The back hall was quite clean, there were no drunkards or prostitutes, and the person who came to play the music was a male musician in his fifties. Li Youxing liked luxury. He had more than 60 dishes cooked for the banquet for three people. A specially extended table was placed in front of each person, and two eunuchs were assigned to serve each person. If you want to eat a dish, you have to point with your hands, and then the eunuch will pick up the dish and put it into a bowl, which is quite like the eating style of the Manchu emperor.
Originally, Qin Mubai didn't like this kind of tone, but when he thought that he was Princess Gaoyang's biological brother and he only came once, he let it go.
"Mubai, these are famous dishes from the imperial palace or Chang'an. What do you think?" Li You asked with a smile.
"Yes, it's very rich. It's just too much. It's a waste if you can't finish it." Qin Mubai said.
"Hey, you're wrong to say that." Li You said with a smile, "This is not called waste, it is called generosity. God treats everyone fairly. Since he has given me such royal wealth, if I don't use my talent It’s really a waste.”
Qin Mubai smiled: "His Royal Highness King Qi is quite reasonable."
"It's not about being open-minded, it's about taking advantage of the situation. After seeing through it, my heart became cold." Li You shook his head and curled his lips. That expression is somewhat similar to Princess Gaoyang.
It was precisely because he had some shadow of his compatriot sister that Qin Mubai could tolerate the dandy and unscrupulous King Qi in front of him. Seeing his miserable look, Qin Mubai couldn't help but smile: "Your Highness, I don't understand what you are saying. How can you, a noble member of the Tianhuang noble family, the Longzi royal family, be so cold-hearted?"
Li You smiled coldly, waved his hand, and the eunuchs and musicians all retreated. He then said: "Mu Bai, you may not know. I am the most miserable person in the world."
"Oh, what should I say?" Qin Mubai asked.
"The reason is actually very simple, because I am an evil breed!" Li You gritted his teeth and said these words from between his teeth. After saying that, he picked up the wine glass with frowning eyebrows and drank the full glass of wine.
Qin Mubai couldn't help but frowned: "Your Highness, you can't say such nonsense."
"Mu Bai, are you an outsider?" Li Youzuo stared at him in annoyance, "Are you not sincere to my sister?"
"There is no way to talk about this." Qin Mubai said calmly, "My feelings for Ling'er can be learned from the emperor."
"That's it." Li You said, "I only trust two people in the world. One is my uncle, and the other is my sister. You are my sister's favorite man, and sooner or later you will also be her husband. I don't want me to My brother-in-law treats me as an outsider."
"Of course not." Qin Mubai was very calm, picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and said, "Your Highness, if you want to say anything, just say it. I, Qin Mubai, have no other advantages. I have always had a very good mouth. tight."
"It is precisely because I know that you are a true gentleman and a good man who is trustworthy that I can trust you with my sister." Li You said sternly, "Otherwise, even if my father promised and my mother agreed, I would do this My brother will definitely not agree."
"Yes, I know." Qin Mubai knew that he had something to say, so he just answered calmly and listened to what he wanted to say.
At this time, Yin Hongzhi, who had been sitting silently, spoke up and said: "Your Highness, you don't have to beat around the bush. If you have anything to say, just tell Mu Bai directly! You are all smart people, so naturally you understand."
"Okay." Li You nodded and said, "Mubai, you know the blood feud between my uncle's family, the Yin family, and the royal family, the Li family, right?"
"I know a thing or two." Qin Mubai nodded, thinking: I knew you were going to get involved in this.
"Actually, it's not that I'm worried about it. My father's blood is flowing in my body, and I shouldn't have to worry about the grudges between the previous generation, that is, my grandfather and my father's generation." Li You said, "But I am like this Think, others don’t think so.”
Qin Mubai frowned slightly: "Who do you mean by 'other people'?"
Li You was startled and speechless for a moment. Yin Hongzhi hurriedly took over the words and said: "What your Highness is referring to is naturally not His Majesty the Emperor, but some of the slanderous ministers around His Majesty the Emperor!"
Qin Mubai smiled slightly: "Do you specifically refer to Changsun Wuji?"
"Of course he is indispensable, but he is definitely not the only one!" Li You punched the table angrily and said, "The blood feud between the Li family and the Yin family goes back decades. At that time, my mother She was still a teenage girl. At that time, my grandfather killed the grandfather of the Li family and killed my father's brother. Later, my grandfather was defeated and captured, and dozens of members of his family were killed except for the remaining one. Got off my mother."
Yin Hongzhi immediately took over the words: "No one knows the situation at that time better than me. It was too tragic. No matter how the historian later whitewashed it, or how the emperor tried to cover up everyone's mouth, it could not change that it was a revenge massacre. Facts. Although my sister later became His Majesty’s Imperial Concubine, at the beginning, the Emperor was attracted by her beauty and enslaved her to serve him day and night out of lust and revenge. Xuan**! Just like that, you have His Highness King Qi in front of you!"
"Mr. Yin, what you said is a bit redundant!" Qin Mubai's face darkened and he looked at him coldly, "Since it is an old story, why do you need to dig it out and elaborate on it? You What is your purpose? What benefit does it have to you to preach these things to His Highness all day long? Are you trying to mislead him into going astray and get him into trouble?"
Being robbed by Qin Mubai's righteous words, Yin Hongzhi's face suddenly turned red, he blinked his eyes and muttered: "This, this... I definitely didn't mean this!"
"Mubai, don't get excited, uncle has no ill intentions." Li You was calm and turned to persuade Qin Mubai. He said, "He was just recounting that period of history, which is somewhat related to my current situation. Why don't you Listen to what he has to say?"
"Then go on!" Qin Mubai snorted coldly.
"Actually, these things are not secrets. Almost everyone knows it, but most people dare not mention it." Yin Hongzhi continued, "In the following ten or twenty years, the world gradually became aware of this bloody period. The past is forgotten, but how can I forget it? I will never forget the tragic scene when the Yin family was slaughtered! I don’t know how Concubine Yin De survived all these years, having to sleep with the enemy who killed her father and wiped out her family. Sleeping together and having children for him... This is so tortured! At the same time, there is no moment when I, the only surviving male in the Yin family, don't feel on edge. But it's not because I'm afraid of death. He died twenty years ago, and he has already earned money by living twenty more years. I am just worried that if someone is obsessed with this old grudge and fears and plots against the next generation, that would be really big. tragedy!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Qin Mubai couldn't stand it any longer. He shouted bitterly and cursed: "Mr. Yin, you use your own heart to judge other people's bellies, and that's all you do. What's even worse is that you put your own fear and unrest into your own hands. Forced upon His Highness King Qi, and also forced upon His Highness Concubine Yinde and Princess Gaoyang... Can you be any more selfish? If you want to eradicate suspicion and exclusion, why do you have to wait until today? Your Highness, Prince Qi, please forgive me for saying something very sentimental. If you keep listening to your uncle's instructions, sooner or later, he will never forget the Yin family! Blood revenge, he even dreams about revenge! But he has no such ability, so he has no choice but to incite and confuse you! No need to guess, he has been instilling this in your ears since you became sensible in recent years! This idea of hatred is used to divide the father-son relationship between you and His Majesty the Emperor."
"Qin Mubai, you have gone too far!" Yin Hongzhi suddenly became furious and struck the case, "I am his uncle! How can I harm his reason!"
Qin Mubai was not angry at all, he just sneered: "If you didn't have such a special identity as a cover, do you think His Highness would listen to you? We have always been estranged from each other since ancient times. If you are not his uncle, how can you have such ability? Persuasion, to drive a wedge between a father and his son?”
"You, you!..." Yin Hongzhi was so angry that you were shaking and your face turned red. He shouted loudly: "Your Highness, don't listen to his nonsense!"
Li You's eyes turned left and right, and his eyes became extremely cold, not only angry, but even murderous!
"It seems I said something I shouldn't have said." Qin Mubai grinned coldly, "Does that mean I'm unlikely to leave easily today?"
"Mu Bai, what you said is a bit confusing." Li You suddenly smiled, waved his hands and said, "Okay, uncle, Mu Bai, please stop arguing. I know you are all doing this for me. Okay. My uncle doesn’t mean any harm. He just wants to remind me to be cautious in times of danger. I also understand what Mu Bai means. I will never be stupid enough to go against my father. Just be grateful!"
"I know you won't. Because you don't have the strength, you won't have such courage." Qin Mubai sneered and said, "Whether you are willing to listen or not, there are some things I have to tell you, His Highness King Qi."
"Well, please tell me." Li You was able to keep his composure and persuaded Yin Hongzhi, whose face was red with anger, to sit down.
"Your uncle is right about one thing. Over the years, Concubine Yin De's life has indeed been worse than death." Qin Mubai said, "So one day, he hanged himself."
"Ah? How come we don't know?" The two of them were surprised.
"It seems that no one else knows except Concubine Yin De and me." Qin Mubai said lightly, "I remember she told me at that time that she had never lived for herself for a day since the day her family was destroyed. She was willing to serve. Your Majesty, it's because she doesn't want to see your uncle, the last trace of the Yin family's bloodline, cut off. Later, she became pregnant with a child, and the child was you. For you, His Highness, she must endure the humiliation and bear the burden of living. It is true that from the beginning, His Majesty the Emperor took Concubine Yin De into his house for some reasons that had nothing to do with love. But later on, he did treat Concubine Yin De kindly. From then on, he made you the king and doted on you. Gao Yang, Li Yinde is one of the four concubines after the queen. Otherwise, does he need to be like this? There are so many women in the harem, why would the emperor treat an enemy's daughter so favorably
"So, it is a fact that the Li Yin family has a feud, and it is also true that His Majesty the Emperor later treated Concubine Yin De and you brothers and sisters sincerely. Also, Mr. Yin, isn't it a miracle that you can survive to this day? Can't you kill the grass? Is eradication a common method used by emperors?" Qin Mubai said, "Do you know why this happens?"
"Why?" they both asked together.
"I also asked Concubine Yin De like this at that time." Qin Mubai said, "She told me that she spent twenty years to resolve His Majesty the Emperor's hatred for the Yin family. The method she used was - deep love him."
The two of them were startled at the same time, obviously not expecting such an outrageous answer.
Qin Mubai smiled slightly: "It seems that you can't understand, but that doesn't matter. What I want to say is that this blood feud has become a thing of the past. Just imagine, Mr. Yin's father also killed the brother of His Majesty the Emperor. Did you dig up his Li family's ancestral grave? His Majesty the Emperor wants to take revenge, which can be achieved with just one thought. You, Mr. Yin, should have been a ghost for twenty years. The reason why I have kept you here is not for revenge, but for revenge. It is to let you and him forget and eliminate this hatred as time goes by. In troubled times, who has no family hatred? If this is passed down from generation to generation, wouldn't the world be filled with endless killings? What's more, Concubine Yin De sacrificed everything in her life in order to resolve this feud and prevent the next generation from being implicated. But you, Mr. Yin, always have a small face and whisper in your nephew's ears. Nagging, planting the seeds of hatred in his mind. Comparing the two, you are really not as good as a woman! What is your appearance in front of the white silk that Concubine Yin De hangs herself on? , in the face of her snowy white hair, how can you still regard yourself as the biological uncle of His Highness Prince Qi and Princess Gaoyang? You, a narrow-minded and despicable man, do not hesitate to seduce your own nephew and lead him into discord? Tu, are you still worried that Concubine Yin De’s life is not miserable enough?”
As Qin Mubai spoke, he thought of Concubine Yin De who was far away in Chang'an and lived in the cold palace of Senguan. He was so excited that he could not control himself and cursed all the unpleasant words!
Anyway, Qin Mubai has nothing to fear from his uncle and nephew!
"Qin Mubai, you, you... you are so slanderous!" Yin Hongzhi's face turned pale after being scolded, and he pointed at Qin Mubai trembling with anger.
"You know in your heart that I have never wronged you." Qin Mubai said coldly, "You specially invited me here today because of some ulterior motives. Fortunately, you haven't said a lot of things yet. I'll start with I'll put you back. If you want to say something about being without a king or a father, please keep your mouth shut. If it's just about chatting about wine and wine, I, a native of Qin, will certainly be happy to accompany you."
Li You was obviously angry too. He was holding in his anger so hard that his neck felt thick. But he did not have an attack, but took a deep breath. Although his face turned red, he was still smiling. He nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed possible for a close relative to say such honest words. Mu Bai, thank you for this harsh advice, it was like a wake-up call and enlightened me. I was wrong, I was indeed I shouldn't let my mother and concubine's twenty years of hard work be betrayed and let the feud of the previous generation influence my emotions. In fact, I have no other reason to come to you today. I just see that you have a very good relationship with His Majesty the Emperor and the Crown Prince. That’s right. If it’s convenient for you, please say a few words of kindness to them, so that I won’t wake up one day and receive the bad news of being expelled from the imperial family and exiled to Lingnan.”
"Ling'er is my unmarried wife, and Your Highness is my future uncle. If I don't help you, who else can I help? You can rest assured of this." Qin Mubai glanced at Yin Hongzhi coldly. He said, "It would be best if Your Highness really wakes up. What I said today is ugly enough. If you want to hate me, there is nothing you can do about it. Now that I have said it, I will dare to bear the consequences of offending others. Whoever talks sweetly and hides evil intentions, whoever There will be time to prove the malicious intentions. Mr. Yin, it is clear who is close to you and who is distant from you. Your Highness is definitely willing to listen to you, not mine. Your Highness, I can’t help scolding you. I hope you can understand—not how noble and sincere I am, Qin, but the good intentions of Concubine Yin De. You should be so selfish. Okay, that’s it. I’ve offended you a lot today, and I’ll excuse myself later.”
After saying that, Qin Mubai stood up and walked out.
Just when he stood up, he felt a severe dizziness, spinning around and unsteady on his feet. He staggered and turned around, pointed angrily at Qi Wang Li You, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Highness Qi Wang... you, please don't do anything stupid!"
"I apologize, Mu Bai." Li You looked at Qin Mubai indifferently and said calmly, "The matter has come to this, I have no choice!"
Yin Hongzhi sneered from the side: "As expected, you are really stubborn! Don't worry, we are doing this for your and Ling'er's good!"
When Qin Mubai heard this, his heart became cold, and he lost consciousness for a while, leaving only one thought in his mind - what a powerful drug!
At this time, he had no strength at all, fell to the ground, and fainted on the spot.