Emperor's Trophy

Jiang Ning often went in and out of the palace, and the guards let him go. When he entered the palace, Yuan Zhao was not there. There was a dead cat and a pile of overturned youth balls in the yard.

He was stunned for a moment, but felt relieved, it was fine if he didn't eat it, and he didn't know whether he fed it directly to the cat or the cat came to steal it.He caught a servant and asked him, but the servant tremblingly said, "Your Majesty has gone in to find the Queen Mother."

Jiang Ning turned around and walked towards the Queen Mother's bedroom, but the guards outside the Queen Mother's bedroom stopped him: "My son, the Queen Mother always strictly prohibits people from entering at noon."

Jiang Ning asked, "Did your majesty go in?"

The guards looked left and right. He was the son of Prince Changguang. He didn't dare to offend too much. One of the guards said: "The king is the son of the empress dowager. He insisted on entering, so we let him go." In fact, it was the king holding the knife. It was the first time that the guards saw Yuan Zhao like this, so he went in without hesitation, and he didn't come out until now, and now they are also very disturbed.

Jiang Ning asked, "How long have you been in?"

The guards said: "It's almost half an hour."

Jiang Ning asked: "Is there any movement inside?"

The guards looked at each other anxiously, and Jiang Ning turned around and left. No one was allowed to enter at noon. If so, he guessed where the Queen Mother was. If he really loves young children, he must go to check every day. Yuan Zhao, who was furious, entered the bedroom, what will happen?

This time he came out with a group of people from the escort agency, and he turned around and walked straight to the private room he had reached.

When they got to the alley close to the palace, a group of them had been trained for a long time. They took out the grappling hook a few times and turned in. As expected, they heard the deafening cries and screams of the children after entering.

Jiang Ning pressed the knife and walked in amidst the crying of the child. Bai Yuqi was guarding outside. Seeing his livid face, he gave him a wink. Inside, he heard Queen Mother Hu's shrill voice in hysteria: "Kill you! Kill your brother!" You kill me again! See how you can sit on this throne with peace of mind! I should have strangled you when I gave birth to you!"

Then Yuan Zhao said in a gloomy voice: "You won't strangle me to death, you still have to rely on me to be the supremely honored Queen Mother, and then you can spend your days with your male favorite."

"Whose son is this son? How can humble blood be compared to me? You sent someone to poison me because you thought I was disobedient and poisoned me to death. You planted this child on my head, saying that I was born Well, then continue to support the young master who is more manipulable with King Changguang... Ah, I understand..."

He suddenly realized: "This child belongs to Jiang Chenglong!" He called King Changguang by his name.

"Otherwise, he has colluded with you for so many years. It is impossible for him not to know that you are pregnant and have a child. This child must belong to him. Last year? Last year, if you insisted on going to Zhuangzi to spend the summer, you just went to secretly give birth to this child, right?"

Yuan Zhao is a very smart person by nature, and he figured out the joints in a while: "Why would Jiang Chenglong just sit by and watch you raise an illegitimate child for no reason? Of course it is because there are benefits to be gained, and I will soon be ill. Soon there will be a court lady claiming to be favored by me...you can pretend this bastard to be the son of the Yuan family and put him on the throne."

"It's wonderful!" Yuan Zhao looked at Queen Mother Hu coldly: "When did you have this heart? Why didn't you do it earlier? Is it because the child is too young and I don't know if it can be raised? It has been going on for a year. Sending maids to my side, just hope that I can favor one or two, and when the time comes, it will be my child, right?"

He kept asking, Empress Dowager Hu's face was pale, the child was crying hoarsely, Empress Dowager Hu was a little confused, crying and begging: "Yuan Zhao... I have difficulty having children, I can't have children anymore, I will take him out of the palace, Okay? I can't give birth to..."

Jiang Ning lifted the curtain and walked in, and saw Yuan Zhao holding a baby in his hands, the baby was struggling with its hands and feet, crying loudly, with a bruised face.

Yuan Zhao turned his head and saw him coming, and said with a serious smile: "You are here? By the way, this child is also your younger brother? How amazing? A child is actually related to you and me by blood. Thinking about it this way, it is a bit strange. I can't bear to kill."

Empress Dowager Hu gave birth to a glimmer of hope and screamed: "My son! Save him!"

She looked at Jiang Ning with tears on her face, and Yuan Zhao said coldly: "Why should you save him? King Changguang and you have an illegitimate child, and you still have him back, I'm afraid it's for a tool, ha ha."

He glanced at Jiang Ning, and suddenly wanted to explain: "Today, the queen mother ordered someone to give me a green ball, but I happened to be in a bad mood, so I threw the green ball to the cat to eat. Guess what? The cat died. I took it with me. A Bai went to the Empress Dowager's dorm to ask what happened, but it turned out that the Empress Dowager's dormitory was empty every day during lunch breaks, and only her confidantes were guarding her. When pressed, our good Empress Dowager came from the passage behind the dormitory every day. Here, sharing family happiness with her most beloved young son!"

Empress Dowager Hu screamed: "It's not me! I didn't poison you! It must be someone else! Someone must have planted the blame!"

She panicked for a while: "Wan Lang! Where's Wan Lang?"

Yuan Zhao said: "Your Wan Lang was killed by me, and his face was carved. Are you happy about the gift I gave you? Let's deal with this brother as well."

Empress Dowager Hu screamed, "It's not me!"

Jiang Ning suddenly held Yuan Zhao's arm, took the child over, and handed it back to the huddled nurse beside him: "It's too noisy."

Yuan Zhao frowned and looked at him, but he let go of his hand without insisting.

The nurse took the child into her arms, and the child was quickly comforted, sobbing and feeding, the deafening crying finally stopped, and the tense strings of Queen Mother Hu also slightly relaxed, looking at Jiang Ning: "Jiang Shizi—— Did King Changguang call you here?"

Jiang Ning didn't answer, but said: "The poison was not administered by the Queen Mother, but by someone sent by the Wuxiong Clan. If it succeeds, then there will be chaos in the royal city. If it fails, it will provoke the mother-child relationship between the King and the Queen Mother."

Empress Dowager Hu quickly thought of the key person: "Wan Lang! It must be Wan Lang! He asked me to make snacks for the king!"

Yuan Zhao looked at him: "You caught that male favorite? Give him to me!"

Jiang Ning said, "I'll keep it for use."

Empress Dowager Hu asked: "The Wuxiong tribe dares to murder the king, we can convene an alliance of twelve tribes and punish them!"

Yuan Zhao sneered: "Since they dare to do it, they must have something to rely on."

Jiang Ning said: "They found another illegitimate son of the former king and raised them. It is said that he is older than the king, and now he is married and has children."

Empress Dowager Hu turned pale: "It must be that bitch Luo Fei..."

Yuan Zhao laughed: "Very good, very good, what a farce."

Empress Dowager Hu hurriedly said: "Since it is a misunderstanding, we should sit down and figure out how to deal with it. Why not invite King Changguang to discuss it?"

Yuan Zhao sneered again, staring at Empress Dowager Hu and said, "Mother thinks I can still trust you? I'm going to die of illness sooner or later, right? But sooner or later, it doesn't matter whether you poisoned me or not."

Empress Dowager Hu hurriedly visited Jiang Ning: "Your Majesty Jiang, Your Majesty has misunderstood me..."

Yuan Zhao also said to Jiang Ning coldly: "Who are you helping?"

Jiang Ning leaned on his shoulders and bowed slightly: "Please order, Your Majesty."

Yuan Zhao stared at him, knowing that he had something to hide from him, and he couldn't control him at all, but now he has no one available, let alone trusted, he felt the absurdity in his heart: "Take the Queen Mother and these few Take it back to the palace, lock it up, and tell the public that the queen mother is sick, so you can find some people to look after it—the queen mother and the child will be detained separately."

Jiang Ning bowed and said yes, and then waved his hands. A few men in black stepped forward and took the nurse and baby away, and then the other two stepped forward to stand in front of Queen Mother Hu. The Queen Mother said angrily: "I walk on my own!"

Jiang Ning waved his hand indifferently, and the two men stepped forward skillfully, one held down Queen Mother Hu, and the other took out a handkerchief from his arms and covered Queen Mother Hu's face, but after a few breaths, Queen Mother Hu fainted and fell limp on the ground.

Jiang Ning said: "The king needs to bring us back to the palace, otherwise my people will not be able to enter the palace."

Yuan Zhao took a deep look at him: "These people are not from Beiqi."

Jiang Ning said: "As you can see, King Changguang doesn't fully trust me either, I have my own staff."

Yuan Zhao stared at him: "Can I trust you?"

Jiang Ning bowed slightly: "Your Majesty, we have the same interests."

Yuan Zhao smiled bitterly: "Can't you lie to me?"

Jiang Ning said: "Your Majesty is a wise man."

Yuan Zhao said, "What should I do now?"

Jiang Ning said: "Convince King Changguang."

Yuan Zhao nodded: "That's your father."

Jiang Ning said indifferently: "There is no father and son in front of Yili."

Yuan Zhao asked him, "Will I still be the King of Beiqi?"

Jiang Ning thought for a while and said, "At least the prince of the Wuxiong tribe is our enemy at present."

Yuan Zhao nodded: "Consistent interests are more reassuring. You are right. If you are really loyal to me at this time, I really can't believe you."

He laughed self-deprecatingly, stepped out, and when he saw Bai Yuqi, he paused and asked, "Ah Bai is yours?"

Jiang Ning said: "He is not important."

Bai Yuqi's face became stiff, and Yuan Zhao couldn't help laughing again: "Yes, just play with me, right? I haven't done anything well, so where is Wan Lang?"

Jiang Ning said: "I am useful."

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In the dark room, the lamp was lit, Linghu Wan was sitting on the couch, her posture was still graceful and self-possessed, Yun Zhen asked him: "Ji Huaisu poisoned you, didn't he arrange a retreat for you?"

Linghu Wan glanced at him in a daze: "I'm committing crimes and making meritorious deeds. It's best if I can succeed. If I can't succeed, I will kill myself and become a benevolent."

Yun Zhen said: "But you still escaped."

Linghu Wan was silent for a while and said, "Of course it's good to be alive."

Yun Zhen said: "How did you come to Beiqi?"

Linghu Wan said: "On the way to exile, I met Beiqi's bandits and snatched Beiqi. Seeing my beauty, I enshrined in the temple."

Yun Zhen wondered: "Why is beauty sent to the temple?"

Linghu Wan hesitated for a while before saying: "There are no women in the temple, and the shamans accept many beautiful child slaves."

Linghu Wan thought for a while and then said: "I am thin and small, they thought I was still very young—then the shaman gave me a secret medicine, and I have not grown much."

Yun Zhen had already reacted, and after a while of silence, he stopped asking about his treatment in the temple, and only asked, "When did Ji Huaisu find you?"

Linghu Wan said: "I lived a hard life in the temple. About three years ago, someone came to me and gave me money, asking me to bear it, saying that someone would send me to the Queen Mother soon, and then I could If you redeem your merits, your grandfather and father will be exonerated, and everyone else will be able to return home. After a while, Uncle Yuanlun Wang came to the temple to worship and saw me dancing the witch dance, so he asked the temple to ask me to Let's go and give it to the Queen Mother."

Yun Zhen saw that his features were innocent, that after suffering so much and being coaxed to die, his eyes were still pure and clear like a child's.

I don't know what the final outcome of his previous life was, but it must be bad.If he didn't stop him today, King Beiqi's manpower would have been taken. He would either be disfigured, or he might be killed directly, just to intensify the conflict with the Queen Mother.

Back then, King Beiqi had completely turned against the Queen Mother and King Changguang. He was probably the point that sparked the conflict. As for Ji Huaisu, who knew what happened in the previous life and only used him in this life, or had he used him in the same way in the previous life. Nothing can change the ending of him being a lamb sacrificed on the altar.

Yun Zhen felt slightly emotional: "I see—your brother is doing well, he has been looking for you, and I will send you back." In any case, he at least changed the fate of the two Linghu brothers.

Linghu Wan lowered her eyes and said, "Your Majesty...isn't dead?"

Yun Zhen said: "He didn't die, he fed the poisonous green ball to the cat."

Linghu Wan stammered slightly: "Then my mission is complete?"

Yun Zhen said softly: "Forget it, you endured the humiliation for the country and the people, and I will report to the emperor when I go back, reward you for your merits, and forgive your sins. The medicine you took, go back and ask the doctor to show you whether it can be cured or not." .”

Linghu Wan breathed a long sigh of relief, and an embarrassed smile appeared on his face: "I'm actually not very good at killing people. I have nightmares these days."

It's great that I don't have to kill people anymore, and I don't have to accompany that queen mother anymore.