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Looking at Cheng Yuanjia, who was still crying in her arms, the Empress Dowager's heart was in pain. The poor child suffered a lot when she came out this time. First, she was chased and killed, and just now she was frivolous by the prince. She was shocked twice. She, a young lady who didn't leave home, could bear it. If she was scared because of this, she would cut off the prince. It's not enough to vent your anger.

Cheng Yuanjia cried pitifully on the surface, but in fact she was happy. Of course, it was not a coincidence that the Empress Dowager appeared here at this moment. After she found that the prince was here, she knew that this guy had no good intentions, so she immediately controlled the nearest maid in the empress dowager's palace with her divine consciousness, and then asked her to report to the empress dowager. Of course, the empress dowager who received the complaint from the maid of honor would come in a hurry. . And she calculated the time just right, so that the Empress Dowager heard the prince's rebellious words. This time, even if the prince doesn't die, he will peel off the skin. As for his prince's throne, if there is no accident, there will be no chance.

She is not interested in fighting for power in the court, but she has always been very unhappy with the prince, especially those killers sent by him to kill the seventh princes a few days ago. In her opinion, this kind of person is really a waste of food to live. He can wear small shoes for him and frame him, just treat it as a victim of the people.

The prince can't laugh at all at this time. Although the empress dowager is not the emperor's biological mother, she is the adoptive mother who raised the emperor and the concubine of the former emperor. At that time, she was also one of the four concubines. Although she is not a biological child, the relationship between the empress dowager and the emperor is no less than that between the biological mother and son. The emperor is also very filial to the adoptive mother. No matter how busy he is, he has to visit the empress dowager every day and ask her a good job. He has never been estranged because she is not her biological mother.

According to the ancestral system, the abolition of the emperor can be made by the empress dowager and the ministers after discussion. This is also the reason why the emperor is particularly filial to the empress dowager. He is afraid of offend the empressor and replace the emperor with another person. The emperors who succeeded to the throne normally in all dynasties, the empress dowager they set up are basically the emperor's biological mother or adoptive mother like the empress dowager Cheng, because in this way, the empress dowager and the emperor are of the same mind, and basically nothing will not happen. Of course, there are also accidents. If the emperor is particularly weak, and the empress dowager is very strong, the empress dowager will seize power and abolish the emperor. If the emperor is abolished or dies young and leaves no children, the empress dowager will make the decision and choose a suitable person to be the emperor in the patriarchal chamber, which invisibly helps the empress dowager raise her value.

Even the emperor can be abolished by the empress dowager, not to mention the prince. It's just that the Empress Dowager Cheng has never had any ambition for the imperial power and did not intend to touch it, so even if she was not used to the prince's arrogance and absurdity, she just said a few words in front of the emperor and did not strongly ask the emperor to abolish the crown prince.

But the situation is different now. Even if the empress dowager is tolerant, she can't help but be angry. For the safety of herself and Cheng Yuanjia, of course, the empress dowager will not be silent.

Everything was as expected by Cheng Yuanjia. The empress dowager imprisoned the prince very strongly. The reason was that Yue moved into the emperor's bedroom, which was like usurping the throne. In addition, she bullied Qinrou Junjun in the other garden. Her intention was wrong, and she even said bad words to the empress dowager. In fact, she was disrespectful and punished several crimes. After returning to Beijing, she was handed over to Zongzheng Temple for handling.

Zongzheng Temple is controlled by the king of Qi. With the friendship between the king of Qi and the prince, I'm afraid the prince will be more sad.

It's not that the prince doesn't want to resist, but nominally, the empress dowager is his grandmother. The consequence of the following crime is that he can be killed on the spot by the empress dowager, and then he will die in vain if he intends to assassinate the empress dowager. Although the emperor went back with a large number of imperial troops and internal guards, the armed forces left in Beiyuan could not be mobilized by him, and only the empress dowager could control. The people he brought out this time lost five people when he went to kill the seventh prince, and now there are few that can be used. On balance, he can only be obediently allowed by the empress dowager. In his opinion, as long as he returns to Beijing and admits his mistake in front of his father, the father will not do anything to him in terms of father and son.

Cheng Yuanjia cried for a while. Seeing that the empress dowager had dealt with the prince, she seemed to be a little angry and frowned slightly. She knows very well that the empress dowager is very kind and easy to forgive others. If she is soft at this moment, I'm afraid that the prince can really escape.

So...

The maid of honor holding Cheng Yuanjia suddenly shouted: "Empress dowager, come here quickly. Your Highness fainted."

The Empress Dowager was shocked and walked quickly to Cheng Yuanjia. At this moment, her favorite niece's face was like gold paper. She had fainted. After exploring her breath, she only felt that she was angry and couldn't help but be anxious.

"Come on, help me to my bedroom, and then call the imperial doctor." The Empress Dowager didn't care whether it was in violation of the rules and hurriedly ordered.

"However, the empress dowager, the imperial doctor has been taken back by the emperor." A maid of honor said cautiously.

Only then did the empress dowager remember that the accompanying imperial doctors had been sent back by the emperor, and the remaining three imperial doctors also returned to Beijing with the emperor in the evening. At this moment, there was really no imperial doctor in the garden.

"What can I do about this!" The Empress Dowager held Cheng Yuanjia in her arms and burst into tears.

Zhener, the maid beside Cheng Yuanjia, has been following Cheng Yuanjia for the longest time. She knows Cheng Yuanjia's temperament best and knows that her master is particularly good at pretending. Obviously, she has nothing to do, but she will scare people to death. At this moment, seeing that the Empress Dowager was scared by her master, she quickly came forward and said, "The Empress Dowager, please don't panic. It seems that my young lady is just angry for a moment. She has had a similar situation before. As long as she lies down for a night, tomorrow will be much better."

"Oh, that's right." When the Empress Dowager heard Zhen'er's words, she suddenly became much relieved. She hurriedly asked the maid of honor to help Cheng Yuanjia to her bedroom and take good care of her.

The emperor knew about the prince when he saw the memorial from the nightly newspaper of the left-behind Yulin army commander the next morning. He immediately got up and called the king of Qi. In addition, he arranged for the officials of Zongzheng Temple to rush to Bieyuan and escort the prince back to Beijing. Since the Zhong family has secretly assisted the seventh prince, the left-behind commander of the Yulin army is also the confidant of the Zhong family. Of course, he will not say good words for the prince in the memorial to the emperor. According to the fact, it is considered to be merciful, and it is normal to add oil and vinegar. As a result, the emperor was furious.

The king of Qi was also very angry. Cheng Yuanjia was his wife for the seventh prince. If the seventh brother can successfully ascend the throne, she will be the queen. The prince actually teased and bullied her, and the delicate beauty was so angry that he was in a coma all night, which made the king of Qi rush to the prince, punch and kick him, and must punch him to the flesh to dispel his hatred.

The next afternoon, the official responsible for escorting the prince returned to the palace at the same time as the dejected prince and the empress dowager's carriage. The king of Qi knew that if the prince was asked to meet with the emperor first, he would definitely let the prince defend himself. Therefore, he specially took care of the officials in charge of the escort. Don't be in a hurry to come back, let them enter the palace with the empress dowager, and let the prince and the empress dowager be confronted, so that the prince would never have the opportunity to defend himself.

As expected by the king of Qi, the empress dowager went straight to the emperor as soon as she entered the palace. Before confronting the prince, she strictly asked the emperor to abolish the prince, otherwise she, the empress dowager, would be abolished. The emperor was first shocked by the tough attitude of the empress dowager, and then went to the empress dowager's palace and saw Cheng Yuanjia, who was still twitching and crying. Cheng Yuanjia described the process of flirting with the prince with her sadly. Even if she no longer added the words, after her slightly psychological expression, it also made the emperor The emperor felt that the prince was so bad that he did such an unforgivable thing to her. In addition, the emperor had an interest in Cheng Yuanjia, and he was extremely disgusted with what the prince did. This was robbing his love. How could he bear it?

Then, a more serious thing directly declared the complete collapse of the crown prince. From the prince's subordinates, the king of Qi found out that the man in black who assassinated the seventh prince and Cheng Yuanjia six days ago was sent by the prince. When the king of Qi learned that the prince was detained by the empress dowager and wanted to take him back to Beijing for trial, he sent someone to arrest all the prince's subordinates, and then hinted that the prince would definitely die this time. Even they didn't want to live. If they wanted to live, he quickly made contributions and confessed the prince's crimes. Then, the prince's evil deeds were confessed by his confidants one by one, including sending someone to kill the seventh prince. However, when the king of Qi expressed this matter, he slightly modified the purpose of the assassin to plunder Qinrou Junjun and brought it back to the prince to wantonly humiliate, kill the seventh prince, and destroy the corpse. In this way, the case requested by the emperor to solve the assassination of Qinrou Junjun within seven days was also completed on time.