The Cui family fell, and the King of Shu ran away. It gave Li Yi the feeling that a fist that had been fully charged and had already swung halfway suddenly lost its target.
If they knew that the old emperor had long planned to turn the tables, they wouldn't need to make a fuss and pretend to be knights knocking on the door of the rich and powerful.
Assassinate the royal son, pretending to be the eldest son of the emperor...
Different from the Green Lord's crime, the announcement of these two crimes will still cause great turmoil, but the old emperor's face will not be too embarrassing. He is an emperor and a man. What could be more disgraceful than wearing a green hat on your head
But if you think about it carefully, you can't say that they are really unnecessary.
If there hadn't been this previous incident, there should have been even greater waves and turmoil in Kyoto at this moment. Only by smoothing out the source of those waves in advance can the people and the court be stabilized.
The fall of the Cui family is a good thing, but it also brings new problems.
The throne always needs someone to inherit it. It is said that women's minds are difficult to guess, but Li Yi thinks that men's minds are even more difficult to guess. Who does the old emperor want to pass this position on to? Why did he hide it so tightly
Li Mingzhu thought for a long time, then looked at him and said, "Let things take their course in the future."
Li Yi knows the hesitation and struggle in her heart. In fact, up to now, she has not really made up her mind. Once she walks on that road, blood will be paved along the way, and the person she needs to face in the end, It is her father.
Li Yi nodded and didn't say anything more.
If she can't pass the test in her heart, no matter how hard others make it, it won't help.
Fortunately, today is not what it used to be. After the Cui family fell and the King of Shu lost hope, their situation is much better than before.
After seeing off the eldest princess, he paced around the yard to relieve the depression in his heart.
Originally full of energy and well-prepared, the Cui family had their own troubles. The energy was suffocated in their hearts, and it was difficult to release it. It was very uncomfortable.
Seeing him pacing back and forth in the yard, with a troubled face on his face, Xiaohuan walked over and asked with concern: "My lord, what's the matter with you?"
Li Yi sat down at the stone table, shook his head, and said, "I always feel that I have nowhere to use my energy..."
"Is there any way to use it?" On the opposite side, Miss Liu Er finished wiping the autumn water, sheathed her sword, looked up at him, and said, "Shall I help you?"
Li Yi looked at the expression on her face, without any hesitation, and replied, "No need."
Second Miss Liu stood up and waved her hands, "You're welcome, family."
Li Yi said with a very solemn expression: "It's really not necessary."
"I have nowhere to use my energy. It's so uncomfortable to hold it back. Just let it out. Anyway, I don't have anything to do now..."
"I really don't need to trouble you..."
…
It's very strange, maybe it's my own reminder that worked, Li Xuan came over, and Miss Liu didn't forget to bring Qiushui when she went out.
"Have you heard that the entire Cui family has been escorted to Beijing!"
Seeing his excited and shocked expression, Li Yi nodded and said, "I heard, what Mingzhu told me just now, why, you don't know what your father did?"
Li Xuan shook his head, sat down and drank a cup of tea, and said: "When the father left, he didn't tell me, how would I know..."
After speaking, a curious look appeared on his face, and he asked, "What should we do next?"
Li Yi asked suspiciously, "What should I do?"
"The Cui family has fallen, and the king of Shu has fled in fear of crime. This is our best chance!" Li Xuan looked at him, frowned and said, "Take advantage of this opportunity to win over the courtiers, make friends with the generals, and let Mingzhu go one step further. …”
He looked at Li Yi, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "If you don't seize this kind of opportunity, how can you be a military adviser!"
Li Yi found out a long time ago that Li Xuan is definitely warm-hearted.
The emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry. If Mingzhu is the emperor who is not in a hurry, he must be the eunuch who is in a hurry beside the emperor.
It's a pity that when it comes to being an emperor, those who should be in a hurry should not be in a hurry, and those who shouldn't be in a hurry are useless.
Li Yi shook his head and said, "Why don't you go talk to Mingzhu..."
"Mingzhu only listens to you..." Li Xuan took another sip of tea, looked at him and asked, "Sit down and talk, are you tired from standing..."
Li Yi rubbed his butt and said, "It's okay, I like to stand."
…
These days in Kyoto, there are constant turmoil, and big dramas are staged one after another. Families fall one after another, and families rise one after another, including the big families like the Cui family, the Qin family, and the Chen family. Even Goulan's new play can't compare with it.
Compared with these shocking incidents, the fact that the Qin family's young master Qin absconded in fear of crime because he robbed women from a good family, and has not been arrested until now, is not so important.
The Qin family has become much quieter these days.
Not only because autumn has come, the leaves are withered and yellow, and even the sky and the earth have become chilly.
The most important reason is because four of the five brothers of the Qin family have been imprisoned one after another in recent days, and their wives and children have been separated...
Now that Prime Minister Qin fell ill, the Qin family dismissed some servant girls, and the entire mansion became even less popular.
"Fifth Master."
"Hello fifth master."
"I've seen Fifth Master."
…
Two figures came out from the depths of the path. Along the way, the servants of the Qin family who met them hurriedly saluted.
Wu Er swept a yellow leaf off the shoulder of the middle-aged man in front of him, and asked, "Fifth Master, are you still going to Goulan to watch a theater today?"
"Listen." The fifth master of the Qin family nodded and said, "But it's not Goulan. I'll go to another place to see it today."
Outside of Kyoto, somewhere along a remote river.
The riverside is overgrown with weeds and there are few people. The reeds are as tall as a person. A dilapidated wooden boat is docked there, and it has been there for an unknown how long...
In the canopy of the wooden boat, a person lay limp, like a puddle of mud.
He was unkempt, ragged, and his limbs were bent at a strange angle. If the hair that covered his face was not still moving regularly, no one would think that he was a living person.
Yet he is really a living person.
With a piece of broken porcelain in his mouth, he bent down and laboriously cut the rope on his hand.
There were footsteps outside, he put the broken porcelain into his mouth, and stared blankly at the front.
There was a bright light in the canopy because someone had lifted the heavy curtain and walked in from the outside.
He ignored the stench in the canopy, walked to Qin Yu's side, and squatted down.
"The Qin family has fallen to this point..." He looked at Qin Yu and whispered, "Is this what you have always wanted?"
A trace of emotion finally appeared in Qin Yu's cloudy eyes.
"Your mother's death... I was powerless back then." The fifth master of the Qin family looked at him and said, "I'm just Qin Wu, and there's Qin Yi Qin Er Qin San Qin Si in front of me. It's not my turn to decide this kind of thing... "
"Although you are pitiful..." He looked him in the eyes and said, "But that's no reason for you to do other things."
After whispering a few words, he stood up, looked at him, and asked, "Have you been working hard these days?"
"I will not do it again."
He shook his head, and when he stepped out of the canopy, he turned around and said, "We, see you in the next life..."
In the river, a raging fire was ignited on the wooden boat going down the river, and the flames soared into the sky.