Chapter 118: The Fall of the Lao Family 3

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"That's right! I'm kidnapping your Concubine Ju! Lao Keqin pushed Uncle Lao away, straightened up and stood in front of the emperor, "You provoked this!" Who let you take my woman first! ”

"Your woman?" The emperor frowned and stared at him for a long time, and suddenly understood, "You are talking about the rising sun, right?" ”

"That's right, it's Princess Chaoyang! She wrote to me that you wanted to marry her to Prince Tom, and that I would be appointed by you to personally escort them back to the kingdom of Jinyi for their marriage. It's a shame! You can just take away the woman I have a crush on, and you have to arrange such an errand for me, what do you mean? Where can my Lao family be sorry for you, you want to treat our brother like this? Liqin has been sent to the northwest by you, and then sent me to the southwest, and Xuefen was also brought to the nunnery by you! In this way, the Lao family is simply hollowed out by you! You really don't need us now, do you? So you want to cross the river and tear down the bridge? Hmph, do you really think that everyone in our Lao family treats you as sincerely as Dad? I'm telling you, even if I fight to the death, I won't let you slaughter it! Whoever can't live with my family will have to pay a terrible price! ”

"Wait, what do you say? Chaoyang wrote you a letter? When? What did she say? The Emperor seemed to have grasped something after hearing his words, but he was not very clear.

"That's right! It's the rising sun! She told me all your plans! Originally, you wanted to occupy Princess Huali by yourself, but unfortunately we inadvertently ruined your plan, so you hit the idea of Prince Baituo, wanting to use the rising sun to envelop Baituo, and then use the deterrent power of the Great Xia Kingdom to assist Baituo to succeed the lord of Zhenyi Kingdom, so as to strengthen the control of Zhenyi Kingdom. And my existence must be a threat to you, but because of the power of my Lao family, you can't directly dispose of me, so you came up with a trick to ask me to personally escort Chaoyang to Zhenyi Kingdom, so that I will never be able to raise my head in shame, and it is best that I will never return to the capital, so that you can eat away at our Lao family step by step, right? The more Lao Keqin spoke, the more angry he became, remembering that he had worked hard to help him ascend the throne, and even his own son was a little jealous of him as the crown prince. What can I get in exchange? Since he ascended the throne, the status of the Lao family has not improved but has been weakened little by little, and he began to say that he would marry Princess Chaoyang to him, paralyzing his vigilance, and then came to such a hand! This person is simply a white-eyed wolf!

Hearing this, the emperor began to understand something, he sat down quietly, took a sip of his wine glass, and said in a low voice, "We have all been deceived!" I hadn't thought about marrying Chaoyang to Toh at all, and even if I did, I wouldn't have told her at this time...... When did you receive the letter? ”

Seeing that the emperor's appearance didn't seem to be pretending, Lao Keqin couldn't help but get nervous, and thought for a while, "Just the day before I was released from prison!" ”

The emperor's hand pinched the wine glass here, and Gao Deshun hurriedly poured another glass of wine. The Emperor then drank, "I didn't tell anyone about letting you out, how could Chaoyang know so quickly?" His gaze turned to Uncle Lao.

Uncle Lao Guo hurriedly shook his head, "I went back to the house directly after coming out of the palace, I didn't talk to anyone during the period, Princess Chaoyang has been avoiding guests in those days, and it is even more impossible for me to tell her!" ”

In this way, it should be the person around the emperor who spreads the news, and this person was present when Uncle Lao Guo was talking to the emperor! The three were silent at the same time...... After a while, he raised his head at the same time, and six sharp eyes shot at the old eunuch Gao Deshun behind the emperor.

Gao Deshun was suddenly so frightened that his legs became weak, he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, pulling the male duck's throat and crying, "The old slave doesn't know anything!" The emperor is aware that the old slave is loyal to the emperor......"

"Gao Deshun, you are hiding quite deeply! When the emperor was still the crown prince, every time he came back from the palace, he would praise you, and even we were deceived by you! I didn't expect you to wait for us here! Lao Keqin said and rolled up his sleeves to clean up Gao Deshun.

The emperor stopped him and looked down at Gao Deshun on the ground, "Grandpa Gao, what is going on?" If you tell the truth, I can promise not to kill you. I haven't forgotten your kindness to me before, the emperor wanted to abolish me many times during his reign, but it was your secret transmission of news that made me take precautions and repeatedly save the day. I don't believe that now that I'm sitting in this position, you're going to betray me! "He even used me, but no longer me, so that he could influence Gao Deshun to lead him to tell the mastermind behind it. The reason why Chaoyang dares to do this, there must be someone else behind him, whether it is the third or fourth, or the handwriting of the Queen Mother, he needs to know.

The deep palace has been up and down for decades, who is Gao Deshun? Can't you hear the temptation in his tone? I saw Gao Deshun slowly raise his head, looking up at the emperor, two lines of old tears crossed his cheeks.

Seeing him like this, the father and son of the Lao family only thought that Gao Deshun had been persuaded by the emperor, so they breathed a sigh of relief and were about to sit down to listen to him. I saw that the emperor suddenly covered his stomach, frowned, and shrunk his body together, and soon slid down from the chair and landed beside Gao Deshun.

The sudden smile on Gao Deshun's face made the emperor's scalp tingle. The father and son of the Lao family also hurriedly came up to help the emperor up, but saw that Gao Deshun had already pulled the emperor to stand up, and he was holding a dagger in his hand, pointing at the emperor's waist brightly.

Lao Keqin glanced at the dagger and smiled, "Gao Deshun, you are too naΓ―ve, do you want to scare you and me with such a small thing in your hand?" If you stab you, the emperor will only be stabbed by you, and you will kill you immediately! ”

Gao Deshun's shrill voice laughed very ugly, "Of course I know this, so I have already smeared something on it, do you want to try it?" ”

"Gao Deshun, why are you so troubled? I have treated you well since I ascended the throne, what more do you want? You say, "If I can give it to you, I will not spare it!" The pain in his abdomen had made the emperor unable to straighten his waist, but the things on his back made him dare not bend down...... Even he thought it was funny.

"Yes, yes, Gao Gonggong, Gao Gonggong, just say what you want, we promise you everything, I just ask you not to hurt the emperor!" Uncle Lao Guo was already sweating profusely, so he almost knelt down for Gao Deshun.

Who knew that Gao Deshun laughed even more presumptuously when he heard this, "Your Majesty! He also deserves it? Uncle Lao Guo has come to this job, are you still unwilling to tell the truth? Don't you want this child to die without knowing who he is? After speaking, he attached it to the emperor's ear, "Do you think you are really the eldest son of the Zhou family?" Amusing! You are simply the wild seed left behind by the Qi clan and Uncle Lao Guo! The emperor has known about this for a long time, but he has been enduring humiliation and burden, do you know that he is planning painstakingly for today! Ha ha...... Your Majesty, the old slave has finally completed your request! ”

It wasn't until there was a sharp pain in his waist that the emperor came back to his senses from what Gao Deshun had just said, and looked at Uncle Lao Guo fixedly. And Uncle Lao Guo was looking at him with a guilty face, and Lao Keqin was also at a loss. Gao Deshun's words really shocked him! But it is precisely because of those words that Uncle Lao's previous actions have become reasonable, so it is...... It turns out that this world is almost going to become his labor family! Hehe, this world is really ridiculous, but when he knows the truth, it is when everything is shattered.

Gao Deshun's poison was really violent, and the emperor's face instantly turned iron blue, and his lips gradually became black. Gao Deshun pulled out the dagger and quickly stabbed it into his chest, just as the Lao family father and son hurried over to help the emperor, Gao Deshun shouted, "Come on!" The father and son of the Lao family rebelled, and they wanted to assassinate the emperor! Come on! The father and son of the Lao family assassinated the emperor ......"

Lao Keqin stepped forward with a kick, and Gao De fell to the ground in response, unable to make any sound.

But at this time, only a rush of footsteps was heard, and Liu Chen led hundreds of guards to surround him with long swords. What made the Lao family father and son even more unexpected was that there were two others who entered the venue last. One is the Empress Dowager Wang, and the other is the third prince Zhou Qiyu.

Seeing these two people appear, Uncle Lao Guo clearly knew that everything was a foregone conclusion, and the Lao family was defeated. But Lao Keqin didn't think so, he refused to admit that he assassinated the emperor, and insisted that the emperor was killed by Gao Deshun, and he killed Gao Deshun.

When the imperial physician came, he decided that the emperor had been poisoned by the dagger and died. And the handle of the poisonous dagger was clearly engraved with a gram. There are only two such daggers in the Lao family, which are specially made by Princess Yong'an to find a craftsman in the palace, and one for each of the two brothers, respectively, are engraved with the words Liqin and Ke. Obviously, this dagger is undoubtedly the work of Lao Keqin.

In order to prove his innocence, Lao Keqin remembered that the emperor had been poisoned before he was assassinated, so he ordered the imperial doctor to check the wine jug that Gao Deshun was holding in his hand before, and told everyone that Gao Deshun first gave the emperor a poisonous wine and then used the poisonous dagger.

If there is already a poisonous dagger that can be deadly, why use poisoned wine? It doesn't make sense, does it? Even the imperial doctor couldn't help but laugh after listening to his words, this Lao Keqin was obviously crazy, right?

Uncle Lao Guo didn't say a word from beginning to end, standing behind and watching the people in front of him decide the fate of himself and the entire Lao family, all of which was a gamble from the beginning. Since it is a gamble, there must be wins and losses, he bet all of his own, and then lose, it is just fate...... It's just that he pities his own child, he looks at the emperor who fell to the ground, the most pitiful thing is this child, he didn't know anything at all, he was put on the gambling table by his own father, and then he was calculated to death by his father who had been shouting for nearly thirty years! It's all his fault!

The third prince asked the imperial doctor to check the wine jug according to what Lao Keqin said, but the imperial doctor poured a glass of wine and put in the silver needle to try it, and the silver needle was still shiny. Now Lao Keqin was dumbfounded, how could it be? He obviously saw that the emperor began to have abdominal pain after drinking wine, how could the wine not be poisonous?

The queen mother didn't want to continue to go crazy with them, so she ordered the two of them to be put on death row, and the matter would be dealt with after the matter was clarified.

Lao Keqin screamed and shouted, but was still dragged away.

On the morning of the second day, the queen mother lowered the curtain and announced the news of the emperor's assassination, and the father and son of the Lao family entered the palace to assassinate them. In an instant, the mountains shook, and those officials who were close to the Lao family before began to endanger themselves, and those who were depressed because of the Lao family began to move around to list the large and small criminal evidence of the Lao family in their hands one by one, and prepared to jointly play it.

The three princes suddenly came to the Liwang Mansion at this time.

Yu Feng had already gone to the barracks at this time, and the father and son of the Lao family were arrested, and he was worried that the remaining soldiers and dogs of the Lao family would jump off the wall in a hurry. Prince Li was unwell during this time, and he couldn't come out to greet the three princes in person, so Princess Li had to go on the stage in person. But the third prince specified that Xi Cui would come forward.

Xi Cui had no choice but to come out, and the third prince gave a salute to the princess and handed Xi Cui a piece of white cloth, which seemed to be stained with blood, probably for a long time, and the blood stains had begun to turn rusty.

Xi Cui opened it and saw that it was General Sun's masterpiece. It records everything that happened in the southwest at that time, including the death of General Sun Lao. Everything was arranged in advance, General Sun was not killed by Xi Yunjian at all, but the slave of the Lao family stabbed him, and he simply ended the plan by himself. Its purpose is to force Xi Yunjian to "die" and let him live with another identity. At the same time, in order to keep the military power in his hands, he gave Nangong Yufeng the last chance, and only when he died, no one could cover Nangong Yufeng's edge. Because General Sun understands that even if he returns triumphantly, he will eventually hand over the military power in his hands, and once something happens to the emperor, the only one who has the Lao family to succeed him is Zhou Qitai. And Zhou Qitai is suspicious by nature, and he will definitely not trust these old people left by the emperor, as long as Nangong Yufeng's performance is easy to control, Zhou Qitai will naturally consider using Nangong Yufeng to balance the forces of the DPRK and China. In this way, the military power is still in the hands of their own people.

Judging from the letter, General Sun didn't think about what kind of consequences his death would bring to the Huai'an Hou Mansion at that time, but this consequence could not be avoided even if he did not die, right? The Lao family wants to destroy a Huai'an Hou Mansion that exists in name only, and his death is just a coincidence.

"What is the purpose of the third prince in sending this letter to me?" Xi Cui carefully put the letter away and prepared to return it to him.

The third prince waved his hand and said with a smile, "This is not what I meant, it was an appointment between me and Yu Feng." Bring this letter to the Sun family, let the Sun family know the truth, and Mrs. Sun will personally go to the Queen Mother to explain the truth and return the Xi family's innocence. And all the grievances between you and the Xi family can be ended here. In Yu Feng's words, no matter how great the kindness is, you should be finished! Of course, I didn't give this thing to you for free, I exchanged it with you. The third prince said and stretched out his hand to Xi Cui, "Do you remember the roster you gave me last time and I didn't ask for it?" Give it to me now. ”

Xi Cui thought about it, said a few words to Lingxiang, and Lingxiang went out. After a while, Lingxiang came in, holding the booklet in her hand.

Xi Cui handed the booklet to the three princes and watched the three princes leave.

The letter from General Sun in his hand seemed to be weighing on a thousand pounds at this moment, and Xi Cui could barely hold it. The third prince seems to be kind-hearted, but it put Xi Cui in a dilemma, go to the Sun family, her current identity is the princess of King Li, rehabilitates the Xi family, isn't this telling everyone that she is still a slave of the Xi family? If you don't go, you know the grievances of the Xi family but don't do anything, you will be labeled ruthless and unjust! It's all wrong!

Princess Li came over and saw Xi Cui holding such a piece of cloth in her hand in a daze, so she took it and looked at it. After reading it, he threw the cloth on the bookcase, "How can the three princes be so reasonable!" How can this thing be given to you? Even if it is handed over to Xi Yunting, if it is not handed over to Wang Shaoyan, it can be regarded as justifiable! What does he mean to you? ”

What is the use of saying this, the things have already been sent, and Xi Cui has already taken them, even if the matter falls on Xi Cui's head, there is no way to avoid it!

On the other hand, on the one hand, Yu Feng sneaked into the Lao family's military camp with his own personal entourage, guarded by the side of several major generals, and paid attention to their movements at any time, and on the other hand, let the secret guards of the Liwang Mansion wipe out all the places where the Lao family's dead soldiers gathered, and the Lao family was under Yu Feng's control.

After having the list in his hand, the three princes were just about to investigate the important ministers related to the Lao family recorded on the list, and then annihilate the power of the Lao family in the court in one fell swoop, but found that the Yushitai had already had an excerpt to impeach these people, and even the evidence was ready. In addition to the Yushitai, soon the Zhongshu Province and the six parts began to move. These people are as if they have guessed the idea of the third prince, and they will give whatever they want.

The foundation that the Lao family had worked hard for more than ten years had collapsed and collapsed in less than half a month. And the Lao family father and son were soon sentenced to be executed. In the end, there was only one Lao Liqin left in the Lao family, but soon Princess Yongan sent a letter to the northwest, ordering Lao Liqin to go to the surname of Lao, change the surname to Cao, change the wife to the family, cut off the relationship with the Lao family, and asked the Queen Mother to order Cao Liqin to be stationed in the northwest from now on and never return to the capital. The Empress Dowager's decree immediately arrived in the northwest, and Cao Liqin took the decree and really stayed in the northwest forever.

After the complete destruction of the Lao family, there were several people in the Lao family military camp who were loyal to Uncle Lao and wanted to gather people to rob the prison to save the Lao family's father and son, but they didn't want to be executed by Yu Feng's men on the spot before they could take action.

The Lao army was soon broken up and reorganized to other places, and since then the Lao army has completely disappeared......

When the people of the Lao family were beheaded, Xi Cui stood in a conspicuous place in the crowd, and even Lao Xuefen, who was sent to the nunnery, was escorted back and executed. Xi Cui looked at the group of people wearing gray clothes who were kneeling densely on the stage, and the unkempt Lao family members with the words prisoner on their chests and backs, and couldn't help but shed tears for some reason. I didn't expect it to end like this, they all had to die in the end...... Just like the original Huai'an Hou Mansion, everyone died, and some didn't even know why...... It's like her family, and her lovely siblings...... Is this revenge for them? In the end, she also has a share of the credit for these people's deaths, but do these people deserve to die?

At this time, she suddenly found that she didn't hate it at all, and all that was left was helplessness......

No wonder Mrs. only wanted her children to live in the end, instead of asking them to take revenge, because revenge really couldn't get any comfort...... (To be continued.) )