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Zhang Desheng bravely said: "Your Majesty, there are many people gathered at the palace gate, and all the women of the He family are here. If anything happens..."

Zheng Xinjiang bravely stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the people are very angry right now, it is not appropriate to torture Madam He. Your Majesty, there is no need to rush..."

Emperor Jingzhang rubbed his brows, but he still cared about his reputation. He gritted his teeth and didn't let Zhang Desheng hit him immediately. He said solemnly: "Bring the documents."

Zhang Desheng understood what Emperor Jingzhang meant. He still had to beat him with the twenty sticks, but he couldn't do it in front of the people today.

After Zhang Desheng left, Emperor Jingzhang's fierce eyes turned to Zheng Xinjiang who was kneeling on the ground.

"Zheng Xinjiang failed to perform his duties properly, and will be fined one year's salary and given fifty strokes of the cane. All those on duty at the gate of the He residence today will be fined half a year's salary and given thirty strokes of the cane."

Zheng Xinjiang complained bitterly but had to admit his guilt and thank the Lord for what he had done. This was an unprovoked disaster for him.

As he walked towards the palace gate, Zhang Desheng was thinking about what to say.

"Eunuch Zhang, what did the emperor say?" Old Madam He stepped forward eagerly. Her body was already a little shaky from not having a good night's sleep in several days.

Li Shuangwan also pursed her lips and looked at Zhang Desheng.

All the people who came with them stared at him.

Zhang Desheng looked around at the people at the palace gate and said to Madam He, "The emperor is sad that all the sons of the He family died on the battlefield. Let Madam He take the women of the He family back first. The remains of the old general and his family will arrive in Beijing soon."

Li Shuangwan understood the meaning of these words. Whether justice would be given to General He and the 30,000 dead soldiers, and whether King Qi Lingyun would be punished, all would have to wait until Lingyun returned to decide.

Ling Yun is a man of silver tongue who can turn white into black. He is very shameless.

But Li Shuangwan, who has been reborn, will never let Ling Yun turn over again.

"The emperor wants to see the military clerk." Zhang Desheng said this with difficulty.

Li Shuangwan nodded: "In that case, I will go with the clerk to see the emperor. He is in very weak health."

“This…” Zhang Desheng took a step closer to Li Shuangwan and lowered his voice: “Princess Heng, listen to my advice. Your father is a great general who protects the country, and now you are the princess. Why don’t you go back home first?”

A faint sneer appeared at the corner of Li Shuangwan's mouth.

Madam He stepped forward and stood in front of Li Shuangwan. With tears in her eyes, she choked and said, "Thank you, Princess Heng, but I'd better enter this palace by myself."

"Old lady!"

Old Madam He shook her head gently at her. Li Shuangwan knew it, so she could only purse her lips and nodded slightly.

Zhang Desheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and two eunuchs took over the seriously injured clerk from the He family's servants.

Li Shuangwan stood at the palace gate and looked up at the imperial palace where he had stayed for five years in his previous life.

The palace is majestic, with imperial guards standing on both sides, solemn and dignified.

Little did people know that the cracks between every brick in this palace were flowing with blood and were embedded with the souls of the wronged.

When Old Madam He entered the palace, she saw her daughter, Concubine He, kneeling outside the imperial study. In just over twenty days, her daughter, who used to have black hair and looked like she was in her thirties, had suddenly aged.

His temples were covered with white hair, he was so thin that he looked unrecognizable, with dense and fine wrinkles all over the sides of his deep eye sockets. He had long gray hair without a single pearl hairpin in his hair, and he was wearing thin plain clothes, kneeling in the wind and snow, swaying precariously.

But she is only forty.

She and Emperor Jingzhang were childhood sweethearts. When she was 28 years old, she married Emperor Jingzhang, who was still the crown prince, with full of hope for the future.

She had her own child, but it died in the womb.

She was murdered by someone. Although the prince knew who the murderer was, he did not punish him but only killed a scapegoat.

Later she understood that as the legitimate daughter of a general with a large army, she could not have her own children after marrying the prince as a concubine.

She personally ordered someone to prepare the infertility drug and had it drunk by the emperor on the day when Emperor Jingzhang ascended the throne and crowned the empress.

Old Madam He looked at her daughter drifting in the wind and snow, and the tears that she had been trying hard to hold back finally rolled down. She threw away her crutches and rushed to her daughter.

"Qing'er, get up, you get up."

"Mother……"

"Listen to mother, go back to the palace and get well."

"Mother, Qing'er has no father anymore. My eldest brother, second brother, third brother, and six nephews are all gone..."

Madam He's lips trembled, and she used all her strength to drag her daughter up from the ground: "Go back to the palace. Your father, your brothers and nephews are soldiers. They died for their country and were buried on the battlefield. That is their honor."

"Mother……"

"Listen to mother and go back. Don't make yourself so miserable. Yuying, help your mother back and take good care of her."

Yuying got up from the ground and took Concubine He from Madam He: "Don't worry, Madam, I won't have to worry about it."

Old Madam He watched her daughter leave before picking up her cane and slowly walking into the imperial study.

She stayed in the imperial study for a full hour.

Except Zhang Desheng, no one knew what Old Madam He said to Emperor Jingzhang in the imperial study.

Fortunately, before leaving the palace, Madam He's expression relaxed a little.

Li Shuangwan and the eldest daughter-in-law of the He family stepped forward to help old lady He.

The old lady staggered for a moment, and Li Shuangwan hurriedly supported her. Old Madam He nodded slightly to the two of them meaningfully.

Li Shuangwan's heart finally relaxed. Fortunately, the General's Mansion would no longer be cursed and destroyed like in the previous life.

Li Shuangwan sent Madam He back to the General's Mansion.

In the carriage, Li Shuangwan asked Madam He: "That clerk?"

"The emperor left him in the Imperial Hospital."

Li Shuangwan saw the worry in Madam He's eyes.

She gently held Madam He's hand and said, "Don't worry, Madam. I will find an opportunity to pick him up in a few days."

"Princess Heng, I don't know how to thank you."

Li Shuangwan smiled slightly: "In that case, then the old lady should stop saying thank you."

The imperial guards surrounding the General's Mansion have withdrawn.

Zhang Desheng also came to the He Mansion with Madam He and Li Shuangwan.

He came with the eunuchs and carried the rewards in a grand manner.

The streets of Shengjing City were crowded with people, all singing praises to the emperor's righteousness.

However, Li Shuangwan knew very well that most of the rewards sent were things that had been looted from the He Mansion’s storehouse, and there was not even a trace of the rare and unique calligraphy and paintings that had been looted.

Even out of the 50,000 taels of silver that were confiscated, Emperor Jingzhang only asked Zheng Xinjiang to return 40,000 taels, and he returned it in the form of pension silver.

Li Shuangwan felt sorry for General He and his men. The women of the He family watched all this, holding back their tears and swallowing their anger.

When it comes to shamelessness, no one can compare to Emperor Jingzhang.

And the He family couldn't say anything.