Chapter 75 Another Will
"Cough, cough, cough..."
A violent cough interrupted their meditation.
Shangguan Yuxue, who fell to the ground, felt much better after coughing for a while.
He suddenly turned back and glared at Su Yao, sneering.
"Want to kill me? Haha, it depends on whether you have the ability."
After that, he took out a small golden sign from his arms with a big word "free" on it.
Everyone exclaimed.
"Golden medal of exemption from death."
Shangguan Yuxue smiled triumphantly.
"Su Yao, I have a golden medal of exemption from death granted by the late emperor, you can't kill me."
Su Yao squatted down, looked at the embarrassed woman on the ground, raised a curve at the corner of her mouth, and said softly in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
"Shangguan Yuxue, you saved me trouble. No, I won't kill you. I want you to live in pain."
Shangguan Yuxue's eyes narrowed, and she looked at Su Yao in disbelief.
Why is this happening? They grew up together. Although she approached Su Yao with a purpose, she has not hurt her so far.
But she hates her so much. What went wrong?
Su Yao stood up and looked at Shangguan Yuli.
"Your Majesty, it is indeed a golden ticket to be exempted from death."
Shangguan Yuli looked at Su Yao, and a smile flashed in his eyes.
He heard what the woman said just now.
Since she wants to play, let her play slowly. It is also good to relieve her boredom.
Shangguan Yuli looked at Shangguan Yuxue with cold eyes.
"The death penalty can be exempted, but the living crime cannot be escaped."
"Convey my decree, the seventh princess Shangguan Yuxue will be demoted to a commoner, and at five o'clock tomorrow, in front of the people of the capital, she will be punished with eighty strokes of the cane."
Anyway, she will not die, so just beat her a few more times to vent Su Su's anger.
The ministers below stood silently aside, knowing in their hearts that this was a disguised way to kill the seventh princess.
Eighty strokes of the cane, even a strong woman can't bear it.
They wanted to beg for mercy, but seeing Prime Minister Fu standing still, they stopped their steps.
Prime Minister Fu watched all this in the crowd, closed his eyes helplessly, and silently took a step back.
It's over, everything is over.
Shangguan Yuxue panicked, eighty strokes of the cane? How could she bear it.
"I don't accept it, the death of those refugees has nothing to do with me."
Shangguan Yuxue fell to the ground in embarrassment, her eyes red.
Her medicine is absolutely fine, the things taken out by the system can't be wrong, Chu Yuan's leg is fine.
At this moment, Chu Yuan came with a brocade box in his hand, strode over, and bowed slightly.
"Your servant, I believe in the Seventh Princess. My leg was completely healed after taking the Seventh Princess's medicine."
"The Seventh Princess's medical skills are obvious to all. She can't fail to see if there is a problem with the prescription."
Shangguan Yuxue looked at Chu Yuan, smiled gratefully, and felt proud in her heart.
As expected, she has a favorability of 100.
Chu Yuan was only the imperial attendant of the late emperor. He should have knelt down to salute the current emperor, but now he just bowed slightly.
Su Yao narrowed her eyes slightly. It seemed that Shangguan Yanxi had other instructions, just in case.
Haha, what a good mother!
Chu Yuan stood up before Shangguan Yuli called him, and said with a smile:
"Haha, Fourth Princess, I have another will from the late emperor. Why don't you all take a look first."
Hearing this, Shangguan Yuxue's eyes lit up slightly, and she looked at Chu Yuan excitedly.
The ministers also looked at Chu Yuan in confusion.
Shangguan Yuli raised the corner of his mouth, changed to a lazy posture, leaned on the dragon chair, and said lightly:
"Oh? There is such a thing? Then let's take a look together."
Chu Yuan smiled at Shangguan Yuxue to comfort her, showed the brocade box in front of everyone, and said with a smile:
"Ministers, do you recognize this brocade box?"
A minister exclaimed.
"This is the legendary dark box."
After saying this, there was a gasp.
The magic of the dark box is that it can only be opened with a special key, and it cannot be opened by any other method, whether it is fire or violence.
And there is only one in the world.
Chu Yuan smiled and looked at the person who spoke.
"Haha, Minister of Revenue, good eyesight."
Then, Chu Yuan looked at everyone.
"This is indeed a dark box. I don't think I need to say how magical it is. Everyone knows it."
Everyone nodded in unison.
Chu Yuan smiled and looked at the queen.
"Queen, please take out the key."
Queen looked at the eldest princess Shangguan Yusheng and found that she had calmed down.
Then she let go of the hand that was tightly holding Shangguan Yusheng.
He smiled and nodded, took a small key from his neck, handed it to Chu Yuan, and said softly:
"This is what the late emperor asked me to keep, and I have never left it."
Chu Yuan nodded, took the key to open the brocade box, and took out the bright yellow imperial edict inside.
He held his head high and unfolded it to everyone.
She didn't need to read it, she knew what it said, nothing more than the Seventh Princess's accession to the throne.
Because His Majesty mentioned more than once that the Seventh Princess was the next crown prince.
All the ministers came forward to watch, and after a while, they all knelt on the ground and shouted to Shangguan Yuli on the dragon throne.
"Long live the emperor, long live, long live."
This time, they were convinced, it turned out that the Fourth Princess's throne was legitimate.
She was the crown prince appointed by the late emperor himself.
It was clearly written in the will that the reason why the late emperor ignored her was for the purpose of protecting her.
In fact, the late emperor had discovered early on that Jinjun was wronged. It was she who wrongly blamed him and caused his untimely death.
She regretted it and decided to let their only child, Shangguan Yuli, inherit her position to make up for her debt to Jinjun.
She just hoped that he would forgive her in the future.
Everyone knew that the late emperor loved Jinjun so much, so no one would doubt whether the late emperor's debt was true or false.
Chu Yuan's expression suddenly froze, and he hurriedly turned over the imperial edict, his eyes widened, and he looked at the contents of the imperial edict in disbelief.
It turned out that she was wrong, and His Majesty had deceived all of them.
The queen also opened her eyes in disbelief. He also thought it was the imperial edict to confer Xiaoxue, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
Did she love Jinjun so much?
The queen closed her eyes helplessly.
Shangguan Yusheng also lowered his head as if resigned to his fate. It turned out that it was really the will of the mother queen.
Shangguan Yuxue looked at everyone's actions, stood up in disbelief, snatched the imperial edict from Chu Yuan's hand, and read it over and over again.
Finally, the imperial edict slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.