Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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It took Li Yuebai several days to accept the fact that Murong Nan was also a time traveller.
These days, the weather had been getting warmer and the sun was shining brightly. The two of them were walking in the imperial garden, and there was no one around.
“Which world are you from?” Li Yuebai asked in a low voice.
“I don’t remember.” Murong Nan said.
“Who were you before?”
“I don’t remember.”
“How many worlds have you travelled through?”
“I don’t remember.”
“Do you have a system?”
“No.”
“What’s your name?”
“I don’t remember.”
Li Yuebai felt a little pity for this child.
“Then…what do you remember?” Li Yuebai asked carefully.
“A number, forty-two.” Murong Nan said casually, and at the same time observed Li Yuebai’s expression. Seeing that he was indeed at a loss, he stopped asking.
Murong Nan travelled through when he was unconscious, and as soon as he woke up, he accepted all the memories in the original owner’s brain.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, Murong Nan and Li Yuebai had already exposed many details to each other during this period of time, and their cooperation with each other was too tacit, which seemed abnormal. Fortunately, the two were teammates, so it was better to expose this fact.
“Since you are not the original owner, why do you have feelings for Yun Weizhi…” Li Yuebai’s face was already red after he finished this half sentence.
The original owner loved Yun Weizhi, and it was normal for him to have a crush on Yun Weizhi, but you… don’t have to imitate so much, right?
“Oh? Is there?” The prince was expressionless and refused to admit it.
Forget it, adolescent boys…
Li Yuebai turned his face away and avoided this topic.
Whether it was the original Murong Nan or the current Murong Nan, he felt that they were just adolescent boys. It was normal for them to be impulsive and have wild thoughts about love and sex. The object may be the same sex or the opposite sex. Maybe he will calm down after a while.
After avoiding the emotional drama, the two discussed the task again-the tasks of the two were similar, both to save themselves and defeat the villains.
“Keep working hard.” Li Yuebai said.
This sentence was too modern, and it sounded a bit weird in this world, but it could be said in front of Murong Nan.
“Yeah.”
With Chun Tao as a witness, Li Yuebai became more and more relieved about Concubine Qian, and shifted the focus to Shan Hengxin and Zhao Ne.
Next, these two people must lose the emperor’s trust.
March 3, Shangsi Festival was here.
Shangsi Festival was a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor. It was a traditional festival that the Great Duan Dynasty attached great importance to. On this day, the emperor would lead all the ministers to hold a ceremony to worship the Yellow Emperor. After the ceremony, the whole palace would celebrate, and martial arts competitions and other events would be held. The ladies could also enter the palace to pay their respects to the queen.
Shan Hengxin was about to leave Shangjing and return to the northwest battlefield. Before leaving, he took the opportunity of Shangsi Festival to enter the palace to meet the emperor and receive the emperor’s order.
Looking at the lively scene in the palace, Li Yuebai recalled the development of the original plot.
In the original plot, Shan Hengxin participated in the Shangsi Festival competition in the palace, defeated three strong men in a row, and won the emperor’s praise. The civil officials could not help but praise General Shan for being a famous general on the battlefield and a young hero, and saying that he would definitely be able to defend the border for the Great Duan Dynasty in the future.
As for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince… he did not participate in the competition at all. The reason was very simple. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thought that the competition in front of the palace was just a child’s play, just like playing with monkeys. It was just a waste of time in front of his father and the ministers, and there was no honor to speak of. However, the Great Duan Dynasty was a martial dynasty, and the emperor also liked to watch the competition. If it could be shown, it would only be beneficial and harmless.
This time, some changes were needed.
“Your Royal Highness.” Li Yuebai suggested: “The Shangsi Festival competition in front of the palace…”
“I won’t participate.” Murong Nan refused without hesitation.
His idea was the same as the original owner, and he felt that there was no need to please his father.
“If you don’t want to go, I won’t force you.” Li Yuebai smiled and said, “I just think that Shan Hengxin is about to go to the northwest border, and this time the opportunity to make him look bad is really rare…”
“Oh?” Murong Nan raised his eyebrows, as if he had a hint of interest.
“Shan Hengxin has received martial arts education since he was a child, so his martial arts skills are naturally not bad, but they are not that strong either.” Li Yuebai said, “The three strong men he defeated in the original plot… two of them are elites in the Jinyiwei, and one is from the Beijing Guard Camp. The first two are Zhao Ne’s men, and the latter is also closely related to the Shan family.”
“Do you suspect that the three of them deliberately lost to Shan Hengxin?” Murong Nan said.
“It’s not just a suspicion, the system told me exactly that Shan Hengxin won unfairly.” Li Yuebai said, “Those three people deliberately lost, and their skills were very clever. Even experts couldn’t see the strangeness, but the system could analyze it.”
“Interesting.” Murong Nan’s smile deepened.
Of course, he didn’t like this kind of monkey-playing martial arts competition in front of the palace, but it would be interesting if he could make some unexpected achievements and make Shan Hengxin suffer a loss.
The ceremony of worshiping the Yellow Emperor ended, and at noon, the martial arts competition in front of the palace began.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sat quietly beside the emperor, his face calm and silent.
Shan Hengxin, holding a wooden sword, walked up to the stage step by step and saluted the emperor from a distance.
In order to prevent accidental injuries, wooden weapons were used in the martial arts competition in front of the palace, and the competition was usually stopped at the right time.
The emperor frowned, turned his head and asked the crown prince: “Are you still unwilling to participate in the martial arts competition?”
The emperor knew the crown prince’s character, and asking such a question this time was also a routine matter, and he did not expect to hear a positive answer.
Unexpectedly, the prince suddenly stood up and bowed, saying, “Your Highness is willing.”
“Oh?” The emperor was quite surprised, and the gloom in his heart dissipated a little: “Who do you want to fight?”
“Your Highness has heard that General Shan is a great leader in the northwest and is a pillar of the country.” The prince’s tone was full of confidence: “I am willing to fight with the pillar of the country.”
“Okay.” The emperor nodded.
After two incense sticks of time, the competition was over.
Whether it was the emperor or the ministers, they were slightly surprised – His Royal Highness the Prince won a great victory, and Shan Hengxin was beaten without any chance to fight back.
Li Yuebai sat among the musicians, looking from afar at Shan Hengxin being pointed at the throat by Murong Nan’s wooden sword, and couldn’t help but shout in his heart.
However, there was also a faint worry in his heart.
“System.” Li Yuebai said worriedly: “Were we too aggressive this time?”
“The prince is the prince, what does it matter if he is a little aggressive?” The system replied.
“But the emperor doesn’t favor the prince to begin with. Now, will he think that the prince has become too powerful and is in danger of usurping the throne…” Li Yuebai regretted, “It’s all my fault. I was too aggressive.”
“On the contrary.” The system said, “What the emperor wants is a strong successor.”
Li Yuebai suppressed his uneasiness and began to observe the emperor’s expression carefully.
There was a hint of smile in the emperor’s eyes when he looked at the prince. Then he glanced at Shan Hengxin and frowned.
Now, the northwest was still unstable. At this time, the matter the emperor was most worried about was not whether His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was powerful or not, but whether the generals he used were really capable.
Shan Hengxin… he was afraid he was far from enough.
“Host, congratulations.” The system said, “You have planted a seed of distrust of Shan Hengxin in the emperor’s heart.”
“I hope so.” Li Yuebai said.
He looked at the sun and found that it was almost time. He got up in a hurry and walked towards the Queen’s Yuanheng Palace under the guidance of the eunuchs.
At this time, the ladies were about to pay their respects to the queen, and Zhao Ne’s wife Shan Lan was among them.
He had to observe from the side and find out Shan Lan’s flaws.
After Li Yuebai arrived at Yuanheng Palace, he knelt down behind the curtain in a corner and took out the Jiaowei Qin and placed it on the table in front of him. There were quite a lot of ladies, and paying their respects to the queen one by one would inevitably make the queen tired, so the queen had ordered the Music Master Yun to wait here and play relaxing music at any time.
After Shan Lan appeared, Li Yuebai’s sensitive nerves were mobilized and he observed carefully.
In fact, he might not be able to observe anything, but he just didn’t want to miss a great opportunity.
Earlier at the celebration banquet of the Shan family, he had seen Shan Lan once, and she didn’t leave a deep impression. He only saw that Shan Lan was not as sharp as Concubine Hui, and not as scheming as Concubine Hui, and maybe she would be another breakthrough point.
Sure enough, the queen chatted with Shan Lan for a while and then rubbed her temples tiredly.
Seeing this, the aunt beside the queen hurriedly winked at Li Yuebai.
It was time to play music again.
Li Yuebai smiled and played “The Sound of the Heavenly Maiden”.
This was a Buddhist music piece. When played with the guqin, the tone was too sonorous and seemed a bit weird. Li Yuebai tried his best to lower the voice and lighten the intensity to stabilize the tone in a comfortable state.
The queen believed in Buddhism. After hearing such Sanskrit music, she couldn’t help but breathe steadily, her heart also calmed, and her eyes became slightly closed.
Seeing the queen like this, Shan Lan didn’t dare to neglect it either. She also sat firmly and listened to the Sanskrit music.
Soon, she was also attracted by the music.
The music showed the scene of the blissful western heaven. The heavenly maidens greeted the ascenders with compassionate smiles. There was endless golden light everywhere, and a peaceful atmosphere…
Li Yuebai guided Shan Lan to indulge in the Sanskrit music step by step, and when she was immersed in the deepest, he turned suddenly.
The scene changed. The peaceful Paradise suddenly turned into a terrifying hell. The goddess, who was originally smiling kindly, suddenly changed into a ferocious look. She seemed to be questioning and rebuking the world, saying that the world was deeply sinful and could not go to Paradise, but could only fall into the Avici Hell…
Shan Lan was startled and opened her eyes.
The queen was so perceptive that she couldn’t help laughing when she saw Shan Lan panicking: “It’s okay. Although this music is scary, as long as you don’t do anything wrong in your life, you will be blessed by the gods and Buddhas.”
Don’t do anything wrong in your life…
Shan Lan looked at the southeast direction with fear in her eyes, then lowered her head and whispered: “Your Majesty is right.”
Southeast direction?
The music stopped, Shan Lan also finished paying respects, bowed to the queen, and left with the help of the maid.
When she was about to walk out of the room, Li Yuebai gently plucked the strings of the zither, causing them to make an eerie sound similar to the cry of a ghost in the middle of the night. The sound was low, as if it came from a very far distance.
Shan Lan trembled and almost kicked the door sill. She raised her head in fear and glanced at the southeast corner again.
After walking out of the door, she still couldn’t help asking the maid: “Did you hear any sound just now?”
“No…” the maid replied.
Li Yuebai had already noted down Shan Lan’s reactions one by one.
Shan Lan was frightened twice, and it was obvious that she was guilty.
When she felt guilty, her first reaction was to look towards the southeast corner… What was there?
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