Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

Concubine Wan looked at the Nineteenth Prince on the bed, tears fell from her eyes, anxiety was written on the corners of her eyes and brows: "I don't want to, he kept saying it was cold yesterday, so I took the thickest quilt in the palace I took them all out and covered him, but he still felt cold, gradually lost consciousness, and passed out. I was completely out of ideas, and I didn’t dare to call the imperial doctor in the middle of the night, let alone come to disturb the empress. , touched his cold hands, thought he was still feeling cold, so he added another quilt. Madam, what's wrong with An An? "

Yunshang asked Qianzhuo to take the hands of the Nineteenth Prince out of the quilt, Qianjue frowned, Yunshang glanced at her, then put her hand on it, just as she put it on, Yunshang also frowned When I got up, it was really cold.

After a while, Yun Shang's complexion suddenly changed, there was no pulse, no pulse at all.

Yun Chang hurriedly let go of her hand, stretched out a finger, and put it under the breath of the nineteenth prince, but there was no breath. The nineteenth prince on the bed was clearly dead. Even if Concubine Wan loves her son dearly, it is impossible for her to not realize that her child has no pulse or breathing.

"Your Majesty, how is An An?" Concubine Wan's face was full of worry, and she looked at Yun Shang without blinking.

Seeing her like this, Yunshang didn't know how to speak, she pondered for a long time, and was about to speak, but heard the voice of Qianzhu coming from behind: "Your Majesty, be careful, the slave girl is a little disobedient, and her head is a little dizzy. "

Yunshang was startled, and her mind turned quickly. She had just opened it for a while, and the sudden appearance of such symptoms must not be a coincidence, and someone must have tampered with it somewhere.

With a sound of "bang", from the corner of Yunshang's right eye, she saw Qianjue fell to the ground, and Yunshang had no time to think about it, so she reacted: "What did you do? Why...why I am also sore , my head is a little dizzy."

"Empress, I'm sorry, the slave didn't want to do this either, but it was really a last resort." Qi Ruihai's voice came from behind.

With a bit of sarcasm at the corner of Yun Chang's mouth, she raised her head and rubbed her forehead, then lay down on the bed too.

Concubine Wan hastily stepped forward and pushed Yunshang, then she breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and Qi Ruihai said: "Finally she fainted, I thought the maid beside her was the best in martial arts, but But I didn't expect her to persist longer than her servant girl."

Qi Ruihai nodded, his eyes fell on Yunshang, and he said softly: "I've heard people say that the queen's martial arts are not bad, but fortunately we put poison on the child's hands, no matter how smart she is I'm afraid I can't even think of it."

"Let's send her away quickly. She will definitely be accompanied by the hidden guards. If she hasn't gone out after a while, the hidden guards will probably come looking for her soon." Dowager Wan still had a worried look on her face.

Qi Ruihai nodded, walked to the bed, lifted Yunshang onto the bed, moved Qianjue to the bed, pulled a tassel decorative rope beside the bed, and there was a "click" on the bed, and the bed board turned After getting up, the three people on the bed slid down, and the bed board turned back again, as if nothing had happened.

In the Tai Chi Hall, Luo Qingyan was also full of anger: "Ji Chengjun! Liu Cang City has just experienced a catastrophe, who allowed you to order to collect taxes from the people of Liu Cang City? If it wasn't for your order to reach the people who are cleaning up the battlefield in Liu Cang City In the hands of General Wang, he sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly wrote a report to report it, but the widow didn't know it, but you are so bold and reckless!"

Kneeling in the Taiji Hall was a man wearing a third-rank official uniform. Hearing this, he hurriedly bowed to Luo Qingyan: "Your Majesty, I am afraid. If there is no order from Your Majesty, how dare I issue such an order. Wei The minister received the imperial decree ten days ago, asking the minister to do this!"

Luo Qingyan was even more furious: "The widow's will? The widow is not so old that he can't even remember whether he has made a will. Even if you find an excuse, you can't find such a far-fetched one."

Ji Chengjun hastily kowtowed three times: "This minister is not lying at all, His Majesty's decree is still enshrined in the ancestral hall in the mansion..."

Luo Qingyan frowned, Ji Chengjun was the Minister of the Household Department, and he was praised a lot by the Minister of the Household Department on weekdays, and I'm afraid he was not such a reckless person.

Today is the ten-day period that Cao Wenxi said. According to what she said, today, she will make the matter of Yuxi public. Could it be that this is her way of making it public? If this is the case, then Cao Wenxi's scheming is as Yun Shang said, and should not be underestimated.

She knew that Liu Cang was a serious problem in Luo Qingyan's heart. Even though the chaos in Liu Cang had subsided now, after this battle, Liu Cang was severely damaged, and Luo Qingyan needed to do something immediately to appease the people. She arranged the situation ahead of time, using a fake jade seal to make a fake imperial decree, and asked someone to give the imperial decree to Ji Chengjun...

Luo Qingyan already understood the whole story in his heart, but his face remained calm: "You said you received the imperial decree, well, Liu Wen'an, you go to Ji's mansion yourself, and bring back the imperial decree that Mr. Ji said Let the widows see."

Liu Wen'an quickly responded and left the Tai Chi Hall.

Luo Qingyan glanced at the people in the hall, thought for a moment, then called the servant standing under the steps up, lowered his voice and said: "Go to the Supreme Harmony Palace and invite the Supreme Emperor, let the Supreme Emperor wait in the side hall For a moment, say, something happened."

The servant quickly received the order and left the Tai Chi Hall in a hurry.

Liu Wen'an's movements were quick, and within half an hour, he hurried back to the Tai Chi Hall, holding a scroll of imperial edict in his hand.

Liu Wen'an walked up the steps quickly, and handed the imperial decree to Luo Qingyan's hands: "Your Majesty, this is the imperial decree that Lord Riji received some time ago."

Luo Qingyan opened the imperial decree, and the imperial decree was indeed the decree for him to issue an order to collect taxes from the people of Liucang. Luo Qingyan set his eyes on the lower left corner of the imperial decree, where there was a red mark , the size of the characters are exactly the same as the seal of Yuxi.

"I can confirm this decree. It was not made by me, nor promulgated by me. Ji Chengjun, when and who sent this decree to your house?" Luo lightly closed the decree, raised his head and asked.

As soon as this remark came out, the hall suddenly seemed to explode, and there were whispers of discussion from time to time.

Ji Chengjun's face was also full of fear, and he quickly responded: "This imperial decree was delivered to the Weichen's mansion in the afternoon of August 18th, and the servants who came to issue the decree did not know it, but just looked at it. They were all wearing the clothes of servants, and the imperial decree in their hands and the jade seal on the imperial decree were all correct, so they felt that no one would dare to falsely preach the imperial decree in this brocade city, so they accepted the decree. The internal servant is a bit unfamiliar, and he even made a special trip to test it out, but he knows the people who serve His Majesty very well, and he answered all the questions that the minister asked him correctly."

As soon as Ji Chengjun's words fell, Yang Qiu, an ordinary scholar of the Imperial Academy, took two steps forward, cupped his hands and said: "Master Ji has been an official for several years, and we have seen this jade seal many times on weekdays. The cinnabar used for printing is all unusual, how could it be easily deceived."

Hearing this, Ji Chengjun quickly turned around and said, "It's because the jade seal is too realistic..."

The two were in a stalemate, but they heard a loud "report—" coming from outside.

Luo Qingyan frowned, and looked at the entrance of the Taiji Hall. The person standing at the entrance of the Taiji Hall was Li Huaian, the deputy commander of the imperial guards. Luo Qingyan glanced at Liu Wen'an, Liu Wen'an nodded quickly, and then raised his voice. Said: "Bi—"

Li Huai'an came in from the outside in a hurry, cupped his hands and said, "I'm going to take a rest at the end of the day. I saw a carriage rushing by on the street. Someone in the carriage threw paper outside. The imperial seal was left outside, and the jade seal in the palace was fake. It was said that the Supreme Emperor killed his father and brother, and ascended the throne as the emperor. .”

As Li Huai'an said, he took out a few pieces of paper from his waist, and lifted them above his head with both hands. Liu Wen'an quickly walked up to Li Huai'an, took the papers, and handed them to Luo Qingyan.

Luo Qingyan took the few sheets of paper and unfolded them.

He did not expect that Cao Wenxi would use such means to publicize the matter, and let all civil and military officials know about it.

The whispering voices of the hundreds of officials in the hall became louder.

Luo Qingyan sneered, raised his head to look at Li Huai'an and said, "Since you saw the carriage, did the people on the carriage catch it?"

Li Huai'an clasped his hands and replied: "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. The general caught him. The man claimed to be a retainer of the Cao family, and said he knew where the real jade seal was. The general felt that this was a big deal, so he arrested the man immediately." Get up, and now you are waiting outside the palace gate."

Luo Qingyan frowned: "You nonsense, what are you doing with it..."

Luo Qingyan was about to issue an order to kill that person, but the door curtain of the side hall was lifted suddenly, a servant came out in a hurry, and whispered something in Luo Qingyan's ear, Luo Qingyan frowned slightly Frowning, Fang said lightly: "Bring him to the hall."

The man was escorted into the main hall, but he just stood straight in the hall, with a sneer on his face, staring at Luo and whispering.

"Bold, when you see Your Majesty, why don't you kneel down quickly?" Liu Wen'an frowned and raised his voice.

When the man heard the words, he laughed "haha", "Your Majesty, even the jade seal is a fake, what kind of majesty is it?"

Li Huai'an on the side frowned, raised his foot and kicked that person's knee. The person was kicked in pain, one foot bent suddenly, but stabilized before it touched the ground. Looking at Luo Qingyan's eyes with a bit of sarcasm: "Why are you so excited, why don't you take out the jade seal, you can tell whether it is true or not at a glance."