The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 147: Rats
Chapter 147 Rat
“Your Highness! Are you still going to protect him?! He is going to hurt you like this?!” Tong Ji said, as if he had thought of something, and quickly turned around and kowtowed to the emperor, “Your Majesty! It must be Gao Sheng who harmed our Highness! He used to be…”
“Tong Ji, shut up!”
The usually cowardly Prince Liang’s stern voice was filled with gloomy hostility and anger, which was so frightening that even the emperor who was sitting high up in the sky was startled.
Bai Qingyan looked at King Liang with a sneer in his heart. King Liang had always performed the role of cowardice and incompetence to perfection, even more so than the actors in the West Garden in the south of the city. It was unexpected that he would lose his composure like this.
“Your Highness?!” Tong Ji was also frightened by the violent King Liang, and tears froze in his eyes.
In just a moment, the violent aura on Prince Liang disappeared as if it had never appeared before, and he knelt down and crawled towards the emperor: “Father! Father, you know better than anyone how cowardly I am! Even if you give me ten thousand courages, I dare not collude with the enemy! I just want to save my brother Prince Xin! Please understand!”
Bai Qingyan raised his eyebrows, but was not too surprised.
It was obvious that Prince Liang had originally sided with Prince Xin, so it was not impossible for him to put the entire blame on Prince Xin. After all…be it Qin Dezhao or Liu Huanzhang, he issued orders in the name of Prince Xin.
She bowed to the emperor and said, “Your Majesty, since His Royal Highness Prince Liang has admitted that this is written by himself, can you let me and your daughter take a look at the contents of Prince Liang’s letter?!”
As soon as the emperor heard Bai Qingyan’s voice, he became annoyed and threw the letter over.
The white paper fluttered to the ground, but she was not annoyed. She bent down to pick up the letter, glanced at it, and then delivered it to the Grand Princess. This would also let the Grand Princess know how King Liang planned to kill the Bai family.
The emperor, who was shocked by his son’s momentum just now, pondered over the words of King Liang again and again. Thinking of the word “son” in his words, he finally cared about the father-son relationship in his heart. Even though he was extremely angry, he just slammed his palm on the table and shouted: “Asshole! What did you do? Tell me the truth!”
“Father knows that Prince Xin is the legitimate son, so I have always been close to him. All these years, I am grateful to him for taking care of me! After Prince Xin was demoted to a commoner by father, I was extremely anxious! At this time, the staff of Prince Xin’s mansion came to my son!”
Prince Liang wiped his tears and snot with his sleeves. “My son’s aide, Prince Xin, found me… and begged me to save my life. I told my son earlier that I like… I like the eldest daughter of the Bai family, and I also have an affair with the maidservant of the eldest daughter of the Bai family. I don’t know how this aide knew about it, and then… he gave me this idea to save my brother!”
“At first, I also felt that this was not right!” King Liang said this, looking cautiously in the direction of the Grand Princess, his voice weakened, “The staff said… King Zhenguo is dead but my brother is still alive, saving my brother is important! Otherwise, the exile place is bitter and cold, and my brother has been spoiled and brought up, and he will definitely not be able to bear it! Father… that is my brother! He is the legitimate son that your father values the most! I want to save my brother’s life no matter what! That’s why… I agreed!”
The emperor slowly loosened his grip on the armrest of the chair. If it was… to save Prince Xin, the emperor felt it was understandable: “Where are the staff?!”
“My father… that aide told me that he left the capital after meeting Qin Dezhao, but…” King Liang trembled as if he had thought of something extremely scary, “but later, Qin Dezhao died and that aide disappeared, too. My son… my son is really scared!”
Prince Liang’s tears and snot were streaming down his face, and he looked like a cowardly and incompetent rat.
The Prince of Liang, who was pretending to be stupid, just wanted to put the blame on Prince Xin for everything and deliberately involved Qin Dezhao… He even pushed the grain bill that Lu Jin was investigating onto Prince Xin, which cleared him of all responsibility.
“What’s going on with Liu Huanzhang?!” The emperor pointed at Gao Sheng and Tian Weijun, “These two must have come from your Liang Palace! This letter must have been written by you!”
“Liu Huanzhang was in Dadu, and it was the staff member in Prince Xin’s house who told me that he had me send someone to look after Liu Huanzhang. Before he left, he told me that after making sure that the letters were placed in the Prince Zheng’s study, he should send someone to take Liu Huanzhang to the Dali Temple to beat the drum and accuse Prince Zheng of treason. This way… I could get my brother out of the whole thing. That’s why I asked Gao Sheng to look after Liu Huanzhang.”
Prince Liang raised his eyes cautiously to glance at the gloomy emperor, then lowered his head in fear: “Originally, my son planned to bring Liu Huanzhang to see the emperor after the letter was placed in the Zhenguo Palace, and then plead for the Bai family in front of the emperor. Anyway, the sons of the Zhenguo family are all dead, and the emperor has always been kind and will definitely not take the life of the widow of the Bai family. I… I can also save my brother.”
“Until today, these letters were read out by the fourth lady of the Bai family in public. I knew that I couldn’t make a big deal out of it, so I had to make a big fuss… to save my brother Prince Xin. Father… I just wanted to save my brother!” King Liang said, looking at the eldest princess again, crying very sadly, like a child, “Grandaunt, the son of the Bai family is dead, and the dead cannot be brought back to life. Do you really… want my brother to pay with his life as well? We… are a family!”
The emperor’s hand holding the armrest of the chair trembled slightly. Although… his son was stupid and cowardly, he still had a pure heart and only wanted to save his brother. What could he blame? !
The eldest princess pursed her lips tightly, and spoke slowly after a long while, her voice showing the old lady’s fatigue: “Your Highness, the affairs of the royal family…how can they be just about family matters? If the emperor breaks the law, he will be punished the same as the common people, not to mention…from what Your Highness said just now, it seems that Prince Xin is also related to this grain and grass issue?”
At this point, the eldest princess choked up and cried, “My seventeenth-ranked grandson was disemboweled by the enemy… his stomach was full of dirt and tree roots. If there was food and grass, why would he die so tragically?! Forcing Bai Weiting to fight in order to gain military merit… I can understand Prince Xin’s desire to achieve great things! But why did he cut off the food and grass of his own army? Could it be that he wanted to steal the merit and harm his own soldiers?”
The Grand Princess shook the letter in her hand and said, “I have another question. Your Highness wrote in the letter that if Liu Huanzhang does not obey or threatens to expose all the details of his cooperation with Your Highness, Your Highness will kill Liu Huanzhang and his entire family! What did Liu Huanzhang cooperate with Your Highness about?”