Qin Yining stared blankly at Grandma Sun, and did not speak for a long time.
The wooden comb in Bingtang's hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Mammy Sun, you mean, my father was killed?"
Mammy Sun couldn't bear to look away and nodded heavily, "The sage just spoke to the empress at Kunning Palace, and when someone was going back and forth with the empress, the empress heard her ear, and the empress hurriedly left. Tell your servants to tell you."
After hesitating for a while, Mammy Sun said again: "Actually, the Empress said that the sage may tell you about this matter, and it's not wrong for her to inform you in advance, but in the end she was thinking about her relationship with you."
The last sentence is very meaningful.
Maybe the saint will tell her, which means that there is a high possibility that he will not tell her.
If Li Qitian insisted on keeping her in the palace, then she would have no reason to leave without telling her that something happened to the Qin family. Anyway, as long as she is still in the palace, as long as Li Qitian thinks about it, she has no way to know the news outside.
The corners of Qin Yining's lips twitched, and her dry eyes slowly turned, her eyes were already red, and her voice was stern: "Thank you, Empress. Please tell the Empress, the courtiers must be careful, so that no one will suspect the Empress. "
Hearing Qin Yining say this, Mammy Sun breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but smile: "Princess Concubine understands. That servant will retire."
"Jiyun, help me deliver my mother."
"Yes."
Ji Yun politely sent Mammy Sun out.
Qin Yining sat in the same position with his hands folded on his knees, looking at his face in the makeup mirror.
Everyone said that she looked like her father when she was a teenager, but now that her father is older and has a beard, he can no longer find the tenderness and handsomeness on his wrinkled face. Elegance and calmness after precipitation.
Qin Yining's fingers slowly stroked his cheek.
A tear slipped down from the red right eye, dripping on the palm of the hand, very hot.
Father is dead
She tried her best to spread the news and asked Xiyue's people for help, but was it still too late
Li Qitian pretended to be stupid and stunned in front of Xungui, and he didn't want to deal with her, so it was very likely that his father also moved his hands at the same time. In these short twenty days, the people of Xiyue may not have time to get out of the desert at all...
His mind seemed to freeze, and he had completely lost his ability to think.
Qin Yining looked at herself in the mirror, but thought of her father.
When she had just returned home, her mother suspected that she was not her own, and made things difficult for her in every possible way. Her grandmother and sisters didn't like her either. Although her father didn't show his feelings at first, as a man, he wouldn't go to mix with those in the inner house. thing. But every time she encountered difficulties, every time she was involved in the struggle of the imperial court, her father always taught her and helped her.
She is her father's only child. The father didn't care that she was a woman, and raised her as a son. The love that cannot be felt in others, her father gave her first.
Is such a good father really gone
Qin Yining kept wiping the wetness on her face, but she couldn't wipe it clean. Intellectually, she knew that she should be calm and not let anyone see her flaws. She just promised that Mammy Sun would not cause trouble to the queen...
"Princess, you, don't be sad, you..." Bingtang and Jiyun looked at Qin Yining, who was crying in tears.
"I know, I know." Qin Yining lowered her head, clasped her skirt tightly with both hands, her voice was hoarse, "I can't cry, I can't let people see my eyes are red and swollen, I live in the palace, don't they? Still aggrieved? This will leave people behind. But I, I don't know what's wrong, the tears flowed out on their own, what happened to me... "
"Princess." Bingtang sobbed and hugged Qin Yining, "Princess, don't wrong yourself, cry if you want, you have been wronged, what's the point of crying? Your heart is bitter, slaves are all Know."
Ji Yun also hugged Bingtang and Qin Yining with open arms, cursing while crying: "Kill a thousand knives, sooner or later I will slash that dog with a thousand knives!"
Qin Yining closed her eyes and clenched her teeth tightly to prevent herself from making a sound. Her hatred has never been stronger than it is now.
There is no room for kindness and righteousness in this world. She already understood when she experienced the blood calamity in Dayan Qin's family in her early years. But she still remains naive...
Qin Yining even regretted it. If she had tried to kill Li Qitian early on, wouldn't everything have happened
However, she is just an ordinary woman, and there is no regret medicine in this world.
At this time, in the Hall of Pure Heart, Li Qitian was staring at the man in black kneeling in front of him with a dark face.
"How did I tell you? Huh? How do you do things?"
"The sage, calm down, it's the minister's incompetence. The minister dares to guarantee that the people on the road that he found are extremely reliable, and the minister never imagined that Lord Qin, food and other things would suddenly disappear."
"Suddenly disappeared?" Li Qitian laughed angrily, "Although it is outside Tianyuguan, it is not a ghostly place, right? There is no warning, even people and things suddenly disappeared? Could it be those bandits you are looking for? I've made an old mistake again, and gave me a black to eat black?!"
"Sacred Lord, calm down." The man in black pressed his forehead to the ground, shaking like a sieve.
Li Qitian paced around the people in black with his hands behind his back. Although he wanted to get rid of Qin Huaiyuan, the things that the army brought with him were real gold, silver, cloth and food!
"I asked you to kill, but you told me that I didn't know whether to kill or not. Not only did the mission not complete, but I even lost everything! What's the use of me wanting a rice bucket like you!" kicked the man on the shoulder.
The man in black was kicked and rolled around, hurriedly got up and knelt up straight again, and kowtowed: "Sacred Lord, calm down!"
"waste!"
The man in black kowtowed again and again.
Li Qitian closed his eyes, put his hands behind him, raised his head sharply and took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and slowly exhaled it, as if he had taken a puff of dry smoke.
When he spoke again, Li Qitian was very calm.
"Get out of here and get punished."
"Yes, thank you for your grace of not killing!" The man in black scrambled back as if he had been granted amnesty.
Li Qitian's hands were clenched into fists, and he stood in the hall with his hands behind his back and slowly closed his eyes. Under the anger, the chaotic emotions gradually settled, and his thoughts gradually became clear.
Qin Huaiyuan disappeared with the goods, and the corpses who were escorting the army were left behind. What could this mean
It may be that there is a problem with the people he arranged, and there is a blackout, and even people and things are robbed, and there will be follow-ups later.
It is also possible that the Tatars knew that Qin Huaiyuan had rewarded the army and ordered people to come to loot to avenge their defeat.
But there is another possibility that Qin Huaiyuan defected to the Tartars with the large sum of gold, silver and provisions to reward the army, and rebelled out of the court!
As an emperor, Li Qitian still has confidence in his status and appeal.
He ordered people to find a group of robbers from Jiangyang, whose purpose was to kill Qin Huaiyuan. After the event was completed, these people would be taken for their own use. For them, it was like having a recognized identity, but the little gangsters could do it. How lucky is this to be today's subordinate
Li Qitian didn't think these bandits would give up the opportunity to walk under the light.
In this way, Qin Huaiyuan has the greatest possibility of absconding with food, grass and property.
Li Qitian sneered, and slowly returned to the heated kang by the window where the bright yellow mattress was laid, and took a sip of the cold tea with the tea bowl.
After a while, he said, "Xiong Jinshui."
The chief eunuch, who had been standing in the corner without any sense of existence, immediately stepped forward and saluted: "The slave is here."
"Go to the palace and tell the Qin family that Qin Huaiyuan's old thing was intercepted and killed outside Tianyu Pass, and there are no bones left. Let their family figure it out for themselves."
"Yes." Xiong Jinshui did not leave immediately.
As is the case, at this time, the saint should still have arrangements, such as what to pursue or what to reward.
Xiong Jinshui's sophistication and smoothness can immediately see that Li Qitian has no intention of continuing to speak.
Xiong Jinshui immediately bowed and stepped back. So as not to stay too long and be angered by the saint.
When he got outside, Xiong Jinshui breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that the Qin family has completely angered Tianwei, and there is not even a chase after death. If you don't express your position, don't say your merits, and don't commit sins like the Holy One, what about the funeral of Lord Qin? When Lord Qin died, did he die for the court, or did he die because of his own mistakes
Xiong Jinshui didn't know what to do, so he didn't think about it, and just told the Qin family what he had just said according to Li Qitian's instructions.
The second and third masters of Qin had widened their eyes and said incredulously, "This father-in-law, what do you mean, my elder brother, he died in the line of duty?"
Xiong Jinshui said: "Master Qin is not good at handling things. He lost the gold, silver and food and grass that transported the army. He died outside the gate, and there are no bones left. The Holy Master told your family for a lifetime. Anyway, Master Qin is also an old minister."
After Xiong Jinshui finished speaking, he didn't stop at Qin's house any longer, and then he handed over and retired.
The second master and the third grandfather fell to the ground dumbfounded, in disbelief, and they found it hard to tolerate them not believing.
"Brother, is he really gone?"
"Well, how can I tell my mother this?"
How to say? The old lady's heart is Qin Huaiyuan, but no matter how angry the old lady is or how wrong she has done, as long as there is Qin Huaiyuan, the old lady can quickly calm down and persuade her Make the right choice.
But now, the pillar of the Qin family has suddenly disappeared!
"Second brother, isn't the meaning of the Holy One too subtle? Listen to Eunuch Xiong's meaning, why does the elder brother's matter not even count as being killed in the public service
The third master's face was ashen, and he had already thought that something must have changed in the court, "Someone must be secretly slandering, and now the sage must be waiting to cure the eldest brother's sin!"
"I traveled on business and encountered a bandit who died outside without any bones. The sage didn't say a word of sympathy. He even asked the servant to imply that our eldest brother was not doing well. The sage did this..."
What's the point of this!