Prison Dragon

Chapter 178

(Self-reported by Mu Yun's perspective)

"Master Hou, do you still want to go outside today?" I shook my cloak and hung it on the hanger.

The snow outside the window has stopped, and it is the rare good weather in the past few days. I am afraid that the winter will be completely over in a short time.

Disobedient Hou was still wearing a thick fox fur, sitting huddled in front of the charcoal fire, watching the heavy night outside the window.

"Actually, that well doesn't even have water," he smiled sadly, his thin chest couldn't even hold up the smile, he lowered his head and shook violently, covered his mouth with a handkerchief, and slowly spit out a mouthful of blood, " It’s just that I’m bored in the palace and just want to take a look, there’s nothing there.”

It has been a long time since I heard his story, which is so long that it covers the whole life of the last monarch.

He was still under house arrest in the palace, trapped within this small square wall.

Your Majesty asked me to monitor him, to prevent him from making any moves. I think His Majesty is overthinking. He spends most of his time lingering on the sick bed every day, and spends the rest of his time reading poems and reading idle books. Sitting by the well and chatting with the maids about wild monsters.

In my opinion, he doesn't look like a monarch who is deliberately trying to restore the country.

It was more like a terminally ill patient who calmly accepted his own death.

I'm used to seeing the ugly and twisted struggles around death, but I didn't expect that there is such a kind of person who, when death comes, is as calm as eating and drinking.

No worry, no fear, no fear, no resentment.

Every seven days, I will go to Yanying Hall to report his whereabouts and daily routine to Your Majesty.

This day, after disobeying orders, Hou couldn't help feeling sleepy and fell asleep in the afternoon. I settled him down and came to Yanying Hall early.

Your Majesty is still discussing matters with the ministers, Chun Shi knows that His Majesty has something important to do with me, so she dare not stop me, and let me directly into the hall.

It was impossible for me to go in and interrupt, so I just stood silently behind the pillar and waited for the announcement.

Today, all the important officials of the imperial court are left behind. Your Majesty won the world by martial arts, but you can't copy the same set in the barracks, and it takes too much time to train a group of capable and experienced officials. , so many of His Majesty's important ministers are Qi's original team.

Yang Yuchun, Duke Zhuo, Jing Zhaoyin and Cui Yan who were entrusted with the general title of Beihai...

Many people are old acquaintances with the Disobedient Hou, which is why His Majesty is careful to guard against him.

Before that, General Yang Yuchun of the North Sea had been stationed at the border to fight against the Turks, and I only saw him now.

He was extremely tall, rough and handsome, with blue stubble. Even His Majesty, who was already tall in my opinion, was still half a head shorter than him. He discussed important military and political matters with His Majesty with a serious expression.

Finally, he raised his eyes to look in my direction, and said to His Majesty: "Since Your Majesty has summoned someone, I will not bother you."

His Majesty looked at me and said with a smile: "Your temper is still the same as before, that's all right, step back."

He bowed without humility and retreated.

His Majesty called me forward to question, and I repeated the monotonous and very boring daily life of the disobedient Hou as before.

His Majesty rubbed his chin and remained silent for a long time before he said, "Make arrangements, I'm going to meet the Disobedient Marquis tonight."

He pulled me to sit on his lap, buried his head in my hair and said softly, "Thank you for your hard work."

I sighed deeply and put my arms around his broad shoulders.

When I went back at night, Hou Weiming had already woken up, leaned on the bed and drank two large bowls of bitter medicine, I took the candied fruit and handed it to him, he smiled and shook his head, watching me busy packing things.

Before I could tell him that His Majesty is coming, he opened his mouth first, "Aunt Mu Yun, I heard that Your Majesty has a dragon scale. Is it true?"

My hand that was wiping the table stopped, and I squeezed the rag twice before I could answer it calmly, but I secretly became alert in my heart: "Indeed, but I haven't seen it before, why did Lord Hou say this suddenly? "

He helped the bed and walked down, knelt down in front of me, and looked at me with longing eyes, "You know that time is short, there is only one thing I can ask aunt to do, I want to borrow your majesty's dragon scale."

I said: "Your Majesty is going to come tonight to tell His Majesty that the dragon scales belong to His Majesty. If so, why doesn't Your Majesty tell His Majesty in person?"

After saying this, both of us were stunned for a moment, wide-eyed and small-eyed, and Hou Xian said in disobedience: "Longlin can communicate with heaven and man, I just want to meet him. If it is really Longlin, His Majesty will definitely not agree." Lend it to me. So please ask my aunt for help."

I am someone close to Your Majesty, so I can either trick Longlin into playing with sweet words, of course, with His Majesty's wisdom, I know it is impossible.

Then I can only steal.

Although I haven't seen His Majesty's dragon scales with my own eyes, I do know where His Majesty's dragon scales are hidden, and it's not impossible to steal them.

I even feel that with the degree of His Majesty's trust in me, I am [-]% sure that I can steal the dragon scale.

just after that?

Do I want to see the disobedient Hou use dragon scales to attract his former lover, the dragon god can't help but feel pity for him, and then help him regain the throne?

It's not that I think too much. It's not like I haven't seen how deeply the officials of the court are involved with Qi.If his relationship with Dragon God is really like the one in the story...

Maybe Ao Chen hated him at the beginning, but after so many years, the hatred should be dissipated by the love and kindness of the disobedient Hou.

So what about the rest?What would he do based on his feelings for the disobedient Hou?

I don't dare to think that the disobedient Hou just released a black dragon that was about to end, and finally fell to this ending. I dare not imagine what kind of disaster will be brought if Ao Chen, who is already free, returns to the human world.

The Marquis of Disobedience is very kind to me, but I am His Majesty's man first, and his court lady second.

Seeing that I didn't respond for a long time, he wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his hand, smiled and comforted me and said: "You are really hard to do, aunt just pretend she has never heard of this."

I put down the rag and helped him to sit on the bed, lowered my head and patted the dust off his knees, "Master Hou, slave."

"I know," he said with a smile, his eyebrows were curved, and there was a soft light in his eyes, "I forced it."

I lowered my head not daring to look into his eyes.

After dark, His Majesty came here with only a few eunuchs with him. There was nothing wrong with disobeying orders and saluting. I thought he would be unwilling and resentful to see His Majesty, but he didn't have any emotions.

His Majesty sat and drank tea with him, and His Majesty tapped on the table lightly, "Yang Chixin was pushed to the capital by Tie Lan."

Disobedient Hou twitched his fingers slightly, and said with a smile, "He has nothing to do with me."

"You won't intercede for him?" His Majesty approached him and asked.

"Yang You is a sinner, how can He De be able to intercede in front of His Majesty?"

His Majesty stared at him with squinted eyes, like a wolf staring at its prey, but the disobedient Hou who was regarded as a lamb remained calm.

Did he notice it?His Majesty suspected that he was still involved with the minister.

Or didn't you notice it at all, thinking like this all the time in your heart?

"I know." His Majesty bowed his head to drink tea, "Actually, I don't want to kill him, his loyalty is hard to find in the world."

Disobedient Hou smiled humbly: "Your Majesty has the virtue of loving life, which is really a blessing for the common people."

"You don't need to say these clichés." His Majesty said seriously, "I heard that Yang Xuan has been a little dishonest in Jiaofang recently. I think he has lived alone for a long time, so he is inevitably a little lonely. I want to marry Bo Wanghou's daughter to him."

Yang Xuan's wife passed away when Lidu was besieged. After the establishment of the new dynasty, he stayed in Jiaofang, saying that he was teaching music and dancing and learning folk customs, but in fact he was under house arrest.Marquis Bowang is Liu Wu's relative, a not too old or not too young Marquis from a distant family.

"Your Majesty will be the officiant, of course it would be best." Disobedient Hou said with his head bowed.

Dishonest……

The two of them were clear in their hearts, this was just a metaphor, it meant that Yang Xuan was secretly plotting something.

"He doesn't seem to want to marry my younger sister very much," His Majesty pointed his finger in front of the disobedient Hou, and warned, "For your sake, give him some face", you help me persuade him. "

From the story of the disobedient Hou, I know that he is kind to His Majesty, so even if His Majesty is wary of him, he is still willing to make concessions where it doesn't matter.After all, the world has only just been unified, and any civil strife at this time may pose a threat to the new dynasty.

What this means is that if Yang Xuan accepts His Majesty's gift of marriage, that is to say, accepts His Majesty's control, then everything can be avoided before it happens.

Hou agreed in disobedience.

A few days later, the emperor sent someone to send a message, and it has been arranged, let me take the disobedient Hou out of the palace to meet Yang Xuan.

My role is still to monitor, but the disobedient Hou didn't blame me for anything, and even took the initiative to teach me some government affairs.

I asked him why, and he said that if one day, His Majesty did something, I might be the one who could stop him.

I thought he wanted me to say more good things for his old ministers and descendants in the future, but who knew that his words became a prophecy. In his later years, in order to let the crown prince take over, His Majesty prepared to kill the ministers under the pretext of the fairy medicine case. He said a lot in the former dynasty and the harem, and begged the prince to intercede, thus avoiding a large-scale massacre.

How much did he know about His Majesty and the Emperor in order to make such a profound foresight?

That's all for later, now I'm standing behind him.

Sitting opposite was Yang Xuan, who was somewhat similar to the Marquis of Disobedience, and Yang Yuchun, the North Sea General who "coincidentally" came to Jiaofang today.

"Is Xiaozheng doing well in your house?" Disobedient Hou asked with a smile.

Yang Yuchun picked up the curtain, came over and sat beside him, and added some water to his teacup, "It's pretty good, I serve you with delicious food and drink every day!"

"You shouldn't have come." Disobedient Hou sighed.

His Majesty has already become suspicious of Yang Xuan, it is not a good thing that General Beihai happened to come over at this time.

The Beihai general did his own thing in front of the disobedient Hou, and did not respond to the disobedient Hou's words. He added some tea, shook the disobedient Hou's hand, and finally touched his face with the back of his hand, "You have lost a lot of weight. .”

Disobedient Hou smiled and shook his head, "It's okay."

"I'm here this time to talk about the marriage between Xuan'er and Bowang Hou's family..."