Chapter 142 Closing the Net (Script 12)
Su Yanzhi looked at Xiao Ziche in front of him in confusion, his voice trembling violently: "Then...then my mother..."
"Your mother was the Crown Princess of the previous dynasty."
Xiao Ziche gently soothed him, "You are not a bastard..."
This throne has belonged to Su Yanzhi from the beginning to the end. He is even more qualified to inherit the throne than the deceased emperor.
Ever since the previous emperor usurped the throne by improper means, Xiao Ziche has been enduring it.
He expanded his power step by step, won the trust of the late emperor, fought desperately on the battlefield, and finally got the title of "Regent".
When Xiao Ziche was thirteen years old, he discovered that there was something strange about Su Yanzhi's life experience. After half a year of investigation, Xiao Ziche finally confirmed that Su Yanzhi was the child of the former crown prince Xiao Yan and the crown princess.
When being hunted by assassins sent by the late emperor, Xiao Yan knew that he and the Crown Princess were likely to lose their lives, so he asked his confidant to perform a trick of "substituting a cat for the prince".
Although this move is risky, it can save Su Yanzhi's life.
"I……"
Su Yanzhi looked at Xiao Ziche with confused eyes.
In fact, he really wanted to say something to express his emotions at the moment, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.
"His Majesty."
Xiao Ziche held Su Yanzhi's hand and soothed the young man in front of him in a gentle voice: "None of this matters now. You have successfully ascended the throne of the Nine-Five Supreme Being and eliminated the spies of the First and Second Princes. You have done a good job over the years. As long as you eliminate the evil in the court, you can create a peaceful and prosperous era."
This is Xiao Ziche's wish, and also Su Yanzhi's.
The two of them had finally reached this point, and nothing could stop them.
"good."
Su Yanzhi cleared the distracting thoughts from his mind and nodded heavily in the direction of Xiao Ziche.
…
When the morning light penetrated the clouds, Xiao Ziche was already standing on the palace wall.
A new white bandage could be vaguely seen under the young man's black cloak, but his posture was very straight, like a sword drawn from its sheath.
Su Yanzhi, who was standing beside Xiao Ziche, pointed at a glazed palace lantern, and the warm yellow light reflected on the corners of the young emperor's smiling lips.
"Three quarters past three in the morning."
Xiao Ziche raised his eyes to look at the red signal smoke that suddenly rose in the southeast corner of the imperial city, and said with a smile: "Mo Ye succeeded."
Su Yanzhi tapped the palace lantern cover three times with his fingertips, and the same rhythm was immediately heard from afar.
He suddenly chuckled at Xiao Ziche: "When Lord Chen from the Ministry of Rites was dragged out of bed, he was still reciting the memorial advising me to select a concubine..."
This sentence is a temptation.
After Su Yanzhi said this, he kept observing Xiao Ziche's reaction.
Seeing that Xiao Ziche's expression remained calm when he heard the word "beautiful girl", Su Yanzhi narrowed his eyes in dissatisfaction.
Just then, the sound of horse hooves came from under the palace wall.
Xiao Ziche narrowed his eyes and looked outside the palace wall, only to see three hundred black-armored guards escorting dozens of court officials through the Suzaku Gate.
The leader was the imperial teacher of the previous dynasty.
His hair was disheveled, and his coiled dragon cane had been thrown away long ago, but he was still roaring: "How dare you! I am a veteran of three dynasties--"
"A veteran of three dynasties?"
Su Yanzhi suddenly raised his voice, looking at the former imperial master with undisguised contempt: "Master, why don't you tell me how you poisoned the medicine of the last emperor of the previous dynasty?"
The former imperial teacher froze in place as if struck by lightning.
Xiao Ziche threw down a roll of bamboo slips at the right time, and it landed right at his feet.
When the bamboo slips were unfolded, they turned out to be the records of the imperial physician from twenty years ago, which contained detailed evidence of his accepting bribes.
"impossible!"
The former imperial preceptor's face was ashen. He looked at Su Yanzhi in front of him in disbelief and muttered in a low voice, "These records clearly..."
"Has it been burned by you?"
Su Yanzhi turned his head and blinked at Xiao Ziche, his voice full of smiles: "Brother Ziche, it seems that the secret agent we planted in the Imperial Medical Bureau has good acting skills..."
Xiao Ziche raised the corners of his lips slightly.
Who would have thought that the old doctor who was trembling with fear all day long was actually the spy chief he personally trained?
Seeing this, Su Yanzhi also raised the corners of his lips.
At this moment, Mo Ye appeared on the wall like a ghost and reported in a low voice: "My Lord, all thirty-six hidden stakes have been activated."
Su Yanzhi took the list he handed over, which was densely packed with the names of officials who were to be replaced today.
The word "poor family" is marked behind each name - this is the seed they planted ten years ago, and now it has finally come to the time to break through the ground.
"Go to the Imperial Study."
When Su Yanzhi turned around, the hem of his dragon robe swept across the snow on the ground, revealing a dagger hidden in his boot.
Xiao Ziche accidentally caught a glimpse of the short blade he had made last year. On the handle was engraved a tiny inscription of "live and die together".
Live and die together...
This was his promise to Su Yanzhi.
The charcoal fire in the imperial study was burning brightly.
As soon as Su Yanzhi pushed open the carved wooden door, he heard a slight noise coming from the beam.
He swung the dagger without even looking up, and with a "ding" sound, a man in black fell to the ground, holding his shoulder.
"The seventh one."
Xiao Ziche counted and kicked the man into the corner.
There were already six assassins dressed in the same way, all of them under anesthesia and unable to move.
Su Yanzhi took out a yellowed map from the secret compartment and spread it on the table. The map was densely packed with routes marked with cinnabar. These were the underground passages secretly built by the remnants of the previous dynasty over the years.
"Brother Ziche deliberately arranged for that mute clerk to be in the Ministry of Works. It was truly a brilliant move."
Xiao Ziche picked up a red pen and drew a cross at the end of a secret passage: "Mo Ye's men have blocked this exit."
The tip of the pen was suddenly held by Su Yanzhi, and the two of them drew a circle in the center of the map at the same time.
That was the ancestral hall where Su Yanzhi was punished to kneel, and it was also the place where they first met.
"Do you remember?"
Su Yanzhi suddenly lowered his voice, "When we first met, you brought me sweet and soft osmanthus cake. Actually, I've tried many flavors of osmanthus cake in the past six months, but none of them are as delicious as the one you gave me."
He looked at Xiao Ziche with burning eyes, trying to see the nostalgia and yearning for the past in the other's eyes.
Of course Xiao Ziche remembered.
Su Yanzhi was only eight years old at that time. It was snowing heavily outside. He was only wearing a thin coat. His lips were frozen purple by the cold wind. Because he knelt for too long, his white knees were covered with wounds.
Xiao Ziche took out the ointment he carried with him and carefully applied it on his wound. The look in Su Yanzhi's eyes when he looked up at him was very similar to that of the ferret he raised when he was a child, both cute and pitiful.
Thinking of this, Xiao Ziche's heart softened a little.
How could he not see that Su Yanzhi was testing his feelings?
"Remember."
Xiao Ziche also fell into memories. He whispered, "Your Majesty was... very pitiful at that time."
If anyone else dared to call Su Yanzhi "pitiful", Su Yanzhi would definitely be furious, but when the person who said this turned out to be Xiao Ziche, Su Yanzhi knew that the other party was feeling sorry for him.
Su Yanzhi narrowed his eyes in pleasure.
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