Chapter 217: The Old Man in the Secret Room
Xue Yi forced Xiao Yi to agree to return to Fengwu to welcome Princess Lanhe back to the court, but she wanted to force Emperor Cheng to show her original form!
With Xue Yi's understanding of Xiao Yichen, if Emperor Cheng really pretended to be Xiao Yichen, then he would definitely find a way to prevent Xiao Yu from taking back Princess Lan He, because in this world, the only people who can recognize Xiao Yichen are Princess Lan He and Leng Yushang!
Xue is waiting,. ET
At this time, Xiao Yu knelt in front of the dragon book case, Emperor Cheng's eyes were red, staring at Xiao Yu lying on the ground, for a long time, Emperor Cheng said slowly: "Do you really want to help her deal with me?" ”
Xiao Yu slammed his head on the ground and slammed: "Humble duty means that you have nine lives, and you can't go against the emperor." ”
"Alas........" Emperor Cheng sighed, turned around and got off the dragon book case, came to Xiao Gu, put his hands on Xiao Gu, stared at Xiao Gu's eyes with both hands, and said: "Xiao Yu, although you and I are kings and ministers, in fact, we are confidants. ”
Later, Emperor Cheng was a little sentimental.
Xiao Yu also stared at Emperor Cheng, hesitated for a moment and said: "There is a sentence that has always been hidden in the heart of the lowly position, and I ask the emperor to forgive the sin." ”
The two stood up, Emperor Cheng turned his back to Xiao Yu, and said calmly: "But it doesn't hurt to talk about it, in front of people, you and I are monarchs and ministers, and after people, you and I are old friends." ”
After being silent for a long time, Xiao Yu said slowly: "Since the emperor is really good to Niangniang, why not find a suitable opportunity to tell Niangniang the truth, Weichen thought, with Niangniang's wisdom and wisdom, Niangniang will definitely understand the emperor's distress." ”
Emperor Cheng suddenly turned to stare at Xiao Yu and asked word by word, "Does she already doubt my identity?!" Did she ask you anything?! What did you say to her?! ”
Xiao Yu smiled bitterly, looking at Emperor Cheng's nervous and somewhat angry handsome face, he suddenly understood the wise saying, "Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger!" Emperor Cheng has changed, he is no longer the calm and capable owner of Fengwu Kingdom, nor is he the prince who needs him in the palace of King Yu, but the lord of the Inviting Moon Country, Emperor Cheng!
Xiao Yu shook her head slowly, knelt down and replied: "The emperor is too worried, Niangniang didn't ask anything about the concubines, Niangniang just wants to take back Princess Lanhe and do the last thing for the prince." As for whether Niangniang suspected the emperor, Weichen did not know. ”
Emperor Cheng also realized that he was a little too nervous, and was busy covering up the past, and the two monarchs and ministers said some innocuous words, Xiao Yu got up and said goodbye: "Your Majesty, Niangniang sent the minister to Fengwu Kingdom, but the minister still didn't agree, so the minister still wanted to go into the palace to meet Niangniang and make it clear." ET”
Emperor Cheng nodded thoughtfully: "Are you really not going to see that girl from Lanhe?" If I'm not mistaken, you're obsessed with that girl. ”
Xiao Yu shook his head: "The princess is a golden branch and jade leaf, and the minister is reckless and lowly, so he doesn't dare to surprise the princess." ”
Emperor Cheng grabbed Xiao Fu's wrist, stared at him and said, "Xiao Fu, I don't allow you to be so contemptuous and self-deprecating again, in my heart, you have always been my brother, and didn't Xue'er recognize you as a brother?" From now on, you will be my uncle, and you and Princess Lan He will be the right couple. ”
"Emperor Xie raised his love, but the falling flowers were intentionally ruthless, and Weichen was no longer delusional."
"When are you going to go?" Emperor Cheng changed his words.
Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The minister doesn't want to go back to Fengwu Country to see Princess Lanhe. ”
Emperor Cheng waved his hand to stop Xiao Yu's words behind him, and said, "No, you have to go back, you have to promise Xue'er to pick up Princess Lanhe." ”
Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, he expected that Emperor Cheng would prevent him from taking back Princess Lanhe, but he didn't expect Emperor Cheng to ask him to go back, Xiao Yu stared at Emperor Cheng with his mouth wide open.
Emperor Cheng smiled: "Xiao Xiao, I won't hide it from you, Xue'er Bingxue is smart, maybe she has already doubted my identity, and taking back Princess Lanhe is just a way she wants to be tempted." ”
"Why does the emperor want his ministers to take back Princess Lanhe, when the princess returns to the palace, she will definitely recognize the emperor!" Xiao Yu tightened his eyebrows, he secretly pinched a cold sweat for Xue Yi, he knew Emperor Cheng too well, suspicious and cunning, ruthless, if he decided what to do, it would be difficult to recover, if he knew that Xue Yi had begun to suspect him, but still so connived at Xue Yi to investigate the matter, then he must have a way to deal with it!
Emperor Cheng didn't seem to care: "I won't let you go to meet Princess Lanhe, if Xue'er wants her to come back, she will definitely send someone else, rather than that, it's better for you to go, I can rest assured." ”
Xiao Yu arched his hand and asked, "Then may I ask the emperor, will Weichen accept or not?" ”
"I'm a little tired when you see the opportunity." Emperor Cheng rubbed his eyebrows and waved his hand to signal Xiao Yu to retreat.
Xiao Yu lowered his hand and bent backwards and retreated.
Emperor Cheng's eyes fell on the picture of the lady, and the beautiful woman in the palace was like Xue Yi, his eyebrows were flat, and a light smile appeared on his lips.
Emperor Cheng opened the door, looked around, sent the surrounding palace maids and eunuchs away, checked the surroundings again, and after making sure that there was no one, Emperor Cheng closed the door of the imperial study, he slowly came to the portrait, pinched his jaw in his hand, stared at the portrait for a long time, his handsome face was gloomy for a while and confused, as if there was something difficult to decide.
After a while, I saw Emperor Cheng's big hand fall on the left side of the scroll, and it turned out that the painting was actually inlaid on the wall!
Emperor Cheng exerted force on his hand, the painting shaft slowly rotated, making a gentle squeak, and the whole painting was indented into the wall, revealing a secret door that only allowed one person to enter and exit!
Emperor Cheng quickly entered the secret door, and the painting returned to its original appearance.
Emperor Cheng walked down the stairs, at the beginning he felt a little cool, and after walking a cup of tea, he felt that his eyes were open, and there was an old man in a blue shirt sitting next to a stone table, the old man's back was a little hunched, full of silver wires, and the silver wires fluttered but did not look messy, which showed that this old man paid great attention to his appearance.
"The old minister has never visited the new emperor, it's not that the old minister doesn't want to pay a big salute, but I'm afraid that the emperor won't accept the old minister's kneeling, so let the old minister worship the sky to show the old minister's sincerity to the emperor." The old man stood up from the stone chair and knelt down slowly with his back to Emperor Cheng.
Emperor Cheng snorted coldly: "You must hate me very much in your heart, you must not have thought that I was not burned to death by your fire, do you regret it very much, regret that you did not have the strength to persuade the emperor to kill me in the first place." ”
The old man still turned his back to Emperor Cheng: "The emperor didn't come here to reminisce about the old things with the old ministers, right?" ”
"Of course not, I'm here to borrow something."
The old man suddenly raised his head and laughed, tears splashed from the corners of the old man's eyes, Emperor Cheng stood silently in place, letting the old man laugh wildly, after a while, the old man turned around, stared at Emperor Cheng and said slowly: "This lesson should have been given to the emperor a long time ago, the emperor just took it, and the old minister had only one wish, to treat Xue'er well." ”
Emperor Cheng sneered: "Yes, I have long wanted to take off your head, and I hate you very much, but I have to keep your head, because I promised my nurse that I will never kill you!" ”
The old man slowly closed his eyes: "Except for this human head, the old minister really doesn't know what else the old minister has to worry about the emperor." ”
Emperor Cheng suddenly grabbed the old man's wrist, his handsome face was close to the old man, and he smiled and said: "You have, of course you have, the jade pendant on your waist, the beard under your chin, and your sleeves!" ”
Emperor Cheng said in his mouth, with a force in his hand, he pulled down the sleeve of the old man's shirt and took off the jade pendant on the old man's waist.
"You....... You....... What are you doing? The old man looked at Emperor Cheng in horror.
Emperor Cheng smiled coldly, looked at the jade pendant and half sleeve in his hand, suddenly grabbed the beard under the old man's chin, stared at the old man and slowly asked word by word: "Lan Guang, you say, if you show Xue Yi this beard and this jade pendant, what will she do?" Will she do whatever I tell her to do? ”
This old man is the long-missing Lan Guang!
At the beginning, Lan Guang was guarding the frontier, and even the whereabouts of the defeated battle were unknown, Xue Yi had sent people around to inquire about her father's news, but the mountains and rivers were far away, she couldn't know the truth, and Emperor Cheng was also trying his best to find it on the surface, so Xue Yi didn't say much for a while, but secretly sent people to look for it.
No, Lan Guang had already been quietly deported back to Beijing and locked up in the secret room of the imperial study.
In fact, Emperor Cheng also came to this secret room for the first time, and when he accidentally discovered this secret room, he also wondered why his father built such a secret room in the imperial study.
Emperor Cheng wanted to execute Lan Guang unconsciously, but he didn't want Gong Mama to die, so he had to leave Lan Guang's life, Gong Mama crashed into the pillar and died, he had to leave Lan Guang's life, but let him go back like this, Emperor Cheng was really unwilling, and later, he remembered this secret room, so Lan Guang was imprisoned in the secret room.
Only Mama Gong and Lan Guang knew about this matter, even Xiao Yu didn't know the inside story, let alone others, so the people sent out by Xue Yi searched for it to no avail.
Lan Guang saw Emperor Cheng holding his jade pendant, and pulled off his beard, knowing that Emperor Cheng wanted to use these personal things to show Xue Yi, in a hurry, he could no longer care about his identity, the difference between dignity and inferiority, and life and death, he rushed up and grabbed Emperor Cheng's hand and shouted: "Don't hurt Xue Yi, if you want to kill, you have to shave you, just don't hurt Xue Yi anymore." ”
Emperor Cheng looked at Lan Guang, who suddenly went crazy, was stunned for a moment, then smiled, pushed Lan Guang to the ground fiercely, stared at Lan Guang sideways, leaned over and asked: "Lan Guang, you don't behave here anymore, how did you treat Xue Yi, have you forgotten?" You don't care about Xue Yi at all, and you never think of her as your daughter, how could you suddenly be so kind? How could you suddenly care about her life and death?! ”
Lan Guang met Emperor Cheng's gaze: "I've been wrong for twenty years, I don't want to be wrong anymore, I beg you, let Xue'er go, give her a way out!" Lan Guang suddenly grabbed Emperor Cheng's wrist, his eyes full of tears.