Chapter 1047
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When Lu Shiming returned home, he immediately called Lu Xiangzhi into his study and told him about the Empress Dowager summoning the cabinet ministers to the palace.
"What is the Empress Dowager trying to do? If something happened to the Emperor, why is there no news from Jingdou? Moreover, there is no news from Anhe City either. Is the Empress Dowager trying to take the throne?" Lu Xiangzhi asked angrily.
"Everyone knows what she wants to do. The most important thing now is to know the situation in Anhe City. Even if the emperor is missing, Yaoyao should be careful. Now that General Ye has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, it won't be a problem for Yaoyao to be escorted by him. What I'm most worried about is the Empress Dowager secretly making a move," Lu Shiming said in a low voice.
"Father, I will personally go to Anhe City and tell the emperor about what happened in Jingdou," said Lu Xiangzhi immediately.
Lu Shiming shook his head and said, "If you leave the capital, the Empress Dowager will know immediately. Go find Xue Lin and ask him to go to Anhe City. You have to stay in the capital. If the Empress Dowager has any intention, you can still cooperate with General Ye."
"Father, is this just what the Empress Dowager is doing out of her own will? Or … does the young prince also have that ambition?" Lu Xiangzhi asked in a low voice. He really didn't want to believe that Mo Rongyi would betray the emperor.
Only then did Lu Shiming remember the most crucial question. "I didn't see the young prince in the Palace of Compassionate and Peaceful today. I don't know if he knows?"
"Then I'll go ask the young prince first," Lu Xiangzhi said.
"Fine, if the little prince doesn't have that intention, then it's the Empress Dowager's idea." Lu Shiming said in a low voice. Thinking of the Empress Dowager's humiliation of Yao Yao, he was still angry. It seemed that even if Yao Yao came back, the Empress Dowager would definitely not let her off easily.
Lu Xiangzhi nodded lightly. After leaving the Lu Residence, he went straight to Mo Rongyi's manor. After asking the gatekeeper and finding out that the young prince was in the manor, he immediately went to the study.
He had come to the mansion so many times that all the servants knew him.
Mo Rongyi was in the study when he heard that he was here. He smiled and walked out from behind the desk. "You're not here to freeload dinner, are you?"
"I'm here to freeload." Lu Xiangzhi smiled faintly. "I still have something to tell you."
"What is it?" Mo Rongyi asked, dismissing the eunuch in the study.
Lu Xiangzhi lowered his voice. "Do you know that something has happened to the Emperor?"
Mo Rongyi's expression tensed up. "What did you say? Who told you that? Why haven't I heard of it? There's no news from the cabinet either!"
"The Empress Dowager summoned the cabinet ministers to the palace today …" Lu Xiangzhi told the young prince what the Empress Dowager had said today. "Yi, you should know who the Empress Dowager is doing this for!"
"I know!" Mo Rongyi's face was ashen. "The Empress Dowager didn't tell me anything about Imperial Brother, much less that she summoned the cabinet ministers today. I don't believe that something has happened to Imperial Brother. The Empress Dowager did this … what does she want Imperial Brother to do?"
Mo Rongyi's heart was filled with grief. How could the Empress Dowager do such a thing? That was his brother! It was his own imperial brother. If it weren't for his imperial brother risking his life to protect them all these years, would they be where they were today? When the Empress Dowager found out that something had happened to her imperial brother, she actually still had the mind to secretly arrange how to help him ascend the throne. Shouldn't she be most concerned about his safety?
If my royal brother knew about this, I wonder how sad he would be!
"I'll go to the palace immediately to find the Empress Dowager!" Mo Rongyi said, his eyes a little red.
Lu Xiangzhi held his hand. "What can you do even if you go to the palace? The Empress Dowager had Ruan Jinghua and the other two stay for half a day to discuss. Do you think she's worried about the Emperor? If you can persuade her, she won't hide it from you!"
"Am I supposed to watch the Empress Dowager betray my brother like this?" Mo Rongyi said angrily. "That's my eldest brother. If something really happened to him, how can I sit here in peace?"
"Even if the Emperor is in danger, he will be safe. There are only two reasons why there hasn't been any news from Anhe City until now. One is that this matter doesn't exist, and the other is that it was purposely concealed. The Empress is also in Anhe City now. You have to trust the Empress. Because the Emperor trusts you, he allows you to stay in the Capital City. When he is not here, you are his eyes and his hands. You have to protect the Capital City for him."
Mo Rongyi calmed down from his anger and grief. "The Empress Dowager has always been in the palace. How did she know that something happened to my brother?"
"I heard that the Emperor's confidant came back to tell her, but we don't know who it was. I heard that person is seriously injured and is in the imperial hospital," Lu Xiangzhi said.
"That's impossible!" Mo Rongyi shook his head. "If it's my brother's confidant, he wouldn't go to the Empress Dowager first. I'll go to the imperial hospital to ask. If there's really such a person, I'll definitely ask him!"
Lu Xiangzhi also felt that this person was very important. "Okay!"
Mo Rongyi asked Lu Xiangzhi to follow him to the palace. They first went to the imperial hospital. In the backyard of the imperial hospital, there were a few rooms for people to recuperate. Mo Rongyi called Minister Gong over. "Where's the person who came back from Anhe City?"
"Your Highness, that person has already left. Imperial Uncle Qiu took him away," Minister Gong replied.
Qiu Yaozong was surprised. Mo Rongyi and Lu Xiangzhi looked at each other.
"Do you know who it is?" His brother only had a few trusted confidants, so it wasn't hard to recognize him.
"I didn't recognize him. I don't think I've seen him before," Minister Gong said.
"How's his injury? How did he get injured?" Mo Rongyi asked in a low voice.
Minister Gong didn't know why the young prince was asking about this person, but he felt that the person's injury was really strange. Since the person was sent by the Empress Dowager, he couldn't be too straightforward. "It's an arrow wound. It looks like a new injury. If it's an old injury, he won't be able to hold on for a few days!"
That was quite suspicious! Mo Rongyi snorted and said to Lu Xiangzhi, "Go to the Qiu Family and find out where Qiu Yaozong took the person. I'll go and find out if Qiu Yaozong went to the palace today. I'll meet you later!"
Lu Xiangzhi nodded slightly. "Okay!"
Mo Rongyi had been in charge of the imperial court for a period of time. It wasn't difficult for him to find out something in the palace. So he soon found out that Qiu Yaozong went to the palace to see the Empress Dowager today. In addition, after him, there was another person who claimed to be from Anhe City who went to see the Empress Dowager.
It seemed that it was hard to say whether this person came from Anhe City or not.
Mo Rongyi called over the Empress Dowager's palace maid, Jin Ping, and asked her carefully. Only then did he know that the Empress Dowager and Qiu Yaozong were discussing something in the bedroom today. Even the palace maid was sent away.
"You can leave first. If you hear anything in these two days, immediately inform me," Mo Rongyi ordered in a low voice.
(Nine-Headed Bird Academy)
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