Astute Princess: Married to be the Empress Novel - Chapter 196

Chapter 196 Hawks Will Not Pick Hawks’ Eyes Out

“Are you unconvinced? Very good, then it’s no wonder I’m here. Originally, I was planning to leave you some dignity for the sake of Mu Army. Since you don’t appreciate it, then I can only do it officially.”

After he finished speaking, he no longer looked at Mu Lian’s unwilling expression and expressionlessly said, “Little Yizi, you should draft the contents of this piece of paper into an imperial edict in a moment, with these letters posted on the city wall, so that the people of the world can comment on it. There is something wrong with my decision, and I do not want to leave any words behind in the future.”

“Yes, this servant obeys the decree. This servant will do it now.” After he finished speaking, he took the paper full of words and the stack of letters he had found and was about to leave the main hall of the Western Palace. This time, Mu Lian panicked. She knew best in her heart who those letters were dealing with. Because Mu Feng had already been sent to the prison, Mu Army had been forced to disband. Even though her big brother still had the position of deputy general, he was only a bald commander who only received a salary and didn’t have a single soldier.

Therefore, the Mu Clan no longer had the ability to support her, However, facing Huyan Mingshuo’s decision, She was unwilling, Unwilling to waste the rest of his life in this palace, Thinking that she had finally entered the palace to become Huyan Mingshuo’s concubine, If you don’t give it a shot, Even if he died, he was still unwilling, Thus, she took advantage of Xi Gong’s unguarded space to let her personal maids sneak out of the palace and secretly contacted those ministers who held real power in the court, asking them to support her. She also promised that once she obtained the Emperor’s favor and power in the future, she would definitely return the favor and take care of their clan, so that their clan would never decline.

As for why she chose these people, Mu Lian had also thought about it carefully. These people were all people with real power in the court, and there was no daughter in the family that could be sent to the palace.

And the reason some people came to an agreement with her, They were only willing to defend her because of her title as a noble imperial concubine. Moreover, their family had no children to enter the palace. Everyone knew that accompanying a lord was like accompanying a tiger. It would be good to have a spy in the palace. In this way, they would be able to understand the Emperor’s intentions and know where the situation was going. That was why they decided to take the risk to help her.

If they found out now that they had been stripped of their titles and abandoned, If she even exposed them, then they would definitely retaliate against her and even implicate the entire Mu Clan. Then she would be the sinner of the entire Mu Clan. Then what face did she have to return to the Mu Clan? If she could not even return to the Mu Clan, then how would she deal with herself in the future?

Thinking of these consequences, she could not care about anything else. She walked to Xiao Yizi’s side in a few steps and grabbed the rice paper and letter in his hand. She said very quickly, “Don’t bother Eunuch Yi. Isn’t it just taking the title away from me? I, Mu Lian, admit it, but I won’t let it go. I will make you all regret what happened today.”

As she spoke, she looked at Huyan Mingshuo hatefully and took her maids and maids to pack her luggage. From then on, there was no such person as Imperial Consort Mu in Yelan Palace.

After Mu Lian left, Huyan Mingshuo said, “Continue searching the palace. All the palaces must be searched carefully and not a single one must be left out.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” After saying that, Lei Yu brought all the guards to the other palaces. Before leaving, he even left behind a few highly skilled martial artists to protect Your Majesty.

Huyan Mingshuo did not object, He only quietly looked at the women in the hall. All of them were as old as flowers. The oldest was only eighteen years old, and the youngest was only fourteen years old. If it wasn’t for the greed of their parents, why would they have to endure such pressure at such a young age? Huyan Mingshuo knew that these women were also forced into helplessness. He couldn’t bear to be too embarrassed. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have endured it until now.

Fortunately, he asked Fu Yingran for this method last night. He used the search of the assassins to find the correspondence between them and the outside palace, and used this as an excuse to abandon them and return to the manor. This would not only achieve his desired goal, but also give these women a chance to start over.

These women did not know what Huyan Mingshuo was thinking. Their appearance was very simple. In this era, once a woman was divorced, her reputation would be damaged. Even if the Emperor allowed them to marry another time, they were once women of the Emperor. Regardless of whether the Emperor touched them or not, they were all people of the Emperor. Who would dare to marry such an identity? Therefore, once they were really taken back to the manor, they could only guard their innocence for a lifetime.

However, it was only conceivable. Judging from the Emperor’s current posture, even if they weren’t abandoned, staying in the palace would still be a waste of time. Since they were also on their own, what difference did it make? At the very least, after leaving the palace, they could still walk freely, which was much better than being restrained everywhere in the palace.

Everyone stood quietly in the main hall of the Western Palace with different thoughts. Huyan Mingshuo didn’t say anything. No one dared to say a word, Everyone was waiting for the guards who were going to search the palace to return. They were waiting for the Emperor to decide where they would go in the future. After what happened to Mu Lian, everyone knew that their worst outcome would be to be abandoned and returned to the manor. Therefore, everyone was relieved, knowing that at least the Emperor would not take their lives.

Since no one was stopping him, The guards moved swiftly, In just two hours, Lei Yu brought his guards back to the main hall. The guards behind him were holding the letters they had found from the palaces. In front of Huyan Mingshuo, After that, he heard Lei Yu say, “Your Majesty, I have been ordered to search the palaces and found no traces of the assassins. On the contrary, I have found quite a few letters in the palaces of the empress. I have roughly read them, and they are all correspondence from outside the palace. There is also a plot to harm Your Majesty. Therefore, I dare not conceal it. Please take a look at them, Your Majesty.”

Huyan Mingshuo frowned slightly. There was actually a plot to harm him? This is no small matter, It was obvious that this had violated his taboo. The last thing he wanted to see was a harem full of conspiracies. He did not want his children to live the life he had lived through. Fortunately, it was only the beginning, and everything was still in time. So he adjusted his emotions and said without any invitation, “Is that so?” There is actually someone who wants to plot against me? “This is interesting. Bring it over to me and see who wants my life?”

‘”Yes.” Lei Yu answered and walked to the desk where the letter was placed. He picked out two of the letters and handed them to Huyan Mingshuo. Huyan Mingshuo took them and looked at the money. Who did he think it was? It turned out to be his good father. Father of the Emperor, who had already moved to Beiyuan, had already become Father of the Emperor. Wasn’t he still unwilling to give up? Very good. He couldn’t help but raise his eyes to look at the masters of these two letters. They really looked familiar. Wasn’t this the nieces of the two imperial concubines of Beiyuan? This Father of his is really pervasive.

Since he was from Father Emperor, he could return the letter to Father Emperor. Thus, he put down the letter in his hand and also took the pen from the table in front of him. He brushed and wrote two pieces of rice paper. He connected the two letters together and handed them to Lei Yu, saying, “Commander Lei, please send these two letters and these two women to Beiyuan later. You must personally hand them to Father Emperor.”

After a while, he said, “Forget it, I’ll go with you. There are some things that I want to ask him personally. There are some things that should come to an end.”

Then he turned to the other side and said, “Little Yizi, I’ll leave the matters here to you. Anyone who finds letters in the bedroom will be sent back to their place of origin. As for those who do not find any letters, they can stay in the West Palace. The original ban remains unchanged. You should write the divorce letter as you just gave to Consort Mu. After that, send them out of the palace.”

After he finished speaking, he handed over the private seal that he had brought with him to Little Yizi so that he could seal the divorce certificate. Otherwise, the divorce certificate would be invalid if it wasn’t written by him.

However, he left Xi Gong with Lei Yu, Little Yizi was left behind, He wrote a divorce letter for Huyan Mingshuo, Looking at the seal inscribed with the words Huyan Mingshuo in his hand, Little Yizi’s eyes were slightly red. This was the Emperor’s absolute trust in him. One had to know that this seal’s function was not small. If he wanted to rebel, he could do a lot of things with this seal. The Emperor handed it over to him without any precautions. How could Little Yizi not be touched? This also confirmed his determination to pledge his loyalty to Huyan Mingshuo.

Huyan Mingshuo didn’t know Little Yizi’s current mood, because he wasn’t in a good mood right now. The contents of those two letters had been lingering in his mind the entire time.

‘You must find an opportunity to put the medicine into Huyan Mingshuo’s diet. No matter what method you use, I will see him bedridden within half a year.’

‘”Why are you still not attacking? Do you think that my words are useless now? Don’t think that now that you are Huyan Mingshuo’s concubines, I can’t do anything to you. If you don’t attack again, don’t blame me for not recognizing you. Back then, I was able to let you enter the palace as you wished, but now I can also make you disappear into thin air.”

That was Huyan Mingshuo’s biological father, It was said that the tiger poison did not eat its offspring, Huyan Mingshuo asked himself that he hadn’t let Father down for all these years. Apart from forcing him to step aside, he respected him everywhere. Even now, he still treated him as Father of the Emperor and gave him a favourable treatment. Why was he still not satisfied? He actually wanted to join forces with outsiders to murder his son?

The more Huyan Mingshuo thought about it, the angrier he became. Originally, he had only instructed Lei Yu to send people to the Northern Garden, but he was unwilling. He had to personally ask his father what kind of deep hatred was it that made him willing to die?

Because he was angry in his heart, the steps under his feet became more and more urgent. His martial arts were not weak, so he could not even keep up with the lightning storm at this moment, let alone the two delicate women. However, who called them sinner? He had no choice but to follow behind and trot all the way to the north courtyard.

When they arrived at the gate of the Northern Garden, everyone except Huyan Mingshuo was panting. Huyan Mingshuo had no time to care about them. He stepped forward and kicked open the gate of the Northern Garden, scaring the guards to the side. They didn’t dare to leave. Huyan Mingshuo didn’t even look at them before heading to Father of the Emperor’s bedroom in a gust of wind.

Seeing this, a few clever eunuchs said, He hastily avoided everyone and went to the Empress Dowager’s bedroom to get reinforcements. Even a fool could tell, The current Emperor was burning with rage. He didn’t know what would happen with Father of the Emperor later. There were only two people on Ye Lan who could convince the Emperor. One was the Empress who had never returned to the palace, and the other was the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager’s biological mother. Therefore, only the Empress Dowager could suppress the current situation.