Mo Guiyuan smiled and said, "Your Highness, don't you want to sit on the throne? Or do you think that as long as you work hard enough, you can ascend to the throne smoothly? I don't need to remind you how partial your father is, right?"

Xiao Chonghua's eyes flickered slightly, and he calmly asked back: "Your treasury is gone, and your pharmacist is dead. What chips do you have to help me ascend the throne?"

Mo Guiyuan was not at all embarrassed by having his past exposed.

He smiled indulgently and gestured to Xiu Nu.

Xiu Nu opened the bag he was carrying and took out a brocade box from it.

Mo Guiyuan smiled meaningfully and said, "Your Highness, please have a look."

Jing Yi opened the brocade box.

When Xiao Chonghua saw what was in the box, his face changed instantly.

It turned out to be a bright yellow imperial edict! Xiao Chonghua was about to pick up the imperial edict to see what was written on it, but Xiu Nu moved his hand and grabbed the box.

Jing Yi frowned and drew his sword.

"Jing Yi." Xiao Chonghua stopped him, staring at Mo Guiyuan with burning eyes, "Master Mo, what is the meaning of this action?"

"Of course it's my sincerity." Mo Guiyuan said with a faint smile, "Before his death, the late emperor left an imperial decree to establish a new emperor, and that new emperor is not the father of your Highness the Third Prince."

Xiao Chonghua's expression remained unchanged: "Do you think I will believe it?"

Mo Guiyuan raised his head and smiled: "Your Highness can take a gamble. Once I make this imperial decree public, Your Highness should understand what the consequences will be."

Xiao Zhonghua's eyes turned cold: "Are you threatening me?"

Mo Guiyuan smiled and said, "I am negotiating with His Majesty the Third Prince and frankly explaining the pros and cons so that His Majesty will think twice before acting."

Xiao Chonghua sneered, "You speak so eloquently of coercion and inducement. You are indeed a man who can preach with just your mouth. You dare not even show me the contents of the imperial edict. How can I trust you?"

Mo Guiyuan said seriously: "I can assure you that the contents of the imperial edict are true."

Xiao Chonghua said word by word: "I don't believe it."

Mo Guiyuan's smile faded a little: "It seems that the Third Prince does not want to negotiate."

Xiao Chonghua said calmly, "The court is negotiating with the White Lotus Sect, but we are not letting the White Lotus Sect do whatever it wants. I will report everything you said to me today to my father truthfully."

Mo Guiyuan looked at Xiao Chonghua deeply and said, "Third Prince, you are narrowing your path. Your eldest brother is still in my hands. Aren't you afraid that something will happen to him and you will be blamed?"

Xiao Chonghua said calmly: "Why don't you ask where General Leng went, Master Mo?"

Mo Guiyuan paused.

Xiao Chonghua gave him a meaningful look in return: "Master Mo, are you trying to say that the court can't find the place where you are holding the hostages? In fact, Master Mo can also take a gamble. Once my eldest brother is rescued, the court will never negotiate with the White Lotus Sect again. I advise Master Mo to draft a contract with the court as soon as possible before my eldest brother arrives at the palace, so as to save his life."

"Fight! Fight! Fight!"

The roars of the Five Tigers were heard outside the house.

Mo Guiyuan strode out.

In the yard, the old marquis and the great elder started fighting.

"That's my parrot!" said the elder coldly.

"Bullshit about your father!" the old marquis said bluntly.

The Great Elder gritted his teeth and was about to use his Qing Kung Fu to catch the Five Tigers, but the old marquis grabbed his ankle and pulled him down fiercely.

The two men fought fiercely over a parrot.

Mo Guiyuan shouted, “Stop!”

The Great Elder stopped unwillingly.

The old marquis punched him!

The Great Elder staggered several times after being hit and looked at him in disbelief.

The old marquis said confidently: "The Third Prince didn't ask me to stop."

The Great Elder was so angry that he rushed over and started fighting with him again.

Mo Guiyuan took a quick look and found that the Leng family was indeed gone. He called a disciple over and asked, "Where is General Leng?"

The disciple said, "He said the jade pendant fell off. Take someone outside to look for it. He will be back soon."

In the past, Mo Guiyuan would never have believed that Leng Tiannan could find the hostages he was holding. However, things were beyond his control time and time again. Although he did not show it on his face, he was actually a little confused.

He turned around and looked at Xiao Chonghua coldly.

Xiao Chonghua sat in his seat, slowly picked up the teacup, and smiled at him with a determined look.

There was a murderous look in Mo Guiyuan's eyes.

Xiao Chonghua said calmly, "Master Mo, do you want to arrest me? I am an envoy sent by the imperial court to negotiate. If Master Mo dares to touch me, it means he is openly opposing the imperial court. My imperial court's troops have a legitimate reason to march to war, and they will soon be able to crush the White Lotus Sect's peach forest!"

This was different from the White Lotus's arrest of Xiao Duye. Xiao Duye broke in on his own and started killing people in their homes. Who else should they arrest if not him? Xiao Chonghua was betting that Mo Guiyuan still had a trump card to reveal and that Mo Guiyuan would not tear his face off at this moment.

Mo Guiyuan walked away coldly.

He won the bet.

He and Jing Yi were the only ones left in the room.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on his back. While negotiating with Mo Guiyuan, he seemed calm, but in fact, every step he took was on the edge of a knife.

"Jing Yi, can you beat that guy just now?"

"I can't beat him." Jing Yi said honestly.

"If the open method doesn't work, then we'll have to do it secretly." Xiao Chonghua said, "Steal the imperial edict back."

Jing Yi asked curiously, "Didn't my cousin say that the imperial edict was fake?"

Xiao Chonghua sighed, "The imperial edict in the box is fake, but I'm afraid... Mo Guiyuan does have the real imperial edict in his hand."

If Mo Guiyuan got angry and killed him, it would mean that Mo Guiyuan was at the end of his rope.

But Mo Guiyuan left just like that, which means he still has a real trump card in his hand - the imperial edict of the late emperor.

Jing Yi asked: "If the late emperor did not make Your Majesty the emperor, then who did he make the emperor?"

Xiao Chonghua stared and said, "King of Nanyang."

After Mo Guiyuan left the yard, he told the Great Elder, "Move the hostages."

The Great Elder was puzzled and asked, "Master, why did you suddenly move the hostages? Could it be that... we were discovered? This shouldn't be the case..."

Mo Guiyuan didn't explain: "Anyway, let's move first."

"Yes." The Great Elder agreed and immediately led his men to the secret room where Xiao Duye and Leng Rui were imprisoned.

Leng Tiannan came out from the dark and said to Leng Zhiruo and the two lieutenants, "Follow us!"

On the other side, the old marquis and Wei Ting were also ready to set off.

The old marquis looked at Wei Ting who was ready to go, and asked with a complicated expression: "Are you sure you want to do this? After all, he is you..."

"I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I still remember that my grandfather's head and body were hung on the city wall. I took them down and sewed them up stitch by stitch. The body was frozen into ice and many needles were broken, but I couldn't wait for them to melt completely because they would rot immediately and could no longer be sewn up."

He told all this calmly.

The young boy knelt in the snow, holding the frozen corpse and head, and had cried all his tears dry in his life.

"I have fought with Xiu Nu. Xiu Nu seems to have recovered, but in fact he is still a little short of it. If we want to kill Mo Guiyuan, now is the best time!"

The old marquis said sternly: "Okay! I will kill Mo Guiyuan tonight!"

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(End of this chapter)