Emperor of the Red Chamber

Chapter 16 The huge waves rise again
After Tang Chengyuan, the minister of the South Study Room, finished explaining the situation, Emperor Jing'an was about to issue an imperial order to the third prince. He had important royal orders for the third prince to handle.

Emperor Jing'an was about to speak when the fifth prince suddenly shouted from outside the palace: "Father, I have something important to say. Father, I have something important to say..."

Emperor Jing'an frowned after hearing clearly. He knew that the fifth prince had always been calm. At this time, for the fifth prince to shout like this, it must be something really important.

Emperor Jing'an didn't care to give orders to the third prince for a moment, and glanced at Tao Quan, the eunuch at the front of the imperial court: "Let him come in."

Tao Quan respectfully accepted the order and led the fifth prince, Prince Yizhi, Yuan Siji into the palace.

The fifth prince knelt down and said, "My son, I have something important to report."

Emperor Jing'an asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

The fifth prince said: "I dare to ask my father if the prince has committed a crime of treason tonight?"

Emperor Jing'an's brows furrowed again, and he subconsciously thought, could it be that the fifth prince, headed by the prince's party, wanted to make trouble for the prince at this time?

The prince had committed such a heinous crime this time, and his old father, the emperor, had already considered putting him to death. Even if he did not die, he would definitely depose the prince.

The fifth prince, who has always been calm, would be foolish if he still tried to make trouble for the prince at this time. To make his old father dissatisfied?
Emperor Jing'an came to his senses and nodded.

Unexpectedly, the fifth prince said: "Let me tell you, father, there is something fishy about this matter."

Emperor Jing'an's eyes narrowed: "What's so strange?"

The fifth prince said: "Dong Xiu, the eunuch of Yuqing Palace, once reported something with his son. He dug up the paper man or ghost of Prince Nightmare in Yuqing Palace. It was the second brother who did it."

"Dong Xiu was afraid of causing big trouble, so he didn't dare to report it to the Crown Prince, and naturally he didn't dare to report it to the Holy Emperor. However, he also knew that the matter was serious and should not be concealed. Since the minister was in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he told the matter Sons and ministers.”

"My son, after much thought, I feel that although my second brother's behavior is vicious, he is still a brother."

"Once this matter is reported, my father will inevitably punish the second brother severely, and it will also hurt the friendship between the brothers."

"My father has always cared about his sons, and I really don't want to make my father angry and sad about this matter, and then hurt his body."

"My son also thought that this Nightmare Town might not work."

"My son hid the matter."

"Unfortunately, today the Crown Prince has turned against my father. I feel really guilty and uneasy. I feel that this matter needs to be reported to my father immediately."

Yuqing Palace is the residence of the prince in the palace.

Emperor Jing'an was stunned when he heard this.

The third prince felt another huge wave in his heart.

Yuan Qingbai was a little dumbfounded. This... this is really a wave of ups and downs!

The prince wanted to kill his father and usurp the throne tonight, and his method involved Nightmare Town, but he failed.

Immediately afterwards, the fifth prince came to report the second prince, Crown Prince Yanzhen.

Yuan Qingbai would not think that the fifth prince reported this matter for the sake of the prince and Emperor Jing'an, but for himself!
The prince is going to be deposed, and the ones with the greatest chance of seizing the throne are the second prince and the fifth prince.

The fifth prince is not trying to hurt the prince, he is taking advantage of the situation and tripping up the second prince too!
This group of princes, princes, and nobles are really good at making trouble.

Look at what's going on, it's like boiling gruel.

At this moment, Yuan Qingbai looked at Emperor Jing'an sitting upright under the plaque of "The vast expanse of smoke". Looking at the stunned look of the old emperor, he actually felt a little pitiful for the emperor's grandpa.

How did you raise such a bunch of sons?
After Emperor Jing'an came to his senses, he glared angrily: "Is this true?"

The fifth prince said: "How dare I lie to my father about such a thing? I brought the paper man or ghost from Nightmare Town to Chengde. If my father doesn't believe it, he will send someone to fetch it from his place." You will know by looking at it." "Dong Xiu from Yuqing Palace has also come to Chengde. My father can also send someone to summon him for interrogation."

Emperor Jing'an immediately ordered Tao Quan to take people to the fifth prince's residence to pick up things and escort Dong Xiu. He also ordered the imperial guards to escort the second prince into the palace.

The second prince, Prince Yimu, Yuan Siwei, was still kneeling outside the palace, feeling ecstatic in his heart.

Not only because the prince had ruined something big, but also because he felt that the incident was probably caused by him.

He planned to suppress the fifth prince and the third prince again in the future, and even imagined the scene when he ascended the throne and became the emperor.

At this moment, a royal guard came and took him into the palace.

When he entered the palace, he found that the atmosphere in the palace was extremely serious, but he was not immediately surprised. He thought this was normal, after all, the prince had committed a treason.

He saluted Emperor Jing'an, who cursed in a deep voice: "What a bastard seeking death!"

The second prince was startled and confused. What is going on?

Why did my father show me such unprecedented severity and scold me like this? As if the one who wants to kill his father and usurp the throne tonight is not the prince but me?

The second prince was stunned for a moment, and then thought that maybe the incident involving him suppressing the prince broke out.

He became uneasy, but pretended to be calm and asked: "Father, what did my son do wrong?"

Emperor Jing'an stared at him for a while without responding.

The hall seemed deathly silent.

In the dead silence, the second prince knelt nervously.

The third prince, Yuan Qingbai and the fifth prince were always kneeling.

After a short while of such dead silence, Tao Quan tiptoed back to the palace, holding paper figures and ghosts in his hands, and also brought Dong Xiu, the eunuch of Yuqing Palace.

Sure enough, it broke out!
The second prince, who was already anxious, turned pale with fear, his hair stood on end, and he was out of his mind.

Immediately, Emperor Jing'an carefully inspected the paper man and paper ghost.

The paper ghosts are five paper ghosts with green faces and white hair.

There was only one paper figurine, with the prince's name written on it, clearly the second prince's handwriting.

Emperor Jing'an was furious, but even so, he still thought to himself: "The prince used a talisman and magic weapon to suppress my death, and the second prince used a paper man and a paper ghost to suppress the prince. It seems that these two objects of death did not come from the same family. It’s earned.”

"The Crown Prince has no effect on my Nightmare Suppression. It seems that the Second Prince's Nightmare Suppression has had an effect on the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince killed his father and usurped the throne, so he must be haunted by evil spirits."

After thinking about this, Emperor Jing'an stared at the second prince: "You actually harmed the prince! You are delusional. If the prince is gone, then you, the second prince, will be the eldest, and I will make you the prince. This great Zhou Dynasty Is the country now yours?"

The second prince was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "Father, these ghosts do not belong to me, and I don't know which villain is trying to frame me."

"Isn't he the fifth prince? If it is him, he will become the prince if he sees that the prince has done something bad and wants to harm his sons and ministers."

Emperor Jing'an looked at Dong Xiu and shouted: "I'm recruiting you truthfully. If you dare to tell a lie, you will die a good death."

Dong Xiu started talking hurriedly. The situation was just like what the fifth prince said just now, and he said it in more detail than the fifth prince.

"I'll beat you to death, you little bastard and slave, for daring to conspire with Lao Wu to frame me."

The second prince shouted as he stood up and rushed towards Dong Xiu...

(End of this chapter)