flstandardbreds Chapter 163 Want a Son
Chapter 163 Want a Son
"You, you——" Bai Ge was stunned. He looked at the injured palace maid, not knowing what to do for a moment. He didn't know whether to help her or not, and his two hands were empty. "What happened to you? Why, how could this happen?"
The palace maid's face turned pale and her body began to go limp. She just stared at him with her wide eyes and said bloodlessly, "My lord, there is a red carriage with green curtains at the east gate. You should take him away quickly. Someone wants to kill him, someone wants to kill him! Hurry, hurry up!" As she spoke, her body hunched over and blood began to flow from her mouth.
Bai Ge looked at the child standing aside. The child stood beside the head maid, with a thin face that looked somewhat helpless, and his eyes were shining as if there were tears, but he stubbornly held back and didn't let them fall.
"He, who is he? Who wants to kill him?" Bai Ge was completely confused by this sudden incident. He could only ask whatever he could think of.
The maid said with her last breath: "He is the seventh prince of the Great Zhou. The one who wants to kill him is——"
"Your Majesty!"
With a loud "boom", a loud thunder suddenly exploded in the sky, and a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, scaring Bai Ge so much that he shook all over.
The rain suddenly got heavier and his clothes were soaked in an instant.
The senior palace maid was no longer able to stand up. Her body went limp and she fell directly into the rain.
Bai Ge was still standing there stupidly.
Your Majesty?
He wants to save the person that His Majesty wants to kill?
He is here to be an official!!!
He felt overwhelmed when he thought of this. At this moment, a voice came from not far away: "Here, go look for it here, hurry up!"
Obviously looking for this child.
Even being seen with the child at this time would be dangerous.
In the heavy rain, the child stared at him without blinking.
Bai Ge looked at the senior palace maid who was lying in the rain and staring at him. He could only say to her, "I'm so sorry, I'm not an adult, I still have to take the palace exam, I'm afraid I can't help you with this, I'm sorry."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Unexpectedly, the senior maid did not make any sound to stop him.
He took a few steps and heard a clear child's voice behind him: "She's dead."
Bai Ge suddenly turned his head, squatted down and took a look. Although the senior palace maid's eyes were open, they were dead and lifeless.
She is really dead.
She died after she took care of the lonely man.
"This..." Bai Ge thought to himself that he was really unlucky.
When the child saw him like this, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes. He said, "Don't worry about me, let them take me away. I'm young and I can die at will. I'm not worth anything." Then he turned around and was about to go back.
"You..." Bai Ge thought, what had happened to him that made him say such things at such a young age.
"Wait a minute." Bai Ge couldn't bear it.
The child said, "Don't make it hard on yourself."
"I..." Bai Ge listened to the fierce voices of the guards looking for him everywhere, gritted his teeth and said, "Then, where is the east gate of the palace!"
Just like that, Bai Ge no longer wanted to be an official, and took the child to the East Gate and got on the carriage with green curtains. The carriage left the palace and rushed away. Bai Ge was afraid that someone would chase him, so he didn't dare to stop along the way, and went all the way to Jiangnan and returned to his hometown.
Fortunately, no one chased him along the way.
He guessed that the emperor might regret hunting down his son.
Bai Ge thought that maybe one day he would suddenly remember to take him back.
Unfortunately, after he returned, he learned that his six-year-old son had died of a high fever shortly after he went to the capital to take the imperial examination. At that time, Shang was very sad.
Bai Ge informed Shang of what happened in the capital.
Shang, who had just lost her beloved son, felt both fond and sad when she saw a child of the same age as her son.
So he raised him as his own son and named him Bai Yanli.
The couple left their hometown and went to Bianzhou in the south of the Yangtze River to do business. From then on, no one knew about Bai Yanli's past and they just raised him as their biological son.
When Bai Ge thinks of this past event, it is still vivid in his mind.
Looking at Emperor Zhou in front of him, Bai Ge suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
He quickly bowed his head and kowtowed, saying, "Your Majesty, I acknowledge my guilt!"
"Do you know your crime?" Emperor Zhou pretended to be surprised and asked, "What crime did you know?"
"Your Majesty," Bai Ge said, "More than a decade ago, I shouldn't have taken the Seventh Prince out of the palace on my own. I have committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. I beg Your Majesty to forgive me."
"Oh!" Emperor Zhou snorted coldly. If he really wanted to investigate, his carriage would not be able to leave the capital at all!
"Bai Ge, if I really want to investigate, do you think you can raise him to this age safely and still come back to the capital?" asked Emperor Zhou.
Indeed.
He had raised Bai Yanli for all these years, and the emperor had not pursued or blocked the child. He knew that the emperor had tacitly agreed to let him raise him.
Then why did the emperor come here today?
"Bai Ge." Emperor Zhou said to him expressionlessly, "You have raised my prince for so long, you should return him to me now, right?"
Bai Ge trembled all over when he heard this and looked up in surprise.
That's right, he really came to ask him for someone.
He guessed it when he looked for it.
An inexplicable emotion suddenly surged in Bai Ge's heart. He wanted to laugh. He had rescued this child and raised him with great effort. Now the emperor wanted him to go back?
Really, overbearing.
But Bai Ge naturally didn't dare to say this. He just lowered his head and said nothing.
"Bai Ge, this child is very outstanding. Thank you for your hard work over the years." Emperor Zhou was very emotional when he thought of the things Bai Yanli had done for him recently.
Bai Ge suppressed his displeasure and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Yan Li is a member of the royal family after all, so it is inevitable that he is excellent." The implication of his words was naturally to attribute the reason for Bai Yanli's excellence back to Emperor Zhou.
Emperor Zhou was very satisfied with this answer: "Bai Ge, I will let him return to the palace in a while. Do you have any objection to this?"
He knew that Bai Yanli was going back to the capital this time to return to the palace.
He is ambitious.
Of course he wouldn't stop it, but he still found it ridiculous to hear these words coming from Emperor Zhou.
He originally intended to kill Bai Yanli.
Later, two years after Bai Yanli returned to Beijing, he still did not come to recognize him.
Now, if Bai Yanli didn’t have abilities and had something that Emperor Zhou could use, he wouldn’t have come to ask him for people.
I have heard that the emperor's heart is selfish and cold.
Now I see that it is indeed so.