A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

She spoke very clearly, explaining the profound things in simple terms.

Gao Yanzong was enlightened by her last words, but he refused to admit it. He only glanced at her angrily and said indifferently.

"As you guessed, Xiao Ye's appearance in the brothel was to inform me that the jade seal snatched away by the Xiao family is now in the hands of Empress Huaxu."

Yuan Wuyou couldn't help but tilt his head and raise his eyebrows, "Huh?"

These things surprised her, but they made sense.

"Before I came in to rescue you, there were so many people surrounding you. How did you two communicate the code words?"

Gao Yanzong said truthfully:

"Those letters in Sister Kiln's hand are not entirely mine... about what happened between me and Lu Lingxuan, I saw the sentence written in Xiao Ye's handwriting, so I pretended to go crazy and tore up the letter paper."

After hearing these words, Yuan Wuyou couldn't tell how she felt. She felt that she should be sad, but maybe she had been hurt by him too many times recently, so she felt a little relieved at this moment.

She shook her head and sighed,

"It turns out that Xiao Ye has always been loyal to you and has never rebelled. Only such a subordinate deserves to be called a confidant. I am so envious."

Facing her strange compliment, Gao Yanzong raised his eyelashes slightly and raised the brocade bag containing the jade seal in his hand.

"I envy you even more. That Zhou Guo's confidant could actually steal the jade seal to you and delay your trip to find your fourth brother?"

He pretended to think, tilting his head and looking away. "Let me guess, who is your confidant?"

Yuan Wuyou stared at his affected expression and couldn't help laughing.

"With your almost demonic brain, if you don't have the answer in your heart, you won't come in front of me to ask questions."

Gao Yanzong raised his eyebrows and narrowed his peach blossom eyes slightly.

"Oh, I just can't believe that a slave with a third surname, why should he be loyal to you? Is it the love of a young bird? Or is there some ulterior relationship between you two?"

After what he said, Yuan Wuyou felt a little calmer. She didn't intend to admit it, but her face remained as usual, and she tsked and said mockingly,

"Gao Yanzong, I deliberately hung the bag containing the jade seal to the public, and Wan Yuwuyu didn't wait for Wan Yuwuyu to bite the hook, so I caught you instead? I still think it's pitiful that you were forced into a beauty trap."

By this point, the two of them had already deviated from the original question.

The more Gao Yanzong looked at the black panther-like girl in front of him, the more he felt that he had looked down upon his sister-in-law and looked down upon his sister-in-law. How could someone from an imperial family be a good person?

Especially for such a powerful dog emperor, when faced with emotional choices, just ask, and no one will say anything when you ask.

He finally realized that he had misunderstood before. Her strategy had never been about the beauties of their Gao family, but the power of the Gao family!

Looking at the little empress in front of him, Gao Yanzong pursed his lips and sneered,

"I was worried at first that women who are too lustful will not achieve great things. Now it seems that I was overly worried. You, a very scheming person, originally wanted to reach out to Qi State through Fourth Brother, right?"

Gao Yanzong glanced at the jade seal in his hand, then looked up at the cold-faced Yuan Wuyou, and his tone became stern.

"While you two haven't cooked the rice yet, you should let Fourth Brother go from now on. This is my ultimatum to you!"

Yuan Wuyou raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

"Oh, threatening me? Gao Changgong is in my pocket. Even if you want to cut off your sleeves, you can't stop him."

Gao Yanzong bit his back teeth with hatred! "Fuck your motherfucker!"

His scolding made Yuan Wuyou furious, but when she saw the way he bared his little white teeth, she wasn't so angry anymore.

The man looked at his handsome face with soft features, bared his teeth and roared:

"Why is my fourth brother so miserable? He unexpectedly met you, a tyrant who robbed men! Why didn't you let him go? When we were on the Longmen warship, I should have let him kick you into the Yellow River and drown you! "

Before Gao Yanzong finished speaking, a thin hand seemed to be blown by the wind! Give him a big slap on the face!

There was a ringing in his ears for a moment, and he raised his hand to cover his burning cheeks in confusion, looking at the girl in black shirt in front of him in astonishment. Eyes full of disbelief. "You...actually hit me?"

Yuan Wuyou's amber phoenix eyes almost burst into flames. The hand that hit him was still raised in the air, with a rare stern expression on his face!

"You asked for this beating! Shouldn't you? Are you worthy of slandering our fate? You thought I was the one who forced him to marry you, but you didn't know that I was saving him from suffering! He was also the one who saved him from falling into the water. I, when I was young, I got married to him to repay my kindness, but now I am sincere to him, the love between a man and a woman."

Hearing her mention that year, Gao Yanzong felt something appeared in his mind, and then it was suddenly shattered.

He slowly lowered the hand covering his face, but just curled his lips and pursed his lips, which hurt half of his slightly swollen face, causing him to secretly "hiss..." in pain. On the originally white cheek, pink fingerprints were clearly visible.

The man's peach blossom eyes became deeper and colder, and he smiled coldly at the girl in front of him.

"This is the first time that my elder, Gao Yan, has been slapped in the face! Yuan Wuyou, in order to repay the kindness you received when you were a child, you think you are saving him from misery, so you have to get him regardless of what you did?"

Yuan Wuyou slightly twitched the corners of his lips, "It's not your turn to interfere with our affairs."

"Oh, you beat me for him and you don't allow me to question you? Ask your conscience! Is your obsession with Gao Changgong now because of repaying the kindness you made when you were a child, the promise of marriage, and by the way, you want to gain his influence? In the bag. Or do you still love him as a person?"

Yuan Wuyou scolded coldly,

"Enough! These things are our past, why should we distinguish them so clearly? Since you want the jade seal, let it stay with you. It's late at night, you quickly find a place to rest, and I'll look for the scenery."

After that, she turned around and walked into the woods without waiting for Gao Yanzong's next words.

Gao Yanzong was left alone, looking at the fire on the ground that was getting darker and almost extinguished.

He felt the numbness and pain on his face, and he raised his hand to touch it gently. His face felt hot and his heart felt sour.

"You actually... hit me?!"

——Thirteen years ago.

In Chang'an City in September, autumn is in full bloom.

Gao Yanzong was fourteen years old that year. As a royal family member of Qi State, together with his fourth brother Gao Changgong, he traveled thousands of miles from Yecheng to Chang'an to celebrate the fifth birthday of Empress Huaxu's only seedling.

Originally, based on his status, he could only show his face in front of Empress Huaxu at the state banquet. After all, his fourth brother Gao Changgong was involved in the situation, so the Qi envoys left him alone.

By chance, when Gao Yanzong was strolling in the garden of Weiyang Palace, he picked up a child splashing in the lotus pond. Before he could express his thanks, he was slandered by the powerful Zhou people who came over, saying that he had pushed His Highness away. The man who went into the water asked him which family he belonged to.

Gao Yanzong hurriedly reported Gao Changgong's name. The child who had vomited water finally woke up, defended him, and even praised him as "a beautiful person has a more beautiful name."