092, defection
But one of these three aspects should be true, after all, Lu Shu does not lack status or silver. I once seriously thought that he must not be from the king's side, but for Wei Tian or Cheng Yu.
Of course, those speculations were all based on a hypothesis - Lu Shu was going to be unfavorable to Qin Buxian from the beginning, so he set up a full set and led the king to the bait step by step.
I turned over and stayed at the house, drew a portrait of Lu Shu, and wrote a letter asking You Quartet to help me find someone, but I hesitated and still didn't send the letter to Yuzhou City.
At that time, the king stood at the desk and was depressed and frightened, and found that the group of people who originally stood on the same front with me and said that they would work side by side with me to achieve something were turning against him one after another. But now, I'm not sure if anyone other than him also sees this king as a pawn.
So in September, when I sent Qin Buxian out of the imperial capital, I carried the portraits and letters that I had prepared long ago. When I arrived in Yuzhou City, I went to the Ruyi gambling party in the afternoon to meet old friends and meet with you in the Quartet, so I quietly handed him these two things.
You Sifang has been the shopkeeper in the gambling house for so many years, and there are many gamblers who will run away if they can't afford to pay off their debts, so in order to find these gamblers who owe money, You Sifang has raised a large number of eyeliners, all over the entire Nanguo Mansion, and even spread to the Dajin Kingdom and the Ning Kingdom opposite the Changlan River.
I probably wanted to take a gamble.
I bet that Lu Shu is still alive, that his real master is Cheng Yu, and that the purpose of his death is the same as Xu Guangguang, which is to make this king hostile to Qin Buxian, and then stop being soft and take the initiative to attack.
You Sifang really didn't disappoint me, and the next day I got the news that Lu Shu was alive, and got his address and his letter to Chen Changfeng. Thanks to that letter, I couldn't tell whether he was on Wei Tian's side or Cheng Yu's side, but now I know very well.
Pulling my thoughts back to the present, in this deeply hidden bamboo forest mansion, Lu Shu sat next to me and asked cautiously: "Rong Lao Nu asked a disrespectful word, how did His Highness know that Lao Nu was not dead and still found Lao Nu's residence?" ”
When the king heard this, he had a sense of pride that a fortune-telling half-immortal grasped a person's psychology, and then planned to swagger and deceive.
So he squinted and smiled, pushed him a bowl of wine, and said, "This question is a long story." ”
He hurriedly prepared vegetables for me: "Since I came here, the old slave has been idle, it is rare for His Highness to take care of him, and he came to visit the old slave in person. ”
I looked at the table full of bamboo shoots, tasted it for the man, and then said with a smile: "It tastes really good, if it weren't for her inconvenience, this king would have brought her with me." ”
Lu Shu saw that the topic that Fang had deliberately ignored was brought over by me again, so he lowered his eyes and put on a very low posture, but he was still unwilling to admit that he was in the same boat as her: "I don't know who the person His Highness is talking about." ”
Seeing that he was so unconscious, this king could only say more clearly: "Naturally, it is the princess Xuanyi of the old southern country, Cheng Yu." Don't hide it from Gonggong Lu, this place was also told to me by Cheng Yu, she couldn't see that this king had been sad about your death, so she told this king the news that you were still alive. ”
Lu Shu slowly and methodically misplaced the corners of his lips, if he could still see some panic on his face, then the hidden smile on his face now already showed that he was ready for victory.
So, he prepared the dishes for me again, and he was as amiable as every time he saw me over the years: "Your Highness's friendship with the old slave, even if the old slave is really dead, it is worth it." The old slave did not mean to hide His Highness, but had no choice but to do so. The old slave knows that His Royal Highness has a very good friendship with this princess, but the old slave has been in the palace all these years, and has never seen this princess, and has no intersection with this princess, how can she know that the old slave is still alive, and how can she know the address of the old slave. ”
I turned the wine bowl, looked at him from the bright candlelight, and pretended to admire: "Father-in-law Lu is father-in-law Lu, after all, this king has eaten less salt for decades, and this meticulous mind is not comparable." He raised his head and poured the wine in the bowl, and then threw the question back to him, "It's better to guess from Gonggong Lu, who did this king know the news that you are still alive?" ”
Lu Shu hesitated for three seconds, his expression softened for three minutes, poured wine for me, and slowly replied: "The emperor is the only one in this world who can spare a life for the old slave." This house was also arranged by the emperor, since he wanted to hide the old slave from His Highness, His Highness should not know about this place from him. So the old slave dared to guess...... His Highness has a master around him. ”
I thought that by bringing out Cheng Yu first, he would be able to confess Wei Tian in a panic, and then use this to prove that he was Cheng Yu's person, but he didn't think about it, but he guessed that there was a master around me.
But fortunately, he admitted that Wei Tian had spared him a life, so the king took out this sentence and asked decisively: "When did you defect to Wei Tian's side." ”
"The old slave has never defected."
"You didn't turn back, why didn't he kill you, but instead put you in this place."
Lu Shu put down the chopsticks in his hand, got up and walked in front of me, and then knelt down for the king: "The old slave said that he did not defect because the old slave was the emperor's person from the beginning. Over the years, the old slave has failed His Highness's wrong love, and reported many of His Highness's thoughts and purposes to the Holy Lord. Tonight, His Royal Highness asked for the life of the old slave, and the old slave had no complaints. ”
I looked at him like this, and for a moment I didn't know what to say, and the expression I had been pretending to be so good now that I was almost melancholy.
He kowtowed three times seriously, and then said: "At the beginning, the emperor and his old man felt that he needed to use the old slave to give His Highness a psychological blow, so he designed a big scene of throwing the dragon robe and letting the old slave fake his death to destroy His Highness. In fact, when His Royal Highness returned to the imperial capital in May, on the side of the celebrant and the celebrant, the old slave had hinted to His Royal Highness not to come to the old slave for the time being. Because the more His Highness comes, the old slave will have to tell the emperor more about His Highness's not. After so many years of bearing the trust of His Royal Highness, he put a lot of cold arrows behind His Highness's back, and the old slave also felt sorry for His Highness being kept in the dark, so he hinted at it. ”
After so many years of bearing the trust of His Royal Highness, he put a lot of cold arrows behind His Highness's back, and the old slave also felt sorry for His Highness being kept in the dark, so he hinted at it.
This sentence is like a liar who puts a person in a pit every day, and finally feels sorry for this person who has always been cheated, and says to him: "Brother, I really feel sorry for you, can you stop appearing in front of me, I really can't do anything to you." ”
Do you say that the people who hear this sentence feel or not?
I didn't let him get up, I ate a few mouthfuls of food and drank a few sips of wine before saying: "Then the king asks you another question, you said that you have been Wei Tian's subordinate for so many years, then Wei Tian should have known what this king thought many years ago, why didn't he kill me for so many years, why can I still live until now?" ”
Lu Shu said: "His Royal Highness also pays attention to the famous division in the army, not to mention that he is a king of a great brocade, His Royal Highness has repeatedly made miraculous achievements in the south, if the emperor puts this matter in the court and the opposition, do you believe what the old slave said as a eunuch, or believe in His Royal Highness the King of Chong'an, who has made great achievements." The emperor's throne was not easy to come by, and he did not allow others to question and doubt his imperial power and throne. Unless His Highness himself ......"
"Unless the king himself accidentally dies unexpectedly, or the king himself first rebels and raises troops to usurp the throne."
Lu Shu nodded, and said with a smile: "Your Highness really understands people. ”
I put down the wine bowl with a snap, supported my knees with my arms, lowered my head and approached him, and said: "This king originally planned to drain it, and then take the throne in one fell swoop when he was too tired to fight back, but now, this king can't wait." ”
The old eunuch's eyes in front of him showed a bright light.
I sighed deliberately, but there was a big chunk in my heart: "Cheng Yu is not in good health, this king must do it while she is alive, let her see with her own eyes how this king ascended to the throne." What does Grandpa Lu think? ”
"The old slave has long been in the court, and he has long regarded himself as an old man in the mountains when he lives in seclusion, whether His Royal Highness can ascend the throne or when he ascends the throne, for the old slave, whoever is the emperor is good." He replied without leaking.
But it was this sentence that didn't leak, but for some reason, it made my heart suddenly tighten.