"Miss Wu, shut up!" Li Guangji could no longer maintain the demeanor of his aristocratic family, and wanted to walk up to Li Wu's side to stop her from continuing to speak, but he was just standing up when he was standing behind him. The eunuch stopped.
The door of the imperial study room was open, and several dragon guards with knives walked in. Gu Cunjing walked in front, followed by Hu Yunqi and Jin Xiang.
Seeing them come in, Li Guangji suddenly turned his head to look at Jin Yang, no wonder it was just an inexplicable woman who came out and sued him for being a concubine. It turns out that it is false to use the succubus as the heir, and it is true that the emperor wants to suppress the entire Li family.
Why did the emperor know this? With Wu's means alone, how could she have obtained so much evidence
Li Guangji stared at the things in Li Wu's hands, and then watched them fall into Jin Yang's hands. The Li family's reputation for nearly a hundred years has made countless people yearn and respected. Naturally, they have also done a lot of scandalous things. If these things are found out, the people waiting for the Li family will be ruined.
Thinking that the Li family might become nothing because of Li Wu's actions, Li Guangji could not wait to eat her meat and bite her bones: "Wu's!"
Wu Shi didn't look at Li Guangji, whose face was twisted with resentment. After she handed the evidence to Jin Yang, she turned to look at Li Huaigu. Her feelings for this son are complicated, with love and resentment, but not much hatred.
Her child died of illness, and Li Guangji wanted to compete with several other brothers for the position of the head of the family, so he secretly brought in the child born to him in the outer room. Although she was unwilling, she endured it silently. Later, after she gave birth to her daughter, Li Guangji gradually became less fond of her yard, but he did not take a concubine into the house, so she just thought that the other party was too tired on weekdays, so she needed to cultivate herself.
Later, she realized that self-cultivation is a joke, he just wanted a good reputation and a good woman, so he raised the outer room. And because he suffered from a disease, he could no longer have offspring. She thought that with the child Huaigu, her daughter would marry in the future, and she also had an elder brother as a backer. She had lost her son in her life, and her husband was a hypocrite. The only motivation for her to survive is her daughter.
The daughter is gone, she may have no interest.
"Mother..." Seeing Mr. Wu looking at him, Li Huaigu couldn't help but take two steps forward, but thinking of what Mrs. Li Wu said, he hesitated again.
"You are a good boy, I haven't treated you well these years, don't blame me," Wu Shi suddenly stumbled a few times, she turned around and gave a big gift to Jin Yang and Gu Rujiu, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, Li Shi Although there are various faults in the family, Huai Gu did not participate in it, I beg Your Majesty and Niangniang to check it out."
Gu Rujiu's heart was a little sour. The Wu family had a mother-son relationship with Li Huaigu, but Li Guangji was too unbearable, so she kept thinking about the past, and even felt resentment against Li Huaigu, an innocent person. She glanced at Jin Yang, nodded and said, "Don't worry, Ben Gong and His Majesty will definitely find out the truth."
"That's fine." Seeing Gu Rujiu's words, Wu shi smiled relievedly, turned to Li Huai and said, "Do you remember what I said to you back then?"
"My child remembers." Li Huaigu's eyes were red and his voice was hoarse, "You can't be proud, you can't indulge your desires, you can't be too happy, and you can't be satisfied."
Wu shi nodded with satisfaction, and then spit out a mouthful of dark red blood. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief, shook her body a few times, and fell down.
"Mother!" Li Huaigu stepped forward in awe and hugged Mrs Wu into his arms, "Mother, what's wrong with you?"
"No, she took the poison before she came." Gu Rujiu hurriedly called someone to ask for an imperial doctor. She got up and walked three steps away from Li Huaigu and Wu Shi, staring blankly at Li Huaigu, who was crying, she didn't know what to say.
No wonder Mr. Wu took out all the evidence he obtained, and said what he should say and what he should not say. It turned out to be a death wish.
"Why did you do this?" Li Huaigu wiped the blood from Wu Shi's mouth, but the more the blood was wiped, the more it stained his hands.
"Sometimes it's better to die than to live," Wu shi looked at Li Huaigu's panicked appearance, cracked his mouth and smiled, and blood flowed from his nose, "Don't imitate me, and don't imitate your father, life is short. For decades, I have to learn to live for myself."
"Yes, kid." Li Huaigu saw the blood oozing from Wu Shi's nose and mouth, resisted the sound of crying, and nodded again and again.
"Just remember," Wu shi looked at the queen a few steps away, her eyes slowly blurring, she still remembered that Huai Gu ran back excitedly and told her that he wanted to marry the second girl of the Gu family.
How did she answer then
She seemed to say, "If you like it, mother will ask for it for you."
At that time, Li Guangji seemed to be unwilling, so that the iceman who asked for the matchmaker was not sincere and did not impress the Gu family.
She wanted to open her eyes and look at the son she had neglected for so many years, but she could only see a vast expanse of whiteness and the sound of crying in her ears.
"What's there to cry about, I'm gone now, and I'm relieved from this evil relationship..."
"Mother!"
"Mother!" Li Huaigu put his index finger between Mrs. Wu's breath and shrank back with a hot hand.
From childhood to adulthood, he only got reprimands and tricks from his father. The only relaxation and warmth was given to him by Wu. Even now Wu said that she is not his biological mother, he has no resentment, only gratitude.
But she is gone now, the only person who has given him warmth and relaxation.
Gu Rujiu stared blankly at Li Huaigu, who was crying with no image. The Li Huaigu in her memory was always confident and arrogant, and he had never looked so embarrassed. Now that he was crying like a child, she suddenly came back to her senses. Even the stunning and brilliant Young Master Li was just an ordinary person.
She felt that her heart was blocked and uncomfortable, like a lump in her chest, unable to get down or get up.
A warm hand grasped hers, she turned her head to look, Jin Yang gave her a reassuring smile, and then said, "Come here, put Li Guangji in the prison, and try again on another day."
Li Guangji didn't resist. He looked at Mrs. Wu who was on the ground and his crying son, and let Long Jingwei take him out in a daze. After reaching the door, he suddenly turned to look at Li Huaigu.
Li Huaigu turned his head and glanced at Li Guangji, put Mrs Wu on the ground gently, and wiped the blood on Mrs Wu's face with his sleeve robe.
Gu Rujiu couldn't bear it, and handed him her handkerchief.
"Thank you, Empress." He took the handkerchief, wiped Wu's face clean, then got up, walked to Li Guangji, and knelt down toward him.
"Dong dong dong."
Li Huaigu kowtowed three times in a row, then got up and said to Li Guangji, "Father, please take care of yourself."
As a son of man, he should be caught in a dilemma between Wu and Li Guangji. As a minister, the Li family has done too many wrong things, and he is irrefutable.
He kowtowed to Li Guangji because he couldn't do anything for the Li family, and he felt ashamed.
Li Guangji watched his son's actions silently, then turned around and asked Long Jingwei to take him away.
"Your Majesty, the Empress," Li Huaigu got up and gave a big gift to Gu Rujiu and Jin Yang, "Weichen brought my mother home."
Gu Rujiu nodded.
Jin Yang did not embarrass him, and asked He Ming to prepare a carriage for him. Zhang Zhonghan also took this opportunity to get up and leave.
The imperial study suddenly became quiet. Gu Rujiu looked at the thick stack of evidence on the table. There were letters, account books, and some written evidence in it. She couldn't help but wonder, if the Wu family had already mastered these things, why did she endure it until now just broke out
She suddenly thought of a gossip. It was said that last year, there was a woman by Li Guangji's side. This woman was very fond of him, and she even accepted him as a concubine and often accompanied him by his side.
"Who is the woman who sued Li Guangji?" Gu Rujiu looked at Jin Yang and intuitively told her that Jin Yang must have written this matter.
"That woman used to be a dancer in Li's house, but she was later sentenced to a severe sentence because she accidentally hurt someone's life in order to enter Li's house as a dancer." Jin Yang thought for a while, "This is already the case. It was ten years ago."
Gu Rujiu frowned. If a dancer committed a murder, it was nothing more than beheading or exile. How could she be imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison
"This woman has an elder sister who has been favored by Li Guangji," Jin Yang's expression turned cold when he mentioned Li Guangji, "later her elder sister disappeared."
Eun-hye, missing...
"Could it be that her sister is Li Huaigu's biological mother?" Gu Rujiu's complexion changed greatly, "That's why she used all her means to become a dancer in Li's house, in order to investigate the case of her sister's disappearance?"
"Maybe it's for her sister, maybe it's because of her greed for glory and wealth," Jin Yang said noncommittally, "No one will know this kind of thing except herself."
Gu Rujiu suddenly said: "You are right."
The reality is sometimes more cruel and ruthless than a small talk book, and some truths are better not to know too clearly. For example, Li Guangji, he will probably never know that a certain dancer who entered the Li residence more than ten years ago was Li Huaigu's aunt. And Li Huaigu also didn't know that his biological mother died in an unclear manner, and the murderer was his father.
Maybe Li Huaigu knew it in his heart, but he just pretended not to know.
A month later, the Li family was confiscated on more than ten charges including fornicating with foreign enemies, embezzlement and bribery, and wounding people's lives. Many men were deprived of official positions and sentenced to exile. Many female relatives who committed crimes were cast into low-ranking status, and the rest of their lives will pass through hardships.
What surprised the people in the capital the most was that the Li family was confiscated several million taels of silver, and there were countless treasures, which caused countless people to smack their tongues.
Two-person coral treasure trees, jade-carved rockeries, idols made of gold and silver, whole boxes of gold and jade jewelry, and even national gifts from various countries to the royal family were all in the Li family's warehouse.
After the inspection list was released, there was an uproar in the whole court. The Li family was really bold, and even dared to secretly hide the things that were paid to the royal family.
In the end, Li Guangji was sentenced to exile for 3,000 miles. Jin Yang did not pursue Li Huaigu's charges, but he voluntarily resigned from his position in the court.
Standing outside the Vermillion Bird Gate, Li Huaigu looked silently at the direction of Zichen Hall, until the sun gradually rose, he turned around and prepared to leave.
"Master Li," Gu Cunjing walked out of the Vermilion Bird Gate, and when he saw Li Huaigu standing not far away, he patted the horse's butt and rushed to his side, "Why is Master Li here?"
"Master Gu," Li Huaigu bowed to Gu Cunjing with a gentle smile, "I'm just here to take a look."
Gu Cunjing glanced back at the palace behind him, then looked at Li Huaigu, and found that he was wearing an ordinary clean cloth robe. Although he was not as luxurious as before, he was a little more free and easy.
"The emperor didn't hold you accountable, why did you resign from your position in the court?" Gu Cunjing had no ill will towards Li Huaigu, and had some sympathy for his experience, so he couldn't help but persuade, "After a few years in the position, There will always be a day to come out." No matter what, it's better than now, the Li family fell, Li Huaigu resigned from the official position, but what should he do in the future
"If you don't bring things like fame and fortune, you don't bring them with you in life, so what's the use of keeping them?" Li Huaigu said with a smile, "It's fate to see Young Master Gu today. I don't know when we'll meet again in the future."
"You..." Gu Cunjing said in surprise, "Are you going to leave the capital?"
"Yeah, from now on, the sky is high and the sea is wide, and it is a blessing in life." Li Huaigu smiled, "Fortunately, I and the girl of the Shen family are not married, but we have nothing to do with each other."
"That's fine." Now that the Li family has fallen, it is a good thing for Li Huaigu to leave the capital. Gu Cunjing bowed to him and said, "I wish you all the best here, and all your wishes come true."
May all your wishes come true
Li Huaigu smiled relievedly, and returned the salute to Gu Cunjing: "Thank you, Lord Gu, for the good words." He turned on his horse, raised his chin slightly, and looked firm, as if he was the proud noble boy back then, "I also wish Lord Gu and you from the following. My family is happy in this life, free from disease and disaster.”
Gu Cunjing looked at him and silently cupped his hands.
"Farewell!"
The horse's hooves tread lightly, and Gu Cunjing sighed as he watched one person and one horse drift away. The Li family of the Sima family was so illustrious in those days, and now they are all painted in the past, as if nothing.
Li Huaigu is right, things like fame and fortune will not be brought by life or death. If they are not satisfied, they will overflow.
He rode on his horse, and when he was passing a street, he found a bridal party passing by, and the man on the horse looked like Yang Chuiwen, the son of Yang Guogong's family.
Yang Chuiwen was the champion of high school, and he received the blessing of the bridal chamber, which accounted for two of the three major blessings in life.
Some people are happy, some people are old, some people are separated, some people are together. Coming and going, joys and sorrows, and sorrows, make up the whole life.
The collapse of the Li family finally made the whole court realize that in the deterrence of today's royal family, they stood tremblingly above the court, always worried that they would be the next Li Guangji, and would no longer dare to point fingers and quarrel like in the past. go.
However, His Majesty did not seem to implicate others because of the Li family. When the next spring came and the flowers were in full bloom, they finally breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.
Probably Jin Yang also realized that last year's big move had frightened many courtiers, so he deliberately set up a banquet of flowers in the Taihe Palace to let everyone relax.
After three rounds of drinking, when everyone was slightly drunk, King Rui suddenly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, this minister has the original performance."
Jin Yang looked at King Rui and said with a smile: "Today is the time for everyone to have fun. If Uncle Huang has something to do, it's not too late to mention it when he goes to court tomorrow."
"I'm afraid, Your Majesty, you won't be able to go to court tomorrow," King Rui sneered.
Gu Rujiu heard something wrong. She put down the chopsticks in her hand and looked at Jin Yang worriedly.
Jin Yang patted the back of her hand, and then smiled at King Rui: "What does Uncle Huang mean?"
"You favor the queen, let the demon empress bring harm to the country, and after suppressing Zhongliang, you are cruel and cruel, and you are really unbearable to be an emperor," King Rui said bitterly.
Gu Rujiu looked at King Rui coldly, and was amused by his statement: "Uncle Huang rebels if he wants to rebel, so why use me as an excuse for a weak woman?" She stood up, looked at the courtiers below and said, "Since this palace Since then, have you ever been extravagant, made a profit for your parents’ family, or been tyrannical and arrogant?”
"The queen has the virtue of benevolence and virtue, and the nature of virtuousness, you are simply nonsense!" Zhang Zhonghan stood up and scolded sharply, "King Rui, you are very ambitious, and your heart can be punished!"
King Rui looked at Zhang Zhonghan mockingly, then looked at Gu Rujiu and said, "You are the queen, but you have lived in the Zichen Palace for a long time. Is this the way of the queen?"
"It's the right way for a husband and wife to live in the same room, why can't I and the Queen live together?" Jin Yang looked at King Rui coldly, "Uncle Huang has been drinking too much today, I won't hold you accountable for your rude words, you should step down. ."
"Why does the yellow-haired child pretend to be a good person," Rui Wang propped up the armrest of the wheelchair and stood up slowly, "This king came to the side of Qingjun today, and I also ask the emperor not to protect this demon queen."
As soon as he finished speaking, shouts of killing came in from outside, and some ministers were so frightened that their faces turned pale, but more people stood up and blocked in front of the emperor.
"King Rui, what do you want to do?" an old official scolded, "Do you want to rebel?"
"This world belongs to the Jin family, and this king's surname is Jin, so what is a rebellion?" King Rui took two steps slowly, then looked at the courtiers standing in front of the emperor, "You want to die with the queen. ?"
The ministers looked at King Rui's legs with surprise. It turned out that King Rui could walk
"You think it's strange that this king can actually walk?" King Rui sneered, "If the queen hadn't given the medicine when this queen mother was pregnant, why would this king be left with this disability? It's a pity that this king had a good life and met the world. A rare doctor, healed these legs."
"If you can walk two steps, you will be cured," Gu Rujiu said with a sneer, "Then those of us are walking like flying."
"Shut up!" King Rui lowered his face, his eyes full of killing intent. Leg disease has always been his inverse scale. Now that he can finally stand up, he is ridiculed by Gu Rujiu. How can he not be angry.
"You told Ben Gong to shut up, and Ben Gong shut up, what are you?" Gu Rujiu smiled disdainfully, "The son that the imperial grandfather doesn't look down on can only shout in front of Ben Gong by his seniority. already."
Gu Cunjing, who was standing in front of Gu Rujiu, couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, sister, if you continue, King Rui will be mad.
"Shut up! Shut up!" Rui Wang was in a hurry and turned to the guards behind him and said, "Kill this bitch and kill her for this king."
As soon as he said this, the Dragon Guards and the Guards who were protecting the Empress drew their knives out, and the atmosphere became extraordinarily tense for a while.
"Now the whole mountain is surrounded by this king, and the people outside just think it's the guards protecting the mountain." Seeing that the other party drew his sword, King Rui calmed down a lot. He put his hands behind his back and sneered, "Come on. People, drag a few people out for beheading, and if Your Majesty is unwilling to write an edict of abdication after a quarter of an hour, then continue dragging people down."
He waited for a while, but there was no movement. He looked back, and the guards behind him were still standing steadily, like sculptures.
"Whoosh!" An arrow pierced through his legs, and he only felt a pain in his knees, and he fell to the ground.
Looking at King Rui lying on the ground, Gu Rujiu patted the second brother on the shoulder with satisfaction, and then said, "This is called the villain's death by talking too much."
Gu Cunjing coughed dryly: "Empress Empress, be careful of the steps, don't fall."
King Rui couldn't understand why the guards he had carefully arranged would not obey his orders. They were all the people he raised on the fief, so how could they not obey him
"Come here, help King Rui up." Jin Yang asked the courtiers to step back, and then glanced at the officials who were hiding in the corner because they were afraid, "Uncle Huang, I don't understand why you rebelled."
"You don't have to be pretentious, even if I don't rebel today, you can't tolerate me," King Rui twisted his face, pulled the arrow out of his leg abruptly, and sat up with his hands, "In order to cut the The vassal has a lot of plans, how can this king sit still and wait to die, do you want this king to be like a loyal king, offering all rights and letting others be slaughtered?"
King Zhong, who was named, quickly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this minister is loyal to His Majesty, and has no two hearts."
Is this person mentally ill, he was involved in a rebellion in the capital, and he was involved, it is simply inexplicable!
Gu Rujiu glanced at the bloody arrow thrown aside by King Rui, and couldn't help gasping for air. She looked at it with pain. How did King Rui pull it out? man.
Hearing King Zhong's words, King Rui sneered, then looked at Jin Yang and said, "Even if this king loses, he has to understand. What is going on with these guards?"
He calculated everything, the only thing he didn't expect was that these soldiers would not obey his orders.
Gu Rujiu tugged at Jin Yang's sleeve and said, "You want to know?"
King Rui looked at Gu Rujiu, waiting for her to answer.
"But Your Majesty and Ben Gong don't really want to tell you," Gu Rujiu raised her lips and smiled, "You just need to remember that you lost."
Calling her a demon queen, she will make him suffer for the rest of her life!
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, King Rui was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood. The courtiers bowed their heads and pretended not to see anything. I always feel that today's limelight has been robbed by the Queen.
"Temptress!" King Rui wiped the blood from his mouth and glared at Gu Rujiu angrily. How can there be such a woman in the world, with a kind and harmless face, and what she says and does, but is so disgusting.
"Take him down," Jin Yang said with a sullen face, "Uncle Huang, I gave you a chance. If you insult the Queen again, I can let your children accompany you." Martin's limit, one "demon empress" at a time, simply made him intolerable.
King Rui's expression changed greatly, he endured and endured, and finally he didn't say a word.
He looked around, and the ministers didn't even look at him, as if he was just an insignificant presence.
He lowered his head and looked at the blood dripping from his legs, mixed with the dust on the ground, exuding an unpleasant fishy smell, and couldn't help laughing.
After so many years of calculations, he lost to Jin Yang.
How could a useless man like King Cheng give birth to such a son
In the third month of the seventh year of Delong, King Rui rebelled in the Taihebei Palace. Later, he was furious and argued with King Rui in front of the imperial palace. King Rui couldn't defend himself.
In June of the seventh year of Delong, King Rui was demoted to a commoner and imprisoned in the outskirts of Beijing for assassinating Taifei Sun, collaborating with the enemy, betraying the country, and rebelling. He was imprisoned in the suburbs of Beijing.
"It's snowing again." Gu Rujiu lay on the window lattice, exhaled a white breath, and then reached out to catch the falling snowflakes.
"It's cold outside," Jin Yang took a fox fur cloak and put it on her, "Why do you look like a child?"
"The ancients said that happy women are always childish," Gu Rujiu shook her index finger with a smug look, "This is your credit."
Jin Yang smiled, hugged her from behind, and asked in a low voice, "Which ancient person was so knowledgeable?"
His ears were itchy due to his hot breath, Gu Rujiu touched his ears, "Who cares what the ancients say, it makes sense anyway."
"Well, you're right," Jin Yang rubbed her chin on her shoulder, "but the ancients also said something else,"
"What?" Gu Rujiu blew the snowflakes in his hand and watched them fall to the ground and merge with the thick snow.
"That is... A man should cherish the woman he loves like a pearl or jade." Jin Yang kissed Gu Rujiu's earlobe, "It's been a long time since me, no pearl or jade can reach it."
"Then what am I to you?"
"You are my life, and with you by my side, I am alive."
Gu Rujiu leaned against the warm chest behind her, looked at the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, and smiled like a spring flower.
The author has something to say: everyone will see you tomorrow night~ (*^___^*)