Long live Emperor Wu!

"Why don't you follow?" Wu Rou asked.

Cai Yi was already blushing with anxiety, so the wet nurse tugged at her face and said:
"Wang Jieyu said that you have important matters to discuss and don't let lowly people like us follow... Cai Ren, she is a third-grade Jieyu, and we don't dare to disobey her."

Upon hearing this, Wu Rou quickly walked out of the palace door and looked outside.

Wang Jieyu was in charge of the banquet today. Logically speaking, she should be standing in the corner of the hall, but she glanced around and saw no one.

She looked under the banquet again, envoys from various countries, people with various clothes and looks. After looking at them for a while, she felt dazzled and her heart panicked.

She turned her head and said to Caiyi:

"Caiyi, you go and report to the Imperial Concubine, saying that Wang Jieyu falsely conveyed her instructions, pushed me away, and took the little prince to who knows where. This is unusual. Let the Imperial Concubine find a way to help me find it." .”

Then she said to the wet nurse:

"Go and find Sanchun, who helped at the banquet, and ask her to help find her. Ask around to see where Wang Jieyu has gone. Be careful not to panic or let outsiders see the joke."

"Yes." The two of them agreed and went their separate ways.

Wu Rou also went out and glanced at the emperor and the prince on the throne. She didn't know if they were connected. Prince Li Shan also happened to glance at her.

As soon as the two of them looked at each other, Wu Rou quickly lowered his head and went outside the Liangyi Hall.

When they arrived outside the Liangyi Palace, a group of maids from the Shangshan Bureau happened to come over. Wu Rou quickly stopped her and asked:

"Have you seen Wang Jieyu?"

The maids shook their heads.

Wu Rou had no choice but to walk all the way towards the palace where Wang Jieyu lived.

Because it was the Lantern Festival, lanterns were decorated everywhere in the palace, and guards and maids were on duty at key locations.Wu Rou asked people all the way, and finally found Wang Jieyu's traces, and found her beside the arch bridge.

Several standing lamps were placed on the arch bridge, which just illuminated the lake below. A gust of cold wind blew by, causing shallow ripples.

Wang Jieyu turned her back to her, hugged Xiao Fuzi, and sat on a big rock by the lake, facing the lake, not knowing what she was looking at.

She was alone, sitting here like a ghost.

Wu Rou felt so scared that she took a few steps forward slowly. When she saw the child swinging its legs in her hands, she cautiously said:
"Wang Jieyu, what are you doing sitting here?"

When Wang Jieyu heard this, she turned her head sharply.

For some reason, even though she was in the dark, her eyes were shining with astonishing brightness, like a frightened beast, and she said:

"What are you doing?! Are you trying to steal my child?!"

Wu Rou immediately stopped and saw Xiao Fuzi wrapped in a furry hood, babbling in her arms, so she smiled and said:

"Wang Jieyu, are you confused?... This is the little prince, not your child. Give him to me. If you stay here for a long time, it will be bad if the wind blows."

Wang Jieyu looked at Wu Rou, suddenly sneered, and said extremely meanly:

"It's not mine, and it's not yours. We both have no children, so why should you only have one?"

After saying that, she stood up, hugged the child, and jumped into the lake... Wu Rou was shocked and ran forward to pull her while shouting:
"Someone, come quickly! Wang Jieyu jumped into the water! Someone, come quickly!"

The stones by the lake blocked her way. By the time she ran to the lake, Wang Jieyu had already thrown the child into the water with her arms in her arms.

On a February day, the lake water was bitingly cold. Wu Rou grabbed Wang Jieyu's cloak and pulled her up, but Wang Jieyu had already let go. The hood wrapped around the child looked like a small boat. It's about to sink.

Wu Rou felt a chill in her heart and felt that it was over.

Just as she threw Wang Jieyu away and waded into the water to fish the child back, the guard next to her finally came, jumped into the water from the other side, and fished the child out.

The water by the lake was not deep, Wu Rou walked back by herself, and Wang Jieyu was pulled up by the guards by her cloak.

Wu Rou's feet were covered in mud, she hugged her shoulders and shivered in the dark, but her heart was colder than her body.

Xiao Fuzi was carried by the guards to go to the imperial doctor.

She followed step by step, and felt that bad fate waving to her again, as if God was saying, you are the one who is destined to be bullied, why are you struggling?

People were running around, someone put a cloak on her, and someone talked to her, but she couldn't hear her, she just kept looking at the guard holding the child.

"Taito, let's go change clothes first."

Wu Rou turned a deaf ear. She shivered and followed the guards into a warm room. The imperial doctor inside took off the child's clothes and rubbed his hands and feet. Xiao Fuzi finally cried.

Wu Rou just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the imperial doctor busy saying:
"The little prince is already weak. He may not be able to resist hyperthermia now. Give him some medicine and wait and see."

Wu Rou was stunned, and sat obediently aside, looking at the child on the bed, motionless.

I don't know how long it took, but Concubine Wei came over. She looked at the child, then at Wu Rou who was stunned, and then ordered Wang Jieyu to be brought over.

Wang Jieyu didn't change her clothes. She came in and knelt down on the ground as if she was crazy. She smiled foolishly at people. Concubine Wei frowned and said:
"Wang Jieyu, what's the matter with you? Don't you understand the people who plotted to kill the prince and kill the three clans?!"

When Wang Jieyu heard this, she rolled her eyes, opened them wide again, and said to Concubine Wei:
"There is no prince. The one I gave birth to is obviously a princess. I want to be with my princess, and no one can separate us, hahahaha...hahahaha..."

Concubine Wei frowned and turned to Wu Judao:
"She wants to take the little prince and commit suicide?"

Wu Rou didn't move her eyes, she just looked at Xiao Fuzi, her face turned pale due to the cold air, her beautiful brows seemed to be filled with resentment, and she nodded.

Seeing her like this, Concubine Wei was not in the mood to blame her for being rude. She turned to the female officer beside her and said:
"Take Wang Jieyu down first and let the medical officer diagnose and treat her. Is this because she has lost her mind and gone crazy?"

Soon the palace became quiet. This was the Shang Medical Office by the lake. They shouldn't have stayed here like this, but Xiao Fuzi had a fever and needed to be guarded. It was not suitable to run around.

In this way, Wu Rou stayed there all night without eating or drinking. When it was almost dawn, Xiao Fuzi was still dead.

still dead...

Wu Rou was stunned for a long time, feeling that it was not just the child who died, but also her. She had been sentenced to exile and imprisonment, and had no hope in this life.

At this moment, Si Qiu came in from outside and reported the progress of the interrogation to Wu Rou, saying:

"The imperial concubine said that Wang Jieyu was suffering from mental illness. She thought she was really pitiful after losing her daughter, so she deprived her of her status and raised her in the Yeting Palace."

Wu Rou was furious when she heard this. She stood up and walked out. She drew the knife of the guard on duty outside and headed towards the Yeting Palace... (End of Chapter)