Yu Shu lay in the Taixi Building for half a month, knowing nothing about what was happening in the outside world. Zhu Muzhao asked people to go to Yufu to report their safety, but did not allow her family to come in to visit.

Zhu Qingjue would come to check her pulse every day, but since she woke up, the matter of changing the dressing was handed over to the maid. He obeyed his father's instructions, and whenever he came back to visit the sick, as long as she was awake, he would talk to her and relieve her boredom.

Zhu Qingjue felt that his father was doing something redundant, because she didn't need anyone to accompany her at all. No matter what he said, she didn't talk, at first he thought she was stimulated in prison, but later found out that she didn't bother to talk to him at all. Like now—

"Ahem, how is it today, have you taken all the medicine? You raise your hand and try it, do the bones still hurt? ”

Yu Shu sat on the bed, wearing a wide robe, one arm exposed, just changed the medicine, she looked at the green trees outside the window, and when she heard his words, she raised her hand meaningfully, and she didn't say yes, nor did she cry out in pain.

"Where's the feet?"

She stretched out one leg from the quilt to show him, the splint on her ankle was only removed yesterday, Zhu Qingjue's secret recipe "Broken Bone Cream" is very effective, you must know that her feet and neck have been twisted off completely, he can bring her back, it has only been half a month, and the bones have grown.

"Does that have a headache?"

Yu Shu shook her head, silently indicating that she was not in pain. Zhu Qingjue rolled her eyes, and reached over to remove the white veil on her forehead, but she immediately reacted to this move, and pushed away his claws to prevent him from touching it.

Ever since she looked in the mirror ten days ago, she wouldn't let anyone look at her forehead again. He had tried to sneak up on her while she was asleep, and as soon as he touched her head, she woke up immediately, and he remembered how horrible her eyes were. He knew that this was her death hole, and patiently reasoned with her:

"I'll just take a look and see how the wound is healing, what are you afraid of, I don't think you're ugly."

Yu Shu turned his head, glanced at him coldly, and spit out two words: "Don't." ”

Zhu Qingjue grinded his teeth. couldn't help but say venomously: "Isn't it just disfigured." What can't you see, do you want to cover your head and cover your head for the rest of your life? ”

Yu Shu was not annoyed or angry, she just turned her head away and stopped paying attention to him. Zhu Qingjue was angry with her. Stand up, walk to the window and sit down. blocked her view. Who knew that she simply closed her eyes. Pretended to be asleep.

The room was quiet for a while, and only the sound of cicadas in the trees outside could be heard, and the sunlight pierced in. Zhu Qingjue looked at her transparent and shiny side face, and said to her coldly: "Last night, the emperor died in Huazhen Garden. ”

The bad news was transmitted back to the capital overnight, and early this morning, the death knell sounded at the noon gate, and white flags were hung on the ten-mile long street outside the palace.

Yu Shu looked at him stunned: "Your Majesty, you died?" Zhu Qingjue nodded, and while she was willing to speak, she said a few more words: "There are some things that my father won't let people tell you, for fear of affecting your recovery, but I think you should know, don't be too surprised when I say it." ”

She bowed her head slightly, indicating that she would listen again.

"King Dong Jing wants to rebel, someone saw the long-missing Xue Rui by his side, when the dynasty pointed out that Xue Xiang colluded with the thief, secretly sent money and food to Ningdong City, Xue Xiang was imprisoned in Dali Temple, tried by Yin Taifu personally, who knew that he was implicated in the two murders of Taishi Shuyuan last year, and now he is only waiting for the prince to return to Beijing to decide."

After speaking, he quietly observed her face, but saw that her expression was indifferent and seemed unmoved. He thought that she had been commensurate with Xue Rui's brother and sister, and even this time she suffered so much, I heard that it was also for Xue Rui's sister.

"Hey, are you alright?"

Yu Shu lowered his eyes and said softly, "I'm fine." After a pause, he said, "What can I do, knowing that the person who harmed me will not end well, I am too late to be happy." ”

Zhu Qingjue couldn't see that she was happy at all, the atmosphere in the room was weird, he couldn't stay any longer, so he casually found an excuse to retreat. There was one less noisy voice in the room, no one disturbed Yu Shu's thinking, she sat quietly for a long time, lifted the quilt, walked to the window and sat down, turned her head, looked at her slightly hazy face in the bronze mirror, raised her hand and touched the scarf on her forehead, and gently pulled it down.

I saw that in the center of her eyebrows, a half-inch-long flesh scar was slightly raised, and the color of crimson was like a closed eye, unspeakably demonic. Looking at the scar, she could clearly recall the torture she had experienced for two days and two nights, but strangely enough, she did not feel fear at all, but felt the blood in her veins, and there was a certain longing in her body.

She quickly reached out to cover herself in the mirror, slowly adjusting her breathing to calm down. She thought distractedly: Emperor Zhaoqing has died, and the big mention should be able to use her soon.

Zhu Muzhao walked in from the outside and saw her sitting in front of the mirror in a daze. He stopped at the door, frowned, and said, "Why did you get out of bed, didn't you let you have a good rest." ”

Yu Shu unhurriedly picked up the scarf that fell on the ground and tied it back to his forehead, turned around and said, "I've slept for more than ten days, I've slept enough, when are you going to let me go home?" ”

Zhu Muzhao walked in with his hands behind his back, stood by the window, and looked at the entire Si Tianjian. "The Holy One was buried last night." "I've heard that."

"The prince will return to Beijing tomorrow, and then I want you to come forward to testify against Xue Lingnan's crimes, are you willing?" He looked back at her, waiting for her to make the right choice, whether to stand on Si Tianjian's side or opposite.

Yu Shu fanned his eyelashes lightly, and sarcastically hooked the corners of his mouth: "What do you want me to testify against him, is he harming Jingchen, or is he killing innocents indiscriminately, or is it him spying on the secrets of the royal family?" I can testify to all of this. ”

Da mentioned that he didn't really need her to be a witness, he wanted to take this opportunity to make her completely break off with the past, he handed her the sharpened knife and asked her to stab the Xue family for the last time, and never waver again.

Half a month ago, she woke up from a nightmare, her mind became more lucid than ever, and the fog shrouded in front of her eyes was lifted, and she suddenly opened up, and she saw everything clearly.

She knew that wanted to pass on his position to her, and not just because she was a lifebreaker. More importantly, he saw that she and Yunhua's two sons had bonds, and the fate was difficult to eliminate, and he thought that she could find the "Xuannu Liuren Book" instead of him, and even more, one day she would willingly give birth to the Heavenly Destiny Taigu and ascend to the top of power.

"Have you thought about it?" Zhu Muzhao stared at her calm eyes, but didn't see any hesitation in them.

"What is there to consider," Yu Shu stood up with the corner of the table, walked to his side, and looked with him at Si Tianjian who looked like a mystery of the Nine Palaces through the window lattice. "It's the prince. Aren't you afraid that he will shield the Xue family and refuse to punish the crime? ”

Zhu Muzhao smiled with satisfaction and said, "I have talked to the crown prince in private, and Si Tianjian will keep his throne. Throw away Xue Lingnan's outcast. It's not a pity. ”

Yu Shu pondered for a moment. guessed the whole story: "Did you deliberately stay in Huazhenyuan just to negotiate terms with the prince, how could he agree?" "The crown prince and the Xue family are tied to the same boat. If it weren't for Xue Lingnan and King Xiang, he wouldn't have been able to be the prince at all.

"How do you think I convinced him?"

Yu Shu closed his eyes and said: "The prince is suspicious, and he is a ruthless person, as long as you sue him, Xue Lingnan and the King of Xiang secretly colluded, even if he becomes the emperor in the future, I am afraid that he will make a wedding dress for others." In addition, you must have told him the secret of the "Xuannu Liuren Book". ”

Zhu Muzhao gave her an approving look and said: "Xue Lingnan and King Xiang made a mistake, they both concealed the existence of the prince's "Xuannu Liuren Book", and I sued the prince that Si Tianjian found the lost "Xuannu Liuren Book", and lied to him, on the day of the ancestor worship, I took the next big man to open the altar, and calculated that he was the true dragon emperor, so even if there is no Xue family, he can still sit on the throne. ”

"He believed?"

"Why don't you believe it?" Even if it is a lie, as long as it is mutually beneficial, no one will try to debunk it.

"Lianfang," Zhu Muzhao called her easy number, turned her back to the window railing, and said in a long tone: "I have paved the road for you, how to go next, you must not let me down." ”

With that, he tapped her on the shoulder and walked away.

Yu Shu stood in front of the window, watching his figure walk down the Jiuqu Bridge, his eyes flickering, and he murmured silently: "I hope that your heart is like my heart, and it is best not to be negative." ”

***

Yu Shu was carried into Dali Temple by someone sitting on her shoulder, in fact, she was already able to walk on the ground, but she was asked to pretend that she was seriously injured and had not healed, and deliberately put on a show for others, Zhu Qingjue bandaged her from head to toe for this, and the hot day made people feel chest tightness and shortness of breath when they looked at her.

However, Yu Shu didn't have to pretend to be weak, her face was not as white as a normal person, and anyone could see that she had suffered a catastrophe.

The Xue family's case was not a public trial, and the crown prince escorted the emperor's body back to Beijing yesterday, and before the state funeral, he took the time to come to the trial. However, Xue Lingnan was his maternal grandfather, and in order to avoid suspicion, he stepped aside and did not interfere with Yin Tianhou and Guo Huai'an's trial.

Actually, Yu Shu just came to go through the motions. I don't know when I collected evidence, it turned out that an old slave who was doing chores in the Taishi Academy was a pioneer of Xue Lingnan's leading army twenty years ago, and later reported that the court was killed in battle, but he was quietly sent to the Taishi Academy to be eyeliner, and successively killed two innocent female students, Zhan Xueyuan and Cao Youling.

Xue Lingnan probably knew that he was gone, and in the face of human and material evidence, he stood arrogantly in front of people, expressing disdain: "Why did the old man kill two irrelevant little girls, and there is no excuse for the crime he wants to add." ”

Yin Tianhou sat behind the public case, holding a confession in his hand, turned his head to look at Yu Shu in the last seat, and said: "Si Tian Prison Female Imperial Officer Yu Shu, your confession said that on the night of May 11, you were arrested and taken to the prison of the Criminal Department, and Xue Lingnan privately set up a torture room and tortured you, right?" ”

"Exactly." Yu Shu asked her to help her stand up, pointed at Xue Lingnan and said: "It was he who personally sued me, he instructed someone to kill the students of Taishi Shuyuan, Xue Lingnan, as Xiangguo, was dissatisfied with Si Tianjian's power over the six departments, and he wanted to provoke the dispute between the Yi Xueshi family and Si Tianjian, so he started from Taishi Shuyuan." The murdered Cao Youling was the daughter of the Cao family in the twelve prefectures of the capital, and Zhan Xueyuan was from the Zhan family of the Yixuewang clan in Jiangxi, Xue Lingnan wanted to blame Si Tianjian for their deaths, but he never found a suitable opportunity. ”

The existence of the "Xuannu Liuren Book" cannot be published to the public, so we can only find another excuse, as Xue Lingnan said, there is no excuse for the crime that you want to add.

Xue Lingnan turned around and stared at Yu Shu with a fierce gaze, but he couldn't help but refute. He knew very well that if he told the secret of the "Xuannu Liuren Book" in public, not only would the King of Xiang have nowhere to hide, but also the old and young people who would be involved would die without a corpse.

"As far as this official knows, the reason why you were imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department is because you ruined other people's family affairs and set up slaves and injured people in the street, is it true?" Guo Huaian couldn't blatantly exonerate Xue Lingnan, so he could only change the topic and force Yu Shu to show his feet.

"The Xue family and the Zhou family bought off any of my subordinates, the Kunling Bureau, and embezzled the big seal of the former right commander Jingchen, and forged the official marriage documents, which is really a private marriage. I got the news and went to arrest the prisoner, what's wrong? Yu Shu asked rhetorically.

Guo Huai'an didn't rush to summon other witnesses first, and grabbed her: "Your confession said that Xue Xiang tortured you in prison, wasn't it because you kidnapped and hid your bride, and you insisted on refusing to explain her whereabouts, so you were tortured?" ”

Yu Shu smiled coldly and said, "Xue Lingnan tortured me, but not to inquire about the whereabouts of his granddaughter, but from somewhere he learned that I had evidence of the Xue family's collusion with King Dongjing, so he lynched me and forced me to hand it over." ”

She put the case on the charge of the Xue family's rebellion in two sentences, and there was no flaw in the preface and afterword, Xue Lingnan finally couldn't hold it back, and scolded her in a deep voice: "Hugh has to spray people with blood!" The old man has nothing to do with the traitor Jiang family, Your Highness—"

He turned his head to look at the crown prince, and said with a sad expression: "Does my Xue family have any different intentions, isn't His Royal Highness the prince still unclear?" ”

Without waiting for the prince to answer, he heard Yu Shu say again: "Now that the matter is now, you don't have to win the prince's sympathy, whether you are loyal or traitorous, the prince already knows in his heart." ”

Xue Lingnan stared at the prince without giving up, only to see the latter sigh, turned his head to avoid his gaze, and said in a heavy and disappointed tone: "Lone has read your handwritten letter with the traitor Jiang Huaiying, but I really didn't expect that Lone's grandfather actually wanted to usurp the throne, and Lone had nothing to say." ”

He said that he had nothing to say, but he had already expressed his attitude, Xue Lingnan's shoulders suddenly collapsed, his face instantly aged ten years old, he trembled with both hands, covered his chest and hung his head, and still couldn't believe that the prince he had raised with one hand would bite him back before he ascended the throne.

When Yu Shu saw this scene, she didn't have the pleasure of revenge, Xue Xiangye, who was once unattainable for her, was just a bad old man after losing her authority. In reality, she once again recognized a truth - in this world, there is no right, and people are not as good as dogs. (To be continued......)

PS: - Ah Shu has experienced life is worse than death, and now his thoughts are a little dark, everyone understands, who made her a single dog today? ┑(￣Д￣)┍