Surprise!!! The Regent Princess is actually a hidden boss

Mei Li saw this and took a stool from the side and placed it next to Chu Qianyu. After she sat down, she looked at the Fourth Elder with deep eyes and asked slowly with a bewitching look: "What did the Emperor ask you to do? Were you involved in the death of the previous clan leader?"

A glimmer of clarity flashed across the fourth elder's eyes, but soon turned cloudy again. He spoke slowly, seemingly out of control: "Before the current emperor ascended the throne, we had gradually contacted each other. He said that as long as I listened to his arrangements, he would help me become the clan leader. I know that the illegitimate children of the Situ family are not qualified to become clan leaders."

"So I agreed to it under the emperor's instigation. I knew in my heart that the second elder and the fifth elder were both legitimate children. At first, they didn't have much thought about the position of clan leader. Later, under my instigation, they began to think about competing with the previous clan leader."

"I followed the emperor's arrangement and first instigated the second elder to drug the former clan leader. Then, without the fifth elder's knowledge, I had him lead the man into the trap we had set up long ago."

The fifth elder suddenly paused when he spoke this.

There was anger in Chu Qianyu's eyes, and her teeth were clenched as if she was trying hard to suppress the urge to kill him.

Then he continued to ask: "What are your plans next?"

"Now the second elder and the fifth elder have been killed by the clan leader, so after the clan leader dies, the emperor will support me to become the clan leader. And now my martial arts are the most powerful in the clan, and I have secretly persuaded many people to support me over the years. So I must take over as the temporary clan leader."

"After I take over the position of clan leader temporarily, I will gradually change the system within the Situ clan and make it completely subservient to the current emperor. In the future, the Situ clan will be an appendage of the royal family. It will not be able to restrain the royal family. It will be completely under the command of the current emperor."

Chu Qianyu sneered when she heard this and said, "The current emperor is really good at scheming. He actually started scheming before he even ascended the throne."

Having said this, she stood up and clapped her hands. There was a creaking sound from behind the screen, and the head of the Law Enforcement Hall, the third elder, and the elders from various halls who had been loyal to the clan leader walked out.

They all stepped forward and saluted her. The head of the Law Enforcement Hall stepped forward and said sternly, "Clan leader, the fourth elder secretly wanted to make the Situ family a subsidiary of the royal family. This violates the Situ family's century-old ancestral precepts. We must enforce the law publicly and let everyone in the Situ family see what the consequences of violating the ancestral precepts are!"

The other hall masters all stepped forward to respond.

The third elder felt a little sad and a little resentful in his heart. Because of what he had done, the five brothers were in the current situation. Not long ago, the five of them drank and talked happily, and went through hardships together, but now everything has changed.

Chu Qianyu originally wanted to find someone to replace the Fourth Elder, so as not to alert the Emperor for the time being, and then find evidence of the Emperor's crime. But she suddenly changed her plan the day before.

Now that she clearly knew that it was the emperor who was behind it, she was not going to endure it any longer.

That's why she didn't execute the Fourth Elder in Situ's house, because she was afraid that the news would get out and affect tonight's plan. That's why she called the elders and the hall master who she had investigated and who had no ulterior motives to come here.

But to be on the safe side, she decided to be cautious.

He turned around and looked at the elders and said, "I will keep him here for now. You have just heard what the Fourth Elder did. But I have other plans tonight, so this news cannot be leaked out. I will trouble you to stay here for one night. I will deal with him when I come back tomorrow."

"We will follow the orders of the patriarch." Everyone responded in unison.

"Nan Xu, first imprison the four elders in the dungeon, and then take them to Qinglan Pavilion in the back mountain to entertain them well."

"Yes." After Nan Xu agreed, he opened the door, and two guards walked in and quickly dragged the fourth elder out.

Then he said to several people: "Please follow me."

After everyone had left, Chu Qianyu stretched out his body. His eyes were cold and his whole body seemed to be chilled.

It's time to settle accounts!

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In the Yangxin Palace, the emperor didn't know why, but ever since Chu Jun ordered people to drive Chu Jun out, he always felt a little uneasy when sitting in the palace. So he stood up and paced back and forth in the palace.

Seeing that it was already the hour of Hai, and Patriarch Situ had not yet entered the palace, he began to wait anxiously.

"Zhang Fu, come in!" the emperor shouted anxiously.

Zhang Fu walked in quickly and saluted.

"Did Patriarch Situ say when he would enter the palace today?" He was the ruler of a country, but he had to wait for a patriarch here. Now he wanted to take the Situ clan into his own even more urgently. If it wasn't for the emergency and only Patriarch Situ was able to help him handle the matter, he would never have summoned Patriarch Situ to the palace.

The chieftain of the Situ clan did not obey him completely. He would do whatever he said, but he could refuse if he felt it was inappropriate. If his orders were inappropriate, the chieftain of the Situ clan would also play a supervisory role.

He really didn't want to do that. He was already the ruler of a country, but someone dared to refute him. He couldn't accept that. But the Situ clan had been established for a long time. For so many years, the king and the head of the Situ clan had been restraining each other. In previous years, there were emperors who had the idea of ​​recruiting the Situ clan for their own use, but without exception, they all ended in failure.

He just didn't believe that he could accomplish what the kings of previous dynasties could not do. He was about to succeed, but so many troubles arose out of nowhere.

Zhang Fu saw that the emperor seemed to be a little emotionally unstable, and he also felt uneasy. He whispered, "Your Majesty, when I went to the Situ Mansion, the head of the Situ clan was not there. He only said that he would tell me that you asked her to enter the palace at night. He did not tell me where the head of the Situ clan went. So...so I don't know when the head of the Situ clan will arrive."

"You useless thing! If they don't tell you, can't you ask a few more people?" the emperor roared.

"Your Majesty, Patriarch Situ is here." The guard outside the door came in to report.

The emperor glared at Zhang Fu and said, "You go down first!"

"Yes." Zhang Fu trotted away in trembling steps.

When Chu Qianyu walked in, she saw that the emperor's anger had not yet subsided.

But she didn't care about these, but the strange smell in the hall made her a little unhappy.

Then he looked at the emperor and said, "I'm afraid your emperor hasn't summoned the head of the Situ clan into the palace for a long time, and he has forgotten the rules! If you are so insincere, don't blame me for being ruthless. Goodbye!" After Chu Qianyu finished speaking, she was ready to turn around and leave.

"Wait a minute, Patriarch Situ. It's my fault. I didn't know when you would come, so I didn't make any arrangements." The emperor quickly stretched out his hand to stop her. He didn't expect that his people had been hiding so well, but she still found them. It seems that the rumors are true. This Patriarch Situ is a rare genius in a century.

Chu Qianyu stopped and turned around, raised the corners of her eyebrows slightly, and looked at him with interest.

This made the emperor even more depressed, and now no one dared to treat him like this.

But now he could only endure it for the time being, and then he seemed to be talking to the air and said: "Why don't you retreat quickly!"

But after a while, Chu Qianyu felt that the strange atmosphere in the hall disappeared completely. Then he applauded and said, "The people trained by the emperor are quite good at martial arts."