Chapter 100: I Have a Son
Li Hao, who heard Lou Niu's words, was helpless, thinking about what kind of image he had in the hearts of others, not a good person.
However, he still took the initiative to express his intentions, and said, "I came here today just to tell you good news, the people I sent to the capital have returned, and they happened to learn something when they were inquiring about your family, and I thought I should tell you that your wife is already pregnant with your flesh and blood."
Suddenly hearing this, Lou Niu immediately couldn't sit still, bounced up from the ground in a flash, ran directly to the prison door and asked, "What are you talking about, Yan Ji is already pregnant, why don't I know?"
Li Hao replied: "How do I know why you don't know, anyway, the news from the capital is like this, and you will know the details when you return to the capital yourself."
Although he heard that Li Hao couldn't fully confirm it, the joy in Lou Niu's heart was still uncontrollable, but he soon forced himself to calm down again.
He asked Li Hao, "What do you want me to do when you came to tell me this news today?"
"Can't you just think the same thing as you because you have bad intentions, and I can't really be kind enough to tell them?
You don't want to think about it, if I really want you to die, why should I come here myself and send someone to spread the news without knowing it."
After finishing speaking, Li Hao shook his head and turned to leave, leaving Lou Niu alone in deep thought in prison.
At this point, everything Li Hao can basically do is done, and the rest depends on Lou Niu's own ideas.
Speaking of the original plot, Lou Niu hijacked Cheng Shaoshang, and what he said in front of Ling Budo in the follow-up, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be making things bigger.
In this way, he dragged the big house into a deep pit, and in fact, he did it in the end, and finally used his death to force Mrs. Lou into a corner, so that the old Lou family came forward to interrogate him.
But at that time, he didn't know that he already had a child, otherwise he might not have gone to extremes.
Of course, the situation has changed now, and Lou Niu may not make that choice, but what should be told is still explained, and as for how he will choose in the end is his own business.
After that, Li Hao didn't care anymore until Emperor Wen ordered him to be escorted back to the capital for trial, and Li Hao didn't go to see him.
As for Shouchun's side, Peng Kun, who had been besieged in the city, didn't make much movement, but only stopped two raids at night and wanted to rush out of the city.
But he was beaten back by Ling Budo with the black armor guard, and he didn't dare to try it again, and he didn't know what he was tinkering with.
However, for this, whether it was Ling Budo or Li Hao, they didn't pay much attention to it, but took the initiative to strengthen the power of the encirclement outside the city.
After all, the lack of food in Shouchun City is conclusive, which also means that even if Peng Kun wants to hold on, he won't be able to hold on for long, as long as he can block him until the day when the food is exhausted.
Even if he refuses to come out and surrender, his men will tie him up and send him out.
And Li Hao didn't wait long for this day, only surrounded for nearly a month, and Peng Kun was already sent out by his subordinates.
At this point, the battle of counterinsurgency was declared over, and Cui You led a part of the soldiers and horses to stay in charge of Shouchun temporarily, and the others began to return to the capital.
In fact, it stands to reason that Li Hao also has a share of this left-behind candidate, after all, Ling Budo is unwilling to stay and wants to return to the capital with Peng Kun, so that he can directly interrogate about the lonely city, and for this reason, the prince can only say that he is too powerful to refute.
It is impossible for the rest to stay, so Li Hao has to stay for the time being to assist Cui Hou in sorting out Shouchun's affairs.
It's just that just two days before Shouchun surrendered, news came from the capital that Qu Lengjun gave birth to a big fat boy to Li Hao, so the prince took into account Li Hao's mood and deliberately asked him to return with him.
Therefore, he could only bother Cui You to stay alone, but Cui You's ability is still trustworthy, but he will be relatively tired, so Li Hao specially went to Cui You to thank him.
However, this way back to the city, unlike Li Hao's joy with a spring breeze on his face, Ling Budo was purely a cold face that no one should approach.
Because of this
The guy wants to directly try Peng Kun on the way back to the city, of course, there is no problem, after all, they are basically their own people all the way, and no one will deliberately make it difficult.
But the problem is that Peng Kun's mouth is very hard, no matter how Ling Budo interrogates him, he just doesn't speak, forcing Ling Budo to use a big punishment, and then he was stopped by the prince.
Of course, this is not to say that the prince has any sympathy for Peng Kun, but that a repeat offender like Peng Kun usually needs to be interrogated by order of Emperor Wen.
Before, it was because Ling Budo was a bitter master in a lonely city, and he was deeply favored by Emperor Wen, so it was okay to turn a blind eye.
But it really reached the level of torture to extract confessions, then it was an abuse of lynching, and the prince naturally couldn't sit idly by, and even came forward to dissuade him.
And what the two said was reasonable, and the prince also came forward to promise that after returning to the capital, he would help Ling Budo to ask Emperor Wen for a decree and let him preside over the trial.
Ling Budo couldn't tell the truth to the prince, so in the end he had no choice but to give up the interrogation on the road, and because of this, this mood was naturally not good.
Although Ling Budo usually doesn't have a good face, he is not as ugly as he is now, and he reveals an aura that no one is close to.
Therefore, even Li Hao didn't want to come next to him, but if Li Hao didn't go, it didn't mean that Ling Budo wouldn't come.
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When he was camping on this day, Ling Budo walked to Li Hao's camp tent and said, "I haven't congratulated Ziyang yet, this time Mrs. Lou was affected by Lou Niu's incident, but I'm afraid that he won't be able to stay in the East Palace.
Ziyang has the help of the general of the chariot and cavalry, and I think that His Highness will inevitably rely on you even more, and the future is limitless."
As soon as he heard this, Li Hao couldn't help but stop what he was doing, stared at Ling Budo suspiciously, and said, "How could Zicheng think this, if you talk about the distance of the relationship, the friendship between you and the prince is much stronger than mine, if you really want to talk about the person you rely on the most, I'm afraid it won't be my turn."
After hearing this, Ling Budo smiled and said, "Yes, Ziyang really thinks so."
"Of course so, it's just that I don't understand why Zicheng suddenly came to me today and said such brainless words." Li Hao asked.
"It's nothing, it's just that I just thought about Lou Niu, and I just talked about it casually when I passed by, but there was nothing." After speaking, Ling Budo directly said goodbye and left.
But he walked easily, but Li Hao couldn't help but start thinking, Ling Budo suddenly made this scene today, what was it for, he couldn't just deliberately stimulate himself, this guy shouldn't be so boring.
For this reason, Li Hao didn't sleep well that night, and then tried it openly and secretly, but unfortunately he didn't get any useful information in the end.
But in the end, Li Hao also wanted to open it, anyway, Lou Niu's matter was not deliberately arranged by himself, and he was naturally not afraid of being investigated.
As for the so-called selfishness, it is originally a matter of opinion, and it is impossible to guide everyone's ideas, since you can't manage it, then you don't have to worry about it.
Thinking about it like this, his heart suddenly became steady, but in the face of Ling Budo, a person who made him sad for a few days, Li Hao decided to fight back.
So Li Hao deliberately chose a day for everyone to discuss in the prince's camp, and said in front of everyone: "When I go back this time, it is estimated that the full moon will definitely be missed, but on the day of the 100th, I will hold a banquet in the palace to celebrate, and I will also invite His Royal Highness the Prince, Laihou and Zicheng to take the time to attend."
The prince naturally would not refuse when he heard this, after all, Li Hao is now a courtier he trusts, plus he has a kinship with Wang Chun's twist.
On Hou's side, he already had the feeling of being a comrade on the battlefield with Li Hao, so he naturally agreed, and in this case, Ling Budo did not disappoint the fun.
But Li Haode's true intention was not to invite, but to take the opportunity to extend to Ling Budo's head: "It's great that Zicheng is willing to come, after all, now that Peng Kun has been captured, the Eucalyptus of the Lonely City will soon come to light, and then Zicheng's heart knot will be untied."
It happened that this 100-day banquet, I asked Leng Jun and Ah Ji to invite the nobles of the family in the capital to the banquet.
Zicheng can take a good look at it then, and take this opportunity to give this lifelong event, which can be regarded as double happiness."
Speaking of the topic of Ling Budo's family affairs, the prince also became interested and said, "This is the truth, in the past, you always had too many worries in your heart, and you have never had the intention of starting a family, so your father has been worried about this for a long time.
Now that the lonely city is in trouble, you can always let go of your worries and move forward, this time the lonely does not say that you must be with Yuchang, although Yuchang does like you, but it doesn't matter, it is more important to marry you as soon as possible."
Hearing this, Ling Budo could only reply, "Your Highness, the minister has already told His Majesty that the minister just wants to find someone who knows and loves each other......
"That's right, that's why you see more girls, otherwise you don't even see people, how can you talk about love.
You have to see each other, and then you have some contact, so that you can know the character of other girls, and you can know whether your heart is compatible, and you can know that you can love each other.
Otherwise, you can only look at your face, I don't think you are such a superficial person." Li Hao directly interrupted Ling Budo's words, lest he say some big things to prevaricate the past.
After speaking, Li Hao didn't forget to ask the prince, "Does the prince think I have a point?"
The prince must have said it directly, after all, Ling Budo's appearance really doesn't look like a face, otherwise there are so many beautiful girls in the capital, there are all kinds of them, and none of them can take a fancy to them.
And under this encouragement, Lai She, who was sitting on the side, also persuaded loudly: "Yes, Zicheng, you should indeed consider your own marriage, now that you are the only seedling left in the Huo family, you still need to get married and have children as soon as possible to continue the incense, and you can't delay it any longer."
Under this repeated persuasion, Ling Budo's face couldn't help but darken, but thinking about the rebuttal, it was estimated that it would be another persuasion, so he simply said goodbye.
I can't afford to provoke and hide, anyway, I will leave this environment first, but when he left, Ling Budo dug out the eyes of the initiator of Li Hao's topic.
Li Hao didn't care about this, since Ling Budo hadn't slept well for two days before, he had to let him taste the headache, and the main thing was to hurt each other.
As long as this kind of topic is hooked up, when the prince or Lai Shu sees Ling Budo again, he will always persuade a few more words, anyway, there is no substantial damage, but the inner damage is great, just right.
And while Ling Budo is troubled, Li Hao can still feel happy, which is a win-win situation.
In such a cheerful atmosphere, everyone also returned to the capital, and the soldiers and horses they brought were transferred back to their respective camps, and Peng Kun was picked up by the people of the Tingwei Mansion and escorted back to the edict prison for trial.
The crown prince led Lai She, Ling Budo, and Li Hao to the palace to meet Emperor Wen and report on their work.
However, this is also a process, and the report has already been written earlier, so Emperor Wen simply asks a few words, and the prince can answer.
As for the specific reward, it will have to wait for the follow-up merit review, and there is no hurry.
So after the process was over, Li Hao thought that he could go, but Ling Budo suddenly jumped out and asked Emperor Wen to preside over Peng Kun.
For Ling Budo's request, as long as it is not particularly outrageous, he will basically agree, but this eucalyptus is implicated in the lonely city, and it is inseparable from Xiao Yuehou.
For this reason, Xiao Yuehou was still detained in the edict prison pending trial, Emperor Wen was a little worried that Ling Budo would use too much force, after all, Emperor Wen really didn't want Xiao Yuehou to die based on his feelings for Concubine Yue.
Especially when Xiao Yuehou was detained for several months, Concubine Yue did not come to her to intercede, trying to help his brother get rid of the crime, but kept silent, not wanting to embarrass herself.
The more this is the case, the heavier the guilt in Emperor Wen's heart for Concubine Yue becomes, and the more he wants to protect Xiao Yuehou.
It was precisely when he saw Emperor Wen's hesitation that someone came out and proposed: "This matter should have been presided over by the Tingwei Mansion, Zicheng has worked hard all the way, so it is better to recuperate first."
Li Hao followed the prestige, this person who spoke was Chengyang Hou Lingyi, it seemed that when he saw Peng Kun being taken to the capital, this old guy couldn't sit still.
But Ling didn't doubt what
will give up this opportunity, when even said: "Your Majesty, Peng Kun is implicated in the original lonely city, and I ask Your Majesty to hand it over to the ministers to judge, so as to comfort the souls of the dead souls in the lonely city."
Hearing Ling Budo's words, Li Hao couldn't help but glance at Ling Yi's face again, wanting to see what kind of expression he would have.
After all, as soon as these words came out, it meant that Ling Budo was going to start showing cards, and Ling Yi would not have many opportunities in the future.
If he can't kill Peng Kun quickly this time, once he lets Peng Kun pull him out, he will be completely finished.
It's just that Ling Yi's scheming is really deep, at least Li Hao can't see that he has a weak heart in his expression.
At this time, Emperor Wen also made a decision, since Ling Budo was bent on interfering in this eucalyptus, he would definitely not be able to stop it.
After all, he couldn't afford to punish Ling Budo heavily, so he could only arrange someone to try it together to properly check and balance Ling Budo.
So Emperor Wen resorted to the old routine again, and handed over the eucalyptus to the prince to preside over the trial, and Ling Budo assisted with the Tingwei Mansion, using the prince to neutralize Ling Budo's anger.
As for Li Hao, of course, he will accompany the prince to the trial, but this is all later.
The most important thing now is to go home and hurry up to see his son, so as soon as he got to the court, Li Hao hurriedly walked out and ran all the way home.