Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 478 Awakening

With Empress Wan as his financial backer, Xia Shouzhong had extorted countless concubines and their relatives, and exploited countless eunuchs and palace servants over the years.

Although Empress Wan was now confused and incompetent, she had not committed any wrongdoings and was not in danger of being deposed. Given Xia Shouzhong's greed, he would never leave the palace and escape.

So, this time of “absence” may just be his normal “vacation”?

Daiyu ordered Chu Kua to find out clearly.

Everyone in the Kunning Palace was beaten.

Someone looked up at Daiyu with resentment, but was kicked back silently.

So everyone changed their target and began to complain to Queen Wan in a low voice: "She made such a big scene and spoke so arrogantly, but when something goes wrong, she uses us as the scapegoat!"

The people around hurriedly pulled her to silence her: "Even her wet nurse, Su Hong, has been locked up. Are we still considered human beings?! Stop saying such suicidal things!"

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Daiyu spoke calmly, "The Queen's health is the most important thing.

“The imperial physician has given his medical advice, and you who serve him should follow it, and you won’t make any mistakes.

"Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, wouldn't it be nice for everyone to celebrate happily?

"If you insist on making me come here with the golden medal bestowed by His Majesty, it's fine for the Empress, but do you think any of you will be able to escape unscathed?

"Even if I don't care about it today, will His Majesty not care about it when he comes back tomorrow?

"If he starts to make a fuss, what will the situation become? You have been in the palace longer than I have. Think about it yourself."

After Daiyu finished speaking, she nodded, stood up and left.

Everyone in the yard looked at each other, and seeing her walk so skillfully, a few brave ones tried to get up.

Unexpectedly, the guards guarding the door glanced over and said, "Princess Zhaoqing has ordered that you all kneel for a full hour."

As he spoke, his hand reached for the knife on his waist.

Everyone knelt down hurriedly and tremblingly, not daring to have any bad ideas again.

Empress Wan, who was in the back hall, watched from behind the door and cursed through gritted teeth: "You are all cowards!"

If everyone caused trouble, the law would not punish them all, and Daiyu would not necessarily dare to arrest dozens of servants in the palace.

You have to keep a few people around you to serve you, right?

Thinking of this, Queen Wan subconsciously called out, "Come here, drink."

The palace was empty, there was no response, only an echo.

Queen Wan finally reacted!

What's this about forcing people to kneel for an hour? This is about forcing myself to kneel for an hour without anyone to take care of me!

He even pretended to be concerned and said that I couldn't miss my dinner!

This clearly means that as long as she doesn't go hungry at dinner time, she can ignore the Queen during this period of time!

This is Zhaoqing!

This Lin girl!

Bitch!

Queen Wan was so angry that she raised her hands high. She wanted to slam the table, but was afraid of the pain; she wanted to smash the teacup, but no one was there to clean it up; the only thing she could do was to throw herself on the bed and vent her anger on the pillow.

Daiyu came out of the side door of Kunning Palace and stood in the long corridor. She smiled and then comforted Situ Ang:

"The Queen has figured it out. The other palace servants inside are unlikely to do anything wrong again. I'll have to trouble you, Prince."

Situ Ang was neither blind nor deaf, and he heard everything clearly. Deep down, he could only admire Princess Zhaoqing's magnanimity, who could "reduce the enemy's operations to ashes while she laughed and talked", and felt inferior to her.

He then bowed earnestly with his fists clasped together: "I will definitely fulfill my duties faithfully and live up to your trust!"

These eight words are exactly what I want.

Daiyu nodded with a smile: "I will report these eight words to Your Majesty and ask for credit for the prince."

Situ Ang blushed and stepped aside.

Daiyu looked at the sky and saw that it was dusk. She supported Qingwen's hand and got into the sedan chair again, saying, "Go to the Dali Temple."

This little chaos in Kunning Palace is just an appetizer.

The grand banquet can be held in the Women's Prison of the Dali Temple!

When the sedan chair was about to reach the palace gate, Chu Qian rushed over and reported in a low voice: "Xia Shouzhong has reported for a day off and left the palace to go to that Guihua Xia family."

The curtain of the sedan moved, and Qingwen's surprised face was revealed first: "Xia family? The Xia family that married the Sun family?"

Chu Qian nodded: "Yes."

At this point, even Daiyu became curious and tilted her head to look at Chu Qian from behind Qingwen: "What is the relationship between Xia Shouzhong and the Xia family?"

"It was originally unrelated." Chu Qian curled his lips in disdain, "Later, Sun Shaozu heard from somewhere that Xia Shouzhong was very powerful in the palace, so he forced his wife to come over and acknowledge him as his godchild.

"It seems that Sun Shaozu had made friends with a judge in the Jia family. When the two heard that the Jia family had committed a crime, they were afraid that they would be implicated, so they hurriedly distanced themselves from the crime and then went to add insult to injury.

"But by coincidence, they all ran into the hands of the subordinates of County Lord Zhongqin. That young master is a smiling devil, so how could his subordinates let go of such a duck that they had caught?

“So even the Sun family, the Xia family, and the Tongpan family, all had their men locked up and their women imprisoned.

"When Xia Shouzhong went to the Xia family, his goddaughter happened to be crying at her parents' home. Both of them wanted the other to help..."

Daiyu frowned: "How can the Xia family help Xia Shouzhong?"

"Xia Shouzhong felt that since the Xia family was an old relative of the Xue family, and the Xue family mother and son had lived in the Jia family for so long, they must know something about the princess's past."

Chu Qi looked at her with complicated eyes.

How big a threat was his princess that the Empress's servants had to go through so much trouble and go through so many twists and turns to deal with her?

It can be seen that no matter how much importance these insiders attach to her, they still underestimate the status of their princess in the heart of the current emperor.

Daiyu sneered and said disapprovingly: "What's the result?"

"As a result, the two sides kept talking about different things, and finally exposed each other's true colors."

Chu Qian spread his hands and said, "Xia Shouzhong insisted that he was acting on the orders of the Empress, and the subordinates of Zhongqin County Lord are all stubborn.

"Xia Shouzhong, his goddaughter, his godson-in-law, and that Tongpan have been taken into the palace, waiting to confront the Empress!"

Tongpan...

Daiyu turned this official position over in her mind and then she remembered that wasn't this the evildoer who instigated Jia Zheng to take Tanchun's birth date away from him?

Fu tried.

At that time, because the person behind Fu Shi was actually connected to Emperor Zhaoming's plan, he let him go.

This is good, when the big event is approaching, these small fish are brought out with the dirty water! They can't harm people, but they are disgusting!

Daiyu frowned, extremely impatient, and waved her hands, saying, "Let them ask Prince Zhongshun for help in the name of Duke Zhongqin!

"Empress Wan is now hating herself for not being clean enough around her. Xia Shouzhong has put such a big blame on her, and she won't take it!

"These people are biting each other all over the place, maybe they will bite Prince Zhongshun again.

"This prince has been kept in the dark for many years. Now that he is about to be overthrown, he should know some truth and wake up."

After saying this, he ordered everyone to leave the palace and rush to the Dali Temple.