cold hearted son-in-law

On the evening of the second day after Li Mo and Chu Yunxi finished their secret talks, news came back that Wu Wang Huangfuze had been seriously injured in an attack on his way back.But no one expected that the one who rescued Huangfuze was actually the missing eldest princess, who sent back news that within three days, the two would return with their troops.

Chu Yunxi was dressed in pale filial piety, kneeling in the funeral hall, directly above were two huge golden nanmu coffins parked on the high platform.It was almost Haishi at this time, and there was silence all around. The candles in the hall were flickering, the white flags fluttered gently, and the smoke from burning the yellow paper of the joss sticks filled the air. Two people and two coffins in the temple.Chu Yunxi quietly knelt on the futon to guard the spirit, ignoring the light smoke in the hall, which was like mist and fragrance, and only concentrated on reading the letter from King Wu, read it twice carefully, and frowned for a long time without saying a word.

"Yunxi, what are your plans now?" Li Mo knelt beside her, also in filial piety, glanced at the letter in her hand indifferently, and asked in a low voice.

Chu Yunxi turned his head to look at Li Mo, his eyes were cold, and he asked back with no joy or sadness on his face: "What does the general mean?"

"Although the emperor ordered King Wu to succeed him, he didn't know that King Wu had his left arm cut off by the rebels and became disabled. Since ancient times, how could a disabled person be the emperor? I don't think all the ministers and all the people want this Lord of the People. It is a disability, which caused ridicule from other countries. Moreover, King Wu has lost his arm, how will he preside over state affairs and govern the country in the future?" Li Mo said while looking at Chu Yunxi's expression.

After hearing this, Chu Yunxi asked calmly, "In your opinion, who is the emperor?"

"Among the princes, in terms of their status, only the seventh prince born to Concubine Lan is suitable." Li Mo pretended not to hear the taboo words in Chu Yunxi's words. How could the establishment of the emperor be decided privately like they did?But for the purpose in mind, it is natural to seize the opportunity and speak hastily.In fact, Li Mo knew that the emperor wanted to abolish the prince many times in the capital. Although the prince is dead now, there has always been a estrangement between the emperor and King Wu, and it should be Chu Yunxi's own intention to inherit the throne.And after he secretly wooed Concubine Lan's relative Murong's family, he also learned that the emperor wanted to prevent his son, young mother, and strong relatives from monopolizing power after his death, and he was even more worried that the youngest son would be constrained like him, so he had the idea of ​​killing his mother. Madam rebelled, maybe soon, the prince will be abolished, and then the seventh prince's biological mother, Concubine Lan, will be killed, and another seventh prince will be established.And Li Mo and Murong's family have secretly agreed to jointly prevent King Wu from bringing troops back to the palace to inherit the throne, elect the Seventh Prince to succeed him, and set up a puppet emperor, which is also convenient for him to realize his ambition.

Chu Yunxi looked at Li Mo, and said with a half-smile, "A two-year-old child can manage this thousand-mile country?"

"Although the lord is young, he has loyal ministers. As long as all the ministers work together to assist the young lord, we may not be able to take back the capital." Li Mo's tone was firm, and he was ready to go back immediately to make some arrangements. He made up his mind to let the two-year-old seventh prince Huangfu Han succeeded to the throne.

"Li Mo, you want to set up a young master to steal the power of the country!" Chu Yunxi hit the nail on the head, without looking at the expression on Li Mo's face, his eyes were fixed on the coffin on the high platform, and then said: "If you find the poisoned king from the emperor Or evidence of trauma, then I, Chu Yunxi, may end up worse than Prime Minister Qin."

"Yunxi, what did I do to make you doubt me so much?" Li Mo's expression darkened, and he kept looking at Chu Yunxi and asked while standing up.

"The world is in turmoil, the people are displaced, the blood is flowing for thousands of miles, and the bones are like mountains. Li Mo, you account for one-third of all the crimes! Even the outbreak of smallpox, I suspect that you are responsible! Li Mo, you are so painstaking, you plan everything, and you are ambitious. What did you do?!" Chu Yunxi stood up suddenly as he spoke, and turned to look directly at Li Mo, with ice-like eyes and a gloomy expression.

"The world is a board, all living beings are a chessboard, and those who are capable live there. Chu Yunxi, you are the hero of the times, and I take advantage of the situation. We were born according to the times, and those people died in response to disasters. That's all. If If there is a crime, it is sent by heaven to all sentient beings." Li Mo neither admitted nor denied what Chu Yunxi said, but instead made everything he said grandiose.

"It's not sent by heaven, it's people fighting each other that lead to mountains of corpses and blood. Li Mo, I can't let you steal the country!" Chu Yunxi stood with his hands behind his back, and said coldly, every word was paused, his eyes were cold.

Li Mo looked at her and stood up too, the two watched warily, Li Mo glanced at the coffin behind Chu Yunxi, clenched his hands into fists, but smiled and said: "Yunxi, we can really cooperate. As long as you don’t establish King Wu, you can call yourself emperor. You should know that your name has been spread all over the world, and you are destined to become a legendary figure that will be passed down through the ages! Those soldiers who have followed you, and even the people who have seen you from afar, all regard you as an emperor. You are like a god. I believe that if you become the emperor, you will convince your subjects, and you will be able to return to the capital and reappear in a peaceful and prosperous age."

Chu Yunxi was unmoved, and still looked at the person in front of him. Outside the clapper sounded in the third watch, and the sound of weapons and iron armor colliding and approaching footsteps suddenly came from outside the hall.

Li Mo was startled when he thought that Chu Yunxi had asked him to stay with him in the evening, so he had already prepared to kill him, and what he said just now was just to test or delay himself. Thinking of this, Li Mo looked at Chu Yunxi With a gloomy face, he said: "Yunxi, I have been patient and patient, not to be your enemy, but you have the intention of harming me. When you dispatched troops, did you ever think that I helped you all the way to Beijing? Grace?"

Chu Yunxi took a few steps back, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I didn't want your life, I just trapped you here. After the matter is over in the morning, if it proves that what happened tonight has nothing to do with you, you will be fine."

Hearing this, Li Mo became puzzled, and withdrew his hands from his arms before asking, "What happened tonight?"

"The Murong family sent assassins to ambush King Wu and cut off one of his arms. The evidence is complete. According to the law, murdering the crown prince should be punished nine times. Now the dog jumped the wall and sent troops to kill him." Chu Yunxi said it simply and directly. See Li Mo With a half-believing expression on his face, he said again: "You only want the Seventh Prince to succeed to the throne. You must have been bewitched by the Murong family. I believe you will not do this. When King Wu comes back, you should go back to Huzhou."

Li Mo laughed when he heard this, and said proudly, "Yunxi, Murong's family is strong outside, but last time Yingxiao was defeated and was demoted by the emperor to three ranks. He has no soldiers and no power, but the children of the family are still arrogant Well, if you are forced into a hurry, it is possible to lead some domestic slaves to resist, but who has the courage and ability to lead troops to force the palace? But this trick is poisonous, no matter whether the Murong family resists or waits for death, they will not be able to escape anyway. Concubine Lan and The seventh son of the emperor is done! Chu Yunxi, you are really ruthless! But, don't you want to implicate me in the Murong family's affairs, and I will not go back to Huzhou."

Chu Yunxi didn't speak after hearing this, the sound outside stopped, the torches were lit, but there was silence.Chu Yunxi looked at him for a long time before opening his mouth: "Aren't you afraid that the eldest princess will settle accounts with you?"

"Even if I didn't save the prince, the eldest princess should seek Mrs. Hua for her revenge, and the beneficiary is also King Wu. Even if she finds me, what can I do? 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, look at her father and brother , a lord of China, a prince of China, what about now? Two coffins and two corpses, and two dead ghosts added to the underworld." Li Mo said indifferently, glanced at Chu Yunxi, and said with a half-smile He added: "Aren't you afraid that the eldest princess will settle accounts with you?"

Chu Yunxi gave him a complicated look, expressionless and didn't say any more, just sighed softly: "Forget it, if you don't return, then don't return."

Li Mo didn't think about the meaning of stopping here, and continued: "Yunxi, don't be sympathetic and indifferent, in fact, you are the most ruthless in your bones. Just make a move, be ruthless and decisive!"

Chu Yunxi remained silent, as if he didn't hear Li Mo's words, and approached the two coffins.The coffin was placed on a high platform with nine steps on all sides, which was a bit higher than Chu Yunxi's. If you didn't go up to the steps of the high platform, you couldn't see the inside of the coffin.Chu Yunxi stood under the high platform, looking up at the luster of the golden nanmu, watching the auspicious clouds painted on the coffin and the wonderful and vivid fairy leading the way.

In fact, according to Chinese rules, after the death of the emperor, his body should be collected by the successor to the throne.But after the crown prince passed away, King Wu did not return to the palace.But now that the war is chaotic and there are many conflicts among various forces, there must be someone who will take charge of the overall situation, and Chu Yunxi can't help but become this person.The weather in July was still hot. The emperor died nine days after his body was buried, and the prince's body was sent back after a long journey. Although the body had been processed, it still stinks and could not be released again.That's why Chu Yunxi forcefully buried the emperor and prince.Then, in these two days, the hostile prime minister Qin was taken into custody, and the threatening Murong family, the relatives of the seventh son of the emperor, were removed one after another.

"Chu Yunxi, you help the Huangfu's family like this, so what if the eldest princess wants to kill you that day?" Li Mo asked maliciously as Chu Yunxi stared blankly at the prince's slightly smaller coffin.

"Li Mo, if you're smart, you should know, don't provoke me." Chu Yunxi said calmly without looking back.

"Can you still kill me?" Li Mo was not afraid at all, thinking of the people around outside, his face was still not very good, but his tone was normal.

"I really can't kill you now. First, you have a lot of troops in your hands. If you kill you, your generals will be difficult to restrain. Instead, you will give me an excuse to rebel. Second, you know my identity. The last time Mrs. Yi Ronghua in Huizhou has drawn rumors, If you continue to spread the word, something will happen; third, you haven’t reached the point where I have to kill you.” After Chu Yunxi finished speaking, she turned to look at Li Molue’s proud face, but continued, “But you have to know, even if there is someone There are thousands of reasons not to kill you, but to a dying person, nothing matters."

Li Mo was stunned when he heard this, and then remembered that the person in front of him had a strange poison in his body, and his life was coming to an end.He looked carefully at Chu Yunxi's expression, and then remembered that she often suffered from headaches, sweating and coughing, and felt a little empty in his heart.

In fact, Li Mo has never seen Chu Yunxi in front of him as a woman. He used to think that Chu Yunxi, the number one student in high school, was capable and a strange woman, but later found out that she was just lucky. When he thought she was just lucky, She also reached a position that he could not achieve after years of planning by luck.From champion to son-in-law to Lord Marquis, from civil servant to general, now she is only one step away from the throne, but she stopped. This person who has no understanding of the world and the ethics of the monarch and ministers has become a loyal minister.In his opinion, Chu Yunxi acted strangely and mysteriously, and he was always unable to figure it out. He even felt that the person in front of him might be two people, or people with contradictory personalities.If this person is not a good person, he is not a villain either.If it is said that she loves fame, wealth and power, she does not flaunt it for personal gain.If we say that she is compassionate and gentle, but when she strikes, she is fierce and frightening.Li Mo doesn't think that he is a stupid person. He can still guess a thing or two about the emperor's mind, but he can't figure out Chu Yunxi's mind. Although he has known her for several years, he seems to be close and knows many things about her, but carefully Thinking about it, there was nothing in his mind. He tried to pull Chu Yunxi away, but he never succeeded.He told himself, let Chu Yunxi do whatever she wants, don't try to stop and fight, but the interests come first, he not only forgot and did not take precautions against her, if she really wanted to kill tonight, he would not be able to escape .Chu Yunxi was determined to let King Wu succeed him, so he still thinks about what he should do after King Wu succeeds.

Li Mo thinks that he has always been cautious, taking one step and thinking three steps, so Chu Yunxi seems to him to be far-sighted, step by step, and he has come to his current position in the three-way fight between Mrs. Hua, the eldest princess and the emperor. After all the tricks and schemes of those three parties, she was carelessly poisoned in the medical skills she was proud of, and she died soon. It was really a trick of fate.

"Hey, what are you thinking about? So engrossed?" Chu Yunxi yelled several times before Li Mo came back to his senses.

"Yunxi, what's the matter?" Li Mo asked puzzled, his tone returned to the previous closeness and gentleness.

Chu Yunxi glanced at him sideways, ignoring why this man suddenly changed his attitude, she was still looking at the coffin, the only thing she was worried about now was the emperor's body.The emperor said that he died of grief yesterday, but in fact he died on the same day as the crown prince. Although she asked someone to take ice cubes to freeze, it must not be hidden from the eyes of the eldest princess. When she thought that the eldest princess would come back in three days, her Her heart was beating violently. Her heart had never been disturbed when she started to kill the king, but now she became flustered.She knows that the hatred of killing her father is irreconcilable, but she doesn't regret it. The only thing she worries about is the woman who lost her father and brother in one fell swoop. She is afraid of seeing the tears in that woman's eyes.

"Tell me, what will the eldest princess do if she sees the emperor's corpse?" Chu Yunxi murmured.

"I don't know." Li Mo replied directly, but his eyes glanced at Chu Yunxi secretly. Seeing that her face showed a little anxiety, her eyes flickered for a while, and suddenly remembered the relationship between Chu Yunxi and the eldest princess. When the situation came, I was startled, and suddenly realized.

"If you don't want to be buried tomorrow, it will save trouble when King Wu comes back and let him succeed directly." Li Mo said it naturally and sincerely, but he had already made another plan in his heart.

"Isn't that more like 'There is no silver 300 taels here'?" Chu Yunxi disliked Li Mo's perfunctory, and ignored him, just paced back and forth around the emperor's coffin, and finally went back and sat on the futon in a daze.

Seeing that she was upset, Li Mo couldn't stop gloating in his heart. Taking advantage of her inattention, he walked around to the window and looked outside the funeral hall through the window. Outside, there was a post at every three steps, and a whistle at every five steps. The torches lit up everywhere , He identified those soldiers who would be a thousand-man cattle guard army composed of Chu Yunxi's forbidden army and Huzhou soldiers, and he was relieved, listening to Chu Yunxi muttering "Elder Princess" and "Elder Princess" in the hall. 'Elder Princess', he was in a good mood and glanced at the crape myrtle blooming like fire in the distance, but suddenly saw a blurry figure standing under the tree, also looking towards this side, he trembled in fright, and stepped back again and again took several steps.

"What's wrong?" Chu Yunxi asked a little annoyed when he heard the movement.

Li Mo looked back at Chu Yunxi in surprise, and stammered, "Elder...Elder Princess..."