Chapter 18: Leader Qin is the Prince's man
People are inexplicably confused, so aren't the beasts on the mountain easy to deal with? Leader Qin thought so.
"Can you tell me whether it is aimed at us or Murong Li? Is it the order of the prince or the emperor?" Su Yue asked suddenly. She had to figure out the situation before thinking of a response plan.
They don’t even know who is behind this.
They are now some distance away from the capital, and her mental power cannot reach the capital. Otherwise, why would she need to ask Leader Qin? She would have figured it out herself.
"Ah? This?"
Leader Qin was shocked and looked at Su Yue guiltily. Could this female devil please stop tormenting him? Did he dare to ask?
"Not convenient to say? Then I will tell you, and you can shake your head or nod." Looking at the expression on Leader Qin's face, Su Yue guessed about 80% of what he knew.
"this?"
"Okay." Leader Qin hesitated for a long time before nodding.
Anyway, since he won't say anything, the female devil has plenty of ways to make him say it.
"Is it targeting Murong Li and General Yun?"
"Ah?" Qin Ling opened his eyes wide and nodded. Even the devil General Yun guessed it, and it was not their Su family.
Even Su Qiwen didn't expect it.
However, Su Yue would not explain to them. Such an obvious truth would be quickly understood by the smart Su Qiwen.
The two people in the palace were still worried about Murong Li. So what if he was demoted? Only if he died would they be relieved.
Even if he died, he would not rely on General Yun's power to make a comeback.
So what if General Yun was demoted? Who knows how much hidden power he still has? Only by eradicating them at the source can these people stop causing trouble.
If they were not forced to avoid the reputation of being a tyrant, those sentenced to exile today would have been beheaded long ago to prevent future troubles.
Now they can only do something on the way to exile, and no one will say anything bad to them after they die.
The road of exile is long, and it is normal to encounter wild beasts in the mountains, gangsters and bandits. Natural disasters are common. How can you blame others for your death? You can only blame the exile for his bad luck.
"Is this what the old emperor meant?"
Leader Qin shook his head.
"That's the prince."
Leader Qin nodded.
In fact, Leader Qin was the prince's man. He used to work in the Ministry of Justice. This time he was ordered to escort Murong Li and his party, and ordered him to kill both Murong Li and General Yun Chu's families on the way, leaving no one alive.
Su Yue thought it was the emperor, but it turned out to be the prince. He was really impatient. Hutouling was not far from the capital, so he wanted to take action here.
"Are you the prince's man?"
"Young Miss, you can even guess this. I admire you very much. So, Young Miss, you can understand my difficulties, right?"
Leader Qin smiled bitterly in his heart.
"Is there anyone else in your family?" Su Yue asked again. Qin, the leader, was the prince's man, so his behavior was really unexpected.
Leader Qin shook his head. "I'm an orphan. I was taken in and raised together, then placed in various places to work for that person. People like us, to be honest, don't know when we'll be killed, so how can we dare to marry and have children?"
There is another point he didn't mention. Once you get married and have children, you will have weaknesses and will have concerns about everything you do. Not only will you be easily manipulated by the prince, but you will also be timid when doing things yourself.
If he compromised with Su Yue this time, the prince would not let him go unless all the prisoners were killed. Maybe the prince's men would arrive after he crossed Hutouling.
As for everyone's fate, let's leave it to God.
After hearing this, Su Yue and her brother looked at each other and understood. Su Yue didn't ask any more questions, as she knew everything she needed to know.
"Let's go and have some fish soup."
Speaking of drinking fish soup, Leader Qin changed his decadent attitude, immediately revived to full health, and followed Su Yue and his sister happily.
In the palace, the emperor woke up slowly while lying on the dragon bed.
"Father, you're awake. That's great."
The prince, who had been guarding the emperor, shouted in surprise.
The emperor had just woken up and his eyes were still a little confused. He only glanced at the prince who looked haggard and had bloodshot eyes.
"How long have I been unconscious?" asked the emperor. He still remembered how he fell into a coma. Thinking that the treasury was empty, he felt as if his heart was being cut out.
Prince: "Two days and two nights."
"So long." The emperor closed his eyes.
"Father, would you like something to eat? You must be very hungry after sleeping for so long."
During these two days and two nights, the emperor was given some life soup from time to time, so that he would not feel so weak when he woke up.
The emperor shook his head. He had no mood to eat. All he was thinking about was the things in the national treasury. Those were treasures that had been stored by the royal families of past dynasties!
Just gone like that.
The emperor's heart was bleeding, his mind full of the empty treasury. He didn't notice that the haggard prince's eyes were not filled with anxiety at all, but with joy.
"The treasury is empty. It's all over," the emperor murmured.
"Father, rest assured. I have already sent people to track down the thieves. We will definitely capture all the thieves and execute all nine generations of their clan."
The prince was extremely saddened to see that the emperor had been hit so hard overnight, as if he had aged ten years.
He couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth with sarcasm. In the eyes of his father, money was more important than his sons. He had never seen his father feel sad when he saw his sons being suppressed, demoted, imprisoned, deposed, and executed one by one. He let him do whatever he wanted.
It would be better for such a heartless and ungrateful person to die. What's the point of living?
The prince thought so in his heart, but he dared not say it out loud. A glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and he looked up at the imperial physician waiting beside him: "Imperial Physician Liu, please quickly take father's pulse."
"Yes, Prince." Doctor Liu responded with a cautious look. Two doctors from their Imperial Hospital took turns to wait for the emperor to wake up.
Having just heard something he shouldn't have heard, he now had to play deaf and dumb and pretend he heard nothing.
Doctor Liu immediately took the emperor's pulse. The prince stepped aside. The emperor kept his eyes open, not knowing what he was thinking.
"My Lord, you've been guarding for two days and two nights. Go back and get some rest. Don't overwork yourself. The Emperor will be distressed."
The shrewd Ninth Eunuch immediately stood beside the prince and bowed and said.
The prince glanced at him. The old man was talking nonsense. The emperor was awake but his attention was not on him at all. He looked so tired and didn't say a word of care. He was still thinking about his baby.
The Ninth Eunuch is a smooth-talking person, but that's the kind of person the emperor wants to be around. Listen, what he said makes the father and son look so loving and filial.
The prince knows whether he is kind or not, and the emperor knows whether he is filial or not.
"Okay, I won't leave until I'm sure Father is alright."
Ninth Eunuch: "Yes, Prince."
Doctor Liu took the emperor's pulse carefully and had an idea in his mind that the emperor was no longer in danger. He was originally very angry, but he vomited out the blood in his chest, slept for two more days and two nights, and drank ginseng soup from time to time. He was no longer in danger.
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