Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 127
After returning to the palace, it was time for the morning court.Lu Li decided to go to Chaogan Hall.

Su Qingyuan did a full set of plays and followed suit, but asked someone to set up a screen in the hall, and hid behind the screen and fell asleep soundly.

Before noon, the battle report came.

More than [-] soldiers were killed and wounded, more than [-]% of the food and grass burned, and the morale of the army was in turmoil. The [-] guards who went out to attack the city were almost wiped out. The main general Luo Chuan led the remaining [-] people to break out of the siege and go to Luoyun City.

After hearing this, Lu Li felt sad for a long time, and finally sighed, "Not so good."

Duke Ding stroked his beard and smiled: "The enemy is strong and we are weak, such a record is very rare. It's a pity that we can't do this kind of sneak attack at night, otherwise we will sing this song every now and then, the song of that old boy Su Yi." Sooner or later, the minions will be mowed down by us!"

Senior scholar Lu Ge coughed and said with a smile: "A gentleman governs the world with 'benevolence'. Duke Ding is also a family of poetry and etiquette for generations. He is always shouting and killing. How decent!"

Seeing that the two old guys were deliberately making fun, Lu Li had no choice but to smile face-to-face.

So the officials were finally relieved, and they could start celebrating boldly.

The tense and oppressive atmosphere for many days finally eased a lot, and hearty laughter resounded in the hall for the first time.

Sleeping Su Qingyuan was awakened by the laughter, she hurriedly beckoned to Xiao Luzi, and asked in a low voice.

Xiaoluzi briefly explained the battle report to her.Su Qingyuan was filled with sadness and joy, and immediately looked up at Lu Li.

Looking at each other, the two laughed at the same time.

Lu Li stood up and said with a smile, "It looks like the old thief won't be in the mood to attack the city today. You have worked hard for days, so let's go back and rest!"

Xiao Luzi opened his voice and shouted "Back to the court——".

Lu Li immediately walked over quickly to help Su Qingyuan up, and smiled: "My mother has worked hard, and my son will help you go back to the palace to rest."

***
outside the city.

The smell of blood choked his nose.

Su Yi stood on a chariot with a broken shaft, looked at the scene of corpses strewn all over the field before him, and heard the moans and groans of the wounded soldiers who were too late for treatment, he was so angry that he slashed wildly with his sword, his ashen face was full of blood. It was bloody and turned a frightening black-purple.

All the generals under his command followed from a distance, and no one dared to come forward to persuade him, for fear of accidentally hitting a bad head and becoming his punching bag.

But it's useless to hide like this.

Su Yi raised his arm and pointed at the tip of his sword: "Get over here! I'm afraid you won't succeed if I eat you?"

The generals had no choice but to drag their trembling legs and slowly rubbed over.

Su Yi gritted his teeth, and looked around viciously: "You tell me every day that the defense is tight and everything is safe—is this your 'safety'?"

One of the generals said cautiously: "General, calm down, this is really not our negligence... Our night patrols are no problem, who would have thought that they would appear out of thin air..."

Before he finished speaking, Su Yi swung his sword over: "'Not negligent'? The four teams of night patrol officers and soldiers disappeared without a sound. You didn't realize until the food and grass were almost burnt out, and you didn't realize until ten or twenty thousand of your soldiers died. Get up from the tent—this is not considered 'negligence', what exactly is 'negligence'!"

The ginseng escaped the sword by luck, knelt on the ground and dared not speak again.

Su Yi jumped angrily: "So, you still don't know where those bastards came from, do you?"

All the generals wanted to tuck their heads into their necks one by one, and no one dared to say anything.

True, they don't know.

At first they instinctively thought that it came down from the city wall, but after careful inquiry, this guess was quickly denied.

The place where the patrolling soldiers have been focusing on is the city wall. It is impossible for them not to see so many people descending from the city.

If it was said that Qin Wang's division from other places came to help, it seemed impossible, after all, the scouts in the army did not eat for nothing.What's more, they have carefully identified the uniforms of those soldiers, and they are undoubtedly the guards in the city.

Could it be that there are really magical soldiers descending from heaven?

——This is a rumor quietly circulating in the army.Some people say that the general rebelled, and the gods and Buddhas were not in his favor, so he sent down the heavenly soldiers and the future to punish him.

Some generals have already believed it, but they dare not say it out loud, they just retreat quietly in their hearts.

In the end, an old military adviser who had been with Su Yi for decades stroked his beard: "The burning of food and grass and the sneak attack by the puppies happened at about the same time, and it was probably done by the same group of people. The place where the accident happened happened to be in On both sides of Xiangquan Mountain, will it..."

Su Yi narrowed his gaze slightly: "Xiangquan Mountain?"

Immediately someone raised an objection: "But Xiangquan Mountain is just a small hill. It may be possible to hide 5000 people. How could the 3 soldiers be hidden there... Besides, we have been besieging the city for so many days. How could the [-] people be hidden there?" Hiding in the mountains for so long..."

Su Yi suddenly slapped Che Shi heavily, and shouted sharply: "Send someone to Xiangquan Mountain immediately, and search every inch! Don't even let the mouse holes go!"

The generals didn't dare to disobey the order, they responded abruptly, and each took the opportunity to slip away.

The old military adviser stroked his beard and muttered: "It is almost impossible to say that there are [-] soldiers hidden in the mountain. But if there is a cave in the mountain—"

"Hmph, the bastard is still playing this trick with the old man! When the old man digs out his hole, he will be taken out, cut open, and served to the brothers!" Su Yi was so angry that his beard trembled.

"We will definitely find it." The old military adviser stroked his beard with a determined expression on his face.

At this time, suddenly a soldier came flying from a distance: "General, a spy has just been caught, and he is clamoring to see the general, saying that he is here to deliver a letter to you!"

Su Yi snorted coldly: "Which spy didn't say he was here to deliver a letter before he died? Just kill him!"

Xiao Bing hesitated: "But...the spy claimed to be the eldest son of Dingguo's mansion, and said that he had a close relationship with our family...with our fourth lady..."

Su Yi's face became even more ugly: "Is it the kid from the Cheng family? It's fine if it's someone else. Since it's him, you have to give him a good 'treat'—how about letting him taste the taste of five horses?"

The military division did not object.

Xiaobing promised to leave when he suddenly saw Su Qingjia running over from a distance: "Father, father, think twice!"

"What are you doing here?" Su Yi was furious when he saw this unworthy son.

Su Qingjia hurriedly knelt down, grabbed Su Yi's clothes and said anxiously: "Father, Cheng Yu is Duke Ding's beloved son. If he dies in our hands, Duke Ding will definitely not let it go! He is so famous. , we can't do it..."

"Hmph!" Su Yi kicked him aside, "Assuming the old man doesn't kill Cheng Yu today, can that old dude Ding be with me?"

Su Qingjia was kicked far away by this kick, but quickly crawled back, still kneeling: "What father said is true, but...but even if he wants to kill, father should first listen to what he wants to say! Cheng Shizi He's not a reckless person, he came out of the city to join our army, maybe he really has something important to tell! If the fourth sister asked him to pass something on to us, but we didn't hear it, wouldn't it be a big mistake! "

Su Yi shook off Su Qingjia's hand again, and sneered: "Humph, Fourth Sister? Do you still think that wolf-hearted slut is your 'Fourth Sister'? Your own sister died in her hands, and you forgot it in a blink of an eye." clean!"

This time, Su Qingjia was kicked twice and fell on the body of a soldier, covered in blood.

He struggled to get up, and continued to plead: "Father, the fourth sister is also the son's biological sister! She has always loved Qingluan the most, and that matter must have nothing to do with her..."

"Enough!" Su Yi was so dizzy from his noise that his lungs almost exploded.

It was the greatest misfortune of General Su's life to have such an incompetent son who could only gossip.Every time he saw Su Qingjia, he felt aggrieved and panicked, worse than losing a battle.

But Su Yi finally decided to meet Cheng Yu first.

When Su Qingjia learned of his decision, she was overjoyed and kowtowed in praise.

Su Yi didn't feel happy in his heart, but became even more angry.

Back in the central army tent, he finally saw Cheng Yu who was disheveled and embarrassed.

Seeing the dejected look of his rival's son, Su Yi's mood improved a lot; but when he turned his head and saw his son's blood-stained and unshaven appearance, his good mood that had just sprouted faded again.

Su Yi sat down on the big tiger-skin chair in the center, and laughed "hehe" twice: "Isn't this Mr. Cheng's family? Why are you tied up?"

Cheng Yu raised his head and smiled calmly: "Su Shibo's rules here are that all visitors have to be tied up. How dare a nephew make an exception?"

"Hey, it's my role as an elder? Jia'er, let's untie Cheng Shizi!" Su Yi said with a fake smile.

Su Qingjia hurried forward to untie Cheng Yu, and retreated without daring to say a word.

Cheng Yu was free, stretched his arms, and thanked Su Yi.

Su Yi frowned, and lowered his face: "Ming people don't speak dark words, so nephew Cheng Xian can just say it—that boy Lu Li sent you out to see the old man, what is the purpose? Last night he gave the old man such a big Did you ask the old man for a gift? You can go back and tell him that the gift will be delivered within three days!"

Cheng Yu blinked his eyes and looked innocent: "My nephew doesn't understand Su Shibo's words! What's a 'big gift' or a 'return gift'? Is it a New Year's gift? If Shibo wants to present a gift to the emperor, my nephew dare not tell you , I also ask you, Shibo, to write a gift list and hand it over to the soldiers guarding the city..."

"Why don't you 'dare to tell'? Could it be that the little brat didn't even dare to accept the old man's 'return gift'?" Su Yi clutched the armrest of the chair, the veins on his arms were exposed.

Cheng Yu tugged at his dusty clothes, and said with a bitter face: "Shibo must have misunderstood something—the nephew was not sent out of the city by the emperor to meet you! Have you ever seen an envoy from the emperor not to leave the gate?" , I want to go out of the city through a dog hole..."

"Huh?" Su Yi was puzzled.

No wonder the soldiers under his command didn't mention the city gate. Didn't this kid come out of the city gate?
Going down a dog hole?
"Scholars can be killed but not humiliated", the disciple of the sage, the heir of poetry and etiquette, the Dingguo Duke's mansion, the son of the world came out of the city through a dog hole?
interesting.

Cheng Yu's face was so red that it was about to bleed, obviously "drilling into a dog's hole" was a big shame to him.

"Uncle Shi..." Cheng Yu blushed and spoke slowly.

"Let's talk." Su Yi's mood suddenly improved a lot.

Cheng Yu took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it tremblingly.

"The old man is too lazy to read the words of that little beast, you can read it to the old man." Su Yi looked disdainful.

Cheng Yu looked a little embarrassed: "Su Shibo, I'm afraid this is your family letter, so it's inconvenient for my nephew to read it."

"Letter from home? That little maid sent you here?" Su Yi's expression didn't look any better.

Cheng Yu hesitated, and shook his head in embarrassment: "It wasn't the empress dowager who sent the nephew here, and of course it wasn't the emperor—but the nephew secretly thought that if the two of them knew about it, they would agree."

"Since the two of them would agree, why did Brother Cheng come out of the dog's hole?" Su Qingjia who was on the side couldn't help interjecting.

Su Yi was a little impatient: "Okay! You are a nest of snakes and rats, and none of them are good things! You'd better tell your shameful things!"

Cheng Yu's face showed a bit of anger: "A gentleman has nothing to say to others. My nephew has admired the Empress Dowager for many years. He thinks that he has a clear conscience and a clear conscience. He is not afraid to speak out! My husband is injured and sick, and the emperor does not allow outsiders to visit me, so I can only ask the nuns in the palace to go in and take a look..."

"Oh—" Su Yi sighed meaningfully.

Cheng Yu's face blushed, and he explained: "Even if my nephew once had unreasonable thoughts, the time has passed now—anyway, seeing that the Queen Mother is still in good spirits, I withdrew..."

Su Qingjia couldn't help interjecting again and asked: "Where is Fourth Sister hurt? You said she's 'in good spirits', could it be that she can't get up yet?"

Cheng Yu hurriedly explained: "There are rumors in the palace that she was injured by a witch, but the servants of Fanghua Palace told me quietly that it was the concubine Shu who was affected by witchcraft, and the queen mother forcibly broke it for her. syncope……"

"Witchcraft?" Su Yi's expression finally changed.

Cheng Yu smiled slightly: The fish was hooked.

He said so much nonsense and made such a big circle, and it was not in vain!

After the strange silence lasted for a while, Su Yi coughed and asked in a flat tone: "What do you mean by 'witchcraft'? That little bitch... Yuan'er knows witchcraft? Why doesn't this old man know?"

Cheng Yu hesitated, as if he didn't want to say anything.

Su Qingjia was anxious at the side: "There are no outsiders here. The fourth sister is our close relative. Does Brother Cheng still want to guard against us?"

Cheng Yu seemed to be convinced by him, and sighed: "The Empress Dowager originally told me not to tell anyone about it. It's just that my nephew thinks that Uncle Shi is qualified to know about it—Aunt Su is in the palace, and now she often Meet the queen mother. The witchcraft of the queen mother was taught by Su Bo's mother."

Su Yi stood up involuntarily, and said in a voiceless voice: "Miao'er is still in the palace? No, no, I have searched every corner of the palace... There is no way she is still there! So big, how could she survive..."

Cheng Yu still knelt on the ground, lowered his head, and did not intend to refute his words.

Su Yi walked over quickly and lifted Cheng Yu by the shoulder: "Why did Yuan'er tell you this? How could you believe such absurd things? Have you ever seen that person? What does she look like?" ? Did she... tell you anything?"

Cheng Yu stood firm, and said calmly: "Shi Bo forgot that my nephew met Aunt Su when he was young. The Aunt Nian in the palace now looks and behaves exactly like the Aunt Su in my nephew's memory, only slightly She's getting thinner—she still remembers the time when her nephew went to the Su Manor to pay his respects to his birthday and competed with the second brother for a golden pheasant!"

"I fought with you for the golden pheasant?" Su Qingjia looked puzzled.

Su Yi suddenly turned around and clenched his fists quietly.

Cheng Yu smiled awkwardly: "Actually, I don't remember either. Aunt Su brought it up when she was joking, saying that this scar on my wrist was caught by a golden pheasant when I was arguing with my second brother."

Su Qingjia lowered her head to look carefully, and she saw a small scar the size of a grain of rice on Cheng Yu's right wrist.

How can a child of three or four years old remember such a long time ago?At that time, Su Qingyuan was not yet born; Ding Guogong was not in the capital at that time, even if he came back, he would not care about such trivial matters; at that time, Ding Guogong's wife had already passed away—except for the mistress of the host Su's mansion at that time, who else would Remember the past of ordinary children arguing?
More importantly, the fact that Mrs. Su is a witch has a lot to do with it. Even Su Qingyuan, who is her biological daughter, didn't know about it at first, so how could outsiders know?
Su Yi turned around, his expression still calm: "Is that woman really claiming to be Yuan'er's mother?"

Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Exactly. The Empress Dowager is very close to her mother and daughter in private."

"Bring the letter here." Su Yi stretched out his hand.

Cheng Yu just woke up like a dream, and hurriedly bent down to pick up the letter that fell on the ground just now, and offered it with both hands: "This letter was secretly handed over to me by Aunt Su without telling the Queen Mother, and she specifically asked not to let the Queen Mother and the Emperor know about it." —That's why my nephew had to sneak out of the dog hole to meet you."

Su Yi stared at the words on the envelope for a long time, his hands were trembling, and he couldn't tear it open for a while.

He had no choice but to cover up and raised his head, asking: "Is this written by Miao Er herself?"

Cheng Yu nodded: "It was written by Aunt Su."

Su Yi's hands trembled even more.

The witch clan is isolated from the outside world. Except for a few great wizards who are knowledgeable, ordinary people do not know the characters of the Central Plains.Back then, he was the one who taught his wife how to read, but unfortunately, his wife was powerless with the writing brushes of the Central Plains, every time the characters she wrote were lumps and lumps, there was no similarity.

Beautiful characters are all similar, but ugly characters are ugly in their own way.There is absolutely no one in the world who can imitate Madam Su Lin Miaoer's bad handwriting.

15 years... No, it has been No. 16 years. Su Yi never expected that he would have the chance to see this bad character in this life.

Holding this letter, Su Yi was suddenly at a loss.

Cheng Yu walked lightly to Su Qingjia's side and tugged at his sleeve.

Su Qingjia woke up like a dream, and hurriedly walked out with him.

When he got outside the tent, Cheng Yu said in a low voice: "Second brother, I sneaked out, and I cannot be known by the emperor, let alone by my father, so..."

Su Qingjia shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Cheng Shi should say goodbye to my father, and the old man will arrange for someone to deliver it to the gate of the city."

Cheng Yu shook his head again and again: "That's impossible! I can't go back through the city gate, my father is guarding the city with a group of civil servants! Not to mention whether they will open the city gate for me, even if it is opened— —Maybe I will be convicted of collaborating with the enemy later, and I will be chopped off by killing my relatives!"

Su Qingjia shuddered, feeling that what he said made sense.

"So, you still go back through the dog hole?" Su Qingjia asked sympathetically.

Cheng Yu nodded, with a tragic expression as if he was going to die generously.

Su Qingjia still hesitated: "But, my father may write back!"

Cheng Yu smiled: "Second brother's words are wrong. What kind of reply can make a woman's heart tremble more than laying a country for her? Aunt Su said clearly not to reply, even if she did, she wouldn't read it .”

Su Qingjia was shocked: "She... mother, she supported father's rebellion? But the fourth sister and the emperor..."

Cheng Yu stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "Second brother, you have a pure nature, but it's a pity that you don't have enough brains."

"Hello!" Su Qingjia was a little unhappy.

Cheng Yu didn't want to say any more, he went around to a hidden corner, pushed through the grass, and found a dog hole.

Then, Cheng Shizi, who was always gentle and elegant, actually lay on the ground in front of Su Qingjia, and crawled in with difficulty.

Su Qingjia was dumbfounded.

After a long time, a laughing voice came from the cave: "Second brother, go back, Su Shibo should really need your company right now!"

Su Qingjia didn't have time to ask, and saw a stone slowly rolling out of the dog hole.Then came the second piece, the third piece...

Finally, muddy water was poured in, and the dog hole was blocked.

Su Qingjia returned to the big tent full of questions, but saw that the soldiers guarding outside all looked terrified and kept waving their hands and winking at him.

Su Qingjia doesn't know how to wink or not wink.

He walked in quickly: "Father..."

"Get out!" A chair flew towards me.

Su Qingjia rolled on the spot, dodging the chair, but in the end she couldn't dodge the teapot that followed.

"Father, what's the matter?" Su Qingjia asked aggrievedly, hugging the painful shoulder from the teapot.

"Get out!" Su Yi still said the same word.

Su Qingjia is a dutiful son.When his father is furious, he will not leave it alone.

So he struggled to get up, and walked forward on his knees: "Father, calm down..."

"The old man tells you to get out!" Su Yi's face was so red and purple, he yelled until his voice became hoarse, and the last word "Get out" didn't show any momentum at all.

Under the rage, the depression in his chest became heavier, and he couldn't hold it for a while, and spit out a big mouthful of blood with a "wow".

Su Qingjia was terrified, and hurriedly got up and ran over: "Father!"

"Get out! Get out!" Su Yi still repeated that word, and then pressed his chest desperately, and spit out two mouthfuls of blood.

Su Qingjia was at a loss when she heard her father growl weakly: "You're not getting out, are you here waiting to kill me?"

Su Qingjia finally didn't dare to commit his wrath again, so she could only let go hesitantly.

The paper letter on the table has been soaked in blood for most of it.Su Qingjia boldly glanced at it twice, and his face immediately turned pale.

"Sixteen years ago, my concubine saw that the Ruan family was having an affair with the servants. Whether the children are from the blood of the lord, it is hard to think about it."

"The concubine lives in the palace, and has been lingering with Emperor Zhao day and night for more than a month. The love has been deep. For 15 years, I have thought about it, and the love is deep. I only hate that we meet too late."

"Lang Jun's life, as a minister, he can't serve the master loyally, as a son, he can't abide by the family precepts, as a husband, he can't be united with his wife, and as a father, he can't be loving and loving. Such unfaithful, unfilial, unkind, unkind people, why should they be born in this world? yeah?"

"On the day the city is destroyed, the concubine should commit suicide with her beloved daughter in front of the two armies to thank the world. Your lord, your lord, in this life and in this life, the kindness and righteousness are endless!"

……

Su Qingjia wanted to watch again, but Su Yi kicked him out hard.

Inside the big tent, Su Yi roared hoarsely: "I have been looking for you for 15 years, and I have missed you for 15 years! Now you tell me that you have been hiding in the palace for 15 years in memory of that bastard! He But I've only slept with you for a month, why cough, cough..."

He leaned on the table and coughed violently for a while, and suddenly laughed nervously: "You want to take my daughter to commit suicide? Well, the old man wants to destroy this city, and I want you to die! Let's see if Yuan'er is willing to accompany you to die!"

Su Qingjia struggled to stand up, and kicked out all the guards who were poking around.

Suddenly there was a suppressed sob in the tent.The mighty General Su actually leaned against the table and broke down in tears: "I only have two sons, one died in the battle, and the rest is cowardly and incompetent... He is not like me in any way, neither in appearance nor in temperament— —But how could he not be my son! That bitch of the Ruan family...how dare that bitch!"

"Father..." Su Qingjia was so frightened that her legs went limp.

But hearing Su Yi coughing and crying inside, it made people feel sad: "I'm already over half a hundred years old, and Jia'er is the only child left under my knees! If he wasn't my son, what use would it be for me to conquer this country..."

(End of this chapter)