Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 163 Swear on the life of the child
The next day, go up the mountain and enter the temple.

Seeing Su Qingyuan dressed as a maid, Ling Lan'er immediately raised her eyebrows and sneered, without giving any face.

Su Qingyuan is not a good-tempered person, and of course she will not show her any good looks.

Seeing this, Ling Lan'er was furious: "Hey, you are my maid today, yet you dare to show me your face, are you bored?"

Su Qingyuan was only thinking about finding a child, but when she saw the other party pestering her endlessly, she was already angry: "I'm not afraid of being your maidservant, I'm just afraid that your life will be shortened!"

"Why is life shortened?" Ling Lan'er didn't understand this.

The patriarch glared at her, and reprimanded: "Madam pretending to be a maid is just an expedient measure, not for you to be used as a maid! If you are so domineering and rude, you will be beaten to death sooner or later. If it's not life loss, what is it?"

It was the first time Su Qingyuan heard that "life-saving" could be explained in this way, and she found it interesting.

Ling Lan'er took it seriously, cast a glance at Su Qingyuan, and sneered: "Kill me? How dare she?"

Lu Li squeezed Su Qingyuan's hand, silently persuading her to calm down.

Su Qingyuan really doesn't have that much energy to make noise with unimportant people.

So it was barely quiet along the way.When Ling Lan'er looked at Su Qingyuan, she wished that knives would fly out of her eyes.

Su Qingyuan roughly guessed the reason, and at this moment, she had no intention of worrying about it, but she had already quietly recorded her revenge.

——When encountering a woman who is inexplicably hostile to her, it is absolutely right to go back and scold Lu Li!

Lu Li was puzzled when he met Su Qingyuan's angry eyes.

It was almost noon when we reached the top of the mountain.

The Suzaku Temple is a magnificent building built on the top of the mountain, with golden tiles and red walls, magnificent.

There are many guards guarding outside the temple, and they are heavily guarded.

When the patriarch and his party walked to the door, guards rushed up and searched them.

It turns out that it is not allowed to bring weapons into the temple.

A young elder said angrily: "Whenever we don't come to the temple ten times or eight times, it's the first time I heard that there is a rule not to bring weapons!"

The guard unceremoniously untied the sword from his waist, and said coldly: "There was no such rule before, but it has been in place since then! A weapon is a murder weapon, and it collided with the spirit of the sparrow. Can you bear it?"

The elder was still waiting to argue, but the patriarch stopped him.

So the guards unscrupulously searched the patriarch and elders for a while, and finally even the golden hairpin on Ling Lan'er's head was searched away.

Su Qingyuan blatantly held the blood knife, but no one cared about it.

Lu Li's saber was also hanging on his waist in an open and aboveboard manner, shining brilliantly.

With disheveled hair, Ling Laner yelled at the guards: "Why are you only searching for me and not them?!"

Two guards came forward, Su Qingyuan and Lu Li smiled at each other, and raised their arms very cooperatively.

Su Qingyuan's clothes were thin, and there was no place to hide her things, so the guards didn't rummage around, they only gave her a disgusted glance at the silver-plated hairpin on her head, and then let her go.

Lu Li did lose a two-inch knife.He smiled slightly, but didn't take it seriously.

After successfully entering the door, Ling Lan'er was dumbfounded.

Didn't you say that you are not allowed to bring weapons?The guards guarding the gate... are they blind?
Su Qingyuan winked at her triumphantly.

Of course the guards were not blind.But she is a witch.

A group of people were "escorted" by the guards into the temple, and a tall young man came out to welcome him, and said with a smile on his face, "Patriarch, elders, please sit down."

Everyone sat down in order, Su Qingyuan had to stand behind Ling Laner because of her "status".

The young man sat down on the main seat, glanced around at everyone, and asked slowly: "How do you think about the matter you mentioned earlier?"

The patriarch tugged at his beard, and said in a deep voice, "Even if Second Highness asks you eight hundred times again, our idea remains the same—we won't do things like hitting a stone with a pebble."

An elder next to him also shook his head with his beard: "The sparrow's vitality has not yet recovered, provoking the court at this time is tantamount to self-destruction, Second Highness, please think twice."

It turned out that the young man was the "Second Highness" himself.Su Qingyuan looked at him carefully, feeling as if she had seen him somewhere before.

The Second Highness's face darkened: "According to your ideas, the sparrow should live in such a wimpy way, like a mouse in the gutter, forever shameful? Let go of the hatred of subjugation? Don't avenge the father and king? 20 Those unjust souls from years ago are still floating above the temple, all of you have completely forgotten about the past, and you only think about drinking tea, enjoying flowers and having fun with your grandchildren!"

The patriarch said calmly: "The people of Shenque work diligently all their lives, isn't it just so that they can drink tea, enjoy flowers, and entertain their grandchildren when they grow old? Is it true that only if you follow your highness and send someone to die in a foreign land for nothing, is your work not in vain?"

The Second Highness's face darkened, and he jumped up against the case: "So, you have made up your mind not to let go, right?"

The patriarch stood up, neither humble nor overbearing: "The old man is already buried to his shoulders. If he dies, he will die. It is impossible to betray the people."

His Highness suddenly laughed: "Old man, you should have died a long time ago, but what about your sons and grandchildren, don't you want them too?"

The face of the patriarch changed slightly.

His Highness clapped his hands, and immediately a group of guards escorted a group of young and old into the room.

When Su Qingyuan saw the boy from yesterday in the crowd, she knew that these were the patriarch's family members.

Several guards rushed towards Ling Lan'er, the girl screamed in fright, jumped up and hid behind Su Qingyuan.

The Second Highness noticed Su Qingyuan, and his eyes lit up suddenly.

Su Qingyuan felt a chill in her heart, and hurriedly ran behind Lu Li to hide, not planning to take care of Ling Laner who was hiding behind her.

The patriarch's face darkened, and he glared at the Second Highness and said angrily: "What means do you have to rush at me, don't show power and prestige to my family!"

His Royal Highness sneered: "Don't worry, neither you nor your family can run away! Your granddaughter, and that pretty maid—huh!"

Lu Li squinted his eyes and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly.

Several elders stood up one after another, exchanged glances with each other, and the youngest one said: "Second Highness, the patriarch and the elders respect your identity, but it does not mean that you can bully you! Although the sparrow is dead, the patriarch The rules are still in place, please think twice!"

"Family rules?" The Second Highness sneered, "You don't think I'm afraid of those of you who only bully the weak and fear the hard, do you?"

The faces of the elders were all a bit ugly.

Obviously, although the sparrows have clan rules, they usually don't have official guards or troops, and the maintenance of order has always depended on the voluntary efforts of the clansmen.

In contrast, the Second Highness brought back from the outside, a team of thousands of guards and entourages.

At this time, there were no people in the temple, and the patriarch, the great elder, and others were already in the mouth of a tiger.

His Highness the Second Highness said triumphantly: "How about it, Lord Patriarch, think about it again?"

The patriarch shook his head slowly, and sighed to the family members who were restrained by the other party: "Don't blame me. If I bow to him for you today, I will cheat the people of the whole clan!"

His Highness's smile turned cold, and he said sharply, "Do it!"

The guards immediately dragged a six or seven-year-old girl out, swung their knives and chopped her down.

"Grandpa—" the little girl cried out in fright.

The patriarch turned his head away, unable to bear to look any further.

With a loud "Zheng!", there was an exclamation in the hall.

The patriarch hurriedly turned around, and saw that the little granddaughter had fallen into Su Qingyuan's arms, and the guard who had slashed people with a knife fell to the ground, bleeding all over the ground.

What was even more astonishing was that the Second Highness, who was still showing off his power just now, had a long sword gleaming with cold light on his neck, and his face was as pale as paper.

The owner of that long sword is of course Lu Li.

Su Qingyuan hugged the little girl with one arm, and held the heavy bloody knife in the other, panting endlessly.

The guards wanted to surround him, but they were afraid of the sword in Lu Li's hand, so they were at a loss for a while.

Su Qingyuan sent the petrified little girl to the patriarch, and walked to Lu Li's side with the knife in her arms.

Seeing her coming, the Second Highness shuddered and hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Yo, you're also afraid of death?" Su Qingyuan sneered.

An elder said anxiously: "This girl, please be merciful, Your Highness is honorable and cannot be killed..."

Su Qingyuan glared at the man viciously, and raised the knife in her hand.

The patriarch calmed down, and said coldly: "The status is noble, but the scheming is not right. He only pursues his own selfish desires, and he doesn't care about the life and death of the people in the clan. How can such a master be worth following!"

"But the old lord only passed down this bloodline..." The elder was very embarrassed.

The patriarch sneered and said, "Only pass on this little bloodline? That's not necessarily the case! As long as you find His Highness the Third Highness, how can there be such a bastard in the clan to speak!"

"Third Highness? The patriarch has news about the Third Highness?" Several elders were a little excited.

The patriarch stroked his beard and smiled triumphantly: "Of course. These two distinguished guests are friends of the Third Highness! Our Third Highness is intelligent and kind, much better than some wolfish and ambitious things..."

Lu Li frowned slightly, instinctively feeling that things were going to get worse.

Sure enough, the Second Highness whose neck was held by the long sword screamed desperately: "That kid is obviously dead, you are still dreaming!"

The patriarch and the elders were shocked: "Dead? When? What happened?"

Lu Li hurriedly pressed down on the blade of the sword, threatening the Second Highness to shut up, and then winked at Su Qingyuan.

Su Qingyuan turned to the Second Highness, with a look of anger on her face: "What did you say? He died? You killed him, right? I just said...I just said that it is impossible for Brother Li not to write to us for so long ...In the early spring of this year, he has been worried, and often hides and cannot find anyone... If he is safe and sound, he will definitely send us news; even if he dies, our husband and wife should be the first to know! If Someone knew it earlier than we did—that person must be the murderer!"

Lu Li shook his head and said regretfully, "How could this happen? My dear brother... What kind of enmity is it that can be dealt with so cruelly!"

When the patriarch and several elders heard this, everyone was furious and glared at the second highness: "It really is you! These years, there has been a force in the capital that has been secretly preventing us from finding the third highness... we guess When it comes to you, I only thought you were jealous, but I didn't expect——You are so mad!"

Lu Li thought for a while, and pressed the long sword in his hand down hard.

"Wait a minute, son!" The patriarch suddenly rushed up and grabbed the blade, narrowly saving the life of the Second Highness.

Lu Li looked at his bloody palm and his expression darkened.

The head of the patriarch lowered his head and said sadly: "Young Master, please be merciful... the matter of the Third Highness, the Shenque people will only be more distressed than the Young Master, but-after the Third Highness is gone, the Second Highness is the only blood of the old king, he can't die!"

An elder said angrily: "Who will die if he doesn't die? He is not the only blood of the old king, doesn't he still have a child?"

The patriarch hurriedly explained to everyone: "The child is not the blood of the Second Highness, but the son and wife. The two distinguished guests came all the way from the capital just to find their beloved son..."

His Highness suddenly raised his head, his eyes fixed on Su Qingyuan.

Seeing that he seemed to be about to speak, Lu Li quickly put his hands around his neck and said sharply, "I don't want to worry about your spooks. Go and bring that child to me right now, or the thief will die." undoubtedly!"

The confidants of His Highness the Second Highness saw that their master's life was in the hands of the other party, so naturally they did not dare to disobey their orders.

Not long after, a woman walked in quickly with a baby in her arms.

Su Qingyuan immediately threw down the blood knife, rushed over, grabbed the swaddle and hugged it in her arms.

Lu Li watched helplessly, hating himself for not being able to separate himself.

Su Qingyuan carefully lifted a corner of the swaddle and looked at the child's small face.

It's not a good experience.Because the little guy started to cry as soon as he was in her arms, and the sound could be said to be earth-shattering.

Su Qingyuan tried to comfort him, but the little guy didn't appreciate it, kicked his calf and wailed unceasingly, and after a while, the corners of the quilt beside his cheeks were wet from crying.

Su Qingyuan's heart moved slightly, and she gradually came to her senses.

She remained calm, stretched out her hand to touch the top of the little guy's head, and she knew it in her heart.

"A Yuan, come here and show me!" Lu Li stretched his neck beside him, his eyes straightened in anxiety.

Su Qingyuan returned the swaddle to the woman, walked back and picked up her knife, and gestured at the head of the Second Highness: "I don't want the child anymore, let's kill this thief!"

"What's going on?" Lu Li was shocked.

Su Qingyuan gritted her teeth, and said bitterly: "That's not our child! This dog wants to play tricks when he is about to die, why keep him? It's better to kill him first, and let's take someone to find it slowly!"

His Highness shook his head desperately.

Lu Li was furious and clenched his hands even more tightly.

The patriarch and all the elders came to intercede again in a hurry.

The servant of the Second Highness came over and knelt down and kowtowed: "My lord, please spare me! Your Highness... only our Highness knows the whereabouts of your young master. If you kill him, it will be difficult to find your son!"

"So, the one just now was really fake?" Su Qingyuan rushed over and kicked the servant on the back.

The servant was startled, knowing that he had been fooled by her, he regretted it a lot.

Lu Li hated it, and it took him a while to suppress his anger, and he relaxed a little: "Those tricks that don't work on the table, it's better not to play. Tell the whereabouts of the child, and save your life!"

"I, ahem... I'll take you there!" The Second Highness was dying, but he still didn't let go.

Lu Li was so angry that he just wanted to strangle him.

His Highness shrank his neck, and said in a low voice: "That place is very secret, and there are organs, others can't find it... Don't worry, my lord, the villain dare not be presumptuous."

"Then let's go!" Lu Li lifted his collar, the blade of the sword never left his neck an inch.

The Second Highness lost the slightest bit of arrogance, and walked out the door with a slumped head, led the crowd out through the back door, and walked to an open place with twists and turns.

It is an altar.

"What are you bringing us here for?" Lu Li's face darkened.

His Highness the Second Highness pointed to the center of the altar: "It can be opened there, little...Young Master is right under there."

Su Qingyuan couldn't help but hit him hard on the top of the head with the back of the knife.

The guards in charge of guarding the altar stepped forward and worked together to pry open the stone slab in the center of the altar.

Sure enough, a one-foot-square hole appeared below, and it was so dark that nothing could be seen inside.

Lu Li ordered the guards to enter the cave, but the Second Highness said, "There is a mechanism inside, they don't understand, only the villain can go down in person!"

Su Qingyuan took out a handful of dried flowers and hay from her purse—the ones that were not used to drive snakes earlier—clamped it in her hand, lit the fire and burned it to ashes, and stuffed it into the mouth of the Second Highness: "If you dare to play tricks Even the gods can't save you. You should be clear about the means of our witch clan."

The Second Highness shuddered and nodded repeatedly.

Lu Li reluctantly let go.

His Highness the Second Highness got into the hole with a "chuck".

Su Qingyuan followed and looked, her face darkened.

It turned out that the hole was not deep, and there were no organs in it.After the Second Highness entered, he stood there obediently like a loach in a cave.

What kind of trick is this?Su Qingyuan was a little confused.

The other party quickly solved her doubts.

After standing firmly in the cave, the Second Highness immediately opened his throat and howled: "Bi Zichang, you idiots! Hurry up and tie up those two outsiders with ulterior motives! They are the murderers who killed the third brother! You claim to be wise , can't you see that they want to drive out the blood of our royal sparrow family!"

The patriarch and all the elders looked at each other, but no one moved, but they looked at Lu Li with more scrutiny.

Seeing that they didn't move, the Second Highness became more anxious: "Think about it carefully, the Wuzhi Renewing Soul Pill is the holy medicine of our god bird, and it is hard to change it with gold. How could the third brother give it to an outsider casually?"

Everyone couldn't help but believe it a little more.

Witch, Blood Knife, Wuzhi Renewing Soul Pill, Charisma... There are indeed too many suspicious things about this woman!

The patriarch thought about it carefully, and found that what Lu Li and Su Qingyuan said to him earlier were almost all empty words.

so?
He hesitated, and surrounded Lu Li and the other elders together, "My lord, it's not that we don't want to believe you, it's just that the matter is very important, and you two need to confront our Second Highness."

Su Qingyuan raised the blood knife and aimed it at the hole, before throwing it down.

The Second Highness was so frightened that he yelled out his throat: "Help! The demon girl wants to kill people to silence her—"

"Madam, please give the Second Highness a chance to confront him!" The patriarch's face darkened.

Su Qingyuan and Lu Li looked at each other, then turned to the patriarch and sneered.

"Please put down your weapons and listen to what His Royal Highness said." The patriarch said in a deep voice.

Su Qingyuan held the blood knife and refused to let go.

Lu Li stood beside her with sharp eyes, "We both want to kill this thief, I'm afraid you may not be able to keep us!"

"But we may be able to keep your young master." The patriarch looked at him proudly.

Lu Li curled his lips, "If you believe that the child is ours, of course you should also believe that what the two of us said earlier is true; if you suspect that the two of us are lying, the child will naturally have nothing to do with us." It doesn't matter, why do you threaten us with him?"

The patriarch grabbed his beard and thought for a while, still frowning and shaking his head: "Perhaps you two didn't lie about the child, but about the Third Highness...why do you keep trying to stop the Second Highness from speaking up? Are you guilty?"

His Highness the Second Highness in the cave was overjoyed: "Bi Zichang, my father did not misunderstand you back then! The two of them are indeed guilty, but the truth is even more exciting than you guessed - Nian'er was indeed born by that woman, but his biological son But the father is not that woman's husband, but my third younger brother, your Third Highness!"

"What the hell?" Su Qingyuan's face darkened.

The patriarch looked at her excitedly: "So... Nian'er is the child of you and the Third Highness?"

Su Qingyuan was confused for a while before she realized: "Nian'er" is probably her son's name.

But, when did her son get involved with the Third Highness of Shenque?
His Highness the Second Highness carefully climbed up a little bit in the cave, and poked his head out: "Third brother has been wandering around in the capital these years, and his behavior is very absurd. I can't bear the disappointment of the people in the clan, and I have never dared to tell you the truth—Three My younger brother had an affair with this woman and had a child. When her man found out about the adultery, he bribed the government and killed the third brother... I couldn't bear the extinction of the third brother, so I tried my best to steal the child. I thought it would be safe. I know they still found it here..."

"You don't want to write a playbook, you're really a waste of talent!" Su Qingyuan was so angry that her face was livid, and she gritted her teeth and scolded.

His Highness simply climbed a little further, and said in a loud voice: "It's human nature for Madam not to want to confess, but the third younger brother died because of you, how can you turn black and white and let me bear the injustice!"

"Ma'am, what the Second Highness said is the truth?" The patriarch looked at Su Qingyuan furiously.

Su Qingyuan was about to deny it, but the Second Highness shouted loudly in the cave: "Madam, do you still want to deny it? How dare you swear——how dare you swear on the life of your own child that there has never been any relationship between you and your third brother?" Have a skin-to-skin relationship? Can you swear that the charm technique you learned was not taught by the third brother? Can you swear that the death of the third brother has nothing to do with you?"

Su Qingyuan was so angry that her face turned blue.

The Second Highness took the opportunity to continue: "You and the third brother are living in the tunnel, everyone knows about it, how can you cover it up? The third brother died because of you, and before he died, he gave the Wuzhi Renewing Soul Pill You, he himself was burnt beyond recognition, and ended up with a limbless end... Have you forgotten it?"

Su Qingyuan only felt "buzzing" in her ears, and her eyes turned black.

Those bad memories, which she always wanted to forget, but someone always tried to bring them up in front of her.

Everyone knows it.

Everyone knows...

Sweat gradually formed on her forehead.

"A Yuan!" Lu Li felt that she was not in the right state, and immediately panicked.

But at this moment, all the elders and guards had surrounded him, not only protecting His Highness, but also separating Lu Li and Su Qingyuan, staring at him hostilely.

These old things are not to be feared, but once they are angered, it may not be easy to get out of this mountain.

"A Yuan, wake up! You have nothing wrong with you, you shouldn't be restrained by him!" Lu Li yelled anxiously.

"Madam?" The patriarch stared at Su Qingyuan, already having a conclusion in his heart.

His Royal Highness was triumphant.

He knew that Su Qingyuan was not afraid of death, so he forced her to swear on the life of the child - he knew she would never dare.

Seeing that Su Qingyuan has been hesitating, the elders have completely believed the words of the Second Highness.

Therefore, when the guards of the Second Highness surrounded Lu Li and showed their weapons, none of the elders tried to stop him.

"Revenge for the Third Highness!" Someone shouted, and more than a dozen long swords aimed at Lu Li.

Su Qingyuan suddenly raised her head.

At this time, His Royal Highness had already got out of the hole, walked quickly to her side, and said in a low voice: "Empress Dowager, you don't want your scandal to be known all over the world, do you? Remember to think twice before speaking—" —”

(End of this chapter)