Chapter 90 Acknowledgement
Hearing the emperor's words, Ling Zhuo'an raised his eyebrows slightly and said calmly, "Sister? Which sister? Father has so many daughters, why don't you explain it more clearly?"
Ling Zhuoan's voice was calm, as if he really didn't understand who the emperor was talking about.
"Stop playing dumb with me." The emperor frowned and looked at him. "I'm talking about Tang Ning, don't you know?"
The emperor was obviously annoyed by his indifferent expression, but he still had some rationality. He glanced at the eunuch beside him, and the eunuch immediately understood what he meant and asked everyone to leave.
The people from the East Palace glanced at Ling Zhuoan, who nodded before leaving the hall.
For a moment, there were only the Emperor, Mu Xianzhi and Ling Zhuoan in Ling Zhuoan's bedroom, if the dark room was not counted.
After the outsiders left, the emperor immediately shouted, "Are you harboring thoughts about your sister that you shouldn't be harboring?!"
The emperor is not young anymore and he experienced a lot in his youth. Now the country is peaceful and prosperous, and the prince is capable. Even if there are important state affairs, most of them don't worry him. Therefore, nothing can make him so emotional.
Ling Zhuo'an's expression was indifferent. He glanced at Mu Xianzhi who was standing beside the emperor, snorted coldly, and finally met the emperor's gaze. He said, "You already know this. The Grand Tutor is really agile."
The emperor was so angry that his beard was about to fly off. "You just admit it?"
"What else? If I don't admit it, wouldn't that be deceiving the king?" Ling Zhuoan said as a matter of course, as if he was saying that the weather was nice today.
There is not a trace of concealment, not a trace of lies, and there is no need for others to expose it.
"You!" The emperor raised the sleeves of his wide dragon robe and pointed at Ling Zhuo'an: "Do you still have any shame? That's your sister? How could you have such thoughts about Qingyan!"
"Isn't that thanks to my father? If it weren't for my father, Qingyan wouldn't be my biological sister, and there wouldn't be such a troublesome situation to deal with."
Ling Zhuoan didn't think he had any problems at all and blamed all the mistakes on the emperor.
"Okay, okay." The emperor gritted his teeth. "The queen really gave birth to a good son. I didn't know you were such a bastard!"
"Like father, like mother. It's only natural. Father is lenient to himself and strict to others. It seems a little unfair to me." Ling Zhuo'an had a smile on his face, but he exuded indifference from the bottom of his heart.
It seemed as if he didn't care at all what his father thought of him.
Blood ties are better than nothing to him.
In fact, there were not many times when he and the emperor sat down to have a serious conversation. The two were more like a monarch and his subject, and there was no blood relationship to speak of.
Apart from government affairs, I haven't said much. Today is probably the most I have said.
The emperor didn't know this son very well. To be more precise, he didn't know many of his sons. When several of his sons were ready to compete openly or secretly with the crown prince in the past few years, he didn't do much to help.
If he can't even deal with those brothers, he won't be able to sit firmly on the throne of the crown prince.
But what he didn't expect was that his son Ling Zhuo'an seemed to be a natural emperor. His methods were far more ruthless than he had imagined. He was a man of both civil and military skills, and had both moral integrity and talent. Neither he nor the officials could find fault with him.
He was naturally happy that the prince was capable. As he got older, he was tired of many things, so he left them to the prince to solve. Knowing that the prince had few relatives, he asked the prince to take care of Qingyan. He thought that as long as the prince had a little bit of brotherly affection for Qingyan, it would be good.
It is beneficial to Qingyan, and Lan'er can rest in peace even in the afterlife.
Who would have thought, this rebellious son!
The emperor felt his head buzzing. The prince had developed such a temper!
"I asked you to take care of Qingyan, is this how you do it? I don't want to argue with you." The emperor rubbed his brows, "Hand over your sister quickly, and I won't blame you."
"Your son loves the imperial sister, but she is not with you. Your Majesty, did you listen to some gossipy person who slandered you?" Ling Zhuoan's eyes fell on Mu Xianzhi.
"Master Mu has some shameful thoughts about the imperial sister. Does your Majesty know about this?" Ling Zhuoan asked calmly.
"I just found out." The emperor's face was not very good. Why were they all thinking about Qingyan?
But Mu Xianzhi still has some sense of propriety. This prince is truly... lawless!
Ling Zhuo'an sneered, "Grand Tutor Mu violated the teacher-disciple relationship. Father didn't punish him first, but instead brought outsiders with him to question his son?"
"You are the crown prince. Your behavior is against human ethics! Besides, Mu Xianzhi didn't do anything out of line! You know exactly what you did. Hand over your sister immediately!"
"He didn't do anything out of line?" Ling Zhuo'an clearly didn't believe it. "He even dared to covet the princess. How would the emperor know if he did anything out of line? I'm afraid he's been pretending to be so aloof all these years and fooling everyone."
Ling Zhuo'an lifted his eyelids and looked at Mu Xianzhi, smiling, "Or maybe Grand Tutor Mu kidnapped Qingyan himself, deceiving the emperor and bringing him to our Eastern Palace."
"Your Highness is joking." Mu Xianzhi bowed respectfully, "Your Highness is so noble, how dare I do something that you don't want to do?"
He didn't dare to do anything that Qingyan didn't want to do, so whatever happened between them was Qingyan's own will and was consensual.
The teacup in Ling Zhuoan's hand felt a little tight, and veins were bulging.
"Really?" Ling Zhuo'an met his eyes. "That Grand Master is truly—skillful."
Anger surged in his chest, and Ling Zhuo'an's voice turned cold. "Father, is there anything else? If not, please don't disturb me from resting."
"Father and Grand Tutor are old, they should rest early." Ling Zhuoan said in a cold voice.
"Mu Xianzhi saw with his own eyes that your sister was abducted back to the palace by you. Why are you still trying to argue? Hand over Qingyan immediately." The emperor was very anxious.
His son was much crazier than he had imagined, and he was afraid that he would do something to hurt Qingyan and scare his daughter.
"You are already the crown prince. You can get any woman you want. Why bother to harm your sister? What if you scare her?!" the emperor scolded.
"Yes, I am the crown prince. I can have any woman I want, so it is only natural for me to want someone like the imperial sister." He looked at the emperor, whose temples were already graying. "Don't worry, father. I will not follow your old path."
"In this life, I only have Qingyan, and I will not take other concubines, so as not to hurt my lover's heart and ruin other people's lives." Ling Zhuoan was making indirect accusations, and every word he said hit the emperor's sore spot.
"And I've already said that my sister is not with me. How could your Majesty choose to trust an outsider who covets your precious daughter over your son?"
"Or does your Majesty want to conduct a high-profile search of my Eastern Palace so that everyone can know in advance how I feel about my sister, make our relationship public, and fulfill this long-cherished wish of yours?"
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