"What? Didn't you catch me and come back to support me? You should go to the Ministry of Punishment Prison. What's the point of entering the palace secretly?" Xiao Rui was a little confused.
Not long after, the carriage stopped. There were slight footsteps outside, and soon a figure walked into the carriage. Xiao Rui looked up, Your Majesty? Where did you get into this trouble? This is the palace, this is your home, and you sneak into the carriage of one of my prisoners?
Li Er directly covered Xiao Rui's mouth, lowered his voice and said, "Don't talk, listen to me."
"You have already made the matter clear in your letter. I don't blame you. I blame Chengqian for his fate. I don't really blame you for bringing you back. I asked you to do me a favor."
Xiao Rui nodded repeatedly, his eyes indicating that he knew.
"Oh? You know everything? He is indeed my good son-in-law. Don't worry, nothing will happen. I have arranged for help in advance."
After saying that, he personally took out the rope and tied Xiao Rui tightly, and even didn't forget to cover his mouth with a piece of cloth.
Patting Xiao Rui's shoulder, Li Er said meaningfully: "Xian son-in-law, I feel wronged."
After saying that, he hurriedly got out of the car, as if he were a thief.
Soon, the carriage started again and headed towards the depths of the palace. It wasn't until it stopped again and Xiao Rui was taken off the carriage that he realized that this was not the Li Zheng Palace?
No, there's something wrong with Li Zhengdian today. Why does it feel so cold? No maids or eunuchs? Where are people?
He wanted to turn around and ask the Imperial Guards who were escorting him, but unfortunately, after throwing him into the hall, all the Imperial Guards had already fled.
There were hurried footsteps behind the Li Zheng Palace. The queen walked out angrily. When she saw Xiao Rui, she started to curse: "Wow! You did a good job!"
"Fortunately, I have always treated you as my own son, but what bad idea did you come up with? The bewitched prince was exiled and suffered a lot of suffering along the way. That's all. It's okay to suffer a little if you want to be reborn. But you shouldn't do it. You shouldn't hide it from me, saying that he is studying safely in the Cui family of Qinghe. If the news hadn't been spread by Turk Jieli, I, the mother-in-law, would probably still be in the dark."
Woo, woo... Xiao Rui wanted to defend, but his mouth was blocked and he could only passively accept the queen's bombardment.
The queen was holding a three-foot-long bamboo stick in her hand. Depending on the situation, she might not be able to escape with a whip.
No... wasn't I arrested to take the blame? In the future, if you are imprisoned in the Ministry of Punishment Prison, you will have to face the quarrels of civil and military officials. It's up to you, the emperor, to make the decision, and I'll take care of it for you. It's okay if you don't help. At least follow the procedures and send me directly to the Ministry of Punishment Prison. What is this doing now? Sent to the harem and beaten by the queen? Who did I offend? You two must be sick.
"Mother, please be merciful..." Xiangcheng came crying with the support of his servants with a big belly.
The little princess Changle also came, trotting up and hugging the queen, "Mother, please spare my brother-in-law, don't fight..."
The queen frowned and said: "Xiangcheng? Changle? Aren't you in the countryside? Why are you... Xiangcheng, what a nonsense! I'm going to give birth in more than a month, how can you ride a carriage?"
Wuwuwu... Xiao Rui struggled, his mouth was still blocked.
Xiao Changle hurried over to help, pulled out the rags, untied the ropes, and asked warmly: "Brother-in-law, does it hurt? I have medicine here."
As he spoke, he began to rummage through his small purse.
Xiao Rui smiled and pulled Xiao Changle, then knelt down and saluted the queen, "It was my incompetence in doing things that put the prince in danger, and he should be executed for the crime. Please calm down, mother-in-law, and don't let your anger break your body. Here. For a while, even if I risk Xiao Rui's life, I will definitely save the prince safely. If the prince is missing even half of his hair, Xiao Rui will come to see him."
Xiangcheng also forced himself to kneel down, "Mother, please have mercy!"
Xiao Rui and the Queen reached out to pull him away at the same time. The Queen said softly: "Silly boy, what are you doing with me? Okay, it must be your father's idea. Alas, since he has no intention of blaming Xiao Rui, why bother to kidnap him back to me?" What? Let me be the evil person for nothing."
"Sigh... To be fair, Xiao Rui, since you are entrusted with education, you have the final say on how to teach. Although your ideas are a bit cruel, you have to go through hardships to become an adult. I appreciate your method. Yes. I just can't bear it, Cheng Qian is only eleven years old."
"That's all. It's Cheng Qian's fate that this calamity should happen. Go and bring the people back safely, let's forget about it. Everyone, get up."
After saying that, the queen walked into the apse alone.
"Let's go, husband, let's go home." Xiangcheng took Xiao Rui's hand and was reluctant to let go.
Xiao Rui supported his wife, who was eight and a half months old, for fear that something might happen if she was not stable.
"You can raise your baby in the Song Dynasty Duke's Mansion for the time being. I want to go to His Majesty to take the blame. This matter has become known to everyone. The prince disappeared for no reason and was living abroad, but the court did not know anything about it. Now that the incident has happened, all civil and military officials are He is going to cause trouble. Someone needs to stand up and defend His Majesty."
Xiangcheng asked in confusion: "Take the blame? Didn't you already pull Uncle Qi out and put him in jail?"
What?
"Seventh Uncle, he is the King of Han Li Yuanchang. After the incident with the Crown Prince, someone testified that His Highness the King of Han secretly seduced the Crown Prince into leaving the palace, causing the Crown Prince to be kidnapped by an adulterer and his whereabouts are unknown. The imperial court secretly investigated for many days to no avail, and now we know that it turned out to be He wandered into the grassland and was kidnapped by Jieli."
"So, the whole city of Chang'an is accusing the King of Han of causing the trouble! Then, my father imprisoned the seventh uncle, deprived him of his title and demoted him to a commoner."
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Xiao Rui never expected that a scapegoat had already been found, hadn't he? Then why did you ask me to come back? And what did my father-in-law say when he kidnapped me just now? Feel aggrieved?
Oh...I understand, we have been making trouble for a long time, and you asked me to come back just to deal with the queen? I'll be the Queen's punching bag for you! Who is this person? I, Xiao Rui, will do nothing good if I stand with your family. They are all scams.
"Let's go, let's go, it's not good to be too close to this family. It's easy to get rid of me. Let's go back to the farm. If nothing happens, we won't go out." Xiao Rui personally escorted his wife out of the palace. The Xiao family's specially-made four-wheeled carriage was equipped with four-way shock absorption. If it were not of such high quality, the emperor would not have the confidence to let Xiangcheng make this trip.
As for Xiao Changle? She has her own special mount. The giant panda Erhua is now fighting wherever she wants. She is completely tamed by this little guy. Every now and then, this little girl would ride out on Erhua to show off her power, almost becoming a new generation of scourge in Chang'an City.
Deep in the harem, the emperor came to comfort the angry queen, "Madam, how are you? Have you calmed down? If you still feel that the anger is hard to get rid of, it is better to kill this scourge. If it weren't for him, nothing would have happened to Cheng Qian."
ps: Xiao Rui: Cheap father-in-law, I thank you for your eight generations of ancestors.
Queen: Kill? Who to kill? Xiao Rui? Are you willing?
"Okay, Your Majesty, stop acting with me. I just figured out today that everything was your arrangement. Xiao Rui is just hiding things from others. Don't think that I didn't see it, even if I heard that Cheng Qian was captured by the Turks , you have never been truly afraid."
"Ah? Where did you start talking about this? I really didn't know anything about my son being taken into the grassland!" Li Er waved his hand to express his innocence.
