160 Fate(1/2)
In the imperial study room, everything on the table was swept across by the emperor's arm.
Those teacups and teapots, four treasures of the study, porcelain decorations, etc. made crisp sounds on the smooth gold brick floor, smashing to pieces.
Tea and ink splashed everywhere, and a few drops of hot tea splashed on Eunuch Ni's face, making his skin feel a little painful.
Most of the things in the house were smashed in a mess.
But the emperor was still unhappy.
The blue veins on his forehead were pounding, his face flushed, and he felt a sensation of a sensational fire rising, burning him to restlessness.
All the palace servants, including Eunuch Ni, were silent and did not dare to say a word, for fear of being irritated by the emperor.
The emperor's anger has become increasingly angry recently, and it is not an exaggeration to say anything.
Crown Prince Gu Nanjin was also there, feeling helpless and powerless, physically and mentally exhausted.
In his opinion, there is no benefit in the fight between the father and the ninth emperor.
Even if the Nine Emperor Uncle had heavy troops, he was now in the capital, which was like a trapped beast and could not cause too much storm.
Even if the father is really willing to suppress the Ninth Emperor, he can do it step by step, why bother to be at this moment!
At this time, a little eunuch's sharp and gentle voice came from outside the imperial study room: "Master Xuanjing, please come here."
Taoist Master Xuanjing, wearing a gray Taoist robe and holding a silver whisk in his hand, walked in.
Seeing the mess of this place, Xuan Jing's eyes flashed, his steps were steady, and he walked slowly to the emperor and bowed to him: "I will meet the emperor."
The atmosphere is condensed and suppressed, and the air seems to condense, exuding a heavy feeling of wind and storm.
Eunuch Ni and others were relieved. Even if the emperor had fire, he would go to the main master.
"Xuan Jing," the emperor's eyes stabbed towards Xuan Jing like a knife, and asked coldly, "Why is Gu Jue not dead?"
The emperor always respected Taoist Master Xuanjing, thinking that he was profound in Taoism, and treated his words like a god. He had always been polite in the past. This was the first time that the emperor was so cruel to him, and his voice was so cold that it almost fell out of ice.
The atmosphere became colder.
Xuan Jing still looks like a fairy-like figure on the surface, but he secretly complained in his heart: All this will develop to this point by accident.
Originally, the second prince asked him to speak kindly for Chu Qianchen in front of the emperor, but he said it ambiguously, just to attack and defend when he retreated. Unexpectedly, the emperor actually had the idea of "striking joy" for King Chen...
Now that things have come to this point, he can't help but say he doesn't know the situation.
Xuan Jing felt a cold sweat coming from behind his neck, as if a guillotine was hanging above his neck, making the cold air rushing.
If he cannot give the emperor a satisfactory answer today, then the outcome of waiting for him can be imagined.
Xuan Jing shook the whisk slowly and bowed again, "Your Majesty, please let me calculate."
Xuan Jing lowered his eyes, raised his right hand and made a calculation, as if he was muttering something in his mouth.
The house became quiet again.
The palace people all held their breath, and Gu Nanjin stood aside with his eyes looking at his nose and his nose.
After a moment, Xuan Jing opened his eyes, as if he was hesitating, and then calculated again before he put down his hand.
His eyes were complicated, mixed with emotions such as surprise, hesitation, thinking, confusion, etc.
The emperor looked at Xuan Jing with a frown, with the emperor's unique high above.
Xuan Jing frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "Emperor, Chu... Princess Chen's fate is a bit strange. She is young and has a bad luck. She is covered with dust. There is still a great disaster at present. There is death in life and life in death. Next, it depends on whether she can be put to death and then live..."
"As for King Chen, his fate is the Seven Killing Type, the extremely evil evil is the short-lived appearance." Xuan Jing carefully said, half true and half false.
Right ahead, the emperor sat behind the empty imperial desk, slowly turned the jade ring on his thumb with one hand, and his eyes were half-closed.
In the past, someone had a Taoist priest who calculated Gu Jue's fate, and his fate was indeed the Seven Killing Type.
Although the name of the Seven Killings is bad, it has always been a great rank, and most of them have existed in the Seven Killings. Since ancient times, there have been many kings, princes, generals and ministers who have lived in the Seven Killings have established a shocking achievement, and their reputation has been left in history.
The emperor's eyes were darker and his face was as deep as water.
He curled his thin lips, "Short life? I'm very energetic when I see him."
Although the emperor still had a cold face, Xuan Jing could see that the emperor's emotions began to calm down. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Emperor, I watched the starry night again last night, and the star was still dull. Your Highness Chen must be seriously ill and his life is not long. Now I am just looking back."
"If the emperor doesn't believe it, he can try to ask the imperial physician to take the pulse of King Chen."
Xuan Jing was sure that King Chen was seriously ill, so he was confident to say this.
"..." The emperor's face calmed down a little. I remembered that Prince Chen's mansion repeatedly refused to visit the imperial physician, and it was obvious that there was a ghost in his heart. However, when Gu Jue was healthy, why did he hide for a month without seeing anyone? This did not conform to Gu Jue's personality.
Eunuch Ni has served by the emperor for decades and has always been good at observing words and expressions. He quickly winked at the two little eunuchs around him.
The eunuchs immediately took action, some quickly went to clean the floor, and some went to prepare tea for the emperor.
Xuan Jing slowly threw the whisk off again and changed the subject: "Master, how do you feel after you have accepted the Nine-Level Pill?"
He tried to use pills to divert the emperor's attention.
Speaking of the Nine-Level Pill, the emperor's eyes lit up, and a little smile appeared on his face. The little doubts about Xuan Jing in his heart disappeared in an instant.
He took the Nine Return Pills and Nine Levels of Pills refined by Xuan Jing. Both of them were genuine immortal pills. In the past few months after taking the pills, he was able to be said to be fierce and powerful, and he was reborn. Especially this Nine Levels of Pills does have the effect of rejuvenating the old and childish.
"I feel that I have been in a dragon horse spirit recently, and I haven't felt tired after dancing for a long time." The emperor became happier and happier as he spoke. He asked Taoist Master Xuanjing to sit down, and then asked anxiously, "Master Taoist Master, this nine-level pill can still have such a miraculous effect when taking one pill a day. I wonder if I can take one more pill every day?"
Gu Nanjin clenched his fists and stopped talking.
He knew that the emperor couldn't listen, so he could only swallow his whole stomach.
Xuan Jing sat down on a red sandalwood ring chair by the window, shook her head, and persuaded seriously: "Your Majesty, hasteness will not be achieved, everything must be progressed step by step."
The emperor thought about it carefully and felt that it was. Is it so simple to live forever? How could it be achieved overnight!
The emperor nodded and said, "What the Taoist priest said is, I am too anxious."
"However, Taoist priest, there are less than ten nine-level pills left here..."
While speaking, the eunuch was neatly cleaning up the tea, broken porcelain pieces and the four treasures of the study. A palace maid also gave tea to the emperor and Xuanjing with slightest moves.
Xuan Jing said again: "Don't worry, my elders, I have refined three furnaces of nine-level pills for the emperor. In another three days, it will be released. One of the three furnaces must be refined."
The emperor smiled and looked energetic, "That's good!"
Seeing the emperor's appearance, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including Gu Nanjin.
After a while, a young eunuch in green quietly entered the house and quietly gave Eunuch Ni a wink, and Eunuch Ni retreated silently.
After a while, Eunuch Ni came back and had a copy of it.
He walked closer, presented the note to the imperial desk, and reported: "Your Majesty, Nanyang has just sent a note to rush to 500 miles."
When the emperor heard Nanyang, he naturally thought of Qin Yao, the prince of Nanyang who had killed his father and fled. He probably wrote this note to arrest Qin Yao.
Xuan Jing was very conscious and immediately said, "Since the emperor has government affairs, I will say goodbye. Three days later, I will bring the Nine-Level Pills to the palace to present it to the emperor."
The emperor kept saying goodbye and asked Eunuch Ni to send Xuanjing out in person.
In the imperial study room, only the emperor and his son were left.
"Crown Prince," the emperor opened the memorial on the imperial case and said to Prince Gu Nanjin, "Anyway, Qin Xuan is also the legitimate son, so he would simply inherit the title of King Nanyang..."
The emperor stopped halfway through his words. He looked at the contents of the note, his pupils shrank slightly, unable to hide his shock.
The memorial was covered with the seal of the prince of Qin Yao, the prince of the Nanyang King. The signature was also signed by a group of generals in Nanyang, proving that the person who killed his father was Qin Xuan, and he had beheaded and executed on the spot.
At the end of the memorial, Qin Yao directly requested the emperor to inherit the title of King of Nanyang.
The emperor held the memorial in his hand tightly, his pupils were deep and his face turned pale.
The King of Nanyang has been guarding the northwest border for generations, holding 100,000 heavy troops. In order to prevent him from holding troops, the princes of Nanyang in all dynasties will stay in the capital, and this generation of crown prince Qin Yao is no exception.
After the emperor ascended the throne, he regarded the King of Nanyang as a major concern in recent years, so he deliberately raised Qin Yao.
As he wished, Qin Yao was a playboy and was useless.
The emperor was quite satisfied with this and always wanted Qin Yao to inherit the title of King of Nanyang. Until the rumors of Qin Yao killing his father came in May this year, Gu Jue actually ran for Qin Yao and even went to court to refute him personally, suppressing those memorials that impeached Qin Yao.
Until then, the emperor realized that Gu Jue had a good relationship with Qin Yao, and their friendship was obviously not an ordinary friendship.
At that time, the emperor changed his mind and felt that Qin Yao could not keep it. Since he killed his father, he should be sentenced to death and the crime was unforgivable.
Unexpectedly, Qin Yao's whereabouts were unknown after he fled from Nanyang.
The emperor also sent a lot of people to help the Nanyang Palace search for Qin Yao's whereabouts, but there has been no progress.
It was not until today that the emperor received news about Qin Yao again, but the situation changed drastically, and the person who killed his father became Qin Xuan!
"Father," Gu Nanjin asked, seeing the emperor's face not very good, "But what happened in the northwest?"
The emperor's eyebrows raised, his forehead frowned with the word "chuan", and he raised his hand and made a gesture.
A little eunuch presented Qin Yao's note to Gu Nanjin.
Gu Nanjin also looked at the note with a look of surprise on his face.
Unexpectedly, in just one month, such a drastic change occurred in the northwest and Nanyang Palace!
No one knows his father's son, Gu Nanjin understands the knot of his father's heart towards Gu Jue, and immediately understands why his father is angry.
He closed the memorial and carefully advised the emperor, "Father, since the murder of the King of Nanyang has been revealed, Qin Xuan was sentenced to justice, so it is natural for the crown prince to inherit the title."
If Qin Yao was a concubine's son, then the father and emperor were embarrassed, and the teacher was famous, and it was reasonable to issue an order to demote the title of Nanyang Palace to a higher level.
But Qin Yao is the legitimate prince of the Nanyang King. If his father makes things difficult for Qin Yao in his inheritance, it may disappoint other royal families. After all, his father can make things difficult for the Nanyang King's Mansion today, and he will make things difficult for other mansions next time.
To be continued...