Chapter 236: Denial of Words
"Zhu Youjiao, you have never been on good terms with your eldest brother and father, who else can you sue if you don't sue them?"
Li Jinglong grinned, his mockery filling the gap between every word.
"It's not uncommon for fathers, sons, and brothers to quarrel with each other. How could she make it up and frame her family? Didn't General Lee say a bad word to his family? Zhu Hu asked rhetorically.
Li Jinglong glanced at Zhu Hu, disgusted as if he had seen a buzzing fly, and then ignored Zhu Hu and continued to ask Zhu Youyi.
"And who are you going to sue?"
"Dingwang...... Zhu Jixi! Zhu Youjiao said.
Dingwang Zhu Jixi is the eldest son of Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin. Zhu Youjia's fief and Dingwang Zhu Jixi's fief bordered, and the two often quarreled over jurisdictional issues, and the relationship was extremely discordant.
Li Jinglong was stunned, he thought that Zhu Youjiao, who was so frightened that his face was like earth, would be honest under his torture and sharp knife, but he didn't expect to hear an unexpected answer.
This is not the answer he wants, the emperor sent him to Kaifeng, it was the king of Zhou's domain, Zhu Youjiao shook out that the king of Ding, Zhu Jixi, was not the slightest gratifying for him.
"Bold! Do you dare to deceive the king? You obviously want to sue your father and eldest brother, but you dare to prevaricate with Zhu Jixi, the king of Dingding! ”
Li Jinglong was furious, determined to try his best to contain the prey in his hands and break free from his mercy.
Zhu Youjia glanced at his father and saw his father's determination to give up his life for him.
He straightened up and said with unprecedented courage, "Don't I know who I'm going to sue?" General Li, you are bent on killing my father and eldest brother and trying to frame me like this? ”
"General Li, you are making something out of nothing! This king advises you to be cautious in your words and deeds, don't corrupt the emperor's enlightenment, and don't spoil the justice of the Ming Dynasty! ”
Zhu Hu's words were so loud that even the officers and soldiers who surrounded the Zhou Palace's mansion felt that they were embarrassed as Li Jinglong's subordinates.
"Humph!" Li Jinglong could no longer find the right words to speak, and he knew that he had made a huge mistake.
The secret letter sent to him by the emperor did not explain who Zhu Youjiao sued, and he should have gone to Kaifeng to find Zhu Youjiao first to understand the situation and obtain testimony.
However, he was so overjoyed that he felt that this was a sure thing, and he was in a hurry to escort King Zhou to the capital, so that everyone knew that it was he Li Jinglong who fired the first shot of cutting the domain.
So, everything was unexpected by him, and his arrogance was naked buried in front of a pair of sincere and united father and son.
"General Li, if you don't leave, this king will immediately play the emperor and ask for an explanation!"
Zhu Huan's voice was full of emotion, all the anger in the past forty years added up to a drop in the bucket compared to this moment.
"Let you have a few more good days, let's go!" Li Jinglong jumped on his horse and walked away.
The officers and men staggered quickly from a huge circle to two columns, and disappeared into the flying dust.
The Zhu Gate of the Zhou Palace's Mansion closed tightly after two heavy "bangs".
The guards and family members who had experienced the catastrophe just now scattered to every corner of the Zhou Palace, some in horror, and some whispering.
Zhu Hu and Zhu Youjiao returned to the hall without saying a word.
Feng Shi still held the chain rod tightly in her hand, she was not a woman who was powerless in the face of danger.
Seeing that the father and son were safe and sound, she breathed a sigh of relief, walked to Zhu Hu's side, and grabbed his hand.
Zhu Hu's cold and damp hand made Feng Shi feel distressed, she rubbed it lightly, and said, "Lord Wang, it's okay, you can rest and rest!" Mom Zhang, bring another pot of hot tea! ”
"Ma'am, I'm fine, a little ...... Misunderstand. They're all gone. ”
Zhu Hu came back to his senses under the tenderness of his wife, and felt that his whole body was paralyzed, as if he had been killed from thousands of troops.
"Child...... Damn it! frightened my father and mother! Zhu Youjiao's whole body trembled, for him, the matter has not passed, maybe the family's judgment is much more cruel than that of outsiders.
Feng gently stroked Zhu Youjiao's back, but her eyes looked at Zhu Youjiao motionlessly, she knew that Zhu Youjiao must be the protagonist of this turmoil.
But she didn't speak, waiting for the prince to speak.
She never regarded herself as the head of the family, but just as the woman behind the prince, she used all her strength to illuminate the whole family from beginning to end, but she never showed any light.
"Is what Li Jinglong said true?"
Zhu Hu's fingers slid lightly over the rosewood tabletop, adding a new cow hair pattern to it.
"No, Father!"
Zhu Youjiao was anxious to argue, and warned himself over and over again that he must not reveal his original thoughts, as a member of this family, he can't bear the reputation of eating inside and out.
Zhu Hu didn't know if what Zhu Youjiao said was true or not, he didn't know this son at all, and he didn't even know all the children.
He didn't know that Zhu Youjia hated him to the bone, and he didn't know that Zhu Youjia and Zhu Youjia had been treated as the same over the years, and they had long lost their brotherhood.
But he could not believe that his own son wanted to kill his father, and that his brothers, who were like siblings, were killing each other.
"It is the king who will tell the child." Zhu Youjiao was nervous, firmly grasping his mask, and doing his best to hide the dark side of his heart.
"King Ding is your cousin, they are all relatives, what can't be solved properly?"
Zhu Hu's grim expression eased slightly, but it was still stern.
"Father's teaching. The child was just a momentary anger, and the child immediately went to the emperor again, indicating that there were only some misunderstandings between the child and the king. ”
"Jia'er, you have to act calmly in the future, how can you casually go to the emperor."
Feng's gentle voice melted the ice that separated her father and son, and she believed in her son, who had been with her for more than 20 years.
"Yes, mother, the child knows."
"Okay, tossing for a long time, you go. Your father is tired. ”
Feng ended the battle that continued from the gate of the palace to the hall of the palace.
Zhu Hu looked lonely, and he was tired of the dispute. He felt strange to his son.
Coming out of King Zhou's mansion, Zhu Youjiao walked down the street alone with his head down, feeling extremely depressed.
At the gate of the palace, he and his father worked together to drive away the outsiders, which did not make him ecstatic.
His desperate efforts to maintain the image of his family did not make him feel tall, and from his father's lonely eyes, he could see his father's disappointment in himself.
Although his father did not insist that he betrayed his family, it was clear that he was no longer part of that family.
He didn't feel the little bit of wonder that held him together.
It turns out that there is still resentment and hatred, what is it now?
Nothing.
He was born and raised in the Zhou Palace, but he was incompatible with the people in the Zhou Palace.