Chapter 804
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All the concubines in the Inner Palace were in danger. How could the Empress be seriously ill? It was because the Crown Prince had fallen. With the Crown Prince falling, the Empress would have no one to rely on for the rest of her life and it was hard to say if she could still sit on this position. The Empress had lost her beloved son and one fear that she would hold a grudge against Emperor Wen Hui. Naturally Emperor Wen Hui had to be on guard. Only they themselves knew if it was because of illness that they did not leave the house or if they were under house arrest.
If the Empress also fell, who would be the next master in the Six Palaces? It seemed that Consort Xu Xian had the highest chance of winning. Emperor Wen Hui doted on Consort Xu Xian and Consort Xu Xian had two princes sons. The Prince Zhou and Prince Jing brothers were fighting to the death with Prince Li's faction, but Prince Li did not have a favoured Consort Mother.
Prince Zhou and Prince Jing could be considered as having the right time, place and people.
Thus the concubines were very careful in their conduct. At this juncture, one could not let others catch hold of their weakness and if one was careless, one would be used as a gun and it would not be good.
In HuangFu Hao's matter, other than the Crown Prince and the Empress who were implicated, all the other related people were implicated. The one who was implicated the most was the residence of the Minister of Land.
That day it was the Young Master Wang of the Minister of Land's residence who requested to taste incense and he even brought along his wife. Who knew that HuangFu Hao's blood would splatter all over Yi Feng Pavilion and Wang Bi and Shen Dong Ling would definitely not be able to escape.
But this was not the reason why they were convicted.
The Minister of Land was found to be in the business of trading illicit salt. Trading illicit salt was a big crime and the entire Wang residence would be implicated. Wang Bi and Shen Dong Ling were sentenced to be beheaded and the rest of the Wang family's males were exiled and the females were sent to the border as military prostitutes.
Emperor Wen Hui's action was seen by a discerning person that this time he was quite angry, as if he had been provoked and was deliberately taking it out on others. But the Emperor's mind was something that one could not fathom. Even though the officials were puzzled, they were only following orders.
Shen Miao was drinking tea as she listened to Jing Zhe talk about the things that happened in the past few days. Luo Tan who was by her side kept stuffing snowflake sweets into her mouth.
The snowflake sweets were brought in from Cong Yang and it was said that it was made by a famous pastry chef in the Great Liang. Shen Miao did not pay attention but was discovered by Luo Tan. After Luo Tan ate it, she was pleasantly surprised and asked Shen Miao where she bought it from. Shen Miao could only stammer and reply casually.
"Crown Prince Qin's matter has caused quite a stir." As Luo Tan ate, she said, "So many people have been buried with him. Even a Crown Prince wouldn't be enough." At the end of her sentence, her voice became softer, as if she was afraid that the walls might be eavesdropping.
Shen Miao gently smiled and declined to comment but her heart was shocked by Emperor Wen Hui's ruthlessness and decisiveness.
Indeed like father like son. In the past when Fu Xiu Yi wanted to eradicate the Shen family, he did not care about Fu Ming and Wan Yu's life and death. At that time she was thinking how could there be such a heartless person in the world. Now it seemed that Fu Xiu Yi's actions were exactly the same as Emperor Wen Hui's.
In the eyes of the Fu Family, family, love, or friendship were all unreliable. Only power was what they chased after their entire life. In order to secure this position, sacrificing one son was nothing. Anyway, there would be other women who would bear children for them.
This was most likely the Fu family's innate unrighteousness.
Luo Tan looked at the small amount of snowflake sweets on the plate and counted with her fingers, "GuMu and GuFu have eaten, Older Brother Qiu has also eaten and only Older Brother Ling has not eaten. How about leaving this for Older Brother Ling?" She looked at Shen Miao.
Naturally Shen Miao would not fuss over a mouthful and nodded her head.
"It would be good if you could remember where you bought this snowflake sweets from." Luo Tan sighed and said with some regret, "I have eaten all the pastries in the Xiao Chun City and also ate the pastries in the Ding capital. This is the first time I have eaten such delicious snowflake sweets. Even though you do not remember clearly, I plan to personally send someone to search tomorrow and must find this shop! "
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