Chapter 81: You sleep in peace
Yu Qiqi sobbed, moved around, leaned into his arms, she listened to what he said, but this time, her heart still hurt badly.
"I shouldn't have doubted you, I didn't expect him to be such a brazen person." Yu Zhengyan couldn't bear to be a killer in her heart, but what he did made her disgusted, disgusted, and spurned.
"I said before you came to Nanzhao that as long as you want to find me, you can send someone back to find me, and I will try my best to come to you. Xuan'er is sad without you, and I can only try my best to calm your emotions. He put his arm around her shoulders and whispered in her ear.
"After a few days, my illness will be cured, and I will leave with you to return to Yanjing." Yu Qiqi snuggled up to him even tighter, she didn't want to stay here any longer, she didn't want to hear anything about Yu Zhengyan.
"Okay, it's up to you." Nangong Yan responded softly, without a trace of hesitation.
He lowered his head, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and let her fall asleep in his arms. Listening to his steady heartbeat, Yu Qiqi slowly closed his eyes.
In the middle of the night, Nangong Yan came out of it, and he instructed Ah Jian, "The queen is asleep, you take care of her, if she wakes up and wants to find me, you will inform Chu Peiyu." ”
Ah Jian didn't hear any big movement inside, so he knew that the two of them were talking smoothly and didn't cause any contradictions, so he immediately responded, "Yes." ”
Chu Peiyu followed behind Nangong Yan and left Yu Qiqi's bedroom.
Halfway through, Nangong Yan suddenly changed his course, "Your Majesty, don't you go back?" Chu Peiyu looked at him suspiciously and asked.
"I'm going to do something first." He only lightly said to him, and his steps were very fast, Chu Peiyu didn't dare to ask more, and only walked forward quietly with him.
The thing he said turned out to be to find Yu Zhengyan.
Chu Peiyu's eyes crossed with a burst of doubt, and Nangong Yan said that if he wanted him to guard outside, he couldn't go in with him.
In prison, he quietly knocked out two jailers and came to Yu Zhengyan.
"Why are you here?!" Seeing the visitor, Yu Zhengyan stared at him and frowned tightly.
"I'm here to see you on your way." He replied lightly, and then, with the force of his palm, Yu Zhengyan's body flashed, and his neck was firmly clasped in his palm.
"Even if you kill me now, it's too late, I've already told the seventh sister the truth, presumably in her heart at this moment, she has already decided that you are the one who killed the child." Yu Zhengyan raised his eyebrows slightly, and the breath exhaled from the tip of his nose was heavy, and he had begun to lose his strength.
"It's a pity that it's not as you think, the person she thinks is you, and she wants to break your body into thousands of pieces, so I came."
He sneered, swayed his palm, shoved a pill of poison into his mouth, and then let go of the hand that was gripping his neck.
"You, you want to drive a wedge between our brother and sister?!" Yu Zhengyan coughed violently, held his neck, and looked at him angrily.
"When you promised to cooperate with me in acting, you were already dividing the relationship between your brother and sister, and I didn't need to take action myself."
The sneer on the corner of Nangong Yan's lips became more and more intense, and his eyes were cold and cold.
"Huh! I didn't expect you to be even more vicious than the king of Xichu County, and to use such vicious methods, my seventh sister will treat you wholeheartedly. ”
He knew that he would not live long, but instead of a trace of panic on his face, he was covered with a layer of regret, pity for Yu Qiqi.
"Don't worry, she treats me wholeheartedly, and I naturally won't treat her badly." He smiled, coldly, and after watching him fall a little bit, he turned around and got out of prison.
"Your Majesty, why did you go to see Yu Zhengyan?"
As soon as he came out, Chu Peiyu stared at his dark face and asked.
"Don't ask what you shouldn't." He walked back coldly, passing in front of him.
Chu Peiyu froze in place, glanced at the prison, he didn't go in after all, stared around, and followed Nangong Yan's pace.
It was that night that Nangong Yan delivered a message to Shen Feihong, asking him to lead the soldiers assigned to him by Gu Xia to Nanzhao.
On the second day, news came out of the prison that Yu Zhengyan had been poisoned and died.
Yishui King's face was heavy, and he immediately found Nangong Yan, as soon as he arrived in Nanzhao, such a thing happened, thinking of what Yu Zhengyan said before, he had no reason not to doubt him.
When he arrived in front of the Winged Water King, Empress Nanzhao and several princes were also there, and their eyes were very complicated when they looked at him.
Nangong Yan stepped forward slowly and saluted the Wing Water King.
"My five princes died in prison, and the medical examination of the Shen Criminal Division said that it was your Yanjing's poison, and I came here today to find Yan'er, just to ask clearly."
The Winged Water King sat on the dragon chair and stared at Nangong Yan who was standing in front of him.
"Last night, after I waited for Qiqi to sleep, I did leave her dormitory, but I don't know who blamed me for the murder of the fifth prince." He flatly denied that he had gone to Yu Zhengyan.
Yu Zhengting took a step forward and pointed at him angrily, "As soon as you came, the fifth brother was poisoned and died, and he killed the children of you and the seventh sister, it is true that one life is worth one life, but the emperor, but you used poisoning such means to poison him, are you not afraid of being ridiculed?" ”
There was contempt in his words.
"What the eldest prince said is right, if you use poisoning to poison the five princes, you will indeed do something, but I just persuaded Qiqi last night to let her let go of the fifth prince, and then ran to poison him myself, isn't this a slap in the face?"
Nangong Yan's expression was indifferent, without a trace of panic and anger, and only slowly said the reason why he would not commit murder.
Yu Zhengting frowned, "You persuaded the seventh sister to let the fifth brother go?" ”
"That's right, no matter what he says, he is Qiqi's own brother, he is already too cruel for her to do such a thing, how can I be willing to let her be trapped in such emotions all the time. She also promised me that she would not seek trouble with the five princes again, but who knows, in just one night, the five princes were poisoned and died, and it was still my Yanjing's poison, I am afraid, I don't know if someone wants to live with me? ”
He smiled bitterly and sighed secretly.
Empress Nanzhao narrowed her eyes, "But Yan'er once said that you instructed him to harm the child in Ah Qi's belly, but I am afraid that we can't believe everything you say, right?" ”
From the time Nangong Yan entered the hall to the present, she has been secretly observing his expression, but he has not been flustered, his demeanor is calm, and he can't find a flaw.
She pinched the Jinpa in her hand, and only people who were very deep in the city could behave so calmly.
"The queen mother can not believe it, but if I really do such a thing, Qiqi is the first one who will not let me go, she is your daughter, you should always believe her words, right?" Nangong Yan raised his cold eyes and looked at her calmly.
"This palace doesn't know what you did to Ah Qi, so that she believes you so unscrupulously, but as soon as you come to speak, something will happen, if this matter is not investigated clearly, you can only bother Yan'er to stay in this palace for a while." Empress Nanzhao's eyes still had a review in her eyes, and her previous appreciation for him was gone.
was able to quell the Yanjing border rebellion in one fell swoop and take down Xichu, the depth of his scheming was not something she could underestimate, nor could she see it after a few glances.
"Niangniang is like this, but it is unreasonable." If he couldn't find any evidence, wouldn't he have to stay here all the time, he didn't want to.
Empress Nanzhao thought about it, so she had to relax first, "What's the good way for Yan'er?" ”
"In fact, when the five princes were killed, all the evidence pointed to me on the surface, but did the emperor and the queen ever think that if this person, like the five princes, wanted to slander the crime on my head, wouldn't it let the real murderer go unpunished. In the prison in the palace, there are only a few people who can enter, and you two should know this very well. ”
Nangong Yan stood up straight, with a serious expression, helping them carefully analyze the situation.
The Winged Water King narrowed his eyes slightly, and the people who could enter the prison were not only Nangong Yan, but there were also several princes present, but since Yu Zhengyan had been imprisoned, his existence was no threat to them. Besides, when he was still helping himself to assist in the affairs of the court, the rest of the princes did not do anything beyond the bounds, how could he kill him as soon as he was imprisoned.
He was still suspicious of Nangong Yan in front of him.
"It is said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Yanjing is thoughtful, and I finally saw it today." At the beginning, he had heard about the overthrow of Old Marquis Lin in the Yanjing court, and it was not that he had concealed Xue Jingcheng's case, but the circles and circles in it were handled by him just right, and there was no flaw.
At this moment, even if this matter really had something to do with him, they didn't find any flaws.
"Your Majesty..."
Empress Nanzhao saw that the tone of the Yishui King was not quite right, so she called him softly, he stretched out his hand to her, stopped what she wanted to say, and then said to Nangong Yan: "You continue." ”
"In addition to me, there are other people present who are also very suspicious." He turned sideways and looked at Yu Zhengting, who was accusing him, "That's the eldest prince." ”
"You! What nonsense are you talking about?! ”
Yu Zhengting's eyes widened, looking at him in disbelief, and he was in a hurry to deny it.
"After the five princes lost power, the most powerful one was the eldest prince, if the matter of the five princes being imprisoned was related to the eldest prince, and the eldest prince was afraid that the incident would kill the five princes?"
When it came to the back, he deliberately lengthened the coda.
Hearing this, Yu Zhengting's heart trembled, he glared at Nangong Yan angrily, looked around, took out the knife in the hand of the guard on the side, and drove it to his neck, "If you dare to spew blood, I will make you speechless forever!" ”
He was impatient, and he was not wear-resistant enough, but at this moment, when he saw Nangong Yan deducting the charge on him for no reason, he immediately couldn't stand it.
The Winged Water King frowned, a hint of loss crossed his eyes, "Put the knife down!" None of them wanted to doubt Yu Zhengting's meaning, but he was in a hurry to clear himself like this, which made people have to be suspicious.
"Father!"
He turned his head and looked at him unwillingly.
"I said, put the knife down!" Again, he repeated.
Yu Zhengting glanced at Nangong Yan angrily, and then put down the knife in his hand.
"The eldest prince doesn't need to worry, I'm just speculating, if the speculation is wrong, the eldest prince will be punished at that time, but if the speculation is correct, then the eldest prince will suffer." He smiled, without a hint of malice on his face.
"Humph!"
Yu Zhengting snorted coldly and stepped back to stand away from him.
He continued: "When the five princes went to Yanjing to visit Qiqi, they brought many other good gifts from the five princes, which shows that before he was going, several princes knew about it. If the eldest prince planned this matter with the fifth prince at that time, it is not known. ”
"Then tell me, what are the benefits of poisoning the child in the belly of the seventh sister, what is the benefit of the fifth brother, why does he listen to my words and do that?" Yu Zhengting snorted coldly again.
"The eldest prince asked the point, why did the fifth prince agree to you poison the child in Qiqi's belly because of jealousy. No one of the clansmen of Nanzhao knows who doesn't know, the emperor and queen of Nanzhao are the most favored, is this little princess, although she is a daughter, and married to Yanjing, but Yu Zhengyan is still a threat, who knows if the child in her womb will return to Nanzhao in the future and take away this throne. You know he's always been wary of Qiqi, so you ask him to do it so that he thinks you're genuinely trying to help him. ”
Nangong Yan approached him step by step, "Later, after the incident, he deducted the charge on my head, but he didn't expect that the emperor and queen would defend Qiqi like this and put him in prison." You who originally promised to help him successfully became the emperor's right-hand man, and I was afraid that the matter would be revealed, so I waited for me to go to Nanzhao and kill him, just so that I could sit on this charge. ”
For a moment, Yu Zhengting himself almost believed his words, but he didn't retreat, he still held the knife in his hand tightly, and looked at the Yishui King and Queen Nanzhao with gloomy faces, "Father, mother, and sons, you know the temperament of your sons, don't listen to his words, even if the seventh sister marries him, he is not our Nanzhao person!" ”
The heart on his mouth was pounding, for fear that they would misbelieve him.
"What the eldest prince said is indeed true, these are just my own speculations, and I still have to find evidence."
Nangong Yan also turned around and said lightly, and then he paused, "However, before I came, I asked the guards around me to go to the eldest prince's dormitory, and searched his inner hall to see if it was true or false." ”
Before coming, he sent Chu Peiyu to Yu Zhengting.
"Pass Chu Pei Yu in." The attendant on the side of the Yishui Dynasty said that at this moment, he didn't care about the rules of trespassing into the prince's inner hall, and just wanted to see if what Nangong Yan said was true or false.
The inner attendant bowed his head and retreated, and after a while, Chu Peiyu came in from the outside, followed by the attendants in Yu Zhengting's inner hall.
He stepped forward and bowed to the Winged Water King, "Back to the emperor, this is something that he found in the great prince's house, hidden in the secret compartment of the bed. ”
What he held in his hand was the poison that poisoned Yu Zhengyan.
Yu Zhengting's face changed again, only he knew the secret grid in his inner hall, Rao was a person with excellent skills like Nangong Yan, even if he had entered it, he would definitely not know that there was a secret grid inside.
And, where did he get his chance to get in?
But these are not the questions he should think about, what he wants to think about is, what Nangong Yan said, will his father and queen mother believe it?
The Winged Water King twisted his brows and asked the attendant to show the things presented in Chu Peiyu's hand to him for him to verify.
The servant standing below took it in his hand, sniffed it carefully, and then bowed down and replied: "Back to the emperor, this medicine is indeed the poison of the five princes in prison." ”
He lowered his eyes, and at the end, he glanced at Yu Zhengting, and then at Nangong Yan, and then said, "Come on, arrest this person who is full of nonsense!" ”
Nangong Yan frowned slightly, his eyes deepened, "What does the emperor mean by this?" ”
"Nangong Yan, you came to my Nanzhao to disturb this water in our royal family, your behavior is really suspicious, I have to detain you first." The Wing Water King narrowed his eyes, and did not believe his words, he had already lost a son, and the loss of another one was a big loss for their Nanzhao royal family, but for him Nangong Yan, there was no loss.
Among them, the person who profited the most was him.
The Winged Water King has been on the throne for many years, if he can't even see this, then this Majesty is really in vain.
"Daddy! You can't catch him! Just as the guards were about to step forward, Yu Qiqi ran in from outside and pleaded with him.
"Ah Qi, don't worry, my father won't hurt him, but if these things are related to him from beginning to end, my father won't let him go." He said righteously.
"But father, he only comforted his daughter last night, and asked her daughter to let go of the fifth brother, and she would not poison him, even if it was poisoned, the fifth brother was to blame!"
This will, she chooses to believe Nangong Yan, the words he said last night were heard by her own ears, and she believed that those words were not a lie to her.
"Ah Qi, don't meddle in this matter, not to mention that your father won't hurt him, you can rest assured." The Winged Water King soothed her uneasy emotions.
"However, my daughter can't sit idly by while he goes to prison." Yu Qiqi knelt on the ground and begged the Winged Water King not to imprison Nangong Yan.
Ah Jian stood beside her, trying to help her up, but she refused to get up.
Queen Nanzhao felt distressed, her illness was not well yet, if there was any more injury if she knelt like this, it would be the two of them who would be distressed at that time.
"It's better to forget it, just stay in the palace, and there won't be any leaks." She comforted the Winged Water King.
The Wing Water King looked at Yu Qiqi, and then glanced at Nangong Yan before he relented and scolded the guards behind, "You all retreat." ”
The guards who wanted to put Nangong Yan in prison retreated one by one, Nangong Yan stepped forward and helped Yu Qiqi up from the ground, "Are you okay?" He asked with concern.
Yu Qiqi raised his slightly tired eyes and shook his head. But when she looked at Yu Zhengting, her eyes were complicated.
Although the Yishui King didn't believe Nangong Yan's words, the other princes didn't listen to a word, although their brothers didn't grab this throne with Yu Zhengyan on the surface, but in private, there were a lot of quarrels because of this, and the eyes they looked at Yu Zhengting at this time were also a little complicated.
Yu Zhengxin was the first to speak, "Father, although what the seventh brother-in-law said can't be believed, but the eldest brother is really a little suspicious, if only the seventh brother-in-law is punished, will it not be unreasonable?" ”
"Second brother, what do you mean by that?" Yu Zhengting immediately scolded him.
"Big brother, I don't mean anything, I'm just telling the truth. If you don't have a ghost in your heart, you don't have to be so nervous, and when everything is clear, you will naturally get rid of suspicion. He said in a weird way.
"Yes, father, what the second brother said is right." The rest of the princes also stood up to speak.
The Wing Water King twisted his brows, his face was solemn, and he said after a while: "Ting'er, you don't have to meddle in the affairs of the court for this time, all the important tasks in your hands will be handed over to Xin'er first, and when the matter is clear, I will let him return it to you." ”
"Father!"
Yu Zhengting looked at the Winged Water King in disbelief, obviously reluctant to hand over the real power in his hands.
"Big brother, I haven't seen you like to fight for power and profit before, but now I just want you to hand over your real power, aren't you willing?"
Yu Zhengxin has the upper hand, and he will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity to fall into the well at this moment.
He turned his head, glared at Yu Zhengxin with anger on his face, and snorted coldly before he replied to the Winged Water King, "Erchen obeys!" ”
Now, his wings were broken.
Out of the palace, Nangong Yan took Yu Qiqi back to her bedroom, "Why don't you believe what your eldest brother said?" He asked her.
"Big brother, they have the heart to compete for the throne in private, otherwise the fifth brother would not have done such a thing, what's more, I don't believe that what you said last night was a lie to me."
She raised her head, and the bright light fell on her face, full of determination, and her eyes also had a hint of light.
The corners of Nangong Yan's lips opened up with a smile, and her eyes moved.
Only Chu Peiyu followed behind them, preoccupied.
"How did the emperor know that the medicine would be hidden by the eldest prince under the secret compartment of the soft couch?" Ah Jian chased after Chu Peiyu and asked.
"On our way back last night, we happened to see the eldest prince enter the prison where the fifth prince was imprisoned, and I felt that something was wrong and followed him all the way." He replied lightly.
"I see."
Ajian nodded, convinced of what he said.
Chu Peiyu raised his head and looked at the scorching sun hanging in the clear sky, at this moment, Shen Feihong should have arrived in Nanzhao. Nangong Yan told him that he would do it tonight.
And Nanzhao was not prepared at all.
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When Gu Xia arrived in Western Chu, Tang Yiyi had already brought together the soldiers in Vice General Liu's camp and the old department of Western Chu, but what she didn't expect was that Gu Xia would come so quickly, she hadn't made a good deployment, she thought that after Nangong Yan went to Nanzhao, she wouldn't have to worry about others.
At this moment, seeing Gu Xia leading troops to besiege all their military camps, she realized that Nangong Yan had already taken precautions, and was waiting for her to gather the old troops that Xichu had not uprooted, and finally he would make another move.
In the military camp of Vice General Liu, there are soldiers who surrendered before Xichu, and there are also soldiers from Yanjing, when they see Gu Xia at this moment, they can't bear to start internal strife, and it is impossible for Yanjing's soldiers to help Tang Yiyi do things, so for them, it is a dead end.
As soon as they saw Gu Xia leading the troops coming, they raised their flags and attacked the barracks, wanting to make peace with Gu Xia's army.
Only half of the soldiers are willing to stand with Tang Yiyi and fight with Gu Xia to break the net.
The battle lasted until dark, seeing the soldiers around her fall one by one, Tang Yiyi gave up the struggle, she raised the talisman in her hand and pleaded with Gu Xia, "Commander Gu, I am willing to offer the talisman, can you spare the remaining soldiers?" ”
Gu Xia narrowed his eyes, there was a dangerous light in those eyes, and he only said coldly, "Impossible!" "This is also Nangong Yan's death order, no matter what, this time we must kill all the remnants of the old department of Western Chu to prevent future troubles.
"Is this what the emperor meant?" Tang Yiyi gritted his teeth and could see his thoughts at a glance.
"Eldest princess, let's have a good baby in the next life." For her, Gu Xia still had a hint of admiration in her heart, after all, she was a woman, and she was much better than others in rebelling for the sake of her family and country.
Since Nangong Yan would not let them go, she had no choice but to cut the talisman in her hand into two, and shouted at the soldiers behind her: "Kill them all, you can live one by one!" ”
She waved the knife in her hand and rushed out first, but unfortunately, she did not escape the knife in Gu Xia's hand, and in the end, she fell in the afterglow of the sunset.
"Eldest Princess!"
Mei'er and the old department behind her shouted loudly.
That immature face, under the illumination of the sunset, looks incomparably bright, with a dazzling light.
Mei'er took her into her arms, and she only opened her mouth and closed her eyes. She put her body away before continuing to pick up the knife beside her and rush out desperately.
But they didn't struggle for long.
When the soldiers cleaned up the corpses in the barracks, Gu Xia walked to Tang Yiyi's side and instructed the soldiers on the side: "Bury her body alive and engrave the name of the tablet." ”
"Yes!"
The soldiers on the side replied.
The affairs of Xichu were busy until late at night, and he left a few capable generals in Xichu and took the rest of the soldiers to Nanzhao, which would make Nangong Yan and Shen Feihong should do it quickly.
Nangong Yan instructed him that once the mess in Xichu was cleaned up, he would lead the rest of the soldiers to Nanzhao to support, he was afraid that there would be any accidents.
Everything didn't go as smoothly as he imagined, but it wasn't very bad, now that Yu Zhengting was under house arrest in the dormitory, and the Winged Water King was defenseless, for Nangong Yan, it was the best time.
When Ah Jian brought Yu Qiqi's decoction, Nangong Yan took it from her hand and instructed her, "Just take care of it from the queen's side, you can step down." ”
"The slave obeys." Ah Jian bowed his head and retreated.
Nangong Yan took the medicine bowl in his hand, walked to the edge of the table, picked up a few rock candy and put it inside, "I see that you have been holding back your face when you drink medicine for the past two days, I know that this medicine must be crying a lot, put a few pieces of rock candy on you, so it will be comfortable for a while." ”
He turned his head and said to Yu Qiqi, who was leaning on the soft pillow.
"Hmm." Yu Qiqi nodded with a smile.
He smiled and turned his head, took out a pre-prepared tranquilizer from his sleeve, put it in, stirred it and brought it to her, and fed her little by little.
Yu Qiqi thought that the medicine was the same as the ones she usually drank, but not long after drinking it, she felt sleepy, and she thought that it was also the reason for drinking the medicine, so she grabbed his hand, "I'm very tired, you are here with me." ”
"Okay, I'm not leaving, you can sleep in peace." He reached out and rubbed her head.
A light smile tugged at the corner of her lips, and she fell asleep with a smile.
I don't know how long she slept, but at night, she heard the sound of fighting outside, mixed with screams, and the heart-rending calls of her father and mother.
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