Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 692: Speculating Expansion (1)_1

Chapter 692: Chapter 692: Speculating Expansion (1)_1

By the end of September, the weather already carried the chill of early winter, and the leaves on the fruit trees had turned yellow, with only the tips of the leaves maintaining a touch of deep green, which wouldn’t withstand the night’s frost.

Despite the warm sunlight shining on her and the padded clothes she wore, Mo Yan felt a chill through her entire body.

No wonder, with such great achievements in high-yield rice, that he wanted to attribute them to her and grant her the title of County Lord—it was all part of this scheme. It was indeed a "poisoned pie," and more ridiculous was the fact that she had contributed the "filling" herself, and now she was forced to accept it with no strength left to resist.

The benefits of the Imperial Family, indeed, cannot be touched!

Mo Yan looked up, seeing the worry in Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes, opened her mouth and after a long time managed to find her voice, "As a ruler of a nation, he has no way to deal with his own minister, so he roasts me over the fire to draw the Lin Family’s firepower. Does he think I alone can deal with the Lin Family?"

Xiao Ruiyuan didn’t know how to comfort her. He reached out to hold her somewhat cold hand in his palm and said with a firm tone, "Yanyan, no matter what his intentions are, I, Xiao Ruiyuan, will always protect you."

The warmth that covered her hand seemed to touch the bottom of Mo Yan’s heart. She nodded lightly and, after pondering for a moment, said, "He is so wary of the Lin Family yet does not take action against them. It seems that they must have some leverage over him! We must find out what this leverage is, and if possible, remove it. Then the Lin Family will be of no concern!"

A gleam of admiration flashed through the depths of Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes. After some thought, he finally voiced the speculation that had not yet been verified in his heart, "The late emperor had nine sons. He wasn’t of the first wife nor the eldest born, and was the child of a low-ranking concubine. If the former Crown Prince had not died young, and the other princes had not been engaged in strife for power and mutual slander, which disgusted the late emperor, it’s possible that he would not have been listed under the Queen Mother’s name as her legitimate son, succeeded the Crown Prince, and eventually ascended to the throne so smoothly... Master Lin, as the Three Dynasties Imperial Teacher, was deeply trusted by the late emperor. If he did have some leverage back then that fell into Master Lin’s hands, it’s not impossible."

When Emperor Huian ascended the throne, Xiao Ruiyuan had not yet been born. He had only recently had his men secretly investigate these matters, but he hadn’t found any valuable clues.

But his intuition told him, the fact that Emperor Huian inherited the throne not as the eldest nor a legitimate son, was not as simple as it appeared on the surface. Otherwise, none of the princes who had competed for the throne survived more than a year after he took the throne!

These things were not considered top secret, nor were they widely discussed among the public. This was the first time Mo Yan had heard of them and felt that Xiao Ruiyuan might very well have guessed the truth.

She took a deep breath of cool air and murmured, "If it really is as you surmise, that the Lin Family is holding onto this leverage, it’s hard to say whether it’s a fortune or a misfortune."

If there were no such leverage, Emperor Huian would not tolerate Lin Imperial Concubine in the harem out of fear of the Lin Family; Lin Imperial Concubine would not have been greedy and killed Pure Empress, nor would she have caused Chu Heng to live more than two decades with a broken body.

Emperor Huian, worried that the Lin Family might act in desperation, neither awarded death to Lin Imperial Concubine to avenge the Pure Empress nor did he take any action against the Lin Family! In the end, the most innocent ones were the Pure Empress and Chu Heng, who became victims of the power struggle between Emperor Huian and the Lin Family.

Xiao Ruiyuan gave a cold laugh, "Not one from the second or third generation of the Lin Family could stand out. If not for Master Lin’s desperate support, the Lin Family would have been picked clean to the bone long ago! Without the burden of the Family, Master Lin wouldn’t have been ostracized from the court, becoming a thorn in his side!"

As evidenced, if a generation fails to stand up, no matter how illustrious its past, it can only fade into the annals of history.

Upon this, Mo Yan strongly agreed. From the day Lin Imperial Concubine entered the palace, there must have been those in the Lin Family who harbored thoughts they shouldn’t have. Mo Yan didn’t know if Master Lin was among them, but one rotten apple can spoil the whole barrel and even if Master Lin wished to remain unaffected, it was no longer possible.

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