I was a princess in ancient times

Yu Heng's eyes lingered for a moment longer on the spot where the 'rain' was falling in front of his toes, and his tone was almost the same as before, "Where did he go?"

Qingzhu's choking stopped abruptly, and her completely bent back trembled uncontrollably.

At the same time, Ji Xinxue, who was still sleeping peacefully on the bed, woke up without warning.

He couldn't help but pay attention to the brocade quilt that fell to the ground because of the sudden movement of sitting up.Both hands unconsciously pressed on the place where the chest was beating violently, and the eyes were full of indelible pain and confusion.

...It seems like I had a dream and lost something very important.

It's a pity that this dream came and went quickly, and before it had time to leave a definite trace in his mind, it had already flowed to the limbs and bones with the blood that stagnated in his heart, and he had completely returned to calm.

So much so that Ji Xinxue finally realized that when the person who walked up to him at some point and hugged him tightly, there was only deep blankness in his eyes, and he said instinctively, "Don't cry, I'm here."

Yu Heng didn't cry, and his eyes weren't even red, but his voice was lower than usual, and his words were denser.

"he's gone."

"The last time he broke into the ghost gate, he should have left. I was not reconciled, nor was my grandfather, and he was even more reconciled when he opened his eyes again...so he has been entangled until now."

Speaking of this, Yu Heng's throat suddenly burst into breath, like a gasp, and like a chuckle.

He felt the not-so-thin shoulders in his arms trembling, and there was moisture in his neck that didn't belong to him.

Inevitably, Ji Xinxue cried even harder, Yu Heng could only swallow the "unwillingness" of three generations, speculated that Qi's blood contained some inherent hidden diseases, and said something reassuring to Ji Xinxue.

"Yesterday, he suddenly became willing."

"In my memory, I have never seen him smile so happily."

It's a pity that his happiness stems from giving up, not letting go.

No, not a pity.

This is Qi Boxuan's long-awaited ending.

The scale of Qi Boxuan's funeral was extremely small, even far inferior to that of the British Duke and Duchess not long ago.

Only a few people know that there is an empty coffin in the mourning hall of the British government.

Yu Heng kept his promise, and still asked Qingzhu and Zizhu to pick up Qi Baixuan to Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, and stay for seven days.

According to Qi Boxuan's last wish, his body was cremated.

Compared with whether there is his son's body in the mourning hall specially set up in the main courtyard, the British Duke is more concerned about how Yu Heng helps the family to tide over the difficulties.

When hearing the news of Qi Boxuan's death in the middle of the night, the Duke of England's first reaction was pity, and then anger.

When Qi Boxuan half-stepped out of the gate of hell, the people in the Tai Hospital said that if Qi Boxuan was willing to take good care of his illness, he would have at least half a year to a year and a half to live. If he was lucky, he might even prolong his life by three to five years.

It has only been less than half a year now, and Qi Boxuan's Ping'an pulse has not shown any abnormalities, and unexpectedly died suddenly without warning due to eating a large amount of cinnabar.

The British public can only come first for one reason.

Qi Baixuan suddenly knew the role of the county king's gold seal and the scriptures during the day, unable to face the reality, he chose to commit suicide.

The British official admitted that he specially reminded Yu Heng to visit Qi Boxuan before leaving the British official residence, which really meant to let Yu Heng use Qi Boxuan to calm down.

Feng Lang is young and vigorous, holding a lot of power, so his temper is inevitably stronger than others.

The sooner he vented his temper, the sooner he could forgive Qi Boxuan.

After all, the time left for Qi Boxuan is getting less and less, every time Yu Heng is persuaded to agree to the family's request, it will have a huge impact on the family.

However, the British public never expected that Qi Boxuan would be so worthless.

As long as you think that Qi Boxuan's life was exchanged for the life of the British wife, and Qi Boxuan still doesn't know how to cherish it, the British Duke can't control the increasingly violent tyranny in his heart.

The ungrateful white-eyed wolf dared to give up his responsibilities as a son of an aristocratic family so easily.

He wanted to shave off every bone of Qi Boxuan and feed it to the dogs.

After all, the British Duke resisted the idea, at the cost of deformed tailbones in his left and right hands.

Although the dead Qi Boxuan has no use value, but Yu Heng still has.

If the aristocratic family can successfully survive this unprecedented crisis, Yu Heng will become a key figure in determining whether the aristocratic family can still thrive.

So the British prince sat quietly for two hours, thinking hard, how to prove to Yu Heng that Qi Boxuan's death was purely a personal act and had nothing to do with the British government.

The British government did not try to force Qi Boxuan just because they wanted to further manipulate Yu Heng.He never had the stupid idea of ​​killing Yu Heng's behavior of "collaborating with the enemy and treason" in a way of silence.

Of course, Yu Heng believed that all the aristocratic families, including the British government, did not want Qi Boxuan to die.

In the minds of these people, he is a beast, and Qi Boxuan is the reins to hold the beast.

How could they be willing to break such a useful tool suddenly?

But Yu Heng likes to see the aggrieved look of the aristocratic family flustered, knocking out teeth and swallowing blood.

Taking advantage of the family's eagerness to make amends, he easily got the British government to willingly send the empty coffin to the Qi family's ancestral grave, never daring to mention the hope that Qi Boxuan would be buried in the imperial tomb with Yu Yu.

On the day of the burial, gongs and drums were beating on the Qi family's ancestral grave. Burying an empty coffin was more lively than getting married.

In the unknown Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, there were only a few people surrounding the person lying in the haystack.

It has been [-] days since he died, and the smell can be imagined. Just from the appearance, it is already a lump that has no half resemblance to Qi Baixuan.

Yu Heng personally raised the torch and threw it on Qi Boxuan's body. The oiled dry grass immediately burst into flames half a meter high, completely illuminating his dark eyes.

Silently, Ji Xinxue grasped the hand that was holding Yu Heng's ten fingers, and felt pure kindness towards Qi Boxuan for the first time.

Let's go, don't look back.

No. 15 days of Qi Baixuan's death.

The desperation that originally belonged to the aristocratic family has turned into a desperation for the remnants of the previous dynasty without warning.

Suiwang's tribe joined forces with the Guannei army to bypass the Rouran royal court and surprise the Mingwang's tribe, beheading Mingwang on the spot. A total of 120 remnants of the former dynasty were executed.

The grasslands, cattle and sheep, and non-Yu slaves of the Ming Wang tribe, a total of 2000 people, belonged to the Sui Wang, and all the old Rouran captives belonged to the Guannei army. The Sui Wang tribe had the highest priority of redemption. Exempt from the war tax that the Suiwang tribe needs to pay within five years.

Sui Wang was very satisfied with this result.

The unsightly things were finally completely destroyed, and the long-coveted dark guard training method was found from King Ming's tent, and by the way, he made friends with Yu Chao, and saved a lot of gold and silver when buying Yu Chao's products.

Emperor Changping was also satisfied with the result.

The confidant's troubles that had troubled the Yu Dynasty for nearly a hundred years were almost uprooted, and they could no longer pose a threat to the Yu Dynasty.Not only did he feel at ease, but the courtiers became much more peaceful.

The only person who is dissatisfied seems to be the new King Rouran.

It was just a nap, and his number one confidant, Sui Wang, who was so on guard and had to make friends with him, colluded with Yu Chao.With a war speed unimaginable by ordinary people, he took down the King Ming's tribe that was attached to him.

From then on, the order of the royal court could no longer be successfully conveyed to the Suiwang tribe.

The old and new Rouran, who had not ruled the grassland for more than a whole year, officially separated.

The aristocratic family stepped on the limit time and relied on Yu Heng to solve the threat of the remnants of the previous dynasty. Before they had time to be happy, they were thrown into the next abyss by Yu Heng's questioning.

From January to August, for more than half a year, the courtiers' investigation of the small official's family has come to an end.

The evils that the aristocratic family has done, such as collaborating with the enemy, treason, and using power for personal gain... are countless, and all of them are hard evidence.

Even if they escaped from King Ming's threat, they would still be finished.

Yu Heng looked through the documents that Ji Xinxue had already approved in turn, picked two and put them in his sleeve pockets, and went to the family's banquet.

Ever since Qi Boxuan passed away, Yu Heng never returned to the British government.When I have to meet with the heads of aristocratic families, most of them are in the Biezhuang on the outskirts of Beijing.

This time is no exception.

Two instruments.

One is a confession by the family of a small official surnamed Li.Cui used their hands to publicly sell officials in the last years of Yanguang, conniving at people with suspicious identities to buy officials with large sums of money, and suggesting that they falsified when recording people with suspicious identities.

One is the confession of the small official family of the household department. Zheng's privately made a pass by the small official family of the user department, and sent a large amount of iron ore to northern Xinjiang in the name of cloth.

Yu Heng slammed the two documents into the old faces of Grand Master Cui and Patriarch Zheng, his voice lowered, roaring like a beast, "Is this a good thing you guys did?!"

The first matter can still be controlled, only Cui Shi is involved.

The second incident is suspected of secretly transporting iron ore and illegally buying and selling iron ore for profit.

The document slapped on the cheek, making a very loud sound.

This is no less than a humiliation to Grand Master Cui and the head of the Zheng family.

They were not in the mood to argue with Yu Heng about etiquette.

Before seeing these two documents with their own eyes, they were only flustered by the decision of the imperial court to suspend the investigation of the small official's family suddenly and strictly guard against leaking any news.

It wasn't until this moment that they really realized the seriousness of the matter.

There seems to be no difference between being planted in the hands of the remnants of the previous dynasty and being planted in the hands of a small official family?

Yu Heng had a panoramic view of everyone's faces, then flung his sleeves and left.

Then use five days to continue to play 'play house' with the old patriarchs who are nearly seventy years old.

The family begged him to find a way to help them through the crisis of the Xiaoli family.

Yu Heng refused.

The aristocratic family repeated their tricks, and threatened Yu Heng with a personal letter and the county king's golden seal.Claiming that if Yu Heng doesn't help them, they will accuse Yu Heng of collaborating with the enemy and traitor at any cost.

Yu Heng resisted.

failure.

Reluctant to compromise.

Negative sabotage for half a month.

The "wisdom eye" of the family saw through Yu Heng's delay and adopted a new method of urging.

Suddenly, the authentic work of the King of Xianglin, a seven-character poem about looking at the moon at night, suddenly spread among the people.

This poem was circulated successively from dozens of courtiers in just a few days.

No one could recognize that the handwriting with a very personal and distinctive style was not written by Yu Heng himself.No one would doubt that the imprint of the county king in the lower right corner is fake.

The courtiers just laughed and joked with Yu Heng, whether they were too drunk to drink too much, and then they did Meng Lang's behavior of stamping the county king's golden seal on a small poem written by hand.

This is a blatant threat from the family.

If Yu Heng procrastinated any longer, what the courtiers circulated would not be small poems, but evidence of Yu Heng collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, and colluding with the remnants of the previous dynasty.

Seeing the arrogance of the family, Ji Xinxue developed two blisters at the corners of her mouth the next day, and was so angry that she chewed ice cubes like rock candy.

Yu Heng couldn't persuade Ji Xinxue, so in order to make Ji Xinxue eat less ice, he had to fight with him.

After another five days, Yu Heng went to the banquet held by the heads of the aristocratic family with a straight face, his red and swollen lips were in stark contrast to his cold eyebrows and tight jawline.No matter how you look at it, how weird it is.