auspicious time has come

Chapter 233
"No..." The emperor shook his head with difficulty and slowly, denying: "I was just confused for a while... At that time, I was fascinated for a while after hearing too much slander from those civil servants... I never thought about it, and I will never think about it." Framed by you! I just... I really just..."

"It's just pushing the boat along the way and doing what you want to do, isn't it?" Xiao Mu said for him.

Tears welled up in the emperor's eyes, and he shook his head: "I didn't..."

"Since you keep denying everything, how do you know who framed the other person—"

The young man's voice fell in the emperor's ears, like a visitor in a dream, ethereal but clear.

"I don't know..." The emperor's eyes were full of pain: "At first, I believed it to be true, and I didn't investigate... After that, there was no clue to pursue..."

Xiao Mu thought that he could be calm enough—but when he heard this, his eyes were still full of sarcasm.

"I believe it to be true, but I haven't investigated it." He repeated the emperor's words, and even found it ridiculous: "Isn't it unwilling to investigate, dare not pursue it? Because your majesty is afraid, once it is found out, it will be bad when the truth is in front of you." Close your eyes and deceive yourself."

"That's not the case!" The emperor immediately denied, with more tears pouring out of his eyes: "I was just confused. I suddenly knew about this at that time, and I lost my head under disappointment and grief... I was just confused for a moment, why did you Just don't believe it?"

"When I was young, you and I grew up studying together. If you got into trouble, I will accompany you to receive the punishment in front of Taifu Ji... You are my most trusted friend! I know that I was wrong, and I shouldn't underestimate and discard the trust I had when I was young. ..."

The emperor's voice was hoarse and remorseful: "The thing I regret the most in my life is becoming an emperor... turning myself into a real loner!"

"Do you know, all these years...how much torment I have had in my heart?"

The young man looked down at the emperor on the sickbed, the sarcasm in his reddish eyes faded, and he gradually regained his calm and indifference.

The emperor looked at him and asked again: "Minhui, can you...can you forgive me for being confused?"

The young man shook his head slightly, and gave him the answer clearly——

"Never possible."

Hearing these four decisive words, the emperor almost froze.

There seemed to be a chill in the young man's voice: "The dead don't even have a chance to talk about forgiveness—the Shi family and family have three lives. They can't answer His Majesty's questions, and no one can forgive His Majesty for them."

"But I am not the murderer who framed them!" The emperor raised his voice with all his strength, trying to prove himself.

"A murderer kills, but he still knows that he has killed someone." Xiao Mu looked at the emperor: "And your Majesty is willing to be a knife for others, and the hand holding the knife is stained with blood, but he still considers himself a 'poor man who was betrayed by his best friend', even Many years later, I made a mistake, and from the beginning to the end, there was only one sentence: "Because of disappointment and grief, I was confused for a while"—under such circumstances, which one is more hateful, Your Majesty or the murderer?"

The emperor's breathing became heavier: "No..."

"The king is calculating, plan ahead, look at the overall situation and weigh it, it's easy to say whether it's right or wrong—"

The voice of the youth continued: "If your majesty is planning for the country and balancing the general situation of the court and the world, it is still a bit of a king's 'last resort'. But back then, your majesty knew that something was wrong, in order to deceive himself and others , deliberately ignored the truth, and never even got to the bottom of who was messing up the situation afterwards——such a foolish act of deceiving the ears and stealing the bells, where will the future generations of the country be safe?"

"Being a friend is unrighteous. Being a king is not wise. You are ashamed of the sky above and the people below." Xiao Mu looked at the emperor who was gradually becoming agitated again. Instead of retreating, he leaned slightly and moved closer to the other side, lowering his head. Sheng asked: "Your Majesty has been such a person in his life. At the time of his great career, he tried to win forgiveness with just one or two hypocritical words, so as to free his conscience. Is it too whimsical?"

"You...!" The emperor's eyes changed suddenly: "No...you are not him! Who are you?"

He tried to reach out and grab the young man in front of him: "Tell me, who are you...!"

Xiao Mu ignored his anger and anxiety, slowly straightened up, turned and left the inner hall.

"You are...you are...

The emperor suddenly spat out a big mouthful of blood, and leaned on the side of the couch, looking at the young man's leaving back with horror in his eyes: "It's you..."

His whole body was tense to the extreme, and the old strings in his brain and all parts of his body that seemed to be weathered burst apart one by one.

Great pain and fear overwhelmed him, but he could no longer make any sound.

"Xiao Jieshi—" Seeing Xiao Mu walking out from the inner hall, the crown prince took a step forward.

Xiao Mu's eyes were dull and unwavering: "Your Majesty is in critical condition."

When the prince and everyone heard the words, their expressions were shocked, and they rushed into the inner hall quickly.

After a while of confusion, King Xiang uttered his first cry: "...Father Emperor!"

The voice of the eunuch in charge announcing the result trembled and mourned——

"The saint... is dead!"

Inside and outside the hall, princes, ministers, concubines and servants knelt down one after another, crying in mourning.

Jiang Zhengfu, who had been ill for many days, had just been helped out of the sedan chair by a servant, and had just approached the emperor's palace, when he heard the overwhelming crying, his feet stopped suddenly.

The death knell in the palace was sounded, and a sound came out of Miyagi.

The dull sound of the bell woke up the night, and the lights in various places in the city were lit up one after another.

"Did you hear any noise?"

Heng Yu, who had been sleeping very lightly recently, got off the bed and asked Cui Huai who had walked in.

"It came from the palace..." Cuihuai's expression was shaken, but she still lowered her voice: "The servant girl just went to the front yard, and only then did I know that Mr. Lang had been summoned into the palace two quarters of an hour ago. The sound must be..."

"Dead?" Heng Yu looked out the window.

Hearing her own girl's disrespectful words, Cuihuai was startled, but still nodded: "It should be."

"He died just like that..." Heng Yu walked over, opened the window, and looked in the direction of Miyagi: "This death, he is relieved."

At this time, the princes and princes who were summoned by him from various places in Beijing to celebrate the Qianqiu Festival for him, wolves, tigers and leopards——

Outside the capital, the southern border is in a hurry, and the Turkic envoys are being detained and are waiting for an opportunity——

In addition, there is a man with hands and eyes who can see the sky, using the common people in the world as a chessboard, and has been laying out in the dark for a long time——

The death of the emperor at this time is equivalent to completely tearing a crack in the seemingly peaceful night.

And the ghosts and ghosts hidden behind the night may come out with their teeth and claws.

……

Hengyu couldn't fall back asleep, and went to the East Palace the next morning.

The lectures are incredible, but people can't be idle.

Mrs. Xiao had an accident in the East Palace before, and now the emperor died again. The crown princess became frightened and became pregnant, and the East Palace was in a mess.

Princess Jiayi was also a little frightened, and grabbed Heng Yu's hand uneasily, and never let go.

When the Crown Princess' condition stabilized, Heng Yu just took her away and comforted her.

When the sky was getting dark, the crown prince was able to return to the East Palace. Just as he was able to inquire about the situation of the crown princess, someone from the palace came to pass the message: "His Royal Highness, please see Xiao Jie."

　Good evening everyone~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)