Chapter 501 To Kill or Not to Kill
Liu Yunxiang felt guilty and twitched his hand. He couldn't pull it out, so he could only laugh.
"I just fell asleep and put my hand into your arms unconsciously." As she said this, she yawned dryly.
Yan Mu stared at her for a while, then pulled her hand out of his arms.
"Go to sleep."
Liu Yunxiang felt happy and hurriedly lay down. At the same time, she pressed the red thread she had just stolen from his arms under the mattress. After doing this, she let out a long sigh of relief.
"They are all red ropes, what's the difference?" Yan Mu suddenly said.
Liu Yunxiang's eyes widened, "You, you..."
"As for being sneaky?"
Liu Yunxiang buried his head in the quilt and whispered: "No, there is nothing different."
Nonsense! Of course it’s different!
That red line represents his marriage to his female benefactor, and this one represents his and hers. How can it be the same? She complained in her heart, but when she thought about it, she understood what Yan Mu meant.
To Yan Mu, this red line is just a red line and does not mean anything, so as long as it is a red line, any one is the same.
"Then you have to keep this mine." She warned Yan Mu worriedly.
"When I have the opportunity to meet my benefactor again, I will return it to her."
"Don't!"
"What do I, a man, want to do with the red line? Naturally I have to return it to others."
"You, you piece of wood!"
Under the night, Yan Mu curled up his lips and said, "Stop being a thief and go to sleep."
Early the next morning, someone from the palace asked Yan Mu to enter the palace, saying that the emperor had summoned him.
The eunuch who came to deliver the instructions was accompanied by many guards, and his posture seemed to be that he was here to escort the prisoners.
Liu Yunxiang tugged on Yan Mu's sleeve and said with a worried look on his face: "It must be because of what happened yesterday, the eldest princess came to the palace to file a complaint against you."
The emperor is still undecided as to whether to kill Yan Mu or not. The eldest princess is adding fuel to the fire, and it is hard to keep the emperor from wanting to kill.
Yan Mu was amused, "Am I not the seventh prince, the emperor's biological son? Why do you look like the emperor will kill me?"
Liu Yunxiang sighed, how should he explain his relationship with the emperor to Yan Mu who had lost his memory? She hadn't told him so far. In fact, she felt sorry for him and was afraid of hurting him again.
"I was really worried that he was going to kill you."
Yan Mu's smile faded, "Really?"
"Remember, your biggest enemy is the emperor."
"I see."
After Yan Mu followed the eunuchs and guards into the palace, Liu Yunxiang called Zijin to him and said, "Go and tell Zhang Qi that all the grain shops in Lingyun will be closed today and put up signs saying grain is sold out."
Zijin nodded, "Brother Zhang Qi said that many grain stores in Beijing have been out of grain in recent days. There have been many rumors among the people. We, Lingyun, are still supporting us. This closure will inevitably cause panic."
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"Well, go ahead."
After Zi Jin left, Liu Yunxiang took a long breath. The civil strife in Da Rong had just been calmed down. On the surface, the storm had calmed down, but there was still an undercurrent surging inside. A slight ripple in the calm water might cause huge waves.
If the emperor really wanted to kill Yan Mu, she would let this huge wave drown the Qin family!
In the palace and in the study room, the eldest princess told the emperor everything about yesterday. When she said that Yan Mu burned down her eldest princess' mansion, her face was already livid.
"Yan Mu is just a wild and unbelieving wild horse. No one can tame him. When I sent him to Beijin, I thought he would die there, but he came back alive!" After saying this, the eldest princess took a deep breath, and then
Looking at the emperor, "Brother, what are you hesitating about? Before he has a firm foothold in Shengjing, you should kill him first to get rid of future troubles."
The eldest princess spoke urgently, but the emperor lowered his eyes and looked as steady as a rock.
"Brother Royal!"
"He has lost his memory."
"So what?"
"If you never remember him, you may not be able to be my good son."
The eldest princess's eyes widened, "Brother, you... why are you confused? If he thinks of it, he will show his sharp claws and rush towards you!"
The emperor's eyes turned cold, "That's why I have been hesitating."
"There is nothing to hesitate about. Kill him and you will feel at ease!"
"But the Qin family still has no successor!"
This sentence made the eldest princess freeze. It was not that the Qin family had no descendants, but that the descendants were either useless or too young, and even three cobblers could not produce a Zhuge Liang.
"Can I leave the country to the third child? He is ambitious, but has no brains. As for the fourth child, he only knows how to eat, drink and have fun. If you give the country to him, you may lose it in his hands within a year."
There was a Xiaojiu before, who was very smart and loved by him, but unfortunately...it was a pity that he was not his own!
When this was mentioned, the emperor became even more panicked.
There is no other reason. Jin You's incident proved that he no longer has the ability to have another one. So now, among these few, I have to pick one.
"Your Majesty, never want to appoint him..." The eldest princess couldn't help but cover her mouth.
The emperor took a deep breath, then shook his head, "I have no one available around me, and there are too many weeds, so I might as well use him to clean them up."
The eldest princess pursed her lips. The emperor's meaning was very clear. He would not kill Yan Mu right now, so he would not pursue the case if he burned her eldest princess' mansion and caused her such a huge loss of face.
She was naturally unconvinced, and thought about it: "Lao Qi has lost his memory, so it is okay to keep him, but Liu Yunxiang has not lost his memory, and he will definitely talk nonsense in front of Lao Qi, turning him against you, so this woman cannot be kept."
The emperor nodded, "This woman is too smart to keep her."
Yan Mu followed the eunuch who delivered the instructions to the study room. While he was waiting outside to be summoned, Princess Jian came out of the room. When she saw him, her face darkened at first, and then she walked over with a sigh.
"Lao Qi, my aunt's intervention in the affairs of your palace's back house is really for your sake. You don't understand my aunt's painstaking efforts, and my aunt has nothing to say, but I hope this matter will not affect the relationship between our aunt and nephew."
Yan Mu smiled faintly, "I'm afraid the eldest princess has forgotten. I have lost my memory. Not to mention the deep love between our aunt and nephew, even if we have a grudge, we will forget it."
The eldest princess' face stiffened, then she forced a smile and said, "Auntie has watched you grow up, there is no bad blood between us."
"That's good."
The eldest princess finally figured out that Yan Mu was difficult to deal with before, and it was equally difficult to deal with him now. It was simply because of the lack of oil and salt, and his chaotic energy really made it difficult for her to do anything.
After the eldest princess left, the emperor summoned him.
When he came to the upper study room, the emperor was sitting on a large dragon chair. He was over sixty years old, with gray hair and deep wrinkles on his face. People said that as you get older, your face becomes kinder, but the emperor did not. He
His eyes were cloudy and gloomy, and when he stared at people, there was a fierce look in his eyes.
"Your aunt just came to file a lawsuit against you. Do you know that you were wrong?"
Yan Mu lowered his head, "Yes, I am wrong."
"But it's not a big deal. You have been naughty since you were a child. You have even burned down the palace, let alone the eldest princess's house." When he said this, the emperor smiled, as if he was just chatting about home affairs.
"Go back and apologize to your aunt."
"It doesn't matter, she did something wrong too."
"yes."
The emperor glanced at Yan Mu and saw that his rare humility was really different from before.
"Lao Qi, my father has encountered a problem. Please help me find a solution."
Yan Mu raised his head and said, "It is a son's duty to solve problems for his father."
The emperor nodded happily, "The thing is like this. I have been dreaming at night recently, as if I were falling into an abyss, and I often woke up. I asked the master to interpret the dream. The master calculated for a long time that there was a tomb on the outskirts of the city that blocked the dragon's energy. The only way to do this was to remove the dragon's energy from the tomb.
Open up the bones in the coffin and expose them to the sun for ten days. After the bad luck has gone away, I won't have nightmares. Lao Qi, what do you think of this?"
Yan Mu lowered his eyes, "My father's dragon body is the most important thing, so I dug this grave."
Chapter completed!