Chapter 257 Palace Gossip

The old Taoist priest was shocked and stunned.

Two guards walked in from the door, one of them grabbed one of his arms and dragged him out.

"My brother is not as capable as me, he likes quietness and is very old-fashioned. He will never leave the Taoist temple at will. Even if you find him, he will not do anything for you. But the poor are different. You can ask them to do anything!"

Just when the Taoist priest was about to be dragged to the door,

Ling Fengxun suddenly waved his hand.

The guards stopped dragging him out and stood patiently waiting for the next order from the prince.

The old Taoist priest's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he was shaking with nervousness, and his legs were a little weak.

But he saw Ling Fengxun stood up from the chair and walked in front of him: "Are you willing to do anything?"

The old Taoist priest nodded quickly.

"Yes, I will do whatever you say as long as I can do it."

Ling Fengxun's heart was extremely cold, and he had seen through the old Taoist priest who was greedy and

afraid of death. The other party did not care about human life and cause and effect. Keeping him alive would be a disaster.

For such a completely inhumane person, he must be killed.

However,

"I will ask you a few more questions, and you answer honestly."

"You ask, I will tell you everything I know!"

The old Taoist priest listened carefully.

Then he saw Ling Fengxun's voice was cold.

"Among the people you know, how many people know this mysterious art?"

"I have only heard of my senior brother and my deceased master. As for the others, I have never heard of or seen them."

He was not lying.

Now that Taoism is in such a state of decline, he is already a master among his peers!

It is very difficult for those noble families to see him.

If you want to invite him out of seclusion, you have to spend a lot of money.

As for those small Taoist sects outside, he has never taken them seriously, and he has never heard of any Taoist temple that is bigger than his Qingfeng Temple.

After getting such a worthless answer, Ling Fengxun immediately lost interest.

"Take it away"

"Wait, wait, wait, I remembered one!"

Ling Fengxun's face was very cold and his eyes were unfriendly.

The look in his eyes clearly told the old Taoist priest to speak quickly if he had anything to say.

The old Taoist priest quickly replied, "I heard that several decades ago, there was a family of fortune tellers in the Southern Qi Kingdom, the Wei Chi family. The people in that family were extremely powerful and could predict the future and see through the secrets of heaven. They were even revered as imperial teachers by the emperor of the Southern Qi Kingdom.

" Ling Fengxun nodded, "Where do the people of the Wei Chi family live?"

The old Taoist priest remembered his previous answer and his mouth twitched.

"If I tell you the truth, Your Majesty, please let me go. I will stay away from here and never appear in front of you again!"

He got up, knelt straight, and began to kowtow to Ling Fengxun.

Ling Fengxun said expressionlessly: "You want to negotiate with me again?"

"I dare not. I just pray that Your Majesty will spare my old bones for my cooperation. Even if you don't kill me today, I won't live for a few more years."

He was grief-stricken, crying and wiping tears, looking quite miserable.

However, Ling Fengxun's lips just curled slightly, but there was no smile in his eyes. You

have done so many evil things, and you still want to die peacefully?

"Whether you talk or not, you will die."

The old Taoist priest froze.

He raised his head in disbelief, with despair in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, if you say so, I will never say another word."

Ling Fengxun nodded: "The only difference is that if you say it, you will die in a while, but if you don't say it, you will die now, and he..."

The corners of the old Taoist's lips trembled violently.

"The people of the Wei Chi family suddenly disappeared more than 20 years ago. I heard that their head of the family made a mistake and almost killed the emperor at that time. Later, I met the people of the Wei Chi family by accident. They should be hiding in the Xianfeng City of Nanqi Kingdom."

Ling Fengxun got the answer he wanted and nodded lightly.

The old Taoist raised his head suddenly, intending to tell everything he knew and fight to the last hurrah.

Otherwise, if he died, he would really have nothing.

"Your Highness, I have another matter to come to the capital. I was asked by a lady named Xu from the Southern Qi Kingdom to change the fate of Concubine Mei!"

Ling Fengxun's expression suddenly changed.

The look he gave the old Taoist priest also became extremely serious. He

strode up to him, grabbed the other's collar, and grabbed him with an angry face.

"Whose fate do you want to change?"

There was endless hostility in his eyes.

The strong muscles on his arms bulged, and he easily lifted the old Taoist priest with one arm.

The old Taoist priest's cheeks were flushed by the collar, and he trembled as he said, "The fate that Madam Xu wants to change is the phoenix fate. The only person who has this fate is your princess."

Ling Fengxun took a few deep breaths.

He always thought that the people who did these things were An Ruxue and her daughter.

But he investigated those two people from head to toe, and they were too ordinary, just General An's mistresses outside.

If there was no one behind the scenes to guide them, how could they have the ability to change Xier's fate.

Therefore, they are just pawns of the person behind the scenes, used to cover up the identity of the person behind the scenes, but their real purpose.

Xu Meir?

His daughter's life is still in his hands. Is he really sure that he can save Xu Meir from thousands of miles away?

"Who is the Madam Xu you are talking about?"

The old Taoist priest swallowed his saliva and said, "She is Concubine Mei's biological mother. The reason why Xu Mei'er can become a princess is because Madam Xu is the current mistress of the Southern Qi Emperor."

After all, he also knew a lot of gossip about the Southern Qi Kingdom. The old Taoist priest continued with a trembling voice, "If Madam Xu's husband had not died to save the Southern Qi Emperor, the Southern Qi Emperor would have made Madam Xu a concubine long ago."

"It is because of this reason that the relationship between the two can only be hidden in secret. In addition, the Emperor of Nanqi was fundamentally injured and could no longer have children. Madam Xu knew that she could not give birth to the bloodline of the Emperor of Nanqi, so she did not ask for a status. However, for so many years, she has been enjoying all the treatment of a palace concubine, and outsiders have tacitly accepted her identity

." Ling Fengxun couldn't help but have a complicated expression when he heard this.

The chaos in the royal family of Nanqi is no less than that of the royal family of Beiling.

As for the rumor that the Emperor of Nanqi was infertile, he believed it.

Although the rumors about him in this regard were false.

Otherwise, the Emperor of Nanqi would not attach so much importance to An Yunhe, a prince who was stranded outside, and would pay such a great price and send so many people to bring him back.

The old Taoist priest pursed his cracked lips and continued to speak.