Li Yuanji praised: "You are really smart, so I won't hide you. I need you to appease them."
Cheng Yaojin agreed immediately.
Li Yuanji added, "If I can't appease them, then I will have no choice but to kill them."
Cheng Yaojin looked solemn and frowned slightly.
He knew very well that Li Yuanji would not lie about this kind of thing, so if Li Yuanji said he wanted to kill, he would definitely kill him.
When Li Yuanji saw that Cheng Yaojin was silent, he continued to talk in an incoherent manner: "As you know, the internal stability of the Tang Dynasty is not stable right now, and the Turks will be in trouble at any time, so I don't have that much time to scheming with others.
So whoever should cause trouble for me, I will send him down without hesitation."
Cheng Yaojin nodded solemnly and said: "I know the importance inside..."
As he spoke, Cheng Yaojin raised his head and said with a serious face: "I agreed to this matter, but now that I have difficulty moving, I need your Highness to send a few people to carry me to Chang'an City."
Seeing that Cheng Yaojin agreed so readily, Li Yuanji thought for a moment and roughly guessed what Cheng Yaojin was thinking. He smiled knowingly and said, "Okay, I'll let Uncle Xie send a few people to carry you."
With that said, he waved to Uncle Xie and said nothing.
Xie Shufang immediately left the cave, and not long after, he appeared in the cave with a few strong soldiers, carrying a sliding pole.
Seeing this, Cheng Yaojin smiled dryly and joked: "It seems that that person has caused a lot of trouble, otherwise His Highness would not have let me go on my way immediately."
Li Yuanji had already guessed Cheng Yaojin's thoughts, and how could he be manipulated by Cheng Yaojin with such words? He immediately said with a smile: "You can also rest here for a few more days before going, I won't mind."
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The smile on Cheng Yaojin's face froze and he didn't say any more joking words. He just smiled awkwardly and had someone lift him onto the slide and sway out of the cave dwelling.
Yu Chigong's eyes never left Cheng Yaojin. After Cheng Yaojin's back disappeared into the cave, a complicated expression appeared on his face.
Seeing this, Li Yuanji smiled and said, "You want to go too? If you want to go, I can send someone to carry you along."
Yuchi Gong forced an ugly smile on his dark face, and said stumblingly: "I... I'm stupid and can't do this kind of work, so I won't go."
Li Yuanji stared at Yuchi Gong with a smile and said nothing.
Yuchi Gong felt for a moment that he had been seen through.
This feeling is not pleasant.
In order to avoid this feeling, Yu Chigong moved his body little by little and faced the inside of the cave.
Li Yuanji shook his head and smiled, and stopped chasing the bully.
Since Yuchi Gong is avoiding him, it means that Yuchi Gong does not want to be seen through by him, and does not want to have no secrets in front of him.
No matter how you say it, Yuchi Gong is a large wounded person now, and it is not easy to bully him too much.
Otherwise, if Yuchi Gong gets angry and insists on hitting a pillar and dies, that will be a problem.
"Go and ask the doctor in the army if they have prescribed medicine for Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong. If so, boil it and prepare it. If the medicine is not enough, just send someone to the palace to find me. I will ask the princess to prepare all the medicine.
of."
After Yuchi Gong turned his back, Li Yuanji stayed with Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong in the cave. He waited until Qin Qiong woke up, had someone bring the prepared medicine, and watched Qin Qiong take it before getting in the car.
Went back to the palace.
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Qin Qiong was in a very bad state. After she woke up, she didn't say a word, as if she had lost her soul, and she lay on the kang in a daze.
Even if the medicine is fed to the mouth, it is only swallowed subconsciously and has no other reaction.
It wasn't until midnight that Cheng Yaojin came back and Yuchi Gong started chatting with Cheng Yaojin. Only then did Qin Qiong suddenly say something.
"Why?"
Cheng Yaojin was telling Yu Chigong about the process of going to Zhang Liang and others' house to discuss the matter. Yuchi Gong also talked to Cheng Yaojin wordlessly. Li Yuanji stayed with them here for most of the day.
Suddenly hearing Qin Qiong speak, she still asked this question.
Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Gong were both a little surprised. They looked at Qin Qiong with both eyes, and for a moment they didn't know how to answer.
They all knew what Qin Qiong was asking.
Precisely because I know, I don’t know how to answer.
It's not that they don't know the answer, it's that they don't know how to speak.
"Why?!"
Qin Qiong's voice suddenly rose several times and asked again.
Cheng Yaojin opened his mouth, but said nothing, and his face became ugly.
Yuchi Gong gritted his teeth and said: "It's my fault for this matter. If I hadn't failed to live up to expectations and wasn't the enemy of King Qi Yihe, what happened next would not have happened.
If Brother Qin wants to complain, blame me.
I will find a way to atone for my sins in the future."
Qin Qiong stared at the ceiling of the cave dwelling with some absent-minded eyes, and murmured: "What does this matter have to do with you, and why should I blame you?"
Yuchi Gong was a little anxious and tried hard to hold himself up, but his efforts were in vain. In the end, he could only lie down on the kang and stared at him: "Do you want to blame His Highness? Don't forget that Your Highness has treated me well."
.Even if Your Highness wants our lives, we can’t swallow the lake.”
"yes……"
Qin Qiong said quietly: "Even if Your Highness wants our lives, we will not hold back. Why would Your Highness do this?"
Yuchi Gong was so shocked that he was speechless. He looked at Cheng Yaojin anxiously and motioned for Cheng Yaojin to help him.
Cheng Yaojin let out a long sigh, looked at his nose and heart, and said nothing.
Because Li Shimin did something wrong and hurt Qin Qiong.
Qin Qiong is a person who values friendship. If Li Shimin wants him to die, he won't even blink. But Li Shimin trades him like a commodity. What kind of friendship is there?
How could Qin Qiong accept this?
Cheng Yaojin believed that he was not Qin Qiong and could not appreciate the pain Qin Qiong suffered, so he was not qualified to persuade Qin Qiong to be generous, let alone to persuade Qin Qiong not to blame Li Shimin.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Did he realize at that time that I was useless and that I would not be able to go to the battlefield again, so he decisively abandoned me as a useless person and used it to pay tribute to him?
Virtue in exchange for a chance to survive?"
Qin Qiong was silent for a long time, and after waiting for no answer, she spoke again.
Yuchi Gong couldn't lie down anymore and said anxiously: "That's not the case. It was King Qi who had to pay a price for His Highness to save you and me..."
"So he chose to trade me for you?"
Qin Qiong said this without hesitation.
Yuchi Gong was stunned again and was speechless.
This kind of thing of abandoning one person to save another has never been explained clearly.
At the moment of being abandoned, the abandoned person and the rescued person have already been distinguished in the heart of the person who made the choice, as well as the important and the unimportant.
Qin Qiong is undoubtedly the unimportant one, and Yuchi Gong is undoubtedly the important one.
So even if this kind of thing is explained, it cannot be explained clearly, because Li Shimin has already made a choice.
"Although it is wrong for Your Highness to do this, I think it is not bad for you, second brother. Your Highness is now a prisoner and can no longer give you a bright future, but King Qi is now in full bloom.
King Qi values you very much and can give you a brighter future."
Cheng bit his golden ear and listened to Qin Qiong's tone getting heavier and heavier, and his temper became more and more serious. He was afraid that Qin Qiong would fall into depression again, and depression condensed in his chest, so he immediately pretended to be relaxed and spoke.
He clearly remembered what the military doctor said when he diagnosed and treated Qin Qiong during the day.
It is said that Qin Qiong has depression in her chest, which is not conducive to self-cultivation. If the depression is vented, she will recover faster.
Qin Qiong is different from him and Yuchi Gong. His body bones are no longer so strong and cannot withstand the torture.
Therefore, it was impossible for him to watch Qin Qiong's chest become depressed again.
Qin Qiong tilted his head slightly, his eyes widened, his eyes were red and he said: "Yaojin, you and I have been through life and death together for many years, you should know what I am like.
I covet glory and wealth, but I haven’t reached the point where I would be ungrateful just for the sake of coveting glory and wealth.”
Qin Qiong valued loyalty and love, and he also coveted glory and wealth. He immediately made him a marquis and left his name in history. He did not hide it, he spoke out the truest thoughts in his heart happily.
Cheng Yaojin felt particularly uncomfortable when he heard this.
Although they once betrayed their master and betrayed Wang Shichong, this does not mean that they are the kind of villains who are ungrateful just for the sake of glory and wealth.
On the contrary, they also have persistence and a bottom line in their hearts.
They betrayed Wang Shichong in the first place because Wang Shichong was not a wise master and had no tolerance for others. He seemed to be very open-minded to those of them who threw themselves at Wagang, but in fact, they were on guard when they could, and if they couldn't be guarded, they found ways to get rid of them.
They also despised Wang Shichong's actions, so they defected to the Tang Dynasty during the war with the Tang Dynasty.
After joining the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin treated them generously and openly, and entrusted them with important tasks according to their talents. He did not worry at all that their achievements would outweigh his, or that they would turn against the Tang Dynasty when they became powerful.
Therefore, they followed Li Shimin wholeheartedly and never had the slightest hint of disloyalty.
They really regarded Li Shimin as their lord who could be loyal to him for life.
But now they were halfway there when Li Shimin abandoned them and sent Qin Qiong away as cargo. Qin Qiong's loyal heart really couldn't bear this kind of torture.
Similarly, he, Cheng Yaojin, could not bear this kind of torture.
Even though he is always laughing and joking, as if he is heartless, in fact he is more thoughtful and sensitive than anyone else.
If the same thing happened to him, the harm he would suffer and the pain he would endure would probably be greater than those of Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong and other straight-tempered people.
"breathe……"
Cheng Yaojin took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly. After trying hard to calm down the various emotions that had just surged in his heart, he continued to pretend to be relaxed: "Of course I know what the second brother is like.
But the matter has come to this, and the second brother has no other choice, why not think more about the good things?"
Things have developed to this point. Cheng Yaojin does not expect Qin Qiong to forgive Li Shimin, but only hopes to untie Qin Qiong's knot and make Qin Qiong live a happier life.
