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"You don't need to ask. All you need to do now is to live on. Only by living on can you fulfill those indifferent fantasies of yours." The elder glanced at the young duke Dongfang Zihan and spoke icily.

"Hai." He lowered his head in dejection. Right now, the most urgent matter was to escape first, and then he would slowly seek a way to rescue the other people who were being imprisoned. Time was of the essence, and he couldn't afford to think about anything else.

"Get out." He bent down to put the guard who had fainted into a deep sleep, then picked up the lantern beneath his feet and gave the key to the young duke Dongfang Zihan. This old man looked at the man in the room beside him, and the man who was looking at them quickly turned his head away, no longer meeting their gaze.

Just like this, the old man lifted the rattan basket once again. However, there was nothing left inside. The two of them walked out of the cell and walked towards the first barrier.

"Did anything happen today?"

He reined the horse in his hand and jumped down. The commander of the imperial guards, General Chu Lin, walked up with a stern expression. The prison warden shouted as he looked at the two imperial guards who were still in a state of anxiety.

"Nope." The two jailers could be considered to have rolled on the ground many times. They had been accustomed to this kind of questioning many years ago, and the reason why they were so anxious was because they had some ulterior motives. When they heard the commander of the imperial guards berating them, they felt unhappy and thought to themselves, who is he? Have you been on the battlefield? Grandpa Soldier, I really did perform the Burial Dance on the tip of my blade, did you scold me? How could I not give you face? I immediately hoisted the gun over my shoulder, looked up with my nose pointed towards the sky, and began to ignore everything.

"Do you know who you're talking to?!" The soldiers that came with General Chu Lin had their noses pointed towards the sky. They didn't even look at the customer, nor did they care about the expression of the two imperial guards. They lifted the three-foot-long saber at their waists and took a few steps forward.

"What, you dare to bully our imperial guards?" The head of the imperial guards is someone who has received rewards from the emperor. He has to endure the attacks from the people of the western border several times a day at the border.

The two imperial guards refused to budge an inch. As soon as they saw seven or eight people rushing towards them, they also took off their guns on their shoulders. With a few 'ka ka' sounds, they prepared themselves to shoot.

Looking at the tense atmosphere, the smell of gunpowder coming from both sides was enough to burn this pile of firewood into nothingness. A loud shout could be heard.

"Stop!"

Both sides looked towards General Chu Lin. This person, who had once wiped out the remnants of the riot forces in the palace and stabilized the imperial court, had risen through the ranks quickly in the past few years. It could even be said that in the face of the sun at noon, his boss, the commander of the imperial court, was unable to even lift his head in front of him. It could be seen that he held an equal amount of power in the eyes of the current emperor!

"They are all officials of the imperial government working for the emperor, what is there to argue about! "All of you, stand down. I want to go in and investigate!" Great General Chu Lin walked forward without a change in expression, and the hand gripping the sword at his waist couldn't help but tighten.

"Creak."

The two guards who were about to say something suddenly stopped as they heard the voice behind them. They felt cold sweat dripping down their foreheads. Their backs and their feet were all drenched in cold sweat.

Within the imperial study at the Palace.

The top-grade wolf pen from the northwest tribute had been dipped in the musky ink, but no matter how much time passed, the ink on top of the pen had slowly gathered together along with the hair on top of the pen. It slowly dripped down and rubbed a few drops of black onto the pure white paper.

Xuanyuan Chen Mo sighed lightly. He gathered his thoughts and was about to write something when he realized that the piece of paper with the ink on it had long since become useless. He shook his head and let out a bitter laugh.

"Little Treasure, do you think I did the right thing?" Chen Mo lightly placed the top quality wolf-like brush on a stone tablet. Then, he turned around to face the palace maid, who had long placed the golden embroidered dragon's leather back on it.

"Your majesty, this servant only knows that you're the sovereign of our great nation, the ruler of nine or five thousand people. You're right, you told this servant to do it, and even if this servant were to go through fire and water, this servant still wouldn't refuse even if it meant that the emperor's lowly life was on the line."

"Sigh." Xuanyuan Chen Mo waved his hands impatiently. It was obvious that he was tired of listening to these flattering words, and calluses had appeared on his ears. He then changed his posture and leaned back on the dragon throne, closing his tired eyes slightly as he lazily said, "This Emperor doesn't listen to you. You say so too, This Emperor has already entrusted you with such an important task. Why aren't you speaking the truth?"

"Eh …" He nervously wiped away the cold sweat on his face. His body trembled like he was sifting chaff. With a trembling voice, he said, "Your majesty really wants to hear this servant's words. Don't blame this servant."

"You can say so." Xuanyuan Chen Mo lightly waved his hand and said, "Even if you scold me, I will still forgive you for your innocence."

"What are you saying, your majesty? Even if this servant had hundreds of lives, he wouldn't scold the emperor." Unable to hold on to the fear deep in his heart, the eunuch kneeled down on the ground and shouted, "Besides, everything I did was given to me by the emperor. I have no time to thank the emperor."

"Haha." At any moment, Xuanyuan Chen Mo had a thousand helpless feelings, but he couldn't help but laugh a few times at Little Treasure's teasing. He waved his hand and said, "Tell me about it."

Your majesty, this servant thinks that the emperor is the emperor and represents the dignity of our country. What the emperor has done is right, even if the emperor has done wrong, he is right. "Whoever blocks the way of the emperor's rule, be it the imperial harem, the nobility, or the feudal lords, as long as the emperor thinks that this matter is good for the citizens of our country and good for the well-being of our country, it is right!"

"Good!" I didn't expect that you would have such great ambitions! "Alright, it's not a waste of my painstaking effort to nurture you!" Hearing this, Xuanyuan Chen Mo slapped his palm on the table, startling the two palace maids behind him. The musk from the ink stones on the table spilled all over the table.

"Is there any news of the border?" Sensing that he had lost his composure, the young emperor chuckled and instructed the palace maids not to panic before sitting down again, returning to his previous lazy look.