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Chapter 653
East Palace.

The East Palace in midsummer has always been sultry and irritable, but this year the servants failed to put ice basins in time for their masters.

There is no ice basin, but there are Custodes.

Outside the East Palace, there is a post every five steps and a sentry every ten inches.

The Imperial Guards were holding sharp weapons and looking around vigilantly. They almost surrounded the entire East Palace so tightly that not even a fly could fly out.

Bang bang bang.

From time to time, in such a large palace, there was a series of sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground and exploding, as fierce and loud as firecrackers on New Year's Eve.

However, the Imperial Guards guarding the outside seemed to have ignored it, and no one even turned to take a look.

"Come here."

The deposed prince's voice roared like a lone wolf, and another series of banging sounds sounded.

"Gu is a dignified prince, one person is inferior to tens of thousands of people in Yun Chui. Do you hear this? Let Gu go out!"

……

"This can't be true! You are falsely passing on the imperial edict! Let me go out, I want to see my father, I want to see my father!"

"Your Highness," the servant shivered and shrank to the side, fearing that his master would suddenly break out and hurt someone like before when he was furious, "I have tried every means, but the Imperial Guards outside are..."

"How is everything?"

Chen Xiulan turned around and looked over, her eyes red, like a lion ready to devour anyone.

"All...all..."

The boy's tongue froze, his body couldn't help but tremble, and he hesitated to speak any more.

Snapped!
Chen Xiulan slapped him hard, causing the boy to spin around twice.

"I can't even express myself clearly, so what's the use of you?"

"Where is Gu's mother and concubine? The child has suffered such a great injustice. Why doesn't she come to the East Palace to see Gu?"

The boy covered his face and couldn't speak for a long time before he could form a sentence.

"Your Highness, it is inconvenient to receive news from the harem. Your Majesty is the Lord of the Sixth Palace and is busy with palace affairs on weekdays... She should have known about His Highness's situation by now, and may be contacting the courtiers to help you."

"How about your Highness waiting patiently for a few more days."

"That's right." Chen Xiulan was overjoyed and straightened her waist for a moment, "Huh, just robbing a few civilian girls, what big deal is that?"

"As long as the mother-in-law is still the queen, no one can touch the orphan."

The boy said nothing, but bowed his head deeply.

But Chen Xiulan didn't let him go, "Where is Gu's subordinate palace? Where are the other people in East Palace? Where are they now?"

"Speak quickly! If you don't tell me, I will kill you."

The East Palace is very large, with countless courtyards, but these days he has been imprisoned in his own palace and knows almost nothing about the outside world.

The boy complained secretly, and it took him a long time to say a word.

"Back... back to Your Highness, now the entire East Palace, except for you, the Crown Princess and a few concubines, everyone else... has been taken away by the Forbidden Army and Jinlin Guards."

As for Chen Xiulan's subordinate officials, that is, the staff he recruited before he became the prince, they were the first group of people to be taken away.

It is estimated that all of them are being served by the big ones now.

"Damn!"

Although Chen Xiulan was mentally prepared, she was still so angry that she smashed several porcelains on the shelves.

"You Du Ziming, you've gone too far to deceive others!" He yelled, "When I met Gu before, he was as humble as a dog. I didn't expect to turn around now and turn my back on him."

"When I ascend the throne, I will be the first to attack you, you bastard. I want to kill the entire Du family, no, all the eighteen generations of my ancestors."

"Cut! Chop! Chop!"

After cursing for a while, Chen Xiulan calmed down.

"What's the situation outside the palace?" he asked.

"What are Gu's grandfather, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Feng Haohan of the Central Army Corps, and the generals who have always supported Gu, doing?"

"This……"

The boy took a few steps back, his face almost looking like he was crying.

"Your Highness, I forgive you. I have tried every means possible, but the guards outside are too tight and they are all tight-lipped."

"...You really can't find out what's going on outside the palace."

When Chen Xiulan heard this, she collapsed completely.

He grabbed something casually and threw it at the boy.

"This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either. What use do you have?"

"go to hell!"

After a while, the boy's screams and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground were heard again.

Compared to Chen Xiulan, the situation of former Crown Princess Sun Jiao is better.Although she was also heavily targeted by the Imperial Guards, she could at least take her young children around the garden.

"Miss."

At this time, the few remaining maids hurriedly came over to salute her.

Sun Jiao nodded, "You are back. Prince..."

At the mention of her husband's name, she shook her head and changed her title.

"How is your lord doing now?"

The waitress hesitated for a moment, then continued after seeing that her master's expression was quite calm.

"Go back to your Majesty, there is a guard guarding the gate who has a somewhat rounded relationship with the servant. According to him, the prince... has been banned for the past few days. He can't even leave the palace door, otherwise his life will be at risk."

"As for now, it seems that I have been smashing things. However, the imperial guard did not see it with his own eyes. He heard it from a distance when he got closer."

Ha ha.

Sun Jiao was not surprised. She smiled and shook her head slightly, with deep sadness in her eyes.

"This man has such a good background. His mother-in-law is a queen, and he is the eldest son of the emperor. His status should be stable from birth. It's a pity that he will only sleep with women and break things in this life."

The waitress lowered her head deeply and did not dare to say anything.

"Where's the uncle's house?"

After finishing her remarks, Sun Yan asked about her natal family, which was also the queen's natal family.

As for the Queen, such a big thing happened in the East Palace, and she has not been seen yet.

Sun Jiao probably doesn’t need to ask.

"Go back to your empress, your uncle's house... your uncle's house..."

The waitress hesitated to speak.

"Tell me," Sun Jiao was not angry. She just raised her head and looked in the direction of Uncle Chengen's Mansion, "I know what I know."

"Yes." The waitress lowered her head but quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

She chose her words carefully.

"Mother, Cheng'en's residence is now surrounded by Jingzhao's residence, and no one is allowed to enter or exit. As for the uncle, the prince and other Sun clan members who are detained by the Jinlin Guards, their lives are not worried for the time being. In addition, there is Luofeng Mountain, Luofeng Mountain Mountain……"

Sun Jiao frowned and her voice was a little higher.

"What happened to Luofeng Mountain?"

Luofeng Mountain is the ancestral land of their Sun family.

It is close to the Xinglan Grand Canal and has an important geographical location.At the same time, because it has produced several queens, it has become increasingly prosperous in recent years, and it is a good place that everyone praises.

"Go back to your Majesty," the waitress gritted her teeth, "The local government, in the name of the Sun clan's illegal enclosure of land, deliberate trapping and loan sharking, large-scale forced labor of good people into slavery, and human trafficking, arrested the Sun clan chief and all the clan members. The boss has been detained."

It’s over.

When Sun Jiao heard this, her body swayed.

As the eldest daughter of the Sun family, she has been trained by the Sun family as a future queen since she was a child.

Among them are not only the various etiquettes of the empire, but even the rules and regulations of Yunchui, Sun Jiao also knows some.

Although she wasn't very clear about the affairs handled by the Sun family or Uncle Cheng En's family in recent years, she knew something about it.

If the imperial court really wanted to pursue the case, then the mere Cheng Enbo Mansion probably wouldn't be able to afford it.

"Confiscating the family and exterminating the clan?"

Sun Jiao's voice was not loud, but the waitress could still hear it clearly and couldn't help but tremble all over.

Even though she was pretending to be calm, there was still crying in her voice unconsciously.

"Mother, what should we do when we come down?"

How to do?
Sun Jiao was also asking herself, and after a while she shook her head helplessly.

"The imperial edict has been issued. We are now the caged birds and the fish in the pot, unable to do anything."

"Mother," the waitress was still reluctant to give up, "then do we really have nothing to do?"

Sun Jiao looked at the waitress she had grown up with since childhood and smiled lightly.

"Silly girl, if we don't do anything, maybe there will be a way to survive in the future."

If they continue to act randomly, if nothing happens, their entire family will either be imprisoned until death, or their entire family will be executed immediately.

"pity……"

She looked down at her little daughter who was happily playing with her toys, and her eyes filled with reluctance.

"It's a pity that Yan'er is only three years old, and she doesn't understand anything yet. Let the adults bear the mistakes they make. What does it have to do with her as a child?"

　happy National Day

　　
　
(End of this chapter)