"Your Majesty has issued an order: all princes and princesses will be punished by being grounded in the Dongqing Palace and fasting for ten days. Those who resist and disobey the order will be deprived of their royal status, demoted to common people, and sent to the border areas, and will never be allowed to return. Those who dare to throw food into the Dongqing Palace will be punished. Make the decision!"
Feng Yuxiu read out Su Hanlin's decree in a gentle tone, as if he was afraid that the princes and princesses would not understand, so he spoke every word very clearly.
However, even so, the princes and princesses were still stunned after hearing this, as if they did not understand.
Of course, it wasn't that they didn't understand, but they heard it so clearly that they doubted whether they heard it wrong, because Su Hanlin's punishment to them was too fierce, completely beyond their expectation and tolerance.
"Do you understand, your highnesses? If there is anything you don't understand, I can answer it for you one by one." Feng Yuxiu asked aloud.
The smile on his face was still kind and approachable, but the words he spoke made all the princes and princesses feel chilled.
"Please - may I ask, father-in-law, what is the meaning of fasting?" Su Min swallowed and asked bravely.
"Your Highness, fasting means not eating a grain of rice or touching a drop of water." Feng Yuxiu answered in detail.
"Ten days?" Su Min's face looked ugly. Although he understood in his heart, he still made the final struggle on his lips.
"Yes, ten days." Feng Yuxiu returned cleanly, ruthlessly defeating the last struggle of Su Min and others.
"Doesn't that mean we have to starve to death in this Dongqing Palace?!" A prince screamed with a pale face.
"It's over, it's over." Someone slumped on the ground, lost in thought, and no longer possessed the majesty of a prince or princess.
"Whoa, who's going to save us?" What's more, their spirits are broken and their spirits are shattered. They cover their faces and cry loudly on the spot. Their cries are full of helplessness and despair.
Feng Yuxiu was unmoved, the smile on his face remained, and he asked: "Is there anything you don't understand, Your Highnesses? If not, I will resign."
"Eunuch, I want to meet my father. I know I was wrong, and I ask my father to forgive me." The sixth prince, Su Li, shouted anxiously.
Feng Yuxiu looked at him and said: "The door of Dongqing Palace is always open. His Highness can go wherever he wants without anyone stopping him. But the old slave must remind His Highness that leaving Dongqing Palace means resisting the decree, and His Highness needs to do something Be mentally prepared.”
"I——" Su Li's breath suddenly withered as the eggplant was beaten like frost.
Other princes and princesses who had the same idea had to give up their thoughts after hearing Feng Yuxiu's warning.
In fact, they already knew in their hearts that even if they really had the chance to meet their father, they would not be able to ask for forgiveness, because Feng Yuxiu's arrival was enough to show their father's decisive attitude.
Su Ye took a step forward, bowed respectfully to Feng Yuxiu, and said sincerely: "We are all children who grew up under the care of your father-in-law. Therefore, we have always regarded your father-in-law as a relative and elder, respecting and loving you. Now that the children are in trouble, please give me some advice." A clear path.”
"I beg your father-in-law to give the children a clear path." Su Min hurriedly agreed.
"Please, father-in-law -" The other princes and princesses also rushed to speak, playing the emotional card to Feng Yuxiu.
A helpless smile appeared on Feng Yuxiu's face, he shook his head and said: "Your Highnesses turned against each other and made His Majesty Long Yan very angry. At this time, it is best to plead guilty and accept punishment. Don't challenge Long Wei and go to His Majesty." Angry."
After hearing this, all the princes and princesses nodded unanimously, feeling that what Feng Yuxiu said was reasonable, but their miserable expressions did not improve at all, because if they fasted for ten days, they would really starve to death in the Dongqing Palace. You know, they've been hungry for ten days.
"Since your highnesses have understood, I will resign now." Feng Yuxiu bowed and resigned. Under the gazes of all the princes and princesses, he walked to the yard, found a conspicuous place to stand, and then closed his eyes. The eyes were motionless.
The princes and princesses were desperate again. With Feng Yuxiu supervising the law enforcement, they never thought of having the slightest opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
"Second brother, what should I do?" Su Xiu asked Su Min with a cry.
Su Min glared at her angrily and said, "What else can we do? Hungry and resist."
He was agitated, and his words inevitably contained a hint of impatience.
"But - but I can't resist for ten days!" Su Xiu curled her lips in grievance, tears welling up in her eyes, and she was about to cry.
She was really panicked and scared.
The battle with Su De consumed a lot of her energy, making her already tired body even worse.
She knew that her body was already hollowed out and extremely fragile. There was no way she could starve without water for another ten days. It would kill her.
"Then wait to starve to death, or run out, eat to your heart's content, and then wait to be sent to the frontier to become a village girl." Su Min couldn't control the irritability in his heart, and his tone became even more vicious.
"Wow -" Su Xiu felt extremely wronged, her nose felt sour, and she started crying.
Many people couldn't help but feel sad when they heard Su Xiu's cries. They felt that a disaster was approaching and it was infinitely desolate.
However, Su Xiu's cries failed to arouse Su Min's pity. Instead, Su Min became more and more disgusted with her, and even began to blame Su Xiu in his heart. He felt that if Su Xiu hadn't found trouble to provoke Su De, how could he have caused such a disaster.
Thinking of this, Su Min suddenly realized that Su Xiu was really annoying. She was unruly, willful, arrogant and domineering all day long, causing trouble for him everywhere. He had followed her around and wiped her butt countless times over the years.
"There is no way to go on like this. Sooner or later, she will ruin my important job. I have to find a way to make her honest. But, alas -"
Su Min sighed helplessly, feeling that it was too difficult for Su Xiu to change her habits and become well-behaved and honest.
"If you don't want to die, just shut up and sit down at the table, or go to the room and lie down, and conserve your energy as much as possible. I don't think my father will really starve us to death," Su Min said with a straight face.
"Oh" Su Xiu's cry stopped, she wiped her tears with her sleeves, then obediently walked to the table and sat down.
When Su Min saw this, his eyes couldn't help but light up. He felt that making Su Xiu become well-behaved was not as difficult as he thought.
In fact, Su Xiu was in a state of panic. At this time, he pointed out a clear path for Su Xiu, and Su Xiu naturally followed his advice.
Su Min showed Su Xiu a clear path, which also allowed other panicked and helpless princes and princesses to find a backbone.
I just felt that what Su Min said made sense. Even if tiger poison does not eat its children, could their father really be cruel enough to watch them starve to death?
He must have been angry, so he was a little harsher. When his anger subsided, he would forgive them.
Thinking of this, these princes and princesses suddenly no longer panicked. They sat down at the table one by one and lay down weakly in the chairs, silently hoping that their father would calm down soon.
"snort!"
Su You had a sullen face, snorted heavily, and said angrily: "We are starving and punished here. Su Hui, the culprit who angered his father and then implicated us, is at large. He must be sitting at the table at this time, drinking We are drinking wine and wine, eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea! We have long forgotten about our suffering brothers and sisters."
"That's right, the prince has gone too far this time."
"Brother cannot share the joys and sorrows with his younger brother, and my younger brother's heart is very cold."
"If your moral character is lacking, it will be difficult to convince the public."
Su You's words successfully directed the resentment in the hearts of the princes and princesses to Su Hui. Listening to their dissatisfaction and complaints about Su Hui, Su You couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth with a sly smile.
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Su De stood in the corner and heard Su Hanlin's punishment on them. Instead of feeling panic or fear, Su De felt a sense of joy and relief because Su Hanlin did not favor anyone, let alone target him alone.
He didn't ask for Su Hanlin's favor or favor, he just wanted Su Hanlin to treat him fairly.
It must be said that his desire for father's love is timid and humble.
Su De looked at the half bowl of white porridge in his hand, frowned and pondered for a while, and then walked towards the northwest of the hall.
There was a soft couch there, and two people were lying on it. They were the Ninth Princess Suning and the Fifteenth Prince Su Zheng, who had fainted from hunger.
Although the two of them are the last among the princes and princesses, they are not young at all.
Ninth Princess Suning is fifteen years old, and Su Zheng is fourteenth. In one or two years, she will be able to have her adult ceremony.
Both of them are currently studying at Imperial College.
I don’t know if it’s because Su Hanlin is too old and lacks quality in some aspects. Suning and Su Zheng are both born with weak bodies.
Fortunately, he was born into a wealthy family, and his body has been nourished with endless elixirs and treasures from heaven and earth since childhood. If he had been born into an ordinary family, he would have died long ago.
It is said that Su Hanlin was still able to ride the bed and raise children when he was in his eighties, which was actually a feat among the emperors in the history of Dayu.
Su De sat down on the soft couch, put the porridge aside, and then took the pulses of Suning and Su Zheng. He couldn't help but frowned. He found that the breath of these two people was very weak. If they didn't eat anymore, it would be bad. .
Su De immediately stopped hesitating, reached under Su Zheng's head with his left hand, lifted his head up, picked up the spoon with his right hand, scooped out the porridge and fed it to Su Zheng.
But when the porridge was brought to Su Zheng's mouth, he was stopped by an angry shout.
"Su De, stop!" The fourth prince Su Shang stood up and slapped the table, pointing his right hand at Su De and yelling angrily.
His voice was as loud as thunder, and he was furious, but his pair of black and blue eyes really detracted from his image, otherwise he would have been extremely powerful.
His pair of dark blue eyes was given by Soude.
Those two punches made him cry out for his mother, and he felt like his eyes were about to explode.
Even now, the pain is still swollen, burning, acupuncture, and knife-cut, and the pain is unbearable.
He had never suffered a few losses since he was a child, so he couldn't stand it, so he naturally held a grudge against Su De.
"Hmph! Su De, you are so vicious and scheming!"
When Su Shang saw that all the eyes in the hall were focused on him, he couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, smiled coldly, and pointed at Su De with a rational expression that he had already seen through everything, and revealed his "conspiracy and poisonous plan":
"You feed them two porridge. On the surface, it looks like you are showing great mercy and sacrificing yourself to save others, but in fact, you are harboring evil intentions and are extremely vicious."
"My father has an order to fast for ten days, not to eat a grain of rice, not to touch a drop of water. Anyone who disobeys the order will be sent to the border area, demoted to a commoner, and will never be allowed to return."
"In other words, as long as you feed them a grain of rice, they will disobey the father's order and they will be punished and sent to the frontier."
"Hmph! If you had the heart to save them, you could have given them the porridge long ago. Why wait until now? It can be seen that you are not trying to save them at all, you are trying to harm them!"
"Su De, Su De, Ninth Sister and Fifteenth Brother have always been kind to others, and they have no enmity or enmity with you, but you want to harm them. It is obvious that you have a vicious heart."
Su Shang talked eloquently, and it sounded quite reasonable.
After everyone heard what he said, they couldn't help but think so, so they unanimously cast angry and hostile glances at Su De.
Even Su De himself was stunned for a moment, because he really hadn't considered what Su Shang said.
But after thinking about it for a while, he disagreed and sneered: "With the heart of a villain, I will judge the belly of a gentleman. The two of them are unconscious and unconscious, and the porridge is mine, and the person who feeds them porridge is also me. They eat Zou was forced to disobey the order, and if my father takes the blame, he will naturally only punish me, so what does it have to do with the other two?"
"How do you know that my father will only punish you? If he is punished together, their lives will be ruined. Can you bear this responsibility?" Su Shanghe asked.
"That's right. You are a person who has been exiled. You want money but no money, and you want power but no power. Can you afford it?" Someone took the opportunity to ridicule.
"I can afford it!" A voice sounded beside Su De. It was not loud, but it was loud.
