Quick Transmigration: Saving That Cannon Fodder

My cousin noticed that he looked just like herself from a few days ago, so she gave him a storybook filled with tales of love between men.

Murong Yu suddenly realized what had happened between her cousin and that young General Zhao.

"You didn't tell me that either. Also, is His Highness about to marry the Crown Princess?"

Chi Xing addressed him as "Your Highness" repeatedly, which saddened Murong Yu. Without pondering why Chi Xing had asked about the Crown Princess, he simply said:

"I won't marry you. I'll go pick some plum blossoms and bring them back to make plum blossom soup dumplings for you."

"Really? But I saw you and the girl in the plum garden."

In his excitement, Akahoshi started coughing again.

Murong Yu thought he had misunderstood. Suddenly, something popped into her mind: Did Xingxing not want him to marry the Crown Princess?

“I went to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager. Thinking that you would probably go back to sleep, I went to the plum garden to pick some plum branches. I happened to run into my cousin and exchanged a few words with her.”

Fearing that Akahoshi might misunderstand, he turned Akahoshi's face towards him and explained carefully:

“That’s our cousin, Xingxing. Do you remember your cousin Panpan who gave you New Year’s gifts every year? She also gave you a thousand-year-old ginseng and the golden gourd you were playing with not long ago.”

The little gourd was golden, and Chixing loved to hold it in his hands and play with it.

After Murong Yu finished speaking, Chi Xing stopped coughing and kept burying his head in Murong Yu's arms, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Murong Yu, suppressing her laughter, coaxed him, her ears turning red from holding back her laughter, "It's my fault, I didn't tell you that my cousin had gone to the capital."

"It's all your fault. No, you even went to the flower-viewing banquet. Were you there to see other girls?"

Having found another weakness, Akahoshi stepped out of his arms and once again became self-righteous.

Seeing his jealous expression, Murong Yu's heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud:

"I'm innocent! When Xingxing saw me, wasn't I holding red plums in my arms? I wanted to pick some to show you, and also make plum blossom soup dumplings, since Xingxing loves them, right?"

I can't eat it now, because Xiao Yezi brought in the medicine.

There was no escaping it. Chi Xing drank the whole bowl in big gulps, and Murong Yu rinsed his mouth with warm water and skillfully stuffed a candied fruit into his mouth.

Wrapped tightly in the blanket, Chi Xing leaned against Murong Yu's warm chest, when Murong Yu suddenly asked:

"Xingxing, you don't want me to marry the Crown Princess, do you?"

Akahoshi, half asleep with his eyes closed, snorted when he heard this: "Marry whoever you want."

After saying that, she obediently wrapped her arms around his waist, as if afraid he would run away.

A smile flickered in Murong Yu's eyes as she thought to herself: No rush.

He coaxed Akahoshi to sleep, then turned and left the bedroom.

The moment he stepped out the door, his gentle expression instantly turned icy and ruthless.

"shadow."

A man in black appeared; he was one of the emperor's secret guards, and he was only to obey his orders.

After speaking to the shadow, the other party accepted the order and disappeared from the spot.

Little Leaf and Little Stone walked in carrying Red Plum.

Murong Yu accepted the plum blossom and turned to go to the kitchen.

*

An assassin appeared in the palace, enraging the emperor, who ordered a thorough investigation overnight.

All the captured assassins committed suicide by biting into the poison hidden in their teeth, while the one who escaped seemed to have vanished into thin air; the entire palace was searched but he could not be found.

Murong Tuo and his companions nearly drowned in the lake.

It is said that Murong Tuo had stopped breathing when he was rescued, and it was only thanks to the arrival of Imperial Physician Lin that he was brought back from the brink of death.

Upon hearing that it was the Crown Prince who had knocked the man into the lake, the fathers and brothers of several noble families submitted memorials accusing the Crown Prince of his crimes.

The next day, the eldest princess knelt directly in the main hall, begging the emperor to punish the crown prince, and threatened that the crown prince would kill Sun Qiming.

The Emperor was already furious about what was happening, and now these people were causing trouble.

The group made their accusations, but the emperor at the head of the table remained silent, which made them somewhat uneasy.

After all, the emperor's favorite was the crown prince.

The eldest princess was a master of tantrums. On the spot, she made sarcastic remarks, telling the emperor that he should not forgive him just because he was the crown prince, and even said: "The emperor is subject to the same laws as the common people."

Her shrill voice filled the imperial study, and the other ministers couldn't get a word in edgewise.

The emperor's displeasure only eased when the eunuch came in to report that the censor and the prefect of the capital were requesting an audience.

Chi Xing watched the drama unfold remotely. As soon as the Imperial Censor entered, the others immediately became like quails, not daring to raise their heads. Even the Princess dared not cause a scene.

The Imperial Censor first bowed to the Emperor, glanced at the others, and then presented the memorial in his hand.

Among them, the evidence of Prince Yongning's murder of officials' children is conclusive. The Jingzhao Yin also found that he often rode his horse wildly in the capital, bullied the people, and forcibly abducted respectable women and children. Every case has witnesses and physical evidence.

After the Imperial Censor finished speaking, the Prefect of the Capital provided supplementary evidence, as he was an expert in these kinds of cases.

With such a list of crimes, Sun Qiming could be sentenced to death several times over.

Upon hearing this, the eldest princess was about to throw a tantrum, but the censor submitted another memorial.

This time, the impeachment was against the Princess for her extravagance and for abducting a married man to her residence to be his male concubine. The man's wife, having nowhere else to turn, took her two children and filed a complaint with the Prefect of the Capital.

"Your Majesty, that woman and child were repeatedly attacked by the Princess, but fortunately they were rescued by General Zhao. If it weren't for General Zhao's protection, the mother and child would have already died under the Princess's blade."

The Prefect of the Capital was a cousin of the Emperor and always upheld the law impartially. He was not afraid of even the Princess.

"What nonsense!"

The eldest princess stared intently at the Prefect of the Capital, as if she were about to cut a piece of flesh from him at any moment.

The Prefect of the Capital did not even glance at her, and continued to report the crimes of Sun Qiming and several other scions of prominent families that he had in his hands.

The others, upon hearing this, understood perfectly well that these two had come prepared, not only to exonerate the Crown Prince but also to kill their child.

The ministers grew increasingly alarmed as they listened, sweat beading on their foreheads and their knees trembling uncontrollably.

After reading the memorial and examining the evidence, the Emperor spoke calmly:

"Call the witness."

The calmer his voice was, the more panicked the group became, especially the eldest princess. She even forgot about her own son's situation and could only think about how to exonerate herself.

The next moment, a woman walked in with her two children, followed by people dressed as farmers, as well as the official she had recently forced to leave and others.

The group knelt on the ground and recounted the truth one by one. The woman's face was streaked with tears, and the two children cried along with her.

Her husband was supposed to take the imperial examination and had a good chance of passing it, but the princess ruined it all.

After they finished speaking, the Imperial Study was so quiet you could hear a pin drop; they didn't even dare to raise their hands to wipe their sweat.

Suddenly, a teacup smashed hard against the princess's forehead, followed by the emperor's authoritative voice:

“I regret that I allowed you to stay in the capital out of consideration for the late emperor, which made you arrogant and ignorant.”

He picked up a brush and wrote the imperial edict himself, saying:

“His title is stripped, he is sent to his fiefdom, and he is forbidden from ever entering the capital again.”