boyutpedia Chapter 491: Only Want Power and Status
Chapter 491: Only Want Power and Status
Chapter 491: Only Want Power and Status
After five months, Su Heng met the emperor again and knelt down to pay his respects. "Thank you, Your Majesty, for lifting my confinement."
After Su Heng finished speaking, he raised his eyes slightly to look at the emperor's expression.
Sitting on the dragon throne, the emperor looked at Su Heng with a sullen face, his cold and oppressive aura showing his displeasure.
As an emperor, how could he be willing to be controlled by a minister like this?
Su Heng had been with the emperor for more than 20 years, and he understood the emperor's temper, including his pride and arrogance.
In his heart, the imperial power cannot be challenged, but he holds his breath because of fear.
Su Heng bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, we have been king and subject for more than 20 years. Why should we be separated by meaningless things? Isn't it better to be in harmony with each other as before?"
The emperor looked at him, his dark eyes like the abyss. "The country is mine, you shouldn't be greedy!"
There was a strong sense of coldness in his words. Eunuch He, who was serving on the side, lowered his head and tried to hide himself as much as possible.
Su Heng was not panicked at all, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I am not interested in the imperial power. I just want to be the highest official and ensure that my Dingguo Mansion prospers for a hundred years. That's all. How can I be greedy?"
The emperor looked at him with a look of pressure from a superior, "But you shouldn't get your hands on my things. You shouldn't take any bricks, tiles, grass or trees in Daning that I didn't give to you."
Su Heng met the emperor's gaze with calm eyes, showing no sign of being inferior to the emperor's pressure.
"The entire Daning is like your Majesty's fish pond. Your Majesty is the owner of the fish pond, but your Majesty will never do things like raising fish himself. Someone has to do it. Since I am helping your Majesty, I naturally have the rules to help your Majesty."
"Your salary is beyond the reach of many people. What else are you not satisfied with?" The emperor stared at him scrutinizingly and questioned.
Su Heng's eyes remained calm. He knew that the emperor would ask these questions sooner or later.
"That salary is only enough for me to say a few words in the court."
Su Heng knelt calmly and said, "The 187 people in the Zhenbei Marquis family will not commit suicide. This requires manpower and power."
After Su Heng's reminder, the emperor remembered the time when the Marquis of Zhenbei was becoming more and more powerful seven years ago. If it were now, he would still choose to get rid of him.
At that time, the only person he could use was Su Heng.
When the Emperor mentioned the Marquis of Zhenbei, he rubbed his brows and said in a slightly tired voice, "What's going on with the Wang family of Xiangzhou? I asked you to give them a few small officials at the beginning, why did you give such an important position as prefect to a idiot and cause such a big mess for me?"
Su Heng looked relaxed and said, "Zhao Xuan had noticed the abnormality in Xiangzhou ten years ago, so I transferred him to Yushan County and promoted a prefect to watch over him. The situation in Xiangzhou is not suitable for others to intervene, right?"
"But in the end, Zhao Xuan still caused a huge uproar!"
The emperor removed his hand from his forehead and looked at him, glancing at him coldly.
Su Heng still didn't care, and asked with a smile: "Your Majesty, Zhao Xuan was under close surveillance in Xiangzhou. If there were no accidents, nothing would happen to Xiangzhou in this lifetime. Your Majesty, guess why something went wrong in the end?"
Seeing him ask this, the emperor frowned and asked: "Isn't this what you did?"
Su Heng's eyes were deep, and he smiled and said, "No. I am just borrowing the east wind."
"Who else but you?"
"Prince Su. No one else has the means to bring a living person to the capital quietly."
The emperor frowned.
He was not sure whether Su Heng was lying, but Xiao Yu was indeed a big worry for him, and to get rid of Xiao Yu he really needed Su Heng's knife.
"I can lift your house arrest and even reinstate you, but I have to set some rules."
Su Heng lowered his eyes and respectfully saluted the emperor to show his submission. "Your Majesty, please speak."
The emperor looked down at him, and was quite satisfied with his attitude. "First, hand over all the evidence you have on the officials in the court. This is a prerequisite for lifting the house arrest. Second, I want Xiao Yu's life, no matter what method you use. Finally, Jiapin is pregnant and worried about her brother. In order for the prince to be born safely, I have ordered a retrial."
Su Heng was still considering the first two conditions, but when he heard the last one, his expression immediately turned cold and he straightened up and looked at the emperor.
The emperor was not surprised by Su Heng's reaction. "Your son spoke wildly and was disrespectful to Concubine Jia. If he is guilty, he should be sentenced to death. Moreover, your son fell from the building accidentally. Li Xiaoyun's few months in prison can be regarded as atonement. This matter ends here, do you understand?"
His words carried the pressure of an emperor as he gave Su Heng an order.
After a long time, Su Heng gritted his teeth and said "yes".
"But my son Mingyi died because of him. He was punished with fifty strokes of the cane by the Ministry of Justice. From now on, I will never mention this matter again."
The emperor thought that he could ask Zhang Zhong to do something easier with the Ministry of Justice, so he agreed to Su Heng's conditions.
*
The imperial edict lifting Su Heng's house arrest and reinstating him came faster than expected, and everyone in the capital was surprised.
Yan Qing frowned and placed a chess piece on the chessboard, "My Lord, you must call me wherever you go in the future, understand!"
"Okay!" Xiao Yu answered calmly, looking like he didn't care at all.
Seeing Xiao Yu like this, Yan Qing sighed deeply and frowned even more tightly.
My own prince is really a source of worry!
If it really doesn't work, he, as a guard, should be more careful and follow closely in the future to prevent Su Heng from taking advantage of the opportunity.
At this time, Lai Fu came in to report: "Your Highness, Master He has woken up, but not completely. He has to stay there for observation overnight. Miss Ling is worried that Doctor Lu will also stay in the He Mansion, so she asked me to report to Your Highness."
"Okay, I understand, let's go down."
After Lai Fu left, Xiao Yu looked at the sky outside. The sun was about to set, so he reminded Yan Qing, "You should go to the mass grave."
Yan Qing glanced outside, his eyes and eyebrows drooped, looking aggrieved like a big child.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid."
Xiao Yu flicked the chess piece in his hand onto Yan Qing's forehead with a cold expression, "Don't imitate the princess."
"I have never collected the body of someone who was tortured to death. What if Lord Zhao is unwilling to accept this and turns into a ghost?" Yan Qing raised his hand to cover his forehead and said aggrievedly.
Thinking of the tragic scene at the execution ground, Xiao Yu's eyes trembled. He did not show his regret and grief, but gently comforted Yan Qing: "You did not harm him. You helped him to rest in peace. He will only thank you. Go, and bring more people with you."
"That's right, he is a good man, and I have never harmed him. Even if I were to look for someone, I would look for the emperor." Yan Qing convinced himself and strode out the door fearlessly.
Looking at Yan Qing's back, Xiao Yu's eyes were heavy.
Yan Qing doesn't know yet that in this world, there are things more terrifying than ghosts, and that is the human heart!
However, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know. At this moment, Xiao Yu sincerely hopes that Yan Qing can be afraid of ghosts forever and stay simple forever.
*
Yan Qing brought five people and rode on horseback to the mass grave outside the capital.
After searching for nearly an hour, they turned over all the new soil in the mass grave, but they did not find Zhao Xuan's body.
One of his companions asked, "Will he be eaten by wolves? A bloody corpse is the most attractive to wolves."
They came here as soon as it got dark and couldn't find it. This is the only possibility.
Yan Qing was a little dejected. It was rare that he failed to complete the tasks assigned by the prince. Now Yun Ting didn't know how to laugh at him.
"Keep looking. Even if the wolf eats it, we must find the bones!"
No matter what, he couldn't let Yun Ting laugh at him. Moreover, Lord Zhao died so tragically, it would be too pitiful if his body was left in the wilderness.
Under Yan Qing's command, several people split up and started searching inch by inch. Yan Qing even imitated the howl of a wolf in an attempt to lure out other wolves.
After searching for a long time and finding nothing, just when he was about to look somewhere else, he suddenly heard a rustling sound in the grass in front of him.
Yan Qing touched the sword cautiously, holding a torch in one hand and approaching the bushes.
……
"Ah..." Screams echoed throughout the mass grave.
Yan Qing lost consciousness.