BVAHEDLA[W Chapter 28
by VolareChu Li-fei walked to the very center of the main hall, lifted his robe, and knelt down in accordance with etiquette.
Instantly, all eyes in the hall fell upon him. Some were sizing him up covertly, while others stared at him directly, like jackals and tigers.
“By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees—”
The eunuch, holding the bright yellow imperial edict, read in his shrill voice, a long string of praises preceding the main decree—
Chu Li-fei lowered his eyes calmly.
“Chu Li-fei is hereby appointed as Prince Qin, bestowed with ten thousand taels of gold. This is my decree!”
“This subject receives the decree and thanks His Majesty for his great favor,” Chu Li-fei respectfully accepted the edict from the eunuch’s hands.
Thus, the first prince of a different surname since the founding of the Great Yan Dynasty was born.
No one in the hall failed to cast sidelong glances, carefully scrutinizing this freshly minted prince. Chu Li-fei remained as calm as ever, dressed in a white robe and wearing a jade crown. His handsome and flawless face showed no great joy or sorrow. He possessed an elegant and refined demeanor, so impeccable that no one could find fault with him. The more they looked at him, the more they felt that Chu Li-fei deserved to be a young hero.
Only such a person was worthy of such honor.
Power was intoxicating. The people below were envying Chu Li-fei, but the ministers sitting in the front row secretly shook their heads, a hint of regret flashing in their eyes.
Chu Li-fei was originally the General Who Pacifies the Nation. When he guarded the border in the Northwest, he held hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands. He was decisive in the military, and no one dared to disobey him. The young man wore silver armor and held a red-tasseled silver spear, charging in and out of the chaotic formations, forging his current status with blood and sweat.
But this time, being granted princedom, and only bestowed with ten thousand taels of gold, seemed wealthy, but without a fief, without personal troops, it was clearly a way to imprison Chu Li-fei in the capital.
A mere empty title, without real power. This was clearly the Emperor’s apprehension towards him.
The silver charcoal in the hall quietly burned. The cold wind blew in from outside the window, causing the outer layer of ash to fall off, revealing the scorching red core inside.
Chu Li-fei’s hair at his temples fluttered slightly, making the Emperor sitting at the head of the hall look somewhat dazed.
Was it because he drank too much wine? Or was the charcoal burning too warmly? The Emperor didn’t know, but the eyes hidden behind the Crown became increasingly blurred.
The palace maid beside him poured him another cup of wine, which the Emperor drank in one gulp, his thoughts drifting back to the past.
Chu Li-fei’s father had been stationed at the border for many years, but Chu Li-fei had grown up in the capital with his grandfather since childhood.
At that time, the Emperor was still the Seventh Prince, and Chu Li-fei was his study companion.
At their first meeting, the young man’s spirited appearance was deeply engraved in his heart. Chu Li-fei was handsome, but he was not at all ambiguous when he wielded a spear, even the prince, who had learned martial arts from a martial arts master for many years, had to admit defeat.
They spent their youth together. The Seventh Prince was ten years older than Chu Li-fei and treated Chu Li-fei as half a younger brother, at that time they were as close as brothers.
Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long. The late Emperor suddenly fell ill, and the Northwestern barbarians were eyeing the Great Yan Dynasty covetously. The princes were fighting fiercely for the sole position, it could be described as internal and external troubles.
At that time, it was Chu Li-fei who took the initiative to request to go to the Northwest to resist the enemy. Since then, one victory report after another was transmitted to the capital. Chu Li-fei’s illustrious military achievements greatly helped the Seventh Prince on the road to seize the throne, and also made the late Emperor value this previously unremarkable prince.
With the imperial decree, the Seventh Prince was transformed into the Crown Prince. But the late Emperor still passed away in a hurry.
The Seventh Prince’s foundation in the court was very shallow, the ministers naturally did not accept him, especially the party of the First Prince.
The Emperor still remembered the night before he ascended the throne, the First Prince led three thousand elite soldiers all the way into the palace, intending to usurp the throne and force the palace.
The palace servants had already scattered like birds and beasts, not knowing where they had fled, and he was facing the First Prince alone.
Just as the First Prince’s dagger was about to approach him, an arrow suddenly pierced through the First Prince’s back, fresh blood dripping down the arrow tip.
It was Chu Li-fei.
He held a silver spear and slowly stepped into the hall from the outside.
The heart of the First Prince was pierced by an arrow, also by his hand.
The silver spear was stained red, Chu Li-fei slowly stepped into the hall from the outside without changing his expression. In the hall, no one who originally belonged to the First Prince dared to move for a moment.
Three thousand elite soldiers, but Chu Li-fei took only a moment to break through their defenses.
They looked at Chu Li-fei as if they were looking at some evil ghost. Jade-faced Rosa, this word flashed through their minds.
The First Prince died, and his body was wrapped in a straw mat and hastily sent out of the palace, which also laid the foundation for the failure of the First Prince’s faction.
The next day, it was also Chu Li-fei who held a spear and step by step sent him to the supreme position.
Those who refused to accept were all beheaded.
The Emperor’s expression towards Chu Li-fei gradually became complicated. The appearance of the young man in silver armor gradually overlapped with the young man in white clothes below.
The silver charcoal in the carbon basin was blown red again by the wind, and the Emperor seemed to have been blown away by the wind a little bit of his intoxication.
He waved his hand and dismissed the palace maid behind him who wanted to pour him wine, and turned his gaze back to Chu Li-fei and smiled: “Your Prince’s residence should also be completed, and you can move in soon.”
Chu Li-fei’s expression was faint: “Thank you, Your Majesty.”
When did they become estranged?
The Emperor couldn’t help but think.
Not long after he ascended the throne, Chu Li-fei requested to return to the border.
He was originally relieved.
But as Chu Li-fei won one battle after another, and won more and more military merits, things gradually developed in another direction.
At that time, Chu Li-fei was already the General Who Pacifies the Nation, and had reached the point where he could not be promoted any further. He made great military achievements, and the people of the Northwest even only knew Chu Li-fei, and did not know him, the Emperor.
His merits were so high that he overshadowed the lord, and this was the case throughout the dynasties. Rumors spread, and the Emperor gradually became suspicious of him.
However, he still did not have the heart to find a crime and punish Chu Li-fei, but instead issued an edict to summon him back to the capital and imprison him in this world.
The Emperor suppressed the inexplicable emotions in his heart, poured himself a glass of wine and drank it, and got up from his seat without warning, leaving a group of ministers who couldn’t figure it out.
Seeing the Emperor leave, the atmosphere in the hall was no longer as restrained as before. Some officials boldly went to talk to Chu Li-fei, trying to build relationships to make their careers smoother.
Chu Li-fei pushed all these people back with minimal effort.
The night deepened, and Chu Li-fei followed the eunuch out of the palace.
Outside the palace gate, a low-key carriage had been waiting for a long time.
A man dressed as a servant ran over in a hurry when he saw Chu Li-fei and bowed: “Your Highness, are we going back to the Marquis’ residence or the Prince’s residence?”
The Marquis’ residence was where Chu Li-fei grew up. But later, his father was suddenly killed in battle, his grandfather was so grief-stricken overnight that he followed him, and his mother left a letter after he could stand on his own and committed suicide.
The current Marquis’ residence was empty, only a few old people from the residence in the past were still there, usually responsible for taking care of everything.
Chu Li-fei pondered for a moment and said: “Let’s go to the Prince’s residence first and take a look.”
The exterior of the carriage looked inconspicuous, but the inside was quite exquisite.
Soft cushions, a stove, pastries, tea, and other things were all available, and the ride was very smooth.
“System, transmit the plot.”
When Chu Li-fei was first transmitted to this world, he didn’t have time to let the system transmit the plot and tasks, he first saw Lu Mo-chen, and then the following things happened.
Fortunately, his identity was still useful, so Lu Mo-chen was not further harmed. Chu Li-fei thought.
Now that he was finally free, he could receive the plot.
[Okay, master.] The familiar electronic voice sounded in Chu Li-fei’s mind again.
[The plot is being transmitted, please pay attention to check it——]
The last word of the system just fell, and a burst of stabbing pain came from Chu Li-fei’s mind.
After a moment, he digested the plot, but his face became unsightly.
The Son of Heaven in this world was still Lu Mo-chen.
His mother was originally a imperial concubine, born into a noble family, but later her family violated the Emperor’s taboo.
Overnight, blood flowed like a river, and no one within the nine clans survived!
Originally, she was going to be given death. Poisonous wine, white silk, dagger, the imperial concubine picked up the dagger and stabbed herself, but who knew that her heart was born on the right side, and a knife went down and did not kill her.
This was still discovered by the imperial physician responsible for confirming the death during the pulse diagnosis process, and at the same time, he also diagnosed that the imperial concubine was already pregnant for more than two months.
How ironic.
However, even so, the child survived.
After all, it was the royal bloodline, and the Emperor also accepted the existence of this child.
However, the imperial concubine was too sad and worried during her pregnancy, and died six months after giving birth to the child, and her body was buried hastily.
No one cared about the newborn child.
But he still stubbornly survived.
The Emperor named him Lu Mo-chen, taking the meaning of Stars.
Small and destined to be extinguished.
Then he was thrown into the palace to fend for himself. The palace maids and eunuchs were a group of people who judged people by their appearance, and Lu Mo-chen, the Fourth Prince, lived even worse than the children of poor families outside.
After the original owner was granted the title of prince, the Emperor’s suspicion of him did not stop, but intensified.
An accident caused the original owner to meet Lu Mo-chen. And a plan instantly appeared in the original owner’s mind.
Since the Emperor intended to kill him, then he might as well strike first and then support the Fourth Prince to ascend the throne.
So he asked to bring Lu Mo-chen to his side to teach him, and the Emperor did not care about this son, and quickly agreed.
After the original owner took Lu Mo-chen to his side, he taught him a few words or martial arts when he was free, and when he was not free, he treated him as if he was raising a small animal in the mansion, summoning him when he came, waving him away when he left, and did not take him to heart at all.
Anyway, Lu Mo-chen was just a guise. In the future, when he ascended the throne, he was just a puppet in his hands.
And Lu Mo-chen was indeed a character, able to bend and stretch, and hide his clumsiness all the way to the world.
The first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to take away the original owner’s power with thunderous means, and then give him a cup of poisoned wine to die.
Seeing this, Chu Li-fei’s face could not help but darken.
So he had just spent so much effort, even risking offending the Crown Prince, but in the end he saved an ungrateful wretch!
The system’s electronic voice sounded again.
[The second world mission has been released: Kill the Emperor and roam the world.]
There was no time to think about it, because the carriage had already arrived at its destination.
Chu Li-fei got out of the car with a gloomy expression, his heart filled with mixed feelings.
An old man quickly greeted him after seeing him and bowed.
Chu Li-fei had an impression of him, he was Wang Guanjia from the Marquis’ residence in the past, and he could be regarded as an old man who watched him grow up. Chu Li-fei also treated him as half a relative.
He quickly helped Wang Guanjia up, but in the next moment, he was stunned in place.
Only to see this Wang Guanjia asked kindly: “I wonder, Your Highness, who will you summon to serve you in bed tonight?”