Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

"Yuan, you're not crying until you see the coffin, and you're just making excuses. When you used that shabby shop to send my niece away, your Yuan family's reputation was already gone. You trampled it on the ground. What? After getting beaten, you want to save face? Huh? If I didn't beat you today, you would still be smug. Yuan, I'm telling you..."

Bang, another memorial fell down.

The emperor said angrily: "Fang Yao, keep your mouth shut."

Well, he was also led astray by that bastard Fang Yao. He is the emperor and he calls himself "I" all the time.

If Yuan Mengxing hadn't been there, even the emperor would have wanted someone to beat Fang Yao up.

"Yes, I won't scold him. I won't scold him for the sake of Your Majesty. Your Majesty, you are still coughing, so please don't get angry."

Seeing the emperor gasping for breath again, Fang Yao raised his hand and patted his mouth twice, then said honestly, "Your Majesty, the iceberg snow lotus I had people fetch from the Western Regions is already on its way. I'll send it to you as soon as it arrives in the capital, and I'll have the imperial physician prescribe a prescription for it. I've heard from the imperial physician that snow lotus can relieve asthma. I won't make you angry. As long as Your Majesty is healthy and lives a long life, I won't mind giving in to the Yuan family."

He followed the emperor when he was young. The two did not know each other when they met for the first time and even had a fight.

The emperor was the crown prince at the time. He sneaked out of the palace in disguise and found that he had no money when he was eating wontons. He thought the emperor was defaulting on his debt, so he stopped him from leaving and a fight started.

Later, the emperor took out his jade pendant to pay for the wontons. He felt that the emperor was not the kind of person who would default on his debt, so he paid for the wontons out of his own pocket.

The two of them were wiping the bruises on their faces, and they fell in love at first sight and became friends.

Later, the emperor secretly left the palace to look for him several times. It was not until he was driven back to the border by his father, who was a general at the time, and was about to leave Beijing that he found out that the person who always challenged him to a sparring match and was beaten by him was the prince.

Then, he became the prince's right-hand man. Later, when the prince ascended the throne, he became the emperor's general, helping the emperor guard the territory.

The emperor has reprimanded him many times for swearing, and he has been trying hard to be more polite, but today he was angered by the Duke of Wei and broke down again.

If he hadn't been afraid that the emperor would cough and wheeze when he got angry, he wouldn't have beaten him enough, let alone scolded him enough today.

He didn't care who the Yuans blamed for the incident, because they were all members of the Yuan family.

He only cared about the humiliation Li'er suffered at the Duke of Wei's Mansion. Li'er now had grandparents and an uncle, and this was absolutely intolerable.

If the man surnamed Yuan doesn't give him a satisfactory explanation today, he will leave the palace and take his men to the Yuan family to smash the Duke of Wei's mansion to pieces.

When the emperor saw him tilting his head and thinking about something, he knew that he was holding back his fart again.

Looking at Yuan Mengxing again, in just a few moments, his eyes had swollen like water-filled skin bags, even the slits that had been there had closed. His purple cheeks had also begun to swell like steamed buns. It was obvious that he would not be able to attend court for the next few days.

The Emperor pinched his brows in annoyance and said to Eunuch Chang, "Send the imperial physician to apply medicine to Duke Wei."

"Yes." Eunuch Chang took the order and went out.

Yuan Mengxing's tears came out.

I don’t know whether I was touched or hurt.

The emperor took a sip of tea and looked up at the two of them.

"Fang Yao, you dared to hit someone in the palace. No matter how you look at it, you are more wrong. As for Yuan Mengxing, look at what your family has done. Tell me yourself, how can I help you get justice?"

Their legs ached from kneeling, and they kept their heads down without saying a word.

Eunuch Chang came in from outside, bowed to the emperor, and whispered: "Your Majesty, the old prime minister is still waiting outside."

Fang Yao's ears twitched.

Prime Minister Zhao?

Shen Zhaojiang's father-in-law.

His daughter is Li'er's stepmother. That vicious woman who drugged Li'er all the way will kill her sooner or later.

"pass."

The emperor waved his hand, signaling Fang Yao and Yuan Mengxing to kneel aside.

Prime Minister Zhao wore a dark brown robe with a sea of ​​clouds patterned on it, and matching boots. He was over sixty years old, his hair and beard were graying, and his face was thin. The brocade robe draped him, and despite his thin figure, he exuded a powerful aura, his eyes piercing.

Stepping into the imperial study, the old prime minister glanced at Fang Yao and Yuan Mengxing, then bowed to the emperor and said, "This old minister greets the emperor."

"Stand up," the emperor said, not looking at him. He reached out and pushed aside the pile of memorials that had been messed up by the attack. He searched among them and pulled out a few, handing them to Eunuch Chang. "To the old prime minister," he said. "These are sent by the prefect of Mizhou. Regarding the murder of the second son of the Yao family, do you have any other thoughts?"

So many days had passed since the murder of the second master of the Yao family in the Chongguo Mansion. The Queen and the Chongguo Duke came to him crying almost every day, begging him to investigate the murderer and to stand up for the Yao family.

The murderer did not leave any clues, and he sent out several groups of people but could not find anything. Various theories were rampant in the court, and memorials were submitted one after another, all of which were made in the name of hunting down the murderer.

The majority of them believed that it was the eldest prince who sent people to do it. He asked Shen Zhaojiang to go to the imperial mausoleum to pick up the eldest prince. Seeing that he would go to Beijing tomorrow, he specially summoned the old prime minister to the palace today just to hear his opinion.

Prime Minister Zhao glanced at the two people kneeling on the ground and remained silent for a while.

A royal physician was brought in by the eunuch to help Yuan Mengxing check his injuries.

The medicine was applied to his face, and the pain made him cry and burst into tears. He couldn't control it at all, but he had to endure it and didn't dare to make any loud noise.

The Mizhou incident happened a long time ago, and the court often quarreled about it.

When the emperor and the prime minister were discussing the case, he didn't want to offend them.

Before the second son of the Yao family went to Mizhou, two tragedies occurred in Mizhou. The victims were the leader of the guards guarding the Mizhou iron mine and an official from the Mining and Metallurgy Department who went there specifically to supervise smelting.

It is reported that the two were killed on the same night. Their deaths were quite tragic and their heads were cut off.

Fortunately, the mine had a few big dogs that led people to find the head, which was actually placed on a hilltop.

It was a hill of earth where the corpses of countless miners were buried.

Conditions in the mines were harsh, and the miners, mostly criminals, were subjected to beatings and scolding by the supervisors. Numerous casualties had occurred among the miners, and resentment had long been simmering.

When the news reached the capital, everyone thought that the two men had died as the miners' families.

Duke Chongguo and the Queen fought for the Second Prince's mission to go to Mizhou to collect evidence. However, because of a fight with the First Prince, the Second Prince was stripped of his position as the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple. In order to prevent the mission from being wasted, Duke Chongguo sent the Second Master over.

I never expected that he was fine when he left, but turned into a corpse when he came back.

The entire Yao family was shrouded in grief, and tracking down the murderer almost became a must-report topic for the Yao family members every day in court.

After so many days without any clue and seeing that the quarrel was getting more and more chaotic, the emperor simply summoned the eldest prince who was at the center of the storm back to the capital and questioned him in person.

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