Everyone said his gaze was too cold, making people timid, afraid of being stared at by him.
But this little county princess accepted his scrutiny calmly, and even scrutinized him back, without the slightest fear.
Indeed brave, no wonder she dared to kick Commander Zeng away!
Leng Yusheng withdrew his gaze and came before the grandfather and granddaughter of Huangfu Yue. Instead of questioning them about what had just happened, he expressionlessly took out the imperial decree, opened it, and coldly read out the emperor's decree impeaching the Prince Dai and all his family members, demoting them to commoners, confiscating their property, and exiling them to Lingping.
"The Emperor cannot do this! I want to see the Emperor! Leng Shaoqing, you must take me to the palace to see the Emperor immediately. I demand that the Emperor retract his order." Zheng Taifei exclaimed excitedly after listening.
Huangfu Yue was a little confused. Didn't her grandmother say earlier that it was useless to beg the Emperor, and that the Emperor would definitely not see her? Why now... she understood!
Her grandmother did this deliberately to delay time, to gain more time for her sisters-in-law to hide more wealth.
"The Emperor will not see you!" Leng Yusheng said indifferently, his voice carrying a trace of coldness. "Take them away!" He waved his hand at a large group of soldiers emotionlessly.
Huangfu Yue's beautiful eyes flashed with a faint light. Was she going to fight and knock all these people down?
"Don't act rashly, go with them," Zheng Taifei whispered in her granddaughter's ear.
With Leng Yusheng, the top scholar of martial arts, present, although Leng Yusheng was a civil official, he had won the martial arts examination and was very skilled in martial arts. Coupled with so many soldiers, her granddaughter would surely not be able to defeat them, and would only suffer if she fought.
Moreover, it would worsen her granddaughter's crime, and she might even be killed on the spot for defying orders.
She could only follow them obediently. It was a pity that she couldn't gain more time for her granddaughters-in-law. She hoped they had already hidden a lot of wealth.
Huangfu Yue had intended to make a move, but upon hearing Zheng Taifei's words, she hesitated and changed her mind, deciding to listen to Zheng Taifei.
As the female military king, it was not difficult for her to deal with all these people.
She had once fought against three hundred people, and the soldiers present numbered only about seventy or eighty.
But dealing with all these people would escalate the situation, and worsen her crime.
She didn't fear a heavier crime, but she was afraid of implicating her grandmother and the others, causing them to be sentenced more harshly, perhaps even executed collectively on the chopping block.
She could escape alone easily, but taking a large group of old, weak, women and children, a pregnant woman, and a bunch of little ones, it would be difficult to escape.
Seeing that Huangfu Yue did not resist, Zheng Taifei also stopped causing trouble. The grandfather and granddaughter gave up resisting. Leng Yusheng ordered his subordinates to confiscate the property and drive all the people from Prince Dai's mansion to the front of the main hall. Then he separated from Zheng Taifei and Huangfu Yue and went elsewhere.
As he left, Leng Yusheng swept a cold glance at Zheng Taifei and Huangfu Yue.
It served them right for being sensible!
Zheng Taifei and Huangfu Yue were brought to the front of the main hall. The front of the main hall was very spacious and could accommodate hundreds of people. They saw that some servants of Prince Dai's mansion were already standing in front of the main hall, clearly driven there by the soldiers.
After standing in front of the main hall for a while, Zheng Taifei and Huangfu Yue saw Huangfu Yue's sisters-in-law, along with the children, being driven over by a group of soldiers. One soldier kept pushing Yang Wanqian, who was visibly pregnant.
"You woman, walk faster. Don't dawdle. Even a turtle is faster than you."
Yang Wanqian was pushed and stumbled, almost falling.
Zheng Taifei was shocked and was about to help Yang Wanqian when she saw her granddaughter rush out...
"Get lost! Don't touch my Fourth Sister-in-law!" Huangfu Yue arrived in front of Yang Wanqian with lightning speed, kicked away the guard who was pushing Yang Wanqian, and then quickly reached out to help Yang Wanqian.
"Fourth Sister-in-law, are you alright? Does your stomach hurt? Did you have any signs of miscarriage?"
Fourth Sister-in-law was pregnant now and very delicate. It was very dangerous for the guard to keep pushing her like that. Even if she hadn't fallen, she could have easily had a miscarriage.
Yang Wanqian shook her head, "No, it's good I didn't fall."
She reached out and touched her stomach. She had to protect the child in her womb. This was her husband's only bloodline. But in this situation, she feared she couldn't protect the child in her womb, because she feared she couldn't even protect herself.
Thinking this, Yang Wanqian, who had always been prone to crying, had her eyes moistened again, and she was about to cry.
"It's good that you're alright." Huangfu Yue looked at Yang Wanqian's teary eyes and knew she was about to cry again. She was a little helpless and was about to comfort her, to tell her not to cry, when the soldier she had kicked away had gotten up and was angrily running towards her to settle the score.
That soldier was hot-tempered. He actually drew his saber and lunged at her, "You wretched girl, how dare you..."
"Stop!" A voice as cold as ice rang out, stopping the soldier.
The soldier immediately stopped his saber and looked at Leng Yusheng, who had stopped him. Leng Yusheng was walking over with a group of guards.
"Lord Shaoqing, this woman kicked me. She kicked me very hard, and even kicked me flying. She clearly wanted to kill me, so I drew my saber on her," the guard immediately pointed at Huangfu Yue and complained.
"You really like kicking people away!" Leng Yusheng came in front of Huangfu Yue, staring at her coldly. His voice was even colder, so cold it seemed to freeze a person.
Huangfu Yue was not afraid of Leng Yusheng at all. After politely bowing to him, she said in a sweet voice, "Lord Shaoqing, you've misunderstood. It's not that I like kicking people away, but these dog slaves like to bully people. First, they were disrespectful to my grandmother, pushing her down, and now they are disrespectful to my Fourth Sister-in-law, pushing her down...
My grandmother is over sixty years old and cannot afford to fall. If she falls heavily, she will be seriously injured if she doesn't die...
And my Fourth Sister-in-law is pregnant and cannot afford to fall. If she falls, it might be a tragedy of a mother and child. Look how fragile she looks."
Leng Yusheng glanced coldly at Zheng Taifei not far away, then at Yang Wanqian, whom Huangfu Yue was supporting. Then his gaze returned to Zheng Taifei. He didn't say anything more to Huangfu Yue and walked towards Zheng Taifei.
Huangfu Yue's eyes flickered slightly. Was he...
"I just took people to the prince's mansion's treasury and found that it was empty. There was nothing there. Please, Zheng Taifei, explain where the things in the prince's mansion's treasury have gone...
But you had already received the news that the Emperor was going to issue an decree to confiscate the property, so you hid everything in the treasury?"
Leng Yusheng came to Zheng Taifei and asked coldly, his face expressionless, still like ice.
When the Emperor summoned him to the palace and ordered him to confiscate the property at Prince Dai's mansion, he specifically instructed him, saying that he had heard that the prince's mansion's treasury contained countless gold and silver, as well as many treasures. He was to confiscate the items in the treasury immediately upon arrival at Prince Dai's mansion and send them to the palace.
However, when he went to the treasury, he found it empty.
Since the treasury was empty, he could only seek out the person in charge of Prince Dai's mansion, Zheng Taifei.
Zheng Taifei and the other people in the prince's mansion were all shocked to hear that the treasury was empty, their eyes full of confusion.
Especially Zheng Taifei, she had gone to the treasury yesterday and everything was still there. How could the treasury be empty now?
As Zheng Taifei was feeling strange, she saw Huangfu Yue give her a look.
Zheng Taifei narrowed her eyes. Could the emptiness of the treasury have something to do with her granddaughter?
"Lord Shaoqing, you may not know, but all the property in the prince's mansion was donated by us." Huangfu Yue walked towards Leng Yusheng.
"Donated?" Leng Yusheng's expression finally changed. He slightly raised the corner of his eyebrows.
"Yes," Huangfu Yue nodded. "Previously, my father and elder brothers were fighting the enemy at the border and conscripted all the men in the border regions to join the army and expand the army. However, there were not enough supplies. When they asked the Emperor, the Emperor said the national treasury had no money, so he told my father to find a way himself.
My father could only write a letter to ask my grandmother for help. My grandmother donated all the things in the treasury and sent a large amount of grain and money to the border, even selling her treasures of many years to convert them into money and send them to the border.
This matter is widely known in the capital, and the Emperor also knows about it. He even praised my grandmother for this and awarded her."
In fact, looking at the original owner's memory, although Prince Dai did expand his army at the time and lacked supplies, and the Emperor told him to find a way himself, and he wrote to his grandmother for help, and his grandmother sent a lot of grain and money to the border to help him, Prince Dai's mansion was still very wealthy. The treasury still contained a large amount of grain, money, and treasures.
Now, she could only hope that her grandmother was smart enough not to expose her and cooperate with her.
"It is as Ru'er said! I never expected that after emptying Prince Dai's mansion and donating so many supplies, the Emperor would treat Prince Dai's mansion like this...
Prince Dai and his five sons all died in battle. The Emperor, instead of pitying our large group of widows and orphans, is going to confiscate Prince Dai's mansion and exile us, the old, the weak, women and children.
Emperor, you have no conscience!"
Although Zheng Taifei was old, she was always very smart. Even though she didn't know what connection the empty treasury had with her granddaughter, she immediately cooperated with her granddaughter and shouted, scolding the Emperor.