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Every time the emperor saw King Wei, he would think of him murdering the queen, and his mood would change from anger and hatred to deep fear. He was like a mad dog, biting Zhou's throat.

He stabilized the capital in a way that was destined to attract criticism, causing all the princes to raise the flag of righteousness, and finally they were able to criticize him from a high place as a rebellious minister, a traitor, and a tyrannical and immoral man.

Zhao Xuan, the governor of Yuzhou, raised an army on the grounds of killing traitors. Under the threat of Pei, the emperor issued an edict to rebuke the King of Hejian for treason and slandering Zhongliang. Pei Xu personally went to fight against the rebellion with this edict.

Pei's battle flag was like the tip of a sharp knife, thrust straight into the heart of Yuzhou.

Within two months, Qiao City was broken, Zhao Xuan was captured alive, and the old troops of the King of Hejian fled south in panic to seek refuge with Fu Xing.

In order to deter the enemy, Zhao Xuan's head was hung on the Qiaocheng tower under the scorching sun.

In the military camp outside the city, the deputy general walked into the commander's tent and said respectfully: "My lord, the Princess of Hejian asked to see you and said that she could present all the city defense plans for the city south of Qiao City."

The lieutenant general was obviously very moved, but the man in front of him said coldly: "No, you tell her, for the sake of the eldest princess, let her live, and send her to see Zhao Xuan if she is restless."

"Uh..." The deputy general felt it was a pity, scratched his head and said, "She also said that there are relics of the eldest princess that she wants to give to the lord."

Pei Xu finally raised his head and was about to ask his entourage to get it when he heard the deputy general say: "She asked the lord to go in person, otherwise the relic will be burned."

After the words fell, the deputy general watched blankly as King Wei put down the military report in his hand without hesitation and strode out of the camp.

*

In the backyard of Yuzhou Governor's Mansion, Xu Huiyi sat in front of a bronze mirror, choosing which hairpin was the sharpest and could pierce Pei Xu's throat.

If it weren't for the blood of her husband, she would definitely kill Pei Xu without hesitation.

Xu Huiyi's maid said tremblingly: "Will King Wei really come?"

"He will."

Seeing her firm tone, the maid became even more frightened, and said with tears in her eyes: "Let's try another method. I heard that Wei Jun can also eat people, and I'm afraid."

"What else can I do? Is there any other way?" Xu Huiyi's teeth chattered with hatred and her voice was sharp.

The maid remained silent, watching Xu Huiyi sprinkle medicinal powder into the incense burner, flower pots, windowsills, and teapots, and said in a weak voice: "Is the dose too much?"

It’s enough medicine to overwhelm a cow.

Xu Huiyi turned a deaf ear and waited until a man in armor stepped into the room and asked in a deep voice: "Where are the relics?"

The woman in plain clothes brought a box, which contained several thick stacks of letters sent to her by Zhao Zhen.

There are also some gadgets that Zhao Zhen exchanged with her when they were in the boudoir, which were nothing more than earrings, bracelets and the like.

Knowing that Pei Xu could not fall for a honey trap, Xu Huiyi sat down and suddenly burst into tears: "Prime Minister, for Zhen'er's sake, please let me go back to Chang'an to see my parents again."

"Zhao Xuan and I have long been inseparable, and now we just want to go back -"

Pei Xu picked up an earring in the box. It was a bunch of plum blossoms carved from pink jade. It was delicate and small, and it didn't match the rough palm of the man. He interrupted the woman beside him: "She gave this to you?"

If he remembered correctly, this was the apology he sent to Zhao Zhen after he offended her when he was thirteen years old. He forgot what he said, which made her even more angry.

Later, he asked why she didn't see her wearing the pair of pink jade earrings. Zhao Zhen hesitated for a long time. It turned out that she gave her temper to someone else. No wonder she had to please him for three days in a row.

Xu Huiyi choked, and saw a smile on the corner of the man's mouth in front of her. She immediately returned to a cold expression. She realized something and said something about Zhao Zhen when he was young.

When she talked about her best friend, she was in a trance and had mixed emotions.

Pei Xu's expression was obviously more relaxed, and he heard Xu Huiyi say: "Prime Minister, have a cup of tea."

He was about to refuse when he heard her say: "Zhen'er mentioned to me in the letter that the Prime Minister likes Yuqian Longjing the most."

Hearing this, he hesitated for a moment and asked the shadow guard waiting outside the door to come in and test the poison. Only after there was no abnormality, he took a small taste.

Xu Huiyi sneered in her heart, what's the use of testing poison? The powder must be put together to be effective. The tea, the incense burner, and the letters also contained powder as fine as smoke.

Pei Xu was still as arrogant as before. He looked down upon everyone except Zhao Zhen, and he actually dared to come in alone.

The maid's hands were shaking violently beside her. Seeing that King Wei was gradually getting into trouble, she couldn't help but feel her scalp numb.

She suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Princess, he fainted."

"Did you put too much medicine? King Wei won't die here, right?" The maidservant was trembling with fear. Seeing that Xu Huiyi was motionless, she finally felt calmer.

Xu Huiyi looked down on the timid appearance of the maid. Looking at the red-faced man, she sneered: "It's just a good time to faint. Drag him to the couch and take off his clothes."

She gritted her teeth, wishing she could strangle the unconscious King Wei on the couch. She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before tying a gold magnolia waist pendant on her wrist.

When Pei Xu woke up, he felt a headache. He squinted at the crumpled brocade quilt and the dotted marks on it for a long time, and then turned to the woman kneeling beside the couch.

Almost instantly, his fingers tightened around the woman's neck, and his tone was as frosty as snow: "Are you plotting against me?"

Xu Huiyi felt that her neck was about to break, and everything in front of her eyes became blurry. She struggled to raise her wrist, and the orchid flashed in front of him.

It was a token of the contract between her and Zhao Zhenjinlan. Even if they were married, they would always wear it around their waists. Zhao Xuan even became jealous of the eldest princess because of it.

He really let go, Xu Huiyi gasped for air, and collapsed to the ground after hearing the sound of the man fluttering his sleeves and leaving.

The maid carefully helped her up, "Why didn't King Wei..."

"You didn't promise to give me a status? Stop talking nonsense." Xu Huiyi glanced at the maid, gritted her teeth and said, "Why are you panicking? He should be more panicked than me now. Let's pack our things and go back to Chang'an."

The maid nodded, then hesitated: "With this plan, will he intercept you halfway?"

Xu Huiyi said with absolute certainty: "No."

As she expected, after returning to Beijing safely, Pei Xu did not cause any trouble for her and just pretended that what happened that day had not happened.

The Xu family was lukewarm towards her, a traitor's widow, and even her mother said, "If King Wei hadn't been willing to be more generous, the family would definitely not have taken you in."

In autumn, before the King of Wei returned to the court, a woman knelt outside the door of Pei's mansion. Regardless of the courtiers coming and going, she turned to heaven and said: "I have the blood of King Wei in my belly, and I need to meet Mrs. Pei."

The news spread throughout the capital overnight. The old lady, who was staying in the Buddhist hall, was alerted and ordered her servants to invite people in first.

The old lady looked at her calmly, her voice was kind, but what she said was heartbreaking: "You come from a famous family, and you were once a princess. Why are you willing to be humble and ruin the reputation of my Pei family?"

No matter how dissatisfied she was with Pei Xu, the old lady did not believe that her son would have a romantic relationship with the widow while Zhao Zhen's body was still cold.

"If the old lady doesn't believe it, you can go and investigate. Today I am just helpless and begging the old lady for protection." Xu Huiyi suddenly knelt down and walked forward: "The King of Wei will not want this child, he will definitely kill him." Got me."

She spoke sincerely with tears in her eyes, until the old lady was silent for a while and then said: "You stay in the small courtyard next to the Buddhist hall for now, and I will check it out myself."

It is better to say that he is living in a small courtyard than in prison.

The Xu family thought their daughter was too embarrassing and immediately severed ties, claiming that her life and death had nothing to do with the Xu family.

Ten days later, Pei Xu returned to Chang'an, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot. News from the capital reached the front line. There was a minister from Yuzhou who thought he was a good wife and wanted to "play his favour".

When he returned to Pei Mansion, before he could take off his armor, he heard the old lady, the servant of the house, asking him to come over.

Pei Xu's face became even more ugly. The moment he saw his mother, he said calmly: "My mother has refused to see me for ten years. I didn't expect that today she would suddenly become so loving and motherly."

"Kneel down." Seeing that he was motionless, the old lady said slightly angrily: "It's just that you are unfaithful and unjust, but you also want to lose the word filial piety?"

Pei Xu was silent, his mother once said that she would not see him until she reached the underworld.

After he knelt down honestly, he heard his mother ask: "What are you going to do?"

"killed."

The bluestone paperweight used when copying Buddhist scriptures hit the man's head, and blood immediately dripped down and wet the futon.

"What a bastard." The old lady was so angry that her hands were shaking, and she pointed at him and said: "I found out clearly that you lived in the same room with her alone in Qiaocheng, and Pei's shadow guard was outside. When you left, you were naked. Not neat."

Seeing that her son was untouched, the old lady suddenly said: "Do you dare to swear on your dead wife that you really had nothing to do with Xu Huiyi that day?"

Pei Xu pursed her thin lips tightly, her expression changed suddenly, and her throat was choked for a long time before she asked: "What does mother want to do?"

"With such a commotion, what else can we do besides carrying her into the house?"

He objected: "No."

Knowing why his attitude was so resolute, the old lady's heart filled with anger. She stood up and said: "Look at yourself like this, how can you be worthy of being the head of the family? Just because of a woman, you are so bold as to poison the queen and lead the troops to the palace. All of them are things that will last forever."

"The Pei family has been planning for generations and has always been careful and cautious in order to achieve perfect strategies. It's good now. Even those second-rate people who dare to stand on their own after enclosing a piece of land dare to call themselves people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They are filled with righteous indignation and want to attack you. In just three months, seven houses have been lost. If Yanzhou wasn't guarded by your cousins, there might have been trouble in the city."

"Now this kind of scandal has happened again, causing uproar in the city, and it's still not clear." The old lady drank tea and took a breath and said: "If you accept her now, it won't be a big deal. It's not unusual to take the wife of a defeated general as a concubine. But if you don’t admit it, you are just like an army leader who will lust after and humiliate other people’s wives for fun.”

Pei Xu had veins popping out on his forehead. If he had known this, he should have killed Xu Huiyi with one sword. "She took medicine. This was not my intention -"

"It has nothing to do with what she used." The old lady interrupted him coldly, "I know what you are thinking, but the deal is already done. Everyone knows that she is carrying a child of the Pei family and knows that she has something to do with you."

"A weak woman who has severed ties with her mother's family and is quite beautiful, as long as she lives on the street, no matter what the truth is, your enemies will only think that she is Prime Minister Pei's woman, which is enough to make them excited." The old lady held the prayer beads in her hand. After a pause, he lowered his eyes and said calmly: "When someone asks her to entertain guests at the banquet, you are shameless, Yanzhou Pei will."

"Kill her and this matter will not happen." Pei Xu has no morals in his heart. "Send her back to the Xu family and let them do it. No one will say anything."

The old lady seemed to be thinking of something in the past, and she suddenly burst into tears and said, "I actually forgot that you even killed your own brother. You have no heart in the first place. It's just that tiger poison doesn't eat its own children, so you didn't even spare your own children."

"Do you think what you did back then was clean and tidy? It was just your father's intention to cover it up." The old lady remembered that after her husband found out the cause of his eldest son's death, he tried every means to hide it from her, and she felt chilled by the ruthless men in the Pei family. "You think, I I've refused to see you for so many years just because of suspicion and resentment?"

Suddenly hearing his mother mention old memories from his youth, Pei Xu's expression changed slightly and he just sighed: "I see."

Pei Xu has several concubine brothers whose biological mother died young. They grew up under the lap of the old lady and have a good relationship with her. Last month, two of them were seriously injured while suppressing the rebellion.

Just for the sake of the rest of the Pei family, she couldn't allow Pei Xu to continue to be crazy.

The old lady doesn't like Xu Huiyi's approach. She just wants to force Pei Xu to carry a woman into the house first. By opening this hole, it will be much easier to force people in later. Life is long, and he can't hang himself at Zhao Zhen's house. On a tree.

"My eldest son died in the rebellion, and I am helpless, but I can no longer just watch you kill my grandson." The old lady stared at him and said slowly: "Whether it's for Pei's reputation or for the sake of flesh and blood, you have to do it. Carry her into the house."

Seeing that he was silent, the old lady half-closed her eyes and suddenly said: "The world will not follow a person who murders his elder brother, and the Pei family has many children who can be the head of the family."

Pei Xu was silent for a moment and chuckled: "Is mother threatening me?"

"Yes, are you going to deal with me like you did Jier?"

The man with a wound on his head that was still oozing blood had clear veins on his neck, and his eyes were looking deeply at the shiny Buddhist beads in his mother's hand. The temple was extremely silent, except for the occasional crackling sound from the candles used for worship.

The shadow of the maidservant outside the temple gradually shortened, then gradually twisted and elongated. Unexpectedly, exquisite lanterns appeared in her hands, illuminating the thick night.

Pei Xu suddenly came closer and noticed that the old lady suddenly opened her eyes and looked at the sword on his waist with some caution.

His voice was a little hoarse, and he said slowly: "My mother is dedicated to worshiping Buddha and has always been compassionate. This matter will be left to my mother to handle."