Chapter 57: If It Fails, I’ll Probably Die!
“If,” Lin Xin felt her throat a bit dry, she licked her lips and asked with difficulty, “I mean if, what would happen if he failed?”
“Failed?” Meng Yichen’s gaze was dazed for a moment, “If he failed, he’d probably die!”
“He would…… die?” Lin Xin’s heart sank, thinking of that upright youth who might lose his life because of one sentence from her, she once again felt the mournful mood when her teammates left one by one back then.
Seeing her look as if she had lost her parents, Meng Yichen instead smiled, he raised his hand and touched her head, “You have to believe Zi Yuan, since he chose to act, he must already have a foolproof plan, he shouldn’t fail.”
However, Lin Xin was not comforted by him, the endings of these people in the original book exploded in her mind once again, she turned her head away, Gao Yong was persistently trying to sneak attack Big Tiger’s tail, Chu Yu and Zhou Qi were drinking heavily, Ling Qing and Cui Shi were arguing over something unknown.
These people, including Meng Yichen sitting next to Lin Xin, were all living people with flesh and blood, not NPCs in the book, she suddenly had an impulse to do something for them.
“Um, is Grand Tutor Feng’s power very great?” Lin Xin asked.
“Grand Tutor Feng Xing is Imperial Consort Feng’s father, and also the Third Prince’s maternal grandfather, the new top scholar personally selected by the Late Emperor, his disciples under him are all over the country, many of whom are officials in various places, their connections are intertwined, their power can’t even be described as great, they can be called able to cover the sky with one hand.” Meng Yichen smiled bitterly as he explained to her.
“Do those people all support him in propping up the Third Prince to replace the Crown Prince’s position?” Lin Xin asked, based on her experience reading novels, there must be some among the Grand Tutor’s disciples who wouldn’t go along with him.
“Of course not, most people still support the orthodox one, otherwise where do you think that thing of yours came from!”
“I knew it!”
“But he doesn’t even need that many people supporting him, as long as he grasps a few key lifelines, everyone will be helpless against him, not to mention His Majesty trusts him greatly now, and with that the Third Prince’s position is rising, the Crown Prince becoming increasingly weak is inevitable.”
“What about you all? If I guessed right, you few should all have extraordinary backgrounds! Why must you insist on being Crown Prince’s faction? Don’t tell me it’s about supporting the orthodox.” Before Meng Yichen could speak, Lin Xin preemptively said the last sentence.
Meng Yichen was silent for a long time this time, Lin Xin thought he wouldn’t answer, then he slowly said: “The Third Prince won’t be a good emperor, if he ascends to the throne, the common people will suffer.”
This was an answer Lin Xin had never thought of, when studying Chinese class analyzing those sages’ articles before, it always said something about caring for the country and the people, she always felt that was probably just a slogan from later generations, but now hearing Meng Yichen’s words, for some reason, she actually felt a sense of substitution, a tragic emotion rising in her heart.
“What’s wrong? Don’t believe what I said?” Meng Yichen smiled and asked her.
Lin Xin shook her head, her voice a bit hoarse as she asked: “I’m thinking about Mo Ziyuan, does he think the same?”
Meng Yichen laughed again, “Zi Yuan is different from us, he still carries the responsibility of Dingguo Duke’s Mansion on his shoulders, his choice is much harder than ours.”
“Dingguo Duke’s Mansion?” Lin Xin subconsciously repeated it.
“Zi Yuan is the Heir of Dingguo Duke.”
“Oh! Then does their family support the Crown Prince or the Third Prince?” Lin Xin asked.
“Dingguo Duke is a firm loyalist to the Emperor, he only listens to the Emperor.”
Next, Meng Yichen simply gave Lin Xin a rundown of the distribution of various forces in the court, finally summarizing: “Actually, the reason Zi Yuan made the decision so hastily this time is also because Grand Tutor Feng’s behavior is too arrogant and blatant, if left to develop like this, even if the Crown Prince succeeds in the succession struggle in the end, there probably won’t be many usable ministers left in the court.”
Lin Xin nodded in understanding, and quickly made a decision in her heart.
She asked Meng Yichen: “Do you know the road from here to the Capital City? Is there a relatively wide and easy road?”
Meng Yichen’s head nodded halfway and suddenly turned to look over, “What do you want to do? Even if we set off now, it’s too late.”
Lin Xin took a deep breath, “No matter if we make it in time or not, I want to go there, I don’t want to regret it in the future.”
Meng Yichen’s brows furrowed deeply like a knot, in that instant just now he felt Lin Xin carrying a very heavy sorrow, so heavy it could suffocate people.
“How do you plan to go?” he asked.
“I have my own way, but I don’t know the roads, so, are you willing to run this trip with me?” Lin Xin looked into Meng Yichen’s eyes and asked seriously.
“I……” After staring for a long time, Meng Yichen conceded, “Alright, I’ll run this trip with you, but you know my body, first you have to convince Old Cui to give me a medicine that can let me persist for a round trip, after that we need to prepare horses, and also……”
Meng Yichen’s voice abruptly stopped, he could feel one of Lin Xin’s hands pressing against his back, a continuous warm current flowing from her hand into his body, forming a cycle, circulating endlessly in his body, bit by bit taking away the stiffness and heaviness in his body.
“We’ll set off tonight, if smooth it should take about two days to return, for Nan Nan there I’ll have Old Cui help me watch him temporarily, for your side you figure it out yourself, don’t tell them the truth.” Retracting her hand, Lin Xin said faintly to Meng Yichen.
“I, you, I……” Feeling the lightness in his body, Meng Yichen’s mind went blank.
“We’ll act separately, remember not to expose me, otherwise I have ten thousand ways to make your life worse than death, understand?”
Meng Yichen nodded dazedly, that appearance made Lin Xin suspect if he even heard what she said, so she seriously repeated the threat from earlier, finally bringing him back to his senses.
“Miss Lin, rest assured, I absolutely won’t tell about you, I swear on my life!”
“Alright, show it in your actions, I don’t believe in oaths.”
Looking at the excited Meng Yichen, Lin Xin sneered inwardly, you get excited for a while first, later I’ll let you see the effect of the Magic Flower, hope by then you can still remember what you did.
Lin Nan is a very obedient child, hearing that Older Sister has something to do these two days and needs him to follow Master for two days, he agreed very readily, making Lin Xin inexplicably a bit unhappy inside, feeling like her cub was snatched to someone else’s nest.
Meng Yichen’s side went very smoothly too, who knows how he deceived those Soldier Brothers, they actually left with Old Cui’s horse carriage without a word, truly making Lin Xin amazed at his deception ability.
