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Chapter 280 Going to Dig for Gold Bricks
Lu Xiao clenched his fists tightly, trying his best to suppress the urge to kill. So the Empress was behind his mother's death?
He always believed that his mother's death was an accident.

He was only five years old when his mother passed away, and he didn't understand anything at all. His father also said it was an accident.

He actually believed it!

Judging from his father's reaction, he must have been deceived as well.

Lu Yaoyao felt that the Empress's words sounded somewhat familiar.

It sounds like a line from a TV drama!

[Sigh! This is all because there are too many women, and they have nothing better to do than cause trouble!]

If there weren't so many women in the harem, wouldn't there be far fewer problems?

To be honest, I feel more sorry for my grandfather. After all, he married those women to balance the power of various factions—it's that simple!

[There's no need to marry those women to balance power. Just establish an oversight council to specifically recruit talented individuals and monitor all officials!]

The court system of the Great Yu Dynasty is pitifully simple. It would be best to add more departments, only then would the officials not dare to make mistakes easily.

After hearing Lu Yaoyao's words, the emperor and Lu Xiao exchanged a glance, and Lu Xiao nodded slightly.

This method is indeed feasible.

The Empress heard her thoughts and wanted to speak up to expose what she was thinking, but she couldn't bring herself to say it.

Once she tried to question Lu Yaoyao's inner thoughts, it was as if someone had grabbed her by the throat, and she couldn't utter a single word.

"Your Majesty, you shall atone for the sins you have committed for the rest of your life!"

"The Empress's virtue is so lacking that she is unfit to be Empress. She is hereby deposed and imprisoned in the cold palace's Buddhist hall to spend the rest of her life in misery!"

"As for this person, he deserves to be torn to pieces!"

The emperor carried Lu Yaoyao away without looking back.

No matter how much the empress cried out, she did not stop for a moment.

Seeing that it was getting late, the emperor handed the child to Lu Xiao, saying, "Go back and treat my granddaughter well! If anything happens to her, I will not forgive you!"

"Yes, Father." Lu Xiao personally carried the child away.

The emperor returned to his palace, holding a memorial in his hand, but couldn't concentrate on reading a single word for a long time.

He was extremely troubled by the many messes that had occurred in his harem.

"Little Anzi, what do you think of my decision to reduce the number of concubines in the harem?"

In any case, most of the concubines in the harem did not leave any children. They stayed in the harem and schemed against each other all day long. It's true that there are too many women and they have too much free time.

Eunuch An quickly knelt down, "Oh dear! Your Majesty, how dare this old servant interfere in such a matter?"

My little princess! What you've said has made His Majesty question the meaning of life!
The emperor waved his hand, telling him to get up. "Get up! I was just saying it casually."

The harem cannot be evacuated at present, and the Censorate has not yet been established. This is undoubtedly the only way to weigh the court's position.

"Go to the Prince of Qin's residence tomorrow and have him bring my granddaughter to court."

He wanted to hear his granddaughter's opinions on matters of state.

Eunuch An bowed his head, "It is His Majesty!"

Lu Xiao returned to the palace with the child, and Yu Tan was relieved to hold the child in her arms.

She was so worried when the child was still in the palace, fearing something might happen to the child.

"The little one is asleep." Lu Xiao handed the child to her.

Yu Tan nodded, "Your Highness, please go ahead and attend to your business."

It's obvious what happened in the palace; His Majesty has already taken care of it.

All she wants to do now is live a good life with her daughter; it's best for her to know as little as possible about royal affairs.

Lu Xiao was about to rest with the mother and daughter when he was kicked out of the door.

Looking at the closed door, Lu Xiao had a headache. The mother and daughter still wouldn't forgive him!
the next day.

Lu Yaoyao was still half asleep, as if she had been carried away.

She opened her eyes and saw her scumbag father holding her. She yawned and went back to sleep.

When she woke up again, she opened her eyes to find herself in an unfamiliar place.

Where am I?

Tilting her head to look, she saw her grandfather sitting there, looking rather unwell. She had actually slept on the imperial table where the emperor held court?
"Oh dear! My granddaughter has woken up!"

The emperor quickly took the little one into his arms.

[Grandpa, how did I end up here with you?]

A thick white blanket was spread on the imperial table, and she wasn't cold at all while sleeping on it.

"Grandpa missed Yaoyao, so he had your father bring you to accompany me to court."

The emperor was furious with his ministers, but hearing his granddaughter's voice cheered him up.

Lu Yaoyao looked at her grandfather, whose expression changed so quickly, and grinned at him with a toothless smile.

A child's smile is the easiest way to warm people's hearts, and even an emperor's heart would melt into a puddle of water.

"Your Majesty, please forgive the Empress. She is the daughter of an old minister, and she must have been wronged."

The Empress's father, the Right Chancellor, was still kneeling on the ground despite his advanced age.

Hearing that his daughter had been deposed, he didn't sleep well all night and went to court early in the morning to plead for her life.

He had no idea what the Empress had done to offend the Emperor.

The emperor didn't reveal a single word about the empress keeping a gigolo, and the ministers who heard Lu Yaoyao's thoughts didn't dare to utter a word either.

Because of his advanced age, the Right Chancellor had been recuperating at home and did not attend Lu Yaoyao's full moon celebration, so he was unaware of what had happened.

The emperor, out of consideration for the eldest prince, had already shown the empress some decency.

【Huh? Who's this old man?】

The emperor was very displeased. "Right Chancellor, I have already made a decision regarding the Empress. There is no need to discuss it further!"

This old man is really slapping his own face on the ground again!
Must we force him to announce to the world that the Empress has cheated on him?
This old man is really tired of living!
[Right Chancellor? The one who thinks himself incorruptible and dedicated, and everyone praises him?]

The world has been deceived by him! This Right Chancellor feigned incorruptibility, but in reality, the floor tiles in his house were made of gold, and the walls were built with gold bricks!

[The clothes she wore looked tattered on the outside, but underneath they were all made of fine brocade; even the dog's bowl was made of gold.]

There were gasps of astonishment throughout the court.

Those high-ranking officials were so frightened that they wiped away cold sweat. To be honest, none of them could withstand being investigated.

They were all praying in their hearts that the little princess would stop talking.

The Right Chancellor heard the voices and trembled with fear. He wanted to refute the person's slander, but he was unable to utter a single word, as if someone had grabbed his neck.

The emperor squinted. "Good!" he thought. He was currently worried about money, but he never expected his right prime minister to be so extravagant.

"King Qin, take some men and go to the Right Chancellor's residence." He wanted to see how his ministers had deceived him.

Lu Xiao cupped his hands in greeting, "Yes, Your Majesty, I will go immediately!"

【Hey! Are we going to the Right Chancellor's house? I want to go too! I want to see the gold!】

The emperor chuckled inwardly. How could such a young child know about gold?
"Xiao'er, take my little granddaughter with you."

My granddaughter wants to see gold, so I'll let her have it.

"Yes." Lu Xiao hugged her daughter back.

The group went to the Right Prime Minister's residence.

Knowing he was finished, the Right Chancellor offered no resistance and remained silent after being taken back to the Chancellor's residence.

"Men, pry up the floor tiles and knock down the walls of the Prime Minister's residence."

He was also curious whether what his daughter said was true.

Zhui Feng replied excitedly, "Yes!"

After hearing the little princess's thoughts, he was particularly curious to know what other surprising things she might say.

Is this not?

A single sentence in the imperial court exposed the Right Chancellor's hidden secret.

After digging away the stone bricks paving the ground, they saw the yellow gold bricks.

Judging from their appearance, these gold bricks are quite old.

(End of this chapter)