World of Chessboard

"What did Yun Mo tell you?" She pulled Zhao Xu along the way and asked him in a low voice after they returned to their bedroom.

Zhao Xu said faintly, "Nothing."

Zhao Shu said, "Tell me. I won't harm you."

Zhao Xu sneered. "You won't harm me. You'll harm Seventh Uncle."

Zhao Shu said, "I won't harm him either!" As soon as the words left his mouth, he saw the strange look that Zhao Xu was looking at him with, and a sudden chill went down his spine. Zhao Shu took a deep breath and softened her tone. "I heard it from him when he said, 'A man's wealth is his own fault'. What else did he say?"

Zhao Xu obviously didn't want to say more, so he simply said, "Say that I apologize to you on his behalf, and also advise me not to get separated from my father because of his matter. That's all." Pausing for a moment, he said, "I want to go back and rest. My son is taking his leave." He turned around and was about to leave.

"You think he's telling the truth?" Zhao Shu suddenly asked.

Zhao Xu stopped and said, "Even if he's not completely right, at least I believe he has no ill intentions. Maybe Father thought what I said was wrong, but what I saw was that Seventh Uncle never tried to harm Father, nor did he try to recruit noblemen to threaten Father. Would he harm his father? This is nonsense. "

Zhao Shu sighed and said, "Close the door. I have something to tell you." Sit down in a chair.

Zhao Xu hesitated for a moment, but still did as he was told. He stood in front of Zhao Shu and said, "Father, please speak."

Zhao Shu organized his thoughts and said, "It's not that I don't trust Yun Mo. On the contrary, I've always been extremely confident in him. He was eleven years younger than me, and I watched him grow up. I know his temperament well, and I have no reason to be wary of him. But the Queen Mother was on his guard. You know what I have to do in this situation, don't you? "

Zhao Xu shook his head. "I don't quite understand."

Zhao Shu said, "I want to see if Yun Mo has the value to make me disobey the Queen for him. She was the only one in the palace who would be on my side. If, I mean if, the cloud and I conflict, that will help me to fight the cloud only the Queen Mother. If I want to protect the cloud, I have to be prepared to be abandoned by my mother, which is like cutting off my own path of retreat. I admit that I was plotting against him this time, but I was also testing him. If he were to collapse because of this, or become my enemy because of this, I would decisively abandon him and cripple him. But now it is different, he has shown a result that I am satisfied with. "

Zhao Xu creased his brow and asked, "Didn't he lose control because of this?"

Zhao Shu sighed and said, "He was only pretending during the banquet. He probably spat out blood on purpose. He did it as a warning and as a sign of weakness, to give me a way out. You don't understand now. Yun Mo was too smart. He was so smart that it caused people to be afraid. Take a step back and become your official. At least now that he has made it clear that he is willing to call me a man, I need not risk provoking him any further. " Seeing that his son didn't really understand, he didn't explain too much and only said, "Do you understand that we have achieved great merits? Even though he did not have the intention to fight, it did not mean that it was impossible. Rather than worrying for the long term, it would be better to kill them to avoid future troubles. "

Zhao Xu still didn't understand in particular. He asked, "So you're saying that father never planned to kill Seventh Uncle, and now he won't harm Seventh Uncle either?"

Zhao Shu did not explain any further. She nodded and said, "That's right. That's what you think. "Also, I can assure you that I will absolutely not kill him."

Although Zhao Xu still didn't quite believe it, at least he no longer held that hostility from before. He nodded and said, "I believe in father."

Zhao Shu didn't intend to force him to believe her completely. Seeing his current attitude, she was already satisfied. She waved her hand and said, "Go back and rest. Don't tell anyone else about what you and Brother Mo have said today. You don't have to tell anyone what I've told you either."

Zhao Xu said, "Father, please be at ease. Your son understands the seriousness of this matter."

Zhao Shu smiled gently. "That's good." In the next few days, don't look for your Seventh Uncle anymore. In a while, go look for him again, I won't stop you. "

Zhao Xu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and took his leave.

— —

"Royal brother, what would you choose?" Zhao Qingyan flipped the page in his hand and thought to himself. As long as Zhao Yu didn't move, a single Empress was nothing to worry about. If Zhao Shu insisted on killing him... That would be troublesome.

Lu Sobbing handed the peeled orange to him. "What are you thinking about?"

Zhao Qingyan reached out to take it and put a piece of it in her mouth. She was stunned. She glanced at the orange in her hand and asked, "How do you know I'm thinking about something?"

Lu Sobbing took a piece of tangerine from his hand and put it in his mouth. "While you're reading, you're just squinting your eyes and thinking – even though your multitasking skills are very high and you've also read the contents of the book, you'll still be able to see the difference if you observe carefully." He threw it into his mouth and immediately wrinkled his nose. "So sour!"

Zhao Qingyan smiled. "I was about to ask you, did you pick these oranges from my yard?"

Lu Sobbing said, "That's right, I remember that everything you plant can be eaten."

Zhao Qingyan looked out the window and said, "The palace is short now, and the trees have not been taken care of properly. You can't eat anything that comes out of a tree." Give him back the orange.

Lu Sobbing looked around and asked in a low voice, "You probably won't get sick soon, right? Are you pretending or are you serious? "

"Yesterday?" Zhao Qingyan thought back and looked at him sideways. "What do you think?"

Lu Sobbing shook her head. She stood up and placed Tangerine on the table. She stood there with her back facing Zhao Qingyan. She placed one hand on the table and did not turn around for a long time.

Zhao Qingyan knitted his brows and pinched the space between his brows. "Lu Sobbing, I have no other choice."

"Yes, you don't have any other choice, so you want to humiliate yourself like this?" Lu Sobbing lowered her head to look at the table, a hint of ridicule in her voice.

Zhao Qingyan tried to explain in a low voice, "I didn't …"

"No?" Lu Sobbing turned around and leaned on the table, looking at him indifferently, "Then why are you lying outside the house?"

Zhao Qing was speechless.

Lu Sobbing lifted her hand to pull at her hair, her gaze softened. "Forget it, I don't have any qualifications to speak about you."

Zhao Qingyan lowered her eyes and quietly sat there without making any excuses. Or rather, he really had nothing to argue about.

Lu Sobbing looked at him for a while, then bitterly smiled and walked back to sit down. "Originally, I wanted to chat with you to make you feel better. I took over and said so many things that I shouldn't have said."

"In fact, I started to have nightmares a few days ago. I dreamed about the West Lake, about Tang Xiao and the wind." At the very most, it is not as serious as yesterday. " After a while, Zhao Qingyan said in a low voice, "I know I'm going to be hit by Zhu Yanyan's backlash again soon, but I don't dare to say it out loud. No matter what, I have to survive this banquet. I can't miss this long-awaited arrangement. "

"Besides, I don't dare to sleep. I don't want to face the dream that I've had for so many days. I know that if I fall asleep, with my body condition, I would definitely suffer a backlash from Zhu Yan Ran … I'm afraid I can't wake up. I even wish I really wouldn't wake up. " Zhao Qingyan shook her head. The expression in her eyes was completely covered. "I am glad that I made it through this again."

Lu Sobbing raised her hand to cover her eyes, then forced a smile, "Should I congratulate you?"

Zhao Qingyan's eyes were filled with helplessness, "No need, I don't want to hear it." Pausing, he then added, "Coincidentally, you don't want to say it either."

Lu Sobbing revealed one eye, looked at his smile, and slightly curled his lips. "After all, waking up is more than sleeping, why should I care about that?" As long as I can wake up every time. "

Zhao Qingyan nodded without a word. Although his expression was calm, his perfunctory attitude was extremely obvious.

Lu Sobbing asked, "Weren't you always saying that you could find a way to dispel the poison? No more confidence? I'm still working hard, but you're already so depressed? "

Zhao Qingyan did not reply. His pale face was covered with an abnormal pale color. Not only was he weak, he was also filled with an aura of death. He raised his head and looked at the white paper on the window, "Do you know what will happen if I don't have any inner force?"

Weeping Lu did not answer.

Zhao Qingyan smiled gently, "Teacher said that Azure Falling Mountain's internal energy accumulated poison. His' Withered Wood Returning Spring 'internal energy assimilated the poison into his body. If the time is right, we can remove the poison from Zhu Yan's body by wasting three strands of inner Qi. "

The smile contained no bitterness, no bitterness, and it was unusually calm. "But, if my inner force was gone, where was my leg? After ten years, even if the poison in my leg was removed, how could I possibly stand up? Without any inner strength, with my incomplete body and unconscious legs, I would have to spend my life as a cripple in exchange for a few years of living? "

Lu Sobbing comforted, "Yunmo, there will always be another way."

Zhao Qingyan tilted his head and looked at him. A trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, "What a joke."

Lu Sobbing said, "It's not a joke. There will be a way."

Zhao Qingyan retorted, "Even Tang Xiao Yu couldn't figure out how to cure the poison, do you?"

"All the people he cares about are dead, and so are you? He was ready to die twelve years ago. You intend to give up too? " Lu Sobbing clenched her teeth, a trace of pain flashed across her eyes, and she clenched her fists.

Zhao Qingyan was stunned for a while. He pursed his lips and said apologetically, "I am mentioning something that I shouldn't have mentioned before."

Lu Sobbing ruffled her already messy hair even more, "I said it myself, what does it have to do with you?"

Zhao Qingyan raised her head. Even her breathing had become silent. Lu Sobbing lowered her head and grabbed her hair, trying to drive away all those bad memories. For a moment, no one spoke.

"I won't give up."

Weeping Lu probably didn't hear him clearly. After a while, she raised her head and looked at him. "What did you say?"

Zhao Qingyan lightly repeated, "I said I will not give up. I will not give up until I get the answer I need."

Lu Sobbing looked at him blankly, then smiled, "That's more like it, this is the young master Qi I know."

Zhao Qingyan pouted. "Actually, I've always been like this."

Weeping Lu shrugged and responded perfunctorily, "Yes, yes, that is indeed the case."

They looked at each other and smiled, but no one mentioned the unhappiness just now.