Astute Princess: Married to be the Empress Novel - Chapter 222

Chapter 222 Come From All Directions

After saying that, the couple stared at the burning room. After a long time, a eunuch carried a bucket of water to extinguish the last wisp of green smoke. Huyan Mingshuo said, “This is good too. Let’s go and see Mother.” After saying that, he pulled Fu Yingran away from the Northern Garden.

The fire in Beiyuan burned from morning to evening. It was unknown whether it was the will of heaven or man-made. Other than Father of the Emperor’s bedroom, the other palaces were not affected in the slightest. However, even so, it was concealed from everyone.

That night, a decree came out from the palace saying, “After Father of the Emperor returned to the palace, he felt ashamed of his ancestors and the people of Ye Lan. He set himself on fire in the Northern Garden’s dormitory. The Emperor was very sad and decided not to go to court three days ago. He personally guarded Father of the Emperor’s wake and ordered the entire Ye Lan to mourn.”

The common people naturally couldn’t see the grudges and grudges, or a few people knew but were unwilling to say anything, because in their hearts, as long as they could live a good life, no one would care about the emperor.

On the Ye Lan side of the country, The Tianshui Kingdom was bustling with activity. In the palace, Huyan Mingshuo was sitting on a tall dragon chair. He looked down at the envoys of various countries who wore different colors. One by one, they handed over their country’s jade seals and surrender letters, expressing their willingness to be loyal to the Tianshui Kingdom and asking him to accept the jade seals and surrender letters.

Huyan Haze reached out and scratched his head. He asked Duanmu Jing beside him blankly, “Uncle Prince Jing, what’s wrong with them? Why are they all loyal to me? I’m still a child, so I don’t need so many people to protect me.”

Prince Jing lowered his head and looked at him. “This is probably what your mother meant. Why don’t you ask Great General Mu to see what to do? Since you, Father, told him to deal with it, he must have a plan in mind.”

Truth be told, Duanmu Jing didn’t know what to do. Ever since that time, he had stopped meddling in Fu Yingran’s affairs. Therefore, he didn’t know what Fu Yingran’s plan was this time. Therefore, he didn’t dare to make any unauthorized decisions to avoid disrupting their plans. In any case, Huyan Mingshuo had already sent Mu Hai to deal with it, so let him handle it.

Hence, Huyan Haze waved his small hand and said in a milky voice, “Great General Mu, since Father Emperor and Mother Empress have sent you to deal with this matter, then I’ll leave it to you to deal with it.”

“Yes, Your Highness, I will definitely handle this matter properly. However, before I came here, the Emperor and the Empress had already instructed me to escort His Highness the Crown Prince to Ye Lan. I hope Your Highness will pack up early so as to avoid delaying the journey at that time.” Although Mu Hai was not in Ye Lan, he still paid close attention to the situation in the Imperial Capital from time to time. The situation in the Imperial Capital was not optimistic, so he had to return as soon as possible.

Huyan Haze nodded his head and replied, “Alright, I know. After you handle the matters here, we will set off for Ye Lan.”

He missed Royal Grandmother too. If Mother hadn’t said that Ye Lan wasn’t safe, he would have gone back to accompany Royal Grandmother. Who would want to stay here alone? Although there were Grandmother, Grandfather, and Uncle Prince Jing here, he wasn’t familiar with this place at all. It wasn’t fun.

Thus, the burden of entertaining envoys fell on Mu Hai. Back then, when Huyan Mingshuo calmed down the countries, Mu Hai was also one of the most powerful generals. Therefore, the envoys of the countries were no strangers to him. At the same time, they were also afraid. They had already expressed their respect for Ye Lan.

However, it was only a short while before they came to join the Tianshui Kingdom, Although the Emperor of Tianshui Kingdom, Huyan Haze, was also the Crown Prince of Ye Lan, he was not the same person. The royal family had always been the cruelest. It was not strange for father and son to kill each other. They were acting as if they were stirring up discord between father and son, but they had no choice but to do so for the sake of the survival of the common people in the country.

Logically speaking, This was their fault, Therefore, no matter what conditions Mu Hai put forward, as long as they were within the scope of their acceptance, they could only agree. This allowed Mu Hai to do things with twice the effort. From the time Mu Hai took over this matter to the end, less than half a month had passed. The envoys of the various countries had already seen what they should see, discussed what they should talk about, and concluded the matter of Zhao An.

The final result was similar to what Huyan Mingshuo had set. This time, Mu Hai, on behalf of Huyan Haze, accepted the jade seals and surrender letters that represented the inheritance of the emperors of various countries, and officially conferred the title of emperor on the emperors of various countries. In a true sense, he ended the ruling power of the emperors of various countries. Of course, he also agreed to let all shops under the name of Tianyi Villa operate normally in the shortest time possible time.

On this day, Mu Hai arrived at the Imperial Palace of Tianshui Kingdom with the agreement he had signed with the envoys of various countries. Huyan Haze was still sitting on the spacious dragon chair. His tiny body looked a little funny, but Mu Hai’s temperament was originally rather wooden, so he had no time to pay attention to anything else.

He walked steadily to the center of the hall and bowed to Huyan Haoze, “Your Highness, I report to Your Highness that I have obeyed His Highness’ orders to imperial edict the peace of the kingdom. The matter has been satisfactorily concluded. This is a signed covenant. Your Highness, please take a look.” As he spoke, he presented the stack of signed covenants.

Although Huyan Haze was the emperor of the Tianshui Kingdom in name, Mu Hai was originally a subject of Ye Lan. When Huyan Mingshuo ascended the throne, he personally made Huyan Haze the crown prince of Ye Lan. Therefore, in the eyes of the subjects of Ye Lan, Huyan Haze was only the crown prince of Ye Lan.

Huyan Haze was only under four years old now. What kind of big kid was he? Even if he matured earlier and was sensible, he still paid more attention to eating, drinking, and having fun. Being able to speak all of these words and recognize a few big characters was already considered extremely intelligent. How could he understand the books of the Covenant that were filled with densely packed characters? Fortunately, this Crown Prince is quite reliable and knows how to act.

He slid down from the dragon chair. He ran up to Mu Hai and took over the covenants. He flipped through them in a daze and said, “I say, Uncle Mu Hai, my Great General Mu, although this Crown Prince is extremely smart, I am only four years old this year. There are so many words on them that they know me but I don’t know them. What do you want me to look at?”

Mu Hai shed tears. My little ancestor, of course I know that you don’t understand. That’s just a superficial form. I don’t want you to really look at it. Take these things back and you’ll have your unscrupulous father worry about them for you.

However, Mu Hai still replied respectfully, “It doesn’t matter if His Highness doesn’t understand. It’s the same if I can read it to His Highness.” Although it would take several hours to finish reading those instruments, that was the only way at the moment,

The corner of Huyan Haze’s mouth twitched. What a joke. After listening to you read these things, this Crown Prince can take a wife. So he hurriedly waved his hand and said, “No need to read, no need to read. This Crown Prince believes in your ability to handle matters. When we return to Ye Lan, you can hand it over to me, Father. Oh right, when are we going to meet Ye Lan?”

“Your Highness, Now that things have been settled here, The Empress has said that we should leave the rest of the matters to Tian Yizhuang. All we need to do is to bring these Covenants back to Ye Lan. Besides, I received news from Ye Lan this morning that Father of the Emperor has died and that the court is employing people. So I plan to leave for home early tomorrow morning. May I know what His Highness the Crown Prince thinks? ”

From the news from Ye Lan, The current imperial capital could be said to be in a mess, The Emperor had just ascended to the throne, and there was a shortage of manpower. In addition, the matters here were almost done. All that remained was the small matter of the countries offering tributes in good faith. This was what the Empress had said. In order to compensate for the loss of the Heavenly Villa during this period of time, those tributes would be handed over to the Heavenly Villa. It could be considered as a small reward for the Heavenly Villa over the years.

Hearing that Father of the Emperor had died, Huyan Haoze’s expression instantly darkened. Tears were about to fall as he spoke. He thought of the years when his parents were gone, he had lived with his royal grandfather and grandmother. Although his royal grandfather did not treat him as meticulously as his royal grandmother did, as his only grandson, his royal grandfather still loved him more. Therefore, the little crown prince was very sad to hear that his royal grandfather had disappeared.

So he nodded and said dully, “Alright, hurry up and get ready. We will go to Ye Lan tomorrow.” Then, he lowered his head and left in a sullen mood.

Mu Hai watched as he walked out. He shook his head and sighed. It seemed that this little crown prince had inherited his father’s genes and valued kinship very much. This was not a good sign for an emperor. However, this was also something that he was rare and precious. Fortunately, he was still young. If he experienced more in the future, perhaps he would be better off.

Early the next morning, Mu Hai led the crowd back home with the Little Crown Prince and a pile of Covenants. Prince Jing Duanmu Jing, the Young Master of the Heavenly Villa, personally led the people of the Heavenly Villa to send them to the border between the two countries. Looking at the World Token in front of them, both sides dismounted and bid farewell.

Seeing that Duanmu Jing was about to leave, Huyan Haze grabbed onto the corner of his clothes and said with a shriveled mouth, “Uncle Prince Jing, I haven’t learned how to attract bees and butterflies from you. You must come to Ye Lan to see me.”

The corners of everyone’s eyes twitched. I say, Little Crown Prince, is there a need to go online like this? Duanmu Jing was speechless as well. He could only reach out and rub his little head to answer selectively, “Uncle will naturally come to see you when he is free. When you return to Ye Lan, you must obediently obey. The swordsmanship that Uncle taught you must also be well practiced. When we meet again in the future, Uncle will test you, understand?”

“Yes, Hao Ze knows. I will practice martial arts well to protect myself and my mother.”

“What a good child. Go, don’t keep General Mu waiting for too long.”

“Well, good-bye, Uncle Prince Jing.” Huyan Haze stepped on his short legs and climbed into the carriage Mu Hai had prepared for him.

He rode with Uncle Prince Jing all this way, He doesn’t like to ride in carriages, He always felt that the carriage was taken by those delicate girls. He was a dignified man. How could he always sit inside? However, General Mu said that his status was noble. The territory of Ye Lan was in chaos now. He was afraid that it would be unsafe for him to ride on a horse. Therefore, he could only agree. Who told him that he was still young and could not ride a horse alone?

Duanmu Jing sighed bitterly as he watched Ye Lan’s men walk farther and farther. Now that even Haoze had left, it could be said that this was the last shadow of Ying Ran beside him. Only when he could no longer see any shadows in front of him did Duanmu Jing turn his horse around and walk in the opposite direction.

Ying Ran, from now on, we can only be close to each other and take care of each other.

Because Huyan Haze, who was less than four years old, had returned, As a result, everyone slowed down their journey, By the time the group arrived at the capital, it was already half a month after Father of the Emperor’s death. After this period of rest, Empress Dowager Xiao’s body had almost recovered. Upon receiving the news of Huyan Haze’s return, she did not care about any morals or etiquette. She directly brought the eunuch palace maids to the city gate to welcome her grandson back.