Chapter 330 Do you...want to be the emperor?
Yun Zhao returned to her palace.
Xie Jingmo poured her a cup of tea and Yun Zhao took it.
Xie Jingmo asked, "What's going on? Why do you look so tired?"
Suddenly, it started to rain heavily outside.
Yun Zhao slowly raised his head in the dark atmosphere and stared at Xie Jingmo's eyebrows.
"The little emperor has been poisoned."
Xie Jingmo frowned.
"It's been a while. The toxicity is so low that it can't be detected with silver needles. But over the years, the toxicity has accumulated in the body and there's no way to save it."
Xie Jingmo expected this day to come.
An emperor without the ability to act is like a swaying wind, and every wind that blows is fatal.
"I just went to see a doctor. If I use silver needles to maintain my condition, it will only last for a month."
Yun Zhao hasn't spoken so much in a long time.
There are some things that perhaps she should have said a long time ago.
But the child was young, and when she said these words, it seemed like a curse.
But now, I have to say it.
"Xie Jingmo," Yun Zhao called him seriously, "Do you... want to be the emperor?"
Xie Jingmo shook his head, "I don't want to."
Yun Zhao kept looking into Xie Jingmo's eyes. His eyes were pure, without a hint of deception.
Yun Zhao analyzed, "Xie Jingmo, there are some things I should have told you earlier, and it makes no difference if I tell you today."
"You have many supporters. If you were to go out now and become the crown prince, everyone would be looking forward to you."
Xie Jingmo looked at Yun Zhao's fair face again and said, "I don't want to."
Yun Zhao said, "If you don't want to, there are three candidates for the crown prince. First, Prince Liang, supported by Yu Xiang, is a murderous maniac. If he takes the throne, everyone will die. Second, Prince Cheng, supported by the Ministry of Rites and Marble, is old and obsessed with women. He has no moral integrity or talent. If he takes the throne, I can survive, but the others will definitely be eliminated. Third... Prince Lin, who lives in the border area, is timid and cowardly. If he takes the throne, he will only become a new puppet, with no interest in the empire."
Yun Zhao said, "In my opinion, none of these three people are qualified to be the ruler of the world."
Xie Jingmo was also very quiet.
They seemed to be talking about the most ordinary things, but there was an atmosphere between them.
Yun Zhao looked at Xie Jingmo and said, "So, in my opinion—"
The rest of the words have not been finished yet.
Xie Jingmo had already spoken, "In my opinion, you are more suitable to be the emperor than anyone else."
Yun Zhao was stunned.
Xie Jingmo's eyes were calmer and more sincere than before. "I'm serious. I think you're doing well in this position. Why don't you continue to sit here? You care about the people. You deserve to be in this position. You're qualified."
Yun Zhao has been the empress dowager for too long.
Some people in the court were dissatisfied.
Some people also feel bad about it.
Now that Xie Jingmo suddenly gave her serious affirmation, she suddenly felt that everything she had done in the past few years seemed to have been responded to and affirmed.
"But I'm a woman, I...can't..."
"You're a woman, but who says women can't? You have the people in your heart, and that's what's most important, isn't it? Are you willing to hand the people over to someone else? Didn't you work so hard to get to this position? Yun Zhao, you can do it!"
Yun Zhao was stunned for a long time.
Before, she had thought about staying in this position for a long time.
But now——
But it seems that I don’t think so.
When did it start?
Did it start from when Xie Jingmo retrieved the severed finger for Deputy General Gao’s wife in the dark?
Did it start from when Xie Jingmo was hanged at the Meridian Gate and everyone spontaneously mourned below?
Or did it start from when Xie Jingmo sat in the hall and patiently watched all the twists and turns for her?
Xie Jingmo's planning may not be better than hers, but his ability as a commander of the frontier in recent years is not fake. He has the ability and status to minimize the casualties of this incident before causing the least damage.
so--
why not?
Yun Zhao looked at Xie Jingmo and said seriously, "What if I want you to become the new emperor?"
Xie Jingmo calmed down.
His hand lingered on the hem of his clothes for a long time.
He looked into Yun Zhao's dark eyes and wanted to selfishly refuse, but he didn't say a word.
He lowered his eyes for a long time before he slowly said, "You know, I've never been able to refuse you."
Yun Zhao laughed.
"Well, then you should get ready."
Xie Jingmo looked at the smile on Yun Zhao's lips, but he didn't feel happy at all.
The one who was delighted was Deputy General Gao, "You...are going to be the emperor?!"
Xie Jingmo leaned against the long corridor, swinging his legs lazily. "That's right. Yun Zhao's plans have always been very steady. I just agreed, and she contacted the generals at the frontier. From the deployment of the periphery, to the arrangements of the inner palace, to the contact with the old subordinates, she even dug out the secret informant that the former Grand Tutor had hidden for me."
Deputy General Gao nodded, "Yun Zhao is amazing!"
Xie Jingmo was melancholy, "Yeah, it's amazing."
Deputy General Gao turned around and looked at Xie Jingmo, "Oh my god, is there any justice in this world? You are about to become the emperor, and you still have such a face? Who the hell are you? Do you want to live?!"
"What? You don't want to be the emperor?"
Xie Jingmo said, "I don't care. But I also know that if Yun Zhao doesn't take the throne, I'll be the only one who can do it. Otherwise, the border generals will definitely be usurped by the new emperor. Yun Zhao thinks that since I have many followers, there will be fewer casualties in the future, so she wants me to take this position. She has a good idea."
From a big picture perspective, there is nothing wrong with it.
Deputy General Gao smiled bitterly, "Why? Are you afraid she'll leave?"
"Are you afraid that she will really follow Mu Chengyan in the end?"
"You think that the plan she hid from you was to go away with Mu Chengyan and rescue my little Taozi? Is that right?"
Xie Jingmo was silent.
This means that Deputy General Gao guessed correctly.
"I'm still not sure whether Yun Zhao still has feelings for Mu Chengyan, and I don't dare to ask."
"I'm afraid that asking her would put pressure on her, and I'd also feel like I'd done a lot of wrong things. If I were to put myself in her shoes, I wouldn't necessarily forgive myself."
"So, I can't speak."
Vice General Gao said, "If you tell her that if she wants to leave, you will quit being the emperor, she will definitely stay."
Xie Jingmo shook his head. "I'm a man. How can I force a girl to stay like this? Wouldn't that be shameless?"
Deputy General Gao said nothing.
After a long time.
Xie Jingmo suddenly said, "If I really do this, will she really stay?"
Deputy General Gao said, "Aren't you worried about losing face and embarrassment?"
Xie Jingmo: "Hey, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I just can't figure out what she's thinking. Tell me, what should I say?"
Deputy General Gao: "Tell the truth!"
Xie Jingmo hesitated and went to find Yun Zhao.
Fu Hai said, "Let's go."
Xie Jingmo's heartbeat immediately stopped. "What?! Gone? Who did he leave with?! How did he leave?! When did he leave?!"
Fu Hai blinked, "The Queen Mother said she was going to save Xiao Taozi."
Xie Jingmo was even more devastated. "What?! She went alone?! How dare you?! If something really happens! This will cost me my life!"
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