Chapter 140 Prince diocre Was Demoted to A Commoner
When Prince diocre saw the letters that Lu Chen took out, he shook his head and said, “You imitated my handwriting and wrote these letters. You are trying to fra !”
“Fifth Brother, you’re lying.” A thin and short man ca slowly and knelt down to the Emperor. “Long live my father and mother.”
The man made a solemn kneeling salute.
When Emperor Huilin saw his eldest son, he just sighed. “What are you doing here?”
“I ca to plead guilty. That poisonous snake was kept beside the hot spring by to treat diseases. I never expected that Fifth Brother would co to my place and take the poisonous snake away…”
Hearing what the Eldest Prince said, Prince diocre angrily said, “It was not . It was the Crown Prince!”
The Eldest Prince said, “His Royal Highness has never co to my place. How could he have taken the snake…” Prince diocre froze all over. Only then did he realize that he had fallen for the trick designed by the Eldest Prince and the Crown Prince together! But how could the Eldest Prince be willing to cooperate with the Crown Prince?
Prince diocre said, “Do you an I took away the poisonous snake and made myself paralyzed?!”
The Eldest Prince said, “That’s because the venom of the poisonous snake has an antidote.
“I also told you about the sachet that could lure snakes, and it was ant to let you avoid these spices. “I never thought that you would use this to fra the Crown Prince…”
“Lu Zheng! You are framing !” Prince diocre glared at the eldest prince, “You helped forge those letters! You imitated the Crown Prince’s handwriting and wrote those letters!”
“Prince Lu can testify for !”
Since the incident with the Right Pri Minister, Prince Lu had kept a low profile and never caused any trouble. Suddenly being ntioned, he ca out and said, “How could those letters be written by the eldest brother?
“I only saw that you went to the eldest brother’s place and got a poisonous snake, and judging from the writing in these letters, these letters were clearly written by you!”
Prince diocre realized that he was frad by the Eldest Prince, the Crown Prince and Prince Lu together. He said repeatedly, “Father, I am being frad by them.
“Prince Lu gave the letter from Consort diocre to . The plot of using the poisonous snake to set up the Crown Prince was also plotted by Prince Lu and the Eldest Prince together with .
“It turns out that the Eldest Prince and Prince Lu’s target is actually !”
Prince diocre cried bitterly.
Emperor Huilin said with a headache, “I nad you ‘diocre’ to warn you to have so self-knowledge, but you, after staying in the Northwest for so many years, still don’t stop making trouble. You blad for being partial, but you’re always fond of playing these stupid tricks since you were a child. I tried to educate you, but you just thought that I was being harsh to you! “You’re my son after all. For the sake of the Empress Dowager, I have forgiven you over and over again over the years, but you have been going further and further astray. This ti, I can’t forgive you anymore! “Pass down my oral decree that from today onwards: Prince diocre shall be demoted to a commoner, and Imperial Concubine Xian shall be deprived of her title and be put into the Cold Palace!”
Prince diocre crawled down from the stretcher and said, “Father, I am being frad by the Eldest Prince and Prince Lu. Father… you can’t demote into a commoner!”
Prince Lu also knelt down and said, “Father, I did encourage Prince diocre and even plotted with him, but this has nothing to do with the Eldest Prince!
“I did this because Prince diocre… killed my cousin, his concubine, Concubine Jian!”
Imperial Concubine Jian also knelt down and said, “Your Majesty, Concubine Jian was pregnant but was murdered by Prince diocre. He scapegoated Qiao Ruoshui and killed her cruelly outside Chang’an, claiming that she was killed by robbers. Your Majesty, please investigate this case!”
The Zheng family had already been exiled. Even if they were murdered by a prince, Emperor Huilin would not necessarily investigate their death.
Even if there was real evidence, this matter was not important, but now that it had been revealed, it had to be tended to.
“I’m willing to testify!” Disregarding Second Madam’s obstruction, Qiao Ruofeng ca out and knelt down. “I had been in correspondence with Prince diocre for two years.
“Prince diocre implied that he was in love with in his letters, and it almost led to ruin my cousin’s reputation out of jealousy, but then he told that he didn’t love at all and all he wanted was just the support of Duke Anyuan. “I have always wanted to speak out about this matter, but I’m afraid that my reputation will be ruined if I speak about it, but I didn’t know until today that it was not only , but also many other poor girls!”
“Even if I would be despised by my fiance and have my reputation ruined, I have to speak out about the evil things committed by Prince diocre! If what I said is false, I’ll be struck by lightning!” Qin Miaomiao took a deep breath and ca out too. She got on her knees and said, “Your Majesty, in the letters that Concubine Jian took out last ti, there was my na, so I was laughed at by many people. “That letter is true. I also corresponded with Prince diocre two years ago. “Prince diocre vowed to love forever, but then I found that one of my girlfriends also received the sa letter from Prince diocre, so I broke up with him.”
Seeing Qin Miaomiao co out, so other girls ca out to testify too.
Although there weren’t as many as 20 girls to testify against Prince diocre, there were already eight witnesses including Imperial Concubine Jian and Qiao Ruofeng.
Emperor Huilin hadn’t been so angry for a long ti. As a prince, if Prince diocre was just lascivious, it didn’t matter, but the won Prince diocre was in correspondence with were all from powerful families in Chang’an.
He was trying to form his own clique to vie for the throne!
Even when he was in the northwest, he still didn’t forget to tempt and cheat the noble girls in Chang’an. Emperor Huilin felt so ashad. This was such a disgrace for the royal family!
“From now on, Prince diocre shall be demoted to a commoner and be exiled to the northwest frontier, and he can never return to Chang’an!”
Imperial Concubine Xian instantly fainted. She dread of being the next Empress Dowager for three years, but now her beautiful dream was shattered…
Prince diocre glared at Lu Chen and complained to Emperor Huilin, “Father, since you love Lu Chen so much, why did you give birth to ? I have been smarter than Lu Chen since childhood. When we were children, every ti we recited the Book of Rites, he lagged behind . I am more suitable to be the crown prince than him!
“I am the model in the mind of the literati, but what about Lu Chen? He is inferior to in every aspect!”
“He was just lucky and was born by the Queen. If he hadn’t been born by the Queen, how could he be the crown prince?!”
The corners of Lu Chen’s lips curled slightly. “Luck always matters. Besides, I don’t think you are smarter than .
“I lagged behind you just because I didn’t want you to be scolded by Imperial Concubine Xian if you lost to , so I pretended not to rember it. I didn’t expect you to rember this matter for fifteen years. “Besides, you were ten years old at that ti and I was only five. Even if you morized the Book of Rites before , so what? I can’t believe you rember this trivial matter for fifteen years.”
Qiao Jinniang believed what Lu Chen said. Lu Chen always had an excellent mory. After a single glance, he could morize the contents of those account books and recite the details.
Therefore, when checking accounts books, Qiao Jinniang would sotis let Lu Chen read the account books first, so she didn’t have to go through them.
When Prince diocre heard Lu Chen’s words, he didn’t believe it, but what’s the point of continuing to argue? Just as Lu Chen said, he was five years older…
He only knew that he was dood!
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