Chapter 177: The Struggle for the Imperial Throne
Concubine Yao's faction and the prince's party have always been at odds, and for some reason, they openly pinched each other in the court.
Emperor Nan Shao is even more strange, just like a nobody, going up and down the court on time all day long, eating and drinking, and it seems that he has not been affected by this Xuanbo.
Huo Lingxiao had nothing to do with himself, hung high, and always stayed out of the matter, feeling that these two gangs were too noisy, so he took sick leave, and was not in the court, and his ears were a lot quieter.
"Master, why don't we sit in another place?" Qingying said with his waist down.
Huo Lingxiao half-squinted his eyes and said lightly and carelessly: "No, it's very good here, the scenery is good." ”
Qingying just held back the words in his mouth, he was the third prince of the dynasty, and there was actually a day when he was in charge of the house, Huo Lingxiao promised Wei Xiyue to help take care of everything in the General's Mansion.
Ever since Huo Lingxiao took leave and was not in the morning court, he seemed to have taken root on the roof of the General's Mansion from morning to night, personally watching every move in the General's Mansion.
He, the top killer, has become a little second who pours tea and water, either handing tea to Huo Lingxiao or holding an umbrella for Huo Lingxiao.
Huo Zeshen entered the palace to greet the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother asked him to bring Huo Lingxiao into the palace.
"Grandma Huang, don't you want Zeshen anymore? The third brother is busy with things every day, where will he be free. ”
Huo Zeshen crossed Erlang's legs, leaned back on the chair, and twisted a crystal grape in his hand and put it in his mouth.
"Ling Xiao hasn't been to the morning court for a while, do you think the mourning family doesn't know? Hurry up and find him into the palace. ”
The prince took the plate of grapes in front of Huo Zeshen and waved it to Aunt Yu to take it away.
Huo Zeshen's reaction speed was quite fast, and he pulled a few down and put them in the palm of his hand.
"Grandma Huang, I'll go, I'll go." Huo Zeshen smeared oil on the soles of his feet, slipping faster than a rabbit.
The Queen Mother looked at Huo Zeshen's distant figure, and couldn't help sighing, "Hey......"
Aunt Yu stepped forward and said, "Don't worry about the Queen Mother, the third prince and the eleventh prince have grown up." ”
"Have you really grown up?" The Queen Mother looked up at the sky, her heart was dull, like a boulder pressing her heart, making her almost out of breath.
After Huo Zeshen quickly left the palace, he did not go back to the Third Prince's Mansion but went to the General's Mansion.
Sure enough, on the roof of the Book Pavilion, I saw Huo Lingxiao sitting on it peacefully, and Qingying held an oil-paper umbrella to shade Huo Lingxiao.
"Third brother!" Huo Zeshen flew on the roof lightly and walked to Huo Lingxiao's side.
"What? Trouble again? Huo Lingxiao's eyes were shallow, and he didn't want to look up at Huo Zeshen.
Huo Lingxiao rolled his eyes and said angrily: "No trouble, Grandma Huang is looking for you!" ”
"Hey, your skills in taking care of the home are also in place, you said that if Miss Wei knew, would she praise you?" Huo Zeshen looked at Huo Lingxiao jokingly, sure enough, the power of love is great.
Huo Lingxiao got up and stretched lazily, the sun has been shining for a long time in this spring, and it is indeed easy to make people sleepy.
Huo Lingxiao entered the palace unimpeded all the way, and was walking in the direction of Changle Palace, with Huo Zeshen grinding and chirping behind.
Walking to a rockery, he suddenly stopped, he stood quietly, frowned slightly, and raised his eyes to look at the Yao Guifei of the Dynasty and Emperor Nanshao not far away visiting the garden together. Today's Yao Guifei's dress is very different from usual, the gentle atmosphere of her daughter's family between her eyebrows and eyes looks more and more lovely, the tails of her eyes are slightly raised, and she is wearing a gray fox fur cloak.
"Your Majesty, when will this year's spring outing be held? The concubines were a little impatient. Yao Guifei said.
"Don't worry, wait a while, I've had a lot of worries recently, and I don't have time to take care of it."
Emperor Nan Shao's gaze never fell on Concubine Yao, and he kept looking into the distance.
"Hmm." Yao Guifei's face stiffened slightly.
Nan Shaohuang hadn't looked for her for a long time, but he just wanted to say a few words to him on the chance chance of meeting, but he felt Nan Shaohuang's absent-mindedness between the lines.
"Ling Xiao, this kid's health is starting to be bad again, you can go and see him when you have time."
Yao Guifei looked down at the moon-white colorful cloud embroidered shoes, she clutched the corner of the fox fur cloak with both hands, and her breathing was a little short.
Huo Zeyu also fell ill yesterday because of a little cold, and he never saw Emperor Nan Shao take the initiative to care about him. And Huo Lingxiao's condition, Nan Shaohuang is indeed paying attention to it all the time, but he has never cared about it openly, for fear that others will be jealous of him and thus pose some threats to him.
"What the emperor said is that Yu'er also fell ill yesterday, and the concubines took care of her sleepless all night, and she also sent some tonic soup to Ling Xiao's child early this morning." Concubine Yao pulled out a cool smile that was just right, looked at Nan Shaohuang's side face, and never turned to herself, and her heart was inevitably lost.
"Third brother." Huo Zeshen whispered in Huo Lingxiao's ear, and when he got closer, it was Emperor Nan Shao and Concubine Yao.
Then Huo Lingxiao walked the other way, not wanting to collide with them.
The Queen Mother is fiddling with the flowers in the vase, she never takes the initiative to pay attention to the affairs of the harem, and she arranges and plants flowers every day when she is idle.
"Hahaha, Grandma Huang really likes flowers, I've only been gone for a long time, and I'm fiddling with it again."
There was a hearty male voice, it was Huo Zeshen, and Huo Lingxiao was walking in front.
Aunt Yu removed the vase and flowers, and after serving tea, she dismissed the palace maids, leaving only three people to sit in the pavilion.
"Say hello to the Queen Mother!" Huo Lingxiao hunched his body and folded his hands.
"Get up." The Queen Mother took a sip of tea lightly and moistened her throat.
"Grandma Huang, I found the third brother, what do you want to whisper to the third brother?" Huo Zeshen asked curiously.
"Ling Xiao has been on sick leave for a short period of time, is he not in good health again?"
"It's okay, it's a small problem, the doctor said that it's okay to recuperate, and my body is like this, and I can't withstand any toss." Huo Lingxiao lifted his robe and sat down, he had vaguely guessed what the Queen Mother wanted to do.
"The people of Yang Guifei and the prince of the previous dynasty quarreled fiercely, and I don't know what power and power to fight for, as a prince, you should also participate in these things, add benefits to yourself, and don't seek to form a gang, otherwise how can you gain a foothold in the court in the future?"
The Queen Mother hopes that Huo Lingxiao will also get involved, after all, these two forces have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, although Emperor Nan Shao loves Huo Lingxiao, but who can handle the affairs in the court?
"Grandma Huang, aren't you embarrassing the third brother? He didn't have any pursuit of things in the court, not to mention that the prince and Huo Zeyu have always been ruthless. Huo Zeshen shrugged his shoulders, feeling that the Queen Mother's move was to drive ducks to the shelves, and it was difficult for a strong man.
He knew Huo Lingxiao's inner thoughts very well, he didn't care about the power in the capital, and he didn't want to provoke these rights and wrongs.
"Zeshen! You are still young, you don't understand the correlation and stakes, which prince over the years did not step on his brother's flesh and blood to get on the throne, put all this aside, even if you don't want to sit in this position, you have to secretly prepare your own power in the court, so as not to suffer a big loss! The Queen Mother hated iron and steel, and looked at Huo Zeshen. Maybe it's his own protection of him, it's really too good to protect him, so he doesn't know these dangers.
"I don't want to get involved in the fight for the throne, it's not what I want in the first place, so why bother asking for trouble and making me unhappy."
Huo Lingxiao, as big as stopping water, made it very clear that he was unwilling to participate in this matter.
"You, you, you can't be depressed, you have to know that you are deeply loved by the emperor, how many eyes secretly want to get rid of you, if you don't plan for yourself, how will you go in the future?" The Queen Mother was still bitter and persuaded Huo Lingxiao to think carefully about this matter.
"No, I'm definitely not going to get involved in this!" Huo Lingxiao's position is very firm, but he is unwilling.
"Sure enough, you're still too young, you've been so brilliant these days, it seems that you don't want to go anywhere, think about it clearly, think clearly, and tell the mourning family in the palace." The Queen Mother's eyes were stained with a thin layer of anger, and her fingertips curled up and clenched into fists.
Whether it is Huo Lingxiao or Huo Zeshen, the heads of the two of them are like elms, and they can't be knocked open no matter how they knock them.
When Concubine Yao heard that the Queen Mother had summoned Huo Lingxiao into the palace, she was very dissatisfied with this.
"I don't know what the Queen Mother said to Huo Lingxiao, she stayed for so long." Concubine Yao was suspicious in her heart.
"Guifei Niangniang, take advantage of him and ask for his life! It's better to prevent future troubles! Mingyu raised her arm and wiped it around her neck.
A smile flashed in Concubine Yao's eyes, this idea is not bad.
Killing Huo Lingxiao will never cause trouble, and then she immediately ordered to arrange people to assassinate Huo Lingxiao in the third prince.
A row of people dressed in black night clothes, all of them were exactly the same height and appearance, and they exuded an unstoppable murderous aura all over their bodies.
Huo Lingxiao painted in the study, and the woman in the picture quality was lifelike.
Inadvertently raised his head, the appearance of bent eyebrows and laughter was portrayed vividly, and the beautiful eyebrows were looking forward to it.
There was a sound of fighting outside, which did not affect Huo Lingxiao to continue painting.
Whenever the Assassin approached the study, he would be kicked away by the Blue Shadow, or solved with a few moves.
Flying over, holding a willow moon scimitar in his hand, he quickly swept towards the window of the study, Qingying was physically exhausted, and was slapped back by the man in black, and hit the pillar with a flying impact.
A mouthful of blood gushed out of his throat, but he was swallowed alive by Qingying.
Qingying gasped and stood up, feeling a sharp pain in his chest, very good, three broken ribs, and his internal organs were also hit by that palm.
His eyes flashed with red murderous intent, and the man in black with the lancet was thrown out and slammed into the courtyard.
The man in black who came to assassinate was shocked, it was another master in the study who was protecting Huo Lingxiao, and the other man in black was unwilling to fly in with a weapon.
This time it wasn't the whole person that was thrown out, but it was a bloody arm, followed by a bloody leg.