Married Thrice to Salted Fish

Xi Rong had a secret meeting with Xi Xia's envoy at the mansion, and the Xi mansion was naturally heavily guarded, but it was others who were on guard, not the emperor, let alone his younger brother who had been protecting and pampering him all his life.

He knew, Xiao Jie heard it all.

Having been together for many years, the other party is like another self. He is very familiar with every expression and every movement of Xiao Jie, but he has never seen Xiao Jie show such an expression when he is with him——panic, stunned, shivering Trembling, disappointed and scared.

There was a sharp pain in Xi Rong's heart, but her voice was soft: "Your Majesty."

Xiao Jie froze on the spot, as if looking at a cruel and vicious stranger.

Xi Rong called again: "Ah Jie."

Xiao Jie woke up like a dream, and the circles of his eyes were red all of a sudden: "Ah, Arong, you... you betrayed, betrayed..."

Before the word "country" was spoken, Xi Rong interrupted Xiao Jie: "Ah Jie, you misunderstood me."

"I heard it all! I heard it all!" Xiao Jie's tears welled up in his eyes, "That man wants to do business with you, he wants you to harm General Gu, you agree!"

Xi Rong took two steps forward, wanting to hug Xiao Jie into her arms, comforting him like she was when she was a child.Xiao Jie has a soft personality, without the care of his biological mother and aunt, and did not please the late emperor, he suffered a lot of grievances in the sinister palace since he was a child.It is the elder brother's duty to make the younger brother happy.No matter how many times Xiao Jie cried, how many times he comforted him.But this time, Xiao Jie didn't throw himself into his arms as usual, but retreated like a frightened kitten, "You, don't come here..."

Xi Rong stopped his steps and said: "Ah Jie, I told you that Lin Qingyu and Gu Fuzhou will not tolerate me being by your side to assist you. Once Gu Fuzhou returns to Beijing, Lin Qingyu will attack me. Do you understand?"

Xiao Jie choked up and said: "Then you can't collude with the enemy and betray the country! I'm a bit stupid, but I'm also a descendant of the Xiao family. General Gu is fighting for Dayu, you can't harm him at this time—I, I'm going to tell Empress Dowager and Doctor Lin!"

Xi Rong scolded, "Stop."

Xiao Jie had never been so vicious by Xi Rong before, he was wronged and angry at the same time, crying like pear blossoms with rain, very pitiful.

Xi Rong said rationally, "The envoy from Xixia came to find me, and wanted to use Gu Fuzhou's life to end the war between the two countries. I disagree, let the envoy go back and tell the Xixia army division to die as soon as possible, or kill him directly? No matter what Doing so will only make Xixia strengthen his guard against Dayu."

Xiao Jie couldn't change his mind, but he understood one thing: Xi Rong didn't really agree to Xi Xia. "what do you mean……"

Xi Rong's face paled, and he said, "Ah Jie, think about it carefully. Now that I have agreed to Xixia's 'peace negotiation', will they feel that they have a chance of winning and thus take the battle of Yongliang lightly?"

"Then you pretended to agree—you lied to them?"

Seeing that Xiao Jie looked at him almost the same as usual, Xi Rong breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Do you still remember the story of Huang Gai's false surrender that I told you when I was young. He can feign surrender, and we can also feign peace. Don't worry, I won't Will let myself, let alone you, be charged with treason."

"So it's like this!" Xiao Jie was coaxed by Xi Rong in a few words, and wiped his tears with the back of his hand and said, "You should have said earlier, I misunderstood you."

Xi Rong grabbed Xiao Jie's hand and wiped his tears with his sleeve: "It's good to clear up the misunderstanding. Alright, don't stand still, come in."

The two entered the study, and Xi Rong ordered someone to fetch water to clean the emperor's face.Xi Rong asked Xiao Jie why he left the palace suddenly, and Xiao Jie told him about his conversation with Lin Qingyu.

"A Rong, do we have to fight with Doctor Lin and the others?" Xiao Jie asked naively, "I don't want to harm them, I think it's good now, and it will be fine if it continues like this."

Xi Rong patted Xiao Jie's head, and said, "Let's wait for Gu Fuzhou to defeat Xixia."

"Okay." Xiao Jie saw the wet handwriting on the table and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Xi Rong didn't hide it from him: "Gu Fuzhou has been consuming Xixia's grain and grass in the northwest for more than a month, and the two sides have become a pair of consumption. So Xixia wants to know Dayu's grain transportation route."

Xiao Jie asked, "Are they going to rob us of our food and grass?"

Xi Rong nodded: "It should be."

"Oh!" Xiao Jie suddenly became excited, "Then can we tell them a wrong route, and then lay an ambush there in advance, killing them by surprise!"

Xi Rong was a little surprised, and said with a smile, "Ah Jie has become smarter."

Xiao Jie laughed and said: "You are the only one in this world who can praise me for being smart. We have been together for so long, I should have learned something."

Xi Rong opened the map from Guizhou to Yongliang: "Ah Jie thinks, where is the best place to plant an ambush?"

Xiao Jie thought about it seriously for a long time, then pointed to one of them and said: "Here, the farthest from the real grain road is the narrow path between the canyons. Once the enemy troops enter, they cannot retreat!"

Xi Rong hesitated for a moment, then said with a smile, "Just do as Ah Jie said."

Xiao Jie finally made a contribution for Dayu, feeling very happy in his heart. "By the way, I think we should tell the Queen Mother and Imperial Physician Lin about this. They are also very concerned about the situation in the Northwest."

"No need." Xi Rong stopped laughing, "They don't need to know."

Xiao Jie hesitated: "But..."

Xi Rong had a serious face: "Ah Jie, you have to remember that Lin Qingyu wants my life, and it is not a good thing to let him know too much. Any thing may be his blade to take my life."

Xiao Jie heard it in a daze.Although Xi Rong kept saying that Lin Qingyu was going to harm them, he always felt that Lin Qingyu would not.Lin Qingyu looks as good-looking as a fairy, but is his heart really so vicious?

Although Xiao Jie finally reconciled with Xi Rong, he was really scared during the process.Xi Rong was afraid that he would have lingering fears, so he specially found a famous opera troupe in the capital to enter the palace.Xiao Jie loves to watch operas, and when he is in the mood, he will sit in front of the stage for a whole day.

The stage of the imperial palace is set up in the peony garden.The Peony Court is not far from Ci'an Palace, it was used to be convenient for the Empress Dowager to listen to operas, but now it has become a place that disturbs the Empress Dowager's peace.

The Empress Dowager was discussing with Lin Qingyu about taxes in Jiangnan, when the melodious tunes were heard from afar, the Empress Dowager was displeased, and asked, "Who is listening to the opera in Peony Garden?"

Lin Qingyu said: "There is no one in the emperor's harem, and all the concubines live in Jinyang Garden. Who else do you think?"

The Empress Dowager gathered together her eyebrows and said slowly: "The emperor is a leisurely person."

"This is a good thing." Lin Qingyu said calmly, "It is better for a person like the emperor to do nothing, at least not to cause trouble to others."

"Having said that, the northwest is still at war after all. Even if the emperor doesn't care about the government, he should at least make a show so as not to let the officials speak up." After thinking about it, the Queen Mother still asked someone to invite Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie didn't keep the Queen Mother waiting, and rushed over almost immediately.After being beaten by the Queen Mother, Xiao Jie finally realized what he had done.He didn't care about Lin Qingyu's presence, and said: "I know I was wrong, I didn't think so much... I'm sorry mother, I will never listen to dramas again."

The emperor admitted his mistake so sincerely that the empress dowager couldn't laugh or cry: "It's not that the emperor can't listen to the opera, it depends on the time. When Dayu puts down the chaos in the northwest, the Ai family also wants to listen to the opera."

Xiao Jie nodded: "I understand, thank you for your mother's teaching. When the world is peaceful, I will invite my mother to listen to the opera with my sixth brother."

Xiao Jie's appearance was younger than his actual age, and he nodded very cutely.Although the Empress Dowager was negligent towards this bastard in the past, she did not have any malicious intentions, and it is almost enough to hit this point.It just so happened that it was time for dinner, so the Empress Dowager asked Xiao Jie to stay for dinner. "Qingyu, you too."

Lin Qingyu said: "My minister had dinner at Ci'an Palace yesterday."

The queen mother smiled and said: "If you stay with Li'er, he can always eat more."

During the banquet, Xiao Jie always had a hesitant expression.The Queen Mother asked him if he had anything to say, and he said decisively no.After dinner, Xiao Jie went back to Qinzheng Hall.

The queen mother couldn't help but said: "The emperor is not hopeless. If he is not the king of a country, he can be regarded as a child with a pure heart."

Lin Qingyu let out a "huh".

"If the emperor can get away from Xi Rong, he will give more guidance, not to mention being a wise king, at least he won't be at the mercy of others."

Lin Qingyu laughed lightly: "Unfortunately, he can't leave."

"You are more certain about what you said." The Queen Mother said, "Brothers with the same father and the same mother will turn against each other for their own self-interest, let alone them. The Ai family has been in the palace for so many years and has seen everything. The emperor was young. You can't be favored, that's why you rely on Xi Rong so much. If you find him a dignified, elegant, considerate queen, so that his feelings can be trusted, maybe you won't value Xi Rong so much." The more the Queen Mother thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case. It's a way, "The emperor has already reached his age, and now that the first emperor's filial piety period has passed, it is a good time to establish a concubine for him."

The queen mother thought that Lin Qingyu would agree with her, but unexpectedly Lin Qingyu didn't respond.The Queen Mother couldn't help asking: "Qing Yu, what do you think?"

Lin Qingyu said: "The empress dowager forgives the crime, but I have no interest in using marriage to imprison others."

The queen mother was slightly taken aback, and her face became a little colder. "Forget it." She said uninterestedly, "Then let's see."

It was night, and Xi Rong personally served Xiao Jie to bed.Before going to bed, both of them will talk about themselves, which is a habit they have had since childhood.Xi Rong asked Xiao Jie which plays he had watched today, Xiao Jie looked disappointed, and said, "I don't want to watch plays in the palace anymore."

Xi Rong asked, "Why?"

Xiao Jie told Xi Rong what happened today: "The empress mother is right. The soldiers of the Northwest are fighting bloody battles. It's fine if I can't help you. How can you enjoy yourself luxuriously in the palace?"

What Xi Rong cared about was not this: "You are having dinner with the Queen Mother, Lin Qingyu?"

"There is also the sixth younger brother." Xiao Jie said whatever was on his mind, "The sixth younger brother is still the same, he doesn't respond to anything, he just smiles at Imperial Physician Lin..."

Xi Rong interrupted him: "Did you mention the Liangdao ambush to them?"

Xiao Jie was stunned for a moment, his eyes were a little guilty: "No."

No change on Xiao Jie's face could hide from Xi Rong's eyes: "Do you still want to tell them?"

"I... After all, I didn't say anything in the end, so you are satisfied." Xiao Jie covered his head with a quilt, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm going to sleep, you can step back."

Xi Rong half-closed his eyes: "The slave will leave."

As soon as Xi Rong called himself a "slave", Xiao Jie knew he was angry.But he really didn't know what to do, why Xi Rong and Lin Qingyu had to fight to the death, when he was not enthroned, they were still fine.

Xiao Jie fell asleep full of worries.After an unknown amount of time, he was awakened by the sound of "Emperor", and when he opened his eyes, he saw the eunuch who was serving him personally, Xiao Xuanzi.

There was a rush of footsteps outside, and Xiao Jie suddenly lost sleepiness and asked, "What happened?"

Xiao Xuanzi panicked and said: "Your Majesty, there are assassins in the palace, Mr. Xi, he, he..."

Xiao Jie grabbed Xiao Xuanzi's shoulder: "What happened to him?"

"Eunuch Xi was seriously injured and left with a lot of blood... he is currently in the side hall..."

Xiao Jie rolled and climbed out of the bed, and ran all the way to the side hall with bare feet.The imperial guards have already been dispatched, and the palace is completely surrounded.Xi Rong had already been carried to the bed, and there was a shocking knife wound on the left abdomen, and blood kept gushing from the wound.Because after the blood loss, the color on Xi Rong's face was gone, and he was in a miserable defeat, but his mind was still clear.

When Xiao Jie saw him, he cried: "Where is the imperial physician? Call the imperial physician quickly!"

Xiao Xuanzi said: "I have already sent someone to call, the imperial doctor should still be on the way."

Xi Rong grabbed Xiao Jie's hand, breathing weakly: "Your Majesty, this slave is fine, don't worry."

"How come..." Xiao Jie hugged Xi Rong, on the verge of collapse, "How could there be an assassin in the palace, why would someone want to kill you!"

Xi Rong showed a strange smile: "Who else are assassins who can be so unscrupulous in the palace except them."

Xiao Jie cried out of breath: "Yes, who is it?"

Xi Rong groaned in pain.Xiao Xuanzi hurriedly said: "Eunuch Xi should be talking about people from Tianji Camp."

Xiao Jie shed tears in a daze: "Why?"

Xiao Xuanzi said: "My servant remembers that the token of Tianji Camp is in the hands of Imperial Physician Lin."

"...Doctor Lin?"

Xi Rong closed his eyes, and suddenly exerted strength in his hands: "So, you still want to get close to Lin Qingyu, and tell him everything?"

Xiao Jie cried and shook his head: "I don't want it, I won't tell the Queen Mother and Lin Qingyu anymore, I won't say anything, I just want you to be well... A Rong, don't die, I won't let you die!"

Xi Rong's injury looked scary, but it didn't hurt the vitals, and his life was safe, but he was also seriously injured due to excessive blood loss, so he had to rest for a while.

There are assassins in the emperor's bedroom, this is a top priority.Wu Zhan didn't dare to be negligent in the slightest, and led the imperial guards to search the palace overnight, but couldn't find any clues.When Lin Qingyu heard about this, he asked Wu Zhan and the imperial physician who treated Xi Rong that night, and they understood everything.

"You don't have to worry about this anymore." Lin Qingyu said, "Assassins can't be caught."

Wu Zhan said: "Ah? Why."

"Assassins have the ability to come and go without a trace in the palace, how can they not even kill a eunuch. This kind of trick full of loopholes can only deceive the emperor who cares but is chaotic."

Wu Zhan still didn't quite understand: "Doctor Lin means..."

Lin Qingyu said: "Xi Rong just wants to grab the emperor's heart and make the emperor stand by him forever."

Wu Zhan hissed: "It turns out that this is a bitter trick. But it's really cruel, and I can actually attack myself."

Lin Qingyu smiled suddenly: "Indeed."

Xi Rong's actions reminded him of Gu Fuzhou.Back then, in order to return to the capital from the northwest, and to return to his side, Gu Fuzhou did not hesitate to inflict the poison of spiders.On this point, Gu Fuzhou is also a ruthless person.

So this time, he will definitely come back with all his might.

The author has something to say: The tenacious Er Zhuang lived another day.I'll give you another three days, no more!

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then--

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