Empress with no virtue |LK ADAPTATION|

CHAPTER 43

December 28th, 2 days from Xi He second year, today is a very memorable day, because on this day, Ji Jungkook did a lot of brutal things.

First, he went to Ci Ning Palace to greet the empress dowager, and then infront of her he called out 2 eunuchs from her palace, scolded them, and then ordered them to be flogged to death.

The empress dowager got angry right there "the year is coming to an end soon, not only you did not do any good deeds, but you came here to kill at my place. I have been a vegetarian and praying for so many years, how do you expect me to face the gods now"

Ji Jungkook said with a straight face "they partnered with Ren Er Xi, falsified an edict and tried to accuse the innocent, they should be sentenced to death."

"Where is the evidence? Based on your one sentence, you have sentenced them to death, is it not too rushed?"

"What mother means is that, you want me to continue the investigation? Until the very end, and to find out that the mastermind behind this was you?" Ji Jungkook looked at her calmly, with no signs of contemplation on his face.

The empress dowager's lips started to quiver from her rising anger "You.. You" in the end she slammed the table and said "You unfillial son"

"There is something more unfillial" Ji Jungkook stood up, fold his hands and said " Minister Xu Shang Yong, snatching a woman in broad daylight, and the case was brought to the magistrate, I have already ordered for him to be suspended from his post to aid the investigation."

Xu Shang Yong is Xu Wei Rong's father. Has no outstanding talent, a pervert, with lots of concubines in his house, and when he sees pretty ladies he will want to obtain them no matter what methods, he will use. This time he bullied a married lady, with a strong personality, who went home and committed suicide. Her husband carried her corpse and kneeled in front of the magistrate court, he did not request for money and was not afraid of power, and was only aiming for an explanation. Magistrate Shun already felt that the citizen was bullied, but because Xu Shang Yong is the uncle of the emperor, he pushed the case back, and wrote a report to ask for Ji Jungkook's opinion.

Ji Jungkook's answer back to him was only two words "Punish Accordingly"

"He is your uncle!" The empress dowager's voice also changed.

"So what, if the king went against the law, he will be punished accordingly as well. If he wasn't my uncle, most probably he wouldn't have dared to do such vicious acts"

"you...You..."

"Mother" Ji Jungkook's voice was gentler now, he added "I know you are worried about me, but things that happens in the court, I think I am still capable of handling them. If you really want to share my worries, why don't you sincerely pray and eat your vegetables every day, to pray that our Da Qi will have a smooth road ahead, that way it will help lessen my workload. If not, if anything were to happen, you are still my mother, I would obviously not do anything to you, but towards the rest of the people, I would not be too constricted with my actions"

That was an obvious blackmail. The empress dowager although angry, she also knows that she can't do much. This son of hers.. his wings is getting larger, no one would be able to control him soon.

"If so, about your uncle, please do not punish him too harsh" The empress dowager said.

"Too late, my edict has been passed down, a king will not back out of his words"

After coming out from Ci Ning Palace, the next place Ji Jungkook went to was Tian Xiang Lou.

In the inner palace, only the ladies with a consort title and above can have their own palace, those below that ranking can only stay in the side court of any of the other consort's palace, but this Tian Xiang Lou was a small independent court, not big like a palace, previously the empress dowager made the decision to place Xu Wei Rong to stay here alone.