Chapter 197
The news of King Cheng's incident outside Huangzhou City spread throughout Yanjing City overnight.

The common people reviled King Cheng as a wolf-hearted dog. He had an affair with concubines in the palace before, but now he is rebelling again. It can be seen that he has a heart of conspiracy.Although Huangzhou is not the city of Yanjing, the people are still in panic, for fear that one day the soldiers who will become the king will attack their doors.After all, Beiyan has not fought a war for many years except for the Xirong border.People are afraid of war.

For a while, King Cheng became the target of everyone shouting and beating him.

Concubine Li's natal family, Ji's family, was ransacked and beheaded naturally because of Concubine Li's affair with King Cheng.On the day of the execution, many people went to watch, none of them sympathized with Ji's family, but resented them.King Cheng is so ambitious, and Concubine Li is so shameless.Someone brought up the matter of Ji Shuran, of course, saying that Ji's family members are all the same, and there is no good thing.

Ji Yanlin probably never imagined in his dreams that he tried everything possible to send him into the palace, won countless honors for the Ji family, and concubine Li, who made the Ji family prosperous in the past few years, would do such a rebellious thing.It is heard that when Concubine Li and Concubine Ji met in prison, Concubine Li was still grabbed by Ji Yanlin and asked her why she did this.

Lipin's answer is also intriguing. She said: "Father has already found a young girl to replace me. Naturally, I have to make plans for the future. I have fought so much for the Ji family. My father has the current status, and it is all because of me." I have worked so hard in the palace to deal with people. Now you see that I can’t give birth to a prince, so it’s useless. I’m thinking about finding another pawn, but I haven’t asked me if I’m willing. Since the Ji family doesn’t consider Me, I naturally don't need to plan for the Ji family. Since we are a family, we naturally have to share the joys and sorrows. I don't have to eat the hardships alone and enjoy the blessings of you. I am not some kind of Guanyin Bodhisattva who has made others sacrifice themselves. We It is the nature of the Ji family that even if they die, they will be buried with them!"

There was no repentance in what he said. I heard that Ji Yanlin went crazy at that time and wanted to kill Concubine Li. If the jailer hadn't stopped her, Concubine Li would have been beaten to death by Ji Yanlin at that time.

When something happened to Ji's family, Jiang Yuanbai didn't say anything.Even so, his colleagues in the DPRK and China still laughed at Jiang Yuanbai.After all, Ji's family used to be Jiang Yuanbai's in-laws, so Jiang Yuanbai naturally endured it.King Cheng raises an incident, Jiang Li disappears, there are assassins in Yanjing City, one after another, one after another, the people who have already been messed up are overwhelmed.

In the palace, Concubine Liu got a glass of poisoned wine.

The cold and desolate palace, how can it compare to her bedroom, there is not even a servant, it fell from the sky to the ground overnight.Concubine Liu never thought that she would fall into this situation.In her and Cheng Wang's original plan, this was not the case.King Cheng would send someone to take him out of the palace first before starting the incident.But the affair between Concubine Li and King Cheng was suddenly exposed, Concubine Li was arrested, Ji's house was ransacked, and King Cheng escaped from the city, all of which happened overnight.

King Cheng escaped, but he only forgot himself as his biological mother, leaving her alone in the palace to face the unkind Hong Xiaodi.

Concubine Liu was still thinking that she was a concubine, and Emperor Hong Xiao would not act too ugly because of emotion and reason.Perhaps Emperor Hong Xiao still thought he was valuable, and saved his life to threaten King Cheng.If you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. As long as you have a life, everything will be fine.When King Cheng kills that bastard and becomes emperor himself, she will not be a concubine, but a queen mother.

When I was young, I couldn't be a queen, but now, I can't even be a queen mother.Seeing that there is only one last step left, and it is within easy reach of what you want, how can you fall short?She doesn't want it!
The poisoned wine in front of her was served in an exquisite gold vessel, and the wine glass was carved and inlaid with tiny rubies, which was Liu Taifei's favorite magnificence.If it was in the past, she probably liked the gold artifact quite a bit, but today, as if she saw the consequences of her death, she kept backing away, shaking her head desperately, without any shape.

"no, do not want……"

The servant repeated for the third time: "Ms. Taifei, please, the miscellaneous family is still waiting to return to your Majesty."

"No... I'm the concubine... I can't die, you guys let the emperor come to see me! I have something to tell him, he can't just kill me like this! I want to see the emperor!"

The waiter said impatiently: "Your Majesty can't see you, empress, drink this glass of wine quickly, so that the miscellaneous family can get back to life."

Concubine Liu still didn't move, she tried her best to dodge, even wanted to rush out and open the door, but the servants winked at the two young eunuchs beside her.The little eunuch immediately held Concubine Liu down.Concubine Liu was struggling desperately. She had been pampered and pampered in the palace all year round. No matter how she broke free, she lost her strength in a few strokes.The little eunuch held down her hands and feet familiarly, opened her teeth by himself, and poured down the pot of poisoned wine.

After the gulping down, the little eunuch let go of his hand, Concubine Liu stuck her throat, desperately stretched out her hand to get it into her mouth, trying to spit out the poisoned wine she drank.Her clothes were all messed up, her bun was untied, tears and snot flowed together, she didn't even have half of her image.

But she didn't care about anything, she just lay on the ground and squeezed her throat, as if this was the most important thing.But as she buttoned it, she began to vomit blood.Gradually his body went limp, and he fell to the ground, his eyes wide open, his whole body twitched a few times, and he didn't move.

Concubine Liu is dead.

The servant ordered the little eunuch to clean up the house and walked out by himself.In the garden not far away, the Empress Dowager and Emperor Hong Xiao were talking.

The Empress Dowager spent most of her time copying scriptures in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and only rarely came out for a walk.The spring is endless in the palace, and big red flowers are blooming.Emperor Hong Xiao had just come to court not long ago, and he bumped into the Queen Mother here, and they were talking.

The servant who delivered the poisoned wine to Concubine Liu happened to return, and after knowing that Concubine Liu was dead, Emperor Hong Xiao nodded in agreement, and the servant retreated.

The queen mother sighed.

"Is the queen mother feeling sorry for Concubine Liu?" Hong Xiaodi asked.

The queen mother shook her head: "Recently, too many people have died, and Aijia feels that it is not peaceful."

From Princess Yongning onwards, people started to die continuously. Shen Yurong, Concubine Li, Ji's family, assassins from Yanjing City, and now Concubine Liu, there are indeed more.

"It's their own fault." Hong Xiaodi said indifferently: "The empress mother is kind-hearted, but she can't control people asking for trouble."

The Queen Mother laughed. When she laughed, she was as elegant and gentle as when she was young. She said: "Has Your Majesty announced to the world the death of Concubine Liu?"

Emperor Hong Xiao said: "Yes."

"King Cheng didn't move." The queen mother sighed, "It's a mother-son match after all."

Concubine Liu was ordered to die, and no one came to the palace to rescue her.Even King Cheng didn't arrange chess pieces in the palace. Once the situation changed, he immediately rescued Concubine Liu from the palace.But no, from beginning to end, Emperor Hong Xiao wanted to kill Concubine Liu and until the moment after Concubine Liu died, nothing happened in the palace.

I don't know if Cheng Wang missed this point, or he didn't care about Liu Taifei's life or death at all.Now that I think about it, it's probably the latter.Because even if he misses the calculation, if he is really a good son who cares about his mother, he will naturally find a way to make some noise, instead of letting Concubine Liu die like this.

Emperor Hong Xiao sighed: "Yes, they are mother and son after all."

The Empress Dowager looked at Emperor Hong Xiao and said, "Your Majesty is also tired these days, you should pay more attention to rest."

Emperor Hong Xiao said yes.They are also mother and son, so there is no friction on weekdays.It's just that Concubine Liu and King Cheng are mothers and sons, and they fly separately in the face of disaster. The Queen Mother and Emperor Hong Xiao are not mothers and sons. When something happens to them one day, they will be as peaceful as they are now?
No one can predict.

The queen mother asked: "Your Majesty, I heard that King Cheng was in trouble at the gate of Huangzhou, and General Wuwei rushed to rescue. Yanjing...is it in danger?"

"Mother, don't worry," Emperor Hong Xiao said, "I have already ordered General Zhaode to lead the troops back to the capital to defend the city against the enemy. If we drive day and night, we will definitely be able to arrive before King Cheng goes to Yanjing."

"General Zhaode..." There was no expression on the queen mother's face, and her voice slowly dropped, not knowing what it meant.

Hong Xiaodi also stopped talking.The wind picked up the leaves on the ground and floated into the candy next to the garden.The water waves swirled and swallowed the leaf.

Never seen again.

……

At Jiang's house, Jiang Yuanbai got a letter.

The concierge handed the letter to Jiang Yuanbai, and said, "Master, I took a nap at noon, and when I woke up, the letter was already in my arms, and I don't know who sent it, so I ran away I went out and asked, but they all said that no one entered the house. The letter was written to the master...Master, why don't you open it first?"

Jiang Yuanping and Jiang Yuanbai were talking, and they were a little surprised when this boy broke in and stuffed a letter into his hand.In a few days, Jiang Yuanbai also haggarded a lot, and he didn't change his clothes.He stared suspiciously at the letter in his hand, thought for a while, and opened it to read.

The letter was very short, only a few lines, Jiang Yuanbai's expression was complicated after reading it.

"Brother, what was written in the letter?" Jiang Yuanping asked.

"It's Ah Li..." Jiang Yuanbai frowned and said, "Ah Li is in Huangzhou now, and Cheng Wang's people brought her to Huangzhou, where she was rescued by Su Guogong. Now Ah Li and Su Guogong are together."

"Ali found it?" Jiang Yuanping was overjoyed at first.These days, in order to find Jiang Li, Jiang Yuanbai almost searched the entire Yanjing City, but he still failed.Everyone said that they were probably sent out of the city, but now they have to find someone outside the city, where to go, how to find, the hope is getting slimmer and slimmer.At this moment, I suddenly got the news that Jiang Li was found, and Jiang Yuanping was naturally relieved.

But then, he looked at Jiang Yuanbai strangely: "Saved by Duke Su? How could Duke Su save Ali?"

"Maybe it was a coincidence." Jiang Yuanbai frowned deeply, "He has met Ah Li."

"But brother," Jiang Yuanping was still puzzled, "Mr. Su is not a person who likes to meddle in other people's affairs. Not to mention Ah Li, even with the Jiang family, he has no friendship with us. He will be so kind to save Ah Li ?”

Jiang Yuanbai also had some doubts, what kind of person Ji Heng is, his temperament is unpredictable, moody, and everyone in the government and the public knows it.As for the words of kindness and soft heart, it is even more impossible to be tied to Ji Heng.If Ji Heng sees other people in trouble, the most likely thing is to stay out of it. Even if something happens to him and Jiang Yuanping, Ji Heng is probably just watching the show, let alone offering to help.

That's how it is in the letter.

Involuntarily, Jiang Yuanbai thought of the old General Ji's birthday last time, so he invited Jiang Li to the banquet alone.Although Jiang Li himself didn't know why, but Jiang Yuanbai always felt that it was not that simple, that Jiang Li had something to hide from him.

But now it is impossible to inquire about the relationship between Ji Heng and Jiang Li.Jiang Yuanbai ordered the servants outside: "Prepare the horse, send someone to Huangzhou immediately, and take the second young lady back to the residence!"

"Brother," Jiang Yuanping pressed Jiang Yuanbai's hand: "No!"

"Why?" Jiang Yuanbai looked at him.

"Huangzhou is in chaos now, and King Cheng's troops are still outside the city. If you go to pick them up at this time, you may be self-defeating. Since those people have kidnapped Ah Li, they are here for Ah Li. If so Ah Li appears in their sight, but it is dangerous. Instead, follow Su Guogong, you and I both know what Ji Heng is capable of. Even if the whole Huangzhou falls, I am afraid that Ji Heng will be able to retreat unscathed. Ah Li follows him, more than It's much safer to follow others."

"I can't trust him." Jiang Yuanbai said: "Jiheng is unpredictable in this matter, who knows what he wants to do!"

"Brother," Jiang Yuanping said, "if he wants to do something, he doesn't have to save Ah Li from King Cheng. Even if he wants to use Ah Li to plot something, he will always save Ah Li's life. You don't want to I'm worried, now that General Zhaode is about to return to Beijing, you might as well take a look at what our Jiang family should do next!"

(End of this chapter)