Chapter 168: Concessions
A few days later, Situ Xi agreed to meet Situ Xi, and this time Situ Xi brought dozens of guards to meet with Situ Xia under the city gate.
When Situ Xi arrived, Situ Xi was already sitting at the negotiated table and drinking tea.
Seeing Situ Yu coming, he made a gesture of invitation and asked him to sit down. After Situ Xi sat down, Situ Xi poured him tea and said, "It's cold in winter, drink a cup of hot tea to warm up." ”
Situ Fei took a sip and said, "I heard that the edict has been found. ”
Situ Xi replied: "Yes, I found it before the siege yesterday, but it was just a step late, otherwise Situ Jing would not be like this." ”
"It's a shame that the arrow didn't kill him." Situ Xi gritted his teeth and said.
"It's not, it's just that fortunately his princess came back, and all the imperial doctors were helpless, and she was the only one who dared to pull out the arrow and save Situ Jing's life."
"That woman is really peculiar, I listened to the king's side concubine talk about her last night, and there is really nothing she can't do. This king has been speculating that she appeared with the edict, so whether the edict would have something to do with her. ”
Situ Xi picked up the teacup to hide his strange appearance, and then said: "Brother Great Emperor, you are now behind 100,000 Northeast Army, and your Binzhou Army has also lost a lot in this siege, if you really want to continue fighting, I am afraid you may not be able to gain the upper hand, not to mention that these are my Tianfu soldiers, and it is not a wise move for the superior to lose money in your own land." ”
Situ Xi drank tea, Situ Xi said that he had thought about it last night, but, "Will Situ Jing let me go?" After all, I am the biggest threat to the throne, since ancient times, the king has been defeated, and the king will only kill the loser. I have no way out, and you also saw my whole family in the carriage yesterday, can you bear to let them die with me? ”
Situ Xi looked at him and said faintly: "That's also my relative, now that Situ Jing has not woken up, I can only promise myself that as long as I live for a day, I will save their lives, but the premise is that they keep their duties, do not violate the laws and laws of the country, do not seek revenge, do not cause trouble, do you understand?" ”
"As long as it doesn't hurt my family's lives, I can let them never leave Binzhou."
Situ Xi waved his hand and said, "No need, no one will remember these things in a few decades, and it will become a constraint when the time comes." Mu Yunqi also said to me yesterday that your second prince is a good boy and can become a pillar of the country in the future. ”
"Mu Yunqi, Yun Murong, the servant of the ministry, in just one year, it really changed the rule of Tianfu, such a woman can indeed become Situ Jing's solid right-hand man, but unfortunately, I don't have this luck."
"So the imperial brother agreed to retire?" Situ Xi made the final decision.
Situ Fei drank the last sip of tea and got up and said, "Retire tomorrow, remember what you promised me, otherwise I won't let you go." ”
Situ Xi said: "Ah Jing is not an unreasonable person, I will do my best." ”
Situ Xi turned around and left without hesitation, Situ Xi looked at his seemingly much more relaxed background, and also drank the tea in the cup, but he was not in a hurry to leave, sitting there and watching Situ Xi walk in the direction where the soldiers came.
Just during that time, in the court, all the princes were not present to open the edict, with Prime Minister Mu and the Queen Mother as witnesses, this is also the final contest between Prime Minister Mu and the Queen Mother, who wins and who loses can be seen today.
No matter how tacitly the two cooperated when Situ Minying was alive, the two could no longer shake hands and make peace after the incident of supporting the heir, because they had already said goodbye.
At this time, the Queen Mother sat behind the curtain and stared disdainfully at Mu Zhiyuan in the court, and Mu Yunqi glanced at the curtain with his spare eyes.
Several eunuchs around the former emperor dragged the brocade box from behind and opened it in front of the ministers. At this moment, inside the brocade box lies a holy decree made of brown silk cloth.
Mu Zhiyuan stepped forward to take out the edict and opened it in front of the ministers, and the golden word "holy decree" could not be faked.
Mu Zhiyuan read out the edict with a loud voice: "...... King Situ of Qin, who has both civil and military skills, has more than enough virtue and talent, and is established as the crown prince and inherits the ...... of the great unification"
After listening to the queen mother behind the curtain, she left the court with the curtain, during this time she supported Situ Ji like a clown jumping off the beam, but she didn't want to lose to Mu Zhiyuan completely. Situ Jing's succession to the throne represents her unbearable history, and her confusion with the royal blood will be exposed, she will become a historical sinner who will be stinking for thousands of years, and she can imagine that her remaining time will no longer be beautiful, but filthy.
Situ Jing's body is getting better day by day, but he hasn't woken up yet.
As soon as the edict was announced in the world, Mu Zhiyuan personally came to visit Situ Jing.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Mu Yunqi, who had been staying up for several days and nights, Mu Zhiyuan didn't know how to face this granddaughter, Mu Yunqi endured the displeasure in his heart and bowed to Mu Zhiyuan and called "The prime minister is here".
Although Mu Zhiyuan was unhappy in his heart, he didn't dare to look at her, he knew that those assassins were sent by the Queen Mother, but he didn't want to kill her to prevent future troubles.
Mu Zhiyuan walked up to the bed and asked, "How is King Qin's body recovering?" ”
Mu Yunqi replied: "Fortunately, the wound has healed and the pulse has returned to normal, but I haven't woken up, I don't know why." ”
Mu Zhiyuan nodded and said: "It's good that there is no danger to life, the edict has been announced in the world, the first emperor still chose King Qin as the successor, and this matter of ascending the throne will wait for King Qin to recover his body." ”
Mu Yunqi knew the content of the edict, and Mu Zhiyuan saw that she was not surprised or happy, but he couldn't figure out her thoughts.
After Mu Zhiyuan left, Mu Yunqi sat at the head of Situ Jing's bed and said to him, "Did you hear that? This is your fate, you can't escape, Mu Zhiyuan will be the nightmare of your life, do you still want to inherit such a throne? You should get up and say something! ”
As he spoke, Mu Yunqi lay on Situ Jing's body and cried, "Do you still blame me?" You don't want to get up and look at me like this, so I'll go, don't you wake up when I go, right? Okay, I'll go, I'll go. ”
Mu Yunqi slowly got up and left the room backwards, but Situ Jing still didn't wake up, only a tear slipped into the pillow.
Situ Jing in his sleep could hear everything, he wanted to wake up, he wanted to take Mu Yunqi's hand and say, "No, he doesn't want her to leave him again, why doesn't she understand her heart." ”
Mu Yunqi didn't really leave, she knew that Situ Jing should be able to hear it, she wanted to try to stimulate him, even if she wanted to leave, she had to wait for him to wake up and say it himself.
When Qiao Lu entered the house, she saw Mu Yunqi sitting there with empty eyes, not knowing what to think, she arched her hand after entering the door and said, "Princess, I want to see you." ”