It wasn't until sunset that Ning Xuan helped the old uncle back.
When Kun Yuyang heard the news, he and Yin Jixie rushed out to greet him, and they saw their faces pale.
Seeing Kun Yuyang's protruding belly, Ning Xuan showed a wry smile and shook his head at her. Yin Ji was about to speak, but Kun Yuyang held her back.
"Father is old, and he has been tired for another day. Husband will help father go back to his room to rest."
Kun Yuyang thoughtfully moved out of the way, the old uncle was speechless, I don't know if it was because of tiredness or despair.
Ning Xuan glanced at her gratefully, hurriedly ordered people to help the old emperor together, and invited the imperial doctor to see him before leaving the upper room with peace of mind.
Kun Yuyang and Yin Jiqian were waiting outside the upper room, and when they saw him coming out, they rushed forward, but neither of them spoke. Looking at the situation of their father and son, one can tell that there will be no good news, they just don't give up.
Ning Xuan cupped his hands towards Yin Jixie, "Miss Yin, I'm really sorry. Your Majesty didn't know what kind of slander you heard. Without conclusive evidence, and the trial of Yushitai and Dali Temple has not yet been cleared, he is so unreasonable. The whole family of Gu Hou Mansion is going to be executed. My father and I knelt outside the Qingyuan Hall for a day, but His Majesty remained indifferent, and even ordered the musicians to play a song during the period."
He laughed at himself, "At that time, my father and I were kneeling under the scorching sun outside the temple. I heard the melodious and melodious sound of silk and bamboo coming from inside. I didn't care about what it was like. If I knelt for a day, why not kneel for a night? But father I am old, I can only bring him back first."
Yin Jiqian could imagine the despair in the hearts of their father and son, and thought that there would at least be a reason for Ning Chengzhi's sudden order, even if it was just a moment of righteous indignation, at least it shouldn't be such a fun attitude.
As an elder of the royal family, how does the old emperor feel at this moment
The word despair is not enough to describe it.
She nodded, "I understand that you two have tried your best, please thank the old uncle for me. I have one more thing to ask you—"
"Ji Yao!"
Kun Yuyang interrupted her in time, "I said this method can't be used, no matter what you say, I won't let my husband help you. You are not saving Gu Hou's family, you are sending yourself to death!"
She didn't even give Yin Jixie a chance to speak out, Ning Xuan was at a loss and didn't know what charades they were playing.
Kun Yuyang held Ning Xuan's arm, "My lord, can you think of other ways to persuade Your Majesty? Guhou's family must not be beheaded in such a vague way. I am from Xikun, and I know very well what is wrong with Xikun. What does it mean to talk about the Gu Family Army? Once the Marquis Gu Mansion is destroyed, the day when my father will attack Dong Ling will not be far away."
Ning Xuan was silent for a moment, he naturally knew the seriousness of this matter, but now that Mrs. Ji and the others have been dismissed, who else can persuade Ning Chengzhi
He suddenly thought of a person, and his eyes sparkled, "There is a way to try, but I don't dare to confirm it. Even if it's just a chance, I have to try it."
Yin Ji asked anxiously, "Who is it?"
"Beili's envoy, Ji Chengfa."
As night fell, Ning Xuan asked Kun Yuyang to take care of the old uncle at home, and sent a carriage to take Yin Jiyu back to the prime minister's mansion, and rode his horse towards the posthouse.
Beili's envoys lived in a small courtyard of the post house. This small courtyard was adjacent to the courtyard where Kun Wushang lived, but it was more spacious and gorgeous, which showed that Ning Chengzhi attached great importance to Beili.
Ji Chengfa was sitting under the lamp and writing a letter. He crookedly squeezed the brush, and threw the pen behind him before writing a word, "Come here, bring the charcoal pencil!"
"Young master, why do you want to use charcoal again? You can say it before the God of Medicine retreats, and you are not allowed to return to the old habit of using charcoal!"
The attendant came up to advise, Ji Chengfa put his face in his hands, the flesh on his small face wrinkled into a ball, "But charcoal pens are easy to write, and brushes are too difficult to write. I want to write a letter to sister Yufu. Why are you delaying my important business?" manage?"
When the attendant heard Yu Fu's name, his expression immediately showed embarrassment, and he passed the charcoal pen to him after a while, "Young master, when you return to Immortal Valley, don't say that I gave you the charcoal pen!"
"Understood, stop talking."
Ji Chengfa took the charcoal pencil, moved his buttocks happily, and readjusted his sitting posture. When he was about to write, he heard a knock on the door outside the courtyard.
In the silent courtyard, the knock on the door seemed very abrupt.
Ji Chengfa looked out, "Who could it be so late? You go and see, but the door will be opened as soon as it is opened. If someone who doesn't have eyesight just beat him up, he will say that he disturbed my son's sleep!"
The attendant knew that he was thinking of messing around again, so he pursed his lips and walked out, and saw a handsome man standing outside through the crack of the door.
This person looks very familiar, isn't he the one who sat next to the young master on the day of the competition
The attendant thought for a while, and Ji Chengfa didn't attack him that day, so he thought he liked him a little, and opened the door, "So it's Mr. Ning, what's the matter for visiting late at night?"
Ning Xuan cupped his hands at him, "Your majesty is taking the liberty to visit, and you are so rude to Mr. Ji. Please also report to Mr. Ji, saying that Ning Xuan has something important to discuss, which is related to today's imperial decree."
Today's decree
The posthouse has not received any news of the imperial decree.
Suspicion flashed across the attendant's eyes, and he quickly cupped his hands, "Master Ning, please come in, our young master thinks he would like to see you."
Ning Xuan was slightly surprised, and then realized that Ji Chengfa was only eight years old, and Bei Li dared to send an eight-year-old child as an envoy to Dong Ling, and the people around him were naturally very human.
The warriors around him in the martial arts competition are excellent in martial arts, and it is not surprising that a servant can decide whether he can enter the door or not.
When Ji Chengfa heard the footsteps of the two, he knew that the visible person was coming. He slowly packed up the pens and paper, and laid out a copybook that he had copied halfway during the day.
The attendant first approached him and said something in his ear, and then Ji Chengfa got up, "So it's Mr. Ning, what do you want from me?"
The child's quarrel was careless, not as polite as an adult's, and while talking, he motioned for Ning Xuan to sit down, and the attendant leaned down to pour tea.
Ning Xuan glanced at his desk, seeing that it was a copybook for children practicing calligraphy, he couldn't tell what emotion it was.
A little disappointed, but also a little relieved.
He was not too polite, "Young Master Ji, have you heard about the imperial decree issued by His Majesty today?"
"What decree?"
Beili's envoys have just arrived, and the news is not well-informed, and they have not heard of this imperial decree, so Ning Xuan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty wants to kill the entire family of Marquis Gu!"
Ji Chengfa opened his eyes wide, "Has Emperor Ning gone crazy? Guhou's mansion has not yet been convicted of collaborating with the enemy and treason, so why is Duanduan suddenly about to be executed? During the martial arts competition a few days ago, he promised me that he would reward Gu Jiu." Ge and Gu Hanmo, why are they suddenly going to kill everyone?"
Hearing his intention to save Guhou's mansion, Ning Xuan immediately saw hope, "As far as I know, it's because of Yin Shoufu's instigation. His Majesty didn't tell us exactly how to instigate it. Now the people in the court are excited, especially All the generals are dissatisfied. But even my father can't persuade His Majesty, so what can they do?"
Ji Chengfa nodded thoughtfully, "You want me to persuade Emperor Ning?"
The attendant served the tea, then quietly backed away, Ning Xuan watched his back until he disappeared completely.
"It's not persuasion."
He shook his head and lowered his voice, "It's a threat."
That night, Ji Chengfa thought he had lost sleep.
When Yufu asked him to come to Dongling, he only said that he wanted to show his prestige to intimidate the people of Dongling, and use Beili's national prestige to suppress Ning Chengzhi, so that he would not dare to attack Guhou's mansion easily.
After he came to Dongling, there was a lot of trouble, Ning Chengzhi and Yin Shuo didn't care about Guhou's mansion at all, they thought they just had to continue like this and wait a few days for Yufu to come back.
I don't want Yin Shuo to suddenly say to Ning Chengzhi that he wants to destroy Guhou's house, which catches him off guard. Could it be that Yin Shuo has seen through his purpose
This man is really old and cunning.
Ning Chengzhi clearly promised him to reward Gu Jiuge and his brothers, but turned around and ordered to kill them. This incident is too weird.
"Sister Yufu, come here quickly, if you don't come, something big will happen..."
Ji Chengfa turned over sadly, put one leg on the rolled brocade quilt, and his buttocks, which only wore a pair of short underwear, were exposed to the air.
He sighed pretentiously, "I'm going to suffer from insomnia tonight, I have to think about how to persuade Emperor Ning tomorrow, I'm sure I won't be able to sleep all night..."
The attendants and guards sleeping in the outer room all heard him talking to himself and smiled knowingly.
After a while, the attendant came into the room with a lantern and saw Ji Chengfa sleeping soundly while hugging the brocade quilt, with saliva dripping all over half of his face.
He bared his teeth in disgust, and lightly patted Ji Chengfa's little buttocks. Ji Chengfa babbled a few times, and quickly turned over to face upwards.
He spread out the wrinkled brocade quilt to cover Ji Chengfa's body, shook his head helplessly, and slowly exited the inner room.
…
"Master Ji, don't worry, our Majesty is in the imperial study and will be back soon."
Ji Chengfa was woken up by his attendants early in the morning and entered the palace. After entering the palace, Ning Chengzhi asked him to wait in the Qingyuan Hall. Eunuch Chi waited on him respectfully, but Ning Chengzhi himself never showed up.
Who is Ji Chengfa
The noble Beili royal family, the little devil who is a headache for everyone from Immortal Valley to Dongling, will he wait here honestly
He quickly jumped up from the chair, "Is he in the imperial study room? I'll go to the imperial study room to find him, who has time to wait here, I have to go back to practice calligraphy!"
Eunuch Chi: "..." Is practicing calligraphy a very important thing
As Ji Chengfa said that, he walked out, and Eunuch Chi chased after him like an old hen, "Young Master Ji, Young Master Ji, run slowly! Ouch, slow down!"
He had never imagined the scene of running behind a child. The palace servants and guards outside Qingyuan Hall saw this scene from a distance, and they all held back their laughter and dared not come up.
That child is Bei Ligui's envoy, who would dare to intervene without knowing the seriousness? Let Eunuch Chi come by himself.
Eunuch Chi chased Ji Cheng out of the Qingyuan Palace like an old hen, and all the way to the Imperial Study Room, only then did the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army guarding outside react a little, trying to stop the people who trespassed in the Imperial Study Room.
Eunuch Chi breathed a sigh of relief, stood on the spot and bent down, panting heavily, when he suddenly saw the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army retreating back like a tide.
It turned out that they had just seen who the person who came running was, Bei Ligui envoy His Majesty did not dare to offend, so why did they join in the fun
Ji Chengfa went all the way unimpeded, and rolled into the imperial study room like a rubber ball.
Ning Chengzhi was startled when he heard the voice, and after a closer look, he realized that it was Ji Chengfa. Ji Chengfa entered the hall and was about to speak when he suddenly saw someone sitting beside Ning Chengzhi's couch.
The man sat quietly with a calm smile on his face, and only turned his head slightly when he saw him coming in. His expression seemed to have known that Ji Chengfa was about to barge in, and he was not surprised at all.
Ning Chengzhi suppressed the anger rising high after seeing the person coming, "Young Master Ji? Why did you come in without notifying me, I was shocked."
His tone was not accusation, more like complaint.
When Ji Chengfa saw Yin Shuo, he became a hedgehog with thorns all over his body, "During the martial arts competition that day, Emperor Ning said that he would reward the two brothers of the Gu family. Why did he suddenly kill them all? I like the martial arts of the two brothers. Your majesty wants to Beheading them, is this embarrassing me, Bei Li?"
Ning Chengzhi subconsciously shuddered, Yin Shuo gave him an indifferent look, and the latter calmed down again.
Ji Chengfa saw that Ning Chengzhi was frightened, and his threat worked. For some reason, Ning Chengzhi returned to normal after being glanced at by Yin Shuo.
What exactly is going on
Ning Chengzhi smiled and said: "Young Master Ji sit down and talk first, come and bring me some good tea for Young Master Ji to taste."
He said again: "Why would I embarrass Bei Li? You don't have to hide it from me, Mr. Ji, I know you were sent by Yufu, and you just want to save the Guhou family, don't you?"
Ji Chengfa's heart skipped a beat, did they guess Yufu's identity
No, it doesn't look like Ning Chengzhi's expression.
Maybe they just knew that there was some kind of connection between themselves and Yufu, so they said that.
Ji Chengfa raised his chin and looked proud, "What are you talking about? I am a member of the royal family of Beili, a cousin of Prince Beili, and an envoy of Dongling on this mission. I was sent by the Beili court. How come someone sent me here?"
He put on the identity of Beili's royal family, and Ning Chengzhi was subconsciously afraid.
Yin Shuo laughed and said, "Young Master Ji is naturally an envoy sent by Beili, we don't doubt that. But Young Master Ji never said that you are from Immortal Valley, so why pretend not to know each other?" Where is the eldest princess of Zhenjiang? By the way, I am Dongling's eldest princess of Zhenjiang, whose boudoir name is Yufu."
Ji Chengfa rolled his eyes, "So what if we know each other? What does this have to do with the Guhou Mansion? I can't stop Emperor Ning if he really wants to kill the Guhou Mansion's family, but I'm an envoy after all, so you have to give me a murderer." The reason? Otherwise, I, Bei Li, really wouldn't dare to make friends with a king who kills innocent people indiscriminately."
Ning Chengzhi had already believed Yin Shuo's words, and now hearing Ji Chengfa's admission that he and Yufu knew each other, he believed Yin Shuo's words more and more.
He smiled and said: "Okay, young master, you should use Beili to suppress me everywhere. I tell you clearly that I will not really kill Guhou's family. I just ordered to scare Yufu and let her Come back obediently. Of course, if she doesn't come back, I don't mind if the fake show is real."
The last sentence was to warn Ji Chengfa, lest he tell Yu Fu that this was just a means to force her to come back, Ji Chengfa frowned and thought.
Not really want to kill
If what Ning Chengzhi said was true, Yufu was already on his way back, and Guhou's family would not be in danger.
But is it really that simple
He raised his head to look at Yin Shuo, Yin Shuo was holding a cup of tea in his hand, and he took a sip slowly, with a faint smile on his lips.
"Good tea, thank you, Mr. Ji, I can only drink Your Majesty's good tea because of your honor."
Ning Chengzhi laughed loudly, "Since you like it, I will order people to make two bags in a while, and send one bag to Mr. Ji and your house respectively."
A flash of light flashed in Ji Chengfa's mind, and he suddenly figured it out.
This is Yin Shuo's conspiracy.
What to scare Yu Fu, this is Yin Shuo's lie to deceive Ning Chengzhi, he clearly saw through that he wanted to save everyone in Guhou's residence, so he deliberately deceived Ning Chengzhi, and he would definitely kill Guhou's family when the time came.
When the heads of all the families in Guhou's Mansion fell to the ground, the courtiers and common people blamed Ning Chengzhi, and even if Ning Chengzhi wanted to hold Yin Shuo accountable, Yin Shuo would also excuse himself for not being able to convey a clear message.
After all, the decree of copying and beheading the whole family was under Ning Cheng's rule, and it was undisputed.
He trembled all over, and his soft childish voice subconsciously deepened, "Then when is your so-called fake chopping?"
Ning Chengzhi sipped his tea slowly, unaware of a huge conspiracy hanging over his head.
He raised his brows triumphantly, "I didn't want to make an appointment too early, but Yin Shoufu felt that he could force Yufu to come back sooner. I haven't seen Yufu for a long time, and I really miss him very much!"
"So, my decision will be in three days."