A traitor

In the morning of the second day, Mei Liusheng was full of joy, because his wish was finally fulfilled last night, his heart seemed to be filled with honey.

He watched Su Qinglang walking towards the hall, secretly thinking about what he should say later to cooperate with him in this play.

Su Qinglang came to the hall but didn't salute him, several ministers couldn't see it, stood up and reprimanded him: "Bold, why don't you salute after seeing the emperor?"

But Mei Liusheng stopped him with his hand. He looked at Su Qinglang with a smile in his eyes: "Su Qing is not feeling well, so you can avoid such common etiquette."

After a pause, he said again: "Su Qing must be here today for something?"

Su Qinglang stood in the hall and said calmly: "I'll come and fulfill the promise you made in the past."

As soon as the words fell, Pei Yan scolded: "Presumptuous, above the court, how can you allow you to bargain?"

However, his accusation was stopped by Mei Liusheng, who said to the ministers below: "On that day, I did have an agreement with Su Qing. As long as he eradicates Qin Jian's rebellious thieves, I will make him a promise."

Pei Yan is well aware of the relationship between Mei Liusheng and Su Qinglang, and after Pei Ying entered the palace, she was neglected in front of Shengjia, and she has been targeting Su Qinglang these days to protect her status, and now she suddenly appeared For a promise of some kind, Su Qinglang would propose unfavorable conditions for him, so he naturally spared no effort to stop it.

Therefore, before Su Qinglang opened his mouth to say what his conditions were, Pei Yan said again: "As a minister, eradicating evil is a matter of course. How can I ask the emperor for a reward?"

Since Mei Liusheng ascended the throne, he has been constrained by Pei Yan, and he has had enough of grinding with him. Seeing him jumping out to point fingers at this time, he feels even more disgusted in his heart.

With a sneer: "Pei Qing has this awareness, I am very relieved, but since I have made a promise, you have no jokes and cannot be changed. Could it be that Pei Qing wants me to break my trust in Su Qing and the world in front of everyone?"

Pei Yan hurriedly said: "I dare not."

Mei Liusheng narrowed his eyes and said solemnly: "If you don't dare, just listen to my decision. My court, my world, it's not up to others to decide."

Hearing his ruthless words, Pei Yan naturally didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only back down and leave the chance to speak to Su Qinglang.

At this time, Mei Liusheng looked at Su Qinglang again, and said: "What conditions does Su Qing have, you might as well say it, as long as the people of the country are not endangered, I will definitely agree."

I saw Su Qinglang standing in the hall, silent for a moment, then slowly said: "My minister... would like to marry the princess."

When these words came out, the room was filled with uproar, some were surprised, some were stunned, but more of them were outraged objections.

After all, Su Qinglang used to be Li Huiyuan's young master, no matter how young he was, the order of elder and younger was still there, if he married Li Huiyuan, wouldn't it mean that a student married a husband?

Amid a burst of objections, Mei Liusheng was startled, he didn't seem to understand what Su Qinglang said, so he asked again: "What did you say?"

Su Qinglang didn't change his face, and said in a calm and authentic tone: "My minister is willing to marry the princess, and I also ask the emperor to give her a marriage."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mei Liusheng immediately stood up, staring at Su Qinglang intently, almost gritted his teeth, and said, "Say it again!"

Su Qinglang raised his head, met Shangmei Liusheng's eyes, and said firmly: "I am willing to marry the princess, and I also ask the emperor to give me a marriage."

"you……"

Mei Liusheng was furious in his heart, and tightened his fingers tightly in his wide sleeves.

It was only now that he realized that he had fallen into Su Qinglang's trap, so gentle and sweet, he let him relax his vigilance, and then lured him into the trap he had already set.

He tried his best to calm down, and said coldly: "What if I refuse?"

The hall fell silent, everyone was watching the game between them, and no one dared to make another sound.

Then I heard Su Qinglang say: "Your Majesty, you are not joking."

His voice was very soft, but the hall was surprisingly quiet, so it seemed that his words were clear and powerful.For a moment, there was an undeniable, shocking feeling.

Mei Liusheng was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "Su Qing and the princess have a teacher-student friendship, this marriage is really inappropriate, I..."

He found the reason, and was about to consider the appropriate words, but he heard Su Qinglang say: "Your Majesty, you are not joking."

This one sentence blocked all of Mei Liusheng's excuses.

Mei Liusheng was speechless for a moment, knowing that Su Qinglang had made up his mind.However, he really couldn't bear to let Su Qinglang go and marry another woman.

So, finally said: "This is a big matter, I need to think about it carefully, and discuss this matter another day."

Saying that, without giving Su Qinglang a chance to react, he walked away.

In the imperial study room, Mei Liusheng's anger finally spilled out, and all the books and memorials fell, even the antique porcelain on the shelf was not spared, and was smashed to pieces by him.

Su Qinglang stepped in and saw seven or eight slaves kneeling in the corner of the hall, all trembling, not daring to comfort them.

Just when he was about to get close to Mei Liusheng, he suddenly heard a sharp sound of Jinge, Mei Liusheng pulled out the long sword in the room, and the tip of the sword touched Su Qinglang's neck.

Su Qinglang looked down, and then looked at Mei Liusheng: "This is your benevolent government?"

His life was hanging by a thread, but he was not afraid, and his tone was still calm: "Li Chengsi, I thought you would be a good emperor because of your good name in the past, so I let you go."

"I betrayed the emperor, betrayed my oath, let you go to the throne of the emperor, just want you to implement benevolent government, so that the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty will no longer be in dire straits, but now, look at yourself, I give up everything to get Yes, what did you give me in return?"

Mei Liusheng was ashamed by what he said, but he still clenched the hilt of his sword: "Why..."

He frowned, and his voice sounded a little sad: "Why did you lie to me?"

"What about you?" Su Qinglang looked directly at him, his face gradually turned cold: "Why did you lie to me?"

Facing Mei Liusheng's eyes, he said again: "The crown prince is dull and weak, he will not be your threat at all, why do you want to kill him, do you remember what you promised?"

Hearing the word "Prince", Mei Liusheng became even more flustered. He originally planned to release Li Huiyuan from the palace after a while when the court situation was stabilized, and then told Su Qinglang that the prince would go with him. Thinking of it, Su Qinglang already knew about this matter.

The sword fell to the ground with a clang, and he took a step forward: "Qinglang, listen to me..."

He spoke earnestly, as if the execution of the prince really made him so embarrassed: "I don't want to kill him, but he always scolds me and says that if he has the chance in the future, he will come back and kill me to avenge his father." ...

Qingming, in the past, I might not have bothered with him.But now, I'm the emperor, and if I say that, I can't keep him even if I want to. "

Hearing this, Su Qinglang smiled coldly: "The deceased is dead, I don't want to argue with you anymore, either agree to my conditions, or kill me now."

Seeing that he still persisted, Mei Liusheng said angrily, "Why do you have to leave?"

Stretching out his hand to grab his wrist, he said with all his strength: "I, Li Chengsi, consider myself ruthless and ungrateful, but I have never treated you badly..."

Su Qinglang was caught by him and had to look up at him. Seeing Mei Liusheng's angry and resentful expression, a mocking smile appeared on the corners of his lips, and he said slowly: "I, Su Qinglang, a man of eight feet, am not your deep palace How can the woman in the backyard allow you to insult me ​​like this?"

His words were resounding and hit Mei Liusheng's heart, making him shiver.

I heard Su Qinglang say again: "It was you who gave me hope, but later, you made me despair. Li Chengsi, between us, it was wrong from the very beginning. Since we were wrong, we can't make mistakes again and again. Do you want to keep me? Kill me over there, and when I turn into a corpse, I can't go anywhere. "

Mei Liusheng held his wrist tightly, staring at him with regret for a long time, then suddenly pushed him hard, turned around, and roared, "Go!"

He pointed sideways at the door of the study, paused, and then said slowly: "Let's go, don't come back."

Su Qinglang really left, together with Su Zheshan and his second wife, as for the princess who was about to become his wife, she met her lover as soon as she left the city gate.

On the outskirts of Chang'an City, Su Qinglang was sitting in the carriage. Because he contracted typhoid fever, he was not in good spirits and his face was slightly pale.

Li Huiyuan stood by the carriage, her eyes were red, she was very wronged: "Brother Qinglang..."

Su Qinglang leaned on the carriage and smiled slightly: "It's okay, the future will depend on you."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Yulang again. He had never seen this so-called princess's sweetheart before, but seeing him now, it was okay.

Moreover, Chen Yulang was willing to wait for so many days on the outskirts of the imperial city.Now, even if the princess is in trouble, he is willing to be by her side, and he should be sincere to her.

Thinking of this, Su Qinglang finally had some comfort in his heart and felt relieved.

Then I heard Li Huiyuan say: "That person, is he really going to let us go? No... someone came to kill us halfway, right?"

Su Qinglang coughed weakly a few times, and said, "No, since he asked you to leave, he won't act difficult anymore..."

After a pause, looking at Li Huiyuan's uneasy look, he was silent for a moment, then took out a folding fan from the carriage, handed it to her and said, "Put this thing away, and in the future, if someone really makes things difficult for you, you will take out this fan." Show him the folding fan, and after he has seen it, he knows what to do."

Li Huiyuan reached out to take it, and opened the folding fan in front of Su Qinglang. It was an ordinary folding fan, depending on the material of the wood.

It's the most common one on the market, but the painting on it is very unique, a grove of pink peach blossoms, with a pavilion half-hidden in between.

There are eight small characters in the letter "Danqing Yiying, as a gift to the king".

She turned around and looked around, obviously a little skeptical: "This... is it really okay?"

Su Qinglang coughed a few more times, then answered calmly: "It should be more than enough to save your lives."

Seeing Li Huiyuan still looking at his folding fan, Su Qinglang paused, and finally said: "You... do you know that the emperor and the crown prince..."

Li Huiyuan looked up at him, as if she had just thought of this, she nodded with slightly red eyes.

Seeing her appearance, Su Qinglang was stunned for a moment, and after a long time, he smiled wryly: "Let's go..."

Farewell to Li Huiyuan, the carriage moved forward slowly along the official road, seeing his second mother angry in the carriage, he smiled again: "Second mother, what's the matter?"

Liang was originally supposed to share a carriage with Su Zheshan, but seeing that Su Qinglang was ill, he was worried after all, so he accompanied him to take care of him.

Hearing this, he rolled his eyes at him angrily, and said, "I see that you have spent a lot of effort. In the end, saving such a person is really not worth it."

With a bitter expression, Su Qinglang leaned on the carriage and closed his eyes: "I promised the emperor that I would rescue their brothers and sisters, but the crown prince..."

As she spoke, her tone darkened a lot, and she murmured: "Whether it's a promise or a compensation, I will always rescue her."

Mrs. Liang sighed, and said angrily: "You are always like this, whether you should or not, you have to hug me, don't you feel tired?"

Su Qinglang opened his eyes, and said with a smile: "From now on, even if I want to take care of me, I can't take care of anything. Father has resigned and returned to his hometown, and I will no longer be in court. From now on, our family will return to my hometown." Live a stable life, and never teach Erniang to worry about it anymore."

Hearing this, Mrs. Liang was finally satisfied, and echoed, "That's right, Erniang has long wanted to go back. What's so good about that Chang'an that makes people sleepless all day long."

Hearing this, Su Qinglang smiled faintly again, he stopped talking, and headed in the direction of leaving Chang'an, never looking back.