Chapter 130: Can’t let people say he favors one over the other!
The Emperor glanced at the eunuch behind him and shook his head. “You! You are the most cunning one!”
The eunuch smiled. “Your Majesty flatters me.”
At this time, the little eunuch outside came in and said, “Your Majesty, Consort Liang requests an audience.”
The Emperor: “…”
A feeling of annoyance welled up in his heart.
Which concubine had offended her this time?
Isn’t she pregnant?
Can’t she stay in her palace peacefully?
The Emperor still said, “Summon her!”
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Soon, Chu Tianyu walked in, supporting Consort Liang.
As soon as Consort Liang entered, she knelt on the ground. “I beg Your Majesty to seek justice for my nephew, Liyuan! Sob…sob…”
As she spoke, she covered her face and wept, looking extremely aggrieved!
Chu Tianyu knelt respectfully. “This son greets Father Emperor!”
The Emperor was stunned for a moment before he remembered who Liyuan was.
He stepped forward to help Consort Liang up. “My beloved consort, you are pregnant. How can you kneel? The ground is cold. Get up quickly, and tell me slowly what happened! Someone, bring a seat!”
Consort Liang knelt on the ground, refusing to get up. “If Your Majesty does not seek justice for me, I will kneel here forever! Sob…sob… Poor Liyuan, his life is almost gone.”
The Emperor frowned and looked at the Second Prince. “What happened?”
Chu Tianyu: “Reporting to Father Emperor, Eldest Imperial Brother inexplicably struck Cousin Liyuan with a palm, sending him flying. Now he…”
The Emperor blurted out without thinking, “Is he dead?”
Chu Tianyu: “Not…yet.”
Only then did the Emperor realize that what he had just said was inappropriate.
But as long as he’s not dead, it’s fine!
The censors in the court impeached him every day, saying that either the son of this minister had beaten someone up or the grandson of that minister had crippled someone. Finally, it was his son’s turn to hit someone!
And it was the Crown Prince!
It’s truly rare!
The Emperor coughed. “How badly is the Prime Minister’s grandson injured? Why did the Crown Prince suddenly hit someone?”
“Eldest Imperial Brother struck too hard, breaking several of Cousin Liyuan’s ribs. The imperial physician said he has internal injuries and is still unconscious. The imperial physician said he needs thousand-year-old ginseng to be added to the medicine to save his life!”
Thousand-year-old ginseng to save his life? Then the injury is indeed quite serious! The Emperor thought.
“This son also doesn’t know why Eldest Imperial Brother suddenly hit someone. Today, I invited Cousin Liyuan and a few others to go horseback riding in the suburbs. We happened to see Eldest Imperial Brother teaching someone how to ride there, so I took everyone over to greet him. At that time, Eldest Imperial Brother was riding the same horse with a young man. When we went over, they had just stopped. Eldest Imperial Brother carried that young man off the horse and then put his own cloak on him. Cousin Liyuan was curious about the identity of that young man, so he took a look, and Eldest Imperial Brother suddenly struck him with a palm, sending him flying!”
His words were already implying that Chu Tiankuo had hit someone because of his male favorite.
In fact, many carriages passed by the official road today, and now people outside are already discussing the matter of the Crown Prince seriously injuring someone for his male favorite.
He didn’t even need to spread it around; Chu Tiankuo was courting death this time!
Imperial Mother said that after the court session today, many officials submitted memorials requesting to hold the investiture ceremony. With this incident, he still wants to be invested? Haha.
Upon hearing this, Father Emperor was furious!
The Emperor roared, “This is simply outrageous! What kind of behavior is this! Absurd! How can an imperial prince do such a thing! Beloved consort, don’t worry, I will definitely punish him severely! Get up quickly, the ground is cold, don’t affect the fetus.”
The Emperor helped Consort Liang up and said to Eunuch Lao with a stern face, “Summon the Crown Prince!”
Then he said to Chu Tianyu with a gentle face, “Yu’er, you send your Imperial Mother back to the palace first. I will naturally seek justice for the Prime Minister’s grandson. Beloved consort, you can go to the Imperial Hospital and pick whatever medicinal herbs the Prime Minister’s Residence needs, as many as you want. And tell the imperial physicians to treat him well! If they can’t cure him, they can come see me with their heads!”
Not long ago, someone from the Imperial Hospital came to report that the Crown Prince had taken all the rare medicinal herbs from the Imperial Hospital. He hadn’t even had time to feel distressed!
Might as well be generous now and let Noble Consort also take whatever she wants.
Can’t let people say he favors one over the other!
Consort Liang wiped her tears. “Your Majesty, I was just anxious just now. There might be some misunderstanding about this matter. The Crown Prince has always been gentle and polite to others. If Liyuan didn’t provoke him, he definitely wouldn’t do such a thing! Your Majesty, don’t be angry, just ask him properly. I just want the truth.”
The Emperor said angrily, “I know what to do, beloved consort. Don’t worry, just go back and rest well, so as not to affect the fetus. Yu’er, send your Imperial Mother back to the palace!”
Consort Liang tactfully left.
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Chu Tianyu hurriedly left after sending Consort Liang back to her palace.
He still had to go discuss with the censors how to impeach Chu Tiankuo tomorrow.
Consort Liang thought of something and said to the palace maid, “Go to the Imperial Hospital’s pharmacy and get two thousand-year-old ginseng and lingzhi, also get some hundred-year-old ginseng and lingzhi, and fifty-year-old sanqi… Get all the rare medicinal herbs. I’ll pick some to send to the Prime Minister’s Residence.”
She remembered that there were two thousand-year-old ginseng and many hundred-year-old lingzhi in the Imperial Hospital.
Thousand-year-old ginseng is rare, one of the two in the palace was a gift from the Yao Family.
Consort Liang had coveted them for a long time. She just happened to take this opportunity to get both of them, and send one to the Prime Minister’s Residence for Liang Liyuan’s medicine.
She would keep one for herself, so she could save her life when she gave birth.
“Yes!” The palace maid responded and hurried to the Imperial Hospital.
But she quickly returned. “Reporting to Your Ladyship, the imperial physician at the Imperial Hospital said that this morning, the Crown Prince took all the precious medicinal herbs and nourishing ingredients from the Imperial Hospital with His Majesty’s verbal decree. Now the Imperial Hospital only has some low-year ginseng and common medicinal herbs. The highest-year ginseng in the Imperial Hospital is only one year old now.”
Consort Liang: “…”
Consort Liang was so angry that she almost had a miscarriage. She slammed the table. “That good-for-nothing Chu Tiankuo! He must have done it on purpose!”
He deliberately didn’t beat Liang Liyuan to death, and took the medicinal herbs in advance, so there would be no medicinal herbs to save him!
Liang Liyuan really needs thousand-year-old ginseng and lingzhi to save his life now.
Now, in the entire Chu Kingdom, it is estimated that only the palace has two thousand-year-old ginseng. Neither the Prime Minister’s Residence nor the Yao Family has any!
Of course, besides that, there are also the imperial palaces of other countries and Divine Doctor Zhao of Zhao Kingdom.
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Chu Tianyu hurriedly walked out of the palace and unexpectedly saw Chu Yuehou outside the palace gate.
Chu Yuehou bowed respectfully. “Second Prince.”
Chu Tianyu smiled. “Grand Commander is back? Did you find the parrot?”
“Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission.”
Chu Tianyu nodded. “With Grand Commander taking action, there is nothing that cannot be done! Is Grand Commander entering the palace to report back now?”
“Reporting to Your Highness, I have already reported back this morning, and the parrot has also been returned to Prince Ding.”
“Then why is Grand Commander entering the palace now?” He just asked casually and didn’t expect Chu Yuehou to answer.
After all, the Embroidered Uniform Guard never reveals anything to anyone.
“This time, I am entering the palace because my granddaughter discovered that someone has claimed credit for the oil-saving lamp. I am entering the palace to report to His Majesty and prepare to send someone to Futai County to thoroughly investigate this matter.”
Chu Tianyu nodded. “Someone actually dared to claim credit? Then Grand Commander, go ahead and get busy! You must investigate this clearly.”
“I will take my leave!” Chu Yuehou bowed and entered the palace with his token.
Chu Tianyu got into the carriage and then remembered that it seemed like Ren Zilin was the one who submitted the memorial about the oil-saving lamp. Father Emperor even praised him specifically!
Ren Zilin is Chu Tiankuo’s right-hand man!
Claiming credit?
Haha.
He has caught another one of Chu Tiankuo’s weak points.
No, he has to ask his cousin to invite Zhang Ruohua out to find out about this matter.
