Jian Xubai didn't come back until late on this day - after he left the Qingjiang County Lord's Mansion, he went to the Mansion of the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom, but after Mrs. Shou Chunbo asked what happened, she also persuaded him to think about it: "It's not that I don't want to help you!" But the situation of my mother is really not very good, it is a good thing that you love Brother and Sister Song, but you can't ignore your mother's life, right? Anyway, my mother is also your biological mother, and she raised you so big. ”

The reason why Mrs. Shou Chunbo said so much was naturally because she hoped to give up the hope of going to the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom for help.

She didn't mean to laugh with Song Yi when she did this, firstly, she was really afraid that the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom would not be stimulated by her illness, and she would have three long and two short; Second, because of the imprisonment of King Liang two days ago, he was worried that the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom would intervene in this matter and annoy Emperor Duanhua.

"Ah Xu's own dignity in front of His Majesty is already very small!" Looking at the back of the little brother-in-law leaving, Mrs. Shou Chunbo sighed in embarrassment, and said to Jia Yue who came out, "Even he can't ask for mercy, it can be seen that the holy will has been decided!" As an elder, my mother will go out in person, maybe Your Majesty will give my mother a face, but I will definitely leave a mustard in my heart! If His Majesty refuses to give face to his mother, how do you say his mother will step down? ”

He said in a low voice, "The reason why Your Majesty respects your mother is nothing more than because Your Majesty is the prince, and your mother treats him well!" But His Majesty has now ascended the throne - in the future, only his mother begged him, and there was no him begging his mother. The kindness that my mother saved in the early years only went in and out, and the more I used it, the less I used, I didn't say that this kindness should not be used by Brother and Sister Song, but this time, even the queen mother was under house arrest, even if the mother did not hesitate to pay, Brother and Sister Song, can you keep it? ”

Since not much kindness may not be able to protect Song Yixiao, why waste it?

In the final analysis, the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom is not only Jian Xubai's son, in addition to the dead Jian Yiyu father and son, the county lord of Qingjiang, Shou Chunbo, and Princess Su who is far away in the north, and even Pei Yourui, who is married to He Lou Duhan, has the right to share the benefits of this mother.

And for the sake of a Song Yixiao, exhausting the relationship between the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom and the emperor, this is of course unfair to other daughters-in-law.

Jia Yue pursed his lips for a while, and also sighed: "That's it!" Don't tell Your Highness, and let Your Highness recuperate in peace these days! ”

The eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom can't be counted on here, and the last person Jian Xubai can ask for help is Gu Shao.

Gu Shao was a bystander, and after hearing what had happened, he didn't want to stroke his beard and said: "Your Majesty has personally said that I don't want to pursue you for this, it can be seen that I still think of brotherhood, how can I really take the life of my virtuous nephew and granddaughter?" Give you three days to think about it? This is simply to make you make a statement, and Your Majesty will be gracious and pardoned! Listen to me, don't go out again after you go back, and after three days, go and tell Your Majesty that you have thought it through and are willing to obey the Holy Order, and I promise that Your Majesty will turn his anger into joy! ”

"What Gu Xiang said, why didn't I think of it?" But Jian Xubai only smiled bitterly when he heard this, "However, the world is unpredictable, what if I say so, and Your Majesty only praises me for my loyalty to him?" ”

He didn't agree to kill his wife, and he could still talk to Duanhua Dimo; Once you say yes, it's almost impossible to take it back!

When the life of his wife is at stake, how dare he take the risk?

Seeing this, Gu Shao sighed: "Then I can only go for you tomorrow!" But don't expect too much, in my opinion, Your Majesty just wants you to show your loyalty-you also know that the matter between King Liang and Marquis Boling really broke His Majesty's heart! And the queen too! What His Majesty needs most at the moment is loyalty. ”

The implication is that if Jian Xubai agrees to Emperor Duanhua to kill his wife, he will have great hopes of passing the test, and there will be no future troubles in the future; But if he insists on refusing to kill his wife, even if he barely passes this level with the help of Gu Shao and others, his status in the emperor's mind will plummet from now on, and it will not be as good as before.

"You are also an old man who came over when His Majesty was fighting for the throne, if you do evil to Your Majesty for this matter, you can't make a difference!" Gu Shao persuaded two more sentences, "My virtuous niece and granddaughter is a sensible child, you tell her well, I think she won't complain about you - after all, you don't think about your own future, but also about the future of your children and grandchildren, right?" ”

But Jian Xubai just smiled, and still asked him to help enter the palace the next day to intercede, and thanked him again and again, and then left.

After he left, Gu Shao's face suddenly sank!

"Your Majesty is too nonsense!" At this time, it was getting late, and He Lou Duhan was not there, so he could only say these words to his confidant and old servant, "In just a few days, I found out King Liang and Marquis Boling, and found that the queen also had something to hide from him. But because of this, forcing Yan Guogong to show his loyalty is really confused! ”

The old servant also sighed: "Although Yan Guogong has always been loyal to His Majesty, but Su Chong's wife, after this incident, no matter whether Mrs. Yan Guo lives or dies, Yan Guogong will have a gap with His Majesty!" The death of the Shuren Cui family is insignificant, and it is really a mistake to cause the arm to be centrifugal for this! ”

"It's not Yan Guogong who I'm worried about!" However, Gu Shao sighed, "Yan Guogong is His Majesty's cousin, and His Majesty has grown up." No matter how much he has a gap with His Majesty, he will not betray His Majesty. However, my virtuous niece and granddaughter do not have a deep affection for Your Majesty! ”

He narrowed his eyes slightly and muttered, "When Princess Su was not out of the cabinet, she often corresponded with my virtuous niece and granddaughter......

Song Yixiao is not a person who sits still and waits for death at all, if he knew that Emperor Duanhua had the intention to kill her, how could he obediently obey? She grew up under the fence of Hengshan Palace, and in less than half a year after she came out of the cabinet, she dared to kill the favored prince's side concubine!

With such a heart, will he not resist because Emperor Duanhua is the emperor?!

"The friendship between Mrs. Yan Guo and Princess Su is not a secret, why doesn't Your Majesty know about it?" The old servant comforted him, "So I only gave Yan Guogong three days, three days, where can Mrs. Yan Guo have time to contact King Su and his wife?" ”

"King Su and his wife are thousands of miles away!" Gu Shao shook his head and said, "But don't you forget, King Su's faction, it is never King Su himself who is in charge, but the Su family!" Su Shaoge and Su Bofeng's uncle and nephew, aren't they in the imperial capital now? ”

Moreover, "Although Jiangnan Hall is withered, the side branch of the Song family who lived in Xiliang with the Shen family back then has already begun to return to the court!" They even gave a son to my virtuous niece and granddaughter as a son, which shows the close relationship between the two sides! Do you think these people will sit idly by and watch the fall of the Yanguo Mansion? ”

The old servant was stunned and said, "Why not?" The side branch of the Song family and Mrs. Yan Guo are far away, and the reason why they sent their children to Mrs. Yan Guo as a righteous son is nothing more than because Mrs. Yan Guo has a noble status and has the idea of clinging! It's not really loyal to Mrs. Yan Guo! Speaking of which, even if the side branch of the Song family wants to be loyal to the Yan branch, it should be loyal to the fourth prince of Song in Jiangnan Hall, not Mrs. Yan Guo, who is already the wife of the Jian family, right? ”

"Do you think that if my virtuous niece and granddaughter persuade Yan Guogong to secretly fall to King Su, do you have any hope of success?" Gu Shao stroked his long beard and asked gently.

"This ......," the old servant thought about it seriously and hesitated, "The old slave can't eat it!" After all, with the relationship between Yan Guogong and His Majesty, as well as Yan Guogong's personality, he should not betray His Majesty. It's just that...... Everyone in the world knows that Yan Guogong dotes on his wife, but the old slave doesn't know either! ”

Gu Shao sighed: "Do you know why Your Majesty has to force Yan Guogong this time? Marquis Boling was voted under His Majesty because of the Duke of Yan, and his personal relationship with His Majesty has nothing to say; Although the queen is His Majesty's wife, she is in love and harmony with His Majesty, and it is only a matter of these two years; King Liang said that he was His Majesty's only brother, but in fact, in the early years, he might not have the opportunity to see His Majesty once a month! ”

"So the betrayal of these three people, although Your Majesty is sad and disappointed, he didn't find out that Yan Guogong was angry when he concealed it!"

"After all, Yan Guogong entered the palace at the age of five, and because he was raised under the knees of the Empress Dowager, he spent more time with His Majesty than King Liang. His Majesty has always treated him as his own brother - when Yan Guogong was young and ignorant, His Majesty defended him a lot! ”

"The relationship between their cousins is accumulated over time."

"However, when my virtuous niece and granddaughter murdered the concubine Cui Shi, it was only a few days since she married Yan Guogong?"

"If you are Your Majesty, will you be willing?"

The old servant was speechless.

Originally, according to the concept at this time, the loyalty of being a courtier is a matter of course for the monarch, not to mention that Emperor Duanhua thinks that he is not thin on Jian Xubai, but he is still compared to Song Yi with a smile, how can the emperor swallow this breath? !

The emperor wanted to kill his wife for nothing, not only resentful of Song Yixiao for plotting to kill Cui Jianlian, but also a kind of anger that this brother-in-law had snatched away the younger brother who had grown up.

"It's just that Yan Guogong chose the latter between confessing to His Majesty and defending his wife, how can Your Majesty's persecution succeed?" Gu Shao said hesitantly, "Look at it, after Yan Guogong goes back, he will tell my virtuous niece and granddaughter about this, and my virtuous niece and nephew will have to find a way to separate him from His Majesty!" ”

"After all, the Song side branch hasn't taken that Song Xuan back until now!"

"The clansmen of their branch followed the Xiliang Shen clan in their early years."

"Xiliang Shen, Donghu Liu, although these two families guarded the tomb as early as the founding of the country, but the old lady Duanmu was exiled outside the Saiwai for a few years, but there was no less contact with them!"

"That old lady doesn't mention it, but she may not have any good feelings for the first emperor and His Majesty in her heart!"

"The reason why I have been hesitant is nothing more than because I consider Yan Guogong's choice!"

"These people ......" Even Gu Shao, when he said this, his face was a little ugly, and he muttered, "None of them are fuel-efficient lamps!" And all of them are scheming and planning for the long term! ”

There is no one who knows more about the wang clan than the wang clan itself.

Gu Shao, who was born in the Gu family in Hongzhou, knows too well what kind of savings those two prominent families who have guarded the tomb for three generations have been forgotten by the government and the opposition!

Among the six valves in China, Fengzhou Wei, Jiangnan Song and Jinxiu Duanmu are all more literary.

Especially the Wei and Song clans, their ancestors are prosperous, and it can be said that as long as there are a few famous literary artists in history, they will definitely not be able to bypass these two clans.

And Qingzhou Su, Xiliang Shen and Donghu Liu are more focused on martial arts - these three clans started because Sangzi was adjacent to external troubles, and they killed their respective foundations with one knife and one shot!

Even in the early years of the founding of Darui, Xiliang Shen and Donghu Liu dismissed their subordinates under the pretext of keeping filial piety, and returned to the field, but only looking at the servants of the Song family's side branches, they also knew that they had never put the clan aside for a day!

In addition, the influence of the Qingzhou Su clan in the army since the founding of the country, even if Gu Shao is conceited and talented, quick and far-sighted, he has to act cautiously about this situation!

The old servant persuaded: "Why don't you tell Your Majesty about the benefits and disadvantages, and persuade Your Majesty to retract your intentions?" ”

"I'm afraid that even if Your Majesty regrets it now, it will be too late!" Gu Shao pondered for a while, but shook his head with a wry smile, "Do you think those people finally waited for such an opportunity and were willing to let it go?" ”

And, "My virtuous niece and granddaughter are not very generous. Child! Your Majesty personally said that she was going to kill her, do you think that even if Your Majesty retracts her intentions, she will be relieved? ”

The old servant thought for a moment: "Why don't you do it?" He made a sharp gesture.

"Although I don't care about going to the soup for the entrustment of the first emperor." Gu Shao stroked his long beard and said helplessly, "But you can't do it to catch the entire Gu family!" ”

- Jian Xubai in order to keep this wife, but even the face of Emperor Duanhua has to be refuted, you must know that Gu Shao killed Song Yixiao, and it is strange that the Gu family in Hongzhou was dissatisfied!

He thought for a long time and sighed, "My virtuous niece and granddaughter is an understanding person, she now has a daughter, she will not act rashly, as long as Your Majesty sits firmly on the throne, she is not at ease Your Majesty, and she will not dare to act rashly - so she is actually not a threat, what is really worrying is still ...... after all"

Gu Shao didn't finish speaking, he only frowned even tighter.