Chapter 67: The Bet

Seeing Shangguan Candle generously get out of the way, Empress Dowager Li and the ministers at the venue looked at each other.

Could it be that Your Majesty is really in there? Is it really infected with the plague? Or is this a deliberate attempt by Shangguan Candle to mourn his family? Is the gambling ground a mourning family who doesn't dare to go in?

Empress Dowager Li's eyes rolled, and she looked at Shangguan Candle suspiciously, with a suspicious look in her eyes.

Wu Shangshu saw that Shangguan Candle was calm, his face was calm, and he looked very confident, and he began to hesitate when he originally believed that His Majesty was missing.

In case of such a hard break-in, Your Majesty is really inside, and now Your Majesty is at a critical moment, if you kill Your Majesty, although the Queen Mother will have some bad reputation, but after all, there will be no loss.

But these courtiers are different, once Your Majesty really has something long and short, all the anger will be vented on them, and maybe it will ruin the family.

He didn't dare to gamble on such a bet, if he lost, then he would be cannon fodder in this battle, even if he was deceived by Shangguan Candle, it didn't matter, anyway, there was another chance, but if he lost, he would have no chance to turn over.

After thinking thoroughly about the cause and effect brought about by these two choices, Wu Shangshu took two steps forward and walked to Empress Dowager Li's side, lowered his voice, and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"Niangniang, the minister thinks it's better to calm down first, don't be impulsive, in case what he said is true, because your relationship caused His Majesty's accident, when the time comes, you will be unable to escape the blame, and you will pay a painful price for this matter."

Empress Dowager Li listened to Wu Shangshu's analysis with a cold face.

"This deal is not a good deal at all, although this is a great opportunity for us, but if we lose the bet, we will also hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800, such a price will make us unable to turn over, but if we win, it will not bring greater benefits."

In order to persuade the Empress Dowager Li to give up forcing the palace, Wu Shangshu racked his brains to analyze the consequences of this incident, fearing that Empress Dowager Li's impulse would not only harm herself, but also kill those who followed her.

"After all, Your Majesty is just missing, even if it is to make a living, it is just to deal with the people below, Your Majesty will be scolded by you at most, when the time comes, what was it like before, what will happen, for Your Majesty, there is no loss, but you are different."

"Then the mourners can't do anything? Did you watch them escape? ”

Empress Dowager Li said extremely unwillingly, she didn't want to miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"Oops! My mother, you have to think about the consequences of this matter, even if you make a big deal about it, Your Majesty will only be said to be stubborn, but you are different, once you make a mistake, the power in your hands will be handed over, and you can no longer interfere in the affairs of the court. ”

Shangguan Zhu is a person who practices martial arts, and his ears are outstanding, so he listened to the conversation between Empress Dowager Li and Wu Shangshu in his ears.

In order to help Wu Shangshu, he raised his eyes, looked at Empress Dowager Li very calmly, and interrupted their whispering.

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty is now in the period of recovery, three days at most, after three days, Your Majesty will be able to see people, and when the time comes, you can lead the ministers to visit Your Majesty."

Shangguan Candle paused and continued.

"If you suspect that Your Majesty is not in the palace and want to go in to find out, the minions will not stop you, but I don't know where you heard the rumors, but during the special period, for the safety of Your Majesty, the minions can only offend."

Without waiting for Empress Dowager Li to say something, Shangguan Candle continued to speak.

"If you still feel that what the slave said is not credible, then the slave has nothing to say, but there is one thing, if it is really as you heard the rumors, Your Majesty is really not in the palace, then after three days, Your Majesty will not be able to appear, and when the time comes, it will be clear whether Your Majesty is in the palace or not."

"Yes, Queen Mother, as he said, if Your Majesty is really not in the palace, then it will not be able to appear in three days, and when the time comes, they will all destroy themselves without us doing it ourselves, and you don't have to dirty your old man's hands."

Wu Shangshu was afraid that Empress Dowager Li would not listen to persuasion and insisted on breaking into the Palace of Cultivating the Heart, so after Shangguan Candle's voice fell, he tried his best to continue to dissuade Empress Dowager Li.

But after saying that, Empress Dowager Li was not moved in the slightest, but glared at Shangguan Candle angrily, her eyes wanted to breathe fire, and she didn't listen to his words of persuasion at all.

There was no way, Wu Shangshu, who was afraid of trouble, turned his head sideways in a panic, and kept signaling with his eyes to the other henchmen of the Queen Mother behind him, asking them to help dissuade the Empress Dowager Li.

"Queen Mother, Grandpa Candle is right, it's just some unfounded rumors, maybe someone with a heart deliberately released it to provoke the relationship between you and Your Majesty, you can't be fooled."

One of the ministers of the Empress Dowager's henchmen who received Wu Shangshu's signal took a step forward and bowed to the Empress Dowager Li to dissuade him.

"Yes, Queen Mother, Your Majesty is at a critical moment now, don't be impulsive."

"Yes, Niangniang, some unfounded rumors, if it is true, then Your Majesty will not appear in the Heart Cultivation Hall in three days, what is the truth of the facts, you will be able to see it in three days, and there is no need to rush today."

Li Mao, who was watching all this coldly, opened his mouth to help.

Regarding Li Mao's behavior of speaking for the Empress Dowager for a while, speaking for His Majesty for a while, and standing neutral to curry favor with both sides for a while, the other ministers were a little confused, because they really couldn't understand which side he supported.

"Your Majesty accidentally contracted the plague because of his diligence and love for the people, which is something that everyone sincerely admires and worries about, but because of some rumors that came out of nowhere, His Majesty is in danger, and I don't know what his intentions are?"

An official standing at the end of the crowd stood up, and his sharp words pointed directly at the Empress Dowager Li who was standing in front of all the ministers, with a posture of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers.

The other ministers looked at each other, their eyes continued to linger on the tender head of the young man who had just entered the officialdom, and they were silently mourning for him in their hearts, and when the situation was not clear, they did not dare to offend the gods above, for fear that they would die miserably when they were liquidated in the future.

Therefore, the ministers who appear here today, whether they are royalists or the queen mother's henchmen, although they each have their own masters, they dare not offend each other on the surface, for fear that the more they jump now, the more miserable they will die in the future.

Suddenly, a young man appeared, not afraid of offending the Queen Mother, and spoke out, which surprised them very much.

Hearing this abrupt questioning, Empress Dowager Li's eyebrows jumped uncontrollably, her eyes instantly cold, and she turned to look at the source of the question, and saw that it was an official with a face.

Then it became clear in an instant, and it was really a hairy boy who didn't know the rules when he first entered the court.