Don't ask where people go

Chapter 176
Xia Houzhang followed Li Shengxuan to hold an umbrella for him, followed by attendants, and a group of people walked towards Yuzhang Palace in a mighty manner.

The Empress Dowager heard that Li Shengxuan had come to the Yuzhang Palace, but she leaned on the main seat without even raising her eyelids, "Send someone to tell the Emperor that Ai's family is unwell and has fallen asleep, and no one has seen him."

The maid who came to report below showed embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "I want to report to your empress, the emperor did not say that he would enter the palace to pay his respects."

"What?" The Empress Dowager sat up slightly and asked, "Then what is he here for?"

"This..." The maid hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I don't know either."

"I don't know?" The Empress Dowager frowned slightly, and said coldly: "Go and stare at the emperor, and Fang Zilan. The Ai family wants to see which song they are singing."

"Yes." The maid bowed her head and led the way.

Besides, Fang Zilan has been kneeling in the snow outside Yuzhang Palace for more than an hour.She stopped yelling a long time ago, but she was terribly frozen.

Fortunately, she listened to A Wan's words before going out and put on a few more layers.It's just that no matter how thick she was dressed, she couldn't stand the coldness of the clothes soaked in snow water.She only felt the slightest chill coming from her knees, going straight to the marrow of her bones, making her shiver uncontrollably.

She couldn't help sighing while wrapping her cloak tightly, looking up at the snowflakes flying all over the sky, she completely lost her sense of righteousness just now, and only thought about how to find a way to get herself to stand up first before speaking.

After all, if she knelt down like this again, her knees would be frostbitten, and she might not even think about getting off the bed for the whole first month.

However, please kneel is what she said herself. If she stands up now, it is tantamount to slapping herself in the face... Just when she was thinking hard and did not come to any result, she saw that the sky above her head was covered by an oiled paper umbrella, together with the wind and snow. Together they were isolated outside the umbrella.

She looked up and saw Li Shengxuan standing behind her with an umbrella in one hand.

"Your Majesty?" Fang Zilan called out incredulously, but saw him raise his voice to the closed door of the Yuzhang Palace: "I have issued an order to declare the case of the Duke of the Wei State to investigate the case of the Northern Territory. In this case Before the investigation is clear, no one is allowed to touch a single hair of the people in the northern border. Since the empress dowager is holding the petition of the people in the northern border, she knows that this case is not trivial. If you have any objections, you may as well talk to me."

Fang Zilan stared at Li Shengxuan in a daze, and he lowered his eyes to look at her, and said without anger: "As for Fang Zilan, the Duke of Yue, the lord of the Great Capital, there is absolutely no reason for the Empress Dowager to vent her anger."

After he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to Fang Zilan.

Fang Zilan looked at the hand, hesitated for a moment, then was grabbed by the arm by the owner of the hand and pulled up from the snow.

She knelt for too long and was so cold that she lost her balance and fell straight into Li Shengxuan's arms.He didn't mind either, and put his hand around her waist to make her stand still.

After Fang Zilan supported Li Shengxuan to stand still, he heard him say: "Fang Zilan, I took it away today. If the Empress Dowager has anything to say, I will be waiting at Qiankun Palace at any time."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a squeak, and the door of Yuzhang's palace opened wide.

The voice of the Empress Dowager came from the palace, "Your Majesty, please stay." She walked to the palace steps and stood still, her face was a little colder than the snowflakes falling all over the sky.

She said coldly word by word: "The emperor is determined to protect Fang Zilan and carry this case to the end?"

"Yes." Li Shengxuan said a simple word without hesitation.

Fang Zilan raised her head, only to see his expression revealing an indescribable determination, which made her feel inexplicably at ease.

As the wind and snow grew stronger, the snowflakes hovering between the sky and the earth formed a natural white curtain, separating the Empress Dowager in the eaves of the hall from Li Shengxuan, Fang Zilan and others outside the steps of the palace.

The empress dowager sneered, "Okay, the emperor has big ideas now, and Ai's family can't say anything. But I don't know the consequences of this case, is the emperor willing to share with Fang Zilan?"

Hearing this, Fang Zilan's expression suddenly changed, and she kept shaking her head at Li Shengxuan to stop it.

However, Li Shengxuan's hand around her tightened a bit, as if to appease her, and more like to make up his mind.

When she heard his voice, she was extremely firm, "I am willing to share the burden with her, and I will never leave her alone in the wind and snow, in the cold in the long winter, and trapped in the prison of power. Her life should be the fate of all people." Fate, standing between heaven and earth without restraint, is not kneeling here and letting others grind it."

Fang Zilan looked at the person close at hand, and just wanted to engrave his appearance on her heart.

The brilliance of his body, between the white sky and the earth, under the bright and cold falling snow, eclipsed all the surrounding scenes.

Confused, she heard him calling her name.

Anxious voice, worried tone, warm embrace, she fell into a coma completely.

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Since Fang Zilan passed out in front of Yuzhang Palace, she had a high fever and was in a coma for three days and three nights.

Li Shengxuan placed her in the Fengyi Palace of Empress Fang Ziqin, and invited many imperial physicians to see her, including imperial physician Ling Wen Ya.

However, after Wen Ya diagnosed Fang Zilan's pulse, he still asked Li Shengxuan for an order to announce Awan's entry into the palace.It's not that he can't heal, but he doesn't dare to do it.

He didn't expect that that little girl, A Wan, would be so bold and use dangerous drugs.The current Fang Zilan is afraid that if she is handed over to any doctor other than Awan, she will not be able to escape death.

If Fang Zilan died, then Ji Ningtian...Wen Ya didn't dare to think about it, so he could only make medicine with A Wan.

Besides, the empress dowager in the palace was very angry with Li Shengxuan and Fang Zilan, and the situation outside the palace was not so good.

The big aristocratic families who watched the excitement did not have the comfort of gloating after such a result, but all of them felt sorry for each other and did not dare to act rashly.

After all, no aristocratic family would dare to say that they are absolutely innocent. If the Beijing case is the lead, and the dignitaries in Beijing and China are later found out, there is no family of public servants who can stand the investigation.

In this way, anyone who can establish some friendship with the Wei family is telling Wei Subaru openly and secretly to make a big deal into a small matter, and catch the instigator and cover up the case without mentioning it.

As for Wei Subaru's sudden addition of such an investigation job, he was too troublesome, so he had no choice but to turn to Zhuge Ming for help.

Of course Zhuge Yu didn't want his elder brother to go into this muddy water, let alone Wei Subaru who invited his elder brother.

However, Zhuge Ming's resigned attitude made it hard for him to say anything. In addition, Wei Subaru asked Li Shengxuan to let Zhuge Ming sit in on the trial. He couldn't stop him, so naturally he could only let them go.

But in this way, he can learn about the development of the case through his elder brother, so it is not a bad idea to judge the situation.In fact, he was also very curious, how many people were involved behind the scenes of the Northern Border case, and how far could the trial go?

Until the end of the case, I'm afraid everything will be unknown.

　Li Shengxuan: I am not an idealist, I just have ideals.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)