Chapter 14: Murder with a Knife (6)
Yuwen Zhijun glanced at him lightly, and then lowered his head again.
"You're coming back quickly." She asked casually, "Have you gone to see your father in the Imperial Prison?" ”
Kui Xun shook his head, "If you don't speak, Weichen won't dare." ”
"Heh......" she laughed, not knowing whether to believe or not to believe in his respectful flattery.
She was not in a hurry to speak, and Kui Xun waited patiently on the side. After a long time, Yuwen Zhijun threw away the book and said to him: "Okay, you are detained here with me, I know that you miss your father's affection, go inside to see your father, how to say it, you know, you don't need to be trained in this palace." ”
When Kui Xun heard this, there was a faint hint of joy on his face, and he hurriedly bowed: "Yes, the princess treats me with the great kindness of the Yuanyan Kui clan, and Kui Xun remembers it in her heart." As he spoke, he changed his words and became much more serious: "When Weichen came, my grandfather also gave an explanation, and asked Weichen to play His Royal Highness. ”
Yuwen Zhijun raised an eyebrow.
"Yo," she said with a slight mockery, "Hu Guogong is finally willing to speak?" ”
Kui Xun lowered his head and said on behalf of his grandfather: "Grandfather said that he is old and has long been powerless about the military and politics of the Western Territory. The princess is benevolent and righteous this time, and her grandfather is also willing to repay the favor. ”
He took out a letter from his sleeve, "This letter is the one that my grandfather asked for his guilt, and I hope that the princess will allow him to tell his old age and enjoy his old age in peace." ”
Yuwen Zhijun's gaze fell on the fold and stared at Xu Yu fiercely.
How many years? How many years have I been looking forward to this fold and the attitude of Kui Moyuan?
She took a deep breath slowly, touched the cold ring on her finger, pointed at it casually, and said lightly: "Leave it there." ”
Kui Xun obeyed his words, bowed forward, put the fold on the small case, and stepped back and bowed deeply to her: "Weichen retires, may His Highness be happy for a long time." ”
Yuwen Zhijun nodded first, and then suddenly stopped him.
"Kui Xun."
Kui Xun paused, "What does Your Highness command?" ”
Princess Zhen'an looked at him like a confused child. The incomprehension in her eyes made Kui Xun stunned.
He thought that the princess would always be calm and clear, and there would be no one or anything in this world who could trap her.
"This palace knows that you are extremely filial to your father and ancestors."
"But Hongu doesn't know why."
She asked Kui Xun: "Are you really filial or fake filial piety?"
Do you only think about your own future, covet the good reputation of a filial son and grandson, or do you need your family to rely on you, or do you ......
Are you so stupid, even if they treat you like that, you are still willing, willing to be nice to them? ”
After she finished speaking, Kui Xun's face changed.
As the second grandson of Yuanyan Kui and the half-brother of Kui Che, Kui Xun's fate is completely different from that of his elder brother.
His mother, who was respected by the prince of Hu Guo, was also loved. Although he is a concubine, he should have the same living experience as Kui Che when he was a child. Even, as early as when he was not remembering, he was favored by his mother, and his father loved the house and Wu, and in many things, his treatment was better than that of Kui Che, the eldest grandson.
The change happened when he was six years old.
That year, his mother had an affair with the guards and was broken by his mother-in-law, and his father was furious and ordered the two to die in the court. Kui Xun saw his mother die tragically in front of him in disheveled clothes, and then he himself, also ordered by his grandfather, to be sent to the countryside, and casually found a farmer to foster him.
The couple who raised him were not good men and women, and when they heard about the turmoil in the Kui family, they just thought that he was a wild seed that no one wanted, and he naturally treated him harshly on weekdays. Overnight, he changed from a delicate little boy to a pitiful little man who could scold the root of evil.
It wasn't until the second year of Emperor Guangshi, that is, nine years ago, that when he was thirteen years old, several well-trained secret guards found him and brought him to Princess Zhen'an.
In the princess's mansion, when he saw her for the first time, his heart flickered, and he just thought that he was a bodhisattva and wanted to save him and save him.
But Princess Zhen'an told him that she never saved useless people.
"If you have the heart to save yourself and are unwilling to be nameless for the rest of your life, this palace can give you a chance. Whether you can hold it or not is up to you. ”
The thirteen-year-old looked greedily at his 'bodhisattva' and nodded his head without thinking.
So, Princess Zhen'an ordered someone to send him back to the farmer's house, and chose two masters for him. During the day, he continued to work with the farmers, and only when there was no one at night could he sneak out of the door and follow the masters to learn literature and martial arts, rain or shine.
Two years ago, Kui Fu and Guan, Kui Fu finally remembered that there was such a grandson outside, and brought people back, but he only stuffed it into the deserted courtyard, let him settle the province in the morning and dusk, how to respectfully serve tea with the elders and ask for peace, all over the house, no one has ever treated him as a serious master.
Kui Xun remembered that a few days ago, when he knocked on his grandfather's door in Yuanyan, his grandfather looked at him in astonishment, and he felt quite emotional.
"You...... You brute! You're so rebellious! Gang up with outsiders to harm your own grandfather! Dear brother! You ——! ”
He bowed deeply to the old Hu Guogong, and persuaded him with great peace: "Grandfather is angry and hurts his body. My brother has passed away, and if something happens to you again, won't my father and our whole house be heartbroken? ”
"As for what you said, your grandson is rebellious and conspires with outsiders to harm his relatives - this crime is too serious, and my grandson will not dare to accept it."
Kui Moyuan was so angry that his head swelled, and the crutches in his hand slammed on the ground, and he scolded angrily: "Heh! You still say you don't dare? Are you really an old man and a fool! ”
Kui Xun smiled heartily, looked at him with cold eyes, and said, "It's grandfather, you are confused as a princess." ”
Kui Moyuan was stunned.
Kui Xun sighed, and continued: "Sun Er knows that you are a loyal and righteous minister, with a heart of Dan, and only care about being loyal to the Ninety-Five Emperor in the Imperial Palace. It is precisely because of this foolish loyalty that you dare to take your father and brother to press the entire Kui clan, and take advantage of the opportunity of the princess to design the Liang Kingdom, on the surface obediently cooperated, but behind the scenes...... secretly dispatched troops and generals in an attempt to go north to 'King Qin'. ”
"Grandfather, do you really think that this little plot of the emperor can be hidden from the princess?"
"Or are you confident that you are one step higher than the prince Yuwenxian and the abolished prince Yuwenmao, and you will definitely be able to pull the eldest princess off the horse?"
Kumo Yuan looked at him stunned, his lips already a little white.
He stretched out his hand and pointed at Kui Xun, and called 'you' in his mouth for a long time, but he didn't know what he wanted to say.
"The princess is merciful, reciting the century-old family voice of the Kui family, and she is unwilling to go off the road, even if you are so disobedient and calculating, His Royal Highness is still willing to blame the past, as for the conditions......" He hooked his lips and said slowly: "You are a smart person." ”
There was silence in the room for a long time.
Kui Moyuan finally calmed down, looked at Kui Xun with red eyes, and asked, "What if the old man is unwilling?" ”
"Your eldest grandson's life is gone, and the right to repay you for your inadequacy. If you continue to be stubborn...... "The next person to die is your eldest son, your only son, my father." ”
Kui Xun sighed softly, as if he disagreed with his decision.
"Grandson advises you, the emperor's words, you'd better not believe it, who can he protect? Not to mention the people in the Imperial Palace, even if it is himself in the Imperial Palace-"
He shook his head with a smile and said softly: "Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat." The one who corrected the country and put him on the throne was Princess Zhen'an. ”
Kui Moyuan gasped heavily, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth and spat out two words - "Beast!" ”
Kui Xun didn't care.
"That's the same beast as you." He laughs.
Seeing that Kui Che, who has always been close to Yuwen Zhijun, when she designed to get rid of it, she could be so neat, for the sake of the life of the entire Kui clan, he completely broke off the heart of hitting the stone with an egg, and had to accept his fate.
Kui Xun hurriedly recalled these experiences from childhood to adulthood, and at the end, he only asked her: "Since Your Highness has the same path, does it matter which way you came from?" ”
Yuwen Zhijun was stunned, and after a while, he waved his hand and let him go.
When she came in with tea, she was leaning there and not knowing what she was thinking.
"Freshly brewed maple dew tea, Your Highness drinks two sips to moisten your throat." Seeing that there was an extra fold on the small case, Negative Spring couldn't help but wonder: "This is ......"
Yuwen Zhijun retracted his mind, looked at it, and said casually: "Hu Guogong's excerpt from the request." ”
She took it and looked at it at a glance, "Heh, this old thing, I don't take the life of his grandson, he really dares to rely on the old man with me, only when I am left and right, I dare not touch him." ”
When the words landed, she brushed them aside again.
Thinking of this incident, Negative Spring praised from the bottom of his heart: "Your Highness is indeed a clever method. At this time of danger, you can still make the best use of things, a letter led Liang Guo to take action for us in addition to Kui Che, forcing Hu Guogong to have no choice, so that he could only take the position of the lone seedling of Kui Xun, thus completely holding the power of the western realm in the hands of his own people, so that even if he lost the base of Senyan Fort in the south, it is not a pity. ”
Everyone thinks that Princess Zhen'an and the eldest grandson of the Kui clan are ambiguous, and the concubine has also lost his temper with the princess over this matter, and even Kui Che himself thinks that Yuwen Zhijun is different from him and others, but as everyone knows, what really makes Princess Zhen'an treat her differently in the Kui clan is the second son Kui Xun who everyone doesn't care about.
That's the real person she pulled up.
As for Kui Che, he had a very personal relationship with the deposed prince Yuwen Mao, and as early as after Yuwen Zhijun personally stabbed this brother, she was destined to never believe Kui Che again. Although Kui Che has done an excellent job over the years, this incident also proves that Her Royal Highness the princess's suspicion is not in the wrong place.
Negative Chun thought like this, but when she came back to her senses, she still looked uncertain, and she didn't seem to be happy at all about the current result.
Negative Chun frowned and said carefully: "...... But in your selfish heart, you are not happy to see this result. ”
Yuwen Zhijun frowned and asked, "Who said that?" ”
Negative spring smiled bitterly.