Regent, the princess you found is a treasure
Chapter 100 The Decline of the Prime Minister's Mansion
When Prime Minister Su rushed to the palace in a panic and knelt outside the imperial study to request an audience with the emperor, Xuan Moyin had already been discussing with Xuan Jingyu in the house about the capture of the Northern Liang spy in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Pei Yuan also came into the palace.
Since Lord Pei was a witness and personally participated in the operation to arrest the Northern Liang Kingdom spies at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xuan Jingyu was powerless even if he wanted to save Prime Minister Su. After all, Prime Minister Su was a member of Xuan Jingyu's faction. If Prime Minister Su was defeated this time, Xuan Moyin would definitely try to place his own people to take over the position of Prime Minister, just like what happened to Minister Zhang last time. In fact, this situation was exactly what Xuan Jingyu did not want to see.
However, now the facts are clear, and the criminals have been arrested, including Prime Minister Su's concubine who had been hiding in the Prime Minister's Mansion for four years. Faced with such a situation, Prime Minister Su was completely unaware. Even if Prime Minister Su did not collude with the enemy and treason, he still cannot escape blame, at least he can be convicted of negligence and harboring.
Moreover, Xuan Moyin told him in a serious tone that there might be spies from Beiliang Kingdom hiding in the palace, which really shocked him.
Recalling the strange poison he had been poisoned with a few days ago, even the genius doctor asserted that the poison had been set up three years ago. Although the poison had been removed, every time he thought about it, Xuan Jingyu still felt scared.
Thinking of this, he turned to look at Xuan Moyin and said in a deep voice: "Eighth brother, I will leave this matter to you." Xuan Moyin nodded in agreement, and immediately ordered the Imperial Guards to take Prime Minister Su to prison first, awaiting his fate. At the same time, the Prime Minister's Mansion was also taken over by Jingzhao Prefecture, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will.
As soon as the news of the drastic change in the Prime Minister's Mansion spread, the whole court was in an uproar. Just last month, everyone was envious of the two daughters of the Su family getting married. The eldest daughter was engaged to the regent, and the second daughter became the crown princess. It seemed that the Prime Minister's Mansion was about to rise to prominence. However, things are unpredictable. In just one night, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Prime Minister's Mansion fell from the top of the clouds to the bottomless abyss.
At the same time, many officials began to examine their own inner houses as if they were facing a great enemy. All concubines of unknown origin, regardless of whether they were favored or not, were ruthlessly driven out of the mansion. After all, no one wanted to repeat the mistakes of Prime Minister Su.
When Su Qingrou found out about this, she collapsed on the bed. Her mother went insane and was sent to a farm in the countryside by her father. Her maternal grandparents were also exiled by Xuan Moyin. Now, if the Prime Minister's Mansion was gone, she would no longer be the high and mighty Second Lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Now the prince no longer comes to her courtyard, but she can still sit in the position of the crown princess, it is nothing more than she is still the second daughter of the prime minister's mansion, but if the prime minister's mansion is gone, what is she? Just an ordinary person! Then how could the prince still let her occupy the position of the crown princess?
No, no, the Prime Minister's Mansion cannot fall. Su Qingrou thought of this and immediately walked towards the courtyard of one of Xuan Haotian's concubines.
This concubine was very beautiful, especially her eyes which were very alluring. She was Xuan Haotian's favorite in the prince's mansion, so Su Qingrou knew that the prince must be with this concubine at this time.
But now she had no time to be jealous. She just wanted to ask the prince to save the Prime Minister's Mansion and ask her father to release her father.
When the servant reported to Xuan Haotian that the Crown Princess wanted to see him, he immediately knew that Su Qingrou came to the Prime Minister's Mansion. But his father had handed this matter over to the Emperor's uncle, and colluding with the enemy was a capital crime. He couldn't even hide, so how could he possibly go and plead for Prime Minister Su?
"Tell the Crown Princess that I'm busy and won't see you." Xuan Haotian said to the servants.
Just as the servant was about to go out to report, Su Qingrou rushed in by herself.
"Prince, you must save the Prime Minister's Mansion!" Su Qingrou knelt on the ground as soon as she came in, crying to Xuan Haotian with tears streaming down her face. In the past, as long as she shed tears and pretended to be pitiful, Xuan Haotian would feel distressed. Now she really cried because she was really panicked and didn't know what to do?
The concubine leaned in Xuan Haotian's arms, with the corners of her mouth raised, sneering at this man who was always high and mighty, cold and never gave them a good face. Seeing the Crown Princess, she didn't expect that the Crown Princess would also kneel on the ground and cry bitterly like this.
But Su Qingrou had no way to care about these things. She now only wanted to save the Prime Minister's Mansion and keep her position as the Crown Princess.
Xuan Haotian couldn't bear to see her like this. He pushed the beauty in his arms away, stood up, walked to Su Qingrou and helped her up with his own hands. "It's not that I don't want to save her, but I can't save her. This is a capital crime, and no one dares to ask for help. If I go to ask my father, it will definitely make him wary."
After Xuan Haotian finished speaking, he called the maid to forcibly take Su Qingrou away. He himself had lost interest and went back to the study alone.
In the Sky Prison, under Xuan Moyin's extraordinary measures, the three spies confessed everything, but they only knew about the Prime Minister's Mansion and were only in contact with Zhao Yun'er (Aunt Zhao's maiden name). All their actions were arranged by Zhao Yun'er. As for whether they had any accomplices in the capital and the palace, they really knew nothing.
As for Zhao Yun'er, she insisted that she was the direct manager of Beiliang's spies in the capital. When Xuan Moyin asked her whether she had any accomplices in the palace, she denied everything.
And that night, Zhao Yuner bit her tongue and committed suicide. Xuan Moyin presented all the confessions to the emperor. Zhao Yuner was already dead and thrown into a mass grave outside the city. The other three spies were executed three days later. Because Prime Minister Su did not commit any substantial acts of treason, but was guilty of not investigating and harboring a criminal, the emperor removed him from office, exiled his entire family, and confiscated all the property of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Just like that, Prime Minister Su, along with his old wife who was unwell and sighing, was escorted out of the capital by officers and soldiers. Zhang, who lived in a farm in the countryside of the capital, was also taken away by officers and soldiers overnight. Even his son Su Xiaoyu, who was studying in Bai Lu Cave, was captured and exiled together.
Only Su Qingrou, who married the prince, survived. However, Su Qingrou no longer had the status of the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but was just an ordinary citizen.
Half a month later, Prince Xuan Haotian drove Su Qingrou out of the Prince's Mansion with a divorce letter. Su Qingrou left the Prince's Mansion with her private money and Qinglian.
She rented a small courtyard with Qinglian, but one day, Qinglian disappeared with most of her private money and never came back.
No one knew where Su Qingrou went afterwards, and all this was told to Su Luoxue by Xuan Moyin.
"Do you want to look for her?" Xuan Moyin asked.
"No need. The Prime Minister's Mansion has fallen into decline now, and she is no longer the Crown Princess. As long as she doesn't bother me again, let her live a peaceful life!" Su Luoxue replied.
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