Lonely King and Widow

Chapter 1363 The pit is 349 meters deep, it's a decisive move!
"The story of Lishang..."

Xiao Qian muttered softly, looked at Mo Jiu's bright eyes, and suddenly lowered his eyelids.

"I don't know everything. Ah Jiu wants to listen?"

"Yes!" Mo Jiu glanced at Gu Er's remains, and said in a deep voice, "This is what I've always wanted to know, but before, I never thought it would be related to Gu Er."

With a light hum, Xiao Qian looked at her, his eyes also passed over Gu Er's drooping head, his eyes dimmed slightly.

"A long, long time ago, the Xiao family didn't have pear cups, only pear flower drunk. And the ancestors of the Ruan family were servants of the Xiao family, and they worked as winemakers in the Xiao family for generations..."

A big family, a winemaking workshop, hardworking winemakers.

An old and busy image of brewing wine appeared in Mo Jiu's mind.

And Xiao Qian's voice spoke without emotion——

One master and one servant, nothing surprising would happen in the first place, but it was passed down from generation to generation, and finally a brewer of the Ruan family did not keep his duty - fell in love with the beautiful young lady of the Xiao family.

Miss Xiao's family is lively and active, not like an ordinary daughter.She doesn't like embroidery in the boudoir, but she only loves to make wine and go to the workshop every day.After coming and going, the young lady and the handsome winemaker flirted with each other, and soon they secretly fell in love with each other.These two people have a talent for making wine, and they didn't just focus on talking about love, but on the basis of Xiao's home-brewed Lihuazui, they brewed a kind of wine that is different from Lihuazui, but better and more mellow than Lihuazui. Come.

This wine is made from a cup, which they call a pear cup.

However, it was originally a 'cup', but it ended up as a 'shang'.

After getting the pear cup, their relationship became deeper and deeper, to the point of "not marrying unless you are a king, and not marrying a non-qing".While their relationship was warming up, the two of them also went further and further on the road of wine making. Not only did they improve the formula of Xiao's home-brewed pear blossom wine many times, but the wine became better and better. In the wine cellar under the pear tree in the old house, it was finally aged and became a treasure that cannot be copied forever.

Hearing stories is what Mo Jiu likes.

But this story sounds inexplicably heavy.

Her heart was heavy, she didn't look up until Xiao Qian stopped talking.

"What happened after that?"

"Later——" Xiao Qian dragged his voice, and suddenly sighed, "Later, they were immersed in the joy of brewing wine every day, and they didn't know the sun and the world, thinking that this was their whole life. , while bringing the leap to Xiao's Homebrew, their personal relationship also surfaced."

"The Xiao family is unwilling to fulfill this marriage, is it?"

"Yes, at that time, the Xiao family had already chosen a husband-in-law for the young lady, how could they want her to make a lifelong promise with the brewer?"

The story that follows, like most corny ones.

In the era when "the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker" became a marriage, the relationship between Miss Xiao's family and the winemaker was unblessed and outrageous.

The Xiao family first warned in anger, and then locked the young lady in the Xiulou to prevent them from seeing each other.

How can a young man who is so cute and full-bodied burn out the fire of emotion?
In the end, Miss Xiao's family eloped with the winemaker in the middle of a dark and stormy night.

If they escaped like this, there would be no subsequent evolution of this story, let alone the "vengeance" that Gu Erqiong had carried in his life.

The two young men were arrested by the Xiao family within a few days after they fled.The Xiao family threatened the winemaker's life, so the young lady had no choice but to get on the sedan chair with tears in her eyes, cut off her love and remarried.But even though she gave up her own happiness for her lover, the Xiao family did not let the winemaker go as she wished.

In order to prevent the news of the young lady's affair from leaking out and spreading to the ears of the husband's family and losing face, and also to prevent the winemaker from pestering the young lady endlessly and ruining the Xiao family's reputation, they poisoned the winemaker's wine in an attempt to make the winemaker He died in the wine he brewed.

But his life should not die, and after vomiting, he escaped by luck.

However, when he woke up from the mass grave and fled back home, he found that his whole family, including his little niece who had just turned one month old... were all poisoned to death.

Lost loved ones, family ruined.

The winemaker blamed both the young lady for her change of heart and the viciousness of the Xiao family.

From then on, he kept his name incognito and devoted himself to revenge, but the Xiao family's power grew stronger and stronger. Until he died with hatred, he still failed to take revenge.

Therefore, he pinned his hopes on the descendants——

"Liulang..." The Mo family called him softly, and said with a touch of emotion: "You Xiao family really didn't do many good things?"

For her statement, Xiao Qian was noncommittal.

Mo Jiu knew that in ancient people's thinking, marriage should follow the orders of parents. Maybe they are different in terms of values.

Therefore, seeing that Xiao Qian was silent, she stopped talking and turned to the main topic.

"Then what happened later? Lishang is gone?"

"All the pear glasses in the Xiao family are made by the two of them. Since the two of them separated, the Xiao family can't make any more pear glasses..."

"Why?" Mo Jiu didn't know much about wine making, so he only guessed, "Is it because I don't know the recipe? But...wrong. Even if the brewer is gone, the lady is still the one who knows the recipe? Could it be that she wants to Is the painstaking effort that I and my lover have exhausted for a lifetime, lost to the world like this?"

Thinking of the taste of Lishang drunk to the marrow, Mo Jiu sighed regretfully, "It's a pity!"

Xiao Qian frowned, as if he was also thinking, "I heard from my grandmother that the recipe for pear wine seems to be the same as that of pear flower drunk."

"No difference? Then why are the wines produced different?"

"I don't know about this. Later, the Xiao family also tried hard to find the truth about this, but they found nothing. According to those who know how to make wine, the formula alone is not enough for wine making. The taste of wine has nothing to do with water, The material, and even the mental state of the brewer. The secret of how to turn pear wine into a pear cup is probably only known to the two people who brewed the pear cup at the beginning."

"Yes!" Mo Jiu agreed, "Wine has soul, emotion, and aura. Wuliangye is no longer Wuliangye after leaving Yibin..."

She murmured the last sentence in a low voice, as if she was talking to herself.

But it fell into Xiao Qian's ears, but he was stunned, "What are you talking about?"

"No, it's nothing—" Mo Jiu quickly shook her head, and changed the subject, "What are your plans for the next step?"

Xiao Qian's eyes were slightly cold, and his eyes slowly fell from her face to Gu Er's body.

He stared at this one for a long time, and his eyes were a little empty.

"Let's bury him first."

……

……

Gu Er's death set off an earthquake-like turmoil in Hara and Lin.

At the beginning, he and Xiao Qian allied to attack Wu Rigen, but when the victory was already in sight, he suddenly cut off his righteousness with Xiao Qian, and the city gate was broken, which finally led to such a situation of defeat and death.For Xiao Jun, this was a complete victory, and it happened to push the boat smoothly.But for the Beimeng soldiers of Hara and Lin and the former Beimeng soldiers of Su He, it was a huge disaster, anger and humiliation.

People have different standpoints and look at problems from different angles.

Xiao Qian, the hero of the Xiao Army, has become an evil invader in the eyes of the Beimeng people. He usurped the fruits of victory, he used Su He to achieve his goal, and he crossed the river and demolished the bridge to kill Su He...

This point, Xiao Qian actually had expected in advance.

Therefore, as long as Gu Er didn't make any changes, he would never attack him first, for fear of being honest and causing the Beimeng people's emotional backlash.

After all, it is easy to take down a country, but it is not easy to govern a country, and it is quite difficult to completely surrender the people of a country.

However, even if he took precautions, he could not untie this knot.

Although it was Su He who took the lead in attacking him, the nationalism of the Beimeng people and the sympathy for the weak in their human nature made Xiao Qian a big scapegoat, and he was still determined.

In the later history books, there was also a long period of views on this battle, taking advantage of the condemnation of Xiao Qian for "doing whatever it takes to achieve his goal".

Fortunately, no matter what the Beimeng people think, the war is over, the winner is king, Xiao Qian has become their master, when they are powerless to resist, they have to temporarily surrender.

As a result, the city of Hara and Lin was experiencing endless waves in the dark, but it was calm on the surface.

……

One day and one night passed in the blink of an eye.

In the streets and alleys, the people cannot sleep.

The lights in the palace did not go out all night.

Although Xiao Jun has occupied Hara and Lin, there are still things to be done, and Xiao Qian, as the leader, has no way to rest.The people who came and went in the palace, and all kinds of information letters were collected here one by one, and then passed through his mouth, and then passed on one after another as government orders.

It is said that conquering the country is difficult, but governing the country is even more difficult.

Today's Beimeng is like a mess, waiting for him to sort it out.

He was so busy that he didn't even have time to sleep.

And Mo Jiu was not idle either.

In addition to sending Cao Yuan to lead a group of disciples to hurry back to Xinglong Mountain, she herself was also nervously preparing for the trip.

Originally, she wanted to go back with Cao Yuan, but after thinking about it, the firearm incident has been going on for so long, and if something really happened, it would not be too late.

At least, she had to see Gu Er off for the last time, and wait until his funeral was over before leaving——

After three days of desperation, the situation in Beimeng finally made new progress.

On this day, before dawn, Xiao Qian had just returned to the house to rest when he received the news that Gu Liyang, who went to chase Wu Rigen and Princess Ayigu, had returned.

Fortunately, a total of 15 important members of Ayigu's group were arrested, including Ayigu himself and Wu Rigen.

……

The gate of the palace opened with a bang——

Gu Liyang rode on a tall horse, leading a group of soldiers to escort Ayigu and the others, and walked in pompously.

On the steps in front of the main hall, Xiao Qian was waiting at the door.

Mo Jiu also stood beside him, waiting silently.

In the mist of the morning sun, the weather is a bit cool.

"Is it cold?" Xiao Qian touched Mo Jiu's hand.

"Not cold." Mo Jiu smiled, "How can I be cold when I'm so excited?"

Xiao Qian sighed softly, took her struggling hand and held it in his palm.

"You like to be brave!"

Mo Jiu was stunned, and laughed, "How can it be? You are not afraid of being laughed at."

"I love my wife, who dares to laugh?"

Xiao Qian said it casually, but Mo Jiu was slightly taken aback after hearing it.

Yes, even if he is ridiculous, who would dare to laugh at him?Today is different.

The change of status and identity made Mo Jiu suddenly a little confused.

"Liulang, do you feel...happy now?"

Xiao Qian glanced at her, before answering, Gu Liyang strode over and knelt on the ground with fists folded.

"The last will see the lord!"

"General Gu, please get up." Xiao Qian smiled approvingly at him, and raised his hand, "Please invite the eldest princess to enter the palace. The rest will be detained first."

"The last general takes orders!" Gu Liyang got up and waved back, "Take the eldest princess."

Mo Jiu noticed that Xiao Qian had used the word "please" and glanced at him. He didn't ask him why he only saw the eldest princess, but just followed his steps into the hall and sat down.

Not long after, Ayigu entered the hall Shi Shiran.

After traveling all the way, she was a little tired, her clothes were messy, and she was not as graceful and luxurious as before.

Sure enough, a person's temperament is set off by his identity?Mo Jiu was a little emotional.

However, Xiao Qian treated her politely, he didn't bind her, let alone belittle her, he even treated her like a junior, specially asked someone to sit and make tea for her.

But Ayigu didn't appreciate it.

She just watched him do all this coldly, keeping her face and refusing to sit down.

Xiao Qian was not angry when he saw this, he just said calmly: "Princess, please sit down and talk."

Ayigu raised his head proudly, and smiled coldly, "If it falls into your hands, I won't say a word if I want to kill or cut it, just do as you please, don't be hypocritical!"

Xiao Qian rubbed his forehead and was extremely polite to her rudeness.

"Princess, I am serious. I am not your son, but also your nephew. Even if I kill all the people in the world, I will not give you half of my aunt!"

Hearing what he said, Ayigu snorted coldly, not only did his complexion not improve, but it even got uglier.

"Nephew?! I don't dare to climb up on this relative. You killed my son and replaced him, and you came to deceive me. This scheme, this scheming, I, Ayigu, will bow down, but I dare not let you condescend to call me aunt."

Mo Jiu was taken aback.

In this way, she thought Su He was killed by Xiao Qian.

Then it's no wonder that she doesn't think of family affection at all, but still hates her so much.

But how did she know that Su He was fake?How could he think that the real Su He was killed by Xiao Qian?
She didn't ask, but Xiao Qian asked, "What does Auntie say?"

"Do you think that by pretending to be stupid, you can erase the truth?"

"Even if I deceive you in the name of Su He, I will never kill him."

"Do you still dare to deny it?" Ayigu glared at him angrily, as if he wanted to poke a hole in him, "You fled from Lin'an Mansion to Yinshan, relying on Nashun's affection for Sandan to collude with him Together, they killed my son, obtained his identity, and then took advantage of me to set up the idea of ​​Beimengjiang Mountain. This move is really wonderful. If it weren't for Namuhan's last words, I would really have Being deceived by you, I became a blind man, and I am a thief!"

Speaking of this, she seemed to think of the dead Su He, her eyes were slightly red.

"I was a mother in vain. I'm sorry for my son... If I didn't indulge you back then, how would you be here today? But you not only don't miss the old love, but you come to harm my son again! You act like this, why are you human, why are you here?" Dare to call me aunt?"

Regarding her accusations, Xiao Qian was not in a hurry to argue, and only asked her quietly after she finished speaking.

"Namuhan died by my sword that day, when did he leave his last words to the eldest princess?"

"Ho!" Ayigu's throat was choked, her voice was a little choked, and she stared at him with hatred in her eyes, "Your sword didn't kill him, he just fainted from the pain." When she raised her eyes, she suddenly sneered , with gritted hatred, "Surely you can't think of it? It's because of your sword that he recognized your true identity."

"Because of that sword?" Mo Jiu was curious.

She glanced sideways at Xiao Qian, she didn't seem to know him when she saw him, and she couldn't help but look at Ayigu.

But she said: "Why did Namuhan and I never suspect you, let alone you? Because we, like the world, thought that Xiao Qian was dead, and he had already died in Lin'an, Song Xi. But when you pierced Namuhan with that sword, he happened to see the scar on your tiger's mouth..."

The scar of the tiger's mouth?
Mo Jiu was taken aback.

The scar on Xiao Qian's tiger's mouth couldn't be smaller and lighter, if it wasn't for someone close to him, if it wasn't for a close distance, he wouldn't be able to notice it at all.

This Namhan's observation ability is so amazing?

Ayigu said bitterly: "That day I discussed the ambush Menghe with Namuhan, and it was originally planned for you... But he was afraid that if the matter fails, it will implicate me, so he wants to bear it all. I also planned to do so, but After he left the small town of Er, I felt uneasy, so I secretly followed him to the hunting ground. Because of this, I was able to see him for the last time. He told me before he died, you are not my son, you are Xiao Qian, you are You killed my son...I didn't believe it either...because I don't want to believe that my son is dead, I don't want to believe..."

Amidst the faint whining, she fixed her eyes firmly on Xiao Qian.

"Ka Namhan spoke conclusively, saying that the scar on your tiger's mouth was accidentally scratched by the dagger when Chachar stepped forward to block the woman when she was rescued from Tianyin Mountain..."

Tianyin Mountain?Thinking of what happened that day, Mo Jiu was completely stunned.

Where there is an antecedent, there is a consequence.

It was because of the matter of Tianyin Mountain that Xiao Qian had a grudge with Namuhan.

Also from that day on, Namuhan, the prime minister of Beimeng, kept lobbying in front of the old Khan, which caused the old Khan to have a prejudice against Xiao Qian, and this prejudice deepened day by day, and finally made the old Khan He gave up his plan to train Xiao Qian to be his heir, and Mo Jiu was even taken captive by Ah Xibao to Wanyanxiu's camp later, which was also related to Namhan.

If it wasn't for the matter of Tianyin Mountain, how could it be so difficult for Xiao Qian's country?

Mo Jiu remembered that Namhan once asked Xiao Qian to choose carefully.

At that time, she didn't know what he was going to choose and what he was giving up.

It was only later that he realized that if he chose her, he would lose his country, the old Khan's trust and cultivation.

She didn't understand, but Xiao Qian at that time must have understood.

But he chose her without hesitation, and led her down Tianyin Mountain. This incident reminded Mo Jiu many years later, and the warmth of that day still remained in his heart.

However, she never thought that the matter of Tianyin Mountain would not only have the far-reaching impact on Xiao Qian, but also the follow-up evil consequences.

If it weren't for that little scar that didn't attract much attention, Namuhan wouldn't have recognized Xiao Qian at all, and Ayigu wouldn't have known the truth, let alone plotted to kill him in secret. If he lost Menghe, he would be taken out of the pot and put him together, abandoning him and supporting Wu Rigen's ascension to the throne.Then, there will be no more wars in the past three years...Of course, Ayigu will not suffer as much as today. She will happily be a powerful empress dowager and reunite with her son and family.

This Namhan!

Before he died, he did not forget to punish Xiao Qian.

But maybe he didn't think about it, he not only failed to fulfill Ayigu, but harmed her instead.

Inside the main hall, the candles were flickering, reflecting Ayigu's face very sadly.

"Xiao Qian, you will be punished for killing my son and taking my country with such heart!"

Xiao Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, "The eldest princess should understand that I don't need to lie to you. Because you are not worthy of my lying."

This sentence is a bit cruel, but it is the truth.

He has occupied Hara and Lin, and the whole of Beimeng is in his hands.

If he killed Su Hyuk, there's no point in not admitting it at all.

"Actually, you know very well in your heart that I didn't kill Suhe. The one who killed him was Nashun." Xiao Qian looked at the distraught Princess Ayigu, and then said: "You imprisoned Nashun in the princess mansion. In the dungeon, he was locked up without seeing the light of day for three full years, which made him suffer a lot, and those cruel tortures, weren't they just for revenge for what he did to Su He that day?"

Ayigu's complexion changed, and he stepped back abruptly, staring at him blankly.

"How do you know?"

"I guess." Xiao Qian pursed his lips slightly, "Although you took care of that before you escaped from Hara and Lin, the dungeon is still there, and so are the traces inside. Of course, you threw him in the well The corpses in the house will also tell me these things."

Ayigu stared at him with complicated eyes, and remained silent.

Xiao Qian smiled, "Auntie, am I right?"

Ayigu snorted coldly, "You brought me here, what exactly do you want me to do?"

"The eldest princess is a smart person." Xiao Qian's voice was calm, neither too cold nor too warm, "Actually, you abandoned me to support Wu Rigen, this is the normal behavior of a mother, you don't have to make up my I will not blame you for the lie about killing Su He. But you should also be clear about one thing, Wu Rigen is not the one who can govern the Northern Mengjiang Mountains, let alone fulfill the old Khan’s last wish to rule the world. And now you The only person I can rely on is me."

When he said this, he paused for a moment, and looked at Ayigu with cool eyes.

"As long as you listen to me, I can ignore the past, respect you, respect you, and treat you with the respect of my aunt as before."

Ayigu didn't seem to expect him to think this way, and was slightly taken aback.

At the end, she pursed her lips and thought for a moment before asking again: "What exactly do you want?"

"I want you to convene a kuriltai meeting in the name of your eldest princess and recognize my identity in front of the royal family."

"Your identity?" Ayigu murmured puzzled, then sneered suddenly, "What is your identity? Now that the fake Suhe is dead, you may still be able to be Suhe?"

"No!" In Xiao Qian's stern eyes, the waves shone slightly, as if jumping with a scorching light, "I am the son of Princess Sandan, the son of Beimeng."

He was originally the son of Princess Sandan, and he should have been the son of Beimeng.

It's just that although the old Khan recognized him, he didn't publicly admit him.

Then in front of the Beimeng royal clan and the people of the world, he has only one identity——Nanrong Xiaoqian.

And Beimeng is a khanate that strictly implements the election system with the Khuriltai Assembly as the highest authority. As long as he is recognized as the son of Princess Sandan and the eldest son of Beimeng, then he will ascend to the position of Great Khan of Beimeng. It's justified.In this way, those doubts from within Beimeng will be calmed down, and there will be a reasonable solution to those who are about to move.

Of course, this is also the happiest stage for each other at present.

Stepping down this step, no matter Xiao Qian or Ayigu, they can play happily from now on.

However, after thinking for a moment, Ayigu hummed quietly.

"You're dreaming! I've fulfilled you, who will fulfill me?! Instead of waiting for you to complete your mission and killing the donkey, I'd rather just watch you embarrassed, watch you never be popular, watch you forever Be a treacherous thief who invaded Beimeng!"

Her thoughts and worries are in the words.

But Xiao Qian listened, but smiled indifferently.

"Yes! If you don't fulfill me, I will just spend more time. But for your Wu Rigen, then... there may not be time to wait."

Every child is a treasure in the mother's heart.

Hearing Wu Rigen's name, Ayigu tensed up.

"What do you want to do to him?"

Xiao Qian held his lips lightly, smiling so that his handsome face seemed to have a layer of moist light, clearly not the slightest bit cruel, but Ayigu was horrified when he heard, "I will take what you did to Nashun, Try it on him one by one. If he is lucky, he may be able to wait until the day when I win the world, and he will be amnesty to live. If you are not lucky... Then I don’t know how much time you have in this life as a mother and child?"

What punishment did Shun receive?
Thinking of the bloody torture instruments, Ayigu flinched and shuddered slightly.

She thought for a moment, her eyes widened suddenly, and she glared at Xiao Qian angrily.

"I want you to let him go first! Once he is safe, I will hold a khuriltai assembly."

Xiao Qian smiled slightly, "Auntie, I didn't give you a choice."

"you--"

Pointing at Xiao Qian angrily with her fingers raised high, Ayigu's face was livid with hatred, but her lips were trembling, and finally she couldn't swear.

Slowly, she limply fell to the ground.

"You...absolutely never lie to me again...and spare my son's life..."

(End of this chapter)