Chapter 322 - Drag Him out and Behead Him at Once (1/2)

Mo Xiangbin’s eyes fell on Mo Junyu for only a short while and made his heart beat fast, with cold sweat on his head. Then he looked away as if nothing had happened.

He turned to Ling Ruiyin and asked in a hoarse voice, “What happened?”

Ling Ruiyin wiped her tears and replied in a sobbing voice, “Your Majesty, Doctor Shen said that you were poisoned because you ate the damned elixir. I have told you before that the stuff came from nowhere and you couldn’t eat it. If you had listened to me, something like this wouldn’t have happened today.”

Ling Ruiyin complained and felt sad for her son.

What she said was sincere and made him feel sorrowful.

Even though Mo Xiangbin wasn’t used to being rebuked to his face since long ago, in front of Ling Ruiyin, he wasn’t displeased but moved.

Although he was blinded by the elixir-refiner because of oversight, he was not stupid.

Now he was feeble, and it seemed that all his strength was extracted in advance. He felt worse even than before he took elixir, and with Doctor Shen’s diagnosis, he knew what on earth had happened as he trusted this miracle-working doctor recommended by Mo Junyang.

Mo Xiangbin got furious in an instant and shouted, “Where is Han Ling?”

Ling Ruiyin was Mo Xiangbin’s biological mother and knew well about her son.

She patted Mo Xiangbin’s back to make him stop being angry and explained, “Don’t worry. I have ordered some people to bring Han Ling. It’s up to you how to deal with him.”

Mo Xiangbin coldly glanced at Han Ling who knelt on the floor and kept trembling, ordering directly, “Drag him out and behead him at once.”

He said mercilessly, as if he wouldn’t kill somebody but just told somebody to go out and cut a wax gourd.

All people were stunned, and then Han Ling screamed like a pig which was being killed. “Your Majesty, please spare my life. Please, Your Majesty. I was careless. I am sure to refine the elixir which can make you become stronger and live forever next time. Please give me another chance.”

Hearing that, the guards who came to drag Han Ling away didn’t do anything but looked at Mo Xiangbin hesitantly.

Mo Xiangbin snorted. “What? Haven’t you heard my order?”

He would really kill this man without mercy.

The two guards didn’t dare to delay after hearing that. They dragged Han Ling on both sides of him and prepared to pull him out.

“Father, please wait a moment.”

A clear voice cut in, and the guards stopped again. All people looked at the source of the voice.

It was the sixth prince Mo Junjing.

Mo Xiangbin stared at Mo Junjing and asked indifferently, “Junjing, what do you want to say?”

The others noticed Mo Xiangbin’s anger and didn’t say anything, as they feared that they would be implicated.

However, Mo Junjing wasn’t afraid of death. He didn’t notice the coldness in Mo Xiangbin’s words but stated boldly, “Father, although Doctor Shen said that you were in a coma because you were poisoned, he can’t explain what poison it is. If you kill Han Ling rashly before finding the truth, perhaps it will arouse the public opinion and influence your fame. I beg you…”

“What? Don’t I have the power to kill a person now?” Mo Xiangbin interrupted Mo Junjing coldly.

Mo Junjing was speechless and looked at Mo Xiangbin. He had nothing to say.

Mo Xiangbin pursed his lips again. “Speaking of which, if I am not brainless at an old age, you recommended Han Ling to me, right?”

Mo Junjing was unable to speak.

He had just wanted to show his face in front of his father and express that he was different, while what he said reminded the emperor. He couldn’t please Mo Xiangbin but got himself into trouble.

Mo Junjing was so anxious that he almost had cold sweat. He waved his hand repeatedly and stated, “Father, you get me wrong. I never want to harm you.”

“Really?” Mo Xiangbin leered at Mo Junjing with a faint smile. Nobody knew if he believed this son’s words.

Mo Junjing raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his forehead. Then he gritted his teeth and bit the bullet, continuing, “In the past, I just heard that you wanted to find a person to refine elixir, and I happened to know that Han Ling made great achievements in this field, so I recommended him to you. I didn’t know that he wanted to harm you. I really…”

“You recommended him to me before testing his capability. Is this your way to show respect to your father?” Mo Xiangbin expressed coldly and made Mo Junjing’s arguments stuck in his throat.

Mo Xiangbin didn’t want to say more to Mo Junjing. He just told the guards to pull Han Ling out and then expressed coldly, “Even if you don’t want to harm me, you are rash, and you should toughen yourself.

“I won’t blame you this time. You go back to your residence and reflect upon your mistakes. Don’t go out without my permission.”

What he said was shocking. Nobody had expected that Mo Xiangbin would put Mo Junjing under house arrest.

Mo Junjing looked at Mo Xiangbin in a daze, as if he hadn’t understood why he did it out of kindness but ended up with being locked up in the imperial palace, unable to get out.

However, Mo Xiangbin didn’t plan to give him a chance to explain. He waved his hand and told somebody to take Mo Junjing away.

It was weirdly quiet in the bedroom again. All people lowered their heads and didn’t dare to speak. They only observed Mo Xiangbin’s reactions out of the corners of their eyes from time to time.