Chapter 59 (thanks for the 10,000 reward and monthly pass in the middle of the night)
Mi Huang saw all this in his eyes, only to feel that the jade cup in his hand tightened a little, and his chest felt nauseous for a while, and then he suddenly got up and put the jade cup in his hand away.
"Lord Ling Yin, I came here today for a purpose!"
Ruo Ao Yuejiao and Ruo Ao Zike both glanced at each other, and through the screen, their ears and eyes had already heard the movement here, and they raised their glasses and smiled: It seems that the lady is not here to congratulate.
Ling Yin Zi smiled, motioned for the ministers to be quiet, and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Displaced people's case!"
Mi Huang looked at him and said.
Ling Yin Zi frowned slightly, and he had already smiled.
The ministers also put down the wine bottle in their hands and looked at each other.
If the wine bottle in Ao Ziliang's hand was spilled in his hand and he didn't find it, he asked, "But today is the day of Ziyan's great joy, and the day of the first victory of my Chu country......"
Mrs. Wang and Xue'er were both stunned, how could they say it well, and it was on these ordinary people.
Xue'er had been sitting next to her, accompanying her, and shook her arm when she heard the words, "That's it, sister-in-law, you have a good trip, what do you say." Let's continue the feast!"
"Housekeeper, I remember that when my eldest brother led the army to pass through Huainan, he picked the local oranges, ordered someone to send a few baskets back, and asked me to send them into the palace later. β
"Yes, Miss!"
When the steward heard this, he was ordered.
Mrs. Wang also smiled and invited her to re-seat.
Ling Yin Zi frowned and remembered for some reason that on the wedding day of Ruo Ao Yuejiao last year, Mi Huang also broke in with Huang Yuwei, but got up and said, "Come on, invite the princess to the flower pavilion in the apse alone." β
"Yes!"
The housekeeper quickly pulled out a chair for Mi Huang and lifted the bead curtain in front of him, "Lady, please go this way!"
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"All the ancestors of our Chu State have been the king, and all the monarchs and ministers of the past generations have taken this as their own responsibility, but it is impossible for any glorious ideal to satisfy everyone. You have to understand, Tainu! There will inevitably be sacrifices in this, but these sacrifices are not in vain, and it is not what we and even Ziyan want to send these 50,000 homeless people to the battlefield, so please understand. Speaking of this, Yin Zi's eyes were full of sighs.
"One will be successful, ten thousand bones will wither, Mihuang understands!"
It's just that Mi Huang hopes to minimize this sacrifice while witnessing Ziyan's ideals. Huang replied firmly.
"But there will be sacrifices!"
In the flower pavilion, Ling Yin Zi stood opposite her, looking at her, with his big hand on the table, his eyes were infinitely regretful, easily piercing her naΓ―ve insistence.
"I know! Mi Huang has been on the battlefield of Chu Yong for three years, and he has killed countless mediocre people, and I don't know how much blood has been shed in his hands, as soldiers, we are constantly admonished that it is our duty to obey the king's orders, but in every big war, while trying to achieve victory, we try to save ourselves and our companions, reduce the sacrifice of our companions, and we always remember that our original intention of killing is to protect our family and country, and protect ourselves and our relatives. Mi Huang looked at him and said slowly, "But now the swords of these Five Cities Soldiers and Horses outside are slashing at the people we are supposed to protect." β
This is the second time that Yin Ziban has talked about such a serious topic with his daughter-in-law opposite, but this woman really touched him differently, so he said with a smile, "But we are in such a position, and what the court calculates every day is nothing more than how to reduce sacrifices, expand influence, and improve the results of war, through wars, through government decrees, and through various ways and means to improve the ...... of our Chu State."
"I know, so I didn't object to any of Ziyan's decisions, even if this time I felt he was wrong. Mi Huang looked at him and said.
"Yan'er is wrong?"
Ling Yin Zi heard this as if he heard a joke and let out a chuckle, but he still nodded, "Forget it, you are just a woman, but the princess is still different after all." β
"Yes, it is precisely because I am a woman that I know that it is wrong to defend my husband, knowing that Yue Jiao has forcibly abducted 50,000 displaced people, but I have repeatedly forbeared, but now I don't want to endure it anymore!
"I know, lady!"
From beginning to end, Ling Yin Zi's face was calm, listening quietly, and even when Mi Huang said that he was excited, he raised his hand to suppress her emotions, and in the face of the shocking case of 50,000 people, the whole city was shocked, but he was also calm, not even a little eye fluctuation, just meticulously analyzed the reason why they were not convicted in this case, "That lady, how are you going to arrest him, I have seen all the case files submitted by Chen Huang, but there is no evidence to prove that this case was committed by Yue Jiao!" Now the number of registered missing exiles is no more than 10,000, how can you match with 50,000 slaves, and he has already completed all the slave contracts, why do you arrest him?"
Mi Huang frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Since Yin Quan knows, why do you want to stop us, and even repeatedly stop the trial of this case?"
"Maybe the lady has always had doubts about me suppressing Chen Huang, but I am also for your good, once the trial is held, you will not be able to convict him, and he will try his best to get rid of all this. β
Ling Yin Zi looked at Mi Huang quietly, his eyes were deep and wise, like this, Ling Yin Zi and the young Ruo Ao Ziyan were like seven points, but the tone was more peaceful as water, as if a kind of calmness after countless turmoil had settled, and said slowly, "Besides, Tainu, don't you understand? At this time, Yan'er has not come back, and the Jinchu war has not yet ended, so the country cannot be chaotic, there is no need to mess up my Great Chu for three hundred years because of him alone, and destroy these three thousand miles of good rivers and mountains." β
Mi Huang frowned.
A thought that had been faintly born for a long time rose from the bottom of my heart and was about to come out.
Ling Yin Zi stroked his beard and said, "Besides, all the soldiers and generals in Yingdu are now left with the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses, as well as the Tiger Forbidden Army of the palace, as well as some of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who have retreated, and the four and five Ruoao departments in the Phoenix Mountain camp outside the city will not be easy to mobilize for a while and a half, and the remaining Ruoao three and six generals are all in the hands of Jiao'er and Ke, of course, there are five thousand soldiers and horses in the hands of the princess, but in the face of so many generals, once there is turmoil in the country, we have no power to fight back."
Even if the princess wants to punish my eldest nephew, or even my third nephew, for the crimes they committed, we must wait for us to arrange everything before we do it, you are my daughter-in-law, and you are pregnant with Yan'er's child, I will not harm you. β
Speaking of doing it to his two nephews, the middle-aged man who has ruled the Great Chu all his life made Yin shoot a cold glint in his eyes, and there was no fluctuation.
Mi Huang lowered his head and frowned, took a deep breath, raised his head and opened his mouth to ask, "Then I don't know what arrangements Lord Ling Yin has?" Or did the horse have already done something before leaving?"
"After a while, the princess will follow Yan'er's words and go to the Phoenix Mountain Palace to give birth first, at this time, the child is more important than anything else, and the rest will be taken care of for you by the father. Ling Yin Zi said, his eyes fell on her towering abdomen, and he stroked Qingxu and smiled.
At this moment, Qi Huangyu's hand was clenched into a fist, resting on his abdomen, and his mouth opened and opened, closed and closed.
I don't know whether it should or shouldn't.
Although she had already guessed their arrangement, at this moment, she felt that her chest was very uncomfortable, so she only listened to Ling Yin Zi and continued to arrange: "So the princess will take the opportunity to go out of Beijing at that time, and follow Yan'er's mother and Xue'er to the Phoenix Mountain Palace to prepare for childbirth, I am afraid that it will not be safe in the royal city at that time." β
"Lord Ling Yin, what do you and the horse want to do?"
A suppressed roar came, and with a heavy gasp, Mi Huang slowly raised his head, looked deeply at Ling Yin, and asked.
Ling Yin Zi stepped forward, gently patted her shoulder that shrugged up and down because of excitement, and said quietly, "Tainu, although you are Yan'er's wife and my son-like daughter-in-law, don't forget that you are just a woman after all, sometimes these things are men's affairs, and you don't need to know too much." As long as you know that we won't harm you, we are all for the good of you and the child in your belly, you don't have to worry about these things, we will definitely do it well. We'll figure it out and be invincible, so don't worry. β
Don't let her know anything.
Just because she's a woman?
Can the 50,000 displaced people who were sent to the battlefield of Chu and Jin come back alive? Or can they be used as cannon fodder for the power struggle within the Ruo Ao clan?
Thinking of Aunt Liu, the people who have been waiting for their sons, husbands, and relatives to return for many years, what awaits them in the end may be just a pile of white bones that will not die in the merciless flood, but be buried in the struggle for power in the country.
Mi Huang felt uncomfortable in his chest and couldn't breathe.
Is she really ignorant of anything?
"If I leave the capital, are you going to take back all the military and political power in the capital, wait for Ziyan to come back and settle the general account with Ruo Ao Duwei, Situ Duwei, and Ruo Ao Si defeated, and then Ziyan will bring Chu Jin to the great victory to quell the civil strife, and the name of the little prince was born, right?"
Wrong!
It is really not enough to have a mere position of Ling Yin, maybe it should be that he justifiably ascends to the supreme throne of my Chu country, and it is obvious that he is more suitable for that position than her.
The most ruthless imperial family!
He's really a good fit for this home.
Better fit than her.
"It's good that the princess understands, after all, if I want Yan'er to inherit the position of Ling Yin of the Ao clan, the two of you can have a more stable position. Ling Yin Zi smiled slightly, relieved.
"Hehe, no!"
Mi Huang suddenly let out a chuckle, and looked at him with an uncontrollable laugh, but his eyes suddenly pointed at him like the sharpest phoenix claws, "There is no problem with Lord Yin's decision-making and judgment, but you are not only doing this to maintain the stability of our position, but also to maintain your power and status unchanged, so you wave your hand, and this sword of power is swung, and all the people of Chu State are bleeding into a river, and they have fallen victim to your power struggle again." β
Ling Yin Ziban frowned deeply for the first time when he heard this, looking at her gaze even with deep defense and deep investigation, he had already told Yan'er that this woman had been on the battlefield, and he was afraid that she was not so easy to obey.
Now it seems that it is no longer a question of obedience or disobedience, but this time Yan'er has really looked away.
They are afraid that they are not fellow travelers at all.
With a hesitant face, she said, "Lady, how can you say that?...... What is the difference between the two? If my position is stable, it means that the status of the princess is stable......"
Mi Huang smiled silently, and then asked rhetorically, "Lord Ling Yin, do you know my greatest wish in this life?"
"What?"
Ling Yin Zi asked along with her question, only to see her turn around slowly, looking out the window at the blue sky and white clouds on the deep palace, the free air and the capital city under the white clouds, the humble and rickety people walking in the city still had a smile on their faces, and said slowly, "My lord, do you know that life and death are not up to you, you can only humble and carefully maintain everything you have, and even breathing freely is a luxury, what is it like?" I used to think that I could replace my third sister and become a daughter, but I couldn't feel this feeling, but I was still wrong......"
After saying that, she looked at him sadly.
Through him, he looked at the man who was separated by thousands of mountains and rivers.
"Tainu, you won't! You were born to be the phoenix of this Chu country, only you can decide the life and death of everyone in Chu country, no one can decide your life and death, let alone laugh. β
Ling Yin Zi smiled with relief when he heard this, as if he heard a joke, and shook his head with a smile and replied.
"Yes, I am not only a woman, but also a woman, so in the Chu State, except for me, no one can decide the life and death of all the common people, thank you Lord Ling Yin for your reminder. The woman slowly bowed her head, looked at the other party with a determined look, and then said to him, "Finally, please order Lord Yin to order Yue Jiao to release the innocent people who were arrested, otherwise this lady will personally give the order and arrest him at the same time." β
Ling Yin's eyes darkened, his brows gathered into a river, and the woman who saw her leave said to herself: From death to life, to achieve some wishes, everyone always has to pay some price.
Good bye!
With a hint of a smile on her face, she looked back at the golden plaque of "Loyal to my great Chu, virtuous for generations" hanging high on the huge Chu Zhong Hall, which was extremely dazzling in the sun, and then looked around the entire Ruo Ao Mansion that was like a fairy mansion in the world, and finally looked through the green tile high walls, looking at the broken streets, eaves, and ordinary people in blue and green clothes outside, she walked out step by step, and instructed Si Qin, "Let's go to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses!"
"Yes, lady!"
"Lady, you can't go!" Ruo Ziliang chased out with the housekeeper and guards to block her way.
"One arrow, open the way!"
"Yes!"
Yang Yuji immediately bent his bow after speaking, and all the Phoenix Yuwei drew their swords out of their sheaths, and at the same time shouted, "Get out of the way!"
All the guards of the Ruo Ao clan looked at each other, and Ruo Ao Ziliang, who was standing outside the door and listened to Mi Huang's last words, chased him out, still holding his injured body forward and said, "In the case of the princess, can't you really raise your noble hand? We are all a family......
"Master Sima, have you ever thought that if one day, it is not the relatives of those people outside who have been taken away, but if Ao Duwei has been forcibly abducted and disappeared for several years, and now there is a chance to find it, what will you do?"
"I will definitely find my son and try to find him by all means. β
If Ao Ziliang disobeys his will, he has to admit that no one who is a parent can see his parents drifting away and sit idly by.
"So please understand the feelings of these people, who, like you, are only trying to find their son, and now the woman who wants to find her son has also died at the hands of Captain Joao. β
Mi Huang pushed away Ruo Ao Ziliang, who was blocking the road in front of her, firmly crossed him, and said coldly and quietly.
"I'm just a father...... too"
Ruo Ziliang's eyes were slightly red behind her, with two points of crying, Ling Yin Ziyan walked out slowly, sighing, "Big brother, you still told her, why bother ?......"
"But she was originally the daughter-in-law of my Ruoao clan, so she should protect us like Ziyan. β
"But don't forget, she is still surnamed Mi!" Ling Yin Ziban disagreed with the authentic at this time.
"But her child is Ruoao!"
Ruo Ziliang roared like a breakdown.
Like any father who is about to face the life and death of his son, his sanity has been completely destroyed by his fear.
Xiao Zhengzi arranged the palace car out of the palace as quickly as possible, she stepped on the ladder stool to board the palace car, Si Jian and Si Qin, Xiao Zhengzi all quickly sat on the palace car, all the Zhu Jia's Huang Yuwei turned over and got on the horse, returned the sword into the sheath, and left quickly.
"While the big mistake has not yet been made, there is still time to turn back at this time, tell Yue Jiao, I can also ask my father to spare his life for the sake of the horse's face!
The woman's golden phoenix cloak flew around, like a golden phoenix rising in the wind, and the horse's hooves trampled and pulled the palace car, bound to go to the clouds.
Ruo Ziliang was even more at a loss when he heard this, and said, "Second brother, what should I do?...... How can you let the lady go?...... This matter has to be suppressed now......"
"Big brother, maybe there was no incident of 50,000 displaced people, she is Ziyan's wife, but when this happened, she is the daughter of my Chu State, this is what she said to me. β
Ling Yin Ziyan suddenly sighed slowly, raised his head, the morning sun shone on his elegant and mature face, his expression was slightly heavy, "If I were like her age, I would also act like this, for the people and the country, once I ask for a clear conscience, how can I only care about my personal family! This woman is really the choice of my family, the phoenix of Chu, but the phoenix is flying, and I don't know if the Ao clan is a blessing or a curse?"
Ruo Ziliang left anxiously, "No, I have to send someone to follow and watch." β
"Well, big brother, if you don't feel at ease, go ahead and arrange it!"
After Ruo Ao Ziliang left, the housekeeper couldn't help but say loudly, "My lord, why didn't you tell the eldest lord about the city defense being replaced by the eldest prince?"
"Even if I say it, I need my eldest brother to be willing to believe it, and to send a message to Gongzi, in order to prevent changes in Ying, so that he can end the war as soon as possible!" Ling Yin Zi said.
"Yes!"
The butler's eyes froze.