When Concubine Xun's father was mentioned, the elder's eyebrows narrowed slightly.【】
Lin Miaoshi, a hero who bred two war horses for the Tenglong Kingdom, his prestige in the court is not much lower than him. If the matter of Concubine Xun is not handled carefully, it may make Master Lin feel resentful towards the court.
…
Thinking of this, the elder looked at Ao Chenye hesitantly.
Without looking, Ao Chenye felt the elder's hint of concern in his eyes. However, he just looked at Concubine Xun sharply with piercing eyes, and sneered inexplicably——
"Concubine Xun, since you said Lord Lin will definitely believe you, then I would like to hear with my own ears how Lord Lin will answer your question?"
As he spoke, the corners of his lips curved up in a strategic arc, and he turned his eyes slightly toward the side curtain door, and called out in a loud voice: "Leng Yun!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain was lifted immediately, and Leng Yun walked out from behind the curtain, carrying, or more accurately, Lin Miaoshi...
Concubine Xun was shocked when she saw her father being carried out with a dejected look on his face, without his usual majestic look.
Her eyes widened, she couldn't believe it, and she ran over screaming unbearably: "Dad! Leng Yun, what are you doing?! I order you to let go of my father immediately!"
Leng Yun was indifferent and still had a serious and upright face. He looked at Concubine Xun's sharp and hysterical eyes without being humble or arrogant. He said coldly but without being rude: "Concubine Xun, please forgive me for being unable to obey my orders."
After speaking, he ignored Concubine Xun's reaction and directly carried Lin Miaoshi to the steps.
"Wang, Master Lin brought it here."
After regaining his life, Leng Yun let go of Lin Miaoshi and stepped aside respectfully and quietly.
"Dad!" Concubine Xun ran back again, calling in a trembling voice to her father who had just lowered his head and said nothing.
Aochen stayed on the steps at night, next to the dragon chair, looking down at Lin Miaoshi, who always lowered his head, with a touch of regret in his deep black eyes.
Soon, the emperor's determination returned to his eyes, his eyes darkened, and he walked down the stairs with his long legs, taking a step closer to Lin Miaoshi.
Lin Miaoshi didn't need to raise his head, just from the corner of his eye he could see the bright yellow dragon robe at Ao Chenye's heels. The natural and compelling aura on his body shot straight into Lin Miao along with the visible half of the dragon robe.
Scholar's heart.
His body trembled. Before Ao Chenye could speak, he could no longer withstand such pressure. He humbly kowtowed and asked for forgiveness: "King, I deserve death for my sins. Please be merciful to the king..."
Concubine Xun was confused and couldn't figure out the situation. She was scared and anxious and pulled Lin Miaoshi's clothes: "Dad!"
The elder was even more astonished by this change and looked at the scene in front of him speechlessly.
Looking down at Lin Miaoshi's prostrate head, the gray old hair came into view, which made him feel emotional for a moment, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Master Lin, since you know your crime, don't you plan to bring your own charges to me one by one?"
Listening to Ao Chenye's stern voice, Lin Miaoshi raised his head tremblingly, and opened his mouth with a dull face, but he didn't know where to start.
Ao Chenye snorted coldly: "What? There are too many crimes. Don't you know which one to tell me first? I ask you, you secretly sold the fine war horses of Tenglong Kingdom to the defectors of Fulong Kingdom.
Second Highness Xing Mo, what are your intentions? Or...you want to join forces with Xing Mo to capture our Tenglong Kingdom, and then become the king yourself?!"
The sharp words made Lin Miaoshi's body tremble.
His gray and wrinkled lips trembled violently, his old eyes tremblingly met Ao Chenye's sharp gaze, and he mustered up the courage to shake his head: "No... no, I don't dare, I just had the idea of being greedy for money.
, that’s why I sold war horses to Xing Mo. I really never thought about... bringing harm to the Tenglong Kingdom! I beg the king to look into it!"
"Oh? Are you aware of it? I am indeed aware of it! If you are not aware of it, I really don't know that your Lin Mansion is so rich that you use gold to forge murderous weapons!"
At the end, Ao Chenye's tone became even colder, and his eyes were as cold as a sword, mixed with a deeper level of anger.
After hearing this, the elder seemed to understand the truth of the matter. He was stunned and froze on the spot. He could only look at Lin Miaoshi in disbelief and could not say anything.
When Concubine Xun heard about the golden murder weapon, her body was obviously shaken, and her shoulders shook violently.
Her face was pale and her eyes were panicked, but she still held her fingers together calmly. Finally, she secretly tugged on her father's clothes to signal him not to speak or admit it.
Then she cried and accused Ao Chenye and said: "King, my father has never made murder weapons out of gold. You can say that my father is greedy for money and sells war horses, but you can't accuse your father of having evil intentions. I know that you are
You are partial to Bai Ke'er, so you want to say that the Taoist sword that assassinated Bai Ke'er was forged by my father. I know better that you want to use Bai Ke'er's assassination to convict our father and daughter. Wang,
You are so cruel, you forget the old one when you have a new one, if you don’t like me you can divorce me, please don’t slander my father like this!”
He had been watching Concubine Xun cry miserably and shouting injustice with cold eyes. The more he listened, the sarcasm in Ao Chenye's eyes deepened.
It seems that Concubine Xun really doesn’t shed tears even when she sees the coffin!
He stepped down the steps and stood not far from Concubine Xun. He turned his head and looked down at Concubine Xun with complete disappointment as she knelt at her feet and cried.
Wu Xin ruthlessly curled his lips, and he sneered wisely and deeply: "Concubine Xun, I don't seem to have said that the sword that the Taoist priest used to assassinate Ke'er was made of gold, right? Moreover, I have mentioned the sword forged by your father.
Have you assassinated anyone? Or... did you always know that the sword was the golden sword forged by your father?"
His rhetorical questions became softer and softer, and his voice became softer and softer. The soft and almost silent gurgling of the stream was actually a stream made of ice-cold snow. It was so cold that it made the soles of your feet feel cold.
Concubine Xun was so choked by his questions that she couldn't answer a word. Her eyes flickered from side to side, feeling flustered, scared, and even more annoyed.
There is no three hundred taels of silver here!
In response to her speechlessness, Ao Chenye narrowed his black eyes slightly. As he swung his robe sleeves, a golden broken sword with an evil light flashing fell to Concubine Xun's feet with a clang.
Concubine Xun glanced sideways and her jaw trembled in shock: "This..."
She couldn't believe her eyes as she looked at Ao Chenye, her face was green and white, with all kinds of frightened expressions on her face.
Ao Chenye walked over gracefully and seemed to have accidentally stepped on the hilt of the broken golden sword... The carving of the word "Lin" was faintly visible on the hilt.
His cold eyes stared at her green and white face for a moment, such a beautiful face, but it concealed a vicious and ugly heart.
Not wanting to look at her anymore, he turned away his eyes and focused on the word "Lin" on the broken sword at his feet. He asked in an elegant voice: "Concubine Xun, are you wondering...why this sword is still in my hand?"
, do you think that I have always believed in you? Do you think that I will at least go easy on you for the sake of your father? I can tell you now that for the safety of Tenglong Kingdom, I will do anything.
Use! In fact, I have been wary of you since the first time you almost killed Ke'er, who had become smaller. After Ke'er's accident, you used the excuse to ask Dr. Fu to see the only thing left by the dead Taoist priest.
The evidence is actually a deliberate and secret switch. However, I have already ordered Imperial Doctor Fu to show you the fake sword, so the evidence you exchanged is just forged by me..."
Hearing this, Concubine Xun's face turned almost ashen, mixed with a shadow of terror.
"You...it turns out that you have been secretly investigating me, but I never knew it. I thought I could convince you...but I didn't expect that you never believed me..." She murmured weakly, looking at
There was fear for him in his eyes, mixed with heartache that he tried hard to hide.
The man she had always wanted to possess, the man who had always only focused on him, in the end was plotting against her...
Closing her eyes, she asked in a sad and sharp voice: "Then why didn't you expose me from the beginning? If you had exposed me earlier, maybe Bai Keer, who you love so much now, would not have been assassinated by Xing Mo one after another.
"
At the mention of Ke'er, Ao Chenye's eyes narrowed, and an uncontrollable tightness flashed across his chest for an instant, making him pause for a moment before he responded rationally: "Of course you can lure the snake out of its hole. With your strength,
It is impossible for a powerful Taoist priest to lose his mind and obey your orders, and even risk his own life to kill people. There must be an extraordinary manipulator behind him, and I want to find out that person."
Suddenly, she looked at him steadily, with a sad look that had no hope anymore: "I finally know that you have no heart at all... It turns out that I didn't lose to Bai Ke'er, haha
...It turns out I didn't lose..." She suddenly laughed like crazy, but her tears kept falling uncontrollably.
Her hysterical laughter echoed sharply in the court hall. Ao Chenye frowned and couldn't help but replay her sarcastic look in his mind. What on earth was she sarcastic about him?
Why did he feel uncomfortable with her eyes for a moment just now, and in his heart, he read Ke'er's name unconsciously.
He pursed his thin lips tightly, not wanting to continue to be trapped by that inexplicable feeling, so he proudly walked up the steps with his hands behind his back.
Looking back, he said with emotion: "Concubine Xun, do you know that you were the one who harmed your father? If I hadn't asked Mingyue and Tomorrow to investigate the dead Taoist priest outside the palace, they wouldn't have inadvertently investigated you.
Your father has a private deal with Xing Mo, but your father has always been one of the murderers who helped you harm Ke'er!"