“...... It's just that the minions' families are just ordinary people, and they are like ants in this vast number of living beings, and they ask the Third Highness to raise their noble hands and let them live, they don't know that the Third Highness has dirty his hands. There was already a faint light in the corner of Li Li's eyes, if it weren't for the fact that there were guards not far away, he was afraid that he would have to kneel down for Zhuang Mengdie on the spot and beg her to be gracious.

"Gonggong Li, are you embarrassing His Highness right now, or is His Highness embarrassing you?" Don't say that Li Li is just faintly tearful in the corners of his eyes, even if he is kneeling in front of her Zhuang Mengdie with tears at the moment, she will definitely not give in. He begged her to let them go, so who would let her go and let Zhuang Feiyu go?!

Glancing at Li Li coldly, Zhuang Mengdie said indifferently: "Gonggong Li, you listen to His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness came to the palace today to see King Tianxuan, if you can't see it, after tomorrow, there will be no more Li De in this world." You have to think about it carefully, if His Royal Highness Ming Japan can't see King Tianxuan again, you will have one less nephew...... As for how many days it will take with His Highness, you have to weigh it carefully!"

After listening to Zhuang Mengdie's words, Gonggong Li's face suddenly turned pale, his lips trembled slightly because he was too scared, his wrinkled face looked even more haggard, and his white temples swayed slightly in the breeze, as if telling the huge price of surviving in this majestic palace in the house of the royal family.

After Zhuang Mengdie finished speaking, she kept staring at Gonggong Li's old pearl yellow eyes, the eyes that were already full of wrinkles at the corners of the eyes were no longer as bright as in the past, and now, it was slowly glowing red, and then there was a mist slowly filling the surface of the eyeballs. An elderly man was uncontrollable in front of Zhuang Mengdie and cried.

Zhuang Mengdie's heart suddenly swelled with a sense of pain, if she was not forced to be helpless, how could she be willing to threaten an elderly man with the life of Grandpa Li's family? But she couldn't be soft-hearted, even if she watched Grandpa Li's tears slowly slip from her eyes and flow down the folds of her face, she would never let go.

If she had been merciful to them, then she would have been the one who had shed his blood and tears.

"Gonggong Li, sometimes, to punish a person, you must grasp his weakness, only in this way can he be obedient, you say, am I right?" Zhuang Mengdie deliberately made his voice sound cold and ruthless, so that Gonggong Li could feel that if he refused to pass on it to her, he would immediately lose his relatives.

Grandpa Li finally gave up the struggle, he silently hung his head, quickly wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve, and at the same time, he seemed to sigh softly, but that sigh was so small that it was almost imperceptible.

When he raised his head again, Li Li didn't say anything, he turned around and walked towards the imperial study, his back looking like the only crumbling leaf left on a dead tree in the middle of winter.

It was a gray-haired old man, a shell that had almost exhausted the essence of life by the power of the royal family and the palace strife, and once again had to compromise under the power. If he were alone, without relatives or cause, he would not be coerced, but he is not, and even if he can spare his life, he cannot ignore his family.

Therefore, even if he didn't say anything, Zhuang Mengdie also knew that Gonggong Li had compromised, not that he Li Li compromised with her Zhuang Mengdie, but that he was an insignificant person who was begging for a life in the deep palace, compromising with power and fate.

Zhuang Mengdie looked blankly at Gonggong Li's distant back, and muttered: "Gonggong Li, you are a loving and righteous person after all, if you are hard-hearted and selfish enough, I can't threaten you, but people are not grass and trees after all, after all, they can't escape a love word, you are so, and I am ...... so."

Gonggong Li, a housekeeper who has won Yang Chengyun's favor, and now he is the chief eunuch appointed by Yang Jingyue, the king of Tianxuan, how important he is to Yang Jingyue, he is not uncountable in his own heart. If he can be cold-blooded and ruthless and not care about the life and death of his relatives, or if he dares to take the lives of his relatives, then he will naturally not be threatened by Zhuang Mengdie, nor will he be bent by power.

Perhaps, ordinary important ministers in the court can't use Gonggong Li's family as a threat, but she, Zhuang Mengdie, the third highness who has already passed away, and the empress who died is an exception. Even if he knew how important he was to Yang Jingyue, even if he was Yang Chengyun who kept him by his side, Li Li didn't dare to be naïve to think that Yang Jingyue would offend his beloved Zhuang Mengdie for the sake of his relatives, even if Zhuang Mengdie had no intention of Yang Jingyue, but he Li Li still didn't dare to gamble with the lives of his relatives.

Therefore, he had no choice, Zhuang Mengdie's hand held his weakness, and he had to obey her, even if he thought that he would disappoint Yang Jingyue by doing so, and he would be ashamed of Yang Chengyun's entrustment to him.

But no choice is no choice, no retreat is no retreat, the so-called one take, what to take, in a sense, is also a test of human nature, the love of people only helpless and subservient, only cold-blooded and ruthless people can not be at the mercy of others.

After waiting silently in place for a while, Gonggong Li walked out of the imperial study, came to Zhuang Mengdie, bowed respectfully to Zhuang Mengdie, and said in a hoarse voice: "Third Highness, King Tianxuan declares you to enter the palace, please!"

"Gonggong Li, you really have a way, I didn't make a mistake in betting...... Zhuang Mengdie said leisurely, speaking of the back, it seemed to be a solitary emotion, for her, how could she not be gambling, betting that Li Li values love and righteousness, cares about the life and death of his relatives, if she loses the bet......

When passing by Gonggong Li's side, Zhuang Mengdie slowed down and said in a low voice that was very little, but could be heard clearly by Gonggong Li: "I'm sorry......"

Such a threat to an elderly old man, Zhuang Mengdie's heart is indeed unhappy, but she is also forced to be helpless, since she ascended the throne of the empress, after seeing her obsession and gains and losses, she has already made up her mind not to live such a day of exhaustion, and not to be the unscrupulous person who will do anything to achieve the goal, but unfortunately, it backfired, she was still involved in it after all, and she couldn't escape.

Hearing Zhuang Mengdie's "I'm sorry", Gonggong Li sighed lightly again, shook his head slowly, and said in a low voice in an old voice: "This is the life of the slave, and the slave has already been appointed......"

Reconciled?

Zhuang Mengdie couldn't help but look back when she heard this, and then noticed that Gonggong Li set his eyes on the sky, and at the end of that line of sight was the towering vermilion city wall of the palace.

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