Chapter 259.

“Today, Lord Xu brought lackeys to ask about the list of people entering and exiting the Imperial Pharmacy ……”

The little eunuch narrated the story, telling it step by step according to the list, Emperor Yuan Jing was silent, his eyes sunken, not knowing whether he was listening carefully or thinking elsewhere.

“The last one on the list is Jingxiu Palace, the Grand Palace Maiden beside Your Highness, Lord Xu brought his lackeys forward to ask questions and ate a closed door.”

Upon hearing this, Emperor Yuan Jing’s frozen eyes moved and seemed to be pulled back a bit of his attention.

“Lord Xu had no choice but to go to the Shaoyin Palace and seek help from His Highness Lin An …….”

Little eunuch mind floated Xu Qi’an account of the words, said naturally, “After inquiring about Jingxiu Palace’s Lang’er, Lord Xu’s face turned extremely ugly, seemingly not wanting to stay any longer, even tea did not drink, and took the lackeys to leave in a hurry …..”

“But not yet left Jingxiu Palace, that Luang’er folded back out, said Your Highness invited Lord Xu into the courtyard to catch up, thanked him for solving the case of Fu Fei, Lord Xu was originally unwilling to go to see, but Luang’er forced to stay with him for a while.” The little eunuch paused for a moment and continued:

“And after that, Your Highness dismissed everyone, and the lackeys couldn’t enter the house, they could only stay in the courtyard and wait ……”

“Slow!”

Emperor Yuan Jing’s eyes completely returned to their animation as he interrupted the little eunuch and stared at him, pondering for a few seconds before slowly saying, “Screen everyone out?”

“Back to Your Majesty, yes.”

“What did they say in the courtyard?”

The little eunuch said, “It was too far away for the lackey to hear, and he could only watch from afar as Lord Xu and Noble Consort talked in the house.”

Emperor Yuan Jing put his right hand against his lips and made a contemplative gesture, then suddenly said, “You just said that Xu Qi’an’s face turned extremely ugly after inquiring about Lang’er?”

Not waiting for the little eunuch to reply, the old eunuch’s face changed slightly and reprimanded, “Dog, how do you usually teach you?”

When reporting, never mix subjective emotions or think of misleading His Majesty, but be fair and objective.

Emperor Yuan Jing raised his hand to interrupt the fuming old eunuch.

Seeing this, the little eunuch had a bit of courage, “It is indeed hard to see.”

Emperor Yuan Jing nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, “Xu Qi’an wanted to leave, but Lang’er forced him to stay?”

“……. Yes.”

The little eunuch sensed a certain change in Emperor Yuan Jing’s attitude and carefully said, ”Lord Xu said that he was investigating the case by decree and that it was his duty to do so, and that there was no need for Your Highness to thank him.

“Luang’er said that if Lord Xu doesn’t go to see the Empress, he won’t be able to walk out of Jingxiu Palace.”

Hearing this, Emperor Yuan Jing’s eyes seemed to have essence light bursting out, this time, he thought for a long time, the bedchamber was terribly quiet, one old and two eunuchs held their breaths for fear of disturbing the deep and unpredictable emperor.

Finally, Emperor Yuan Jing slowly spoke, “How …… emotional was Xu Qi an when he left?”

These words were explained before Xu Qi’an left, but the little eunuch didn’t answer immediately, but instead pretended to think about it before saying:

“Lord Xu went out of the palace with a heavy heart.”

In order to increase credibility, he added, “In the past, when leaving the palace, Lord Xu would natter a few words with his lackeys, eyebrows raised, but today is exceptionally different, not saying half a word.”

Emperor Yuan Jing waved his hand.

“Stand down.” The old eunuch said immediately.

After the little eunuch withdrew from the bedchamber, Emperor Yuan Jing sat without a word for a long time and said, “Go, bring me Luang’er from Jingxiu Palace.”

The old eunuch answered and slowly exited the bedchamber.

………

The old eunuch took a team of guards with him, and in the light of the setting sun, he passed through the layers of palace walls and arrived at Jingxiu Palace.

The eunuch guarding the door recognized from afar that it was His Majesty’s sidekick, and greeted him, saying, “Eunuch wait a moment, I’ll go and inform Your Highness ……..”

“We are in a hurry.” The old eunuch slapped him out of the way and led the guards into the courtyard, and when they crossed the front yard, they heard a burst of crying coming from the inner courtyard.

The old eunuch stood in the inner courtyard and said in a loud voice, “Your Highness, the old slave begs to see you.”

In Noble Consort Chen’s house, a palace maid with slightly reddened eyes came out and said in a thin voice, “The empress asks you to go in.”

The old eunuch entered the house along with the palace maid and saw Chen Guifei sitting on a big chair, cupping a brocade handkerchief in her hand and wiping her eyes from time to time, her face full of sadness.

“What’s wrong with the empress?” The old eunuch was surprised.

“A subordinate beside this palace, just had a sudden illness and said no, the eunuchs didn’t save him.” Chen Guifei sadly said.

“This …..” The old eunuch consoled, “Your majesty’s condolences, what is the name of that palace maid?”

“Luang-er.”

“!!!” The old eunuch’s expression stalled.

“What is the purpose of the Grand Companion’s visit to my Jingxiu Palace?” Noble Consort Chen softly said.

The old eunuch pulled up a smile, “His Majesty sent the old slave to console the Empress, His Majesty knows that during these days, the Empress has been frightened.”

Noble Consort Chen turned her head away and said mournfully, “Your Majesty can’t even see my concubine.”

The old eunuch laughed dryly a few times, not commenting on your consort’s complaints.

He accompanied Your Highness for a few moments of small talk and casually said, “That Luang’er isn’t very old, is he?”

Although Lang’er was an old man in Jingxiu Palace, Emperor Yuan Jing had not visited his consorts for more than ten or twenty years, and the old eunuch had little impression of this personal courtesan who had unfortunately died prematurely.

“A poor child.” Noble Consort Chen’s face showed sorrow.

The old eunuch obediently said, “Let’s go take a look.”

He also had another status, that of Chief of Internal Affairs, in charge of the palace eunuchs and courtesans, but this status was a false title that came with him as Emperor Yuan Jing’s first companion.

The Deputy Chief Executive is the one who is really in charge.

After all, the Chief of Internal Affairs was so busy that it was impossible for him to wait by the emperor’s side at all times.

Saying goodbye to Noble Consort Chen, the old eunuch entered the south wing under the palace maid’s leadership and met Luang’er, who was lying on the bed with a pale face.

“Have you had a doctor look at it?”

“Back to the eunuch, it’s been looked at, and the eunuch says it’s a cerebral disease, and there’s no cure.”

The old eunuch stared at Lang’er for a long time and commanded, “Leave the person to us.”

He ordered his guards to take away Luang’er’s body and hurried back to resume his duties.

Returning to Emperor Yuan Jing’s chambers, the old emperor was still seated behind a large case covered in bright yellow silk, his face expressionless as he looked in the direction of the gate.

He didn’t react much when he saw the old eunuch cross the threshold and enter the room.

“Your Majesty, Luang Er is dead ……,” the old eunuch whispered.

After a long, long time, Emperor Yuan Jing gave a “hmm”, the emperor at the top of the power overlooking half a century, no joy, no sadness.

………..

The next day, Emperor Yuan Jing held another court meeting, civil and military officials in the hazy sky, in order to enter the noon gate, part of the stay in the plaza outside the Golden Palace, part of the stand outside the Golden Palace of the alabaster steps.

Only a very small portion of the population enters the Great Hall, and this portion, in the mouth of the storyteller, is uniformly called: the Temple, the Guns.

After the ministers entered the hall, Emperor Yuan Jing came out from the back of the hall a quarter of an hour late and sat on the dragon chair that belonged to him.

After the monarchs and ministers had played their normal game, the Minister of Justice stepped forward and said aloud, “Your Majesty, the three judicial departments have completed their verification, and the Empress is indeed the mastermind of Princess Fu’s case.

“Shangguan’s virtue is not worthy of her position, she plotted against her consort and framed the Crown Prince, I ask Your Majesty to punish her severely.”

The Secretary of the Chancery immediately came forward to second the motion.

Inside the hall, the civil officials and military generals as well as some of the honored officials seconded the motion, their voices connected.

This meant that they had already conferred yesterday, abolishing the Empress was not like abolishing the Crown Prince, it was a major matter concerning the state capital. The abolition of the empress is only a family matter of the emperor, as long as there are reasons and evidence to prove that the empress is indeed a misdemeanor, rather than the emperor’s fondness for the old, then there is no reason for the ministers, and there is no need to stop them.

Abolition of the only relationship is the identity of the fourth prince of the problem, we must know that the fourth prince is the only first son of the Yuan Jing Emperor, many people put the treasure in his body.

That part that did not second the motion was the Fourth Prince’s party.

Without waiting for Emperor Yuan Jing to take a stand, Wei Yuan stepped out and the hall immediately quieted down.

“Your Majesty, the case of Concubine Fu has another hidden agenda, the Empress is not the mastermind, the real mastermind is Huang Xiaorou, who killed Concubine Fu, and swindled the Crown Prince to the Qingfeng Palace to fake the case.”

Wei Yuan had just finished speaking when the Professional Sprayer to the Matter jumped out to retort:

“Nonsense, a palace maid can make such a shocking case? Besides, why did that Huang Xiaorou frame the Crown Prince. Wei Yuan, what do you take His Majesty for, and what do you take the temple eunuchs for.”

After saying that, he added: Please, Your Majesty, behead this fang.

The rest of the ministers have rebuked Wei Yuan, and the hall was noisy for a while.

The old eunuch held the whip in his hand, and with a strong whip, the ground made a “pop” sound, and he scolded, “Silence!”

The hall was then quiet.

The Minister of Justice and the Secretary of the Da Lisi looked at Wei Yuan with a sneer, and the officials similarly looked at Wei Yuan with sneers and mockery, as well as incomprehension and helplessness. The latter came from the Fourth Prince’s party.

For the gazes around, to the minister in the shouting and cursing, Wei Yuan, a sweeping ignore, said, “Yesterday, hosted the Fu Princess case of tongluo Xu Qi’an found out that Huang Xiaorou had been pregnant …….”

Before the words were finished, the hall resounded with another outcry.

The courtesan Huang Xiaorou was pregnant?

In the palace, apart from the guards, the only person who could truly impregnate a woman was Emperor Yuan Jing. The guards were of course impossible, those who could man the harem were all loyal to the royal family and thousands of selected elites.

And often there were several people in a group, supervising each other, so there was no possibility of cheating with a courtesan.

Then there is only one possibility ……

For a while, the eyes of the temple eunuchs looking at Emperor Yuan Jing could not help but connote.

Emperor Yuan Jing’s majestic face, his face skin gently twitched, coldly saw Wei Yuan who deliberately paused without saying anything, and said in a deep voice:

“Wei Yuan, speak on!”

Wei Yuan slowly said, “After tracing, it was found that the person who caused Huang Xiaorou to lose her body and become pregnant was the dynastic state uncle Shangguan Ming …….”

Next, Wei Yuan told the courtiers a story that he had embellished:

Huang Xiaorou, a courtesan, was abused by the State Uncle and unfortunately became pregnant, and secretly aborted afterwards, so she harbored a grudge and held back for many years, and finally conceived a plot.

Borrowing the convenience of Fu Fei’s personal palace maid, she quietly destroys the guardrail of the watchtower, taking advantage of Fu Fei’s drunkenness, swindling the crown prince to the Qingfeng Hall, laying down a dozen years, the harem’s most horrifying bureau.

After hearing about the case of Concubine Fu, the State Uncle found that Huang Xiaorou was implicated, and fearing that his beastly behavior would be exposed, he begged to the Fengqi Palace.

The queen then realized that the uncle had done this kind of unscrupulous thing, remembering the love of flesh and blood, with tears for the uncle to bear the guilt.

Finally, Wei Yuan summarized the case, “This is what happened, and Uncle Guo has confessed. Your Majesty can bring him to trial at any time.

“Ridiculous.” The Secretary of the Da Lisi snorted coldly and made a bow, “Your Majesty, as far as I know, Huang Xiaorou was murdered, if everything was plotted by her, then where is the murderer?”

The group of ministers agreed.

Wei Yuan explained without changing his face, “Huang Xiaorou still has accomplices to help her lay out a plan to implicitly refer to the Empress in the name of framing the Crown Prince.”

Upon hearing this, many ministers were moved in their hearts, and each of them developed their own associations.

If there was no such thing as State Uncle defiling Huang Xiaorou, anyone would think that the Empress was confessing because the evidence was overwhelming.

But with the guilty plea of the state uncle, the case turned around.

Whether the Empress is innocent or not is left aside for the moment, the State Uncle’s confession of guilt is available, and there is room for things to be pulled apart.

The party of the fourth prince swept away the momentum of the party, and one after another came out to speak, stating their position, supporting Wei Yuan and denouncing the uncle of the state.

Gradually, there were only two voices left in the hall, the war of words between the Crown Prince Party and the Fourth Prince Party. The Fourth Prince’s Party was headed by the Right Royal Historian of the Duzha Academy, while the Crown Prince’s Party was composed of various messy small parties.

Among the big parties, there may be those who secretly support the Crown Prince, but they will never jump out on the stage, and the big wangbang will always be hidden under the water.

After a heated tug of war, Wei Yuan said in a loud voice, “Please decide, Your Majesty.”

The bickering stopped and the group of ministers agreed: “Please decide, Your Majesty.”

Wei Yuan’s folders were submitted to the palace as early as yesterday, usually the court meeting, the folders will be handed into the palace a day in advance, so the state uncle’s confession of guilt, Emperor Yuan Jing has long been seen.

Today’s court meeting, Yuan Jingdi if you want to end the case of Princess Fu, at this time will be able to put a lid on it, if you do not want to, will be ordered to re-investigate.

Seeing that the ministers stopped arguing, Emperor Yuan Jing then opened his mouth and slowly said, “Shangguan Ming is guilty of disturbing the harem and is sentenced to death by decapitation! The Empress did not report it, and she is guilty of the same crime, but she is mindful of her bloodline, so she is excusable, and has ordered the Empress to think about it behind closed doors for three months.”

The ministers thought that this was the end, but as a result, Emperor Yuan Jing paused and continued, “The Crown Prince drunkenly broke into the Qingfeng Hall, not knowing how to behave, and was ordered to think about his life behind closed doors for half a year. Noble Consort Chen encouraged the Crown Prince to get drunk, thus causing a big disaster, demoted to Consort Chen.”

There was silence in the hall.

The ministers looked around in bewilderment, could not figure out why the Queen involved in the case of the Queen of three months; the Prince of six months. And the whole process is not related to Chen Guifei, from Guifei fell to Chen Fei, even two levels down.

Could it be that this case is related to Chen Guifei ……. The old greasers thought to themselves.

……….

This side of the court meeting just ended, not long, the old eunuch went to Fengqi Palace and Jingxiu Palace respectively to pass the decree.

When the Empress learned of this, she crouched down and wept.

Noble Consort Chen, on the other hand, received the decree with a stiff face, and as soon as the old eunuch left, she swept the table’s furnishings, along with the decree, to the ground.

In the sound of pinging, Noble Consort Chen’s towering breasts rose and fell violently, and her dignified goose egg face turned green with anger.

She spat out through gritted teeth, “Wei Yuan …..”

Then, clenching her showy fists, she said in a single word, “Xu Qi’an!”

By this time, she had come to realize that the drastic change in His Majesty’s attitude was definitely related to yesterday.

Yesterday, the old eunuch came over for no reason, on the grounds of condolence, which is not a problem, but associating today’s changes in the courtroom, it is not difficult to guess the mystery.

His Majesty is suspicious of her …….

And she had only been exposed to Xu Qi’an, from which it was presumed that it must have been that asshole kid who had secretly pulled some kind of trick.

After all the hard work and planning, he fell into the hands of a small gong.

A few minutes later, the sound of banging once again emanated from the house, silencing the courtesans and pawns in the courtyard.

…….

The day after the Fu Fei case ended, Xu Qi’an finally retrieved his beloved filly.

It was a horse with an ill-fated life, having just regained a small life that day, and after being driven away by his master, he ran and ran and ran, and was met by the Imperial Sword Guards who were patrolling the city.

The imperial sword guards took one look at the mark on the horse’s rump and thought, “Isn’t that our horse? So it was brought back to the guard camp.

This horse is indeed a special military horse for the Imperial Sword Guards, and the second uncle got it at a low price through his own connections. After buying it, he didn’t ride it for many years, so he gave it to his nephew to ride.

Subsequently, the night watchman’s office learned through the mouth of the imperial sword guards who were on duty in the area that day that they had indeed “picked up” a horse, and followed the trail to retrieve Xu Qiwen’s beloved filly.

That morning, Xu Qi’an accompanied his family to eat in the hall.

Xiao Dou Ding is off today, no need to go to school she was very happy, the breakfast ate doubly fragrant.

“Taking a day off from Mu is like picking up a treasure, I’ve never had a daughter as stupid as you in my life.” The aunt said with disgust.

“You only have two daughters in total.” Second Uncle Xu spoke up on behalf of his youngest daughter, but didn’t dare to fight with his aunt openly, and could only secretly raise a bar.

“And have the nerve to say that Suzume is so stupid that it just goes with you.”

Sure enough, Auntie repeated the same old story and put the blame on Second Uncle for why Xu Lingyin was unenlightened.

“But I just don’t want to study.” Xu Suoyin said aggressively.

“Suzume ah, you’re not stupid, don’t listen to your mother’s nonsense.” Xu Qi’an stroked her head, remembering a method taught by her teacher in her last life.

“In the future, when you don’t want to read, you imagine you have two people in your head …….”

“Huh? There’s someone in my head.” Xu Suoyin was shocked and covered her head with her two chubby hands.

“……. Imagine, big brother is talking about imagining.” Xu Qi’an took a deep breath and said in a pleasant manner, “One villain doesn’t want to read, then the other villain has to say, I like to read, I like to read.

“In the long run, you like to read.”

“Self-suggestion!” Xu New Year nodded slightly and commented, “The effect is good, I used to pick the lamp and read hard, when I was really sleepy, I would hint that I didn’t want to sleep, the effect was good.”

When the aunt heard that she had her own son’s endorsement, she became expectant of her nephew’s method and said, “Suzaku, will you try it?”

Silly Xu Suoyin cocked her head and thought for half a day, slowly nodding her head.

“Well.” The aunt asked in a hurry, actually caring most about the young girl.

“One little person in my head said, don’t want to read don’t want to read. The other little person says, Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

“……” Auntie held her hand to her forehead.

“Maybe she really isn’t suited to studying, so auntie shouldn’t force herself.” Xu Qi’an comforted.

“The day after tomorrow is the chunin exam, right?” Second Uncle suddenly said.

“Uh-huh!” Xu New Year nodded stoically.

The aunt immediately peeled a poached egg for her son and said, “With our Erlang’s education, it’s not a problem for him to pass the entrance examination. Master, the time has come for the Xu family to honor their ancestors.”

Although Xu Qi’an was now highly appreciated by Wei Yuan and had hooked up with the princess, he was ultimately a martial artist.

In this era of all things but study, the gold list is the honorable thing to do.

In this regard, even Xu Ling Yue, who favors her elder brother, agrees with her mother that if the Xu family wants to shine, it will depend on the second brother’s play in the Chun Exam.

“Second brother, whether or not our Xu family can be among the scholarly class depends on you.” Xu Lingyue smiled as she gave Erlang a dish.

Xu New Year raised his chin condescendingly.

The gas shakes cold, when will the wulf stand up, can the world still be good, everywhere filled with discrimination against the wulf ……. Xu Qi An sighed in his heart.

Thinking back to the conversation with Wei Yuan the day before yesterday, the Wu Fu system had been perfected and passed down from generation to generation, leading to today’s Nine Products. But to this day, the martial artist system had not come to an end.

The path beyond the grade has not yet been mapped out.

Thus the Wulf system does not have a Wulf God.

“According to reason, it shouldn’t be, there are the most people who go through the martial artist system, under the huge base, there will always be geniuses who come out enthusiastically, accumulating from generation to generation, it’s not possible that they can’t come out as a Martial God. Forget it, it’s too early to consider this, I’ll be happy if I can reach the fourth rank in this life.”

After breakfast, the second uncle held his helmet, put on his saber, and was about to go out.

“Wait, Second Uncle, you’re the eldest in the family, you have to stay home today.” Xu Qi’an called out to him.

Uncle Xu turned back in bewilderment, “Is today some kind of holiday?”

The aunt shook her head.

Xu Lingyue and Xu New Year looked at Xu Qi’an blankly.

Xu Qi’an then looked at her aunt and lifted her proud chin, “Today is not a holiday, but it is a day for the Xu family to shine.”

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PS: I’m not in the right state today, so I’m a little short on words. Next storyline starts tomorrow, well, not the case.

Change before you change.