An Eight-year-old Princess

Chapter 312 The Bloody Imperial Edict (Part One)

Hearing this, Emperor Ning sobered up. He sat up in a hurry, ordered the eunuchs to change, and

ordered master Zheng to prepare a carriage to Qiwu palace.

When Emperor Ning arrived, he found the whole Qiwu palace was bathed in flames. Frowning, he

called in the Imperial Guard. "What's going on? Why did the Qiwu palace catch a fire? "

The Commander of Yulin Guard, remained silent for a long time before kneeling down to Emperor Ning.

"Your Majesty, please punish me for my negligence."

"Punish you?" Emperor Ning sneered, raised his foot and gave the imperial guard a hard kick. "If you

want to be punished, you have to put out the fire. Hurry up!"

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard and the beams of flames on the roof of the main hall of the Qiwu

palace had already collapsed. The flames were splashing. Master Zheng quickly pulled emperor Ning

back and said, "Your Majesty, it's dangerous here. You'd better go back to the qinzheng hall first. The

commander is there. Come back after the fire subsides."

Emperor Ning's face changed for a long time. He nodded and then turned around. "Where is lady Jin?"

Master Zheng didn't understand why emperor Ning asked so, but he hurriedly called the eunuch to

Jinxiu palace.

Emperor Ning squinted at the Qiwu palace for a long time. Then he got in a carriage and went back to

the Qinzheng Hall. When the eunuch who was sent to look for lady Jin returned to the qinzheng hall, he

told the emperor that the little prince caught a cold at night. Lady Jin called in an imperial physician to

treat the little prince's illness. The little prince kept crying and screaming. He hasn't rested yet. Only

lady Jin can take care of him because he didn't allow other madams near him. Lady Jin can't get away.

Emperor Ning was shocked. "Chenxi is sick? Why didn't you report to me? "

The eunuch replied momentarily, "her highness said that his majesty will be married with the empress

in a month, and he should be very busy at this moment. Her highness told me not to bother your

majesty."

Emperor Ning paused, looking flurried. After a while, he said in a hoarse voice, "you don't have to

bother them."

At this time, the Commander of Yulin Guard rushed in. "Your Majesty, after being disabled, lady Jing

still grounded the Lady Li in a dark room below Qiwu palace."

Emperor Ning was surprised again. He fell into silence. Before Yun Shang came to Kangyang City, she

had told him the truth. He was extremely disgusted with Lady Li. He only thought that she, after all, had

been his wife for twenty years. Anyway, as a responsible empress, she had done her duty before, so

she had stayed out of it. he only ordered her servants to send food to her on time. He even almost

forgot Li's existence until now. Now Qiwu palace was on fire. That woman...

"Put out the fire quickly and take her out." Emperor Ning ordered in a low voice with a frown. The secret

room was hidden with a stone door. As the Qiwu palace was on fire, she would be fine on time. As long

as she didn't get close to the stone door, she would feel hot at most.

The Commander of Yulin Guard answered, turned around and left.

The fire almost burned everything in the main hall of Qiwu palace. It wasn't until the next morning that

the fire was completely extinguished. Emperor Ning then went back to Qiwu palace. When he saw the

Commander of Yulin Guard bringing people to save Li Yiran, he just stood outside the palace and

looked at the burning Qiwu palace, frowning and seeing that the Commander of Yulin Guard coming in.

But after a while, he returned.

"What happened?" Emperor Ning frowned and asked.

The Commander of Yulin Guard instantly knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, the stone door of the

secret chamber that imprisoned has been broken into pieces, and those behind it... The late empress

was burned to death in the dark room. I looked into the room carefully and found the traces of the

gunpowder. I'm afraid that the fire came from the dark room... "

Emperor Ning was shocked. He stood still for a long time with a pale face. He only said one word,

"investigate."

Emperor Ning was stopped again before he returned to the qinzheng hall. The Zhuangyuan, Liu Qiyan,

came. He was young and calm. Besides, he was lady Ya's brother, so emperor Ning had taken him as

Ministry of Rites after Li Jingyan betrayed the state.

"Your Majesty, the Empress' imperial edict was posted online yesterday to threaten the people of

imperial city. Many people saw that blood has been stained on the imperial edict before dawn today,

and someone leaked it out. Last night, the empress' Qiwu palace was on fire. Now there are rumors NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.

everywhere that Miss Jing has lost her virtue. It's a natural punishment."

Emperor Ning frowned. If the fire in Qiwu Palace last night was set by Li Yiran, and it was sort of an

accident, then after today's imperial edict, it would be man-made.

Who was it?

Emperor Ning made a plan in his mind. He only targeted lady Jin, Yun Shang and Li Yiran.

Lady Jin had always been cold. Even when he married Li Yiran, she never said a word to him. Lady Jin

had invited herself to the cold palace for some misunderstandings. To be honest, she was unlikely to do

this. But now the situation was different. Lady Jin had a son named Chenxi. If lady Jin wanted Chenxi

to be the crown prince, it was not possible for Jing Wenxi to marry the emperor. Then lady Jin might be

able to do it. She was a very clever woman in the first place.

As for Li Yiran, although she was kept in a secret chamber in Qiwu palace, she had been in charge of

the imperial household for so many years and there were still some hidden forces that were unknown

to him. If the smoke powder in the secret room was really brought in by Li Yiran, it also explained that

there was someone helping her in the Imperial Palace, and that must be someone outside the imperial

palace. Therefore, there were always some other forces. And it wasn't something she couldn't do by

destroying their marriage.