Eunuch Dong held the hand of Concubine Chang's son Li Yunyu and walked slowly along the tomb path.
"Father-in-law."
"Your Highness, it will be soon. You can return to the palace, and Your Highness can ascend the throne." Eunuch Dong coughed, "The Marquis of Nankang will protect His Highness from ascending the throne."
When Marquis Nankang was sent to prison, Cao Xiwan and Liu Ying quietly passed on the news and advised the old lady to make up her mind quickly.
Your Majesty has not received the news yet, and he does not know that Li Yunyu is behind. If the old lady wants to follow Mr. Hou, she will be kept in custody of Mrs. Hou's nephew Li Yunyu. She will stay in the mansion.
If the old lady doesn't want to bet on anyone and just waits for the result, she will go to Duke Xu's mansion.
Everyone knows that if His Majesty had the upper hand, he would never negotiate peace with King Zhao.
Liu Ying was puzzled: "If you go to Xu Guogong's mansion, don't you mean to escort King Zhao?"
"Why are you remanding King Zhao? We have offended King Zhao a long time ago." She sighed sadly and replied, "If we give the body of the Marquis to King Zhao, we still have a chance."
She looked at Liu Ying. Liu Ying's expression remained unchanged. Liu Ying was a sensible person. She was following an old lady. The Marquis had nothing to do with her.
Cao Xiwan had known this for a long time, so he could secretly discuss with Liu Ying whether to sell the Marquis of Nankang.
As soon as the Marquis came out of the palace prison last time, she secretly sneaked into Liu Ying's house and entered the back garden of Zhou's house through the corner door. Her cousin Ting Niang opened the door for her.
Ting Niang was guarding outside. Cao Xiwan quietly murmured to Liu Ying on the kang: "If the Marquis dies, and we live with the Xu family and seek refuge with the fourth aunt, we can still save our lives. You have forgotten
, you said before that the eldest lady had a young man she liked and asked me to go and find out."
Liu Ying was startled, her face suddenly turned pale, and she covered her mouth with her hands: "Xiao Wan? That thing?"
Cao Xiwan took a look and knew that Liu Ying had forgotten about it.
Before entering the palace, the eldest lady, Empress Song, had someone she liked. In fact, the people who could be seen in the Xunfu family were of course relatives and friends. Empress Song once met the son of Princess Zhao, the eldest daughter-in-law of the fourth aunt's grandmother, at the Xu Guogong Mansion.
Prince Zhao.
The young master and the young lady were originally from relatives, so naturally they were harmonious.
During the two days, the love gradually deepened, and I went back to test the elders. There was indeed a plan to marry each other in the two houses. But later, the old lady and the Marquis combined it and decided to let the eldest lady enter the palace and marry the East Palace.
At that time, Prince Zhao also made a fuss in his own home, but his relatives just regarded it as an ignorant child.
When Liu Ying thought about it, she broke into a cold sweat.
"What should I do, Xiaowan, what should I do? This... this... what if King Zhao wins and enters the capital. I heard that many imperial palaces in the north have surrendered. What if King Zhao becomes the crown prince?
Donggong! What should I do, Xiaowan——?" Liu Ying took her hand, "You don't know, the prince came to see the eldest lady, but the old lady found out and drove her away."
"..." Cao Xiwan sighed and discussed, "If it doesn't work out, why don't I just kill the crown prince?" She scratched her head, "It's not too difficult."
Liu Ying couldn't laugh or cry.
But she understood what Cao Xiwan meant. Now, in this situation, she had to bet on all sides. Only if the wind blew in both directions could the family be saved, so the family had to be prepared.
"If it's a peace negotiation, forget it."
"Xiao Wan! I know everything, but why don't you understand that King Zhao is a traitor? Doesn't negotiating a peace with the traitor mean that His Majesty cannot gain the upper hand?"
Cao Xiwan took a look and found that Liu Ying was a smart person who had been with the old lady since she was a child.
"Oh, okay, let's put it this way, if King Zhao comes and enters the capital, he may not kill people to establish his authority and seek revenge." Cao Xiwan said honestly, "I am very good at killing people.
, but it cannot protect so many people. One of the old lady and Nankang Hou must take the blame. Send them outside the house and let others kill them." She whispered, "That way, we will be safe."
Liu Ying just pretended that she didn't hear the last sentence, Cao Xiwan looked like a vicious domestic slave who wanted to sell his master.
She pinched Cao Xiwan and said anxiously: "It can't be the old lady! The old lady is old! The queen will never agree!"
"Then it's Mr. Hou." Cao Xiwan shrugged.
Throw the Marquis of Nankang out to take the blame, and say that it was all Song Chengming's idea. He insisted on sending the eldest lady to the palace.
Liu Ying bit her lip. Cao Xiwan looked at it and realized that Liu Ying had decided to sell the Marquis. Anyway, Liu Ying must keep the old lady.
Liu Ying also complained: "You can't hold your breath. We all thought you and the Marquis had reconciled."
She was getting off the kang, tied up with her cloak, and was about to leave. She turned around and was shocked: "Hey, didn't I do it in front of your face and behind your back? Didn't I do it secretly and stabbed you behind the scenes? Haven't you ever fought with Shangguan?
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Of course she refused to say that Feng Junqing and others surrounded her six to one at that time, and Feng Junqing was too talkative when he left. She kept thinking that Feng Junqing had mummified the corpse in the palace and calmed down quietly. Is it so easy?
Sure enough, what he really wanted to do was the few people who were in the tunnel that day.
The eldest son of King Qin, Wu Laodang, the Marquis of Nankang in the palace prison.
Feng Junqing definitely didn't expect to plot against her, Cao Xiwan.
"..." Liu Ying was startled, thinking that her Shangguan was an old lady. She had no experience of fighting to the death with Shangguan.
In short, if you want to kill the Yamen Shangguan, you have to make a plan before taking action.
She learned how the Marquis killed the Imperial Guard's chief inspector and disciplined the common people back then. Cao Xiwan said sternly: "The Marquis is on one side, and the old lady is on the other. This is for the whole family, for the whole family of the Hou Mansion!" She said
Standing in front of the Kang, he twirled his fingers and said, "The fifth master is useless. Even if he is imprisoned, he will only be used. The second master imprisoned the King of Qin, and the sixth master also imprisoned Liu Ruhai, that is, the King of Zhao. If it were the King of Zhou, he would also
I can catch it!"
She felt gratified, "Don't be afraid, nothing will happen. Whoever bets on it, we will go and seek refuge with our relatives."
It is common for each room in a big family to bet separately, and one family will always survive. Why didn't Song Chengming mention this when something happened? If she didn't know that Song Chengming rarely told the truth, she would be stupid.
Madame Hou, Lou Shuluan, is a close relative of Li Yunyu, the true eldest grandson of Taizu, from her adoptive mother, Mrs. Lou Tai. From Liangguo Gong Nanyu's side, Lou Shuluan and Li Yunyu are even closer.
It would be inconvenient to tell Liu Ying everything.
She, Cao Xiwan, is also very close to Mrs. Chen.
Liu Ying spat at her: "Bah! Do you think I didn't know? Didn't you think you never mentioned it in private to the old lady and several of the princesses? One of the concubines even knew that Mrs. Hou's own mother was a lustful person."
"Mr. Hou also knows about Mrs. Hou's life experience?" Liu Ying wondered.
Cao Xiwan shrugged, she didn't care what the Marquis thought whether Ai knew it or not.
She waved her hand and told her cousin Ting Niang a few words, asking her to follow Liu Ying's instructions and learn needlework, and Liu Ying would arrange her way out. She walked out of the corner door with a smile and walked into the dark snow outside Zhou's house.