Chapter 120: Rage

When Wei Shangshu learned that the prince had gone to Xiangyun Village, he immediately asked the maid to go to the palace to tell Concubine Li.

Concubine Li was in a hurry. After a brief thought, she called the palace maid to change her clothes.

The palace maid wanted to put on makeup for her, but Concubine Li held her hand.

"I won't touch rouge today." Not only that, she looked in the mirror and put some blush on the end of her eyes.

She looked like she had just cried, and she didn't sleep well last night, so she was indeed haggard.

"My queen, where are you going?" The palace maid was puzzled.

Concubine Li said, "Go to Qianyuan Hall to see the emperor."

Now is the time to seize the initiative. She has to convince the emperor to let her third brother off first, and she can't tell the truth.

Concubine Li understands the emperor and knows how to say it to plead for mercy.

She urged the eunuchs carrying the sedan all the way: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

When she arrived outside Qianyuan Hall, Concubine Li reported it and went in.

There was no emperor in the main hall, so Concubine Li walked around the screen and went to the back hall.

Across the mica screen of Longteng Jiuyuan, a figure was seen sitting behind the crystal curtain.

Concubine Li immediately lifted her skirt and knelt down, sobbing: "Your Majesty, you must save my third brother, he was instigated by the traitor and did something wrong!"

Minister Wei and Concubine Li had the idea to push Wei Sanye out when the matter could no longer be covered up.

But they were afraid that the prince would ask for joint punishment, so they planned to lie that someone else instigated Wei Sanye to hire a killer to kill.

Hope to be given a lighter sentence.

Concubine Li felt that she had made a good plan. She pleaded with the emperor earnestly, and when the prince returned to the palace, the matter was a foregone conclusion.

And given the father-son relationship between the prince and the emperor, they would definitely quarrel over this matter.

For her, it was actually a good thing.

As long as their father-son relationship became worse and worse, her son Mo Changgong could live more comfortably.

So Concubine Li cried even more sadly.

"My third brother has been badly harmed, woo woo!"

At this time, a cold and mocking voice came from behind the curtain: "Empress Li, it's too early for you to cry."

Hearing this voice, Concubine Li froze, and the blood in her body flowed backwards.

The two eunuchs lowered their heads and silently stepped forward to open the crystal curtain and move the mica screen.

The emperor behind the curtain was not Mo Lingwei who rushed back to Beijing!

"Ah——!" Concubine Li screamed and fell to the ground, her face terrified.

Why is Mo Lingwei here?

His brother's guards saw the prince's carriage stop at Xiangyun Village with their own eyes!

Mo Lingwei walked down from the couch, and in the middle of his white and red robe, there was a dragon embroidered with gold thread.

In Concubine Li's eyes, the dragon's eyes were cold and staring, with a frightening and fierce look.

Mo Lingwei looked at her expression from the side and poured a glass of water leisurely.

He uttered a chilly sentence from his thin lips: "Empress Li, you don't seem very happy to see this prince?"

The young man lowered his head and took a sip of tea.

He sneered and said: "Why, is this prince a ghost? I scared you like this? Or have you done too many bad things in your daily life and are afraid of everyone you see?"

Empress Li's forehead was covered with cold sweat, as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

She forced herself to be rational and explained in a trembling voice: "It turned out to be Ling Wei...I just didn't expect it to be you, I thought it was the emperor, and it was really against the rules for you to see me in such a mess."

Suspicion flashed in Mo Lingwei's handsome and cold eyes.

He put down the teacup: "My father asked me to wait for him here, do you think I want to stay for a long time?"

Originally, he rushed back to the capital to visit Shen Ningning.

But the emperor sent guards to look for him overnight, so he returned to the palace to hear what was going on.

However, he brought back a lot of new gadgets for Shen Ningning this time, so he asked the guards to pull his carriage to Xiangyun Village to deliver it to the little guy.

Concubine Li was absent-minded, holding on to a chair beside her in a panic, and staggered to her feet: "So that's it..."

Seeing her like this, Mo Lingwei was more certain that she was probably really guilty.

"Since the emperor is not here, I will go back first." Concubine Li wanted to leave.

But Mo Lingwei raised his eyebrows: "Stop."

Concubine Li trembled, and her face turned even paler.

But she had experienced many storms, and she quickly stabilized and turned around: "Lingwei, what else?"

Mo Lingwei slowly walked in front of her. Who could have imagined that a boy who was nearly twelve years old was actually half a head taller than her.

The boy narrowed his eyes: "What did Master Wei San do to make Concubine Li so panicked?"

"Nothing, nothing!" Concubine Li denied it flatly.

Mo Lingwei sneered: "You don't want to say it? Well, I'll send someone to inquire and find out."

Concubine Li was shocked.

If he really had to go and check, the matter might be serious.

"Lingwei, I don't say it because I'm afraid you'll be anxious." Concubine Li thought about it and had an idea in her mind.

"Why would I be anxious?" Mo Lingwei said coldly.

Suddenly, he thought of a possibility.

"Unless this matter is related to Shen Ningning." He didn't even notice that when he said this, his tone was no longer indifferent and willful, but with a kind of rage that was about to get angry.

Concubine Li swallowed her saliva in fear: "Yes... it is half related..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Mo Lingwei suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed her neck.

"Ah——!" Concubine Li screamed, and her hands weakly pulled his arm.

Mo Lingwei's eyes were as dark as the abyss: "Tell me clearly, what's going on?"

Li Fei's face turned red after being pinched, and she wanted to say something but couldn't.

At this moment, the emperor, who had hurried back from the imperial study to talk to his son after discussing political affairs, saw this scene as soon as he entered the door.

The emperor shouted angrily: "Ling Wei! What are you doing? Let go!"

Mo Lingwei looked at him with unabated anger.

"What did you do to Shen Ningning while I was away?"

The emperor hurriedly said: "I have also sent people to investigate. Please let go first, so that I can explain it clearly to you!"

Mo Lingwei glanced at Concubine Li who was pinched in his hand and rolled her eyes.

Finally, he dropped his hand and threw Li Fei aside.

The emperor wanted to help Concubine Li, but he remembered that his son was still there, so he urged the palace officials: "Help Concubine Li get up."

Mo Lingwei said without any nonsense: "Tell me, what exactly happened?"

The emperor told everything from the death of the Wu family to Shen Ningning and her wolf pack opening a tent outside the city to deliver meals to the refugees.

Mo Lingwei frowned upon hearing this.

Someone actually wanted to assassinate Shen Ningning while he was away?

The emperor said: "I have sent people out to check, Concubine Li, what are you doing here?"

Li Fei covered her neck and coughed, her throat filled with the smell of blood.

She raised her eyes and said hoarsely: "My third brother, I should know what's going on. A few days ago, someone borrowed a sum of gold from him..."

"Borrow it? Are you sure?" Mo Lingwei asked coldly.

Li Fei nodded repeatedly: "My concubine's third brother is missing. As long as he is found, all the truth will be revealed!"

Fortunately, she had already thought of another countermeasure and sent her nanny to give Wei Shangshu a reply before coming to Qianyuan Hall.