Chapter 173: The Military Strategist Misses His Little Darling
After dealing with Fangfeng Yiying's matter, Xiaoyao seized the time to meet with Rushou. Those arsonist thugs captured the other day did not require harsh torture before unanimously confessing that they had been instigated by His Majesty Cang Xuan. Xiaoyao let out a cold sneer; confessing so easily, and with such a neat and complete story, made it all the more fake. It was just like that farcical assassination attempt against Grandfather back then—who would carve their own clan's insignia onto the assassins' weapons? Who would have thought that after all these years, the Fifth Prince and the Seventh Prince would still be stupid in such a predictable way? No wonder they had never been able to defeat Cang Xuan, and no wonder Grandfather had abdicated. Otherwise, given the sheer stupidity of these two, they would sooner or later have gotten themselves killed off, and then not a single person would be left in the younger generation of the Xiyan royal family. After all, having these two fools around was still better than having none at all.
If there was anything worth praising at all, it was that their timing was calculated quite accurately. It seemed that there must be spies planted around Cang Xuan, and very deeply embedded ones at that. If it were the past, Xiaoyao definitely would have rushed frantically to Cang Xuan to warn him about the existence of such dangerous individuals, but right now she was not anxious…
Chapter 173