Appointing a General as a Concubine: Where Can General Xiao Escape?

Chapter 141 Staying in the East Palace

As soon as they reached the door, they were stopped by two guards with swords.

"The Emperor has ordered that General Xiao stay tonight to take care of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Xiao Mo and Qi Minxiu looked at each other in confusion and then looked at the guards.

"The Emperor's order? Humph, I think it's Concubine Liang's intention!"

Qi Minxiu frowned and glared at the guard who bowed his head in devotion.

Although the guard was embarrassed, he did not put his hand down: "Please forgive me, Prince Chen. This is indeed the decree issued by the emperor himself."

Qi Minxiu took a deep breath and turned to look at Qi Yue on the bed: "Did you tell Father about this?"

Qi Yue blinked his innocent eyes and looked at Xiao Mo who was also looking at him.

"It's not me, Amo, believe me, I never told father to ask you to stay and take care of me."

This time they really wronged him.

He had never told the emperor and Concubine Liang that he wanted Xiao Mo to stay.

To be precise, he didn't have time to say it.

But it's easy to guess who did this.

Although the oral order was issued by the emperor, it was definitely Concubine Liang who instigated it behind the scenes.

The three of them thought of this at the same time, and Qi Minxiu walked out of the hall without saying a word.

"I'll go ask Father for clarification."

Xiao Mo instinctively wanted to chase after him, but was stopped again.

She looked at Qi Minxiu's receding back, then turned her gaze to Qi Yue.

Qi Yue curled his lips slightly: "Amo..."

"Lie down and rest for a while." Xiao Mo lowered her eyes from looking at him and walked to the desk not far away and sat down.

Qi Yue endured the pain from the wound, got out of bed, put on a coat, and walked over to sit down opposite her.

"It's only this hour, how can I sleep? Don't worry, if Ah Xiu can't convince Father, I'll do it instead."

Xiao Mo didn't want to talk about this topic, so she picked up a book on the desk and started flipping through it casually.

After a closer look, I realized that this was actually a book on military strategy.

She opened a page at random and saw four small words hidden between the lines.

"Tell me, what plan did Qi Suyuan use this time?"

Qi Yue followed her gaze and saw only a page of densely written words.

But he still answered her question seriously: "Killing with a borrowed knife."

Xiao Mo curled the corners of her mouth slightly and raised her eyes.

"I just don't know who this knife he borrowed is from, and whether it's easy to deal with."

Qi Yue's eyes narrowed slightly: "Someone wants to kill you with a knife, but you don't want to find a way to deal with this person, but instead want to break his knife. What's the logic behind this?"

These words woke Xiao Mo up. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and excitement flashed in her eyes.

"The eldest prince is gone, so he is the eldest prince. Even if he is exposed in front of the emperor and it is revealed that he did it, what can he do?

I'm not injured, and he might even accuse me of deceiving the emperor!"

"Deceiving the king? What are you trying to do?" Qi Yue stared at Xiao Mo with a little nervousness.

Xiao Mo bit her lip and smiled.

"It's nothing, it's just that the Emperor was the first to know that my martial arts skills were completely destroyed.

At that time, the emperor asked me if there was any possibility of recovery, and I replied that there was no possibility.

But now that I have recovered my power, I did not tell the emperor immediately

It's a trivial matter in a small way, but if someone uses it to make a big fuss about it, it becomes a different matter."

Qi Yue listened carefully and had already made plans for her in his mind.

"If someone really brings this up, just say you're still recovering and haven't fully recovered yet, so you didn't dare to report it to your father rashly."

Xiao Mo pursed her lips and nodded gently: "Let's see how the situation develops."

"The eldest prince is better!" Qi Yue narrowed his eyes slightly and sneered: "The older the prince, the easier it is to overthrow him."

Xiao Mo didn't understand what he said, "Why do you say that?"

"Because the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Take me for example, if I make one wrong move in this palace, I could be deposed."

Qi Yue raised his eyebrows and said this as a joke.

"Although Qi Suyuan didn't become the crown prince, as the eldest son of the emperor, he still has power above everyone else."

Xiao Mo's mind raced, "You're right, so, are you trying to make a fuss about him losing his token?"

"I've been having people monitor him. Although we haven't caught him in any evidence yet, I don't believe he's clean."

Qi Yue put away his sharp eyes, smiled and took her hand: "Let's see who he finds as a scapegoat first."

Xiao Mo nodded her chin subtly.

In the front hall, when Qi Minxiu went there, he happened to see the emperor telling Qi Suyuan that Xiao Mo was assassinated.

Qi Suyuan looked full of guilt, and kept saying that he had implicated General Xiao.

Qi Minxiu couldn't bear to listen any longer. Before he even entered the hall, the voice had already entered.

"Did my royal brother really lose his token accidentally?"

With a pair of cold eyes, he walked to the front of the hall and saluted the emperor, then sat down opposite Qi Suyuan: "Why do I feel that my brother is deliberately giving the token to someone with ulterior motives?"

Qi Suyuan looked at him with serious eyes, without any panic on his face.

"My royal brother, please don't wrong me like this. I think someone has been thinking about dealing with General Xiao for a long time.

The time he came to my house, he finally found the opportunity, so he stole my token."

"Humph." Qi Minxiu sneered: "Isn't that person you?"

"I have already sent people to investigate everyone who came to Prince Su's Mansion on the day the token was lost. I believe there will be news soon."

Qi Suyuan glanced at the emperor and spoke with a hint of helplessness in his tone.

Qi Minxiu stared at him without blinking: "My brother should be familiar with those deputy generals and commanders in Beiyi and Xijiang who forcibly abducted women from the people and demanded protection fees from the people.

When General Xiao was fighting for the country and the people, what were they doing? Either pretending to be sick or dragging their feet.

To maintain military discipline, General Xiao reported to the Emperor and ordered their heads beheaded in public. As their master, will you not bear a grudge?"

Qi Suyuan's deep eyes flashed with a strange light, but his tone was not as calm as before.

"They violated the law and should be punished. What does it have to do with me? My royal brother, please don't say anything just to put the blame on me."

He raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced sideways at the emperor, and was slightly relieved when he saw that there was no expression on his face.

Having said that, Qi Minxiu naturally wouldn't give in easily.

"The others were beheaded in the military camp, but Vice General Rong was taken back to the imperial city to be punished.

Although I was still in a wheelchair at the time, I heard that he called out your name before he died. Is there another Prince Su in this imperial city?"

"Just because he called me, do I have to take the blame?"

"Then why didn't he call Qi Yue? He was much more capable than you at that time."

The emperor sat on a high place, watching Qi Minxiu and Qi Suyuan bickering back and forth, and stopped them in annoyance.

"Okay, don't bring up anything without evidence."

Qi Suyuan's originally nervous expression instantly changed to one of complacency after hearing the emperor's words.

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