My Cruel Little Empress
Chapter 36
The twilight sky had turned dark, just now the seamstress lady who some time ago started teaching me to draw floral patterns and taught me the foundation of the early embroideries had been bidding home. I am currently trying to finish my first embroidery which was an early example before I started drawing phoenixes and some kind of flowers on a cloth that I would give as a sewing cloth or handkerchief as a gift to the empress' mother.
I patiently continued to embroider me, although my initial example of embroidery was just a small floral pattern that I would make appear to arise with a thread - really different - different colors, different colors, but the thing that I initially took for granted and easily was obviously so difficult and long enough to work on. I was often stabbed in the end of the jar so that the tip of my finger was bleeding, and like now I was back pierced for the umpteenth time.
"Aw!" pekikku pain.
I placed the jar and thread on the table, then pressed back on my finger which was now bleeding. Even if it is just a small puncture wound, it still feels very painful. I then put my bleeding index finger into my mouth to stop the bleeding by sucking the blood before stepping towards the window and spitting out the blood I just sucked.
The sound of the sliding door shifted my gaze, I stared at the 20-year-old who had just walked out of my clothes room with a tired look, every now and then he yawns a sign that he is sleepy even though the night has just greeted, the 20-year-old who is my brother has not even had dinner like me.
Crown Prince Liang stepped towards my contest and laid his body on my soft bed. I went up to him and sat down at the side of the contest, and shook - shaking his body.
"Gege..."
"May may, let me sleep for a while" he exclaimed at what I was doing.
I just sighed and let her sleep on my complaint. I then got up from my seat, stepped towards the table and continued my embroidery. But before that, I shouted "Whoever is outside, the royal cook brought me dinner with his highness the crown prince Liang"
I then breathed a sigh of relief when it did not feel 1 hour passed and my embroidery was finished. The tailor said, if I have successfully completed this first instance of my embroidery, it means that I can already continue my embroidery for the empress' mother's gift.
At first I thought it would take some time to finish, but as the lady said, embroidery is only a curse of patience and perseverance, if we have both, if we have, so the embroidery we do will not feel long let alone boring, and it seems I will agree to it because I do not feel that embroidery is boring at all.
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The next day, the main hall of the outer palace of Zhang's kingdom began to be attended by the royal dignitaries ranging from the prime ministers to the officials of the lower classes. This morning all the officials in the field of nervousness because the news about the settlement of the investigation of the embezzlement of the wage workers of the construction of the south coast dock has been known. Today the decision will be dropped on the guilty party through the verdict of the Wei emperor who is the highest holder of power in the plains of the Zhang kingdom.
Ministers and officials began to take their own positions in accordance with the department where they worked and marched in rank while awaiting the arrival of the Wei emperor and the crown prince Liang.
"Her Majesty the emperor and his highness the crown prince have arrived ~~" the cry of the announcement of the arrival of the ruler of Zhang's work and his realm instantly made the prime ministers and officials instantly overwhelmed with fear. The killing aura was unrelenting to be let out by the Wei emperor, and his sharp and cold gaze was enough to make both of their legs tremble in fear. The atmosphere in the main hall was so cold that it made them shiver, the pressure exerted by either the Wei emperor or the crown prince Liang made them feel difficulty in breathing.
Nonetheless, they did not forget the obligation to salute when emperor Wei and crown prince Liang stepped towards their thrones. However, if they ignore the obligation, their lives can be threatened.
"Wake up!" emperor Wei orders when he has sat on his throne. All ministers and officials followed orders and began to sit in their seats.
"Zhen knows that you must have heard about the results of the investigation. Today Zhen will waste no time and will directly punish those involved" the Wei emperor said.
"Officer Xu Hai, official Bo Yang, and official Gu Xie Mo were found guilty of embezzlement of wages for workers working on the southern coast dock, the three were found guilty of the evidence. His highness emperor Zhang Wei was sentenced to the removal of rank and office in the government, and would languish in the torture tower of one family" general judicial officials regarding the decision of the Wei emperor against the alleged embezzlement of the wage funds of the workers.
Hearing the emperor's decision, the three officials got up from their seats and knelt down to beg for mercy and forgiveness. Unfortunately the Wei emperor was not at all pity with his third plea, he coldly said "What are you waiting for? Take the three to the torture tower with their families!" the orders of the Wei emperor were then obeyed by the soldiers of the Zhang royal court who had been marching at the end of the room of the main hall of Zhang's kingdom while awaiting orders.
The soldiers quickly dragged the three who continued to thrash and beg for the Emperor Wei's forgiveness and mercy. But the Wei emperor ignored him as well as the crown prince Liang who stared at his departure with a flat gaze.
Today, of course, the emperor of Wei or the crown prince Liang realized that the problem of embezzlement of workers' wages would be devoted entirely to small officials who might be entangled in the matter but they were not the masterminds the truth. Today's incident is clearly not much different from the words of Zhang Mu Lan's daughter, although both are doubtful and difficult to believe, but when getting the results of the investigation yesterday, the statement said, they were quite surprised when they realized the guesses or predictions of Zhang Mu Lan's daughter.
Crown Prince Liang first broke his daydream, then looked at the Wei emperor. There was one thing he wanted to ask, of course, about the real problem of criminals. However, neither crown prince Liang nor emperor Wei knew that the three were merely victims made into scapegoats to bear all the mistakes they might not have done.
Crown Prince Liang looked at emperor Wei deeply, could it be that his father was currently just pretending as if - would not know the truth from behind this matter just to trap the real criminals in the game and the plan that his father had prepared? or does his father really not know right now?
"Did May may not inform Father of her predictions and guesses on the matter?" inner crown prince Liang
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**TBC
Sunday, 14 June 2020
Note author :
This chapter crown prince Liang does not yet know if Zhang Mu Lan's daughter has also informed her Father regarding the issue of embezzlement of funds, so I hope you don't have to ask me again because I've explained it here and I'll explain it in the next chapter.
In addition, I thank the readers who are still faithfully waiting for this story. I'm sorry if there's too much Flashback that might bore you, but since it's basically a TimeTravel or TimeSlip story, I had to tell Flashback to keep the story going and you felt the way it was.
I'm not forcing you to like my story. Like it or not like you in this story it is your right, I will not down even if you start to get upset, bored and do not like this story. I've written 4 more years in the next field, and I also realize that I'm just an ordinary human being who if anyone appreciates my story, I will be grateful, and if anyone doesn't like it, it's their problem. I will only focus on readers who appreciate my work, however they know how to appreciate someone who is so difficult to string words or find ideas ❤.
Finally, see you in the next chapter 😘**