old grace

After a toss, the three had lunch peacefully and naturally.

Shuang Ling planned to interrogate Yan Yan after finishing the bamboo slips, who knew that the plan could not keep up with the changes, since the end of lunch, Xia Shang kept coming in to report, this person came to visit the Patriarch, and that person came to pay New Year's greetings to the Patriarch... In the past, Chen Qi was sick and declined After all the audience, the ban was lifted just yesterday, and rumors of the disposal of spies spread again, and all the confidantes and subordinates came to greet and express their concern.

Even Mrs. Jiang came to visit, saying that she heard that Chen Qi was sick again today, and she came to visit her husband's condition and was willing to take care of her illness.

Of course, Chen Qi can also disappear.However, You Jing has already got Chen Qi's skin, these people will meet sooner or later, and the spies will have to be explained sooner or later.There was Fu Chuan by You Jing's side, tacitly helping to deal with it, and Shuang Ling sat idle, so he put down the bamboo slips and went to look for Zuan Zuan.

Zuan Zuan was temporarily imprisoned in a separate room in the side hall of Ziyang Palace, under strict guard.

Seeing Mr. Xiao Lang coming to visit, the guard in charge of guarding the spies hesitated for a moment, and opened the door anyway.

There were also four strong servants in the house who were watching quietly. When they saw Mr. Xiao Lang enter the door, they quickly got up and saluted.Xie Qinghe looked at Yan Yan lying on the bed. She was covered with a brocade quilt, and her mouth was stuffed with a thick cloth, so she could only breathe weakly through her nostrils.

"Untie it for her." Xie Qinghe turned his back to look at the painting on the wall, no longer looking inside, "Treat each other with courtesy."

Yan Yan, who was tied tightly to the bed and could not move, suddenly burst into tears when he heard the words "treat each other with courtesy".

The servants exchanged glances with each other, and after a little hesitation, they still did not dare to disobey Mr. Xiao Lang's orders.Even if the lord was furious after learning about this, he would still be asking the young lord to settle the score, and the servants would not dare to get involved between the father and son.

Mr. Xiao Lang wanted to "treat each other with courtesy" again, so the servants sent two of them to find clothes, shoes and socks, and the remaining two helped her to sit up and untangle her cloth strips.The body covered by the brocade quilt is still wrapped with layers of soft gauze, and where the whole body can move up and down, except for the fingers and toes, only the eyeballs are left.

After being untied by the servants, the thread still could not be moved for a long time, and the servants rushed to put her clothes on again so that Mr. Xiao Lang would not wait for a long time.

Under the hasty urging, the white gauze on Zuan's arm was soaked with blood, and the maids were frightened, so they found the white gauze that had just been removed and wrapped it thickly around Zuan's arm again.From the beginning to the end, Zuan Zuan did not make a sound, letting the servants toss about.

Zuan finally put on her clothes, and the servant woman put shoes and socks on her frostbitten feet, and combed her hair with a comb, so that the long hair on both sides hung down to cover her frostbitten ears.I also want to make my face clean and delicate, but unfortunately my face is red and swollen, the corners of my mouth are cracked, and the bruises can't tell whether it's from a beating or frostbite. It's hard to see a delicate and beautiful face.

The servants helped her out and reported to Xie Qinghe: "Young Lord, the guest girl is fully dressed, come to see me."

Xie Qinghe turned around just now, looked at the bruised Zuan in a plain dress, and told the servants: "Go down."

The servants promised to leave.

Xie Qinghe didn't speak, just looked at Zuan's face, there seemed to be some inexplicable regret in his eyes.

Zuan Zuan also looked at him for a long time, and after understanding the "feeling" in his eyes, Zuan Zuan asked slowly: "The enshrined of the Hua family, the guest of the prince, the young and righteous young swordsman, Xie Qinghe?... Is it you?" ?"

Xie Qinghe didn't speak.

"You and I have met several times, and I saw your figure and gait, and I knew it was you. But, how is this possible? The only young master of the Chen family, such a precious person, how could he willingly sneak in Wang Du, acting as a lowly servant by the prince's side? Your accent is different, and your face is completely different from him. With only one figure, how dare I believe that you are him? ——I always feel that I have delusions, Maybe the prince died, I was so sad that I became crazy, and I thought so wildly." Yan Zuan's voice was still immature.

Xie Qinghe stood where he was, like amber wrapped in gum, motionless and silent.

Yan Zuan suddenly asked: "You wanted to save me yesterday, didn't you? You just brought the medicine in just because you wanted to save me."

Xie Qinghe was touched at this moment, and decisively retorted: "You are so reckless, no one can save you."

Yan Zuan took a step forward, threw himself into his arms, hugged Xie Qinghe's waist, pushed him up, and cried: "Xiao Xie, I know you still remember the time we got together. I'm not a bad person, nor a spy, I came to Qingzhou to discuss peace in accordance with the prince's will."

She told Chen Qi at the beginning that she was ordered by the emperor to send the death list.Now the wording has been changed, it is the King of Yancheng's will again.

Xie Qinghe was "stiff" by her embrace for a moment, stretched out his hand to brush away the long hair around her ear, looked at the poor frostbitten ear, and said in a cold voice, "It's frostbitten."

When the two of them got along in the capital, Zuan was very close to him.

So, how to seduce a young man who is full of vigor?

Naturally, she tried her best to show her softness, fairness, and gentleness that belonged to a girl, without revealing any sense of obscenity.

Zuan Zuan used the excuse that the prince had rewarded him with new jewelry, and showed off to Xie Qinghe the pendant on her ear, and asked Xie Qinghe to come closer to have a look.You can see the ears, earlobes, and the pearls on the ears, and naturally you can also see the side neck, side face, and even the whiteness of the underwear that exudes a faint fragrance.

Xie Qinghe was very familiar with this kind of method, so he pretended to be clumsy, and refused to go forward, and Yan Zuan even touched his earring with his hand.

Of course, what the little girl asked was: "Is this bright pendant pearl good-looking?"

Zuan Zuan was sure that her ears, her side neck, and her beauty all left a deep impression on Xie Qinghe.Even though she already knew Xie Qinghe's true identity at this time, she thought that the young master of the Chen family must be used to seeing beautiful maidservants and slaves, but Xie Qinghe took the initiative to look at her ears, as if saying "Frostbite" distressedly, and the scorpion immediately He fell into his own trap.

When she had deliberately seduced Xie Qinghe, she would never doubt Xie Qinghe's "feeling" for her at this time.

She didn't rush to use words to confirm Xie Qinghe's attitude, but she just lowered her head and shed a line of tears, as if she was lamenting for the past who had wronged her feelings, and there was no way she would ever have a future self.

Xie Qinghe doesn't comment on her acting skills.Anyway, the emotional card is played correctly, he can afford it, the opponent can catch it, and the game continues.

Yan Zuan fell into Xie Qinghe's arms and wept silently, both of them "calmed" for a moment, Xie Qinghe asked Zuan Zuan to sit down, and said: "I asked Brother Jun to let you leave Qingzhou, why did you come again?" This question was very pretentious , showing a strong narcissism while asking, as if asking Zuan Zuan, did you come to Qingzhou to find me?Fearing that Zuan Zuan would not understand, he was silent for a moment, then asked again, "Why did you go to Hua's house when you came?"

Zuan Zuan was confused by his question, and after a while he said, "I was tricked by the crown prince."

This statement is very novel.

"Before the prince entered the palace, he left a will. I hope that the crown prince will kill the prince with the crime of treason and regicide." Having said that, Zuan Zan looked at Xie Qinghe, "in this way Appease Lord Chen's anger in defeat."

When King Yancheng entered the palace to assassinate the Son of Heaven, and both died with the Son of Heaven, Xie Qinghe vaguely guessed what King Yancheng was thinking.

King Yancheng has always seemed divided.After he was released from prison, he led the forbidden army to severely injure the Chen family's army, which can be said to turn the tide.However, the momentum of the Chen family was simply unstoppable.King Jing wanted to help the country, so King Yancheng told King Jing desperately that it was too late.

King Yancheng faced two choices.

Or, he tried his best to get rid of the traitors in the court, including the emperor, and took power by himself.It is very difficult to do this. He seems to have old troops in charge of the imperial army, but these old troops may not be reliable.Taking ten thousand steps back, even if he succeeds in stealing the country, if he wants to lead the only army in the city, he will fight against the Chen family like a mantis with his arms like a chariot. If he wins, it is almost impossible, and if he loses, he will inevitably usher in the massacre of the city.

Or, he gets rid of the emperor who is stubborn and refuses to surrender, and lets the prince whose mother's family and his wife's family both control the power of the royal capital ascend the throne, and then the prince who has a heart for the people leads the royal family of the concubine's family to surrender directly—maybe he can keep the clan of the concubine's family, and eventually If it is not good, it can also avoid the tragedy of war and massacre.

The king of Yancheng let the prince ascend the throne, and he didn't expect the prince to lead his troops to defeat the Chen family, or to make the concubine's family safe.

He wanted the benevolent prince to choose to surrender for the sake of the clan and the people.

"It seems that the crown prince did not respect the will of King Yancheng." Xie Qinghe said.

The whole world knew that the king of Yancheng entered the palace and murdered the emperor, but the prince didn't intend to avenge his father. Instead, he buried the king of Yancheng generously, which attracted a lot of discussion from the ruling and opposition parties.Chen Qi instructed Donglou counselors to write many proclamations, scolding the prince for being unfilial, thereby denying the legitimacy of the prince's succession.

There are also a lot of jokes here.The Chen family scolded the crown prince for being unfilial, and some literati in the royal capital retorted, saying, your Chen family has long been disobedient and never respected the emperor's orders. Is the Son of Heaven the King?He Bing wrote the article as an analogy, if I see the unfilial son next door mistreating my father, I will be injustice. Does that mean that I think the old man next door is a monarch?The sons of Wangdu have brain problems!Didn't you see my father watching your jokes?Hahaha!

After a fight of words, it didn't stop until the crown prince ascended the throne.But the prince's attitude is very firm, to protect the name of King Yancheng after his death.

This is actually a very clear political position.The king of Yancheng is the banner of the king's capital against the Chen family, and if the crown prince does not let this banner fall, it proves that he cannot surrender to the Chen family.

Zuan Zuan couldn't understand this.

"He said that he couldn't bear to treat his uncle like this." Zuan recalled the conversation between her and the prince, every sentence was sincere, and it was clearly a poor person who mourned the passing of King Yancheng. She had no doubts at all, "I... I can't bear it. When he was young, he respected the emperor's will and assisted the young emperor. He was in power and never sought personal gain. Because of this selflessness, he was innocently imprisoned for ten years and suffered all kinds of torture. After he was released from prison, he never forged I plan to plan, and my heart is only for the people of the country. Why should a good person like him be slaughtered and his bones thrown into ashes?"

Xie Qinghe remained silent.

Yan Zuan said to himself: "I'm waiting for him to plan the surrender of Chen. He always says that he has just ascended the throne and has not yet held real power. If this matter cannot be kept secret and leaked out, I am afraid that the powerful officials will be domineering and ruin the event. I I have been waiting for news from him, until one day, he told me that I can go to Qingzhou, and he gave me a secret order, asking me to personally deliver it to Chen Jun."

This matter has already appeared to be [-]% absurd.

The emperor of the Qin court wanted to descend to Chen, so he asked a newly-canonized eldest princess to take a secret letter and send it to Qingzhou, concealing her identity.

Isn't this a joke?

"After leaving the royal capital, I took out the secret edict and looked it up, only to realize that the paper is gold and jade, and the ink is the ink of thousands of mountains, but no treasure has ever been laid down." Yan Yan had a bit of self-mockery in his eyes, "Edict of the Son of Heaven, It was not stamped with the seal, was it a true decree or a fake edict? I was delusional at that time, how could the prince brother lie to me? I am afraid that I missed it in a hurry."

"Later, Jun'er exposed my identity and sent me back to the capital." Zuan couldn't help laughing, "The emperor probably didn't expect me to go back alive. His surprise at that time was not fake. I asked him the secret. Why didn’t the edict give the treasure? He told me that it would be very troublesome to use the jade seal on the edict, and Wang Hu would find out if he was not careful...Wang Hu is forcing him to appoint a prince, and the relatives who hold the military power are too scary.”

"He said that this matter is not thorough, but the imperial father once left a mortal register in the Hua family, which he shared with the Hua family. Since Yuxi can't be used, he will use this mortal register to win the trust of Chen Jun. If he can cooperate with Chen Jun inside and outside, It would not be too much effort to surrender Chen."

Yan Zuan's expression on this matter was indescribable: "I believe it."

Xie Qinghe didn't quite believe it.The crown prince has already ascended the throne, and she is nothing more than a weak girl. If she hadn't been canonized by the crown prince, she would be a bastard of unknown origin.The prince wants to get rid of the scroll, so why bother?A dead man will solve it.

However, he neither questioned Zuan, nor poked holes in her words, and said: "I already understand why you came. You should also understand now, my father doesn't care about the attitude of the king's capital, and he doesn't miss you You want to live, it doesn't matter why you want to live, it doesn't matter whether you are a spy or not, you have to let my father think you have the value of living."

Chen Qi's ruthlessness is also rare, Yan Zuan thought that he had a one-night love with him, not to mention being favored and served as a servant, at least he could survive, right?Unexpectedly, Chen Qi ordered her to be cut into pieces without batting an eye.

——It was not a joke, nor was it a threat, it was a real punishment for her!

Thinking of her arm with only bones left, Zuan still felt an unimaginable fear and coldness, and she didn't even dare to think about everything she saw.No one can survive such torture without trembling.

"My lord sent me to Chen, and Jun Chen's goal is to capture the capital. In this way, I and Jun Chen have the same goal." Zuan handed the conversation into Xie Qinghe's hands, "Young Master thought that I could help Chen Jun What are you doing at home?"