The night is deep, in the huge wooden pavilion of Situ Mansion, a floor candlestick, lit candlesticks, all night long, the ground is covered with Huanghuali expensive ground wood and soft silk cotton pads, at this time each mahogany grows a few days ago, cross-legged and sat many old and strong young courtiers and various families of the noble family or the heirs.

A crowded room, full of heads.

Unlike in the past, when the ministers gathered together to sing and dance, Mei Ji sat and accompanied each other.

At this time, the old man in the middle was dressed in vegetarian clothes, and his beard was half white, but in a few days, he looked even older, and it was Lao Situ.

I saw him kneeling in front of everyone, and then bowed to the ground first, and said, "What my Situ Xing said here today is by no means a lie, nor is it by no means because my family is in trouble and disguised against the princess, and even begged everyone to save my son's life." As you know, I have assisted three generations of kings in my life, King Wen, King Cheng, and now now, so the old man is just here to state a future, a future about all our clan families, Shiqing Gate Lords, and nobles. ”

Seeing him like this, Elder Li stepped forward and raised his hands falsely, and sighed, "Brother Situ, you and I have been officials in the same dynasty for three generations. How can we not listen to what you say?"

The ministers bowed their heads one after another, "Lord Situ, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly." ”

Even Ruo Ao Ziliang gave him face very much.

Listen to it.

Seeing this, Lao Situ took a deep breath, sat up straight, looked at the ministers and said, "Since Chu Zi was knighted, there have been eight generations, and since King Wu was crowned, there have been four generations......

My Chu country from a small country in Jiangling, to now a big country, ranked among the princes and overlords, in the past, all the clans here have made great efforts, think about the original we were also the princes and grandsons of a country, if it was not for the sacrifice of the country, respect the policy of destroying the country and expanding the land, how could it become the secretary of the world?

But our Situ Xing dare to say here that in the past, King Wen, King Cheng, including the king, will respect our family in the future, but if one day, the royal power of the Great Chu falls into the hands of the current princess, the death knell of my family's gate valve will sound, and it will be in the near future.

Zhou Mu's lesson, it's only been a year, and everyone hasn't forgotten it, right?"

Old Situ paused when he said this.

Even Li Lao, Wang Yin and others frowned.

Old Situ's words were exactly what they were worried about.

So he continued, "Although the Zhou family's corruption of ink was the first, it was also destroyed at the hands of the princess, and now the case of selling is recurring, and our Situ clan and even Ruo Ao's are all involved in it, and the wind and rain are shaky.

Today's princess can be cheap because of the common people, and in the future, we, the former great Chu pastoral oath, will all be defeated one by one, the etiquette will collapse, the order will collapse, the noble will not be expensive, the cheap will not be cheap, what is the difference between the noble and the low?

The entire clan gate lord will definitely be replaced by those poor clans and even slaves.

Now a Chen Huang, the son of the last generation of the Chen family, has no clan and no clan, relying on the light of the Cheng clan, he can ascend to the hall of the three divisions, and he can ascend to the golden hall of Zhu Palace, and he is grandiose, and he tortures my son to extract a confession, just to drag the entire Ruo Ao clan down into dirty water.

As a woman, Tainu's heart is more ruthless than all the men we are here, and she can destroy the Zhou clan last year, and she can also destroy our Situ clan this year.

Do you still want to support her because of the colt alone?

Then who is the next Zhou family, the next Situ family?

Is it you, Mr. Li?

Or Wang Yin, you?

……”

Lao Situ's tone was sonorous, like a broken golden stone, and his big hand passed over everyone present one by one, and the clan ministers who were pointed at each one couldn't help but change their color.

"We must not allow a cold family like Chen Huang to climb on the heads of our nobles!"

I don't know who shouted this.

Everyone's expressions changed suddenly.

In the end, Lao Situ's eyes fell on Ruo Ao Ziliang, who was sitting at the front, and had no speech and expressionless face.

He looked at him word by word and said, "Now the cause of the homeless case is that the son of Lord Sima is suspected of selling 50,000 homeless people, and Xiao'er is suspected of being suspected of being a stranger because of his close relationship with the son of an adult, and he is also suspected of serving in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, and now he would rather die in prison than to accuse Ruo Ao Duwei of being tortured in all kinds of ways, my heart aches as a father! But I am proud of him, at least he has not fallen into the dignity of our family......"

When Lao Situ said this, the old tears were rampant.

Everyone praised Situ Nan for having an aristocratic backbone, and although he was demoted to a commoner by Lord Yin, he did not forget the blood of the nobles.

Wiping his tears with his sleeve, Lao Situ pointed at Ruo Ao Ziliang with his sleeve and suddenly walked up to him, and said, "Or does Ruo Ao Sima think that your dignified Chu No. 1 clan, Ruo Ao Clan, thinks that by virtue of the in-law relationship of the concubine, you can escape the pressure of the princess step by step without being imprisoned?"

"Then why did Captain Ruo Ao become a suspect and go to court now?"

"Then why is Xiao'er now a suspected accomplice and imprisoned?"

This sentence by sentence is pressing.

dilute Ruo Ziliang's guilt about Yue Jiao's affair with the princess a little bit.

He couldn't help but recall that it was precisely because of the princess's pressure again and again that Ruo Ao Yuejiao was deeply involved in the dispute of the exile case, and he could not get out, which made him even more frightened day and night, and now what Lao Situ said made him think about it very carefully.

The entire Ruo Ao clan collapsed because of her alone.

This woman is indeed extremely dangerous.

Even if she is his daughter-in-law.

His eyebrows sank, flashing with fierce edges, he got up and said in a deep voice, "We are all the heads of the noble gate lords of the Great Chu family, or the next heirs, and we all have the blood of the ancestors, princes and viscounts, and we are extremely noble, and we can't be easily trampled on by the untouchables!"

"Even if she is the sect wife of my Ruo Ao clan, she can't do it!"

Old Situ's big hand fell, his chest rose and fell, and he mourned, "Everyone here now, if you don't make a sound, sooner or later all that awaits us is destruction...... Even if we survive and live in peace, and grovel to her like those humble scholars, will our children and grandchildren be able to regain the glory of the bloodline clan?

However, he has become an ant competing with the untouchables.

The power of our family will be lost, the position of our family will be lost, the dignity of our nobility will be lost, the land we own will be lost, the wealth we own will be lost, the slaves we own will all be lost......"

"As long as the day when the princess ascends to the throne, this day will no longer be far away, and our Situ clan is only the second clan that died with the Zhou clan. ”

The night was dark, and there seemed to be a larger dark cloud over the entire Yingdu.

In the air, there was a suffocating silence.

Silently, it flowed between all the nobles of the courtier clans.

Li Lao and Wang Yin and other confidants couldn't help but make eye contact, noncommittal to what he said.

The white candle on the ground in the wooden pavilion illuminated the old Situ's face, and he slowly said to everyone in a voice of the vicissitudes of the world, "Our family has existed for hundreds of years and thousands of years, and there must be a reason for the existence of its family.

Because we have exchanged the blood of our clansmen for the stability of today's Great Chu, because we have exchanged the wealth of our clansmen for the prosperity of today's Great Chu, and because we have opened up the vast and boundless Great Chu with the swords of our clansmen......

Over the past three hundred years, every one of us here has achieved the great Chu that has made the entire Jingman and even all countries want to come to the dynasty today.

Are we going to give it all to the lowly men, the untouchables, and the slaves?"

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

This is in the interest of the entire family.

And not the life and death of one or two people.

Everyone hesitated when they heard this, on the one hand, it was arranged by Lord Yin, and the case was all started by Ruo Ao Yuejiao, but on the other hand, it was what Lao Situ said, and every sentence was reasonable.

Could it be that if Ao Yuejiao made a mistake, he really wanted their entire clan to bear it for him?

Old Situ knew their hesitation and hesitation, walked to Li Lao's side, put his arm on his shoulder and said, "Old Li, you and my old brother have been in the same dynasty for three generations, you know my personality, I don't like to get involved in all kinds of disputes, and I don't have any quarrels with the world, and I won't talk easily." But I've got to tell you today, I've heard that there are slaves in your house?"

"Hmm!"

Li Lao nodded hesitantly.

Unexpectedly, Lao Situ even found out about such a trivial matter.

Indeed, one of the slaves who had stolen into the study was found by the steward and slain with a rod. ”

Old Elder Li's eldest son and everyone were slightly shocked when they heard this, "When did this happen?"

"Late yesterday night. ”

Li Lao was reluctant to talk more, and there was a slave theft in a family, which shows that his family law is not strict.

"What did he steal?"

More courtiers were concerned that there was no gold or silver in the study, but a slave ran into the study to steal, and it is conceivable that he did not want money.

"I wrote some bamboo slips that I had scrapped. ”

Li Lao couldn't figure out what a slave wanted to do with bamboo slips.

When the ministers heard this, they were a little relieved.

"If Lord Ao Si is defeated, do you know what those people outside say about your eldest son?"

Old Situ smiled when he heard this, turned around and walked to Ruo Ao Ziliang's side and said to him.

Ruo Ziliang frowned, he had heard a lot about it recently, and he had killed a group of subordinates, but he didn't stop this kind of speech.

"It is said outside that if Captain Ao Duwei looks like a wolf, his heart is better than that of a wolf!"

"It is said outside that if Ao Duwei encircles and bans the homeless, it is actually a rebellious move!"

……

"Bold!"

Ruo Ziliang was angry when he heard this.

"It's really bold and bold. Old Situ nodded.

"This is something that has never happened to my Da Chu in the past, but now when the princess intervenes in this case, rumors are spreading, even to the point that we can't suppress it. ”

"Tell the old man, what should we do?"

"Hit or kill?"

"There are 100,000 people in Yingdu, and if they are killed, can they solve the problem? I heard that the counties below are not controlled at all, and the rumors are even more fierce as tigers, but in the past few days, our people have been scolded like rats falling on the street, and everyone shouts and beats them. Old Situ asked with his hand.

Everyone also showed a trace of anger on their faces, thinking about their own situation, which was indeed consistent.

Then someone finally asked, "What do you say about old Situ?"

"We all listen to you!"

The children of the nobles of the clan promised one after another, "We must not let these untouchables insult our identity!"

On this night, the old Situ, who had never opened his face, finally smiled, his eyes showed a cold light, and he said, "So the homeless case must not let them win the untouchables!"

Especially using such an extremely vicious way to extract confessions, he skillfully obtained confessions to persecute Ruo Ao Duwei, and framed the entire Ruo Ao clan and our Situ clan.

This is a provocation to the power of our entire noble family, and we must extinguish this unhealthy trend, otherwise where will our prestige exist in the future?"

As the words fell, his gaze fell on each of them, looking at each other, and seeing the same anger in their eyes, he said, "I believe that even if Lord Ling Yin is here at this time, he will agree with the old man's statement." What do you think?"

Everyone nodded, "Lord Ling Yin will not be an unreasonable person." ”

"We'll go tell Lord Ling Yin!"

Even Ruo Ao Ziliang showed a hint of relaxation, and slowly leaned back on the back of the chair, if he could really suppress the homeless case, it would naturally be better.

Jiao'er will be able to get out of this case, and her career will be smooth sailing in the future.

Lao Situ then smiled slowly, "The old man still has an idea, Princess Wu is pregnant, and the month is approaching, and she is about to give birth to a child, and there are several daughters under the king, even if she has no children, she can be helped up." As long as they are above, the honor of our family will not change, and if they are not above, the honor of our family will never be there again. ”

"So take advantage of this opportunity, the most thorough and once and for all way is to waste the storage!"

"In the past, the king had no children, but now the king is in the prime of spring and autumn, and the little son is about to be born!"

"It's the right time. ”

"Otherwise, I am a dignified man, with a territory of three thousand miles and countless tribes, and a woman is really in power, wouldn't I want to laugh at the major princes?"

The wooden pavilion was wide open, and the voice of Lao Situ was far away and spread out with the night wind.

The attendants who knelt by the door in their duty and the slaves with the wine and jade liquid also listened to what he said.

The eyes with their heads bowed secretly met with each other, and the hands that were prostrate on the ground gradually clenched into fists.

Everyone dispersed, and the Li family disciples followed Li Lao in the garden and asked in a low voice, "Father, this old Situ obviously wants us to help him save Situ Nan, but Situ Nan is just a commoner now, so we don't need to help him." ”

"If you don't help, you can't do it. ”

As he said, what the princess is doing now is inciting the people to become enemies of the family, which has long made the major clans dissatisfied. This is no longer the business of his own family, but the business of the whole world. If the Situ clan is destroyed and the princess ascends the throne, it means that our family has lost in this war, and we don't want to win it back in the future. ”

When he arrived at the gate, Li Lao pointed to the people who were still running around in the middle of the night, "Look at the way those people outside look at us now, what do you see?"

Elder Li's eldest son followed the prestige, and the people in the surrounding area clearly saw them appear, but some pretended to bow their heads to do things, some turned their heads and ran, and some secretly stared at them like insects with bones.

At first glance, it made him very uncomfortable.

There was no awe in their eyes. ”

"Yes, it's awe. ”

Boarding the carriage, the carriage was full of aromas, which made people drowsy, but Li Lao dropped the curtain to cut off the sight of all visitors outside, and his voice was a little more sober and said, "Now they even dare to face us, this is something that I have never had in the three hundred years of Dachu." ”

The eldest son of the Li family suddenly felt as if he was facing a great enemy, and his eyes were on the civilians and slaves around him.

The question of "slave rebellion" is not big or small.

It's fine if it's just one or two disobedient people.

If it is a group, some slaves rebel and even have a collective assassination of nobles, then the situation is serious.

"So whether it is for Situ Nan, or for Lord Yin, or for the status of the entire clan to remain unchanged in the future, she will definitely win this exile case, so that the princess also knows that our family is not something that she can easily provoke as a woman, as the old Situ said, if she is really allowed to win, even if the princess is on the throne, she will suppress us even more. ”