Zhao Wuyou and the Imperial Guards rode back to the capital.
After changing into the halberd bearer's clothes at the inn, everyone hurried outside the palace, dismounted and entered the palace.
In the Imperial Garden, the emperor was playing Go with Feng Yuxue, but the latter was a little unfocused. She would glance at the entrance of the Imperial Garden from time to time.
"Xue'er, how can you win as a father if you are so careless? Is it possible that you want to lose on purpose?" The emperor noticed her carelessness and reminded him with a smile.
In front of his daughter, the emperor is obviously doting and relaxing. Compared with his majesty in other places, relaxing and enjoying family happiness seems to make people feel happier, but for someone who is the emperor,
Said, this kind of happiness is often pitiful.
After being reminded by the emperor, Feng Yuxue smiled awkwardly and briefly focused on Go, but then began to pay attention to the entrance to the Imperial Garden from time to time.
The emperor, who was well aware of every situation in the capital, naturally knew that his daughter had close contact with Zhao Wuyou.
With a "crash", the emperor put the chess pieces back into the chess pot and sighed softly: "Well, since you don't care about this Go thing, let's talk about your marriage."
Feng Yuxue was shocked when she heard this. She was only fifteen years old. Although she could get married, her father had never mentioned it. He mentioned it so suddenly today. He must have had an idea. Even today,
Maybe it's just to inform myself.
Thinking of this, she quickly said:
"Father, my daughter hasn't thought so much about it yet, and she doesn't want to get married yet. Wouldn't it be better for her to serve her father for two more years while she is by his side?"
Feng Yuxue rarely showed her shy daughterly attitude, lying on the emperor's back and acting coquettishly towards him.
The emperor had many children, but the only one who could lie on his back and act like a baby was Feng Yuxue.
"The Queen said that she wants you to get in touch with her nephew Li Jingxing. What do you think?" The emperor had a good impression of Li Jingxing, so he proposed to test it out.
The hesitant Feng Yuxue was dumbfounded. She did not expect that her father would actually betroth her to a dandy, and his reputation in the capital was very bad. He was even dirtier than Zhao Wuyou, who was originally known as the supreme dandy in the imperial city.
Dirty, just a piece of trash who relies on power.
Before the emperor could say anything else, Feng Yuxue quickly shook her head and let go of her shoulders holding him.
"Father, if you want your daughter to die, then betroth me to Li Jingxing. If you don't want your daughter to die, then don't betroth me to him." Her voice was sharp, without giving her father a chance to persuade her again.
Seeing that his daughter had turned her back and even threatened death, the emperor could only shake his head:
"That's right, you have grown up now and have your own ideas. What's more, I don't think highly of Li Jingxing either. It's only because the Queen said so that I want to ask your opinion."
But he turned around and looked at his daughter, "Is it possible that Xueer already has someone in mind, so she refused so simply?"
The emperor's words brought Feng Yuxue back to that snowy night when she was rejected by Zhao Wuyou.
"No, my daughter is not a kind of person, but she doesn't want to marry a playboy who is uneducated and just relies on power.
Unless he is stronger than me and has the ability to help my father and the Fengming Empire, I am willing to marry such a person. Other than that, I can’t marry anyone else." Feng Yuxue said firmly.
, told his father his criteria for choosing a son-in-law.
While the two father and daughter were talking, a group of people appeared at the door. Zhao Wuyou was standing at the door wearing a bright red halberd-bearing uniform. Feng Yuxue also saw the person she often dreamed of from a distance away.
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That day, the eunuch he saw in front of the Queen's Palace walked from the pavilion to the entrance of the Royal Garden, and looked at everyone with a very serious expression.
"Zhao Wuyou will follow me into the Royal Garden, and everyone else can go and perform their duties."
Having said that, the eunuch turned his head and walked on the road with his head held high, showing no signs of groveling like those little eunuchs.
Soon, the two people walked into the pavilion one after another. Zhao Wuyou saluted the emperor and then saluted the respected princess.
"Are you Zhao Wuyou?" The emperor looked up and down at the young man standing in front of him, but he didn't know what he was thinking.
"I am Zhao Wuyou, Your Majesty."
"You all go down, Yu Xue, you go down too. We will talk about the good things today another time." The emperor bowed his hands and asked everyone to leave, so that he and Zhao Wuyou could talk alone, clearing out a person without any other people waiting.
The place.
After receiving the emperor's expulsion order, Feng Yuxue nodded and walked out of the pavilion, but she couldn't help but glance at Zhao Wuyou, but the latter was too preoccupied to notice her.
After everyone left, only Zhao Wuyou and the emperor were left under the pavilion.
"My people have been tracking you recently." The emperor got straight to the point and pointed out that he had arranged for someone to monitor him.
"Well, I guessed that there is a need to supervise me in the imperial city, and a master who can dispatch such a method at once, such a person must come from the imperial palace." Zhao Wuyou also looked at the emperor bluntly, for such a person
, he doesn’t have to lie, at least in this aspect, he doesn’t have to.
The emperor was honest with Zhao Wuyou and just nodded slightly. He stood up, looked at Zhao Wuyou, and sighed:
"You and your father do look alike. When I see you, I see your father. He and I also studied, practiced, and fought together. So many years have passed."
The emperor's nostalgia and sighs are just to pave the way for the subsequent work, to arouse Zhao Wuyou's resonance, or to fall into his trap step by step.
However, despite all his calculations, the emperor never calculated that the soul of Zhao Wuyou in front of him had been occupied by another person, and what he said would have no effect at all.
After being generous, Zhao Wuyou nodded slightly without saying much.
The emperor also expressed all the lyrical words in his heart, and then he said regretfully:
"I never thought that you would become Cao Yunfei's disciple in Fengming Sect. Cao Yunfei would also pass on this damn supreme Taoist scripture to you. This is really unexpected."
Zhao Wuyou had a troubled expression on his face. He seemed to be quite sensitive to the Supreme Taoist Sutra, and even secretly took a step back, fearing that there would be any danger if he got too close to the emperor.
It's better to be cowardly, after all, he is the biggest in Fengming Empire now, and he is the one who can resist Fengming Empire.
Zhao Wuyou's performance won the favor of the emperor, especially the step back secretly. The emperor seemed to have felt his pulse and continued to say with a smile:
"The Supreme Dao Sutra has implicated too many people. I believe that many people around you have come to trouble you recently and say bad things about me. However, these things are not worth mentioning and I don't bother to care about them. After all, compared to those
Man, the relationship between you and me is not comparable to that of those people."
After the emperor finished his courtesy, he placed his soft gaze on Zhao Wuyou's face, looking at him with hope.
Zhao Wuyou immediately responded, "What the emperor said is that my father was once your most loyal minister, and naturally Wuyou was also the emperor's most loyal subject. Even if those people continue to stir up trouble, Wuyou is still a member of the Fengming Empire.
I am your people, the Emperor, and I will never betray the Fengming Empire or His Majesty the Emperor."
The clear and translucent voice allowed the emperor to hear the words he had heard recently that he especially wanted to hear. However, he also knew that Zhao Wuyou had become better than before recently and even started to use his own money to build a new place.
Courtyard, propose to the Li family.
All this shows that Zhao Wuyou is willing to live an ordinary life, and does not have the domineering ideals of Zhou Zhentian back then, nor does he have any deviant behavior.
Over and over again, the emperor felt that things were better than he thought, so the stone hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground smoothly. When he looked at Zhao Wuyou, his face showed a sense of kindness.
"Who are the people who have come to see you recently? Have they asked you to do anything? In other words, have they issued any threats to you?" The emperor did not take Zhao Wuyou himself into his heart. He only cared about standing beside Zhao Wuyou.
What is the background of the person behind Wuyou?
"This..." Zhao Wuyou hesitated before the emperor. He was scared and wanted to hide it. His face was full of struggle.
The emperor patted his shoulder and asked him to sit down. Along the way, he handed a cup of hot tea to Zhao Wuyou.
"Don't be nervous. Don't be afraid. If you have something to think about, it's not too late to talk about it. You can't rush or panic, but you must make it clear." The emperor was still very gentle when he spoke, but in the last sentence, his tone became a little heavier.
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Zhao Wuyou nervously took a sip of the tea that the emperor pushed over and calmed down before saying:
"Your Majesty, the Phoenix Clan came to me before. They only said that a catastrophe is coming, everyone will be implicated, and the tribes of mythical beasts in the barbarian land who have intentions will also be unfavorable to me and asked me to cooperate with them.
But I didn’t believe them, and I didn’t choose to cooperate with them.”
"Really, is it just the Phoenix clan who came to see you?" The emperor smiled, his eyes full of smiles, and the murderous intent in his eyes was covered up by the smile. However, Zhao Wuyou himself often used this kind of look,
It can be felt naturally.
Shrouded in murderous intent, Zhao Wuyou still nodded. He would not tell all his secrets. A person without secrets is not complete. A sense of mystery can also be a way to save his life.
"Before, Li Jingxing was injured. Why did I hear that it was injured by tigers from the tribe of mythical beasts? There is also a rare white tiger beside you. This is obviously the relic of the mythical beast. Haven't you and those mythical beasts still hiding in the wild land?
Tribe contact?" The emperor still kept smiling, but in Zhao Wuyou's opinion, such a smile was more or less chilling.
When the emperor said this, he probably didn't have any information, so Zhao Wuyou said firmly:
"The Emperor clearly recommends that what I just said is true. As for the tiger I adopted, it was picked up in the barren mountains. Many people can testify to this. As for it being the bloodline relic of the ancient mythical beast,
I only found out recently.
It wasn't me who hurt Li Jingxing, and I don't know who it was, but it probably wasn't the white tiger I adopted."
"I didn't expect that you would lie so firmly, Zhao Wuyou, I am very disappointed in you now, do you know?" The emperor sighed, his eyes full of regret.
Before he could react, a figure suddenly appeared not far away and hugged Zhao Wuyou's neck before he could react.
The huge pressure made Zhao Wuyou's face suffocate. He responded hurriedly and reached out to pull the person behind him. However, he did not expect that two more people appeared behind him and grabbed both of his arms, making him unable to move.
Such a master, but he resorted to such despicable means just to kill himself? Zhao Wuyou's mind was racing, but his breathing became increasingly difficult and his brain was close to suffocation. If he was not let go, he would die.
Time passed like this, minute by minute, Zhao Wuyou desperately mobilized the power in his body to fight for a chance to survive from the master behind him.
"Now, to be honest, what else are you hiding from me?" The emperor's expression remained as usual, but his smile was hidden.
Zhao Wuyou struggled to say something, but was held tightly by the three people behind him, unable to open his mouth to speak.
The emperor didn't speak, and just looked at him expressionlessly.
Just when Zhao Wuyou was about to pass out, the power of the dragon and phoenix in his body suddenly burst out, shaking the two people behind him away. Then, Zhao Wuyou forgot that he couldn't breathe, and instantly stood up and banged his head.
He glanced at the person behind him, then used his free hands to grab the arm that had been wrapped around his neck.
With a "boom" sound, Zhao Wuyou was so powerful that he hit the person behind him and retreated repeatedly.
He turned around and realized that the three people who had just attacked him were all gray-haired old guys wearing royal clothes.
"I really didn't expect that you could break free from the shackles of these three elders. Zhao Wuyou, it seems that I underestimated you." The emperor chuckled, stood up from the chair, stared at Zhao Wuyou, and stepped closer step by step.