Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 275 The Remains of the True Dragon
Deep in the palace, not far from Kunning Palace, the Fifth Marquis was walking on the dark palace road holding a lantern.

At this moment, it had been some time since he sent Zhao Qi'an out of the palace.

He had just sent Zhao Qian'an out of the palace when his godson and grandson came hurriedly to tell him to go to Kunning Palace, as there was a big commotion there that night.

Kunning Palace is the residence of the Queen Mother.

It is certain that the Queen is unhappy tonight.

Nothing in the secret affairs of the deep palace could escape the eyes and ears of the Five Marquises, not to mention that the Empress did not like the Imperial Master, which was not a secret in the harem.

Although Queen Wu came from a family with a long history and was considered reasonable, she had one flaw: she was jealous.

She used to be Consort Zhen, and now she is the Imperial Master.

But how could the Imperial Master be compared to an ordinary woman like Concubine Zhen?

It is ridiculous to view what she and His Majesty are doing from the perspective of a romantic relationship.

Queen Wu couldn't make a fuss. She was sixty-four years old now. Even if she had the secret to maintain her youthful appearance, she was already old and ugly. She no longer had the fighting spirit that Concubine Zhen had when she entered the palace.

In fact, she had long given up the idea of ​​competing for favor with others, not to mention that the man was a fairy from heaven?

But tonight is His Majesty’s eightieth birthday, and the seat that should have been occupied by the Mother of the Country has to be given up to someone else. It is normal to feel sad.

The Fifth Marquis did not want to go to Kunning Palace, but seeing how troubled his godchildren and godsons were, he knew that they dared not say anything in front of the Queen, and that any advice they gave might bring disaster upon themselves.

He had no choice but to go over and say a few useless words of comfort.

Fortunately, not long after he arrived at Kunning Palace, the Left Prime Minister and the Second Prince arrived, and he was able to escape.

But after he left Kunning Palace, he could still hear the faint sound of a woman crying in the palace behind him.

The Fifth Marquis could only sigh, shake his head, and walk out of the palace.

All he could do was to write down everything he saw and report it to His Majesty truthfully later.

But... Your Majesty won’t care.

……

How many times had the Five Marquises seen the scene that just happened in Kunning Palace?
He himself couldn't explain it clearly. After all, he had been in this palace forty or fifty years, and he had become numb to these scenes.

The Fifth Marquis is seventy-three years old this year. He has been with Your Majesty since he was four or five years old.

We begged for food together, stole together, and got beaten together...those were the most painful years, but when I think about it now, they were also the most carefree time.

And now, the former big brother sits on the throne above everyone else, and he himself is honored as the Fifth Marquis.

Wu Hou had no name, not since he was a child. During a year of severe drought, he was abandoned on the roadside by refugees to fend for himself. Later, he was picked up by a beggar, who raised him like a dog and called him Agou, never giving him any proper name.

Later this title became his name.

Nowadays, this name is no longer mentioned.

Even His Majesty would only occasionally laugh and scold him as an "old dog".

As for the others, they all called him the Fifth Marquis Thousand Year Old!

Although he was willing to enter the palace as a eunuch, His Majesty did not want others to treat him as a slave, so he granted him the title of marquis and forbade him to call himself a "slave" or to bow down to others.

In the deep palace, even Queen Wu had to treat him as her husband's brother and be polite to him when she met him.

Even Prime Minister Wu, who had great power in the court, was polite in front of him and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

Truly second to none and above everyone else!
But when Wu Hou dreamed at night, he always dreamed of the time when he was called "Agou". With the cultivation of the second-grade creation realm, he still had at least 40 to 50 years to live, and now he was in his prime.

But for some reason, he felt a little old.

"Perhaps I should... also fight with His Majesty for a place to go to Mount Xumi."

……

At the other end of the deep palace, in Tianxin Hall.

"Cough cough..."

Ji Yunrui sat on the imperial couch, took the bowl of medicine handed to him by the palace maid, and drank it all in one gulp.

Afterwards, his face gradually became more rosy.

He placed the medicine bowl on the tray in the palace maid's hand and looked at the person standing in front of the couch: "Xuan Yi, why did the golden dragon lose control in front of the palace today?"

Although he asked in a questioning tone, the general immediately broke out in a cold sweat and knelt down with a plop: "It is my fault that I did not do my job well and made a mistake. I hope Your Highness will punish me!"

This person is Zhou Xuanyi, the Western Desert general who escorted the True Dragon into the capital this time!
Ji Yunrui shook his head and said, "I don't blame you. You didn't tell my grandfather and escorted the dragon ball to the capital for me. This shows your loyalty."

Zhou Xuanyi lowered his head and said, "All this is due to the efforts of Prince Yu. I dare not take credit for it."

"So..." Ji Yunrui's eyes flashed with doubt, "Why did the golden dragon lose control in front of the palace?"

Zhou Xuanyi hesitated: "This..."

Ji Yunrui shook his head: "Forget it, just treat it as an accident. At least the dragon ball was delivered to my father, and that's enough. It's a pity that I deliberately made the golden dragon's clues obvious, hoping to lure Wu Xiang down, but it's a pity."

Seeing that Ji Yunrui really had no intention of pursuing the matter, Zhou Xuanyi breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He asked carefully, "Your Highness, why did you let Prince Yu steal the Dragon Ball and even present it to Your Majesty? I'm afraid that the old man has already noticed this."

Ji Yunrui sighed, "When I arranged for Boss Gao to return to the Western Desert to help Huang'er seize the military power of the Western Desert, do you think there is still room for maneuver between us and the old man?"

"When I received the letter from my eldest brother, I knew the time had come."

"It's a pity that I never thought that the old man actually hid such a rare weapon. The dragon corpse in his hands could be used in such a wonderful way... Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Now everything I do is just to make up for it."

Ji Yunrui was interrupted by a cough. It took him a long time to catch his breath and said, "Now, I just hope that a complete dragon corpse will be a big enough temptation for my father. In this way, I still have hope of a comeback!"

If he loses, from now on he will be a puppet at the mercy of Old Master Zhou.

Not only him, but also his son is the same.

……

At the same time, the General Office of the Observatory.

On the top floor, the golden dragon ball was placed on an incense table.

Next to the dragon ball, six copper coins kept spinning until they lost the power to maintain their rotation and gradually fell onto the incense table.

Shui Yuexian stood in front of the incense table, running her fingertips over the six copper plates one by one, feeling the patterns on them.

Gradually, her brows furrowed, and she murmured softly to herself:

"How did the dragon from the East China Sea fall in the heart of the continent?"

"The Zhou family... actually has a complete body of a real dragon?"

(End of this chapter)