Chapter 176 Sharing the burden

Xia Houzhang followed Li Shengxuan and held an umbrella for him. Behind them were attendants, and the group walked towards Yuzhang Palace in a mighty manner.

The Queen Mother heard that Li Shengxuan had come to Yuzhang Palace, but she leaned on the main seat without even raising her eyelids, "You guys go and tell the Emperor that the Ai family is not feeling well and has gone to bed, and no one is there."

The maid who came to report had a troubled expression on her face and whispered: "I would like to report to you, Your Majesty, the Emperor has not said that he wants to enter the palace to pay his respects."

"What?" The Queen Mother sat up slightly and asked, "Then what is he doing?"

"This..." The maid hesitated for a moment, shook her head and said, "I don't know this either."

"I don't know?" The Empress Dowager frowned slightly and said coldly: "Go and keep an eye on the Emperor and Fang Zilan. The Ai family would like to see which song they are singing."

"Yes." The maid obeyed the order and left.

Besides, Fang Zilan had been kneeling in the snow outside Yuzhang Palace for more than an hour. She had stopped shouting a long time ago, but she was also very cold.

Fortunately, she listened to Awan and put on a few more layers before going out. But no matter how thickly she dressed, she couldn't withstand the coldness of the snow soaking her clothes. She only felt the slightest chill coming from her knees and going straight into her bones.

She couldn't stop shivering from the cold.

She couldn't help but sigh as she wrapped her cloak tightly around her. She looked up at the snowflakes flying in the sky. She completely lost her righteous and awe-inspiring attitude just now. She just thought about how to find a way to stand up first.

After all, if she continued to kneel down like this, her knees would get frostbite, and she might not be able to get off the bed for the entire first month of the year.

However, please kneel down was what she said herself. If she stood up now, it would be like slapping herself in the face... Just when she was thinking hard to no avail, she saw that the sky above her head was covered by an oil paper umbrella, and the wind and snow

Together they were isolated outside the umbrella.

She looked up and saw Li Shengxuan standing behind her with an umbrella in one hand.

"Your Majesty?" Fang Zilan shouted uncertainly, but she saw him shouting at the closed door of Yuzhang Palace: "I have issued an order, and the public guard Pleiades of the Xuanwei State will investigate the case in the north. In this case

Until the investigation is clear, no one is allowed to touch a hair of the people in the North. Since the Empress Dowager is holding a petition from the people in the North, she knows that this case is not trivial. If you have any objections, you may wish to speak to me."

Fang Zilan looked at Li Shengxuan blankly. He lowered his eyes at her and said calmly, "As for the Duke of Yue, Fang Zilan, as the Duke of Beijing, there is absolutely no reason for the Empress Dowager to vent her anger."

After he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand towards Fang Zilan.

Fang Zilan looked at the hand, hesitated for a moment, and then the owner of the hand grabbed her arm and pulled her up from the snow.

She knelt for too long and was so cold that her center of gravity was unsteady and she fell straight into Li Shengxuan's arms. He didn't mind, and reached out to grab her waist to help her stand more steadily.

After Fang Zilan helped Li Shengxuan stand firm, she heard him say: "Fang Zilan, I took you away today. If the Empress Dowager has anything else to say, I will be waiting for you at the Qiankun Palace at any time."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a creak and the door of Yuzhang's palace opened wide.

The voice of the Empress Dowager came from the palace, "Your Majesty, please stay." She walked slowly to the palace steps and stood there, her face colder than the snowflakes falling all over the sky.

She said coldly every word: "Is the Emperor determined to protect Fang Zilan and see this case through to the end?"

"Yes." Li Shengxuan said a simple word without hesitation.

Fang Zilan raised her head and saw that his expression showed indescribable perseverance, which made her feel inexplicably at ease.

The wind and snow were getting stronger, and the snowflakes hovering between the sky and the earth formed a natural white curtain, isolating the Queen Mother in the eaves of the palace from Li Shengxuan, Fang Zilan and others outside the palace steps.

The Empress Dowager sneered, "Okay, the Emperor has big ideas now, and it's hard for the Ai family to say anything. But I don't know the consequences of this case, is the Emperor willing to share the responsibility with Fang Zilan?"

Hearing this, Fang Zilan suddenly changed her expression and shook her head at Li Shengxuan to stop him.

However, Li Shengxuan tightened his hold on her, seeming to comfort her but more like making up his mind.

When she heard his voice, she was extremely determined, "I am willing to share the burden with her. I will never leave her alone to swim in the wind and snow, freeze in the long winter, and be trapped in the prison of power. Her destiny should be for all people."

Fate is established between heaven and earth without restraint, it is not just kneeling down here and letting others test it."

Fang Zilan looked at the person close at hand and just wanted to carve his image into her heart.

The brilliance of his body, between the vast white sky and the earth, under the bright and cold falling snow, eclipsed all the surrounding scenes.

In her daze, she heard him calling her name.

The anxious voice, worried tone, and warm embrace made her completely fall into a coma.

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Fang Zilan fainted in front of Yuzhang Palace and was in coma for three days and three nights with a high fever.

Li Shengxuan placed her in Fengyi Palace of Queen Fang Ziqin and invited many imperial doctors to see her, including imperial physician Ling Wenya.

However, after Wen Ya diagnosed Fang Zilan's pulse, he still asked Li Shengxuan for an order to announce Awan's entry into the palace. It was not that he could not heal, but that he did not dare to heal.

He did not expect that the little girl A Wan would be so bold and use dangerous medicine. The current Fang Zilan might not be able to escape the word of death if she were put into the hands of any doctor other than A Wan.

If Fang Zilan died, then Ji Ningtian... Wen Ya didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he could only work with Awan to prepare medicine for treatment.

Besides, the Empress Dowager in the palace was very angry with Li Shengxuan and Fang Zilan, and the situation outside the palace was not necessarily so good either.

The major aristocratic families who were watching the excitement no longer felt comfortable gloating about the outcome. Instead, they all felt sad and did not dare to act rashly.

After all, no aristocratic family dares to say that they are absolutely innocent. If the Beijing case takes the lead and the dignitaries in the capital are later investigated, I am afraid that no official family can withstand the verification.

In this way, anyone who could establish some friendship with the Wei family was overtly and secretly signaling to Wei Subaru to turn the big thing into a trivial matter, catch the culprit and cover up the case.

As for Wei Subaru, who suddenly had such a errand to investigate the case, he was extremely troubled, so he had no choice but to turn to Zhuge Ming for help.

Of course, Zhuge Yu was not happy for his eldest brother to wade into this muddy water, not to mention that the person who invited his eldest brother was Wei Subaru.

However, Zhuge Ming's resigned attitude made it difficult for him to say anything. In addition, Wei Subaru asked Li Shengxuan for an order to allow Zhuge Ming to attend the trial. He could not stop him, so naturally he had no choice but to let them go.

However, in this way, he can learn about the development of the case through his elder brother, and it is not a bad idea to judge the situation during the trial. In fact, he is also very curious about how many people are involved behind the case in the North and how far the trial can go.

I'm afraid nothing will be known until the case is concluded.

Li Shengxuan: I am not an idealist, I just still have ideals.
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