The Phoenix Reborn Book II

Chapter 97 The Opposition

The next day, Huang Miaoling looked ready in his robe of honor. The third level princess crown had perched on her head, showing off the power and status she possessed. On the woman's waist side, a sword was perched to warn everyone of the fact that she was also a general.

While combing his fingers in Mazu's mane, Huang Miaoling gave a blank look into the air. ‘My time is not much,’ Lan’er's greeting is still ringing in his mind. ‘You must kill Wang Chengliu,’ and the request does not stop haunting him.

“Mrs.”

A voice shocked Huang Miaoling, making him turn his head quickly towards the side. “Qiuyue,” call him while smiling thinly. “The First Brother has arrived?” guess who followed the nod of his butler's companion.

“Minister Huang said that he will accompany you coming to the palace,” Qiuyue's eyes glanced at Mazu who suddenly snorted when he said that. ‘Is this my feeling or is Mazu capable of understanding human language?’ the servant smiled helplessly.

A sigh came out of Huang Miaoling's lips, and he scowled his temple. “Alright,” he said as he patted Mazu slowly. “You hear that, Mazu? Again, I can't take you to the palace.” The woman laughed when she saw her horse turn and gave me teary eyes, as if disappointed.

When he heard footsteps from outside the carriage, Huang Yade opened the curtain of the carriage and looked at Huang Miaoling from top to bottom. “Mingwei Junzhu .. or General Huang?” huang Yade asked as she raised her right eyebrow. “Lucky you didn't come to the palace with Liang Fenghong in clothes like this. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to tell which one is the wife and which one is the husband,” chanted.

Huang Miaoling smiled faintly, then stepped inside the carriage. He knew that Huang Yade did not want him to attract too much attention by riding horses along the streets of the capital, especially after the events of the past night.

Wang Chengliu would obviously send people to attack secretly.

“You're really going to do this?” Huang Yade who sat before Huang Miaoling said, “Today, you must stand alone in court.” Huang Yade's right hand knocked on the wooden wall of the carriage, giving the coachman a sign. “Although appearance might help you look more confident, but the fact there are so many people who want to pressure you will not disappear.”

“Aren't you going to help me, First Brother?” huang Miaoling asked with a faint smile. “Don't I still have you, Grandpa Wei, also Prime Minister Situ?” He straightened his body, trying to balance the body when he felt the carriage start moving. “Added with Aunt Yan’an who became one of the honored concubines, who would dare to openly attack us?” Huang Miaoling laughed after saying that, “Except the royal family, of course.”

“Do not talk carelessly,” hiss Huang Yade. “However, your speech is not wrong.” The man sighed. “Therefore, if you meddle too much with the government, who can guess what Emperor Weixin will do to you?”

The three great families of the Shi Kingdom were bound together, but the royal family made sure that there was a rope to restrain them, the wedding rope. Huang Jieli's marriage to Shang Meiliang was carried out to bind the military forces of the Huang family, Huang Yan’an and Situ Mingmei became the emperor's woman to strengthen Wang Weixin's position in court, and the Wei family would not dare to take careless action due to the family's ties with the Huang family.

However, now appeared the figure of Huang Miaoling.

Although his status as Mingwei Junzhu was mentioned as a gift from the emperor, it was actually a chain tied to Huang Miaoling's neck. Yes, that status was used by Emperor Weixin to suppress and use the First Miss Huang. If in the future Huang Miaoling does great service for the Shi Kingdom, it will be named as the success of the royal family.

“Calm down,” reply Huang Miaoling, then he closed his eyes. “I've dived too deep, Brother.” A million tactics ran through his brain, something he needed to prepare for the court later. “In the beginning, I overturned his back palace. Now, Your Majesty will not be surprised by my involvement in his trial.” The woman's eyelids opened, emitting a drowning darkness from the bead as black as night. “Instead, he wanted me to clean it up.”

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After arriving at the court, a number of people stared at Huang Miaoling with a judging look. Even without her husband, the woman exuded a domineering aura capable of suppressing most of the hidden insults.

When he entered the line and stood in the position he had been assigned, Huang Miaoling raised his gaze to the opposite area. He was quite surprised when he found Wang Chengliu standing right in front of him.

‘Ah, since only the Sixth and Seventh Princes remained, the inner’ of Huang Miaoling, understood what caused Wang Chengliu to be in a line parallel to him. Not wanting to take too long to land his gaze on Wang Chengliu, Huang Miaoling glanced around, ‘Hmm ...,’ he realized there was someone absent.

While Huang Miaoling was busy sweeping the surrounding scenery, he found Shao Yanjun's figure staring at him. The man put on a frightened face for a moment, then he quickly shifted his gaze.

Huang Miaoling paid no heed to Shao Yanjun and rushed over to Wei Shulin, saluting his maternal grandfather. He also talked to some relatives and other officials. Unlike the other women who struggled to establish connections in the residence, Huang Miaoling had to fight to maintain connections in the court.

Finished a brief chat with other officials, Huang Miaoling resigned to return to his position. At that moment, his eyes caught the gaze given by Wang Chengliu, a watchful look.

Right at that moment, a smile flashed across Huang Miaoling's face involuntarily. Really, his smile was too wide, making him look as if he was very happy. ‘He he.’ However, the truth was that it was a condescending smile.

Looking at the expression plastered on Huang Miaoling's face, Wang Chengliu's face turned dark. The man was convinced now that the news regarding what had happened between him and Huang Wushuang had reached the woman's ears.

Wang Chengliu's greeting on his wedding night made Huang Miaoling feel funny and amused, “You are my queen!” the man shouted that night.

‘Tak get your empress, you switched to trying to get your concubine back, huh?’ The woman's gaze was fixed straight on the sixth prince. ‘Next, are you going to try to get your throne?’ Huang Miaoling's hands clenched, voicing his heart, ‘Not in this life.’

As the two pairs of beads clashed and fought each other, suddenly the main door of the palace court opened. Kasim announced the arrival of the Son of Heaven, then all the officials stood up and saluted, “Honor to His Majesty the Emperor!”

The arrival of Emperor Weixin was the beginning of the court meeting. All the officials put forward their difficulties and thoughts towards the kingdom, trying to find a solution to all the problems that exist.

During the discussion, Huang Miaoling realized that every time he asked something, Wang Chengliu would give a deadly look at him. Mingwei Junzhu's heart wondered, was this what Wang Chengliu looked like in his past life when he opposed the man's policy in the court of the palace?

Huang Miaoling who was in the front row due to Wang Xiangqi's absence immediately saluted like an official. “Your Majesty, I feel that the Minister's proposal is not wrong.”

Yang Tianbai looked slightly surprised by Huang Miaoling's remark. The man did not expect the woman to follow his wishes after repeatedly opposing his other proposals.

Huang Miaoling continued, “The Fifth Prince's death has been spread for a long time, I don't know who did it,” he threw a glance at Wang Chengliu, making the man grit his teeth, “and so, it makes no difference to perform the Fifth Prince's death ritual now or later.”

At this moment, Emperor Weixin glanced towards his sixth son, capturing the exchange of views of Huang Miaoling and the young man. “Sixth Prince, do you have a response?”

Hearing his name being called, Wang Chengliu's expression instantly turned calm. He saluted and said, “No, Your Majesty. Mingwei Junzhu has explained very well.” While throwing a meaningful look and smile at Huang Miaoling, he added, “It's time to give him some peace.”

Wang Chengliu's last sentence made Huang Miaoling's temple twitch. The “-nya” word mentioned by Wang Chengliu .. actually refers to whom? Wang Wuyu .. or Huang Miaoling?

‘What else has the man prepared?’ hiss Huang Miaoling inwardly when he found an annoying expression painted on Wang Chengliu's face.

Suddenly, the court door opened wide again. Everyone looked confused when they found a bodyguard running in. “Your Highness, urgent report!” The man's hand was seen thrusting a letter in his hand, indicating the report was confidential, the matter of announcing its contents or not to officials was in the hands of Emperor Weixin.

Eunuch Gao walked up to the soldier and grabbed the letter. Then, after a brief check of the security of the letter—make sure there is no poison in sana—sang eunuch companion gave it to Emperor Weixin.

There was not the slightest doubt or bewilderment when Emperor Weixin received the letter. However, after he opened and read the contents, in a split second, the expression on Emperor Weixin's face turned ghastly.

With a hard blow to his great table, Emperor Weixin paid no heed to the officials and cursed, “Little dissident!”

*Some days later*

“Strike!” shouted a man with a sword pointed straight ahead.

The man's armor was adorned with dried blood marks, and short hair was also seen adorning his handsome face. This meant that the war he had been following had been going on for days.

“Haaa!” shouts from thousands of other soldiers accompanied, igniting a burning spirit of abstinence when he saw the unequal number of enemy troops.

From a distance, another man in shining armor and a steel hat sat on his horse. His much more conspicuous appearance compared to other warriors showed his esteemed status, similar to the man who shouted the word “serang” a moment ago.

A soldier came up to the man sitting on the horse and saluted, “Report, Fourth Prince, our guess is correct, the number of Zhou troops is indeed much less than it should be. Although they have been helped by the Sihan Tribe, but they can't possibly beat us.” The soldier added, “With the ability of the Vice General, this war will end in no time.”

Hearing this, Wang Junsi frowned. “Is that?” For some reason, despite hearing this good news, the fourth prince did not feel his heart calm. Instead, he felt something was awkward.

Wang Junsi's gaze turned back to the front, staring at the steaming dust caused by the horse's foot thrust on the ground. Tens of thousands of cavalry and walking troops from the two kingdoms attacked each other, trying to defend lives by taking the lives of others.

Xiuchen who was also on the horse next to Wang Junsi said with an expression of difficulty, “Isn't this ... tantamount to slaughter?”

Although the squad had not been mobilized to fight the enemy, Xiuchen realized that he was part of the war. Killing was not foreign to Xiuchen, but not slaughtering. Slaughtering and killing, those were obviously two different things. In comparison, Xiuchen prefers to do the first over the second.

The words of his escort's bodyguard made Wang Junsi even more riled up, his heart wondered, ‘Zhou sent some of his troops along with the Nanhan Tribe to take control of Wu. Indeed it worked, but why do they also launch attacks in the near future if you already know will be outnumbered?’ His heart skipped a beat, as if it was about to get an answer. ‘What ... do they really launch an attack with no intention to win?’

As Wang Junsi was busy thinking about it, he heard the sound of horse legs clattering. The prince's head turned back, and his eyes squinted to see more clearly who the uninvited guest was.

As the figure in armor got closer, the few soldiers in the back row immediately stood by. However, Wang Junsi instead rushed to turn his horse around and approached, hoping that his vision was wrong and that person was not someone he knew.

However, as the person shouted, Wang Junsi was forced to be disappointed, “Fourth Brother!”

Wang Junsi's hand clenched, and he growled, “Wang Xiangqi?!”

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A/N: zzz ... zzz ... oh?! Did I miss anything? o.o