The news that Yan's home was confiscated and imprisoned was like a thunderbolt from the blue, announcing that the storm was finally coming.
"This...how is this possible..."
Like everyone who heard the news, Pingyang Hou's first reaction was to be stunned, but he quickly figured it out. The thing was not sudden, or in other words, the events that he originally thought were weird finally happened. It turns out that the emperor has gradually shown his impatience these days, but the arrogant Zhu Yan did not notice it. In other words, without Zhu Chunming who truly understood that the Sacred Heart was at the helm of the Zhu Party, there was no one in the Zhu Party. People can clearly understand the Sacred Heart and then use it for themselves.
Zhu Xian was imprisoned, and after two months of turmoil, he was convicted and executed. After this verdict was handed down, everyone was shocked again.
No one expected that the emperor would actually issue this order. According to everyone's guess, he would be exiled thousands of miles away at most. Unexpectedly, he would be confiscated and exterminated.
The emperor abandoned the relationship between emperor and subject that had existed for decades. Before the anniversary ceremony of Zhu Chunming, who had served him for decades, he beheaded all his descendants. The only ones who survived were Zhu Chunming's old wife and a grandson. This is enough to show that The emperor was merciful and would not let his Zhu family die off.
Since the emperor had decided so, the officials who received the order unceremoniously tore off the pretense of gentleness, letting the humiliation and resentment that had been accumulated for a long time burst out in an instant. Revenge was like a flood, sweeping over the sky and overwhelming the sky.
Within a month, more than half of the members of the Zhu Party, regardless of their official positions, were uprooted and expelled from the court. They were beheaded, their families were broken, and their families were exiled.
That month, the entire capital city was shrouded in a howl of ghosts and wolves. How many families were separated, and how many high-ranking nobles and nobles turned into criminals overnight. They were pulled out and sold as official slaves. The status they once held high and envied others turned out to be nothing more than an imaginary attic. Accompanied by the joy and anger of the builder, it suddenly collapsed and turned into ashes.
It doesn’t matter what aristocratic family you are, as long as you dare to have anything to do with the Zhu family, there will be people who will fight with you. This is an opportunity to eliminate evil spirits, and it is also an opportunity to show that you will leave your name in history. The big ones and the small ones are eager to express their absolute loyalty. Officials were all-pervasive and worked tirelessly day and night to eliminate evil and evil in the official administration of the Qingming Dynasty during the Zhou Dynasty.
Among them, Pingyang Houfu was targeted.
"Nonsense! Nonsense! What a big hat!" Marquis Pingyang looked livid as he faced the officials who came to accuse him, "How could I be colluding with Zhu Danghang!"
Officials have grown tired of hearing this kind of talk these days.
"If there is no evidence, will I frame the Marquis?" The officials said expressionlessly, waving their hands, "Please, the Marquis, come with us..."
"If you have anything to say, let Kang Yanzhang come and tell me! You are just trying to bite me randomly! You are greedy and slanderous!" Pingyang Marquis was shocked and angry. When did these smooth officials dare to be so rude to these iron-clad princes? .
"Master Kang has something I want to ask Lord Marquis..." The officials were not afraid at all, with a slight smile of contempt on their faces.
"What are you talking about?" Pingyang Hou Tie asked with a livid face.
"Master Kang wants me to ask you, please provide those slaves who were imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment to correct Gu Hai and Gu Cunzhi." The official said calmly.
Marquis Pingyang's face suddenly turned pale.
Each of us will do something inadvertently. Of course we do these things based on the principle of benefiting ourselves, but many times, our behavior will become a double-edged sword. There is a good side, but when it is changed, an environment, it may turn out to be bad.
For example, Marquis Pingyang was determined to get rid of the Gu family brothers and sisters. Those slaves were collected by him. All his actions at that time were understandable for the sake of the royal family's reputation, but the premise was that in the eyes of the emperor, the assassinated Zhu Chunming was still pathetic. The victim, Zhu Xun, who lost his father, was still a pitiful weakling worthy of love and mercy, but now everything has changed. The former victim has become a heinous criminal who confiscated his family and exterminated his family, so...
"What happened to me? I didn't do it for the Zhu family! I did it for the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty! To eliminate the bandits! For the sake of the royal family's purity! If the victim were anyone, I, Pingyang Marquis Mansion, would do the same!" Pingyang Hou shouted sharply, sneering.
He guessed that the Gu family must be seizing on this and suing him desperately! This is their counterattack! The centipede is dead but not stiff! Do they think they can deceive the emperor by crying a few words about injustice and saying a few words of sorrow and anger
"But..." The official smiled coldly, "Those servants said that it was you, Lord Marquis, who threatened them with their wives and children to make them give false evidence to frame the Gu family brothers and sisters..."
"What?" Pingyang Hou was stunned for a moment.
It turns out...the real counterattack is here!
To persuade some people to sue their old masters, it is natural to use some means. This is true, but what they testified is also true. How come it turned out to be evidence against him? !
"This is slander! Slander!" Hou Pingyang shouted through gritted teeth.
"If you are not filthy or slanderous, please go to the Criminal Department and tell me." The officials stopped being wordy and waved their hands, and the officials behind them put on the posture of inviting people.
"I want to enter the palace to see the emperor!" Pingyang Hou gritted his teeth and sneered.
Marquis Pingyang no longer cares to think about how things turned out like this. The most important thing right now is that he must not be taken from home to the Ministry of Punishment. In this case, even if everything is fine in the end, he will lose face.
"Don't you know, Lord Marquis? His Majesty was unwell and moved to the Xiyuan Villa to recuperate. He didn't see anyone. All matters were left to His Highness the Crown Prince..." The official showed a contemptuous smile again, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has personally granted the imperial edict to Lord Kang. In charge of this joint trial of the three departments, no one is allowed to resist the order and obstruct it!”
Marquis Pingyang felt as if a ladle of cold water had been poured on his heart, and his face turned pale. It seemed that what happened this time was far beyond his expectation, and it was very bad...
Could it be that his Pingyang Marquis Mansion ended up in this ditch? impossible! impossible! Marquis Pingyang felt that his throat was burning and he was panting but could not say another sentence. He knew that the situation was still unfavorable and he would only be humiliating himself if he persisted, so he had no choice but to follow these officials away with a flick of his sleeves.
With the departure of Marquis Pingyang, the Marquis Pingyang's mansion suddenly fell into chaos.
In the panic-filled atmosphere of the yard, the sound of breaking porcelain came from Princess Baiyu's house, which further stimulated everyone's fragile and restless nerves.
"I am the Crown Princess! I am the Crown Princess!" After all the smashed things were smashed, Princess Bai Jade, who was standing in a mess, looked ferocious. She looked at the luxurious wedding dress of the Crown Princess on the hanger and shook it. He rushed over, hugging the dress that was made of luxurious materials and fine workmanship tightly, and repeated these words in a murmur.
Gu Shiba Niang is completely unaware of the hustle and bustle of the outside world. She is still guarded by expressionless guards outside the door. She eats three simple meals a day. The yard has experienced spring and summer, and there are flowers, plants and trees that she can pick. After picking them all, it was time to peel off the bark. No one came to visit her anymore, but things kept coming, and they were not very rare and precious. They were just some medical books. It seemed that they were counting the time it took for her to read them. New ones are coming.
After closing the last page of the book, Gu Shiba Niang raised her eyes and looked at the bookshelf that was crudely built with a few wooden boards. It was already filled with books of all sizes.
"There are already so many..." She put the book in her hand, stroked a book with her hand, and murmured in a low voice. Although no one had ever said who sent these, Gu Shiba Niang It was very clear in my mind that thoughts flashed across my mind, my heartbeat stagnated, and the hand that was touching the book retracted as if it were touched by coals.
Just like the brocade quilt placed in the cabinet, there were some things she didn't dare and didn't want to touch, so she could only pretend not to see them.
There were footsteps outside, and Gu Shiba Niang turned around as if she had a guilty conscience.
It's so early to deliver food today... She thought to herself, and when she saw it, she couldn't help but be startled.
The sunlight slanted across Prince Wen's body. He was still dressed in plain white robes, without a crown and only had a jade hairpin holding up his black hair. He stood there with an indifferent expression, just like half a year ago.
Seeing Gu Shiba's astonishment, he smiled slowly.
"I have met Your Highness." Gu Shiba Niang immediately kowtowed to the ground.
"Get up..." King Wenjun said.
Gu Shiba Niang stood up and lowered her head.
"Is there anything you need to pack?" Prince Wen did not come over, but stood on the spot and asked, with a hint of unnoticeable joy in his voice, "You can go back..."
These words were like thunder exploding in Gu Shiba Niang's ears.
She raised her head suddenly and looked at Prince Wen.
"The Zhu family has fallen?!" she asked in a voiceless voice.
Prince Wen, who had a slight smile on his face, looked at her and his smile gradually dissipated.
"Gu Xiang..." he said slowly, "did you know that there would be such a day..."
When these light words came to her, Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but trembled, and a layer of sweat immediately broke out on her forehead.
"Your Highness..." She leaned over and knelt down again, not daring to say anything more, only to feel the sharp gaze on her head being pressed down heavily.
Yes, she knew that one day, although she didn't know exactly how it all happened, nor how many officials were busy planning, nor how Zhu Dang fought back and struggled, nor the emperor's thoughts, she knew everything. I don't know, in the previous life, she was nestled in the Shen family's house, guarding only the sky above her head, but so what, she knew that the Zhu family had fallen, and the result was that they ransacked the house and sent her to exile.
Of course, in the fate she knew in her previous life, the Zhu family fell three years later, and Zhu Chunming did not die or beheaded, but was exiled, but this did not prevent her from boldly betting on this fate. The fate of the Zhu family is the fate of the Zhu party, although she doesn't know how long she will have to wait, or maybe she will wait a lifetime. . . But it was better than just retreating and letting others take advantage of her, no matter how she lived her whole life, she would rather choose this unknown bet.
So she tried her best to destroy herself and fight against Pingyang Hou. She knew that Pingyang Hou's family wanted to use Lingyuan's matter to catch her, so she could naturally use this matter to catch them. She wanted to make him Pingyang Hou She has something to do with the Zhu family, because no one knows better than her how harshly the so-called members of the Zhu Party were purged and liquidated after the fall of the Zhu family.
Now she won the bet