Chapter 193: A Disaster

Mo You didn’t expect that Mo Junyu and Mo Junyang had different opinions, but under the situation, he didn’t have time to hesitate, so he had to take a chance. He gritted his teeth. “We should have a try. You and His Excellency are on the same side, and everybody knows that he is your follower. If you fail, can he live a good life?”

It was out of the question if Mo Junyang wanted to follow somebody else.

He had a label as the crown prince’s follower. Even though he was capable, other factions wouldn’t trust him.

While thinking, Mo Junyu felt relieved and nodded. “You, please have a talk with him. I wasn’t thoughtful and made him suffer this time. Ask him to figure out a solution for me. I will express my thanks someday.”

He surrendered. Any other subordinate would exhaust his energy to do everything for his master if he was treated in this way by his master, but when it was Mo Junyang, Mo Junyu felt depressed and worried, with no confidence.

Mo You had the same feeling and didn’t dare to ensure him. He just said, “Today’s party probably couldn’t go on. I just saw that His Majesty and the Empress Dowager went to the Moral Hall. I am going there to have a look. Maybe the Empress Dowager could persuade His Majesty.”

After speaking, he sighed and then left worriedly.

The Moral Hall was where the emperor had a rest and met somebody informally at ordinary times, but it was not a place that Mo You could enter randomly.

Without being summoned, Mo You had to wait outside obediently.

At this time, Mo Xiangbin and Ling Ruiyin sat face to face in the room with a cup of tea in hand for each, but they didn’t drink. They just held the teacups, as if they were competing on who would get impatient first.

At last Ling Ruiyin sighed and asked first, “I know that you don’t like Junyu all the time. This time he did something to seek quick success and instant benefits, but after all, he is the only child of you and Xiaozhen. You put him under house arrest in the Qianzheng Palace in public. Aren’t you afraid that you would break his heart?”

Mo Xiangbin snorted and looked unkind. “Break his heart? I trusted him, so I gave him the important job to take care of the colorful phenix, but he made it a mess. Isn’t he afraid that he would break my heart?”

“But Junyu didn’t mean it! After he listened to your order, he tried his best to take care of the colorful phenix all the time. I can say that he attached more importance to the colorful phenix than himself. So how would he poison it?” Ling Ruiyin defended Mo Junyu helplessly.

Apart from anything else, Mo Junjiu’s accusation that Mo Junyu or the people in the East Palace had poisoned the colorful phenix was ridiculous, and it was impossible!

She thought that somebody was jealous and intentionally framed up Mo Junyu in order to make him lose his title as crown prince.

Ling Ruiyin analyzed everything for Mo Xiangbin fairly. She didn’t merely justify Mo Junyu. After all, as the Empress Dowager, she couldn’t bear to see anybody disturb the peaceful imperial palace.

Afterward, she advised in all earnestness, “Your Majesty, I know that you get mad because the colorful phenix was poisoned, but I hope that you can always keep vigilant. Don’t do anything on impulse to make the family sad and the enemy happy. It would be too late if you regret in the future.”

Mo Xiangbin calmed down and pondered. Then he thought that there were many doubtful points.

What was the most obvious was that Mo Junjiu seemed to respect his father’s opinion but said something meaningful every time. He made everybody pay attention to Mo Junyu and even wanted to drag down Mo Junyang.

He was like a clown!

Mo Xiangbin was angry, but his eyes were sharp. He wasn’t blinded, but it was just that he was not in the mood to expose Mo Junjiu on the spot.

He could easily guess who supported Mo Junjiu in doing those things.

“Even so, the crown prince can’t get away with it as he didn’t take good care of the holy bird. Do you want me to forgive him and do nothing, Mother?” Mo Xiangbin’s tone softened, but obviously, it was unrealistic to make him let go of Mo Junyu.

Ling Ruiyin made it in another word and advised him softly, “You should punish him, but will you depose the crown prince because of such a trifle?”

Mo Xiangbin was speechless. When he knew that the holy bird was almost unable to be saved, he really had such a plan.

But now the colorful phenix was still alive, and it was just poisoned. After Ling Ruiyin talked into him, he really thought he had made an issue of it.

Whether the heir to the throne was stable would greatly influence a country’s stability. No matter how valuable the holy bird was, if he deposed the crown prince, he had no sufficient reasons.

Moreover, Mo Xiangbin suddenly thought of somebody, and he didn’t insist anymore but softened.

Looking at Ling Ruiyin’s eyes with concern, Mo Xiangbin prepared to agree.

The eunuch Quan couldn’t wait and staggered to push the door and enter the room before asking for permission, and he looked terrified as if all his family died.

Mo Xiangbin frowned with displeasure and questioned coldly, “You disrespectful bastard, can’t you see that I am talking with the Empress Dowager? You just ran in rashly. Do you want to die?”

Quan knelt down on the floor all of a sudden, with tears falling from his eyes. “Your Majesty, bad news. The colorful phenix, it… It has died…”

“What?” Mo Xiangbin’s hand trembled and the teacup fell on the floor, with hot water splashing him all over, but he seemed to be unaware. He was stunned and looked horrible.

Ling Ruiyin’s expression also changed. She looked at Quan in horror and asked anxiously, “What’s the matter? Wasn’t it still alive when we saw it in the Qianzheng Palace?”

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Then she thought of something seemingly and changed her tone, asking, “Didn’t Doctor Shen say that he can keep the colorful phenix alive? Why did it die?”

She tried to put the blame on Shen Luo because he couldn’t cure it.

However, nobody knew whether the young eunuch played dumb or he didn’t understand Ling Ruiyin who tried to induce him. He explained in a twitter, “I don’t know what happened. When we arrived at King Rui’s mansion and opened the cloth covering the bird cage, we found that the colorful phenix closed its eyes and fell on the floor in the cage. We tried to awaken it, but it had no reaction.

I reached out my hand to touch it and found that it was dead. Doctor Shen said that we found it too late, and he could do nothing.”

Gee, he told the truth in detail but proved Shen Luo’s innocence.

The fact was that the colorful phenix died too soon, even before Shen Luo started to treat it. They couldn’t blame him for his “ineffective treatment”.

Ling Ruiyin returned to her seat powerlessly and knew that it was a disaster. She peeped at Mo Xiangbin, to see that he was still shocked and remained unmoved.

“Your Majesty…” Ling Ruiyin called worriedly and wanted to say something but stopped herself.

Mo Xiangbin came back to earth all of a sudden and his eyes became sharp and ferocious. He stared at Quan and roared, “Tell all the princes to come here! I will ask those bastards!”

Quan had been working for Mo Xiangbin for five or six years and it was his first time to see the emperor so angry that he even called his sons bastards. Was he going crazy?

He peeped at Ling Ruiyin, but before he got a response, Mo Xiangbin continued furiously, “You didn’t hear me? Would you hear clearly after I cut your ears?”

“I am going to!” Quan quivered and then got up in a hurry.

“Wait.” Ling Ruiyin stopped Quan, with a moment’s hesitation on her aged face with wrinkles, but soon she said, “Tell Junyang to come, too. He is not an outsider and should know this thing.”

Nobody knew which words affected Mo Xiangbin. He was like a furious lion earlier, but he was not so angry anymore soon. And even his eyes looking at Ling Ruiyin were not as distant as before.

Quan hurriedly responded and then staggered out to declare the imperial decree. The two left in the Moral Hall fell into silence again.

Ling Ruiyin was impatient and brought up something else. “Junyang…”

“Mother, before finding out the chief criminal who poisoned the colorful phenix and investigating the case thoroughly, I don’t want to talk about this matter.” Mo Xiangbin frowned and interrupted Ling Ruiyin distantly and quickly.

He got stiff again, and there was an invisible wall between the mother and son.

Ling Ruiyin couldn’t understand Mo Xiangbin’s intention, but she was disappointed. She started to guess something but stopped in an instant.

It was not that she was not suspicious, but unexpectedly, she didn’t dare to think more.

All the royal family members who had shown up in the East Palace gathered in the Moral Hall, and even Mo Junyu was summoned.

All of them stood and lowered their heads silently, but it could be seen from their solemn expression that they had known the news that the colorful phenix had died.

Mo Xiangbin sneered in his heart. He didn’t doubt that Quan had spread the news. The servant that he had cultivated was definitely loyal. Then it must be that all these people, including the second prince Mo Junwen he had never paid attention to, had good spies.

“All of you are talents!” Mo Xiangbin spoke sarcastically and looked cold.

The princes knelt on the floor and looked terrified, begging in unison, “I am guilty. Please scold me, Father.”

They even did the same to admit their faults, and it was difficult to tell it true or false. Looking at the similar faces, Mo Xiangbin couldn’t tell who was sincere or hypocritical.

Under the situation, he didn’t hurry to find the real murderer but asked slowly and nonchalantly, “Guilty? How so? All of you are loyal and protect the emperor. Why are you guilty?

“You just tell me. Junjiu?”

Mo Junjiu was called alone, and he looked more panicked, while the gloom on his wrinkled brows didn’t scatter.

He replied in a deep voice, “I can’t share your worry and can do nothing while seeing you angry, Father. I am guilty.”

This answer would be perfect at ordinary times.

But Mo Xiangbin was not in the mood to laugh and reproached, “I can see that all of you don’t share my worry but try your best to cause trouble to me. Do you think that I live in comfort as an emperor, right?”

His words were harsh and every one could stab their hearts.

All people didn’t dare to take a deep breath.

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