monopolize my master

About six or seven hours later, Ling Xiao and his party arrived at the outskirts of Donghui Imperial City.

"Your Highness, wake up." Ling Xiao gently pushed Su Huang, and said softly, "We are here."

"Huh? Is it already here?" Su Huang replied sleepily.

"Of course." Ling Xiao smoothly wrapped Su Huang's messy hair behind his ears, and pointed out the window, "It's already dawn."

It was still early in the morning, and there were few people in the wilderness on the outskirts of Donghui, and the endless plains made people feel refreshed.Following Ling Xiao's gaze, a red sun is slowly rising on the distant horizon.

Su Huang couldn't help but open the window of the carriage, breathing in the clean air in the morning.The rays of the rising sun were very soft, Su Huang stretched out his hand, and the sunlight flowed quietly between his fingers.

"Looking at your appearance, you should be resting well." Ling Xiao smiled slightly, "But Xiao Huang kicked and hit you last night, almost scaring the scholar to the ground."

"...Is this so?" Su Huang turned her face away, a flash of embarrassment flashed, and after a long time, she said "sorry" slightly from her throat.

"The scholar has a big face." Seeing this, Ling Xiao couldn't help teasing, "Xiao Huang has always slept like this, fiercely tight. Well, when Jinping was injured, he kicked and beat like this. Fortunately, I suffered for several nights I didn't close my eyes, and I didn't see Xiaohuang say sorry to me."

"You're going to sleep there yourself." Su Huang's face flushed even more, and he muttered in a low voice.

"The relationship between you two is really good." The scholar couldn't help laughing, "When Ling Xiao and I were injured in the sword casting room, he helped me change my medicine, and I was frizzy. I don't want him to be like this Taking care of people has really opened my eyes.”

"You don't come here." Ling Xiao hurriedly interrupted him, "Aren't you ashamed to say my fault? The bandage you tied on me is still painful, but tell me, who is more useless?"

"Sword casting room?" Su Huang's expression suddenly became tense, "Where is that place? Why are you injured?"

"It's the place where Xuanji Pavilion is used to punish slaves. Ling Xiao and I were imprisoned for two or three days, and the man in charge was very vicious. He felt unhappy if he didn't whip us a few times every day... Ling Xiao and I It's not less... oh, it hurts, it hurts, why are you pinching me?"

The scholar glared at Ling Xiao angrily, only then did he notice that Ling Xiao was winking at him frantically.

"Why are you talking about this?" Ling Xiao issued an unpleasant warning in a low voice, and then said calmly, "It's all over, there's no need to mention it."

"I remember you were still injured when you were taken away." Su Huang replied in a low voice, the excited expression just now had disappeared, "Let me see, is it okay?"

"Hey, it's better to avoid it. It's really nothing..." Ling Xiao hurriedly covered his collar, "The scholar was talking nonsense just now, right? Huh?"

"Well, yes, yes, I... I was just scared, so I just said it, don't take it seriously, Your Highness..." Seeing that the situation was wrong, the scholar hurriedly agreed.

"I know." Seeing this, Su Huang couldn't pursue it further, so she just whispered, "You must take good care of your wounds when you go back." Then she sat aside and stopped talking.Seeing this, Ling Xiao was so angry that he almost threw the scholar out of the car.

The carriage quickly drove into Donghui City.

"Hey, have you heard? Jing and the prince seem to have lost the battle."

"Eh? Really? Jing and Wang have always been brave and good at fighting, how could they lose to Da Wu's gang of thieves? Is there a mistake?"

"How could it be wrong? It was probably the news that came last night, and the prince's whereabouts are also unknown. The emperor was very sad, and cried bitterly in the palace all night, and he didn't even go to court today."

"so serious……"

The voices of citizens talking could be heard outside the carriage.Ling Xiao couldn't help but sneered when he heard the words.

Oh, distraught?

"The emperor's uncle was defeated?" Su Huang also heard the conversation outside the window, and was quite worried, "I hope that the father can send troops to find the whereabouts of the emperor's uncle as soon as possible... We must not spare those big five thieves."

Ling Xiao and the scholar exchanged glances, but neither made a sound.The carriage gradually drove towards the imperial city.In Ling Xiao's eyes, the majestic and silent palace is no different from a prison of death.

"Xiao Huang, if the emperor doesn't ask about the matter of Jing and Wang later, you must not mention it, remember?" Ling Xiao exhorted worriedly.

"...Father is in a bad mood, I know it even if you don't tell me."

Ling Xiao sighed slightly, but did not speak.

That's all, as long as the same result is fine.

After all, there will be time in the future for him to slowly realize the truth.After all, what I have to do is to protect him.

However, inside the Taiming Hall, it was another scene.

It's just that I haven't seen him for about two months, I don't want the emperor to be so old.He slumped to the ground listlessly, with the dragon robe loosely draped over his shoulders.The dejected appearance makes people seem to really believe that he is a benevolent monarch who cares about his emperor's brother in his heart.The father-in-law at the side saw Ling Xiao and others coming, and hurriedly signaled everyone to go out, so as not to disturb the emperor.

The scholar curled his lips and said nothing.

"Father..."

Su Huang knelt on the ground with a plop, and two lines of tears fell on the cold and clean ground, "My son is useless, I can't share my father's worries..."

Hearing this, the old emperor squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the palace gate, and forced a smile.

Ling Xiao suddenly felt a chill.

"Emperor, come here, come to Father Emperor."

The emperor beckoned to Su Huang lightly.

Su Huang wiped away tears, hurriedly got up and ran to the emperor.He patted the emperor's back lightly and comforted him in a low voice.

The emperor stared at Su Huang with dull eyes, without saying a word.After a long time, he moved his dry lips lightly, and forced a few clueless words in his hoarse voice.

"Hey, what if..."

"How nice it would be..."

A heavy sigh echoed in the empty Taiming Hall.

Ling Xiao suddenly remembered when he was about five or six years old, not long after the new emperor ascended the throne.I broke into my father's study secretly because of my playfulness, and heard my father justly and angrily criticizing the various actions of the current emperor.One of those lines made my younger self shudder.

Forcing the palace to kill the father, brother to brother.

Ling Xiao couldn't remember what happened after that.The government gradually stabilized, and my father's business center gradually shifted from Donghui Capital to the south.Ling Xiao never heard any words from his father complaining about the new emperor, but he had less and less time to go home.

Father is dissatisfied with the new emperor.Therefore, when he received the official seal of the Taifu, he never asked about it once.

Su Huang was still trying to persuade the embarrassed emperor, crying, with a look of deep love between father and son.Seeing this, Ling Xiao couldn't help but frowned.

I want to come to these 13 years, the emperor planned day and night to consolidate the imperial power.Step by step, he abolished the foundation of his brothers and sisters in the court, established the Xuanji Pavilion, and removed the courtiers who opposed him in the court.In this way, step by step, towards the peak of the supreme imperial power.

So, when the last close brother who held great power was eliminated by himself, why did he look so embarrassed?How agreeable is the faint emptiness and loneliness that exudes in those eyes?

Ling Xiao just found it ridiculous.He flirted with the scholar and left quietly.

……

"Brother looks bad, do you want to take a rest?" Looking at Ling Yun's deathly pale face, Ling Xiao couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Ling Xiao... I have something to say to you alone." Ling Yun looked at the scholar and said with some concern, "It's about the life and death of the Ling family, so..."

"Okay, I'll avoid it first." The scholar hurriedly said, "This may not be a safe place, I'll go and watch for you."

After watching the scholar leave, Ling Yun sighed faintly.

"Ling Xiao, something may happen in Donghui City...and, father may be involved."

"I probably know." Ling Xiao interrupted Ling Yun lightly, "The mastermind behind the Xuanji Pavilion is the emperor, and it is the emperor who ordered the assassination of the Dawu mission. I was still wondering why the emperor provoked the war for no reason. I didn't understand until he sent Jing and Wang to fight..." Ling Xiao smiled wryly, "...Father and Jing and the prince have quite a personal relationship. Isn't it?"

"I don't think you already know so much." Ling Yun smiled wryly, "I wanted to hide something from you."

"...Brother took the initiative to take the responsibility that day, is it because he is afraid that the emperor will become suspicious of the Ling family?"

"Yes." Ling Yun nodded without hesitation, "About this matter, what does the second brother want to do?"

"If you support your father, you will definitely break with the court." Ling Xiao said calmly.

"So, what are you going to do?" Ling Yun asked in a deep voice.

"Of course I will stand on my father's side. Although I don't agree with him doing this." Ling Xiao said helplessly, "If I had gone to Jinping, I might have chosen to persuade my father to leave without hesitation... But after witnessing the After everything, what that person did is really chilling..."

"That's fine." Ling Yun nodded, "You are in the palace now, and you are the biggest weakness for your father. You might as well find a time to put this matter aside, and then go south to find father to work together. What do you think?"

Ling Xiao shook his head when he heard the words, his eyebrows were tightly locked together.

"Brother, it's too dangerous for you to stay in the court alone. I'll stay in the East Palace as an internal response." Ling Xiao gently held Ling Yun's hand, his gaze firm.