The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Sun Kui walked in and reported, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Han wants to see you."

The emperor was surprised: "Why is this brat here?" At this time, it was already evening, and the banquet in the Purple Palace had ended. "Let him in."

After a moment, Sun Kui led Zhao Yao in, then he stepped out and stood guard at the door.

As soon as Zhao Yao came in, he asked directly, "Who poisoned me?"

The emperor was startled by the question, and after a while he smiled and said, "What kind of poison?"

Zhao Yao sat down directly on the couch and looked sharply at the emperor who was pretending to be stupid.

"Did the starling lay it?"

The emperor's smile froze, and his expression immediately turned serious: "How did you know that I was poisoned?"

"Don't worry about how I know this." Zhao Yao said as he took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and threw it into the emperor's arms. "This is Lingnan's detoxification pill, which can cure all poisons except the most toxic ones. Eat it now."

"Is it so magical?" The emperor poured out an antidote from a small porcelain bottle and threw it into his mouth without any doubt.

"I will vomit black blood after eating it."

Not long after, the emperor vomited a large pool of black blood, which scared Sun Kui who came in.

After spitting out a pool of black blood, the emperor felt much better.

Zhao Yao stretched out his hand to feel the emperor's pulse. "The poison has been cured, but your old injuries..." As he spoke, he took out a small blue porcelain bottle from his arms. "It can relieve the pain. Take one pill a day."

"Where did you get so many medicines?" The emperor took the porcelain bottle and ate it without any hesitation.

"Just in case." There is a lot of miasma in Lingnan, and he often encounters assassinations. For the sake of his life, he always carries medicine with him.

After taking the medicine, the emperor found that the pain from his old injury was indeed relieved a lot.

"Your medicine is good."

"The witch doctors in Lingnan are very good." Zhao Yao glanced at the emperor and said unhappily, "You didn't take the medicine I gave you before. If you had taken it, your old injury would not have recurred and you wouldn't have felt any pain."

The emperor said with an evasive look: "Medicine is three-quarters poisonous, why should I take medicine if I have nothing to do?"

"You deserve the pain."

The emperor cursed: "You stinky boy!"

Zhao Yao was too lazy to talk nonsense with the emperor anymore, so he brought the topic back to the topic: "Tell me, what kind of poison did you get? Why did the starling poison you?"

"It's not a deadly poison. It's called Sanyunqing. It won't kill me." The emperor didn't take the poisoning to heart. "Why do you think it was Old Eight who poisoned me?"

"Besides Brother B, who else has the ability to poison you? Brother Five?" Zhao Yao raised the corner of his mouth and smiled contemptuously when mentioning the King of Han. "If he had this ability, he would not have rebelled."

As they were talking, Sun Kui came in with some ginseng soup. The emperor had just vomited a large pool of blood, so Sun Kui felt that he had to nourish the emperor. Of course, Zhao Yao also had a share of the ginseng soup.

Zhao Yao had not eaten anything at the banquet just now. The food at the banquet was all cold. In addition, the dishes were greasy and covered with a thick layer of oil after being cold. Zhao Yao had no appetite at all.

"Eunuch Sun, I'm hungry. Please bring in some more food."

"I'm hungry too, please give me some more."

Sun Kui said with a smile on his face, "Yes, Your Majesty."

After a while, Sun Kui prepared a table of rich dishes for the emperor and his son.

The father and son sat on the couch, eating and chatting.

"Why are you so sure it's Lao Ba?"

"I just said that no one except Bage can do this." Zhao Yao frowned slightly and said, "What does Bage want to do?"

"You should ask him."

"It's not easy to poison you. How did myna do it?" Before the emperor had every meal or ate anything else, there would be eunuchs to test the poison.

"What do you think?"

"Poison a little bit at a time? To the extent that the eunuchs who test the poison can't detect it?" Zhao Yao thought about it and this was the only way. "How long ago did Brother B have someone poison you? A year ago? Or two years ago?"

The emperor didn't expect Zhao Yao to guess all of them. He laughed and said, "You little brat are very smart."

"You haven't told me yet, was it a year ago, or two years ago?"

The emperor said, "The imperial physician said that the poison has been administered for two years."

"Two years ago?" Zhao Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "Before I went to Lingnan?"

The emperor looked at Zhao Yao in astonishment: "How did you know?"

"Sure enough!" Zhao Yao said with a heavy expression.

"What did you guess, little brat?"

"I poisoned you before I went to Lingnan. It seems that Brother Baga had arranged everything long ago." Zhao Yao narrowed his eyes slightly and said thoughtfully, "It seems that Brother Baga knew that I was going to Lingnan a long time ago. But why did he poison you when I was going to Lingnan?"

The emperor asked in return: "What do you think?"

Zhao Yao stared at the emperor. Seeing that the emperor looked calm and not surprised at all, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Damn father, did you know this a long time ago?"

The emperor smiled mysteriously and then lowered his head to eat.

Looking at the emperor's expression, Zhao Yao knew that he had guessed right.

"You knew that Bage poisoned you, so why didn't you order his arrest?"

"He's still useful."

The emperor's tone was very calm, but after Zhao Yao heard it, he felt that there was a huge surge hidden beneath the calm.

"Father, what are you using myna for?"

The emperor said jokingly: "Guess."

"I don't want to guess." Zhao Yao almost couldn't help but swear. Guess what?

"You'll know in the future." "Old man, have you known about the affairs between Bage and the Southern Wei people for a long time?"

"You little rascal, how am I old? I'm not even fifty years old. I'm still in my prime." The emperor felt very unhappy when he heard his youngest son calling him "old man". He always felt that he was being called old by his youngest son.

"You already have white hair, and you're still in your prime." Zhao Yao mocked him without any hesitation, "Look in the mirror."

The emperor was so angry at this that he picked up the bone he had just vomited and threw it at Zhao Yao, but his youngest son dodged it nimbly.

"Old man, you have to accept your age."

"I am not old, and I will not submit." After taking the antidote, the emperor felt much better, but he was angry with his youngest son again.

Zhao Yao asked again: "Did you know this a long time ago?"

"I'm not a fool."

"You used the myna to gather the Southern Wei people, and then used him to deal with them?"

The emperor picked up a piece of meat for Zhao Yao and said, "Almost."

"The people of Southern Wei cannot be left here." Zhao Yao thought that when the King of Wei was about to succeed, the Emperor would take action against him and the people of Southern Wei, making all his plans come to nothing. This was too cruel for him. "Father, after all, Bage is your son. Isn't it too cruel for you to treat him like this?"

"Why, you feel sorry for Lao Ba and feel sorry for him?"

Zhao Yao met the emperor's half-smiley gaze and said frankly: "Yes, although Bage has half the blood of the Southern Wei people, he is your biological son after all."

"Stinky boy, if it was the second child, or the seventh child, would you say this for them?"

"No. They don't have a good relationship with me, why should I speak for them?"

The emperor originally thought that Zhao Yao would say "yes", but he didn't expect him to say "no", which surprised him very much.

Seeing the emperor's surprised expression, Zhao Yao said with a smile: "You think I will speak for them, and then you lecture me and say that I am too soft-hearted. I'm sorry to disappoint you. I'm not that kind."

The emperor laughed out loud.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Zhao Yao didn't bother to pay attention to the emperor who was laughing madly, and just ate his food.

The emperor laughed for a while before stopping, "You little bastard, you didn't disappoint me." If Zhao Yao really spoke for King Dai and King Jing, that would disappoint the emperor.

"I should have said yes earlier." Zhao Yao regretted not disappointing the emperor.

"Old Eight..." the emperor said meaningfully, "He is more sinister than you think. Instead of worrying about him, you might as well worry about your own heart."

"I don't have anything to worry about." Zhao Yao didn't know what the emperor was up to. He said very seriously, "No matter what, Bage is still your son. In the end, you should spare his life."

The emperor looked at Zhao Yao deeply and said, "Okay."

Hearing the emperor's agreement, Zhao Yao breathed a sigh of relief and then gave the emperor a bright smile.

He didn't say thank you.

"You still haven't told me why Bage poisoned you?"

"Didn't I ask you to guess?"

"You love to talk but don't talk."

"Then I won't say anything."

Zhao Yao: “…” My stinking father is so infuriating.

Seeing his youngest son's deflated expression, the emperor was in a good mood and immediately rewarded himself with a piece of meat.

"Fifth Brother rebelled. Besides us, was it Brother Eight's doing?" Zhao Yao asked again, "Brother Eight poisoned you to make you really sick. He didn't want to wait for the mantis to catch the cicada, did he?" No, Brother Eight didn't need to take the risk. Neither the Second Brother nor the Fourth Brother was his match. The final winner must be Brother Eight.

The emperor said nothing and let Zhao Yao guess.

"Did I guess right?"

The emperor asked, "How do I know whether you have guessed it right?"

Zhao Yao glared at the emperor unhappily and said, "Forget it. I don't care."

"Eat your meal well." The emperor picked up a piece of meat and fed it directly into his youngest son's mouth.

After that, Zhao Yao did not mention the King of Wei anymore and dined with the emperor seriously.

After the meal, the palace gates were closed, Zhao Yao could not return to the Han Palace, so he had to stay and sleep with the emperor. He did not sleep on the dragon bed, but on the couch.

The emperor patted the bed and said, "You little bastard, come up and sleep with me."

"No." It's disgusting for two grown men to sleep together.

"You little bastard, you can sleep with the fourth and eighth sons, but you can't sleep with me?" The emperor had never slept with his youngest son before. Today was a rare opportunity, and he didn't want to miss it. "Do you dislike me so much?"

Zhao Yao didn't expect that the emperor was jealous and found it funny.

"Forget it. Since you're old, I'll sleep with you."

"How many people want to sleep with me, but I'm not happy. It's your honor to sleep with me."

"I'm so honored." Zhao Yao climbed onto the dragon bed and squeezed the emperor into the bed. The father and son slept side by side.

"Smelly boy..."

The emperor had just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by Zhao Yao: "I have to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth early tomorrow morning. I don't have time to chat with you. I have to go to sleep." After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes.

The emperor, who was about to speak, showed a helpless look on his face and cursed in a low voice: "You little bastard, you know everything and you're still pretending to be me."

Zhao Yao pretended he heard nothing.

The emperor reached out and pulled the quilt for his youngest son, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

After a while, Zhao Yao turned around and stretched out his hand to pull the quilt for the emperor. When he turned back, the emperor's mouth corners slightly raised.

After a while, Sun Kui walked in quietly. Seeing the father and son sleeping together on the dragon bed, a smile appeared on his face. (End of this chapter)