Raise an emperor as a villain

But Lu Hengxiu went to see Ming Jue on a rainy night, and in the end he didn't have a fit in the middle of the night, but passed the night peacefully.Yingshun was very puzzled by this. He really didn't expect that such a truth could not make Lu Hengxiu miscalculate, which is really a pity and hateful.

But although Lu Hengxiu didn't get angry right away, at least the suspicion and rift in his heart were actually deepened, murderous, and as long as there was a gap in his heart, wouldn't he be afraid that there would be no opportunity to take advantage of it in the future?

Yingshun continued to think about her plan, and waited for Ming Jue to wash up.

"I'm going to court and you don't want to wake him up." Ming Jue looked at Lu Hengxiu who was still sleeping soundly, and left with a command before striding away.

"Be gentle with your hands and feet, have you heard the emperor's order?" Yingshun emphasized again, and followed Ming Jue to leave.

After Ming Jue left the harem, the people lowered the blackout curtains again, and for a while the quiet and dim light returned to the room.Lu Hengxiu suddenly opened his eyes at the moment when the palace people retreated to close the door.

In fact, he woke up when Mingjue got up, but he just pretended to be asleep.He ran over impulsively yesterday, but lay beside Ming Jue but didn't fall asleep all night, and finally couldn't hold back to sleep for a while until early in the morning.

Listening to the sound of rain in the middle of last night, he chewed those cruel truths over and over again like a cud.There are many things in this world that you cannot understand but must accept.Fate made him go through ups and downs and tortured, and fate also gave him the opportunity to make him reach the top. Fate has never been unfair.

In fact, it doesn't matter what is predestined by God, the final result is made by the people who are in it, step by step, with every choice.

He was not destined to come to Mingjue's side, nor was he appointed by heaven to assist Mingjue. To put it bluntly, he was just a pawn that the Empress Dowager used conveniently.

However, it is useless to entangle with these things now, whether there are injustices or guilt, they have all been turned into a piece of loess under the spring.The important thing is how the living should live. Hong Liao explained to himself that Jue already knew the whole story of the Lu family's extermination, in order to compensate him for guessing that he was favored.

At first hearing, Lu Hengxiu was indeed a little shaken, but it was just that he lost his mind under the huge shock.He and Mingjue have been together for so many years, if Mingjue can't believe his affection for him, then what else can he trust?

Lu Hengxiu is a smart person, he will not let go of his hatred easily, but he will not be blinded by hatred, nor will he be easily calculated by people with ulterior motives.He still wants to live a good life, make plans for himself, and restore the lintel for the Lu family.

In the past, he was really "a heart of ice in the jade pot" towards Ming Jue, but now he jumped out and thought about it, why should he do it?Mingjue is no longer a puppet prince surrounded by tigers and wolves in the dark and deep palace. He is now the Ninth Five-Year Lord who controls the power of the world. How meaningful is it to pay him all the time?

Now he has no shortage of people who are willing to give their blood and even their lives for him, so if he only knows how to give without asking for anything in return, he is the most stupid person in the world.

It's not that he doesn't love his king anymore, it's just that he understands how to love a king is the right way. There should always be one time in life to live for himself. He spent the first half of his life living for the expectations and ideals of others. Struggling and working hard, then it's time to live for yourself now.

No one knew what kind of struggles Lu Hengxiu, the chief assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, experienced in that rainy night, and what decisions he made that changed the trajectory of his life and even the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

After the early court, Lu Hengxiu waited on Ming Jue to approve the memorial in Qinzheng Hall, and brought up the matter of Hong Liao when Ming Jue closed his eyes to rest.

"Your Majesty, I went to the East Palace to give lectures a few days ago. I heard from the palace people that Miss Hong Liao, the first lady of the empress's side, often visits the East Palace, but she has never had the chance to meet the crown prince."

"What?! How dare that lowly servant girl?" Ming Jue suddenly opened his eyes, "Jane, don't worry, I'll ask someone to deal with her right away."

"Wait a minute, I don't mean that. I just want to plead for Miss Hong Liao and ask the emperor to let her go out of the palace."

"Hmph, why are you pleading for her?"

"After all, she is the most important court lady beside the first empress. For the sake of the first empress..."

Ming Jue waved his hands when he heard the words, and said angrily, "If it wasn't for the empress's sake, she would have died long ago, and her master is dead and she still can't live comfortably. What is this if it's not seeking death?"

"Actually, it's all right to be the first queen. The main reason is that His Royal Highness is early and sentimental. If you let him know that the emperor treats the old people in the queen's palace leniently, it will also help cultivate the relationship between the father and son of the Tian family. Besides, Hong Liao is in the palace. What's the use, if she does something crazy with resentment in her heart, it will not be worth the loss."

After hearing Lu Hengxiu's analysis, Ming Jue was not angry when he saw that what he said was for the prince's sake. He pondered for a moment and agreed to Lu Hengxiu's request.Then, under the urging of Lu Hengxiu, he immediately wrote a handwritten letter and personally ordered Yingshun to declare the decree.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

"You!" Ming Jue sighed helplessly, "You always think of others in everything you do, and you don't even know how to think about yourself. In the early years, she used to gossip in front of the queen, so you don't blame her at all?"

"Who said that the minister will not think about himself? If the minister is tolerant and magnanimous, he will win the favor of the emperor. Isn't this the selfishness of the minister? Besides, if a person has been unwilling to let go of the past hatred, isn't it like carrying a heavy burden?" It’s the same as moving forward, how can you go for a long time.”

"That's right, that's right, that's right, my simplicity is comparable to ordinary people, I shouldn't use ordinary people's thinking to judge you." Ming Jue didn't know the cause and effect, so naturally he couldn't hear the meaning of Lu Hengxiu's words. But in line with the idea of ​​"Jane is right", he still praised Lu Hengxiu.

"The emperor has won the award."

After receiving the imperial edict, Yingshun took two young eunuchs to the clothing bureau, only to find that Hong Liao was dead, the body was swept up with a piece of broken grass, and it was still lying in the corner, waiting Someone came and pulled it out and threw it away.

"When did it happen?" Yingshun asked while standing far away from the corpse.He looked at Hong Liao's stiff body, and recalled what happened yesterday in his mind. The silly woman had done the work for him, and came to claim the credit with a proud face.He promised her that he would transfer her to leave the Clothes Bureau tomorrow, and she left happily.What an idiot, actually thought that she knew so much that she would be safe and sound, but she didn't learn any scheming in this deep palace for more than ten years.

"Back to the chief manager, what happened last night, she didn't know where to go to wander yesterday, and she came back at night, her clothes were soaked, and she died in the middle of the night, maybe she was infected with the wind and cold." The manager hurried out explain. "I don't know that you came to the Clothes Bureau and asked what happened to her?"

It is very common for a young palace maid to die in the Huanyi Bureau, but there is no reason to alarm the big eunuchs like Yingshun to come to check in person, but this Hong Liao served the former queen, so some special treatment may not be guaranteed.Mammy was thinking in her heart, and asked with a smile on her face.

"It's nothing, it's a pity, the emperor thought of her this morning, and issued a letter to let her out of the palace. Who would have thought that she died the day before, it's really hard life."

When the nanny in charge heard this, she felt a little bit sad, and she said a few words along with her, "It turns out that this is the case, God's grace is so great, it can be seen that she is not blessed to accept it."

"The emperor named her to let her go out of the palace, and appointed our family to handle the matter, but now she is dead, how do you ask our family to explain to the emperor?" Yingshun put away his sad look, and stared at her with a frown. asked the steward.

"This... this...," the nanny in charge took two steps back in fright, "it's really no wonder the maidservant, the Clothes Bureau does the hardest hard work, and it's possible that she can't stand it because of her pampering. There is no way to ask the imperial doctor for the illness, so if you die after a long time, can you blame others?"

"Oh~" Yingshun elongated her tone, "Then what illness did she suffer from, and when did it start? Mother should explain carefully, our family has to go back to answer the emperor."

"This..." The nanny in charge is in trouble again. How can she have time to care about the life and death of these lowly little maidservants, let alone illness or something, but seeing that if she can't be ugly today, the boss will not care. I will let myself go, so I can only make it up.

"She was infected with wind and cold in autumn, and she has been coughing and having a high fever. She has no money to buy medicine, so she can only find some old herbs with bad medicinal properties according to folk prescriptions, so she has not been very good. But the work of the clothing bureau cannot Delay, maybe she was sick and tired, and it rained heavily yesterday, so that's why she died." The nurse in charge dodged her eyes and finally made up the whole story.

"What you said, can someone testify, for example, the people who live with her should know that she is sick."

"Yes, yes, Qiuli, you live with Hong Liao, tell me." The nanny winked at Qiuli while taking the roll call.

"Reporting to the Chief Manager, the servant did know about Hong Liao's illness, and the servant testified on behalf of the mother."

"In this case, then you go with our family and explain the truth to the emperor."

"Me?" Qiu Li was surprised and delighted when she heard that, she had been in the Clothes Bureau all her life, and she had never been to Chengqian Palace, let alone met the Holy One.

"Yeah, what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and follow."

Yingshun took Qiuli back to Chengqian Palace, and told Ming Jue everything, while Lu Hengxiu was also listening.

"This is really unfortunate. Since the person is dead, he is considered clean. Let's send a coffin and bury him."

"Yes." Yingshun agreed calmly.

His rhetoric was seamless and in line with common sense, so Ming Jue didn't doubt it at all, but Lu Hengxiu didn't believe a word of it.

He had only seen Hong Liao yesterday, she was indeed haggard a lot, but she didn't look like she was suffering from a long illness, the only possibility was that she knew something she shouldn't know and was silenced.

Lu Hengxiu looked over and met Yingshun's eyes. There was a trace of sarcasm in Yingshun's eyes, although it was fleeting, Lu Hengxiu caught it.

"Very well, even if Yingshun wasn't the one who killed Hong Liao, it still has something to do with it. What's more, Yingshun's current performance has completely given up on hypocrisy and obedience. Are you going to fight me head-on? That's okay, I'm tired of it anyway. If you don't pretend, Changping's revenge will be avenged sooner or later, and Yingshun will have to get rid of him." Lu Hengxiu thought.

"In short, it's not that I refuse to be merciful."

"I understand that the emperor's heart is kind."