The four of them sat down, and the seating order changed again.

Of course, the Emperor was given the main seat at the top, and Lin An's position was unchanged, while Yokyadan and Master Rice sat opposite each other, and Yorkyrdan was on the right hand side of the Emperor.

Because there was one more Master Rice, there was one less black tea prepared on the table, and Yokjaran silently picked up the high-necked teapot and poured the tea.

The emperor and Lin An watched this scene quietly, no one made a sound, and the room was so quiet that only the sound of tea pouring out.

The atmosphere wasn't tense, but there was a suffocating silence.

When the tea reached six minutes full, Yokjartan put it in Master Rice's hand, and pushed the plate with sugar, milk and ingredients over, Master Rice didn't put anything, put the porcelain cup to his lips, and the tea touched his lips and put it down, even if he had drunk it.

Jokjardan didn't care about the fate of the cup of tea, he put down the teapot, sat back in his seat, turned to the emperor and said:

"Father, since you have no sleep tonight, why don't we play a game of chess?"

The emperor's gaze immediately swept towards Lin An, but when he saw the surprise on Lin An's face, the arrogant dark phoenix eyes narrowed and swept towards Yokyadan.

Yokyadan didn't look at Lin An, his blue eyes stared at the emperor for a moment.

But Lin An seemed to see something from Yokyadan's actions, suddenly smiled, indifference flashed in his eyes, leaned forward and returned to his original posture, lowered his eyes to look at the teacup, and assumed a default attitude.

The atmosphere that was slightly tense just now because of Lin An's expression eased again.

The wrinkles that were slightly wrinkled at the corners of Rice's eyes were released, and he said lightly: "Master Lin, it's better for us to play a game of chess." ”

"I'm not good at it, I'm afraid I'm far from being a master's opponent."

"It's okay, it's just a casual drop."

Master Rice said with a calm expression.

He flipped his hand, and a game of ebony king chess appeared in front of him, but the direction of the board was not correct. Placed the guest's black chess pieces in front of Rice himself.

Looking at Master Rice's unfamiliar gesture of pinching the chess pieces, he knew that he was a person who didn't understand king's chess more than Lin An, and obviously just wanted to find an excuse to distract Lin An's attention.

Lin An looked at the chessboard, and then at Yokyadan, a different color flashed in his eyes, and suddenly smiled, pinched a white knight chess piece, and lowered his head to really play with Master Rice.

The emperor remained silent, and his gaze shifted from Lin An, who was playing chess with his head down, to Yokyadan.

Jokjadan looked at him inquiringly. With a calm smile on his face, he was as decent and calm as he usually was.

But the emperor's eyes shrunk, and he felt a strange feeling.

He already saw it. Yokjaran was not in a state of being held hostage and charged as he originally thought.

At least, judging from his actions, as well as some of his facial interactions with Lin An after entering the door, Yokjadan played in it. It's not like the role of some kind of hijacked -

It should be said that he looks more like an accomplice, and even ...... Mastermind.

Sensing this, a lot of things passed through the emperor's mind.

Many of these ideas are quite incredible, and when they are related to the situation at hand, there are very good reasons for them. The emperor's heart was shaken.

But perhaps there were too many accidents tonight, and after learning what the eldest son had hidden from his hard work, he suspected the murder of the eldest son. It is likely that when the youngest son planned the mastermind, the emperor did not have that sense of shock.

Is that really the case? …… Yokjartan.

If you are really the mastermind of Yiqiē, then you brought me in...... Is it for the showdown?

Or do you want your old father to abdicate directly?

The Emperor suppressed the sorrow that was gradually surging up in his heart, and thought with some indifference:

"Maybe I'm really not a good father."

He looked coldly at Yokjadan in front of him.

He wanted to know. After his excellent eldest son, who had successfully hidden it under his nose for more than ten years, the youngest son in front of him who was pampered by him. And what outstanding expression, to shock his old father.

"Get the chessboard out."

The emperor said calmly.

Yokjardan didn't seem to see the emperor's expression.

He raised his hand, and a pair of king's chess pieces with agate beeswax texture inlaid with colored gemstones appeared between them, compared to the low-key thousand-year-old ebony chessboard taken out by Master Rice, the chessboard taken out by York Yadan was jeweled, and a luxurious and magnificent temperament came to his face.

The Emperor frowned.

"You still like this nouveau riche style so much."

Yokyadan smiled, "Who called the father emperor, you always liked to tease your son with gems at that time, and when you grow up, you develop a habit, and you can't change it." ”

In fact, he has five or six gemstone rings of various colors on the ten fingers of his hands, although they shine extraordinarily, but with his innate royal bearing, they will only make people feel that they complement each other, without the vulgarity of the nouveau riche.

The chessboard was already set, with Yokjadan holding black, the emperor holding white, and Yokjartan's sunspot taking the first step.

Seeing that the chess game began, the emperor glanced at the two people next to him and stopped talking.

Lin An is not good at king chess, but Andre is a master of chess, and in the past, he often caught Lin An and Shiryl to play chess during his travels.

However, most of them played mage chess, and Lin An was only taken by Andre a few times, and he barely remembered the rules.

But what's interesting is that Master Rice, who has a rigorous and gentle appearance and an associate professor's temperament, is also a stinky chess basket, although his expression is very serious and strict when he moves in chess, but he has half a pound and eight taels with Lin An, a layman who has not played a few times, Lin An originally thought that he was giving in, but after observing for a while, he found that this was actually the real level of Master Rice.

After not taking a few steps, the two quickly entered the white-knuckle battle stage.

The chess pieces you advance and I retreat, snap a few times, eat each other's soldiers, knights, noble queens, the situation seems to be very intense, but if people who know chess look from the side, they will know that the level of these two chess players is not much different from that of eight or nine-year-old children.

In contrast, the other game on the side is very slow, and there is a quiet moment on the board before there is a falling sound.

Their chessboard was unusually calm compared to the rapid chess of Lin An and Master Rice, and the chess pieces of Lin An and Master Rice were basically wiped out, and when the winner had already been decided, there were only a few soldiers and knights outside the chessboard in the hands of York Yadan and the emperor.

Lin An glanced at the diagonal floor clock.

The needle had walked halfway around without haste, more than half a magic time since Yokjardan had eaten the "Kiss of the Tumble". But Yorkiadan appeared patient and didn't seem nervous.

"He probably really let it go."

Lin Anxin thought.

"I underestimated him."

This is Lin An's second thought.

Although I don't know if Master Rice can do it, Lin Aneng can use it for two purposes, and playing chess does not prevent her from paying attention to every move next to her at all times.

Her spiritual power perception has been haunting the emperor's body, perceiving every change in his feelings.

It was also changing from the emperor's feelings, and she knew that Yokyadan's unexpected move without her consent was really playing with his own life.

But Lin An understands why Yorkiadan did it.

Other than doing so, he had no way to stop the negotiations between the Emperor and Lin An, as neither side of the negotiations was someone he could control. If there is an accident in the negotiation process, the situation will plummet in the direction he does not want to see.

The problem is to be an informant on both sides. But he couldn't tell the emperor about Lin An's hole cards.

With a negotiation that is not formal and unprepared, and the two sides don't even know each other's hole card chips, the future of Merlin and even the entire continent will be decided?!

What a ridiculous joke!

But this funny joke actually happened in reality!

And it was staged right before his eyes!

But how can Yorkiadan watch things go on like this?

He couldn't even let Lin An's hatred and disgust towards the royal family further deepen because of her attitude. It is enough to have an impact on the attitude of the three legendary powerhouses behind him.

Therefore, even if it is only a vague mention of the inside story of this incident and the unpleasant memory of Lin An in this incident, it may make Lin An go crazy at this moment, and then make the negotiations enter an irreparable situation.

The only way to solve the problem was to stop the emperor from negotiating with Lin An. Only if they do not talk at all can the situation not deteriorate further.

But in such a situation, what can be done to divert the emperor's contradictions?

The practice of Yok-Artan. has already sued Lin An for the answer:

Originally, she only asked Yokojadan to be a hostage and undercover agent in the negotiations, but Yokojadan went one step further and took the initiative to resist the firepower and became the leader of the negotiations.

This situation was unexpected by the emperor. It also made Lin An cry and laugh, but he had to say. But it's a good solution.

In this incident, Lin An certainly knows whether York Yadan is the mastermind or not, and the emperor will not always be deceived by York Yadan, because after a period of time, there will be no corresponding changes, and the emperor will react:

Killing his brother to seize the throne, and then forcing the palace - if he didn't even have a minimum of troop deployment and internal response, and couldn't afford even a little wave, no matter how suspicious the emperor was, he wouldn't think that his son was really so stupid.

But in this room, there were only four of them at the moment, and Yokyadan had the shadow of Master Rice, and he was completely sure that he would temporarily seal the Emperor's ears so that he could not know what was going on outside.

This is also the reason why Lin An indulged in the actions of York, she saw that it was Master Rice who came in with the emperor, and she knew that he was indeed doing his best.

And the purpose of Yokjadan is only to drag on this time.

Now not only the Maple Palace, but also the palace ban in the backyard of the entire palace has been sealed off.

A large number of nobles are under house arrest in the palace, and it is impossible for them to be unaware of the abnormality outside the palace, although the palace blockade of the news makes those people dare not move for a while, but as time goes by, they will gradually become unable to sit still.

The longer the palace ban is blocked, the more the news is exposed and the wider it spreads.

Is Yokjardan going to expose the inside story of Odin and Lin An?

No, it's not.

That would do the Merlin royal family no good, nor would it do Yorkiatan:

He is indeed happy to see Lin An and Odin, who have the support of three legends behind him, turn against each other.

But spreading the inside story of Odin and Lin An will only make the Merlin royal family a laughing stock and ruin Lin An's reputation, even if Lin An gets out of this way, he will not have any gratitude to the Yokjaran and Merlin royal family, but will only hate and resent.

The cost of using this as a disgrace for Odin is too great.

Therefore, Yokjardan was just trying to foreshadow, he knew that this matter could not be spread, and not only did he know it, but the emperor also knew it.

That's why the emperor blocked the palace. It is necessary to let things have an ending in the shortest possible time, and deal with and solve the traces of clues as soon as possible to avoid leakage.

But Yokyadan just wanted to use this as a foreshadowing, tilting the scales invisibly to Lin An's side, and by the time the emperor reacted, the scales had already fallen steadily to Lin An's side-

At that time, it was time for the emperor to make a choice.

"The King."

A knight's chess piece has been settled, and the black king's chess piece has been forced into the corner, and the agate chess piece inlaid with red sapphires makes it seem that the king chess piece with white beeswax in the middle is lonely. Poor Baba.

Jokjadan was stunned for a moment, looked at it, and put down the Mosuo chess piece in his hand.

"Chess is not good. I lost. He smiled bitterly, "My father's chess skills are far inferior to my son's." ”

"When you can play more magic with me, if you are not good at chess, then I am not the same? You've been smart since you were a kid. He is good at chess, which has long been known. ”

The emperor said lightly.

Yokjadan lowered his head and smiled, not modest, a strange look flashed on his face, and a faint look of warmth and memory flashed away.

The Emperor's eyes flashed and he moved away from the chessboard. fell on the son in front of him, stared for a moment, and then looked at Lin An and Lin An, who bowed their heads to play. The two seemed unconcerned about the situation on their side.

Lin An's movements were leisurely, his right hand rubbed the eaten earl, noticed his gaze, hooked his lips and smiled slightly, and there was still that kind of indifferent chill in his dark eyes that did not subside.

The room was brightly lit. But it can't be seen clearly, everyone's shaky faces under the shadow of the lamp.

The emperor thought he had understood the truth, but now. He was a little uncertain again.

The shadows of the trees outside the window were faint, and the night was deep, and it seemed to be as quiet as when he first entered this room, and the Maple Palace seemed to have been forgotten in a corner of the palace.

Yokjartan is very energetic, and his eyes tend to get brighter and brighter.

He looked down at the chess board for a moment, his fingers scratching on his broken chess game, as if he was recalling the game in front of him and thinking about the layout he had made a mistake.

After a while, he picked up the chess piece, looked up and invited the emperor again:

"Father, why don't we make another game?"

His four fingers are slightly together, and his inviting posture is elegant and calm, inherited from his ancestors, his appearance was already outstanding, and now he looks even more handsome and extraordinary under the background of his extraordinary spirit.

Yokyadan looked at the Emperor with sincerity.

The latter stared at him for a moment, slowly putting down the pieces.

The agate king, adorned with emeralds, fell on the chessboard with a clatter.

"What the hell are you doing?"

The emperor stood up and walked to the window.

Behind him, Lin An and Master Rice put down their chess pieces at the same time.

Master Rice's expression tightened, and his spirit locked on Lin An, while Lin An leaned back on the chair with a smile, slowly smiling Mosuo chess pieces:

Jokjardan contacted Master Rice in the locker room, but he didn't even tell him about the realization of his mental power, did he forget it, or did he do it on purpose?

"This guy is insidious and insidious, but he has clear grievances." Lin Anxin thought.

By the window, the emperor's two thin arms were propped up on the edge of the window lattice.

He looked down, the maple forest squeaked slightly, in full swing in the night, setting off the extraordinary silence and tranquility of this palace, as if isolated by the world.

"There is no fire, no fighting, no smell of the wind, no smell of blood...... Don't think I'm old enough to feel degraded, I can smell it just by my nose if I'm fighting or not. Not to mention—"

The emperor raised his right hand and swiped at the palace below, "It's as calm as a pool of stagnant water here, and the guards don't even show a hint of nervousness when they are accused. ”

The emperor turned around slowly, and a thin and tall figure stood by the window, indescribably majestic and cold.

“…… I've played one of your favorite games with you, and it's your turn to unravel the mystery, Yokjadan. ”

Facing the remnants of the chess, Yokjadan bowed his head and put down the pieces.

"Sure enough, I can't hide it from you, I was lucky, thinking that maybe I could delay it longer."

Just from the word "drag", the emperor has already understood.

His gaze moved to Lin An, and the black-haired and black-eyed girl surprised him again.

"What did you use to convince my son to betray his father, his family? - With his life? ”

"You're underestimating your son!"

Lin An smiled slightly, and said meaningfully, "He is the most gambling and the most unserious royal family member I have ever seen. ”

"Not bad. He was so bold as to deceive me with that illusion that I would try to transfer my malice to him—he was indeed my least fearless son. The Emperor said.

For any emperor, usurpation and rebellion are intolerable taboos, even if there is only a trace of suspicion, the emperor will choose to kill the mistake and not let go, and nip the sprouts in the bud.

Just now, the emperor did have a moment when he really killed Yorkiadan.

Yorkiadan is really playing with his life.

And his way of playing is a great stimulus to an emperor, even if it turns out to be fake later. may also make him, the youngest son who was originally favored only below Odin, become the most disliked son.

The Emperor couldn't think of a reason for Jokjardan to do this:

Yorkiadan was clearly not coerced, but really willingly did so. Even at the expense of self-destruction and self-sacrifice.

"I can't think of a reason." The emperor said slowly.

He vaguely knew that his son had a special little hobby.

Therefore, if it were replaced by other sons, the emperor could still think that his son was bewitched, but Yorkiadan was the only impossible one.

"A reason is a reason because it necessarily exists. Why don't you ask the person concerned? ”

Lin An smiled lightly, and his gaze moved from the emperor to the side.

The Emperor's gaze moved to Yokyadan along with hers.

Yokjardan's face was as usual, his slightly bright lips were closed, and he knelt down on one knee in silence.

"Father, please forgive."

The emperor's expression froze.

All night long. His heart had been soaked in ice caves and molten slurry many times, and the feeling of cold and bursting at that time had almost numbed him.

Overnight. He seemed to suddenly become unfamiliar with his own flesh and blood.

The Emperor stared at the somewhat strange son for a long time, and Yokjadan buried his head deeply and did not lift it up.

The Emperor was finally utterly disappointed, and a sense of tranquility emanated from him, in silence. He opened his lips and said:

"Rice, move ......"

He was about to order Rice to do something to Lin An. Suddenly, his complexion changed, and he exclaimed:

"York ——!"

Two drops of bright red blood dripped on the snow-white carpet in front of York-Ardan, as vivid as red plums on the snow.

It's like two drops of magma dripping on the heart.

"York!"

The emperor roared lowly and rushed over like an enraged lion, and Master Rice rose in horror, exuding a bone-chilling coolness, against Lin An's neck-

Just by touching his skin, Lin An felt as if his soul was frozen.

“…… Ahem......"

Yokjaran coughed twice, then finally looked up.

His face was still ruddy.

It's just that under the nose, the blood is constantly dripping like no money, and then dripping down the chin and neck onto the snow-white clothes.

Yokjardan coughed violently, and as soon as he put down the hand he was holding, his hand was covered with blood, as shocking as red paint on white paper!

"Antidote!"

The Emperor and Rice roared at the same time.

Lin An was pressed against the two-finger-long ice blade, and a layer of hoarfrost spread out on her face, and even a layer of hoarfrost quickly formed on her eyelashes, but the smile on her face was a little strange, as if she was frozen, and there was a hint of weirdness.

She has always been on guard against her surroundings, and there are magic fluctuations around Rice, and even when the ice blade is against her neck, she does not use her mental power to resist, and she does not even change the movement of reclining on the armrest.

As soon as the voices of the Emperor and Master Rice fell, two pills of the same size, one red and one blue, had already appeared on the chessboard.

Rice was even stunned by her crispness and neatness, and paused for a moment before reacting.

He didn't care about Lin An, leaned over and pinched the two pills, sniffed them, and put a few crumbs on the tip of his tongue, and then distinguished the blue one.

"The antidote is this one."

"It's useless, I have taken more than one poison," the emperor who didn't wait for the emperor to look at Lin An, and heard his voice continue, "...... I took it myself. ”

As if he didn't know what was going on with his blood now, he coughed and whispered while letting the bright red blood flow all over his jaw:

“…… Father, ahem...... Gen Lynn...... Saved me...... Please, please let her leave the palace......"

"Shut up!"

The Emperor shoved the blue pill into York's mouth and swallowed it as quickly as it dissolved.

But after a few moments, the speed of Yorkyardan's bleeding did not stop, but his face quickly turned pale, and the strange ruddy flush on his face completely disappeared, turning into a dead pale.

“…… Father's ...... Let her ...... Leaving the palace ......"

Yokjardan said intermittently, his eyes fixed on the emperor, and he gritted his teeth.

"Rice!" The Emperor shouted.

"It's useless, if His Highness wants to, he won't guard against me."

Master Rice said in a deep voice, his eyes looked sharply at Lin An, the emperor followed his gaze, Lin An shrugged: "I only gave him one kind of food." ”

She looked at the emperor with a smile, and there was a kind of indifference in her eyes:

- Odin, or Yokjardan...... Which one do you choose?

(To be continued)

Thank you for the big pink tickets from the party and ixixi, and the big tips from Fenghua Sakura! o(n_n)o~

The next chapter brings the later emperor's overwhelmed twists and turns.

Regarding the content of the last two chapters, I don't know if you understand it.

Now it's like the two sides of a card game, the time is right, the time is the right people, the time is an emergency, everyone is not occupied, and the location is undoubtedly the emperor's, so Lin Anze opposed York Yadan and Rice by the way, and got the people.

But the outcome of the game, in the final analysis, lies in the size of the cards and the order in which the cards are played.

ps：

Lin An drew a good hand, and the size of the card was actually in her favor.

But she is in danger, because the emperor who occupies a favorable position may not give her the opportunity to play cards on stage, and directly violates the rules and beats her off the court.

Unfortunately, Lin An is not a motherless child, and beating her is to lead out a group of adults.

And these people are not only the emperor's business partners, but also his future competitors, the emperor has the heart to stew those people in the future, but the current business is stable, but it still depends on those people to maintain -

The biggest problem is that the emperor doesn't know that Lin An's family has so many relatives, and when he knows, he will be a stiff neck again, and the business of the two adults will break down.

So the fight between the two children evolved into the full martial arts of the adults, which will drastically affect their own business, and Xiao E, as the second heir, is very unhappy.

Lin An originally held Xiao E hostage as a talisman, and planned that the emperor would be unreasonable, so she would take people out and escape.

But Xiao E, who was rebelled, went further, and in order to prevent the children's brawl from escalating to the level of adult fights, it was decided to reduce the matter to the level of children's brawls to solve the problem.

Playing the stuffy stick depends on the timing, the time has passed, the outside neighbors heard that the emperor closed the door and bullied the child, the emperor couldn't afford to lose that face, so he had to put the stuffy stick away and obediently go to play cards fairly. \(\)