Zhou Yunshu held her daughter in her arms and walked step by step towards the gate of Zhenbei Palace while facing the gaze of the soldiers outside Zhenbei Palace.
One of them, who seemed to be an officer, recognized Zhou Yunshu, stood in front of the gate of the Zhenbei Palace and asked: "What does Princess Wei do for you?"
The reason why the officer in front of him was still so polite to Zhou Yunshu after the defeat of Zhenbei Palace was because even if Zhenbei Palace fell, Zhou Yunshu was now the wife of King Wei and the emperor's daughter-in-law.
Not to mention that King Wei is famous for being cold-blooded and protective of shortcomings. If he had offended Princess Wei here today and scared the little princess to tears, then there would be no need to take his life.
"I'll go in and take a look."
Of course Zhou Yunshu knew why the officer in front of her was so polite to her, and she would not be stupid enough to tell the news about her resignation at this moment. If she kept it secret for a moment, she would be able to protect Zhou's family.
The officer frowned.
"Princess, I'm afraid this is unreasonable..."
"I just watch."
Let’s talk about whether or not to interfere.
Zhou Yunshu carried her daughter up the steps. The officer looked at the little girl in Zhou Yunshu's arms and opened the door.
Anyway, if something happened, the blame would be directly placed on Zhou Yunshu. Who gave Princess Wei the support of King Wei?
Zhou Yunshu didn't even look at the officer who got out of the way, and strode towards Zhenbei Palace with her daughter in her arms.
Coincidentally, before Zhou Yunshu entered the main courtyard, she heard a burst of noisy sounds, including the sharp urging of soldiers, the panic of maids and boys, and the cry of children.
When Zhou Yunshu walked into the main courtyard with her child in her arms, she saw her unarmed family being surrounded in the middle of the courtyard by soldiers in armor holding knives.
"Search." The person who spoke was a long-faced general about thirty years old.
Except for the Zhou family, everyone in front of them was soldiers, so they were the only ones who could search the bodies of the Zhou family's women and children.
How could the female members of the Zhou family let this happen, being searched by a strange man? This was such a shame and humiliation.
When a soldier was about to reach out, a heroic woman in a red dress grabbed his wrist, twisted his arm and threw him out.
This action caused the surrounding soldiers who were preparing to search to instantly raise the knife at their waist.
They almost forgot that the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion was a fighting family, and some of the women in the family were also good at martial arts.
"You want to rebel!" the leading general narrowed his eyes and said as he looked at the heroic woman.
Before the woman could speak, Zhou Yunshu's voice came.
"It's you who bullied others too much!"
After Zhou Yunshu finished speaking, the people in the courtyard finally turned their attention to the entrance of the main courtyard.
"Shu'er!" The person who spoke was Zhou Yunshu's mother Li Jialan. When she saw Zhou Yunshu appearing in front of her with her child in her arms, her eyes instantly turned red.
The long-faced general didn't recognize Zhou Yunshu. He frowned and said to the soldiers beside him: "Are you blind? Didn't you see that there is a fish that slipped through the net here?"
"You're the one who's blind!"
After Zhou Yunshu said these words, the general's face became gloomy. Just when he was about to take a step forward to drag down the beautiful but arrogant woman in front of him, he heard the voice of his superior not far away.
"I didn't know that when the princess arrives, she will be greeted from afar."
The speaker was wearing red armor and was about thirty years old. Zhou Yunshu thought he looked familiar, but she forgot where she had seen him.
"But, this is not the place where the princess should come."
Zhou Yunshu held her daughter in her arms, looked at the general who spoke and said, "I don't know if I have the honor to listen to your Majesty's will again."
Zhang Qinglai was a little unsure of what Zhou Yunshu meant, but for the sake of King Wei, he glanced at the eunuch next to him.
The eunuch picked up the imperial edict in his hand, unfolded it and said: "By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict, because the king of Zhenbei, Zhou Cungaoli, was in contact with foreign enemies... I hereby approve this."
After Zhou Yunshu heard the order, she almost trembled and exhaled a breath of turbidity.
Just like the decree in his memory, the emperor wanted to execute all the men over ten years old in Zhenbei Palace, and all the men and women under ten years old were to be exiled to the Southern Barbarians.
but……
Zhou Yunshu looked at the people in the middle of the yard, and there were two people missing.
her grandmother Ji Mingzhu and her sister-in-law Zhou Jianying.
Zhou Yunshu looked at her mother, who had been staring at her, and said to her daughter in her arms: "Go find grandma."
Zhou Yunshu put Xixi down, and Xixi turned around and ran towards Li Jialan with her short legs.
On the way, the little girl was blocked by two soldiers holding long knives. Not only was she not afraid when she saw the long knives, she even raised her head and shouted in a sweet voice: "Get out of the way!"
The two soldiers looked at the fierce-looking little baby in front of them, looked at each other and silently stepped aside.
This is King Wei's only child, and they don't dare to force it.
After the soldiers moved aside, Ji Nanxi threw herself on Li Jialan's lap, and was held in Li Jialan's arms while sobbing.
The little one wiped her grandmother's tears distressedly and said, "Grandma, don't cry, Xixi will protect you!"
When Li Jialan heard this, she hugged her granddaughter even more tightly. She had too many things in her heart that she wanted to ask her daughter, but she also knew that this was not the time to talk.
Zhang Qinglai looked at Ji Nanxi who ran into the Zhou family's women and children, looked at Zhou Yunshu disapprovingly and said, "Princess, what do you mean?"
"You have also heard His Majesty's decree, which ordered you to ransack your home. You were not allowed to use the decree to deliberately humiliate the female members of the Zhou family."
"I didn't!" Even if he did, Zhang Qinglai didn't dare to admit it.
After all, this is the Zhenbei Palace. The most important thing is that it is not only the Zhenbei Palace, but the mistress of this family is also the eldest princess of Ningping.
He wanted to take advantage just now because the eldest princess was not in Zhenbei Palace.
Searching for and taking advantage is the tacit understanding of all people who run the errand of confiscating homes. You can't just end up with nothing when you come to him!
"Then please ask General Zhang to act in accordance with the law."
Zhang Qinglai took a deep look at Zhou Yunshu.
If she came to Zhenbei Palace so openly today, wouldn't she be afraid that His Majesty would find out about it and go to King Wei to question her?
Zhou Yunshu knew what Zhang Qinglai was thinking just by looking at him.
So what if he knows, by then the dog emperor should also know that he has invited himself to resign.
The reason why she is so calm and relaxed now is purely because of the time difference.
Because of Zhou Yunshu's interference, Zhang Qinglai simply asked his soldiers to take off all the jewelry that could be seen on the women and children of the Zhou family.
The women and children of the Zhou family who finally walked out of Zhenbei Prince's Mansion had nothing but the clothes on their bodies.
After leaving the Zhenbei Palace, the women and children of the Zhou family could not just go wherever they wanted. They were about to be exiled. Before being exiled, they needed to stay in the Western Prison, which was specially used to imprison the families of guilty officials.
Therefore, just after leaving the gate of Zhenbei Palace, Zhang Qinglai looked at Ji Nanxi who was still in Li Jialan's arms, and said to Zhou Yunshu beside him: "Does the princess want the little princess to go to prison with the Zhou family?"
Li Jialan immediately put down her granddaughter after hearing this.
The daughter came with her children to support them, and then she was made things difficult for them by Concubine Li and the emperor. She could no longer drag her daughter down.
"Today I……"
Before Zhou Yunshu finished speaking, a carriage arrived at the door of Zhenbei Palace, a low-key but luxurious carriage.
The carriage was driven by a man of about forty years old. After he stopped the carriage, a woman who looked to be about fifty years old got out of the carriage.
After the woman came down, a eunuch about fifty years old came out of the carriage.
When he saw the eunuch, the eunuch who had come to Zhenbei Prince's Mansion to announce the decree immediately bowed his back and greeted him. Even Zhang Qinglai took a few steps forward.
Eunuch Feng was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhou Yunshu standing next to the female family members of Zhenbei Palace, and then said with a smile: "Old slave, please pay your respects to Princess Wei."
