Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace: Spring in the Palace

Jinzhong and Jinbao were already waiting at the door. As soon as they heard the emperor's order, they immediately went out to do the work.

Ling Yunche brought it up himself to save them from using Zhao Jiuxiao as a witness to expose their affair. This was a slightly more deliberate action, and Zhao Jiuxiao's initiative to serve as a witness would inevitably lead to punishment from the emperor.

Zhao Jiuxiao is married to Lan Cui in this life. If he has problems, Lan Cui will have problems. If Lan Cui has problems, Master Ling will be sad. So it is better for Zhao Jiuxiao not to have problems, for Yan Wan's good mood.

Now that Ling Yunche had wisely prepared his own coffin, Jinzhong went straight to find Zhao Jiuxiao.

He led the bearded man over here, repeated what Ling Yunche had just said, and whispered a few words to him, "Just say what you know, don't add any spice to it, being too deliberate is not pretty."

Zhao Jiuxiao sighed. He looked at Jinzhong sincerely and said softly, "Eunuch, I was a little nervous when the emperor summoned me this time. I always felt that I was a little sorry for Ling Yunche because of Lan Cui. But we are on different paths and cannot make plans together. I am just stating the facts..."

Zhao Jiuxiao calmly turned his head and looked at the Yangxin Palace not far away, and said, "Ling Yunche inexplicably wants to use me as a shield at this time, and the little bit of womanly kindness in my heart can be dispersed. At this moment, he and I are strangers."

The two stepped into the Yangxin Palace. Ling Yunche and Ruyi were still kneeling. Zhao Jiuxiao remained calm and knelt beside Ling Yunche. He said respectfully, "Your humble servant Zhao Jiuxiao pays respects to His Majesty, to Concubine Chun, to Concubine Ling, and to Concubine Xian."

The emperor did not want to ask him to get up, and said, "I summoned you here because I want to ask you something."

Zhao Jiuxiao kowtowed and said, "When Eunuch Jinzhong brought me here, he explained the whole story to me. I will tell you everything I know."

"Is what Ling Yunche said true?" asked the emperor.

Zhao Jiuxiao nodded and responded, "It is true. Ling Yunche and I would sometimes drink and talk together in our spare time, but this was before I got married."

"You've been married for half a year." The emperor turned his eyes to Ling Yunche again and asked, "Why, your close friend hasn't drank with you for half a year, are you still confused and making mistakes?"

Ling Yunche was speechless and didn't know what to say.

At this time, Jinbao also came back. The emperor looked at him and waited for his report. Jinbao bowed and said, "I went to the guards' residence and took people to check Guard Ling's room. There was indeed wine in it, and the room and bedding were full of alcohol. When Guard Ling was brought to the Yangxin Palace, he also smelled of alcohol. I think Guard Ling was indeed drunk."

Ling Yunche looked at Jinbao in disbelief. He opened his mouth and wanted to say, how could it be possible? He didn't drink at all, how could he smell of alcohol? And there was no alcohol in his room.

But he couldn't refute. He used drunkenness as an excuse at the beginning. If he suddenly changed his tone at this time, he would be deceiving the emperor and would surely die.

Ling Yunche could only swallow this inexplicable loss. There was only a simple small lock on the guard's door, which was just for decoration. Anyone could open it if they wanted to. It was very safe because it was in the palace.

He knelt on the ground. It wasn't hot, but he was sweating like a river, cold sweat.

Ling Yunche was in a state of confusion. Who had deliberately framed him? He was afraid that the person was jealous of him and immediately took action to pull him out of this position after hearing that he had behaved inappropriately in front of the emperor...

He was suddenly recommended by Ruyi and promoted to the third rank, but he did not have a good relationship with his colleagues. Moreover, he was immersed in the pain of losing his love all day long and had no intention of socializing.

Who is going to kill him?

Jin Bao's tone was somewhat hesitant, and he added, "Since we have already investigated, we cannot be negligent. We are afraid that we may have missed something, so we are also searching through Guard Ling's belongings to see if there is any evidence."

When Jinbao had said this, the young eunuch behind him came in carrying a box with the lock pried open. Jinbao opened the box and found a pair of brand new boots inside with auspicious cloud patterns embroidered on both sides.

"This is what the servants found. Boots should have been worn, but this pair of shoes looks like new. They are locked in a box, so they must have been well taken care of. The patterns on them imply the names of Concubine Xian and Guard Ling."

Ruyi cloud pattern.

It was a pair of boots that Ruyi specially gave to Ling Yunche to thank him for helping her. When she gave it to him, the two looked into each other's eyes and took the boots hand in hand.

Ruyi felt a dull pain in her heart. She didn't know why Ling Yunche kept the boots and treasured them so much. He had obviously discarded their friendship that went beyond the relationship between a man and a woman.

Jinbao took out the boots and presented them to the emperor.

The emperor's face, which had just eased, became worse and worse. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes deeply. The areas under his eyes on both sides of his nose were wrinkled because he closed his eyes so hard. The light blue color under his eyes was caused by handling government affairs and indulging in sensual pleasures. This made the emperor look like a wife abandoned by her husband, who caught her husband fooling around with his concubine, so fragile.

He looked like a sweet white glazed vase with some cracks suddenly appearing on it.

The emperor reached out, picked up a boot, and threw it out suddenly.

The boot drew a perfect arc and hit Zhao Jiuxiao's thigh. He groaned in pain, and then it bounced into the arms of Ling Yunche beside him. Ling Yunche didn't dare to catch it, and the boot fell to the ground.

Although Ruyi, Ling Yunche, and Zhao Jiuxiao knelt in a row, Ruyi was a maverick and was angry that Ling Yunche had severed their friendship, so she knelt far away from them.

Therefore, the emperor's chair was facing the kneeling Ling Yunche and Zhao Jiuxiao. This hit Zhao Jiuxiao right in the face, and it was an unprovoked disaster.

The Ruyi cloud pattern was golden and very beautiful, but Ling Yunche had no intention of appreciating it.

All I heard was the emperor saying in an extremely suppressed voice, "Where did these boots come from?"

Ling Yunche was a little hesitant. He had wanted to throw away the boots a long time ago, but then he thought that he could burn them in front of Concubine Xian as a revenge, so he kept them. However, ever since he made Concubine Xian fainted last time, he hadn't found any good opportunity, so he had put it aside.

If he had known this would happen, he would have just thrown it away.

The emperor was angry, and Ling Yunche suddenly lost his temper for some reason. Zhao Jiuxiao was afraid that he would be implicated and killed by the extremely angry emperor. What would happen to his Lan Cui? So he hurriedly said,

"These are the boots that Concubine Xian gave to Ling Yunche to thank him for saving her life."

The voice was so loud and the words were so fast that Zhao Jiuxiao was afraid that the emperor would order them to be chopped into meat paste in the next second, and then he would have no time to say anything.

Then he lowered his head again and said no more.

Your Majesty, if you kill Ling Yunche, you cannot kill me.