The Return of the King: A Generation of Prodigies

Ruan Yuhu's words startled Qiong Niang. She looked at Ruan Yuhu in confusion, wondering if this old ancestor had already known about this?

Ruan Yuhu pondered for a long time without saying a word, and the people in the room didn't dare to breathe.

"Since the Su family wants to get involved, then let's play this chess game bigger." Ruan Yuhu clenched his hands. It seems that Shen Tianjiao was right. The Yunli Kingdom has been rotten from the root.

If it is not cleaned and repaired, the building will collapse overnight.

"Don't make this matter public for now. We need to re-plan it carefully."

Ruan Yuhu felt a pang of pain in her heart when she thought about how her family was betrayed by her fellow clansmen. Since they had come to her this time, she didn't need to be soft-hearted.

The Su family can raise a shameless son like Su Wenzhi, so they are no longer worthy of being the head of the noble family.

"Yes, ancestor." Qiong Niang looked at Ruan Yuhu and now had a practical understanding of the rumors about her.

This woman, who was most favored by the late emperor, was indeed no ordinary person. She had been able to stand firm in the harem for decades without being affected by anything.

In addition to her great favor, she naturally also has her own methods.

While several people were lost in thought, Li Muyang finished his study for the day and returned from Cui Yi.

When Li Muyang returned to Tingyin Pavilion, he saw Ruan Yuhu. His mother had told him to get closer to this old ancestor in the future.

So when he saw Ruan Yuhu, he rushed over. He threw himself at Ruan Yuhu's legs, hugged her legs, and said, "Grandma, why are you here in Tingyin Pavilion?"

"You haven't seen me for so long, do you miss me?"

Ruan Yuhu, who had a worried look on his face just now, immediately lost his worry and became full of joy when he saw the adorable little kid in front of him.

"Yes, Grandma hasn't seen Xiao Mu'er for many days and missed you so much that she came to see you."

Ruan Yuhu pinched Li Muyang's little face, which had gained a lot of weight recently, and looked at him lovingly. Ruan Yuhu really treated Li Muyang as if he were her own grandson.

"Grandma, I miss you too, but I have to finish my homework every day and practice martial arts with Sister Qiu Tong. I'm so busy that I don't have time to visit you."

Li Muyang, who is now raised by Shen Tianjiao, is completely different from the timid Li Muyang in the past.

Li Muyang is now cheerful and lively and can express his true thoughts very well.

"Learning is the most important thing. Little Mu'er needs to read more to understand the truth." Ruan Yuhu pulled Li Muyang up, held him in his arms, and asked, "What did Master Cui teach you today?"

"The teacher taught me how to govern a country today." Although Li Muyang started to learn later than others, it was not the time for him to learn these things.

But this child is very talented and hardworking. He is willing to spend several times more time than others to study hard.

Therefore, his learning progress improved by leaps and bounds.

There is also his teacher Cui Yi. As a great scholar of the time, he naturally has extraordinary abilities. After all, he is the imperial tutor who has taught two generations of emperors.

If you don't have real ability, how can you be the emperor's teacher?

If nothing unexpected happens, Cui Yi will become the first and only imperial tutor in this dynasty who has taught three generations of emperors. Such an honor is not something that everyone can enjoy.

Ruan Yuhu nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that this old man Cui was not confused at all. He knew what he should teach correctly.

"Okay, Xiao Mu'er must study hard with Master Cui. You are a very remarkable teacher."

"Yes, Mu'er knows. My mother told me the same thing." Li Muyang nodded. On the first day he went to Cui's house for classes, Shen Tianjiao told him that his teacher was a very remarkable person.

"So good." Ruan Yuhu touched Li Muyang's head and said with a smile: "Such a good child, it's impossible not to reward him."

"Tell me, little one, what do you want? As long as it's something that Grandma can do, I'll give it to you."

Li Muyang shook his head and said, "I don't want any reward. My mother said that studying with Master Cui is my duty, and since it is my duty, I can't ask for any reward."

"Yes." Ruan Yuhu smiled and hugged Li Muyang tightly. "Little Mu'er is now a well-mannered child. Your mother has taught you very well."

"How about this, you like the fish soup and peach jam made in Grandma's small kitchen. I'll have someone make it and bring it to you, okay?"

"Yeah, okay." Li Muyang's eyes lit up when he heard there was something delicious. No matter how smart he was, he was still a child after all.

"Grandma, could you ask the kitchen to make some more dried apricots and peaches? My mother likes to eat them." It was not enough to get what he liked to eat. Li Muyang was still thinking about his old mother.

"Make it, make it all. Eat as much as you want. Our little Mu'er is a good and filial child. Your mother is really blessed with a good son."

Ruan Yuhu loves Li Muyang, and she also loves Shen Tianjiao. She feels very comforted that the two people she loves can get along harmoniously.

"Thank you, grandma. Grandma, Mu'er still has homework to finish. I have to go do it now. After I finish my homework, Mu'er will accompany you."

Li Muyang is indeed very hardworking. Even if no one supervises or urges him, he will be self-disciplined and finish his daily homework before doing other things.

"Okay, go ahead. Grandma has asked them to prepare something delicious for you to eat after you finish your homework."

As elders, they are happy to see the younger generations being so diligent and studious, and Ruan Yuhu is no exception.

Looking at Li Muyang, she liked this child from the bottom of her heart.

Chunchao took Li Muyang downstairs to do his homework. Ruan Yuhu looked at the little figure and couldn't help but sigh, "This child is much better than his father. Not only does he study hard, but he also has good character. Fortunately, good bamboo shoots grow in this bad bamboo forest, otherwise the country would really be handed over to others."

Qiong Niang also nodded. Putting aside her prejudice against Li Muyang, this child was indeed much better than Li Rui and the children of those princes and ministers.

"Girl, you go and handle the matter of the white fox. It needs to be kept low-key, yet everyone in the harem should know about it. It would be best if the emperor could hear it himself."

Ruan Yuhu asked Qiong Niang to do this, actually to give Qiong Niang an opportunity to gain experience. Since everyone now has the same goal, they will encounter many difficult things in the future.

If we don't practice now, it will be difficult to deal with crises in the future.

After all, this is not a palace fight between a group of women in the harem, but a struggle against the entire court, the entire aristocratic family, and even the entire Yunli Kingdom.

The weak will not survive this struggle.

Qiong Niang was stunned for a moment, then she understood that this old ancestor was going to do something, and it was going to be an earth-shattering event.

"Yes, Qiong Niang understands."

"But ancestor, the White Fox has the current Minister of Justice Zhou Haibei as his backer, and this Zhou Haibei is of Xirong descent."

Tian Qingqing alone is not to be feared, but the forces behind her cannot be ignored.

The fact that Zhou Haibei, a person of foreign blood, could live safely in the court of Yunli Kingdom for so many years and no one could touch him could only mean one thing, that is, there must be a huge force behind this person supporting him.

Now another Su Wenzhi has emerged. He is the future head of the Su family and has the support of the entire Su family behind him.

Otherwise, how could Su Wenzhi dare to have an affair with the concubine? This is a serious crime that will result in the extermination of the entire family.

"I know. This time we have to catch them all in one fell swoop. Even if we can't catch them all in one fell swoop, we have to injure them so that they can't cause trouble again."

Ruan Yuhu's eyes had changed from calmness just now to fierceness, which was the momentum that only a superior person could have.

If you are just an ordinary person, you can be soft-hearted and generous, but when you are in the palace, at the center of power, being soft-hearted and generous will cost you your life.

"Understood. Qiong Niang will prepare it right away."

Since Ruan Yuhu had spoken, Qiong Niang naturally had nothing to fear. She just had to do it.

Anyway, if the sky falls, there will be someone to support it; if the ground sinks, there will be someone to cushion it.

On the way back, Ruan Yuhu told Ju Ruo, "Send the extra generous gift to Cui Yi's house and say it's from me."

"Yes, master." Ju Ruo was a very quiet person. As long as Ruan Yuhu told her to, she would just do it and never ask why.

The palace was in chaos, and the villa of the Marquis of Zhenbei was also tense.

The room where the Zhenbei Marquis was detoxified had been disinfected with lime and then sprinkled with special medicinal powder according to Hongying's request.

Everyone who entered the room followed Hongying's instructions, washed their hair, took a bath, trimmed their nails, changed into clean clothes, and wrapped their hair with white cloth.

Hongying soaked the dagger in strong liquor brewed with medicinal herbs. After a while, she took it out and burned the entire dagger red with fire.

When the temperature of the dagger dropped, Hongying found the right position without any hesitation, raised the dagger and quickly cut her wrist.

As the dagger was pulled out, blood gushed out, and Hongying used a container she had prepared in advance to catch the flowing blood.

Seeing that the blood had almost flowed out, Hongying raised the dagger again, cut open her own flesh, and took out a big, fat, white insect from it.

Bai Yunchi was a man who had seen the world, but when he saw Hongying's actions, he felt his scalp tingling and he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.

"What are you still standing there for?" Hongying shouted at Bai Yunchi, who was still in a daze, "Hurry up and feed this bowl of blood to the Marquis."

"Oh." Bai Yunchi reacted and didn't care about anything else. He quickly walked to the side of Zhenbei Hou who had been knocked unconscious by the Mafo Powder, picked up the bowl of Hongying's blood, and fed it to Zhenbei Hou.

Seeing that Bai Yunchi had already fed the blood to Zhenbei Hou, Hongying picked up the dagger again, cut open Zhenbei Hou's wrist, and placed the poisonous insect she had just taken out of her body on the cut wound.

The poisonous insect disappeared from the wound in a short while.

Seeing that the task was accomplished, Hongying's body softened and she fell to the side. She had been very weak during the period of imprisonment, and what had just happened had consumed too much of her energy. She really could not hold on any longer.

Bai Yunchi was quick to support Hongying and prevent her from falling to the ground.

Looking at Hongying's face which was as pale as paper, Bai Yunchi felt uneasy.

He quickly took the hemostatic medicine and sprinkled it on Hongying's wound, and then wrapped the wound with a bandage.

After finishing all this, Bai Yunchi looked at Hongying and said, "There are people guarding here, so nothing will happen. I'll take you back to rest first."

Hongying shook her head and said, "No, the insect has been living in my body since I was a child. It has a telepathic connection with me, and I can't leave it more than one meter away."

"Once it can't sense my aura, it will become irritable and restless, and then it will not obediently detoxify the Marquis."

What Hongying didn't tell Bai Yunchi was that the poisonous insect had become integral to her life, and they would prosper and suffer together.

If anything happens to the insect, she will die. If anything happens to her, the insect will not be able to survive.

Hongying's words put Bai Yunchi in a dilemma. He could clearly feel Hongying's weakness. If he didn't let her rest, Bai Yunchi was afraid that she would not be able to hold on.

"Someone, go outside and bring in a beauty bed, and prepare some more bedding."

Since Hongying can't leave, she can only rest here.

Soon, the things Bai Yunchi wanted were ready and delivered. Bai Yunchi made the bedding and helped Hongying lie down on the beauty bed.

"Now tell me, what do you need me to do?"

Hongying raised her eyes to look at Baiyunchi and said weakly, "I have used up too much energy and am too tired. I want to sleep for a while."

"You stay here and if I have a nightmare, you must find a way to wake me up."

"Because if I fall into a nightmare and can't wake up, it will be dangerous."

"Okay, I understand. You can sleep peacefully. I'm not going anywhere. I'm here to watch over you and the Marquis."

Bai Yunchi felt distressed when he saw Hongying's current state. Putting aside Hongying's identity, she was just a weak girl.

"Can you take some supplements? Here are some ginseng slices. Although they are not hundred-year-old ginseng, they are still several decades old."

When Bai Yunchi was young, he was weak and sickly and would faint easily. At that time, his mother would boil ginseng water and feed it to him.

Over time, this became a tradition of the Bai family. Although as Bai Yunchi grew older, his habit of fainting had improved.

However, because Mrs. Bai was worried that he might faint again at any time, she made some ginseng slices and asked him to carry them with him so that they could be used when necessary.

"Okay." Hongying is very weak now. She not only needs rest, but also energy replenishment.

Bai Yunchi took out a small box from his sleeve, took out ginseng slices from it, and put two slices into Hongying's mouth.