The twilight scene was replaced by silence. The emperor, who was sitting on the dragon throne, had eyes as cold as ice as he looked at his two sons kneeling on the ground. One was his beloved elder brother and the other was the prince he had raised. Now the two of them actually
Bet your life for a palace maid.
Time passed slowly, and there was a suffocating chill in the frozen atmosphere.
The Queen looked coldly at Qi Yi who was kneeling on the ground and wanted to rush forward, pull him up and slap him hard, as her body was gathering more and more anger.
Yan Yan, who was kneeling on the ground, was horrified by the solemn atmosphere and sobered up a lot. Looking up, he saw the emperor's majestic pupils on the dragon throne shot out a cold and clear gaze, and his sharp eyes quickly swept towards
Her quiet face. Yan Yan was slightly startled, but she tried hard to keep her face calm. She knew that if she showed fear now, the emperor would only suspect that she was a spy of the enemy country.
The pure will be pure by themselves, and the turbid will be turbid by themselves. She simply won't defend herself, even if she wants to defend, she will find that there is no reason to defend herself. Her only explanation is that she is not from this time and space. However, this will only be taken as such by them.
He talks nonsense and talks crazy words.
Qi Feng stretched out his hand and held Yan Yan's hand tightly, feeling the strength in his hand. Yan Yan looked at him and felt more at ease than ever before.
"After listening for so long, I understand what's going on. I will send someone to investigate this matter." He calmed down the anger on his face, and a trace of disappointment surged in the depths of his cold eyes.
"You guys get up first. As for this palace maid, she will be taken to the prison first, and I will wait until I find out and deal with her."
"Father..." the prince shouted urgently, wanting to say something else.
The queen on the side had a cold look on her face and interrupted him abruptly, "That's enough, Yi'er, you're still messing around like this."
"Father, please forgive Yan Yan. She cannot be imprisoned in this condition. She is sick and has scars all over her body. She needs to see an imperial doctor." Qi Feng knelt on the ground and looked at Yan Yan with a worried look.
Her face was pale, her body was dirty, and she had several bruises exposed, which was particularly shocking.
"That's enough. You can't protect yourself now, and you still want to protect others. I will send someone to deal with her injury." The emperor looked at his beloved son on the ground with a disappointed look, and said angrily: "How dare you two guarantee it with your lives?
If it is found out in the future that she is indeed a spy for the enemy country, don't blame me for not thinking about the love between father and son."
As soon as she finished speaking, the queen's body stiffened instantly, and the blood in her body filled her scalp, causing her to suddenly feel dizzy. She wanted to use this to frustrate the seventh elder brother, but she didn't want her son to come to this muddy water. Now.
The situation did not develop in the direction she expected at all, but instead got worse.
"Your Majesty, the prince has been in the palace all this time, and he only used his life as a guarantee out of confusion. How can the emperor take her seriously? If it is found out that she is a spy of the enemy country, then the prince will be wronged."
"Queen!" The emperor growled with a slightly changed expression, "As a prince, he must have his own opinions when doing things, and he must also be responsible for the decisions he makes."
Hearing this, the queen's face became solemn. She understood that if she wanted to survive safely in the palace, she needed to swallow her anger when necessary, and she also had to be wise to protect herself. However, the son she had worked so hard to push to the throne was now using herself for a palace maid.
She used her own life as a guarantee and destroyed her future. Never before had she hated words so much than at this moment, and the eyes that looked at her were cold and bone-chilling.
"After a night of trouble, I'm tired, so I'll drive back to the palace. You stay in Yuyang Palace and reflect on it. I'll settle the accounts with you in the future for breaking into Tianyi Palace at night." After saying that, he didn't go.
Looking at Qi Feng who was kneeling beside him, he pressed his drowsy head, glanced at the calm expression on the ground, and ordered, "Put this maid in prison."
Hearing this, the servants around him already dragged Yan Yan from the ground to the prison.
"Your Majesty, I thought this matter could not be resolved so easily..."
The queen walked up to the emperor and looked directly at him, with unwillingness in her eyes.
"Okay, I have my own opinion." After a night of quarrels, the anger that had subsided was once again aroused. The emperor interrupted the queen abruptly and walked away.
When they returned to Yuyang Palace, Brother Jiu ran out immediately. Su Xi stood aside, both of them looked at him worriedly. Seeing him with a solemn face, there was no Yanyan figure behind him.
My elder brother couldn't hold himself back, "Seventh brother, what are you talking about? The little beauty is not in Tianyi Palace? Or you didn't find her?"
"I found Yanyan." His face darkened, he lowered his head and walked straight inside.
"Really?" Brother Jiu shouted happily, then realized something was wrong and caught up with him in a sprint, "Then why don't you bring Yan Yan back if you find it?"
Qi Feng said nothing, and his brows were full of sadness and worry that could not be concealed.
"Brother Qi, are you talking? Has something happened to the little beauty?" Brother Ninth stood in front of him, blocking his way. The cold wind hit him, and he suddenly turned around, facing away from the noisy Ninth Brother.
"Su Xi, go and prepare some gauze and gold wound medicine."
"Yes, Your Highness." Su Xi felt a little uneasy, but she always obeyed his orders and never asked any more questions. This was why Qi Feng liked her.
Su Xi had just raised her feet when she heard Brother Jiu's unprecedented shouting, "What's wrong, Brother Seven, are you injured? I didn't see where you were injured."
When Brother Jiu called him this, dark clouds suddenly formed on his face, "Xiao Jiu, go do something for me."
"Yes." Brother Jiu agreed. Just as he was about to leave, he immediately turned his head and asked, "Brother Qi, what's the matter with you?"
"Yanyan was arrested by the Queen's people. When I found her, she was whipped by them. You go and find out for me who whipped Yanyan. I can't do anything to the Queen, but
, I want the person who carried out the caning to suffer so much pain." When he said this, Qi Feng's eyes gradually became filled with a dark and ruthless look. He could not let the person who hurt Yan Yan still live freely in this world.
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"Yes." Brother Jiu nodded firmly, suddenly reacting, his whole body was shocked, and his eyes were frightened, "Who dares to torture the little beauty? Doesn't he know that she is from your Yuyang Palace? I think he is
court death."
"I won't tell you any more, but if you want to start with that bitch slave Chuan Yunde, it is very likely that he will be punished. You have to do this without anyone noticing. Don't let anyone know.
The Queen found out about this and made a big fuss. I will go to the prison to check on Yan Yan later."
"Well, when I find out who did it, I will make him pay for what he did." With that said, he left Yuyang Palace.
The night wind blew by, and the surroundings were dark and silent. Only the leaves and flowers were trembling silently.
Inside Tianyi Palace.
All the servants retreated, the queen stood with an angry look on her face, and the prince knelt on the ground. The candlelight in the palace flickered dimly, reflecting an unusually cold look on the person's face.
"You are so unwilling to keep up with me." The queen looked at Qi Yi who was kneeling on the ground, and tried to wake him up with her hands, but her palms froze in the air and did not fall for a long time before finally hanging down.
"Mother, I don't understand, why are you trying to catch me and lie to me?" Qi Yi looked straight at the queen, his eyes turbulent, but his voice was emotionless.
The queen was stunned, the anger on her face deepened, and she couldn't help but tremble all over her body, "For a palace maid, you come to question your mother? Do you still take your mother in your eyes?"
"Queen Mother." Qi Yi couldn't help but shout loudly, his eyes were struggling, "It is precisely because you are my Queen Mother that I don't want to see my Queen make any mistakes again. For my position as the crown prince, I have to see
What’s more, the mistakes my mother has committed are increasing day by day. Today, I don’t believe that my mother would arrest Yan Yan for no reason just to let my father know that she is a spy of the enemy country.”
"Shut up!" the queen finally roared and shouted.
After the turmoil, everything will eventually calm down.
The queen stared intently at Qi Yi, who was on the ground. There was a hint of blood red in her pupils, and uncontrollable deep anger radiated from her body.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and the candlelight flickered rapidly. The candlelight reflected on his face, and there was a vague look of deep worry on his face. After this time, he was so afraid that his mother would still say something to him.
Talk about bad things coming.
He looked up at the queen with pleading, "Mother, I like Yan Yan. So, I beg you to let Yan Yan go. She is just an ordinary girl and will not pose a threat to you, so just let her go."
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"Do you know that the way you look now makes me want to kill that Yanyan right away." The queen looked at him angrily, feeling the anger pressing against her throat, making her breathless, "Your father is the most
What I hate is that you don’t take state affairs as a priority and are entangled in the love of your children every day. But now, you fall in love with a palace maid, and for her, you are even joking with your life. Do you think I can let it go?
That Xia Yanyan!"
The queen recited the last few words with great emphasis, each word engraved on Qi Yi's heart.
"Mother, if you do something detrimental to Yan Yan again, I don't know what I will do." Qi Yi suddenly stood up, enduring the numbness in his feet, he finally responded to his
The queen mother said this.
This sentence rang through her ears like a thunderbolt from the blue. At this moment, she seemed to be able to feel her eyes suddenly widen and then shrink quickly. She forcefully stopped her trembling body. Her eyes when she looked at him lost their warmth for an instant, and slowly
Approaching him, "Are you threatening me?"
"There is nothing I can do." Qi Yi spat out slowly, firmly announcing his affirmation even with his fingertips.
The swords were tense, and the room suddenly became silent. At this moment, Chuan Yunde's voice suddenly came from outside the door, "The Queen, I have something important to report to the Queen."
The queen frowned slightly and waved her hand for Qi Yi to go back.
"Empress, why are you so angry with the prince for the sake of a palace maid? I have a way to make you feel at ease." After Qi Yi left, Chuan Yunde whispered into the queen's ear.