An Eight-year-old Princess

Chapter 316 The New Candidates Of The Empress (Part Two)

The next day, Emperor Ning arranged Master Wu Na to live in Prince Jing's mansion, and master

Lingxuzi lived in the grand councilor's mansion.

Holding a piece in hand, Yun Shang looked at the monk opposite her and sighed, "I was counting on

master Lingxuzi to speak for me. But you fought against him as soon as you arrived. I heard that he

was broken his arm by you."

Master Wu Na snorted, "that guy so stubborn. I said I would drink white spirit, but he insisted on

drinking distilled spirit. The two of us are incompatible!"

Yun Shang's hands trembled slightly, and the corners of her mouth twitched. "Just for this?"

Master Wu Na nodded, "of course, it's a matter of principle. I never drink alcohol that is as rough as the

distilled spirit."

"……" Yun Shang frowned and felt speechless.

Qian Yin, who was standing next to Yun Shang, almost fell to the ground. She said in a shaky voice,

"why don't we buy two kinds of alcohol together? You can each drink the alcohol you want to drink..."

"Yes, I didn't think of it at that time." Master Wu Na laid his piece on the table, emotionless.

"……" This time, even Qian Yin didn't know what to say.

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altar. As it was an ordinary worship, there were many people surrounding the altar. Master Wu Na and

master Lingxuzi sat on the both sides of the altar, meditating, and their mouths constantly moving.

It was nearly noon when Emperor Ning in his robe came in. Everyone hurriedly knelt down to receive

him. They watched emperor Ning slowly climb up the stairs and walk to the middle of the altar.

Master Wu Na and Master Lingxuzi stood up and bowed to Emperor Ning. Master Zheng had the

servants put the sacrificial offerings on the altar, and then handed the lighted incense to Emperor Ning.

Emperor Ning knelt and bowed three times towards the altar. "May the Kingdom thrive..."

All the officials bowed to him and said, "May the kingdom thrive."

Emperor Ning said loudly, "today's worship is for pray. Master Wu Na and master Lingxuzi please lead

us the road..."

Master Wu Na and master Lingxuzi stood up, saluted, and went to the middle of the altar. Master Wu

Na held the lot pot in his hands, and master Lingxuzi's hands held two horns. Both of them took the

papers from the eunuch, wrote the results of the meditation on the paper, and handed them to the

eunuchs next to them.

Lord Zheng took it over and shouted, "a monster lures the country, and she cannot be the empress. If

we can punish the monster, it will protect the country for centuries to be prosperous."

Emperor Ning was shocked and looked at master Zheng sharply. Master Zheng also trembled and took

out the other paper. He was silent for a moment before he said, "the same thing happened to the other

paper. It said exactly the same thing..."

Emperor Ning secretly clenched his fists in his sleeves. The officials under the altar were whispering to

each other. Although he couldn't hear what they were saying, he knew they must be talking about this.

Emperor Ning suppressed the anger in his heart and raised his voice again, "the monster should not be

the empress. But our country must have an empress. Please answer me, who can be the

empress ?"

Master Wu Na and master Lingxuzi began to predict. After a while, they signed down the results on the

paper and handed them to master Zheng. The latter trembled slightly. He glanced at the result and was

stunned again. "The new empress should be a person who was born on 17th may and is now in the

southwest of the palace." After that, he picked up another paper, "and another one said the same."

Emperor Ning was shocked. He had thought it would be Lady Jin, but it turned out to be wrong. He

remembered lady Jin's birthday very clearly. It should be in July...

The result of the ceremony was completely different from what emperor Ning had thought, so he had to

end it in a hurry. He sighed in his heart. He had planned to use the ceremony to prove Jing Wenxi's

innocence, but he didn't expect to be acquitted in the end. Whoever was the woman born from May 17

must be the empress.

Soon after they returned to the palace, master Zheng came in and reported, "Your Majesty, Miss Jing

and her father is here."

Emperor Ning frowned, "call them in!"

Jing Kui and Jing Wenxi didn't look well. As soon as they stepped into the hall, the two of them

hurriedly knelt down. Jing Kui hurriedly kowtowed to Emperor Ning, "Your Majesty, someone must be

framing my daughter up. Please help us..."

Jing Wenxi added anxiously, "Your Majesty, I'm not a monster. Please don't believe the nonsense."

Emperor Ning's eyes fell on the two people in silence. After a long time, he said in a calm and

unemotional voice, "Grand counselor Jing, since you personally invited master Lingxuzi, you must has

prepared everything. But why is there such a thing? Since everyone in the imperial city would worship

Master Wu Na and master Lingxuzi like God, we didn't make the ceremony private. I believe the people

in the Imperial City will soon know about this. Our people are the foundation of our country. Even

though someone framed you up today, I can't offend all the people for my own selfish interests. "

Jing Kui have a short silence. After a while, he say in a low voice, "I understand."

On hearing these words, Jing Wenxi knelt down and looked scared. She must be punished by her

father as a cripple by his majesty. She must die to console the commoners. Even if she didn't die, if the

commoners knew she was Jing Wenxi, she couldn't do anything in the state of Ning anymore.

"Grand Councilor Jing, you'd better leave now." The emperor said lightly. He knew that Jing Kui

wouldn't oppose him because of Jing Wenxi. Once he got the power, it would be difficult to let it go.

Jing Kui nodded, "I will to go back now. " Then he stood up and took Jing Wenxi's hand. But Jing Wenxi

refused to leave. She shouted at emperor Ning, "it's Lady Jing! She must have set me up! Your

majesty, please help me!"

Emperor Ning frowned and looked at Jing Wenxi pitilessly. "Take her away."

The guards came in and dragged Jing Wenxi out of the house. After dealing with Jing family's father

and daughter, Emperor Ning turned to master Zheng, "who is the one born on the seventeenth day of

may in lunar calendar in the imperial concubines?"

Master Zheng bent down and said, "I just checked the date of birth of the concubines. Only lady Ya was

born on the seventeenth day of May scooter, and she lives in the southwest of the imperial palace."

"Lady ya?" Emperor Ning was slightly taken aback, as he had never expected such a result. With

doubts in his heart, he wondered, 'the imperial edict of the Ministry of rites is in charge of the imperial

edict, and the brother of Lady ya, Liu Qiyan, is the Ministry of rites. Then, why did such a thing happen?

Did Liu Qiyan do it?'?

While thinking, Emperor Ning shook his head to deny his own thoughts. He had investigated Liu

Qiyan's identity. He was only a child of an ordinary peasant family. He studied for merit only because

his father was outstanding and excellent. Now there were only two of them in the family. Emperor Ning

had observed him secretly since he entered the court. Liu Qiyan was upright and did not know the

entanglement in the political field. Moreover, he didn't get on well with his colleagues in the court. Even

when he was in a critical juncture of life and death, he had never secretly made a profit for himself. he

was not the kind of person who would bow his head to the wall. he was unable to do it, either. master

Lingxuzi was a person that Jing Kui wanted to invite. Anyway, it was impossible for Liu Qiyan to

persuade Lingxuzi to help him.