The night fell.
The heavy snow has stopped long ago, the sky at night is clear, and the stars are twinkling.
The moonlight shines on the palace walls, making the huge palace look even cooler and quieter.
The moment the palace gate was about to be locked, Chu Yi galloped over on horseback. Regardless of the obstruction of the imperial guards, he forced his way into the palace and headed straight for the emperor's palace.
"Your Majesty, the Emperor has already gone to bed. Important matters will have to wait until tomorrow..."
Eunuch Gao stopped at the door of the palace and advised him earnestly.
Chu Yi said loudly: "Father, for the sake of the friendship between Dajin and Hongnan, my son agreed to marry the princess as his concubine. Why did my father want to do something to my sweetheart! She is just a weak woman. She can't do anything. I don’t understand, please ask Father to let her go!”
His voice reached the palace, and the emperor who was in high spirits seemed to have been poured cold water on him.
Zhou Meiren was very angry. There were three thousand beauties in the harem, and it was finally her turn to sleep with her. As soon as she started, she was ruined by the sound from outside.
But the person outside was King Pingxi, the prince whom the emperor valued very much. She had resentment in her heart but did not dare to say anything.
The emperor sat up from the couch and said angrily: "It's so late at night, why are you making such a fuss?"
"Whatever my father asks me to do, I will do it!" Chu Yi's voice was filled with urgency and sadness, "I have failed her in this life, and I must not let her lose her life because of it again..."
The emperor's head hurt.
He couldn't understand what the boy outside was saying at all.
But it could be heard that the boy was very anxious, as if something big had happened.
The emperor had no choice but to put on his dragon robe and said coldly: "Come in and talk."
Eunuch Gao stepped forward and pushed open the door of the bedroom.
Chu Yi stepped in and smelled the ambergris. From the corner of his eye, he saw Beauty Zhou standing by and waiting on her. He deeply felt the anger on the beauty's body.
"What is it that makes you break into my bedroom late at night regardless of etiquette?" The emperor's voice was cold, "If you can't tell me the reason, don't blame me for rewarding you with twenty more boards."
Chu Yi knelt on the ground with a plop: "Please let her go!"
"Who should be let go?" The emperor pressed his temple, "Speak clearly to me!"
Chu Yi raised his head and said, "My dear friend lives in the former Pingxi Prince's Mansion. Who else can take her away from Pingxi Prince's Mansion calmly, besides my father?"
"Presumptuous!" the emperor said angrily, "In your mind, am I just such an unreasonable person who does the same thing in front of you and behind your back? If I wanted to seduce your sweetheart, I still need to wait until today? Men are lustful and love beauty. Everyone has this desire, I have discussed it with your mother and concubine, and let your sweetheart come in as your concubine, you are really wasting all my good intentions on you!"
Chu Yi's face was appropriately confused: "If it's not my father, who else could it be?"
The emperor said coldly: "Eunuch Gao, immediately arrange for the Royal Forest Army to investigate!"
Eunuch Gao took the order and turned around to tell people to do things.
Such a commotion even alarmed the queen, who brought people to her bedroom at night.
Seeing Zhou Meiren standing there, the queen said calmly: "I'm afraid the emperor has no such thoughts anymore. Zhou Meiren should go back and rest."
Zhou Meiren: "..."
Although she had come to sleep with her, and although she was a little annoyed that her sleep was interrupted, she just wanted to watch the fun now.
She wanted to know who kidnapped King Pingxi's sweetheart, and she wanted to know even more, how beautiful that woman was, and why King Pingxi was so obsessed with her...
But she didn't dare to resist what the queen said, so she had to turn around and leave.
About half an hour later, the leader of the Royal Forest Army came to reply: "Report to the Emperor, Wei Chen led people to search and visit near Pingxi Prince's Mansion, and found traces of the Gongsun family."
"What?" The queen stood up in shock, "It must be a coincidence."
She wished Chu Yi would marry a peasant girl, so how could she possibly attack that peasant girl.
Chu Yi's eyebrows flashed.
It seems that his second brother does have the power and means of a scholar. If nothing is found, he will hate the emperor.
If the matter is exposed, then the matter will be framed in the East Palace.
The second brother on the left and right are both at a disadvantage.
But the second brother forgot a sentence, the mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole follows behind.
At this time, the program hurried in from outside: "Some people saw that a carriage rushed out of the capital an hour ago, and Miss Liu should be on the carriage!"
Chu Yi stood up from the ground, turned around and walked away, followed quickly by the program.
The emperor said solemnly: "Take a hundred imperial guards and follow us!"
The queen said: "Maybe the peasant girl knew that Yi'er was about to marry the princess and knew that there was no hope, so she directed and acted in such a play."
"If this is true, this woman will not be able to keep." The emperor's face looked very ugly. Such a woman with many tricks is too capable of tossing. A woman who has not officially become the third child dares to cause such a big fight. If you enter the door in the future, you don't know what will happen.
With all this fuss, it was already past midnight.
The emperor was tired and went to bed, but he couldn't fall asleep. He didn't know how long it had been, but he had just slept for a while.
I heard movement outside.
I thought I was going to go to court.
As a result, Chu Yi left and came back.
This time, the emperor clearly heard the sorrow in his son's voice.
He pressed his temples, sat up, and walked outside the hall.
The leader of the Royal Forest Army stepped forward and reported in a low voice: "When the prince arrived, Miss Liu had already expired..."
The emperor was stunned.
The queen said that the woman directed and acted herself, and he thought so too.
How could he die?
Could it really be someone else’s fault?
"Father..." Chu Yi whispered, his back trembling, as if he was suppressing crying, and his throat seemed to have been cut by a knife, "Father, please make the decision for your son!"
The emperor himself was a passionate man and could not understand that his son should be so decadent for a woman.
Fortunately, this woman is dead, otherwise Chu Yi would definitely do even more ridiculous things for this woman.
He stepped forward and helped Chu Yi up: "Don't worry, I will have people investigate this matter thoroughly!"
Chu Yi raised his head, and the emperor clearly saw his son, who had always been cold and self-possessed, with red bloodshot eyes and green stubble on his lips. He looked extremely haggard and sad.
"She was taken to an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Beijing..." Chu Yi said in a hoarse voice, "I just arranged for someone to check. That farm is the land of the Gui family's ancestors."
The emperor's expression changed.
The Gui family is Concubine Hui’s natal family, and Mr. Gui is the biological uncle of the second son.
Did the Gui family intervene in this matter?
But the Royal Forest Army said that people from the Gongsun family also appeared near Prince Pingxi's Mansion last night. So, was this incident the work of the Queen or Concubine Hui?
Or are the two joining forces?
Why attack a peasant girl?
What is the purpose?
"Father, if this matter was done by the second emperor's brother, it was an attempt to provoke a conflict between the son and the prince's brother." Chu Yi said one word at a time, "If this matter was done by the queen, the same , to make the son and the second emperor brother incompatible... The son never thought of sitting on the position of his father, but the queen and the second emperor regarded the son as a pawn and even killed an innocent person. The father Your Majesty, I don’t want anything, I just want to seek justice for my sweetheart!”
