Destiny of crossing

It turned out that the emperor really wasn't so easy to deceive the past, but he didn't understand why it took so long to move out now, what was the purpose?

Xie Xuan and I froze there, secretly trying to figure out the emperor's intentions.

Xie Xuan looked innocent: "Your Majesty, I don't understand what you are talking about?"

The emperor lowered his face: "Xie Xuan, if I want to punish you, I don't have to wait until now. There are only the three of us here today. The nature of your actions depends on whether you are willing to tell the truth."

The emperor smiled: "Really! Wu Qingcheng?"

Although I had thought for a long time that the emperor knew my identity, but now I was found out, I am still quite surprised. I think I must have an unnatural expression at the moment.

The emperor looked at me playfully, as if he was watching my embarrassment and panic after being exposed.

The atmosphere was a little delicate for a while.

"Pei Ran, let's talk about it first, tell me who you are, why did you disguise yourself as a woman and sneak into the palace, how did you become Wei Dongyan's adopted daughter, and you still have the frost of the twelfth lunar month?" Kind and amiable, like a villain who lures children with candy: "I know you are not a villain, so as long as you tell me everything, I will never do anything to you."

I was tempted, and his words can be regarded as a reassurance.

I looked at Xie Xuan, Xie Xuan lowered his eyes, and nodded resignedly.

Now, if we don’t say that we might die, there is still a chance of life if we say it, not to mention that we haven’t done anything outrageous, it’s okay to say it, not to mention the emperor’s guarantee first, it’s said that you are not joking, and I’m not afraid of him going back on what he says .

So I poured out everything from the beginning to the end, without revealing a single drop. The emperor didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, and Xie Xuan explained a few words when the emperor frowned, in order to get the emperor's understanding.

The emperor pondered for a moment, then said: "Xie Xuan, based on his description, who do you think can make Wei Dongyan obey him, recognize this adopted daughter of unknown origin, and send her into the palace?"

"Report to the emperor, I have also investigated this matter, I suspect..."

"Huan Chong."

The two spoke in unison, and their expressions were a little stern.

The emperor said: "As expected, Huan Chong is still restless."

Xie Xuan frowned and said: "But I can't figure out some things. With his mind, it is impossible not to check Feiyi's details. It stands to reason that it is not difficult to find out that Feiyi is actually a man. Just arrest a person from Fengming Pavilion and torture him for interrogation, but it is really illogical for him to use a man to pretend to be Wei Dongyan's adopted daughter."

"What Aiqing said is also what I doubt. Huan Chong has always been shrewd, and it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake. Based on his and Wei Dongyan's experience, no matter how beautiful the dance is, it is impossible not to find the flaw. So I think, Huan Chong Either Chong was really negligent, or..." The emperor's eyes sharpened: "You are lying."

Xie Xuan clasped his fists: "Everything I said is true, I hope the emperor will check it out."

The emperor took a deep look at Xie Xuan, as if he wanted to see something from it: "How can I trust you?"

If I were the usual me, I might have answered a sentence, believe it or not, and then walked away, but after all, this is not the time to be arrogant, and it’s fine for me to be punished alone. What to do, now on the premise of not losing self-esteem, he can only bear the word.

I took a few steps forward, strutting my head high, and said righteously: "Your Majesty, all of this is caused by me, and I am willing to take full responsibility. However, from the beginning to the end, I have never done anything to harm the interests of others, and I have never I don't want to embarrass the emperor, I know that you may not believe my words, of course you have no reason to believe me, after all, before this, we have never met, let alone build trust, but Xie Xuan, serving the master for many years, the emperor must be better than me Clearly, whether his words are credible, the emperor can ponder carefully before making a decision.

Of course, if you really want to punish someone, then you can punish me, although I don't think I made any unforgivable mistakes. "

The emperor's eyes lit up: "Yelling, still talking hard? But, since you have voluntarily pleaded guilty, how can I waste your painstaking efforts? Then..."

"No, Your Majesty," Xie Xuan hurriedly interrupted: "Your Majesty, punish me if you want, Ran'er really can't take it anymore, the twenty sticks almost took half of his life last time, and it's not easy yet." !"

"Xie Xuan, do you think that if you say these things, I will soften my heart and let him go?" The emperor had a cold face, with a smile that was not a smile at the corner of his mouth: "However, you are really not ordinary kind to him."

For some reason, Xie Xuan became flustered after hearing this sentence. I have never seen his eyes flashing so brightly, as if he was uneasy and guilty.

"It's rare to have a confidant in life, shouldn't it be like this? It's just friendship between gentlemen, does the emperor think too much?"

Xie Xuan's words were sarcasm and calm, which made me startled. It stands to reason that Xie Xuan's character would never contradict the emperor, so why?

I stroked my thoughts, trying to find something out of their conversation. I always felt that there seemed to be a layer of mist in their words, which was thin and could be broken at once, but my head was so muddy that I couldn't figure it out. I only know that the emperor seems very displeased with Xie Xuan's kindness to me.

Xie Xuan is right, bosom friend and friend, we get along very well, what's wrong?

The emperor sighed: "What a confidant, what a gentleman, Xie Xuan, after you and An Ning get married, if you have half the heart for her and Pei Ran, I will feel at ease."

"Since the emperor is willing to entrust the princess to the humble minister, how dare the humble minister neglect the princess. He will do his best in his life so that the princess will not suffer any grievances."

"Xie Xuan, I hope you will remember what you said today." The emperor's brows stretched, and he got up from the chair leisurely: "For the sake of peace, I will spare you today, get up!"

Xie Xuan got up, or the reason for kneeling for a long time, I felt that he was useless, so I quickly helped him, who knows, I saw the emperor looking at me with a half-smile: "Pei Ran, you are really virtuous !"

Xie Xuan's expression immediately became unnatural. Comparing the expressions of the two, and thinking back to their words, a flash of lightning flashed across my mind, and the mist drifted away, which made me suddenly enlightened and awakened.

What is this called?I really can't laugh or cry, I, Pei Ran, just fell in love with a man, but it doesn't mean that I like a man, I'm close to Xie Xuan, can it be said that men and men should pay attention to whether they can accept each other these days dear?

Now, I finally understand why the emperor always looks at me with weird expressions, and always speaks with cynicism. What kind of person should I not care about? Who does he think of me?

So nasty.

Poor Xie Xuan has been oppressed because of me time and time again, but I don't know anything and can't help.

The emperor swaggered around a few semi-circles in front of me, and looked at me with malicious intent: "I will not investigate Xie Xuan's crimes for the time being, but you, Pei Ran, do you think I should reward you with a board or a leather whip?" ? Hmm...maybe eunuchs and sent to the palace to be eunuchs?"

The emperor smiled, gloating, that hateful face was just a finger away from my face, I suddenly felt that I had never hated this face so much as now, so that I wanted to rush up and bite it off his nose.

Maybe it was because my motives were too obvious on my face, and my eyes were too naked. Xie Xuan pulled me aside and stood in the middle, forming a separation zone between me and the emperor.

Then Xie Xuan bent his legs and knelt down again: "Your Majesty, Ran'er lived in a remote place since she was a child, and was ignorant of the world. She is used to being willful and free and easy, so it is inevitable that she does things without consideration, let alone knowing the pros and cons. What she did before, Speaking of it, I can hardly shirk the blame, Your Majesty..."

"Okay," the emperor interrupted Xie Xuan impatiently: "I really don't know what's so good about him, if you protect him like this, since you want to be punished, I will grant you, go out and get twenty lashes yourself! "

"Yes" Xie Xuan took the order, and walked out with awe-inspiring righteousness.

"What are you doing?" I grabbed Xie Xuan and hoarse my voice instantly: "I don't want you to be punished for me, you have done enough for me, enough."

I yelled out, and my anger was high: "I will die together, isn't it just being beaten, I will bear it with you."

"Ran'er..."

Xie Xuan wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the emperor: "Xie Xuan, as a good general of the country, blindly trusting others and risking his life to defend them is a big mistake. I will not pursue the merits of the Xie family. However, seeing you protecting Pei Ran so much, how can I live up to your sincerity? You can bear his twenty leather whips together!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"No, no." I shouted, forty leather whips, what concept?I'm afraid the body will be smashed by then!

I rushed up to stop it, but an arm behind me firmly clasped my waist, like a shackle, and I couldn't struggle to break free.

The sound of the whip whipping and Xie Xuan's suppressed humming sounded outside, the sound of the sharp and sharp strokes of the air, and the crisp sound of the whipping on the flesh, tortured my nerves every moment, the process was so Long, so long that I thought he would die like this, and I was afraid that he would die like this.

I couldn't see the process of his being punished, but I could clearly feel that my body was shaking violently, and my eyes were full of tears, cowardly and helpless tears.

"Did you see it? It's all because of you, your willfulness and disobedience. How about it? Do you want me to teach you how to do it? Now kneel down and beg me, so I can spare him the pain of being whipped."

The voice of the emperor is right next to my ear, close to my face, like a spell, a spell released.

The arms around my waist loosened, as if knowing my wishes.

He is very smart, and he expected that I would surrender because of him early on. I even wondered narcissistically whether what the emperor did today was to fulfill his sentence: sooner or later, I will obey you and obey you. Well behaved.

No matter what, he won, he successfully caught my weakness, I had nowhere to struggle, nowhere to evade, I could only bow my head and kneel respectfully: "Please be merciful, Your Majesty."