Doudou muttered and wanted to nod, but couldn't help but shake his head.
"I don't know. I think dad is a good person, but everyone says he betrayed us, so I don't know if I should believe him."
Seeing his own son questioning himself like this, he sighed helplessly, his handsome face filled with ice.
Now Doudou doesn't believe him and thinks he betrayed Jitoushan.
Su Muer didn't believe him either, thinking that he had written the heartless letter.
The bandits all over the mountain didn't believe him. Thinking of this, he laughed to himself.
All he can do now is to prove himself that this matter has nothing to do with him.
So he decided to go back to Liu Hai and ask him what happened to the letter. Only by investigating the letter clearly could Su Muer give him a chance to explain.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but explain, comforted Doudou, and went out to prepare to go down the mountain.
But at the intersection going down the mountain, he was blocked by bandits.
"You can't leave."
The bandit who stopped him had hatred in his eyes and a cold voice.
"Why don't you let me go?" Ye Shihan's face was full of doubts.
"The last time you left, Jitou Mountain suffered a disaster. If it weren't for the desperate protection of the boss, we would still be trapped. Now you want to leave at night? Is it possible that you have some evil intentions?"
"nonsense."
He suddenly became furious, "I just want to go back to investigate some things and clarify some things. You guys get out of the way."
"No,"
Seeing his voice rising, a group of bandits suddenly stepped forward, raised their swords, and looked at him fiercely.
The depths of Ye Shihan's eyes were suddenly filled with ice, and his face turned green.
But reason told him that he must not do anything with these people, otherwise Su Mu'er would doubt him even more.
So, he came to Su Muer's door and knocked on her door.
"Mu'er, can I come in?"
Hearing his voice, Su Muer frowned and called outside:
"If you have anything to do, go to the main hall and wait for me."
She didn't want to meet him privately alone.
Although Ye Shihan felt a little disappointed, he still nodded in agreement and walked towards the main hall.
He waited in the main hall for a long time before Su Muer came.
She sat directly in the main hall, looking down at him like a boss,
"What do you want from me?"
Her cold voice made him feel frightened, but he still pursed his lips and said:
"I want to go down the mountain, but the people guarding the mountain won't let me. Go and tell them."
Hearing what he said, Su Muer suddenly pursed her lips and smiled disdainfully.
"What? Are you going down the mountain again? Do you want to go back and rearrange the people who came to suppress the bandits?"
Hearing this, Ye Shihan's face turned pale and his heart sank.
Even she didn't believe him, let alone those bandits.
"But if I don't go down the mountain, I won't be able to verify this letter, and I won't be able to give you an explanation."
"I don't need to explain."
She interrupted him directly and coldly, "You don't need to give me any explanation."
"Mu'er..."
"Call me the boss."
Her cold voice pushed him directly into the deep cold valley, making him feel chilled all over.
He looked at her. This woman was the only woman he could not refute, and she was also the woman he wanted to respect.
After pondering for a moment, he directly cupped his fists and said:
"Master, then I will stay here on the mountain? Can't I go down?"
"right."
Su Muer said coldly again: "You have to risk your life to go up the mountain. Now that you are here, don't go down. And you have also seen that the brothers outside are watching you closely. Don't think about leaving easily."
.”
Regarding these words, Ye Shihan expressed his helplessness, but since he was not allowed to leave, he would not leave. It was just Su Muer's indifference towards him that made him very anxious.
Xiao Mo returned to the capital without killing a bandit. He released the informant Nie Shuang, gave him all the silver reward given by the concubine, and told him to stay away from Jitou Mountain, otherwise he would die.
Without a burial place.
He didn't know if Nie Shuang would listen to him, but the most important thing right now was that he had to go see the emperor.
This time the bandit suppression was in vain, so the emperor's face was gloomy without a trace of smile.
"Your Majesty, I have fulfilled my sacred mandate and please punish me."
Kneeling in front of the emperor, Xiao Mo's voice was a little hoarse and he did not dare to raise his head.
The emperor looked at him with a dark expression, "Why did you fail? Give me an explanation."
He didn't believe that the majestic general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty couldn't understand how to suppress bandits?
"Your Majesty, the Jitou Mountain is so dangerous that there is no way to go up the mountain. I have been guarding at the foot of the mountain for two months and still found nothing. The food on Jitou Mountain is very rich, so even if I keep guarding it any longer,
, it will only be in vain, and I have also inquired around and found that the people on Jitou Mountain have not done anything evil that violates human ethics, so I want to come back and report to the emperor to clarify the matter."
"What can the bandits say to clarify? And I also heard that there are a pair of sons and daughters of the Emperor of Guning on Jitou Mountain?"
Hearing this, Xiao Mo couldn't help but take a breath. He didn't expect that the emperor, sitting in the capital, would know such details.
So he replied:
"Yes, it may have been lost in Jitoushan since childhood, but they have already gone back."
The emperor suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked at him with questioning in his voice,
"I also heard that people from Guning Kingdom are going to attack Luoyang?"
"Your Majesty, they just wanted to find their sons and daughters, so they took the risk to attack the city. Fortunately, their sons and daughters returned in the end, and the people of Guning Kingdom also retreated."
"Bold."
The emperor suddenly slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and roared,
"It's really unreasonable. How dare you do so many evil things behind my back? I heard that you even made a gentleman's appointment with that Su Mu'er? Do you know that she is a bandit? She may also have an affair with that person from Guning Country.
Adultery? Is it possible that she will raise an army to rebel? Have you forgotten what I told you before setting off?"
Listening to the emperor's harsh rebuke, Xiao Mo suddenly felt frightened.
He didn't expect that the emperor even knew about his solo fight with Su Mu'er. It seemed that he still underestimated the emperor.
"Your Majesty, I forgive you. I know I was wrong."
The emperor suddenly stared at him and roared at him:
"Are you wrong? It's too late. The country cannot have no rules. If you deceive me like this, you are committing the crime of deceiving the emperor. But because you have fought victorious battles for the country, I will not kill you. You will be exempted from the death penalty and will be punished alive.
There’s no way to escape.”
After saying this, he yelled at the people outside, "Come here, take Xiao Mo to the sky prison and wait until he is punished."
After hearing his order, Xiao Mo froze in place with some astonishment. He never expected that the consequences of this matter would be so serious.
"Your Majesty, although I have made mistakes, I will not go to jail. Please forgive me for my reckless behavior this time for the sake of my loyalty to the Emperor in the past."
"Spare you?"
The emperor suddenly snorted coldly, "If I spare you today, more people in this court will come to deceive me and drag me down in the future."
The last three words the emperor said were particularly serious. Seeing this, the guards outside came in and pulled him up directly.
Xiao Mo did not plead for mercy, he just glanced at the emperor coldly, feeling like he was falling into a cold pool.
He didn't expect that he, a general with great military exploits, would be imprisoned because of such a trivial matter?
He felt chilled, it would be fine if he didn't help such an emperor.
Thinking of this, he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and the shrill voice resounded throughout the palace.
This time the bandit suppression failed, and the emperor was extremely angry.
In the morning, he looked at the ministers in the hall with a dark expression.
"Who is willing to lead troops to suppress bandits?"
After hearing this, everyone began to look at each other and stopped speaking.
Everyone knows that the bandits on Jitou Mountain are not easy to eradicate. This time Xiao Mo went there and was immediately thrown into prison when he came back. Who would dare to go again?
The emperor narrowed his eyes and looked at the ministers in the hall, and suddenly became furious.
"What a bunch of cowards."
Then, he thought of Ye Shihan. He knew that he would stay with the concubine in the palace for a hundred days. Counting the days, it was time for him to come to court.
But he did not show up. For this reason, the emperor sent someone to call him in the palace. At this time, the concubine was sitting in the palace with a sad face. After Ye Shihan left, Sun Mengmeng no longer came. The huge palace,
Except for a few servants, there is no one else.
The concubine no longer wants to go to the emperor to make the decision for her. She knows the son she gave birth to best. His temper is frighteningly stubborn. Since he sincerely wants to find that woman, even if he gets her back, he will not accept her.
Heartfelt.
Now he only hopes to come back after he hits the wall.
The people sent by the emperor quickly returned from the palace in disappointment. When the emperor heard this, he was immediately furious. He immediately decided to go to the palace in person to inquire about the matter.
When the concubine saw him coming, her face was calm and she just waved her hand to him and said:
"The Emperor is here, please sit down."
The emperor sat opposite her, looking at her haggard face, frowning,
"What's wrong with Auntie Huang?"
Hearing the emperor's question, the concubine suddenly shed tears of grievance, but she stopped immediately.
She let out a long sigh, "I'm just upset, why does the Emperor have time?"
The emperor glanced around her room and asked:
"Ye Shihan left again?"
"gone."
The concubine replied feebly: "I'm afraid he has been possessed by a ghost. He no longer has me as a mother-in-law in his heart, and that witch doesn't know what kind of magic power she has."
When he mentioned Su Mu'er, the emperor's eyes suddenly tightened, "This woman is really extraordinary. Even an upright person like Xiao Mo was deceived by her. She actually came back without killing a bandit."
"What?"
When the concubine heard this, she suddenly sat up straight and looked at him in astonishment.
"You said Xiao Mo is back? Did Doudou bring her back? Where is that woman? Is she dead?"
The emperor smiled bitterly and shook his head, "No, not even a single hair on that woman's hair was hurt, let alone Doudou."
Hearing this, the concubine's face suddenly filled with a dark look. She gritted her teeth, and her chest heaved violently because of her anger.
"It's really unreasonable. Not only did she take away my son, she also took away my grandson. This is really going to kill me, an old woman."