PFC Chapter 389: Previous Life (33) He finally understood that His Majesty was doing all this to depose
Chapter 389: Previous Life (33) He finally understood that His Majesty was doing all this to depose
If she had looked like this in the past, Xiao Yan would have coaxed her long ago, but now, he remained indifferent.
Liu Yiyi still had a last glimmer of hope in her heart. She knelt down and begged Xiao Yan:
"Brother Ying, over the years, you know better than anyone that Yi Yi loves you the most. How could Yi Yi cheat on you? At that time, Yi Yi thought it was Brother Ying. Someone must have framed Yi Yi. Brother Ying, go check it out, you will definitely find it..."
Xiao Yun glanced at her, then coldly withdrew his gaze and looked at Marquis Xuanping who was kneeling on the ground.
Although Marquis Xuanping had always been in good health, he had been kneeling there for three days and three nights. In addition, what had happened to his children had angered the emperor. He originally wanted his wife to take the people from Marquis Xuanping's mansion away first, but they were all detained.
He had been wondering what Xiao Yan wanted. Did he want to reduce the power of the Liu family? Did he want to depose the queen?
It was not until he handed in the list yesterday that His Majesty woke up today and he found out.
Your Majesty, you must completely eradicate dissidents!
When the previous emperor was alive, factional disputes were still allowed. However, Xiao Yan ignored the fact that Yi Yi was pregnant and used this most shameful, extreme and effective method. Obviously, he did not love Yi Yi that much in his heart, nor did he care about the child in her belly. If Yi Yi was still in the palace, he would definitely get rid of her quietly in the next step.
Eliminating dissidents, killing his wife and children, Xiao Yun was more cruel and heartless than the previous emperor!
He is a qualified emperor!
Marquis Xuanping felt guilty towards Liu Yiyi.
He had no idea that he had a daughter who was living abroad. When he followed His Majesty and had just overthrown the Ye family, the internal situation of Anguo was still unstable. Because of the civil strife, other neighboring countries were also eyeing Anguo covetously.
Therefore, the late emperor needed to send powerful helpers to guard the border to deter other countries.
Duke Lin is a man of chivalrous character and is also the most loyal. At the beginning, they all knew that the empire had just been settled and the late emperor was in a difficult situation, so he spontaneously led 100,000 Lin family soldiers to guard the northern border where the conditions were the most difficult and which was most invaded by the Northern Jue.
He had been traveling back and forth between the west and the south, and each time he was away he would be away for several years, almost five years. He had not been home and could not even remember the appearance of his wife and children.
One time he discovered the traces of the Ye family of the previous dynasty and went to hunt them down, but was ambushed by them. Their team was almost wiped out. He was seriously injured and hid in a remote village, where he fell in love with Yunniang, a teacher in the village who was dressed as a man.
He promised to take her back to Beijing later, but the western and southern borders were constantly harassed by those small countries, and he could not get away. He was away for a year. When he went back, the small village had been looted by bandits and no longer existed. Some died, and some escaped.
In the first few years, he sent people to secretly search for Yunniang's whereabouts, but he could not find any trace of her, not even her body.
It was not until Liu Bojian said that Liu Yiyi had a jade pendant that looked very similar to his that he went to take a look and found that it was the one he gave to Yunniang before he left. To be on the safe side, he asked Liu Bojian to find a way to get Liu Yiyi's blood and do a blood test to identify her as a relative.
The blood had indeed merged, and Liu Yiyi was definitely his child.
Marquis Xuanping's feelings for Yunniang were stronger than his feelings for his wife. He felt even more guilty when he learned that Yunniang was weak after giving birth to Liu Yiyi and died when Liu Yiyi was five years old.
Because of his guilt towards Yunniang, after Xuanping Hou found Liu Yiyi, he always doted on her and compensated all his guilt and fatherly love to Liu Yiyi.
Because of his infinite favor, he turned a blind eye to what Liu Yiyi did in the cold palace, and even helped her to manage the people in the palace and cover up for her.
After discovering that a palace maid secretly reported the situation to Xiao Yan, he even asked a witch doctor to put a curse on her so that she would only obey his daughter from then on.
Although he and Duke Lin used to be close friends, since one of them became a royalist and the other a member of the eldest prince's party, it was bound to be a disagreement between them. Moreover, Duke Lin's daughter married Xiao Yun, which meant that they were on opposite sides.
Everyone has chosen their own master, and all the friendships in the past are no longer important.
Moreover, his daughter told him repeatedly that she would not let Lin Zhaoyue die.
Although he would occasionally feel a little sympathy when he saw his daughter bullying Lin Zhaoyue, that sympathy was quickly wiped out by him.
He thought that it was nothing to be injured or humiliated. When they were fighting, everyone had been injured, but they all managed to get through it.
Besides, Lin Zhaoyue is not his daughter, so naturally his daughter’s happiness is the most important thing.
However, the witch doctor was not proficient in the art of poisoning, and its effects had completely failed a month ago. The palace maid wanted to report to Xiao Yan, but he had no choice but to send someone to kill her.
During the ceremony of crowning the empress, it was learned that Lin Zhaoyue had died in a fire.
He was happy in his heart.
Lin Zhaoyue was once Xiao Ying's wife. She had a sweet relationship with Xiao Ying and even almost gave birth to Xiao Ying's child.
This is unacceptable for a woman who deeply loves a man.
He also understood that Liu Yiyi hated Lin Zhaoyue.
So he could understand why she tortured and humiliated Lin Zhaoyue in every way after she was imprisoned in the cold palace.
Once Lin Zhaoyue died, Liu Yiyi felt relieved of her hatred, and since it was not Liu Yiyi who killed the man herself, she did not have to bear the sin of murder.
Today, he would take his children away no matter what.
He knocked his forehead heavily on the ground and said:
"Your Majesty, it was my failure to discipline them that led to this scandal. Please spare their lives for my past merits. I am willing to be stripped of my title and become a commoner. I will move my family to the border and never come to the capital again!"
Liu Bojian and Liu Yiyi were horrified. Liu Yiyi collapsed on the ground with a big belly, crying:
"Brother Ying, Yiyi doesn't want to go to the border. Brother Ying, Yiyi is pregnant with a baby. Does that mean you don't want the baby anymore?"
Seeing Liu Yiyi's stubbornness, Xuanping Hou finally had the heart to rebuke her with some harsh words:
"Liu Yiyi, you must not lose your manners in front of the palace!"
After reprimanding him, Xuanping Hou kowtowed heavily and said:
"Your Majesty, I will also abort the baby in Yiyi's belly. I will not cause any trouble to Your Majesty."
Upon hearing this, Liu Yiyi immediately became excited.
"I don't want to, I don't want to abort this child, you old man, what qualifications do you have to abort my child? Brother Ying, save our prince..."
When Marquis Xuanping heard Liu Yiyi scolding him for being an old fool, he felt a sharp pain in his heart, but when he remembered that he had not educated her well, he felt even more guilty.
Liu Yiyi knelt down and crawled towards Xiao Yan, but was stopped by Ning Yi in the middle.
Ning Yi has never had much emotional fluctuation, but every time he sees Liu Yiyi, he can't help but want to beat her up.
Liu Yiyi was stopped by Ning Yi and could only ask Xiao Yan for help, feeling pitiful, humble and helpless.
"Brother Ying... this is your first child, and also our prince. Can you really bear to not want him? He has been moving recently and kicking my belly..."
Xiao Yan didn't even give her a glance. At this moment, a cold wind blew and Xiao Yan coughed lightly twice.
But Eunuch Fu was very nervous and said:
"Your Majesty, it's cold outside. You just woke up, so you should take care of your body. Go inside and warm yourself up first."
Xiao Yun looked at Marquis Xuanping, who had his forehead pressed to the ground, and sighed slightly.
"Parents' plans are far-reaching, and parents' hearts are pitiful!"
He turned around and walked towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
A low voice came from the air:
"Marquis Xuanping has spent half his life in the military, and has devoted himself to state affairs. He has made great contributions. Let Marquis Xuanping come in, and don't let down the hearts of the heroes of the world!"
Xiao Yun used the word "meritorious minister" instead of "loyal minister".
Eunuch Fu looked at Xuan Xuanping Hou who was still kneeling in the snow and said:
"My Lord, please!"
Marquis Xuanping stood up, but his legs, which had already gone numb, caused him to stagger.
Eunuch Fu hurried to support him.
"My Lord, be careful."
Snow began to fall from the sky again. When Marquis Xuanping walked into the Yangxin Palace, Xiao Yun had already sat down in front of a small table drinking tea and watching the snow. There was a charcoal fire burning next to him, a chessboard on the table, and two cups of hot tea, with the aroma of tea filling the air.
"Marquis Xuanping, come forward and play a game of chess with me."
Marquis Xuanping didn't know what Xiao Yun was going to do, but he still went over as he was told.
"Does the Marquis of Xuanping want white pieces or black pieces?"
"I can do either black or white."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan handed him the black chess piece and said:
"In that case, then the Marquis Xuanping will play the black piece! The black piece goes first, the Marquis Xuanping goes in."
Perhaps he had not recovered from the cold yet, or perhaps he was nervous, but Marquis Xuanping's hands were shaking as he held the black piece.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan said:
"Marquis Xuanping, have a cup of tea to warm yourself up."
Marquis Xuanping drank three cups of tea in a row before he recovered.
"In this respect, Marquis Xuanping is quite similar to my father and Duke Lin. They are both heroic when it comes to drinking tea."
Seeing Xiao Yun suddenly mention the late emperor and Duke Lin, Marquis Xuanping was stunned for a moment, and then said:
"Your Majesty and Duke Lin are all military commanders. Drinking tea is just to quench our thirst."
After he placed a black piece, Xiao Yan's slender white hand held the jade-white chess piece, placed it on the chessboard, and spoke slowly again:
"Both of us are military commanders, and we share the same tea drinking habits. We are like-minded! I remember when I was a child, my father would often take Duke Lin and Marquis Xuanping to drink in the Imperial Garden."
At this point, a trace of nostalgia flashed in Xuanping Hou's eyes, and he said:
"Yes! At that time, the late emperor was bored in the palace, and couldn't bear to see the affection between my third brother and Madam Lin, so he would drag me and Duke Lin to drink."
At that time, they still had some true friendship.
"I was doing my homework at the time, and occasionally heard that Marquis Xuanping and Duke Lin were trying to match Young Master Liu and Miss Lin up. At that time, Marquis Xuanping patted his chest and said with great confidence:
If Wan'er, the maid, marries into our family in the future, I will definitely treat her as my own daughter and never let her suffer any injustice. If that boy in my family bullies her, I will definitely break his legs."
Xiao Yun repeated his words word for word, and Marquis Xuanping immediately remembered them.
At that time, they still had a brotherly relationship, and he really wanted the two families to marry each other, but later they had different political views and served different masters, and those brotherly feelings were eventually swallowed up by those powers.
Just when Xuan Ping Hou was about to say that Lin Wan and Liu Bojian had no feelings for each other, Xiao Yan suddenly changed the subject and said:
"Perhaps Duke Lin at that time did not expect that the second brother who said he would treat his daughter as his own daughter would indulge his daughter and torture her to death!"
Marquis Xuanping immediately understood that His Majesty had called him over in order to depose the empress, or perhaps, everything he had done today was for the purpose of deposing the empress.
His face turned pale and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed heavily.
"Your Majesty, I am guilty of death! I failed to educate my daughter properly, allowed her to do evil, and bribed the palace maids to cover for her! Moreover... I knew Chun Shao was your Majesty's spy, but I still put a poison on her to make her work for me. When she was about to report to your Majesty, I killed her and threw her into a dry well.
Your Majesty, I admit it, I admit it all. All the faults are caused by me. I have a lack of moral character, I murdered the former queen, I killed people at will, I formed a clique for personal gain, everything is my fault, I deserve the death penalty!
My little girl has been an orphan since she was a child. No one has taught her. She is a little wild and has a strange temper, but her crime does not deserve death. Please spare her life, Your Majesty. I am willing to die to apologize for my crime!"
As he spoke, Marquis Xuanping suddenly burst out with unprecedented strength and slammed into the pillar.
Xiao Yun frowned, and had no time to pull the man away, so he could only kick him to the ground.
Marquis Xuanping was kicked by Xiao Yun and hit the screen hard, breaking it. He fell to the ground in a miserable state.
Xiao Yan walked up to him and said coldly:
"Marquis Xuanping, do you know that your precious daughter Liu Yiyi is the princess of the previous dynasty!"
Xuan Pinghou's eyes suddenly widened, and he said in disbelief:
"Your Majesty, what do you think Yiyi is?"