Chapter 312 The Bloody Imperial Edict (Part One)
Hearing this, Emperor Ning sobered up. He sat up in a hurry, ordered the eunuchs to change, and
ordered master Zheng to prepare a carriage to Qiwu pce.
When Emperor Ning arrived, he found the whole Qiwu pce was bathed in mes. Frowning, he
called in the Imperial Guard. "What''s going on? Why did the Qiwu pce catch a fire? "
The Commander of Yulin Guard, remained silent for a long time before kneeling down to Emperor Ning.
"Your Majesty, please punish me for my negligence."
"Punish you?" Emperor Ning sneered, raised his foot and gave the imperial guard a hard kick. "If you
want to be punished, you have to put out the fire. Hurry up!"
Suddenly, a loud bang was heard and the beams of mes on the roof of the main hall of the Qiwu
pce had already copsed. The mes were sshing. Master Zheng quickly pulled emperor Ning
back and said, "Your Majesty, it''s dangerous here. You''d better go back to the qinzheng hall first. The
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Emperor Ning''s face changed for a long time. He nodded and then turned around. "Where isdy Jin?"
Master Zheng didn''t understand why emperor Ning asked so, but he hurriedly called the eunuch to
Jinxiu pce.
Emperor Ning squinted at the Qiwu pce for a long time. Then he got in a carriage and went back to
the Qinzheng Hall. When the eunuch who was sent to look fordy Jin returned to the qinzheng hall, he
told the emperor that the little prince caught a cold at night. Lady Jin called in an imperial physician to
treat the little prince''s illness. The little prince kept crying and screaming. He hasn''t rested yet. Only
Emperor Ning was shocked. "Chenxi is sick? Why didn''t you report to me? "
The eunuch replied momentarily, "her highness said that his majesty will be married with the empress
in a month, and he should be very busy at this moment. Her highness told me not to bother your
majesty."
Emperor Ning paused, looking flurried. After a while, he said in a hoarse voice, "you don''t have to
bother them."
At this time, the Commander of Yulin Guard rushed in. "Your Majesty, after being disabled,dy Jing
still grounded the Lady Li in a dark room below Qiwu pce."
Emperor Ning was surprised again. He fell into silence. Before Yun Shang came to Kangyang City, she
had told him the truth. He was extremely disgusted with Lady Li. He only thought that she, after all, had
been his wife for twenty years. Anyway, as a responsible empress, she had done her duty before, so
she had stayed out of it. he only ordered her servants to send food to her on time. He even almost
forgot Li''s existence until now. Now Qiwu pce was on fire. That woman...
"Put out the fire quickly and take her out." Emperor Ning ordered in a low voice with a frown. The secret
room was hidden with a stone door. As the Qiwu pce was on fire, she would be fine on time. As long
as she didn''t get close to the stone door, she would feel hot at most.
The Commander of Yulin Guard answered, turned around and left.
The fire almost burned everything in the main hall of Qiwu pce. It wasn''t until the next morning that
the fire waspletely extinguished. Emperor Ning then went back to Qiwu pce. When he saw the
Commander of Yulin Guard bringing people to save Li Yiran, he just stood outside the pce and
looked at the burning Qiwu pce, frowning and seeing that the Commander of Yulin Guarding in.
But after a while, he returned.
"What happened?" Emperor Ning frowned and asked.
The Commander of Yulin Guard instantly knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, the stone door of the
secret chamber that imprisoned has been broken into pieces, and those behind it... Thete empress
was burned to death in the dark room. I looked into the room carefully and found the traces of the
gunpowder. I''m afraid that the fire came from the dark room... "
Emperor Ning was shocked. He stood still for a long time with a pale face. He only said one word,
"investigate."
Emperor Ning was stopped again before he returned to the qinzheng hall. The Zhuangyuan, Liu Qiyan,
came. He was young and calm. Besides, he wasdy Ya''s brother, so emperor Ning had taken him as
Ministry of Rites after Li Jingyan betrayed the state.
"Your Majesty, the Empress'' imperial edict was posted online yesterday to threaten the people of
imperial city. Many people saw that blood has been stained on the imperial edict before dawn today,
and someone leaked it out. Last night, the empress'' Qiwu pce was on fire. Now there are rumors
everywhere that Miss Jing has lost her virtue. It''s a natural punishment."
Emperor Ning frowned. If the fire in Qiwu Pcest night was set by Li Yiran, and it was sort of an
ident, then after today''s imperial edict, it would be man-made.
Who was it?
Emperor Ning made a n in his mind. He only targeteddy Jin, Yun Shang and Li Yiran.
Lady Jin had always been cold. Even when he married Li Yiran, she never said a word to him. Lady Jin
had invited herself to the cold pce for some misunderstandings. To be honest, she was unlikely to do
this. But now the situation was different. Lady Jin had a son named Chenxi. Ifdy Jin wanted Chenxi
to be the crown prince, it was not possible for Jing Wenxi to marry the emperor. Thendy Jin might be
able to do it. She was a very clever woman in the first ce.
As for Li Yiran, although she was kept in a secret chamber in Qiwu pce, she had been in charge of
the imperial household for so many years and there were still some hidden forces that were unknown
to him. If the smoke powder in the secret room was really brought in by Li Yiran, it also exined that
there was someone helping her in the Imperial Pce, and that must be someone outside the imperial
pce. Therefore, there were always some other forces. And it wasn''t something she couldn''t do by
destroying their marriage.