I was so frightened by those eyes that I lowered my head subconsciously, but for some reason, he calmed down instead and just stared at me without relaxing his gaze.

"Yu Quan said, what did you come to see me for last night?"

"No - what not to do?"

"If you don't do anything, why are you here?"

His gaze was so sharp that it hurt to be stared at by him. I could only smile bitterly in my heart at Eunuch Yu's hard work, but when I looked up at this man, at the red eyes and the haze under his eyes, I just felt

Weakly, he smiled lightly and said: "This slave just happened to walk to the door of the inner courtyard and did not want to find the emperor."

"..." He stood in front of me and looked at me. After a long time, his originally peaceful eyes slowly revealed a bit of chill: "You are here to see my joke."

I didn't say a word, but I didn't know what made him angry. He suddenly became furious, grabbed my wrist and pulled me hard, dragging me in front of him and looking into my eyes.

"Look, I tried so hard and still couldn't catch her, right?"

It hurt so much that he pinched my wrist. I frowned slightly but gritted my teeth and didn't moan. I recalled the fragrance from Hongye Temple, which seemed to still linger on the tip of my nose. I looked up at his bloodshot eyes,

Seeing myself pale in those eyes again, I suddenly felt like laughing, but couldn't.

However, he is just a poor person who cannot get it.

I looked at him and said calmly and plainly: "I don't dare, how dare you?"

Pei Yuanhao's face froze slightly, and he looked at me with burning eyes.

I reluctantly held on to the smile on my face: "This is not the first day that this slave knows who Miss Nangong is."

"..."

My teeth trembled so much that I almost bit the tip of my tongue, and I tasted the salty taste of blood. I slowly raised my head and looked at him, and said again: "I dare not, slave."

I was obviously so low-brow and submissive, even humbled to the ground, but he didn't seem to be discouraged by this.

On the contrary, my breath was filled with strong hostility, getting heavier every time.

My wrist had been pinched so hard that it felt like it was about to break. My smile was very gentle, but I didn’t feel any pain at all. I just smiled like this.

If there were no screams from outside the door, maybe my wrist would really be pinched off by him. But at that moment, chaos suddenly broke out outside, the calm was suddenly broken, and a panicked shout came from a distance.

Came——

"Master Liu is dead! Master Liu is dead!"

Upon hearing this, both he and I opened our eyes in shock at the same time. He immediately let go of his hand, and I hurriedly turned around and opened the door.

Outside the door, a group of state servants were shouting. They didn’t seem to expect that the emperor would be in my room. As soon as they walked over and saw the two of us, they were startled and hurriedly knelt down and crawled over: "Your Majesty, greetings."

Your Majesty."

"What are you talking about? What happened to Mr. Liu?"

"When I return to the emperor, Mr. Liu——is dead."

It was obviously a sunny day, but I seemed to hear a thunderous explosion above my head. I was stunned and couldn't feel anything.

Mr. Liu, Liu Yi, are dead?!

Is he dead?!

Thinking of the pale and weak man last night, his breath was so weak when he told me, and I knew he wouldn't last long, but I never expected that after just one night, he would——

Thinking of this, I turned my head and looked at Pei Yuanhao. He was standing next to me, his face paler than before.

And the hand he was holding on to the door frame had been exerting force. His already scarred fingertips were almost pinching into the door, and the joints were turning white.

Once Liu Yi died, there was one less person in the court who could serve him in the south, possibly the most important one!

He gritted his teeth, clenched the hand that was about to squeeze in the door into a fist, and gave it a hard thump.

"Come with me!"

After saying this, he walked out without looking back. I gritted my teeth and hurriedly followed. Shuixiu was still waiting not far outside the door. When she saw the two of us, she also hurriedly came up.

He supported me and went to Liu Yi's residence together.

Along the way, although the people in the state capital were not in chaos yet, the atmosphere was already different.

Soon we arrived at the place where Liu Yi and I talked last night. People were already kneeling on the ground crying at the door. When they saw the emperor coming, these maids and attendants kowtowed hurriedly and cried out: "Your Majesty..."

Pei Yuanhao walked in in a few steps. The curtains had been hung in the room. At the other end of the gauze curtain, Liu Yi was lying quietly on the bed dressed in white. Liu Zhaoyi was kneeling on the bedside, shaking her brother's body desperately.

, that beautiful face has long been soaked with tears.

"Brother, brother!" She grabbed Liu Yi's hand and said tremblingly: "Wake up, you don't want to die!"

"Li'er has only you as a relative, you can't leave me like this."

"Brother, brother, get up! Brother..."

Her mournful cries made everyone around her shed tears. There was another pure young man standing next to the bed, dressed in plain clothes. It was none other than Mr. Ningyuan who led me here last night. He was holding back his grief, with circles under his eyes.

It was also red, and he said cautiously: "Zhaoyi, I would like to express my condolences and accept the change."

After saying this, he turned around and saw Pei Yuanhao walking in. He hurriedly came over and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty."

When Liu Zhaoyi heard this, she turned around and looked at Pei Yuanhao, bursting into tears. Pei Yuanhao walked over to support her and gently held her in his arms: "Li'er..."

"Your Majesty, my concubine's brother died so unjustly!"

"Li'er, stop crying." He said, his eyes turning red.

I stood outside from a distance, looking at the cold corpse on the bed, with a pale face, and the bandage around the neck seemed to be soaked in a lot of blood, but it had slowly condensed by this time.

He could no longer stand up and do anything for the South, which he and his father had worked hard all their lives for, and there was no way he could wait until the day when his separated brothers returned to their side.

Thinking of this, tears welled up in my eyes, and I tilted my head slightly.

At this moment, there was another sound of footsteps outside the door. When I looked up, I saw that it was officials from all walks of life who were following the emperor southward. The leader was Taifu Shen Gongyi.

Nowadays, the most influential people in the court are the two remnants of the three princes. This time, Pei Yuanhao went south and left behind the eunuch to supervise the country. The eunuch then went south, naturally to let them

Get to know the people in the South.

But as soon as I saw Shen Gongye, I felt that this trip to the south would be even more difficult.

When he walked into the room, he saw me at first sight. He glanced at me coldly, and I hurriedly stepped aside. Then he walked in with the officials behind him, looked at Liu Yi's body on the bed, and sighed: "

Mr. Liu is dedicated to serving the country, but he does not want to be harmed by the mob in the south. The loss of this great minister is really a great loss for our court!"

As soon as he said these words, Liu Li burst into tears.

"Your Majesty!" She said hurriedly: "My brother was killed by mobs in the south. Your Majesty must give me justice and not let my brother die in vain!"

"Yes, Your Majesty," an official behind Shen Gongye said hurriedly: "We must clarify the standard punishment to serve as a warning to others!"

"We can no longer let these mobs continue to cause trouble."

"I must give Mr. Liu an explanation!"

Those people said something to each other, and suddenly the room became chaotic. I stood outside and looked at Pei Yuanhao's face, which was always condensed, but I couldn't tell whether it was sadness or anger, but I was already trembling a little in my heart.

Liu Yi guessed it right.

Liu Zhaoyi has always been brooding about Liu Shizhou's assassination. Now that Liu Yi is dead, she wants to vent her anger on the southerners. With what these court officials said, Pei Yuanhao has no way out.

Of!

However, if those assassins are killed at this time, or if some waves are caused in the south, then——

Thinking of this, I became a little anxious.

"Emperor——"

Just as I took a step forward to say something, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and grabbed my arm, pulling me back.

When I looked back, it was Pei Yuanfeng standing behind me, his slightly red tiger eyes staring at Liu Yi on the bed.

"Your Majesty?"

"Don't talk."

"But——"

"It's useless to say it at this time."

Rarely at this time, he was calmer than me, but the hand holding my arm was slightly hot. I looked back at the scene in the inner room. Shen Gongye had already knelt on the floor with the officials.

Pei Yuanhao was silent for a long time, and finally said word by word: "I will deal with it myself."

Because the emperor was still in the state capital, the mourning hall could not be set up here. Everyone went to the residence where Liu Yi temporarily stayed in the south to arrange funeral arrangements for him. Elegiac couplets were hung high, and the people in the palace cried loudly, while Liu Zhaoyi stood in despair.

There, it seemed like nothing could be heard all night long.

Looking at the pale man in the mourning hall, I couldn't bear it, so I went back without waiting for everything to be settled.

Pei Yuanfeng has always been by my side.

The two of them walked slowly to the pavilion in the middle of the lake. It started to rain at some point, bringing a cool feeling in this early spring.

I asked gently: "Your Majesty, will the Emperor kill those assassins?"

He glanced at me and said nothing.

According to what he told me before, the people from Shengjing went south to negotiate with the forces in the south. But from the conversation between Yi Nai and me, I could feel that he was not the person in charge, and they had not started talking yet, or

He said that the agreement has not yet been reached, and the court can still think of a way.

However, the contradiction between Shengjing and the imperial court is not only the internal power grab of the royal family, but also the struggle for interests. There is no way to reconcile it. The only way to think about it is to start with the forces in the south.

Pei Yuanfeng once said that winning the capital should promise heavy profits to the south. The question is what exactly is this "big profit". It can make people in the capital confident that they can persuade the southern forces, and then let Nangong go all the way south to risk it.

, and if they want to break their agreement, what the imperial court must do is, firstly, to immediately change its hostile policy towards the south, and secondly, just like it did to Huang Tianba, recruit peace!

Therefore, I dare not tell him what I felt at Hongye Temple, because I know that with his persistence towards that person, he will definitely lead his troops there immediately. If so, things will get into an unmanageable situation, and it will only

Let the people of Shengjing and the south be reunited faster.

However, if at this time, the person who killed them...
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