Ning Chen Ling Xiao

Chu Yifeng was unusually low-key when he returned to the court this time. He only brought [-] elite soldiers back to the city. Chu Yifeng and Ling Xiao had a very clear meaning. We are going home, not attacking the city.

On the day they returned to the city, King Hui Chu Yijin and his party members went to prison.

Winners and losers have been like this since ancient times.

There were everything that Wei Zhengfu had arranged long ago, the rumors created by Ling Xiao's manpower left in the imperial city, the support of many officials for Chu Yifeng, and the unpopularity of Chu Yijin this month. It is really not difficult to gain a firm foothold in the city.

Ling Xiao and Wei Zhengfu have discussed it, let’s not mention the reserve position, the most important thing now is to find a reason for this catastrophe, this is ready-made, and it is what Ling Xiao has always said to others, The second return to the dynasty was to thoroughly investigate the cause of the late emperor's death as the most honorable prince of the dynasty, to eliminate the traitorous party, and to be on the side of the Qing emperor.

King Hui was taken into the clan's residence for more than a dozen crimes, such as protecting the traitor and killing his brothers.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Ling Xiao quickly reorganized the cabinet after removing Zuo Cheng and Rong Xianggong from Hui Wang's party, and the government resumed within three days.

At the same time, Wei Zhengfu quickly sorted out the messy places in the imperial city. The missing officials should be replaced and those who should be dismissed should be replaced. They didn't bother anyone. After a few days of panic, the nobles and common people were relieved to see that the sky hadn't fallen down and the sun was still high.

Ling Xiao and Wei Zhengfu reached a consensus that everything should be done quickly, so that the imperial city would calm down before it had time to become chaotic.And they did.

The people are still living in peace, and the nobles are starting to stand in line again. At this time, if you don’t know who to pledge your allegiance to, you’d be a fool. Those who have something to say must go to Chu Yifeng or Ling Xiao to make a good sale. Walk around in the Kanghou Mansion, Antaihou Mansion, and even Shi Mansion and Jing Mansion.

Ling Xiao and Chu Yifeng didn't care much about these people. After all, these people were not very important. The biggest problem they faced after entering the city was the queen.

After returning to the city, the queen ordered people to call Chu Yifeng back to the palace many times to talk, but Chu Yifeng kept delaying and refused to answer, he was a little scared.Ling Xiao could understand Chu Yifeng's thoughts, and did not force him. Instead, he ordered someone to try Chu Yijin's case quickly, and even revealed that Yanran and Luanxiang were Chu Yijin's spies. No one knew that Ling Xiao and the clan's mansion How did Li Yannian discuss it, and Li Yannian finalized the case a few days later.

King Hui, Chu Yijin, murdered the royal family, used violent methods, planted contacts, colluded with the ministers of the court, established party members, sold officials and nobles, and oppressed the important ministers of the former court...

What's even more amazing is that Li Yannian actually connected Chu Yifeng's Begonia Courtyard to the drowning of Wancui and the death of Princess Guang Rong'er from illness, etc., to cure the crime of King Hui's murder of Chu Yifeng's marriage and the crime of trying to kill off the royal heirs.

Chu Yijin's accusation reported by the Clan Mansion is half-truth, half-false, but any one of them can abolish his throne!

On the day when Li Yannian finalized the case and presented Chu Yijin's criminal evidence, Ling Xiao took Chu Yifeng by the hand and took him to Fenghua Palace. Ling Xiao looked at Chu Yifeng and smiled lightly: "Don't be afraid, you did nothing wrong, you don't want your aunt?"

Chu Yifeng's eyes turned red when he heard the words, he turned his head and said in a hoarse voice, "I miss my mother."

The queen has been haggard a lot in the past month, she wore a plain robe, and a few white flowers were scattered on the Lingyun bun that was rolled up high. When she saw Chu Yifeng, she shed tears before she could say what she was going to say. After getting down, he choked up a few times and said, "Feng'er, what a good thing you did..."

Chu Yifeng knelt down straight and didn't speak. Ling Xiao stepped forward to show the queen the crimes convicted by the clan's mansion. The queen couldn't help trembling when she saw it. ...you must want him to die..."

Ling Xiao didn't try to comfort him, and went to Chu Yifeng's side and knelt down to wait together. The queen cried for a while before choking and said: "I didn't believe it when I was told, and I wanted to ask you to ask me, but you didn't come. , but now you brought this to me yourself, what do you mean? Do you want me to agree with you beheading Jin'er?"

The queen's heart felt like a knife was being cut, and she choked with sobs: "Feng'er! Feng'er! Mother, please, that's your elder brother, that's my son... the first emperor... take me away, you just let go , I can't take care of this family business, and I have to watch my sons kill each other... the late emperor..."

Chu Yifeng just knelt down, listening to the queen's crying without making a sound, but kept rolling down tears.

Ling Xiao paused, and said slowly: "Auntie, I know you don't believe in the crimes imposed by the clan's family. Indeed, many of them are fake. Li Yannian did it with my instruction, so I naturally understand."

The queen looked at Ling Xiao in disbelief, not understanding how the child she had grown up to become like this, Ling Xiao's voice was still faint, and continued: "Then let me be serious..."

"I was 14 years old when I entered the palace. King Hui and King Ying were less than 13 years old."

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"On the day I met the King of England, the King of England gave me a jade pendant of concentricity. At that time, I didn't know that it was the best jade pendant of the King of England. Because I didn't follow his heart at that time, I snatched this piece of jade and smashed it to pieces in front of my face..."

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"One day the late emperor punished the king of Ying to copy big characters. The king of England was beaten all over his body by the late emperor, just like that..." Ling Xiao couldn't help but hoarse his voice when he thought of all the unbearable things that day. Since Chu Yifeng was bullied, he couldn't get justice for him... Ling Xiao paused for a moment, and continued, "That's it, King Hui actually deceived King Ying and tore up the big characters he wrote so hard..."

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"That year when Zhang Ji's subordinates mutinied, King Ying took the initiative to invite Ying. At that time... King Ying was only 17 years old... No one agreed to the emperor's grandson's expedition, but King Hui tried his best to persuade the first emperor to agree to play, and in the end he only gave it to King Ying The position of a hussar general..."

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Ling Xiao slowly talked about the little things when he was young, and about the poisonous thorns that had been pressing on his heart these years, but Chu Yifeng couldn't hold back and buried his face in his arms and cried. Others might think that Chu Yifeng cried aggrieved because he remembered the past, but only Ling Xiao understood that Chu Yifeng felt sorry for Ling Xiao and actually wrote down all the grievances he had suffered.

One by one, one by one, every bit of pain that Chu Yifeng has suffered in these years is firmly remembered in Ling Xiao's heart. He never mentions it, but never forgets it. It just reminds him that one move can't be wrong, and one step can't be done. Wrong, as if walking on thin ice, he helped Chu Yifeng step by step to where he is today.

Ling Xiao's steady voice has a magical power, which can make people completely convinced. The queen couldn't help crying when she heard it, and when she was about to say something, Ling Xiao interrupted: "I know, my aunt must say that this is a trivial matter , not to the point where we meet in battle today..."

Ling Xiao took a cloth bag that the attendant was helping to hold, and slowly took out paper bags and medicine bottles from it, and while putting these things on the carpet one by one, he said lightly: "Auntie, don't be afraid, these ...They are all poisons, and they have not been broken since the day the King of England became king, and every time King Hui entrusted his spies to bring them in, I withheld them and put them together, until today...there are more than one hundred packets of poisons in total. "

Ling Xiao raised his head to look at the Queen, and said in a hoarse voice: "If you hadn't been careful in everything, King Ying had already died a hundred times... Auntie, King Ying escaped a hundred times, who knows if he will escape the next time? Who is mutilating siblings?"

The queen looked at the poison on the ground and was speechless. She turned her head and covered her face with a veil and choked up. Hearing this, she got up and walked to the bed. Chu Yifeng straightened up and looked at the queen. The queen came down and hugged Chu Yifeng and burst into tears: " My son...it's not good to be a mother...the mother is blind..."

Chu Yifeng choked up in the queen's arms. Now that he knew these things, he didn't feel wronged. He just heard Ling Xiao say it slowly, and felt that it was not easy for the two of them to walk together. The queen hugged Chu Yifeng and cried. How long did it take the two of them to recover.

The queen pulled up her loose hair, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said with a choked voice, "Since the first emperor ascended the throne...I have not had a smooth day, Feng'er...Mother knows that you have been wronged..."

"The first emperor didn't love you, I knew this a long time ago... In fact, my mother never loved you..." The queen couldn't help crying and choked up, "I was pregnant with Qi when you were just able to talk. Son, he was a naughty one, and later he had Yan'er again, so he couldn't take care of you, it was because mother was partial and didn't take care of you..."

Chu Yifeng lowered his head and said softly: "No..."

"Stupid child...my silly son...Thinking about it, you were the most sensible and most reassuring mother..." The queen brought up the past and couldn't stop crying, "It's all mother's fault...my Son……"

Chu Yifeng knelt down on the queen's lap, choking with sobs in a low voice: "No...mother loves me, I know..."

Hearing this, the Queen's heart felt like a knife was gouging out. She lowered her head and hugged Chu Yifeng and cried loudly. At this time, the two mothers had broken the past and had no more scruples. They cried together the grievances they had suffered from each other over the years. Ling Xiao felt at ease , turned around and left the hall.

After dealing with Chu Yijin and all the people under his command, Ling Xiao issued a death order to the clan mansion and Dali Temple. He would rather kill [-] people by mistake and not let one go, and the case must be closed before the funeral of Emperor Daxing. Wei Zhengfu briefly explained this. There was an objection, he meant to execute the main perpetrators, but Ling Xiao was representing Chu Yifeng now, Wei Zhengfu couldn't say anything, let alone others.

Although Ling Xiao doesn't have any official position yet, everyone knows how favored this person is. This is the future emperor, and His Royal Highness the King of England cannot live without him. What's more, Chu Yifeng has ordered all officials. As a filial piety, all affairs will be handled by Ling Xiao temporarily. Ling Xiao's attitude is Chu Yifeng's own attitude.

No matter how bad others think of Ling Xiao in their hearts, they are still very respectful on the face. They all know that he is a vicious person, with a sweet mouth and a bitter heart. His hands are covered with blood at a young age. As a military commander, he is a murderous person no matter whether he is in the court or on the battlefield. Now even generations of veterans will respect Ling Xiao when they see Ling Xiao.

With Ling Xiao showing such power, Li Yannian and others did not dare to delay, and quickly accepted the case. According to Ling Xiao's intention, no matter whether they were guilty or not, as long as they hindered Chu Yifeng's ascension to the throne, all those who hindered Chu Yifeng's ascension to the throne were all assigned to Chu Yijin's faction, and asked to beheaded. The questioning and cutting, the exile of exile.

Ling Xiao was very satisfied when he saw the list submitted, and he let all the relatives and nobles in the city heave a sigh of relief. This is enough anger.

Chu Yifeng is still living with Ling Xiao in the Yingwang Mansion in the imperial city. After they return to the court, they have to take care of everything. They meet each other during the day for a limited time, and only at night can they have a good talk. After dinner, Chu Yifeng and Ling Xiao Going back to the room together, the two of them leaned on the soft pillow on the couch and talked affectionately. Chu Yifeng buried his face in Ling Xiao's arms and felt his breath infatuatedly. I found a bottle of good medicine, and the queen mother asked me to bring it back for you to apply, and I asked the imperial doctor specifically, and he said it was very good."

As Chu Yifeng said, he got up and went to the bed to get the medicine bottle, and took a few more lamps into the room. After cleaning his hands, he took off Ling Xiao's inner garment, carefully unwrapped the bandage around Ling Xiao's left shoulder, and looked at it. The wound that was not yet healed frowned, and said in a hoarse voice: "In the future, no matter what, you are not allowed to use that Guanyin to get drunk, or I..."

"It will definitely not happen in the future." Ling Xiao said softly, "It was just a helpless act when the situation was tense at that time, who would use his body to make fun of it."

Avalokitesvara Drunk, this is a medicine from the former dynasty. It was listed as a banned drug during the years when Taizu was fighting, and it was strictly forbidden for the soldiers of Chu to use it.Avalokitesvara Drunk, Drunken Avalokitesvara, is actually a kind of drug that paralyzes people's nerves. When injured on the battlefield, the pain will naturally affect the combat ability, especially in some emergencies, some important soldiers cannot retreat from the front line. So there is such a medicine, just smear some on the wound, and the pain will disappear immediately.

But what disappeared was only the pain. The wound will continue to tear and deteriorate in the next battle. If not, the consequences of healing will be unimaginable, and this medicine is very harmful to the body. The wound that has been healed by Guanyinzui will recover very slowly. Just like Ling Xiao is now.

Chu Yifeng took a clean cloth towel to wipe Ling Xiao's wound clean, and took the medicine to show Ling Xiao: "This is it."

Ling Xiao took a look at the sapphire blue enamel bottle, opened it to look inside, the ointment was pure, sweet and tangy, and smelled bitter again, Ling Xiao smiled: "It's a good thing, please apply it to me."

Chu Yifeng took some ointment and applied it on Ling Xiao carefully, then took a bandage to wrap it up well, and said in a low voice, "It will probably be fine in about ten days."

"It wasn't very good at first." Ling Xiao chuckled, knowing that Chu Yifeng must be ashamed, he pulled Chu Yifeng to bed and smiled, "It really is a good medicine, and I feel a bit of a coolness, not hot, very good."

Chu Yifeng nodded: "The weather is bad now, if the weather is cooler, it will get better faster."

Ling Xiao smiled: "It's done, it's not too early now, let's just go to bed, let's go to sleep after talking, tomorrow is another day."

Chu Yifeng agreed to go inside with Ling Xiao, and Ling Xiao ordered someone to bring in two more basins of ice. The room immediately felt a bit cooler. Ling Xiao turned off a few lights, put down the bed curtain, took off his coat and put it on. Bed, "I heard that the case has been closed today?" On this day Chu Yifeng went to the palace to accompany the queen to the Xiandi Lingqian for a day, and only came back at night to hear about the previous incident.Ling Xiao agreed in a low voice, "The case is closed."

Chu Yifeng turned over and leaned against Ling Xiao, hesitated and said: "I heard... this case is very involved, can you..."

"No matter how wide the involvement is, it is the result of too many cliques of King Hui. He is no different from others. Do you want to intercede with them?" Ling Xiao rubbed Chu Yifeng's hair, "It's not that I don't listen to you, but you see , They are all the same crime, which one should be released? Now that we have just gained a firm foothold in the imperial city, it is not easy to favoritism, and we want to develop together now."

After hearing this, Chu Yifeng had nothing to refute. He nodded, and Ling Xiao said softly, "I know you can't bear it. In fact, there are not many executions. Most of them are exiled. I don't like killing people."

"Yeah." Chu Yifeng stopped thinking about it, leaned lightly on Ling Xiao's shoulder, and said softly, "It's you who are working hard these days, but I can't help at all..."

Ling Xiao turned sideways and hugged Chu Yifeng into his arms lovingly, and smiled: "You don't need your help, as long as you accompany your aunt well and take care of the late emperor's funeral, the rest of the work will be done with the few of us."

"Ah."

Ling Xiao smiled: "Actually, there's nothing wrong with it. By the way, you've been with your aunt these days. Did your aunt ever mention King Hui?"

"No..." Chu Yifeng shook his head, then paused, "Yesterday, when I mentioned my father, my mother said... I can do whatever I want to do with this matter, with... the overall situation as the most important thing."

Ling Xiao nodded. Wei Hua has always been a clear-headed woman in matters of right and wrong. After the death of her husband and the fight between her sons, Wei Hua understood a lot. Now the best way to end this dispute is to quickly take care of King Hui. case, only in this way can more people be saved.

Even after knowing everything Chu Yijin has done, Wei Hua still loves him. He was the son she and the late emperor most hoped for, and she relied the most on her husband after his death.

But these are not enough for Wei Hua to turn things around. If Chu Yijin didn't harm Chu Yifeng's life, maybe she would have to give it a go, but now the facts are in front of her. No matter how much Wei Hua loves Chu Yijin, it doesn't mean that she will allow him to hurt herself. the life of a son.

Chu Yijin was her son, and so was Chu Yifeng.

In other words, Chu Yijin was the one who hurt Wei Hua the most in this regard. The first emperor worked diligently to protect the whole family in the front, and she took care of the four sons and two daughters carefully in the back, so that her children would not have to suffer any more in the future. It was painful for brothers to kill each other, but Chu Yijin shattered her lifelong dream of running with the late emperor.

Wei Hua didn't put forward any words to reduce Chu Yijin's crimes. The general trend is that she is not an unreasonable woman. Although she has never interfered with the affairs of the previous dynasty and has many shortcomings that are unique to women in deep boudoir, she is a woman of the Jing Dynasty. The eldest daughter of the father-in-law can give birth to six children after she gets married, and she has walked all the way to her current position in peace and stability. Naturally, her heart is not comparable to that of ordinary women.

Chu Yifeng and Ling Xiao were naturally grateful for the queen's righteousness.