Chapter 74 – Neglecting the Brambles

Empress Dowager Lu gritted her teeth and looked at Zhao Su, “Come into the hall with me!”

Zhao Su winced, regained his senses and followed into the hall, then looked for a spot under the curtain bar to stand.

In the large and empty Ci Ning Palace, she only felt the sweeping gusts of autumn wind.

Empress Lu slapped the table, ”Why didn’t you take the opportunity to break away from the Emperor when I called you? Do you know what it means that the Emperor intercepted Fang Qingxue and the evidence in his hands? It means that we’ve already lost all our efforts!

“When Shi En is convicted, the Emperor will immediately arrange for someone to top him, and this person will definitely not let us have any chance of pulling the wool over our eyes! It’s great that he’s able to do his job without bias and endowment!

“I let you go to turn your father, who knows that your father did not turn over, you yourself fell by the emperor to turn!”

“Was not turned ……”

“Still say no! You obviously have time to struggle!”

“He’s so muscular, you have to let me get away!” She raised her own son, doesn’t she know in her heart how strong he is?

“Then you won’t pull it out and throw it to me?” Empress Dowager Lu became more and more angry, poking her finger at Zhao Su’s forehead, “Can’t you see through men’s tricks? They are used to using such tricks! Look at how he confused you with just a few tricks, how can he accomplish anything in the future? You really let me down!”

Zhao Su rubbed her forehead, “It’s not like I’ve ever been in love, it would be weird if I could see through him.”

“Ha, never even been in love?” Empress Lu stroked her forehead and looked at the sky, “Then you’ve really accomplished nothing!”

Zhao Su also rolled her eyes. It’s not like she judged heroes by falling in love!

After letting the autumn wind scrape at her head for a while, and letting Empress Dowager Lu hum in anger for a while until she didn’t say anything else, she tried, “Empress Dowager, I actually think that what His Majesty did was right.”

Empress Dowager Lu abruptly twisted her face over.

Zhao Su cleared her throat, “I’m not confused by the Emperor’s tactics, but I think that the fact that the Emperor punished the guilty officials according to the law case is not right in itself.

“The evidence in Fang Qingxue’s hand proves that Shi En did commit a crime, then he should be questioned. If it was said that it could be condoned for a reason, then later on anyone could use their value as a bargaining chip with the court.

“Knowing that the Shi family is not a white man, they surely understand what they need to pay for accepting this bribe, and for this unfair deal to stand, they, the Shi family, must have also provided certain undue favors to the other party.

“Since the fact exists, then if he is appeased, wouldn’t that be unfair to others? Those people whose interests were violated, who will they complain to?

“I think that your ideals, Empress Dowager, are certainly great, and we should indeed make a difference in this era, we have knowledge and ground that people in this era do not have, and we should utilize our strengths for the benefit of all our fellow women, but a gentleman does what he can and does not do what he cannot ……

“It may be a hard road for us to change the world, but we shouldn’t go against our principles just to take shortcuts, and we women want to be respected, we need to respect our own values first.”

She looked at her palm, already pinching out fingerprints.

It was still frightening to see a big Mary Sue woman in true anger.

Yet she couldn’t do anything against her conscience. When Fang Qingxue said that Shi En did have corruption, her heart wavered at that moment.

She also knew how much of an impact what Empress Lu was going to do would have on the world and how many women would be saved, so she still brought Fang Qingxue to Ci Ning Palace.

But the emperor’s sentence in her ear, “You have experienced injustice before,” brought out all the thoughts she had pressed to the bottom of her heart.

She thought of herself being pressured by her boss to go to the reunion to carry out business, thought of herself as a social animal was worn through those small shoes, but also thought of in order to the salary, had to accept the weekend unpaid overtime ……

Injustice, she’d experienced too much of it. Including her own parents treating her and her sister with no fairness whatsoever.

She knew she was a bit naive, there were many behaviors like Empress Lu’s on the court’s political battles, people who played with power, they only pursued the results and didn’t care about the process.

But she is just an ordinary soul, she can’t climb to the top of the power struggle, and she has no ambition to look down on the world, in those years as an ordinary people who can’t be ordinary, she knows how hard it is for people to fight for fairness, even if she has become a powerful person, she still understands those pains and sorrows.

To put it objectively, it was a blessing for the common people of Da Liang to have such a decisive and clear-cut emperor.

And what reason did she have to jeopardize this blessing? Nor could society advance at the cost of breaking the rules of law.

The great hall fell into an eerie silence.

Not a single person made a sound, not even a single slightly heavier breath.

So when Empress Dowager Lu’s voice rang out again, it was as clear as thunder: “I didn’t say that I wouldn’t punish Shi En, it’s expedient to keep him at the moment, and only by keeping him can we ensure that the Flower Moon Society’s operation won’t be affected!”

“However, if the Empress Dowager appeased him this time, how can she be sure that such a thing won’t repeat itself next time? If we keep him this time, next time he makes a small mistake, won’t he also be able to get away with it on the grounds that the Empress Dowager has no way to immediately find someone to stand up to him?

“This is just a matter of fact, what matters is that the Empress Dowager will not be held back as well? Empress Dowager, if you can’t stop it, you will suffer from it!”

“Shut up!”

Empress Dowager Lu stood up, “Are you teaching this palace how to do things?”

“Not ……”

“Go and vacate Changle Palace and let her roll in and stay there! Without this palace’s decree, she is not allowed to step out of the palace door! She’ll be killed if she violates the decree!”

Not waiting for Zhao Su to finish her defense, Empress Dowager Lu already pointed outside and spoke!

“Yes!”

Gao Shu trembled as he received the decree, glanced at Zhao Su, and then quickly retreated!

Empress Dowager Lu glared over again, “What are you still waiting for? Why don’t you follow over, are you waiting for me to personally escort you?!”

Zhao Su sniffed, let out a long sigh, and followed Gao Shu out.

Locking her up to live in the palace, wasn’t that the meaning of putting it into the cold palace? I didn’t expect that she wasn’t even considered a person in the palace, but she actually obtained the honor of living in the Cold Palace as well!

This damn has to be the treatment of an ancient language heroine!

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Qianqing Palace this side, Fang Qingxue in front of the emperor and the face of the Marquis of Qingyun to the ins and outs of the finished, then pointed to the emperor’s hand of the dossier said: “This is a part of the minister transcribed out, and some need to go to the Ministry of households to go through the archives. As the case files are all taken over by the minister, He Shangshu, they specifically do not know from which place, the emperor at this time to go searching, can still find the original evidence.”

The emperor and Han Jun said, “Let Lord Fang lead the way, and immediately go to the Ministry of households for evidence!”

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