readx;? It has been more than two hours since Lu Yifan was taken to the side hall, and Emperor Yan Chong has been sitting behind the dragon book case and reading the ancient books by himself, while Lu Yifan is standing in the side hall and waiting quietly, without saying a word. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info With the sun setting in the west, a candlestick gradually lit in the side hall, and an official over sixty years old carefully stood beside the emperor with tea and water, and he would glance at Lu Yifan from time to time, and Lu Yifan always silently lowered his eyes slightly, as if he was asleep.

I don't know how long it took, the emperor Yan Chong finally put down the ancient book in his hand, and then stretched his arms lazily a few times, and let out a comfortable soft breath in his mouth, until this moment he raised his eyelids and looked at Lu Yifan, and when he heard Yan Chong's movement, Lu Yifan also slowly opened his eyes, and his dark eyes looked at Yan Chong without humility or arrogance, quietly waiting for Yan Chong's question.

"For you, Xi Chen actually used the only teleportation key that the emperor gave him!" Yan Chong's voice didn't sound indifferent at the moment, on the contrary, it was actually a little kind, and he talked to Lu Yifan as if an elder was chatting with a junior, "You have a lot of face!"

"Thanks to Xi Chen's love!" the corners of Lu Yifan's mouth twitched slightly, and he seemed to make an expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, "I asked King Shengxi to convey the matter of Northern Xinjiang to His Majesty the Emperor, I don't know ......"

"Yan Zheng has already told me everything!" Before Lu Yifan's words were finished, Yan Chong nodded lightly, "It's just that the emperor won't believe any of these words!"

"Why?" Lu Yifan's expression changed slightly, and he asked with a frown, "Your Majesty didn't believe Lord Han before, so why don't you even believe in the words of Governor Xi Chen now?" Lan Shixun is the real rebel!"

"Lan Shixun is the emperor's favorite general, you don't want to slander others again. Now you should be more worried about yourself and the Lu family!" Yan Chong said with a displeased face, "Do you know what heinous crimes you have committed?"

"Yan Ze didn't kill him!" Lu Yifan said in a condensed voice, "Whether Your Majesty believes it or not, I said that if I didn't kill him, I didn't kill him!"

"What about Han Ling'er?" Yan Chong's words changed and asked in a deep voice, "Did you rob Han Ling'er?"

Facing Yan Chong's eyes full of scrutiny, Lu Yifan was silent for a moment, then his eyes turned slightly, inadvertently avoiding Yan Chong's direct gaze, and then said word by word: "No!"

"Although the emperor doesn't know what method you used, it is certain that Han Ling'er and Yan Ze are inseparable, you can't get rid of these two things!" Yan Chong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in a non-hurried tone, "Lu Yifan, you became famous in the battle for Heavenly Grace back then. Later, he entered the Holy Soul Academy and performed well, and even the emperor's old friend, Old Man Qiu Ming, praised you. After that, you take people to the southwest to seal down the city and help the emperor eradicate the tumor of Louzong, so that the emperor has the opportunity to rectify the situation in the southwest. In the end, you went to serve in the Northern Frontier Guard Mansion, and soon after entering the Mansion, Xi Chen promoted you to the banner master, and you took the lead in quelling the Northern Xinjiang Rebellion, and your courage was commendable, and even Han Xiao promoted you to the youngest forward general among the three armies when he was leaving. Any of these achievements are enough to prove that you are the best among the younger generation of my Sacred Realm, and you are a rare talent......! But there are great hopes!"

Hearing Emperor Yan Chong's words, Lu Yifan's eyes couldn't help but flash a look of doubt, he couldn't understand what Emperor Linghuang's intention was in mentioning these things at this time?

Looking at Lu Yifan, who was silent, Linghuang Yanchong couldn't help but smile slightly, and continued: "Your father Lu Haoqian was picked up by the emperor, and he can be regarded as the emperor's confidant and beloved minister, if it weren't for Han Xiao's confusion, today he should still be the Duke of Wen Ding who is above ten thousand people under one person! There are many things that the emperor can't cover!

"I understand what Your Majesty means! It's just that I have followed Lord Han in a bloody battle with the Black Armor Army of the Beast Clan at the junction of the Ice Fields for several months, and I have witnessed what Chu Lingtian and even his 100,000 Northern Frontier battalions have done, so I know better who is right and wrong? This kind of great grievance experienced by Lu Yifan himself, no matter what reason the emperor said today, he could not tolerate it.

"You are too young, many things may not be true!" Linghuang Yanchong shook his head slowly and said, "The emperor doesn't blame you for being ignorant, but your father Lu Haoqian didn't teach you to restrain you from the precipice in time, this is what makes the emperor the most unhappy!"

"Your Majesty sits high above the court, of course, it is difficult to find out everything!But whether Lan Shixun is loyal or traitorous, I believe that it will naturally come to light soon!" Lu Yifan said firmly, "At that time, if Lu is really unfortunate enough to say that Lord Han is really dead in vain, I hope Your Majesty can return Lord Han's family to innocence!"

"Are you so sure that what this emperor did today is wrong?" Yan Chong raised his eyebrows and asked with interest, "You are not afraid of angering this emperor, and your Lu family will go to the Han family's footsteps again?"

"The Lu family is not guilty!" Lu Yifan said word by word.

"It doesn't matter whether the Lu family is guilty or not!" Yan Chong's voice suddenly raised a few points, and then an undoubted light flashed in his eyes, "In front of the authority of the imperial family, it doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong. Yan Ze is the son of the royal family, his marriage was disrupted, and now people have been killed, someone must pay the price for this matter!" Yan Chong's words At this, his eyes narrowed suddenly, and then his tone became more meaningful, "Even if it ...... The one who pays the price is not guilty in itself!"

Yan Chong's words Lu Yifan's face changed suddenly, until this moment he finally understood the meaning of the emperor, and he also seemed to suddenly understand some of the real reasons why Han Xiaoman was executed.

"Is authority really that important?" Lu Yifan's face was full of disbelief, in his consciousness, only those who did wrong things should be punished, and the so-called sacrificing the innocent in order to maintain authority was something he once didn't even dare to think about.

"For millions of years, it is precisely because of the authority of the Emperor that the stability and prosperity of the Holy Land have been guaranteed!" Yan Chong seemed to be educating his juniors at the moment, and his words could always cause Lu Yifan to ponder for a while, "There has never been absolute fairness in the world, and the fairness that most people see is actually an illusion created under the extreme unfairness that hides a small part! To put it bluntly, it's actually to abandon the car and keep the handsome!"

"Your Majesty means that giving Yan Ze's death an explanation now is the overall situation, and our Lu family is, in a sense, the flag that can be discarded?" Lu Yifan smiled thoughtfully, "Since this is the case, what else do you need to investigate? Why don't you just copy our Lu family!"

"To the end, it is not only for your Lu family, but also for the emperor to see who the real enemy is!" Yan Chong said meaningfully, "Of course, if the Lu family is lucky and finds the real culprit behind the scenes, then you can naturally clear your name." But if you're not so lucky......"

"Where's the time?" Without waiting for Yan Chong's words to fall, Lu Yifan asked bluntly.

"Tomorrow morning!" Yan Chong replied unhurriedly, "Of course, the premise is that Han Ling'er is not found in your Lu Mansion, otherwise I will be able to convict the Lu family of death tonight! Not long ago, Lu Haoqian led people to rob the law field without authorization, and if he wanted to save Han Xiao, he had already committed an unforgivable crime, and this emperor remembered that he had temporarily spared the death penalty of the Lu family for the sake of his hard work and loyalty for decades, and only removed Lu Haoqian from his official position. However, this emperor never thought that instead of repenting, you would become even more violent, could it be true that this emperor would not dare to kill you?"

"Your Majesty!" Without waiting for Yan Chong's words to fall, Lu Yifan suddenly raised his voice a little, and said loudly, "There is one thing, I want to ask before I die!"

"Say!"

"Why did Your Majesty give Ling'er to Yan Ze?" Lu Yifan finally said the biggest doubt hidden in his heart, "Your Majesty knew that I and Ling'er had a marriage contract since childhood, why did Your Majesty still beat the mandarin duck and insist on marrying Ling'er to someone he didn't like?"

"This emperor was originally a good intention, on the eve of the execution of the Han family, this emperor remembered the past relationship with Han Xiao, and wanted to leave a trace of blood for his Han family, so he went to death row and asked Han Xiao which junior he was willing to keep, and Han Xiao chose Han Ling'er at that time!" Yan Chong said slowly while reminiscing, " But because the emperor has already set the capital crime of the nine clans of the Han Sect before, if he repents halfway, he is afraid of losing the face of the emperor, and looking at the entire holy area, only the people of the royal family can not be implicated in the capital crime, so I will marry Han Ling'er to the son of the royal family, and as the daughter-in-law of the royal family, she will naturally become a member of the royal family, in fact, this emperor's move is also to save her a small life!"

"Forgive the offense, although Your Majesty's explanation sounds reasonable, but Lu Mou never dares to agree! In my opinion, Your Majesty has long known that Lord Han only has such a precious daughter in his life, if he wants Han Xiao to choose who to stay, then he will definitely choose to let Ling'er live, I think His Majesty should have guessed this matter in advance?" Lu Yifan frowned, he immediately heard the flaws in the Emperor's words, and then asked with a sneer, " Or if Lord Han chooses to keep a male of the Han family, then what should Your Majesty do? Could it be that after you still want to marry the daughter of the royal family to a criminal minister? Your Majesty knows that you can't do it, so I think that Your Majesty's move is not a helpless choice, but a scam that has been carefully arranged in advance! The purpose is to let the emperor's grandson Yan Ze marry his favorite Han Ling'er in a grand manner, which can not only show the emperor's grace, but also fulfill Yan Ze's wishes, and finally wait for Han Ling'er to join the royal family, and the son born after Han Ling'er joins the royal family must also be a relative of the royal family, and he will never think about anything to avenge the Han family, this move can be described as killing three birds with one stone! Your Majesty, I don't know if Lu's guess is reasonable?"

As soon as Lu Yifan said this, Yan Chong's gaze instantly became a little cold. A pair of shiny old eyes stared straight at Lu Yifan, and there was a faint killing intent between his eyebrows.

Did Lu Yifan guess correctly? Yan Chong actually knew that the truth was exactly as Lu Yifan said, Yan Chong had already known everything beforehand, and the purpose of his move was precisely to let Han Ling'er marry Yan Ze smoothly. It's just that one thing Lu Yifan didn't guess was that the reason why Yan Chong did this was not because he favored Yan Ze, but because Yan Ze's grandfather, Shengdong Wang Yan Yi, had pleaded hard in front of him more than once, which made Yan Chong, who was quite helpless, move this thought. After all, Yan Yi is his brother, and this face should be given no matter what. So Yan Chong and Yan Yi sang and performed such a play in harmony that night, the purpose of which was to not only show the benevolence of the emperor, but also fulfill Yan Ze's selfishness.

This matter Yan Chong prides himself on doing seamlessly and without flaws, but now that Lu Yifan has made it so clear, it is still very uncomfortable to be debunked by others. Especially for the emperor who is full of words, in his consciousness, people in the world only have things that are seen through their own minds, how can there be things that are seen through the heart of the emperor?

Lu Yifan is indeed smart, but in the end, he is still too young, if he is smarter, I am afraid that even if he sees through some words, he will never say them in front of the emperor.

"Lu Yifan, you dare to talk to the emperor like this, you are not small!" Yan Chong sneered in his words.

"Since they are all dying people, then what else do I dare not say?" Lu Yifan couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "With all due respect, if Your Majesty wants to catch the murderer who really killed Yan Ze early tomorrow morning, I'm afraid it will be...... It's as hard as climbing to the sky!"

"What do you know?" Yan Chongwen frowned when he heard this, and then asked in a deep voice.

"Report!"

However, just when Yan Chong's words had just fallen, a rapid sound came from outside the hall, and then I saw an internal official walking into the hall with a sweaty Bai Qi, and as soon as he saw Bai Qi, Lu Yifan's originally calm heart was once again raised by him.

Bai Qi was ordered to lead Bai Yinwei to the Lu family today to search for Han Ling'er's whereabouts, and rushed back at this moment to report to the emperor. What he was going to say next was directly related to the life and death of hundreds of people up and down the Lu family, how could Lu Yifan not feel extremely nervous?

Yan Chong slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, and the gloomy color on his face also disappeared, only to see him slowly shift his gaze to Bai Qi, and a faint curiosity flashed between his eyebrows.

"How's it going to give you an account?"

"Back to Your Majesty, today I led three hundred silver guards to search up and down the Lu Mansion no less than three times in a row, and I almost didn't dig three feet into the ground, but I still didn't find the slightest trace of Han Ling'er!"

"Whew!" As soon as Bai Qi's words came out, Lu Yifan, who was already overflowing with sweat in his palms, exhaled a long breath of turbid air from his mouth, and at this moment, his rapidly beating heart gradually became stable.

Yan Chong listened to Bai Qi's words, his head nodded lightly inadvertently, and then he slowly turned his gaze to Lu Yifan, and said with a smile: "It seems that the Lu family has temporarily escaped a catastrophe tonight, but I don't know if the catastrophe tomorrow morning can be avoided?"

Hearing Yan Chong's words, Bai Qi couldn't help but cast a scrutinizing gaze at Lu Yifan.

"The emperor is a little tired, you all retreat! Tomorrow morning, everything will be known!"

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