Chapter 337 Burned to Death
The scene in the courtyard was very chaotic for a while.
The King of Qi wanted to kill Shen Xi.
The Prince of Changping tried his best to protect him.
He didn't care about Chen Xi's life or death, but the piece of meat in her belly, the Prince of Changping Marquis, would not allow it to be lost.
Changping Hou had only one son. He had seen many doctors and taken many jars of medicine. He was not allowed to touch a woman. He could not let anything happen to his only child.
If the baby in the eldest lady's belly was still there, he would let the King of Qi deal with her.
Chen Tang asked, "What happened in the end?"
Chen Qi said, "The son of the Marquis of Changping told the King of Qi that the baby in the Princess' belly is the only child of the Marquis of Changping Mansion, and asked the King of Qi to hand it over to Concubine Ye for disposal."
"The King of Qi took the Princess of Qi away, leaving no one alive in this courtyard."
As for whether the King of Qi would kill or keep the Princess of Qi after she was taken away, he had no idea.
After a pause, Chen Qi said, "Prince Yu's people have also come to watch the fun..."
This was expected. Prince Yu would definitely not miss such a big event.
Marquis Changping is not Concubine Ye's biological brother, but only her cousin. He was able to inherit the title because it fell into the hands of others. The power of Marquis Changping's mansion almost entirely relies on Concubine Ye. How could Concubine Ye tolerate the fact that the Marquis Changping's son cheated on the King of Qi?
Chen Xian will not have a good ending for causing such a big rift between the King of Qi and the Marquis of Changping's Mansion.
Given how cruel and ruthless Concubine Ye is, she will definitely make Shen Xi's life a fate worse than death.
That night.
Shen Tang finished bathing and prepared to go to bed.
Ginkgo Qiutong put out most of the candles, yawned, and prepared to go back to sleep.
He went out yawning, and came back refreshed, saying anxiously, "Princess, someone's house in Kyoto has caught fire, and there's flames shooting up into the sky..."
Chen Tangren was already sitting on the bed, so she got out of bed immediately. Qiu Tong was afraid that she would catch a cold, so she quickly took a cloak and wrapped it around her.
When Chen Tang went out, Xie Guimo just came over from the study.
Shen Tang looked at the fire in the distance.
That direction——
"Isn't this Prince Qi's Mansion?"
Xie Guimo said, "No doubt, it is the Prince Qi's Mansion."
Here, Chen Tang and Xie Guimo were watching the flames, and over there, on the observation tower of Prince Yu's Mansion, Prince Yu was also watching Prince Qi's Mansion being engulfed by fire.
The guard stood behind him and said, "The Taoist's words have come true."
The Taoist priest said that the Princess of Qi would die from a fire.
It’s exactly the same.
It was a windy night, and Chen Tang only watched for a while before Xie Guimo carried her back to the house.
The next day, when Chen Tang woke up, Yin Xing came forward and said, "Princess, assassins broke into Prince Qi's mansion last night and set fire. Princess Qi could not be rescued and was burned to death in the fire..."
Killing a princess who cheated on him and framing the assassin, isn't it tiring for the King of Qi?
The princess was burned to death in her own palace by an assassin who broke into it. If the assassin is not caught, how will the King of Qi and the royal family save their reputation?
He only wanted to kill Chen Xian, just like letting her fall into the lotus pond and drown. There was no need to sacrifice his own palace and reputation.
Chen Tang thought it was unnecessary, but she soon realized that the King of Qi did this because he was targeting her and Xie Guimo.
Not only Princess Qi had an accident last night, but also the Second Master and the Second Mistress.
A masked assassin broke into the second house and broke the second master's other leg. The second wife was given a mute drug and could no longer speak.
In the entire capital, the only ones who have grudges against the Second House are Chen Tang and Pingyuan Marquis Mansion.
Suspecting that it was Chen Tang who broke the Second Master's leg and cut off the Second Mistress's hair, Chen Ying made trouble for Chen Tang. She forced Chen Tang to let go of the Second Master and the Second Mistress in the palace, but failed. She even threatened to die, and finally accidentally hurt herself. These words that Chen Ying used to excuse herself were widely circulated.
Now the Second Master and the Second Mistress were injured by the intruders, and Chen Tang fell into the water in the palace a few days ago and almost drowned. How could people not suspect that it was Chen Tang and Xie Guimo who did it?
Even Ginkgo and Qiu Tong were worried. "I heard that the second master's leg was badly broken and he will have to use a wheelchair from now on. If the old lady knew about this..."
If only the second house was in trouble, the old lady could have kept it a secret, but now the Princess of Qi has been burned to death.
The old lady will definitely know.
The two maids were worried that the old lady would also think that it was Chen Tang who had harmed Chen Xian and the second master and second wife, but Chen Tang was not worried at all.
If the only ones who were going to get into trouble were the Second Master and the Second Mistress, the old lady might suspect her, but if Chen Xi was also in trouble, the old lady would not think of her as the cause.
When Chen Tang expelled the second wife from the house, he told the old lady directly that Chen Xian was pregnant with the child of the Marquis of Changping.
Chen Xi committed a capital crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of her clan.
She and Xie Guimo had no such kindness in helping the King of Qi to remove his green hat. If they wanted to kill Chen Xian, they only needed to tell the King of Qi about the affair between Chen Xian and the Prince of Changping. The King of Qi would deal with Chen Xian himself, and they didn't need to do it themselves and get their hands stained with blood.
Even if the old lady could guess that they were the ones who revealed the affair to the King of Qi, what could she do?
How could the old lady not know that it was not just an accident that she fell into the water in the palace and almost drowned? Shen Xi wanted to take her life, but she was not allowed to fight back?
If only one of her and Shen Xian could survive——
The old lady will choose her.
Chen Tang still has this confidence.
Shen Tang was glad that she was pregnant, otherwise she would have to go to Prince Qi's mansion to pay tribute to Shen Xi.
When a person dies, all grudges are gone.
No matter how life-and-death struggles they had had in the past, now that Chen Xian was gone, if she didn't even go to pay her respects, she would be the one being criticized, after all, Chen Xian was the Princess of Qi.
She died as the Queen of Qi.
The marriage between Chen Xian and the King of Qi was granted by imperial decree, and the two would be buried together a hundred years after the King of Qi passed away.
From the perspective of the King of Qi, just thinking about it makes him feel sick.
The King of Qi would not allow this to happen.
Thanks to the unborn baby, Chen Tang didn't have to go to Prince Qi's mansion to pay his respects, but Xie Guimo had no choice but to go. After all, he and Prince Qi were cousins, and the princess and Concubine Ye had a very good relationship as cousins.
No matter what happens in private, it must be maintained in public.
The King of Qi was supporting and handling the funeral, and his face was even more shameless than that of a donkey.
He didn't even know who to blame.
They had plotted against Xie Guimo first, so they had no choice but to let Xie Guimo fight back.
Even Xie Guimo's plan was to let the heartless Prince of Changping be responsible for Shen Xi, but the plan went wrong. The Prince of Changping had health problems, and in order to win over Xie Guimo, Prince Yu pushed the person to him.
His own people deceived him, but it was the quarrelsome Prince Yu who told him the truth, thus saving him from being kept in the dark and having a cuckold put on his head!
An assassin broke into the Qi Palace and burned the Qi Princess to death. This was a shocking incident, and the Emperor was furious. He ordered the Ministry of Justice to investigate the case thoroughly, and granted a coffin to bury the Qi Princess with great honor.
The body will be kept for seven days.
Seven days later, the Princess of Qi was buried with great ceremony.
It was unlucky for the King of Qi to meet Chen Xian.
When he married Chen Xi, he was soaked like a drowned rat.
On the day of Shen Xi's burial, there was a heavy storm and the King of Qi was soaked to the skin.
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