Let's Squander A Billion First!-Chapter 543 - Difficult to be a Hostage (38)
Chapter 543 -543: Difficult to be a Hostage (38)
Chapter 543 -543: Difficult to be a Hostage (38)
Imperial Doctor Zhou accused the Second Prince of using family threats to coerce him into conspiring against Your Majesty.
Your Majesty suddenly fell into a coma because he had been given medicine.
He had thought that after doing these things, the Second Prince would release his family members and even send him back to his hometown.
But unexpectedly, just as he left the Imperial Palace, he was to be silenced.
Had it not been for his good luck and someone rescuing him, by now he would be nothing more than a corpse.
“The Second Prince conspired against Your Majesty, Your Majesty could never wake up, that Imperial Decree is a fake!” Imperial Doctor Zhou glared at the Second Prince with hatred.
A fight to the finish indeed.
“He’s talking nonsense!” the Second Prince retorted: “How could I instruct him to conspire against our father, the Emperor, it was him… he was bought by the Third Imperial Brother to frame me, and you see the Third Prince’s momentum, it’s obvious that he wants to usurp the throne!”
The court officials looked around at the Imperial Guards who were watching them fiercely and remained silent.
These Imperial Guards had followed Chuzheng.
Indirectly, they equated to Lian Qiong.
Who would have expected the Third Prince to have such control over the Imperial Guards…
The Second Prince insisted that Imperial Doctor Zhou was framing him, while Imperial Doctor Zhou claimed he was instructed by the Second Prince.
One word against another, the old saying goes.
The court officials also didn’t know whom to believe.
“Your Highness the Third Prince.” As everyone was uncertain how to distinguish the truth, the Imperial Guards brought someone in: “This one was trying to escape from the palace just now and was caught on the spot.”
That was the Little Eunuch who served by the Emperor’s side.
Some court officials had some impression of him.
Seeing the scene, the Little Eunuch was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and trembled.
“Speak up, what’s going on?” Xiao Shanzi rebuked sharply.
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“Spare my life…” the voice of the Little Eunuch trembled: “I… I stole something and tried to flee the palace.”
“Hmph, stole something? Where is it, then?” Xiao Shanzi searched his person, but there was nothing: “Where’s the thing you stole?”
The Second Prince stared at him coldly, his gaze full of threat.
“I… I…” in a flash of inspiration, the Little Eunuch exclaimed: “I dropped it while I was running away!”
“What did you see inside?” Chuzheng asked in an even tone: “If you do not speak out, you might survive today, but whether you can survive tomorrow or the day after, that’s not certain.”
The Little Eunuch’s face went white with fear.
Chuzheng’s calm tone, compared to the Second Prince’s deadly stare, scared the Little Eunuch even more.
“I… I…”
The Second Prince clenched his fists tightly.
With gritted teeth, the Little Eunuch blurted out: “I saw the Second Prince… the Second Prince smothered Your Majesty to death!”
The entire space fell into a hushed stillness.
–
Seeing his plot exposed, the Second Prince grew panicked at heart, and from his sleeve, he fished out a signal flare. The red flare exploded in the air.
Before anyone could figure out what was happening, the sound of fighting came from a distance.
The noise originated from the direction of the palace gates and was even audible from here, indicating the commotion was substantial.
“What does it matter if there are Imperial Guards!” The Second Prince suddenly regained confidence: “I originally wanted to solve this amicably, but since you have insisted on making this so indecent, I’ll give you another chance. Stand by my side now, and once I ascend to the throne, I will surely reward you!”
Impatiently, Chuzheng pinched her wrist.
As soon as the Second Prince had finished his words, she immediately charged over.
The people around the Second Prince did not respond in time, and Chuzheng dragged him out, seizing the front of his clothes and throwing him to the ground.
The Imperial Guards reacted at once, subduing the Second Prince’s men.
The Second Prince had some fighting skills.
Initially caught off guard, he quickly gathered his wits and exchanged blows with Chuzheng.
But after only a few moves, the Second Prince was thrown to the ground by Chuzheng.
Chuzheng spun around, drew the sword from someone nearby, and as the cold gleam of the blade flickered, the Second Prince froze the moment he tried to rise.
The sharp edge of the sword, radiating a cold light, was merely the distance of a fingernail away from his throat.
–
The ones storming in from outside the palace were led by General Zhen Nan, who had escaped from the battlefield with a number of men.
He was not resigned to his defeat.
He sneakily returned and somehow allied with the Second Prince.
Initially, the Second Prince had no intention of laying a hand on the Emperor, seeing as the position of Crown Prince had not yet been confirmed.
But as Lian Qiong’s influence grew in the court, with the Emperor’s open or covert favoritism,
the Second Prince learned that the Emperor intended to appoint Lian Qiong as his heir.
Then, with a mere incitement from General Zhen Nan, this whole drama unfolded today.
General Zhen Nan was using the Second Prince as a pawn, but it was he who truly wished to usurp the throne.
Unfortunately for him, this is as far as he could go.
When General Zhen Nan got captured, he likely hadn’t even fully grasped how he failed?!
From beginning to end, it happened as swiftly as a tornado.
Chuzheng was quite satisfied with the speed of the resolution.
Should troubles not be resolved promptly, are they to be kept for the New Year celebration?!
“This throne…”
Chuzheng swept her gaze over the court officials.
The court officials who had been bribed by Chuzheng, using all their might to scrape together flattering descriptions for the Third Prince, knelt down to pledge their loyalty, “The Crown Prince has passed away early, the Second Prince plotted treason; the Third Prince is kind-hearted, virtuous and decisive, diligent in seeking governance and should inherit the grand rule.”
The scene was awkward for a moment.
Kind-hearted and generous?
Virtuous and decisive?
Diligent in seeking governance?
Are these words describing the Third Prince?
Are they facing the same Third Prince?
You all must be crazy!
However, the other princes and factions supporting those princes couldn’t find words to refute.
It should… seem… perhaps there’s no fault.
The Imperial Decree was forged.
The Second Prince forged the Imperial Decree, scheming to assassinate the Emperor, a dead-end path for him.
The Crown Prince had already passed away from illness years ago, and according to the system of succession without a written testament, it indeed should be the Third Prince’s turn.
“The Third Prince is virtuous and benevolent…”
One by one, the court officials knelt down.
The Imperial Guards watched menacingly by the side.
The men of General Zhen Nan who had just stormed in failed to achieve much; with so few men, how could they contest?
The princes were feeling aggrieved!
But in the end, they too had to kneel.
–
Since the Third Prince was to inherit the rule, it was he who needed to handle the matters that followed.
Chuzheng wanted to sleep, so she simply left him in the palace and returned with Xiao Shanzi.
Help out?
In the dead of night, she had come here to secure the throne for him, what more could he want?
Wasn’t she tired?
Splurging money is exhausting too!!
And most of the time, it still depended on her martial strength; the idea that the Bastard’s wealth could do anything he wished was simply nonsense.
Lian Qiong should deal with the throne he wanted for himself.
“Master, what should we do with Imperial Doctor Zhou?” Xiao Shanzi asked Chuzheng.
“He wants to go back home.”
“Master… when you say ‘go back home,’ which home are you referring to?” Xiao Shanzi trembled.
Imperial Doctor Zhou was not actually being hunted by the Second Prince.
It was clearly Chuzheng who, after having the situation thoroughly investigated, had assassins wait outside pretending to be the Second Prince’s men to pursue him, then had someone rescue him, and Imperial Doctor Zhou was even grateful…
This maneuver was simply…
Xiao Shanzi didn’t know how to describe it.
“His old home.”
Xiao Shanzi gestured, trying to understand.
Chuzheng gave him an icy stare.
Xiao Shanzi’s neck grew cold: “This slave understands.”
It’s not about taking a life.
So, it really means sending him back to his old home.
For once the master seemed to have a conscience… Xiao Shanzi felt even more afraid.
