The Lady's Sickly Husband

C133. Secret Internal Strength

As soon as master Xie left, the Emperor cast the cup in his hand to the ground.

The worlds was a chessboard, but I should be the only player! Others were all chess pieces!

After I usurped the properties and hidden power of the Ning family and the military power of the Su family, there wouldn't be again super-noble families, let alone your Xie family.

The Tianqi dynasty would be the world of my Gu family. There wouldn't be people sitting at the same level with me. Everybody would kneel and kowtow below my feet.

By then, with small tricks, I would revoke the privileges of the first-class families. Then, the so-called noble families would vanish into ashes.

Tianqi dynasty had only one supremacy—the royal family!

By then, no one dared to have names! They were all my slaves!

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Hearing that crisp sound, master Xie sneered.

Beyond the hunting mantis near a cicada, there was an oriole!

A nice calculation the emperor had made! He wanted to devour the entire meat of the Ning family and leave no soup for Xie? No way!

He didn't know my Xie family didn't want to cuddle up with the royal power any longer.

Among the several generations of empresses surnamed Xie, none of them ever gave birth to a son.

The empresses either couldn't get pregnant or suffered incidents during or after boys were born. The only safe ones coming to the world were daughters. Did the royal Gu really regard my Xie as stupid pushovers? The boss in the imperial palace was the emperor. As long as he didn't wish Xie had sons, then the empress would never have sons.

Daughters were born only after the examination and confirmation of the imperial doctors, partly to block the public voice, and partly to appease the Xie family's rage.

As for the property and hidden power of the Ning family, he swore to seizure.

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Escorted by the several guards, the carriage galloped all the way in peace.

Since the official roads were deemed with eyes and easily exposed their traces, the final route that Ning Shaoqing had worked out included mostly paths in forests.

The paths were covert in that although attacks would take place anyway, the attackers couldn't make a regular plan without the knowledge of their traces so they couldn't set up ambushes in advance.

It was dark totally, in the depth of a forest, the team of people and horses stopped to take a rest.

Before the eyes were endless undulating hills and vast green sea of forest dotted with clusters of tiny yellow flowers.

This site, with an open vision, was obviously a place prepared beforehand for passers to take a rest or sleep at night.

Asan hunted some wild animals, and Awu built a fire in the leeward. Nanny Mo took Chuyi and Shiwu to cook the meat on fire and divide to everybody. The hidden guard and the four hidden guards took turns to stay awake during the night.

The carriage was large, so Mo Qianxue and Ning Shaoqing spent the night in it.

In the end of spring and beginning of summer, it night wind in mountain forests was still chilly.

In the carriage, Mo Qianxue leaned in the arms of Ning Shaoqing, who stroked her smooth hair and said in a calm but rare serious tone, "It's said that in the capital, father's doing worse and worse than before. After the spring festival, he has been lying in bed. I didn't believe it at first, but the rampant and careless behaviors of the mother and son make me have to believe it."