Chapter 772: Temptation
Regardless of whether there is a bottom or not, Xiao Rui can't think of a better way for the time being.
Xie Mulin's proposal is the best plan that he can accept in his heart, not only can he save his biological mother Li Yaozhi, but also slightly reduce the crime of his adoptive father Xiao Mingde, who is suspected of bullying the king, where can I find a better idea than this?
Anyway, his heart is in a mess at the moment, and it is impossible for him to calm down and think about how to deal with it. He felt that Xie Mulin's idea was quite good.
Of course, this is not his business alone, nor is it his sole decision. He knows his adoptive father Xiao Mingde well, and he is also relatively sure of his biological father, His Royal Highness King Yan, but he doesn't know what the emperor will think. He didn't dare to act rashly, and he also exposed his sweetheart, so he needed to discuss with the people around him before deciding what to do next.
The person he can discuss with is naturally Aunt Li.
Xiao Rui walked to the bedroom door again, and listened to the movement through the curtain for a while.
It was about the relationship that her son did not enter the bedroom, and after Aunt Li closed her eyes for a while, she opened her eyes again to talk to the girl next to her. She seemed to be about to send one of the girls, Cui, to the kitchen to get some rice porridge soup for her, for she had only eaten half a bowl of porridge for dinner, and was already a little hungry.
However, she still needs to drink medicine, and after a while, her girl should go to boil it. If a green beard is gone, and the remaining green waist has to go to the yard to boil medicine, who can keep an eye on her in the house?
Aunt Li smiled and comforted them: "There is still a brother, he is sitting outside, what are you afraid of?" β
The two girls hesitated. Xiao Rui lifted the curtain and walked in: "Cui Wei go, in addition to rice porridge and soup, it is best to have some pastries that can cushion your stomach." Even if my aunt can't eat it, she can leave it for me to make supper. I'm afraid I'm going to stay here tonight. The green waist just has to boil the medicine. After a while, when my aunt has eaten and rested, she will be able to drink the medicine. He sat down on the edge of Aunt Li's bed, "I'm here with my aunt, you can rest assured." β
The two girls finally breathed a sigh of relief and quit together.
Aunt Li glanced at her son helplessly, sighed secretly, and said with a smile: "I promised you a long time ago that you won't do stupid things again, why do you have to spend time here with me and don't do anything serious?" How can you stay out for the night? Go back to your room. I've got a girl here. β
"It's okay, I can lay out on the floor. At the moment, my aunt is my most important business, so I naturally have to concentrate and take care of you first. Xiao Rui paused, "Auntie, don't always think about coaxing me away, so that you can continue to do stupid things that are painful to relatives and quick to enemies!" If you are for my future, then you should live a good life, watch your son successfully become the prince of Yanwangfu, and live a life of raising your eyebrows. If the price of my going to Yanwang's Mansion is that you sacrifice your life, then I will never be happy in this life! I've already ...... my father," Xiao Rui paused, then changed his words, "I told General Xiao that if you really die, I'd rather be an ordinary junior military attache and return to Kaiping to guard the border and kill the enemy, rather than be the prince of Yanwangfu." If the emperor and His Royal Highness King Yan don't even allow me to be a junior military attachΓ©, then I will resign from my official position to become a businessman, travel the world, and fall in love wherever I want. Anyway...... I'm never going to go to the place where my own mother was killed! β
Aunt Li's eyes suddenly turned red: "You stupid child!" What nonsense......" She struggled to support her weak body, and planned to sit up and talk to Xiao Rui.
Xiao Rui stretched out his hands and gently pressed her back: "So, don't think about it all day long!" If you really want me to be good, you should live for a long time! Aren't you just worried that being an aunt of the General's Mansion for so many years will affect my reputation and make me unable to be the prince of Yanwangfu smoothly? But I have been wandering outside a lot over the years, even in Beiping, in the northern army, I have traveled widely, and everyone knows whose son I am! Even if you die, others will still question what they should question, and it won't do me any good! Instead of doing something that will make me sad and sad for the rest of my life, it is better to calm down and discuss with your son and me how to make the whole thing sound more reasonable, which will save your life and reduce the number of people who question me! β
Aunt Li was frightened by him, and her face showed hesitation: "What else can I do?" Besides......" she paused, "and it's not just for this reason that I feel like I have to die......
Xiao Rui frowned, and subconsciously asked, "Then what is the reason?" Is it because you had the idea of bullying the king under your resentment? You shouldn't have confessed this in front of the emperor! But even if you say it, you just have only one thought, and you haven't done anything from beginning to end, so you were accepted as a concubine by General Xiao and strictly confined in the mansion. Even if the emperor is dissatisfied with this, there is no need to take your life, right?! You are just too sad for the death of your aunt and grandmother, and you hate Queen Cao's family too much, so you will have such thoughts. Isn't the emperor sad, doesn't he hate the Cao family? In contrast, General Xiao, who knew the truth and knew that the Yan Wangfu had been troubled by the heirless for many years, shouldn't he be more punished? Did the emperor vent his anger on you, a little person, just because General Xiao was the minister he relied on?! β
Aunt Li was speechless and silent for a while before she whispered, "Anyway, don't ask." I knew I was guilty. The emperor blames me, and I have nothing to say. But I don't regret it...... He did that to the eldest lady...... There will be today, and it is well deserved! She gritted her teeth and uttered the last sentence.
Xiao Rui looked puzzled: "Auntie, are you hiding something from me?" When is it now, and why are you still refusing to tell me the truth?! β
"What can I hide from you?" Aunt Li avoided his gaze, "Do you still want to know about the relationship between the eldest lady and the emperor back then?" I don't want to mention it. The eldest lady suffered so many grievances, and finally died at a young age, and there are still children......" Aunt Li silently shed two lines of tears, and she was already choked up and speechless.
Xiao Rui saw that she was so sad and sad, he didn't dare to ask any further, so he had to change the topic: "Okay, I won't ask." In fact...... I do have an idea. If it is because you once gave birth to me for His Royal Highness King Yan, but you concealed the truth from King Yan, and turned your head to be a concubine for General Xiao for more than ten years, once the truth is revealed, you will not be able to gain a foothold in the world, then ...... What if my birth mother is not you? If you were just my adoptive mother, wouldn't it be a problem? β
Aunt Li paused, and only raised her head after a while: "What did you say?!" β
"I mean, how about not telling the world that you are my real mother, just that you are my adoptive mother and raising me? Of course, in private, what should our mother and son do, all this is just to coax outsiders! Xiao Rui hid from the person who really came up with this idea, and asked tentatively, "Didn't you say that my aunt and grandmother are actually my stepmother?" You're giving birth on the same day as her...... If you say that I am the son of her and His Royal Highness King Yan, and say that they are only because of the war, and they didn't have time to get married, the eldest aunt and grandmother died, and you raised me on the order of the old master...... What do you think of this statement? Will His Royal Highness the Emperor and King Yan accept it? β