Chapter 76: Take Back the Kingship
The next morning, Haotian and Liu Xiong rode a maroon-red tall horse and headed towards the palace with more than 20 guards.
"Stop!" When we arrived outside the palace gate, the guards guarded the gate stopped in front and bowed to Liu Xiong, "Your Highness, you can only bring five guards into the palace at most."
"Rare!" Liu Xiong angrily scolded the waiter, "I am the prince, and the rules can bring up to thirty people into the palace."
"His prince, calm down, this is the new rule of the palace!" the guard whispered.
Liu Xiong was about to do something, but Haotian shook him, "Prince, since it is a new rule, there are only five people!"
Liu Xiong nodded and ordered his four guards to follow him and Haotian into the palace, while the others were waiting outside. "This new rule must be decided by Concubine Zhao." Liu Xiong said while riding a horse.
"The prince (Haotian and Liu Xiong agreed that they would not be called brothers outside the prince's mansion.), how long has it been since you met the emperor?" Haotian asked.
"It's been a month! Concubine Zhao sent someone to guard his father's inner palace and prevented me from entering."
Liu Xiong said angrily.
"Well! Prince, when you meet the emperor later, just say that the inner palace guards don't let you see him, don't say that Concubine Zhao ordered people not to let you in."
Haotian said.
"Why?" Liu Xiong asked in confusion.
"If you say that Concubine Zhao told someone not to let you in, she would definitely refuse to admit it and sue you for wronging her.
If you say that the person who guards the inner palace does not allow you to enter, the emperor will think that someone must have ordered him. If you pursue it, Concubine Zhao will never dare to stop you from seeing the emperor again."
Haotian said.
"You've made sense!"
Haotian and Liu Xiong rode their horses and took four guards and walked slowly on the green avenue of the palace. The palace was very big and walked two kilometers before stopping outside the inner palace gate.
Because the inner palace is not allowed to ride a horse, you can only dismount and walk.
When they walked to the door of the inner palace, several guards stopped Liu Xiong and others from entering.
"Bold! I am the prince, how dare you stop me?" Liu Xiong shouted.
"Your Highness, Concubine Zhao has an order. The emperor needs to recuperate if he is sick, and he will not see anyone for the time being."
A guard whispered.
"Celebrity Zhao is not allowed to see me?" Liu Xiong cursed angrily.
The guards did not speak out, but they still refused to let Liu Xiong enter.
"Puu!!!" Haotian gently brushed several guards to the ground, and all fainted.
"Crown Prince, let's go in." Haotian said.
Liu Xiong took Haotian and several guards into the interior, and was stopped by the guards outside the emperor's bedroom door.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" An eunuch, who was nearly forty years old, saluted Liu Xiong.
"Eunuch Lin, I want to see my father, go and spread the news quickly." Liu Xiong said.
"Yes! Prince!" Eunuch Lin walked into the inside, walked out after a while and said, "Your Highness, the emperor said he was not very comfortable now, and asked you to come again another day."
As soon as he finished speaking, Haotian sneered: "Hmph! You didn't see the emperor at all. I heard you say to an eunuch, telling him to go and tell Concubine Zhao quickly."
Eunuch Lin was so scared that his face turned pale. He didn't understand why Haotian heard what he was talking to another eunuch so far away. Liu Xiong glared at him angrily, "Get out!"
Eunuch Lin lowered his head and did not make any noise, nor gave way.
"Do you want to die?" Liu Xiong cursed.
Eunuch Lin still didn't say anything.
Haotian gently brushed Eunuch Lin and several guards to four or five meters away, and they were all dizzy. Haotian did not use spiritual energy, otherwise, even one thousandth of the demonic spiritual energy would brush them to dozens of meters away and be crushed to pieces.
Liu Xiong took Haotian and several guards to the door of the emperor's bedroom, and two guards guarding the door stopped him.
"Father! I want to see you." Liu Xiong shouted loudly.
"Come in!" A weak man's voice came from inside.
Hearing the call, the two guards quickly retreated aside.
Haotian followed Liu Xiong to push the door and walked into the bedroom, while several guards were waiting outside the door.
I saw a man over 50 years old lying on the big bed made of rosewood and carved with dragon-shaped patterns. Although his face was pale, Haotian still recognized the arrogant emperor of Shu Han back then.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "A mortal! Even if I enjoy all my glory and wealth, what if I am the emperor? I still cannot escape the natural law of birth, old age, sickness and death. Only those who become immortals and demons can truly live with the heaven and earth."
"Father!" Liu Xiong walked over and knelt beside the bed with tears in his eyes.
"Help...help me get up!" The emperor ordered weakly to the palace maid who was serving next to him.
Before the palace maid could do anything, Liu Xiong hurriedly stood up and helped the emperor up.
"What is this?" The emperor couldn't help asking when he saw that Haotian was not like Liu Xiong's guard.
"He was Haotian who saved me back then!" Liu Xiong replied.
"Oh! It turned out to be him." The emperor said weakly.
"Emperor!" Haotian knelt down and saluted. Originally, he didn't need to kneel down a mortal emperor at all, but because for Liu Xiong's sake, he also didn't want the emperor to think he was rude.
"No...no gifts! Flat!" the emperor whispered.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Haotian stood up.
"Son of the Emperor, I ask you, why haven't you visited me for so long?"
The emperor asked a little blamely.
"Father, it's not that I don't come, but that the guards in the chapel did not let me in." Liu Xiong said in his words.
"Bold... cough! cough!"
"Father, don't be so angry, the dragon body is important." Liu Xiong said while stroking the emperor's back.
The emperor calmed down a little and ordered a eunuch in his thirties to serve on the side, "Eunuch Luo, go and call the captain of the guard to see me."
"As for order!" Eunuch Luo walked out.
Soon, a tall guard captain came to kneel down, "Master!"
"I'll ask you, did you instruct your subordinates not to let the prince come in to the palace to see me?" the emperor asked.
"This..." The captain of the guard did not dare to say that it was Concubine Zhao's order, so he could only show the bitter face of a mute eating berberine.
"You...you are so bold! People come!" the emperor shouted weakly.
Two guards outside walked in and knelt down and obeyed the order.
"Pull the captain of the guard down and hit the fifty boards again, and then put them in the Heaven Prison for interrogation."
The emperor coughed several times after he said that.
"Father, calm down! Take care of the dragon's body," Liu Xiong said, stroking the emperor's back.
The two guards pulled the captain of the guard down. At this time, the door reported that Concubine Zhao had arrived and the emperor ordered her to come in.
"Emperor!" A woman in her thirties with a melon-shaped face, phoenix eyes and a charming appearance came in and knelt down.
"Get up...come!" The emperor asked Concubine Zhao to keep up and said, "Concubine Zhao, you are here just in a good condition. I have been in poor health recently and cannot take charge of the government affairs. The prince will temporarily decide the major affairs in the court.
You go and inform the harem and the ministers.”
Concubine Zhao was stunned, but had to obey the orders, and squatted and said, "I obey the orders!"
"Son of the Emperor, you must take good care of the major affairs in the court." The emperor said to Liu Xiong.
"Father! I will never let my father down. I hope you will restore your dragon body as soon as possible."
Liu Xiong said with tears in his eyes.
Concubine Zhao looked at Liu Xiong and Haotian with complicated eyes.
"You all retreat, I have something to say to the prince." The emperor ordered.
Haotian had to retreat with everyone and wait outside the door. Of course, for Liu Xiong's safety, he secretly used his magical consciousness to detect the movements around and inside the room. If there was any movement, he would take action immediately.
After a while, Liu Xiong walked out in tears. After summoning the imperial physician to ask about the condition of Emperor Ming, he left the palace with Haotian and his guards.
On the way, Liu Xiong said to Haotian sadly: "My father said he already knew that Concubine Zhao had a bad intention and gave me an imperial edict, saying that as long as something happened, I could inherit the throne with the imperial edict."
"Well! Your father is really a wise king." In fact, Haotian had long used his magical consciousness to detect what was inside, but he didn't want Liu Xiong to know that he had secretly listened to the secret words of their father and son.
"Prince, that imperial edict is so important. If you don't mind, I can keep it for you to ensure that it is foolproof." Haotian said.
"Okay!" Liu Xiong immediately took out the imperial edict from his arms and handed it to Haotian.
"Do you believe me so much?" Haotian smiled and took the imperial edict and put it in the storage ring.
"You are my sworn brother, why don't I believe you?" Liu Xiong also smiled.
The two looked at each other and smiled and returned to the prince's mansion with their guards.
Chapter completed!