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Chapter 70 Brown Sugar Rose Crisp Palace Banquet (6)
"It's not the third brother's fault." Yun Shuo shook his head and said, "Well, since the third brother has talked about this, I will plead for Lao Qi when I go back to the palace to meet the emperor. However, the pleading is Pleading, I can't guarantee that my father will agree. You also know that my father is in a fit of anger right now! This time it's not just about killing one person and making an example."

"Yes. But the crown prince is no better than others. In this matter, others may not be able to plead for mercy. The prince will plead for mercy, and the emperor will definitely give face." Yun Xian said, picking up the jug and pouring wine for Yun Shuo.

Yun Shuo smiled lightly and shook his head: "The third brother really flatters me."

"It's not flattery, it's the truth." Yun Xian smiled like a bright moon in his arms.

Yun Shuo raised his wine glass and said nothing more.

Although Yun Xian looks like a good brother, but he has ulterior motives. He asked Yun Shuo to go to the emperor to intercede for Yun Ci's grandfather. How far.

And Yun Shuo is naturally not the kind of person who waits in vain for people to plot. He has already guessed Yun Xian's thoughts thoroughly, but he didn't point it out. The two swordsmen, one advances by retreating, and the other uses sword flowers to confuse the opponent's sight, in order to win in one fell swoop in the next step.

However, there was no winner or loser in this silent contest that night, Yun Xian waited quietly after returning home, until finally there was news on the eve of the New Year's Eve - the emperor was suddenly furious, completely disregarding that it happened to be the New Year's Eve It was inauspicious for him to kill someone, so he directly ordered the chief eunuch of Zichen Palace to take people to Liao Guotao's house. As soon as the imperial edict was announced, he ordered people to take Liao Guotao's head.

The Liao family's family suddenly mourned from top to bottom.

This matter quickly spread in the capital, and the New Year's atmosphere in the entire imperial capital suddenly disappeared.

When he heard about this, Yun Xian was in his study room playing with the little thrush that Yun Ci had just brought to him. At that time, he almost knocked over the bird cage. He stared and asked the housekeeper who answered: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could the father kill someone on New Year's Eve?"

The steward said tremblingly: "The original words of the emperor's decree are that such villains must not stay until next year, and must be executed immediately."

"Father actually hasn't called Liao's family for many years..." Yun Xian held the bird cage tightly with his hands, wishing he could tear off the bronze carvings.

"It's not just the Liao family, His Majesty's decree is to thoroughly investigate the Liao family and everyone who is related to the Liao family."

"Everyone..." Yun Xian gritted his teeth, thinking that his father is really crazy.

"Yes, the decree says so."

Yun Xian wanted to say something more, but there was a burst of crying outside: "Third Brother! Third Brother..."

Yun Xian slowly closed his eyes, waved to the butler next to him, and said, "Go down."

While the steward next to him leaned back and retreated, the Seventh Prince hurried over and raised his hand to push the steward away, stepped forward to grab Yun Xian's hand, and cried, "Third brother! Father is going to kill me!"

"Don't talk nonsense! You are the emperor's son, how could he kill you?" Yun Xian raised his hand to cover Yun Ci's mouth, pulled him into the room and closed the door behind him.

The few handsome servants who had been standing under the eaves all retreated quietly.

"Third Brother! What should I do?!" Yun Ci held Yun Xian's hand, restless.

"Calm down! You didn't do anything, what are you afraid of?!" Yun Xian scolded, "Look at you, if someone sees you, you don't know what you want to call your father! You If you want to do well, you have to pretend even if you are pretending!"

"Third brother, didn't you say that the crown prince has agreed to intercede for my grandfather? Why is the father suddenly furious?! Could it be him..."

Yun Xian said sternly: "I will find a way to find out about this matter. Don't worry. At this time, we should be still and not move! The more you can't sit still, the more you think you have something. Father is the most What I hate is that we make friends with ministers behind his back. Now that something happened to Liao Guotao, all the civil and military eyes of the court will stare at you. You must not make a wrong step, understand?!"

"But, but..."

"No but!" Yun Xian stared into Yun Ci's eyes, and said in a deep voice, "If you don't listen to me, the emperor's imperial edict will come to your house soon."

Yunci had completely lost his mind, nodded repeatedly, and replied: "I will listen to you, and I will listen to your third brother!"

"How did you get here? Who followed? Who did you meet on the way?" Yun Xian asked with a frown.

Yun Ci replied hesitantly: "I... I came alone, I didn't ask anyone to follow me, I... I came here on horseback, and I didn't meet anyone."

Yun Xian looked at Yun Ci's face, and sighed helplessly after a while: "Okay, sit down for a while." After speaking, he turned and went outside the door, called someone to order: "Get a bowl of hot soup! Ask someone to prepare an ordinary carriage and wait at the corner gate behind."

Not long after, the servant brought a bowl of hot chicken noodle soup.

Yun Xian picked up the bowl and handed it to Yun Ci: "Eat it. Calm down, I'll ask someone to take you back later."

Yun Ci looked at Yun Xian who didn't understand, Yun Xian nodded again.Yun Cicai took the bowl of fragrant chicken noodle soup, and Yun Xian watched him eat it indiscriminately.Then he called his confidant to come to him and told him carefully before sending Yun Ci away.

The ear roots are finally clear.

Yun Xian's heart gradually cleared up.

This matter is indeed strange - Liao Guotao's case was not serious at first, and the one who was found out was just taking advantage of the opportunity of modifying the royal garden to steal some wood and precious stones, and of course silver.

Is it an errand in the Ministry of Industry, isn't that what it is?No one is clean.

Because of the Seventh Prince, Liao Guotao is willing to curry favor with the people below, and he can also be a man. He has indeed been greedy a lot these years.However, most of the money he got greedy went into the warehouse of Mr. Shoufu Zhou's family—Master Liao really worked hard to pave the way for his grandson.

Therefore, when Yun Xian begged the prince to go to the emperor to intercede, he did think about the prince's retaliation, but he didn't care, he was just Liao Guotao, not his loyal lackey.All these years, what An Yihou really cares about is not himself, Yun Xian has always known this.So Liao Guotao was unlucky, and he was happy to see it succeed.

So Yun Xian's original plan was right, no matter whether the prince helped Liao Guotao or not, he would have nothing to lose.But he didn't expect that the emperor would be so ruthless!
What did the prince do?Let the emperor be so painful at this time!
But at this moment, the crown prince whom Yun Xian had been thinking about was leisurely leaning on the warm couch in his study, listening to Qianye talking about some trivial matters of Ninghou Mansion and Zhongyihou Mansion: "Mrs. Ninghou has accepted the Eldest Princess, The marriage discussion between Miss Wei Er and the Seventh Master of the Han family was settled on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, but the date of the marriage has not yet been agreed upon. Mrs. Ninghou meant to keep her daughter for a year or two. The eldest princess has no objection, anyway, the Seventh of the Han family Grandpa is not very old..."

(End of this chapter)