Destiny Phoenix

Chapter 261 It's Not Over
A palace change came to an end quietly.

The prince was demoted, and overnight he changed from a high-ranking prince to a commoner, and was sent to Lingnan.But the five thousand soldiers who followed the prince to the Chonghua Gate were not as lucky as him.

No one spared their lives. After the prince was taken away by Mu Zheng, the bows and arrows on the city wall flooded the sky like locusts crossing the border, and no one survived.

After they died, the imperial guards hidden in the Chonghua Gate swarmed out. In less than half an hour, they cleaned up the corpses all over the place. After a heavy snowfall, there was no trace of blood in the palace anymore.

On the contrary, the remaining generals guarding outside the city were taken over by Mo Zhanhua. Those who were willing to continue serving in the army were included under the command of the King of War, and those who were unwilling were disarmed and returned home.

Everything seems to be going as planned.

Fengxiang's family was pardoned and allowed to return to the imperial capital.Although Feng Jingyuan was no longer the prime minister, the emperor was benevolent and decreed to return the Feng mansion and the previously confiscated land.He also allowed Feng Jie to stay in the court and become an official.

All of this sounds quite satisfactory, and the family will be reunited only when the decree is passed to Lingnan and Fengxiang's family returns.

On the day when the emperor's decree was issued, Feng Qingyao brought Bai Xiu, Fu Bo and other servants back to Fengfu.The moment she removed the two seals on the gate, she had mixed feelings in her heart.

Finally waited for this day, but not as happy as imagined.

She always felt that things were not over.

From early morning to dusk, Feng Mansion basically returned to its original appearance, and even those flowers and plants that died due to dryness were moved in by workers and replaced with new ones.It's New Year's Eve again, for the sake of auspiciousness, red lanterns are hung in front of and behind the house.

The butler also specially set off a string of firecrackers in front of the mansion, saying that he was going to get rid of bad luck.

Feng Qingyao didn't stop her, she felt warm and touched for everyone's dedication.

Everything is packed properly, apart from the fact that the mansion is not as popular as before, there is no difference from other times.At night, she sat by the window, looking at the withered sycamore tree in the courtyard, not knowing what to think.

Hua Banli stood behind her, her clear eyes lightly fell on her.

Seeing that she was preoccupied, he pondered: "If you are worried about Xiang Xiang's safety, I will go to Lingnan and pick them up personally." If he was protecting Xiang Xiang, at least she would not be so worried, right?

Unexpectedly, Feng Qingyao shook her head, "Things are going so smoothly, I feel uneasy instead."

A few days before the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, she deliberately let the rumors spread all over the sky, so that even if the emperor wanted to let the prince participate in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, he could not be released from the palace due to the pressure of all parties.Afterwards, she released the voice of abolishing Chang Lixian from the court. The prince really believed the rumors, thinking that the emperor was going to abandon him, so he quickly summoned Ling Weiyuan's old subordinates, gathered the army outside the city, and went out to meet the Holy Majesty himself. He was blocked by Mu Zheng.

She counted the time and asked Lu Fang to present the evidence of the prince's crimes to the emperor's case before Muzheng entered the palace.

In this way, the emperor must be furious, not to mention just confining the crown prince to the East Palace, or abolishing the crown prince, the emperor can do it all.And in order for the emperor to really make up his mind to depose the prince, she also prepared a small strategy, that is to let Mo Biao, the commander of the patrol battalion, discover that Ling Weiyuan's old subordinate was stationed outside the city during his inspection.In this way, the prince's intentions are clearly revealed.

But the latter strategies didn't come in handy at all. I didn't expect the prince to lose his composure, and it turned out to be the opposite!

(End of this chapter)