Chapter 546: Sleepless Night
After hearing what the ninth prince said, the emperor's expression became even worse. However, if he were to sign this, it would be a great humiliation to him, and the emperor would not do it.
"Father, I might as well give you some ideas." The Ninth Prince did not rush to force the emperor to make a decision. He just let the emperor think slowly, as if playing a game, and come up with a solution for himself.
"You might as well just kill me directly. It's better to live like this..." The emperor said lightly.
But both of them present understood that the emperor was reluctant to give up his life. If the emperor really had such a heroic idea, he would have ended his life long ago.
Now, the emperor is just holding on.
"Father, I will not let you die." The ninth prince said with a smile.
However, the emperor sensed a sinister meaning in that smile.
The Ninth Prince just smiled and stared at the changes in the emperor's expression, as if he was admiring it. However, he didn't see the expression he wanted to see, so he curled his lips in dissatisfaction.
"Father, don't you want to ask me why I want you to live?" The Ninth Prince's tone was sincere, as if they were really just ordinary father and son.
"No." But the emperor didn't want to do that and directly rejected him.
The Ninth Prince revealed a look of regret, but it only lasted for a moment, and then he started laughing.
"I'm not afraid if your Majesty doesn't ask. I'll tell you." The Ninth Prince began to explain the reason on his own.
The emperor felt a chill as he listened, as if he could sense a hint of sadness in the Ninth Prince's words, but the emperor maintained a calm expression.
"If Your Majesty thinks there is anything inappropriate in the arrangements, please tell me and I will ask someone to help correct it." The Ninth Prince said with a smile.
He would not let the emperor go so easily. All the suffering he had endured in the past ten years started when the emperor pushed him into the water.
The Ninth Prince was not very narrow-minded and just wanted the Emperor to experience everything he had experienced over again.
"I……"
At this moment, a group of people suddenly rushed in from outside the door. All of them were wearing armor and holding long swords. After rushing in, they surrounded the Ninth Prince tightly in the crowd.
This was beyond the Ninth Prince's expectations. His good thing was interrupted, and he felt a surge of anger in his heart, but he was unable to move because of the swords he faced.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are you alright?"
When the Ninth Prince was wondering what went wrong and who brought this group of people here, Fan Zhengde arrived late and appeared in his sight.
Fan Zhengde looked panicked at this moment. He ran in hurriedly and staggered from outside the door, calling the emperor over and over again, as if he was really worried about him.
The Ninth Prince narrowed his eyes. He never thought that he was deceived by Fan Zhengde. How could he easily trust these eunuchs?
"I'm fine." The emperor felt like he had escaped death, but he did not become confused.
Everything was abnormal tonight. First, he was threatened to abdicate by the Ninth Prince. Second, a eunuch was able to mobilize an army to rescue him after the Ninth Prince almost took over the court.
But the emperor would not choose to argue with Fan Zhengde at this time.
The emperor no longer felt that he had military power. Now that these soldiers had surrounded the Ninth Prince, what he had to do was to get rid of the Ninth Prince first.
"Hold the ninth prince down and no one is allowed to visit him!" the emperor ordered.
The leader did not respond to the emperor's words. Fan Zhengde winked at the emperor, and then he heard the other party reply, "Yes!"
These little movements naturally did not escape the emperor's eyes, which made his eyes become obscure.
The Ninth Prince, who was trapped at the moment, did not show any sign of embarrassment, and at this moment he let out a laugh that the emperor could not ignore.
"Take him away!" The emperor's words were filled with anger and embarrassment.
But this time it had some effect. Of course, it is not ruled out that these soldiers were already taking the Ninth Prince away.
"Father, open your eyes and take a look. I bet you will regret not signing earlier today." The Ninth Prince left this sentence before leaving with a sharp laugh.
When only the emperor and Fan Zhengde were left in the room, the emperor raised his eyes and looked seriously at the face he had been looking at for more than ten years.
"Zhengde, do you have anything to say to me?" the emperor asked.
Fan Zhengde lowered his head, as he always did in front of the emperor. After hearing the emperor's voice, he asked him again if he was all right.
The emperor sneered, "Now that there's no one left, why are you still pretending?"
"I don't know what the emperor means." Fan Zhengde answered the emperor without blushing or beating his heart.
After more than ten years of living together, the emperor discovered at this moment that he could not guess Fan Zhengde's thoughts, but he could not hide his thoughts from Fan Zhengde's eyes.
In fact, this is simply because the emperor is the emperor. When others think and ponder about him, why does he need to know what eunuchs like Fan Zhengde are thinking?
"Fan Zhengde." The emperor stared at Fan Zhengde, only to see that he was as steady as a rock, without leaving a single flaw.
"Your Majesty, what do you want to say to me?" Fan Zhengde said respectfully.
Since Fan Zhengde wouldn't reveal it, and the emperor couldn't figure out his true intentions, he asked directly, "How did you know today that the Ninth Prince would come to force me? Where did you mobilize these troops from? How did they get into this palace?"
Fan Zhengde lowered his eyes and simply said, "Your Majesty, all of this is due to the efforts of Prince Jiang. I am only following orders. You will find out after asking Prince Jiang tomorrow."
The emperor wanted to tell the truth from Fan Zhengde's face, but unfortunately he failed. The emperor couldn't tell at all.
"Go down!" The emperor had experienced too much that night and was a little uneasy.
Fan Zhengde looked like he didn't want to reveal his identity yet, so the other party must have some conspiracy that had not been carried out yet. The emperor needed to figure out the secret himself.
After Fan Zhengde left, he found today's commander and said, "Thank you for your hard work today. I will come to thank you tomorrow."
"You are too polite, Eunuch Fan," the commander replied respectfully. "It was thanks to Eunuch Fan's support in the early years that I have been able to get to where I am today. If Eunuch Fan needs any help in the future, please feel free to ask."
Fan Zhengde smiled and said, "Commander, you are very polite. However, it is such a small matter that you have been worried about it for so long."
"It's a matter of life and death, how can it be trivial?" The commander said with a frown.
The two exchanged a few more pleasantries before politely saying goodbye.
Speaking of the troops in the imperial city, why didn’t the emperor have his own imperial guards before? There were always a few people who were loyal to the emperor. However, the Ninth Prince appeared mysteriously and powerfully, and he got rid of them before he showed up.
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