Chapter 231
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It snowed in Qingzhou for three days in a row. Jiang Li was in a strange house, and someone followed her everywhere. Even when she went to Jingfang, there was a maid who knew martial arts beside her.
She can't escape, but it's a small courtyard, and it's also guarded by layers of soldiers. She has become the most important chip, and she can't tolerate any mistakes. Jiang Li has never seen Yin Zhiqing since she last met her. Jiang Li counted the days. She didn't know what was going on outside. She didn't know that the people of the Ye family and situ Jiujiu were still well now, and she didn't know where Ji Heng was and whether she had encountered anything. She can only sit hopelessly. These days, she even changed her usual quiet and calm, and didn't hesitate to go on hunger strike, or quarrel, or threaten, but it didn't work. She couldn't see anyone except these silent bodyguards.
This night is the same.
Deep at night, only the sound of wind and snow can be heard outside. Jiang Li sat at the table. She couldn't sleep, just thinking about how to escape. The oil lamp darkened the room and reflected the shadow on the ground. It is winter, the leaves are withered, only the bare trunk outside, so the swaying figure is particularly eye-catching.
The figure fell on the ground and didn't move, as if it were just an illusion of Jiang Li. Jiang Li stared at the shadow on the ground for a long time, and then said, "since master Yin is here, why don't you enter?"
The figure outside moved slightly, and then, with a sigh, the door was pushed open, and someone came in from the outside.
It's the Li of Yin.
Jiang Li also hadn't seen Yan Zhili for a while. Under the light, his face was haggard, as if he had changed. His eyes are no longer clear and gentle when he first saw them, but instead, countless complex and unwilling expressions. He stood in front of Jiang Li and said, "Miss Jiang."
The handsome childe who used to be as gentle as jade has disappeared, and the Yin Zhili in front of him is extremely strange. Jiang Li stared at him and said, "please sit down, young master Yin."
Yin Zhili sat down.
Jiang Li said, "would you like a cup of tea?" She lifted the teapot on the table, poured a cup for Yin Zhili, and handed it to Yin Zhili. Yan Zhili looked at the teacup in front of him, didn't reach for it, and didn't mean to drink.
Jiang Li smiled and said with some regret, "I'm not fooled."
All the tea here is mixed with medicine, which makes people's body unable to use too much strength and do other things. Probably the person who closed her also knew that she was very cunning. For fear that she might escape by tricks, she came up with such a method. Yin Zhili seemed to have known for a long time and didn't connect.
Sure enough, he looked at Jiang Li and whispered, "sorry."
Yin Zhili's face showed a little guilty expression. This made him look that he finally had a little shadow that Jiang Li knew. Jiang Li sighed and said, "I only ask you, where is the girl who came out with me that day? And those people of the Ye family, Mr. Xue, how do you deal with them? The little fingers of Begonia..."
"Don't worry," Yin Zhili replied, "they're all right. Now that you're here, it's useless for those people to keep them. They've all sent them back. As for the fingers of Haitang... Sorry..."
"Your father did it." Jiang Li stared into his eyes.
Yin Zhili was silent, that is, acquiescence. Jiang Li has long guessed this. Yin Zhili is not bad in nature. Such a cruel means can only be made by Yin Zhan. I'm afraid it's all for Yan Zhan to pave the way for Yan Zhili. No matter what happens to Yan Zhan and Ji He in the fight, Yan Zhili can use his whole body to retreat.
"Where is your father now?" Jiang Li asked.
"I don't know." Yin Zhan replied, "he didn't tell me."
Yin Zhili locked himself here. The more guilty he was, the more Jiang Li knew that he could not let himself go. In other words, Yan Zhili couldn't let himself go at all. This was Yan Zhan's arrangement, and Yan Zhan's arrangement could not be changed. Yin Zhili himself was also a chess piece of Yin Zhan, and this chess game was manipulated by him.
"Where is this?" Jiang Li asked.
"Qingzhou is still a hundred miles away."
"When are you going to lock me up?" Jiang Li asked.
Yin Zhili looked up, and Jiang Li's eyes were very calm, without a trace of resentment or blame. The more this happened, the more he didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to avoid Jiang Li's eyes.
Everything was Yan Zhan's arrangement, and he was Yan Zhan's son and had to obey. He was still bleeding from the Empress Dowager. Even if he didn't want to, he had been on the boat and couldn't turn back. The people Yan Zhan left told him that if Yan Zhan could come back alive, everything would wait until Yan Zhan came back. If Yin Zhan couldn't come back alive, he would take Jiang Li and set up troops from Qingzhou with the long river as the boundary. There are 100000 soldiers in the clouds of Yan family, and there are still 100000 in Qingzhou. If not only Yin Zhan can't come back, but Ji He is still alive, he can use ginger and pear as bait to kill Ji He, so as to prevent future trouble.
Yin Zhili has no right to refuse these things. Because when he learned, Yin Zhan had disappeared. All the lives of the Yan family are tied to Yan Zhili alone. If Yan Zhili doesn't do this, the people of the Yan family, Yan Zhiqing, Mrs. Yan, all the servants of the Yan family, those uncles and uncles he knows, the masters who call him martial arts, and the soldiers who accompanied Yan Zhan on the battlefield will all be destroyed. With so many lives tied to him, Yin Zhili couldn't refute, and he had no choice.
After a long time, Yin Zhili looked at Jiang Li, and he asked softly, "Miss Jiang... Likes the Duke of Su very much?"
Jiang Li's heart was cold. It was this sentence that she could see Yin Zhili's heart. She paused and said, "yes."
Hearing Jiang Li's answer, Yan Zhili's heart ached, and a dark and obscure emotion rose from his heart, which was restrained by him. He said, "how does the Duke of the Kingdom treat Miss Jiang?"
"If you want to use me as a bait to lure and threaten Ji Heng, you'd better give up this idea." Jiang Li said coldly, "Yin Zhili, don't let me look down on you."
Yin Zhili heard the words and smiled bitterly. He said, "it's all right that Miss Jiang despises me. Even I despise myself. How can I care about others?"
His expression turned out to be decadent, a kind of broken rascal. If others saw it, they would be surprised. It's hard to imagine that this man with beautiful scenery would look like this now.
"However, I also hope that there is no need to kill the person you love with your own hands one day. You will hate me all your life. I don't want you to hold a grudge against me." He said.
Jiang Li was silent. If she really didn't have to have this day, it would be that Ji Heng had died before. What she said would not make Jiang Li happy, but would only make her more worried.
"What do you want, master yin?" Jiang Li asked, "you tied me up and threatened Ji Heng, but those soldiers outside don't look simple. Do you want to rebel like King Cheng and aim at the throne?"
Yan Zhili suddenly became excited. He whisked the tea cups on the table, and the hot tea splashed on the ground, emitting white gas and splashing debris. The soldiers outside heard the sound and rushed into the house. Yan Zhili told them to get out, and they went out now.
Yan Zhili sneered, "who cares about this throne!"
"Your father is rare." Jiang Li answered.
It seems that Yin Zhili doesn't want to rebel, but Yan Zhan's attitude is so firm. This made Jiang Li more confused, but looking at Yin Zhili's appearance, he didn't intend to say anything. Jiang Li said, "I remember playing chess with master Yin before, you said that war will make the people suffer. Can you know that once the Yan Family soldiers start, countless people will be displaced and countless families will be separated. Is this what you want to see?"
Yan Zhili groaned in pain, and Jiang Li couldn't bear to see his appearance. He seemed to be roasted on the fire, and he couldn't get well on both sides, but he couldn't take a road that ran counter to his original intention and saw the end at a glance.
He said, "I don't want to... I don't want to... But I can't help it."
"You have a way." Jiang Li said softly, "you are the son of the king of Xia County. It's still time to stop. Don't let things come to an end. It's still time, isn't it?"
She tried to persuade Yan Zhili, who was stunned for a moment, but suddenly stood up, his eyes became firm, and his eyes looking at Jiang Li were no longer warm as before, with a trace of broken indifference and resignation, He said, "needless to say, Miss Jiang, you are not me, and I don't understand that I have no other way to go. Since I was born in the Yin family, I was destined to be today. This is my destiny, and I'm not going to resist, so you, also accept your fate." With these words, he no longer looked at Jiang Li, turned around and walked away.
The door was closed again, and silence returned to the room. Only the remains of tea lanterns on the ground showed what had just happened. Jiang Li looked out the door and sighed deeply.
Yin Zhili's road is also impassable. Fortunately, the Ye family and September are all right. Yan Zhili is not about to attack them. For Yan Zhan, he probably believes that only himself can threaten Ji Heng, and other people are cumbersome, so there is no need to spend more time. But... Where's Ji Heng?
In Yin Zhili's words, I haven't seen Yin Zhan until now, and I don't know what the situation is outside. Jiang Li could only pray silently in her heart, hoping that Ji Heng would be safe.
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Qingzhou and Yanjing are too far apart, Qingzhou is still windy and snowy, and the streets of Yanjing city are almost empty at night.
The palace still stands firmly in the wind and snow, as if it would never waver. But it's not as brilliant as in the past. It looks like an ordinary house. It was even like a gloomy and magnificent underground palace, which taught those who walked into it that there was no return.
In the palace of mercy and tranquility, the lights were flickering, and the earth dragons were burning vigorously, so it was not as cold as outside. The Scriptures were casually placed on the desk, and no one transcribed them for a long time. Only the incense in the censer burns spontaneously in this quiet night, like the legendary palm sized beast with two red eyes, and its ferocity is hidden under the warmth.
The Empress Dowager leaned on the soft couch and was sleeping. Recently, she always likes to be in a daze, sitting in the temple, trying to calmly copy a few verses, but she can't calm down, so she simply doesn't copy. There was nothing to do when she didn't copy the Scriptures. In the past, when Princess Liu was there, she could still hear Princess Liu making trouble. After Princess Liu left, the harem became more and more deserted, but there was some rabbit death and fox sorrow. The concubines of emperor Hong Xiao didn't like to come to her. She, the empress dowager, had long been indifferent to the world. In the harem, the concubines were also trampling low and holding high. They were busy uniting and competing for favors, but they had no time to deal with an old woman.
The Empress Dowager especially missed the old days. It seems that when I was young in the harem, the time when I competed with concubines Liu and Xia became cute. Of course, the time related to Yin Zhan is the most recalled. She dreamed more than once of the scene when she first met Yan Zhan. Yan Zhan was riding a horse. The young man was tall and handsome, with a bright smile on his face. After saving her from the villain, she bandaged him. Yan Zhan sat on the stone and looked at her with a smile. She blushed when she was seen, but she still summoned up the courage to ask Yan Zhan's name. She was addicted to this dream and didn't want to wake up. Every time she opened her eyes, she was in a trance. Everything was just a big dream. She was still the miss of the Lin family, and she could have a chance to change.
But not after all. Today, she dreamed of Yan Zhan again, but this time, it was not the first time. She was in the red mountain temple. On that day, hundreds of archers surrounded Ji Minghan, and Ji Minghan disappeared. She returned to the house and found that Yin Zhan was also injured. She knew that Yin Zhan had killed many people, and Ji Minghan was his good brother. Yin Zhan was silent, and she asked, "do you hate me?"
"No." Yin Zhan replied, "I've never complained about you. I just wish I hadn't met you earlier."
The next moment, Yan Zhan's figure was suddenly swallowed up by the fire. He looked painful and called his name: "jou Chia..."
The queen mother suddenly opened her eyes and woke up from her dream sweating. Mei Xiang came forward and said with concern, "empress dowager, are you all right?"
"Nothing." The Empress Dowager wiped the sweat on her forehead with a veil and said, "it was a nightmare."
As soon as she finished saying this, she heard a man's voice outside, "what nightmare did the mother have, scared like this?"
The Empress Dowager raised her eyes and looked forward. Emperor Hong Xiao appeared at the gate of the hall. Behind him, the eunuch palace people knelt down. It was about when he came in that he asked people not to report. The Empress Dowager didn't hear the sound. Emperor Hong Xiaodi walked in with a smile. The Empress Dowager straightened up and said with a smile, "how did the emperor think of it today?"
Her heart beat very fast. I don't know if it was just a dream that had not slowed down, and she always felt that the dream was very unclear. Even the smile is very reluctantly. Emperor Hong Xiao seldom came to the palace of mercy and tranquility on weekdays. When he talked with her, he was mostly in the imperial garden.
"It's windy and snowy outside today. I specially came to see my mother." Emperor Hong Xiao waved to Duke Su, and Duke Su asked the surrounding palace people to retreat.
The Empress Dowager faintly perceived something wrong, but she couldn't say anything wrong. Let Mei Xiang serve tea to Emperor Hong Xiao. He walked to the tea table and asked emperor Hong Xiao to sit down.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi looked at the incense on the Queen Mother's incense table and asked with a smile, "who is the mother praying for?"
The Empress Dowager replied, "naturally, it is for the common people all over the world. There are not a few people who have frozen to death because of the snow disaster. After hearing this, the mourners are very sad and can't do anything. They can only copy scriptures and pray for them in the palace."
"The queen mother really cares about the world." Emperor Hong Xiaodi exclaimed.
The Empress Dowager raised her eyes to the emperor. I don't know when, the prince who once made her look out of the way has grown like this. She still remembered that shortly after the prince died, in order to secure her position, she had to pretend to be a mother and a son with the prince. She still remembers that Hong Xiaodi was clever and cowardly when she was a teenager, and obeyed her words. On the one hand, she was very relieved and proud, on the other hand, she was very disgusted and contemptuous. But she underestimated the prince. Every prince has the blood of the former Emperor. Plundering and camouflage are their instincts from birth. From the matter of Cheng Wang, we can see that Hong Xiaodi is the same, even if he woke up earlier. When he was a teenager, he knew to get what he wanted with his own help.
Think about it, too. The deep palace is like a jungle. How can beasts growing up in the jungle not eat people? The queen mother thought of Yin Zhili, the young man she saw at the Palace Banquet. More than 20 years later, she saw her son for the first time. Yin Zhili was as gentle as jade, which was her favorite and proud, but now she was worried about her son's chances of winning in the face of the terrible emperor.
She can't let Yin Zhili fail, can't let that happen, so she wants to clear all the obstacles for Yin Zhili. Including the emperor in front of him. She can't do it alone, just Yin Zhan. No matter what difficulties she encounters, only this man will not abandon her and will always stand behind her to solve all problems for her.
"In fact, I have another thing I want to tell my mother today." Emperor Hong Xiaodi picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip. Then he said, "the king of Xiajun is dead."
The Empress Dowager also went to get the tea cup with a smile. When she heard the speech, her action shook, and some tea splashed out. Mei Xiang hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe the stains on the table. Then the Empress Dowager held the tea cup tightly, as if trying to hold it accurately. Her smile was a little stiff and said, "what nonsense is your majesty talking about? Well, how can the king of Xia Jun die?"
"It's true." Hong Xiaodi's answer was also natural. "On the Red Mansion in Qingzhou, general Ji of the government killed the king of Xia Jun, and the king of Xia Jun also killed general Ji. It's a pity."
It's a pity to say "light floating". I can't hear any tone, so I can't guess the emperor's mind, and I don't know what he means. Mei Xiang stood behind the empress dowager, her face slightly changed, and she couldn't help looking at the back of emperor Hong Xiao. There, two royal guards with swords stood, steady as a rock. It seems to know all her thoughts.
"How could it?" The Empress Dowager laughed. She didn't go to see Hong Xiaodi, but looked at the armor on her hand, as if she wanted to carefully see the gem on the armor clearly. She said, "how could old general Ji kill the king of Xia Jun, and how could the king of Xia Jun kill old general Ji? The AI family is old, your majesty can't joke about these things, and the AI family won't take them seriously." It seems that the child lied and the adult forgives him with tolerance.
"I'm not in the mood to joke with people like this." Hong Xiaodi smiled. "It's just that the mother doesn't believe it. Soon, the bodies of general Ji and the king of Xia Jun will also be sent back to Beijing for burial."
The Empress Dowager's face finally changed. She looked up at emperor Hong Xiaodi, who had grown up under her nose, and finally showed a fierce look like a beast. At this glance, the Empress Dowager knew that he could not know nothing. He knew it clearly in his heart.
But she still had to struggle, as if she could muddle through like this. The Empress Dowager laughed and said, "Ai Jia doesn't understand. The emperor is so relaxed that he doesn't intend to ask for guilt?"
"Guilty? The empress mother doesn't know something. This can be traced back to a long time ago. Speaking of it, I just learned it recently." The emperor smiled, "many years ago, general Jin Wu, the father of the Duke of Su, disappeared. In fact, he was framed and killed by the king of Xia County. The Revenge of killing his father is unparalleled. Ji Hong killed the king of Xia County, which is understandable. However, the old general loved his grandson and helped Ji Hong complete this thing. It is natural for her to kill her life. Even if I can't say anything, does she want me to favor who?"
The Empress Dowager looked at emperor Hong Xiao and did not speak for a long time.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi laughed again and said, "I almost forgot that when I ambushed and killed general Jin Wu, my mother was also present. Naturally, I would favor the king of Xia County."
At this time, the Empress Dowager calmed down instead. She looked at Hong Xiaodi, smiled and said, "Your Majesty, over the years, AI Jia has treated you well. You don't need to use this method to kill AI Jia. Is there evidence that you slander AI Jia like this?"
"Evidence?" Emperor Hong Xiao laughed, and he said word by word, "Yin Zhili is the evidence."
Mei Xiang's hands clenched tightly at the corners of her skirt, and the Empress Dowager's face changed greatly, which was her biggest weakness. If Hong Xiaodi threatened her with this, she had no chance of winning!
"The queen mother forgot so quickly. Not long ago, before Xia Jun Wang left Yanjing for Qingzhou, didn't he come to find the queen mother?"
He already knew! The Empress Dowager's heart couldn't help shaking. She looked at Hong Xiaodi like a monster. She had thought many times that one day the truth would be discovered, but it was not like this. She didn't have any chips in her hand, and Yan Zhan was not around. She was like a piece of fish that could be slaughtered at will.
It's not that she is weak and omnipotent, but that both she and Yin Zhan underestimated the emperor.
"The Queen Mother restrained me in the palace, the king of Xia County restrained the Duke of Su in Qingzhou, and Yan Zhili led the Yan Family soldiers to the south of the long river. I have to admire the patience of the king of Xia County, who has been dormant for so many years to set up a Bureau." Emperor Hong Xiao said with a smile, "it's really hard for Yan Zhili."
The queen mother said, "does the emperor want to kill AI Jia?"
"Why?" Hong Xiaodi smiled and said, "isn't Yin Zhili still alive?"
"The emperor wants to threaten Yin Zhili with AI family?" The Queen Mother sneered.
"No." Emperor Hong Xiao said gently, "my mother knows that I don't like doing such things. Just as king Cheng won't take risks for Princess Liu, Yin Zhili may not take chances for her."
What he said was extremely mean. The Empress Dowager stared at Hong Xiaodi for a long time, and suddenly smiled. She smiled and shook her head, almost laughing to tears. She said, "third, the AI family has always underestimated you. The AI family said, Xia Liulan's son, how can he be such a virtue? It's not that you are bad, it's that the AI family looked away!"
Xia Liulan is the name of Xia Guifei. When Emperor Hong Xiaodi heard the name, he looked at it, put away his smile and said, "the death of my mother's concubine in those years has something to do with you!"
Xia Guifei died soon after giving birth to Hong Xiaodi, and others said she died of illness. After checking for so many years, Emperor Hong Xiaodi found the old man in the palace, but said that before Xia Guifei was in good health and did not have a trace of illness.
"Hum, in such a place in the palace, there are countless people who want Xia Liulan to die, which is not made by AI family!" The Empress Dowager disdained to say.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi's face was blue and white, and he didn't seem to believe this answer. Sure enough, the Empress Dowager's next words immediately made him furious. She said, "but after Xia Liulan gave birth to you, AI family was really unwilling. In the palace, if you want to die, sometimes you don't need to do it. AI family just said that his majesty intends to make you crown prince, and countless people will do it for AI family one after another."
"You!" Emperor Hong Xiao was extremely angry. The Empress Dowager's words made Xia Guifei a bright target in the palace. At that time, Xia Guifei had just had a child, and her heart was all on her child. Where would she pay attention to others.
"Ai Jia just hates you. Those people didn't kill you too, leaving a curse." The Empress Dowager's eyes were full of resentment, "if I had known today, even if I had done it myself, I would have personally removed you from this world!"
"Unfortunately, you don't have this chance." Emperor Hong Xiaodi calmed down again, He said: "Although my mother didn't kill you personally, she died because of you. I'll write down this debt for you first. I've already said that God will punish you for the sins you and Yin Zhan have done. Now that Yin Zhan is dead, it's Yin Zhili's turn next. When Yin Zhili is also dead, I'll personally send you on the road. No, I changed my mind, I won't let you die, I'll let you live and imprison you in the palace It's worse than the concubines in the cold palace. Let you watch the people around you die one by one and live hopelessly forever. This is the best punishment for you. I want to make the scandal of you and Yin Zhan known to the world, and let Yan Zhili scream like a rat on the street. Even if he starts a rebellion, the people who follow him will be ashamed of him. When he dies, he can't get rid of this stigma, and he will be stabbed in the backbone! "
"No -" the Empress Dowager burst into a burst of exclamation. She made a gesture to grab the face of Hong Xiaodi. The bodyguard on the side of Hong Xiaodi pulled out his knife and scabbard, protected Hong Xiaodi and pushed her. The Empress Dowager fell to the ground, and her hair bun was all scattered.
"No..." she murmured.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi gave her a cold look, turned and walked out, saying, "come on, lock her up! No one is allowed to see the queen mother without my permission, and," he smiled coldly, "look carefully, don't let her die."
The Empress Dowager fell to the ground, Mei Xiang came to help her, but she stretched out her hand in vain, looked at Mei Xiang, and said, "he's lying to me, isn't Yin Zhan dead, right?"
Her tears flowed down.
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It snowed in Qingzhou for three days in a row. Jiang Li was in a strange house, and someone followed her everywhere. Even when she went to Jingfang, there was a maid who knew martial arts beside her.
She can't escape, but it's a small courtyard, and it's also guarded by layers of soldiers. She has become the most important chip, and she can't tolerate any mistakes. Jiang Li has never seen Yin Zhiqing since she last met her. Jiang Li counted the days. She didn't know what was going on outside. She didn't know that the people of the Ye family and situ Jiujiu were still well now, and she didn't know where Ji Heng was and whether she had encountered anything. She can only sit hopelessly. These days, she even changed her usual quiet and calm, and didn't hesitate to go on hunger strike, or quarrel, or threaten, but it didn't work. She couldn't see anyone except these silent bodyguards.
This night is the same.
Deep at night, only the sound of wind and snow can be heard outside. Jiang Li sat at the table. She couldn't sleep, just thinking about how to escape. The oil lamp darkened the room and reflected the shadow on the ground. It is winter, the leaves are withered, only the bare trunk outside, so the swaying figure is particularly eye-catching.
The figure fell on the ground and didn't move, as if it were just an illusion of Jiang Li. Jiang Li stared at the shadow on the ground for a long time, and then said, "since master Yin is here, why don't you enter?"
The figure outside moved slightly, and then, with a sigh, the door was pushed open, and someone came in from the outside.
It's the Li of Yin.
Jiang Li also hadn't seen Yan Zhili for a while. Under the light, his face was haggard, as if he had changed. His eyes are no longer clear and gentle when he first saw them, but instead, countless complex and unwilling expressions. He stood in front of Jiang Li and said, "Miss Jiang."
The handsome childe who used to be as gentle as jade has disappeared, and the Yin Zhili in front of him is extremely strange. Jiang Li stared at him and said, "please sit down, young master Yin."
Yin Zhili sat down.
Jiang Li said, "would you like a cup of tea?" She lifted the teapot on the table, poured a cup for Yin Zhili, and handed it to Yin Zhili. Yan Zhili looked at the teacup in front of him, didn't reach for it, and didn't mean to drink.
Jiang Li smiled and said with some regret, "I'm not fooled."
All the tea here is mixed with medicine, which makes people's body unable to use too much strength and do other things. Probably the person who closed her also knew that she was very cunning. For fear that she might escape by tricks, she came up with such a method. Yin Zhili seemed to have known for a long time and didn't connect.
Sure enough, he looked at Jiang Li and whispered, "sorry."
Yin Zhili's face showed a little guilty expression. This made him look that he finally had a little shadow that Jiang Li knew. Jiang Li sighed and said, "I only ask you, where is the girl who came out with me that day? And those people of the Ye family, Mr. Xue, how do you deal with them? The little fingers of Begonia..."
"Don't worry," Yin Zhili replied, "they're all right. Now that you're here, it's useless for those people to keep them. They've all sent them back. As for the fingers of Haitang... Sorry..."
"Your father did it." Jiang Li stared into his eyes.
Yin Zhili was silent, that is, acquiescence. Jiang Li has long guessed this. Yin Zhili is not bad in nature. Such a cruel means can only be made by Yin Zhan. I'm afraid it's all for Yan Zhan to pave the way for Yan Zhili. No matter what happens to Yan Zhan and Ji He in the fight, Yan Zhili can use his whole body to retreat.
"Where is your father now?" Jiang Li asked.
"I don't know." Yin Zhan replied, "he didn't tell me."
Yin Zhili locked himself here. The more guilty he was, the more Jiang Li knew that he could not let himself go. In other words, Yan Zhili couldn't let himself go at all. This was Yan Zhan's arrangement, and Yan Zhan's arrangement could not be changed. Yin Zhili himself was also a chess piece of Yin Zhan, and this chess game was manipulated by him.
"Where is this?" Jiang Li asked.
"Qingzhou is still a hundred miles away."
"When are you going to lock me up?" Jiang Li asked.
Yin Zhili looked up, and Jiang Li's eyes were very calm, without a trace of resentment or blame. The more this happened, the more he didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to avoid Jiang Li's eyes.
Everything was Yan Zhan's arrangement, and he was Yan Zhan's son and had to obey. He was still bleeding from the Empress Dowager. Even if he didn't want to, he had been on the boat and couldn't turn back. The people Yan Zhan left told him that if Yan Zhan could come back alive, everything would wait until Yan Zhan came back. If Yin Zhan couldn't come back alive, he would take Jiang Li and set up troops from Qingzhou with the long river as the boundary. There are 100000 soldiers in the clouds of Yan family, and there are still 100000 in Qingzhou. If not only Yin Zhan can't come back, but Ji He is still alive, he can use ginger and pear as bait to kill Ji He, so as to prevent future trouble.
Yin Zhili has no right to refuse these things. Because when he learned, Yin Zhan had disappeared. All the lives of the Yan family are tied to Yan Zhili alone. If Yan Zhili doesn't do this, the people of the Yan family, Yan Zhiqing, Mrs. Yan, all the servants of the Yan family, those uncles and uncles he knows, the masters who call him martial arts, and the soldiers who accompanied Yan Zhan on the battlefield will all be destroyed. With so many lives tied to him, Yin Zhili couldn't refute, and he had no choice.
After a long time, Yin Zhili looked at Jiang Li, and he asked softly, "Miss Jiang... Likes the Duke of Su very much?"
Jiang Li's heart was cold. It was this sentence that she could see Yin Zhili's heart. She paused and said, "yes."
Hearing Jiang Li's answer, Yan Zhili's heart ached, and a dark and obscure emotion rose from his heart, which was restrained by him. He said, "how does the Duke of the Kingdom treat Miss Jiang?"
"If you want to use me as a bait to lure and threaten Ji Heng, you'd better give up this idea." Jiang Li said coldly, "Yin Zhili, don't let me look down on you."
Yin Zhili heard the words and smiled bitterly. He said, "it's all right that Miss Jiang despises me. Even I despise myself. How can I care about others?"
His expression turned out to be decadent, a kind of broken rascal. If others saw it, they would be surprised. It's hard to imagine that this man with beautiful scenery would look like this now.
"However, I also hope that there is no need to kill the person you love with your own hands one day. You will hate me all your life. I don't want you to hold a grudge against me." He said.
Jiang Li was silent. If she really didn't have to have this day, it would be that Ji Heng had died before. What she said would not make Jiang Li happy, but would only make her more worried.
"What do you want, master yin?" Jiang Li asked, "you tied me up and threatened Ji Heng, but those soldiers outside don't look simple. Do you want to rebel like King Cheng and aim at the throne?"
Yan Zhili suddenly became excited. He whisked the tea cups on the table, and the hot tea splashed on the ground, emitting white gas and splashing debris. The soldiers outside heard the sound and rushed into the house. Yan Zhili told them to get out, and they went out now.
Yan Zhili sneered, "who cares about this throne!"
"Your father is rare." Jiang Li answered.
It seems that Yin Zhili doesn't want to rebel, but Yan Zhan's attitude is so firm. This made Jiang Li more confused, but looking at Yin Zhili's appearance, he didn't intend to say anything. Jiang Li said, "I remember playing chess with master Yin before, you said that war will make the people suffer. Can you know that once the Yan Family soldiers start, countless people will be displaced and countless families will be separated. Is this what you want to see?"
Yan Zhili groaned in pain, and Jiang Li couldn't bear to see his appearance. He seemed to be roasted on the fire, and he couldn't get well on both sides, but he couldn't take a road that ran counter to his original intention and saw the end at a glance.
He said, "I don't want to... I don't want to... But I can't help it."
"You have a way." Jiang Li said softly, "you are the son of the king of Xia County. It's still time to stop. Don't let things come to an end. It's still time, isn't it?"
She tried to persuade Yan Zhili, who was stunned for a moment, but suddenly stood up, his eyes became firm, and his eyes looking at Jiang Li were no longer warm as before, with a trace of broken indifference and resignation, He said, "needless to say, Miss Jiang, you are not me, and I don't understand that I have no other way to go. Since I was born in the Yin family, I was destined to be today. This is my destiny, and I'm not going to resist, so you, also accept your fate." With these words, he no longer looked at Jiang Li, turned around and walked away.
The door was closed again, and silence returned to the room. Only the remains of tea lanterns on the ground showed what had just happened. Jiang Li looked out the door and sighed deeply.
Yin Zhili's road is also impassable. Fortunately, the Ye family and September are all right. Yan Zhili is not about to attack them. For Yan Zhan, he probably believes that only himself can threaten Ji Heng, and other people are cumbersome, so there is no need to spend more time. But... Where's Ji Heng?
In Yin Zhili's words, I haven't seen Yin Zhan until now, and I don't know what the situation is outside. Jiang Li could only pray silently in her heart, hoping that Ji Heng would be safe.
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Qingzhou and Yanjing are too far apart, Qingzhou is still windy and snowy, and the streets of Yanjing city are almost empty at night.
The palace still stands firmly in the wind and snow, as if it would never waver. But it's not as brilliant as in the past. It looks like an ordinary house. It was even like a gloomy and magnificent underground palace, which taught those who walked into it that there was no return.
In the palace of mercy and tranquility, the lights were flickering, and the earth dragons were burning vigorously, so it was not as cold as outside. The Scriptures were casually placed on the desk, and no one transcribed them for a long time. Only the incense in the censer burns spontaneously in this quiet night, like the legendary palm sized beast with two red eyes, and its ferocity is hidden under the warmth.
The Empress Dowager leaned on the soft couch and was sleeping. Recently, she always likes to be in a daze, sitting in the temple, trying to calmly copy a few verses, but she can't calm down, so she simply doesn't copy. There was nothing to do when she didn't copy the Scriptures. In the past, when Princess Liu was there, she could still hear Princess Liu making trouble. After Princess Liu left, the harem became more and more deserted, but there was some rabbit death and fox sorrow. The concubines of emperor Hong Xiao didn't like to come to her. She, the empress dowager, had long been indifferent to the world. In the harem, the concubines were also trampling low and holding high. They were busy uniting and competing for favors, but they had no time to deal with an old woman.
The Empress Dowager especially missed the old days. It seems that when I was young in the harem, the time when I competed with concubines Liu and Xia became cute. Of course, the time related to Yin Zhan is the most recalled. She dreamed more than once of the scene when she first met Yan Zhan. Yan Zhan was riding a horse. The young man was tall and handsome, with a bright smile on his face. After saving her from the villain, she bandaged him. Yan Zhan sat on the stone and looked at her with a smile. She blushed when she was seen, but she still summoned up the courage to ask Yan Zhan's name. She was addicted to this dream and didn't want to wake up. Every time she opened her eyes, she was in a trance. Everything was just a big dream. She was still the miss of the Lin family, and she could have a chance to change.
But not after all. Today, she dreamed of Yan Zhan again, but this time, it was not the first time. She was in the red mountain temple. On that day, hundreds of archers surrounded Ji Minghan, and Ji Minghan disappeared. She returned to the house and found that Yin Zhan was also injured. She knew that Yin Zhan had killed many people, and Ji Minghan was his good brother. Yin Zhan was silent, and she asked, "do you hate me?"
"No." Yin Zhan replied, "I've never complained about you. I just wish I hadn't met you earlier."
The next moment, Yan Zhan's figure was suddenly swallowed up by the fire. He looked painful and called his name: "jou Chia..."
The queen mother suddenly opened her eyes and woke up from her dream sweating. Mei Xiang came forward and said with concern, "empress dowager, are you all right?"
"Nothing." The Empress Dowager wiped the sweat on her forehead with a veil and said, "it was a nightmare."
As soon as she finished saying this, she heard a man's voice outside, "what nightmare did the mother have, scared like this?"
The Empress Dowager raised her eyes and looked forward. Emperor Hong Xiao appeared at the gate of the hall. Behind him, the eunuch palace people knelt down. It was about when he came in that he asked people not to report. The Empress Dowager didn't hear the sound. Emperor Hong Xiaodi walked in with a smile. The Empress Dowager straightened up and said with a smile, "how did the emperor think of it today?"
Her heart beat very fast. I don't know if it was just a dream that had not slowed down, and she always felt that the dream was very unclear. Even the smile is very reluctantly. Emperor Hong Xiao seldom came to the palace of mercy and tranquility on weekdays. When he talked with her, he was mostly in the imperial garden.
"It's windy and snowy outside today. I specially came to see my mother." Emperor Hong Xiao waved to Duke Su, and Duke Su asked the surrounding palace people to retreat.
The Empress Dowager faintly perceived something wrong, but she couldn't say anything wrong. Let Mei Xiang serve tea to Emperor Hong Xiao. He walked to the tea table and asked emperor Hong Xiao to sit down.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi looked at the incense on the Queen Mother's incense table and asked with a smile, "who is the mother praying for?"
The Empress Dowager replied, "naturally, it is for the common people all over the world. There are not a few people who have frozen to death because of the snow disaster. After hearing this, the mourners are very sad and can't do anything. They can only copy scriptures and pray for them in the palace."
"The queen mother really cares about the world." Emperor Hong Xiaodi exclaimed.
The Empress Dowager raised her eyes to the emperor. I don't know when, the prince who once made her look out of the way has grown like this. She still remembered that shortly after the prince died, in order to secure her position, she had to pretend to be a mother and a son with the prince. She still remembers that Hong Xiaodi was clever and cowardly when she was a teenager, and obeyed her words. On the one hand, she was very relieved and proud, on the other hand, she was very disgusted and contemptuous. But she underestimated the prince. Every prince has the blood of the former Emperor. Plundering and camouflage are their instincts from birth. From the matter of Cheng Wang, we can see that Hong Xiaodi is the same, even if he woke up earlier. When he was a teenager, he knew to get what he wanted with his own help.
Think about it, too. The deep palace is like a jungle. How can beasts growing up in the jungle not eat people? The queen mother thought of Yin Zhili, the young man she saw at the Palace Banquet. More than 20 years later, she saw her son for the first time. Yin Zhili was as gentle as jade, which was her favorite and proud, but now she was worried about her son's chances of winning in the face of the terrible emperor.
She can't let Yin Zhili fail, can't let that happen, so she wants to clear all the obstacles for Yin Zhili. Including the emperor in front of him. She can't do it alone, just Yin Zhan. No matter what difficulties she encounters, only this man will not abandon her and will always stand behind her to solve all problems for her.
"In fact, I have another thing I want to tell my mother today." Emperor Hong Xiaodi picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip. Then he said, "the king of Xiajun is dead."
The Empress Dowager also went to get the tea cup with a smile. When she heard the speech, her action shook, and some tea splashed out. Mei Xiang hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe the stains on the table. Then the Empress Dowager held the tea cup tightly, as if trying to hold it accurately. Her smile was a little stiff and said, "what nonsense is your majesty talking about? Well, how can the king of Xia Jun die?"
"It's true." Hong Xiaodi's answer was also natural. "On the Red Mansion in Qingzhou, general Ji of the government killed the king of Xia Jun, and the king of Xia Jun also killed general Ji. It's a pity."
It's a pity to say "light floating". I can't hear any tone, so I can't guess the emperor's mind, and I don't know what he means. Mei Xiang stood behind the empress dowager, her face slightly changed, and she couldn't help looking at the back of emperor Hong Xiao. There, two royal guards with swords stood, steady as a rock. It seems to know all her thoughts.
"How could it?" The Empress Dowager laughed. She didn't go to see Hong Xiaodi, but looked at the armor on her hand, as if she wanted to carefully see the gem on the armor clearly. She said, "how could old general Ji kill the king of Xia Jun, and how could the king of Xia Jun kill old general Ji? The AI family is old, your majesty can't joke about these things, and the AI family won't take them seriously." It seems that the child lied and the adult forgives him with tolerance.
"I'm not in the mood to joke with people like this." Hong Xiaodi smiled. "It's just that the mother doesn't believe it. Soon, the bodies of general Ji and the king of Xia Jun will also be sent back to Beijing for burial."
The Empress Dowager's face finally changed. She looked up at emperor Hong Xiaodi, who had grown up under her nose, and finally showed a fierce look like a beast. At this glance, the Empress Dowager knew that he could not know nothing. He knew it clearly in his heart.
But she still had to struggle, as if she could muddle through like this. The Empress Dowager laughed and said, "Ai Jia doesn't understand. The emperor is so relaxed that he doesn't intend to ask for guilt?"
"Guilty? The empress mother doesn't know something. This can be traced back to a long time ago. Speaking of it, I just learned it recently." The emperor smiled, "many years ago, general Jin Wu, the father of the Duke of Su, disappeared. In fact, he was framed and killed by the king of Xia County. The Revenge of killing his father is unparalleled. Ji Hong killed the king of Xia County, which is understandable. However, the old general loved his grandson and helped Ji Hong complete this thing. It is natural for her to kill her life. Even if I can't say anything, does she want me to favor who?"
The Empress Dowager looked at emperor Hong Xiao and did not speak for a long time.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi laughed again and said, "I almost forgot that when I ambushed and killed general Jin Wu, my mother was also present. Naturally, I would favor the king of Xia County."
At this time, the Empress Dowager calmed down instead. She looked at Hong Xiaodi, smiled and said, "Your Majesty, over the years, AI Jia has treated you well. You don't need to use this method to kill AI Jia. Is there evidence that you slander AI Jia like this?"
"Evidence?" Emperor Hong Xiao laughed, and he said word by word, "Yin Zhili is the evidence."
Mei Xiang's hands clenched tightly at the corners of her skirt, and the Empress Dowager's face changed greatly, which was her biggest weakness. If Hong Xiaodi threatened her with this, she had no chance of winning!
"The queen mother forgot so quickly. Not long ago, before Xia Jun Wang left Yanjing for Qingzhou, didn't he come to find the queen mother?"
He already knew! The Empress Dowager's heart couldn't help shaking. She looked at Hong Xiaodi like a monster. She had thought many times that one day the truth would be discovered, but it was not like this. She didn't have any chips in her hand, and Yan Zhan was not around. She was like a piece of fish that could be slaughtered at will.
It's not that she is weak and omnipotent, but that both she and Yin Zhan underestimated the emperor.
"The Queen Mother restrained me in the palace, the king of Xia County restrained the Duke of Su in Qingzhou, and Yan Zhili led the Yan Family soldiers to the south of the long river. I have to admire the patience of the king of Xia County, who has been dormant for so many years to set up a Bureau." Emperor Hong Xiao said with a smile, "it's really hard for Yan Zhili."
The queen mother said, "does the emperor want to kill AI Jia?"
"Why?" Hong Xiaodi smiled and said, "isn't Yin Zhili still alive?"
"The emperor wants to threaten Yin Zhili with AI family?" The Queen Mother sneered.
"No." Emperor Hong Xiao said gently, "my mother knows that I don't like doing such things. Just as king Cheng won't take risks for Princess Liu, Yin Zhili may not take chances for her."
What he said was extremely mean. The Empress Dowager stared at Hong Xiaodi for a long time, and suddenly smiled. She smiled and shook her head, almost laughing to tears. She said, "third, the AI family has always underestimated you. The AI family said, Xia Liulan's son, how can he be such a virtue? It's not that you are bad, it's that the AI family looked away!"
Xia Liulan is the name of Xia Guifei. When Emperor Hong Xiaodi heard the name, he looked at it, put away his smile and said, "the death of my mother's concubine in those years has something to do with you!"
Xia Guifei died soon after giving birth to Hong Xiaodi, and others said she died of illness. After checking for so many years, Emperor Hong Xiaodi found the old man in the palace, but said that before Xia Guifei was in good health and did not have a trace of illness.
"Hum, in such a place in the palace, there are countless people who want Xia Liulan to die, which is not made by AI family!" The Empress Dowager disdained to say.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi's face was blue and white, and he didn't seem to believe this answer. Sure enough, the Empress Dowager's next words immediately made him furious. She said, "but after Xia Liulan gave birth to you, AI family was really unwilling. In the palace, if you want to die, sometimes you don't need to do it. AI family just said that his majesty intends to make you crown prince, and countless people will do it for AI family one after another."
"You!" Emperor Hong Xiao was extremely angry. The Empress Dowager's words made Xia Guifei a bright target in the palace. At that time, Xia Guifei had just had a child, and her heart was all on her child. Where would she pay attention to others.
"Ai Jia just hates you. Those people didn't kill you too, leaving a curse." The Empress Dowager's eyes were full of resentment, "if I had known today, even if I had done it myself, I would have personally removed you from this world!"
"Unfortunately, you don't have this chance." Emperor Hong Xiaodi calmed down again, He said: "Although my mother didn't kill you personally, she died because of you. I'll write down this debt for you first. I've already said that God will punish you for the sins you and Yin Zhan have done. Now that Yin Zhan is dead, it's Yin Zhili's turn next. When Yin Zhili is also dead, I'll personally send you on the road. No, I changed my mind, I won't let you die, I'll let you live and imprison you in the palace It's worse than the concubines in the cold palace. Let you watch the people around you die one by one and live hopelessly forever. This is the best punishment for you. I want to make the scandal of you and Yin Zhan known to the world, and let Yan Zhili scream like a rat on the street. Even if he starts a rebellion, the people who follow him will be ashamed of him. When he dies, he can't get rid of this stigma, and he will be stabbed in the backbone! "
"No -" the Empress Dowager burst into a burst of exclamation. She made a gesture to grab the face of Hong Xiaodi. The bodyguard on the side of Hong Xiaodi pulled out his knife and scabbard, protected Hong Xiaodi and pushed her. The Empress Dowager fell to the ground, and her hair bun was all scattered.
"No..." she murmured.
Emperor Hong Xiaodi gave her a cold look, turned and walked out, saying, "come on, lock her up! No one is allowed to see the queen mother without my permission, and," he smiled coldly, "look carefully, don't let her die."
The Empress Dowager fell to the ground, Mei Xiang came to help her, but she stretched out her hand in vain, looked at Mei Xiang, and said, "he's lying to me, isn't Yin Zhan dead, right?"
Her tears flowed down.
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The little emperor is actually quite handsome. Do you like the little emperor raise your hand~
It snowed in Qingzhou for three days in a row. Jiang Li was in a strange house, and someone followed her everywhere. Even when she went to Jingfang, there was a maid who knew martial arts beside her.She can't escape, but it's a small courtyard, and it's also guarded by layers of soldiers. She has become the most important chip, and she can't tolerate any mistakes. Jiang Li has never seen Yin Zhiqing since she last met her. Jiang Li counted the days. She didn't know what was going on outside. She didn't know that the people of the Ye family and situ Jiujiu were still well now, and she didn't know where Ji Heng was and whether she had encountered anything. She can only sit hopelessly. These days, she even changed her usual quiet and calm, and didn't hesitate to go on hunger strike, or quarrel, or threaten, but it didn't work. She couldn't see anyone except these silent bodyguards.This night is the same.Deep at night, only the sound of wind and snow can be heard outside. Jiang Li sat at the table. She couldn't sleep, just thinking about how to escape. The oil lamp darkened the room and reflected the shadow on the ground. It is winter, the leaves are withered, only the bare trunk outside, so the swaying figure is particularly eye-catching.The figure fell on the ground and didn't move, as if it were just an illusion of Jiang Li. Jiang Li stared at the shadow on the ground for a long time, and then said, "since master Yin is here, why don't you enter?"The figure outside moved slightly, and then, with a sigh, the door was pushed open, and someone came in from the outside.It's the Li of Yin.Jiang Li also hadn't seen Yan Zhili for a while. Under the light, his face was haggard, as if he had changed. His eyes are no longer clear and gentle when he first saw them, but instead, countless complex and unwilling expressions. He stood in front of Jiang Li and said, "Miss Jiang."The handsome childe who used to be as gentle as jade has disappeared, and the Yin Zhili in front of him is extremely strange. Jiang Li stared at him and said, "please sit down, young master Yin."Yin Zhili sat down.Jiang Li said, "would you like a cup of tea?" She lifted the teapot on the table, poured a cup for Yin Zhili, and handed it to Yin Zhili. Yan Zhili looked at the teacup in front of him, didn't reach for it, and didn't mean to drink.Jiang Li smiled and said with some regret, "I'm not fooled."All the tea here is mixed with medicine, which makes people's body unable to use too much strength and do other things. Probably the person who closed her also knew that she was very cunning. For fear that she might escape by tricks, she came up with such a method. Yin Zhili seemed to have known for a long time and didn't connect.Sure enough, he looked at Jiang Li and whispered, "sorry."Yin Zhili's face showed a little guilty expression. This made him look that he finally had a little shadow that Jiang Li knew. Jiang Li sighed and said, "I only ask you, where is the girl who came out with me that day? And those people of the Ye family, Mr. Xue, how do you deal with them? The little fingers of Begonia...""Don't worry," Yin Zhili replied, "they're all right. Now that you're here, it's useless for those people to keep them. They've all sent them back. As for the fingers of Haitang... Sorry...""Your father did it." Jiang Li stared into his eyes.Yin Zhili was silent, that is, acquiescence. Jiang Li has long guessed this. Yin Zhili is not bad in nature. Such a cruel means can only be made by Yin Zhan. I'm afraid it's all for Yan Zhan to pave the way for Yan Zhili. No matter what happens to Yan Zhan and Ji He in the fight, Yan Zhili can use his whole body to retreat."Where is your father now?" Jiang Li asked."I don't know." Yin Zhan replied, "he didn't tell me."Yin Zhili locked himself here. The more guilty he was, the more Jiang Li knew that he could not let himself go. In other words, Yan Zhili couldn't let himself go at all. This was Yan Zhan's arrangement, and Yan Zhan's arrangement could not be changed. Yin Zhili himself was also a chess piece of Yin Zhan, and this chess game was manipulated by him."Where is this?" Jiang Li asked."Qingzhou is still a hundred miles away.""When are you going to lock me up?" Jiang Li asked.Yin Zhili looked up, and Jiang Li's eyes were very calm, without a trace of resentment or blame. The more this happened, the more he didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to avoid Jiang Li's eyes.Everything was Yan Zhan's arrangement, and he was Yan Zhan's son and had to obey. He was still bleeding from the Empress Dowager. Even if he didn't want to, he had been on the boat and couldn't turn back. The people Yan Zhan left told him that if Yan Zhan could come back alive, everything would wait until Yan Zhan came back. If Yin Zhan couldn't come back alive, he would take Jiang Li and set up troops from Qingzhou with the long river as the boundary. There are 100000 soldiers in the clouds of Yan family, and there are still 100000 in Qingzhou. If not only Yin Zhan can't come back, but Ji He is still alive, he can use ginger and pear as bait to kill Ji He, so as to prevent future trouble.Yin Zhili has no right to refuse these things. Because when he learned, Yin Zhan had disappeared. All the lives of the Yan family are tied to Yan Zhili alone. If Yan Zhili doesn't do this, the people of the Yan family, Yan Zhiqing, Mrs. Yan, all the servants of the Yan family, those uncles and uncles he knows, the masters who call him martial arts, and the soldiers who accompanied Yan Zhan on the battlefield will all be destroyed. With so many lives tied to him, Yin Zhili couldn't refute, and he had no choice.After a long time, Yin Zhili looked at Jiang Li, and he asked softly, "Miss Jiang... Likes the Duke of Su very much?"Jiang Li's heart was cold. It was this sentence that she could see Yin Zhili's heart. She paused and said, "yes."Hearing Jiang Li's answer, Yan Zhili's heart ached, and a dark and obscure emotion rose from his heart, which was restrained by him. He said, "how does the Duke of the Kingdom treat Miss Jiang?""If you want to use me as a bait to lure and threaten Ji Heng, you'd better give up this idea." Jiang Li said coldly, "Yin Zhili, don't let me look down on you."Yin Zhili heard the words and smiled bitterly. He said, "it's all right that Miss Jiang despises me. Even I despise myself. How can I care about others?"His expression turned out to be decadent, a kind of broken rascal. If others saw it, they would be surprised. It's hard to imagine that this man with beautiful scenery would look like this now."However, I also hope that there is no need to kill the person you love with your own hands one day. You will hate me all your life. I don't want you to hold a grudge against me." He said.Jiang Li was silent. If she really didn't have to have this day, it would be that Ji Heng had died before. What she said would not make Jiang Li happy, but would only make her more worried."What do you want, master yin?" Jiang Li asked, "you tied me up and threatened Ji Heng, but those soldiers outside don't look simple. Do you want to rebel like King Cheng and aim at the throne?"Yan Zhili suddenly became excited. He whisked the tea cups on the table, and the hot tea splashed on the ground, emitting white gas and splashing debris. The soldiers outside heard the sound and rushed into the house. Yan Zhili told them to get out, and they went out now.Yan Zhili sneered, "who cares about this throne!""Your father is rare." Jiang Li answered.It seems that Yin Zhili doesn't want to rebel, but Yan Zhan's attitude is so firm. This made Jiang Li more confused, but looking at Yin Zhili's appearance, he didn't intend to say anything. Jiang Li said, "I remember playing chess with master Yin before, you said that war will make the people suffer. Can you know that once the Yan Family soldiers start, countless people will be displaced and countless families will be separated. Is this what you want to see?"Yan Zhili groaned in pain, and Jiang Li couldn't bear to see his appearance. He seemed to be roasted on the fire, and he couldn't get well on both sides, but he couldn't take a road that ran counter to his original intention and saw the end at a glance.He said, "I don't want to... I don't want to... But I can't help it.""You have a way." Jiang Li said softly, "you are the son of the king of Xia County. It's still time to stop. Don't let things come to an end. It's still time, isn't it?"She tried to persuade Yan Zhili, who was stunned for a moment, but suddenly stood up, his eyes became firm, and his eyes looking at Jiang Li were no longer warm as before, with a trace of broken indifference and resignation, He said, "needless to say, Miss Jiang, you are not me, and I don't understand that I have no other way to go. Since I was born in the Yin family, I was destined to be today. This is my destiny, and I'm not going to resist, so you, also accept your fate." With these words, he no longer looked at Jiang Li, turned around and walked away.The door was closed again, and silence returned to the room. Only the remains of tea lanterns on the ground showed what had just happened. Jiang Li looked out the door and sighed deeply.Yin Zhili's road is also impassable. Fortunately, the Ye family and September are all right. Yan Zhili is not about to attack them. For Yan Zhan, he probably believes that only himself can threaten Ji Heng, and other people are cumbersome, so there is no need to spend more time. But... Where's Ji Heng?In Yin Zhili's words, I haven't seen Yin Zhan until now, and I don't know what the situation is outside. Jiang Li could only pray silently in her heart, hoping that Ji Heng would be safe.Qingzhou and Yanjing are too far apart, Qingzhou is still windy and snowy, and the streets of Yanjing city are almost empty at night.The palace still stands firmly in the wind and snow, as if it would never waver. But it's not as brilliant as in the past. It looks like an ordinary house. It was even like a gloomy and magnificent underground palace, which taught those who walked into it that there was no return.In the palace of mercy and tranquility, the lights were flickering, and the earth dragons were burning vigorously, so it was not as cold as outside. The Scriptures were casually placed on the desk, and no one transcribed them for a long time. Only the incense in the censer burns spontaneously in this quiet night, like the legendary palm sized beast with two red eyes, and its ferocity is hidden under the warmth.The Empress Dowager leaned on the soft couch and was sleeping. Recently, she always likes to be in a daze, sitting in the temple, trying to calmly copy a few verses, but she can't calm down, so she simply doesn't copy. There was nothing to do when she didn't copy the Scriptures. In the past, when Princess Liu was there, she could still hear Princess Liu making trouble. After Princess Liu left, the harem became more and more deserted, but there was some rabbit death and fox sorrow. The concubines of emperor Hong Xiao didn't like to come to her. She, the empress dowager, had long been indifferent to the world. In the harem, the concubines were also trampling low and holding high. They were busy uniting and competing for favors, but they had no time to deal with an old woman.The Empress Dowager especially missed the old days. It seems that when I was young in the harem, the time when I competed with concubines Liu and Xia became cute. Of course, the time related to Yin Zhan is the most recalled. She dreamed more than once of the scene when she first met Yan Zhan. Yan Zhan was riding a horse. The young man was tall and handsome, with a bright smile on his face. After saving her from the villain, she bandaged him. Yan Zhan sat on the stone and looked at her with a smile. She blushed when she was seen, but she still summoned up the courage to ask Yan Zhan's name. She was addicted to this dream and didn't want to wake up. Every time she opened her eyes, she was in a trance. Everything was just a big dream. She was still the miss of the Lin family, and she could have a chance to change.But not after all. Today, she dreamed of Yan Zhan again, but this time, it was not the first time. She was in the red mountain temple. On that day, hundreds of archers surrounded Ji Minghan, and Ji Minghan disappeared. She returned to the house and found that Yin Zhan was also injured. She knew that Yin Zhan had killed many people, and Ji Minghan was his good brother. Yin Zhan was silent, and she asked, "do you hate me?""No." Yin Zhan replied, "I've never complained about you. I just wish I hadn't met you earlier."The next moment, Yan Zhan's figure was suddenly swallowed up by the fire. He looked painful and called his name: "jou Chia..."The queen mother suddenly opened her eyes and woke up from her dream sweating. Mei Xiang came forward and said with concern, "empress dowager, are you all right?""Nothing." The Empress Dowager wiped the sweat on her forehead with a veil and said, "it was a nightmare."As soon as she finished saying this, she heard a man's voice outside, "what nightmare did the mother have, scared like this?"The Empress Dowager raised her eyes and looked forward. Emperor Hong Xiao appeared at the gate of the hall. Behind him, the eunuch palace people knelt down. It was about when he came in that he asked people not to report. The Empress Dowager didn't hear the sound. Emperor Hong Xiaodi walked in with a smile. The Empress Dowager straightened up and said with a smile, "how did the emperor think of it today?"Her heart beat very fast. I don't know if it was just a dream that had not slowed down, and she always felt that the dream was very unclear. Even the smile is very reluctantly. Emperor Hong Xiao seldom came to the palace of mercy and tranquility on weekdays. When he talked with her, he was mostly in the imperial garden."It's windy and snowy outside today. I specially came to see my mother." Emperor Hong Xiao waved to Duke Su, and Duke Su asked the surrounding palace people to retreat.The Empress Dowager faintly perceived something wrong, but she couldn't say anything wrong. Let Mei Xiang serve tea to Emperor Hong Xiao. He walked to the tea table and asked emperor Hong Xiao to sit down.Emperor Hong Xiaodi looked at the incense on the Queen Mother's incense table and asked with a smile, "who is the mother praying for?"The Empress Dowager replied, "naturally, it is for the common people all over the world. There are not a few people who have frozen to death because of the snow disaster. After hearing this, the mourners are very sad and can't do anything. They can only copy scriptures and pray for them in the palace.""The queen mother really cares about the world." Emperor Hong Xiaodi exclaimed.The Empress Dowager raised her eyes to the emperor. I don't know when, the prince who once made her look out of the way has grown like this. She still remembered that shortly after the prince died, in order to secure her position, she had to pretend to be a mother and a son with the prince. She still remembers that Hong Xiaodi was clever and cowardly when she was a teenager, and obeyed her words. On the one hand, she was very relieved and proud, on the other hand, she was very disgusted and contemptuous. But she underestimated the prince. Every prince has the blood of the former Emperor. Plundering and camouflage are their instincts from birth. From the matter of Cheng Wang, we can see that Hong Xiaodi is the same, even if he woke up earlier. When he was a teenager, he knew to get what he wanted with his own help.Think about it, too. The deep palace is like a jungle. How can beasts growing up in the jungle not eat people? The queen mother thought of Yin Zhili, the young man she saw at the Palace Banquet. More than 20 years later, she saw her son for the first time. Yin Zhili was as gentle as jade, which was her favorite and proud, but now she was worried about her son's chances of winning in the face of the terrible emperor.She can't let Yin Zhili fail, can't let that happen, so she wants to clear all the obstacles for Yin Zhili. Including the emperor in front of him. She can't do it alone, just Yin Zhan. No matter what difficulties she encounters, only this man will not abandon her and will always stand behind her to solve all problems for her."In fact, I have another thing I want to tell my mother today." Emperor Hong Xiaodi picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip. Then he said, "the king of Xiajun is dead."The Empress Dowager also went to get the tea cup with a smile. When she heard the speech, her action shook, and some tea splashed out. Mei Xiang hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe the stains on the table. Then the Empress Dowager held the tea cup tightly, as if trying to hold it accurately. Her smile was a little stiff and said, "what nonsense is your majesty talking about? Well, how can the king of Xia Jun die?""It's true." Hong Xiaodi's answer was also natural. "On the Red Mansion in Qingzhou, general Ji of the government killed the king of Xia Jun, and the king of Xia Jun also killed general Ji. It's a pity."It's a pity to say "light floating". I can't hear any tone, so I can't guess the emperor's mind, and I don't know what he means. Mei Xiang stood behind the empress dowager, her face slightly changed, and she couldn't help looking at the back of emperor Hong Xiao. There, two royal guards with swords stood, steady as a rock. It seems to know all her thoughts."How could it?" The Empress Dowager laughed. She didn't go to see Hong Xiaodi, but looked at the armor on her hand, as if she wanted to carefully see the gem on the armor clearly. She said, "how could old general Ji kill the king of Xia Jun, and how could the king of Xia Jun kill old general Ji? The AI family is old, your majesty can't joke about these things, and the AI family won't take them seriously." It seems that the child lied and the adult forgives him with tolerance."I'm not in the mood to joke with people like this." Hong Xiaodi smiled. "It's just that the mother doesn't believe it. Soon, the bodies of general Ji and the king of Xia Jun will also be sent back to Beijing for burial."The Empress Dowager's face finally changed. She looked up at emperor Hong Xiaodi, who had grown up under her nose, and finally showed a fierce look like a beast. At this glance, the Empress Dowager knew that he could not know nothing. He knew it clearly in his heart.But she still had to struggle, as if she could muddle through like this. The Empress Dowager laughed and said, "Ai Jia doesn't understand. The emperor is so relaxed that he doesn't intend to ask for guilt?""Guilty? The empress mother doesn't know something. This can be traced back to a long time ago. Speaking of it, I just learned it recently." The emperor smiled, "many years ago, general Jin Wu, the father of the Duke of Su, disappeared. In fact, he was framed and killed by the king of Xia County. The Revenge of killing his father is unparalleled. Ji Hong killed the king of Xia County, which is understandable. However, the old general loved his grandson and helped Ji Hong complete this thing. It is natural for her to kill her life. Even if I can't say anything, does she want me to favor who?"The Empress Dowager looked at emperor Hong Xiao and did not speak for a long time.Emperor Hong Xiaodi laughed again and said, "I almost forgot that when I ambushed and killed general Jin Wu, my mother was also present. Naturally, I would favor the king of Xia County."At this time, the Empress Dowager calmed down instead. She looked at Hong Xiaodi, smiled and said, "Your Majesty, over the years, AI Jia has treated you well. You don't need to use this method to kill AI Jia. Is there evidence that you slander AI Jia like this?""Evidence?" Emperor Hong Xiao laughed, and he said word by word, "Yin Zhili is the evidence."Mei Xiang's hands clenched tightly at the corners of her skirt, and the Empress Dowager's face changed greatly, which was her biggest weakness. If Hong Xiaodi threatened her with this, she had no chance of winning!"The queen mother forgot so quickly. Not long ago, before Xia Jun Wang left Yanjing for Qingzhou, didn't he come to find the queen mother?"He already knew! The Empress Dowager's heart couldn't help shaking. She looked at Hong Xiaodi like a monster. She had thought many times that one day the truth would be discovered, but it was not like this. She didn't have any chips in her hand, and Yan Zhan was not around. She was like a piece of fish that could be slaughtered at will.It's not that she is weak and omnipotent, but that both she and Yin Zhan underestimated the emperor."The Queen Mother restrained me in the palace, the king of Xia County restrained the Duke of Su in Qingzhou, and Yan Zhili led the Yan Family soldiers to the south of the long river. I have to admire the patience of the king of Xia County, who has been dormant for so many years to set up a Bureau." Emperor Hong Xiao said with a smile, "it's really hard for Yan Zhili."The queen mother said, "does the emperor want to kill AI Jia?""Why?" Hong Xiaodi smiled and said, "isn't Yin Zhili still alive?""The emperor wants to threaten Yin Zhili with AI family?" The Queen Mother sneered."No." Emperor Hong Xiao said gently, "my mother knows that I don't like doing such things. Just as king Cheng won't take risks for Princess Liu, Yin Zhili may not take chances for her."What he said was extremely mean. The Empress Dowager stared at Hong Xiaodi for a long time, and suddenly smiled. She smiled and shook her head, almost laughing to tears. She said, "third, the AI family has always underestimated you. The AI family said, Xia Liulan's son, how can he be such a virtue? It's not that you are bad, it's that the AI family looked away!"Xia Liulan is the name of Xia Guifei. When Emperor Hong Xiaodi heard the name, he looked at it, put away his smile and said, "the death of my mother's concubine in those years has something to do with you!"Xia Guifei died soon after giving birth to Hong Xiaodi, and others said she died of illness. After checking for so many years, Emperor Hong Xiaodi found the old man in the palace, but said that before Xia Guifei was in good health and did not have a trace of illness."Hum, in such a place in the palace, there are countless people who want Xia Liulan to die, which is not made by AI family!" The Empress Dowager disdained to say.Emperor Hong Xiaodi's face was blue and white, and he didn't seem to believe this answer. Sure enough, the Empress Dowager's next words immediately made him furious. She said, "but after Xia Liulan gave birth to you, AI family was really unwilling. In the palace, if you want to die, sometimes you don't need to do it. AI family just said that his majesty intends to make you crown prince, and countless people will do it for AI family one after another.""You!" Emperor Hong Xiao was extremely angry. The Empress Dowager's words made Xia Guifei a bright target in the palace. At that time, Xia Guifei had just had a child, and her heart was all on her child. Where would she pay attention to others."Ai Jia just hates you. Those people didn't kill you too, leaving a curse." The Empress Dowager's eyes were full of resentment, "if I had known today, even if I had done it myself, I would have personally removed you from this world!""Unfortunately, you don't have this chance." Emperor Hong Xiaodi calmed down again, He said: "Although my mother didn't kill you personally, she died because of you. I'll write down this debt for you first. I've already said that God will punish you for the sins you and Yin Zhan have done. Now that Yin Zhan is dead, it's Yin Zhili's turn next. When Yin Zhili is also dead, I'll personally send you on the road. No, I changed my mind, I won't let you die, I'll let you live and imprison you in the palace It's worse than the concubines in the cold palace. Let you watch the people around you die one by one and live hopelessly forever. This is the best punishment for you. I want to make the scandal of you and Yin Zhan known to the world, and let Yan Zhili scream like a rat on the street. Even if he starts a rebellion, the people who follow him will be ashamed of him. When he dies, he can't get rid of this stigma, and he will be stabbed in the backbone! ""No -" the Empress Dowager burst into a burst of exclamation. She made a gesture to grab the face of Hong Xiaodi. The bodyguard on the side of Hong Xiaodi pulled out his knife and scabbard, protected Hong Xiaodi and pushed her. The Empress Dowager fell to the ground, and her hair bun was all scattered."No..." she murmured.Emperor Hong Xiaodi gave her a cold look, turned and walked out, saying, "come on, lock her up! No one is allowed to see the queen mother without my permission, and," he smiled coldly, "look carefully, don't let her die."The Empress Dowager fell to the ground, Mei Xiang came to help her, but she stretched out her hand in vain, looked at Mei Xiang, and said, "he's lying to me, isn't Yin Zhan dead, right?"Her tears flowed down.The little emperor is actually quite handsome. Do you like the little emperor raise your hand~
