Chapter 207: A Strong Medicine, Asking for Mercy from the Emperor
Go to An Le Tang at this time...
Li Yuzong asked, "Your Majesty wants to see Princess Yong?"
Emperor Wu Su said: "Bring two people here together."
Two people? Li Yuzong didn't have time to think about it, so he told Xiao Dongzi to serve him carefully, and he took his people to Anle Hall.
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Ji Qingwu was just about to change clothes in the cubicle when he heard a commotion at the door.
The palace maids who were serving their sentences stopped what they were doing and stood in several rows. Several old women greeted the people who came in first with a smile.
Mrs. Cao laughed so hard that her triangular eyes became squinted.
"What wind blew Eunuch Li here? You could have just sent someone under your command, why did you come here in person?"
Li Yuzong seldom came to places like Anletang. As soon as he entered the door, he wrinkled his nose and felt that the place smelled bad.
"What did you do to this yard? It smells so bad."
The smell of the toilet bucket that Yinxiang spilled on the ground had not yet disappeared when a maid pulled her out.
"My Lord, it was this new little bitch who didn't know the rules and wanted to throw tuberose at someone."
He added: "If Eunuch Li finds it annoying, just deal with it. It's not worth it for Eunuch to be upset about it."
Yinxiang begged for mercy while shaking her legs: "Eunuch Li, I didn't mean it."
Li Yuzong didn't look carefully at all, but looked at the surrounding rooms.
"Whether you mean it or not, you can do it as you wish. Do you really need me to teach you the rules of the palace?"
The old woman who was holding Yinxiang slapped her in the face: "The eunuch is talking, so you have no right to speak!" Yinxiang, who had never been beaten by Tao Wanyin, was dizzy for a moment.
Li Yuzong walked to the steps and said, "I am here by imperial decree. Where is the Princess of Yong?"
The entire Tao family was executed, so what else could be the reason for taking Princess Yong away at this time? Everyone knew that the princess would not survive this day.
Nanny Cao followed behind him, bending over and saying, "The princess doesn't have to do any work. She stays in the room by herself."
Li Yuzong said with a bad face: "Only Princess Yong is here, no one else?"
Madam Cao did not dare to reveal that she had accepted bribes and allowed people to come in, so she said, "How could there be anyone else? Everyone in An Le Hall is in front of the eunuch, and there is only the princess in the room."
At this time, Yinxiang shouted loudly: "There is another person who sneaked in! Eunuch Li, I saw him, please let me go."
"Let her go." Li Yuzong looked at her a few more times and recognized that she was the maidservant of Princess Yong.
He asked, "Are you Yinxiang, who is beside Princess Yong?"
When Yinxiang saw that Li Yuzong recognized her, she struggled to rush over, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"I had no choice but to follow this sinner before. Now I am sober and have nothing to do with this sinner."
Li Yuzong ignored her words of surrender and asked, "Who did you see come in?"
Yinxiang said, "I saw someone sneaking into the yard with Mrs. Cao. I don't know what big thing she was plotting with the guilty woman in the house. I haven't seen her leave. Please be merciful and spare my life."
Li Yuzong glanced at Madam Cao, the old woman couldn't even stand straight.
"Father-in-law...I just, just..."
Li Yuzong felt relieved and said, "Hurry up and invite the person out."
Madam Cao responded, "I will go right away."
The old woman knocked on the door vigorously several times.
Li Yuzong hissed and said angrily, "Why are you knocking so loudly?"
Then he knocked gently on the door a few times, and a smile appeared on his face, which had been tense since he entered Anle Hall.
"Miss Ji, are you there?"
Ji Qingwu wanted to continue listening, maybe he was not looking for her.
But when she heard Eunuch Li calling her, she realized that the emperor already knew she was there.
Prince Yong and Wei Ting were still kneeling in front, and she had meddled in the affairs of the Tao family, so she would inevitably be scolded if she went there.
Ji Qingwu gently pushed the door open. When Li Yuzong saw her rough outfit of wearing a grey coarse cloth dress and with her hair tied up behind her head, he cried out.
"Miss Ji, this dress is not suitable for you to wear. Go and change into something else."
Ji Qingwu asked in a low voice: "Are Prince Yong and the others still kneeling?"
Li Yuzong nodded: "Your Majesty is still angry, let me invite the princess and you to come over."
Ji Qingwu thought about it and decided not to change his clothes: "Let's go there quickly."
Several people walked to the entrance of Qinzheng Hall.
At first glance, the two figures in front of me had very different postures.
Prince Yong was still kneeling, but leaning sideways on the young eunuch next to him, with a cushion under his knees.
In contrast, Wei Ting knelt with great imposingness and calmness, like an old monk in meditation.
Ji Qingwu took a look, then pursed his lips and turned his head away.
She ignored the rules and walked to the side of Li Yuzong and the eunuchs, trying to use their bodies to shield herself.
Ji Qingwu didn't want anyone to know that she was having an affair with Princess Yong, and she didn't want Wei Ting to have any idea of her relationship with the emperor.
Tao Wanyin had already seen Prince Yong, but she subconsciously turned her head away and pretended not to see him.
The servant was sharp-eyed and saw Tao Wanyin first. He said to Prince Yong, "Your Majesty, look! The princess is here!"
Zhao Minghong said, "Why are you making such a fuss? I am not yet unconscious from my kneeling. It is not the time to use drastic measures yet."
Just now, the two of them had agreed on a secret signal. When they saw Prince Yong about to fall, they would shout this sentence. It was guaranteed to be more effective than any magic medicine.
Although Zhao Minghong's legs were weak, his temper was strong. He glanced at Wei Ting who was kneeling like a pine tree beside him.
The words came out of his mouth: "As long as General Wei can hold on, I can accompany you."
If it weren't for the deal he had made with Ji Qingwu, and for the safety of his wife and children, Zhao Minghong would never have endured this long.
The young eunuch pointed at the figure that had walked to their side and shook Prince Yong, trying to make him sober up.
"My Lord, look, the princess is right in front of you!"
When Tao Wanyin heard the eunuch's words, she misstepped and staggered.
Then, she felt a gaze hotter than the midday sun, shining directly on her back, and her spine seemed to hurt.
Zhao Minghong knelt straight up all of a sudden. His legs didn’t hurt and his feet weren’t weak. He could kneel for another three hundred rounds.
Ji Qingwu quickly lowered his head and quickly followed Eunuch Li into the hall.
Wei Ting opened his eyes at some point, and his gaze followed the figure entering the hall.
After Ji Qingwu entered the hall, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Yuzong said, "Your Majesty, the two people from Anle Hall have been brought here." After saying that, he retreated to the Panlong Pillar and waited.
Tao Wanyin and Ji Qingwu bowed together.
Emperor Wu Su lowered his eyes and looked at the two women in the hall, then his gaze shifted to one of them, and his brows wrinkled slightly.
Ji Qingwu lowered his head and did not dare to make eye contact with the people in the hall.
Tao Wanyin knelt down again, her voice shaking as she spoke: "I beg the emperor to have mercy on me."
On the way here, she had thought of thousands of words to say, but when she really got close to the emperor, she could only say these few words.
Ji Qingwu raised his eyes quietly.
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