After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

After giving the waiter in the inn lobby who was in charge of welcoming and seeing off guests a handful of coins, and asking him where Yu Zizhen and the others were going, the family chased them in a carriage.

However, Yu Zizhen walked so fast that the family could not catch up with her.

In order to find out about her, they could only keep chasing the direction in which Yu Zizhen was heading, and kept asking people where Yu Zizhen had gone.

Yu Zizhen knew nothing about their movements. After she entered her sphere of influence, she was immediately taken to the current location of the emperor and the eldest prince.

Just as Yu Zizhen expected, neither the emperor nor the eldest prince were dissatisfied with Yu Zizhen because of her thoughts on that position.

On the contrary, King Zhenbei, who announced the death of Yu Zizhen right away, was often despised by the outspoken expressions of the father and son.

"Uncle Xiao, Yuan Jin." After a long journey, they rushed to Zhuangzi where the two settled, and Yu Zizhen came immediately to pay tribute to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Excuse me." The emperor was so happy that he poured a cup of tea for Yu Zizhen with his own hands, "Sit down quickly, sit down and let's talk slowly."

Xiao Yuanjin also showed a rare smile. He stood up and moved the two plates of snacks that the servant had just delivered not long ago to Yu Zizhen, who had lost weight.

Although Yu Zizhen's subordinates who were responsible for protecting them clearly told them that nothing happened to Yu Zizhen and that he only secretly went to Western Xinjiang to save the Duke of Wei, the emperor and Xiao Yuanjin still couldn't help themselves before seeing the safe and sound Yu Zizhen with their own eyes. Those who avoid will be on tenterhooks for her.

Yu Zizhen thanked the two of them and started eating snacks with tea without any ceremony.

The emperor also noticed that she had lost a lot of weight, so even though he had many questions in his heart that he wanted to ask, he still held back and did not ask them immediately.

It wasn't until Yu Zizhen was half full and didn't reach for the remaining pastries on the plate that the emperor asked her while adding more tea: "I heard that you went to the Duke Wei's Mansion in Western Xinjiang?"

They lived here, and they were surrounded by people who were basically left by Yu Zizhen. If the news reached their ears, it meant that it was under Yu Zizhen's instructions, so he could naturally find out more about Yu Zizhen.

As expected, Yu Zizhen didn't mean to hide it from him. She nodded slightly to the emperor and the eldest prince, "I heard Huaiying talk about Duke Wei's condition and thought that he should be cured, so I took advantage of the fact that the world was not completely in chaos yet. Follow Huaiying to the Duke Wei's Mansion."

"He is indispensable to the Western Xinjiang Army. Without him, the Western Xinjiang Army will immediately fall apart and become vulnerable."

"No matter who takes that position in the future, I will not give any opportunity to foreigners on the border."

After a pause, she added: "Besides, Duke Wei is not ambitious. Even if I cure him, he will not get involved in the fight for the throne."

The Lu family was unwilling to give the Western Xinjiang Army enough military supplies and weapons, but she was willing.

Just like King Zhenbei and Duke Jingguo, even if they are determined to compete for that position, they will not give up their original responsibility of guarding the border and guarding the land, allowing foreigners to take advantage of them.

This is their unspeakable tacit understanding and their common bottom line. For this tacit understanding and this bottom line, Yu Zizhen is willing to give certain preferential treatment to King Zhenbei and Duke Jing when the situation is controllable in the future.

"By the way, Uncle Xiao, on the day we left the palace, I secretly brought the jade seal out." Yu Zizhen put down the tea cup and came out with a loud bang. The emperor's eyes widened, first in shock, then in joy. He laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes, and he did not try to contain his emotions like before.

Yu Zizhen raised her eyebrows slightly. She had not expected the emperor's reaction.

Xiao Yuanjin looked helpless, "My father is happy that you indirectly vented your anger for him."

His father is really pitiful. The late emperor was a dedicated and affectionate guy who took care of the children but did not care about them. As the wife of the late emperor, the Empress Dowager Dalu had a kind face and a dark heart. She treated the children born by the late emperor and other women with contempt. His biological mother, who was disliked by hundreds of people and favored his father, was just a beauty from an ordinary family with a very low status.

His father's ability to survive to adulthood in that cannibalistic palace was largely due to his own efforts and God's care.

Finally, he took advantage of his favored brother, left the palace, opened a mansion, married a wife and had children, and lived a small life of his own. However, the old pious woman from the Dalu family had another idea of ​​​​their family.

His beloved wife died tragically, and as a puppet emperor, he was forced to take a new wife, Xiao Lu.

The youngest son was poisoned and has been unable to do good things since then, but those evil-minded guys still did not stop plotting against his son.

If Xiao Yuanjin were in his father's position, he wouldn't have any sense of identification with the late emperor, the bastard who single-handedly caused all the misfortune of their family.

What kind of ancestral inheritance, what kind of expectations from his fathers, what does that have to do with him and his father?
The late emperor never had any expectations for his father. The late emperor did not give his father the ancestral inheritance. What he really wanted to give was the Dalu family, his "love of his life."

If he hadn't left behind all kinds of back-ups and given great power to the Da Lu family and Lu Tong, their father and son would not have had such a difficult life, and the so-called ancestral foundation of the Xiao family would not have been disintegrated in a few years. will become a thing of the past.

In Xiao Yuanjin's opinion, his father should not be responsible for the country's subjugation.

As for sadness and anger, Xiao Yuanjin feels that for a person to be sad and angry over "loss", he must first have obtained something that can make him sad and angry due to loss.

His father, who had never truly held power, who had always endured the pain of power, and who had never tasted what it meant to live and die to seize the ultimate power, would he feel more relaxed just to get rid of the shackles?
He asked Yu Zizhen, "Where have you arranged for my second brother and uncle to go?"

Yu Zizhen scratched his head, "I have also sent people to protect the second prince. If you want to see him, I can send him to your side. As for Xiao Shaoke, I just sent him away and did not keep him with me. he."

Xiao Yuanjin had already heard what his father said about Xiao Shaoke's behavior, so he was not surprised that Yu Zizhen treated him differently.

He said to Yu Zizhen: "Then please ask someone to send my second brother here. My father and I will keep an eye on him and not let him cause trouble for you."

The emperor also nodded in agreement, "Yes, we will keep an eye on him and prevent him from being used by others. And Xiao Shaoke, if you can find him, I can also help you keep an eye on him."

The corners of Yu Zizhen's lips rose, "I will have the second prince sent here as soon as possible. As for Xiao Shaoke, I don't know if my people can find him."