SFS Chapter 176 Meaning
Chapter 176 Meaning
Zhao Yuzhu was terribly frightened now. She looked at the Thirteenth Prince with some sadness and pleading, hoping that he would stop talking and go easy on her.
She screamed, "How can I believe what the Thirteenth Prince said? I don't think so..."
She couldn't say he was abnormal. Seeing the Thirteenth Princess's half-blackened face, Zhao Yuzhu changed her words and said, "The Thirteenth Prince is innocent to begin with. It's very possible that he wants to play in the palace."
The Thirteenth Prince became anxious after not getting his answer again and again.
He looked at Zhao Yuzhu with a somewhat impolite tone, "You lied to me. It was you who told me that."
Zhao Yuzhu's eyes went dark. He had thought that someone like the Thirteenth Prince would be easy to deal with, but he had not expected that after the incident, he would be extremely unreliable with such a personality.
At this point, Zhao Yuzhu could only pretend that he didn't understand.
Concubine Li was a little late because she had just dealt with matters in Chaoyang Palace.
After she arrived, she listened for a while and then came out to act as a peacemaker. She said with a smile, "There are still many people waiting for the emperor to return. This place is so messy, we will wait for someone to clean it up later. It's fine as long as no one is hurt."
Qin Liuse was actually too lazy to waste time with them, so he said to Aunt Mingyue next to him, "Go and bring Xiaojiu up."
Xiaojiu tucked his hands into his sleeves and walked over with his head lowered. When he came in front of Emperor Yongjia, he did not dare to look at anyone's face. He just knelt on the ground and told him everything as if he was talking to the god of land.
He told Emperor Yongjia that it was Zhao Yuzhu who gave him the money to run into Qin Liuse, and then brought Qin Liuse to the dressing room and locked the door after he went in.
Xiao Jiu said, shaking his head, "Your Majesty, I really didn't know that the Thirteenth Prince was in there, I really didn't know."
When Emperor Yongjia heard Xiaojiu's words, a cold smile appeared on his face.
Zhao Yuzhu's heart skipped a beat when she saw this look. She hugged her sister Zhao Yurong and said, "Sister, please help me to ask the emperor for mercy. Please help me."
Zhao Yurong thought to herself that her sister thought too highly of her. What could she say in front of the emperor? She was just a concubine.
But she is his sister after all, so even if Zhao Yurong doesn't want to beg for mercy, she has to try.
However, Emperor Yongjia seemed not to hear what Zhao Yurong said.
Zhao Yuzhu suddenly felt desperate and said to Qin Liuse, "Zhaoyi is so cruel. She framed me and imprisoned me with the Thirteenth Prince. I'm afraid you were the one who started the fire."
Qin Liuse smiled with some contempt, "I didn't call the Thirteenth Prince here, so how would I know that the Thirteenth Prince was inside? Miss Yuzhu is still young, don't just learn to wrongly accuse others."
"If it weren't for you, how could I!..." Zhao Yuzhu was still chattering.
"That's enough." Emperor Yongjia suddenly spoke, and immediately no one dared to speak.
He hugged Qin Liuse and glanced at the Thirteenth Prince and Zhao Yurong and Zhao Yuzhu. "A single man and a single woman are living in the same room. I don't want to be a matchmaker. What should I do? Go back and ask your father if he is willing to marry Miss Yuzhu to the Prince's Mansion."
"As for the harem, you can go back with your sister after the banquet is over."
After all, she was an unmarried girl and the daughter of an official family, so Emperor Yongjia's words were really quite tactful.
Letting him go back with Zhao Yurong and not allowing him to stay in the palace is undoubtedly the best punishment for Zhao Yuzhu at the moment.
When Zhao Yuzhu heard this, tears fell like crazy.
He cried and begged Emperor Yongjia, "Brother Emperor, please let Yuzhu stay in the palace. Yuzhu likes to accompany the Empress Dowager."
The reason why Zhao Yuzhu pleaded so shamelessly was because she knew that if she left like this, she would probably never have the chance to enter the palace again.
If she stayed in the palace, she could still find a chance to atone for her sins and resolve this conflict. If she left just like that, she would never have another chance and would never be the woman of Emperor Yongjia again.
Emperor Yongjia didn't say much, but waved his hand, then hugged Qin Liuse and returned to Chaoyang Palace.
Zhao Yuzhu was unwilling in her heart and felt that the punishment was too severe, but Zhao Yurong felt that Emperor Yongjia had shown leniency to her.
Most likely it was because today was the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and if the noise was too loud, it would not sound good if it got out. So out of consideration for the royal family's reputation, Emperor Yongjia did not make a big fuss.
Look, the Thirteenth Prince was treated like this without any punishment.
However, the reason why Zhao Yurong thought this way actually showed that she didn't quite understand Emperor Yongjia.
After today's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was over, the Thirteenth Princess and the Thirteenth Prince returned to the palace, and Zhu Wanxi came over with an oral order.
Emperor Yongjia meant to have the Thirteenth Prince confined at home for half a year to reflect on himself.
Emperor Yongjia did not ask Zhu Wanxi to bring the imperial edict in order to keep the matter low-key.
But the Thirteenth Prince could not understand all these twists and turns, and when he heard them he acted like a child and refused to give in.
"Why did my brother confine me to my room? I want to go out and play! I want to go out and play!"
The Thirteenth Princess was smart. She quickly grabbed the Thirteenth Prince, thanked Zhu Wanxi, and politely sent him away.
Then he said to his Thirteenth Prince, "You have offended someone you shouldn't have offended. If it weren't for your brain protecting you, you would have been expelled from the capital by now."
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At this moment, Qin Liuse didn't know that Emperor Yongjia had secretly dealt with the Thirteenth Prince.
The banquet in Chaoyang Palace had just ended, and the remaining work was handed over to the people in the Shanggong Bureau, so he didn't have to worry about it.
Qin Liuse's mood at night improved a lot because of the iron tree and silver flowers that were set off at the end.
The molten iron hit the sky, just like fireworks, and the lights shone brightly, making the palace look like the imperial palace in heaven.
When the banquet was over, Qin Liuse led the maids back to Shuyuexuan.
When the news of the fire reached Chaoyang Palace today, Concubine Wen remained indifferent, and did not go to the dressing room like Concubine Li did, truly clearing herself of all charges.
However, no matter how much Qin Liuse thought about it, he knew that this matter could not have been thought of by Zhao Yuzhu alone.
Even if Zhao Yuzhu had a vicious heart and didn't know much about the harem, it was probably because of the contribution of Lady Wen that everything happened.
Qin Liuse felt a little regretful that he could not drag it into the water today, but there was a long time to go, and sooner or later, he would have to face it head-on.
But before they reached Shuyuexuan, Zhu Wanxi's men came over and told them that the name card Emperor Yongjia was going to pick tonight was that of Concubine Qin.
When Qin Liuse heard the news, he was stunned. He didn't expect that Emperor Yongjia would flip someone's name, and he didn't expect that the name flipped would be his.
She knew that August 15th was an important day for Emperor Yongjia, so the meaning here seemed a little different.