Chapter 082: Ask and Slash
Shen Yan listened to her father's words, and came to the outside of the dungeon with Xiyu, and waited for a long time, but she didn't see Li Chengqi come out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info She couldn't help but be suspicious: "What did Daddy say to Ning Anhou to break me apart?" ”
"I guess, the master must be entrusting you to the Hou master." Xiyu said with a low expression.
Shen Yan disagreed. She frowned and glanced in the direction of the dungeon doorway. Behind the dungeon's low door is a long and narrow passageway, which is chilling. Her father asked if she would have a chance to go in and see him before she was killed.
"Miss Shen...... No, Shen Shiyan'er. Gu Chongzhi, who happened to be in prison for something, walked out of the sedan chair slowly. He looked at Shen Yan with a smile on his face, and said as he approached her: "You are really fortunate to have three lives, you can have Ning Anhou Aiyue." ”
"yes." Shen Yan smiled, "It's just that Master Gu is disappointed." If you can't borrow the emperor's hand and kill me too, Lord Gu must be a little disappointed, right? ”
Gu Chongzhi was startled at first, and soon laughed, "That's right, it's a little disappointed." He touched the mustache on the side of his mouth, and then said, "I look forward to the death of your Shen family, but it's not a matter of a year or two." ”
"So this time you deliberately framed your father!" What Shen Yan said was speculation, and she didn't want to have such a thing. Her face was full of anger, and she was not afraid to demolish him, "The emperor only wanted the emperor to retreat to the throne of the emperor, but you let a palace maid named Qiu'e drug the emperor behind the emperor's back!" If you failed to take the medicine, you used other methods to harm the former emperor, and blamed the crime on your father and those old ministers who were just as wronged as your father. You...... Aren't you afraid that the emperor will know and destroy your nine clans? She looked at him, fierce and fierce.
Gu Chongzhi listened. I couldn't help but take a look at the little guy carrying the sedan chair, and his face was blue. Excited. He grabbed Shen Yan's arm and asked, "These are all nonsense that Ning Anhou told you?" ”
"Hmph." Shen Yan sneered, "If you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do." ”
Gu Chongzhi, who was a little nervous, thought about it, let go of the hand holding Shen Yan, and laughed again, "The emperor has promised me that he will make me the prime minister of the dynasty after the enthronement ceremony." Who do you think you can do with a few words of nonsense? You must not know," he leaned close to Shen Yan's ear. He lowered his voice and said, "Before the new emperor launched the mutiny, he had already ordered me to do tricks and feet in the pills that the first emperor took, the new emperor had already had the intention of killing his father, but after the mutiny, he softened his heart, so I helped him, so that when the first emperor died, all the blame would be placed on your father and those old ministers who were as stupid as your father...... God is helping me, though. I don't have to do it. The emperor choked to death while eating pastries. Ha ha! Ha ha...... It's providential. ”
Hearing this, Shen Yan frowned, indignant, but also understood. Don't say it's yourself, even if there is a loyal and righteous person, you can't help him. this country. It has fallen into the hands of traitors. Whoever wants to come forward to accuse, what awaits him is the word "death".
Shen Yan had to ask Gu Chongyi, "Why?" My father and Ling Zun were friends when they were young. But how do you do this to your father? ”
"I hate your father, and all the people my father calls great loyalty and righteousness!" Gu Chongzhi glared. It's a little scary. He suddenly stretched out his hand, pinched Shen Yan's neck, approached her face a little subtly, smiled and said, "As for you, I will let you live first, and I will have a chance in the future, and I will want you to look good." There are also Ning Anhou, Jiao Huaiqing, anyone who dares to go against me, dare to blackmail me, and dare to compete with me for favor in front of the emperor will die! ”
When he said the word "death", the force in his hand suddenly increased. Shen Yan was pinched so that she couldn't speak, but she was afraid that she would have to die if she was pinched for a while. Seeing this, Xiyu hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Master Gu...... You let go of my young lady...... I beg you ......"
"Master Gu, what are you doing!" At this time, Li Chengqi came out of the dungeon. Seeing Gu Chongzhi stuck with Shen Yan, he strode forward and pushed him away with an angry face.
Gu Chongzhi quickly stood up after stumbling. He curled one of his lips and smiled, clapped his hands and said, "It's just a joke with the Shen family." With that, he walked to the prison unimpressedly.
"Are you alright?" Looking at Shen Yan, who was full of tears and touched her neck without throbbing, Li Chengqi couldn't help but ask nervously.
Shen Yan shook her head.
"Why did you get into an argument with him?"
"He Gu Chongzhi has long harmed my father's thoughts." Shen Yan looked at Gu Chongzhi's back and gritted her teeth in her heart. Soon, she looked at Ning Anhou again and told him: "Gu Chongzhi said that in the future, he will want me and you, as well as my cousin and anyone who dares to oppose him, as well as those who compete for favor in front of the new emperor." She didn't know if she was reminding Li Chengqi to take precautions.
"Let's go, and fight him later." Li Chengqi said and led Shen Yan to the car and wanted to take her back to the Hou Mansion.
"What are you going to do with him?" Shen Yan looked at him with distrust and hope.
"There's always a way." Li Chengqi said that he got into the car first.
Shen Yan, who calmed down in the car, naturally asked Li Chengqi what his father told him. But Li Chengqi didn't say anything in detail, but only talked about some things related to the second prince's life. She frowned, but didn't ask.
"Ling Zun also said......" Li Chengqi paused, and continued without temptation, "If An Yangping doesn't come back to you, let me take good care of you." I agreed. ”
Shen Yan didn't make a sound. This time, she didn't say so resolutely that An Yangping would definitely come back to find her words.
"You say, without everyone, there would be no small family." She talked about completely unrelated topics, "That big week...... What will happen to Da Zhou in the future? She looked at Li Chengqi and asked cautiously.
Li Chengqi was very surprised, she has always only chased the happiness of her small family and personal stability, but this time she mentioned the matter of her family and country to herself, which is really interesting. He couldn't help laughing and asked rhetorically, "You actually care about the fate of Da Zhou?" ”
Shen Yan blushed in embarrassment, but she still insisted on asking the question she wanted to ask: "Is Da Zhou still saved?" ”
The smile on Li Chengqi's face froze. Only then did he realize that he had underestimated her. Is there such a question as whether Da Zhou is saved, how can an ordinary woman ask it? This question alone is enough to show that she has already seen the situation in Da Zhou clearly, and she looks at this problem much more deeply than many people who are immersed in ignorance.
"What do you think?" He looked at her with interest, expecting to hear her amazing words again.
Shen Yan shook her head and didn't express her opinion, but said, "That's why I asked you." ”
"A thousand miles of embankment collapsed in an anthill." Li Chengqi just said, "In the imperial court now, there are too many termites like Gu Chongzhi, if they are not removed, then the Great Zhou Dynasty will collapse sooner or later." ”
"But," Shen Yan took Li Chengqi's words, "The new emperor himself is the king of ants, and he wants to get rid of ......" She didn't finish her next words.
"There are two ways to get rid of it." Li Chengqi had no scruples, and simply said, "First, set up a new monarch; Second, change the dynasty. ”
Shen Yan looked at him and her eyes widened. She was frightened by herself, and she was also scared by Li Chengqi. She didn't expect that she would discuss such a rebellious topic with him. What made her unable to calm down for a long time was that from Li Chengqi's eyes, what she saw was not just "just talking", but that he seemed to have some kind of plan. But under his traction, she couldn't help but say her thoughts, "There is a third possibility, which is to be annexed by Nanzhao." ”
Hearing this, Li Chengqi was taken aback at first, suddenly laughed loudly, and looked at Shen Yan happily, "It turns out that I don't know you well enough." ”
Shen Yan knew that as a woman, she shouldn't talk about this, and it was normal for Li Chengqi to have such thoughts. She scoffed, "You men always think that women are short-sighted and ignorant of the world. Actually, it's not, we just don't have the interest, the need, and the don't want to talk about it. ”
"And how are you going to talk to me today?"
Shen Yan looked down at her hands folded on her legs, and said lightly, "Forget it." After that, she entered into her own delusions: if there was a wise king on the throne now, if someone jumped out to rebel now, if Nanzhao's army would fight to Ning'an City now, how good would it be? If this could be true, her father would be able to save his life.
It's just a pity that she knows very well that any of these three ifs will not happen in a short period of time.
Time flies. The people of the Great Zhou Dynasty accompanied the royal family through the great funeral of the first emperor and ushered in the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor. Taking off the plain on his body, the people with status and status in Ning'an City have changed into beautiful clothes.
For Shen Yan, every day of sunrise and sunset is so terrible, because her father and those innocent relatives are about to be beheaded.
Counting the terrible deadline, the deadline turned out to be tomorrow! Shen Yan was terrified. She shut herself in her room, curled up in bed, without eating, drinking, or seeing anyone.
Seeing the sky outside getting darker, she was even more scared - she didn't want to see tomorrow coming, she would rather be an idiot, not knowing anything, not understanding anything.
This feeling of waiting for a loved one to die...... Who can understand?
It's dawn.
The sun had risen to noon.
Listening to the cries of Xiyu and Erhu outside the house, Shen Yan could no longer cry. Her tears have dried up in the past few days. She knelt on the ground, one hand on her chest, her heart aching to death. Her open mouth and distorted cheeks all showed that she was crying, but she couldn't even make a sound of crying.
"What are you crying about? Who do you dare to cry for in the Hou Mansion and wear filial piety for whom? Outside the house, Jiao Huaiyu's voice was cruel and sharp. She plucked the white flower from Xiyu's head, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it.
She came with Jiao to see Shen Yan's embarrassment.
"Miss Table...... Old lady, our lord asked to behead today, I ...... with Erhu" Xiyu cried and begged Jiao's, "You will fulfill us, right?" ”
"Come on, drag these two minions who don't know the rules down, scold them with twenty boards, and then lock them in the firewood room!" Jiao had no mercy and gave the order.
At this time, the door of the bright room of the Imperial Fragrance Garden opened, and Shen Yan stood at the door in a big red dress. The autumn wind blew her long blood-like dress, making her look even more solemn.
Jiao's family, Jiao Huaiyu and others were stunned when they saw her. (To be continued.) )