Chapter 482 End of Volume - Ye Ling'er
Chu Pingsheng's voice turned cold: "Give me a reason."
"I...I...I am poisonous."
< br>"No, you are not poisonous, you are the antidote." Chu Pingsheng said with a smile but not a smile: "Specialized to cure the lustful poison in me, the king of Xihu Mountain. Since you like to resist, let's have a resistance-themed party. The couple will be together for the night.”
After saying this, he covered her mouth and took off the red shirt, revealing her wild white arms and beautiful shoulders.
Wuwuwuwu...
Ye Ling'er couldn't break free, and the words in her heart rushed to her mouth, turning into incomprehensible hums.
She doesn’t want to die.
She wants to live.
It is better to die than live!
But...but it seemed like fate had played a big joke on her.
Before marrying into the Chu Mansion, she wanted to die and wanted to drag him to die with her. After that night, seeing so many familiar people die, she did not dare to die anymore, but now Chu Pingsheng even gave him She wasn't even given a chance to tell the truth.
Her body... is poisonous!
Ye Ling'er's eyes were red and she was whining. Tears flowed down from the corners of her eyes, wetting the hair on her temples, flowing through her ears, and falling drop by drop on the wedding quilt embroidered with the pattern of a baby holding a fish. superior.
……
a long time.
Chu Pingsheng pulled the quilt to cover her body. He got out of bed and put on his boots. He walked to the table in the outer room, picked up the red porcelain teapot with branching pattern that was a tribute from Xilei Kiln, and poured it into the matching tea bowl. The cup of tea was not too cold, so I brought it to my mouth and took a sip.
Ye Ling'er opened her eyes wide and looked at the quiet bed curtains, waiting and waiting...
Waiting for the poison of the red sleeve trick to take effect.
However, from the moment Chu Pingsheng stopped tossing her, to covering her with a quilt, kissing her and getting out of bed to drink tea, there was nothing unusual except for the pain in his lower body.
Until he drank the tea and returned to bed, he was alive and so was she.
“Are you waiting for the poison of the Red Sleeve Move to take effect?”
The sound circled in his ears three times before Ye Ling’er woke up, straightened up and said: “You... What did you say?"
Her movements were a little violent, which affected her injuries. She winced in pain and gasped.
“No need to wait, I will cure your poison.”
"My poison has been cured? When will you?"
Chu Pingsheng came closer and whispered in her ear.
"Why do you think Sanchu poisoning me several times has no effect."
After receiving such a reply, Ye Ling'er covered her face with her hands and cried again: "Why, why ..."
"Let you know how good it is to live, so that you don't have to cry to me every day and always talk about how I killed your father and brother. Just because Ye Liuyun is willing to be Li Yun's lackey, I will follow you. There is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation for the Ye family. The Ye family will surely end up like the Qin family, the Liu family, and the Yan family who were executed. If you still can't let go, then tell yourself that you are the one who is responsible for the survival of the female members of the Ye family. My concubine bought them, otherwise they would have been killed by the sword guards.”
Ye Linger burst into tears.
The sound floated through the window, floated out of the courtyard, entered the second courtyard from the hall, and fell into the ears of Lin Waner, who was lying facing the window.
......
Seven days after Li Yunqian's funeral, Prince Li Chengqian ascended the throne and changed his reign to Qingping. Many officials who survived the capital city were rewarded, but Chu did not receive any additional honors in his life. After all, When the prince ascends the throne and proclaims himself emperor, he becomes the grand master, a proper first-class official. In Li Yunqian's era, Lin Ruofu would have to salute and say hello when he saw him.
Any official of rank 5 or above who survived this noble catastrophe can more or less figure out the context of that night's events, and know what Chu's life means to Qing and Qi. Official positions, titles, and honors have no meaning to him.
Originally, the Oversight Council was a hot spot. Kyoto noble families tried their best to stuff their children into it. Because of their great power, they were directly subordinate to the emperor and supervised all officials. Everyone fawned over them and everything went smoothly. After Chen Pingping and Fei Jie did this, the Oversight Council It has become the most dangerous department. Anyone who has any connection with it will be charged with crimes. The owner and deputy director will have their homes confiscated and their families exterminated, without exception.
What does it mean to watch him build a tall building, watch him entertain guests and friends, and watch his building collapse? This is it!
The group of ninth-grade masters borrowed by His Highness the Crown Prince seem to have sworn enemies with the officials and relatives of the Qing Dynasty. The crime of exile is beheading, the crime of beheading is genocide, and the crime of imprisonment is to chop off the hands and stamp on the feet. , in short, it can be said that officials of the Qing Kingdom, noble relatives, and even the gentry who are associated with them will be treated equally. In a word, if there is any disobedience, they will be killed with a sword.
After all, you are from the Qi State and have no interest or relationship with the court officials here. So when they kill people, they will not care whether you are the brother-in-law of a high-ranking official in the court? The distant cousin of a leader in water transportation and a major iron smelter? Money has no meaning at all to these people, and there have even been many cases where the troops stationed at the government and road stations were slaughtered in battalion units.
As for the official being gone, what will happen? It is better to promote young officials or to directly transfer people from the Northern Qi Dynasty to temporarily take charge of the work. The latter represents the new emperor's dissatisfaction with the local officialdom ecology, which will inevitably lead to another massacre. In short, it is a palace coup, leading to The number of officials and military officers in the Qing Dynasty was reduced by more than 50%, and many of them were exterminated. The killings put everyone in danger and the officials remained silent.
In the past, when faced with this kind of situation, the civil servants would definitely have made a fuss. They would have written letters, remonstrated to death, and even publicly rebuked that doing so would shake the foundation of the imperial court and endanger the imperial power.
However, this time they did not dare, because the sword guards were too ruthless. Not to mention the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the group of people who compiled the history would still confiscate their homes and exterminate all the nine clans if they dared to write two bad reviews.
In other words, this group of people regarded killing Qingguo officials as fun.
At one night banquet, Chu Pingsheng once said drunkenly that if he heard Li Chengqian complain in front of him that officials had a rebellious mentality and did not do things well, he would ask the sword guards to arrest all the local officials in the Qing Kingdom. The state capital slaughtered families and exterminated clans in units, and then transferred people from the Northern Qi Dynasty to manage them.
When Ye Qingmei set up the Oversight Council, it proved to be useless. It would be better to kill all the wealthy families, change the soil structure, and replace them with a group of students from poor backgrounds. At least they would be able to flourish for twenty years. potential. The old aristocrats will always suppress newcomers and the lower class. This kind of conflict of interest cannot be resolved without killing based on the cognitive level of today's people.
These murderous words will make any local official who believes that the emperor is far away and the court cannot control his thoughts become honest.
Afterwards, the new emperor came forward to appease him. He first raised his salary, then offered amnesty to the whole country, reduced taxes, and lightened the corvee, thus gaining the support of officials and the people and cohesion very quickly.
Everyone with a discerning eye knows that one of Chu Pingsheng and Li Chengqian is a villain, and the other is a villain, but no one dares to take chances, because this guy is too ruthless and a devil.
……
Another half month has passed.
The winter moon is approaching, and thousands of mountains in the west are cold.
Xingqing Palace Imperial Study Room.
The archery target made of armor was thrown away, and the screen facing the corridor was changed in color. Only the bookshelf with books and bamboo slips remained.
Li Chengqian stood in front of the window wearing a royal robe, looking at the beam under the eaves not far away, where Hou Zhigang hanged himself.
"Your Majesty."
Accompanied by the sound of tapping footsteps, a handsome little eunuch wearing a high hat, with a face like a crown of jade, and eyebrows flying into his temples walked in from outside, holding a hug in his hand. There is a pair of heavy black tubes.
"It's Hong Zhu, what's the surprise?"
Li Chengqian turned around and looked.
“Your Majesty, look, this is what was disassembled from Chen Pingping’s chair.”
"What do you mean?"
"That's it." Hong Zhu bowed and said with a smile: "Huang Xingyu, the Minister of Justice who dealt with Chen Pingping's rebellion, found this thing when he checked his wheelchair, because the late emperor liked to study firearms. He sent someone to the palace to show it to His Majesty."
"What is the use of this thing?"
"According to Huang Shilang, this should be a gift. This is an extremely powerful firearm. Even the most sophisticated armor in the army cannot withstand its attack. Moreover, the projectiles inside have a splash effect and the attack range is extremely large."
"So, Huang Xingyu wants to use it. Dedicate it to me?”
"Exactly."
Li Chengqian put his hands behind his back and said, "Hong Zhu, why do you think Mr. Huang dedicated it to me?"
"I think it is... for self-defense."
"Defend yourself? Defend against whom? Guard against my teacher?"
"This... I don't know... I will ask Huang Shilang to take it back and destroy it." Hong Zhu quickly resigned.
"Do you think I don't know about your relationship with Fan Xian?"
These words made Hong Zhu tremble.
"Do you think I transferred you to me because you are smarter than other eunuchs?" Li Chengqian said coldly: "How did Huang Xingyu know that there was this in the wheelchair? And why did he ask you to be sent to the palace? ? You are just a pawn used by the teacher to test whether Fan Xian is honest."
"Your Majesty, I don't know Fan Xian at all..."
Hong Zhu was very panicked. He appears calm on the surface.
Li Chengqian waved his sleeves: "Come here, take Hong Zhu out and hand him over to the Ministry of Punishments for detention. He will be sent to Ling Chi together with Chen Pingping and Yan Ruohai the next month."
Yan Xiaoyi, who was on duty outside, led people inside. He set up Hong Zhu and walked out.
"Your Majesty, I really don't know Fan Xian."
"Your Majesty, I really don't know Fan Xian."
"Your Majesty..."
The sound became farther and farther away, getting smaller and smaller.
Li Chengqian shook his head.
Want to use this to drive a wedge between him and Chu Pingsheng? How ridiculous.
As for Fan Xian, his half-brother, he could only lament that he was the one who had done so.
Chu Pingsheng is a very trustworthy person. He promised Lin Wan'er that as long as Fan Xian is honest, he will spare his life and he will do things as promised. But if Fan Xian is dishonest...then he can't be blamed. Mr. Chu has cut the grass and eradicated the root.
Fan Xian thought he had a nail planted beside him, but he didn't know that this nail had already become a game-breaking chess piece for Chu Pingsheng.
(End of this chapter)