Chapter 462 Grief

The palace of Concubine An Xian was on fire, and Princess Rui wanted to bring a group of ladies to help. Princess Dingyuan couldn't refuse.

She was happy to see Ling Chu suddenly appear in the palace. But she didn't expect to run into the queen and bring people to catch an adulterer.

Ling Chu was an unmarried girl after all, and the princess wanted her to stay away. But the other ladies didn't leave, so she couldn't take Ling Chu back at this time.

The mother and daughter could only stand outside the bedroom with a group of ladies.

Although everyone around her was whispering, Concubine An Xian suppressed everyone's discussion with a series of excuses in order to let everyone know that she was framed by the queen.

After Ling Chu glanced at the ladies with different expressions, he calmly gave a look to the Jinyiwei who was hiding in the dark and pretending to be a eunuch.

The other party nodded and turned to leave.

He turned back soon, holding a woman in his hand. It was Cao Ma Ma, the manager of Yinghua Palace, and Concubine An Xian's wet nurse.

When Madam Cao saw the ladies gathered at the door, she knew that Concubine An's affair had been exposed, and her expression suddenly became gloomy.

Ling Chu took advantage of the Jinyiwei taking Madam Cao into the bedroom and quietly cast a mantra on her.

Anyone who was cast with the mantra would reveal all the secrets in their hearts.

Concubine An and Zhao Chuanlin were seen lying naked on the bed by so many ladies and maids, and with Madam Cao's confession. No matter how much Concubine An argued, she could not hide their affair.

Ling Chu did not want to stay any longer, so she found an excuse to change clothes and left.

The emperor's bedroom.

A dozen imperial guards blocked the broken coffin behind them, and the leading man pointed the sword in his hand directly at Ning Chuyi, "Sir Ning, you are so brave. It's not enough to collude with the third prince to kill the emperor, but you didn't even let the corpse go?"

The officials who were crying at the funeral were just startled by the sound of the coffin being smashed, and they were very surprised to see Ning Chuyi appear at this moment. But no one dared to speak.

Since the death of the crown prince, the domineering second prince has become uncharacteristically cruel.

First, the powerful Minister of War was arrested and imprisoned on charges of treason. A few days later, news came that he committed suicide in prison.

Just one day later, a huge fire broke out in the Minister of War's mansion, killing more than a hundred people.

Although the second prince received a letter of apology from the Minister's mansion, the Minister's mansion set itself on fire because the Minister of War had rebelled and knew that he would be sentenced to death.

Although no one questioned this on the surface, many court officials had their own opinions.

However, before everyone recovered from the shock of the extermination of the Minister's mansion, they were annoyed by the fact that the Ningguo Mansion colluded with the third prince to usurp the throne and killed the emperor, which made people panic.

The second prince, in the name of eradicating traitors, arrested all the people in the Ningguo Mansion from top to bottom and put them in jail. The third prince was also imprisoned in the third prince's mansion, and his life or death was unknown.

The second prince acted unscrupulously, and many officials in the court were afraid of him. Even if there were officials in the hall who did not believe that the Ningguo Mansion would rebel, they did not dare to speak up to defend Ning Chuyi.

No one spoke, but Kang Anbo stood up.

But he did not speak for Ning Chuyi.

"The Ningguo Mansion has always been loyal to the emperor. I didn't expect that in this generation, there would be a traitor like you. Do you think that you can succeed in usurping the throne by killing the emperor..."

Ning Chuyi glanced coldly at Kang Anbo, who was sneering and sarcastic, and interrupted him directly, "The emperor is still alive, but you keep saying that the emperor is dead. I don't know what Kang Anbo's intention is to curse the emperor so openly?"

The emperor is not dead?

All the officials in the hall were stunned, and their eyes turned to the position of the coffin.

The coffin was smashed, and the body inside was exposed. Everyone could only see the bright yellow dragon robe on the body. But there were more than a dozen imperial guards blocking the view of the face.

In doubt, Kang Anbo sneered, "The emperor is not dead? Do you think the second prince and all the officials are blind?"

Ning Chuyi frowned and ignored Kang Anbo's words.

Turning to look at the coffin, just as he stepped forward, the second prince's sinister voice sounded behind him.

"Come here, catch the traitor Ning!"

As soon as the second prince gave the order, a group of imperial guards holding bows and arrows rushed in from the door and window of the hall.

Prince Rui hurried over, frowning, "Second Prince, wait a minute!"

The second prince looked at Prince Rui with a gloomy face, "I wonder what the emperor's uncle meant by stopping him?"

Prince Rui looked directly at the second prince's face, "Second Prince, I just seemed to hear that Lord Ning said that the emperor is not dead?"

The second prince's heart tightened, "Uncle, how can you believe such a ridiculous thing! Although this prince also hopes that my father is still alive, the dead cannot be resurrected."

Ning Chuyi ignored the imperial guards holding bows and arrows at him, and only said in a calm voice, "May I ask Prince Rui, have you seen the emperor's body?"

Prince Rui frowned. Although he suspected the emperor's death, he really didn't see his body. When he received the news and hurried to the palace, Concubine An was holding the emperor's body.

Sometimes she cried in grief, sometimes she muttered to herself, and if someone approached her, she would cry and shout.

According to the imperial physician, Concubine An could not bear the blow of the emperor's death, so she did not allow anyone to approach.

If she is stimulated again, she will probably go crazy.

Prince Rui saw that Concubine An was indeed insane, so he didn't dare to get close to her. He just took a quick look and learned that the Queen Mother had fainted, so he hurried to the Cining Palace.

Before the Queen Mother woke up, the Second Prince came to him again with a troubled look on his face. He said that the Emperor's death was too sudden, and the officials were panicked, so he could only ask him to come out to deter them.

Prince Rui didn't want to see the country shaken, so he had to comfort the court officials while helping the second prince to handle state affairs.

Later, the emperor was put into the coffin.

The second prince glanced at Prince Rui's thoughtful face, turned around and stared at Ning Chuyi, sneering, "You said the emperor is still alive, then tell me, who is in the coffin?"

Ning Chuyi looked straight at him, "Good question, the emperor is obviously not dead, I also want to know who died and wanted to be the father of the second prince."

"You..."

Seeing that the second prince looked like he wanted to chop Ning Chuyi with a knife, Prince Rui immediately raised his feet and walked towards the coffin.

The dozen or so imperial guards blocking the coffin looked at the second prince in embarrassment.

The officials in the palace looked at each other, and just when everyone thought that the second prince would let the imperial guards stop Prince Rui, he saw him waved his hand to signal them to get out of the way.

Prince Rui didn't show it on his face, but his heart sank.

Without the imperial guards blocking the view, the sight fell straight to the ground.

The heavy coffin was smashed into pieces of different sizes, and the body in bright yellow dragon robes lay on it.

Everyone's sight fell on the face of the body.

As luck would have it, a piece of wood blocked the face.

Prince Rui walked forward with heavy steps and squatted down.

He slowly stretched out his hand.

All the officials in the hall stared at Prince Rui's movements without blinking, and some people held their breath unconsciously.

No one could tell what they felt at the moment. They hoped that the emperor was still alive, but they also felt that the emperor's mourning hall had been set up, which was too absurd.

As the wood was slowly uncovered, seeing the familiar face of the emperor, Prince Rui closed his eyes in grief.

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