Rebirth of the High Family's Beloved

Xiao Ling looked back at Emperor Tianqing with an impatient look in his eyes, "Why, you want to kill me?"

Emperor Tianqing clenched his fists, his knuckles turning slightly white, "If I kill you, I will dirty my hands."

"Aren't your hands dirty? Putting aside other things, do you dare to say that you didn't know about Hua Ning's death?"

"Shut up! You don't deserve to mention her name!"

"I am not worthy. Well, then we don't need to waste our time. You must stamp the imperial edict with the seal today."

Xiao Ling turned his head and looked at Shen Zhaoyan and said, "Take your men to Mingyi Palace and fetch the imperial seal. Let your father see with his own eyes how this imperial edict is announced to the world."

Shen Zhaoyan glanced at Emperor Tianqing who was already a little restless, nodded to Xiao Ling, then opened the door and walked out of Chaofeng Palace.

At the entrance of the palace, Dao Ji had been guarding there. When he saw Shen Zhaoyan coming out, he bowed and followed Shen Zhaoyan.

Shen Zhaoyan asked, "What's the situation outside? Is there any movement?"

Dao Ji replied: "The imperial guards are silent. Chonghua Palace has invited the imperial physician. According to the news from the people over there, it sounds like he is dying."

Shen Zhaoyan frowned, and suddenly realized something was wrong. "Where is the imperial physician?"

"I have returned to the Imperial Hospital."

Shen Zhaoyan's eyes suddenly tightened. "Not good. The person who left Chonghua Palace might not be the imperial physician. It's too late to stop him now. I'm going to Mingyi Palace. You stay here. If anything goes wrong, protect my mother."

Dao Ji bowed, looked at Shen Zhaoyan's figure walking away, and stood back at the door of Chaofeng Palace.

Inside the Yongding Marquis's mansion, Xie Chengyi received the imperial edict and was about to open it when the eunuch suddenly grabbed it and said, "Yongding Marquis, why are you still hesitating? Hurry up and mobilize troops to rescue the emperor. It will be too late if you are late."

Xie Chengyin knelt beside his brother, looking at the anxious face of the eunuch, and a strong suspicion arose in his heart. However, many people who came to the Marquis' Mansion to attend his brother's wedding banquet had come. If there was really a problem with the imperial edict, it could not be exposed in front of them.

He nudged his brother next to him, then bowed. Xie Chengyi understood and held the imperial edict in his hand, respectfully responding, "I obey your order."

Hearing Xie Chengyi's words, the eunuch breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly heard Xiao Chengzhang's voice coming from behind.

"How dare you! Who are you to forge an imperial decree?"

The eunuch turned around, with obvious panic on his face. He had come in a hurry and had not even caught his breath from jogging all the way. Now he was being questioned in a harsh voice, and beads of sweat immediately seeped out of his forehead.

No matter how you look at it, I feel guilty.

"Your servant... Your servant did not falsely convey the imperial edict!"

The stuttering in his words further confirmed the thoughts of those present. Whether it was the civil and military officials who were watching or the Xie Chengyi brothers, they all looked at the eunuch with a little more scrutiny.

Xiao Chengzhang was full of confidence and did not hesitate at all. "Since you said there is no false information, why don't you announce the decree in public and let us listen to the emperor's intentions."

"The imperial edict was issued to the Marquis of Yongding, not to the Prime Minister. What use would it have for the Prime Minister to read it?"

"you!"

Being blatantly despised by a eunuch, Xiao Chengzhang was immediately furious.

But he also knew that the palace would definitely not issue an imperial decree at this time, and even if there was one, it should not be issued to him, Xie Chengyi.

"What if we insist on seeing the imperial edict?"

Xiao Chengzhang's domineering attitude forced the eunuch to take two steps back in fear, and the scrutinizing looks of the ministers also made him at a loss.

He was just a small eunuch and had never seen such a scene. It was not easy for him to run to the Yongding Marquis Mansion smoothly today. Now he was being questioned heavily. It was his last resort not to faint.

Yan Ci knelt among a group of maids. Today she came to help at the request of Xie Chengyin. When the fire started, she helped Xie Chengyin escape smoothly through the back window.

But before she could leave, Xiao Chengzhang rushed in, and she could only hide among a group of maids.

She had been kneeling for a while and her legs were numb.

Now, listening to Xiao Chengzhang's relentless pressure on the eunuch, and not hearing Xie Chengyin's voice asking for help, he couldn't help but raise his head and look over there curiously.

The eunuch had his back to her. Although she couldn't see his face clearly, his thin figure made her feel familiar.

The eunuch was questioned by everyone and when he stepped back, his hands hanging on both sides of his body subconsciously clenched the corners of his clothes. With just this tiny movement, Yan Ci recognized his identity.

To be precise, I recognized the long scar on the raised little finger of his left hand, which was so deep that the bone was visible.

Yan Ci's eyes flashed, and he immediately fell to the ground with his body tilted, letting out a delicate cry of pain.

The voice, neither too loud nor too soft, attracted everyone's attention.

In order to avoid being recognized by people who had seen her before, she deliberately lowered her head very low, so when everyone heard the sound and looked over, all they saw was a little maid who had fainted.

However, Xie Chengyin recognized Yan Ci at the first sight. He couldn't think of any other reason for that artificial voice except that she made it on purpose to attract his attention.

Regardless of other people's strange looks, he strode towards Yan Ci and directly picked Yan Ci up, "Brother, I'll take her to see a doctor."

Xie Chengyi nodded, watched his brother leave, and his attention returned to the eunuch and Xiao Chengzhang.

Yan Ci, who was held in Xie Chengyin's arms, opened his eyes as soon as he left everyone's sight and jumped out of Xie Chengyin's arms.

"That man is the prince's man."

Xie Chengyin was shocked, "How can you be sure?"

"The scar on his hand. I remember when I was a child, there was a man with six fingers next to my cousin, the prince. He was ridiculed by others. My cousin was kind and asked the imperial physician to remove the six fingers for him."

"Then something happened in the palace."

Yan Ci's expression also became serious. "Xiao Chengzhang insisted on seeing the imperial edict, which means he knew something happened in the palace. Although what the eunuch said was true, it is very likely that there is something wrong with the imperial edict."

"No, the imperial edict!"

Xie Chengyin immediately turned around and ran back, and heard Xie Chengyi's voice from a distance.

"Since the Prime Minister wants to see it, please read the imperial edict in public."

Xie Chengyi held up the imperial edict and was about to hand it back to the eunuch, but the eunuch had a complicated look in his eyes and obviously didn't want to take it, but he was forced to do so.

Just as the imperial edict was about to touch the eunuch's fingertips, Xie Chengyin's big hand suddenly intervened and took the imperial edict in his hand.

"I come!"

Amid everyone's shocked expressions, Xie Chengyin calmly and confidently unfolded the imperial edict.

"The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims that the palace is in chaos and my imperial guards cannot handle it alone. I hereby order Xie Chengyi, Marquis of Yongding, to lead the Tiger Power Army into the palace to rescue me. I decree this!"

As everyone knelt to receive the imperial edict, Xie Chengyin closed the imperial edict without changing his expression and handed it to Xie Chengyi, "Brother, go quickly."

Xie Chengyi took the imperial edict, strode past the crowd with his head held high, mounted the horse that was led three feet away, and galloped away.

Xiao Chengzhang looked at Xie Chengyi who had already left, and then looked at the new house that was now in ruins, his eyes filled with unfathomable gloom.

Without any hesitation, he glanced coldly at Xie Chengyin and left with his supporters.