After hearing the request to spare her life, Feng Yuheng stood up from the chair and leaned half of her body out of the window. Xuan Tiange was so scared that he thought she was going to jump off the building, so he quickly pulled her from behind.
Then Feng Yuheng said, "It's Zhang Yuan! It's Zhang Yuan!" She recognized the familiar voice. It was the young eunuch Zhang Yuan who was always by the side of Emperor Tianwu. But this eunuch was not staying in the palace to accompany the old emperor. At this time, he came to the execution ground to ask for mercy. What did he mean? Was he trying to rescue him at the last second?
The executioner Xu Jingyuan couldn't figure out what this meant. As a member of the team of the seventh and ninth brothers, he really wanted to kill the eighth prince as soon as possible. However, he didn't expect that at the last moment, when the mission was about to be accomplished, someone would suddenly show up to spoil the situation, and it was Zhang Yuan.
Xu Jingyuan felt overwhelmed. As the eunuch who served Emperor Tianwu, Zhang Yuan's involvement in everything meant that the emperor was personally involved. His intuition told him that the eighth prince might not be beheaded.
While thinking, Zhang Yuan's horse had already arrived. He didn't bother to get off the horse. He glanced at the still alive Eighth Prince, but frowned. He didn't look like he was glad that the man was not dead. Instead, he looked a bit like "Am I here too early?" Not only did he frown, he also looked up at the sun, and then glanced at the sundial on the side. Well! He came just in time. Why didn't he slow down a little bit? If he slowed down a little bit, the Eighth Prince would have been beheaded. How great it would be.
Zhang Yuan sighed helplessly, raised the imperial edict in his hand, and said to Xu Jingyuan: "The emperor has ordered that the case of the eighth prince be retried. Now, please send him back to the palace immediately. The emperor wants to summon him personally."
Xu Jingyuan quickly stepped down from the execution platform and approached Zhang Yuan, asking in confusion: "Eunuch Yuan, what is going on? Why do we need to re-examine the case after it has come to this? Hasn't the case been thoroughly investigated?"
Zhang Yuan shook his head helplessly, "I have the same idea as Lord Xu, but this is indeed the emperor's order." He looked at Xu Jingyuan, got off his horse, walked closer and whispered, "The emperor has not eaten or drunk anything these days because of the Eighth Prince's matter, and he has lost a lot of weight. The other night, Liu Cainu came, and the emperor didn't see her very often. The two talked for a while, and there was nothing wrong at first, but I don't know why the emperor suddenly changed his mind just now and forced me out to issue this imperial decree. Lord Xu, let's talk about everything after we go to the palace to see the emperor! Now you ask me, I can't explain it clearly."
Xu Jingyuan took the imperial edict and stared at the jade seal on it, feeling very complicated. At this moment, the eighth prince Xuan Tianmo heard the conversation between the two and knew that Zhang Yuan's imperial edict was to save him. He couldn't help but burst into laughter - "See! I've said it before, if I lose, you won't win! As long as I don't die, there will be ten thousand possibilities for all this! Xu Jingyuan, go back and tell your master that the next person to be taken to the execution ground may be him! Hahahaha!"
He laughed wildly, with both the relief of surviving the calamity and the arrogance of having turned the situation around.
On the second floor of the teahouse, Feng Yuheng clenched his fists tightly, and his teeth were almost broken by his biting. "Can't he be killed like this? Why is this happening?"
No one could answer her why, because no one understood, no one could figure it out. Xuan Tiange also stood at the window for a long time, but at this time he could only say: "Ah Heng, your premonition is really accurate!"
Feng Tianyu was more thoughtful. He tugged at the corner of Feng Yuheng's clothes and said softly, "Heng, look, is Zhang Yuan looking for someone? Who is he looking for?"
They looked down and saw Zhang Yuan looking around, as if searching. Xu Jingyuan had already obeyed the imperial decree and escorted the eighth prince back to the prisoner car, slowly heading towards the palace.
All the people who came to watch the execution were very excited. Most of them were poor people from the north of the city. They were all eager to see the eighth prince die to comfort the dead souls. The matter was about to be accomplished, but unexpectedly, an imperial edict came out halfway. People wanted to ask Zhang Yuan what was going on, but people of Zhang Yuan's status, although disabled and lowly, had the most direct connection with the palace. Those who wanted to ask questions also had some hesitation in their hearts. Without someone taking the lead, no one dared to ask.
Some people followed the prisoner car voluntarily, wanting to know the final outcome of the incident. Gradually, there were fewer people at the execution ground, and soon only Zhang Yuan and the cleaning officials were left. Zhang Yuan was still looking around, and finally when he looked up, his eyes met with Feng Yuheng's. He stamped his feet and waved at Feng Yuheng, signaling them to come down.
Feng Yuheng came out of the teahouse with a few sisters. Zhang Yuan quickly went to meet them. He looked around to see if there were any people watching or eavesdropping. Then he took a step closer and said to her in a low voice, "Princess, I'm afraid something happened in the palace."
"Something happened?" Feng Yuheng was shocked, not quite understanding what Zhang Yuan meant. "What could happen in the palace?" The Eighth Prince had been imprisoned. Could it be that he had some remnants who could break into the palace and threaten Emperor Tianwu? That was impossible! Xuan Tianming and Xuan Tianhua had already made all the necessary preparations. The palace gates would never allow anyone suspicious to enter, and there was no way the Eighth Prince's remnants could exist in the palace. Of course, except for his biological mother Liu Cainu, what could she do as a mere Cainu?
Zhang Yuan looked very worried. He said to Feng Yuheng, "There were so many people around just now that I didn't dare to say anything to Lord Xu. But the fact is that the emperor has been ill since last night, and he fell ill suddenly. Zhaohe Palace summoned the imperial physician, but he couldn't find any unusual symptoms. He only said that the emperor was angry and needed to rest. They analyzed that it was because the emperor, who was the eighth prince, got angry, but there was nothing we could do about it. There was no cure for mental illness, so we could only prescribe some relief medicine for use first. But I always feel that things are not that simple..."
When he said this, Feng Yuheng waved his hand to stop him from speaking, then turned to Xuan Tiange and said, "I'm going to the palace right now, are you going?"
"Go!" Xuan Tiange said, "Since the emperor's uncle is ill, I must go to the palace to take a look."
After she expressed her opinion, Feng Tianyu and Ren Xifeng beside her also immediately said that they would go back home first to tell their father. This matter could be a big or small matter, and as a general and right prime minister, their father must be aware of it.
Feng Yuheng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take your carriage! Eunuch Yuan, you come too, tell us more about the matter on the way." After arranging her, she turned back to Wangchuan and said, "Go back to the palace and get me the medicine box." Then she took off her waist badge and handed it to Wangchuan, "If you can't catch up with us, take my waist badge and go to the Zhaohe Hall to find me. Xuan Tianming should have received the news and rushed to the palace a long time ago, so let's not delay and leave immediately."
The few people acted as soon as they said they would, and they separated immediately. Feng Yuheng took Zhang Yuan and Huang Quan to Xuan Tiange's imperial carriage and rushed all the way to the palace. Zhang Yuan also told them his analysis in the car: "It is certain that the emperor was angry about the Eighth Prince. But based on my understanding of the emperor over the years, he would not be so angry. Even if he was so sad that he fell ill, he would not have to issue such an imperial decree at this critical juncture."
"Why did the emperor issue the decree?" Xuan Tiange asked with a frown, "Just now you said that the emperor met Liu Cainu? But what did Liu Cainu ask for?"
Zhang Yuan shook his head, "The emperor has met Liu Cainv. He didn't want to see her at first, but then he felt that Liu Cainv was about to lose her son, and he felt sympathy for her, so he met her. I was also present at the time. Liu Cainv begged the emperor to give the Eighth Prince another chance. After being rejected by the emperor, she just cried and didn't do anything else unusual. But this afternoon, he was not in a bad mood, but suddenly, as if he was possessed, he sat up from the dragon couch, grabbed me and said, Xiao Yuanzi, go and draft an edict, let the Ministry of Justice release him! I can't kill my own son, I can't let the Eighth Prince die like this, he is my son!" He imitated the appearance of Emperor Tianwu, with rich emotions in his voice. "I was completely confused at the time. How could he say that he would release the person at this time? The relationship between the Emperor and the Eighth Prince is not that deep! But the Emperor's behavior... is still just as I said, as if he was possessed by a demon. He grabbed my neck and demanded an imperial decree. I had no choice but to obey the Emperor's order, which led to the incident of sparing the person today."
"So, this decision was made suddenly by Father?" Feng Yuheng understood something and said, "And you said that before he issued this decree, he seemed to be in a daze, which means that his consciousness was not very clear, at least it was different from his usual state?"
Zhang Yuan nodded: "That's what I meant. To be disrespectful, when I heard the emperor say this, I was thinking, is the emperor crazy? Or is he dreaming and possessed by a nightmare? This is not his usual style!"
Indeed, Tianwu has always been a man of action. Even though he was a little indecisive in dealing with his sons' struggle for the throne, he would not do such a thing as today. "Things that are not normal are demons. I'm afraid that it's not just a simple illness for the emperor. There must be something else going on here."
Zhang Yuan was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. "Princess, it doesn't matter whether it's a cat or not. I am just a little eunuch and I don't understand. I just want to know, is there anything wrong with the emperor's health?" He has been following Emperor Tianwu since he was a child. Although there was still the old eunuch in the Prince Yu's Palace at that time, they were master and apprentice, and the old eunuch was also with him at that time. Zhang Yuan was not afraid of anything. The thing he feared most in his life was that something would happen to Emperor Tianwu. If the old emperor was gone, how would he live? When he thought of this, he was so anxious that he started crying.
Xuan Tiange was so angry that he kicked him: "Why are you crying? If there is a problem, just solve it. What's the point of crying?" After saying that, he looked at Feng Yuheng, "Ah Heng, what do you think about this matter?"
Feng Yuheng shook his head. "I don't know. I don't know yet. I have to wait until I enter the palace and see my father before I can draw a conclusion. But this matter is probably not simple. If the Eighth Prince survives the disaster and regains power, it will be disadvantageous to us."
"I'm really worried about Uncle Huang's illness." Xuan Tiange was so anxious that he kept rubbing his hands and kept muttering: "God bless, Uncle Huang must be well, and he must not go out on a errand!"
Feng Yuheng closed his eyes slightly, and a bad premonition came to his mind...
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