Chapter 288 So, just commit suicide!

[For the sake of Sixth Brother and Father, Jiujiu must find Sister-in-law Xiaoyun immediately.]

Jiujiu didn’t want to sleep anymore and went to find Xia Xiaoyun.

I heard that Imperial Doctor Qing arranged for Xia Xiaoyun to live in the Imperial Hospital temporarily.

At this moment, Jiujiu went straight to the Imperial Hospital and found Qingzi who was forced to be on duty. She asked Qingzi where Xia Xiaoyun lived specifically and which room in the Imperial Hospital she lived in.

But Qingzi rubbed his dark circles, hesitantly, and couldn't answer for a long time.

Jiujiu was very puzzled. She said, "Aunt Qing, didn't you arrange a place for Sister-in-law Xiaoyun to live? Now, you can't even tell me where she lives?"

"Don't you want to tell Jiujiu?"

Jiujiu looked at Qingzi suspiciously and was a little angry.

The little girl put her hands on her hips, pouted her lips, and snorted arrogantly.

"No." Qingzi looked at the moon in the sky. It was already midnight, why wasn't the little princess sleeping? Did she come to her place? Children are always troublesome. Qingzi sighed and said, "Jiujiu, how could I not want to tell you where she is."

"I am, I am..."

Qingzi thought for a long time, but nothing came out.

She just said, "Jiujiu, go back! Don't get involved in this matter. You are a child and you won't understand adult matters."

When Qingzi said these words, his expression was serious, and he kept pinching the corners of his clothes with both hands, looking very embarrassed.

"How could I not understand? I understand everything."

"Even if I don't understand, you tell me and I'll understand!"

Jiujiu said anxiously.

"Oh..." Qingzi sighed repeatedly, not knowing how to persuade Jiujiu.

"Jiujiu, please don't make things difficult for your Aunt Qing." Qingzi said, "Your Aunt Qing only has one head, it's not enough to be chopped off." Goudan still needs her care, she can't lose her life just because of her carelessness and disobeying the emperor's will.

"All right."

When Jiujiu heard Qingzi's words, she left obediently and did not embarrass Qingzi anymore.

Jiujiu then went to ask other people in the Imperial Hospital.

Sister-in-law Xiaoyun was in the Imperial Hospital before, and the people there must have known her movements.

However, when Jiujiu mentioned this matter, the people from the Imperial Hospital were like they had seen a ghost. They refused to say anything and kept their mouths shut. They also found excuses to leave in a hurry, as if they were trying to avoid her.

"This is weird, why are they all like this, one or two at a time?"

"You won't say anything?"

"Did the emperor give them a death order? They are not allowed to tell anyone about Sister-in-law Xiaoyun's whereabouts?"

"Yes, that must be it."

Jiujiu looked solemn.

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At this moment, in a remote and deserted palace.

Xia Xiaoyun has been locked up here for a long time. She cries out to the heavens and the earth but no one responds. No one even gives her a sip of water.

She hadn't eaten much or drunk any water for the whole day, and now she was hungry, thirsty and tired.

"Let me out, let me out!"

Xia Xiaoyun knocked on the door hard and shouted.

But there was still no response from outside, only the echo from the empty room where she was.

Xia Xiaoyun had been listening to this echo for the entire afternoon. It was a truly despairing sound.

She started crying.

She couldn't understand why this happened.

All of a sudden, after entering the palace, Da Zhuang disappeared and she was locked up for no apparent reason.

She didn't do anything bad!

Why lock her up?

It's so empty here, so quiet, so dark, so cold, and so scary.

Xia Xiaoyun shouted for help: "Da Zhuang, where are you? Where are you? I want to see you."

"I don't want to be here alone."

"I'm scared. Can you take me home? I want to go home."

Still no one responded to Xia Xiaoyun.

Xia Xiaoyun became even more frightened. She sat on the ground trembling, stroking her bulging belly, sweating profusely.

Outside, Emperor Zhaoning came over.

Emperor Zhaoning had been selecting for a long time and had chosen a noble lady with a good family background and beautiful looks to marry Dazhuang to make up for the debt he had owed to Dazhuang over the years.

In this way, if he and the queen were no longer around, they would no longer be able to protect Da Zhuang. However, his new wife and her maternal family could also protect him.

But now Da Zhuang's wife is just a peasant girl with nothing. She can't help Da Zhuang at all, and will even bring shame to him.

If Da Zhuang continued to be with her, he would inevitably be criticized, talked about, despised and looked down upon by people in the capital.

He couldn't bear to see his son suffer like that.

So, he came to deal with Xia Xiaoyun.

Fuan stepped forward, opened the gate of the palace, and let Emperor Zhaoning in.

After Emperor Zhaoning went in, the door of the palace bedroom was finally opened. The moonlight from outside shone onto Xia Xiaoyun's face as she sat on the ground, making her face look particularly pale.

Xia Xiaoyun turned her head and looked at the group of people coming in the moonlight.

The leader was tall and indifferent, exuding the aura of a superior. He was intimidating without even getting angry, and exuded a strong sense of oppression.

The people following behind him all had stern faces and seemed unable to smile at all, which was a bit scary.

Xia Xiaoyun stood up.

Fu'an ordered people to light up all the lights in the palace. Finally, the palace was no longer dark, and Xia Xiaoyun could finally see the face of the person who came.

"Who are you?"

Xia Xiaoyun looked at Emperor Zhaoning with unfamiliarity.

Emperor Zhaoning said, "Da Zhuang's biological father."

"Biological father?" After hearing this, Xia Xiaoyun looked at Emperor Zhaoning seriously.

Emperor Zhaoning's eyebrows and eyes are indeed somewhat similar to Dazhuang, but people who are not familiar with Dazhuang usually can't see it.

This resemblance, though it exists, is too little.

Fu An immediately scolded, "How dare you look directly at the emperor?"

Xia Xiaoyun quickly retracted her gaze, not daring to look at him again. Based on the result of her observation just now, she said, "Your Majesty, you are indeed not an ordinary person."

"It's good that you know." Emperor Zhaoning said with indifference.

Fu'an led Emperor Zhaoning to the main seat in the palace hall and served him tea.

Emperor Zhaoning took a sip of tea, hesitated for a while, and finally spoke. He said to Xia Xiaoyun: "If Dazhuang was not a prince, but just an ordinary person's son, I would have no objection to him marrying you."

"But now, Da Zhuang's true identity is the sixth prince of the dynasty, and he has sixteen brothers."

"Xia Xiaoyun, if you continue to be his wife, he will never be able to hold his head up high for the rest of his life. He will be accused of marrying a peasant girl of low status. In the future, when I can no longer protect him, the internal strife in the royal family will kill him directly."

"Do you wish that?"

Xia Xiaoyun didn't say anything.

“Parents who love their children plan for their future.”

"For the sake of his reputation as a prince, and for his safety for the rest of his life, I must find him a powerful wife and family to protect him. So, you, commit suicide!"

Emperor Zhaoning said without allowing any rebuttal.