Chapter 243
Chapter 243 - Why Does This Sound Off?
“Housekeeper Han, look …” “The Emperor is still waiting inside the palace. Can we go in and urge him?” A fat eunuch said to Han Sen with a fawning smile.
The two of them could be considered old friends. Compared to Lai Jiquan from before, Han Sen felt that this little fatty, who smiled at everyone, was slightly easier to get along with.
“Chief Minister Qu, it's not that this servant is not willing to go, it's just that the two masters have just slept for a short while. You should know that the road to Seventh Young Master is covered in dust, it's so tiring that the Third Prince feels extremely pained, right now, forget about this servant, even the Emperor might not look good here.”
This fat steward had just followed the emperor for a short while, so he wasn't too clear about the father and son pair's dirty tricks. He also didn't dare to offend the Third Prince too much.
“Then what should we do?”
Han Sen frowned and thought for a moment, “I think it's better this way, you can go back after eating dinner here, let Seventh Young Master sleep for two hours first, then I'll go and wake him up, what do you think?”
“How can this be?” We just have to wait here. ” Chief Minister Qu thought, if the emperor knew that he could stay at the Third Prince Mansion to eat after passing down an edict, he wouldn't be able to do it.
Han Sen accompanied him for two hours, and in the end, had to bite the bullet and go call for help from the Scenic Garden. The Emperor's temper had been terrible recently, and he had met with such a terrible worry today.
Inside the house, Teng Yu was washing Yin Xu's body. Just as he was putting on some clean clothes, he heard someone knocking on the door.
“Your Highness …” The Emperor sent someone to bring the Seventh Young Master to the palace. “
Teng Yu stopped what he was doing and calmly said: “I understand, tell him that Huo Tian will be here shortly.”
Han Sen heard no special sound from inside and felt more at ease.
Teng Yu patted Yin Xu's face, pinched his nose and woke him up, “Didn't you say that you would be spirited after absorbing my essence? “Why do you feel even more tired now?”
Teng Yu laughed and mocked him, while Yin Xu answered generously: “This young master's spirit is very good, it's just that my body is tired, so the two aren't compatible.”
“Really?” Hurry and get up. The Emperor wants to see you. ” Teng Yu took the clothes that he wanted to wear and wiped his face before letting him go out.
“You know what to say later, right?” Teng Yu asked with worry before he left. He was afraid that Yin Xu would be sleepy and confused if he even closed his eyes when he walked.
Yin Xu walked beside Teng Yu without opening his eyes, “Why don't you come with me?
“If you can do it, I'd be happy to go in your place. Wake up, it's time to get on the carriage. I'll escort you to the palace gate.”
Chief Minister Qu stood in front of his palanquin and watched as the two grandfathers continued to flirt with each other as if no one was around. He really wanted to charge forward and shout: “Master, please do it! You all are not afraid of the emperor's servants! “
He was pondering whether he should speak the truth when His Majesty asked him why he had been there for so long, or should he just show mercy to the Third Prince?
Without waiting for him to come up with a conclusion, Yin Xu had already sat in the carriage and walked to the front of him. Chief Minister Qu looked in from the window and saw that the old man was leaning on Third Prince's body drowsily, revealing a fair neck.
Chief Minister Qu had been waiting on someone the entire way, so he naturally knew what it was and instantly understood why he had to wait so long.
Sigh, all kinds of overwork on the journey is useless. Isn't it more true to be warmly entertained by Third Prince, whom we have reunited with after a long time?
The Chief Minister Qu instantly felt at ease. When he brought Yin Xu to the palace to see His Majesty, the other party was indeed angry.
“Dog slave, I asked you to pass down the order, why did you take so long?” The emperor smashed down an inkstone and it landed beside Yin Xu's feet.
Chief Minister Qu's fat body trembled, he knelt down, “This servant deserves to die!”
Yin Xu was too lazy to waste his time in the palace, so he took the initiative to confess: “When Chief Minister Qu arrived, I was sleeping, and hadn't been able to wake up from the sound of thunder for several nights straight.”
It would be weird if the emperor trusted him, but seeing his lazy look and his eyes filled with spring color, how could he not understand why he was delayed? However, he did not intend to blame them, but seeing Yin Xu's attitude, he kept his angry expression.
In the end, Yin Xu had done a great deed this time, and there were a lot of papers for the Imperial Court to request for him. Some of them were truly convinced by Yin Xu's abilities, and some were trying to make things more interesting for Huo Family's sake.
In this world, there was no lack of people who could make things better.
“You can go down first, and wait outside. No one is allowed to come in.”
“Your servant obeys the decree!” Chief Minister Qu carefully retreated out of the room and closed the door to the royal study.
In the empty study room, only the emperor and Yin Xu looked at each other. Of course, on the surface, there were a lot of people guarding the place in the dark.
“What does the Emperor want to ask?”
“Tell me everything that happened this time. Why did you only capture the Duke of Qin's subordinates?”
Yin Xu blinked his eyes, “Didn't you tell me to suppress the traitors? After the leader of the rebels was captured, the rest of the people scattered, one heading east and one heading west, and I don't know them yet, so there's no way to catch them. “
The emperor held in his anger and raised his voice to ask, “So what if the soldiers disperse? Then what about the officials and generals who are attached to the Duke of Qin?”
“I am a military general. I am only in charge of leading troops into battle. As for the officials who are attached to the Duke of Qin, I'm not too sure.”
“What an ignorant fool!” The emperor slammed his palm on the table. “Do you know what the clerk said?”
“I'm not a worm in his stomach. Who knows what he said?”
The emperor told him everything he knew, including that Yin Xu had captured the Kun City without even using his Capital Camp, and that he had brought his own people back to the Kun City to do some work, including that he and the Duke of Qin had been coexisting all along.
After hearing the last line, Yin Xu could not help but explain, “Why does this sound a little off? I live with the Duke of Qin to keep an eye on him, but I don't have any other intentions. Although he looks pretty good, I won't turn my back on him. “
“…” The emperor's face turned green from his words. He was probably thinking about the matter between him and Teng Yu, how one or two of them looked down on him, yet couldn't kill him.
“No one suspects that you have a relationship with the Duke of Qin.”
Yin Xu patted his chest and heaved a sigh of relief: “That's good, you scared me.”
“How did you take down the Kun City? “Tell me the specifics.”
Yin Xu asked in surprise: “Didn't your clerk say it? I thought everyone knew. ” Seeing that the emperor was about to get angry again, Yin Xu said casually: “You also know that I, Wu Qiang, am skilled in array formations, so the matter is very simple. That night, the Duke of Qin invited the guests over.
After that, I heard that General Qi and the others were trapped in the valley outside the city, so I went to save them. The Duke of Qin was too careless, he only sent a thousand people to guard them, how could they be my match? “
Although he said it was simple, the emperor didn't really believe it. Yin Xu was not an immortal, how could he have that much ability?
However, the information that he had received was very similar to what he had received. Especially that spirit formation, it was something that many people had personally witnessed.
If all of this was true, then he really couldn't leave this youth behind and didn't dare to.
If he were to single-handedly charge into the enemy's camp and capture him alive, would he be able to charge into the palace and take his own life in the future?
The Emperor frowned and asked unhappily, “Back then, you said that you only knew three formations. Then, what was it this time around?”
“This is the killing formation from last time. It's only using a human body to replace the symbol, so the effect is a bit larger.”
“Really?”
“Of course it's true! Bullying the king is a heinous crime!”
The Emperor harrumphed coldly and thought to himself, “What crime are you afraid of?” She was simply a small fry on the same side as Teng Yu.
“Did you write this into the information you gave me?”
“…” “I forgot.” Yin Xu scratched his head. He decided that he would not use the array in front of others anymore.
“Then did you find out where the Duke of Qin hid his grain and property?”
“Does that even belong to me?” Yin Xu said with an emoji of “This has nothing to do with me”.
“Did I send you to lead the troops to the southwest just to capture them?”
“Isn't it?” Yin Xu retorted, acting like a kid who had just come out of a thatched cottage.
If one were to ask a normal fifteen year old teenager who had never been to a battlefield before, what would he learn from leading his troops for the first time?
Back then, the emperor had sent him to the southwest with the intention of killing him. Naturally, he hadn't thought that he would be able to capture the Duke of Qin alive.
As for the other matters, after taking care of the hidden danger known as the Duke of Qin, they naturally had to make a schedule.
Yin Xu grumbled unhappily: You didn't tell me you wanted to do these things at first, and no one reminded me either, who would meddle in other people's business?
The Emperor took a deep breath. “Then, when you leave the Kun City, are the citizens of the city alright?”
“It's alright, the war didn't start, and only a few people died, how could the civilians know about this, they could only eat and drink, but after the city officials ran away a lot, I just picked a kid to temporarily take over as the Prefect. It's better for the emperor to send someone to take over as soon as possible, don't cause any trouble as time passes.”
Yin Xu didn't need to say these words, the Emperor was also prepared to carry it out as soon as possible. Not only did he need to re-dispatch his officials, he also needed to find the things that the Duke of Qin had hidden and deposit them into his national treasury.