coobybook Chapter 916 Sister and Mother.
Chapter 916 Sister and Mother.
After the words fell, the queen took a while to react. She was no longer as resentful as before, but instead spoke like a young wife who had been angry. Her tone was extremely sour.
"Why are you asking me this?"
"Nowadays, you, the Prince of Zhennan, have the final say in the court. What difference does it make whether I say anything or not?"
"Mother!"
Zhao Chuyi called out in a cold and unpleasant tone.
The queen just rolled her eyes at her and said unhappily,
"You are such a heartless person. I shouldn't have given birth to you!"
"Mother, at this point, are you still going to do what you want?"
Zhao Chuyi frowned, anger already mixed in her voice.
"Heh." However, the queen obviously didn't want to say anything more. She raised her hand and threw a tiger talisman to Li Mu, then stood up and said,
"I am tired, Your Majesty, can you please take me back to the bedroom to rest?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of the ministers immediately became strange.
Although the queen is still charming and looks to be in her thirties, her age is there after all, and she is also Princess Yunhe's biological mother.
Using such means is truly unworthy of a nation's mother.
However, what surprised the ministers even more was
Li Mu actually stepped forward to support the queen, nodded and said,
"Your Highness has worked hard for half her life. It's time for you to rest. I will see you off."
"Young Master..." Zhao Chuyi wanted to say something.
Li Mu waved his hand and said,
"You guys continue, I'll take the Queen back to the palace to rest."
As he said this, he threw the tiger talisman to Zhao Chuyi and helped the queen walk towards the back hall.
"Mr. Mu, this, this won't cause any trouble, right?"
Seeing Li Muzhen leave, several old ministers immediately surrounded Mu Zhen and asked with awkward expressions.
Mu Zhen glared at a few people, his tone was obviously unfriendly.
"Something happened?"
"What happened?"
"Will the prince..."
"Ridiculous!" At this time, Lu Chongyun sneered, "What we should be concerned about now is how to deal with the rebels of the previous dynasty. You are acting like an official at all!"
However, those people obviously did not take the 200,000 troops outside the city seriously and sneered,
"Minister Lu is overthinking. They are just a bunch of rabble. We can destroy them in a snap."
"That's right. Now that the prince is in charge of the court, let alone 200,000 scattered soldiers, even if there are another 200,000, it won't hurt."
"I never thought that the prince could actually summon the Qianlong Guards. That's his personality... ah, hahahahaha."
"That's right, that's right. I saw that Your Majesty had the appearance of a true dragon, and I even thought of betrothing my useless granddaughter to Your Majesty. What a pity, what a pity..."
"You old man, stop being shameless. How can the prince be interested in your fat girl?"
"Bastard, what are you talking about! My daughter Quan'er has a face full of blessings. The Taoist priests of Tianzong all say that it is a sign of a prosperous husband..."
For a moment, the hall was in chaos, and no one took the Princess Regent sitting on the dragon throne seriously.
When Zhao Chuyi saw this scene, she clenched her pink fists hidden in her sleeves, but could only sigh inwardly.
The Queen cleaned out her people.
Now, in the eyes of outsiders, she is at most the favorite concubine of Prince Zhennan, and a mascot placed in the court.
She guessed that Li Mu's departure would be like this, but her pride did not allow her to ask Li Mu for help.
"Tap, tap, tap."
At this moment, outside the hall.
A cute girl dressed in dark brocade clothes and carrying a heavy sword on her back, who was more than two meters tall but had a baby face, walked into the hall step by step.
"Shanshan?"
Zhao Chuyi was stunned for a moment, but saw Shanshan making a face at her, and then walked straight to the left side of the platform where Nanny Xian had stood before.
He picked up the whip from the tray and swung it hard.
Just listen to the "pop" sound!
The sound of whips echoed throughout the hall.
The ministers reacted almost subconsciously and fell silent instantly.
However, a discordant voice came from the corner of the hall.
"ah------"
Zhuge Ping, who was imprisoned in the golden cage, wailed.
There was a whip mark on the chest that stretched from the collarbone to the waist, which was shocking to see.
"Hang me, I'm sorry...I didn't control the strength well." Shanshan stuck out her tongue, casually put the whip back on the tray, tilted her head slightly, and blinked at Zhao Chuyi.
Seeing this, the powerful official took a deep breath.
Only then did I recognize who this cute-looking woman was.
Zhao Linshan, the only member of the royal family to be given a surname.
Princess Yunhe's personal maid and bodyguard.
Most importantly, she is the only disciple of King Zhennan.
On his back was the heavy sword Cangyue, which Prince Zhennan had won from Emperor Hongwen.
In the past, court officials might have said that it was not permissible to bring weapons into the palace during a court meeting.
But now, no one dares to say that.
The significance of this sword is extraordinary, just like an imperial sword.
Anyone who is killed by this sword will die in vain. The King of Zhennan may even blame you for being too stubborn and tiring his disciple.
The ministers understood instantly that the Prince of Zhennan was ordering them.
The person sitting on the dragon throne was not someone they could neglect at will.
Zhao Chuyi obviously thought of this as well and almost burst into tears.
He stared at Shanshan intently, cleared his throat and said,
"Shanshan, did the prince give any instructions?"
Shanshan nodded excitedly. She had planned to talk about this matter later, but since Zhao Chuyi asked, she quickly said loudly,
"Master said that from today onwards, the Dark Ice Guard and that...that Monitoring Bureau will be merged into the Imperial Guard led by Shanshan."
"I just listened to the orders from the master and the princess. Sigh... Shanshan forgot what happened next."
"Anyway, it's amazing anyway."
Then, Shanshan raised her hand, pointed at the ministers in the hall, and snorted,
"Don't have any bad thoughts. Master said that if the Royal Guards find out that you have done something bad, the Emperor, the Emperor can grant special permission to execute you first and report later!"
When these words were spoken, all the court officials gathered together and found it a little unbelievable.
It seems that the power of the Jinyiwei is too great.
However, Li Mu asked Shanshan to say the previous words in front of the court officials.
His original intention was just to build up Zhao Chuyi's own secret guard force so that it wouldn't be completely sidelined when he was away.
The latter part of the words were said casually in private, but Shanshan took it seriously.
In Li Mu's eyes, the Jinyiwei in his previous life was not a benign judicial institution.
Most of his words were imitations of dialogues from movies and TV dramas in his previous life, and were just jokes to tease Shanshan.
Mu Zhen and Lu Chongyun looked at each other and felt that Li Mu's behavior was inappropriate.
At least, it is an unrepeatable existence.
I'm afraid that only someone like Li Mu, who possesses absolute power, can fully control such a guard team.
If future generations follow suit, disaster may occur.
However, it cannot be said to be a good thing for the current Xing Dynasty.
Zhao Chuyi was excited and instantly had a different idea about the composition of the Jinyiwei.
She just felt that her young master was truly talented. Now, who among these court officials would dare to act lawless and disregard the royal family?
She was playing with the tiger talisman in her hand, her eyes swept over the ministers in the hall, but she couldn't suppress the smile on her lips.
For the first time, she realized what Shanshan meant.
"Princess, just tell Master what you want. Why do you have to work so hard?"
It turned out that her backer was right next to her, but she had never noticed it.
She had clearly relied on Li Mu so much and regarded him as her only hope.
Since when did I start to think that I should be the one in charge between two people?
If not for that day when Li Mu deliberately exposed the fact that the palace formation was ineffective against him, it could be said that the relationship between them would have been even worse.
"Yes, it's the Queen Mother!"
……
The harem, the queen's bedroom.
"Chu Yi believes in the Queen so much and treats her as a gift, why is the Queen so partial?"
Li Mu stood beside the tea couch, looking at the queen who was making tea for him, and asked the questions in his mind.
The Queen paused for a moment, without looking up, and asked,
"Has Qing Yi ever done anything wrong?"
"You know, sometimes once a person makes a mistake, everything that happens after that will be out of their control."
Wrong thing...Li Mu's body trembled.
A violent emotion surged in his heart, and the lotus mark in his eyes appeared and disappeared.
"Forget it. What's the point of saying this now?"
The queen did not notice Li Mu's abnormality. She picked up the teacup, took a sip, and nodded slightly.
Then he handed it to Li Mu and said,
"Do you remember the first time you entered the palace?"
“That was also the first time I brewed tea and tried it to see how different it tasted.”
Li Mu took the teacup, looked at the rouge mark left by the queen on the rim of the cup, turned it to the other side, and drank it all in one gulp without even caring about the hot tea.
He suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice,
"My Lady, if you do something wrong, will you really be helpless?"
However, before Li Mu finished speaking, his brows knitted sharply, and he looked at the queen with sharp eyes. He grabbed her fair and slender swan neck and asked harshly,
"You poisoned me!"
"Heh." The queen laughed bitterly, her face full of guilt, a trace of black blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, and she said slowly,
"Qingyi, I'm sorry, I'm the prince's sister and Xi'er's mother."
"I... don't have a choice."
"sorry Sorry……"