Chapter 57: Don’t Think He’s the Emperor

Shen Qi stayed up all night, sitting at the table in the bedroom, rubbing the shiny blade of the Embroidered Spring Knife back and forth.

The secret Feng de-wicked spilled out was too huge, too heavy, like a Tarzan sinking down on his head, to crush his mortal sinews into pieces.

Even more let him born regret – why go to listen, directly cut Feng go evil tongue, let this secret along with the other party to rot into mud, buried in the Yellow Springs, how good.

However, regret was only a flash of light. Shen Qi never threw away unhelpful and unnecessary emotions quickly, because they were not only unhelpful, but also added to his worries. He had come this far one step at a time, and he would continue to do so obstinately, with a clear goal in mind, and by any means necessary.

He wiped the knife with an expressionless face, and it was as if Feng de-evil’s hoarse and difficult voice was still echoing in his ears:

“The secret is that …… today’s Son of Heaven …… is not the true Son of Heaven! He, and his sibling, King Yu, are not of the late emperor’s bloodline at all!”

“Heh, you’re shocked, you don’t believe …… me who just heard this secret, also your expression. However it is true. Before the first Emperor Chengzu had not yet ascended to the throne, he was the king of Qin who guarded the frontier, and the area of Shanxi adjacent to the Vast Sea was once his vassal land. And now the empress dowager, that is, the year of the Qin Wangfei, in his long years of war, occasionally back to the house of the interval of conception, successively gave birth to two sons.

“In the early years of the royal family there are rumors, said the Qin Wangfei and people have private, this second son is not the royal bloodline, after the rumors of the person by the Qin Wang strict orders to execute, not only the entire royal family blood flow, even the marketplace also killed a large number of people, rumors are then banned.

“Princess Qin not only convinced the King of Qin of her innocence, but also strengthened his resolve to establish the first son rather than the eldest, and after ascending the throne, enthroned his second son – that is, Imshang – as the Crown Prince.

“Nineteen years ago, the present on the throne, the first few years, and brothers can still live in harmony. But just thirteen years ago, the King of Xin plotting treason case, this on the opportunity to make a decision, will be eliminated, followed by offering ‘the late emperor’s legacy edict’, one by one to cut off the military power of the princes of the town of border, imprisoned in the feudal land. Liao Wang, Wei Wang, Gu Wang, Ning Wang …… and finally his sibling Yu Wang, that is, the generation king of that year.

“At that time, I was the King of Faith’s man.”

Shen Qi knew about King Xin’s treason case. At that time, although he was a twelve-year-old boy, but has long been the bumps and bruises of life, with his mother as a concubine suffered the harsh abuse of the main house of the bullying, knowing that a stroke lying in bed of his father can not count on, and want to make a living, and early separation of the family.

He heard that the Jin Yi Wei is recruiting the brave and resourceful sons and daughters of the officials and folk, so he went to beg his father’s old friend – a dying Jin Yi Wei deputy thousand, wanted to be recruited, because of the age of too young, three years later before he was able to do so. During this period, he paid extra attention to the political affairs of the court, and heard that the King of Faith had raised an army to rebel, and was given death by the emperor and copied his family, and the person who was in charge of this case was Li Xianfeng, who is now the head of the Cabinet.

However, I do not want to Feng to go to the evil in more than ten years ago, is still only a Commander of the Jin Yiwei, has been with the King of Faith have collusion.

“After King Xin’s death, I was afraid of being implicated, and hibernated for a few years before doing my best to climb up the ladder. It wasn’t until last year that someone sent by King Ning found me and told me the truth about King Xin’s case back then – that King Xin had evidence of the Princess’s fornication in his hands, provided by an old member of the Qin Wangfu family, and so he had an anti-desire, embraced the army and plotted treason, and then, after failing and being captured, he broke the scandal in front of the present Emperor. The present on the anger, withdrew sent to the high wall of the former order, directly will give him death. He was also worried that the feudal lords were threatening the throne with their own armies, so he moved them inward, cut their titles, and stripped them of their military power.

“The King of Ning and the King of Xin are siblings from the same mother, and he is looking for me because he wants me to be his eyes and ears in the court, in honor of my old master. At the same time, he is also threatening me with this old story, if I don’t comply, he will publicize my identity as a remnant, and the emperor will not be able to spare me then. On the other hand, if I work for him, in the future, when he accomplishes great things, it will be the Dragon’s merit, power and glory are within reach.

“So I defected to King Ning. While coping with the stupid and short-sighted Wei clan, temporarily allied with the foreign relatives, taking advantage of each other, framing the Eastern Palace, shaking the country’s foundation; while provoking the relationship between King Yu and the Emperor, using the Yun Wash and Ye Donglou cases to frame him, so as to call on the Emperor to chastise him, so that by repeatedly forcing the matter, I can gradually force King Yu to the brink of extinction, and finally have to rebel. King Yu surrendered his military power for many years, but his prestige in the army is still there, when the world is in chaos, King Ning will have the opportunity to take advantage of it.”

King Ning also wanted to rebel! Shen Qi was secretly in awe and asked, “Why are you telling me these secret information?” Feng de-evil hated him to the bone, so how could he let him take this information and denounce it to the emperor to help his enemy gain credit?

Feng go evil was tortured by severe pain to the last breath, but at this moment, after hearing this question, as if back to the light, from the eyes to release a paranoid and frenzied gleam. He is like a ghost that has turned his obsession into a curse, poignantly smiling wryly, “Because you are the most suitable candidate ah …… as my enemy, not only must I be sent to the Yellow Springs Road, but also must inherit my legacy, does not it sound like a predestined destiny?”

Shen Qi mocked, “When I get out of the imperial prison, I will sell you at a good price together with your daydreaming master.”

“You wouldn’t dare. Because you know that no emperor can tolerate someone who knows his secret.” Feng de-evil said with certainty, “And the moment you heard that secret, you were already pulled down by me.”

“You can go to report to the emperor, and then wait in fear for him to kill you one day. You can also continue to contact King Ning and work for him, and in the future, if he really has a day to take off, you will be rewarded for your achievements, and you will be a minister from the dragon, and you will be rewarded with a title of lord and marquis.

“You see, I was right before, this is a great calamity and a splash of opportunity.

“Or, of course, you can pretend to know nothing about it, and spend the rest of your life tormented and terrified by the secret.”

“–wouldn’t this be the best, the longest, the most massive revenge of all? To you, to the emperor, to the overthrowing Su kid, to this family and country that drove me to the brink of extinction.” Feng de-wicked coughed violently, blood gushing out of his back almost spreading the torture bed, “I have used you for ten years, and taught you for ten years, and now the last thing I will teach you is–

“Secrets can’t just be heard.”

With a “clang” sound, Shen Qi returned the knife to its sheath and threw the knife wipe on the table.

He smiled coldly at his former boss, who had long since become a ghost by the Bridge of Naihe: What does your revenge have to do with me? Who will be the emperor of this world, and whether he is the son of the Emperor or not, is none of my business? Do you really think I will be tormented by an empty secret? Joke!

If your ability does not match your ambition, and you choose the wrong person to serve, you will die, like you, Fung.

And I, Shen Qi, am loyal to only one person, and that’s myself. As for what I want – great power? Dukes and princes? Riches to rival the country? Ho, maybe, but that’s too far away and unattainable. What I want now is only one person–

Shen Qi put the Embroidered Spring Sword back on his waist, got up, pushed open the door, and walked out of the house, letting the gradually burning morning light sprinkle all over his body.

He squinted at the sun and suddenly asked, “What time is it?”

The maidservant waiting under the porch replied, “Back to your lordship, it’s almost six o’clock.”

Shen Qi suddenly slapped the railing and said in chagrin, “Today is the seventh day of the sixth month! I wasted the night and missed the hour.”

“It is the seventh day of the sixth month. What’s going on with Your Excellency?” The maidservant was puzzled, “What important day is today?”

Shen Qi ordered, “Bring a set of civilian clothes over and change for me.”

The flying fish suit on his body was only halfway off when Gao Shuo, who had been ordered to keep an eye on the Su Mansion, hurriedly came to report, “The Eastern Palace sent its chamberlain, Fu Bao, to pick up Lord Su.”

Shen Qi slightly stunned after clenching his teeth: although the Prince is young, but have other plans, can not be prevented. Xiao Nan Yuan that night, I can see that he is not good intentions for Qinghe, what bells and cardamom full of lustful thoughts, last month and openly come to my residence to rob people. Qinghe’s nature is pure and innocent, thinking that the Prince only regarded him as a playmate, unsuspecting. If I don’t do it, I’m afraid that one day the Prince will be the first to go, and cut my heart to go!

Thinking so, he put his flying fish suit back on and said to Gao Shuo, “Prepare a horse, I’m going into the palace to see the saint.”

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Inside the Duanben Palace, the Crown Prince waited from being anxious to being bored. After losing his temper and whisking all the palace staff out of the palace, he put his legs up on the desk, took the spring paintings left behind by his teaching sisters in his hands, and scribbled with an ink-stained lake brush.

Faced with the scene of men and women making love on the spring painting, he was half unable to raise his energy and said, “What kind of makeup is this, painted with eyebrows like dangling tresses and two cheeks like a monkey’s butt.” Directly painted the woman’s head and face black.

Look at bare breasts and say, “Two piles that big and tired.” Paint it black too.

Looking at the three inches below the navel again, I always felt that something was lacking, so I poked out two round ink spots, and the brush hooked a strip in the center–

“Young master! Lord Su has arrived at the palace gates!” The little chamberlain guarding the palace gate ran in panting and shouted through the palace door.

With a twitch of the Prince’s pen tip, he drew a long ink mark between two clusters of ink dots, right to the edge of the page.

Which has such a long …… that word? Annoyed, he turned his head toward the temple door and cursed, “What’s all the blind yelling about?”

The little chamberlain plopped down on the ground and said in an aggravated manner, “Didn’t you say that as soon as you see a silhouette of a person, the slave girl has to come and report immediately?”

“Hey, Qinghe is here!” The crown prince then turned the corner, busy dropping the brush, crumpling the disfigured spring painting into a ball, jumping up and looking left and right, with no place to hide it anywhere. Finally stuffed into a large enameled vase with peacock plumes.

He lowered his head and straightened his lapel, joyfully rushed out at a fast pace, and suddenly felt that his demeanor was not steady enough, for fear of being underestimated by Su Yan again, pretended to cough, and immediately slowed down his pace, and walked out in a dignified manner.

Su Yan saluted, “The young master is a thousand years old.”

Zhu Hailin see him in a gold crane pattern of the big red suit, distinctive and lovely, lining the exposed skin more and more bright as jade, eyes can not help but in his face and neck and wrist spinning, mouth said: “Master is not a thousand years old, is your seventeen years old today.”

The Crown Prince beckoned, and a palace man came forward with a tray.

Zhu Helin picked up the gold cup and handed it to Su Yan, saying very seriously, “I wish you good health and longevity.”

“Thank you, young master.” Su Yan smiled and took it, wanted a mouthful of boredom, I did not expect the bottom of the cup is quite deep, more than it seems to be able to pretend, a mouthful did not finish, in the middle of the two breaks, “This wine is clear, sweet and refreshing, very good to the mouth, is the cup is a little big.”

“This is imperial wine, called Cold Pool Fragrance. It is brewed from the water of a cold pool in the high mountains, so it tastes cooler than normal wine, but it has a strong aftertaste and should not be drunk in excess.”

“It’s not advisable to drink much, and you’re pouring me such a big glass? Want to get me drunk?” Su Yan squinted at him, her fair cheeks flushed a thin layer of red because of the alcohol, like peach blossoms in the snow.

Zhu Hailin want to stay overnight his small mind was punctured, smiled sarcastically: “How do I know how much you drink, in addition to the Dragon Boat Festival dizzy that time, a meal to drink a half a catty is not a problem.”

That’s because this era of alcohol is generally not distilled enough, the alcohol content is lower than the later life, but also can not help such a big cup ah, and different alcohol mixed drink, especially easy to get drunk. Su Yan thought to himself, later on whoever honors me with birthday wine, I’ll just sip a couple of sips, mean well, so as not to really get drunk.

“The young master hastily summoned me to the palace, saying that he had serious business, namely, to say congratulations and bestow a cup of birthday wine?”

Zhu Hailin said, “Apart from congratulating you on your birthday, there is one more thing. You have reached the age of seventeen, have you performed the crown ceremony yet?”

Su Yan recalled a bit and replied, “It has not yet been performed.”

“A man who has undergone a crown ceremony is considered an adult in terms of etiquette. According to the Zhou system, twenty and crown, but nowadays most are sixteen or seventeen years old to perform the crown ceremony, I see that you are just right today.”

“But shouldn’t the family elders hold the rite of passage and crown me? I am alone in the capital, and my elders are thousands of miles away ……”

Zhu Hailin put his mouth to his ear and said mysteriously, “My elders lent it to you!”

“Huh?”

“I mentioned this to Father yesterday, hoping he would crown you, and Father agreed. All that is needed has been prepared, and you are all that is needed.”

Su Yan was shocked, “The Son of Heaven crowned me? How can this be done!”

“See how scared you are!” Zhu Hailin laughed.

“How can it not be made? Today you don’t think he is the emperor, just think of it as a public …… uh, is through the family elders.” He nearly slipped out of the mouth of the word “father” swallowed back, embarrassed to think, afraid not to read too many books, nonsense nonsense set of name, fortunately did not say out, if not Qinghe is not annoyed to death. And can not help but think of the picture in the words of the couple worship, young face instantly red into a piece.

Who dares to make the royal family a passive family, thinking that the head on the neck is too firm? Su Yan was just casting aspersions on the Crown Prince’s whimsicality when he saw his face reddened and asked, “Are you drunk?”

“I’m not drinking!”

“Then why is your face redder than mine?”

“I’m I’m …… I’m hot! This day is also too hot.” Zhu Hailin only felt the heat surge up to his cheeks, pulling open the collar of his coat to let in the wind and dissipate the air, sending the palace people to get an ice basin, and said to Su Yan: “I sent the Qin Tian Supervisor to calculate, today’s untimely hour is an auspicious time, so you’ll have lunch here first, and after that, I’ll take you to the Palace of Nourishing the Heart–this should have been to the Zhaigong Palace, but Father Emperor said, according to your temperament, will not like red tape, big maneuvers, or simple, but also seems gracious.”

Su Yan was arranged by him one by one and could only accept, asking, “When will the Imperial Master arrive at the Palace of Nourishing Heart, I have to go there earlier.”

“After Father left the court in the morning, he had nothing to do left or right, and was dragged by Noble Consort Wei to see the little prince.”

Zhu Helin skimmed his mouth, muttered: “Red skin monkey cub like a wrinkled mass, do not know what to see.” Seeing Su Yan’s eye color is not right, hurriedly smiled and said: “I know, I know, you advised, treat the new brother to ‘spring breeze brush your face’ well. Don’t worry, I only speak from the heart in front of you, outside the hypocrisy is very.”

Su Yan lost his smile, “How can anyone call themselves hypocritical?”

Zhu Hailin sighed, “It’s supposed to be. Especially when facing someone you hate, it’s impossible not to be hypocritical. Look at Marquis Feng An, that night he wanted to search my car, I couldn’t wait to pull out my sword and cut him down, but I ended up forcing my temper to talk to him.”

“That time, Little Master handled it very well, no, I should say, hit the nail on the head and traveled with ease, beyond my expectations.” Su Yan praised him fiercely, “In just a few months, Little Master has grown a lot.”

Zhu Hailin was smug: “That’s natural, little master I’m a man now!”

Su Yan was a momentary urge, deliberately looking up and down, “Where is a man?”

Zhu Hailin grabbed his wrist and showed his teeth as if provoking, “Everywhere is a man! Do you want to see my master’s virility?”

Su Yan only as a little kid fighting, haha laughed: “Xiongfeng, well, Xiongfeng …… hahaha, the future will definitely see, and then wait for a …… two, three, four, five years, it is almost the same.”

Zhu Helin was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, but he had to forcefully endure not to have an attack, showing the demeanor of a mature man, once again suffocating his red face, he resentfully said, “We’ll see! One day, I’ll let you see how powerful Little Master is, and tell you to be convinced, five bodies.”