Group pet small peasant girls: Escape the famine with the space of merit

Chapter 342 The Eighth Prince's Request
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The rumors that the emperor wanted to abolish the prince became more and more intense. Even the emperor was alarmed and had to take action to suppress the rumors.

Just when the emperor was about to withdraw the prince's confinement order, the eighth prince failed to get the prince to poison him, and sent secret guards to assassinate him.

For the first time, the emperor stared at his youngest son with gloomy eyes.

Because Xiao Ba grew up among the people, he always thought that Xiao Ba was the one with the purest mind among all his sons. Could it be that he was mistaken?

Xiao Ba threw out these evidences in front of all civil and military officials, which undoubtedly planted a thorn in the hearts of all officials.

The prince has no virtue, how can all the officials support him wholeheartedly?
The Eighth Prince raised his head.

The emperor suddenly saw the tears in his eyes.

"Father, my son has a request." The Eighth Prince said with tears.

The emperor's face was tense, and his voice could not hear any emotion: "Say."

The eighth prince knocked his head on the ground: "My son is not filial, I beg my father to demote my son as a commoner!"

The eighth prince kowtowed to the emperor a few times in succession: "I beseech my father to fulfill me!"

The emperor was shocked: "Why?"

Not only the emperor, but all civil and military officials were also shocked by the eighth prince's request.

At the beginning when the emperor recognized the eighth prince who suddenly appeared, many people were shocked. The officials intentionally or unintentionally kept a distance from the eighth prince who did not know the details. Now the eighth prince asked the emperor to demote him The common people made all kinds of speculations by officials.

Is the eighth prince sincerely begging for relegation, or is he retreating to advance?

The eighth prince raised his head again, tears streaming down his face: "Father, my son just wants to live!"

The emperor's eyes fell on this son who looked exactly like his own when he was young, and he felt a dull pain in his heart.

At the beginning when he wanted to recognize Xiao Ba, Xiao Ba hesitated.

He said that not everyone can be a good prince. He said that he wanted to live an ordinary life. He said that he wanted to follow the steps, grow up safely, marry a wife and have children, and enjoy family happiness. is a disaster.

What did you say to him at that time?

He assured Xiao Ba that his life would only be better after getting acquainted, and he also vowed to Xiao Ba that he would never be hurt in the slightest.

However, the crown prince was carrying him behind his back, repeatedly attacking Xiao Ba!

He didn't understand, the prince was already the crown prince, why would he attack a Xiao Ba who didn't threaten him at all.

Is the prince so intolerant of Xiao Ba?
But it is also impossible to abolish the prince for the sake of Xiao Ba!
"Father..."

"Qi'er," the emperor suppressed the guilt towards Qi'er in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "I know you were frightened, you go back to the Eighth Prince's Mansion to rest for a while, and don't mention the matter of being demoted to a commoner!"

The eighth prince fell to his seat, looking devastated.

The emperor couldn't bear it, and said to Mr. Hu: "You send the eighth prince back to the prince's mansion yourself."

Luo Yannian returned home with a heavy heart, never thought that his father-in-law would actually come over.

"Why is father-in-law here?" Luo Yannian hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Master Cheng stared at his son-in-law for a while, and sighed softly: "Yannian, I came here today to remind you not to get too close to the Eighth Prince and others, and it is best not to meet Bai Muyang during this time." .”

He knew that his son-in-law went to Bai's house two days ago and had dinner at Bai's house before coming back.

As a close minister of the emperor, he didn't dare to speculate on the holy will, but he still knew a little bit about the emperor's temperament.

The Crown Prince is the foundation of the country, no matter what the Eighth Prince's plan is, at this time of internal and external troubles, it is impossible for the Emperor to dethrone the Crown Prince.

Luo Yannian said respectfully: "Father-in-law, I understand."

Right now, there is only one butler and Bai Muyang in the Bai family, and Bai Muyang also asked him not to go to the Bai family for the time being, so as not to bring trouble to the Luo family.

The more his cousin and Bai Muyang wanted to distance themselves from him, the more uncomfortable he felt.

The cousin had already made it clear to him that she and Bai Muyang were both on the Eighth Prince's side. If things failed, not to mention the Bai family, even the Wen family would be implicated. How could he really remain indifferent?

Although the emperor has complaints against the prince, he has no intention of abolishing the prince. What will the eighth prince do next?
In the gazebo in the center of the artificial lake in the Eighth Prince's Mansion, Bai Muyang and Qi'er were brewing tea comfortably.

Qi'er held the cup filled with tea to Bai Muyang with tea tweezers, and asked, "Brother Bai, what's going on with the prince?"

"The Prince let someone tell me the news, saying that the Eighth Prince's Mansion will be bloodbathed three days later." Bai Muyang took a sip of tea and boasted, "His Highness's tea art is getting better and better."

"Really?" Qi'er was a little happy: "Sister Nuannuan gave me a copy of "The Tea Ceremony", and I only read a few pages. When Sister Nuannuan returns to the imperial city, I will make tea for Sister Nuannuan."

Qi'er asked about his improvement in tea art, and he didn't seem to care about the prince's plan to bloodbath the eighth prince's mansion.

Bai Muyang suddenly felt that the tea was not fragrant.

Bai Muyang put down his teacup, and said: "His Highness the Eighth Prince was not poisoned this time. After I returned to the imperial city, the crown prince didn't ask me to enter the East Palace. This news is probably false."

Qi'er: "The Zheng You next to the prince is omnipotent, we have to guard against the prince jumping over the wall in a hurry."

"That's what I meant too, so I reminded Deputy Commander Shi to be more vigilant these few days."

Deputy Commander Shi Fengliang was the deputy commander of the Forbidden Army who was ordered by the emperor to go to Xinsheng Village to pick up warmth when the people in the imperial city were poisoned.

After a few years, it can be regarded as a little friendship.

"Just in case, we have to be fully prepared, for example..." Qi'er raised her eyes and raised her lips slightly: "King Qin."

The corners of Bai Muyang's lips also slightly raised: "His Royal Highness and I thought of going together."

At this time, in the royal study room of the imperial palace, the emperor roared at the leader of Jinlin Guard: "Say it again!"

The leader of the Jinlin Guard was covered in cold sweat, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "The poison that His Highness the Crown Prince gave His Highness the Eighth Highness came from the same source as the poison you poisoned, Your Majesty. They all came from the 'ghost gate' of the Western Zhou Dynasty. They are unsolvable strange poisons." ..."

With a sound of "bang", the emperor slapped the imperial case angrily, and then swept all the pen and ink of the memorial on the case to the ground.

In the emperor's fury, the leader of the Jinlin Guards reduced his presence as much as possible.

Eunuch Hu's face on the side was also a little pale.

The emperor didn't have much father-son affection for the prince, and he didn't want to abolish the prince because he didn't want to see the people's hearts become unstable.

But now all the evidence shows that the emperor was poisoned by the prince, so can the emperor pretend not to know?

After an unknown amount of time, the emperor said gloomily, "Please come here, Miracle Doctor Mo!"

In Biyun City, it only took two days for the people of Biyun City to dig five or six wells. Feng Shengtian and Guo Shi were overjoyed.

The people also rejoiced, and then the young man in charge of digging the well worked harder.

The city lord said that at least twenty wells should be dug in Biyun City.

(End of this chapter)