The prince is very cruel

That thing is much more deadly than Zhuge Liang's crossbow.

"Tell me what you want."

"I have always been a man who rewards meritorious service and punishes faults. You have completed the task well this time, so I want to reward you," said the old emperor.

The first person that popped into Guan Ning’s mind was Concubine Ya.

But he didn't dare ask for it blindly. If he asked for it, it would be fatal!

"Your Majesty, I dare not. I have nothing to ask for. It is my honor to serve Your Majesty."

Hearing this, the old emperor's smile suddenly became meaningful. He looked straight at him, and a sense of imperial oppression descended upon him: "You don't want anything. Do you want my life?"

The tone of the last few words was suddenly sharp.

The sudden change in style made Guan Ning's heart skip a beat!

He pretended to be terrified and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I dare not. How could I dare?"

The old emperor's cloudy eyes looked down at him, with a hint of coldness, exerting great pressure: "Guan Ning, you have hidden a lot from me!"

Guan Ning was shocked!

Something hidden?

Could it be that the old emperor knew about the baggage issue?

He was a little uneasy for a moment, but soon, he calmed down decisively. No, he couldn't have known, it was a trick!

So he pretended to be afraid and asked in confusion, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"what for?"

"Don't you know what I'm talking about? Tell me yourself, how many things have you hidden from me?" The old emperor snorted coldly. He was just saying that he wanted to praise you in a friendly manner, but now he looks like this.

It is true that serving the king is like serving a tiger. You may be my brother one second, but I will sacrifice you to the heavens the next.

Guan Ning refused to admit it even if he was beaten to death.

"Your Majesty, no!"

"I really have nothing to hide from you!"

"Don't admit it yet?!" The old emperor shouted, and the roar was like thunder, echoing in Weiyang Palace, making many eunuchs' scalps numb and fall to their knees.

Guan Ning was startled and his face turned pale on purpose.

"Your Majesty, no, I say, I say!"

The old emperor's cloudy eyes lit up, and he felt more confident: "Speak!"

"I do have something to hide from Your Majesty. Last time I was visiting the Imperial Garden, I saw a palace maid who was incredibly beautiful, so I spied on her going to the toilet."

"Your Majesty, I am guilty of death!" Guan Ning cried out in grief, looking as if he was afraid of death.

Suddenly, the whole audience was shocked.

The green eunuch who was waiting on the side was stunned on the spot, thinking that he was going to say something.

The old emperor was even more upset and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

"anything else?"

"Also, and... and last time I played with someone else's wife, does this count? But we truly love each other, and it was consensual!"

The old emperor had more black lines on his forehead.

"Or maybe I stole something two years ago, someone else's underwear." Guan Ning was terrified and kept talking about the bad things he had done, and the more he talked, the more outrageous it became.

"besides……"

"Enough!" The old emperor really couldn't bear to listen any longer. It was either watching people bathing or playing with married women. These were at most low moral character, not a crime. This was not what he wanted to hear.

Guan Ning smiled awkwardly, pretending to be dumbfounded and said, "Your Majesty, this shouldn't be considered a capital crime, right?"

The old emperor and Eunuch Lu looked at each other, and seeing that they could not trick anyone into giving up, they seemed to have given up.

He said angrily, "Who asked you this? You are the only son of Duke Guan, a dignified prince. Why don't you learn your lesson and do these sneaky things?"

"If this gets out, people will laugh their teeth off."

The old emperor was speechless. He originally wanted to cheat about some key things, but ended up cheating about a bunch of petty and sneaky things. He thought he was a playboy, but it turned out that Guan Ning was even more vulgar.

Guan Ning smiled awkwardly: "Yes, your majesty is right. I will change from now on. I will never peek at others taking a bath again."

puff……

Some eunuchs tried hard to suppress their laughter.

The old emperor waved his dragon robe and stopped lying, but he was still unwilling to give in and seemed to want to find a crime.

"I'm here to ask you, I heard you went to Fengdu River and got involved with some bandits, calling them brothers and forming a clique for personal gain. Is that true?"

Guan Ning looked up with a look of horror, and his reaction was truly unique.

"Your Majesty, this is unjust!"

"I did pass by Fengdu River, but it had nothing to do with the bandits. They were preventing me from going to Guangdong and Guangxi to do business, so I had no choice but to take action and kill them."

"If you don't believe me, you can check to see if the patriarchs of the five major families in Fengdu River are all dead."

"If I really was forming a clique for personal gain, why would I risk being targeted by these evildoers and kill their head of the family? It's so unfair!"

He shouted loudly, his voice sounding more aggrieved than Dou E's, and there was no way he could give the old emperor an excuse to punish him.