Transmigrated To Another World: General, I'm Not Your White Moonlight - Chapter 134

Chapter 134: Xie Yanghui’s Doubt
Rui Qinwang saw Xie Yanghui and Ke Xianhao from a distance and nodded as a greeting. Walking up the stairs, Rui Qinwang went to greet his paternal uncle, Duan Qinwang. When the people around Duan Qinwang saw Rui Qinwang coming, all of them left without greeting him.

He stood in front of Duan Qinwang’s table, clasped his hands together, and said, “I have seen Huang Bofu.”

After Rui Qinwang greeted Duan Qinwang, he waited for Duan Qinwang to speak. After he waited for a long time, Duan Qinwang finally acted like he had just noticed Rui Qinwang and said, “Sifan is here. You are weak, so there is no need to come and greet me in person. Go and take a seat.”

After hearing Duan Qinwang’s hypocritical words, Rui Qinwang smiled and said, “Thank you, Huang Bofu, for your concern.”

After saying that, he turned to look at Duan Qinwangfei and said, “I have seen Huang Bomu.”

Upon hearing his greeting, Duan Qinwangfei raised her eyes and looked at him. She nodded to Rui Qinwang and then lowered her eyes. After greeting Duan Qinwang and his wife, Rui Qinwang walked to the seat on the other side of the dragon throne.

Ke Xianhao, who was sitting next to Xie Yanghui, looked at Rui Qinwang’s pale and sickly appearance and sighed.

“Why are you sighing?” Xie Yanghui asked after hearing his sigh.

Ke Xianhao turned to look at him and said, “Looking at Rui Qinwang makes me feel a little complicated.”

Hearing what he said, Xie Yanghui raised his eyebrows and asked, “Feeling complicated? Do you pity him?”

Ke Xianhao took a sip of wine and said, “I don’t pity him. I just feel a little guilty because I’m glad that Rui Qinwang was born weak and had no supporters in the imperial court. With his current situation, there is no way for him to shake Emperor Yong’an’s position.”

When Xie Yanghui heard this, he looked at Rui Qinwang, who was sitting silently in his seat, and said, “That is not necessarily true.”

“What do you mean?” Ke Xianhao asked curiously.

Xie Yanghui did not answer him but fell into deep thought while observing Duan Qinwang and Rui Qinwang. His intuition told him that he had to keep an eye on Rui Qinwang rather than Duan Qinwang.

Seeing that his friend was silent, Ke Xianhao turned back to look at Rui Qinwang and asked, “You mean he also wants to usurp the throne?”

Xie Yanghui glanced at his military advisor. Ke Xianhao has a sharp mind, but his heart is too soft. After a moment of silence, Xie Yanghui said, “Have you forgotten the person who lived in Ci Ning Palace?”

Ke Xianhao looked at him and asked, “You mean Huang Taihou? What does this have to do with Huang Taihou? Does she want to be the Emperor herself?”

Listening to his question, Xie Yanghui rubbed his chin and said in confusion, “I don’t know how you became a military strategist with your slow brain.”

“…” Ke Xianhao was speechless when he heard Xie Yanghui’s words.

After a moment of silence, he said, “Please don’t do a personal attack.”

Xie Yanghui chuckled, lowered his voice, and explained, “Although Dai Qianyi is the current Huang Taihou, Emperor Yong’an is not her biological son. If she wanted to stabilize her power in the back palace and the imperial court, she had to let her own son sit on the throne. Besides, no one can be sure that the death of the First Empress had nothing to do with her.”

Ke Xianhao was surprised by his words and said, “But Rui Qinwang is frail and sickly. I don’t think the ministers and generals will support such a person to rule the empire.”

Xie Yanghui glanced at his friend and asked, “Wouldn’t this situation be better for Huang Taihou?”

Ke Xianhao gasped and asked in a low voice, “You mean she wants to establish Rui Qinwang as a puppet emperor and control the imperial court from the shadow?”

Xie Yanghui slowly tapped the low table with his fingers and said, “I’m not sure. However, we cannot rule out this possibility.”

When the two of them fell into silence, Xie Yanghui recalled the stories his Shifu had often told him.

Recalling the time when his Shifu talked about his daughter, Xie Yanghui said, “From what my Shifu told me about the First Empress, I knew that she has always been in good health since she was born and is also very talented in martial arts.”

Xie Yanghui sighed and added, “If she hadn’t fallen in love with the previous Emperor, my Shifu would not have let her marry into the royal family. Unfortunately, as a loving father and loyal general, Shifu has no choice but to let her marry the previous Emperor. Otherwise, Shijie would not have died at such a young age, and we should have a chance to meet.”

Listening to his earth-shattering words, Ke Xianhao was speechless for a moment. He picked up his wine cup and drank the wine at once to calm down. While Ke Xianhao tried to calm down, Xie Yanghui took a sip of wine to ease the sadness in his heart.

After a moment of silence, he continued, “Although I have never seen the First Empress, I believe that with her well-trained and healthy body, she would not have had a difficult delivery and died after giving birth to Mingjiao. There must be some hidden secret behind her death, which made my Shifu suddenly resign from the position of Supreme General and never come back to visit his grandson for twenty-seven years.”

After hearing his story, Ke Xianhao looked at his friend with wide eyes. He rubbed his forehead in shock and said, “Wait a minute. So the Shifu you are talking about is the grandfather of Emperor Yong’an and the biological father of the First Empress?”

Xie Yanghui looked at his shocked expression and asked doubtfully, “Didn’t I tell you before? I thought you already knew this.”