After a long time, the door to the royal study finally opened.
Meng Guxue couldn't wait to look inside and saw the king sitting on the dragon chair behind the jade case, his expression dull and confused.
On the right side of the jade case, the eldest prince was cowering there, his eyes widened and his whole body trembling. He didn't know what scene he saw, but he seemed to be very frightened.
Baili Chengyou walked out slowly, his eyebrows calm and his steps steady, and beside him, Guan Sheng followed suit holding the imperial edict in his hand.
When he arrived at the door of the Imperial Study Room, Guan Sheng unfolded the imperial edict and shouted loudly:
"The Lord has a decree to pass on the throne to the third prince Baili Chengyou. The edict is here——"
Meng Guxue opened her eyes slightly when she heard this.
It's not about establishing a throne, but passing it down.
From now on, the leader of Nanli Kingdom is Baili Chengyou...
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The next day, when Jiaojiao was still sleeping, the situation in Kyoto in Nanli had changed greatly.
Meng Guxue hurriedly found her, dug Jiaojiao out of the bed, and "poured the beans" eagerly.
"Oh my god, Jiaojiao, listen to me, last night -"
Jiaojiao listened to the shocking changes in the Nanli royal family in a state of excitement. She went from confused to shocked, and finally she was speechless with emotion.
Meng Guxue's eyes were red as she spoke. She hesitated for a while and asked, "Jiaojiao, you have a golden finger. Can that person come back to life after death?"
She went to Shen Mansion early in the morning and sat with Madam for a long time. Seeing that Madam's tears were almost dry, she couldn't help but cry too.
Hearing this, Jiaojiao slowly shook her head and said with a heavy face: "Sister Meng, you also said that people are dead. After people die, there is no reason to come back."
"Well, since ancient times, loyal ministers and emperors have always been suspicious of the emperor. They are all loyal but not all righteous. This Shen Cheng is really respectable, admirable and a pity -"
When Meng Guxue heard Jiaojiao's emotion, she suddenly thought of the Qiao family in her dream.
Without Jiaojiao's arrival, the Qiao family would have lost all its loyal ministers and had no descendants. How could it not be miserable?
"Jiaojiao, this world - it's really too real and too scary."
Meng Guxue murmured something and sat beside the bed, lost in thought.
At this time, Aunt Liu came in to help Jiaojiao freshen up, and Meng Guxue stopped talking.
When they arrived at the main hall of the other courtyard, Qiao Zhongguo and Qiao Tianjing were already sitting here with solemn faces.
The shocking incident in the palace last night has been widely spread outside, and Qiao Tianjing went out to find out more about it early in the morning.
It is said that the eldest prince conspired to usurp the throne last night. He frantically intercepted and killed the envoys on the palace road, sent people to surround the treasure house, and broke into the royal study to commit the treasonous act of killing his father and seizing the throne.
The second prince and the third prince got the news and immediately went to the palace to rescue him. The brothers worked together to capture the eldest prince and save the king.
Everyone knew that the monarch loved the eldest prince the most. Although they did not know why the eldest prince did such an evil thing, there were both human and material evidence. The monarch was greatly affected by this and fell ill that night.
Today, in the morning court, all the civil and military officials were present. The king insisted on going to court, but his mouth and eyes were crooked, as if he had suffered a stroke!
Guan Sheng, on the order of the king, read out the imperial edict on the spot and passed the title of king to the third prince Baili Chengyou. After circulating it to the ministers in the cabinet, they led them to kneel to the third prince.
The ministers who lined up for the eldest prince in the palace turned pale with fright and almost fainted, and those who lined up for the second prince also broke into cold sweats.
In any case, there is no objection to the position of the crown prince of Nanli Kingdom, no, the successor to the country's leader!
A sad event also occurred during this period.
When the news of the eldest prince's rebellion reached the Shen Mansion, the head of the Shen family, Shen Gaolang, was so worried about the ruler that he suddenly suffered a heart attack. A generation of famous ministers fell away, which is sad.
Meng Guxue hugged Jiaojiao and sat down, and told Jiaojiao the inside story just now. Only then did she ask about the Qiao family's next arrangements.
When Qiao Zhongguo heard about the Shen family, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. After a while, he said seriously: "Such a good minister, Qiao should come to pay homage to him."
Qiao Tianjing saw that his father was too deeply touched and would not be able to calm down for a while, so he answered Meng Guxue:
"Presumably the Emperor's birthday banquet will still be held as scheduled. We will still attend the birthday banquet and return to the country according to the original plan."
"If the new king's enthronement ceremony takes place after the birthday banquet, he should attend the ceremony before planning his return."
Hearing this, Meng Guxue couldn't help but hug Jiaojiao tightly on her lap. She naturally hoped that the Qiao family would stay as long as possible.
Now that the major events in Nanli Country have come to an end, there is still a big hidden danger hiding in the dark.
"There is still no news about Shen Yuanbai." Meng Guxue said worriedly.
Hearing this, Jiaojiao raised her head and looked at Meng Guxue, and said softly as if she had already succeeded: "Sister Meng, Shen Yuanbai will not let it go."
"Yinzhu has been planning here for so many years, and has been acting with the eldest prince for so long, and now he has failed. Even if Shen Yuanbai can let go, Yinzhu will definitely not be reconciled."
"Besides, Grand Master Che is still here. Grand Master Che's plan this time should be similar to ours. Shen Yuanbai will probably leave with Grand Master Che. After all, even if he wants to enter the Northern King's Court, he must have a guide. 'no?"
"The most important thing is that he hasn't taken action against me yet."
At this point, Jiaojiao's expression became serious.
"Last night on the palace road, those Yu Lin soldiers were attacking me fiercely. It can be seen that Shen Yuanbai must have guessed that I have a golden finger. If he doesn't kill me, he will have trouble sleeping and eating."
When Meng Guxue heard this, her complexion changed greatly with fright. Jiaojiao even felt Meng Guxue tremble.
She quickly comforted her and said, "Don't worry, Sister Meng. Didn't we discuss it on the carriage before? But now that Baili Chengyou has become the leader of the country, we can adjust the plan appropriately."
Meng Guxue composed herself, and she said helplessly: "I don't know why, but I'm always a little afraid of Shen Yuanbai in my heart. Maybe it's the reason for that dream."
Jiaojiao had some guesses. After all, Meng Guxue and Shen Yuanbai were the male and female protagonists in the original book, which meant that there was some unexplainable connection between them.
Speaking of that dream, Meng Guxue suddenly thought of something and said "Ah" suddenly.
Jiaojiao was lost in thought and was startled by Meng Guxue.
"Sister Meng, what's wrong?"
Meng Guxue lowered her head and looked at Qiao Jiaojiao, and said with a look of horror: "I...I just suddenly remembered that in the dream, you, you, you...Jiaojiao, you are three years old Die young!"
"Oh my god, I remember your birthday is September 15th, and today is August 29th. So aren't you going to be three years old soon?"
"There...isn't there any connection between this? No, no, no, no!"
After Meng Guxue finished speaking, she waved her hand and hurriedly hugged Qiao Jiaojiao tightly, denying it again and again.
"No, no, no, the dream is all fake! Everything has changed, Jiaojiao, you will be safe and sound!"
