After picking up a lucky girl, all the beasts line up to come to your door

After Mu Pingping said this, Zheng Xingguang and Sang Ye looked at each other.

The wrinkles between Sang Ye's brows deepened a bit, "Indeed."

"But we haven't heard anything, so there are two possibilities."

"First, the prefect is guilty and dares not issue a wanted order."

"Secondly, these people have leverage over the prefect and guess that the prefect wouldn't dare issue a warrant."

"No matter which one it is, it shows that this prefect is not clean."

"Didn't he take a shower?" Mu Baobao said with disdain, "The prefect doesn't like cleanliness."

Sang Ye and the other two were at a loss for words, but they didn't correct Mu Baobao.

Zheng Xingguang said, "Let's leave this matter to Uncle Emperor to investigate."

"Once those people arrive in Rongdu, Uncle Emperor will send people to arrest them and interrogate them, and then we'll know exactly what happened."

Sang Ye said, "This is the best."

"Please ask Prince Zheng to pass a message to the Emperor. This matter must be handled in secret to avoid any mistakes and to prevent anyone from suspecting us."

Zheng Xingguang nodded in agreement, and then ordered his followers to handle the matter.

"It's so hot." Baby Mu raised his little paw, "Brother, I want to take a shower. It's too hot."

Mu Pingping looked up at the still bright sky and said, "It's already evening, and here by the stream, it's still so hot."

"By the way, it hasn't rained yet, has it?"

Sang Ye frowned, "It hasn't rained since the sunny day."

"We live in Rongdu, and with the moat we don't have a water shortage for now, but it's hard to say about other places."

Mu Pingping asked a maid to take Mu Baobao to take a bath.

The guards had already set up the tent, so all you had to do was take a shower in the tent.

Mu Pingping grew up in a farming family and was familiar with this. "We've seen it before in the suburbs. Many crops have wilted in the fields."

"I'm afraid that in even more places, crops won't survive."

"For ordinary people, if the crops in the fields don't survive, it means they'll have nothing to eat during the winter and next year."

"This is a serious matter."

Sang Ye had only read about this in books and didn't understand the actual situation. "The problem is, without an on-site investigation and without officials reporting, the emperor can't do anything."

"It can't be that the Emperor suspected a drought and sent people to provide disaster relief. That would cause panic and a lot of trouble."

Zheng Xingguang took over the conversation and sighed like a little adult, "That's the biggest problem."

"Until there is solid evidence, in order to avoid causing panic and giving someone an opportunity to take advantage, Uncle Emperor cannot take any action."

Mu Pingping had not been exposed to these things for a long time, and only after hearing them did he understand how many twists and turns there were.

"Before this, I thought the emperor could do whatever he wanted."

Sang Ye laughed, "Not really."

"To be honest, the Emperor has more things to take care of."

Zheng Xingguang knew it best. "Uncle Emperor has to balance the imperial court and the harem, check and balance the court officials and princes, and even more importantly, consider the lives of the people."

"If anything is not handled properly, there will be a series of troubles."

Mu Pingping said, "So that's how it is."

Being an emperor is not that easy.

……

Emperor Sheng, who was being talked about by others, looked coldly at King Xiaoyao who was kneeling below him.

"I'll give you one last chance. Tell me what you want to do recently." There was no emotion in his tone.

Prince Xiaoyao's mind was spinning, his face blank. "Father, I don't understand what you mean."

"My son has been staying in the palace recently and wandering around the streets. I haven't done anything wrong."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Sheng was completely disappointed with his son and said, "Bring the person in."

After a while, the imperial guards came in with several people.

When King Xiaoyao saw those people, he felt dizzy and his head was buzzing. How could this happen?

He sent these people to deal with Zheng Xingguang, why are they here?

He suddenly looked up at Emperor Sheng, and his eyes went dark. His father knew that he was going to harm Zheng Xingguang.

"Father...ah!"

Emperor Sheng swung the inkstone and smashed it on his head. "I really raised a piece of shit. How dare you kill Xingguang? He's your cousin!"

I don’t know if this move of his brought out the resentment that King Xiaoyao had accumulated for a long time.

"Father, you said he is my cousin. Why do you always pamper and protect him and ignore me, your son?"

His eyes were bloodshot, and he said angrily, "From childhood to adulthood, Father only knew Zheng Xingguang and only cared about him. Did he ever care about me?"

Emperor Sheng said coldly, "Have you ever truly cared about me? Have you ever thought about me?"

"You always think about how to get benefits from me, how to get the benefits you want."

"Even your concern for me is purposeful."

"But Xingguang is not like that. His concern is never purposeful. He chats with me in a normal way."

He softened his tone, "You said I don't care about you."

"If I really didn't care about you, do you think you could have the good life you have now and live such a noble life?"

“Human greed!”

He really didn't expect that this was how King Xiaoyao thought of him.

King Xiaoyao still didn't think he was wrong, "Father was deceived by Zheng Xingguang..."

"He is only six years old. What can he possibly deceive me about?" Emperor Sheng interrupted him impatiently.

"Also, I'm not blind. I can see clearly who is sincere to me and who is trying to use me."

"Over the past few years, you've secretly spread countless negative rumors about Xingguang and repeatedly arranged for people to cause trouble for him. Do you think I don't know?"

King Xiaoyao's body softened and he fell to the ground. It turned out that his father knew everything he had done to Zheng Xingguang.

He thought he was very careful and no one would know.

"This time, you dared to kill Xingguang, which shows how black-hearted you are." Emperor Sheng said.

King Xiaoyao was now frightened and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy, "Father, I was bewitched by a demon and did something like this."

"I beg Your Majesty to forgive me this time. I will be obedient and will not do anything wrong again."

Emperor Sheng would never let him off. "I declare my will that Prince Xiaoyao is attempting to murder Zheng Xingguang. He shall be stripped of his title and exiled a thousand miles away!"

He had come out of the struggle for the throne and knew better than anyone that if he let King Xiaoyao go today, he would definitely plot to murder him in secret.

"Father, Father, please don't!" King Xiaoyao regretted and was afraid. "Please forgive me this time..."

The imperial guards gagged him and dragged him away forcibly.

The fact that King Xiaoyao was deposed and exiled thousands of miles away caused quite a stir in Rongdu.

It also frightened Prince Chang and Prince An.

The two half-brothers looked at each other, one feeling uneasy while the other was sweating profusely.

I just hope that my father won’t punish them.

"Eighth Brother, we have to behave ourselves recently." Prince Chang said in a state of uncertainty.