After hearing this, Nangong Ao felt that the current situation was full of dangers. He didn't know the emperor's edict to succeed him. Nangong Ye, who was equally powerful as him, was back. Nangong Feng, who had always wanted to seize the throne, also came to intervene in the border affairs.

There was no solution, it was really a crisis, and he couldn't think of a way to break through this predicament.

"We must find a way to get the imperial edict." The queen whispered. She could not tolerate any mistakes in this matter. She could not guess the emperor's heart. She could only try her best to do everything according to her wishes.

Nangong Ao nodded after hearing this, "Yes! I will definitely handle this matter!"

He was thinking about how to get the imperial edict, and said, "Ye, are you back?"

The queen frowned after hearing this. She knew what Nangong Ao was worried about. She thought about it for a long time and said, "You don't have to worry about Ye, I'll take care of everything."

"Yes." Nangong Ao looked at his mother's displeased look and said nothing.

The queen kept walking forward, and Nangong Ao kept sending her out of the gate of the prince's palace. Before leaving, the queen specifically told him to hurry up and complete the imperial edict.

Nangong Ao was troubled by the imperial edict, and he decided to go to Anyang Palace where the emperor lived in person.

When I walked to Anyang Palace, I saw Mr. Tang coming out of the house and said, "Eunuch Tang."

"I have seen His Highness the Crown Prince." Eunuch Tang saluted immediately when he saw Nangong Ao.

"My father-in-law is exempt from the courtesy." Nangong Ao said.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Eunuch Tang straightened up and said.

Seeing Eunuch Tang hurrying out of the house just now, Nangong Ao asked, "Eunuch, where are you going?"

"Isn't this the fourth prince here? He said he wanted to see the emperor. The emperor fell asleep when he came before, so I asked him to go back. Now the emperor woke up and said he wanted to see him," Eunuch Tang said.

"If the emperor wants to see the fourth prince, he can just send a young eunuch to tell him. Why does the father-in-law need to go in person?" Nangong Ao said puzzledly.

After hearing this, Eunuch Tang looked embarrassed and said, "Your Majesty asked your servant to pass it on in person."

"Father, are you awake?" Nangong Ao asked in surprise.

"Sometimes I'm sober, sometimes I'm confused." Eunuch Tang said.

Nangong Ao nodded after hearing this, and Eunuch Tang said, "Your Highness, I have something to do, so I'll go first."

"Okay!" Nangong Ao agreed.

After Eunuch Tang left, Nangong Ao immediately entered the house. He closed the door and looked at the dying man lying on the golden nanmu dragon bed.

Walking towards the bed step by step, the body covered under the quilt was as thin as firewood, the face was thin and bony, the cheekbones were protruding, and there was only one breath left, and the dragon power of the past was gone.

Perhaps because of the weak royal family ties, Nangong Ao did not have much father-son affection for the emperor. He glanced at the person on the bed and called softly, "Father!"

The figure on the bed seemed to be unconscious, with only the faint breath in his nose. Nangong Ao leaned over and put his face to the emperor's ear and called, "Father!"

He called several times, but the person on the bed still didn't respond. He concluded that the person on the bed was unconscious and immediately set out to find the imperial edict.

He glanced around and looked at the furnishings in the room. First he saw a blue and white porcelain vase on the shelf. It was a bare vase with no flowers in it. He thought the imperial edict might be hidden in it.

Walking to the porcelain vase, he held the body of the porcelain vase with both hands and took the vase down. He put the vase on the ground. He reached out and touched inside. He even put one arm in. He couldn't see anything until he reached the porcelain vase.

object.

He retracted his hand and frowned, blocking his eyes on the mouth of the porcelain bottle and looking inside. The porcelain bottle, which was half a man's height, was dark and could not be seen. Only then did he believe that the hand he had just reached out to touch had found nothing.

He put the porcelain bottle back to its original place with force, and looked deeply at the porcelain bottle, thinking that a bottle is a bottle, there is no mystery, he just thought too deeply.

People with deep thoughts always make things complicated, especially Nangong Ao. He always thought that the emperor would hide the imperial edict in a very secret place.

Nangong Ao searched through boxes and cabinets in the house for a long time, but still had no clue. He was impatient and angry and turned around to glare at the person who was still breathing on the bed.

He looked at the person on the bed with a very fierce look. After seeing the brocade quilt on the bed move slightly, he immediately became alert, stopped what he was doing and walked gently to the bed. His whole body and mind were in a state of preparation for war.

Ready to attack at any moment, he walked to the bedside and gently lifted the gauze curtain. The person on the bed was still as lifeless as before.

Seeing that the people on the bed were motionless, he took a breath, relaxed his tense heart, and glanced at the golden nanmu dragon bed.

Nangong Ao looked at the dragon bed with sculptures of a dragon playing with a pearl, flowing clouds, and ocean waves. He knelt down with his hands on the edge of the bed, and put his head under the bed to see if there was anything he was looking for hidden under the bed.

, I knelt there and looked at the bed, but it was empty.

After searching for a long time and finding nothing, Nangong Ao was disheartened. He didn't want to give up, but he couldn't find any trace.

He stood up and his sinister eyes turned as red as a bite, "Father, where did you put the imperial edict?"

He asked in a low voice, trying to get some clues from the unconscious person on the bed.

There was no response from the person on the bed. He restrained his evil thoughts and wanted to reach out to end the life of this person who still had one breath left. When he hesitated, he heard footsteps outside the door. He immediately hid his outstretched hand back in his sleeve.

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"Brother Imperial!" Nangong Ye shouted in surprise when he saw Nangong Ao.

Hearing Nangong Ye's voice, Nangong Ao, who was standing beside the bed, didn't move and stood there steadily.

Seeing that the person standing in front of the bed did not respond, Nangong Ye walked to him and stood side by side with him. He looked at the person on the bed and said, "Father, are you feeling better?"

Nangong Ao looked at the person on the bed intently, squinted his eyes and said, "If it doesn't get better, those losers in Tai Hospital are helpless."

After finishing his words, Nangong Ye, who was standing beside the bed, frowned and said, "Father, your life is about to end."

Nangong Ao was startled when he heard this. He was really surprised when such treacherous words came out of Ye's mouth.

Nangong Ye is an emotional person and has the best relationship with the emperor as a father and son. Among the many princes, Nangong Ye is the closest to the emperor.

The person who had the deepest father-son affection for the emperor said that the emperor was about to live until the end of his life. Nangong Ao was a little confused as to why he would say such treasonous words in front of him.

Looking at the skinny man on the bed, Nangong Ye felt heartbroken. How could that domineering and majestic man become like this?

His heart was full of heartache and pain. His majestic father turned into an unconscious dead man. Birth, old age, illness and death are natural laws, but in the face of such natural laws, his children did not want to be filial to him.

, but spent all his energy planning to compete for his throne.

When he first came in, he was slightly surprised to see Nangong Ao. Then when he saw Nangong Ao hiding his hands in his sleeves when he exited, he understood why Nangong Ao was here.

Nangong Ao was worried that the emperor would not hand over the throne to him before his death. Just in case, he was doing risky things.

The two brothers came out of Longyang Palace. As soon as they arrived outside the door, Nangong Ye called out to Nangong Ao, who was very cold to him.

"Brother Imperial!" Nangong Ye called with dissatisfaction.

Nangong Ao stopped after hearing this, turned his back to Nangong Ye, and gave him a straight back.

Looking at the indifferent figure in front of him, Nangong Ye was heartbroken. The brother who once cared so much about him was now so indifferent to him.

"Brother Imperial, Yan'er seems to be very ill?" Nangong Ye asked.

Nangong Ao looked slightly cold after hearing this, raised his eyebrows and said coldly, "Ye, pay attention to your title, Yan'er, isn't it worthy of you?"

Nangong Ye's voice was serious and cold, with a hint of accusation and warning. Hearing this, Nangong Ye frowned and said displeasedly, "Yan'er's illness is so serious, but you turn a blind eye to her, and yet you are here arguing with me about the title issue.

Who promised me to take good care of her in the first place?" Nangong Ye's anger surged, and he said accusingly without caring about the courtesy of a monarch and his ministers.

"Presumptuous." Nangong Ao turned around and scolded loudly.

"As a subject, you do not respect the monarch, and as a subject's brother, you do not avoid the suspicion of your brother and sister-in-law. You are treasonous. What do you want to do?" Nangong Ao asked through gritted teeth.

Listening to Nangong Ao's escalation of a small friction between brothers into a major incident between monarch and ministers, he raised a sarcastic smile on his lips, and his eyes suddenly turned cold when looking at Nangong Ao.

"His Royal Highness, are you going to break your promise?" Nangong Ye asked coldly. When he and Cao Yan were about to get married, he originally wanted to stop him. It was he who came forward to ask for it, saying that they would live happily together for the rest of their lives.

Waiting for Cao Yan.

Being questioned so mercilessly by Nangong Ye, Nangong Ao's expression was as cold as ice, and his eyes were sharp, "It's not up to the Third Prince to question my Highness."

Nangong Ye sneered after hearing this. It turned out that the brotherly love he thought about was so weak. Their relationship now was not that of brothers, but that of monarch and minister.

He was a minister who had no right to question him as a monarch. It was because he was being sentimental. He had always kept the brotherly love in his heart when he was a child. When he became an adult, there was a struggle for the throne. Their brotherly love

Maybe it just ceases to exist.

"Your Highness, I don't want to care about right and wrong. I just want to ask Your Highness whether he wants to break the oath he promised to his brother?" Nangong Ye's eyes were as sharp as the tip of a knife. He looked at Nangong Ao and asked without being humble or arrogant.

Nangong Ye's words pulled Nangong Ao back into those past events. When Cao Yan and Ji married him, Nangong Ye, who had always been in love with Cao Yan, wanted to ask the emperor to give Cao Yan to him.

Of course he readily agreed to what Nangong Ye did at the time, but later his mother, Nangong, found out and scolded him for being stupid, saying that he had already been engaged to Cao Yan, and that his uncle Cao Hu had great power and would become the emperor of Nangong in the future.

It is extremely foolish for him to give up something that is beneficial and harmless.

Nangong Ao, who was scolded by the queen, came to his senses and realized that marrying Cao Yan was undoubtedly an added layer of insurance for him to ascend to the throne of God.

After clearly distinguishing the pros and cons, Nangong Ao agreed to marry Cao Yan without anyone's persuasion. He has always been a decisive person.

Nangong Ao retorted that he wanted to fulfill the engagement, but Nangong Ye naturally disagreed. He went to Nangong Ao and asked him why he went back on his word and married Cao Yan even though he didn't like her.
Chapter completed!