Chapter 426: Men Know Men Best
In the dark night, Gao Minglou's brief chuckle sounded.
"Did the king of Guangling County eat too much wine and get confused?"
Fu Jiuqu slowly approached him, eye to eye, his dark eyes full of cold silence.
"You're the one who is confused. Your so-called Great Southern Kingdom ceased to exist on the day the city of Yongzhou broke. The promulgation of the "Decree of Amnesty for Quang Nam" by the official family is the greatest mercy to you and your people."
Great South.
Amnesty Quang Nam Order.
A word is heavier than a word, and it is as heavy as a thousand gold.
Gao Minglou stood quietly in the night breeze and didn't make a sound for a long time. He looked at Fu Jiuqu with an extremely ordinary expression, as if he hadn't heard what an earth-shattering secret he was referring to.
"The king of the county is really good at laughing."
Fu Jiuqu didn't see the embarrassment on his face, just like when in the deep mountains and old forests of Lingnan, when Nong Zhigao's army forced Fu Jiuqu into a desperate situation, Fu Jiuqu did not show half fear.
The two men looked at each other.
"You are in exile in Dali, you could have lived incognito and stolen your life, but you have to be full of ambition and come to Kaifeng to die, why bother?"
Gao Minglou stood silently.
Fu Jiuqu hooked his lips and smiled, there was an indescribable compassion in his eyes, which should not come from the compassion of the ruthless King of Guangling.
"You set up an ambush at the Watergate Bridge, diverted the tiger from the mountain, and then set up a battle in the streets, do you think you have the chance to win? Naive! Not to mention that the official family is heavily guarded, you have no chance at all, even if you really succeed, you think that you can subvert the Great Song Dynasty and avenge the death of the family?"
His tone was too relaxed, as if he was making fun of the uncertain weather, the sun was still shining during the day, the sky was clear, and the sky changed after nightfall, and it was already drizzling as he spoke.
Gao Minglou's eyes are cloudy.
"The king of Guangling County was born with noble bones and blood, and he has never tasted the suffering of the world, which really makes me envious."
After a pause, he mocked, "If you had been humiliated by me, you would not have said such a light-hearted thing. If you were me, you would only do more ruthlessly and desperately than I did. You won't even allow me to go through the wedding ceremony in peace!"
Fu Jiuqu smiled indifferently, "That's exactly why I won't kill you."
"Humph!" Gao Minglou's eyes were gloomy, and he was mocking.
"You don't kill me, not for me, but for yourself. The whole world knows that Ayima is my sister in Gaominglou. Fu Jiuqu, from the day you decided to marry Ayima, my honor and disgrace were bound to you."
His eyes were cold, with a cold and poisonous light.
"In other words, now we are grasshoppers on a rope, and no matter what I commit, you can't get out of it. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the group of pedantic old guys in the Great Song Dynasty can spare you, they will never spare her, let alone allow you to grow old with affection and love."
Fu Jiuqu squinted dangerously and stared at him.
Gao Minglou's tone was cold: "This is your concern."
Gao Minglou said this not because of his tongue.
The power of the court is complicated, and in the eyes of conservatives, Fu Jiuqu is Di Qing's party and Di Qing's most powerful supporter in the court. If the officials got such an opportunity, they would definitely impeach Fu Jiuqu to death, and at that time, even if the emperor had the heart to defend it, he was afraid that he would not be able to do it......
This is also the reason why Gao Minglou brought Xin Yi into Beijing and used her to bind Fu Jiuqu.
It's just that he kept wavering later.
For a while, he even wished that he hadn't been to Kaifeng Mansion, and wanted to take Xin Yi away from here and fly away......
Fu Jiuqu showed a chuckle.
"You don't have to worry about that. I advise you to plan ahead."
He turned his head to look at the dark night sky.
"Tomorrow morning, your identity will be revealed, thunder will explode, and everything you have committed will be revealed. When the time comes, if you want to leave, you won't be able to go."
Gao Minglou looked at Fu Jiuqu's pale face.
"Let me take her away."
Fu Jiuqu looked at him coldly, "Delusional!"
"Once my identity is revealed, you won't be able to protect her."
"Whether I can protect it or not, it's my business. Whether you can go or not is your business."
Fu Jiuqu's eyes were indifferent, "Tonight is your last chance, I don't have that much patience to wait for you. If you don't leave, neither you nor your people will be able to escape!"
Gao Minglou's hand holding the knife became tighter and tighter.
"If you can't run, then you won't run." The king of the fallen country, if he does not take revenge, what is the point of living?!"
Fu Jiuqu sneered, "You are not the king of the fallen country, you are a traitor. You remember, no one will recognize your Great Southern Kingdom, let alone recognize you as a benevolent emperor, everyone will say when they mention you...... It's the rebel who fled Dali."
"Da Song has never admitted me, so why betray?"
Gao Minglou gritted his teeth and looked at Fu Jiuqu.
"You don't want me and my people. I have asked for it eight times, but there has been no response...... On what basis, on what basis do you despise our sincerity?"
From Di Qing's crusade to the south, Nong Zhigao fought and sued for peace, and they didn't even give him a chance to be a vassal......
Fu Jiuqu: "Forget it. Success and defeat are the same in ancient and modern times."
Gao Minglou gritted his teeth, "I can't forget, I can't forget!"
The deep hatred of the sea of blood is engraved in his bones, as long as he closes his eyes, he will think of the day when the city of Yongzhou was broken, his mother was arrested, the clansmen died tragically, and the purgatory scene of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood.
But he made great achievements when he was a teenager, and he once ascended the throne as an emperor on his own, and he knew too well the truth of becoming a king and defeating a king.
From the leader of 10,000 people who responded to every call to the street rat who everyone shouted and beaten, his life has gone back. I can't see the light, and I don't even dare to use the name chosen by my parents.
Fu Jiuqu didn't stay too long, his identity and position with Gao Minglou were destined to make them not friends, and they wouldn't have too much to say.
"Tomorrow, when the dust settles."
Before the voice fell, Fu Jiuqu turned around and left.
Gao Minglou called out to him, "County King."
Fu Jiuqu stood still and looked back.
Gao Minglou: "Take care of my sister."
Fu Jiuqu frowned, an inexplicable irritability rose in his heart, and when Gao Minglou said "my sister", he subconsciously thought of Xin Yi calling him "brother".
In the more than a year that Xin Yi left him, she was with this man, they were not related, they were opposite each other day and day, and they were commensurate with brother and sister, how could they not have any affection?
He believed that Xin Yi had no love for Gao Minglou, but he didn't believe that Gao Minglou didn't covet his woman.
The people who know men best in the world are men.
Gao Minglou went deep into Bianjing, and in the revenge plan of the shame, there must be a plan for Xinyi.
However, if it weren't for the victory of hatred over the love of children, Fu Jiuqu believed that Gao Minglou would not bring Xin Yi to Bianjing, but would choose a small southern city that was indisputable and live without him......
Fu Jiuqu sneered and walked away.
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In the eldest princess's mansion, the banquet is endless, and the excitement is non-stop.
But the noise seemed to be cut off from the world.
Gao Minglou stood in the courtyard for a long time with a knife on his waist.
He knew that the moment he didn't find the emperor from the dragon chariot in the royal street, he had already lost his best chance for revenge. I tried every possible way to come to Kaifeng, lost my wife and broke my soldiers, and finally ended up with a chicken and a flying egg......
And these are all because of Fu Jiuqu.
Of course, with his current men and horses, he can also rush in and fight bloodily, killing the wedding banquet of the king of Guangling County to a miasma, and people are turned on their backs. Even if he were going to die tonight, he would pull countless people on his back and bury countless people with him......
However, among the dead, there must not be the person he hated the most—the Great Song Emperor who was high up and disdained the life and death of him and his people.
Gao Minglou stared at the bright lights, his palm rubbing against the hilt of the knife.
There is no one in this world who cares about him.
But he still has people he cares about.
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Xin Yi took off the phoenix crown that was about to break her neck, washed the gorgeous makeup on her face, changed into a light and soft red shirt, and asked Xingyuan to go to the stove to serve some food, and then stretched out and came back to life.
It's so tiring.
The incense in the happy room is elegant, exuding a good sweet fragrance, the dragon and phoenix candles are burning quietly, and the room is more warm and comfortable than the cramped cottage in the post house.
She yawned, and the unwarranted apprehension in her heart was no match for the sleepiness that was gradually coming.
She wanted to fall asleep, but there were girls standing in the corridor at the door, some of whom were sent by the eldest princess, and there were also Xingyuan and Taoyu in the room to accompany her, and she had to wait for Fu Jiuqu to come back and ask him something.
Xiao Sannian was carried away by Bai Zhilai, and there was no one to speak, Xin Yi held his eyelids and sat and waited.
The hustle and bustle of the Eldest Princess's Mansion had dissipated, and it was nearly midnight.
Familiar footsteps could finally be heard in the hallway.
Xin Yi breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't know when he started, and he could already distinguish the sound of Fu Jiuqu walking.
She twitched her fingers slightly, crumpling the satin quilt, and realized that she was no less nervous about the wedding night than she was expecting.
A heart pounded, then released in a funny way, put his hands flat on his lap, sat upright, and made a bride look like a bride.
"The King of the Counties."
"The King of the Counties."
The girls and mothers-in-law greeted each other in unison, smiling hippies.
Fu Jiuqu paused and stopped by the door, "Let's go down."