Chapter 383 - Chapter 383: Justice
Chapter 383: Justice
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The few censors beside him couldn’t help but snort.
If Feng He was really so innocent and didn’t assassinate the Eldest Prince, then why did his brother, Feng She, bribe Censor Lian to force him to hit the wall? Wasn’t the Feng family snatching him away because they felt guilty?!
The stiff atmosphere continued. The parrot on the bird stand suddenly screamed, “I’m innocent! I’m innocent!”
Madam Gu was shocked. She knelt for a long time. Her knees were numb, and her neck was heavy. She couldn’t help but shake her body.
“Does everyone think that the Eldest Prince framed Feng lie?” The Emperor spoke even slower. His face was as dark as water and he looked dignified.
The Emperor had always had a good temper, but as the saying went, even rabbits would bite when forced into a corner. At this moment, the Emperor’s thunderous and furious dragon might was released without any concealment.
The might of an emperor made people not dare to look at him directly.
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The important ministers who attended court every day were still calm, but Feng She, Madam Gu, the patriarch, and the others were already intimidated by the Emperor’s aura and broke out in cold sweat.
Xiao Shoufu quickly gave Feng She a look.
Feng She felt guilty, but he still gritted his teeth and looked at the Emperor with red eyes. He choked, “Emperor, my brother’s death was really unjust.”
“My brother was just a weak scholar. Even if there was anything wrong with his abrupt actions, the Eldest Prince only had to capture him.”
“I dare to guarantee with my life that my brother never plotted to assassinate the Eldest Prince.”
With that, Feng She took out a white cloth with grass embroidery from his sleeve pocket and wiped his tears. He straightened his back and looked at Chu Yi, who wasn’t far away, with righteous anger. He questioned sternly, “Eldest Prince, where’s the evidence for saying that my brother tried to assassinate you?!”
His last sentence was unusually high-pitched and sharp, as if he was pointing the finger at Chu Yi.
Xiao Shoufu and the Minister of Revenue, Wang Kangyin, exchanged glances without saying anything. Victory was in their grasp.
Thanks to Madam Gu, Gu Yuan was convicted of murdering the capital’s magistrate, Feng He, for no reason.
Then, the Eldest Prince only had two choices. Either he pushed all the blame to Gu Yuan and let Gu Yuan take the blame, or he admitted that he had handled it inappropriately and that Gu Yuan was only following orders.
Either way, the Eldest Prince lost.
After this, who would be willing to serve the Eldest Prince in the future?!
Xiao Shoufu sneered to himself and watched coldly from the side. Third Master Feng also stood up and spoke up for Feng She excitedly. “Eldest Prince, you’re saying that Second Brother plotted to assassinate someone without any evidence. It s ridiculous!”
“Second Brother died under Gu Yuan’s knife. The Feng family has the reputation of assassinating the prince. We have to seek justice for the Feng family!”
The Feng brothers pressed forward step by step, almost pinning the name of being violent and tyrannical on Chu Yi.
Gu Jian gradually calmed down. When he looked at Gu Yuan again, it was as if he was looking at an abandoned pawn.
How pitiful. One could imagine what the Eldest Prince would choose.
Gu Yuan was destined to be abandoned by the Eldest Prince. What awaited Gu Yuan next wasn’t only his dismissal, but also imprisonment.
Gu flan’s eyes were filled with pity and contempt.
Instead of being the young master of the Marquis Mansion, he had to give up literature and pursue martial arts!
Since he had entered the West Mountain Camp, he should have calmed down and slowly accumulated his experience. Why did he have to mix with the Divine Arms Battalion and the Eldest Prince!
To put it bluntly, Gu Yuan wanted to stand out and insist on suppressing him like his father,
Gu Jian looked down at Madam Gu, who was kneeling on the ground, and smiled.
Both mother and son began to relax and wait.
Since this path had been paved, the rest was up to the Feng family and Xiao Shoufu.
Hearing the Feng family’s words directed at Chu Yi, the Emperor’s eyes burned with anger. He had already raised his right palm and was about to slam the table when he saw his son push the box containing fish food towards him.
This small action was like a bucket of cold water quenching the Emperor’s anger. He recalled that when his son had just returned to the capital, he had joked with his son, “Since you’re back, I can enjoy my life. I can feed the fish and play with the birds for no reason.”
The next day, there were hundreds of carps in the lake in the Imperial Garden-
Well, it was fine as long as he fed the fish. The Emperor’s palm, which had almost slapped down, changed. He grabbed another fish food from the box and generously scattered it.
In the lake, more fish swam over from all directions.
The Feng brothers stomped their feet, but Chu Yi remained calm and composed. He didn’t show his emotions on his face and said calmly, “Feng He has ulterior motives. He dared to try to assassinate me. Gu Yuan has contributed greatly to protecting me.”
The smile on Xiao Shoufu’s lips froze. He gritted his teeth so tightly that even his goatee froze.
He didn’t expect the Eldest Prince to be so stubborn at this point.
Xiao Shoufu frowned. When he met Chu Yi’s gaze, the handsome young man slowly said, “I’m still injured. This is evidence.”
The Eldest Prince had been injured by an assassination attempt. Naturally, he had invited an imperial physician to take a look a few times after that. Among them was Imperial Physician Yan. Kang Wang had looked for Imperial Physician Yan to confirm again and again that the Eldest Prince’s shoulder was indeed injured.
However, it was hard to say where the Eldest Prince’s injuries came from.
There were some things that Xiao Shoufu couldn’t say. If he did, he would be slandering the royal family. As the elder brother of the deceased, Feng She had the right to defend his dead brother. “Eldest Prince, was your injury really caused by your brother?”
Third Master Feng sighed faintly and continued, “Second Brother is already dead, but he can’t defend himself. Was he framed by someone, or is there something else… There’s no evidence now.”
What he meant was that the Eldest Prince had deliberately injured himself to frame Feng He.
Xiao Shoufu thought to himself that these brothers had said it well. He didn’t show it on his face as he stroked his beard and said, “This… isn’t impossible.”
Chu Yi smiled slightly and didn’t even look at the Feng family. He only stared into Xiao Shoufu’s eyes and said slowly, “In my opinion, if someone tries to assassinate me, what 1 say can’t be taken seriously, and my injuries can’t be taken seriously either? 1 have to first understand the motive of the assassin before handing it over to the three divisions for interrogation before it counts?”
As he spoke, he picked up a black piece from the chess box and rubbed it between his fingertips.
The afternoon sun shone diagonally on his face from the window. His eyebrows were enshrouded, outlining a kind of blurry handsomeness.
The young man in front of him had a gentle and harmless smile on his lips, but Xiao Shoufu’s hair stood on end.
Suppressing the inexplicable emotions in his heart, Xiao Shoufu stood upright and nodded righteously. “That’s right.’
The black chess piece in Chu Yi’s hand fell into the chess box. Those chess pieces collided gently and made a crisp sound, as if echoing with the sound of the fish jumping outside the window.
Xiao Shoufu was about to say something else when his vision suddenly blurred. A dazzling silver light pierced the corner of his eye from the right.
He narrowed his eyes in discomfort and subconsciously looked in the direction of the light source.
A green-robed servant in front of him jumped out from behind a large vase that was as tall as a person and quickly rushed in his direction. Silver light flashed in the other party’s wide sleeve, and a cold dagger was aimed at him.
Xiao Shoufu’s eyes suddenly widened, and his pupils constricted. He was so shocked that he froze on the spot.
At this critical moment, he felt that his limbs didn’t belong to him. He wanted to hide, bur his body couldn’t move. He wanted to shout, but he couldn’t make a sound.
He only felt his vision darken as a powerful force attacked him. His thin body staggered back from the little eunuch who rushed over like a crazy cow, and a cold light aimed at his neck…
No! Xiao Shoufu’s eyes were almost wide open to the extreme, and fear filled his heart.
He didn’t want to die!
Xiao Shoufu, who staggered and fell, struggled desperately, but he still felt a chill on his neck.
As he struggled, Xiao Shoufu’s left arm hit the flower table beside him The tall flower swayed twice, and a potted plant fell from the flower table.
“Bang!”
The potted plant fell heavily to the ground with an especially ear-piercing sound. The blue and white porcelain pot shattered into pieces, and mud and broken porcelain pieces splattered everywhere. The ground was in a mess.
At the same time, Xiao Shoufu and the little eunuch fell to the ground with a heavy groan.
This scene happened too quickly. It was so fast that no one in the water pavilion could react. They watched helplessly as the little eunuch barged forward and pushed Xiao Shoufu to the ground.
Everyone was dumbfounded. The broken porcelain pieces splattered on a few people. The most tragic person was Madam Gu. She was kneeling on the ground when a piece of broken porcelain happened to hit her forehead. Her forehead was red and swollen as she screamed repeatedly.
Gu Yuan, who was kneeling beside her, didn’t move at all.
“Help!” Xiao Shoufu, who had fallen to the ground, screamed in fear. lie felt a pain in his neck, which had just been cut by the dagger, and his entire body turned cold. A terrifying thought surged in his heart: Am 1 going to die?
The parrot on the bird stand was also shocked. It flapped its wings and wanted to escape, but its claws were locked to the bird stand by a golden chain. It couldn’t fly away at all and could only let out a hysterical cry, “Help! Help!”
The sharp bird cry destroyed the originally tense atmosphere, adding a him of hilarity to what should have been a thrilling scene.
Amidst the parrot’s repeated screams, the green-robed attendant who was pressing down on Xiao Shoufu got up from the ground and took two steps back. He lowered his head and brushed the dust off his sleeve.
The surrounding officials hurriedly went to help Xiao Shoufu, who was lying on the ground, but they saw an inch-and- a -half-long blood mark on his neck. It was dark red and dazzling, and blood dyed his collar red..