Wandering the Heavens

Xiao Xuan, who was worrying about having no reason to suppress Prince Yu, was both happy and angry when he saw the memorial.

The good news was that he finally had an excuse to suppress his son. After Xiao Jingxuan was demoted to King Xian, Xiao Jinghuan jumped up and down, openly and secretly pushing court officials to write a letter to establish him as the crown prince.

What made him angry was that at this time, Xiao Jinghuan actually asked for disaster relief silver! According to the correspondence seized from the governor of Yuezhou, a sum of disaster relief silver had been sent to Prince Yu's mansion before this. And Xiao Jinghuan also promised to recommend the governor of Yuezhou to take up an important position in Beijing after the drought and locust plague were over.

Mei Changsu was determined to depose Prince Yu, and secretly mobilized various forces to impeach him. For a time, public opinion was surging, and Xiao Jinghuan's Prince Qizhu was demoted to Prince Shuangzhu, and he was back to the time before liberation.

"Your Majesty, Prajna has advised you many times!"

In Prince Yu's Mansion, Qin Banruo looked at Xiao Jinghuan who was acting crazy while drunk. The princess wanted to help him go back, but was pushed away again and again.

"You are trying to persuade me, but you are not in my position, so how can you understand my difficulties?"

Xiao Jinghuan pushed again hard, and the princess lost her balance and fell backwards. Qin Banruo hurriedly caught her.

"Don't think that I don't know. Ever since Mei Changsu came last year, you have become a different person. You always disagree with him, which makes me feel at a loss. I was thrown into disarray. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here today!"

"Is it that Prajna's opinions and plans are wrong?" Although Qin Prajna had long since left Xiao Jinghuan, she had been planning for him wholeheartedly these days. If she wanted to harm him, she could easily make Xiao Jinghuan fall into irreparable ruin.

"Your plan is correct, then why am I so far away from the supreme position! How can I be willing to be beaten back to the starting point one day!" Xiao Jinghuan said, and picked up the wine pot on the table and poured himself a glass of wine.

"Help the princess go down to rest, and then ask the court doctor to take a look." Qin Banruo asked the maid to help the princess into the backyard.

"What do you want to say now?" Xiao Jinghuan was puzzled when he saw the princess being sent away.

"After Xia Jiang died, some things were found by Prajna's people. Those things showed that it would be impossible for the prince to reach that position in this life." Qin Prajna placed a bundle in front of Xiao Jinghuan.

"Have you seen it?" Xiao Jinghuan put down the wine glass in his hand.

"I've seen it." Qin Prajna admitted straightforwardly.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Xiao Jinghuan had already untied the knot on the bundle.

"No, Your Majesty, take care. Prajna will take her leave." Qin Prajna shook her head and left the front hall.

Telling him the true past of Xiao Jinghuan's biological mother was Qin Prajna's last kindness.

Xiao Jinghuan didn't care about Qin Prajna's departure. He had been demoted to the position of the Prince of Shuangzhu, so it was normal for people to be forgotten after they left. After shaking his head, he continued to open the bundle, which contained some old letters and valuable keepsakes. Xiao Jinghuan put the keepsakes aside and opened the letters one by one to read them.

"Someone, bring the brazier!"

After a long, long time, Xiao Jinghuan put the unfolded letter into his bag and instructed the servants outside the hall.

The servant quickly brought a brazier and placed it in front of Xiao Jinghuan. He threw the bag into the brazier, stood up, took a candle and threw it over to light it.

The firelight soon overshadowed the candlelight and illuminated the front hall extremely brightly. Xiao Jinghuan stared at the blazing flames, as if he wanted to carve it into his eyes.

"I will not accept my fate, even if you all betray me one by one! I, Xiao Jinghuan, want you, the counselors who are able to judge the situation, to see me ascend to the supreme throne. How surprised and helpless you will be then!" Xiao Jinghuan clenched his fists.

From that day on, Prince Yu Xiao Jinghuan disappeared from the sight of court officials. His silence surprised many people. After writing a letter to apologize to himself, he stayed indoors. Except for going to the palace to pay respects to the empress on the prescribed days, no one had seen him appear in public. He even refused to do things when Xiao Xuan ordered him to do something. He even did not show up when Prince Jing returned from disaster relief. Xiao Xuan had no choice but to ask Prince Ji to greet him.

Mei Changsu knew that Xiao Jinghuan still refused to give up, but he didn't know what he was planning. Qin Banruo treated him with great kindness and eliminated all the spies of the Jiangzuo League in Prince Yu's Mansion before leaving.

Xiao Jingyan made great contributions in disaster relief, controlling the plague after the disaster. The people in the disaster area returned to their hometowns and resumed farming in an orderly manner, and there was hope for winter planting and summer harvest. Xiao Xuan added two more pearls to his crown, making him the Prince of Seven Pearls.

But this situation is not what Mei Changsu wants, because Xiao Jingyan's foundation in the court is still very weak, even weaker than the demoted Xiao Jinghuan. It is still a long way to go before the Red Flame Army can redress its grievances.

Just when Mei Changsu wanted to promote the establishment of a crown prince, rumors began to spread in the palace about the past of Jing Wang's biological mother, Jingpin. A normal man would feel uncomfortable knowing that his concubine had a white moonlight and was willing to do anything for this white moonlight.

Xiao Jingyan's path to becoming the crown prince became bleak with these rumors.

Mei Changsu came to Hong Xiuzhao again. Qin Banruo knew he was coming and simply waited at the same place as last time.

"Qin Banruo, since you have already left Prince Yu, why are you doing such a despicable thing!" Mei Changsu asked as soon as he sat down.

"Mr. Su, has Prajna done anything unforgivable?" Qin Prajna would not tolerate him.

"You and I both know who spread the rumors in the palace!" Mei Changsu said and coughed a few more times.

"Mr. Su, since Prajna has already extricated herself from this situation, she will not get involved in this muddy water again and naturally would not bother to do such a thing." Qin Prajna opened the window again.

Mei Changsu subconsciously looked out the window, and sure enough, he saw Gong Yu's resentful look on the second floor of Miaoyinfang again.

"In Jinling, besides you, Qin Banruo, there is someone else who has such ability. It was that mysterious man who instructed you to do it!" Mei Changsu lost his usual composure.

"Sure enough, the sharpest knife in the world is irresponsible words. Mr. Su naturally knows that all the men of our Hua tribe were slaughtered by the swords of the Red Flame Army. Only a group of weak women were left to survive in this chaotic world. We have spent so many years in national hatred and family feuds, and we have finally let it go. But Mr. Su wants to come to our door and force us to admit something we have never done. Do you, Liang Kingdom, have to kill even poor people like us to wipe out the roots?" Qin Prajna's tears flowed down.

"you……"

As the former young commander of the Red Flame Army, Mei Changsu naturally knew how the Hua tribe was destroyed. Putting aside Xiao Xuan's despicable tactics, the Red Flame Army's conquest of the Hua tribe on the battlefield was one of their glorious achievements.

But now a descendant of the Hua tribe was questioning whether they should exterminate the last of their people, and he couldn't say a word.

"The Red Flame Army has gained unprecedented glory on the corpses of the Hua people. Now the Hua people have been written into the history books. Why is Mr. Su still so aggressive and does not hesitate to frame this matter on us?" Qin Prajna's questions became more intense.

Mei Changsu was speechless and could only cough gently to ease the embarrassment.

"Even if it wasn't you who did it, what about the powerful mysterious man behind you!" Mei Changsu finally stabilized his breath.

"There is no one behind Prajna. If there is anyone, they must be the innocent people of the Hua tribe who died tragically under the sword of the Red Flame Army." Qin Prajna was no longer as aggressive as before.

"The Red Flame Army's expedition against the Hua tribe is in the national interest. There is nothing wrong with fighting on our own." Mei Changsu said coldly.

"Then why did Mr. Su come to Jinling now? Is it for the interests of Liang State, or that ridiculous loyalty?" Qin Prajna asked with a sneer.

"What do you know?" Mei Changsu clenched his fists and started coughing again.