Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 923 "A kind father and a filial son"

As soon as Lin Yi finished speaking, Li Yiwei raised his neck and roared, "Lin Yi, shut up! I thought about asking for mercy for you because you are my brother and saved your life. But at this moment, your father has promised you a rich and prosperous life, but you still don't repent! Lin Yi, what on earth do you want to do?!"

"What am I going to do?" Lin Yi raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Yiwei, sneering disdainfully, "I thought that Your Highness should have known all along what I was going to do..."

"What do you mean?!" Li Yiwei shuddered all over, and almost subconsciously looked at the emperor, then glanced away with a guilty conscience, and shouted at Lin Yi without much momentum, "This king has never had any intersection with you before, so don't say something ambiguous that will put this king in a position of disloyalty and injustice."

"Never met before?" Lin Yi walked towards the emperor with a strange laugh, as if he had heard a funny joke. He didn't care when Zhang Dexian stopped him. He just turned around and pointed at Li Yiwei and complained, "Your Majesty, you probably don't know yet? Lin Yi and I are Li Yuqi's men on the surface. We do things for him, kill people for him, and raise those poisonous insects for him... Yes, the fire in Chongren Hall was indeed set by Shangguan Yuan himself, and the Crown Princess did commit suicide. But before that, that woman had already gone crazy! She was driven crazy by those poisonous insects!"

Ji Wuyan's palm tightened, and the next moment her cold fingertips were wrapped in warmth. Ning Xiuyuan held her hand calmly, met her eyes, shook his head, and comforted her silently without saying a word.

The imperial doctors were shocked by this shocking secret and at the same time worried about their own safety.

The emperor's focus was completely different. "Crazy, crazy?! You mean, I will end up going crazy too?"

"That won't happen." Lin Yi shook his head in denial. Noticing the emperor's instantly relieved expression, he silently despised him and asked playfully, "Your Majesty, why don't you ask me why I have such a close relationship with the Crown Prince and why I have gained his trust?"

The emperor was now only concerned about whether he would go crazy and whether he could be cured. As for how the Eastern Palace had committed crimes behind the scenes, he didn't care, but he still followed Lin Yi and asked, "Why?"

Lin Yi grinned, and his smile was very proud. He said, "Because... because I am the Taoist priest. He wants to breed the best poisonous insects, and he needs many people to do experiments... Who is more suitable than the Taoist priest? The mysterious sect, after being deliberately spread by people with ulterior motives, has become more and more mysterious... I am afraid that for those who pray to the gods, I, the priest, am more useful than you, the emperor who is high above, don’t you think?"

The emperor was naturally disdainful and sneered, "You are playing tricks!"

"Yes, yes, of course, these words of mine are not pleasing to your majesty... but they are enough to fool those ordinary people who are obsessed with their own ideas and blinded by their own vision." Lin Yi even coaxed the emperor in a good-tempered manner. Seeing that the other party was obviously pleased by his coaxing, he changed the subject and asked, "However, Taoism was originally just a small temple with few incense sticks. How did it become so famous in just a few years? Your majesty, do you know who is behind this?"

The emperor was not interested at all. He was not going to investigate the crimes committed by the Eastern Palace, let alone the dirty things of Taoism and religion. But Li Yiwei could not hold back. He suddenly stepped forward and slapped Lin Yi in the face, pointing at him and scolding him, "Lin Yi, what is your purpose in talking about these nonsense at this point? Are you trying to delay time?"

The slap was crisp and fast. Lin Yi was hit before he could dodge. Half of his face swelled up quickly and the corner of his mouth was red. The doctors were shocked. They didn't expect that the gentle and peaceful prince would have such a domineering and sharp side. They were frightened when they saw Lin Yi, who was slapped hard, smiling wickedly instead of being angry.

Lin Yi chuckled wickedly, maintaining the posture of his head being hit sideways, twisting his neck and looking at Li Yiwei with a wicked smile, "Your Highness... Isn't it good for Lin Yi to buy time for you? Do you really hope that our emperor will accuse you of all the past events after he recovers?"

"You are talking nonsense!" Li Yiwei was shocked and angry, and he shouted at the top of his lungs, "When did I ever say such nonsense? Father, father, please don't listen to his nonsense, he just wants to alienate the relationship between us! Father, you have to believe me!" After saying that, he knelt down with a plop and said, "Please understand my son!"

The emperor lazily raised his drooping eyelids, his cloudy pupils looking heavy and oppressive, somewhat creepy and somewhat compelling. He lazily said "Oh?" before asking, "Is it really just nonsense? And not what you really think?"

"Father?" Li Yiwei was startled, and raised his head very slowly to look at the emperor, shocked and sad, and called out with trembling lips, "Father, Father... Why do you miss me so much? You should understand me. I don't have such great ambitions. I just hope to be an idle prince and stay by your side, which is great."

The emperor said nothing, but just raised his eyelids and looked at him, with an intriguing expression.

Lin Yi, on the other hand, laughed wildly, "Hahaha! It's really a loving father and a filial son... Your Majesty, I can testify to this point, the prince really only wants to be a leisurely prince with loving father and filial son..." He laughed, and his smile became more and more intriguing. He licked the blood at the corner of his mouth and said, "So, our prince has brought Taoism to the top step by step, placed me next to the prince, helped His Royal Highness the Prince do all kinds of bad things, and harmed the world, but he never touched Your Majesty from beginning to end. In comparison, His Royal Highness the Prince is obviously not that filial. The reason why he wants me to raise poisonous insects is that his ultimate goal is to control Your Majesty..."

Li Yiwei stood up suddenly, "Lin Yi, shut up!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor took a deep breath. He took a deep breath very hard. After taking a deep breath, he paused for a moment, as if he was suffocating, and his face turned red. After a long while, he exhaled suddenly - as if he was reborn, and then shouted in a hoarse voice, "Someone! Capture the Prince of Pingyang!"

He seemed to have forgotten that everyone outside the door had been knocked down. What was even more puzzling was that he did not arrest Lin Yi, but had someone arrest Li Yiwei.

Ji Wuyan was also stunned, and looked at Ning Xiuyuan. Just as he was suspicious, he heard footsteps coming from outside the heavy rain...

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