As soon as Jiangmen Jiaojiao opened her eyes, she was paranoid that the prince had come to steal her

Chapter 263 Lost
"Return to Your Majesty." Eunuch Li whispered: "I'm sick, my whole body is twitching badly, foaming at the mouth, my eyes..."

Seeing Emperor Xuanwu's increasingly sad expression, Eunuch Li temporarily stopped talking, "Your Majesty, my condolences!"

Emperor Xuanwu closed his eyes, his gray beard trembling slightly.

"The King of Liang has been suffering from diseases since he was a child. The imperial doctor said in the early years that he might not live to be forty, but who would have thought that he would rarely get sick after he was a teenager, and he would be braver than my other sons."

"I have forgotten those forty words, but he is just gone."

No matter how dishonest and domineering King Liang is, he is still his biological son.

Nowadays, a man with white hair suddenly gives a man with black hair, how can we not be sad?
Eunuch Li sighed softly, not knowing how to comfort him, so he could only accompany him quietly.

After a long time, Emperor Xuanwu suddenly asked: "Do you think the matter between King Liang and King Zhou really has nothing to do with Yun Qi?"

"This……"

Eunuch Li on the side said in a low voice: "I can't tell you."

"You don't dare to say it, do you?"

Emperor Xuanwu leaned back on the dragon chair and said, "Speak, I forgive you."

Eunuch Li hesitated for a moment, then carefully considered his words and said, "I feel that if the evidence pointing to His Highness in the past two days was all directed and acted by His Highness, that would be a bit too smart."

"His Highness was indeed rash in the past, but this year he has become more stable and restrained. He really does not seem like someone who would resort to such despicable means."

At this point, he paused for a moment, as if waiting for Emperor Xuanwu to express his position.

Emperor Xuanwu said: "Go on."

"Yes." Eunuch Li stepped forward and gave Emperor Xuanwu a pat on the back, "Your Highness has been diligent and studious this year. Everyone has seen it, and His Majesty has also seen it. Maybe there is someone in the dark watching the discord between His Highness and His Highness the Crown Prince and his son. It’s pleasing to the eye, so why did you set up a trap?”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been attacked by assassins before. There has been no heir in the Eastern Palace for many years. I heard that it was because someone tampered with the flowers and plants, preventing the concubines from getting pregnant."

"And when the Shangyuan case occurred previously, there were rumors among the people that His Highness King Dingxi was responsible."

"With so many things, His Highness can't do it all by himself for everyone to see, right? What is His Highness trying to do? Is he trying to ruin his reputation, or is he trying to make His Majesty dislike him?"

Emperor Xuanwu was silent for a long time, "You can speak."

"Your Majesty is so flattering." Eunuch Li hurriedly said: "How can a villain speak? But he is telling the truth. The capital seems to be peaceful now, but in fact it is turbulent. This is what your Majesty often tells the old slave. "

"Besides, if His Highness really wants to plot His Highness Prince Liang's life, it's not impossible to use some means to make His Highness Prince Liang go quietly in prison. If you have to make trouble when the prince goes, let His Highness Prince Liang go. Injuring the prince——"

"It's really... puzzling."

Emperor Xuanwu said nothing, and Eunuch Li also stopped talking.

After a while, Emperor Xuanwu suddenly said: "Did Yun Qi give you any benefits?"

"I gave you a thousand taels of silver as a gift to me a few days ago." Eunuch Li said calmly, "His Royal Highness King Dingxi said that I would like to ask this old slave to speak kind words to Miss Xie Qi from time to time, so that His Majesty can like Miss Qi more."

"You are honest!"

"I dare not hide this from Your Majesty."

Emperor Xuanwu snorted coldly, "I have always admired people who are capable and good at getting things done. Occasionally, I have some behavioral flaws, but I don't bother to care about them one by one, just like Lu Hanqiu."

"His reputation is so bad that officials from Yushitai come to visit him every day, but he handles cases without any carelessness. Naturally, I can turn a blind eye to such lewd things."

"The King of Liang was not so domineering for a day or two, but he was able to block the barbarian cavalry from the sixteen states of Youyun. I cannot ignore his contribution."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Don't interrupt." Emperor Xuanwu picked up the red pen on the table and said calmly: "The prince is too honest after all. Sometimes he is not as decisive as Yun Qi in killing. Yun Qi is like me, but not very similar."

Eunuch Li listened quietly and said nothing.

Emperor Xuanwu's eyes gradually became complicated, and after a long time he let out a long sigh.

Perhaps as Eunuch Li said, everything was done secretly.

But over the past year or so, Yunqi has also disturbed the originally balanced situation.Such disturbances put King Liang and King Zhou on the chopping block, making people have to raise the butcher's knife in hatred towards these two people.

Yun Qi didn't kill them directly, but it was no different from killing them.

As an emperor, there is no problem in being ruthless.

But it would be shocking to raise a butcher's knife and point it at the uncle who is related to him by blood and still be so merciless.

Emperor Xuanwu was also a mortal.

He is the emperor and the father.

No father wants to kill his own child, and neither does he.

The prince would not raise a butcher's knife against his blood relatives.

With such a comparison, Emperor Xuanwu suddenly preferred that Yun Qi could be more like a prince and occasionally be honest.

*
When Yun Qi left the royal study and went to the palace gate, Lin Zhen came up to him: "Your Highness——"

"Go home."

Yun Qi's voice was cold, and he lifted his robe and got into the carriage.

Lin Zhen didn't have much to say, so he took the carriage all the way back to Dingxi Prince's Mansion.

Entering Han Yuexuan, Yun Qi suddenly looked inside with sharp eyes.

"Your Highness?" Lin Zhen was surprised.

"Stand back." Yun Qi closed the door with his backhand, locking Lin Zhen and Lin Ye out.

The two looked at each other and silently retreated farther away.

In the dark room, a figure came out and said, "You found me."

"Ah."

Yun Qi didn't light a lamp and walked through the darkness to the figure and said, "Zhao Zhao."

"How did you find me?" Xie Zhaozhao was surprised, and Rourou said: "I stopped breathing. Logically speaking, no one would notice."

"I smell you... You may not know that I have a very keen sense of smell. As long as you are within ten steps of me, I can smell you."

"what?"

Xie Zhaozhao was stunned, "Why didn't I know you had this ability before?"

"There are still many things you didn't know before." Yun Qi smiled lightly, leaned a little closer to Xie Zhaozhao, took a breath, and whispered: "Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao."

"You—" Xie Zhaozhao was slightly startled, "What's wrong with you? I feel like you're not in a good mood."

And it wasn't an emotion he'd often felt before.

He seemed lost and sad now.

This emotion is even more obvious in the dark night without lights.

"I'm fine." Yun Qi said in a low voice, "I'm just a little tired."

"You're lying to me, Aqi. You don't act like this when you're tired. Don't you want to tell me? Does your bad mood have anything to do with me?"

"No."

Yun Qi shook his head, hesitated for a moment, and then said again: "Grandpa Huang doubts me."

Xie Zhaozhao was stunned for a moment, then thought about it for a moment and finally understood, "Are you talking about King Zhou?"

"More than that." Yun Qi twitched the corners of his lips and smiled a little self-deprecatingly. "Did you know that when my father went to the Tianlao to question me, King Liang suddenly became ill and attacked my father, and then died."

(End of this chapter)