Chapter 88 Nan Lijun is missing
"The Huo family's son has yellow gold ingots, a pendant with southern pearls, and expensive wine and meat.
If you lean on a mountain, it won’t move because it is a mountain of gold; if you lean on water, it won’t flow because it is full of golden oil.”
This is a folk song.
The Huo Gang is now unstoppable and powerful, forcing the Yu family to retreat step by step. The number of gangs has greatly decreased, and many banks have gone bankrupt.
Seeing that only one final blow was needed to completely swallow up the Yu family, Nan Lijun could no longer contain himself and repeatedly urged Huo Gannian to plan and layout to deal a fatal blow to the Yu family.
But Huo Gannian felt that the time was not yet ripe and it would be inappropriate to rush in and seek credit.
The two sides argued over this matter many times, but there was no result.
Huo Gannian was ready to hold back even if it meant making Nan Lijun jump in anger. However, a huge thunderbolt suddenly struck him out of the blue.
No, the explosion shook the entire city of Kyoto three times.
Nan Lijun is missing.
He disappeared silently from the heavily guarded princess's mansion.
The maid who was guarding the bedside was killed with a knife, and blood splattered all over the bed, but Nan Lijun disappeared.
The guards didn't hear any sound at all, but Nan Lijun disappeared silently.
When the princess's mansion was in chaos and they were about to send someone to the palace to report to the emperor, they discovered that Song Lan, the chief female official beside the princess, was also missing.
The emperor immediately summoned Huo Gannian into the palace and specifically asked Yun Chen to accompany him.
The emperor's order is hard to disobey. Even if Huo Gannian is very powerful and doesn't want Yun Chen to take risks, he can't disobey the emperor's order.
Sure enough, as soon as he entered the inner hall of the palace, the chief guard Xiao Ze immediately came over and put a knife across Yun Chen's neck.
Huo Gannian suppressed his anxiety and saw that only the emperor and Xiaoze were in the hall, so he simply spoke frankly:
"Your Majesty, you should know that the princess is eager to crush the Yu family, but I believe the time has not yet come. With your swift and decisive tactics, the Yu family has remained above the law for so many years. I do not believe the Yu family's current decline is genuine; it is likely a larger conspiracy to retaliate. Yet, the princess is adamant. Therefore, her current disappearance may not be a genuine one."
The emperor sat on the dragon throne with a terribly gloomy expression.
"Huo, I have my own reasons for not dealing with the Yu family. It's not your place to speculate. The princess disappeared, and you think she did it on purpose, just to have a reason to force you to attack the Yu family?"
Huo Gannian sat in a wheelchair, facing the emperor from a distance, and did not answer.
The emperor stared at Huo Gannian for a long time, then snorted coldly and raised his hand to signal Xiaoze to let go of Yun Chen.
Xiaoze retracted the knife, blinked quickly at Yunchen, and walked back to the emperor.
Yun Chen was stunned by this situation. He didn't understand why the emperor wanted to threaten Huo Gannian and why he wanted to kill her?
She tried hard to remind herself to be smart, but she couldn't understand a word the emperor and Huo Gannian were talking about.
The emperor ordered: "Xiao Ze, take her away. No one is allowed to approach."
Xiaoze then took Yunchen away.
As she was about to leave, Yun Chen was stepping back respectfully with her hands down, completely unaware that Huo Gannian would suddenly lean over and grab her arm at this moment.
He looked at her nervously, his brows furrowed tightly.
She was so frightened that she quickly pulled her hand away, but she couldn't get it free at all. She could only whisper:
"Young Master! Are you crazy? This is the palace! This is extremely disrespectful!"
He suddenly woke up as if from a dream, let go of her hand, and fell back into the chair, as if he had no control over pulling her hand just now, and it was all subconscious.
When he was about to leave the hall, Yun Chen saw him sitting in a wheelchair with his head down.
Sitting on the high dragon throne, the old emperor said with a half-smile:
"Your father's military rules forbid 'Long Yang', and the same applies to family rules, right? You are so unfilial!"
Yun Chen felt upset, but there was nothing he could do.
On the way back to the side hall, seeing Yun Chen was worried, Xiao Ze whispered:
"Little girl, don't think about it. The emperor knows that you are a woman."
"Ah?" She opened her eyes wide in shock.
Xiao Ze laughed and said, "You said it yourself when you were knocked unconscious and tied to the horse last time. Haha - of course I have to report this matter to the emperor."
She did remember telling Xiao Ze in her dream that she was a woman disguised as a man. She never thought that it was not a dream, but actually true.
"Then..." She didn't know what to say. Asking the emperor to keep her secret? Where would she get such a big face?
"Don't worry, judging from what the emperor said just now, he probably won't reveal your 'little secret'." Xiao Ze comforted him, and then seemed to remember something and sighed:
"The Emperor is probably the person in the world who understands you the most. He knows how difficult it is for you. As for Young Master Huo, I guess the Emperor can't bear to see him enjoying himself so easily, so he's teasing him on purpose."
"Uncle-master, what are you talking about? I don't seem to understand a single word you say." Yun Chen began to agree in his heart at this moment. It turned out that everyone in this palace was a shrewd person and everyone loved to tell riddles.
Xiao Ze smiled but said nothing, avoiding the topic. "The Emperor wants to talk to Young Master Huo for a long time. Let's go have some tea with Uncle Shi. Tell me about that Jiang Ming."
Two hours later, no one knew what the emperor and Huo Gannian talked about, but in any case, there was no knife on Yun Chen's neck anymore.
Before leaving, Huo Gannian vowed to the emperor:
"Your Majesty, rest assured. In three days—just three days—I will order all the Huo Gang members across the country to begin searching for the princess!"
The emperor said nothing, glared at Huo Gannian, and then left with the support of Xiaoze.
Yun Chen asked in confusion, "Young Master, why did you wait three days before looking for the princess?"
Huo Gannian raised an eyebrow, "I didn't say three months is good."
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