"What are you talking about that makes you so happy?"
Several people turned their heads and saw Xie Weixing walking towards them at a leisurely pace. I haven't seen him for many days. He seems to have lost weight, An Yu thought to himself.
"master."
"I thought you weren't in the village!" An Yu said softly.
Xie Weixing waved his hand, and Lu Yi pulled the reluctant Xiao Yuan down gently. He moved a chair and sat next to the couch, unceremoniously picked up a piece of pastry, tasted it, narrowed his eyes, nodded, and praised: "This snack is good!"
An Yu smiled, looked at Xiao Yuan who was staring in the distance, and said, "Of course it's delicious, otherwise Xiao Yuan wouldn't have brought it over so flatteringly." After her words fell, Xie Weixing also followed her gaze. After looking over, he saw the heartbroken expression on Xiao Yuan's face and immediately laughed out loud.
"This little girl is sincere to you."
"Of course!" An Yu said proudly, "It's rare for me to meet such a good person when I come here. Even in my previous life, except for my parents, there will be no one like her."
An Yu looked a little sad when she mentioned her parents. Xie Weixing sighed helplessly, patted her back and said, "I'm still here."
Although his words were very soft, her heart was suddenly filled with warmth. An Yu felt a little awkward and changed the subject: "What did you do the past few days? Why haven't I seen you?"
"It's about the Lu family." The smile on his face gradually disappeared, he looked into the distance with an expressionless face, and said softly, "It's time for them to come to an end."
Hearing this, An Yu's heart froze and he didn't know what he was going to do. His face turned unusually serious. Think about it. She said quietly: "If the Lu family is destroyed, what impact will Fengnong Villa have? What impact will Yujiabao have?"
Xie Weixing paused for a moment before replying: "It won't have any impact. Since Yu Chen is here in Yujiabao, there won't be any problems."
Seemingly sensing his unhappiness, An Yu had no choice but to change the topic again, not daring to dwell on Yujiabao's affairs anymore.
Xie Weixing was right, the Lu family was almost at the end of its strength and had come to an end—
In the early morning of the morning, Lu Cong and Lu Yixiang walked into the court hall as usual. There was something wrong with the guard outside the palace today, but neither of them paid much attention to it. Entering the hall, the two of them had not yet stood still. The palace door was tightly closed. The guards outside the palace blocked the palace door and surrounded them one floor after another. Twenty guards surrounded them tightly. Lu Yixiang carried a broadsword at his waist. Moreover, there are members of the Lu family in the palace. Even if these twenty guards are tall and powerful, they cannot trap him.
"You are so brave, how dare you be so rude to important officials of the imperial court!" Lu Cong shouted loudly, obviously extremely angry.
But no one answered him. Lu Yixiang's broadsword swept across, bringing out a powerful sword wind, and swept away the guard holding his legs. He rushed towards Lu Cong and eliminated the guards who trapped him. Blood spattered three feet, and no one was timid after sweeping away. They all stepped forward again and hugged his legs. Don't let him move an inch.
Lu Yixiang narrowed his eyes, raised his sword, pointed it at the person in front of him, and then dropped it straight through the guard's body. With a scream, the guards on both sides turned pale, but still no one retreated.
"Tell that old emperor to come out!" Lu Yixiang roared, stepped out with his right foot, kicked away the two people who were holding his right foot, and killed a guard on the left rear with his knife.
"I, the Lu family, have assisted the third generation emperor of Zhongyou. Is this how you repay my Lu family?!" Lu Cong also didn't care about anything and reprimanded loudly in a panic, "If there is anything wrong with my Lu family, just tell me, Your Majesty." That’s it! Why resort to such despicable means!”
What answered him was that the remaining guards still swarmed up. Lu Yixiang's eyes turned red, he narrowed his eyes slightly, faced the guards, and tightened his grip on the knife with both hands...
Listening to the noise in the court hall, Wan Qixi, who was sitting next door, moved slightly, with a look of unbearable sadness on his face, while Wan Qiqin beside him closed his eyes and said nothing. Standing behind them were several ministers from the court. Excluding Lu and his son, there should have been more than twenty people, but at this time they were less than ten! As for where the other ministers are, no one dares to ask...
"ah-"
The voice next door gradually became lower, and just when everyone thought it was over, a sharp scream suddenly woke everyone up from their thoughts. They all looked at each other, and their faces turned pale. A few days ago, wasn't the emperor able to tolerate the Lu family's collusion with Beiyi? Why was he suddenly killed at this time? And he's still so unaware of it? Prince Qin was also invited. Could it be that all this has been arranged
"Report—"
The guards outside the door sang loudly. Wan Qixi's drowsy eyes opened slightly and he waved his hand. The palace door suddenly opened wide. Kneeling outside the door was the leader who had just directed the guards to deal with Lu Cong and Lu Yixiang. He was dressed in white brocade clothes and soft armor, with feathers raised high on his head, indicating his extraordinary identity.
"Your Majesty, the Lu family and his son have been stabbed to death by random arrows!"
This simple sentence instantly shocked everyone, and they all looked up. The leader lowered his head and knelt respectfully three steps away from the palace door. Wan Qixi sighed and said slowly: "Mr. Lu... damn it."
The inexplicable two words made everyone have different expressions, except for a faint smile on Wan Qiqin's lips.
Before dawn, a team of fast horses stopped in front of the Lu family. The man in the lead had a smooth chin and held a snow-white Buddha dust in his hand. His slightly raised eyebrows made him look a little weird. The man in his hand The golden imperial edict also shines brightly.
After adjusting his clothes for a moment, he raised his voice and sang: "The holy edict has arrived-"
When the person who opened the door saw him, he quickly bowed and said, "I've met Eunuch Zhang!"
Eunuch Zhang ignored him and just walked inside.
The long imperial edict pressed on Lu Yanbin's white head, and the heavy hat made him lie on the ground, unable to straighten up. He cried bitterly and said heartbrokenly: "I want to see the emperor!"
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In the dark cell, a man with disheveled hair sat on the haystack in the corner. A mouse crawled past him, but he didn't notice it at all. Occasionally one or two people walked by outside the cell door, and he got up alertly. But in the cell, only the jailer would walk there. He could only be disappointed again and again, and then crawl back to that corner.
Suddenly there was a sound of chains, and the figure in the corner moved and was about to get up. He seemed to remember something and sat back down again. Not long after, there were footsteps gradually approaching here, getting closer and closer...
The man in the corner waited patiently. The footsteps finally came to his cell door. Through the dim torch, he could see clearly that the man was wearing a yellow brocade robe with black dragon patterns. He was tall and slender. Because of the light behind him, his appearance was very blurry.
"Mr. Lu."
"It's you?!" The person in the corner was startled when he heard the voice of the person outside the cell door, and blurted out, "Why is it you?"
The person at the door laughed softly and said in a brisk tone: "Otherwise, who else would Mr. Lu hope to come? Brother Huang? Do you think he can come with his body? And you think that he will let go when he comes. about you?"
After several questions in a row, Lu Yanbin's expression became worse each time. He stared at the person at the door for a long time before sighing: "Your Majesty really has a better game! I give up! I am so defeated!"
"It's good that Mr. Lu understands." Wan Qiqin said calmly with a smile on his lips.
"I just want to ask you one thing." Lu Yanbin raised his head with difficulty. "You clearly had the opportunity to ascend to that position. Now that the situation is like this, sooner or later, that position will fall into your hands. Even if I let Xiang'er be deposed." Even though you have 30,000 troops, you can still sit on it safely, why? Why don't you take action?"
The Lu family has always existed for the royal family. As long as there is any danger to the throne, the Lu family will stand up to protect it. However, a hundred years ago, only Wan Qiqin could hide himself so deeply. The Lu family repeatedly forced him to have nothing, but Wan Qiqin could still make a comeback, just like now. However, Wan Qiqin did not ascend to the throne in one step because of this. This reason has always troubled Lu Yanbin.
"Mr. Lu was joking. From the beginning to the end, the throne requires people with both ability and political integrity. I think I have no virtue or talent, and I only want to be an idle king for the rest of my life. As long as this country is stable, and as long as the position is still surnamed Wanqi, So who does it, and what does it matter?”
Lu Yanbin didn't expect that Wan Qiqin would give such an explanation. He raised his head and stared at him blankly, as if he wanted to see something strange in his expression, but he saw nothing. Wan Qiqin always maintained that faint smile, without any pretense or hypocrisy.
He finally clicked the button, closed his eyes gently, and murmured: "Am I really wrong?"
Wan Qiqin said in a low voice: "Mr. Lu is certainly right. But just because you are right does not mean that your son and grandson are right."
"What?"
"Mr. Lu must have been kept in the dark by your good son and grandson! This letter is indeed true." Wan Qiqin took out a letter from his body, which was exactly the letter Zhongli handed to the emperor that day. .
Lu Yanbin quickly reached out and took it, using the firelight outside the cell, he squinted and looked at it hastily. His face suddenly turned as white as paper, his hands were shaking, and the letter was shaken off like the autumn wind, fluttering to the ground, in disbelief. Looking at him: "This, this is impossible!"
"My king, why should I lie to you?"
Hearing this, Lu Yanbin collapsed instantly like a statue, lying on the ground with his eyes blank and muttering all the time. Wan Qiqin looked at him deeply, turned around and left quietly.