"Your Majesty, I failed to stop the Regent. Please forgive me."
Xiao Chenyi slowly put down his pen, set aside the memorial he had just reviewed, and looked up. "You didn't go in?"
He knew, of course, that Liu Ze couldn't stop Xiao Yanchu, and he wasn't surprised.
"Your humble servant accompanied him the entire time," Liu Ze hurriedly replied, secretly relieved that the Regent had allowed him to follow, otherwise he really wouldn't know how to explain it to the Emperor.
Not daring to wait for Xiao Chenyi to ask further, Liu Ze reported directly, "The Princess only gave the Su family some medicine and inquired about the Su family's adopted daughter, Su Muyao, marrying Deng Yi. That was all."
It was no secret that Su Ruojin knew medicine, so it was only natural that she would send medicine to the Su family.
Many ministers in the court are submitting memorials every day, saying that the Su family could not possibly have colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country. They also say that the evidence is not complete enough and the Su family should not be convicted based on this. They suggest that this matter may be a conspiracy by the Northern Li.
Xiao Chen was also furious with these ministers. The letters and account books about colluding with the enemy were complete, and the spies from Bei Li had confessed, so why wouldn't these old fogies believe it?
Under the current circumstances, Xiao Chenyi dared not actually prevent Su Ruojin from delivering medicine to the Su family, otherwise, not only the court officials, but even Xiao Yanchu would not let it go.
However, he was not in a hurry. These ministers said that the evidence was insufficient, but once Su Wenzhou was escorted back, more evidence would naturally emerge, and then people would have no choice but to believe it.
When Su Ruojin arrived at the prison and saw the Su family members, she didn't ask about anything related to the case. Instead, she asked about the whereabouts of a trivial Su family adopted daughter. She really didn't know what was important.
Xiao Chenyi knew that Deng Yi had brought back Su Muyao and a maid. It was understandable that an adopted daughter of the Su family would want to abandon the Su family after such a thing happened.
This Su Muyao was just an adopted daughter and not a key figure, so he didn't stop it.
He also wanted to show the world that the Su family wasn't as harmonious as they seemed on the surface; when disaster struck, some of them still fled on their own.
Su Muyao was to become Deng Yi's concubine. Wasn't it said that women of the Su family did not become concubines?
Xiao Chenyi was quite happy to see the Su family humiliated like this.
"Keep an eye on it and report back immediately if anything happens. Lord Liu, the suspect hasn't confessed. As the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, you don't need me to tell you what to do, do you?"
"Your subject understands." Lord Liu kowtowed again and took his leave.
The meal at the Regent's Palace was quite lively, with Xiao Yanchu and Su Ruojin eating a lot under the watchful eyes of their two elders.
The two elders didn't stop until they saw that the two little ones really couldn't eat anymore.
The four arrived at Consort Jiang's courtyard, where Aunt Sulan had her maid serve them tangerine peel tea to aid digestion.
Su Ruojin took a sip of tea and began to briefly recount everything that had happened in Xiaoyue to her grandmother and Consort Jiang. Fearing that the two elders might overthink things, she omitted all the hardships she had encountered.
After listening to Su Ruojin's story, both Old Madam Zhao and Consort Jiang were still somewhat stunned.
Especially Madam Zhao, who raised her from childhood like her own grandson, turned out to be the lost little prince of Xiaoyue, and now he has become the emperor of Xiaoyue.
Madam Zhao felt as if she were listening to a story from a storybook, no, even storybooks weren't this exciting.
"Xiao Jin, so Yuan Hong is now the emperor of Xiao Yue?" Old Madam Zhao asked again in disbelief.
“Yes, Grandmother, Yuan Hong is now the new emperor of Xiaoyue, so he can no longer return to Da Chu. However, Yuan Hong said that if Grandmother wants to go to Xiaoyue, he can send someone to pick you up at any time, and you can stay as long as you want.”
He also asked us to bring you many gifts, but we arrived first, and the gifts will arrive later.
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