webnovelvip Chapter 27
Chapter 27
"Your Majesty, you..." Shang Xi had heard some secrets about Emperor Yadi when he was still serving the late Emperor Mu Huaihe, so he also speculated about the anomalies between his Majesty and the National Teacher during this period.
?? But I'm really sure, because of Mu Xiang's sentence "I miss him" just now.
"I miss him so much, but I can't go to him." Mu Xiang lowered her eyes and stroked the jade pendant in her hand.
?? "..." Shang Xi approached Mu Xiang and put a robe on him, "In my humble opinion, everyone in Daxiang is His Majesty's subjects. If Your Majesty wants anyone, bring it back."
"But he is not a citizen of Daxiang—" Mu Xiang rubbed the lines of the jade pendant with his slender fingertips, "nor is he an isolated citizen."
??Shang Xi was silent, and after a while he called softly: "Your Majesty..."
?? "Even if I go to him alone..."
?? He is afraid that he will not be alone.
??Mu Xiang grabbed the lapel of his clothes and turned around. The complicated emotions in the dream faded a little, and he also exhausted his thoughts.
?? "Let's go, go see the good lonely brother."
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??It rained heavily at night, and the evening wind blew on his body to make him icy cold, but because of his physical improvement, Mu Xiang didn't feel as cold as before.
?? But no matter how warm the body is, it can't match the emptiness and coldness in the heart.
?? What exactly does Shi He want to do, and what do you think of him?He obviously felt that he might not be able to be a good emperor, but he stood by him again, and did not help Mu Yu at all, and even extended his life.
??The cell door opened slowly, and the stone steps were laid layer by layer to the ground. The sound of gentle footsteps echoed in the empty cell.
??Mu Yu was imprisoned in the middle of the stone platform, with his eyes slightly closed, he asked, "What does Your Majesty want to do this time?"
??Mu Xiang didn't speak, and looked at Mu Yu quietly for a while: "There are still three months to be Gu's birthday."
??Mu Yu said coldly, "Your Majesty is here to ask for a gift, isn't it?"
??Mu Xiang didn't care about the sarcasm in his words: "I promised the national teacher that I will let you leave the capital on your birthday."
?? Mu Yu was slightly startled, as if a little surprised.
"But the premise is that the national teacher must not leave in this lifetime..." Mu Xiang paused, "You must not leave the imperial city."
?? Mu Yu raised his head in surprise, then frowned: "What did you do to let him leave?"
??Mu Xiang paused for a moment, then laughed lightly: "What did Gu do?"
??He just didn't do anything, couldn't do anything, that's why Shi He left so easily.
?? Mu Yu's tone was serious and dignified: "The Taizu has something to say, and the Master of the National Teacher has a promise, unless..."
??Mu Xiang looked at him indifferently: "Unless what?"
"It's nothing." Mu Yu was silent for a while, "Since the National Teacher is gone, let His Majesty deal with it if you want to kill or cut him."
"Brother Huang doesn't care so much about life and death?" Mu Xiang said, "What about Chang Qing? Let him die with him. Brother Huangquan also has a companion on Huangquan Road?"
?? Mu Yu closed her eyes again, and whispered, "That's a blessing..."
??Mu Xiang felt a little dull: "Brother Huang, let's rest, and go to see Chang Qing alone."
?? Mu Yu's eyelids moved, and he said with a little tiredness: "Mu Xiang, you are already a generation of emperors, and you are no longer that child who is being coerced by others everywhere. Why bother to vent your anger on a child when you feel unhappy? ?”
"...Brother Huang thinks that Gu wants to vent his anger on him?" Mu Xiang glanced back at him, and laughed inexplicably, "I just went to talk to him."
"..." Mu Yu raised her head, looking deeply at Mu Xiang's back.
??The cell where Chang Qing lives is not very far away, just two steps away. Chang Qing is already very thin. The main reason is that he suddenly didn’t eat the prison food a while ago, so Mu Xiang told people not to deliver the food, just let him go.
?? But after Shi He left, Mu Xiang suddenly changed his mind and asked someone to forcefully feed Chang Qing. Although he still didn't eat much, at least he survived the half month.
?? "Bring people here."
"Here."
??The emaciated Chang Qing was brought in front of Mu Xiang, his eyes were loose and his limbs were trembling slightly.
??Mu Xiang squatted down, and instantly smelled a sour smell. It is still summer, and the body smells really bad after not taking a bath for more than a month.
??Mu Xiang didn't care about it, and slightly raised Chang Qing's chin to look at it for a moment: "It looks pretty."
??Chang Qing raised her eyes slowly, exchanged a glance with him, and then quickly lowered her eyes lazily.
?? "So you don't want to live anymore?"
??Mu Xiang let go of his chin, clapped his hands and stood up: "Do you like him?"
?? Changqing no response.
??Mu Xiang looked at the messy cell, and said, "You like Mu Yu."
?? This time it was a more declarative tone. After hearing the familiar name, Chang Qing trembled and raised her head.
??But what stunned everyone was that Chang Qing quickly crawled to Mu Xiang's legs: "I beg..."
??Shang Xi was taken aback, thinking that Chang Qing was going to harm His Majesty, so he immediately kicked him.
??Chang Qing hit the ground with a bang, then got up tremblingly and headed towards Mu Xiang.
??Shang Xi wanted to ask someone to take him away, but Mu Xiang waved his hand to stop him.
??Chang Qing crawled slowly, and Mu Xiang waited quietly until he was grabbed by the hem of his clothes. Chang Qing raised his head tremblingly: "Please...you have already obtained the throne, please let Your Highness go..."
??Maybe it's been too long since I've spoken, Chang Qing's voice is hoarse and weak: "Your Highness treats you well, why do you do such a thing..."
??Mu Xiang looked down at him: "He treats me well?"
??Chang Qing talked about what he knew one by one with a trembling voice: "If it wasn't for Your Highness...you would have been strangled to death by the late emperor..."
"Presumptuous!" Shang Xi stepped forward immediately, trying to stop Chang Qing from speaking.
"Let him talk." Mu Xiang's eyes were cold.
??Chang Qing knew that this was not what Mu Yu said, but he was extremely favored by Mu Yu's side, and he had occasional dealings with other aristocratic princes, so he accidentally heard about this secret, which was not a secret.
??When Mu Xiang was born, it was prophesied that he would conquer the prince. The emperor wanted to strangle the baby at that time, regardless of the concubine Yu who was still in a coma at that time.
?? But was stopped by the national teacher, and gave the newborn prince a jade pendant.But he didn't expect that a few days later, Mu Huaihe was bewitched by the person next to the pillow who was opposed to Concubine Yu at that time, and insisted on executing this innocent baby.
?? But Mu Yu couldn't bear it. Although his mother died because of the imperial concubine, she still felt that the baby was innocent, so she wouldn't lose her life because of a prophecy.
?? When he was young, His Royal Highness took him to pick Piandian cherries. Although he didn't say it clearly, Chang Qing still recalled it in the days and nights that followed. It was false to take him to pick cherries, but to see Mu Xiang real.
?? "Your mother passed away, the first emperor wanted to raise her..."
??It is a good way to say that it is a stocking, but it is basically to keep Mu Xiang in the side hall and leave it to fend for itself.
?? It was Mu Yu who sent someone to ask the imperial dining room to prepare additional meals and send them to the side hall where Mu Xiang was. The late emperor doted on Mu Yu, so he could only turn a blind eye and close one eye when he saw this, and let him go.
"But what do you want Your Highness to do..." Chang Qing burst into tears, "His mother died because of your mother, he has no mother, how can he treat you..."
??Because of his weak body, Chang Qing's words were a bit inconsistent, but the general meaning was clear: "Your Highness knows that you want the throne, and he didn't want to fight with you. He originally, originally..."
??The light in Chang Qing's eyes gradually went out, and he lowered his head slowly and feebly, muttering in his mouth: "He originally said that he would take me to the south of the Yangtze River... to travel around the world..."
??Shang Xi asked the surrounding guards to retreat early on. After all, it is a secret of the royal family, so it is better not to let outsiders listen.
?? And Mu Xiang didn't interrupt Chang Qing, but just said at the end of him: "So, I still have to thank your highness?"
??Chang Qing's eyes became darker, Mu Xiang paused for a long time, and sneered: "Then your Highness should regret it now, and let Mu Huaihe strangle Gu to death in the first place."
?? Then there will not be so many things now.
??At the end, Mu Xiang glanced at the skin disease on Chang Qing's hands caused by the poor environment, and turned around: "Get someone to wash him, it stinks too much."
"...here."
??Outside the prison, the sky was already dark, and Mu Xiang stood under the eaves, staring at the sudden heavy rain in a daze.
?? He didn't feel any guilt because of Chang Qing's words. He was not a kind person in the first place, and he didn't need to make any gesture of remorse.
?? The two brothers who had no feelings at all, he would not complain no matter how Mu Yu treated him, but would just take revenge. Now that he knows how good Mu Yu has been to him, he will not be moved to be grateful.
?? If he could move people with emotion, the situation today would not happen.
?? He kept Mu Yu and didn't kill Chang Qing. Even if he let the two of them go in the future, it would definitely not be because of soft-heartedness.
??"His Majesty……"
"What do you think... in his eyes, what kind of person is he like?"
??Shang Xi opened the umbrella and was stunned for a second before realizing that the "he" Mu Xiang said meant the national teacher.
?? "According to my slave's humble opinion, the National Teacher appreciates His Majesty very much—" Shang Xi pondered for two seconds before continuing, "I also trust Your Majesty very much."
??Mu Xiang glanced at him: "You can talk teasingly."
??Shang Xi smiled dryly, and comforted him: "Maybe Master Guo Shi just went to deal with important matters, and when the time comes, he will come back."
"He won't come back." Mu Xiang glanced at Shang Xi, took the paper umbrella in his hand and walked into the rain, "Go find another one."
??Shang Xi stood there dumbfounded, where to find it?Fortunately, they had accompanying guards, so they could only find a group of people to walk into the rain in aggrieved manner.
??Back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Mu Xiang reviewed the papers for a while, but because he was not in the middle of it, he called after a while: "Xiangxiang, come here."
??He waited for a while, but there was no sound at all.
??Mu Xiang couldn't help but jump in his heart. Although this rabbit is usually naughty, it is still quite human. He will come over immediately when he hears his call, but today he has not seen the rabbit for a long time.
?? He summoned Shang Xi and the palace servants, but no one saw the rabbit.
??Mu Xiang hurried into the rain, forgetting to open his umbrella.
?? After finding the dusty Weiyang Palace, Mu Xiang was slightly relieved when he saw the gray rabbit lying on the verandah and rolling continuously.
??He picked up Xiangxiang's back of the neck: "It seems that you are tired of work."
??Xiangxiang yelled a few times, no longer her usual arrogant look.
??Mu Xiang frowned slightly, turned his head and said, "Branch to Shen Zhuomo."
After half a stick of incense, Shen Zhuomo looked at the rabbit in front of him and was silent for a while.
??It was the first time in the history that he was the exclusive imperial physician of the emperor. He was reduced to treating a rabbit.
"Your Majesty, according to my opinion, it should be fine."
??Mu Xiang paused after hearing the words, and asked Shen Zhuomo to step back.
??He touched Xiangxiang's soft hair and said, "Why, you miss him too?"
??Xiangxiang barked, perhaps in response.
?? On that day, Mu Xiang put the jade pendant back around his neck and stayed in Weiyang Palace for a night. No one knew the reason.
??【Historical records, Emperor Xiang ascended the throne, and imprisoned the national teacher to no avail. Later, he left. Emperor Xiang stepped into the dusty Weiyang on June 12, [-]th year of Chaoxu. Unseal, no more words to laugh. 】
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??On the day of the Dragon Banquet, representatives from other capitals were also sent. For a while, the entire capital was bustling with people of all kinds. While it was crowded, there was also a hidden crisis.
??Now that Daxiang is not in the same mood, each country has its own plans. They all wanted to take the opportunity to find out the situation and do something, but they didn't expect Daxiang to play a trick that caught them off guard.
??Emperor Xiang said that he used the banquet of the dragons to spread the word. The former prince Mu Yu had found out the truth about his rebellion. It was not the prince's wish.
?? Then, Emperor Xiang released the former prince Mu Yu, restored his status as a son of the royal family, and named him King Yu.
?? This trick fooled everyone, including Prime Minister Song Jin.
??Song Jin stepped into the imperial city in a hurry and wanted to see him, but was told that His Majesty was discussing state affairs with other ministers and asked Song Jin to come back later.
??Song Jin didn't leave either, and waited for half an hour in front of the imperial study before being summoned by Mu Xiang.
"What is your majesty going to do this time?"
"It's just right that the Taifu is here." Mu Xiang didn't answer his question, but asked Shang Xi to show him the portrait of the woman on the table, "Daqing, Shuguo, and Bianluo all wanted to marry me, Daxiang, Gu Zeng It is said that I will wear mourning for the first emperor for three years..."
??He caressed the portrait of a more delicate woman: "I just think that this is the right concubine of King Yu who will be Daxiang's future. What do you think?"
??The main concubine of King Yu is equivalent to the concubine chosen for Mu Yu.
??But Mu Xiang just declared his innocence and "cleared" him of treason charges. At this moment, Mu Yu is probably still in the cell, and the heavy iron chains may not have been untied.
?? "Excuse me, I don't know, what did His Majesty do?"
??Mu Xiang looked away from the woman's portrait: "Naturally, it is to fulfill the original agreement between Gu and Taifu."
??Song Jin was taken aback. He naturally remembered the agreement that Mu Xiang came to see him on the second day of the Gang Change.
"But what His Majesty said back then, is that if there is no merit within two years, the royal power will be handed over—"
"But Gu feels these days that Gu has no talent, and the emperor is better than Gu in this position." Mu Xiang said calmly, "Teacher should be happy, Gu will end the state affairs in hand as soon as possible, and put this Imperial jade seal--"
?? He paused and said, "Hand over to Brother Huang."
"Nonsense!" Song Jin was so angry that his beard blew up, "Is it a child's play for His Majesty to take the throne? Sit if you want, if you want..."
?? He met Mu Xiang's eyes, and suddenly fell silent again, and said after a long time: "Absurd... Your Majesty is even more absurd than Taizu..."
??He suddenly bent his body, as if he was tired, and slowly talked about the secrets of the past: "At the beginning, General Jiang made great achievements and was impeached by countless people with a heart. He was forced to feign death for the peace of the new dynasty, but was Taizu took advantage of the situation to forcibly confine him in the palace, and finally died depressed..."
??All of you are playing with the throne.
?? "Your Majesty is now going to give up the stable throne for someone who is a day away, and fall into great turmoil..." Song Jin took a deep breath, "I can't accept it."
?? When Mu Xiang heard the first half, his eyes couldn't hide his astonishment.
??When Emperor Ya was in power, Jiang Zhixiao, the younger sister of General Jiang, was the only one in the harem.But according to the prime minister, this Jiang Zhixiao turned out to be General Jiang?
??A generation of famous generals, male as female, entrusted to the emperor...
?? "The national teacher knows..." Mu Xiang asked subconsciously, but halfway through the sentence, he felt that it was unnecessary. How could Shi He not know.
?? He knows the precedent of men being entangled with men, so he naturally understands what he says and does... understands his delusions.
?? But Shi He chose to leave, and said that it would be difficult to see each other...
?? And looking at the meaning of the second half of Song Jin's sentence, it is obvious that he has seen through Mu Xiang's wish for Shi He.
??Mu Xiang helped the writing desk, he closed his eyes for a long time and said: "Teacher don't have to worry, I believe that Brother Huang will take care of everything."
??Changing the dynasty again in a short period of time, on the surface, although it is not conducive to Daxiang's national conditions, if Mu Yu is in power, he will only do better than Mu Xiang. In the long run, it is natural that Mu Yu can make Daxiang go further Steady and farther.
?? Not to mention Mu Xiang used Shi He to leave for these days to realize that when he wanted the throne, he probably just wanted Shi He's tenderness.
??Otherwise, why bother to make a two-year contract at the beginning, but knowing that I am weak and dying soon, I want to make a last-ditch...
?? But Song Jin is getting old, he just wants to maintain the current situation that is still stable for the time being, and he doesn't want to regenerate mutations.
??In these days, everything Mu Xiang has done has proved that he is still a qualified emperor, and it is not bad for him to go on for a long time.
??Song Jin sighed: "Your Majesty, you must not be attached to people who are nothingness. Master Guoshi is definitely not a good match."
??The so-called emptiness means that it cannot be understood or grasped.
"I've made up my mind, Taifu doesn't need to say anything more." Mu Xiang turned his back and swallowed the soreness in his throat, "The emperor will be released from prison today, and the Taifu will go now, so there is still time to welcome the emperor. Wash the dust."
??Song Jin: "..."
??Mu Xiang said: "I fulfilled the contract ahead of schedule, not for the sake of the national teacher..."
??He paused and said again: "I'm lonely and tired."
??Song Jin retreated helplessly. If he hadn't known that Emperor Ya had never met anyone other than General Jiang, he would have thought that Mu Xiang was his blood.
?? Just as stubborn, treating personal affairs as absurdly.
??At the beginning, he tried to persuade him countless times, but Yadi just refused to listen, and forcibly imprisoned the wild geese that should have soared high in the sky. It is not a good result.
?? And Mu Xiang went even further, and directly read a person who didn't know where he came from or where he was going.
??…
??After Song Jin left, Mu Xiang had someone confiscate the portraits of the three princesses from other countries, revealing a letter underneath.
?? This was taken from the carrier pigeon that he had contacted with Yijian seven days ago, but it was written in Shi He's handwriting.
??The general meaning is that hundreds of people have died in the city that never sleeps, all because of the black plague caused by the southern region, but it has been completely controlled, and its source has been destroyed. With the good medicine, it will return to normal soon.
??The last few words left by Shi He are: I hope Your Majesty will cherish it, don't read it.
??Before that, even though Shi He said that he would not come back again, Mu Xiang still had a little bit of luck.If Shi He had a place in his heart, he might come back, but when he saw this letter, he was completely heartbroken.
?? I also heard what Song Jin said just now, that Shi He knew about the relationship between the man and the man, and he probably saw through his rebellious mind earlier than he woke up.
??Perhaps the disaster in the Southern Territory was just an excuse, and he just wanted to use it to stay away from him.
??Is it because he doesn't like him, or because he feels that being an emperor shouldn't be so absurd... But back then, Shihe didn't stop Yadi and Jiang Nianqing from their words and deeds.
??Mu Xiang gripped the letter paper tightly, suppressing the pain in his heart.
??—
?? A few days later.
??The long bell was ringing one after another. Shi He was cutting the flower branches in the courtyard. When he found the bell ringing for a long time, he stopped his actions and looked at the clock tower in the distance.
??Today is the birthday of the current emperor. On a day of great joy, all the bell towers in Daxiang will ring nine times to celebrate the emperor's birthday.
??Shi He looked up for a while, then lowered his eyes again, and continued to trim the branches and leaves.
??Gardenia has come to wither, and this branch in the pot was broken off by him and inserted into the pot during the last flowering season. Because of the proper placement, it is still blooming delicately.
?? But in the next second, Shi He's chest, which had been suppressed for several months, was unable to control the turbulent energy and blood, and sprinkled on the delicate gardenias.
?? Not Xi Zhong.
?? It is a national mourning.
??Shi He raised his eyes slowly, the bell that should have stopped nine times was still ringing, without any sign of stopping, and the long ringing became more and more desolate.
??The author has something to say: This chapter is two in one, which is regarded as a double update. I will try to update as much as possible every day in the future. The time is in the early morning. There are not many chapters. The next step is to uncover the foreshadowing stage.
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