coobybook Chapter 199 Palace Change
Chapter 199 Palace Change
Mo Ling suppressed all his emotions and said gently, "The Imperial Master is here. Come on, please give him a seat."
Feng Jiuqing lazily leaned back on the armchair, raised his eyes and smiled, "What is it that has made His Majesty and Prime Minister Lu talk so excitedly? I want to hear it, too."
Mo Ling lowered his eyes and said softly, "It's not a big deal, so please don't worry about it, Grand Master."
Feng Jiuqing raised his eyebrows, glanced at Prime Minister Lu, then looked at Mo Ling meaningfully: "What's wrong with Prime Minister Lu?"
Prime Minister Lu stood up slowly without looking away, and bowed to Mo Ling and said, "Your Majesty, Ah He is my bottom line, and I will never give in. Please think twice, I will take my leave."
After saying that, he walked out without even looking at Feng Jiuqing.
Feng Jiuqing looked deeply at Prime Minister Lu's back. It seemed that Prime Minister Lu still disliked him as always.
But, they were just discussing Ah He? So Prime Minister Lu really came to Mo Ling to seek justice for him?
No, it was to seek justice for Ah He. Prime Minister Lu was indeed a good father, but not his.
Feng Jiuqing retracted his gaze and said casually, "Your Majesty wants to take another concubine? Did you choose Ah He from Prime Minister Lu's family?"
"Your Majesty, are you targeting Prime Minister Lu's family? No wonder Prime Minister Lu doesn't treat Your Majesty well. There are thousands of young masters from noble families, Your Majesty can choose any one you like, why are you targeting Prime Minister Lu's family?"
Mo Ling was still gentle, but there was no emotion in his eyes.
"Grandmaster, you are overthinking. I have no such intention."
Feng Jiuqing chuckled and said, "What does your majesty think of it? It has nothing to do with me. I just want to warn your majesty that if there is a next time for what happened at the Qianqiu Festival, I will not help your majesty to clean it up."
"Those people have already reached into the palace. Your Majesty, please decide how to deal with them. I have already retired, and I will not interfere in future matters."
"I have delivered my message. I will not stay any longer. Goodbye."
Feng Jiuqing stood up, turned his back to Mo Ling, and strode out of the Xuanshi Hall.
Mo Ling stared solemnly at Feng Jiuqing's departing back, and only when he could no longer see him did he look away and heaved a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the Grand Tutor did not know that Ah He was Qing Qing, otherwise he would have taken Qing Qing back to the Grand Tutor's Mansion. If he wanted to see Qing Qing at that time, it would have been extremely difficult.
However, what the Grand Tutor said was right. There were many thorns in the palace. Otherwise, Qingqing would not have been slandered so badly in the first place, and such a large-scale assassination would never have happened during the Qianqiu Festival this time.
"Jia Zi!"
Huh, a gust of wind blew by, Jiazi half-knelt on the ground, "What do you want, my lord?"
Mo Ling said coldly: "Take people to thoroughly investigate the inner palace and make sure to find all those who participated in the assassination!"
"Yes!"
On the other side, Prince Nancheng was recuperating when he suddenly heard the sound of a door being pushed open. He thought it was Mo Ling coming back, so he opened his eyes and was about to say something when he saw a hideous mask.
Grand Tutor?
King Nancheng raised his eyebrows. What was he doing here? He couldn't remember how he had offended the Grand Tutor, so why did the Grand Tutor come to him?
This hideous mask reminded King Nancheng of the bloody and chaotic night four years ago.
At that time, his life was full of gloom. He lived with the foolish Mo Ling. The two were of the same quality, one stupid and the other useless, both were abandoned children in this forbidden palace.
But he was better than Mo Ling. Although the people in the palace were used to flattering the powerful and bullying the weak, they didn't dare to do anything to him.
After all, he was injured while rescuing the emperor. Although his father doesn't value him as much as before, he still feels guilty and still asks about his affairs occasionally.
He had lost the possibility of competing for the throne, so his brothers were unwilling to attack him. Going to the cold palace was his own wish and he was not forced by anyone.
He just couldn't accept those people's strange looks for a while, and the cold palace was sparsely populated and a rare secluded place in the palace, which was just right for his cultivation.
He had always known that Mo Ling was having a hard time in the cold palace, so he took extra care of him. However, it was not until he moved into the cold palace that he realized just how hard Mo Ling's life was.
Although the emperor disliked Mo Ling very much, after all, Mo Ling was the most legitimate prince to succeed to the throne, but Mo Ling was stupid after all, so he was no threat to the emperor.
So whether it was to shut up the ministers or for the sake of my father's reputation, my father would reward Mo Ling from time to time.
In fact, the place where Mo Ling lived was not called the Cold Palace, but Qingxiao Palace. It was the prince's bedroom bestowed upon Mo Ling by his uncle when he was the emperor.
But after his father ascended the throne, Mo Ling became stupid again, and Qingxiao Palace slowly became a cold palace.
He originally thought that Mo Ling just lived in a lonely place, but what he didn't expect was that on the first day he moved into Qingxiao Palace, he saw the eunuchs and palace servants teasing Mo Ling and pushing him into a long-abandoned pond.
Each of the eunuchs and palace servants held a wooden stick in their hands, saying they were fishing, but in fact they were just driving Mo Ling to the center of the pond.
The pond was not full of water, just mud, not enough to drown a person. So Mo Ling was covered in mud, looking so miserable that only a pair of child-like eyes filled with tears could be seen as he stood in the middle of the pond and cried.
After all, he was his brother, and he couldn't stand it, so he ordered those eunuchs and palace servants to be sent to the Ministry of Punishment, and by the way, he ordered Mo Ling to be rescued and cleared.
Mo Ling at that time was very different from now. Mo Ling at that time was like a child, so well-behaved that it made people feel distressed. Although he was a little silly, he had an innocence that could not be found in the palace.
He raised Mo Ling like a child until that night came. The palace was full of palace maids running for their lives. Fortunately, Qingxiao Palace was secluded and nothing happened for a while.
It was also at that time that his personal bodyguard went out to inquire and came back to tell him that his father wanted to make his second brother the crown prince, so his eldest brother, who had been fighting with his second brother for a long time, joined forces with his maternal grandfather's family to rebel.
When he arrived, the Xuanshi Hall was full of his eldest brother's soldiers and generals. He was stopped outside and could only hear his eldest brother and second brother arguing fiercely in the Xuanshi Hall. But soon he could no longer hear his second brother's voice, but only the crying and cursing of his second brother's mother, Concubine Li.
Concubine Li scolded her eldest brother for treason and for angering her father to death. She said that if she killed her second brother, he would definitely not die a good death.
To be honest, he didn't feel any waves in his heart at this time. After all, the culprit who caused him to become like this was his second brother. He didn't think it was a big deal that he ended up like this.
And his father, the emperor, knew everything, but he suppressed it all, and simply executed a few guards who failed to protect their master, and rewarded him with some useless gold, silver and jewelry, and that was the end of the matter.
How could he not feel resentful?
The father whom he had tried his best to protect turned out to be so cruel to him. From then on, he felt dead in love with his father. Even when he heard the eunuchs shouting that the emperor had passed away, he did not show any emotion.
Soon the eldest brother arrested all the ministers and appeared with a blood-stained edict of succession in his hand, saying that his father had passed the throne to him.
He stood among the ministers, neither objecting nor acknowledging, with his eyes lowered and remaining silent.
Those ministers who opposed, especially my second brother's maternal family, were all dragged out by the soldiers and executed on the spot. A blood-red carpet was laid in front of the Xuanshi Hall.
Until no one dared to raise any objections to him, the eldest brother smiled and sat on the wooden chair in front of the Xuanshi Hall. The eunuch beside him shouted: "All the ministers bow to the new emperor!"
Just at this moment, a feather arrow grazed the eldest brother's cheek and hit the top of the pillar of the Xuanshi Hall.