Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 380

[Chapter 380: Concubine Shu’s Thank-You Gift]

Imperial Study, the square in front of the palace.

Lin Xiu wants to depose the old crown prince and make the King of Qin the new crown prince. He asks everyone present if anyone wants to object.

Duke Ding wants to object because the crown prince that Lin Xiu wants to depose is from their family.

Duke Song also wants to object. He does not object to deposing the crown prince, but he hopes that the new crown prince will be the King of Qi.

Duke Wei also wants to object. Lin Xiu and he have a grudge of killing their sons. He wants to oppose anything that Lin Xiu agrees with.

But none of them spoke.

The powerful ancestor of the Zhang family, the strongest man in Daxia, is now lying at Lin Xiu’s feet. He was still full of vigor the moment before, and the next moment, he lay quietly on the ground.

Not only that, at this moment, they can also feel the existence of Yuanli in their bodies when they stand here, but they can’t mobilize Yuanli, as if they have become an ordinary person.

How can they object to this?

This is a threat, and he has the strength to threaten them.

They didn’t even figure out what was going on.

Lin Xiu not only advanced to the Heavenly Rank, his abilities were so powerful and strange that they were unbelievable. At this moment, he was the undisputed number one powerhouse in Daxia. The Lin family was also the number one family in Daxia. Their family was more powerful than all the powerful families in Daxia combined. Whoever he said was the crown prince was the crown prince. The

Zhang family was like this before.

After a moment of silence, the Duke of Wei was the first to speak: “The King of Qin is a handsome man with extraordinary skills and outstanding abilities. He is more suitable for the position of crown prince.”

An old prince of the royal family said: “The royal family has no objection.”

Whether it is the crown prince or the King of Qin, they are all children of the royal family. From the perspective of the entire royal family, it makes no difference who is the crown prince.

The Duke of Qi then said: “The Qi family agrees.”

Anyway, no matter who is the crown prince, it has nothing to do with the Qi family. He has no need and no strength to oppose Lin Xiu.

After a moment of silence, the ancestor of the Song family also spoke up, “The Song family has no objection either.”

He had already seen that Lin Xiu had long wanted to make the King of Qin the crown prince. In today’s Great Xia, there was nothing that the Lin family wanted to do that they could not accomplish. When they wanted to make the King of Qin the crown prince, the King of Qi had no chance at all. It’s

ridiculous to say that the crown prince and the King of Qi had been fighting for so long, and they had used so many means, both openly and secretly, but in the end, the other person got the advantage.

Duke Dingguo did not speak. The overall situation had been decided, and no matter what he said, it was useless.

The crown prince held the door frame and stood at the door of the imperial study for a long time. Seeing this scene, he finally couldn’t help it, and his body slowly slid down. He hugged the legs of Emperor Xia who came out of the imperial study and begged, “Father, father, don’t abolish me, I want to be the crown prince, I have been the crown prince since I was born…”

Emperor Xia looked down at him, sighed softly, and said, “If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?”

The crown prince completely collapsed to the ground, and his expression gradually became wooden.

Emperor Xia walked to the square, looked at the old man lying on the ground, and asked Lin Xiu, “Is he okay?”

Lin Xiu said, “No, he was too frightened and woke up after a short sleep.”

Emperor Xia nodded, looked at Duke Dingguo, and said, “The prince’s actions are indeed too much. It is not allowed by reason or law. If the prince is not abolished, it will not be enough to appease the public anger, nor can it give an explanation to the Lin family.”

Duke Dingguo has accepted the reality and said in a hoarse voice, “It’s all up to your majesty.” Emperor

Xia thought for a while and said, “The King of Qin is about to become the prince, but he has only one principal wife. It is not appropriate in terms of etiquette and law. After he enters the East Palace, he will add a few concubines for him. This matter will be left to Zhang Qing and Song Qing…”

Duke Dingguo and the old ancestor of the Song family were stunned for a moment when they heard the words, and a gleam of light flashed in their old eyes.

Your majesty’s words are very meaningful.

The King of Qin is about to become the Crown Prince. His selection of concubines is left to the Zhang and Song families. The two families will certainly give priority to their own women. The current Crown Prince’s concubines will become the Imperial Consorts when he ascends the throne in the future. Their descendants will also be eligible to inherit the throne.

In this way, they actually still have a chance. It’s nothing more than waiting a few more years.

In a sense, the King of Qin at that time is the current His Majesty.

Emperor Xia looked back at the Crown Prince and said, “The Zhang family has no shirking responsibility for the Crown Prince’s current situation. I also have an unshirkable responsibility. From now on, Daxia will no longer establish the Crown Prince in advance. Among the princes, those who are both virtuous and talented will be selected to pass on the throne…” As soon as

these words came out, the eyes of several dukes lit up.

Not establishing a Crown Prince in advance, and choosing those who are both virtuous and talented to pass on the throne, doesn’t it mean that in the future, when competing for the throne, it doesn’t matter what the family strength is. Every family has a chance. If the concubines give birth to princes, as long as they educate them well and don’t be like the current Crown Prince, they will have the possibility of ascending to the throne.

In this way, the resentment of the Zhang and Song families was diluted to the greatest extent.

After calming down and thinking carefully, this matter cannot be blamed on the Lin family. If it were Lin Xiu, they would be even more cruel to the prince and the Zhang family. Lin Xiu has already shown mercy to the Zhang family. Otherwise, the ancestor of the Zhang family would have fallen by now…

Duke Dingguo sorted out his feelings, bowed to Lin Xiu, and said: “The Zhang family was at fault in the matter of the prince. Thank you, Mr. Lin, for showing mercy…”

Duke Dingguo said this sincerely, which does not mean that he is a good person. Everything is determined by strength.

Lin Xiu’s strength is not as good as Zhang’s, so they won’t pay any attention to him.

When his strength can crush Zhang’s, they will become extremely humble and sincere, will take the initiative to compromise, and are willing to reason. I just don’t know if he will be so polite to him when he knows that he killed Zhang Jing.

A fierce conflict ended in a peaceful way under the mediation of Emperor Xia.

Whether it is the Zhang family or the Song family, the top dignitaries in the capital all agreed to change the prince, and they didn’t seem so reluctant. In order to appease them, in addition to selecting concubines for Li Baizhang, Emperor Xia also selected a wave of concubines for himself. These big families knew Emperor Xia’s preferences. In order to arrange power in the harem, there were women over 30 years old who had not yet married in their families. This time, they were simply sent to the palace together…

…

Deep in the palace, there was an uninhabited palace.

Lin Xiu and Ling Jun Ling Yin walked into the palace and saw a short figure sitting at the stone table in the palace. Overnight, the prince’s head had strands of white hair, which made him look twenty years older.

His face was pale and bloodless, staring blankly ahead. When someone came in, he didn’t even look at them, motionless, like an old tree.

After being deposed, he was placed under house arrest in the palace, and was not allowed to step out of the palace for life.

If it were someone else, he would have been tortured to death if he did that kind of thing, but he had royal blood in his body, and even if he didn’t inherit the advantages of Emperor Xia, he was still his son.

Lin Xiu once thought that one day in the future, when he had enough strength, he would definitely look down on the prince as a winner and humiliate him severely when he was at his most miserable.

But at this moment, standing in this palace, looking at the prince like this, he just felt a sense of boredom.

At the beginning, he did regard the prince as his target, but now, he no longer needs to use overthrowing the prince to prove anything, and his mentality has also changed invisibly.

Lingyin was the same as Lin Xiu. She didn’t have any anger on her face, nor did she feel the pleasure of revenge. She was just as disinterested as Lin Xiu. She just glanced at the prince and shook her head and said, “Let’s go…”

When the three were about to leave the palace, a group of palace maids and eunuchs came in front.

The Empress Shufei got off the guard of honor from a distance and stood there waiting. Lin Xiu came over and bowed and said, “Meet the Empress Shufei…”

The Empress Shufei smiled slightly and said, “I haven’t thanked you for Zhang’er’s matter…”

Lin Xiu also smiled and said, “You are too polite, Madam. Among all the princes of your majesty, he is the most suitable to inherit the throne.”

The Empress Shufei said, “I, as a mother, know how capable Zhang’er is. If it weren’t for you helping him all the time, he wouldn’t have come this far. I really don’t know how to thank you.”

Lin Xiu laughed and said, “The King of Qin is my friend. Besides, this is what we agreed on a long time ago.”

After exchanging a few words with the Empress Shufei, Lin Xiu planned to leave.

Unexpectedly, when Concubine Shu stepped onto the procession, her footing was unstable and she almost fell. Lin Xiu subconsciously supported her and said, “My lady, be careful…”

As soon as he said this, his expression suddenly froze.

Just as he was supporting Concubine Shu, a force flowed from Concubine Shu’s body into his body.

Concubine Shu is actually a person with special abilities!

Lin Xiu had never known this before. Not only him, but even Li Baizhang didn’t know. Lin Xiu had heard him say that Concubine Shu, like Concubine Gui, had not awakened any special abilities…

At this moment, Concubine Shu had already sat on the procession again.

Lin Xiu stood on the palace road and looked up at Concubine Shu.

The two looked at each other, Lin Xiu looked into Concubine Shu’s eyes, and Concubine Shu also looked into Lin Xiu’s eyes.

The two seemed to have said nothing, but in fact, they had said thousands of words.

After a moment, Lin Xiu and Concubine Shu smiled at each other, the palace maids surrounded the procession and left, and Lin Xiu also turned and left. Concubine

Shu’s ability was actually to read minds.

No wonder she could accurately guess the reward that Lin Xiu wanted, no wonder Emperor Xia always said that Concubine Shu was the one who understood him the most, because in her eyes, there were no secrets at all.

She was the one who hid the deepest in the entire harem.

Lin Xiu thought he had hidden his secrets very well before, but he didn’t know that Concubine Shu knew his secrets a long time ago.

But she didn’t say it.

As a telepath, she is very clear about the taboos of this ability.

If this ability is known by others, even the closest people will stay away from her.

What Lin Xiu didn’t expect was that he just fulfilled his promise to Li Baizhang, but he had such an unexpected gain.

Obviously, this is a thank-you gift from Concubine Shu. She knew that Lin Xiu’s ability was copying, and she took the initiative to give him this precious ability…

This is mind reading… Looking at the other person’s eyes, you know what they are thinking. For some people, this ability is more precious than telekinesis, light, and darkness…

(End of this chapter)