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Chapter 141 Emperor Xiao’s deliberate “partiality”

"When you enter the palace, please ask for help." Xiao Jinzhi curled his lips and said.

Chu Huanyan thought for a while, "Concubine Xue?"

If Concubine Xue had spoken, it wouldn't be surprising if the emperor agreed to this, but...

"How did His Royal Highness get Concubine Xue to agree to help?"

Judging from Concubine Xue's previous attitude towards the emperor, she should not be able to speak to the emperor so easily.

"Although Youlan is dead, after all, she has served Concubine Xue for many years and still has feelings for her. Concubine Xue also wants to find out why she attacked her and whether she was coerced." Xiao Jinzhi paused slightly. , "Of course, this is what Concubine Xue said."

"Do you think there are other reasons?" Xiao Jinzhi didn't seem to completely believe this.

Xiao Jinzhi raised his eyes and said with a smile: "You can enter the palace tomorrow. As for whether there are other reasons, you can see for yourself."

It was getting late. After Xiao Jinzhi finished telling the news, he did not stay at the Ning'an Marquis Mansion for long. He quickly said goodbye and left. However, before leaving, he said that he would come to pick up Chu Huanyan tomorrow and accompany him personally. She enters the palace.

Chu Huanyan did not refuse and nodded in agreement.

After Xiao Jinzhi left, Chu Huanyan asked Xianyue to prepare hot water and then returned to her room.

Xian Yue responded and was about to give instructions to the waiter in the kitchen. When she turned around, she saw Yun Chen standing on the corridor.

Most of the figure is shrouded in the shadow of the pillars, and the expression on his face cannot be seen, but it only makes people feel that his expression is deep and he doesn't know what he is thinking.

Noticing Xian Yue's gaze, Yun Chen turned around and left without waiting for her to speak.

Xian Yue was left standing there confused, was Yun Chen peeking at the lady just now? Speaking of which, Yun Chen has been looking weird in the past two days.

Xianyue thought about it carefully, but couldn't think of any problem, so she gathered her thoughts and asked someone to prepare hot water.

The next day, Chu Huanyan woke up extremely early and lay on the bed with her eyes open. She couldn't fall asleep anymore, so she simply got up early.

After washing up, I had some simple breakfast. After casually flipping through a few pages of the account book, I sent someone to pass a message to the gatekeeper. If His Highness the Crown Prince arrives, he will report it immediately.

Unexpectedly, he got a reply, saying that His Highness the Crown Prince had arrived at the door of the mansion half an hour ago.

When Chu Huanyan took Xian Yue out of the house, she saw Xiao Jinzhi's carriage as expected. The curtains on the carriage window were hung up, and at a glance she saw Xiao Jinzhi sitting by the carriage window with his head half propped up.

"Why did His Highness the Crown Prince come so early?" Chu Huanyan raised her head and looked at the sky, "At this hour, I'm afraid the morning court is not over yet, right?"

Although the emperor had previously ordered that Xiao Jinzhi did not have to go to court during this period, he mentioned it when sending Xiao Jinzhi off last night and the emperor exempted him from punishment and allowed him to continue to go to court from today on.

She originally thought that Xiao Jinzhi would come over after the morning court was over, but she didn't expect that he would come so early.

"I'm going to go to the morning court." Xiao Jinzhi stretched out his hand to open the curtain of the carriage and welcomed Chu Huanyan in.

Chu Huanyan walked into the carriage and after sitting firmly, she asked why?
Although Xiao Jinzhi is the prince, if he is absent from the morning court without any reason, I am afraid that there will be more failures to impeach him last time.

Of course, Xiao Jinzhi may not care.

"Why do you think my father asked me to go to the morning court again?" Xiao Jinzhi picked up the teapot that was warmed by a copper stove on the table beside him, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to Chu Huanyan, "It's very cold in the morning, let's drink a cup of tea first. ." Chu Huanyan took the tea cup and took a slow sip.

Xiao Jinzhi was released from prison yesterday, and he was asked to go to court today.Perhaps it was to tell the courtiers that His Highness the Crown Prince's position was still stable, and to suppress the wandering thoughts of the courtiers.

Chu Huanyan swallowed the tea in her mouth and was about to speak, but when she saw Xiao Jinzhi's eyes, her previous thoughts suddenly wavered.

There was a hint of joking in his eyes, and at first glance it looked like a bystander watching a show, with nothing to do with himself, just for fun.

But if you take a closer look, there is still a hint of coldness and loss in the joking.

Is it...

"The emperor wants you to arouse the disgust of the courtiers and face impeachment?" This thought suddenly came to Chu Huanyan's mind.

Appearing in the morning court today can indeed let everyone see that His Highness the Crown Prince has not been disliked by the Emperor because of entering the prison.But it also made some courtiers feel that Xiao Jinzhi was being favored.

The dignified prince made so many jokes, but he was still able to appear in the morning court openly without any blame or punishment.For some courtiers, especially those who are upright and impartial, this will inevitably arouse resentment in their hearts...

This thought made Chu Huanyan feel cold in her heart.

After all, the emperor is Xiao Jinzhi's father. How could the plot between father and son reach this level? Maybe he was overthinking it.

She moved her lips, and just as she was about to deny her idea, she heard Xiao Jinzhi say something leisurely.

"Do you find it hard to believe?"

Chu Huanyan looked at him, and the latter laughed again.

"Actually, I didn't want to believe that my father had this kind of calculation in his heart at first, but as time went by and the number of times increased, I could no longer tolerate my disbelief."

When things were calm, his father had no closeness to him, and he didn't show much reliance and care on weekdays.

On the contrary, every time he caused trouble, his father would show his favoritism and protection.

Of course, this kind of favoritism and protection is not to explain anything for him, nor is it to prove that his behavior is not as bad as the courtiers saw.Instead, he allowed the courtiers to impeach, then turned a deaf ear to it, and never punished him.

"At the beginning, I thought that my father and my mother were different. He cared about me after all, otherwise he would not ignore the opinions of the courtiers and let me sit firmly in the position of the prince."

"What happened next?" Chu Huanyan couldn't help but ask.

When did Xiao Jinzhi realize that everything was not what he thought?
"Later, someone threw dirty water on my head, and the whole court was scolded, but my father still defended me. At that time, I found the evidence, and I wanted to prove that everything was just a frame-up and misunderstanding, so that my father would not have to face the courtiers. In order to avoid suspicion, I secretly pushed for other courtiers to present the evidence to my father, and then..."

Xiao Jinzhi paused for a while, then slowly uttered four words, "A stone sinks into the sea."

Only then did he realize that his father had known the truth from the beginning, but he neither asked anyone to find evidence nor thought of proving his innocence for him.

What the father did was just to stabilize his position as the prince in front of the courtiers. As for his reputation, he didn't care at all whether he had been wronged or misunderstood.

(End of this chapter)