Chapter 145 The Unlucky Prince Goes Crazy (15)
Mo Su handled official business in the study for the entire afternoon and fell asleep without knowing when. When he woke up in a daze, the study had become dark. Perhaps a servant had come in while he was asleep and lit a candle on the table opposite the entrance.
With the help of the candlelight on the table in the distance, Mo Su discovered that there was a wooden box on the desk. Confused, he raised his hand and pulled the box in front of him.
Mo Su opened the box and took a quick glance at the contents. Suddenly, like a tiger whose tail had been stepped on, he stood up from his chair and took several steps back, his heart pounding with fear.
After leaning against the bookshelf behind him for a while, he relaxed until his heartbeat became less intense, and then he took another step forward.
A ball of flesh with a few traces of blood suddenly appeared in front of Mo Su. After seeing what was in the box, Mo Su couldn't help but bend over and hold the edge of the table and retched a few times.
"Is it disgusting? Haven't you been looking for him? I brought it to you personally, why are you vomiting?" Mu Yan sat in front of a candle-lit table in the distance, supporting the edge of the table with one hand and holding her chin.
When Mo Su heard the familiar voice, he suddenly looked up at him.
"Why are you here? How did you get in?" Seeing Muyan, those unpleasant memories of those days and nights appeared in Mo Su's mind again like the tide returning to the river.
Mu Yan stood up and walked towards Mo Su, "Didn't I just tell you that I sent the child to you?"
Mo Su lowered his eyes in disbelief and took another look at the contents of the box. "You said this is..."
"This is the 'child' born by Tuoba Hong," Mu Yan said.
Mo Su's hands hanging by his side slowly clenched into fists, his bottomless black eyes filled with cruelty and murderous intent.
Tuoba Hong, who lived deep in the alley, had no idea that his plan had been exposed. He was lying on the couch, waiting for the person he had contacted before to send him the child.
Tuoba Hong knew very well that Mo Su was ambitious. The next step he had to take was to persuade Mo Su to instigate the King of the Western Regions to attack the Great Saint Dynasty. He knew almost all the weaknesses of the border defenses. In this way, the day when he would sit on that throne was just around the corner.
"Bang,"
The door was suddenly kicked open, and Tuoba Hong sat up from the couch almost at the same time, picked up the knife on the table, quickly unsheathed it, and took a defensive posture.
Mo Su walked into the room with a murderous look on his face. Seeing Tuoba Hong about to stab him, he couldn't help but sneer.
Tuoba Hong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the person coming was Mo Su. He put the knife back into the sheath and put it back on the table.
"Is it so hard to knock on the door?" Tuoba Hong complained, but before he could finish his words, Mo Su suddenly rushed over and grabbed his neck.
"Tuoba Hong, you are so bold that you dare to lie to me."
Tuoba Hong's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he panicked, but he pretended to be calm on the surface, "What nonsense are you talking about? What did I lie to you about?"
Mo Su thought of Mu Yan's words and a mocking smile appeared on his face.
"Child? Can you give birth to it?" Tuoba Hong frowned. Before he could understand the meaning of his words, he heard Mo Su shouting outside the door. Soon a guard came in holding a wooden box. Mo Su gestured for him to put the box on the table and then let him go out.
"Look at it, your child."
Tuoba Hong opened the box with trembling hands. After seeing what was inside, his reaction was almost the same as Mo Su's. He crawled to the edge of the couch using his hands and feet, and retched several times.
"Why, seeing your own 'child', you still have this reaction?" Mo Su said sarcastically.
"This is not my child. My child is on the way. Someone will send him here soon. It's not mine. It's a monster," Tuoba Hong murmured in a low voice, deceiving himself.
Mo Su held down the hand that wanted to kill him and shouted outside the door again. Soon, two strong men in guard uniforms came in dragging a man covered in blood, whose appearance could barely be seen.
When Tuoba Hong saw the appearance of the person being dragged, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.
This man was not discovered by Mo Su. He was given a gift by Mu Yan when she came before. When he found him, he was planning to break into a farmer's house and snatch the baby who had just been born.
Mo Su knew the whole truth and was furious. He took out his anger on him first, and he used too much force, and the man became what he is now.
Tuoba Hong wanted to argue, but Mo Su didn't give him the chance. While he was panicking, he quickly stepped forward and held down Tuoba Hong's arms, removing both of his arms.
"Send him to Anlou and let Aunt Hong teach him well."
Anlou was built under the order of the previous king of the Western Regions. Today, Anlou has become the largest brothel in the Western Regions, and all its income goes to the national treasury.
Aunt Hong is the current proprietress of Anlou, which is under the jurisdiction of the Western Region Inner Court.
"Oh, two young men, you've sent someone to me again," Aunt Hong twisted her slender waist, waved a feather fan, and walked down the stairs.
"The Prince Consort has asked you to teach him a lesson."
Aunt Hong raised her hand and pinched Tuoba Hong's chin, looking at his face carefully for a while. He is a little old, but this face is okay, Hongyi thought to herself.
"Go back and tell the prince consort to rest assured that I will teach him well." The strong man turned and left after hearing what she said.
Aunt Hong waved her feather fan and called two servants over. "Carry him to the backyard and give him twenty beatings a day. We can change the beatings after half a month depending on the situation." Tuoba Hong whimpered for a long time with cotton cloth stuffed in his mouth, but Aunt Hong had no intention of taking it off for him.
Girls or young men who were forced into Anlou were inevitably beaten for several months regardless of their willingness. The purpose was to scare them so that they would not even dare to run away.
Mo Suyuan's spy in the capital brought him news the day before yesterday that Emperor Xuan had been bedridden for several days and could not get out of bed.
Mo Su knew this was a great opportunity, and at the morning court, he couldn't wait to ask the King of the Western Regions if he could personally lead the troops. The King of the Western Regions had been preparing for the campaign with several neighboring countries for over half a year, and now that he had this opportunity, he had no reason to disagree.
Princess Xianyun is about to give birth, and she doesn't want Mo Su to lead the troops to war. However, she also knows that this opportunity is something her father has been waiting for a long time, and she can't force Mo Su to stay just because of her sentimental feelings.
The sudden attack by the Western Regions and neighboring countries was something the Great Sage Dynasty had never expected. Emperor Xuan was seriously ill in bed, and the prince who was in charge of supervising the court officials had no experience and could only listen to the court officials arguing with each other in the court.
With the border on the verge of being breached by the Wu State, the princes and their courtiers, after much deliberation, decided to select one of the princes as a hostage to negotiate peace. The younger the prince, the more sincere the hostage, the more likely he would be sent to an enemy country. However, the younger princes in the palace were in poor health and feared they would die on the way home within a few days of leaving the capital.
Finally, after much pushing and shoving, the task fell to Mu Yan, who had no background at all. Mu Yan agreed without hesitation.
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