Chapter 10 – The Empress Arrives
This news made Su Yao slightly stunned, his own wife, children and old mother all lived in his mansion in Weicheng, and he now lived in the Yangcheng Governor's Mansion with only one of his concubines and a few maids, plus his own personality, so he didn't know many people in Yangcheng. Therefore, now that he heard that an unknown woman came to ask to see him, Su Yao did not expect this.
After thinking about it for a while, Su Yao remembered the precedent of the two siblings Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan last time, although these two siblings couldn't see anything outstanding about them from their appearance, they were so young. But they were carrying the jade pendant of Her Majesty Empress Shengde, thinking of this, Su Yao couldn't help but sigh softly, "Take her to the front hall." ”
"Yes!" The official in front of him walked away quickly, and Su Yao drank all the cup of tea that had already been cooled in his hand, and temporarily threw the things he was still thinking about behind his head. He slowly stomped out of the back hall and came to the front hall.
The officials in the front hall received a message, and they had all withdrawn to the county office outside the governor's mansion early. Now, in addition to Su Yao, the governor of Yangcheng who was late, there was also a woman who was drinking tea unhurriedly sitting in the seat below. Because the woman was wearing a light veil, Su Yao couldn't see her true face clearly, he only felt that the woman wearing an ordinary white dress was a little familiar, but because of this veil, he couldn't see it clearly. So, after a short period of hesitation, Su Yao sat down on top of the woman, and asked hesitantly, "I don't know, who is the girl?"
The woman put down the bowl of saucers in her hand, gently knocked the corner of the table in front of her, and said coldly: "Su Yao, can't you really hear my voice?
If Su Yao's expression and movements were just hesitation, but now the woman's words were enough to surprise him, and the teacup that Su Yao had just picked up fell to the ground with a thud and fell to pieces. But Su Yao didn't dare to take care of these at all, he even rolled down from the Taishi chair in the center, knelt down in front of this woman on his knees, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know if Your Majesty has eyes when you come to Weichen, I ask Your Majesty to surrender" At this time, his heart was extremely complicated, and he was confused in his heart, this woman was really the person he was most afraid of seeing at this moment.
The woman in front of her snorted coldly, coldly took off her veil, revealing a face that was overwhelmed but did not hide the murderous intent at all, and her voice sounded coldly again, "Su Yao, what you have done really fills me with hope, how could I entrust such an important task to you to master?
The woman took off her mask, revealing her face and ghostly smile, which made Su Yao, who was still a little lucky, feel a touch of despair in his heart, he never thought that His Majesty the Emperor who had left the country, His Majesty the Empress Shengde, who he was most afraid of seeing, would appear in front of him like this, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have dared to believe that it was true. But at this moment, the courage that still existed in Su Yao's heart disappeared at this moment. He didn't dare to raise his head, he only dared to kneel on the ground with his head down and didn't dare to move.
It was none other than Chen Xinyu, the Empress of Shengde, who had secretly left Weicheng, the capital of the country, and was missing, in Chen Xinyu's letter to Kong Hong, she also made it clear that she wanted to visit a master, and believed that the master could give him a good help. So, Chen Xinyu quietly appeared outside the mountain city of Yangcheng, and even came to see in person whether his former henchman, Su Yao, the governor of Yangcheng, was competent. But as soon as she entered Yangcheng, Chen Xinyu had already heard the soldiers and people all over the city talking about a piece of news that made her really unbearable, Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan, two brothers and sisters, mysteriously disappeared in this Yangcheng, and this result made Chen Xinyu really unbearable. She came directly to the door of the Governor of Yangcheng's mansion, and then there was the previous scene.
Su Yao's voice had changed now, he could clearly and visibly hear the serious dissatisfaction in Chen Xinyu's every sentence, and he knew that he might say the wrong word and it would lead to extremely cruel and realistic results. So, Su Yao didn't dare to get up at all, he kept kneeling in front of Chen Xinyu, quietly listening to Chen Xinyu's words without hurry.
It wasn't until Chen Xinyu finished speaking, paced back in front of Su Yao, looked at Su Yao with her cold eyes, and invisibly told Su Yao that when he could speak, Su Yao dared to whisper: "Your Majesty, this is the fault of the minister, and the minister is willing to bear all the responsibility, but can Your Majesty know that the two brothers and sisters mysteriously disappeared in the Chamber of Commerce, not only their two brothers and sisters, but also a very valuable sapphire collected in the Chamber of Commerce of the Country also disappeared with their two brothers and sisters." Obviously, there is a deep connection between the two. It's just that I really can't grasp the current situation and I don't understand the meaning of it."
Chen Xinyu glanced at Su Yao, she already understood what Su Yao meant, since he appeared here, then he would inevitably push this tricky matter to himself. However, she really has something to do now, going to the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce to find the head of the Chamber of Commerce. Now that she could take advantage of the opportunity to go to the Chamber of Commerce in the country in the name of justification. However, even so, she now has an account to settle with Su Yao. "So, can you explain to me that when the 50,000 troops left the south of the country on the Weiku Plain were defeated, not to mention why you didn't lead the army to help, why didn't you even pass a single message to me, don't you think that the news from the Weiku Plain was delivered to you farther than to Weicheng?"
Chen Xinyu's gaze just moved away from Su Yao's body, and Su Yao just wanted to stand up, but he heard Chen Xinyu's cold voice again. He had to kneel down again, he could hear very suspicious and dissatisfied from Chen Xinyu's words, Su Yao knew that what he had done had indeed angered Chen Xinyu, if he didn't find a way to help him exonerate, I am afraid that he would not be able to get through this hurdle.
Su Yao pondered for a while, and then he came up with a statement that was not quite correct but could cover up the matter in front of him. Although he didn't know if this statement would cause Chen Xinyu to be extremely angry, he still had to say so.
"Your Majesty, this matter is the negligence of Wechen, Wechen is really because we are under too much pressure from the south of the country now, and we really can't spare our hands to face the situation in front of us for a while. Your Majesty, you also know that there are more than 100,000 troops in the south of the Feng State and the Qi State looking at each other fiercely, and the stakes are very high, and Wei Chen really does not dare to make a decision privately. Therefore, if you are guilty of despicability, please punish your majesty" The reason why Su Yao said this was that he had already thought in his heart that the war situation was over, and even if Chen Xinyu wanted to punish himself, it was estimated that it would not be too serious, so Su Yao also took advantage of such an opportunity to find an opportunity to exonerate himself with the help of hundreds of thousands of troops stationed here in the southern feudal country and the Qi country.
Chen Xinyu's eyes looked at Su Yao very coldly, her current emotions were also very complicated, on the one hand, she didn't really want to blame Su Yao too much, but the loss of the 50,000 troops really made her unable to accept the fact in front of her. It was such entanglements that Chen Xinyu couldn't think of any way to deal with Su Yao, who had obviously committed a serious crime now.
Chen Xinyu pondered for a long time, Su Yao in front of him thought that there were some opportunities in front of him to get rid of this crime in front of him, he hurriedly said while the iron was hot: "Your Majesty, it's not a secret, now the battle between the Feng State and the Qi State has entered a slightly white-hot stage, and the armies on both sides have at least seventy or eighty thousand troops into the battle. And our progress in garrisoning Yangcheng now is only more than 10,000 people. I also hope that Your Majesty will understand, under such circumstances, it is really difficult for me to send troops north to assist General Zhou Yu."
Chen Xinyu sneered silently, but her emotions had basically calmed down now, and it was indeed not a good time to settle Su Yao's guilt. After all, the civil war has only just ended, and there are still many things to be done in front of her. Moreover, the reason why she came to Yangcheng is that the secondary purpose is to settle accounts with Su Yao, and the main purpose is to win the full support of the Leaving China Chamber of Commerce, which is the most important way to weaken the royal Chen family in the country, and through the Leaving the Country Chamber of Commerce, they can get a lot of news and trends about the royal Chen family, and even can seize some precious raw materials within them through the Leaving the Country Chamber of Commerce, such as wood, which is not abundant in the country but is very popular and abundant in the Chen family of the royal family。 However, Chen Xinyu also knows that this is not something that can be completed overnight. These predicaments alone were enough to make her think for a long time. Chen Xinyu sighed silently, now there was no other color on her face, and she didn't want to care about Su Yao's expression and explanation in front of her. So, Chen Xinyu directly raised his feet and left the county government in Yangcheng, leaving Su Yao behind him still kneeling on the ground alone and not daring to say a word. It wasn't until Chen Xinyu disappeared at the end of the county government that he dared to stand up silently and look at the trace of Chen Xinyu's disappearance with very complicated eyes