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Chapter 242: Changes in the World (Please subscribe)
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed..
In a spacious palace, Mu Sheng woke up from a bed of more than ten square meters.

He pushed away the arms and buttocks that were pressing on him, and carefully passed through a pair of beautiful legs, before finally getting down to the ground.

"Bang bang bang~"

He tapped the wooden box on the tripod. When he found that the photographer didn't react at all, Mu Sheng lost interest.

"No wonder you didn't respond so quickly. You're such a heartless man!"

During this month, Mu Sheng visited Li Yunqian's home.

At first, Lao Deng's reaction was quite strong. He kept cursing Mu Sheng in his mind. The curse was very ugly.
Later, whether it was due to desensitization or he saw through Mu Sheng's trick, Li Yunqian's reactions became less and less.

There was no reaction at all now, which made Makisho no longer interested in wasting his energy.

"Woman, you don't care anymore, but what about your son?"

As autumn deepens, the gorgeous flowers begin to wither, and the green grass begins to lose its vitality. The withered yellow leaves are swaying on the branches, and only a slight breeze can make them fall.

The entire city of Kyoto also seemed much more desolate, especially because of the war compensation, which brought negative impacts to all aspects of Qing Kingdom.

The upper-level bureaucrats and dignitaries may not have noticed it yet, but the common people at the bottom of Qing Kingdom have already realized that life seems to be getting more and more difficult.

In a manor outside Kyoto, a conversation is taking place.

"Strange, strange, your Majesty's recent behavior is very abnormal!
He no longer took care of state affairs, and spent every day wandering among the concubines in the harem, even going so far as to sleep with several concubines at the same time.

Eunuch Hou was beaten with fifty sticks just for giving some advice, and he still cannot get out of bed and walk.

The court officials haven’t seen His Majesty for a month!

Strange, strange."

Lin Ruofu paced back and forth in the room, unable to understand how the Emperor Qing, who used to be so wise, shrewd, and even scheming, could become like this?
"Could it be that the fall of Cangzhou and the death of Grandmaster Ye Liuyun were too much of a blow to Your Majesty, so you just gave up and gave up everything?"

"But even if Qing is growing and declining, Qing is still far from being at the end of its rope, right?"

Why is this so?
Lin Ruofu was full of confusion and bewilderment. Until now, he had never doubted whether his Majesty had been replaced.

After all, even if it is disguise, it is just to modify a person's appearance with some wigs, paints, etc. It is impossible to change the body shape.

As the ruler of a country, Emperor Qing was served by palace maids when he bathed. Whenever there was any unusual change in his body, the imperial physician would come to diagnose him immediately.

Therefore, Lin Ruofu would rather suspect that Emperor Qing's temperament changed drastically after being stimulated, and he did not consider whether his identity was replaced by someone else.

"Your Majesty's abnormality appeared after the temple celebration, right?" Chen Pingping, sitting in a wheelchair, said with a gloomy face.

“Yes, on the night you returned from the Qing Temple, Your Majesty went to sleep in the Queen’s bedroom.

Since the Taiping Courtyard incident, Your Majesty has not slept in the Queen's bedroom for more than ten years, and Your Majesty has never left the harem since then."

Lin Ruofu thought of Emperor Qing's ridiculous behavior over the past month and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "This behavior is totally not the emperor I know!"

"Maybe, it's really not?" Chen Pingping said suddenly.

"What do you mean it's really not?" Lin Ruofu didn't react for a moment. After a moment's silence, he suddenly widened his eyes and trembled in astonishment, "What do you mean?"

"Just as Prime Minister Lin thinks, I suspect that the one in the harem now is no longer our Majesty!" Chen Pingping's straightforward words dealt a heavy blow to Lin Ruofu.

"How is this possible, Dean Chen? This is not something that can be speculated in secret. Moreover, your speculation is too absurd. How could His Majesty not be His Majesty?"

Lin Ruofu shook his head in shock, not wanting to believe Chen Pingping's guess at all: "I know a little bit about the art of disguise in the martial arts world, but it's impossible to completely disguise yourself as another person.

Moreover, apart from his absurd behavior and decadent political affairs, the rest of his words and deeds in the past month have been no different from before.

And there are so many concubines. If, if your Majesty's identity is different, it is impossible to hide it from these people!
Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

"It's true that the disguise techniques in the martial arts world can't be done, but that doesn't mean other means can't be done." Chen Pingping's eyes became more profound.

"Other means? What other means? Do you think your Supervisory Commission has some means to completely transform a person into another person?" Lin Ruofu was somewhat reluctant to argue with Chen Pingping on this issue.

The most important thing now is to find a way to maintain the situation in the court, and to prevent the absence of Emperor Qing from causing the conflict between the Crown Prince and the Second Prince to escalate.

"The Supervisory Commission can't do it," Chen Pingping shook his head.

Just as Lin Ruofu opened his mouth, he heard Chen Pingping continue: "But just because the Supervisory Council can't do it doesn't mean that others can't do it either."

If it were in the past, Chen Pingping would never have said such a thing.

The Supervisory Council, founded by the legendary woman Ye Qingmei, possessed the world's most advanced technology and martial arts. Chen Pingping was confident that if even the Supervisory Council could not do something, then no one else in the world could do it.

But now it’s different. There are too many things in this world that he cannot understand.

Chen Pingping's affirmative tone also calmed Lin Ruofu down. After thinking for a while, he pointed to the north uncertainly and said, "Are you talking about the Siming Divine Religion?"

"Yes, it is the Northern Qi national religion!" Chen Pingping nodded and said, "Before the Siming Divine Religion came into being, who could have imagined that there would be these monsters in this world that could not be killed by knives or stabbed by swords?"

"It started with the secret investigation of Yan Bingyun's death. First, the Supervisory Council's organization in Northern Qi was wiped out, and Shadow suffered a great loss when he was evacuating them."

When Chen Pingping said this, the shadow standing quietly behind him couldn't help but touch his broken arm.

Although he lost half of his arm due to carelessness, the fact that a ninth-rank master could be injured due to carelessness was enough to show how difficult these cult warriors were to deal with.

'One more time, I won't lose again!'

"Then came the battle of Cangzhou. Yulong City fell in one day, and Grandmaster Ye Liuyun died after escaping." Chen Pingping looked at Lin Ruofu seriously: "Isn't all this enough to illustrate the mystery and terror of the Siming Divine Religion?"

“If someone told me now that the Sima Shen Cult has the means to completely transform a person into another person.

I won’t doubt it!”

"This, this..." Lin Ruofu began to believe Chen Pingping's guess. After all, Emperor Qing's behavior in the past month was too abnormal.

Once he had this doubt, Lin Ruofu's heart could no longer calm down.

If Chen Pingping's guess is true, doesn't it mean that the person staying in the harem during this period was not Emperor Qing himself?
Lin Ruofu felt numb all over!

Empress, Consort Ning, Consort Shu, Consort Yi
These are all the mothers of the princes, plus the concubines in the other three palaces and six courtyards.

Lin Ruofu couldn't even imagine how many times Emperor Qing had been cuckolded. He could open a shop just with these cuckolds, right?
Thinking about the crown prince and other princes who had suddenly gained a father, Lin Ruofu was shocked to realize that if this matter were to be exposed, the impact on the Qing Kingdom would probably be no less than the fall of Cangzhou.

What a shocking scandal, what a shocking scandal of the royal family!
And more importantly, if the person sitting on the dragon throne now is a member of the Northern Qi Siming Divine Sect, then what is the point of their fighting with Northern Qi!
Lin Ruofu could already imagine that when the front-line troops were fighting the enemy in close combat, several imperial edicts suddenly came from the rear to retreat. Why fight anymore? Just surrender the whole country to Northern Qi!
“Dean Chen, this matter is really too horrifying. Do you know how much harm it will bring to Qing Country?

If President Chen does not have solid evidence, I am sorry that I cannot agree with you! "

Although reason told Lin Ruofu that this was true, his emotions still made him unwilling to believe this cruel truth.

"Evidence." Chen Pingping's face suddenly turned ugly, and he seemed to speak with extra force: "I have it!"

"You have?"

"Yes! I have." Chen Pingping took a deep breath, prepared himself mentally, and then spoke slowly.

This story began more than ten years ago. During the Northern Expedition, Chen Pingping and Ning Cairen, who was a female slave at the time, fell in love with each other by chance.

But later, in order to control Chen Pingping, Emperor Qing deliberately took in Concubine Ning.

The flaws of Emperor Qing this time were also revealed to Chen Pingping by Ning Cairen.

Her words can be translated as this person has an abnormal body shape, and compared to him, Emperor Qing is like a firefly to the bright sun, or grass to pine and cypress.

If Ning Cairen hadn't looked ordinary, this person didn't seem to be very interested. Ning Cairen almost thought that his internal organs were going to rupture and he would die.

Who can understand how Chen Pingping felt when she heard this?
Although he was a eunuch, and although Ye Qingmei was the most important person in his heart, Chen Pingping still felt indescribable discomfort when he heard Concubine Ning telling him these things in a serious manner.

At this moment, he resonated with Emperor Qing!
"I didn't expect that Dean Chen actually had such a past."

Lin Ruofu looked at Chen Pingping in surprise. He didn't expect that this old eunuch had such a relationship with the emperor's concubine.

Why are all the melons he ate today related to Emperor Qing’s concubines?
You two are all cheating on Emperor Qing, this is really going too far!
Emperor Qing: Green hats? How many do you want? We have plenty in the store.

But it was precisely because of this that he believed Chen Pingping's words even more. After all, this was like handing evidence to him.

“Even so, this is just Dean Chen’s personal opinion. It is impossible for Lin to question your Majesty’s identity based on this alone, and the court officials will not believe it.

Moreover, since this person was able to take over the identity of His Majesty under the protection of the Imperial Guards, it is definitely not something that an ordinary ninth-rank official can do."

Lin Ruofu was a little evasive and said, "If it is really that Dean Chen, even if he confirms that Your Majesty's identity is different, what can we do?"

“I have my own plans for this matter.”

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The two chatted for a long time before Chen Pingping left the manor under Shadow's protection.

Looking at the convoy going away surrounded by the black cavalry, Lin Ruofu suddenly felt a little lost. The world seemed to be becoming more and more unfamiliar.

An autumn breeze blew, and Lin Ruofu sneezed in excitement: "The weather has changed, I should put on more clothes."

Kyoto, Zuixianju.

Si Lili knelt on the couch, grabbing the front paws of a black kitten with both hands and shaking it back and forth.

"Little guy, do you know where your master has gone? Why hasn't there been any news for so long?"

"Meow~"

The kitten cried in a baby voice, then retracted its claws and pulled them out of Si Lili's hand.

Then it rushed out with a whoosh, like a black lightning, bursting everywhere in the room.

It appeared on the beam, then under the table, and then next to Si Lili, making her dizzy.

"Stop running, stop now."

Si Lili found out somewhat helplessly that she couldn't even catch a kitten.

It’s bad enough that the owner comes and goes without a trace, but why is it so hard to catch even his pet?

"Boom boom boom!"

Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside the room.

The kitten seemed to be frightened and jumped into Si Lili's arms.

"Come in!"

Si Lili said casually, looking at the kitten in her arms with joy, and put her head close to it to suck it hard.

A man dressed as a servant came in from outside, knelt on one knee and said, "Master Si Lili, several masters from Shangjing City have arrived."

Si Lili's eyes lit up when she heard this: "Are you a warrior of the Divine Religion? Come in!"

"Yes."

The servant took the order and left. Soon, several honest-looking men, who looked like farmers who had worked in the fields all their lives, came in.

As soon as a few people came in, the kitten in Si Lili's arms jumped out again, stepped on their heads, and then went back in.

After seeing the kitten, the few people smiled kindly on their honest faces.

"Lord Si Lili, our master has ordered that we will follow your orders during our time in Kyoto." said an honest man in the lead.

Are these the warriors of the Divine Cult? The warriors of the Divine Cult who can break through the formation alone and easily capture a city? They don't look like that at all!
Si Lili could not see any trace of the cult warriors in these people. If she saw them outside, she would just think they were farmers working the land.

"Are you the only ones?"

"In addition to the four of us, there are another twenty people who have sneaked into Kyoto. There are also the twelve people who came with the delegation before. They will all obey your command."

That’s thirty-six. Northern Qi only dispatched this many warriors of the Divine Religion to capture Cangzhou.

Si Lili felt inexplicably inflated, as if she could take over Kyoto just by waving her hand.

"Ahem." Si Lili gathered her wandering thoughts and said seriously, "Based on our cooperation with Li Yunrui, the eldest princess of Qing.

Next we have to assist her in completing the coup, and also kill Si Nanbo's son, Fan Xian."

(End of this chapter)