If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

Today is the grand court meeting of the Haoyue Dynasty. Following the eunuch's call, the court officials entered the hall one by one. They looked up quietly and saw that the four elders were already sitting on both sides of the dragon throne. Their hearts tightened and they lowered their heads hastily. Everyone couldn't help but tense up a little.

The second prince, who was standing in the front row, had his eyes flash when he saw this, and then he bowed his head slightly after paying homage with other court officials.

According to the usual practice, the court should be adjourned after the various ministries have discussed various matters. The emperor looked at the court officials standing below and said calmly: "I am sorry to waste some of your time. I have encountered something that is a bit puzzling. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss it with you all."

The emperor paused and continued, "I and the four elders received an urgent report from Liuzhou Prefecture yesterday. Now I present it to you all for you to see." After saying this, he winked at the eunuch on duty next to him.

"Accept it!"

Two eunuchs were seen holding an opened wooden box together, and walking from the back to the front, one by one, in the center of the queue of court officials, slowly approaching at a speed that ensured that every adult in the queue could see it clearly. Finally, with a "gulp", they placed the box in front of the Second Prince seemingly inadvertently.

"You are... so outrageous..." When the Second Prince was about to scold the young eunuch, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the dagger next to the two legs in the box. The naked mark of the Second Prince's Mansion on it made his heart tremble.

"This..." The Second Prince suddenly raised his head and looked at his expressionless brother. When he was about to speak, he was interrupted by the emperor's words.

"Pass the confession to the gentlemen present."

After reading the confession, some court officials kept looking between the Emperor, His Majesty, and the Second Prince, while others lowered their heads, wondering what they were thinking...

As time went by, the Second Prince became more and more anxious, because he saw the two human legs whose bones had been crushed into pieces and were as soft as noodles, and there were clearly tattoos of the Second Prince's Palace's secret guards on them.

Beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping down his face. He didn't know what method Liuzhou Prefecture had used to make the two legs in front of him look so fresh even after several days, as if they had just been taken off the body.

Finally, the confession was brought to him. He couldn't wait to read it. The more he read, the more shocked he was. The second branch of the Sun family had indeed found him, but he had refused outright at that time. He would not send anyone to Liuzhou Prefecture unless it was absolutely necessary. After all, no matter how capable that girl was, she was just a maid, right?

The Second Prince knelt on the ground with a plop, "My Royal Brother is innocent, I really don't know what's going on..."

Under the emperor's cold gaze, he couldn't even continue speaking.

"We've caught the criminal red-handed. Who would believe him if he says he didn't know?" Someone muttered in a low voice, and then discussions broke out.

"Wow, a concubine can actually mobilize the leader of the secret guards?"

"A concubine teamed up with the second master of a noble family, and the prince didn't even know about it? This concubine and the second master of the Sun family would not..."

As soon as this voice came out, everyone looked up at the Second Prince in silence, as if they all saw a green patch on his head.

"Second brother, you don't even know where the secret guards in your mansion have gone? Or are the secret guards in the Second Prince's mansion in the hands of a concubine?" The emperor was so angry that he almost laughed after hearing the discussions below.

"My dear brother, my dear brother..."

The Second Prince blushed and could not continue. He understood that it was because when the Second Master of the Sun Family came to ask for a meeting that day, the favorite concubine happened to be in front of him and heard it. She took it upon herself to mobilize the secret guards who had not been returned yet. But could he say this in public?

"Second brother, please tell me what you want to say. The crime of murdering the royal heir is not a light one. This concubine in your house is really bold!" The third prince, who was standing in another row, said coldly.

"Third brother, please stop slandering me." The Second Prince, who was kneeling on the ground, glared at the Third Prince viciously and growled.

"If you want to silence everyone, why don't you explain yourself clearly?" the Third Prince retorted contemptuously.

"you......"

The expression on the face of the king sitting on the upper left kept changing. Finally, he looked at the two brothers below with a cold look. With such a mentality, he still wanted to compete for this position? It was really a foolish dream.

The court officials below closed their mouths one after another, and began to look at their noses and hearts, entering a state of meditation.

"That's enough," the emperor shouted, breaking the dull atmosphere. "Issue an order that the Second Prince, who is not a strict steward of the household, should be punished to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors for three months. I, the concubine, should be beaten with thirty sticks and go to the ancestral temple to pray for blessings. Without special pardon, I am not allowed to step out of the ancestral temple."

"A copy of the confession will be sent to Patriarch Sun. In addition, all those involved will be given thirty lashes of the cane and dealt with separately."

After the emperor finished speaking, he stood up, flicked his sleeves and left the hall, and the four elders followed him.

At the residence of the Second Prince in the capital, the Second Prince, who had lost face in the hall, returned to the residence in a rage.

"Your Highness, you're back." The gatekeeper came forward to greet him with a smile on his face.

"Get out!" the second prince shouted and walked straight to the inner courtyard.

The butler trotted up from the side and smiled carefully at the prince's gloomy face: "Prince, what are you doing?"

"Where is that bitch Yan'er now?"

"Madam Yan should be waiting for you in her yard at this time."

Seeing the prince with a face as black as a pot lid and an aura of tyranny all over his body, the little girls who usually liked to get close to him now stayed away from him. If they couldn't avoid him, they would stand as far away as possible and bow to salute.

The nanny beside Madam Yan saw the prince enter the courtyard gate, and she was delighted and hurried to greet him: "Oh, the prince is here, Madam was just talking about you, I made your favorite sweet soup for you, this old servant will go and bring it to you now."

"Get out!" The nanny was so angry that she had no place to vent her anger. She kicked the Second Prince a dozen feet away, and the prince lay on the ground groaning and unable to stand up.

The housekeeper glanced at her, secretly cursed her as "idiot", winked at the little girl next to him, and quickly followed the prince. The other little girls and servants were so scared that they stood trembling by the side and dared not move.

A little girl sweeping the floor outside the yard saw this, her eyes flashed, she put down the broom in her hand, and found an excuse to run to the main courtyard.

"Bang!" The prince kicked open Madam Yan's door.

Madam Yan, who was drawing her eyebrows in front of the dressing table in the house, was frightened by the sudden sound and her hands trembled, and her crescent-shaped eyebrows suddenly turned into tadpoles with long tails.

Madam Yan frowned and shouted angrily without even turning her head: "Asshole, why are you shouting so loudly? Madam, slap your face!"

"You dare!"