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Thus, the validity of this secret decree was decided. Since the crown prince was still young, the ceremony for the crowning of the crown prince and the Violet Garden's proposal for a simplified version had given rise to good feelings among many officials. Their aversion to the idea of a one-year-old child being crowned as a crown prince was not that strong.

The annual celebration of the little princess and prince of the Northern Yue was held a few days later, and the funeral of the king of the Western Kingdom was officially held. At first, the king of the Eastern Ping Kingdom wanted Feng Lingxue to act as an emissary to pay her respects, but Feng Lingxue refused. He did not want to go to the Western Territory, and he wanted to continue staying in the Northern Yue State with his daughter. In the end, the king could only send a random person over, but he did not send any particularly good gifts.

Mu Rong Xiu wasn't happy with this seemingly desolate funeral. However, now that Xi Li had lost half of his power and strength due to the fight against the North Vietnamese, his political status was no longer as high as it used to be.

Just as the funeral was coming to an end, several masked women suddenly appeared beside Murong Xiu, yelling out murderous words as they charged at him. Amidst the chaos of "Protecting the Prince", Murong Xiu wasn't able to hide his unrivaled martial arts. He had to fight against six people and still had more than enough strength to win.

The messengers from the small countries that had come to offer their condolences were all terrified when they saw the miraculous skill that Murong Xiu had displayed. Emissary Dongping was also thinking that he had to go back and tell the king that this Murong Xiu's martial arts were much better than before.

Seeing that they couldn't get their hands on it, the women suddenly threw the flash grenades. Then, they took advantage of the moment when everyone's eyes were being hit by the bright light to throw out the smoke bullets and escape.

Murong Xiu stopped his guards just as they were about to give chase.

He quietly asked Tang Ao: "What do you think? Do you think that it's very similar to Yun Ji's martial arts? "

Tang Ao nodded. "Indeed, but Yunji isn't inside."

"I know. It should be Feng Lingxue's other group of Mei Ji killers." Murong Xiu smiled playfully. "But, who is it that wants to kill Ben Wang?" He was thinking, could it be the Violet Garden? He couldn't tell that the answer last time was only to scold him. Since it was scolding him, there was no need to borrow the help of Feng Lingxue's men to kill him. Could it be that Feng Lingxue was going to avenge the Violet Garden? However, with Feng Lingxue's personality, the probability of this happening was not high.

After mulling over it for a while, Murong Xiu felt that it would be better to write a letter and ask about it.

However, the replies from the two people he asked were negative. Violet Garden was the most straightforward. "If I want to kill you, I'll just kill myself. There's no need to invite others." Feng Lingxue, on the other hand, honestly told him that she did indeed accept a business deal to kill him, but he had to keep this a secret from the person who entrusted them.

Mu Rong Xiu was helpless, but he still sent people to investigate who it was that wanted to kill him. After searching for a while, he still could not find out who invited Feng Lingxue's Mei Ji killer to kill him.

The reason he wasn't able to find out was that he'd never dreamed that the person who would kill him would be a nobody. This man was just a small civil servant of the seventh rank.

When he was still an ordinary clerk in the Ministry of Justice's yamen, he had come across the young lord of the Ministry of Justice who was patrolling the yamen. The young lord saw that he was young and wanted to go to the Ministry of Justice to work as a clerk to support his family, so he felt that he was very pitiful. So he asked him a few questions.

At first, he just thought that it was just a joke. Although the promotion of the officials in Xili City was not entirely dependent on the imperial examinations, he felt that it was unlikely for the young master to break the rules and promote a completely unrelated stranger like him.

He did not expect that after a few days, the Ministry of Justice's public notice would be posted that a few people had been promoted, including him. All of a sudden, he had risen from a small unofficial document to a small official of the seventh rank. He was so lucky that he envied the other clerks. Although he never saw the young master again, he was still deeply grateful to him. Back then, when Prime Minister Gongsun was trying to win over people from all over the country, he had also joined the sect because he knew that Gongsun Jiuzhu supported the young master.

Later on, when Murong Xiu returned to his country to exact his revenge and brutally killed the family of Prime Minister Gongsun, he hated Murong Xiu to the core. And when Murong Xiu cleared Gongsun Jianyun, because his position was lower, he became a fish out of the net. Look, even now, Murong Xiu still couldn't pinpoint the identity of the person who tried to kill him. One could imagine how low his sense of existence was.

No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't believe it was real. He felt that it must have been Murong Xiu who had killed the young lord, but he wasn't a small figure that would oppose the Regent. That day, he gloomily drank his wine and returned home from the wine shop, only to run into Yunji. Yunji heard him say that he wanted to find someone to help him seek revenge, so Yunji simply gave him a name card. When that person woke up, he really did find the address on the name card.

Mu Rong Xiu hadn't been able to find out about that nobody, so the matter of him being assassinated in the National Burial Ceremony was gradually left out. The number of people who could kill him could be counted on one hand. Feng Lingxue probably knew of this reason as well, so the Mei Ji assassins that were sent out were not first-rate, but were some small characters that needed actual combat experience. One or two of them were even injured while retreating.

Of course, Feng Lingxue did not care about these details. He was very interested in the person who gave the order to retreat in time, so he promoted that girl. This was the first time she had encountered a failure in a quest, and there were even people who could be promoted. Thus, this action had provoked the other girls, and after knowing the reason for their failure, everyone's overall requirements for their own quality had also increased.

Although many people in the imperial court were still suspicious of the king's sudden death, there was no direct evidence that the king had been killed by Murong Xiu. Thus, everyone could only turn a blind eye to this.

On this day, in the morning assembly, an old official of the three dynasties began to say that the country must not be left without a ruler, and suggested that Murong Xiu should ascend to the throne as soon as possible. Mu Rong Xiu just smiled without saying a word. Many of the others didn't know what Murong Xiu was thinking, so some of them remained silent. Some of them even started to support him.

As more and more people joined in, more and more people joined in. When two-thirds of the people in the morning assembly had come in, Murong Xiu said, "This suggestion is fine, but …" He changed his tone, "I promised you that I would help you to grow up, help you to govern the West, and turn the West into a prosperous country. Since Little Wang did not fulfill this promise, how can I be shameless enough to ascend to the throne as Brother Wang? I only want to be a regent and do not wish to become the ruler of a country. Everyone, please do not make things difficult for me anymore. "

With that, Murong Xiu flicked his sleeves and left. Leaving behind an official, they stared at one another in dismay.

That afternoon, many people received the news that Murong Xiu had called the Duke and Marquis to the palace for a meeting. There was a shrewd old official among them. He estimated that Murong Xiu wanted to choose a successor from the branch family.

As expected, on the morning of the second day, Murong Xiu brought this matter up.

"In the near future, the Crown Prince will list young men between the ages of twelve and twenty and send them their resume and picture books for selection. When the time comes, may I trouble the following dear officials to take a look for Little Wang and pick out what they want to do. " Murong Xiu waved his hand and a few people from the palace came up and reported their names. When all the names were announced, some of them secretly let out a sigh of relief, while others slightly frowned in worry. Those who breathed a sigh of relief felt that they didn't have to shoulder any responsibilities. Those who frowned were worried that they might have lost the trust Murong Xiu held in his heart.

After this matter was concluded, Murong Xiu seemed very happy, as if he really didn't have any selfish motives. Few of the crafty officials in the imperial court believed that Murong Xiu had no private messages. They knew that Murong Xiu was just worried that someone would say that he had killed a monarch to usurp the throne in the future. He wanted to gain a good reputation, so he wasn't willing to be the monarch.

As for him, he had chosen those twelve to twenty years old from the Central Palace to succeed the throne, all because he wanted to nurture a puppet. If it was the younger ones, Murong Xiu wouldn't have the energy to take care of them. If it was the older ones, he wouldn't have been able to control them. If he didn't listen, he would just kill himself. In any case, there were a lot of people of his age in the clan, so he probably wouldn't feel any heartache.

However, there were also those who truly believed that what Murong Xiu said was true. Tang Ao was one of them. He truly trusted and worshipped Murong Xiu, so he believed that he didn't want to become the king. This was his true intention. He admired Murong Xiu even more for selflessly choosing the right person to be the king. Therefore, he took the initiative to ask Murong Xiu to let him participate in this matter and help him resolve his predicament.

A person he trusted had taken the initiative to ask for this, so Murong Xiu had a few thoughts in mind. It wasn't that he didn't trust Tang Ao. The person he didn't trust was the woman that Tang Ao liked, Yunji. Ever since this woman had interacted with the two of them, she had never returned to Dongping, nor did she ever return to Feng Lingxue's side. He didn't know what Feng Lingxue actually meant. Murong Xiu had heard that Yun Ji was ranked in the top three of Feng Lingxue's 12 beauties, but hadn't Feng Lingxue recently had any job that required Yun Ji to do? Or could it be that Yunji was actually on a mission to the west? Could it be that she was using this matter to conceal herself in the west with Tang Ao?

Murong Xiu just couldn't figure out why Yun Ji had stayed so long away from them. She never returned, and she always kept a high profile. Right now, when this little girl was walking on the road, there were many people greeting her, so she didn't hide anything. Tang Ao was now both the capital's inspector and, because of his unique appearance, was remembered by the commoners while he was on patrol. In addition, Tang Ao's heart was deeply ingrained with the heart of a noblewoman in the capital. The news spread like wildfire, and everyone in the capital knew who he was.

Thus, when people learned that Tang Ao already had someone he liked, that the person he liked was that beautiful Yun Ji who liked to shop, everyone would take the initiative to greet her. However, Yun Ji, who was part of the Mei Ji organization, had actually become a part of the common people. To Murong Xiu, this was something he couldn't understand. Thus, he wrote a letter to Feng Lingxue and asked her if their Mei Ji could survive under the sun. In the end, Feng Lingxue replied that his Mei Ji was indeed a beauty that could survive under the sun, and not a dark assassination organization.

It was because of this Yunji that he couldn't help but worry about Tang Ao at times. Murong Xiu didn't doubt Tang Ao's loyalty in the slightest. He was only worried that Tang Ao would be too honest and unknowingly fall into Yun Ji's trap.

Thus, when Tang Ao took the initiative to participate in the selection, Murong Xiu hesitated for a moment before finally agreeing. In the end, Murong Xiu was still a prideful person. Therefore, he believed that even if Yun Ji was hiding here, he would still be able to see through her.