Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

In this chaotic situation, Xiao Yan and Mu Jingfeng remained calm. They were waiting for the person behind the scenes.

Sure enough, just when the Third Prince, the First Prince and the Fourth Prince were all defeated, the Fifth Prince Xiao Rui appeared with his troops.

Xiao Rui was wearing light armor and no longer looked as weak as before. His men quickly controlled Xiao Ling and Xiao Yu's troops.

Then they surrounded several princes who were fighting.

"Xiao Rui! Are you not sick?" Xiao Yu looked incredulous.

Everyone else looked surprised.

However, Xiao Ruiya only nodded slightly to everyone, then walked up to the three princes and said gently and politely: "Granduncle, two uncles, Rui is late and frightened you all!"

Old Prince Gong looked at the man in front of him with a lingering fear, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Good boy, you came just in time, hurry up, have someone arrest these unfilial descendants!"

The other two had a look of relief on their faces. They looked at Xiao Rui, nodded slightly and said nothing more.

"Don't worry, Grand Uncle!" Xiao Rui stepped back politely and turned to walk towards several princes and grandchildren who were controlled by another group of imperial guards.

At this time, Queen Wang reacted, walked out immediately, and said sternly: "Stop! What is the Fifth Prince going to do?"

"Mother, you should worry about yourself first! Someone, bring up the witnesses and evidence." Xiao Rui's voice was very clean and gentle, but the words he said made Queen Wang feel cold in her heart.

Soon, a pale-faced teenager was led in, holding a small wooden box in his hands. Behind him was a middle-aged man, holding a package in his arms.

When Queen Wang saw the middle-aged man, her eyes widened with disbelief. She then collapsed to the ground and laughed out loud, "Hahahaha, I didn't expect it! Zhong Jiayi, you and I fought to the death, but you are wearing wedding clothes for others!"

Concubine De was still stunned by the news that Xiao Rui was not ill, and did not respond to Queen Wang.

Defei, whose original name was Zhong Jiayi, was the younger sister of the Minister of Personnel.

Queen Wang looked at Xiao Rui and said, "Haha, judging from your appearance, I'm afraid you have recovered a long time ago! You are so deliberate, you must have planned to reap the benefits!"

"Mother, you are too kind. Zimo has almost recovered. I was thinking of giving my father a surprise on his birthday this year, but I never thought that mother would do such a crazy thing to help my third brother ascend the throne! It's simply outrageous!"

It turned out that the empress had heard rumors that Emperor Jingdi was waiting for Concubine Shu's son to grow up before appointing a crown prince. Worried that this was true, she added a chronic poison to the emperor's incense or food, which led to the sudden illness of the middle-aged Emperor Jingdi. Later, she bribed two imperial doctors and the court judge, threatened his family members, and made them claim that Emperor Jingdi was overworked and needed to rest.

This allowed the Third Prince to control the government, but Emperor Jing was alert and arranged for the First Prince to join him. However, Empress Defei's mother's family showed some weakness, and the First Prince was weaker after all. In just a few months, the Third Prince eliminated dissidents in the court. He even withheld the food and wages of the Mu family army, so that when Beihan invaded, the Mu family army sacrificed many people because of their old weapons.

If the Marquis's wife and the old prime minister had not pooled money to buy food, the Mu family army would have frozen to death or starved to death in the northern border even if they had not died at the hands of the Tartars.

Fortunately, Concubine Shu discovered the abnormality and tried to find someone to treat Emperor Jing again, but at that time Emperor Jing had been poisoned for too long, and the person could only relieve the symptoms. It was heard that there was an old military doctor named Shen Lao who was very skilled in medicine by the Marquis of Zhenguo, so she suggested that the two invite Shen Lao back, perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope.

Concubine Shu agreed without thinking, but she was worried that Xiao Yan would also be harmed, so she asked Emperor Jing to let Xiao Yan go with him.

Emperor Jing naturally thought of this, so he sent the leader of the secret guards Yan Yi with a team to escort Xiao Yan to the northern border and ask the Marquis of Zhenguo to bring Old Shen back to the capital to rescue him.

But none of them knew that what Yan Yi took away were two imperial edicts, and the hidden one was the will that they had been longing for!

As the fifth prince Xiao Rui gradually revealed the truth, Queen Wang and the third prince were terrified.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiao Yu wanted to escape, but as soon as he ran out of the palace gate, he was pierced through the chest by a sharp arrow.

Until his death, his eyes were looking outside the palace, full of unwillingness, and he truly died with his eyes open.

Upon seeing this, Queen Wang screamed, stumbled over, hugged Xiao Yu's body, and cried loudly: "Yu'er, Yu'er, wake up, wake up! Ah!"

The people present looked at Xiao Rui, and fear gradually appeared in the timid and guilty eyes, while the royalists had a hint of scrutiny.

Only Mu Jingfeng and a few others who knew the truth felt a little upset. This guy... was not easy to deal with.

Afterwards, the most senior Prince Gong decided to put the rest of the princes and grandchildren involved in the incident, as well as the officials involved, into the Tianlao and interrogate them after the late emperor's funeral.

After the group was escorted away, the old Prince Gong spoke again: "The country cannot be without a king for a day. Now that the late emperor has only one son, Prince Ding, the fifth prince, this prince proposes..."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that Prince Gong was about to say that Xiao Rui would inherit the throne, Xiao Rui himself showed a smug look in his eyes, and a majestic voice sounded.

The old prince frowned when he saw that he was interrupted, and asked in a deep voice: "Does the Marquis of Zhenguo have anything else to say? Why don't we wait..."

Mu Jingfeng did not respond. He remained calm as he slowly took out the will from his arms, held it high, and said loudly, "This is the will bestowed by the emperor himself. Ninth Prince Xiao Yan, please accept the order!"