Resourceful beauty

Chapter 167

"Can you plead guilty?"

In the gloomy sky prison, there is a gloomy and musty smell everywhere, and the darkness that has not seen the sun all year round adds a bit of decadence to the place.

Escorted from Ningbei to the capital, the past few days of running around made King Lu's brocade clothes full of wrinkles. At this moment, with his hands and feet in shackles, he seemed out of place with this place.

King Qi asked, and slowly sat in the armchair behind the presiding judge's case, with some unspeakable sadness in his eyes.

"I admit it, I admit it..."

There was no trace of the superficiality deliberately pretended in the past on the rare face, Lu Wang said with a cynical smile: "Win the king and lose the bandit, now that I have ended up in such a field, there is nothing to say, the kind of pushing three resistances four twists and pinches His behavior is not my Fang Zhaozhi's personality, if you want to kill or cut, it's all up to you, I admit it."

King Qi sighed helplessly, glanced at the clerk next to him who was taking notes like a dragon, Fang turned back to King Lu and asked, "You, why bother? The first emperor treated you well, Ning Bei It used to be barren, but in the past few years you have managed it for the better, and you have a good idea of ​​what the future will look like, so you can be a prince peacefully, isn't it good?"

"Safe? Haha..."

Laughing loudly, King Lu seemed to look at King Qi with some disdain, "What is An Fen? My mother and concubine have lived in peace all her life, didn't she still die in the harem's schemes? Because of what, not because of her Birth me? Sometimes, I would rather I be a daughter, a princess, at least, I have a mother by my side."

"I listened to my mother and concubine, to be a prince peacefully, not to fight for heirs, not to be top-notch, so you think I am weak and can be bullied? How rich is Jiangbei, how barren is Ningbei? You are in a rich and noble town. Of course I don't know what kind of life I lived in the first few years when I first arrived in Ningbei. Be safe?"

Seemingly thinking that these two words were the funniest words in the world, King Lu smiled wryly and said, "Being safe also depends on people. Putting it on me will only make my life even more miserable and inferior to others."

"However, if you want to live upright, this is not the only way..."

It seemed that he had forgotten that he was here to interrogate King Lu today. King Qi’s words were flat, as if he was chatting with his brothers. The two clerks next to him looked at King Lu, then at King Qi, and looked at each other, all helpless. In the end, he still wrote down every word of the two of them.

"Of course there is more than one way. There are civilian and military officials in the court, but what can I do? I don't have military power in my hands, and I want to be the world's military general. Do I have that ability? Even if I do, in the end, maybe I will be with you Same, you will end up being suspected by others and not end well. Be a virtuous prince and manage Ningbei to be as rich as Jiangbei, then what? You and I know how barren Ningbei is. Dayuan has been here for hundreds of years. Not a single blade of grass grows, so I have this ambition, so I put all my energy into tossing around. Just like this, last year's income has only increased by [-]%, [-]%, what can I do? It's not as good as your Jiangbei state's annual income ..."

The more he talked, the more sad he became, King Lu let out a sigh of relief, "If I have this ability, will I be thrown to Ningbei? Since I want to make a fuss, then I will make a big fuss, so that you can see, I am not Very bullying."

Fighting back and forth, the fight is still that one breath.

"What about you? Why don't you fight? In terms of ability and prestige, you are much better than that bratty little emperor. Why don't you fight?"

King Lu actually asked King Qi back, with a natural look on his face.

King Qi was stunned, for a while, he shook his head and said, "That's not the ambition."

The cell was quiet, only the slight breathing of the two of them, and the rustling sound of the two clerks writing, King Qi said slowly, "The battle for the reserve position has been extremely fierce since ancient times. If it wasn't for the rivers of life and death, you only saw the glory of ascending to a high position, but, have you ever seen the white bones under your feet?"

"My concubine also wants me to fight..."

As if recalling something from his childhood, King Qi said with a wry smile: "But, I really don't want to do that. You know how much I like military art and books. In the riding and archery class, even the late emperor who was the prince Dare to compete with him. However, I sincerely admire him when I see him and a few great scholars burying their heads in studying the past and the present. I can't calm down. Even in my dreams, I dream that I am riding Holding a steed horse and carrying a big sword, one strike is an enemy bandit, and then, the territory of Dayuan is getting wider and wider as I fight with the soldiers."

When the first emperor was around, King Qi was indeed a fierce general, there was no pass that he could not overcome, and there was no tough battle that he could not win.

Over the years, Ning Shanbo, Wulingbo, Jing'anhou, and the veterans who were at the same time as King Qi have all retired one by one. Although the newly promoted generals are also full of enthusiasm, they are no better than those veterans. Therefore, Da Yuan Although it is becoming more and more stable, it is still conservative after all.

Therefore, in King Qi's heart, the first emperor was the pioneer, and Emperor Rui'an was the defender.

However, it is better to be conservative than to be extravagant and only enjoy, defeating the ancestors of the country and the country.

Therefore, no matter how suspicious Emperor Rui'an is, as long as Da Yuan country is rich and the people are strong, King Qi is willing to be an idle prince who raises flowers and amuses birds.

King Qi's thoughts made King Lu find it difficult to understand, he said with a smile: "So, then we have different ways, and we will not conspire against each other."

King Qi nodded and pondered for a long time before Fang asked about today's topic, "Tell me, when did you start and what did you do? , winners and losers, willing to gamble and admit defeat.”

King Lu's chest heaved violently. He thought that he would lose, but he didn't expect that he would lose so unwillingly.

He even thought that even if he died outside the palace gate or in Zhaoyang Hall stained with blood, he had finally done his best for himself in this life, but now, everything is like the silent spring rain, and he just lost like that.

I am unwilling in my heart, but no matter how hard I try, it is more like a dying struggle before leaving, why bother?
The thought went back and forth several times in his heart, and King Lu looked up at King Qi, "Can you forgive my family? Save a trace of blood for me?"

Throughout the dynasties, the rebels were implicated in the nine clans. King Lu was originally a member of the royal family. It is impossible for the nine clans to be implicated, but it is absolutely impossible for his family to keep him.

King Qi replied in embarrassment: "I will try my best to express my feelings, but the decision-making power is in the hands of the Holy Master, you understand."

As if resigned to his fate, King Lu nodded obscurely, and began to speak slowly.

On the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, it is a good day for travel and marriage in the lunar calendar. Emperor Rui'an decreed that the evidence of King Lu's rebellion was convincing, and dozens of people in the house all gave Bai Ling to pour wine.

Prime Minister Qiu Zongde was an accomplice, and all the more than 14 servants in the mansion were sent to serve in bitter cold places as criminal slaves. Among the immediate family members, no matter men, women or children, those who were over 14 years old were executed, and those who were under [-] years old were sent to serve together with the servants. Going to serve in the military service, women serve as official slaves, and they will never be released from their nationality.

At the same time, the officials implicated were punished in different ways.

This was the biggest purge in the court since Emperor Rui'an came to the throne. For a while, all civil and military officials were panicked, for fear that even the old story about having a drink with King Lu before would be revealed.

On the ninth day of May, Emperor Rui'an made another decree to reward Wu Lingbo and his party who went to Ningbei. At the same time, he made King Qi a general of soldiers and horses, returned to his original position to take charge of the Northwest Camp, and gave him a tiger talisman.

Obtaining the Tiger Talisman means that he has truly taken control of the military. Compared with the past, it is naturally not the same. When Fang Zhengjun and Fang Ruxuan knew about it, they did not express how happy they were.

When all the dust settled, King Qi went to the table, requesting Hugh to abandon Princess Qi Su Yuan, and to remove Su Yuan from the imperial clan.

In King Lu's confession, except for the officials involved in the court, Su Yuan was not involved in a single word, but King Qi's statement was submitted by the House of Internal Affairs, and Emperor Ruian also approved it.

Everyone in the court has their own speculations, and there are those who are active in thinking, and have already begun to select beautiful girls from their own clans, making preparations for being selected as the future Princess Qi.

In the Yixin Hall, Su Yuan was holding the letter of divorce written by King Qi himself and stamped with the emperor's seal, with a dull expression on her face.

It's obviously expected, but why are you so unwilling?
Thinking of several children, especially Fang Ruhui who is still unmarried, with her own mother who was abandoned by the royal family, her whole life might be ruined, and Su Yuan's dull face was broken little by little.

Vigorously banging on the door panel, calling for King Qi, Su Yuan tossed and tossed all day, but no one answered.

In the evening, the door of Yixin Hall was opened again, and there was a small green cloth sedan chair in the courtyard, and the four women beside the sedan chair were a bit unfamiliar, but the sedan chair was marked with the logo of the Su Mansion, Su Yuan knew, This was sent by the Miao family to pick him up.

Unwilling, reluctant, but thinking that there was only one sedan chair, as long as Fang Ruhui was still the daughter recognized by King Qi, it would be much better than following her own mother. Su Yuan took a deep breath, and got into the sedan chair with her skirt.

The sedan chair was lifted smoothly, without feeling the slightest jolt, and there was silence outside, but Su Yuan felt that there were crackling firecrackers in her ears.

In an instant, her thoughts returned to the day she got married 20 years ago.

Although she is a side concubine, she still married into Prince Qi's Mansion in Jiangbei in a sedan chair.

There were noisy voices beside her ears, and in the sedan chair, she looked shy under the hijab, and in her heart was the longing for the future life.

At that time, she was far less complicated than she is now.

Thinking that the cousin of the first relative is the concubine, and that King Qi has met and agreed with him, as long as he can make the cousin happy, and then use some tricks to win half of King Qi's heart, he can give birth to a son and a daughter. Prosperity and wealth can be regarded as the same honor, compared to those concubines in the family, I don't know how much better.

When did it start and change?

Was it when Su Xin gave birth to her son, and when King Qi smiled from the bottom of his heart at the infant's face?
Or when Su Xin caught the wind and cold, but King Qi insisted on refusing to rest at the concubine's place?
Or when side concubines and concubines were carried into Prince Qi's mansion one after another?
……

There are too many pasts, which are clearly visible and vivid at this moment, but Su Yuan feels that she is a little confused.

When the sedan chair stopped, Su Yuan didn't even realize where she was going.

If you want to marry King Qi, can you live your own life?

Full of the shyness and joy of a young girl, Su Yuan looked nervously at the dark car curtain in front of her.

The curtain was lifted, there was no joyous noise, no support from Xi Niang and the maid, and she was pushed vigorously into a square small room. When Su Yuan raised her eyes, she saw Su Xin's memorial tablet on the table above. .

(End of this chapter)