Volume 2: Mountains Have Trees and Trees Have Branches Seventy-Seven: Killers

Yesterday's chapter has been revised and some more content has been added.

Comrades who love Zhao Wang Ruyi's children's shoes and can't bear it don't have to look forward. Well, I'm still succumbing to the logic of the plot.

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In the east chamber, Shi Fen was still defending King Zhao, his expression was angry, Liu Ying listened patiently, and suddenly, when he saw Chang Lu trotting in, he was still gasping, and the expression on his face changed.

"What's wrong?" Liu Ying asked, somehow, suddenly having an ominous premonition.

"Your Majesty," Chang Lu stammered, "His Royal Highness King Zhao ——。 ”

Liu Ying stood in the bath hall of the dormitory, looking at the young man who was floating in the pool, Ruyi's face was serene, and he seemed to be still smiling.

His expression was a little blank for a while.

How can you accept it, he was still angry when he left in the morning, but in an instant, he was separated forever.

"Back to Your Majesty's words." The palace man knelt on the side and whispered, "In the morning, the Queen Mother ordered someone to give King Zhao a cup of wine, and after King Zhao drank it, he would-"

Liu Ying suddenly became angry, kicked on him, and scolded, "You are all dead." I won't stop people from coming to inform me. What's the use of raising you? ”

The palace man fell to the ground, not daring to resist, but muttered, "But, that's what the Queen Mother meant." ”

As slaves and maids, how dare they resist?

"Mother, mother." Liu Ying muttered, suddenly turned around and brushed her sleeves away.

He hurriedly passed through Weiyang Palace, walked on the compound road, and knocked straight to Changle Palace.

"Yo." In the Changxin Palace, Empress Lu turned around with a smile and said with a kind smile, "Isn't Your Majesty supposed to be dealing with state affairs at this time, why did you come to my Changle Palace?" ”

"I want to know." Liu Ying's face was a little angry, and she asked stiffly, "Did you order Ruyi to be killed?" ”

"It's a python wife." Lu Hou smiled and replied, calm and relaxed.

"The queen mother has obviously promised to return to Zhao as she wishes," Liu Yinghui asked in a loud voice, "Why did you go back on your word again?" ”

"Because I regretted it when I thought about it when I came back," Lu Hou stood up and walked to his side. He replied, "This country belongs to my son, and I cannot allow anyone to threaten you." ”

"I have decided to depose him as King of Zhao. Isn't that enough? ”

"It's not enough." Lu Hou Senran said, "He is weak now, so he can naturally only rely on your protection and treat you very well." But when he grows up in the future, I don't know if he will hold a grudge against his mother. Revenge? As long as there is the slightest possibility, I can't let it go. What's more," she said sharply, looking at her son in front of her, "Your Majesty, you have to know. After all, he Liu Ruyi is the candidate for the prince that the first emperor once liked, if he makes a mistake in the future, the courtiers will inevitably think. If King Zhao had been the emperor back then, would everything be much better? ”

A hint of green flickered across her face, "So, how can I tolerate him?" ”

"But he doesn't have any objections now." Liu Ying said loudly, "Just these possibilities. and slew a prince and a queen mother. Are you going too far? ”

"When he reverses, it'll be too late." Empress Lu sneered.

"Okay, Your Majesty," she laughed softly, like soothing a naughty and laughing child, and stretched out her hand to cover Liu Ying's eyes, "The matter has come to this, people can't be resurrected from death, so you don't have to be angry with the queen mother anymore." Your Majesty, you must know that everything the Queen Mother does is for your own good. ”

Her son has always been very obedient, even if he is dissatisfied with himself, he always accepts it willingly in the end. Lu Pheasant has always known.

However, this time she miscalculated, Liu Ying stepped back, avoided her hand, raised her head, there was deep repulsion in her eyes, and asked, "Queen Mother, if you are really for my good, why don't you ask, what do I think?" ”

Her hand stiffened, put it down casually, and sneered, "Joke, if I knew that you were wrong, would I still watch you go wrong and not pull you?" ”

"What is right and what is wrong," Liu Ying said-for-tat, "Queen Mother, you must be right?" ”

"So," Empress Lu said in a cold voice, "Your Majesty is blaming me?" ”

"The son doesn't dare to blame the queen mother." Liu Yingmuran said, "It's just that the son wants the queen mother to know,"

He paused and said slowly, "When the queen mother killed Ruyi, she also killed the queen mother in her son's heart with her own hands." ”

"You," Lu Pheasant trembled, pointed to his own son standing under His Highness, and said angrily, "This is what you want to say to the Queen Mother?" ”

Liu Ying lost her mind and didn't answer.

"Get out of here," Lu Pheasant shouted, turning away from him.

He smiled and turned to leave.

Standing under the gate of the Changxin Palace, Liu Ying turned around, her face was gloomy, and then she glanced at the back of her mother standing on the palace, and leisurely, remembering the past in the countryside when she was a child.

He was only six years old at the time, and he was playing barefoot among the ridges, and before he knew that he had missed the hour, his mother came out to look for him.

The memories of the countryside have faded long after he ascended the throne. At this time, looking at the back of her mother wearing the solemn dress of the Queen Mother, it came to my mind for no reason, as clear as yesterday.

"Your Majesty." Chang Liuhou was outside the hall, and watched in horror as Liu Ying threw up his sleeves and strode out from within.

"Go back to Weiyang Palace." Liu Yingdao, expressionless.

He responded to the word "promise" in a low voice, and he didn't dare to breathe, and Tianzi Luan drove forward quickly, waiting for the emperor to get into the chariot.

On the road of the two palaces of Changle in succession, the court torch is burning. When passing by the courtyard torch, Liu Ying shouted, "Stop." ”

He looked at the firelight and came out of his mind for a moment.

"Your Majesty," Chang Xiao asked cautiously, on the side, "who are you?" ”

He smiled slightly, took out the edict from his bosom that deposed King Zhao as the Marquis of Handan, and threw it into the firelight.

The bamboo slip threw an arc high, fell into the fire, and the tent burned with a thud.

"Let's go."

He remembered that day Ruyi had just come back, and they boarded the palace car together, also from Changle to Weiyang, at that time, the spring was good, and at that time, Ruyi's face was fresh.

The delicate boy died quietly beside him, Liu Ying shivered, he tried his best to protect him, but in the end he couldn't protect him.

"Your Majesty, it's here." Chang Qi said softly.

In the darkness of the night, after a long time, he hummed softly. "Chang Liu," he instructed, "you have people find out who reported the letter and who was in charge of the wine when King Zhao was killed." ”

His eyes were cold, Chang Xiao shivered slightly, and bowed his head in response, "No." ”

The summer of the first year of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty. To bury the king of Zhao Ruyi in Lantian with the ceremony of the princes and kings, it is for the king of Zhao Yin.

Yang Lishi walked proudly across Dongshi Street. He is now worth a thousand times, and he has a little more confidence when he speaks, so he walked into Qiongyang Restaurant, and instructed Xiao Er with a shy stomach, "The best wine and food." Get me up. ”

Suddenly, someone behind me asked, "Are you Yang Lux?" ”

He looked back in surprise and smiled, "It's me, ...... are you?" ”

The voice did not fall. The person who came sneered, and he only felt a pain in the back of his head. He lost consciousness.

When he awoke, his hands and feet were tied, and he found himself with sackcloth in his mouth. It was silent, as if it was curled up in a cart moving forward, the wheels rattling, and the sound of crowds could be faintly heard outside.

After a while, the voices became scarce. After walking for another half a minute, he stopped. The car door was opened with a bang, and the soap-clothed man slipped him out with a cold face and threw him on the ground.

The black silk shoes came from the side and stopped in front of him, the embroidery was exquisite, and the person who came looked at him for a long time, and said coldly, "Untie the rope on his body." ”

The sackcloth in his mouth was taken out, and Yang Lishi finally let out a breath and asked, "Who are you?" Do you know that I am the queen mother, dare to treat me like this, don't die? ”

The man smiled slightly, and immediately calmed the corners of his lips, "I know that you are the queen mother's person, so I invited you here." ”

He asked senran, "I only want to ask you one thing, did you pour the wine that King Zhao drank with your own hands?" ”

Yang Lishi shivered.

He raised his head in surprise and looked at the young man in front of him, the young man in Xuanyi was seventeen or eighteen years old, and his temperament was gentle and gentle, but he had an indescribable momentum and killing intent, and his phoenix eyes were obliquely picked, which was a few points similar to the Empress Dowager Lu who he glanced at in Changle Palace a few days ago.

His teeth chattered up and down, gurgling.

He could already guess who it was.

"Yes or no?"

Yang Lishi suddenly kowtowed like crazy, "Your Majesty is around, Your Majesty spares your life, the little one is just following the will of the Queen Mother, and I don't want to harm King Zhao." ”

Liu Ying's eyes were about to crack, kicked him in the chest, and reprimanded angrily, "It's just a little palace slave, who dares to murder the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty, and commits the following crimes, and deserves to be punished for bullying the master as a slave." ”

His kick was merciless, his strength was very heavy, Yang Lishi was kicked by him and fell to the ground, and he threw out a mouthful of blood, not daring to wipe it, and begged for mercy again and again, "Your Majesty spare your life, Your Majesty spare your life, the villain is not intentional." ”

Liu Ying leaned on to the trees beside her, gasping for breath, thinking of Ruyi's tragic death in the bath, only to feel that the turbulent waves in her heart were about to overturn her, and she couldn't calm down.

"Your Majesty," Chang Liu, standing behind him, asked softly with sympathetic eyes, "Please pay your respects." ”

He nodded, closed his eyes, and said, "Go back." ”

"No." The Imperial Counselor responded and asked, "Then Your Majesty, what should you do with this person?" ”

Liu Ying turned to look at Yang Lishi, and saw that his face had turned the color of pig liver, and a pair of triangular eyes looked at him cautiously. Remembering that Ruyi was killed in the hands of such a person, his anger burned again, and he pulled out the sword in the waist of the guard next to him and slashed at the person on the ground.

Yang Lishi screamed, blood spurted out in large pieces, on the ground, the bloated body was divided into two halves from the waist, and the anger was not extinguished for a while, Yang Lishi crawled a few steps with his hands up, raised his head and said viciously, "The villain is just acting on orders, Your Majesty can only kill the villain today, you have the ability, carry your sword to Changle Palace to question the Queen Mother?" ”

"Bold palace slave, dare to offend Your Majesty?" Li Xuan shouted loudly, kicked down Yang Lishi, Yang Lishi convulsed a few times, and finally died of anger, his triangular eyes were still open.

The tragic scene is like this, Liu Ying only felt that there was a strange fishy smell in his mouth, in the battle of the Huaihe River, he killed hundreds of people with his own hands, killing people in the war, it was justified, he never relented, but now with the respect of the emperor to kill an unarmed palace slave, he actually had the urge to vomit. Yang Lishi deserved to be killed, but when he asked him before he died, Liu Ying couldn't answer it.

But in any case, he could not question his mother, and at this time, he did not want to see her again.

"," he called out.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Li Ji asked respectfully outside the car.

"Let's not go back to Weiyang Palace first," he said, "I will go to the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, I want to see the eldest princess Lu Yuan." ”

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About Liu Ruyi, well, I want to say two words.

In dealing with Ruyi matters, Empress Lu's concept is that if there is a possibility of disaster, it is necessary to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and it is better to kill by mistake than to let go. And Liu Ying's philosophy is that as long as you don't betray me first, I won't betray you. Do not blame the people of today for what is to come.

There is no right or wrong in the idea itself (in fact, if it is politically speaking, it may be more suitable for Lu Hou). However, I insist that if you marry as a girl, then it is more realistic to choose a husband who will not betray you. So the two emperors of the Liu family I wrote, Liu Che and Liu Ying, I still prefer the latter. )。 Because of Empress Lu's strength, she got the effect she wanted, removing King Zhao Ruyi. But she didn't convince Liu Ying.

And Liu Ying's attempt to persuade her mother by gentle means also failed.

Before Ruyi, basically the relationship between mother and son was good. Politically, it may be more similar to Emperor Wu and Empress Dowager Dou in the early stage, if there is a political matter, Emperor Hui first asks Empress Lu, and then releases it in the name of the emperor.

Because most of the views of the two people are the same in political affairs, there is no conflict, and it is not as stiff as Emperor Wu and Empress Dowager Dou.

And Ruyi is the first conceptual conflict between the mother and son. At this point, the honeymoon period of the mother and son's relationship came to an end.

Starting tomorrow, the perspective will turn back to our heroine Zhang Yan.