Chapter 526 I’m going to beat him to death!
The next morning, the prince took out the files submitted by the Ministry of Justice at a small court meeting and exposed in public the fact that Prince You Luo Yunxuan had hired someone to kill someone.
The five cabinet ministers were shocked.
The person who reacted the most at the scene was King Ying Luo Yechen. He never expected that the person who bribed the killer to assassinate him would be his second brother.
Although he and his second brother don't get along well, it's not to the point of fighting to the death!
Luo Yechen was furious. If Luo Yunxuan was here, he would have pinned him to the ground and beat him to death!
He took a step forward and spoke indignantly.
"Father, my second brother hired a killer to assassinate me. This matter must not be forgiven lightly. Please help me!"
The emperor's face was as gloomy as water.
He looked at the prince coldly for a long time before saying, "The prince and the King of England stay, everyone else leave."
The five ministers were all shrewd men. They knew that the emperor did not want the family scandal to be made public, so they tactfully took their leave.
After all the outsiders left, only the father and his two sons were left in the meeting hall.
Seeing that his father still didn't speak, Luo Yechen couldn't help it and spoke anxiously.
"Before my second brother gets far, let's send someone to stop him. We must make him give an explanation for the assassination, otherwise I will not be able to swallow my anger!"
The emperor said coldly: "What kind of explanation do you want? Do you still want me to kill King You to avenge you?"
Luo Yechen was stunned.
He subconsciously said, "My second brother did something wrong, shouldn't he be punished?"
The Emperor: "Even if there is a punishment, it is our family affair. Prince, you directly exposed this matter without my permission. Do you want everyone to see our royal family laugh?!"
By the end of his speech, his tone had become extremely stern, and the look he gave the prince was as sharp as a knife.
Luo Qinghan lowered his eyes: "I just want to give justice to my eldest brother."
Luo Yechen opened his eyes slightly and was deeply moved.
It turns out that the prince did all this for his elder brother.
The emperor sneered, "Don't make such high-sounding statements. You just don't believe that I can handle this matter fairly, so you deliberately made things worse and forced me to choose between King Ying and King You. You are really capable now. You even dare to plot against me. Do you still have me, your father, in your eyes?!"
Luo Qinghan seemed to have been greatly stimulated. His eyes gradually turned red and his voice trembled a little.
"So in the eyes of the Emperor, I am actually such a mean person who will do anything to achieve his goals."
He laughed at himself, his smile was pale and miserable.
"Since Father has already determined that I have ulterior motives, no matter how much I explain, it will be in vain. I have nothing more to say. Father can punish me in any way he wants, and I will never complain."
After saying that, he knelt down, looking as if he had given up on himself.
Luo Yechen couldn't bear it any longer, and knelt down with a plop: "Father, all of this is because of me, it has nothing to do with the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince did all this for me, so please punish me if you want!"
The emperor looked at his two sons kneeling in front of him, and his expression became increasingly ugly.
What he most wanted to see was unity and harmony among his sons.
But what he feared most was his sons being united and harmonious.
In the past, he could use the eldest prince and the second prince to check and balance the crown prince, but now the second prince has gone far away and will not be able to come back in a short time. The eldest prince has been bewitched by the crown prince and is increasingly leaning towards him.
The prince's opponents are disappearing one by one.
The balance that the emperor carefully created was broken.
He closed his eyes, took a slow, deep breath, and tried hard to suppress the growing depression in his heart.
After a long while, he slowly spoke.
"You don't have to do this. I am not only the emperor, but also your father. I will not let you suffer injustice. This time it was King You who was wrong. He is the one who let you down, but he has already left Shengjing. Calling him back may cause unnecessary speculation from outsiders. How about this, King Ying, you take people to chase King You, and you will whip King You twenty times on my behalf as a punishment."
For Luo Yechen, just twenty lashes were too easy for Luo Yunxuan. He should be lashed with at least a hundred lashes to kill him!
But Luo Yechen could see that this was the biggest concession his father could make.
If he pushed his temper further, his father might come and blame him for being unreasonable, and then he would be to blame.
Luo Yechen could only reluctantly respond: "I will obey your father's order."
Luo Qinghan whispered, "I did all this not to force Father to do anything to my second brother. I just wanted to take this opportunity to talk it all out so that there won't be any more rift between my first and second brothers. I may have been a little impatient and did something inconsiderate. I hope Father and my first brother will forgive me."
He offered the steps and the emperor walked down them.
"I'm sorry for your painstaking efforts. I was too harsh just now. Please don't take it to heart."
The tense atmosphere just now eased gradually.
The relationship between the father and his two sons seemed to have returned to harmony.
After leaving the meeting hall, Luo Yechen finally couldn't help it and complained to the prince,
"Father is too partial to my second brother. He committed such a serious mistake, but he was only whipped twenty times."
Luo Qinghan said calmly: "Big Brother, please be careful with your words. Since our father has made a decision, we, as his sons, cannot make irresponsible remarks."
Luo Yechen curled his lips, showing disdain for his serious look.
Luo Qinghan: "When do you plan to leave the city to chase after the second brother?"
Luo Yechen said as a matter of course: "Of course the faster the better. When I catch up with him, I will beat him to death!"
Luo Qinghan: "I heard that King You's carriage disappeared on the way, and now no one knows his whereabouts. When you go to chase him, you'd better be careful."
Luo Yechen was very surprised: "Missing? When did it happen? How come I didn't know about it?"
Luo Qinghan didn't answer and just walked away.
Luo Yechen called him several times but failed to stop him, so he could only turn around and leave angrily.
After leaving the palace, Luo Yechen immediately gathered his men and horses and chased in the direction King You left.
Luo Yechen was originally skeptical about the prince's words, until he personally checked along the way and indeed could not find any traces left by King You. Only then did he have to face the reality -
King You is really missing!
Luo Yechen did not continue to search blindly. He sent all the retainers under his command away.
"I have been providing you with good food and drink on weekdays. Now it is finally time for you to repay me. I don't care what methods you use. I only want one result, which is the whereabouts of King You! If anyone among you can help me accomplish this, I will reward you with three thousand taels of silver!"
(End of this chapter)
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