Prince Li looked at Princess Tianyao, who was full of tears, and pulled the hair behind her ears, choked up and said, "Take care of yourself."
He doesn't regret doing so many wrong things at all. If he had power, he would directly rebel like the royal family overthrowing the old family. Unfortunately, he has not yet, so he can only calculate step by step.
Princess Tianyao looked at him blankly, did her father admit what he did
"No, father, you can't leave me alone." She rushed forward, hugged Prince Li tightly and cried loudly.
Prince Yuxian's family looked at their father and daughter coldly.
Hei Xuanyi continued: "The king of Li County has committed a heinous crime. He has been punished for several crimes. The crime is unforgivable. According to the law of the kingdom of the dead, his title will be cut, the palace will be sealed up, and his head will be beheaded for public display. , should be demoted to slavery, and then sent to the official family to be a slave, but because the Lou family did not participate in the struggle for power and the throne, and because the Lou family has devoted themselves to serving the court for thousands of years, only their official titles will be reduced. , Sealed up the imperial residence, demoted to common people, never to re-enter the court as an official... "
Lou Qingluo looked at Hei Xuanyi in a daze. He should be glad that the crown prince didn't kill anyone from the Lou family, but he couldn't be happy. After being stripped of his rank, it will be even more difficult for him to see this person again.
"No, I don't want my father..." Princess Tianyao turned around and kowtowed fiercely to Hei Xuan, "Cousin Prince, my father's only fascination will offend you, please, please spare my father's life, or It’s okay to use my life to save my father.”
She lost her mother since she was a child, and was raised by her father in the palm of her hand. Now that she is about to lose her father again, how can she accept it.
Prince Li's face darkened: "Miaoyi, don't say stupid things."
Prince Yuxian's family was quite hostile to Princess Tianyao and the others, but seeing her current appearance, they couldn't bear to say more mocking words.
"Brother Prince, I beg you, please don't be so cruel and let my father and daughter be separated forever."
Hei Xuanyi frowned, and sighed slightly in his heart.
Although Miaoyi is his cousin, she grew up watching her grow up just like her own sister. If King Li hadn't blamed him, he wouldn't want his cousin to lose her father again.
Princess Tianyao saw that Hei Xuanyi was indifferent, and quickly got up: "I want to find my aunt, I want to plead with my aunt, and my aunt will definitely help me, she rushed out of the punishment department at a fast speed.
Hei Xuanyi didn't stop her: "The beheading will be carried out after the Shangyuan Festival."
Prince Li laughed in a low voice without much reaction.
The guards pushed him back into the cell.
The people who were bribed by King Li were not only Mr. Huai and Mr. Xu, but also many other adults. Hei Xuanyi and others were handed over to other ministers to deal with.
On the day when the dynasty was restored, more than a dozen officials, large and small, were cut off and their mansions were sealed off. This incident caused quite a commotion. What shocked the people most was that the Wuxuan Pavilion, which has always done good deeds, was actually a murderous demon. Everyone couldn't help but feel scared, thinking that in the future, they can no longer judge a person by their appearance.
Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi came out from the Criminal Department and asked, "Mother, do you know about your execution of the Lou family? You demoted the members of the Lou family and Princess Tianyao to civilians."
"Yes, she agrees with me very much." Hei Xuanyi took his hand and said, "It's better to be demoted than to lose your life, and she also said that it doesn't matter if Princess Tianyao is demoted to a commoner or not. With us here She will not suffer too much, and fortunately the Lou family has always been loyal to our royal family and has done many things for our royal family, otherwise, they would be punished by the nine clans, and even the whole clan would be beheaded."
"The Lou family has been implicated by King Li, they must hate King Li to death."
"People are going to die, hate is useless."
Wu Ruo smiled slightly: "Yes."
The two returned to the palace road outside the Hengxing Palace, and when they passed the small palace, Nian Xia rushed out from inside: "Prince, Crown Princess, I haven't seen my son Liang Dong for ten days, I beg you Let's meet him."
Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi glanced at each other, their eyes flickered, and they pursed their lips and said, "Okay."
Nian Xia looked at him happily: "Really?"
"Of course it's true. I'll ask someone to bring Liang Dong here." Wu Ruo said to Hei Xuanyi: "Xuanyi, after you go back, ask Heixin to bring Liang Dong here."
Hei Xuanyi glanced at Wu Ruo and nodded.
Wu Ruo walked into the small palace.
Nian Xia chased after him suspiciously: "Crown Princess, you are..."
"Of course I'm staying here to monitor you. I don't want Liang Dong to be beaten by you again."
Nian Xia hastily explained, "Princess Concubine, my servants have never had a cold winter."
"Really? Then what happened last time?"
"Last time because..."
Wu Ruo interrupted her: "Forget it, what happened last time is over, don't mention it again. Are you still used to living here? Does the food here still suit your taste?"
"The maidservant is living a good life here, and the food is very tasty." Nian Xia was surprised, why this person suddenly cared about him.
Wu Ruo looked at her with a smile: "Seeing that you have gained a lot of weight recently, you should have eaten well during the new year."
Nian Xia was afraid of making too many mistakes, so he smiled instead.
"By the way, did you hear about that incident in Xiaogong?"
Nian Xia was taken aback: "What did you hear?"
"The matter of Prince Li."
Nian Xia's heart skipped a beat: "No, no."
She stayed in the small palace every day and didn't go anywhere, and no one came to talk to her, so she didn't know what happened outside.
However, this person is indeed very strange. Why did he suddenly mention Prince Li? Could it be that he found out about her and Prince Li
The more she thought about it, the more likely it was, because the little eunuch said that he wanted Prince Li to advise him, but it was so weird that he hadn't seen anyone in such a long time.
"An accident happened to King Lijun. He not only set up Wuxuan Pavilion privately, but also took bribes from many ministers. The most abominable thing is that in order to seize the supreme power, he calculated that the prince would fail, so he stole the grandson of Prince Yuxian and pretended to be the son of the prince."
Nian Xia's expression changed drastically.
Seeing her ugly face, Wu Ruo smiled with satisfaction: "Now he is locked in the prison cell of the Ministry of Punishment, and he will be beheaded for public display after the Shangyuan Festival, and the accomplices with him will have the same fate.
He really knew that Liang Dong was not her son anymore. Nian Xia's legs softened and she fell to the ground.
Wu Ruo pretended to be puzzled and looked at her: "Hey, why are you sitting on the ground?"
"Crown Princess, please forgive me." Nian Xia quickly got up and knelt down to kowtow to Wu Ruo.
"What are you doing? You are the mother of His Majesty Liang Dong, how can you kneel down at will?" Wu Ruoyuan's maid called to help Nian Xia to sit in the gazebo, and then asked the maid to pour two cups of hot water tea here.
"I, I..." Xia was hesitating whether to confess on his own before Wu Ruo did not point out the matter, suddenly, he felt his nose get hot, and two streams of heat flowed out of his nose.
She raised her hand to wipe it, and the back of her hand was covered with blood, and it couldn't stop flowing down.
Wu Ruo was stunned: "Why are you bleeding? Quickly raise your head, don't let the blood flow out. You may have eaten too much fried food recently, which caused the imbalance of yin and yang, and the internal fire is strong. If you don't mind, How about I show you?"
Nian Xia couldn't stop the bleeding even if he raised his head and threw it, he couldn't help but panic, after hearing Wu Ruo's words, he thought for a while and handed him his hand.
Wu Ruo took her pulse seriously, but couldn't find out the cause of the disease: "There is nothing wrong with her body."
"Then, why am I bleeding all the time? By the way, send the imperial doctor to show me." Nian Xia fearfully shouted to the maid beside her.
The maid looked at Wu Ruo, and when she saw Wu Ruo nodded, she went to call the imperial physician.
Seeing the blood on her face, Wu Ruo kindly said, "Would you like to plug your nose with silk to try?"
Nian Xia quickly took out the silk to stuff her nostrils.
Soon, the imperial physician was invited, but the cause could not be found out.
"Quack doctor." Nian Xia jumped up angrily.
The imperial physician was angry: "You are a little maid, how dare you disrespect the imperial physician.
"Do you know who I am? I am..." Nian Xia suddenly remembered that she was no longer Liang Dong's mother, and could no longer rely on her status as His Highness's mother to overwhelm others. Weakened.
At this time, Heixin walked into the small official courtyard with a tray and put it on the table.
Wu Ruo asked the imperial physician to go back, and then called another imperial physician to come over.
Nian Xia hurriedly thanked Wu Ruo.
Wu Ruo pointed to the cup with a smile and said, "Do you know what kind of tea these two cups are?"
Nian Xia was stunned: "What tea?"
"They used to be called sober tea, but later, a maid asked her fake son to put two pills in each of the two cups of tea, and the taste changed, so I don't know what the two cups of tea are called now. Can you taste it for me?"
In an instant, Nian Xia's face lost all color, and because of the nosebleed, her lips also paled a lot.
"This, this is not, not already..."
"Already what?" Wu Ruo hooked her lips jokingly: "Did Dandan and the others drink it already?"
Nian Xia looked at him in shock.
"Are you surprised how I know this?" Wu Ruo took out one of the cups of tea: "When you lived here, we sent someone to monitor your every move.
He recounted the process of putting medicine in the tea in Liangdong that day: "After he put the medicine, he went to the room to look for the balls, and didn't know that my people had already changed a cup of tea, so my sons didn't drink these two cups of water." , and I specially left these two cups of tea just for you to drink."
Wu Ruo's eyes suddenly sharpened, and Nian Xia was so frightened that she fell off the stool.
The two maids behind grabbed her and pinched her mouth open, and then Wu Ruo poured the tea that Wu Ruo had brought out into her mouth.
"No, don't..." Nian Xia widened her eyes in horror, feeling as if death was in front of her eyes, she was extremely scared.
The maid let go of her after filling the tea.
"Cough...cough..." Nian Xia hurriedly scratched his throat.
Wu Ruo coldly curled her lips and said, "Do you know why you bleed? That's because the candy you gave Liangdong was ground into powder and mixed into your Chinese New Year meals. At that time, I was worried that I would eat it. But I just heard you said that the food is very tasty, so I feel relieved."