Long live Emperor Wu!

Prince Li Shan had been standing by. After hearing this, he looked up and asked:
"Father wants to execute Xia Yu?"

"What's wrong? Are you asking for mercy? Do you think I'm too cruel?" The emperor asked casually without raising his eyes.

"No." Li Shan said immediately, but he glanced at Wu Rou, took a deep breath and exhaled, as if he had made some kind of determination, and said:

"Father, I believe that the martial artist is no longer suitable to serve in the Wude Hall, so we should ask her to return to the harem to assist the noble concubine."

The emperor then looked up at him in surprise and asked:
"Why? She's not Xia Yu. She does a good job of keeping to herself."

Wu Rou knelt down beside the emperor, her beautiful eyebrows slightly turned to the stage, looking at him with resentment and hatred, also waiting for him to speak.

Prince Li Shan did not look at her, but said directly:

"She is older and has not been promoted for a long time. She is driven by profit and wants but does not get what she wants, so it is easy for her to think of evil ways and go astray..."

When Wu Rou heard this, she suddenly felt a surge of anger in her heart. She felt wronged as if she had been stabbed in the back by the person she trusted the most. For the first time, she didn't know what to measure, so she excitedly interjected:
"Your Highness, have I ever offended you? How dare you slander me like this?!"

Li Shan's jaw tightened slightly, but he still stubbornly refused to look at her. Instead, he looked directly at Aye, with a stubborn and stubborn attitude, and continued:

"She hasn't done anything yet, and there's no guarantee what will happen in the future. Father, I'm worried about having such a selfish, short-sighted person next to you.

Furthermore, considering that Wu Cairen has worked hard for so many years without any merit, it is also kind to not give her the opportunity to do something wrong and let her end up being sentenced to death. "

"Your Majesty, I didn't!" Seeing him like this, Wu Rou felt anxious and angry. She drooped her eyebrows and looked at the emperor with great grievance.

The emperor looked at Prince Li Shan in surprise again and said:

"Ha... this is the most decisive and sophistry of your advice in so many years. OK, although I don't agree with it, since the prince is so insistent, I will follow your wishes."

He turned to look at Wu Rou and said a little apologetically:

"Girl, go ahead and don't come here again."

Wu Rou bit her lips in hatred, her beautiful eyes becoming more and more resentful.

As she stood up and left, she glared at the prince hatefully, but the prince Li Shan lowered his eyebrows, with a hint of anger on his face, but did not look at her.

Wu Rou stood up, bowed dignifiedly and solemnly, and walked out of the hall.

With this departure, it will be difficult to see the emperor again, not to mention the prince Li Shan. He is her enemy now, so don't expect him to help her!

Thinking of this, Wu Rou was unwilling to give in, her heart was pounding in her heart, she suddenly turned around, walked back a few steps, knelt on the ground, cupped her hands and said:

"Your Majesty...Arou has a request, and I hope your Majesty will grant it."

The emperor sighed, as if helpless, and said:
"Are you going to be promoted again?"

Prince Li Shan suddenly remembered the nonsense Wu Rou said, saying that she insisted on being the queen mother, and suddenly became nervous, and was about to speak to stop her from speaking out.

Wu Rou conveniently denied it:
"No!... Ah Rou is not that selfish, disrespectful and unruly person. Since His Majesty does not agree, His Majesty naturally has his reasons, and Ah Rou accepts it.

What Ah Rou wants to say is, Your Majesty, I am old and have no heirs. I often want a child by my side to relieve my loneliness. Since Xia Yu will be sentenced to death after giving birth, the child is pitiful. Can you leave it to me? Raise? "

The emperor lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, and said indifferently:
"Okay. Let's wait until the baby is born. Now, these are all things that are out of the question."

Wu Rou was immediately happy, bowed her head gratefully and said:

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron!"

The emperor did not expect such a big reaction from her, and looked at her in surprise before saying:

"Go." Wu Rou took the order and left happily.

Li Shan looked at her leaving figure and fell into deep thought.

He knew that Wu Rou would not use that aphrodisiac incense to seduce him, but why was he so sure?

First of all, she was not that stupid or reckless in his mind, especially because she was not that kind of person.

Therefore, he has always firmly believed that she kept the piece of incense and even got close to Xia Yu, just to "learn lessons" and gain His Majesty's favor.

But the way she finally got her wish just now didn't look like it was just a whim...

He seems to have misunderstood her.

"Xiao Jiu, I heard that you and that girl had a quarrel in front of Wude Hall yesterday because of that Xia Yu?" the emperor suddenly asked casually.

Li Shan suddenly came out of his reverie, said "hmm", and said with lowered eyebrows:
"There is some misunderstanding... I thought... that she and Xia Yu were in the same group and were going to be harmful to my father."

When the emperor heard this, he raised his eyes, sneered at himself as if recalling something, and suddenly asked:
"Am I getting old and confused in your eyes, becoming a paper tiger?"

Li Shan was shocked and asked:

"Why did my father suddenly say this? I never meant it, I was just worried."

The emperor leaned back on the soft pillow and said mockingly:
"I'm not talking about you... I'm just lamenting that no matter what kind of little people now dare to make plans over my head. That Xia Qiang, who is not even a small fish, dares to use medicine on me."

When Li Shan heard this, his eyebrows showed a little sadness, and he said softly:

"That's just the boldness of ignorant people, not because my father is old."

"It's just because I'm old... I'm old, and my whole body exudes the smell of decay, so I attracted these ants. If it were back then, when I was as old as you, everyone would look at me and regard me as a jade strongman. Crossbow, afraid of the horizontal knife in my hand.

Even the opponents on the battlefield are running away, not to mention these ignorant ants, they are even retreating! "

As he spoke, his sharp eagle eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he was suffering. He suddenly relaxed again, looked into the void and sighed again:
"Hey...I'm old..."

Li Shan felt extremely uncomfortable after hearing this. His eyes gradually became moist, and he pursed his lips, not knowing what to say.

The emperor looked at him and saw that he had his head lowered and looked sad, so he comforted him and said:
"But don't I have a son? My son is filial and always thinks about me. What will happen even if I am old?! I have my son to protect me, right?"

When Li Shan heard this, he suddenly raised his head, pursed his lips and almost shed tears, and said solemnly:
"Yes."

……

……

In December, Xia Yu gave birth prematurely.

Wu Rou rushed over, even more anxious than the emperor's Aye, and waited outside the room, pacing back and forth, listening to people inside shouting "Your Majesty, I want to see your Majesty."

Then there was a burst of heart-rending crying.

Her footsteps suddenly stopped, looking at the invisible door, there was a kind of sadness that a thing would harm its own kind.

His Majesty's decree to kill her could not have been made while she was still pregnant, but rumors had already leaked out.

As for Xia Yu, she didn't believe the rumors. She still didn't believe that the emperor had indulged her so much, ignored her and ignored her, and wanted her to die even if he said he wanted her to die. (End of chapter)