Chapter 87 The truth that is about to burst out
The red gate of the East Palace was tightly closed, with only the copper bells on the eaves swaying in the wind.
Luo Xifeng knocked on the door three times, and the East Palace steward came out, "Your Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Crown Princess were summoned to the palace at noon. Your Highness left a message, if Lord Luo comes, to proceed to the palace immediately."
Chu Yangyang tightened her grip on the hem of her skirt.
My father entered the palace yesterday, and today the Crown Prince and his wife were urgently summoned. This coincidence is like a net that is gradually tightening.
"Lord Luo, we must go to the palace."
Luo Xifeng said, "I need to go to the East Palace first to confirm something."
After saying that, he asked the housekeeper to take him into the back kitchen of the East Palace.
When he came out, Chu Yangyang saw that his face was visibly heavy.
She stepped forward and asked, "Lord Luo, what have you found?"
Luo Xifeng said coldly, "I already know the whole story."
Chu Yangyang asked anxiously, "What's the matter? About the Luo family?"
He nodded, "Go to the palace first."
The carriage galloped through the triple palace gates.
Chu Yangyang looked at the Mocking Wind Beast squatting on the eaves of the Golden Palace in the distance, its fangs facing the red clouds in the sky.
In the second half of the original book, Chu Yangyang did not pay attention to the political intrigue part, and she was not very clear about who killed the Luo family.
Because of her appearance, the Chu family's ending of decline was changed, but it seemed that the huge plot of the original book had not really changed.
It seems that the Prime Minister's Mansion is in trouble, isn't it inevitable?
So is her death also the final result?
Chu Yangyang looked at Luo Xifeng who was sitting silently on the side. She might still die.
The carriage soon arrived at the palace gate. The eunuch in front of the palace gate had been waiting for a long time, as if he knew that the two of them would come.
"Lord Luo, Princess, please follow me."
The atmosphere in the imperial study was tense.
"Chu Shiyuan, the guilty minister, what else do you have to say?"
Chu Yangyang stepped over the threshold with her skirt lifted up, and the old emperor was throwing the memorial to the ground.
The father with a pale face was kneeling in the imperial study, and the queen was sitting on the right side of the dragon throne, with the red nail polish on her fingertips brighter than blood.
Crown Prince Li Rongjing and Crown Princess Bai Yingchun stood aside, lowering their heads and not daring to say a word.
"Your humble servant, I pay my respects to Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Chu Yangyang and Luo Xifeng knelt upright.
Seeing Chu Yangyang and Luo Xifeng coming, the old emperor relaxed his expression and suppressed his emotions, "Look at what you two have done, father and daughter, pretending to be nice and putting on a show in front of me. Ha, you are so bold."
Chu Yangyang was still confused. "I don't know what crime I have committed. Please explain it to me, Your Majesty."
The Queen sighed softly and pointed to the secret letter on the imperial desk. "The remnants of the Third Prince's followers have accused your father of conspiring with the Third Prince to rebel."
The old emperor then threw the secret letter in Chu Yangyang's face and said angrily, "Look for yourself!"
Chu Yangyang picked up the letter and glanced at it. It turned out to be about this.
She read carefully, and when she looked up, there was no trace of panic. "Your Majesty, this handwriting is really imitated."
The emperor paused, narrowed his eyes, and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Chu Yangyang unfolded the secret letter and pointed at a character. "Your Majesty, please look at this character 'Yang'. A great monk once judged my horoscope and found that the five elements lack water, but not too much. Therefore, when my father wrote my character 'Yang', he would change the three water drops to two."
"And the character 'Yang' here clearly has three water drops. This letter is a forgery and not from my father."
"If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can look through my father's memorials over the years." Chu Yangyang took off the jade pendant from her waist and presented it to me. "This was given to me by Your Majesty on my tenth birthday. It has the character 'Yang Yang' carved on it by my father himself, and it's missing a little water."
The eunuch quickly ran down and gave the jade pendant to the old emperor.
The old emperor stroked the word "Yang Yang" engraved on the back of the jade pendant and remained silent.
The Crown Prince knelt and said, "Father, three years ago, when I was assassinated during the Autumn Hunt, a man in black warned me. That man was none other than Prime Minister Chu! The assassin's arrow was aimed at my back, but it was Prime Minister Chu's personal guard who shot the poisoned arrow away."
He ripped open his shirt, revealing a hideous scar just below his collarbone. "If Prime Minister Chu hadn't sent me the antidote pills in time, I would have died long ago."
The Queen dug her fingertips into the carved patterns on the armrest, pursed her lips, and said nothing.
Crown Princess Bai Yingchun also chimed in, "When the rebels broke through the side gate of the Eastern Palace, it was Prime Minister Chu who led his troops in. If it weren't for Prime Minister Chu, everyone in the Eastern Palace, including Rui'er, would have perished at the hands of the Third Prince."
Speaking of this, Bai Yingchun still felt a little scared.
Chu Shiyuan raised his eyes slightly, glanced in the direction of the queen, then suddenly lowered his head and sat limply on his kneeling calves.
"Thank you, Crown Prince and Crown Princess, for testifying for me. However, I feel ashamed of you."
Chu Shiyuan seemed to have made up his mind. When he raised his eyes, they were filled with disappointment and determination. "This old minister deserves death. I once intended to assist His Royal Highness the Third Prince. This old minister has no excuse. Please punish me, Your Majesty."
"However, I hope that the Emperor will spare everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion for the sake of this old minister who has stopped at the brink of death. Yangyang and Xifeng are innocent, and I beg for mercy."
After saying that, Chu Shiyuan bowed again and again.
Chu Yangyang was puzzled and knelt down next to Chu Shiyuan. "Father, why do you say that? Why are you admitting to something you didn't do?"
She held her father's arm, and Chu Shiyuan held the back of her hand, his voice revealing deep fatigue and guilt.
"It's your father who has let you and your mother down. Just pretend that I'm not your father."
After saying that, he cruelly pushed Chu Yangyang's hand away. She almost fell down, but fortunately Luo Xifeng caught her.
Chu Yangyang was puzzled. She looked at the Queen and saw that she was biting her lip and looking deeply at Chu Shiyuan. There was a hint of...
An inexplicable feeling.
Chu Yangyang was shocked.
Could it be that my father and the queen are still in love?
After calming down for a moment, Chu Yangyang whispered a few words in her father's ear.
Chu Shiyuan suddenly looked up and looked at the queen in disbelief.
Chu Yangyang said, "Father, there are over a hundred people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, including your own flesh and blood relatives. Are you really unwilling to tell the truth?"
Chu Shiyuan was shocked for a moment and clenched his hands into fists.
The Queen was a little panicked. "Prime Minister Chu, you must think twice before you act. The lives of everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion depend on your decision."
These words sounded even more threatening.
Chu Shiyuan stared at the queen in disbelief and blurted out, “Yongning, do you know what you are saying?”
Hearing Chu Shiyuan call out the queen's maiden name, the old emperor couldn't help but frown and slammed his hand on the imperial desk, "Prime Minister Chu, why don't you tell the truth!"
Chu Yangyang advised, "Father, we are your real family. You should know how to distinguish between what is more important and what is less important."
Chu Shiyuan gritted his teeth and refused to give in.
Luo Xifeng suddenly chuckled, attracting everyone's attention.
Luo Xifeng's usually cold voice was tinged with ice. "Or, Prime Minister Chu, please explain why the Luo Heting family of imperial physicians were tragically wiped out ten years ago?"
Luo Xifeng suddenly lifted his robe and knelt. "Your Majesty, I am a relative of the Luo family back then. When I was a child, I learned from a close attendant that the entire Luo family was convicted of a crime. This was a false accusation. The head of the Luo family, Luo Heting, was wrongfully convicted of murdering the Empress Dowager De. It was also Prime Minister Chu who sentenced her to death and convicted the Luo family."
"Your Majesty, I dare to ask Your Majesty to reopen this case for the Luo family and give us justice."
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