Chapter 253 Chapter 253 Missing
For Yu Li, going to the Imperial Master's Mansion was a familiar route.
Compared to the last time she went to the Imperial Master's Mansion, this time she went there again, she clearly found that there were fewer guards patrolling around the Imperial Master's Mansion, and they even seemed to be a little more lazy.
If you think about it for a moment, you can understand why this is the case.
In the past, the old emperor attached great importance to the imperial teacher, so the people under him would naturally be serious and hardworking when patrolling.
Now that the old emperor has suffered a stroke and is paralyzed in bed, Princess Yuan'an has returned to the court. The wind direction has suddenly changed, and the attitudes of the people below will naturally change as well.
The Imperial Master was promoted by the old emperor. Once the old emperor was gone, the Imperial Master was nothing.
Yu Li took a quick look and paid no more attention, then quietly climbed over the wall and entered the Imperial Master's Mansion.
When she arrived at the Imperial Master's Mansion, she confirmed that the Imperial Master was in the bedroom in the main hall. This time she did not hide and went in directly through the window.
The Imperial Master had just returned from the alchemy room, looking exhausted.
Ever since the old emperor suffered a stroke, he has been able to feel the palace's perfunctory treatment of the Imperial Master's Mansion, and many of the things sent to the Imperial Master's Mansion have become worse.
He knew that he had to rely on the old emperor, and only with the old emperor's presence could he continue to be a glorious imperial teacher, but he had no way to cure the old emperor's stroke.
After all, he is not a truly extraordinary person and does not have that kind of ability.
Not to mention that the old emperor was still waiting for him to refine the elixir of immortality. If he failed to do so, or if the old emperor found out that he was a liar, he would probably have him chopped to pieces on the spot.
The national teacher had an urge to run away.
These days, he was frowning, and had been thinking about how to protect himself and escape smoothly.
However, during the day, he had to pretend to be busy refining the elixir and deal with the people sent by the old emperor. He would inevitably become exhausted and want to run away even more.
The Imperial Master was extremely tired and was about to take a rest when he was startled when he saw someone climbing in through the window.
The person who came was dressed in black, with a black scarf covering her face. Her appearance could not be seen clearly, but one could only tell from her figure that she was a woman.
Just as he was about to speak, the other person suddenly disappeared in front of him. Then he felt a pain in the back of his neck and fell into coma instantly.
Yu Li ignored the Imperial Master who had collapsed on the ground. He walked around the room, pulled out a sheet from the bed, then wrapped the Imperial Master on the ground, picked him up, and left the Imperial Master's Mansion.
She came quickly and left quickly without alarming anyone in the Imperial Master's Mansion.
Since few people can get close to the hall where the National Master lives and practices, his disappearance will not be known to others in a short time.
Yu Li carried the imperial teacher back to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
She jumped down from the roof and saw the lighted window.
The window was open, and one could see a man busy at his desk by the window. He had long, dark hair and was wearing casual clothes. He was holding a wolf hair brush in his hand, writing comments in red on official documents.
Yu Li threw the unconscious national teacher into an empty room, then climbed back to his room through the window.
Fu Wenxiao, who was in the room, saw her climbing in through the window and said helplessly, "Mother Li, you can come in through the front door next time."
When the couple was resting, they didn't like to have servants serving them in the house. After nightfall, when the gate to the courtyard was closed, the courtyard was quite quiet, even the maids and old women didn't move much, so no one would notice her even if she came in through the main gate.
Yu Li pulled down the black scarf on his face, blinked, and said slowly: "I'm used to it."
You come in the same way you left.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong.
Fu Wenxiao put down the wolf hair brush, stood up and walked over to her, took her to the bathroom to wash up, and got her a clean dress for her to change into.
He bent down slightly and tied the belt for her, his eyes and eyebrows were gentle with a faint smile.
Under the light, the cold white skin, the clear eyebrows and eyes, and every move are like a painting.
Yu Li couldn't help but look at him, and suddenly understood what it meant to look at a beauty under the light, the more you look, the more beautiful she becomes.
She stood obediently, letting him help her tie the belt, and said, "Xiao brother, I brought the national teacher back."
Fu Wenxiao was stunned and didn't react for a moment, "Bring it back?"
Yu Li: "He is in the next room, you can have someone deal with him."
Now, he finally understood what she meant. So that's what was going on. He was a little confused: "Why do you want to bring him back?"
He thought that she would deliberately scare the imperial teacher like she did last time, so that he would have bad luck for a while.
"Anyway, his title as the Imperial Master is fake, and his status does not match his reality, so I let him disappear." Yu Li said calmly, "To save the old emperor from having any plans to refine some immortality elixir."
The elixir of immortality is a scam. No one in this world can live forever. The old emperor should stop thinking about immortality and stop struggling.
However, once the news of the disappearance of the imperial teacher spreads, the old emperor will probably be even more angry.
Yu Li didn't bother to care about the old emperor. Since he had suffered a stroke, he should just rest and not worry about anything else.
Fu Wenxiao understood what she meant. He reached out and stroked her face, then leaned over and kissed her between the eyebrows.
"Leave it to me," he said gently.
Yu Li hummed.
After Fu Wenxiao left, Yu Li sat at the table and ate supper.
He asked the kitchen to prepare this midnight snack, which included steaming hot noodle snacks, chicken soup and milk. It was freshly made and tasted very good.
She had just finished a bowl of noodle soup when Fu Wenxiao came back.
Yu Li called him, "Xiao brother, do you want to come over and eat something?"
"I'm not hungry, you eat." Fu Wenxiao sat down and served her the food, while telling her about his arrangement with the Imperial Master, "I have asked someone to send him away to the Northern Frontier and give him to Brother Lie."
"Eh? Leave it to Brother Lie?" Yu Li looked at him in confusion.
He nodded slightly. "Although the national teacher has bad intentions, he does know some medical knowledge and can treat some simple diseases. It would be a pity to kill him directly. The climate in the northern border is bad, and there are very few doctors. Sometimes when the people are sick, they can't find a doctor to treat them, so they ask to go to the army and seek help from military doctors..."
Although he had never been to Northern Xinjiang, he had learned about the situation in Northern Xinjiang from his father and had some understanding of it.
When my father was alive, it was said that sometimes military doctors would go to the streets to provide free medical treatment to the people. There was a shortage of everything there, and doctors were particularly severe.
After hearing what he said, Yu Li gradually stopped chewing, as if he was in a trance.
"Li Niang?" Fu Wenxiao called.
Yu Li came back to his senses and said, "That's good. We're making the best use of everything." Then he added, "Once the capital is settled, let's go to the northern border. I also want to try the mare's milk and cheese in the northern border."
Fu Wenxiao agreed with a smile, "Then let's go see Brother Lie together. Brother Lie should welcome us very much."
The two talked for a while, and Fu Wenxiao sat down at the desk and continued to work.
Yu Li sat beside him with milk in his hand, watching him flipping through the files and reviewing the documents, and asked, "Where did these come from?"
"My mother asked me to bring it back." Fu Wenxiao was doing two things at once. "There are many things to do in the court, and she has to make the decisions on everything. She can't stand me being idle."
Seeing how skillfully he handled the paperwork, Yu Li felt that the princess and the old emperor had similar thoughts and both liked to leave things to him.
Those who are capable should do more work, especially an outstanding person. As long as a task is assigned to him, he will do it properly and handle it perfectly, making it difficult not to employ him.
After eating and drinking, Yu left to wash up.
Back in the room, she came up to him, watched him process the paperwork, and asked, "How long will it take to finish?"
"Well... another half an hour." Fu Wenxiao said, "If you are sleepy, go to bed first." He was reluctant to let her be too tired.
Yu Li was not in a hurry to rest. Since it would only take half an hour, she could still wait. She picked up a document on the table and casually flipped through it.
Seeing this, he asked her if she wanted to watch it with him.
"I can't." Yu Li shook his head.
He smiled, stretched out his arm and pulled her into his arms and hugged her: "It's okay, I can teach you. With Li Niang's intelligence, she will learn it quickly."
Yu Li looked up at him, thinking about how interesting it was when the princess explained policies to her before, and decided to learn from her.
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The Imperial Master disappeared silently in the Imperial Master's Mansion.
When they discovered that the Imperial Preceptor was missing, the people in the Imperial Preceptor's Mansion were horrified and wanted to tell the old emperor in the palace immediately. However, before they could enter the palace, they were stopped.
Princess Yuan'an has learned from her son that her daughter-in-law broke into the Imperial Master's residence in the middle of the night, knocked the Imperial Master unconscious and took him away. Now the Imperial Master is probably on his way to the northern border.
She knew what the old emperor was planning and was extremely angry. Naturally, she would not stop her daughter-in-law from doing anything, and even helped block the news from the Imperial Master's Mansion.
In this way, no one in the outside world knew that the Imperial Master had disappeared, and the Imperial Master's Mansion looked the same as before, with no changes.
The old emperor in the palace has been hoping that the imperial teacher would quickly refine an elixir of immortality for him. As long as he takes the elixir, he will not only be able to achieve immortality, but can even cure his stroke.
Unfortunately, refining the elixir takes time, so no matter how much he looks forward to it, he can only endure it.
On this day, the third prince came to the Yangxin Palace to attend to the patient and told the old emperor about the situation in the court.
This was the only opportunity for the prince to come to the Yangxin Palace and meet the old emperor openly. After all, as a son, he had to take care of the old emperor, and even Princess Yuan'an could not stop him.
"Father, ever since Aunt Yuan An returned to the court, most of the people in the court have turned to her. They are all spineless and useless. They actually obey the orders of a woman..."
The third prince denounced the court officials who had turned against the old emperor in front of him.
He just couldn't understand how those officials could tolerate a woman oppressing them and even obey her orders. Where was their integrity as scholars? Where was their integrity as men?
The old emperor raised his eyelids to look at him and was too lazy to even talk to him.
He knew the character of his sons. With the exception of Crown Prince Yi De, who still had the qualities of a wise ruler, the others were either stupid or bad, and none of them was capable of taking on the important task.
It just so happened that he didn't have any expectations of these sons. If he could live forever, he could have as many princes as he wanted, and would depose those he didn't like. He could even cruelly abandon the Crown Prince Yi De, let alone these ones of mixed quality.
The third prince is the representative of being stupid and evil.
It was precisely because he was so stupid that he was kept behind, and even the old emperor did not intend to do anything to him. After all, there had to be a stupid person jumping around to attract the court officials so that he could see how many of them were loyal to him.
Seeing that the old emperor was unmoved, the third prince became anxious: "Father, we can't go on like this, otherwise we will have to repeat what happened when the Imperial Grandmother was here..."
As he spoke, he looked at the old emperor, knowing that the old emperor hated to hear such words the most.
Sure enough, the old emperor, who had originally had a calm expression, frowned and looked disgusted.
No emperor could tolerate having a empress dowager as regent above him.
The old emperor was able to ascend the throne smoothly because of the support of the empress dowager. The empress dowager also took the opportunity to seize power and became the regent empress dowager. She oppressed him for more than ten years, making him hate her to the core.
Fortunately, the Empress Dowager died, and even her daughter, who had been the Empress Dowager's greatest hope, was defeated by him and had to live in poverty in the palace.
The third prince told the old emperor a lot about how Princess Yuan'an eliminated dissidents in the court, placed her own cronies in the court, and controlled the court.
It is obvious that she also wants to emulate the Empress Dowager and become a regent princess.
How can this be possible?
The third prince has already regarded the throne as his own, and he will definitely ascend the throne as soon as the old emperor passes away.
He didn't want to have multiple regent princesses above him, suppressing him in every way. He didn't want to be like his father, a puppet emperor, who could only live under the rule of the empress dowager.
Who would want to do this?
The old emperor looked at him expressionlessly, with contempt in his eyes.
Once he obtains the elixir of immortality and recovers, Princess Yuan An will no longer be a concern.
Since he was able to defeat her once, he would be able to do it again in the future! Women are all soft-hearted. Princess Yuan An was defeated miserably in the end because she was not strong enough.
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