The long whip hit the bench beside her, and the strong wind it created brushed across the back of her delicate hand, scratching her skin painfully.
Gu Yun'er's fingers shrank reflexively.
Gu Yanfei looked at Gu Yunyan with a smile, his eyes filled with cunning smiles.
She didn't intend to really hit Gu Yunman. After all, Gu Yunman was the girl of destiny who was blessed by heaven. If she really hurt Gu Yunman, she would definitely be unlucky for a long time.
She didn't want to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of her own.
Gu Yanfei held the whip handle and shook his wrist, and the whip made a crisp "crackling" sound.
The long whip was so flexible that it seemed like a part of her body. The tail of the whip even rolled up the teapot on the small table...
I don't know what this is! Gu Yunyan opened his eyes slightly, bent over, pushed open the door of the carriage, and jumped off directly.
Gu Yanfei was the only one left in the carriage.
Finally, it was quiet. Gu Yanfei casually rolled up the whip, put it on the table, knocked on the wall with a smile, and told the driver, "Let's go."
She didn't care at all about how Gu Yunyan would get home.
The driver outside responded and cracked the whip again.
The carriage started on the road again, and this time it returned to Dingyuan Marquis Mansion without stopping.
Two carriages stopped near the Neiyi Gate.
After Gu Yanfei got off the carriage, he saw Wang and Gu Yunyan getting off the carriage in front one after another.
When Gu Yun'er stood still holding the maid's hand, she inadvertently looked at Gu Yanfei and turned her face away.
Wang didn't notice and absentmindedly told the two girls: "You two go back to your own courtyard and stop talking nonsense."
The last half sentence carries a hint of warning.
Wang didn't care about Gu Yanfei and Gu Yun'er's reactions. She hurried back to the main courtyard and asked the servants to call Dingyuan Marquis Gu Jian. The couple talked behind closed doors for a long time.
After one stick of incense was burned, the marquis's mansion closed its doors to visitors.
Not only the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, but many families in the capital city also closed their doors, giving a look of panic.
Although most families were not like the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, they also stopped entertaining guests. In the last two days of the New Year, the festive atmosphere weakened a lot, and the weather was cloudy for two days in a row.
It was not until the tenth day of the first lunar month that the emperor began to write.
The first morning court of the New Year was quite lively.
As soon as the court opened, a censor with a square face and goatee jumped out holding a memorial: "Your Majesty, I have a memorial to report."
This sentence attracted the attention of all the ministers.
"The eldest prince is tyrannical, disobedient and unfilial, and he dares to put the empress dowager under house arrest. Doesn't he think that as a prince he can do whatever he wants?!" The censor impeached the eldest prince Chu Yi passionately.
"Your Majesty, this trend cannot continue. Please severely punish the eldest prince. Do not let the people in the world think that Your Majesty is allowing your son to disobey!"
"Your Majesty, to indulge a child is like to kill him!"
As he spoke, the censor lifted his robe, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed heavily to the emperor on the golden throne.
However, before he could submit his memorial, the Duke of Ying, Fang Huairui, immediately stood out from the ranks of the generals and angrily scolded the censor: "You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth!"
"Humph, you have no evidence, yet you are jumping up and down in the Golden Throne Hall, slandering His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. What crime should you be charged with?"
The Duke of England actually called him a dog! The imperial eunuch was so angry that his face turned ashen, his beard puffed and his eyes glared, his thin body trembled like a sieve, and he said angrily: "I believe that I am worthy of heaven, earth, sun and moon, and my loyalty is recorded in history... Heaven and earth can bear witness to it!"
The imperial emissary became more and more indignant as he spoke. Suddenly he jumped up from the ground and slammed his head into the pillar next to him.
However, Fang Huairui had been on guard against him for a long time and winked at a middle-aged military officer next to him.
The middle-aged military officer rushed over quickly and blocked the pillar.
The censor bumped headfirst into the other person's thick and strong chest. The other person was as steady as a rock, but the censor was knocked back, staggered and fell to the ground, falling on his back.
"Ouch." He groaned in pain twice, and even the official hat on his head fell off, looking very miserable.
There was deathly silence in the Golden Palace.
Most of the court officials were used to these upright censors who would frequently hit their heads against the pillar to express their opinions, and their lips twitched.
Most of the court officials were watching the situation develop with cold eyes. A few old foxes exchanged glances secretly, thinking: Where did this idiot come from? He is really courting death and has become a knife in someone else's hand without knowing it! "Alas, Li Aiqing, you are too careless." The emperor looked down at the censor and sighed, "Come on, send Li Aiqing back to have a good rest."
The emperor made light of Li's banging his head against the pillar like a peacemaker. Then, he ordered the chief eunuch Zhao Rang in public, "Zhao Rang, ask a few doctors to go to Li Aiqing's house to check and make sure he is not hurt."
When saying this, the emperor's expression and tone were full of concern and sympathy.
The ministers were not surprised, as the emperor has always been a kind-hearted person, except that he is a little weak and sickly.
"Ah——" the emperor sighed again.
"Lord Li is old and always sick. I am really worried about him." The emperor patted the golden armrests of the dragon throne twice. "In life, good health is the most important thing. Lord Li should retire and live a leisurely life with his grandchildren."
"..." Censor Li, who was sitting on the ground, widened his eyes in disbelief, and his goatee trembled for a while.
In the queues on both sides, several officials exchanged glances with each other, and their eyes twitched.
Li Yushi is only in his thirties, so he can't be considered old.
Isn't the emperor lying with his eyes open? ! "Your Majesty is right!" Fang Huairui clapped his hands and echoed without saying a word, his voice like a bell, resounding throughout the Golden Palace.
This sentence conveys the final word.
Duke Wei Guowei Shen showed a strange look and looked Fang Huairui up and down. For a moment, he almost suspected that he had been replaced.
It was strange. When did his little brother become so flattering? Fang Huairui could naturally feel the speculative and shocked eyes around him, but he could only pretend not to see them. He felt bitter as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis. He could not say his bitterness, so he could only stand in the Golden Throne Hall as if nothing had happened, without showing any strange expression.
Now that he had boarded the eldest prince's pirate ship, he could only continue on in the dark.
Fang Huairui cursed Yu again in his heart, and was about to make another move when he saw an anxious middle-aged eunuch in front of him walk up to Zhao Rang breathlessly and whisper a few words. Then, Zhao Rang leaned over and whispered to the emperor:
"…The eldest princess…is dying."
Zhao Rang's voice was so low that only the emperor could hear it.
The smile on the emperor's lips froze, his brows furrowed, and his expression changed drastically.
(End of this chapter)
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