Chapter 156 Revealing His Heart
When the emperor heard Cui Xiu’s words, he felt that Cui Xiu still had the fifth prince in his heart. If this was the case, then if Cui Xiu’s heart was not entirely him, there was still some of him. of.
After all, Cui Xiu's heart and eyes are full of their children. No matter how she and Li Qun were in the past, there is nothing between them.
It’s just because of my first love that I have a deep memory, but there are no other practical things.
“Since you have it in mind, I don’t need to say more, you can just do it yourself.”
After the emperor said these words, he turned around and left Chuxiu Palace.
Cui Xiu's eyes slowly raised. The traces of tears and confusion in her eyes just now disappeared. Gloom and sternness were reflected on her face. Sooner or later, she would let Li Xiuhuai kneel before her. before.
Cui Xiu knew that day would not be too far away, and Li Xiuhuai would be punished for doing so many bad things.
"He's gone." Cui Xiu turned around and pulled the curtain. Li Qun lifted the quilt, got off the bed with the quickest movement, and stood in front of Cui Xiu.
"Li Qun, please tell me what happened during the day in detail."
When Li Qun heard Cui Xiu's words, the two of them walked to the round table nearby. After sitting down, Li Qun started talking to Cui Xiu from the beginning.
Cui Xiu thought that she had always thought that the person behind Ning Bin was Princess Wanning, but she had never found any sign that Ning Bin and Princess Wanning were close to each other in these years. There must be something to this. Misunderstood.
If Ning Bin is not Princess Wanning after her death, who will it be?
This person is Ning Bin’s supporter. He must have promised Ning Bin a lot of things that are beneficial to her. In these years in Chuxiu Palace, Ning Bin has not only been close to the fifth prince, but also used her own thoughts to educate the fifth prince. , Ning Bin often tested Cui Xiu's whereabouts.
It seems like I got some kind of mission.
Cui Xiu listened to Li Qun describing the whole story. She captured that "the emperor and Princess Wanning were alone for half an hour." During this time, no one knew what they said.
“Why did the emperor make a special trip to Xu Guogong’s Mansion? He could clearly have directly ordered Princess Wanning to be imprisoned.”
“Could it be because Wanning knew something? Do you want to warn Wan Ning face to face? "
Cui Xiu brought up the strangeness of this matter. As the saying goes, there must be a monster when something goes wrong. There must be something wrong with this matter.
Li Qun heard Cui Xiu’s question, his eyes flickered with thought, he stretched his chin with his hand and said: "The emperor sent someone to summon Wan Ning, but she refused to enter the palace. ”
"Princess Wanning has always been willful, but the crime she committed this time is not small. It is really strange that she has such 'confidence'. The empress' analysis is reasonable."
"In my opinion, they There must be a problem between the two."
"Wan Ning hates the emperor now, we can take the opportunity to win him over."
Cui Xiu nodded and agreed with Li Qun, if Wan Ning. If he is not the mastermind behind the scenes, then she can reasonably suspect that the person who arranged for the Cui family to pave the way for the fifth prince and harmed their family in the previous life was the emperor.
Cui Xiu combined what the emperor said to her just now, and she also reflected on it. It was clear that the emperor had a gap in his heart towards her, but he just fell in love with the fifth prince. There was a high probability that he knew it, and even some Maybe he wanted Ning Bin to set up a scheme.
To do the "civet cat for prince" situation, use the Cui family, Li Qun, and their connections to assist the fifth prince in ascending to the throne.
If this is true, then the emperor is really very calculating.
With all of them involved in this game, it can be said that everyone, big and small, has used them.
However, what the emperor didn't know was that Cui Xiu had already seen through the civet cat's ruse of replacing the prince, and her attention was not on the fifth prince. Cui Xiu was also very curious. Compared with the sixth prince raised by her and Li Qun and the fifth prince raised by Ning Bin and the emperor, who would be better?
They will eventually face off in the near future in the struggle to seize the heir, and there will naturally be a chance to compete. However, they have other arrangements, all of which are things for later. .
"Wan Ning and the Emperor have always had a close relationship. It would be really good if we could win her over."
"But, I still have a problem."
"Li Qun, Princess Wanning has never been an easy talker, and you have never wanted to have anything to do with such a person."
"Why do you suddenly want to win over Wanning this time? Come here?”
Cui Xiu knew Li Qun quite well. Li Qun had never looked at Wan Ning directly. In fact, not only Wan Ning, but also other people he had never looked at too seriously.
Li Qun has always been able to take a serious look at things that interest him. He once said, "My energy is limited and I don't want to waste a penny."
Li Qun heard When Cui Xiu said this, he originally didn't plan to tell Cui Xiu about his affairs, but now that Cui Xiu had taken the initiative to ask questions, there was no need for him to hide it from Cui Xiu.
“I have been investigating the salt case for so many years.”
“Princess Wanning is a key figure.”
Li Qun simply said a few words, and Cui Xiu's expression changed dramatically. She looked at Li Qun, and many memories appeared in her mind.
She didn't have much memory of the Salt Affairs Case, but she remembered that in the month before Li Qun's death in the previous life, he tried three times in front of the emperor to state key clues that his father had nothing to do with the Salt Affairs Case.
The emperor was so angry that he punished him with fifty lashes. Later, he was attacked by foreign enemies. The emperor asked Li Qun, who was still injured, to lead his troops to the battlefield. Li Qun did not come back alive in the end and died on the battlefield. superior.
So when Li Qun mentioned the "salt case", Cui Xiu's expression changed drastically and he said, "So you want to use her to achieve your goals."
“But what happened back then.”
Cui Xiu remembered that old Duke Xu was not implicated and the late emperor did not convict him. He was still a well-known duke in Kyoto.
But his reputation was ruined. Perhaps people's livelihood was more important than life to Mr. Xu.
When Li Qun heard Cui Xiu's words, his expression dimmed a little, and he said, "Yes, she has a dungeon in Hezhou, Jiangnan."
"There are many people locked up in it. , among them were the important figures involved in the salt case. "Theoretically, such a figure should have been executed long ago, but he was hidden in the dungeon."
Li Qun told Cui Xiu all the information he had found so far. This was his trust in Cui Xiu. He felt that there should be such trust between them.
When Cui Xiu heard Li Qun's words, she always felt a little guilty in her heart. Li Qun opened his heart to her, but she was secretive to Li Qun. She was a little bit less open. .
But for the sake of their children, she had to be cruel.
Cui Xiu felt that Li Qun had endured it for so many years. If he knew that the sixth prince was their child, he would definitely explode. Then the situation that she had worked hard for so many years might change dramatically.
They cannot confront the emperor head-on, because after all, the emperor is the lord of the world, and it is easy to kill them.
Cui Xiu wants Li Qun to suffer a little if he wants to lift a thousand pounds with four ounces.