It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 713 How Can You Usurp the Imperial Authority?

"Yes." Yufen answered firmly, "I am now a servant of the Yang family."

"Okay." Liu Yao lowered his head and looked at her, then suddenly laughed again, "You guys are really nice to my third sister."

"She is the master." Yufen replied again.

But at this moment, Yang Xianrong suddenly felt chilled, and she could not help but clench her fists when she noticed that Liu Yao's tone was different. She suddenly realized that she had exceeded her authority.

During the whole thing, she forgot that Liu Yao was a sane emperor and a decisive emperor, but she was still using the methods she used to deal with the fool emperor Sima Zhong. She was exercising the emperor's power on behalf of the emperor, doing things secretly behind the scenes, and even pulling out his closest followers.

For a moment, Yang Xianrong even wondered, could it be that Liu Yao knew everything Liu Gu did?

I couldn't help but shudder all over, feeling a little strange in my heart.

But at this moment, Liu Yao had already snatched the long knife from the guard beside him and stabbed it straight into Yufen's heart.

Yufen probably didn't expect Liu Yao to take action. She opened her eyes wide, looked down at the long knife stuck in her heart, and asked with all her strength, "Why do you want to kill me?"

"You know too much." Liu Yao held the long sword in his hand, but his face was full of smiles. "There should be no more embroidered robe messengers in this world. You are the last one."

Then he drew out his long sword.

Yufen's blood was brought out by the long knife and splashed far away.

Yang Xianrong didn't say anything, but Cui Xi and Yang Xiankang behind her both shouted, "Your Majesty!"

"What? Can't you kill him?" Liu Yao returned the long sword to the guard beside him and glanced at Mao Hongbin. "Remember, there will be no more embroidered robe messengers in the world. Your girl also said so."

"Yes." Mao Hongbin had already bent over and stood up, no longer as relaxed as before.

"If it weren't for her, the whole thing wouldn't have been resolved." Yang Xianrong spoke, her voice unusually hoarse.

"I said she knows too much." Liu Yao repeated.

"If she didn't know many things, she wouldn't be able to do this." Yang Xianrong wanted to take a step forward, but was held back by Cui Xi. She had no choice but to continue, "Yufen is a servant of the Yang family."

"So?" Liu Yao also smiled and looked at Yang Xianrong, "Can't I kill her?"

"Then you should at least ask for my opinion first?" Yang Xianrong looked unhappy.

"All the people and things in Chang'an City belong to me. Don't I have the right to deal with them?" Liu Yao still kept smiling, but that smile no longer had the intimacy of the past, but rather a sense of alienation.

Even Yang Xiankang saw the clues, reached out and grabbed the corner of Yang Xianrong's clothes, and whispered: "Third sister, what the emperor said is right, it's okay, it's okay."

"Yes." Yang Xianrong also laughed, "Your Majesty is right."

"It's good that you know." Liu Yao was also smiling. He looked at the house again and asked Xu Henian, "Master Xu, is this house a Yin-Yang house? If so, it would be too bad. I want the Yang family to move out as well. Don't let anything go wrong."

Xu Henian's expression also changed, "It's just made up, not true." "Oh." Liu Yao nodded, "Then next time Master Xu speaks, I will also carefully distinguish it."

Hearing Liu Yao say this, Yang Xianrong couldn't help but say, "It's just to solve the case, why does the emperor take it seriously?"

"I was just talking, why should the Queen take it seriously?" Liu Yao glanced at Yang Xianrong, "Everything has been resolved, Queen, please go back to the palace and rest. You are pregnant, you can't work so hard."

"...Okay, okay." Yang Xiankang responded on behalf of Yang Xianrong. He and Cuixi, one on each side, carried Yang Xianrong and walked out. However, the two men only took Yang Xianrong back to the Yang family and did not enter the palace.

Liu Yao did not say anything, but just squinted his eyes and looked at the backs of the three of them. After a moment, he said to Mao Hongbin: "Since you are the one who did this, you should finish it. No one from the Ye family will be left alive. Don't they have a daughter and son-in-law? Where are they? Did you set up this trap?"

"Yes. He is in the prison outside the city." Mao Hongbin also clenched his fists secretly.

"Kill them." Liu Yao swung his sleeves, "Just announce it to the world as the Queen just said. These porcelain figurines... it's such a pity, let's smash them all."

"Yes." Mao Hongbin, Yuan Jianshuo and Guo Jin answered respectfully, and respectfully saw Liu Yao off out of the Ye family's gate and back to the palace.

They did not dare to delay and went to do their work separately.

Xu Henian stood in front of the corpses of the hundred or so people, feeling a bit dazed. He recited scriptures silently, but felt that it had no effect at all, because his own heart was in chaos, and he even felt a little frightened and uneasy.

The Yang family was even more nervous. Yang Xiankang's face looked very bad. He asked in a low voice: "Third sister, what happened to Brother Liu? Why did he suddenly change his attitude? We were helping him investigate the case, why does it seem like we are wrong now?"

Cui Xi helped Yang Xianrong sit down and poured her a cup of hot water.

The three of them sat in Yang Xiankang's dormitory. With only one candle lit, it was extremely dark.

Yang Xianrong took a sip of hot water and looked at Yang Xiankang. Her black and white eyes were filled with sadness. Yang Xiankang was so scared that he squatted down and took her hand and said, "What's wrong? It's okay. If something happened, my second brother is here!"

Yang Xianrong's hands were shaking a little, but she didn't say anything, just closed her eyes.

Cui Xi had already knelt down and asked in a low voice, "Shall I go and call Zhang Zongguan and Daxi over?"

"No need, let's go back to the palace first." Yang Xianrong shook her head, "Bring me some liquor, and if there's any braised meat or something, that's fine too."

"Why?" Yang Xiankang's voice was a little louder. "Third sister, why don't you stay at home tonight?"

"No need." Yang Xianrong closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she had hidden her sadness. "I want to go back. The emperor is still waiting for me."

"Brother Liu..." Yang Xiankang opened his mouth, but Yang Xianrong interrupted him immediately, "Second brother, he is the emperor now, don't call him Brother Liu anymore, never, ever, remember."

"Okay." Yang Xiankang nodded solemnly, but he felt a lump in his throat and was about to cry. It was as if at this moment, he understood.

After all, it was all because of the imperial power. They were careless and thought that Yang Xianrong could do many things by relying on Liu Yao's favor. But this time, they touched Liu Yao's Achilles' heel, and he always claimed that his imperial power was a last resort, and that it was those people who asked him to be the emperor, not what he wanted.

The difference is indeed huge.

When did Liu Yao start this big game of chess?