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Chapter Eleven: No Face!

The next morning, Zhu Yijing, who was practicing Tai Chi in the yard and exercising, suddenly heard a commotion outside the yard gate, and then the redwood door was kicked open:

"No one inside is allowed to move! Your Majesty received a memorial from the Censorate. The third prince was dissatisfied with the eldest prince and privately hid a witchcraft doll. Your Majesty ordered me to lead people to investigate thoroughly. Whoever dares to act rashly will be careful to lose his head!"

As soon as he put away his posture, Zhu Yijing looked at Enjing who rushed in with a turbulent look of kindness:

"What is the joke that the Chief Enjing is? Although I am young, I always know about the witchcraft rebellion during the Han Wu period. Can the Censorate be unable to escape such a large responsibility?"

With a sudden sound of the knife, Enjing actually drew her sword and pointed to Zhu Yijing's study. She shouted sternly to her subordinates who hesitated after hearing the four words "Witchcraft Rebellion" behind her:

"Why are you still standing there? Go in and search it!"

After scolding his subordinates, Enjing stepped forward and clasped her fists at Zhu Yijing:

"Forgive me, the third prince."

After saying that, Enjing also entered the study room, and not long after, the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets came from the house.

"Tsk."

Touching the doll in the sleeves, Zhu Yijing looked indifferent, thinking that it would be strange if you could find it.

Then he looked at Enjing's hand who came out of the study. The doll that was almost exactly the same as the doll in his sleeve, but was a little cleaner, was stunned.

Almost at the same time, Zhu Yijing subconsciously touched the doll in his sleeve and confirmed that the doll in Enjing's hand was not the one he took out yesterday.

So, Zhu Yijing became instantly furious:

"I don't want my face anymore! How can I whimper like this-"

"Third Prince, please come to His Majesty to explain this kind of thing clearly."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Yijing was brought forward by Enjing and covered her mouth. Then the guards rushed up to tie her hands and feet, and handed them to Enjing to carry them on her shoulders and take them out of the yard.

No matter how hard Zhu Yijing struggled, he could not escape the devil's claws.

It was not until Enjing left with Zhu Yijing for a long time that a panic cries came from the courtyard.

...

He was carried on Enjing's shoulder and took it away all the way. Zhu Yijing saw many ministers who were about to go to court and looked surprised. Some people wanted to ask, but after seeing the doll in Enjing's hand, they closed their mouths and looked away tactfully.

In this way, Zhu Yijing was carried all the way to the court by Enjing, gently put it down and untied the rope that bound his hands and feet.

After hesitating for a while, Enjing reached out to take out the cloth from Zhu Yijing's mouth:

"The Third Prince, Your Majesty will decide later. Your Majesty will listen carefully if your prince has any grievances."

Zhu Yijing was so angry that he heard this. He was about to shout a few words, but he noticed the gaze of the prime minister Liang Zhengqi looking here, so he spoke in a muffled manner:

"Okay, I know, you go down."

Enjing finally breathed a sigh of relief, clasped her fists at Zhu Yijing again, and then retreated back to the throne.

Zhu Yijing, who was tied to the court all the way, stood up with a straight face, but remembered that it would take at least an hour for the morning court to go to the pillar closest to him and leaned on it without standing, which attracted the attention of all the ministers.

This third prince was carried over by the chief guard inexplicably and appeared in the court as a prisoner. Now he is standing so arrogantly against the pillar. What exactly does Your Majesty want to do?

However, let alone the ministers, Zhu Yijing himself couldn't figure out what Empress Corning thoughts.

Why did you do it yourself?

Have I not offended her recently?

Could it be that earthquake? It shouldn't be. After all, this is to save lives. You shouldn't use such despicable means to deal with me?

He leaned against the pillar crookedly, and Zhu Yijing felt a lot of thoughts in his heart.

At this moment, Enjing's voice came from behind the throne:

"Your Majesty is here-"

"Long live my emperor--"

Seeing the ministers kneeling down one after another, Zhu Yijing had to sigh in his heart, and reluctantly knelt down, shouting:

“onethree, onethree, hree!”

"All the ministers are exempted from courtesy."

With Empress Corning's words, the ministers stood up from the ground.

Zhu Yijing, who followed him, was about to continue to lean on the pillar, but was scolded by Empress Corning:

"Sir! The Censor's Day before yesterday wrote a memorial to impeach you to secretly hide witchcraft and curse the eldest prince. This morning Enjing went to search and found the doll. Sure enough, what face do you have to stand? Kneel down for me!"

"I--"

Zhu Yijing was stunned. He was about to say something, but was interrupted by Empress Corning:

"Bold! Do you dare to argue? Come on, beat me!"

I'll go, come really?!

After being pressed to the ground by the left and right servants rushing up, Zhu Yijing realized that he was going to be beaten. Just as he was about to say something, he was hit on his butt with a stick.

"ah!--"

A shrill wail came from Zhu Yijing's mouth. However, just after shouting, Zhu Yijing realized that the board that hit the butt... didn't seem to hurt much?

Zhu Yijing's thoughts were like lightning, and immediately followed the next stick and continued to wail:

"Your Majesty! My son is wronged!"

"His Majesty!"

Even Liang Zhengqi, who had always been incompatible with Empress Corning, was stunned by her decisive behavior. He did not react until Zhu Yijing called for justice and fell to the ground with a kneeling:

"Your Majesty! This is a big deal. You need to know why the Third Highness is acting like this. I hope Your Majesty is calm and let the Third Highness explain the reason!"

Okay, Shoujiao Liang! As soon as I opened my mouth, I decided to do it?!

"His Majesty!"

Seeing that Liang Shoufu took the lead, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Works hurriedly left the line and knelt down:

"What Master Liang said is very true. Your Majesty might as well listen to the third prince's self-dispute first, so as not to bewitched by Han Wu and bewitched by people with ulterior motives!"

"snort!"

Seeing the two ministers say this, Empress Corning snorted coldly and raised her hand to signal the attendant to stop first:

"Sir! What do you have to argue about?"

"I……"

After a while in his mind, Zhu Yijing was sadly aware that he could only pinch his nose and accept this beat:

"My son is wronged! Mr. Mr. never did this to his elder brother!"

"Then what do you say about this!"

He reached out and threw the doll in front of Zhu Yijing, Empress Corning was full of anger:

"Can this doll found from under your bed be fake?"

Seeing Empress Corning throwing out a doll with the word "Armor" sticker, the ministers were immediately in an uproar.

"Your Majesty! This doll is indeed fake!"

Zhu Yijing quickly climbed forward, reached out and picked up the thrown doll, pointed to the outer layer with only a thin layer of dust and said:

"The bottom of Erchen's bed was not enough in the hall, so it would only be cleaned once a month. The last time I cleaned it was at the beginning of this month. Why is the dust stained on this doll that is the only one?"

Empress Corning's expression suddenly became dark when she heard this, and the ministers even thoughtful.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yijing took out a dirtier doll from his sleeve and raised two almost identical dolls to express grief and anger:

"Not only that, before I went to bed yesterday, I found a doll under the bed. My son was timid and did not dare to disturb Your Majesty. However, I was falsely accused again today. Your Majesty wants to make the decision for Your Majesty!"

Seeing the doll taken out by Zhu Yijing, Empress Corning's eyes froze.
Chapter completed!
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