Good Bye My Princess (Dong Gong / 东宫)

Crown Prince is here!

- Father. - Your Imperial Majesty.

It's...it's...it's him Your Imperial Majesty.

The person that I saw at Thousand Buddha Temple the other day was him!

Plus, when I knocked on the Buddha statue, he became flustered.

If he didn't know that the Buddha statue was made of clay,

why would he be flustered?

What are you saying, Ninth Princess? I was ordered to make the statues.

What's wrong with me being slightly worried about the statues?

I want to ask you where you got the copper to craft the statues.

Of course it was give by the Ministry of Revenue.

Given by the Ministry of Revenue? Let me tell you

Prince Yi and I investigated the Ministry of Revenue.

Every year, the Li Empire only mines 300 thousand jin (1 jin = 12kg) of copper.

Out of all this, 100 thousand jin are used to make coins.

But now on the market, there is twice as much copycat coins as government coins.

That means the total amount of copper on the market has now surpassed 300 thousand jin.

With that said, the origin of your copper must not be simple.

Prince Yi and you dared to privately investigate my Ministry of Revenue's accounting book.

When I was working on the Xi State Journal, I accidentally saw that among the archives.

Your Imperial Majesty, I don't know how I've offended Fifth Prince and Ninth Princess.

I am unjustly accused. Your Imperial Highness, please take charge.

Crown Prince, what do you think?

Imperial Father, I am very close to Li Yan

I don't dare to discuss since I may be considered biased.

I'm allowing you to say it.

Li Yan puts a lot of effort in watching over the production of Buddhist Statues.

I cannot say that he did his job perfectly, but he tried his best.

But using the copper that is meant for the statues for personal use is a major crime,

I believe that Li Yan will not do such things.

With only the Ninth Princess's words,

I am afraid it is too unreliable.

What do you mean?

Your Majesty, I don't understand what goes on in the court and I don't have any grudges with anyone.

I'm just acting under your command and I want to find the truth.

If they don't believe me, they can go to the temple to check on the statues.

Your Majesty, the Buddhist statues have already been put up for people to pay their respects.

If we open it up, I am afraid that the citizens will be outraged.

It will also sacrilegious to Buddhism.

I am afraid it will lead to unwanted disasters, Your Majesty！

Isn't constructing fake statues sacrilegious to Buddhism?

If we open the statues but find no problems,

who will take the responsibility for angering the gods and the faithful?

We are between a rock and a hard place. Unless we open the statues, how do we know if something is wrong?

Your Imperial Highness, we can tell if it's real or faked without breaking open the statues.

You know how?

If a statue is made from mud,

then it's weight will be different from what's recorded by the Treasury Department.

Therefore, why don't we just weigh it?

Good, let's do it this way.

We need to prevent trickery behind the scenes.

- Cen Xian. - Present.

Take the Sheng Wu Army to close the temple immediately.

Tomorrow, I will

personally preside over the investigation.

Yes, Your Imperial Highness.

Look, how large!

Yes.

- Where is it dragging it to? - I've never seen this.

It's the first time I've seen such a scene.

Wow, I wish my wife was here to see this.

It's coming.

Why use the elephant to drag the statue?

Weighing the statue. They will use a boat to weigh the statue.

This is the first time.

Look at that!

What a grand sight.

Your Imperial Highness, the copper statue's weight

is identical to what's recorded in the treasury's journal.

Ninth Princess, how about it now?

Do we need to weigh another statue?

Your Imperial Highness, I witnessed people brushing a mud statue with copper paint.

Someone must have exchanged the statue.

Your Imperial Highness, I personally guarded overnight at the temple.

It's impossible that the statue was exchanged.

Impossible, I saw it myself.

Someone bet their life to force a military command.

Now they want to deny it in public.

Li Yan, be forgiving when you win.

Ninth Princess is not in the military. What military command?

Let's just think of this as putting up a show to watch it with Fifth Prince and Ninth Princess.

Your Imperial Highness, since Ninth Princess insists that she witnessed it herself.

I recommend that we check one more statue.

Ridiculous! You think our royal reputation is a children game to play?

Ninth princess, from now on, these situations should be discussed with me.

Prince Li

Thank you for talking for me just now.

No need

I got you involved into this problem.

It doesn't make sense for only you to be wronged

But, you should stop here.

Keep going at your own risk.

Your Highness, are you confused?

How can you stop the king today and say that?

She was fighting straight ahead, how could I hide behind like a coward?

Besides, it started with me, so I should have stood by her.

Your reckless behavior today will upset Prime Minister Gao.

We haven't strengthened our power base, we can't afford to alienate Prime Minister Gao.

Yes, I will take care of things with him.

Your Highness, you must think thrice before acting on anything in the future.

Do not get emotional.

Yes, I understand.

Grand Uncle.

Why is Your Highness here late at night?

Grand Uncle, sit first.

- Please take a seat. - So?

Come, sit down.

You Highness, tell me why.

I am here to beg forgiveness to Grand Uncle.

I was reckless and ruined the good plan you and uncle had set up.

So I made such a big mistake.

You are still young. It's understandable that you get impulsive.

Grand Uncle, I was just thinking at the time,

someone had to speak up for Ninth Princess because of her royal position.

So I stood up.

I was too impulsive. From now on, I will closely remember the teachings from you and mother.

I will not do things without your knowledge.

Forget it.

Make a mistake, learn a lesson. Just remember these lessons well.

Yes.

Whenever I think of how Li Chengyin got scolded today, I just want to laugh.

He and Ninth Princess have become the biggest joke in the world.

- Father. - You, get down.

I need to thank you for today, Uncle.

It's all thanks to your cautious undertaking to switch the statues.

Otherwise, Li Yan and I would have been able to get out of this.

Your Highness is overstating what I did.

Old ginger is the spiciest.

Whoever is supporting Li Chengyin just can't match you, Dad.

Shut your mouth!

You made such a mistake. Almost lost your head.

Father, isn't this all solved now?

You couldn't even deal with a teenager.

I... if she wasn't going to become the Crown Princess, I would have done away with her already.

Even though we stop the problem here,

but Fifth Prince has found our accounts.

We can't maneuver anymore.

Fifth Brother knows too much. I am very concerned.

I would

just get rid of him, so he wouldn't trouble us anymore.

Quit your ridiculous talk.

This is the capital, not the town.

Uncle is exactly right. It's the capital here, and we need to use the capital's methods.

It seems Your Highness has new ideas.

Your Highness!

Sese! Why are you here?

Hurry, go inside. Come.

Come.

You could have sent someone to tell me you were coming.

Why stand outside by yourself for so long?

I heard what happened in the palace today and was very worried.

I could only think about seeing your highness quickly.

I didn't come to blame your highness...

I know that your highness always does things with your own principles.

No matter what, Se Se will always support your highness.

Se Se, you have a heart.

But your highness and the ninth princess...are

We are just ordered by His Majesty to research together.

She is the Crown Princess-to-be. You need to watch your distance with her

so that there won't be speculation and rumors.

Everyone knows you and I like each other, why would there by rumors about someone else?

With this sentence, all my worries are gone.

Come.

They are here!

Princess—

Quick!

Xiao Feng Yong Ning, Luo Xi, you guys came!

The snow is so heavy today, I thought you guys wouldn't come.

How could we not? We asked great grandma and managed to come here.

From what I can tell, you used Xiao Feng as a cover to convince great grandma.

Hmph, and you don't even care who I did it for.

I heard that someone else is going today so that's why it must be today.

It's a good thing that it's snowing so much.

We can enjoy the hot spring and drink tea while enjoying the beautiful snowy scenery.

That's the beauty of life.

Let's not talk anymore and leave now

so we can go into the hot spring from 3 pm to 5 pm.

Let's hurry and leave now then.

Let's go!

Let's go Xiaofeng! I'll take you to find Yong Ning.

It's so beautiful!

Yong Ning runs so fast

We only went a slightly longer route, and she has already gone in!

Be quiet, I'll scare her a little.

Ok, let's go.