Yibin Garden.

Emperor Yang Jing sat on the chair and looked at Li Chi with a complicated look.

"Is it important to come to Yibinyuan in person?"

Li Chi handed over a cup of tea, and the emperor nodded slightly to express his gratitude.

"I originally wanted to invite you to come to the palace to see you, but I was so bored that I was in the palace all day long, so I just came out for a walk."

The emperor took a sip of tea and looked down: "Good tea."

Li Chi said: "Mao Jian from Yuzhou."

The emperor said: "I haven't drunk tea from Yuzhou for several years."

After saying this, he looked at Li Chi: "I heard that Yuzhou is now rich?"

Li Chi replied: "Every family has surplus grain and every household has surplus money, but it is not as good as Jizhou."

The emperor was silent for a while and said, "I have been to Jizhou... When I went there, I was exhausted and full of desolation. After just a few years, I didn't expect that Jizhou would become the richest and most stable place."

His gaze swept Li Chi's face, then looked down at the teacup: "Sometimes I will think about what is worse than what King Ning did. After thinking about it, what I thought of is that my life experience was worse than that."

The emperor smiled, a little bitter.

"Does it sound a bit false, and I still think I'm a bit pretentious?"

He picked up the teacup and smoked his eyes with heat.

"Actually, I really envy you. If I were not born in the royal family, if I had not inherited the throne, I would have been a person with a background like King Ning, maybe I would not have done anything worse than King Ning."

He looked at Li Chi and said, "Do you believe it?"

Li Chi nodded: "I believe that Your Majesty has great talents and strategies, and this is true for the Great Chu, and it has nothing to do with Your Majesty."

The emperor laughed again: "How could it have nothing to do with me? As long as the Yang family's blood is flowing in my bones, it is my fault that the Great Chu cannot save me."

After he said this, he fell silent. Li Chi didn't say anything else. The two of them sat opposite each other silently.

I don’t know how long it took, but the emperor took a sip of tea and said, “I’m going back.”

Li Chi was about to get up, and the emperor shook his head and said, "I have a few more words, and I will leave after I finish speaking."

Li Chi nodded: "Please tell me your Majesty."

The emperor seemed to have sorted out his thoughts, and after a moment, he said to Li Chi: "If, I mean, if, I am really willing to give the throne to King Ning, will he treat my children kindly?"

Li Chi said: "He should do it."

The emperor nodded, "That's good."

"Sometimes I really feel very hard, thinking that I can let go like this, but every time I'm about to give up, I can't get through the obstacles in my heart."

He raised his head and looked at Li Chi: "So, after you go back, you can tell King Ning that if he promises to treat my children well, I will hand over Daxing City to him."

Li Chi said: "I will tell you on my behalf."

The emperor smiled: "That's good."

This is the second time he said these three words, twice, all because of his children.

"Thank you."

The emperor stood up.

Li Chi said: "Your Majesty, you don't need to be polite. I'll just go back and tell King Ning."

The emperor smiled and said, "He has given me the answer."

Li Chi looked at the emperor's eyes, and the emperor was also looking at him. The two looked at each other for a while, and the emperor said to Li Chi, "You are very good."

Li Chi said: "Your Majesty is also very good."

The emperor smiled and turned around and left.

Li Chi sent the emperor out of Yibin Garden and came back, and Gao Xining and the others were waiting in the yard.

Gao Xining couldn't help but ask Li Chi, "What did the emperor mean just now? Could it be that he had guessed that you were not Xiahou Zhuo?"

Li Chi nodded: "Probably."

Gao Xining said: "Then we must evacuate as soon as possible. I will find a way, the faster the better."

Li Chi said: "No, if he guessed who I was, he wouldn't have guessed it today. If he wanted to do it, he wouldn't have said that today."

Gao Xining: "It is necessary to guard against others."

Li Chi said: "Wait. If nothing unexpected happens, he will have some arrangements tomorrow. Let's wait and leave."

Halfway back to Shiyuan Palace, in the carriage, the emperor shouted to the outside of the carriage: "Yuan Ying, come up."

The little eunuch Yuan Ying quickly got into the car and knelt in front of the emperor: "What are your instructions?"

The emperor pointed to the opposite side: "Sit down and talk to me for a few words."

Yuan Ying was startled and said quickly: "I don't dare, I just listen to Your Majesty's words."

The emperor said, "I let you sit down."

Yuan Ying didn't dare to make sure, and sat opposite the emperor with her butt. In this posture, it was actually better to kneel down and feel comfortable.

The emperor reached out and pressed it on his shoulder, asking Yuan Ying to sit down.

"You have met Xiahou Zhuo just now. What do you think of him?"

The emperor asked.

Yuan Ying quickly replied: "How can I see anything? I am stupid."

The emperor said: "Whatever you think of, just say it. I'm not testing you, I'm just talking casually."

Yuan Ying thought about it and replied: "I think the prince still looks very kind and should have a gentle personality."

"Hahahahaha...he is gentle?"

The emperor smiled and said, "He can go from north to south, how gentle can he go?"

Yuan Ying said: "I really have a clumsy eye and I really can't see anything. Your Majesty's wise eyes are like a torch..."

"Stop flattering, I don't want to hear this."

The emperor looked out the window and there was no one on the street, and it looked quite deserted.

He remembered that when he was a child, he asked Liu Chongxin to take him out of the palace to play. The streets of Daxing City were always crowded with people, shops and traffic.

"I hope it will become what it used to be."

The emperor slowly let out a breath, his eyes retracted and looked at Yuan Ying: "If King Ning Li Chi really enters Daxing City, I really give up the throne to him, what are you going to do?"

This sentence scared Yuan Ying and knelt in the carriage with a plop.

"Your Majesty, I dare not think about it all. I will go wherever your Majesty goes."

"Ha ha ha ha......"

The emperor laughed again, and he pulled Yuan Ying: "Get up, look, you are so scared. Even if I really give way, I will take you with me."

He closed his eyes: "I'm tired, wake me up when I'm about to arrive."

At the same time, Princess Wu's mansion.

Princess Wu sat on the chair and looked at Zhao Luan and Cai Nan who were kneeling in front of her. Her face was calm and she seemed not angry.

There was a body upside down. Xu Ke, the manager of the royal family, was already dead. Shortly after he was carried in, Princess Wu asked someone to strangle him to death.

"I always felt that most of the men in this world were unreliable, so I gave the business of Jiangnan and Jiangbei to you two."

Princess Wu said, "In terms of self-respect, women always do better than men. I never think you two are incompetent. I never ask too much about what you have given to you."

"You two have done a great job, and I have never let me down. I am very pleased... But there is no banquet that will last forever, and people will always have separation."

Princess Wu pointed to the two boxes next to her.

"This is my pretend that I have prepared for you two, some land deeds, some business, and some gold and silver."

Princess Wu stood up and paced and said, "I want to leave Daxing City, so I won't delay you two. No matter what happened before or what will happen in the future, I hope you will be fine in the future."

Zhao Luan knelt down there and kowtowed: "Zhao Luan is willing to follow the mistress all the time, and can be a cow or a horse. As long as the mistress is willing to keep me, I will always be by my side."

Cainan didn't say anything, but just sneered and smiled coldly.

"Why should the mistress test us? She is clean and loyal to the mistress."

Cainan slowly stood up, turned to face Princess Wu and said, "What I did is not profound enough. It's not someone else's fault. I am stupid. I don't pray to my mistress to be kind. What the mistress wants to deal with me, just give orders."

Princess Wu glanced at her and shook her head slightly: "If it were me in the past, it would be unwilling to face betrayal, but now it is different. I will die sooner or later. Maybe it's a few years, or maybe it's not long before, King Wu is still waiting for me, and I don't want him to be alone for too long."

"So I don't want to make things difficult for you. No matter who you are or who you have done for before, it doesn't matter. When you were in Mangdang Mountain, you both really tried your best to protect me. That's enough."

She looked at Cainan: "Take your things with you, I won't keep you, and don't let me see you again."

Cainan just looked at Princess Wu like that because she didn't believe that Princess Wu's words were true.

After so many years with Princess Wu, she has seen too many thundering methods and too many slaughtering roots.
To be continued...