Don't go back to hometown

Emperor Wen Qing, who was paralyzed in bed, said that he would make Li Yi the emperor after getting rid of the Jiang family.

Li Yi chuckled after hearing this: "Father, it doesn't matter what you say now, so don't be brave."

Emperor Wenqing was stunned, and his face turned livid: "You——presumptuous! Cough cough..."

He suddenly coughed violently, but Li Yi stood by the bed and looked at him indifferently, and no palace servant came in to serve tea and water outside the door, not even the most trusted eunuch in charge of Emperor Wenqing.

Emperor Wenqing gradually realized something, and calmed down instead. He looked at Li Yi with cold eyes: "I never thought... I thought I was in control of everything, but I became a cicada. The sixth child became a praying mantis, and the third child wanted to be a yellow dragon." But I don’t know that there’s you, the bird hunter, behind me.”

"I underestimated you."

Li Yi sneered: "Father, why be polite, you never looked at me before, did you?"

Emperor Wenqing was stunned, and there was no embarrassment on his face, but he just looked at Li Yi seriously.

Li Yidao: "Because my mother is the evidence of other people's calculations among you, and I am your stain, so you don't care about the life and death of my mother and me. Later, when someone cared about me, you regarded me as an unfilial son who eats inside and outside , isn't it?"

Emperor Wenqing had to admit that he didn't want to see Li Yi's mother and son from the beginning, so his wife, concubine and children played against the wind and often bullied their mother and son.

When Empress Dowager Jiang wanted to take Li Yi under her care, Emperor Wen Qing sent him there without hesitation-he was not the only child, so what if he sent him to be the little emperor's companion?

Later, seeing that Li Yi was like a family with the little emperor and the Empress Dowager Jiang, while Emperor Wenqing scoffed at it, he really thought that Li Yi was eating inside and outside, and didn't know what was good or bad.

Later, the little emperor and the Empress Dowager Jiang passed away. Emperor Wenqing didn't know how much Li Yi knew about the inside story, but the son who had been with the two of them was completely disgusted by him and left behind.

It wasn't until officials from the Ministry of Rites reminded him that it was time to crown Li Yi as king that Emperor Wenqing realized how old his son was.

Mediocrity and taciturnity are the only impressions Emperor Wenqing had of Li Yi after he was crowned, so he couldn't even decide on a title for Li Yi.

In the end, he just ticked off the most inconspicuous and mediocre word "Yi" among the candidates presented by the Ministry of Rites.

It was only now that I realized that it was not an easy task for this kid to grow up smoothly after experiencing ups and downs since he was a child, and it was no coincidence that he was able to handle the disaster relief errand well.

"Did you inflict this poison?" Emperor Wenqing said in a calm tone, simply asking for proof.

Li Yi shook his head: "It seems that Father still doesn't understand my brothers."

He sat on the edge of the bed with his robe lifted, and looked down at Emperor Wen Qing: "You expected that the sixth brother would not succeed even if he broke the boat to force the palace, and you also expected that after the third brother stopped the sixth brother, he would force you to set up a reserve, so you made one early in the morning. The imperial edict, together with the jade seal, was handed over to Mr. Fang, did you guess right?"

"You—" Emperor Wenqing suddenly widened his eyes and looked at him in horror.

Li Yi: "You don't like the nature of the third brother and the sixth brother, and you don't worry about passing them on, so you finally chose your first son. After all, although he made mistakes, he was also cultivated by you personally." Prince Chu, although he has no great talent, he has a loyal temperament, and with the assistance of Master Fang and Xu Yushi and others, even if he cannot rejuvenate the country, he can still maintain it, not to mention he has an intelligent son, right?"

"As for my starling and I, they are not among your favorite candidates at all. It's just that my starling is a little better than me. Although he is reckless and martial, he can listen to advice, unlike me who is 'worthless'." Li Yi laughed lightly at himself. , "So if the big brother has something good or bad, the starling is your candidate for confessing to Mr. Fang, right?"

Every time Li Yi guessed a word, the astonishment on Emperor Wenqing's face increased.

"It's a pity that I know your plan, but Mr. Shen and elder brother don't."

A mocking smile curled up on the corners of Li Yi's lips: "So Mr. Shen sneaked into the imperial study to steal the jade seal, and took away the fake you prepared in advance. But the elder brother believed it was true, and decided to give it a go, even at the risk of his mother's life. Let you die before the third brother and sixth brother force the palace, and then ascend the throne with the jade seal and the fake edict."

Emperor Wenqing stared round his eyes, and subconsciously clenched his fists: "Impossible! How dare the boss—"

However, he lost his confidence as he spoke, his eyes trembled uneasily, and he couldn't face the fact that his last trusted son wanted to put him to death.

"If the father doesn't believe it, you can call the eldest brother over to ask. Oh, it's not possible now, and now the eldest brother is in prison and locked up next to the third brother." Li Yi sneered.

Emperor Wenqing glared at him angrily: "So what? The boss can't do it, and there is the eighth boy. In short, it can't be you, an unfilial son who colluded with the remnants of the Jiang family!"

Li Yi's face darkened, but Emperor Wenqing thought he had poked his pain, and chattered endlessly: "Don't think I don't know, you must have recognized that kid from the Jiang family, but pretended not to know, and let him come to Beijing to give him Pray for credit, don’t you just want to take the opportunity to rehabilitate the Jiang family! I tell you, the Jiang family is a rebellious minister and traitor! There is more than a death sentence!”

He almost screamed, and beat the bed with his fists, his paralyzed body struggling like a dying fish.

Li Yi got up angrily: "The rebellious officials and thieves you are talking about fell from the sky last night when the private soldiers of the third brother and the sixth brother forcibly broke into the mansion of the hundred officials, and cooperated with the Gyeonggi Guards to rescue the family members of the hundred officials and protect the people of the city."

"It's not that the Jiang family is unfaithful, it's that you are unworthy."

Li Yi left this sentence, stopped looking at Emperor Wenqing's ferocious face, turned around and left the bedroom.

Outside the sleeping hall, Jiang Xianyu, Xie Cheng, Cheng Wang, Fang Zhizhou, Xu Yushi and others were all there.

Cheng Wang, Fang Zhizhou and Xu Yushi waited for Li Yi to come forward to preside over the overall situation, while Jiang Xianyu and Xie Cheng stayed to see if they could help.

Li Yi suppressed his anger, and said to King Cheng, "Myna, let's go in and have a look."

King Cheng paused, he didn't expect that he would let him see his father, he hesitated, and went in.

Fang Zhizhou watched his figure enter, and couldn't help calling Li Yi: "Your Highness, you—"

"Let the starlings choose by themselves." Li Yi interrupted him, looking calmly into the bedroom.

In just a moment, I heard Emperor Wen Qing's shout from inside: "Stop! Why are you running?!"

King Cheng ran out in a hurry and looked at Li Yi with embarrassment: "Damn, my father is really confused. How can I have the ability to sit in that position? Brother Ninth, you come."

Li Yi: "Where is the starling talking, everything depends on the meaning of the father."

King Cheng smiled honestly, and said: "It's just us brothers, don't be hypocritical. I don't know anything other than wielding knives and sticks. Now I just want to take my mother out of the palace and take my family to find a beautiful place. The local pension, the ninth brother will follow my wishes."

Cheng Wang's mother and concubine are not considered favored, but in the early years when his grandfather had not retired and returned to his hometown, he had some weight in the court, so their mother and son would not be bullied like Li Yi's mother and son. Low-key, not greedy for favor and power, so these years are barely smooth.

Li Yi is not close to King Cheng, he only remembers that this youngest brother has never bullied him, and sometimes he would help him secretly, there is always some affection.

So Li Yi slightly raised the corners of his lips, and said to Cheng Wang: "Myna will surely be successful."

Cheng Wang followed with a smile: "With your words, it will be done!"

Jiang Xianyu found it inconceivable that a major event related to the fate and the country had been agreed in a few words.

Li Yi, Xie Cheng, Fang Zhizhou, Xu Yushi and others remained calm, and turned to discuss how to stabilize the court and appease the people.King Cheng was also ordered in the face of danger to rectify the palace ban and eliminate the remaining evils.

A little eunuch came over with a medicine bowl, and seeing the prince and courtiers gathered outside the door of the bedroom, he hesitated and dared not go forward.

Seeing this, Jiang Xianyu stretched out his hand to him: "Give it to me."

The little eunuch paused and looked at Li Yi.

Li Yi noticed Jiang Xianyu's actions, stopped talking and looked at him.

"I want to go in and have a few words with him." Jiang Xianyu said.

Li Yi nodded, and the little eunuch handed over the tray containing the medicine bowl to Jiang Xianyu.

Jiang Xianyu entered with a medicine bowl and came to Emperor Wenqing's bedside.

Emperor Wen Qing was lying on the bed panting heavily, when he heard footsteps, he suddenly turned his head and looked over, seeing him, his eyes widened immediately.

"What are you doing here?! Who told you to come in?!" He hammered the bed into a rage, but actually looked stern, looking at the medicine bowl in Jiang Xianyu's hand in horror.

"Don't worry, it's not poison." Jiang Xianyu put the tray on the bedside and sat on the small stool beside the bed.

Emperor Wenqing couldn't listen, and shouted outside the door: "Where's Zhang Dehai?! Call him!"

Zhang Dehai was the chief eunuch most trusted by Emperor Wenqing.

Jiang Xianyu said: "Eunuch Zhang is busy rectifying the internal affairs, so he has no free time now."

"Bastard! How dare he betray me!"

Looking at his ferocious face, Jiang Xianyu frowned slightly, and explained kindly: "Eunuch Zhang is checking the source of the poison."

But Emperor Wen Qing didn't believe it, who can't investigate the source of the poison?Why did Zhang Dehai have to go?He was paralyzed in bed, but Zhang Dehai didn't serve him by his side, which was no different from betrayal to him.

Looking at his expression, Jiang Xianyu knew that he didn't believe it, and couldn't help but chuckled sarcasticly: "Do you regret this fate?"

Emperor Wenqing was stunned for a moment, and then looked at him with vigilance: "What do you want to say? Or do you want to take the opportunity to hear a false confession from me?"

Jiang Xianyu smiled sarcastically: "That's right, what's the use of your repentance? I can't bring back my grandfather and the unjustly dead in Hidden Sword Villa."

Emperor Wenqing snorted coldly, "I didn't kill them all, but I did my utmost benevolence."

"Oh?" Jiang Xianyu almost laughed angrily, "It's rare to see such a stubborn old man like you."

"Even if you are not poisoned today and your body is still healthy, you will not be able to touch our Jiang family."

Unless Emperor Wenqing planned to send troops to encircle and suppress the Jiang family regardless.

Jiang Xianyu looked at him deeply: "Back then, you were able to plot against my grandfather only because he was willing to sacrifice himself to protect the Jiang family and Cangjian Villa. Otherwise, with your clumsy means, how could you do anything to my grandfather?"

Emperor Wenqing was stunned, and quickly recalled the events of the year in his mind.From the time they set up a scheme to frame Jiang Weifeng, to arresting Jiang Weifeng and bringing him to justice, and then executing Jiang Weifeng and his close subordinates... everything went very smoothly, except for some fish that slipped through the net and could not be found for a long time. .

It turns out... It turns out that everything is Jiang Weifeng's "self-inflicted trap", deliberately seeking a way out for the Jiang family.

Jiang Weifeng has mentioned several times that he wants to retire from his old age and return to his hometown. Neither he nor his father believed that he was willing to delegate power.

If they're really wrong...

Emperor Wen Qing was silent for a long time, so long that Jiang Xianyu thought that he would not speak again, so he said slowly: "Back then, Emperor Father also used his own life as a bargaining chip to pave the way for me."

Jiang Weifeng poisoned and murdered Emperor Mingren, not because Emperor Wenqing framed Jiang Weifeng for the throne, but Emperor Mingren did it to himself in order to get rid of the Jiang family.

Jiang Xianyu didn't expect that everything was written by Emperor Mingren, but he didn't agree with Emperor Wenqing's statement in his heart: the emperor broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people, and Emperor Mingren could entrap innocent courtiers just to pave the way for his son. How can there be such a reason?

After hearing what Emperor Wenqing said later, Jiang Xianyu was instantly furious.

"Li Hao was congenitally deficient, and he was ill for a long time. It was also the fault of his father. From the very beginning...he had no intention of making Jiang Yingyue pregnant."

"Tianxin Mansion has great power, and Jiang Weifeng is a deadhead. Sometimes he even dares to disobey his father's orders, but he is still very popular in the hearts of the people. How can he not be afraid of his father?"

"Combined with the Tai Zu Yuling that 'the empress comes from Jiang Yan and Shen, the son can be the new emperor', the Jiang, Yan, and Shen families can be said to have grasped the lifeblood of the royal family. How can it be pleasant to be controlled by others?"

"At that time, the three families of Jiang Yan and Shen clearly had no daughters to grow up for more than ten years, but Jiang Weifeng secretly raised two daughters, so that the father was forced to marry the daughter of the Jiang family under the imperial order of the Tai Zu. Let Jiang Weifeng's reputation in the court be mentioned again and again—"

"fart!"

Jiang Xianyu got up angrily: "Converting black and white is nonsense! My grandfather raised his daughter and it's none of your Li family's business? That old bastard Li Zhen has the nerve to marry my aunt when he's over half a century old, and even beat him up the other way. Your Li family is really shameless." model!"

"Back then, Jiang Yan and Shen's family fought for the ancestors, throwing their heads and spilling blood, but in the end they asked to be disarmed and returned to the fields. Did they ever covet the slightest bit of power?"

"It was Tai Zu who did everything possible to keep people behind. It was your Li family who tied Jiang Yan and Shen's family to the dragon chair, and left behind that stupid imperial order to forcibly bind the marriage of the three daughters. In order for the three families to work for you from generation to generation!"

"When you were members of the Li family, you made big promises at any cost, but when you used them up, you blamed the other party for making too much profit, so you crossed the river and demolished the bridge, revenged you, killed Zhongliang, betrayed your trust, and was extremely shameless!"

Jiang Xianyu's words were sonorous, scolding Emperor Wenqing speechless, his face flushed and he stared at him.

Jiang Xianyu was trembling with anger, his chest heaved violently, and he clenched his fists with great difficulty to resist the urge to kill Emperor Wen Qing.

"You should be thankful that Li Yi didn't inherit the shamelessness of you and Li Zhen, otherwise the world will change their surname sooner or later."

"Because your Li family is not worthy at all!"

Unworthy of the allegiance of a good minister, the support of all people, and the sitting in the world.

Jiang Xianyu turned around and strode away, leaving Emperor Wenqing paralyzed on the bed coughing violently, his voices becoming more and more shrill.

Outside the dormitory, Xie Cheng and others had heard the quarrel inside, seeing Jiang Xianyu coming out, Xie Cheng rushed to meet him and held his hand.He nodded towards Li Yi, and took Jiang Xianyu away first.

Fang Zhizhou couldn't bear it after hearing the heart-piercing cough, so he went in and poured Emperor Wen Qing a glass of warm water.

Emperor Wenqing coughed for a long time before recovering, his flushed face hadn't subsided yet, but his demeanor was ashen, as if he was at the end of his battle.

"Zhizhou..." Emperor Wen Qing's voice was terribly hoarse due to the severe cough, "You also think I'm unworthy, so you followed Lao Jiu, right?"

Fang Zhizhou stood by the bed with downcast eyes, silent.

Emperor Wenqing asked again: "Back then, someone wanted to enter the palace and take away the mother and son of the Empress Dowager Jiang. Was it you?"

Fang Zhizhou remained silent, and it took a long time before he spoke: "Qing Yao... is my lost daughter."

Emperor Wen Qing's eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at Fang Zhizhou in disbelief.

"So, you really don't deserve it."

Not worthy of my daughter, nor worthy of my loyalty.

Li Yi, who was about to enter the door, suddenly heard Fang Zhizhou's two words, and was stunned on the spot.He always thought that Fang Zhizhou took refuge in him because he admired his talent and character, but he never knew that his biological mother was actually Fang Zhizhou's daughter!

So... Fang Zhizhou turned out to be his grandfather?

"Ninth brother!"

At this moment, King Cheng hurried in, with an anxious expression on his face: "My niece Mingya is missing!"