A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 565 Taking the Ghost Mask to Ask for Credit

Others don't know, but Yuan Wuyou remembers it deeply. The "Xuanniao Yufei" in Xiangyang is a relic left to her by her mother and father, and it is also the only inheritance of her mother and father that she can easily get.

At this critical moment, he was invited to Yuwen Zhi's birthday banquet, but not even the news leaked out. What else could it be but the Hongmen Banquet?
Li Ming didn't know who she was talking about, so he had to comfort her.
"Can you calm down first? If it is really the Yuwen family that is trying to harm you..."

"Yes, I have to think about how to fight back."

Yuan Wuyou tried her best to suppress the emotions in her heart and sat back on the edge of the bed, but she missed the target and nearly fell to the ground... But Li Ming was quick to help her up, holding her shoulders and forcing his sister to sit firmly on the edge of the bed.

She took his thin wrist and held it, her eyes earnest.

"Brother, you have to help me run a trip..."

The boy did not struggle against her grip. He just lowered his eyes to glance at her hand on his wrist, then fixed his gaze on her face.

"Where should I go?"

...After a while, Yuan Wuyou looked at the letter in his hand, carefully checking whether there were any clues he had missed.

At this moment, a message suddenly came from outside the door: "The Emperor has arrived!"

The brother and sister were both startled and turned their heads to look. Yuan Wuyou secretly put the note into the lapel of his chest.

As the footsteps came, the Xianbei emperor in the lead, wearing a black robe and a jade mask, followed by two armored confidants.

"The door was not closed yet, and I came to see King Fengling without hesitation. Is King Fengling frightened?"

Yuan Wuyou stood up to greet them, "The Zhou army didn't capture the city, but they were frightened by you."

Yuwen Huaibi turned around and glanced at the two people behind him, and ordered in a deep voice: "Wait outside the palace!"

They both bowed their heads and saluted: "Yes!"

Then he turned and walked out.

Li Ming saw this and just smiled at his sister, "Since His Majesty is here, Your Highness, don't forget what I said, I won't bother you anymore."

After saying this, Li Ming stood up and left. When he stepped over the threshold of the inner room, he brushed past the Xianbei emperor who was walking out of the hall. He bowed to him and saluted, then also went towards the gate.

Yuwen Huaibi, who was standing outside the threshold of the inner room, looked at the back of the young man in black as he left, puzzled, "What does he mean by that?"

Yuan Wuyou couldn't explain to him, thinking that it was better for him not to know, so he walked towards the man standing at the door, cleared his cough and said,
"Nothing, why are you here?"

The Xianbei man then raised the black piece of iron in his hand, and when he turned it over, he saw a hideous painted and gilded ghost mask, splashed with blood.

Of course Yuan Wuyou recognized this ghost mask, and he rushed to him immediately and snatched the mask from his hand!
"This is Gao Changgong's ghost mask! How did it end up in your hands?"

Seeing her eyes full of anger and excitement, Yuwen Huaibi hurriedly said,

"Don't worry! It is said that King Lanling fainted due to anger and vomiting blood. Without anyone to lead the troops, Qi was defeated..."

The secret letter from Yu Taishou of Xiangyang has not been investigated yet, and now Gao Changgong's mask appears. Why are all the people around her suffering misfortunes recently?
Yuan Wuyou immediately asked angrily to the Xianbei man in front of him.

"Gao Changgong vomited blood and fainted? How could this happen? How could the ghost mask that he always carried with him be in your hands?"

Yuwen Huaibi saw that her eyes were spitting fire, and he didn't care about her offense, and hurriedly said:

"This is what Princess Jiangxia brought to me to claim credit for. According to her, she stabbed Lanling King with a knife soaked in anesthetic in the first half of the night, but he woke up quickly. She stabbed him a second time when they attacked the city just now. When he was unconscious and had just taken off his ghost mask, King Ande came..." Yuan Wuyou gnashed his teeth in hatred, "This traitor! How dare she assassinate Gao Changgong? Where is she? I will chop her up!"

Yuwen Huaibi raised his hand to stop him, "Wait a minute! It was Lanling Wang who volunteered to stop the Xiao family's female soldiers. He was the first to bear the brunt of the attack and act as a human shield. Can you blame Xiao Tongyan? She also became one-armed like you, but her right arm was injured."

Yuan Wuyou felt a little emotional after hearing this. Since it was too late for her to go find Gao Changgong, and she also caused Zhou Guosheng to be offended, she simply relaxed.

"Prince Lanling's mind is as brilliant as his talent."

"Why do you say that?"

"In the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a poem called "Buddhist Talks: Dou Zhi Cai" which says that there is a total of one stone of literary talent in the world, and Cao Zhi alone has eight dou. Among the sons of Emperor Wenxiang, there is a total of one stone of cunning, and Gao Yanzong alone has ten dou. The other brothers are not as good, and Gao Changgong lacks two dou."

"Why does Gao Changgong owe two dou?"

"First of all, he is foolishly loyal and filial, and he doesn't know how to judge people. He has a bumpy career for the sake of his country and his family. He is too naive. This is the first reason. Secondly, he is also infatuated. He has a fiancée, but he gave his beloved to others. He doesn't even know how to protect his food. Which woman would dare to marry such a ghost-faced war god who is so majestic to the outside world, but doesn't protect his wife at home and makes people feel insecure? This is the second reason why he lacks naivety."

Yuwen Huaibi wanted to laugh, but then stopped, his deep blue eyes were cold and intimidating. "Gao Yanzong is just as wild as Cao Zhi. Cao Zhi first praised his sister-in-law for being so beautiful, then begged his brother not to kill him. Didn't Gao Yanzong also seduce his sister-in-law, but let his brother plead for him?"

Yuan Wuyou raised his eyebrows and stared at the Xianbei emperor in front of him with cold eyes.

"Calling her sister-in-law all the time, how can you be compared to the self-disciplined and righteous emperor of Zhou? Could it be that... Your Majesty likes this kind of betrayal?"

The man raised his long eyelashes, and his deep blue eyes suddenly became cold and intimidating.

"What's the point of me being serious and restrained? Don't you just like playboys?"

"So Your Majesty wants to follow suit and be dissolute as well?"

"Hmph!" Yuwen Huaibi angrily waved his sleeves and glared at her, his red lips slightly parted, "You are... really ridiculous!"

He swallowed his words back, looked at the ghost mask in her hand, and said arrogantly, "Now that the things have been handed over to you, I will not delay you. You should take a good rest. If the situation changes, I will send someone to protect you."

After saying that, the man in black robe turned around and left.

Yuan Wuyou suddenly remembered what Li Mingjian said, "Wait a minute!"

The Xianbei man was really stopped by her call. He twisted and pinched his slender waist and turned around.

She tried:

"If I said... I wanted to test you privately, just take a look at certain places, but I didn't have any other intentions, would you believe me?"

Yuwen Huaibi was stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrow, "Oh, you want to test me, and you say you have no other intentions? If it were someone else, let alone taking a look, even if they dared to say such an offensive word, they would be dragged out and tortured to death for three days."

"Forget about not showing it to me. I heard that you might have been poisoned. What we did three years ago... in Huaxu was fake."

"No, it must be true." These words were unnecessary. Originally, Yuwen Huaibi didn't want her to check it. When he heard that she wanted to check whether they had had sex before, he was afraid that even if they had, she would say no. Naturally, he couldn't give her this opportunity.

But the girl in front of him was unwilling to give in and said, "If you have other intentions, can you let me test it?"

The Xianbei man narrowed his deep blue eyes, "Then we need to know how to test it. I naturally hope that you can study swordplay by lamplight tonight, but I am not good at coaxing you to sleep."

"What about sleeping with me?"

He suddenly realized, his eyes dodging, "I haven't learned yet... I'm afraid you'll dislike it..." Suddenly thinking of Gao Yanzong just now, he snorted, "Seeing the style of King Ande, I finally understand why the latecomers are in the upper hand, because the latter are fighting and vying, knowing that they can't be upright, so they want to make trouble."