“Your Majesty… Your humble servant…” Li Ruotong was so frightened that her face turned pale and she kept knocking her head on the bed.
Fu Yuheng actually knew about her and Ye Feng's affair a long time ago, but because he really had no feelings for her and she was still useful, he had always turned a blind eye. But he didn't expect that the two of them would do such a thing under his nose. Although he was connivance, this matter was unacceptable to anyone, not to mention that he was the emperor!
"Do you know how serious a crime it is for a concubine to have an affair with a guard?" Tu's eyes glared at her, making Li Ruotong's heart beat faster.
It turns out that he knows everything!
She felt dizzy. This meant that Ye Feng would also be implicated, right? She shouldn't have kept the child for so long. She should have taken the abortion pill! But when she brought the pill to her lips, she couldn't make up her mind. Tears dripped down her cheeks. How much regret did she have!
"Your Majesty! This is all my fault! Please let him go!" Li Ruotong came to her senses and knew that now was not the time to be depressed, so she kowtowed and begged for mercy. She was willing to take all the blame. She had no family to worry about, and even if the emperor blamed her, she would only die. But how could she bear to let Ye Feng lose his life
She kept knocking her head, but she felt a pair of strong hands on her shoulders helping her up. Li Ruotong looked at the man in front of her with a gentle smile in astonishment, and for a moment she didn't know what to say. He didn't seem to have the intention of taking her life? She didn't know why, but she just had this feeling.
"Did I say I wanted your life?" Fu Yuheng stared at the person in front of him who was full of despair and laughed softly, "Take good care of you!" After saying that, he turned around and left without looking at her.
Originally, Li Ruotong's existence was to restrain the harem. As early as when she entered the palace, he knew that she had no intention of him, and he also knew that she did not like the harem life. Even on the wedding night, he did not touch her at all, just like he did to Shen Qingwan at the beginning.
Why should he be angry with her? She was just a chess piece. In fact, he restricted her freedom and trapped her in the palace. Once she entered the cage of the harem, she would not be able to leave easily. This was also the reason why he tolerated her again and again.
"Madam! Madam!" As soon as she came in, she saw Li Ruotong standing there in a daze, and Qiu Shui couldn't help but get anxious. What happened to her madam? "Where's the imperial physician? I'll go find him!" She turned around and was about to run out. But she was grabbed by a pale hand, which made her stop suddenly.
"Qiu Shui, I'm fine, you don't have to go." Tears rolled down her eyes, Li Ruotong wiped them away with her hand, and smiled. Fortunately, fortunately, the emperor didn't want to kill them.
She scratched her head, somewhat puzzled by her own queen's behavior, but she smiled after all, and she felt relieved.
She was not severely punished because of Fu Yuheng's connivance. She was just told privately by Sun Ning not to go out for the time being. To put it bluntly, she was under house arrest.
But in the court, people were in panic.
"General Shen, are you questioning me?" Prime Minister Liu stared with his eyes wide open, his beard twitching.
Salt merchants in southern Fujian have recently become rampant, but local officials have neglected to manage them. Even though the imperial court has monopolized most of the official salt, some people still take advantage of the situation to sell it at a low price. Some even want to buy out the official salt and export it at a high price.
"Your Majesty, if this local official is not replaced, it will disrupt the government. I hope Your Majesty will understand this!"
Fu Yuheng sat upright on the dragon throne, thinking about the following proposal, but when he heard what Prime Minister Liu said, he frowned.
General Shen on the side snorted coldly. Although he was a military commander, he still had his own opinion on this. "Replace? How can it be that easy? First of all, not to mention where to find another local official to take over, let's just talk about the official salt issue. Even if someone is replaced, how many people can take care of it?" In fact, there was more than one local official in the southern Fujian region. One had been replaced before, but that place was relatively chaotic, and basically few people were willing to go there.
"Do you really want to keep such a useless person?" Prime Minister Liu glared at him, as if he was ready to pounce on him and bite him at any time. "Your Majesty, this local official must not be allowed to stay!"
The man on the dragon throne frowned. This matter was indeed a difficult one. The issue of official salt had been raised a long time ago, but it had never been dealt with. "Does anyone else have any opinions?"
"This..." The ministers looked at each other, but no one spoke up to give advice.
"You guys can't even offer any opinions! What's the point of letting me support you?" Fu Yuheng slammed the table, his phoenix eyes emitting anger, sweeping over the people who were kneeling on the ground in fear. "Forget it, Prime Minister Liu, please continue."
Even if I was angry, what was the point? I would just kneel down and beg for mercy. I took a deep breath and calmed down the anger in my heart.
"Your Majesty, I feel that General Shen, a first-class warrior, does not understand management matters at all. It would be better for Your Majesty to hand this matter over to me. I will definitely find a capable person to manage it!" Prime Minister Liu made the promise confidently, but he did not notice that Fu Yuheng's face had turned purple.
"Heh!" A light laugh was heard and the entire court suddenly became unusually quiet. Everyone trembled at the same time. Prime Minister Liu felt a chill all over his body, not knowing what he had said wrong.
"A capable person? I think it's your own capable assistant!" Fu Yuheng threw the memorial in his hand to the ground, scaring everyone so much that they shrank their necks and dared not even breathe.
"Your Majesty, please be wise. I absolutely do not mean that!" Prime Minister Liu knelt down with a plop, cold sweat running down his forehead, and spoke awkwardly.
But Fu Yuheng had always wanted to suppress him, so how could he let him go easily? Over the years, the Liu family has become more and more bold, especially after Liu Churong became the imperial concubine, and has become more and more in control of the government. In the entire court, few people dare to oppose him.
"Lord Liu, do you feel that you are too powerful recently? Huh?" Fu Yuheng knocked on the table and looked at him with a gloomy look, which made him feel fear from the bottom of his heart. He also knew in his heart that the emperor might be deliberately suppressing him.
"A few days ago, Concubine Liu hurt my unborn child. I really haven't asked Lord Liu for an explanation yet, right?" Fu Yuheng suddenly changed the topic and brought up the matter of Liu Churong again.
There was already a lot of whispering below, and some looked at Prime Minister Liu with scrutiny, and some even had an expression of gloating. Normally, he suppressed them a lot, and now that the emperor was picking on him, they were happy to see it.