Traveling to ancient times, with space

Chapter 78 Curiosity

Su Yue was unwilling to go back like this, but Mo Liu would not allow her to go forward.

At that moment, Su Yue almost couldn't resist the urge to knock Mo Liu unconscious, then sneak into the national treasury under the cover of snowy night, pack up everything inside, and take it all away. Just thinking about it made her feel so good.

Oh well, forget it! It would be funny if we knocked someone unconscious and they froze to death in the snow.

In the end, he kept turning back to drool over the national treasury, and was pulled away by Mo Liu, looking back every step of the way.

Mo Liu couldn't understand why this little girl insisted on coming to the national treasury to take a look.

It was almost dawn, so we had to hurry and go out.

As they flew across the rooftops, Mo Liu held onto Su Yue tightly. He was genuinely afraid that the little girl would slip away.

As Su Yue was being pulled along, she kept looking around. She noticed that not far from the palace where they had first landed, there was another palace with a faint light on.

Su Yue tugged at Mo Liu and pointed to that spot.

Mo Liu knew that if he didn't go and take a look, the little girl wouldn't obediently go back with him.

I wonder how things went between the master and the fourth prince, somewhere.

They descended from the wall and crouched low as they walked toward the palace window.

After listening outside the door for a while and finding no sound, Mo Liu carefully poked a hole in the window paper and squinted to look inside.

They discovered a huge coffin in the very center of the main hall, with only two servants kneeling in front of it.

"Mo Liu, who do you think is lying in there?" Su Yue asked curiously.

"I don't know." Mo Liu shook his head. "But judging from this, it shouldn't be the old emperor. We'd better hurry up and leave, it wouldn't be good if we were discovered."

Even so, Su Yue's curiosity was completely piqued. She tiptoed and peered through the torn window paper, trying to see what was inside the coffin.

Just then, a gust of wind blew by, and Su Yue felt a chill all over her body. Mo Liu reacted quickly and reached out to pull her back.

"Shh..." Mo Liu put a finger to his lips, signaling Su Yue to be quiet. The two held their breath, listening intently to the sounds coming from inside the hall.

However, apart from the sound of the wind and their heartbeats, there was no other sound inside the hall. Su Yue breathed a sigh of relief and whispered to Mo Liu, "Why did you suddenly pull me? Don't you want to see who's lying inside? What if it's the old emperor?"

"It's almost dawn, we need to hurry back," Mo Liu urged again.

This time, Su Yue didn't delay any longer. She nodded and followed Mo Liu to quietly leave the palace before dawn.

When they arrived at the Second Prince's residence, they found that he had not yet returned.

Mo Liu told Su Yue not to do anything reckless, and that he was going to find his master to protect him.

Su Yue obediently agreed. She didn't plan to go to the palace during the day; if she were to go, she would definitely do so secretly by herself at night. She couldn't let Mo Liu follow her no matter what.

After Mo Liu left, Uncle Fu went to Su Yue's room and the servants served her more than a dozen breakfast dishes.

As Su Yue ate, she sighed, "It's so good to be powerful and influential. Look at all the different kinds of food they have!"

No wonder everyone wants to fight for that supreme position; it's not just about eating well, drinking well, and dressing well. It's about holding the power of life and death over everyone in a country.

As the old saying goes, "If the ruler commands the subject to die, the subject has no choice but to die." If someone becomes emperor, they can kill whomever they want.

Power can be blinding and easily lead people astray.

Everyone wants to sit in that position, but sitting in it is easy, and staying in it is difficult!

This dynasty is so rotten, I really don't understand what's so great about fighting for that position.

After breakfast, Uncle Fu told me that because of the heavy snowfall these past few days, most of the shops on the street had closed down.

Hearing this, Su Yue gave up her idea of ​​going for a stroll and instead lay quietly in the warm house reading, waiting for nightfall so she could sneak back into the palace.

The Second Prince and Mo Liu and the others did not return all day, and it was unknown whether they had managed to break into the capital city.

If they really want to fight but can't get in, they can do a good deed and open the palace gates for them.

Su Yue waited until nightfall before cautiously leaving the house.

Using her memory, she successfully infiltrated the palace and entered the national treasury.

When she came in today, she found that most people had gone to the city gate.

It took some effort to get in because of the large number of people; once inside, there weren't many imperial guards patrolling.

It seems that everyone has been reassigned to guard the palace gates.

They also heard people shouting outside the palace gates.

The fourth prince led his army and shouted loudly outside the palace gates, demanding that the fifth and ninth princes open the city gates and let them in.

His voice was full of threat and anger, plunging the entire palace into a tense atmosphere.

The Fifth Prince and the Ninth Prince stood on the city wall, looking at the Fourth Prince's army. They knew that the city gate would not be opened today, no matter what.

How could the Fifth Prince not know that once the palace gates were opened, their deaths would be imminent, and that this so-called Fourth Brother would not leave any survivors?

Now that his father has passed away and the throne is vacant, it is the perfect time for him to take it. If it weren't for some old scoundrels in the court who were trying to stop him by taking advantage of their age and threatening suicide, he would have already taken that position.

How could they possibly have the chance to come back and force the emperor to resign?

Just as the Fifth Prince was preparing to deploy his archers, the Fourth Prince's army launched an attack.

They launched an attack on the palace with catapults and arrows, and the soldiers on the city walls began to fight back. In an instant, the palace and its surroundings were filled with shouts of battle and screams of agony.

Seeing this situation, the Fifth Prince and the Ninth Prince knew they could no longer hesitate and immediately ordered the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince outside the city gate to be shot.

The Fourth Prince's army and the Fifth Prince's men fought fiercely outside the palace gates. The battle broke out instantly, and the shouts of battle shook the heavens and the earth.

The fourth prince's army was well-trained; they were arranged in tight formations and advanced in orderly steps. The soldiers brandished their bows and arrows, relentlessly shooting at the people on the city walls.

The Fifth Prince's men were not to be outdone; they fought bravely and tried to stop the Fourth Prince's men.

However, the Fourth Prince's army, with its superior tactics and tenacious fighting spirit, gradually gained the upper hand. The Fifth Prince's forces began to retreat in defeat, and finally the city gates were breached by battering rams.

The Fifth Prince and the Ninth Prince have left the capital a handful of times since they were children, let alone been on the battlefield.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that his brothers were not in the capital to have his father write an edict to put him directly in that position, but things did not go as planned, and his father refused to make him the crown prince until his death.

He had no choice but to poison his father, who claimed to love him the most, but in reality, it was all a lie.

If you say you love him the most, then why not just make him the crown prince?

It's too late to say anything now.

We have no choice but to fight to the death.