Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 164 Dead, You Killed It Yourself

Su Qingyuan slowly raised the corners of her lips, with a faint smile: "There is a way to heaven, you don't go..."

The Second Highness shivered involuntarily.

Su Qingyuan pointed to his hand and smiled.

The Second Highness lowered his head and took a look, and found dense red dots growing on the back of his hands at a visible speed. In the blink of an eye, both hands were red and swollen.

No, not the two hands, but the whole body—all over the body, itching unbearably.

Su Qingyuan bumped away a few guards who were in the way, walked to Lu Li's side, and met everyone's resentful gazes.

"Demon girl, detoxify me first!" His Highness shouted.

Su Qingyuan frowned slightly, took off a pearl earring and threw it into his mouth from a distance.

The Second Highness immediately stood still obediently, and did not yell anymore.

As for whether it is still itchy or not, only he himself knows.

Su Qingyuan smiled mockingly at the elders, raised the three fingers of her right hand, and said nonchalantly: "I made Qiaoer swear to God—my son was born to me and my beloved, and he has nothing to do with His Highness the Third Highness Shenque." relationship. If there is half a word of falsehood, my son and I will be struck by lightning and killed on the spot."

The patriarch of Shenque and all the elders frowned in unison, showing doubts.

Lu Li put his sword back into its sheath, held Su Qingyuan's hand, and sighed a long time.

anger?Heartache?Or secretly happy?At this moment, his emotions are a bit complicated.

Su Qingyuan looked at the patriarch, curled her lips and sneered: "I'm so sorry, there seems to be no intention of thunder in the sky!"

The patriarch settled down, still a little unwilling: "That child... really has nothing to do with the Third Highness?"

Su Qingyuan sneered and said nothing.

An elder asked sharply from the side: "Since the child has nothing to do with the Third Highness, how do you explain the charm? What about the Wuzhi Renewing Soul Pill? How did the Third Highness die?"

Lu Li pulled Su Qingyuan into his arms, and said in a low voice, "There's no need to explain so much to these idiots. Let's flatten this temple and destroy the sparrow!"

When the elders who stood closer heard the words, their faces changed.

Su Qingyuan shook her head slowly, and looked at the patriarch calmly: "Your Third Highness indeed directed my charm technique. But—Your Third Highness entered the palace as a eunuch at the age of nine, don't you even know?"

"What did you say?!" Everyone was shocked.

Su Qingyuan glanced at the Second Highness, and said mockingly: "You might as well ask your Second Highness, ask Li Dashan, the number one imperial merchant in the capital, who is so rich, why he did everything possible to send his own brother to the Palace to be a eunuch?"

The Second Highness still stood upright like a log, motionless.

Su Qingyuan said leisurely: "Second Highness, don't say that it's just to place a few people in the palace. There are always twenty or thirty eunuchs you sent to the palace these years, and when you get there, you must catch up with your younger brother. To the point? To put it bluntly, you just want to make him the last one, right?"

"Second Highness, can... is there such a thing?" The patriarch was so angry that his beard trembled wildly.

The Second Highness remained motionless.

Su Qingyuan walked over, pulled out the earring from his mouth, threw it on the ground and stabbed it to pieces with the tip of a knife.

The Second Highness finally made a sound—it was a roar of pain.

He fell to the ground in a state of embarrassment, constantly scratching at his body, as if he wanted to peel off his flesh.

"Ma'am, isn't your move too poisonous?" The patriarch turned around and glared at Su Qingyuan.

Su Qingyuan smiled at him: "I showed this hand just to tell you that I didn't have to explain anything to you, and there was no need to lie to you. Because I have the means to destroy your entire clan of sparrows. It disappears even more cleanly!"

His Highness the Second Highness screamed "Ahh—" and threw himself in front of Su Qingyuan, kowtowing non-stop.

Su Qingyuan thought of Xiao Lizi who had been tortured to pull out her tongue, and felt a little uncomfortable, so she picked up the broken earring with the tip of the knife and threw it on the Second Highness.

His Highness became a little quieter.

Su Qingyuan glanced at him and sneered: "You can answer the patriarch's question yourself."

The patriarch rushed over immediately and grabbed the Second Highness by the collar: "You sent the Third Highness to the palace...to be a eunuch?"

The Second Highness hesitated and nodded.

The patriarch was so angry that he raised his fist and slammed it on his face, and then asked sharply: "Did you kill the third highness?!"

His Highness Second Highness yelled "Woooo", looked up at Su Qingyuan, and shook his head desperately.

The patriarch also raised his head and looked at Su Qingyuan.

Su Qingyuan smiled indifferently: "He's quite stubborn, and he won't accept any wrongs! ——Yes, your three highnesses died for me, and it has nothing to do with that toad."

The Second Highness heard that Su Qingyuan compared him to a "toad", and immediately became furious.

But the patriarch and the others looked at the face of the Second Highness, and felt that this metaphor was quite appropriate.

Everyone stared at Su Qingyuan, waiting for her to explain.

Su Qingyuan said in a deep voice: "Xiao Lizi did die for me, and he did give me the Wuzhi Renewing Soul Pill before he died. But it was because the rebel army attacked the city that night, and I was in a difficult childbirth. Hanging by a thread.—not the reason that Toad said earlier."

The patriarch is skeptical.

Su Qingyuan no longer had the interest to continue explaining, so she squatted down beside the Second Highness again: "How do you want to die?"

His Highness closed his eyes and shook his head desperately.

Su Qingyuan couldn't bear it anymore, she stretched out her hand and picked him up: "Give me back my child, I'll give you a good time!"

His Highness still shook his head.

He is not stupid.After offending Su Qingyuan thoroughly today, he knew that the matter would not end so easily.

Someone had to die, and the only bargaining chip he had to save his life was that child.

Su Qingyuan saw through the other party's mind, hated her so much that she raised the blood knife and wanted to strike.

"Ma'am, he..." The patriarch still wanted to plead.

At this time, Gu Lingxiao led his men in golden armor and escorted a group of women to rush in.

Su Qingyuan saw a small baby in one of the women's arms, immediately forgot about the Second Highness, and quickly got up to greet her.

"Your Majesty, the subordinates are lucky!" Gu Lingxiao shouted excitedly.

Su Qingyuan took the child, her eye circles immediately turned red.

Children are all similar, and she never knows what her own children look like.

But she just knew that this child was connected with her blood, which was completely different from the one in the palace.

She didn't even have to see the kid's little face clearly.

In fact, Su Qingyuan really couldn't see the baby in her arms clearly.There is only a brilliant light and shadow in her eyes, which is a prank played by naughty tears.

The child was very quiet, with a pair of eyes that were as bright as lacquer constantly turning, looking curiously at the crying woman in front of her.

The woman who was holding the child before exclaimed in amazement: "This is really strange, Your Highness has never been willing to be hugged by strangers before!"

Lu Li walked over and wrapped Su Qingyuan and the child in her arms together, unable to say a word.

Gu Lingxiao could only laugh beside him and said, "You should be happy that the little prince is back. Why are you two just crying?"

Su Qingyuan wiped her eyes and looked up at Lu Li: "It's fine if I cry, but you cry too? Are you ashamed?"

Lu Li turned his back, wiped the corners of his eyes, then turned back and said with a smile, "Our child is still pretty!"

At this moment, Su Qingyuan could clearly see the child's chubby face.Her heart was itchy, and she couldn't help stretching out her hand to pinch that small face.

The woman next to him hurriedly shouted: "Don't pinch!"

The little guy in the swaddling baby opened his toothless mouth and giggled.

Su Qingyuan couldn't help but also laughed: "There are dimples, like me!"

Lu Li couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth: "Why do boys have dimples? They're so stupid! Why don't you be like me..."

"What did you say?" Su Qingyuan raised her head and glared at him angrily.

Lu Li hastily raised his hand in surrender: "I mean, it's good to have dimples! Delicate, good-looking, pleasing to the eye—in short, our child is the most beautiful in the world!"

"It's more or less the same!" Su Qingyuan turned her anger into joy.

Gu Lingxiao suddenly roared and rushed out: "Hey! Stop that mouse!"

Su Qingyuan was taken aback, and quickly followed his direction to look over.

It turned out that the Second Highness was limping into a corner while others were not paying attention, planning to escape.

Gu Lingxiao took him back without much effort and put him in front of Lu Li: "Your Majesty, what should we do with this thief?"

Lu Li frowned.

The patriarch and the elders next to each other looked at each other, and after a while, they suddenly knelt down together.

It was only then that Gu Lingxiao realized that he had carried himself away today and called out everyone's true identities.

Su Qingyuan only cared about the child and couldn't care about other things.

Lu Li really wanted to grab the baby and hug him, but he was sure he would not win, so he reluctantly looked away, looking at the Second Highness who was lying on the ground, "If I remember correctly, you are in charge of purchasing gardens and plants in the palace. What? Over the years, you have bullied others, dominated the market, and accumulated a lot of money, so it was all for the purpose of recruiting troops and preparing to enter the capital?"

His Highness the Second Highness couldn't say a word, only kowtowed.

Lu Li sighed: "I didn't know that Xiao Lizi was your younger brother...Your methods are good, sinister enough, vicious enough."

The Second Highness suddenly raised his head, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty knows that, in fact, the villain has no intention of treason..."

Su Qingyuan came over and sneered: "Don't you think it's a bit late to say this now?"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Empress Dowager!" The Second Highness suddenly rushed over.

Su Qingyuan subconsciously took two steps back.

Lu Li nervously stretched out his hand to support her back, fearing that her foot would miss the ground.

His Highness the Second Highness rushed to Su Qingyuan's feet, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, it was your mother who proposed to send my third brother to the palace, and it was also the one who stole your child and the emperor's child and handed it over to the villain to bring back the sparrow." Your mother, it was your mother who urged the villain to recruit soldiers and buy horses to fight back to the capital! You want to punish the villain, but let the chief culprit go, the villain refuses to accept!"

Su Qingyuan played with her son's little finger, and smiled faintly: "Did you recognize the wrong person? After the rebels broke through the city, the Empress Dowager was martyred and buried in the back mountain of the imperial mausoleum, don't you know? I am a member of the civil servants The daughter of Wai Langling's family has nothing to do with the Su family!"

The Second Highness stared, watching her open her eyes and talking nonsense.

Su Qingyuan continued unhurriedly: "The traitor Su Yi has been put to death, and his wife Lin—that is, the old palace lady known as 'Aunt Nian'—has also been killed. Su Qingjia is still alive, this is the end of treason, do you understand?"

"Dead... dead?" The Second Highness's face was pale.

Lu Li said in a deep voice, "Yes, all the damned are dead. The Su family has been famous for hundreds of years, once the word 'anti' is used, there will be no way to survive. Why do you think you can survive?"

The Second Highness finally knew that the situation was over, and he felt as if his bones had been taken out of him, and he didn't even have the strength to lie on his stomach.

The elders who knelt on the ground trembled and wanted to intercede but did not dare.

Lu Li looked around at the crowd, and said in a deep voice, "Kill this thief, you still have a way to survive."

"Emperor... are you really the emperor?" The patriarch raised his head and asked in disbelief.

Lu Li snorted coldly: "Shenque once had a chance to restore the country, but you gave it up. Now, I will give you a little time to think about the way forward."

"Second Highness, he..." The patriarch was still a little unwilling.

Su Qingyuan squinted her eyes and looked at him: "Forgive me for interjecting - Shenque died 20 years ago, so where is the 'Second Highness'?"

The patriarch shuddered, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes... No Second Highness, this thief hijacked the prince, offended the emperor, and intended to plot rebellion—a crime that cannot be punished!"

"Then kill him." Lu Li said flatly.

Gu Lingxiao responded, and was about to step forward immediately, but Su Qingyuan stopped him, took the long knife in his hand and handed it to the patriarch.

The patriarch was stunned for a long time before he tremblingly walked forward and inserted the long knife into the back of the Second Highness's heart.

"It's cheap for him!" Su Qingyuan sneered.

The patriarch fell to the ground and trembled all over, his limbs cramped.

Lu Li stretched out his arms to hug Su Qingyuan, turned around and left.

The patriarch hurriedly stood up, and staggered to catch up: "You...are you really the current emperor?"

Lu Li stood still and smiled: "Is it important whether it is true or not? Your 'Second Highness' is dead, and you killed it yourself."

The patriarch fell to the ground, dumbfounded.

"Forget it, don't scare him." Su Qingyuan persuaded with a smile.

Lu Li agreed, went to the hall and sat down: "I hid my identity from you earlier because it was not necessary, and because I didn't know your background, I didn't dare to take risks until the child was found. Now that Commander Gu said he missed it , I'm not afraid of you knowing."

The patriarch settled down, and hurriedly brought all the elders, family members who didn't know the truth, and guards to prostrate to the ground, kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times.

The people under the Second Highness's subordinates were unwilling to kneel at first, but as soon as the gold-armored soldiers made a move, they beat them to the ground in a few strokes, and they had to kneel if they didn't kneel.

After they finished their salutes, Lu Li said in a deep voice, "I have carefully checked the file on the matter of the sparrow 20 years ago. Although Xiliang was behind it, it is also true that the ruler of the country at that time was at the head of the rat and colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country." At that time, there were rumors all over the world, Cihang Guoshi failed to do his duty, and instead contributed to the flames, causing Nanyue to be in a precarious situation. ——Therefore, the court acted vigorously and severely punished the king of Shenque at that time.

The patriarch and all the elders had to say "yes".

Lu Li pondered for a while, and said, "Even so, the original intention of the father was not to let the sparrow fall into a slump. The people are innocent, and after all these years of hiding in Tibet, it is enough."

The patriarch raised his head in surprise: "The emperor means—"

Lu Li glanced at him and said calmly, "Shenque can stand up straight, but he no longer needs a domineering ruler. From now on, the title of 'Shenque' can be restored, and all rights and responsibilities remain the same. .As for all affairs in the country, the patriarch and the elders will jointly discuss and manage them, so there is no need to start a new one."

All the elders looked at each other, feeling that this decision was very novel.

At first glance, it seemed that Lu Li didn't want to bother, and told them to follow the old way of handling clan affairs; when he thought about it carefully, there seemed to be no better way now.

So, they have waited for 20 years for the restoration of the country, and it was solved so easily?
Lu Li glanced at the patriarch and called out his name accurately: "Bi Zichang."

The patriarch quickly knelt down again.

Lu Li looked at him with a cold expression: "As the head of the clan, you are indecisive, confused, and easily deceived by others. From now on, you should listen to the elders' opinions when you encounter problems, and don't let yourself go."

The patriarch was terrified and hurriedly kowtowed to say "yes".

Lu Li stretched out his hand to help him up, and sighed, "Remembering the old love and being loyal to the old master is the source of your indecision, but it is also the place where you value love and righteousness. I hope you will not forget your original intention in the future, and always remember the gods and the people. Let me down. The imperial edict and the great seal will be delivered by post-horse after I return to Beijing, you just need to rest assured."

The patriarch felt ashamed and kept wiping away tears.

Lu Li said with a smile, "It's getting late today, I'm afraid the empress and I will come to your house to bother you all night, I hope you don't think it's annoying."

The elder of the patriarch blushed and even called him "panic".

After Lu Li finished speaking, he immediately moved to Su Qingyuan's side and took the baby in her arms.

Su Qingyuan took a long breath of relief: "I'm exhausted!"

Lu Li smiled and said, "Since that's the case, let me hold him from now on."

"You have a good idea!" Su Qingyuan glared at him.

Lu Li smiled and pinched the little guy's face, and said with a smile, "It's not just 'beautiful'? I am 'beautiful'. ——Of course, my son is even more beautiful!"

"Lu Li, I think you're a bit shameless!" Su Qingyuan couldn't laugh or cry.

"Well, close ink is black." Lu Li twisted his neck proudly, not feeling ashamed at all.

Beside, the patriarch and a group of elders were dumbfounded.

Is this... or the emperor who overwhelmed them with arrogance just now?
It's kind of spooky, to be honest.

Isn't it just a son!Everyone present had sons, grandsons, and a few had great-grandsons, but no one had ever been like a certain emperor, who had a son and everything, and had never seen the world!
However, seeing Lu Li's beaming appearance and completely disregarding his image, the old guys had to admit that they were actually a little envious.

The patriarch quietly retreated behind the crowd, wiped off his sweat, and secretly said, "It's dangerous."

Although he is sometimes confused, he is not stupid.

If it weren't for the joy of Zhu Gui's palm to dilute the anger of these two ancestors today, wouldn't there be blood flowing in the Suzaku Temple?
It is also fortunate that the little prince is safe and sound, otherwise even if tens of thousands of people of Shenque are killed, it may not be possible to expose this matter!

It can be said that the little prince is the lucky star of the sparrow!

When going down the mountain, Gu Lingxiao came to ask about cleaning up the battlefield. Only then did Lu Li know that they came in from the back mountain and killed two or three hundred guards before finding the child.

Those who are alive, without their master, naturally have nothing to fear.

"Leave it to the patriarch." Lu Li said casually.

Gu Lingxiao felt relieved.As a result, those guards who were still showing off their power in front of the patriarch before became the patriarch's prisoners in a blink of an eye, all of them slumped.

As for the women who served the little baby before, Su Qingyuan carefully examined them, picked out a few good-hearted ones, and kept them.

This is really impossible.After all, children are easy to accept their birth, and you can't replace all the people around him at once.

The wet nurse must stay.Su Qingyuan really likes that nurse, just because of her care for the little guy, she knows that the little guy hasn't suffered much in the past few months.

Su Qingyuan snatched the little guy back from Lu Li's arms again, and couldn't get enough of it no matter how much she held her in her arms.

Lu Li pitifully grabbed Su Qingyuan's arm: "If you find your son, you don't want me anymore!"

"Well, he is much cuter than you." Su Qingyuan said frankly.

Lu Li felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.He found that his future was likely to be dark.

Su Qingyuan simply ignored him.

Lu Li had no choice but to hug her from behind, clinging to her facelessly, "But I think, although my son is pretty, he's still not as good as you."

"Of course!" Su Qingyuan didn't blush at all.

Lu Li hesitated for a while before he smiled wryly, "You're not humble!"

Su Qingyuan still has no time to pay attention to him.

Lu Li simply rested his chin on her shoulder, not caring how difficult it was to walk like this.

"A Yuan, in the main hall earlier, they used another child as a perfunctor, how did you see the flaw?" Lu Li was at a loss for words.

Su Qingyuan frowned and said after a while: "That one is full of flaws!"

"I would like to hear the details." Lu Li said hastily.

Su Qingyuan handed her son to him casually, straightened her body and straightened her clothes: "First, the woman holding the child has a strong powdery smell on her body, but no milk fragrance, which shows that she is definitely not a nursing mother; second, The child’s tears were too much, not like a baby less than three months old. ——After discovering these two flaws, I touched the top of the child’s head and found that his head and heart had grown quite solid , I guess it will be five or six months."

Lu Li was confused.

Su Qingyuan lowered her head and sighed silently.

She didn't know what a newborn child should be like before.

In the past few months, because she missed the child, she often deliberately asked the maids and nuns around her: what is a one-month-old child like, and what is a two-month-old child like... Although the child never grew up beside her, she also Don't want to miss any of his little changes.

Although this child returned to her on the first day, he has always grown in her heart.How could she have the nerve to let Lu Li know about such a humble and pitiful thought?

Su Qingyuan smiled self-deprecatingly, pretending to be nonchalant, and said in a flat tone: "Even if there are no such flaws, they can't deceive me. My own child can be recognized just by intuition."

Lu Li sighed with emotion, and suddenly heard footsteps behind him, and someone hurried over.

Su Qingyuan glanced back, her brows slightly frowned.

It's lily of the valley.

(End of this chapter)