newbobooks Chapter 592 No matter how many people come, they will never come back!
Chapter 592 No matter how many people come, they will never come back!
The queen's hair was covered with pearls and hair ornaments, but in panic she lost all her composure and her hair jingled.
However, the people from the Imperial Household Department did not listen to her orders at all and arrested the people anyway.
"I tell you to stop!"
The Queen angrily shouted, "Wang Quan, what are you going to do? Are you going to rebel?"
"I am the mistress of this harem after all. If you don't even take me seriously, aren't you afraid that I will take you down too?"
Wang Quan then pretended to bow respectfully to the Queen and said, "Your Majesty, I am only following your orders."
"Although you are the master of the harem, I still obey your majesty's orders, because your majesty is the master of this great Chu, right?"
"Please don't make things difficult for me."
Queen: "Is this palace embarrassing you?"
"Now you want to arrest most of the palace servants. Who is making things difficult for whom?"
"I'm asking you, what crime did these people commit? Why are they suddenly coming here to arrest them all?"
"Did anyone in this palace violate the Heavenly Law or something?"
"You are deliberately trying to make an enemy of me!"
The king merely pretended to be afraid of the queen's anger.
There was always a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
He raised his head and stared intently at the Queen, answering word by word: "Your Majesty, you have wronged me."
"I am also following your Majesty's orders to purge those servants in your palace who are spreading evil and misleading the people, who are unable to serve you properly, and who only know how to lead you astray."
"Please don't let down His Majesty's kindness."
The Queen stepped back in shock.
"Your Majesty?"
Since he is the Emperor of Chu, there is no way for him to stop him.
But how could she be willing?
Moreover, the Emperor of Chu had never treated her like this before. Today, he was repeatedly trying to humiliate the Queen, and the Queen really couldn't accept it for the time being.
"What exactly does your majesty mean? Is there some misunderstanding here?!"
"They have all followed me for many years. It's impossible..."
Wang Quan: "These servants in your palace don't know the rules. They've been running around all day and have even run to the vicinity of Your Majesty's Qianyuan Palace."
"If it wasn't Your Majesty's deliberate instructions, then they must have disobeyed the Master's daily instructions to do something that would damage Your Majesty's reputation, right?"
"After all, if you hadn't dared to go to His Majesty's palace to inquire about the news, how would you have known that the Princess of Yue had entered the palace?"
"Your Majesty secretly summoned the Princess of Yue to the palace to discuss the matter of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yue being on the battlefield. No one else in the palace except those in Qianyuan Palace was supposed to know this news."
"And yet, Your Majesty, the people in your palace were able to precisely intercept the Princess of Yue on her way out of the palace. Eunuch Ji, did you not wrongly accuse me of this?"
"Your Majesty, your information is so powerful, isn't it because the people in your palace are all disobedient and reckless, ruining your reputation!"
"These slaves all deserve to die!"
"Now they're even spreading gossip about the Princess of Yue and Your Majesty."
"His Majesty said that if any more gossip about the Princess of Yue gets out, it will chill the hearts of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yue, who is still suppressing the rebels outside the city. That's why he wants to deal with this matter thoroughly to show His Majesty's attitude of wanting to be a wise monarch."
"Empress, His Majesty has saved your face by doing this. After all, he hasn't summoned you to question him personally."
"what do you think?"
"Take everyone away!"
Wang Quan waved his hand and left with most of the palace maids in the Queen's palace.
The Queen shouted in vain, "Wang Quan! You eunuch, how dare you humiliate me like this!"
"Come to the Japanese Palace, and I will never let you go!"
After Wang Quan left, the queen fell to the ground.
"His Majesty--"
She pinched her palms, her heart filled with hatred.
"You have such a hateful heart—"
It was the sudden appearance of Li Wu and his wife, these two untouchables, that changed everything!
"Someone is coming."
"Send another letter back to my brother!"
The next day, Li Qingluo woke up early to hear Madam Zheng say, "Miss, we caught two big rats last night."
Li Qingluo: "What big rat?"
Nanny Zheng blinked mysteriously, "The big rat from the Yongning Marquis's mansion."
Li Qingluo paused in putting on her clothes.
"Queen?"
"It seems she can no longer hold back."
"How stupid."
Her son is the crown prince.
She is the queen.
Although the crown prince was driven off the throne just one day after he ascended the throne, the Emperor of Chu did not vent his anger on the crown prince because of this.
Doesn’t this reveal his attitude?
It is only a matter of time before the prince ascends the throne.
Could it be that the King of Chu has other useful sons?
They just need to wait for the right opportunity to be the final winner. Wouldn't it be nice to take this opportunity to win over court officials and win the hearts of the people?
I don't know what happened in the harem yesterday when I left. They must have felt that Duan Rongshi and I were in the way, so they even dared to come to the Nangong Mansion to spy.
"What about people?"
"Last night, he was caught by Killer Fourteen and Killer Twenty, and his throat was slit. It looked like he was looking for the main courtyard, but he ran into them before he even got there."
Li Qingluo: "Throw the body quietly back to the Yongning Marquis' Mansion."
"If they dare to come again, kill them one by one. If they come in pairs, kill them both."
"No matter how many people come, they will never return. Understand?"
Madam Zheng nodded excitedly, "I understand."
After Li Qingluo had breakfast, he went to see Xuan Cang again.
"Brother, are you feeling better today?"
Xuan Cang does look better today.
He nodded towards Li Qingluo: "Junior Sister, do you have anything else to ask me?"
Li Qingluo: "Those who are chasing you all the way from the Western Regions, they are the subordinates of Princess Anar, right?"
Xuan Cang: "You are right."
"Princess Anar knew I had escaped, so she sent people to try to stop me as well."
"There were about thirty of them at the beginning, and when they chased me to Nan'an, there were only seven or eight left."
"But, they should have been solved by Junior Sister now, right?"
Li Qingluo: "Yes. The only survivor took the opportunity to bite his tongue and commit suicide."
"Brother, Master asked you to bring the jade pendant to me, so he must want me to save him."
"Saving Master is my unshirkable duty, so I'm determined..."
Before Li Qingluo could finish her words, Xuan Cang stopped her.
"No! Wait a minute, Junior Sister."
"I think you must have misunderstood."
"Master knows that you can't escape with your status, and even if you are smart and wise, he won't easily disrupt your life and make you run around for him."
"So I came to find you, not to ask you to save him."
"Master, I just want you to help him find something."
"Then, let me take you to the Western Regions."
"With something like this, Master will definitely be able to escape."
Borrow something?
Li Qingluo didn't understand. At this time, what did his master want that was more important than asking him to rescue him?
"I wonder if I have anything that I can lend to Master... and help him escape from that princess?"
She looked confused and puzzled.
Cang Xuan, like her, was actually a little suspicious.
"I'm not really sure about this."
"The master only said that he wanted an old painting."
"The older this painting gets, the better."
"The person in the painting has an extremely stunning appearance, and there is a red mole between her eyebrows."
"Junior sister, do you know who it is?"
Li Qingluo's face was filled with shock.
Is this referring to Duan Rongshi or...my mother?
The older the better?
That is the portrait of my mother!
And there is a red mole between the eyebrows, and the appearance is stunning and peerless. This must be referring to the mother!
But why does Master want Mother’s portrait?
It's a portrait from decades ago.
What does this have to do with his ability to escape from the princess?
He even made Cang Xuan go through so much trouble to find him with a token of trust, just for a painting?
Li Qingluo was just full of doubts when Que'er ran over excitedly.
"Girl, His Highness is back!"
"Your Highness has won a great victory and has returned to the city. He is now at the city gate, receiving the people's kneeling greetings and respects!"
finally came back?
Li Qingluo stood up happily and was about to leave when he remembered that Cang Xuan was still there.
She immediately turned to Cang Xuan and said, "Brother, regarding the portrait, I will definitely give you an answer before tonight."
After saying that, she lifted her skirt and left happily.
Watching her leave, Cang Xuan's eyes were filled with indescribable loneliness.
"Master, it would have been great if I had met Junior Sister earlier."
"Unfortunately, she already has a lover, and her heart has already been promised to him."
Thinking about it, he smiled self-deprecatingly and shook his head.
"Our identities are completely different, why dwell on these regrets?"
"It's better to leave as soon as possible..."
The sound faded away with the wind, and no one in this world would know these silent thoughts.
Li Qingluo took a carriage to the street.
Looking at the lively crowd, everyone's face was filled with joy and excitement.
She couldn't help but smile.
"Have you heard? The King of Yue could have suppressed the rebels on the first day, but not only did he not do so, he even fought with them for several days. Do you know why?"
"Why, why? Tell me quickly."
"I heard that he forced these rebels into a valley and locked them up without even moving a single soldier."
"Without food or water, the rebels gradually couldn't stand it anymore. Finally, the King of Yue personally led his men in and captured the rebel leader!"
"Then, after a fight with the leader, he actually admitted defeat and said he was willing to exchange his life for everyone else's."
"What was the result? Was he killed?"
"of course not!"
"Not only did he not kill him, the King of Yue also subdued him, saying that he was a man of great loyalty and righteousness."
"This, won't be like inviting a wolf into the house?"
"What the hell. Now these rebels are outside the city, and the King of Yue seems to want to form them into an army."
"It depends on whether the emperor is willing."
Everyone thought of the tyrant's brutal behavior and felt worried for the King of Yue.
"Your Majesty ordered him to go out of the city to suppress the rebellion, but he has recruited all these rebels. Your Majesty, don't you think you have been fooled?"
"If he can suppress it in this way, isn't it still suppression? As long as there's no bloodshed or casualties, he's a good general! After all, whose son really wants to die?"
"That's right, it's not easy to win people's hearts. It's not as good as harvesting heads and making people's lives miserable."
"King of Yue! King of Yue!"
"King of Yue——"
The people of Nan'an City never thought that the threat fifty miles away could be ended without even shedding blood.
So, everyone was very excited when they heard about it.
If they really broke into the city, the princes and nobles would close their doors and their servants and guards would fight to the death to protect them, so they might not have anything to fear from losses.
But aren't these innocent ordinary people in the city the ones who suffer the most?
Naturally, there were also people in the crowd who cursed the King of Yue for being nothing but a fool who had no blood in his veins and was just an opportunistic fool.
Li Qingluo heard it all.
"Go, write down who these people are!"
She wanted to make a note in a small notebook to see if these people would still look the same in the future.
Sha San was about to go out trying to hold back his laughter when Sha Yi came over with difficulty, holding a letter in his arms and covering his chest.
"Miss, there's a letter from Jinling."