The Beloved in the Palm

Chapter 266 Doubt her origins

When King Xuan's army marched to Bancheng, it was because of the uncomfortable weather that it was difficult to move forward.

Fang Chengzhong stood in front of King Xuan in shame and said: "My subordinates and others are really unlucky. I have been sick a lot these days, but I was unable to help His Highness conquer the royal capital in one go!"

King Xuan didn't care much and said calmly: "We shouldn't have gone to the royal capital."

Fang Chengzhong was puzzled: "Your Highness, why is this? If we attack his royal capital, wouldn't it better demonstrate the power of our Liang Dynasty?"

"The Meng people are brave and not afraid of death, and countless slaves risked their lives to do so. Now they are afraid of my reputation and have lost the will to fight. But if they attack the royal capital..."

Fang Chengzhong understood: "That is their last stronghold, and it will naturally arouse their desperate resistance. It will help the Mon people to unite as one. This is not a good thing."

King Xuan outlined human nature in a calm tone: "If you beat them hard, but they still have a breath of breathing, they will rush to surrender in order to survive. If you push them into a desperate situation with no way out, they will resist. That’s how human nature has been since ancient times.”

King Xuan paused and said, "It's not worth losing our soldiers for these people."

"Then according to His Highness's wishes..."

"The Mon clan's peace request will be sent to the capital soon."

Fang Chengzhong pressed his tense head and said, "It's okay to take a rest. But the Mon king..."

Fang Chengzhong thought to himself that this man is cowardly and covets our princess.

King Xuan said casually: "Didn't he say that this king is just relying on someone who is older than him?"

Fang Chengzhong thought to himself...His Highness really does hold a grudge!

Wait for him to grow up for another two years and completely trample his self-esteem to pieces. Let him know that even if he has another ten or twenty years, he will always be defeated.

As King Xuan said, the peace letter was quickly sent out from the Mon people.

They didn't know that King Xuan's soldiers were not adapted to the local climate and had already made many people sick.

I saw King Xuan's army entrenched in Bancheng, as if they were only one step away from the royal capital...

Then he thought that King Xuan stopped here, probably just waiting for them to beg for mercy.

So what are you waiting for?

If you endure the humiliation today, you can stand up for yourself tomorrow!

At that time, the funeral ceremony for King Wei had just been held in Beijing.

The chamberlain opened the door, and Emperor Liang De stepped into a room.

There was a person lying on the bed in the house, who looked dead at first glance.

Emperor Liang De stopped beside his bed, lowered his eyes and said nothing.

But the person on the bed struggled to sit up. Even after so long, his face was still pale and breathless.

It was He Songning.

"You finally came to see me..." He Songning lowered his head and said.

"I am also doing it for your own good." Emperor Liang De's tone was slightly cold, "You are hard to escape from the death of King Wei. If you continue to recover from your injuries for another half a year, naturally no one will notice your fault anymore."

He Songning responded: "Yes. General Hou's place..."

"You said that Hou Qiyun took care of you a lot on your way back to Beijing, so you wanted to plead for him. But he failed in command and used the troops improperly. It is difficult to escape the blame. I have dismissed him from his official position and spared the lives of his family."

He Songning thought it was a pity.

He wanted to protect Hou Qiyun, of course because he had some influence in the army.

If we want to confront King Xuan in the future, such people are absolutely indispensable.

The emperor might also know this, so he simply took the opportunity to cut off his thoughts... What kind of father and son... He Songning suppressed the coldness in his heart.

At this time, Emperor Liang De's voice sounded again: "You treat Hou Qiyun like this, but how can you be so cruel to the King of Wei?"

"It's different... Hou Qiyun is the one who takes care of me. He protects my life and is considered my benefactor. King Wei... I have said that I am jealous of him and hate him. He has the Xu family to plan carefully for him, and Concubine Wan to do it for him. After working hard, His Majesty favored him, and the literati in Beijing Support him, and have countless beauties in his house... But even so, he still covets my sister. He has never cherished everything he has. He has no idea that he can legitimately call your majesty his father. Emperor, what a joyful thing it is.”

As He Songning spoke, he grabbed the bedpost tightly. The hatred in his eyes was extremely real, especially when he said the last sentence, he gritted his teeth.

Emperor Liang De's eyes moved slightly, and he sat down opposite him and asked, "You should have known a long time ago that you and Xue Qingyin are not brothers and sisters, right?"

He Songning lowered his head and said, "Yes."

"Why are you still angry for her?" Liang Dedi paused, "And I remember that you are closer to the concubine of the Xue family."

He Songning couldn't explain how he felt in his heart.

Emperor Liang De had been watching him, but never thought of recognizing him from the beginning to the end.

He looked at him but ignored him.

He Songning moved his lips: "Her mother died, and her maternal family also hid in another place like the plague. I just... think she looks a bit like me."

He Songning said, and he suddenly realized.

yes.

When he looked at Xue Qinghe, he was just looking at the other side of himself.

The person he sympathized with was not Xue Qinghe, but the epitome of himself.

How can it be considered a liking?

Emperor Liang De raised his eyebrows: "Are you blaming me for handing you over to the Xue family to raise?"

"No. I want to be able to recognize my biological father as a matter of course, but I don't have any resentment towards His Majesty. I know that was the best choice His Majesty could make at that time. My biological mother is gone, if she really stayed in the palace at that time "Concubine Wan will regard me as a thorn in her side. Maybe I won't grow up at all..."

Emperor Liang De did not speak.

What Concubine Wan hated most was actually King Xuan.

But he and the Queen Mother really wanted to protect them, so how could they not protect them?

But he didn't say these words to He Songning.

It's good for He Songning to think so.

Emperor Liang De stood up and sighed: "You killed one of my sons. I should hate your cruelty. But I am ashamed of you for doing it first... that's all."

Emperor Liang De turned around and walked out.

But He Songning knew that this level had been passed completely.

That day when Emperor Liang De scolded him, he went crazy and kowtowed several times, with blood all over his face.

He spoke of his jealousy.

Talking about his desire for his biological father.

Speaking of thinking that the Emperor had disposed of the Xu family, the King of Wei would have a grudge against the Emperor, so he would kill the King of Wei...

He was like a crazy child, longing for his father's love.

Then he fell over and fainted.

In the end... his bet succeeded.

King Xuan left the capital.

Maybe he will become the new sword in Emperor Liang De's hand...

And he is more trustworthy than King Xuan.

He has no military power, he has no maternal clan, all he has is yearning for his biological father. That crazy desire allows him to maintain the highest "loyalty".

How could his father, the emperor of the Liang Dynasty, not be moved?

Some time passed in the blink of an eye.

He Songning's health has improved a lot and he can already step out of the yard.

He couldn't wait to see Xu Zhi first, made Xu Zhi happy and brought many gifts. This made Xu Zhi burst into tears. She felt sorry for him for being injured, but at the same time she was touched that he had changed a lot and became more sensible.

Wait for He Songning to leave.

Xu Zhicai turned around and asked someone to grind ink and prepare paper.

After changing hands, I wrote to Xue Qingyin in a letter, your eldest brother has changed a lot recently for some reason, he is considerate, and he is so enthusiastic that even calling him mother is a bit overwhelming...

"Sure enough, he's not dead." Xue Qingyin got the message and couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth twice.

She picked up a pen to expose the true face of He Songning, but as soon as she finished writing two words, she crumpled it into a ball and threw it away.

Her mother's temper...sometimes, really, she lacks some brains.

It's not a good thing to face He Songning directly.

Xue Qingyin lowered her eyes and read the contents of the letter again, saying that He Songning was injured and still remembered buying something for her mother...

That's fine.

She knew that He Songning wanted to "get better" now.

Maybe he finally knew how precious Xu Zhi's love was.

Then let him pay.

After he tried his best, he finally had something to look forward to, built a new hope... and then destroyed it.

Now these days of being attentive to Xu Zhi can be regarded as repaying his debt over the years.

Xue Qingyin lit the crumpled paper and put it into the iron box beside it.

At this time the big tent was raised and King Xuan walked in.

Xue Qingyin hurriedly asked: "Can we leave today?"

"The ceremony will be held tomorrow." King Xuan said solemnly.

The so-called ceremony... is a banquet where the Meng people surrendered and treated King Xuan as the guest of honor, indicating their surrender to Daliang.

Xue Qingyin nodded, thinking of the question that day that she had yet to find an answer to.

In King Xuan's heart...am I not fond of him enough?

As she was thinking about it, she couldn't help but look up at King Xuan with bright eyes. She whispered, "Do you want to try the tricks I learned from Qiao Xinyu?"

...try it?

King Xuan paused and his eyes moved.

Try a honey trap on him?

King Xuan's throat rolled: "...Okay."

Xue Qingyin stepped forward, jumped into his arms, and wrapped her legs tightly around his waist.

"...Why do you have no concentration at all?" Xue Qingyin stared.

This beauty trap has just begun.

The man's weapons reacted.

King Xuan: "..."

He felt that Xue Qingyin was here to torture him today.

The other side.

He Songning was finally called into the palace again.

Wu Shaojian stood aside making tea, and at Emperor Liang De's signal, he even gave him a cup.

"This is the tea served at Xue Qingyin's village..." Liang Dedi paused, "Looking at you like this, it seems like it's your first time drinking it?"

He Songning responded: "Yes."

"It seems like Xue Qingyin doesn't like you very much."

"Yes, I treated her badly before and offended her."

"Well, she is a little vindictive." Liang Dedi said, some thoughts quickly passed through his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Then why do you think of being nice to her now?" Liang Dedi asked as if he was confused.

"When I was young and ignorant, I could only see the pain in my own body. Now I can see the preciousness in others." He Songning said.

Liang Dedi smiled and said: "Oh, you have grown up."

He Songning knew that Emperor Liang De was the only one who had a preference for Xue Qingyin among the royal wives.

And every time he dreams back at midnight, what comes to mind is not Xue Qingyin?

Sometimes it was the way she watched him waving the knife coldly, and sometimes it was the way she carefully pulled his sleeve at the Xue family in the past.

He Songning deliberately mentioned Xue Qingyin to Emperor Liang De.

It seems that by "caring" about a person together, an invisible bridge will be built...

"Fan Zhisu...is it also from Qingyin Zhuangzi?" He Songning's eyes fell on the table not far away.

Emperor Liang De said: "No, this is from Shangshi Bureau."

He Songning paused and said, "Qingyin likes this thing."

Liang Dedi gave him a strange look.

Wu Shaojian on the side laughed and said: "Mr. Xue, did you remember it wrong? Princess Xuan didn't like this. She felt that the layer of sugar sprinkled on top was too greasy. When she came back to the palace to have dinner, she was asked to leave."

Emperor Liang De said: "You are really not close enough to her."

He Songning instinctively defended: "Qingyin has been fond of... since she was a child..."

No.

How long has it been since this thing appeared on the Xue family's table?

He didn't know because Xue Qingyin rarely ate at the same table with them anymore.

When did it start?

Did Xue Chengdong start talking about marrying her?

He Songning couldn't remember clearly.

"No wonder she doesn't like you." Liang Dedi said.

He Songning pursed his lower lip and said, "I don't know how Qingyin made this tea...it's completely different from the ones on the market. I really don't know her very well."

He Songning paused for a moment and then said: "She loved to eat fish and shrimps when she was young..."

Wu Shaojian answered: "I don't like to eat it anymore. I said you should never bring any raw food to her, because she is afraid of getting worms in her stomach."

"A lot has actually changed. When she was a child, she was still afraid of thunder and lightning..."

"I don't seem to be that scared now. I must have grown up, so it's different."

Human character can be disguised.

But what about one’s taste? What about other customary details?

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