"It turns out that it's Bachelor Xie... Is he here to send us mother and son off?"
Su Jianli stretched out his hand to protect the little emperor Liu Li behind him. The moment the door opened, the little emperor Liu Li's body trembled suddenly, and his face with tears stains turned pale. At this moment, he was frightened.
He looked so real, he was really a child. At this moment, the erectness he had deliberately pretended to be in his thin body had long since disappeared.
"I've met the Queen Mother, I've met Your Majesty."
Xie Huanran bowed.
He slowly stood up straight and looked at Su Jianli. The coldness in the latter's eyes was even stronger than that of the north outside.
"Why is there any need for pretentiousness? Queen Mother? Your Majesty? It's better to put away such titles."
Su Jianli sneered, like a hedgehog with a sharp defense.
"Now we, mother and son, are just a pair of prisoners. Bachelor Xie, it was Liu Ling who sent you to announce our "crime"? I would like to hear what crime Liu Ling convicted our mother and son? I don't know that you want to kill me.
Is this considered treason?"
Xie Huanran said: "Your Majesty is on his way south and will go to Shuzhou to handle military and state affairs. The Queen Mother should know that the army has returned south and will launch an offensive against the Southern Tang Dynasty soon. Your Majesty wants to arrange the overall situation in Shuzhou, and the affairs of Jinzhou...
…The prince has assigned the minister to take full responsibility.”
"oh?"
Su Jianli said coldly: "In that case, I would like to first congratulate the King of Han for making the world a little bigger!"
Xie Huanran sighed: "The Queen Mother...is it against her will to speak like this? How does the prince treat the Queen Mother and Her Majesty? Has the Queen Mother forgotten now? The world says that hatred can blind people's eyes and make people's hearts
A layer of dust has also fallen on it and it is no longer bright. However, I really can’t figure out where the Queen Mother’s hatred comes from.”
Su Jianli was stunned, and then said: "Hate, Bachelor Xie? I am the mother of a country, and I want to kill a minister. Do I still need to hate it? Do I need to explain the reason? Even if he has made great contributions and has a high position, is it right?
I can’t kill you?”
Xie Huanran said: "The Queen Mother can kill. If the Queen Mother does not like anyone in the world, she can kill anyone. But why did the Queen Mother go to sentence the King of Han without knowing the order? Why didn't she send an imperial envoy to arrest the King of Han? Since the Queen Mother felt that she did not need a reason to kill, since
As the mother of a country, why doesn’t the Queen Mother dare to do it justly?"
"you!"
Su Jianli opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't know how to refute Xie Huanran's words.
Xie Huanran sighed: "Your Majesty, the human heart is dusty. No one else can help wipe it away. You can only rely on yourself. Similarly, if the human heart is thorough, how can you do dark things?"
Su Jianli sneered and said: "Winners always say so. Today we, mother and son, are the losers, but it is not for a little person like you to make sarcastic remarks. You said that people with a thorough heart will not do dark things, then let me ask.
You, why didn't Liu Ling dare to ask me in person? Don't dare to deal with our mother and son in person? Why did he ask you to do it because he was afraid of being infamy for all eternity? Bachelor Xie, I'm just afraid that you would kill us, mother and son, Liu Ling
He's going to kill you, and then he pretends that he doesn't know anything about it. Bachelor Xie, have you thought of this?"
Xie Huanran shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The Queen Mother... because of the darkness of the human heart, many things she does are dark. Such people cannot tolerate a ray of light in their hearts, and they cannot tolerate a ray of light in the hearts of others. In the eyes of such people
, Anyone who does anything has a purpose and conspiracy. In their view, the sun shining on the earth is not a selfless dedication but a attachment to the high status. The moon illuminates the night, not to drive away the opposition in people's hearts with its weak light.
The fear of the night is to compete with the sun for its brightness.”
"For a person with a dark heart, the kindness others treat him must have some agenda in his eyes."
"So, such a person will be very painful, very painful. Because he will eventually find that there is no good person in the world, and people all over the world are targeting him. People all over the world have plots against him, and people all over the world have designs on him.
Everyone wanted him to die. He painfully discovered that he was alone. And his loneliness was not because of his darkness, but because of the light of the world."
Xie Huanran looked at Su Jianli and said: "The Queen Mother once tried to get closer to the light, but unfortunately..."
Su Jianli looked at Xie Huanran coldly: "Have you said enough? Even if I lose, I am still the Queen Mother of the Han Dynasty. Even if Your Majesty loses, you are still the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. It is not the turn of a clown like you to make irresponsible remarks!
You are not qualified to preach in front of me. If you want to do evil, you have to have a justifiable reason for doing evil. What is Liu Ling going to do? You have become a bitch and you want to build a chastity arch? No need to go to such trouble, Bachelor Xie
, you only need to tell me, what did Liu Ling ask you to do with our mother and son? Poisoned wine? Bai Ling? Short knife? Could it be Ming Zhengdian punishment? Could it be Lingchi execution?"
Su Jianli puffed up his chest and said, "Even if we, mother and son, are not afraid of being beheaded outside the city gate, how dare Liu Ling?"
Xie Huanran shook his head: "Wei Chen doesn't want to teach anything, but just wants to tell the Queen Mother...what you think...is wrong."
He slowly walked to the window of Chengming Hall, listening to the howling wind outside the window, and said: "Queen Mother, if you calm down, can't you guess why the prince sent me to deal with this matter?"
Su Jianli was stunned, and then his expression changed.
She did not continue to tit for tat like a proud fighting cock, but began to meditate. At this time, there were not many women smarter than Su Jianli. To be able to do so many things before, her mind was deeper than that of ordinary men.
Duo. After thinking seriously for a while, Su Jianli understood what Xie Huanran meant.
"You...you mean...Liu Ling won't kill our mother and son?"
Su Jianli asked with a trembling voice.
Xie Huanran sighed: "If the King of Han has this intention, why wait until now?"
Su Jianli's hands were trembling more and more. She held the little emperor Liu Li's head in her arms and couldn't help but tears falling down the corners of her eyes: "He... is really willing to let us go?
"
Xie Huanran said: "Master Zhao, the commander of the Supervisory Council, and Master Hou, the Grand Scholar of the Military Aircraft Department, all asked the prince for orders to deal with this matter. The King of Han refused and sent me instead. Could it be that the Queen Mother still can't guess what the prince is thinking? The prince is right.
In fact, the Queen Mother and Her Majesty have never had murderous intentions from the beginning to the end. The Queen Mother thought about it for herself, if the prince wanted to do it, why would he do it himself? As long as the capital was not moved in the first place, and then the Khitans or party members were allowed to come in, what would be the result?
"
"In Yuanzhou, thousands of miles away, the King of Han has prepared a large manor. Tomorrow I will send someone to escort the Queen Mother and Your Majesty on their long journey."
Su Jianli said tremblingly: "I thought of it before...I obviously thought of it."
She stroked the little emperor Liu Li's face and said, "After all, he still respects me as his sister-in-law."
The coldness and hardness she pretended, and the defense she pretended completely collapsed at this moment. She squatted down and hugged Liu Li and burst into tears. Liu Li looked at his mother in confusion, looking at his mother who was crying like a woman in tears.
Only now did he realize that Liu Ling had never done anything to his mother. The reason why Liu Ling did not destroy or kill him was not because his mother had done anything dirty, but because in Liu Ling's eyes,
He is his nephew.
Nephew?
How long have you forgotten this identity?
Liu Li raised his chin and reached out to wipe away Su Jianli's falling tears: "Mother, don't cry. Don't cry. Don't be deceived by this person with just a few words. Liu Ling killed his father and wanted to take over my country. I want to kill him.
What's wrong with him? I'm right! Today, Liu Ling sent this person here to talk nonsense, and his mother really believed him? Liu Ling! He just didn't dare to bear the charge of regicide and the infamy!"
Su Jianli was suddenly startled and looked at his son, once again seeing deep hatred in his son's eyes.
Liu Li clenched his fists and said slowly but firmly: "That day when my father passed away, I knelt in front of my father's bed. My father told me why he fell ill and became weak in one day when he was in his prime.
Go back to heaven? That was all forced by Liu Ling! The greater his contribution, the more anxious his father and emperor were to force him! The common people of the Han Dynasty only knew that there was a general king, but they did not know that there was an emperor. Liu Ling did not rebel, but he was forced to death step by step
My father!"
Su Jianli was shocked. She suddenly understood why her son had so much hatred for Liu Ling! When her husband was seriously ill, he kept Liu Li by his side all day long. A father used his last words before his death.
How deep-rooted is the hatred that has been instilled into his son's heart over time?
Liu Li said word for word: "My father made me swear that I would kill Liu Ling sooner or later! He didn't kill Liu Ling that day because he was afraid that the country would be unstable."
He raised his head and said: "I promised my father, I will definitely do it!"
Su Jianli held Liu Li's head and cried, "Li'er, I stopped you before because you are my son. Then I helped you because you are my son. Now no matter what the outcome, the queen mother will still
I will stay with you. After I leave the palace, I promise my mother that we will live an ordinary life, okay?"
Liu Li also shed tears, but still said stubbornly: "If I have a chance, I will still fulfill my father's will."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Jianli suddenly felt that her arms were empty. She turned around in panic, only to see Xie Huanran standing not far away with one hand squeezing the throat of the little emperor Liu Li. Liu Li
His body was dangling in the air and he was being held up haphazardly by his two feet. His neck was pinched by Xie Huanran. His breathing was rapid and his face became increasingly ugly. He opened his mouth to breathe with difficulty and shouted hoarsely: "Let... let me go!"
"
Xie Huanran glanced at Liu Li indifferently, and with a little force on his hands, Liu Li's words were immediately suppressed.
Su Jianli rushed forward a few steps to save her son, but did not dare to go forward after seeing Xie Huanran's cold eyes. Her body trembled violently, and she slowly knelt down: "
Please, don’t hurt my son... Didn’t you say that Liu Ling would not kill our mother and son? Didn’t you say that he prepared a big manor for our mother and son in Yuanzhou? Why did you want to kill us again?
Liu Ling is a liar! You are also a liar!"
Xie Huanran sighed: "The Queen Mother... Your Majesty did order so, and the manor in Yuanzhou is also true. However... Your Majesty's heart is too dark. It is true that I am a scholar who covets the position of a bachelor, and I want to be a ruler of the world.
The famous minister is true. But even if Your Majesty is acting and promises to be an ordinary citizen from now on, I will not do anything. But... Your Majesty is still forcing me after all. The Queen Mother has forgotten that I am always a person in the courtyard."
Xie Huanran turned his head and looked at the little emperor Liu Li, who was gradually losing his vitality, and said: "Before I became a bachelor, before I became a county guard, I was already a member of the courtyard. The people of the Supervisory Yuan have always been
There is only one goal. It is not all for the Han Kingdom, but all for the prince. As a supervisor, I will not tolerate anyone who poses the slightest threat to the prince, even if they have lost all their power, even if they have just an idea."
He exerted force with his fingers and twisted slightly. After a soft click, the little emperor Liu Li's neck tilted to one side, and then he slowly closed his eyes unwillingly.
Xie Huanran let go, and Liu Li's body fell from the air.
Su Jianli rushed over, hugged his son's body and cried heartbreakingly.
A hint of unbearability flashed across Xie Huanran's eyes, and his cold expression quickly recovered. He looked at Su Jianli, who was crying bitterly, and at the little emperor who had been squeezed to death by himself. Slowly, he turned towards
He walked out the door. When he reached the door, he slowly turned around and asked word by word: "Poison wine? Bai Ling? Or short sword?"
"The Queen Mother can choose one thing. Wei Chen thinks that poisoned wine is better. Bai Ling hung her neck and stabbed herself with a knife. Her death was too ugly. The poison from the Fifth Office of the Overwatch Council is still very good. I suggest the Queen Mother try it.
Later, I will send someone to bring it in."
Su Jianli raised his head, his eyes empty.
PS: This chapter was very difficult to write. I put my hands on the keyboard for a long time without typing a single word. I always felt a little unbearable. After I finished writing, I couldn’t calm down for a long time. (To be continued)
