Chapter 344: Master Gongsun's Second Letter
This is the second time the Sixth Princess has poached someone else's talent.
Oh no, last time, she was just a princess.
Now she is the queen.
To be honest, Li Nuo was very tempted.
Li Nuo watched her with his own eyes, no, he held her hands as she walked step by step to her current position. He felt like an old father seeing his daughter finally grow up.
One's own daughter is always closer to you than someone else's emperor.
However, even if he really wanted to develop in Zhao State in the future, he had to go back first.
Li Nuo smiled and said, "I will seriously consider it."
He did not agree immediately. Zhao Zhiyi felt a little disappointed, but did not show it.
Li Nuo asked, "Have you found out who cast the curse on you?"
Zhao Zhiyi shook his head and said, "There are no clues, nowhere to check."
Li Nuo looked at the token in his hand. With this token, he had the special authorization of the imperial power. In Zhao State, there was no case that he could not investigate.
Li Nuo said: "Leave it to me."
He originally agreed to come to Zhao State in order to investigate the case and solve the problem.
He has been waiting for this day for a long time.
Li Nuo left the palace and came to the Ministry of Justice with ease.
"Your Majesty!"
When Li Nuo presented the token, the officials from the Ministry of Justice fell to their knees.
Senior officials of the State of Zhao were no strangers to this card.
Seeing this token is like seeing His Majesty. Before, the only person in Zhao State who possessed this token was the national teacher, and now there is one more person.
Li Nuo was already very familiar with the officials of the Ministry of Justice, and he took over the Ministry smoothly.
A moment later, inside the office of the Minister of Justice.
Li Nuo looked at the name on the verdict and fell into silence for a long time.
The Sixth Princess has already won the election. If something happens to her, the election will have to be held again.
The four princes who serve as regents, as vested interests, are bound to be the most suspicious.
So, the first ones Li Nuo tried were these four.
The result was as expected.
But it was also unexpected.
Prince Sheng's Palace.
There was singing and dancing in the palace.
The music was rapid and lively. In the hall, beautiful dancers with graceful figures twisted their waists to their heart's content. King Sheng hugged a dancer on each side. The two women took turns drinking the wine, and then turned around and passed the wine to King Sheng's mouth.
In the past two days, Prince Sheng indulged in sensual pleasures, and the servants in Prince Sheng's mansion were relieved.
Since there is no hope for the throne, being a free and easy prince may not be a bad thing.
This kind of scene used to happen frequently in Prince Sheng's Palace, and now it was just a return to the past.
Just when the dance and music reached its climax, several figures slowly walked in from outside the hall.
"stop!"
A middle-aged official spoke in a deep voice, his voice like a huge bell, echoing in everyone's ears.
The musicians in the hall stopped playing immediately.
Several dancers also stopped dancing, looking panicked.
"What are you doing?" King Sheng was just enjoying the music when a trace of displeasure appeared between his brows. He said drunkenly, "Why stop? Keep playing, keep dancing!"
However, these musicians and dancers did not listen to him. Instead, they lined up and walked out of the hall with confused expressions.
King Sheng had already climbed up from the couch and looked at the figures below. His eyes finally stopped at the young man in the lead and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Li Nuo walked forward slowly and said, "Your Highness Prince Sheng, you are involved in the murder of the Queen. Please come with us."
Prince Sheng sobered up a bit and said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? Her Majesty the Queen is my biological sister. We have the same father and mother. Would I harm my own sister? You actually found the case that led to my head!"
Li Nuo looked at him calmly and said, "Your Highness, if you have anything to say, please talk about it when you get to the Ministry of Justice."
Prince Sheng stood up and said sternly, "I am a first-rank prince. What qualifications does the Ministry of Justice have to arrest me? You say I am plotting to murder the queen. What evidence do you have?"
Li Nuo didn't say much, took out the token and waved it in front of him.
The Sixth Princess is not the Queen, so evidence is indeed needed to arrest him.
The Sixth Princess is already the Empress, but she needs evidence to arrest him. Then isn't her title of Empress in vain?
Two officials from the Ministry of Justice stepped forward and arrested Prince Sheng without any explanation.
The Ministry of Justice is indeed not qualified to arrest King Sheng. Even officials above the seventh rank are not qualified to be directly arrested by the Ministry of Justice.
But others hold the golden medal bestowed by His Majesty, and seeing him is like seeing His Majesty. His words are no different from the imperial edict. What can't he catch as a first-rank prince?
After being pinned down, King Sheng continued to struggle.
"How dare you!"
"I am the Queen's biological brother!"
"Mr. Li, you traitor, how dare you do this to me!"
"I want to see the Queen, I want to see Zhiyi!"
Even when he was thrown into the prison of the Ministry of Justice, Prince Sheng was still holding on to the bars and shouting loudly.
At this time, a figure slowly walked towards the prison door.
Seeing that figure, a glimmer of hope emerged in Prince Sheng's eyes. He raised his voice a few degrees and said, "Sixth sister, you are here. Li Nuo framed my brother. You must let them release me!"
Zhao Zhiyi walked up to him, looked at him with complicated eyes, and asked, "Brother, are they really framing me?"
Prince Sheng said quickly, "Of course, I am your biological brother, and the man surnamed Li is just an outsider. Do you believe him or me?"
Zhao Zhiyi looked at him without any consideration and said, "I believe him."
Two days ago, she visited the national teacher and learned some things from him.
One is her brother who wants her dead.
One is the 'outsider' who gave half of her life to her.
Who is the outsider after all?
Naturally, she didn't need to consider who she should trust.
King Sheng's voice suddenly stopped.
He looked at Zhao Zhiyi and said in disbelief: "I have watched you grow up since you were a child. We have known each other for twenty years. You would rather trust a stranger you have known for half a year than your own brother?"
Zhao Zhiyi did not answer his question directly, but asked directly: "Who gave you that poisonous insect?"
King Sheng looked into her eyes and saw something in her gaze.
His heart suddenly turned cold.
She already knew that it was she who had cast the poison.
The man in black robe clearly said that this move was foolproof. Once she was poisoned, she would never wake up again. Even the national teacher could not guess that he was the man behind the scenes. Even if he failed, he could still be the most carefree prince of Zhao State.
But he contained two lies in one sentence.
Not only did she wake up, she also exposed herself.
Looking at her wearing a gorgeous dragon robe, King Sheng did not make any more excuses.
He let go of the bars of the cell, his expression gradually changed from anxious to calm, and finally he smiled coldly and said, "So what if I did it, but don't forget, you were the one who betrayed me first. You broke my trust and made me a joke in everyone's eyes. Are you worthy of being my sister? Are you worthy of my dead mother!"
He almost shouted the last two sentences.
This had become a thorn in his heart, tormenting him all the time in the past few days. Now that he said it in front of her, he actually felt a little better.
Zhao Zhiyi looked at the hysterical King Sheng, with a hint of complexity in his eyes, but soon became firm and said: "I am worthy of the people of Zhao."
King Sheng curled his lips and sneered, "People, what people? People are nothing. It's just an excuse you made for yourself. What you want is the supreme power and the cultivation of the sixth realm. You have already got it all. There is no need to pretend. It makes me sick!"
Zhao Zhiyi's body trembled, a layer of mist appeared in his eyes. He lowered his head to wipe his eyes, turned around and strode away.
Li Nuo resisted the urge to whip King Sheng a few times and said coldly, "Don't use your dirty thoughts to speculate about everyone!"
King Sheng snorted coldly and said, "What qualifications do you have to criticize me, you traitor? She used to obey me. If she hadn't been bewitched by you, how could she become like this now? What did you do to her?"
Bang!
This time Li Nuo really couldn't hold back, and an invisible whip shadow hit King Sheng.
The whip of law hurt from the outside to the inside, reaching the soul. King Sheng almost fainted from the pain. He fell to the ground, pointing at Li Nuo, his body shaking constantly, but he couldn't utter a word.
Li Nuo was too lazy to waste time talking to him and asked, "Who gave you the insect?"
King Sheng didn't want to answer, but his mind and mouth were out of his control, and he blurted out: "It was a man in a black robe..."
After saying that, he covered his mouth, looked at Li Nuo in shock, and said in a trembling voice: "You, what did you do to me!"
Li Nuo continued to ask: "What is the identity of the man in black robe?"
"Don't even think about it. I won't tell you... I don't know who he is either. He came to me on his own initiative."
"How did you cast the spell?"
"Ah, I won't tell you... That night, I took advantage of the toast and put the Gu on her head!"
…
King Sheng covered his mouth with his hands, quickly moved to the corner of the cell, and looked at Li Nuo with horror.
He didn't want to answer any of the questions, but his mind and mouth blurted out the answers as if they weren't his.
Li Nuo had an indifferent expression. It had to be said that the School of Diplomacy and the School of Legalism were a perfect match.
Next time you want to solve a case, you won’t have to spend so much time looking for evidence.
However, this trick is only effective against ordinary people or practitioners at a low level.
The higher the level of cultivation and the stronger the willpower, the more difficult it is for a strategist to control his thoughts. He will have no effect on people of the same level and can only adopt a subtle influence method under reasonable circumstances.
For someone like King Sheng who has no willpower and no cultivation, the simplest and most brutal method can be used.
There was indeed someone else behind King Sheng.
But he obviously didn't know more, and there was no need to ask him further.
Li Nuo glanced at him and turned away.
Thinking of how Her Majesty the Queen had just left in tears, Li Nuo became a little worried. He searched the palace but couldn't find her. Finally, he returned to the princess's residence and saw her in the courtyard.
She sat at the stone table in the yard, head down, looking very lost.
What King Sheng said to her just now was indeed too much. Li Nuo walked up to her and comforted her, "Don't pay attention to what King Sheng said just now. He only has power in his eyes, so he only thinks about power. He thinks that everyone is the same as him..."
Before Li Nuo finished speaking, she threw herself into his arms, tears streaming down her cheeks, choking as she said, "I, I'm not doing this for power, nor for cultivation..."
After all, she was the empress he raised, so Li Nuo could only coax her himself.
He patted her shoulder and comforted her, "I know, I know, you are different from King Sheng, you care about the people, otherwise you wouldn't be able to cultivate your noble spirit. Don't cry, don't cry, it's not worth it for us to be sad about such a thing..."
Although Her Majesty the Queen possesses the highest status and power, her mentality is obviously not up to par.
If the Emperor of Daxia was as fragile as she was, he would probably cry every day.
He hasn't attended court for ten years. I wonder how many people and court officials are complaining about him behind his back, but he still doesn't change.
At this time, I have to mention my father.
No matter how many people scold him, he just does what he is supposed to do and is not affected at all.
Now, there are almost no voices in the court scolding him.
Whether you are an official or an emperor, your attitude is very important.
Li Nuo gently wiped away her tears and said, "You can't do this. The emperor is different from the princess. An emperor must act like an emperor. Even those wise rulers throughout history will bear a lot of infamy. We can't control other people's mouths. We just hope to be true to our conscience and to the people..."
Zhao Zhiyi has always had complicated feelings towards his royal brother.
No matter what, it is an indisputable fact that she did betray him.
The brother whom she had relied on since she was a child was the murderer who murdered her and misunderstood her so much. She felt so aggrieved that she had no way to vent. She leaned on his chest and cried for a while, and her mood had calmed down a lot.
She hummed softly and said, "I understand..."
Neither of them spoke again. Zhao Zhiyi's face was pressed against Li Nuo's chest. He could clearly hear his heartbeat. The atmosphere in the courtyard also underwent a subtle change.
Suddenly, her expression changed slightly, and she said in a panic: "I, I'm leaving..."
After he finished speaking, the space in front of Li Nuo fluctuated and Zhao Zhiyi's figure completely disappeared.
He looked at this scene with some envy, thinking that when his legalist advances to the fifth level, he would also be able to show off like this.
Li Nuo turned his head and saw Yiren walking in from outside.
Ever since she became a Grandmaster, she has walked without making any noise.
Song Yiren walked into the yard and saw Li Nuo standing there. Her face turned red and she subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away, but the yard door suddenly closed by itself.
Li Nuo blocked her in the yard, walked up to her and asked, "What do you mean?"
We are almost going back, and it’s time to bring some things to light.
Song Yiren looked left and right and asked, "What do you mean?"
Li Nuo asked: "Why did you kiss me secretly?"
Song Yiren asked back: "Then why did you kiss me secretly?"
Li Nuo said: "Because I like you."
Song Yiren was stunned for a moment, her face gradually turned red, not knowing how to answer, so she simply straightened her chest and said, "You are my husband, what's wrong with me kissing my husband?"
Li Nuo held her hand and asked, "So you agree?"
Song Yiren snorted and said, "What do you mean by agree or not? You have been my husband for 19 years, but you didn't keep your promise and married one woman after another..."
No matter what Yiren said now, Li Nuo would not refute.
He embraced her, Song Yiren held his waist, and they looked at each other. She couldn't help but close her eyes and gently tiptoed...
After a long kiss, she put her head on Li Nuo's chest, quietly listening to his heartbeat, and soon found some wet marks on his chest. In addition, there was a familiar female scent...
She looked up at Li Nuo, frowned and said, "It's the scent of the Sixth Princess. What did you do just now?"
Of course Li Nuo can explain this. After all, he and the Sixth Princess are innocent. Even if he has done something that crosses the line, it was just a matter of urgency and he had no choice.
Even if it goes back to that one kiss, he kissed it openly and with a clear conscience.
Song Jiaren and Li Anning had already been there, and she was more accepting. Song Yiren did not argue with him, and what's more, she also believed that there was nothing between him and the Sixth Princess.
She thought for a moment and said, "I want a formal wedding."
Li Nuo said: "Of course."
This is what he owes her.
Song Yiren added: "I want a wedding that is more grand than the one you had with Song Jiaren and Li Anning..."
The last time An Ning got married, she was married according to the regulations for the eldest princess, and it was prepared by the court. Everything was top-notch, so her request was a bit difficult.
Li Nuo nodded and said, "I'll think of a way."
"I want twins too!"
“Well, I’ll try my best…”
Pregnancy involves a matter of luck, and even if Li Nuo himself is a high-level medical practitioner, he cannot guarantee this.
Or, should he go to Zhao’s imperial master for advice?
Song Yiren hooked her arms around Li Nuo's neck, looked up at him, and smiled.
All the grievances of the past two years, at this moment, don't seem to be that important...
Zhao Imperial Palace, Imperial Study.
Zhao Zhiyi sat alone on the large dragon throne, his face supported by one hand, his eyes somewhat dazed.
The day when he leaves is getting closer and closer.
In the past few months, she has become accustomed to having him by her side. Without him, can she really be a good emperor?
A female official walked in from outside and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, Minister Feng of the Ministry of Rites has something to report."
Zhao Zhiyi sat up straight and said, "Xuan."
After a while, a white-haired old man walked into the hall, bowed and said, "Your Majesty!"
Minister Feng of the Ministry of Rites was a veteran official of three dynasties. Zhao Zhiyi extended his hand and said, "Please take a seat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The old man bowed again and sat on the chair brought by the female official.
Zhao Zhiyi asked, "What does Mr. Feng want to report?"
The Minister of Rites said: "In the past few years, the Ministry of Rites selected marriages for Your Majesty, but Your Majesty repeatedly declined. Now that Your Majesty has ascended the throne, it is time to consider the continuation of the royal family and the inheritance of the country..."
Zhao Zhiyi was slightly stunned, then said: "I have just ascended the throne and there are still many things to do. Let's discuss this matter later..."
The Minister of Rites said: "Establishing an imperial husband early can stabilize the country and the court. Your Majesty, please think twice."
Zhao Zhiyi said: "Okay, I understand. I will consider it carefully. If there is nothing else, Feng Qing can leave..."
The Minister of Rites stood up and said, "I will take my leave. This matter concerns the country's rule. Your Majesty, please think carefully about it..."
After the Minister of Rites left, Zhao Zhiyi once again propped up his chin with his palm and sighed slightly.
When she was still a princess, the Ministry of Rites urged her to get married countless times.
She delayed it again and again, using the excuse that Princess An Ning of Da Xia was also unmarried.
But what reason should be used now?
She was in a confused mood, her eyes wandering, and when her gaze swept across a book on the table in the imperial study, it suddenly stopped.
There are several books piled up in the corner of the desk.
The books were stacked neatly, but there seemed to be something stuck between the pages of one of them, making it particularly conspicuous.
She took the book down and found an envelope tucked inside it.
There were four words written on the cover of the envelope.
I understand your intention and write to you personally.
It was the handwriting of Master Gongsun, which she was very familiar with.
Because of Master Gongsun's previous letter, she has taken this position that she never thought of.
Did she even predict that she would sit on the throne?
Otherwise, how could this letter appear in the imperial study?
She couldn't wait to open the letter. After reading the contents, her lips slightly opened in astonishment, and her pretty face quickly turned red...
(End of this chapter)
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