The Princess Royal 度华年 Episode 38

Su Minzhi overturned the tea bowl in anger. Su Rongqing turned around and poured another cup, smearing medicine on the edge of the bowl, and then lowered Su Minzhi's posture to relax his alertness. The next second, Su Minzhi suddenly felt his whole body stiffen, his vision was blurred, and he lost the ability to speak. He allowed Su Rongqing to place him on the bed. Before leaving, Su Rongqing told his father that if he wanted to preserve the nobility of the Su family, he must find an obedient monarch, otherwise the family would be annihilated.

After Su Rongqing obtained the order from the head of the family, he ordered people to guard the inner courtyard and prohibit anyone from approaching. Once Su Ronghua was found, he would be banned. In addition, the unrelated tribesmen arranged to leave the city in batches, assemble Su's family troops, temporarily leave the city guard to guard the south gate, and reported to Su Ping that there was a change in Hua Jing, and eight thousand elite troops needed to be brought as soon as possible to support.

At this moment, the Pei family's ancestral hall is undergoing a campaign to clear up the chaos. Pei Wenxuan personally asked his second uncle Pei Lixian for the Patriarch's Order under the witness of all the clan members, but Pei Lixian refused to hand it over because Pei Wenxuan was young, causing a stalemate in the situation. Because of the statement of his third uncle Pei Liming, his grandfather agreed to let Pei Wenxuan act as the head of the family. Pei Lixian became angry and issued an order, threatening to kidnap Pei Wenxuan to the palace and hand him over to the emperor.

Pei Wenxuan smiled and said nothing, calmly waiting for the guards to report that they had sent people to surround the Pei family heavily, so the people under Pei Lixian had to either surrender or face death. Sure enough, Pei Lixian turned pale and stopped talking. Pei Wenxuan handed him a glass of poisoned wine, claiming that Pei Lixian had given him a glass of poisoned wine, and now he should drink it in return.

Seeing Pei Wenxuan's smile getting weirder, Pei Lixian backed away in fear, fell on the futon, and in a panic took out the family head's order and handed it to Pei Wenxuan. For this reason, Pei Wenxuan stopped being aggressive, drank the wine in his hand in public, turned around and left, and issued orders to dispatch troops as the head of the Pei family.

The commotion of the Su and Pei families being locked up was like two drops of water falling into the sea in Huajing, and it did not cause much ripples. Li Rong sat in a carriage heading to the suburbs. Along the way, she saw the hardship of the people and felt heavy and complicated in her heart. Suddenly, Shangguan Ya galloped out of the city on horseback, reporting to Li Rong that Su Rongqing had gained control of the Su family, and had joined forces with Concubine Rou to dispatch 10,000 elite troops from the border.

This means that Su Rongqing has joined forces with the aristocratic families in the city. They will gather as many as 20,000 troops tonight, and he only needs to wait for Li Chuan to take action against the emperor, and then he can kill Li Chuan on the pretext of suppressing the rebellion and support the puppet Su. The king ascends the throne. Li Rong thought for a moment, then decided to return to the palace and asked Yuan Feiyu to take the princess token to find Pei Wenxuan.

That night, Pei Wenxuan led his people to guard outside the palace until Yuan Feiyu came to report. Worried about something happening to Li Rong, he hurried to the inn outside the city. Little did he know that he had caught Li Rong's will and deliberately pushed him away to protect him. He is protected from harm. On the other side, the queen used the imperial edict to take over the imperial guards and took control of the emperor's palace. A palace incident related to the future of the Great Xia Dynasty quietly unfolded.

Prince Li Chuan was summoned to the palace and saw that his once majestic father was now lying alone on the bed, feeling complicated and confused. The emperor was disappointed when he saw Li Chuan holding a sword in his hand. He mocked the Shangguan family for their unrelenting ambition and still wanted to plot the country. He scolded Li Chuan for not knowing right and wrong and becoming a tool used by the Shangguan family to control the dynasty.

Li Chuan was silent and hesitant, which made the queen anxious. She simply came to the emperor and told him that the situation was over. At this moment, the emperor was extremely weak and no longer as heroic as before. Although the queen missed her old relationship, the emperor's coldness and cruelty made her frustrated. She suddenly drew her sword and wanted to stab him. Li Chuan saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

Just as the tip of the sword was approaching the emperor, Li Rong pushed in the door, first revealed Su Rongqing's conspiracy, and then arranged for them to leave the palace as soon as possible. Even now, the emperor still wants to use the throne to bribe Li Chuan and let him destroy the entire Shangguan family. However, Li Rong knows that the emperor is cruel and ruthless. He personally planned the poisoning of King Su, and he died due to excessive poisoning.

Faced with the throne at his fingertips, Li Chuan said without hesitation that he would never do such an unkind, unjust, unfaithful and unfilial thing as killing his mother, uncle and sister in order to become emperor. Originally, Li Chuan wanted to take Li Rong and leave together, but Li Rong had to stay, otherwise the Su family and the Wang family would join forces and they would have no chance of winning.

When Pei Wenxuan rushed to the inn, he found the final letter left by Li Rong and learned that she was in danger alone. At this moment, Li Rong poured the emperor a cup of tea. Unexpectedly, the emperor was afraid that she would poison the tea. Although Li Chuan and Li Rong were both flesh and blood, the emperor trusted Li Chuan far more than Li Rong because Li Rong was better and more ambitious than Li Chuan in every aspect.

Li Rong was very helpless, and then changed the subject and confessed that she was pregnant. This was her first child in forty years. After hearing this, the emperor was puzzled, so Li Rong explained the cause and effect. When she finished speaking, the emperor softened his attitude and said that the palace was like a cage, which could imprison people into ghosts. As the sky grew brighter, the emperor asked Li Rong to go to court in his place and handed the jade medal to her. In fact, the emperor loved Li Rong very much at that time, but at some point, the father and daughter had a rift, and she, the eldest princess of the Great Xia Dynasty, became the biggest threat to the imperial power.