Chapter 48: .The Emperor's Decision

The night was deep, and the inner courtyard of the royal palace shrouded in ancient trees was quiet, like a no-man's place.
After the Jade King and the priest were separated, returning from the holy tower to the mansion, he was still depressed. He knew in his heart that there must be an inside story about the apocalypse that year, and was deeply disappointed by the high priest's unfair practices. Under the urging of this resentment, he immediately called his subordinates to set up a follow-up incitement plan, and let people contact the royal family. Gathering the palace, must make this matter thorough.
This secret meeting ended quietly until late at night. After the Jade King retreated from the crowd, he stepped forward with a gloomy face, planning to go to the backyard to see the condition of that important chess piece. He walked all the way to the back garden around the curved corridor, his face flickering and dimming under the intersecting lights, and he kept thinking: that Shiratori was in the bright realm and there was no one to break it. It would obviously not work to force them to stay by force. Move out of the wife to Huairou... Now that's the end of the matter, and he has no choice. He has to keep people anyway... But it's not hard to fool such a little girl who knows the world and a stupid bird. ... He arrived at the door of the guest room thinking that way, and his entire robe knocked on the door three times, but there was no movement inside.
Was it asleep? After all, it’s the little girl who can’t stand tiredness, and it’s normal to go to bed early... He stared at the door frame and waited for a while, shook his head and was about to leave, suddenly his heart tightened for no reason, and he slammed the door into the room. There was only one bed, one table and two wooden chairs inside, and Miyou and the fat bird were long gone.
Why is it gone! ? The Jade King stared with horror, his eyes stared like brass bells, and he quickly searched the room without giving up, but found nothing. How did she go? The surroundings are full of secret guards from the palace, even if the white bird can use his divine power, no one should tell him! His heart was full of doubts, and his lips trembled and his beard was about to scream for the guard to question, and a soft whisper came from the door: "I sent her away."
This whispered whisper like a thunderbolt stunned the prince on the spot. His breathing stopped. He turned around in disbelief. Princess Nuohuai was still wearing a long linen robe, standing beside the door holding a bead chain, like a face Stop water.
"Madam, you...what do you mean!?"
"You have done something wrong..." The lady slowly walked into the door with her eyes down, and there seemed to be a little unsearchable anger between her brows, "She is a poor child who has lost her mother since she was a child, and you are also embarrassed. Take her to make a fuss? If it wasn't for Ming'er to tell me, I don't know what it was like outside. Do you still want to hide it from me at this time!?"
Mrs. Nuohuai doesn’t like to be noisy by nature. She usually only spends time in the mansion and rarely goes out, so despite the ups and downs outside, if Yuming hadn’t talked about it, she would have been kept in the dark by her husband, thinking she was really asking someone to come over Live. After learning the truth, Rao could not help but get angry because of her self-cultivation for many years, and at this moment she asked unceremoniously.
The Jade King secretly scolded this hapless boy for being really ignorant, but he had to lose his vibe even if he was angry in his heart. He argued strongly, "What can I do?! You know what happened eight years ago, the emperor. Obviously, I personally ordered her to be wanted, but then secretly handed her to the high priest. How can I convince the public if I'm so rebellious! Now I do this, isn't it all for Ming'er?"
"You are really confused... I only ask you, Ming'er grew up with her since she was a child, and thought of her as her biological sister, and missed her a lot after separation. Now you are making trouble in the city, what do you think in his heart?"
"What do you think? Huh... He is the son of my Jade King, what do you think he should think! All day long, he only talks about personal affairs, regardless of the general situation, when can he do big things!" The prince hates this unbelievable son. Gritting his teeth, it's nothing more than lingering in practice, this is about to be crowned, and he is still doing nothing like a child, which really makes him angry and anxious.
"His nature is like this. What use is it for you to force him..." Madam sighed again, turning her rosary to break the subject, "Leave aside, your majesty knows all about you bringing Miyou back. , You are acting like this, how can he get on stage?"
"I just want him not to come to Taiwan! If he is not aggressive, why should I quarrel with him to this point? You don't want to think about it, since he took the throne, which edict did not make me embarrass the gods? Indulging in those inexplicable southern barbarians, what kind of free teaching order has actually been placed, it is simply destroying the foundation of my gods! How can I not show him good looks!?"
When the lady heard this reason, she felt like a child's vindictiveness. Where there is the spirit of a prince of a country, she was a little disappointed. She took the rosary in her hand and raised her tone and asked: "The foundation of the religion? What is the foundation... The holy tower is the god. Teaching the foundation, I am waiting for the cultivator to be the foundation, so what do you do with the commoner believers? You are really obsessed with...you say that Ming'er doesn't know the general body, what about you?"
The wife's complaint made Yu Wang angry. She flicked his sleeves and snarled at her: "One or two elbows are turned outwards, let you go! Without that girl, I will do the same. It's up!"
He rushed to the head for a while and didn't want to stay too much. He stamped his foot hard and a flash of light flashed out of the room, leaving his wife alone in the empty room. Her husband's temper has become more and more irritable over the years. Although she knows the reason, she can't solve it. Now it's such a situation, I'm afraid it will make your majesty angry... The husband can't persuade him, so what should I do? ? Or, discuss it with your father first...
The dilemma caused Mrs. Nuohuai's usual face with a blunt sadness. She sighed helplessly and walked slowly to the door. There was an ancient well with moss in the middle of the small courtyard. She stood by the well and closed her eyes, stretched out her hand and blew a blue light, and the clear groundwater instantly poured into the edge of the well like a fountain. . The wife touched her hand on the water surface, her whole body trembled slightly, turned into a pure blue water, blinked into the well, and disappeared.
On the other side of the capital, inside the solemn and solemn palace, the emperor still wore that black robe, leaning on a soft chair in the study, and secretly holding a document in his hand. Guard Colonel Ye Chi stood beside him with the scabbard, closing his eyes like meditation. If it weren't for the subtle ups and downs of his chest, it would really make people think it was a lifelike sculpture.
The indoor incense is faint, and a few magic chandeliers on the top illuminate the room. The light is reflected on the hassle-written document. You can see the title with the two characters "Kurong" written in small letters, and the bottom is small. He talked about his physical origin, but hesitated at the crucial point and said nothing.
A crisp chime disrupted the emperor's contemplation. He turned his head subconsciously and looked at it. The huge self-ringing clock beside the door had already pointed to the 12 midnight mark. Is this hour already... The emperor threw the paperwork in his hand onto the table, tapped his fingers on the armrest rhythmically, and continued to think about what he had just thought.
Although Miyou's sudden appearance caught him off guard, especially after the Jade King inspired the people to launch a rumor offensive, the situation seemed to be out of control for a while, but these were not big problems after all. After all, the rumors are rumors. No matter how fierce the rumors are, he has countless ways to prevaricate and reassure them a few more times.
He has been on the throne for so many years, and he has long been familiar with things that spur public opinion. What's more, now there is a big killer-Beijing Radio Communications is in his own hands? What he was worried about was not here, but because after Ye Chi returned to the palace yesterday, he mentioned that he had seen Monk Ku Rong at the Jade King Mansion, which made him feel a knot. Ku Rong... This unremarkable spiritual monk seems to be very lonely. He has no friends and no one knows his details, but why would he befriend the Jade King?
This name appeared in front of the emperor last time because of the assassination. At that time, Ku Rong followed the prince to chase the murderer, but in the end he turned back to the capital alone. The emperor also asked someone about the whereabouts of his prince. He only said that when he encountered obstacles halfway, his body was sent back and he did not know where the prince had gone. The emperor knew his son's arbitrariness, and he didn't think much about it at the time, but now it seems that it is quite suspicious.
Although he has no evidence at this time, and no definite conclusions, but in connection with the current rumors, he has to doubt the Jade King: Did he get involved in the disappearance of the prince?
Thinking of this, the emperor felt a little irritable. Although he had been at odds with the Jade King on political issues for a long time, he was unwilling to believe that his brother would do such a thing in his heart, and he pressed his fingertips back and forth on the armrest. Shu, sighed, and asked softly as if talking to himself: "What do you think?"
The colonel still closed his eyes, as if he didn't care about everything around him. Hearing this question, he didn't even tremble his brows. He just popped out the word "suspicious" blankly and returned to a static state.
Suspicious... The emperor pressed his lips tightly, and the chill in his eyes suddenly appeared. Although the people around this servant and friend were usually reticent, they had never made a mistake in their eyes. Since even he said so, it was enough to prove his guess. It's nothing more than a secret matter. After all, there are a lot of things involved, and it's not for him to decide alone, but if someone dared to hit his only successor with his idea, he would touch his negative scale and would never let it go.
He stared at the paper document on the desk and pondered for a long time, and finally sat up and decided: "You go and preach my will, that is, a public announcement will be issued across the country: a week later, a great dynasty meeting will be held in the front hall. The deputy cabinet chief, as well as the elders in the holy tower, if you still have objections to the apocalypse, you can discuss with the meeting..."
The colonel stood there all night as if for this instruction, without saying a word, he strode out of the study immediately. The emperor stayed still, squinting at the document, and hearing his footsteps fade away, he leaned back in his chair slightly exhausted.
Since this turmoil is going to cause trouble, you might as well accompany them to make the trouble, or to see how many people are alienated from themselves in this world. There will be a year to abdicate. Before that, we must thoroughly investigate all secret colluders, and we will never leave any troubles for my son!
The emperor looked out of the house with a calm face. In the night, this dark and deserted palace seemed to be a continuous towering wall, isolating and trapping the room filled with warm and light from the world. He smiled coldly, stretched out his hand and brushed it over, a few times the wire flew out and hit the wall switch, the magic lamp was extinguished, there was only solid black in the room, and the strange pair of bright and dark, shiny metallic luster Eye pupil.
Under the moonlit night, in the purple bamboo forest on the top of the tower.
Jiehai, who was full of food and drink, was entangled in tiredness. As soon as he lay down on the bamboo bed, he fell asleep and snored. The carefree look made Yun Xuan beside him depressed.
What a heartless guy... He twitched his mouth and cursed inwardly, and then didn't bother to care about him, turned around and walked out of the hut along the brick road towards the depths of the bamboo forest. A familiar purple stone obelisk soon appeared in front of him. He stood in front of the stele and looked at the immutable stele. It seemed that years could not make any marks on it. It was always the same, which was really enviable. It would be great if he could be like this stone monument. He shook his head and laughed at himself, thinking that now that Miyou and that stupid bird have fallen into a secular dispute, the stone monument has become a land of no one. Time has gone a little bit more sad.
No matter, think of a way... He stood still for a while before reluctantly pressing down on his troubles, stretched out his hand and touched it forward, purple light flashed, and the priest reappeared in the small wooden house under the shining starry sky. He thought the room must be quiet, but he didn't expect to hear the whisper-like high-pitched voice. He habitually walked a few steps forward and immediately noticed that the sound was coming from the nearby lounge. Out.
This wooden house is his most concealed residence, except for Fat Bird and Miyou, no one can enter. Without thinking about it, Yun Xuan walked to the door with surprise and joy, and with a silent push, he heard the fat bird's voice more clearly.
"I said Xiao Miyou, we have to act more naturally, don't let the old smoker see any flaws..."
"it is good……"
"Come on, you read to Benniao: Brother Yunxuan...Bah, bah, it's so nasty that the bird's feathers are erected."
"Big Brother Yunxuan...Bah, baah..."
"Uh...Xiao Miyou, you don't need to learn the following sentence..."
"Oh……"
The priest amusedly listened to the person’s babbling practice, and suddenly he lifted countless warmths from his heart, and all the worries accumulated during the day were diluted and melted away, leaving only a little dazed: Maybe, As Prang said, I have entered the world deeply, and countless emotions are inexhaustible. It's hard to escape...
He sighed for a few seconds, but immediately calmed his mind and didn't think about it anymore. He deliberately let out a light cough, frightening the sound in the room. He flicked his sleeves and waited for a while, and if he opened the door casually, he saw the square table in front of him. Fat Bird was standing on the table with his fat belly, staring at him with round eyes, and beside him was Miyou with his small head tilted. , Her little face was full of innocence.
The priest glanced at the girl, and asked Ah Huang with a weird smile: "What's going on today? Why don't you go to bed at this late hour?"
Fat Bird pretended to cover his mouth and coughed, and heard the girl softly explain: "Brother Yunxuan...Today, we went to a new restaurant for dinner, because we didn't know the way, it was too late to come back..."
"Oh? What restaurant? I'll try it next time."
The girl just spoke according to the script. Whenever she wanted to get this, she turned her head to look at Fat Bird for help. Ah Huang could only vainly said: "Uh... it's a newly opened restaurant, the name? How could this bird be possible? Remember, this bird is only responsible for eating!" He said plausibly with his neck held up, thinking that he had no flaws.
Yun Xuan didn't open it, and walked slowly to the table, squinting his eyes and looking at Ah Huang, and asked each word in amazement: "Really? But how did I hear it? I was talking in a mess outside today. What rumors... I wonder if you have heard it?"
"Wh...what rumors? How could this bird know." The Fat Bird flinched its wings guiltyly, rolled his eyes, and shouted again, "Ah! This bird understands it, it must be its admirers. Because I was so excited to hear about the arrival of this bird, there was a mess!"
"Oh, is it so?"
"Ah, of course, of course... If you don't believe me, ask Xiao Miyou! Xiao Miyou? Xiao Miyou?"
The Fat Bird cried a few times and no one responded, only a slight door-closing sound came from a distance. Obviously, the little girl was so sleepy that she had retreated and ran to the bedroom to sleep on her own. Seeing the allies fighting side by side actually abandon themselves, Fat Bird couldn't help but stared in a daze, and was caught by Yun Xuan who was approaching to the side.
"Dare to cause such a big disaster, and see how I can deal with you!" When the priest thought that all the trouble he encountered today was because of this stupid bird, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth and started his hand. Ah Huang's little forehead banged.
"Help! Help! Kill the bird! Hey, you're welcome to play this bird again! Ah! Help!"
The scream of Fat Bird spread throughout the hut again, but for some reason, it always makes people feel that, in fact, it is also enjoying it...
The turmoil in the capital seems to be about to rise, but the emperor's decree has left enough time for all parties to plan. It must be a week before all these disputes will be answered. But before that, under the snow-covered sky in the north, a long-destined journey was slowly kicking off.