Lingzhi's brows were furrowed, and Su Shisan's face was blank.
Shen Yuchao paced back and forth uneasily. "General Su is missing, and the Regent is trapped? How come we left the capital and everything turned upside down when we came back? What happened?"
"Sister must still be in the palace."
Su Shisan suddenly stood up, his eyes red. "It must be the Queen Mother. She must have hidden my sister's whereabouts. Why would she do that?"
"What did we do to make her want to kill us like this?"
"Behind the struggle for power are the bones of ordinary people!"
Lingzhi's face was solemn. "Seizing the throne is actually seizing lives. Seizing the lives of the princes and the lives of loyal ministers and generals!"
Su Shisan's heart ached when he heard this. His sister had already endured too much.
"No, I need to go to the palace to find someone."
Shen Yuchao quickly stopped him: "A foreign minister has trespassed into the harem, are you trying to kill yourself?"
"Don't alert the enemy for now. After all, Su Xian is in their hands now." Lingzhi also spoke.
Su Shisan was anxious: "What should we do? We can't just do nothing, right?"
Lingzhi pondered for a moment and said, "Don't worry, let's make a feint to the east and attack in the west. You continue to seek an audience with the emperor, and as for the harem, I will investigate."
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In the afterglow of the setting sun, magpies fly south.
In a remote palace in the imperial palace, Su Xian was sitting on the ground, half holding the unconscious young emperor.
She was fed with muscle softening powder and now she is completely powerless. She can only act like a waste and be at the mercy of others.
Empress Dowager Ye brought her attendants in and stood at the doorway, spitting profusely. "General Su, why are you so stubborn? Heaven has already decided. Even the Regent has been imprisoned. Why don't you abandon the dark side and join me in planning great things?"
"As long as General Su agrees, you will still be the Imperial Preceptor. Whether it's money or power, you can ask for it..."
Su Xian gritted her teeth in anger, her face cold and indifferent, sneering disdainfully: "Don't even think about it! Empress Dowager Ye, you should just give up on this idea! I, Su Xian, hate myself for being careless for a moment and falling for your trick, you vicious woman!"
Empress Dowager Ye snorted coldly: "Since you are so ungrateful, don't blame me for being ruthless."
"Your Majesty, if you want to kill me or chop me up, it's all up to you. But if you want me, Su Xian, to surrender to the enemy, forget it!" Su Xian said coldly.
Empress Dowager Ye said with a forced smile, "Your Majesty has just recovered from a serious illness. I had originally thought of General Su as a heroine and wanted to invite you to continue teaching His Majesty and serve the court. But now it seems... it's such a pity!"
As she spoke, she pulled out a little boy about ten years old from behind her. He looked 80% similar to the young emperor!
Su Xian saw this and her expression suddenly changed. Her pupils shrank suddenly. "You...you want to use someone else's power to kill you?!"
"General Su, don't you understand? The young emperor in your arms is already an abandoned child!"
Empress Dowager Ye spoke in a soft voice, even in this situation, she said such heartbreaking words.
"Why would General Su risk himself for him?"
After saying this, she smiled again, raised her delicate jade finger and pointed at the child standing beside her:
"This child was carefully selected by my family. Although he is an orphan from a side branch, he is still a member of the Xiao family. In other words, my family has not mixed up the royal bloodline."
After saying this, she gave a wink to the palace maid beside her.
The palace maid responded and without any hesitation, she reached out to pull the young emperor from Su Xian's arms.
"What is the Queen Mother going to do?"
Su Xian's heart tightened, and she hugged the young emperor's weak body tightly.
Her raised voice was sharp and piercing, and her eyes stared at Empress Dowager Ye sinisterly, like a ghost seeking death, making people feel a strong murderous intent.
"If anything happens to the emperor, I will peel off your skin and tear out your tendons."
Su Xian was shocked and terrified.
This woman is really crazy. How dare she touch the little emperor!
"General Su is in danger now, so it's best not to argue any further."
Empress Dowager Ye turned around and looked at Su Xian, "But don't worry, after so many years of mother-son love, I will naturally make the young emperor's passing easier."
Empress Dowager Ye's face was twisted and ferocious, her eyes were sinister and terrifying. She ordered the palace maid, "What are you still standing there for? Bring her back to me!"
Upon hearing this, the palace maid no longer showed any mercy and reached out to grab the young emperor's arm.
Su Xian pinched her hand with her backhand and broke it. The palace maid screamed in pain and fell to the ground.
Seeing that she still had the strength to resist, Empress Dowager Ye frowned and ordered the eunuchs behind her: "What are you still standing there for? Go up and hold her down!"
Several eunuchs immediately stepped forward and pinned Su Xian to the ground.
Seeing these people carrying the young emperor away from her, Su Xian's face twisted with anger, "Empress Dowager Ye, you dare to murder the emperor? Aren't you afraid that your plan will be exposed and you will die without a burial place?"
Empress Dowager Ye laughed crazily: "Plotting to murder the emperor? General Su, please don't spit blood at me. Isn't it better for the emperor to stay by my side?"
Empress Dowager Ye raised her hand and stroked the head of the child beside her. "He will be our emperor from now on. General Su, please don't make a mistake. Hahahaha..."
Empress Dowager Ye laughed unscrupulously.
Su Xian gritted her teeth, filled with hatred, and immediately kicked over the valuable porcelain vase on the table.
The porcelain vase fell to the ground with a "bang", and porcelain fragments were scattered all over the ground.
Everyone was startled and turned their heads to look over.
While the eunuchs were still stunned and turned their heads to look, Su Xian grabbed a piece of porcelain on the ground and rushed towards Empress Dowager Ye.
Unfortunately, she was poisoned by the muscle softening powder and lost her strength after just a few steps. She was captured by several eunuchs again.
"Everything is already decided. General Su, please don't waste your energy!"
Empress Dowager Ye walked slowly towards Su Xian, dragging her heavy golden robe, and shook off Su Xian's hand holding the porcelain piece!
She was not upset at the moment. It seemed that the more angry Su Xian was, the better her mood became.
Su Xian stumbled backwards and nearly fell.
Empress Dowager Ye smiled without saying anything, looking at Su Xian with a sinister face.
"General Su is ill, which is why he did such a crazy thing. Fortunately, His Majesty is safe and sound."
The eunuch beside the Queen Mother immediately responded: "Since General Su is ill, His Majesty cannot entrust her with his teaching, lest she infect His Majesty with the disease."
Empress Dowager Ye glanced at Su Xian expressionlessly and said indifferently, "Since General Su is ill, I will not bother with her behavior today. Steward Wang, please send more people to take good care of her. Until she recovers, she should stay in Kungan Palace to recuperate."
"Yes." An old eunuch bowed and replied.
Su Xian didn't understand the implication of their words, but she instinctively sensed danger from their eyes.
"General Su, just enjoy your time recuperating in Kungan Palace!"
Empress Dowager Ye's voice suddenly became somewhat sarcastic.
She cast one last glance at Su Xian, then walked out, saying, "Your Majesty is young and sickly, and I am the only one who can rely on him at court."
"Long live the Empress Dowager!"
A group of eunuchs and others nodded in congratulations.
Everyone present understood what to do.
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