Chapter eight hundred and forty-third the shame of the royal family
Li Ye left Nangong Meng's palace, first went back to the royal study to find the film master, and then, under the protection of Xiao Dezi and ten imperial guards, he went to the prince's old mansion in simple clothes.
In front of the gate of the prince's old mansion, Li Ye raised his hand to signal Xiao Dezi and ten guards to wait outside, and walked towards the mansion alone under the guidance of Chen Jie's personal servant Gao Jin.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is chanting sutras in her room, and the old slave is waiting outside the door. If you need anything, just give me your instructions. Please!"
Li Ye nodded slightly and stepped into the room.
Two candles in the room were flickering. Although they were not particularly bright, they were enough for people to see everything in the room clearly.
Li Ye stopped and looked at his mother-in-law, Chen Jie, who was kneeling on the futon under the incense table. She was wearing a loose plain gauze skirt, holding a string of rosary beads and silently moving them, and softly murmuring Taoist scriptures. Her eyes were a little complicated and sad.
“The child Li Ye meets his mother!”
Chen Jie's movement of turning the rosary beads suddenly stopped, and a wave of confusion flashed through her clear eyes.
“Why are you here? On the eve of sunset, a deafening shout suddenly came from outside the city, but King Zhao’s rebels had added reinforcements?
At this time, if you don’t convene the civil and military ministers to discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy, why do you still have the time to come to the Ai family?”
Chen Jie actually asked the same question as the Empress Dowager Nangong Meng, thinking that the rebels of King Zhao Li Tao had come to reinforce them again, which caused such a big commotion.
“It’s not the reinforcements from King Zhao that are coming, it’s my uncle Liu Mingzhi who led the army to the city and openly declared that he was rebelling!”
Chen Jie's body trembled inadvertently as she knelt on the futon, and there was a hint of disbelief in her eyes reflecting the light.
“Who? Who did you say rebelled?”
“Uncle Liu Mingzhi!”
Chen Jie’s green-white thumbs and index fingers tightly held the rosary beads in her hands. The joints had turned white, which showed how uneasy the beauty was inside.
Turning her head to look at Li Ye who was standing inside the door, Chen Jie's eyes were still filled with shock: "Hasn't he been assassinated?"
From the moment Chen Jie turned to look at him, Li Ye kept staring at his mother's eyes.
Discovered the true shock and confusion in the mother's eyes, and understood that the mother had not deceived her before. She really thought that her uncle had died after the assassination at Fengyundu.
My uncle hid it from almost everyone and made everyone in the world think that he had been assassinated.
“The child thinks that nine times out of ten, he is cheating his death by hiding something from the truth and trying to escape from his shell.
After he faked his death, he recalled the Six Guards of the New Army who were fighting on the Turkic battlefield in the name of his cousin Liu Chengzhi.
As a result, the unification of the world that was within easy reach of the Northern Expeditionary Army was aborted, and all efforts were in vain.
As for how he quietly led the 200,000 New Army's six-guard cavalry in full view of the public and suddenly appeared in Gyeonggi Province and marched on the city, I still don't know."
Chen Jie stood up gently and walked towards the chair beside her. She sat on the chair and glanced blankly at the tablet on the incense table alongside Li Baiyu's. Her eyes couldn't tell what kind of feeling she was feeling.
After a long time, Chen Jie withdrew her gaze and looked at Li Ye.
“So you are here just to tell Aijia that he is still alive and has rebelled?”
Li Ye walked to the chair next to Chen Jie and sat down: "More than that, I hope that you, Queen Mother, can come forward to persuade my uncle to stop fighting and make peace.
At present, the capital simply does not have enough troops to resist the hundreds of thousands of troops under my uncle's command.
Once he launches an siege tomorrow, the victory or defeat may not be determined by 50 or 50."
“Where are the soldiers and horses from the Seven Prefectures of Gyeonggi Province?”
“The boy has asked the Spy Shadow’s spies to sneak out of the city with a secret order to inform the garrison of the Seven Prefectures of Gyeonggi Province.
Whether they can come or not depends on God's will.
Even if they come, the troops of Qifu will only be more than 30,000. No one can guarantee whether they can be effective.
After all, there are heavy troops at the border, and there is no possibility of intrusion by the imperial government. There are only 100,000 forbidden troops and 30,000 garrison troops stationed there.
But no one expected that my uncle would suddenly
Looking at Li Ye who looked gloomy, Chen Jie was silent for a while and sighed.
"Do you think Aijia's face can alleviate the anger in his heart that he almost died due to the assassination?"
“The child doesn’t know, but this is the only hope at the moment.
Besides, just because the mother can’t do it, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he or she can’t do it!”
As Li Ye spoke, his eyes were fixed on Chen Jie’s lower abdomen under her loose robe.
Chen Jie's delicate body trembled, her eyes suddenly stood up in panic, she turned to look at Li Ye staring at her abdomen, her red lips pursed a few times, and then she sat down weakly.
“You know everything?”
“If you want others to know, you have to do nothing except yourself.
"Being pregnant for ten months can be concealed for a while, but can it be concealed for a year?"
Chen Jie felt Li Ye's complicated gaze staring at her, and she raised her right hand tremblingly and placed it on her abdomen. The loose robe was pressed down, revealing her bulging lower abdomen.
Slightly nodding and looking at her swollen belly, Chen Jie's eyes showed both the brilliance of maternal love and the pain that could not be concealed.
“Aijia Aijia really drank saffron, but Aijia didn’t expect that he would end up drinking saffron.
The Aijia know that I am sorry for your father, but after all, he is a life, a little life conceived in the belly of the Aijia. The Aijia really cannot bear to let him be stillborn without seeing the beauty of the world."
“The child knew that his mother was merciless and kept pretending not to know about it. Perhaps it was because of my guilt for thinking that my uncle was assassinated.
As to what the reason was, the child himself could not tell.
Just as the queen mother said, he is a living little life.
But he is also a disgrace, a royal disgrace.
For the sake of the royal family's face and reason, the child should have gotten rid of him long ago.
But the child has never been able to calm down.
It’s not that the child values him highly, but that the child is afraid that the mother will force him to die, which will ultimately make the child regret it for the rest of his life.
Perhaps there is God's will in the power. Now it seems that keeping him may be an extremely correct decision.
Calculating the time, he should be born soon!"
“It should be in the tenth month.”
Li Ye let out a long sigh, stood up, walked to Chen Jie, squatted down, and placed his hand on Chen Jie's bulging abdomen without any hesitation.
“He is a person who should not exist in this world, so he should repay the child for the kindness of his life.”
Chen Jie suddenly trembled: "Are you going to use him to threaten him?"
“It’s not a threat, I just hope that my uncle can stop the war and make peace for the sake of you or him. :(/
"If we can avoid fighting, I never hope to have to fight with my uncle."
“What if he doesn’t care about Aijia and his existence at all? What would you do?”
“Mother, don’t worry, since your child has been given a chance to live, how can you do harm to him again?
After all, the fact that my uncle doesn’t even care about you anymore means that he has decided to rebel.
In this case, the boy can only devote himself to defending the city. How and what can be done to him?"
Chen Jie looked at Li Ye who was squatting in front of her with suspicion: "Seriously?"
Li Ye paused for a moment, lowered his head and smiled sadly to himself.
“It turns out that behind the scenes, the child is already thinking of God’s will!”
“How do you want Aijia to help you?”
"Write a letter explaining the whole story, and then persuade my uncle to stop fighting and make peace. As for how to write it specifically, I can only do it yourself, Queen Mother."
Chen Jie nodded hesitantly: "Okay, Ai Jia understands, prepare your pen and ink!"