The Adventures of the Crying Princess

"I am the commander-in-chief of the Longyin Guards and I am only loyal to Your Majesty." General Long Wei said no more.

Emperor Chengde stood up suddenly and walked away without a sedan chair. General Longwei and Eunuch Chen followed him and ran to the Zongzheng Temple. The minister of the Zongzheng Temple hurried out to welcome him.

"What about people?"

"Inside." The Minister of Zongzheng Temple naturally knew who Emperor Chengde was asking about, and hurriedly took him to the place where Bai Yimeng was imprisoned.

The room was pitch black. Emperor Mingde looked for a long time before he found Bai Yimeng. She was curled up in a corner, her body covered in blood.

The emperor kicked open the cell and walked behind her to hug her. Bai Yimeng pushed him away drowsily and said, "Go away. Kill me if you want. Don't humiliate me anymore."

She closed her eyes, thinking that they were people from the Zongzheng Temple, trying to embarrass her again.

The emperor reached out and gently pulled her, saying softly, "Little monkey, open your eyes and look at me."

After a long while, Bai Yimeng seemed to have just heard it, and shook his head with a bitter smile, "Son of Heaven? Does that prove my innocence?"

"Yes."

Bai Yimeng supported himself on the bed, stood up, and looked at Emperor Chengde of Ming. After hesitating for a moment, he knelt down and kowtowed, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace. On behalf of the entire Wan'an Valley, I thank Your Majesty for your care."

Without waiting for the emperor to speak, he stood up and asked, "Can I go now?"

"little monkey……"

"Your Majesty, you can call me Bai Yimeng, or you can call me Bai Guzhu. I am not called Monkey, and I don't know this person." Bai Yimeng smiled and looked at the Minister of Zongzheng Temple, "I want a clean piece of clothing, thank you."

The Emperor Chengde nodded slightly and said, "Go prepare clothes for Princess Yi."

After everyone from the Zongzheng Temple left, the emperor asked her with a smile, "Are you scared?"

Bai Yimeng smiled and shook his head, "It's much worse than the imperial prison. I just feel a little cold here. Oh, by the way, I didn't see clearly just now and pushed you, please forgive me. Do you want me to kowtow and apologize?"

Emperor Chengde could see that the little girl was angry, so he smiled and shook his head, "Go to the palace and stay for a few days, at least you can see the child."

"No need to stay here. Thank you, Your Majesty, for helping me raise the children. I am not feeling well, so I will ask Kumogakure to pick them up later."

Seeing Bai Yimeng's clear eyes, but a little distant, the emperor smiled and pulled her sleeve, "Would you like to hear my explanation?"

"You are the Son of Heaven, no explanation is needed. To put it nicely, I am your daughter-in-law, to put it bluntly, I am just a chess piece.

If it works well, use it. If it doesn't, throw it away. There's no need to explain." Bai Yimeng looked straight ahead, as if he was talking to a wall.

Emperor Chengde wanted to say something else when Lord Longgu and Yuwen Ji also got the news and rushed over.

Yuwen Ji came to the emperor and greeted him, then turned to look at Bai Yimeng and said, "Come on, I will take you home."

Perhaps because he saw his relatives, the breath he had been holding in his throat finally relaxed, and he spat out a mouthful of blood with a smile.

Yuwen Ji hurriedly hugged the person, but Longguzhu stopped him, "Don't move. She is in poor health and cannot move. Stay here for the next few days."

Master Longgu ignored Emperor Chengde. He first gave his disciple an acupuncture needle and then fed him pills.

Emperor Mingde took the initiative to greet him, "Ziming, how is the child?"

"Nothing, I was just stupid and trusted the wrong person." Dragon Valley Master didn't even look at Emperor Chengde

Back in the palace, the emperor felt very upset. He glared at General Long Wei and asked, "Why didn't you persuade me at that time?"

"I dare not, I am just following an order." General Long Wei had no expression on his face. He had no good feelings towards Emperor Chengde for a long time and he did his job out of loyalty to Daxing.

At this time, the Dali Temple Secretary asked for an audience, saying that a thief was caught a few days ago, and the man accused the guards of the Eastern Palace of bullying men and women in order to reduce his sentence, as well as the prince's collusion with foreign countries.

The Dali Temple Secretary bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I didn't believe this person's words at first, but after a careful investigation, I did find letters between the Crown Prince and Yueqi Kingdom in his home."

Emperor Chengde was furious after reading the letter. Eunuch Chen advised him, "Your Majesty, calm down. The prince has always been loyal and honest. How could he dare to do such a thing? Most likely, it was done without the prince's knowledge." Eunuch Chen saw that the emperor would not easily touch the prince no matter how angry he was, so it would be better to help the prince clear the situation and vent Bai Yimeng's anger.

Emperor Chengde strongly agreed with this point and immediately decided to reshuffle all the officials in the Eastern Palace and replace all the Eastern Palace guards.

The prince's affairs were uncovered one after another. People were sent to investigate the source, but in the end, they found nothing. It was not that General Longwei was incapable of investigating, but that he did not want to investigate.

The emperor was forced to confine the prince once again. This time the prince was well behaved and wrote letters of apology every few days.

After the three brothers of the Bai family learned about their sister's affairs, they also spread the fact that the prince had planted spies in the army.

The three brothers made it clear that they were dissatisfied with the matter, and they followed the example of King Yi and went on strike in protest.

In this way, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War were in chaos. Even the most trivial cases were thrown to the emperor to handle. The old emperor was almost crying from exhaustion.

He went to see Yuwen Ji several times, but Yuwen Ji said he was ill and couldn't go out. He went to see the three brothers of the Bai family, but they said their old injuries had relapsed and they directly submitted their resignations.

The emperor was so angry that he smashed a lot of things. After calming down, he realized that he might have really treated Bai Yimeng badly.

At this time, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice submitted a case of annihilation of an entire family.

"Your Majesty, this case is too brutal. I dare not make a dictatorial decision, so I come to ask for your instructions."

"Can't you find the way to Prince Yi's Palace?" Emperor Chengde was so angry that he was shaking all over and threw the file back.

The assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Princess Yi is ill, and Prince Yi is taking care of her at the Zongzheng Temple, and he won't see anyone. I have no choice but to come to the palace to look for you."

The emperor waved his hand, signaling Eunuch Chen to pick up the file and take a look. The case was rated five stars for cruelty. The old emperor hadn't seen such a brutal case for a long time, and he was a little bit unable to adapt to it for a while. "Do you have any clues?"

"We found a butcher who was the lover of the mistress of this house. He was the one who dismembered the man. The process..."

The more Emperor Mingde listened, the more horrified he became, and his goosebumps fell all over the floor. In the end, he found that the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice had a clear and concise set of cases, "You know everything, just make your own decision."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. According to the regulations of this dynasty, death penalty must be reviewed three times to avoid wrongful convictions."

Emperor Chengde nodded slightly, "I understand, go down."

"Your Majesty, this case involves officials under the Crown Prince, and I dare not make a ruling on my own."

Emperor Chengde was so frightened that he neglected the key person. Thinking of the people in the East Palace being implicated, he reluctantly listened to it again.

It turned out that the cause was that Mr. Zhan from the Prince's Mansion took advantage of his power to bully others and molested decent women. When he failed to put the blame on the butcher, he killed the butcher and the woman's family. His methods were extremely cruel.

That night, Emperor Chengde had a nightmare. He dreamed that he was being tortured by others, and the process was exactly the same as the case.

Perhaps due to overwork over the past few days and also the shock, the emperor had a high fever that night.

The imperial physician gave him acupuncture and prescribed a medicine. When the bitter medicine was served, Emperor Chengde felt his nose sour. Bai Yimeng would never let him drink bitter medicine. He would always combine the properties of the medicine to make a medicine that was not bitter and tasted good.

Bai Yimeng never felt pain when he was giving her acupuncture, and she would even tell him jokes. He sighed, took the medicine bowl, and drank the medicine in spite of the bitterness.

"Your Majesty, would you like to ask the little girl to come and take a look?" The Queen didn't know Bai Yimeng's current condition and asked tentatively.

Emperor Chengde shook his head, "She is not in good health and will not see me."

It is inevitable that a sick person will feel sad about the passing of time. Emperor Chengde touched the blood jade ganoderma that Bai Yimeng gave him and couldn't help but tear up. "Everyone, go away. I'm fine."

That year she was seriously injured and was recuperating in Wan'an Valley. She still wanted to make small accessories for him and was concerned about his health.