"Don't worry about this!" After hearing this, Qi Jiulu hadn't said anything yet, but Gong Xiangxiao outside couldn't wait to say, "My father has been fighting with the Ji family for many years, how could he not be on guard against them? Your queen is willing to come here in person. Want to see you guys? I can’t help it..."
At this point, someone seemed to cough secretly. Gong Xiangxiao was reminded, and his pride subsided slightly, and he only said, "Anyway, just listen to Xinyun's arrangements."
Yun Fenghuang squinted his eyes, thought for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "Then what is the prince still doing here? Are you going to continue to listen to me?"
"..." Gong Xiangxiao was speechless and said, "You can cross the river and demolish the bridge quickly enough."
Yun Fenghuang didn't answer and lightly kicked Qi Jiulu. Qi Jiulu understood, stood up, and went out with a smile: "I will see the prince off."
Gong Xiangxiao said resentfully: "Why do you keep attacking this little ancestor of your family? How can you cheer up your husband if you continue like this... Oh, forget it, looking at your worthless look, I'm afraid she will eat you to death in this life. dead."
As he muttered, he heard a sound of footsteps disappearing - Yun Fenghuang in the stone room listened carefully. In addition to Gong Xiangxiao and Qi Jiulu, there were at least six or seven other people. Their footsteps were so slight that they were almost undetectable. , probably Gong Xiangxiao's bodyguard.
She waited until these people were far away, then shook off the baggage Qi Jiulu had prepared and hurriedly put it on.
After a while, Qi Jiulu came back alone and saw that she had walked out of the stone room neatly dressed and was looking around with interest: outside the stone room was not the room she originally thought, but a long and narrow cave. Judging from the marks on the cave wall, Look, this cave must have existed for a long time.
There were many air outlets dug around, and it was so dark that I didn't know where they led. Wind came in from time to time and wandered around the room. Therefore, even though the cave was very deep, it didn't feel stuffy.
There were just a few scattered things in the corner, which made people's scalp tingle just looking at them: they were all instruments of torture, old and new, and what they had in common was that they all had blood stains with varying degrees of infiltration.
There was even something that looked like a human bone buried under the shackles.
"I'll give you another place tomorrow." Seeing Yun Fenghuang staring at the human bones, Qi Jiulu hurriedly walked over and kicked them behind the debris, and said apologetically, "There are some things that I need to deal with today, but it's too late. ...By the way, do you like Jiangnan or Guanwai?"
"Does the Prince Regent know about your arrangements between these two places?" Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows when he heard this and asked the question without answering.
Qi Jiulu said softly: "The prince didn't ask, and I didn't plan to tell them. Anyway, it depends on what you like, and I will make arrangements. Didn't you say you like Jiangnan earlier? So I bought Zhuangzi in Jiangnan in advance. The land and things have been prepared as you like. But I also thought, after all, we all grew up in the north, and maybe you are still used to the north. Although it is not possible to go back to my hometown for the time being, the climate and customs outside the customs are similar to our home. "
"He didn't ask because you did these things under his nose." Yun Fenghuang looked at him and said slowly, "Elopement with a palace concubine is a crime like this. In the future, you and I will be held accountable for the rest of our lives. In his hands, even the Xie family and the Qi family cannot escape the implication."
Qi Jiulu frowned and said: "The secret meeting between you and me in the palace originally fell into his hands. But first of all, he himself was involved in this matter, so why expose it to him? Secondly, I am the crown prince. The confidant, and the prince were both prosperous and devastated..."
"This is just now." Yun Fenghuang sighed and shook his head after hearing this, "Gong Xiangxiao is getting older but he still has no real power. However, his stepmother's younger brother is more and more valued by the regent. Since he is unwilling to be regent The king was cold and worried about the instability of the crown prince's position, so he hurriedly recruited people to try to achieve his wings... But in fact, his fundamental interest is to follow the regent, and what is he without the regent? "
"The regent once missed the position of the crown prince. For this reason, there must be a battle between him and Chunjia - now he also needs to join hands with Chunjia to take care of the Ji family, the Zheng family, and the Cui family. So it’s okay to help me escape from the palace and hide my name.”
"But once the royal pair of uncles and nephews wipe out the temple and it's just them fighting each other, do you think... based on my entanglement with Duke Yi Guo's government, the regent will let go of such a ready-made weapon?"
She had said before that the Regent would not want anything to happen to Gu Zhen right now - this was not only because Gu Zhen was the legitimate daughter of Uncle Zhaowu, the Regent's right-hand man, but also because for the Regent, Gu Zhen could never die in the wings right now. In the hands of the Duke’s Mansion!
After all, the premise for the emperor and the regent to join forces to deal with outsiders such as the Ji family is the delicate balance between the royal uncle and nephew: the emperor has the position of emperor, which is a symbol of orthodoxy, and at the same time has the loyal assistance of important ministers such as Yi Guogong. Although his strength is still lacking compared to the deep-rooted regent, he is not without the strength to fight.
To put it simply: Both uncle and nephew think that I can win if I get rid of the outsiders who disrupt the situation!
But once something goes wrong in Yi Guogong's mansion, Chunjia has enough direct lineage to rely on, and Xingningbo's mansion will be left alone.
The Yuan family was just a local prominent family in the early days. It was only through its nephew who became emperor that he entered the circle of nobles in the imperial capital. However, from the first day he came to the imperial capital, he was tacitly suppressed by Ji family, Zheng family, Cui family and other important ministers. In the past eight years, he has not been able to It has never developed... It has always been a sign of weakness to follow Duke Yi and shout for them to support the emperor alone.
In this way, the balance of power between the emperor and the regent is unbalanced. The emperor is stupid and will continue to join forces with the regent to deal with other people. I'm afraid it would be better if he doesn't immediately turn around and promote Ji to deal with the regent!
So at this moment, the regent absolutely does not want anything to happen to the Duke of Yi State - and he will never allow Empress Ji to succeed in her plan to create a rift between the Duke of Yi State and the regent to gain a chance for Ji's recovery!
However, when the Ji family and others are dismissed in the future...
Only the battle between uncle and nephew is left...
Why does the regent keep the Yun family
So when the time comes, what Yun Qike did today, no matter how much calculation, guidance or instigation was behind his actions, the charges of kidnapping the palace concubine and murdering Jieyu are inexcusable, and it is impossible for the regent not to take advantage of this. Criticizing Duke Yi's Mansion - No matter how hard Qi Jiulu and Yun Fenghuang conceal their names, they will probably be found as witnesses.
As for what will happen to them after doing this...
Will the regent take care of it
Anyway, Yun Fenghuang didn't believe that the prince could be stupid enough to be moral at such a critical moment. She would never leave her family's fortune and life to a clan member she didn't understand at all.
At this moment, he looked at Qi Jiulu and said earnestly, "I just said that you would arrange for Yunqi Guest to burn Chunban Villa. Gong Xiangxiao never denied it. Combined with the fact that you mentioned the Gu family to the Queen before... what you told the Queen is probably because of this. Yun Qike was the culprit, and the Chunban Villa was burned down, so that both Gu Zhen and I were buried in the sea of fire. Well, in my opinion, the scapegoats arranged by the left and right should be burned directly until they can't tell the difference; as for Gu Zhen, in order to avoid the regent and Chun The overall situation of Jia is of paramount importance, and I am afraid that we must let her die in the hands of Yun Qike in front of everyone."
"In this way, it is impossible for Duke Yi to escape the serious crime. Chunjia loses this help. In order to balance the temple, he can only choose to reconcile with the Ji family."
"And the queen can always make peace with her mother and the world for a period of time to plan for the future!"
Seeing that Qi Jiulu remained silent, acquiescing to his speculation, Yun Fenghuang sighed, "But since you are not sincerely cooperating with the queen, the regent cannot allow the queen's plan to come true... When the time comes, can the queen let us go?" I know you want to say that the regent will definitely seize this opportunity to pursue the Ji family fiercely!"
She raised her hand to signal Qi Jiulu not to interrupt, "The problem is that although the Queen is forced by you to come here to see us in person, no matter what kind of excuse you have in your hands, it will always be useful because the Queen has some scruples. Once Ji If the family collapses, who knows if the queen will expose everything regardless and take revenge?!"
"When the time comes when the regent will be in a position of great power, it will be easy to distance yourself from the crown prince. What about the two of us?"
Yun Fenghuang said seriously, "You are young and promising, and you are valued by the prince. Maybe they will keep you alive, but what will they do for my own safety?"
Naturally, silence.
"... The Crown Prince knows my feelings for you and will not allow such a thing to happen." Qi Jiulu sighed after hearing this, stretched out his arms to hug her, and said softly, "Besides, I am doing all this for you. If you have a What happened? Why should I live alone?"
Yun Fenghuang leaned on his chest for a while, then slowly but firmly pushed him away, looked up into his eyes, and said solemnly: "Because you have done so much for me, I I can’t watch you throw away your life just because of me—listen to me, we met in private before and our relationship with Gong Xiangxiao was inseparable, so let’s just pay it off.”
"If I really leave with you this time, Gong Xiangxiao will be just like you and the queen trying to get me out and using Yun Qike as a backstop. He will also destroy the credentials and use himself to help my husband and the concubine. The matter of private meetings will be pushed aside!"
"He can completely deny our private meetings these days. He can only say that everything was done by Yun Qike, and he doesn't know anything-"
"Then we will completely lose the leverage to blackmail Gong Xiangxiao and the Prince Regent's Palace, and instead we will completely fall under the control of the Prince Regent's Palace!"
"When the time comes, if they want us to live, we will live; if they want us to die, we will die - Brother Lu, are you willing to live like this?!"
Qi Jiulu was older than her. When the two families had not yet agreed on marriage when they were young, due to their family connections, they always matched their elders and younger ones.
Every time they met, Yun Fenghuang followed Jiang's instructions and called "Brother Lu" in a sweet voice. She was too young at the time and couldn't pronounce it accurately, so she often called her "Ruo Ge". The elders looked amused and deliberately made excuses to make her shout repeatedly. Qi Jiulu felt troublesome and embarrassed at that time, so he walked away quietly. When the elders saw this, they asked Yun Fenghuang to follow him. At that time, Yun Fenghuang was confused and confused. , "Ruo Ge" was heard repeatedly behind him, and only after occasionally saying the right word would he be willing to look back...
Later, the two families agreed on a marriage, and Yun Fenghuang gradually grew into a rude person. Whether he did something wrong or asked for something, he would always call him by his first name and surname - even if the elders were in front of him, they would just say "brother" to get rid of the trouble. .
For a while, Qi Jiulu fought with her in a battle of wits and courage just to get her to call him "Brother Lu" again. Speaking of which, the last time he heard this title was from Kongquepo that year.
Thinking of Peacock Slope, Qi Jiulu's eyes darkened, and there was a hint of Yun Feng Huang's unfamiliar sinister look between his brows.
Yun Fenghuang was looking at him, slightly startled when he saw this.
"Ah Huang." Qi Jiulu pondered, his hands hidden in his sleeves clenched unconsciously, and the veins on his arms were exposed. He asked in a hoarse voice, "I have considered what you said, but we missed it three years ago. We missed it again at the beginning of the year... Chunjia was in his prime, and the regent was still in his prime. If you don't leave this time, when can you and I be reunited?"
There was a look of sadness on his face, "The palace has been a dirty place since ancient times. Outsiders only say that you Mao Jieyu was promoted quickly and was deeply loved by Chunjia, but I remember that it has only been a few days since you entered the palace? You already have few heirs. ! I know that you have had your own ideas since you were a child, and I also know that this plan to mediate between the Queen, the Crown Prince and the Regent is indeed risky and will have endless consequences!"
"However, I don't care if you wait until your hair turns gray. The question is, how long will Chunjia's harem keep you safe?"
"Do you remember what happened when you and Chun Jia fell off a cliff together not long ago?"
"I heard from the person I arranged that I didn't wait for you at the foot of Qishan Mountain. Then I received news that you and Chunjia fell off the cliff together and you didn't know whether you were alive or dead. There were assassins beside you... Do you know how I felt at that time?!"
Yun Fenghuang opened his mouth and was about to speak, but he grabbed his arm - Qi Jiulu's eyes were as bright as fire, and there was a hint of blood in his eyes. He looked down at the woman he had grown up with since childhood, and said word by word: "I swear at that time , If God gives me another chance, if you can come back alive... I will definitely take you away!"
"When my sister had an accident, I couldn't take you away from the turmoil in the North; later, I couldn't take you away from the pressure of the family in Peacock Slope; but this time, I will take you away no matter what... because I don't know After missing this time, will I have another chance?!"
Seeing that Yun Fenghuang looked moved but hesitated to speak, his heart slowly sank.