spread quickly.
After hearing this, Master Jiang Er hurriedly counted on his fingers: King of Qi, King of Lu, King of Shu, King of Yan... Hiss, if King of Yan worked harder, could my eldest brother become the father-in-law of the emperor?