Seeing that Old Wu was still standing like a piece of wood, the middle-aged Taoist priest said angrily: "Why are you still standing there? Go and bring him in!"
Old Wu was startled and said quickly, "Yes, sir." He turned around and trotted out in a hurry.
Not long after, Lao Wu walked into the secret room with a young man whose facial features resembled that of a middle-aged Taoist priest. He looked to be less than twenty years old. As soon as he entered the door, the young man saw the middle-aged Taoist priest looking him up and down. Looking at him, he immediately bowed and bowed: "Uncle, how are you? My nephew is here to visit your uncle on the orders of your father and the Queen Mother!"
"Hmph." Taoist Nian snorted with a long face, and then said coldly: "I don't have your imperial uncle here, only the abbot Zhicheng of Sanqing Temple."
"Pfft", the young man almost laughed out loud. He tried his best to hold back his laughter and persuaded with a smile: "Uncle Emperor, even if you are the abbot of Sanqing Temple, it does not affect your status as my uncle. We are blood relatives and this will not change until we die!"
"Humph, do you and I still care about blood relations?" The middle-aged Taoist priest said with a cold face: "If your father hadn't tried his best to stop you, the Queen Mother, I would have died by his sword. Now he has Not only did my family become ruined, but they also forced me to become a monk and become a Taoist priest! It’s okay for a poor Taoist to not want his blood relatives!"
The young man smiled helplessly and shook his head, "Uncle Emperor! Uncle Emperor, after all these years, your stubborn temper has not changed at all. My nephew, I really don't know how you came to be. Your family was ruined? And my father was in those days." Forcing you to become a monk is just to get you to control your temper. He knows that you are a dragon and will never stay like this forever. There will always be a time when you soar into the sky!"
''hehe! The middle-aged Taoist priest sneered: "What a good mouth. Compared with your father, I am no less generous. Let me ask you, your father and I are both dragons, and I am also a big dragon. Why?" Just let me hold him, but he took off early? Also, it is common knowledge in the world that my family has been destroyed and I have been killed. Why do you keep denying it? "
''well! "The young man sighed and said, "Uncle Emperor, to tell you the truth, in fact, during the turmoil that year, only the crown prince and the emperor's eldest grandson died in your East Palace! "
"Isn't this enough?" When the middle-aged Taoist priest mentioned the tragic incident that happened in the East Palace, his heart was bleeding. The young man trailed off, and he stood up from the dragon chair with a "Huo" and said His eyes glared at the young man fiercely, his posture was like a wolf ready to eat people.
The young man did not panic, and looked very mature and prudent befitting his age. He looked at his uncle with a smile, who looked like an angry wolf, and said slowly: "Uncle, please let my nephew finish what he said. You can kill or chop the rest as you like! How about that?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest paused, his eyes were red, and he said harshly: "Okay! Tell me, I think your clever mouth can tell you something for your father and grandpa!"
The young man thought for a moment and said, "Uncle, do you still remember? Back then, you were obsessed with practicing martial arts. As the prince of Qi State, you seldom interfered with the current affairs and political affairs of Qi State. You always wanted to become the best in the world. Martial arts, so the emperor’s grandpa and father always took the trouble to persuade you to give up martial arts and return to governing the country, but you always agreed in person, but turned a deaf ear behind your back, in order to practice a move called Flying Dragon in the Sky , you actually claimed to the emperor that you were sick and did not go to court for a month, so you hid in the East Palace and practiced this move. You just practiced it for a month, which is nothing! But do you know? You are obsessed with practicing martial arts all day long, and you have neglected your palace. The Crown Princess Li and other concubines caused the Crown Princess Li Li to collude with Xiao Zan, the commander of the East Palace guards, and gave birth to Xiao Huaiyuan, who was kept in the dark at the time and was named the royal family of our Qi Kingdom. The eldest grandson of the emperor. Later, the emperor heard the secret report from the Imperial City Division and found out the inside story. But everything was too late. How do you think the emperor could let the throne pass to someone who is not the authentic blood of our Xiao family? Besides, if this kind of scandal spreads, If we go out, our Qi royal family will be disgraced!"
"It's nonsense. They were all killed by you, and in the end they still have to believe you to pour dirty water on them. In short, there is no proof! The middle-aged Taoist priest couldn't listen anymore and couldn't help but said angrily. But his tone sounded less aggressive. The momentum and confidence seemed not as strong as when they met before.
The young man smiled slightly and said, "Uncle, you think that I dare to slander the crown prince and the emperor's grandson without evidence. According to Qi law, this is a crime of treason. Even if you kill me, I dare not do such a thing!" "
The middle-aged Taoist priest's face was startled, and his heart sank in his stomach. He didn't dare to think about what evidence this nephew could come up with to make the wall of hatred he had been holding on to collapse in his heart. But now The arrow was on the string and had to be fired, so he said feebly: "What evidence do you have in your hand to prove that the Crown Princess and Xiao Zan colluded?"
The young man sighed: "Uncle, to be honest, I can't even tell you this evidence!"
The middle-aged Taoist priest perked up after hearing this, and insisted: "There is nothing that cannot be said about the evidence. If you don't present evidence today to prove that the Crown Princess and Xiao Zan colluded, I will never listen to you!"
The young man looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest with burning eyes, "Uncle Emperor, do you really want to listen?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded sharply, "But it doesn't matter."
The young man pondered for a moment and said, "Uncle Emperor, do you still remember when Xiao Zan, the commander of the guards in the East Palace, asked you for leave to go home to visit your relatives?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded, "Why don't you remember? I still suspect that in order to deal with me, your father killed my confidant when he went home to visit relatives. At that time, since Xiao Zan left, I have not His whereabouts!"
The young man nodded slightly and said: "Uncle Huang, you are right. It's just that it was not my father who harmed him, but Grandpa Huang who ordered the Imperial City Secretary to secretly arrest him!"
"Oh! Is it just based on those false rumors from the Imperial City Division?" The middle-aged Taoist priest seemed not surprised at all by this result. In his mind, he had long subconsciously assumed that the disappearance of his confidant Xiao Zan was his younger brother. , the current Emperor of Qi, Xiao Yan, was not surprised that his father suddenly caught him. In short, ever since his brother deliberately launched the East Palace Incident, he had determined that his father and his brother were the same. Man! "
''Then Xiao Zan is still alive now? "The middle-aged Taoist priest asked tentatively.
''No, the day after he was captured, he was executed by the emperor's order, and then his nine tribes were wiped out! "The young man replied expressionlessly.
The middle-aged Taoist priest couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and said dejectedly: "You are so cruel! No wonder you come to me now to frame others. It turns out that there is really no proof!"
The young man rolled his eyelids and said, "Uncle, may I ask if the Crown Princess has a small cinnabar mole under her left breast? I heard Xiao Zan say that you can't even tell there is a mole if you don't look carefully!"
"Ah! This...!" The middle-aged Taoist priest was stunned as if he had just been struck by lightning. His eyes were wide open and his mouth was open like a gourd, but he was speechless.
In order to win his trust, the young man continued: "Back then, the emperor hated the Crown Princess Li Li and the evil she had caused by her hookup with Xiao Zan. At the same time, he was also afraid of being recognized by others. When he asked his father to mobilize troops to surround the East Palace, Grandpa Huang specifically told his father to chop up Crown Princess Li Li and that scoundrel with horses and knives, turning them into flesh. And you saw it with your own eyes at the time. It’s impossible to see that cinnabar mole!”
After a long while, the thoughts that had flown away returned to the middle-aged Taoist priest's head. He struggled to ask, "Even if that bitch maid and the traitor are having an affair, we can't just conclude that the emperor's eldest grandson, why?" Born to these two thieves, right?"
The young man smiled softly and asked, "I wonder if the emperor still remembers? A few days before the East Palace Incident, the emperor sent Mr. Wen Xi, the palace doctor, to deliver tonics to the emperor?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded when he heard this, "Yes, this is the case. I remember hearing from the imperial doctor at that time that my father heard that I was practicing martial arts in the East Palace day and night. He was afraid that my body and bones would not be able to bear it, so he specially ordered him to take some tonic medicine. Send it to me to take. "
The young man smiled and said: "That's right, the emperor still remembers hearing that the imperial doctor asked you about having sex with the princess, right?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded slightly.
The young man said to himself: "If I remember correctly, due to martial arts training, the emperor only slept with the princess once a month at a fixed time. He was afraid that his energy would be distracted!"
The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded silently again.
The young man was still thinking to himself and said: "I heard that the imperial doctor took back the emperor's uncle's sexual intercourse time and gave it to several stable women in the palace to calculate. In the end, they unanimously calculated that the emperor's eldest grandson was not the dragon of our royal family, but that Xiao Such a bastard, this made the emperor's grandfather determined to get rid of these people. Originally, the emperor's grandfather hated you for not living up to expectations, and was afraid that you would compete with your father for the throne again in the future, causing internal strife in the court, so he planned to kill you too. Get rid of them all together, and the Queen Mother fought to the death to protect you, so she kept you and made you a monk and became a Taoist priest!"
The middle-aged Taoist priest sat on the dragon's head chair and was stunned for a long time. Suddenly, his stomach was filled with turmoil, and his qi and blood surged up. A fishy, salty fluid poured into his mouth. He immediately used his kung fu to suppress the surging qi and blood. But two strands of blood still inevitably spilled from the corners of his mouth!
When the young man saw it, he stood up in a hurry and was shocked, "Uncle Emperor, what's wrong with you?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest waved his hand and said with difficulty: "It doesn't matter, just let me calm down!"
After a long while, the middle-aged Taoist priest slowly let out the stuffy air in his chest and howled, "This cheap maid has done me so much harm!"
The young man stood up and walked to his side, bent down to comfort him and said, "Uncle Emperor, being so angry hurts your health. After all, the matter has passed, so you don't have to worry about it!"
The middle-aged Taoist priest opened his eyes and looked at his nephew standing in front of him. He gritted his teeth and said with hatred, "I really wish I could kill this lowly servant of the nine tribes right away! I feel the hatred in my heart!"
Hearing this, the young man could not help curling his lips and said with a smile: "Uncle Huang, this was done by Grandpa Huang back then. You want to kill Li Li's nine tribes again, but there are nine tribes in her place that you want to punish again!"
"Alas!" The middle-aged Taoist priest sighed heavily and couldn't help but murmured: "I think I still hated your father for so many years because of this!"
Hearing this, the young man breathed a sigh of relief and said with a cheerful voice: "Uncle, what kind of grudges do you and my father have to keep? After you left Qi, my father regretted it. He originally wanted to When I chased you back, my grandfather died suddenly. My father thought that if he sent someone to deliver a message to you, you would return to Qi automatically. However, he thought that you were so resentful that you didn't go back to attend the funeral. I have no choice but to send a letter of credence to the emperor of Zheng, asking him to take more care of you! How about it? He hasn't given you anything to do, has he?"
The middle-aged Taoist shook his head gently, "No, this emperor is quite sensible. Not only did he not make anything difficult for me, but he also gave me a lot of land and women!"
The young man laughed and said, "Uncle, this emperor is too sensible! You are a monk practicing Taoism! He actually sent you a woman, isn't he afraid of ruining your practice?"
The middle-aged Taoist priest laughed and said: "He is not a roundworm in my belly, how can he be so sensible! To tell you the truth, these women are the bad guys in my view who have been kidnapped in Shanxia Town and even in Xinjing City." It was obtained by robbery, but as long as the family members of these missing people reported it to the government, and the government found out that it was related to Sanqing Temple, they would not dare to investigate further, and in the end they had to let it go."
The young man nodded, "Humph, it seems that the letter of credence from my father has worked!"
The middle-aged Taoist priest sighed: "This emperor is still very good to me, but his temper is too weak and he is not suitable to be an emperor, nor can he be a good emperor!"
The young man stared at the middle-aged Taoist priest and said with a sinister smile: "So, Uncle Emperor, are you going to replace him?"
