Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 920 "What a pity"

Zhang Dexian didn’t know how such a child grew up, and he didn’t know what kind of family would adopt a child so disabled.

But he knew that things would turn out like this, in the end it was all because of his own thought... If he hadn't felt compassion at that time, the child would most likely not have survived, and naturally he would not have grown up to the point where he could threaten His Majesty's life. Zhang Dexian knelt down trembling, pulled the emperor's hand towards his face, and while beating him, he confessed with tears in his eyes, "Your Majesty... It's all my fault. I put Your Highness in the farmer's pigpen without telling Your Majesty. I harmed Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please beat me to death!"

Your Highness? Li Yiwei looked up suddenly, "Lin Yi, you are——"

The question came out of his mouth, and then stopped abruptly. He looked at Lin Yi with his mouth wide open, then looked at the emperor. Finally, he opened his mouth several times, his voice hoarse, "Father, he is... he is my son's younger brother?"

The emperor leaned against the pillow, closed his eyes, and didn't speak for a long time. One of his hands was still held by Zhang Dexian, and he slapped the other's cheek again and again, not lightly, but not heavily, but he seemed to be unaware of it, neither asking anyone to stand up nor withdrawing his hand, looking like a body with a soul out of its body, a little helpless, and a little ridiculous.

At that time, the incident caused a big stir, but the relevant personnel who really knew the details had been silenced. Now even the old people in the palace only vaguely know that an unfavored concubine was beaten to death in the back garden because she offended the imperial concubine, leaving only a baby in a cradle. Not long after, the child got smallpox and died... He was a prince, what a pity.

Li Yiwei also talked about this with his mother, who just shook her head and said, "What a pity."

Even though they all guessed that this "smallpox" was not simple, they just felt "a pity". In a place like the palace where people are eaten, a young prince without a mother is even worse than a stray cat under the wall. It would be a miracle if he could grow up safely.

But I didn’t expect... that child was actually Lin Yi.

The emperor said nothing, but nodded slowly with his eyes closed. However, Lin Yi jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He turned around and shouted, "Brother? Prince Pingyang is really kind. I, a person who is neither human nor ghost, dare not try to establish any brotherhood with His Royal Highness the Prince of Jiyue Qingfeng. Besides, His Royal Highness's surname is Li, but mine is Lin. We are not related at all."

When he turned around madly, his horrible jaw was revealed and people gasped all around.

The emperor slowly raised his eyes to look at Lin Yi's back and asked him, "You are now called... Lin Yi? You and Yi Er have met each other a long time ago and know each other? All of this... was done by the two of you in collusion?"

"Father, you are innocent!" Li Yiwei immediately knelt down to clear himself of any connection. "I only know his name is Lin Yi, and I don't know anything else. I have never conspired with him to harm your body. Father, please understand! If I knew that all these were done by Lin Yi, I would have tied him up and sent him to you. How could I let him do this and wantonly kill the king and his father!" The emperor no longer believed Li Yiwei. He re-examined this strange son. After a while, he murmured, "If the killing of the king and the killing of the father has nothing to do with you... then what about the killing of the brother and the killing of the brother? The prince's current fate, do you dare to say that it has nothing to do with you? Yan Xian died in prison, do you dare to say that it has nothing to do with you?"

Li Yiwei knelt there, and looked at the emperor after hearing the words, his expression was full of shock and disappointment that was particularly real and appropriate. "Father, do you think that I have anything to do with these things? Li Yanxian died in prison, and you should know who was responsible. If not, your most admired and beloved prince would not be locked up by you. Besides, your prince, you may have quietly suppressed the things in the basement of the East Palace, but you can't forget about it yourself, right? Did I force him to do those horrific, inhumane, and subversive dirty things?"

"Father, although I know that you have always favored Li Yuqi and treated me harshly, I never thought that you would doubt me to this extent..." After saying this, he lowered his head and smiled bitterly, feeling extremely lonely and sad.

The emperor stared at Li Yiwei for a long time, and then he looked away with an unclear expression. He looked at Lin Yi, who was standing with his arms crossed and looking like he was watching a show, and his voice was obviously more unhappy. "You said you did all this... Tell me, what do you want from me? Money? Power? Lin Yi, you should know that in your current state, it is impossible for you to stand in the court and in front of the people."

What he meant was that you just take some gold, silver and treasures obediently, stop while you are ahead, cure the poison in my body, and I will let bygones be bygones.

Ji Wuyan naturally knew that things couldn't be that simple. Lin Yi was a madman. What he wanted was not gold and silver treasures, but to perish together with his enemies. Ji Wuyan looked in the direction of the bead curtain and nodded secretly at the old man. The old man winked strangely for a while, and when he saw that the other party didn't understand what he meant, he sighed, and he and Shen Qian lightly lifted the bead curtain, stepped out sideways, and then quietly put down the bead curtain without making any sound.

Lin Yi is indeed a madman.

He glanced at the emperor with interest, and then, ignoring everyone's strange looks, he took off his hood in public. Amid exclamations and gasps, he walked towards the emperor with a hearty laugh, as if the act of opening his wounds in front of everyone made him excited.

He pushed away Zhang Dexian who was trying to get up to stop him from approaching the emperor, walked to the bed and looked down at the emperor. Seeing the other party's evasive and disgusted eyes, he laughed, "Your Majesty seems to not understand what I say? Or am I no longer considered a person in your heart? I just said that I don't want money or power. I have been planning for many years and have only one purpose - I want you to watch your sons die one after another! I want you to die! I want your Li family to fall apart!"

"How dare you!" Zhang Dexian got up from the ground and stumbled forward, his hand trembling as he held up the whisk, "How dare you! Too much! Someone, someone come!" He shouted with all his might, sharply and desperately, but in this world of pouring rain, still no one came to rescue him.

Lin Yi lowered his head and saw that he did not push him away again. He let the whisk in the other's hand tremble and hit his arm. After all, this old eunuch gave him one of the few mercy in his life. That little bit of mercy allowed him to survive - although, he did not think that being alive was a good thing.

It's not a good thing for anyone.