"If I were alone, that would be fine, but I still have children!"
At this point, there was no need to hide anything. She simply told everything she was thinking: "The Wu family has reached this stage and is helpless. Even if Cuicui and his wife give their full support, what can they do?" How long should we support him? Now that Li Qiao has no heirs, that's it. As time goes by, he will gradually become more powerful and have many children. How can he support the Wu family that no one can support?!"
The Ninth Princess's words gradually became sharper: "Others don't know these things, don't you know it yet, Second Uncle? You are the tomb that supports the lintel of the Wu family, but ask yourself, can you compare to me?" Big brother?!"
Wu Erlang was stung by these words, and his pale face became more and more sad. But at the moment of great hatred, he still caught the message revealed in the Ninth Princess's words: "So, there is someone I promised you a better future, so you killed A Niang and Wen Niang?"
The Ninth Princess was speechless, so she acquiesced.
Wu Erlang asked: "Is he the emperor?"
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The Ninth Princess nodded, with a hint of embarrassing ridicule between her brows: "When my mother and concubine were still alive, I looked down on him. Things have changed, but now I have to kneel down to him." I beg for mercy in front of the enemy who killed my mother, begging him to give me a chance to survive..."
Wu Erlang subconsciously accepted this answer at first - after all, the Wu family, as a confidant of the Supreme Emperor, had never been favored by the new emperor, but soon, he noticed something strange.
A wave of anger surged up from his heart and lungs to his throat. He held the child and took a few steps forward. He raised his foot and kicked the Ninth Princess hard on the shoulder: "Bitch! How dare you lie to me now!"
The ninth princess was caught off guard, cried out in pain, and fell to the ground.
Looking up, he saw Wu Erlang looking ferocious and his face turned blue. He was panicked and scared at the moment: "How did I lie to you?!"
Wu Erlang said sternly: "Tell me! How did you poison my mother?!"
The Ninth Princess saw that he was losing control of his expression and was vaguely crazy. She didn't even notice that the dagger in his hand had scratched the skin of her son's neck. She became even more frightened. How could she dare to hesitate?
Immediately, he said: "Wen Niang is not as rigorous in running the house as my mother. I just asked people to add some things to the meals that my mother ate. Before that, my mother's body was actually broken. about there!"
Wu Erlang was shocked: "Wasn't my mother's health already well before? How can I say that her body is actually almost broken?"
The Ninth Princess moved her lips, a little afraid that she would offend him further. After hesitating for a few moments, she finally lowered her voice again and again and said: "The few imperial doctors who came to diagnose my mother's pulse and prescribe medicine are all from the emperor. The medicine was not right for the symptoms. It only provided warmth and nourishment, but did not cure the disease. In the end, my mother only looked fine on her face, but in fact her body was riddled with holes..."
Wu Erlang asked the doubts in his heart: "Aren't those imperial doctors members of the Supreme Emperor? How did they become members of the new emperor?"
The Ninth Princess' expression showed a bit of pain and lamentation about the uncertainty of the world, and she said with sadness: "Once the emperor and his courtiers, my father has abdicated, and the courtiers will follow suit, let alone a few imperial doctors? "
Wu Erlang was silent, and he felt that her statement made sense. However, just when he was about to be convinced, a creepy guess suddenly appeared in his mind!
The cold moonlight shone into the room through the window lattice.
He shuddered and his voice trembled. He stared at her and said, "Did the emperor summon you and personally tell you to do this?"
The Ninth Princess was a little timid when he saw her, and her voice became softer: "Yes, yes..."
But Wu Erlang said: "Can the Emperor really win over all the imperial doctors who were loyal to the Supreme Emperor?"
The Ninth Princess subconsciously said: "Why not? He is even the commander of my father's imperial army -"
Her voice stopped suddenly, as if she had been cut by a pair of scissors that appeared out of thin air.
The Ninth Princess suddenly thought of a possibility.
She trembled all over because of this, and her teeth couldn't help but chatter in her mouth: "You mean, all this was ordered by the emperor?"
"Doesn't this mean," the Ninth Princess trembled and shed two lines of tears: "Doesn't this mean that the death of my mother and concubine was not actually ordered by the emperor, but was done by my father?"
Wu Erlang was originally shocked, but he felt faintly pleased to see her look like this. Not only did he not refute, but he snorted coldly: "If this were not the case, why would the Supreme Emperor be so eager to cut off the Wu family's wings? Princess, your good father The emperor knows very well what he is doing, he is trying to eliminate the power of the Wu family just to guard against you!"
The world of the Ninth Princess was instantly shattered.
She is truly a golden girl, her father is the emperor of the dynasty, and her mother is more noble than the queen.
Growing up, there was nothing she couldn't get. Not to mention the sisters in the palace, even the prince, the East Palace and the princess all had to work hard to please her.
In her heart, her father has always been a symbol of warmth. He is tall and majestic in front of outsiders, but in front of her, he is loving and gentle, no different from the fathers of ordinary people who love their daughters.
And her father's almost unparalleled love for her mother made her make up her mind at a very young age to find a man who would love her as much as her father did to her mother and concubine!
But now Wu Erlang told her that the inherent understanding she had for more than 20 years was actually wrong. Although his father doted on his mother and concubine, he loved power even more. For this reason, he could even manipulate others and control his mother. The concubine is sent to death...
And myself.
The ninth princess knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
He didn't even care that this behavior might attract the attention of the servants outside the door.
After Wu Cuicui returned here, she was deeply humiliated by the emperor and the empress. It was true that she was embarrassed, but she had actually avoided the limelight when the emperor abdicated in embarrassment and the emperor and his wife were in high spirits.
And she, the daughter of a noble concubine, the ninth princess who used to be unparalleled in the palace, is the person that the emperor and the empress hate the most.
The Ninth Princess almost didn't dare to think back on how she survived that period of time.
After her mother's concubine died and her father abdicated, she was visited several times by the former East Palace couple, and was even ordered by the queen to hold a spittoon for her in the name of serving her eldest sister-in-law.
That's all. Even her child was instantly inferior to others. The new emperor's prince actually let her son lie on the ground and ride on the horse. The ninth princess was also a mother. She saw her own flesh and blood being raped. When people are driven like cattle and horses, it really breaks my heart...
During that time, she lost a lot of hair and couldn't sleep all night long!
My father didn't know these things.
She thought her father didn't know.
Whenever she came in front of her father, she would put on a smile. She knew that the old man was sad, so she refused to ask him to worry about her. Even though her father repeatedly asked the new emperor if he had given her any trouble, she They all smiled and said no, her eldest brother treated her very well, but now...
If the father actually knew.
If my father started from the beginning, he would be in the same boat as his eldest brother.
The humiliation she has suffered for a long time, as well as the pain her two children have endured, he actually only needs to say a word to make the Xindian couple restrain themselves.
But he didn't say anything, he just watched with cold eyes, like a powerless emperor who stayed out of the matter and lived to his old age.
This cruel truth almost caused the Ninth Princess to fall into the hell of despair.
Cold arrows from strangers will only make people feel hatred, but cold arrows from close relatives will make people heartbroken before they feel hatred!
The servants guarding outside the courtyard heard the commotion and couldn't help but hurried over and asked through the door: "Princess, what's wrong with you?"
A sneer escaped Wu Erlang's lips, but he did not threaten her again to make up for it.
Because he knew that the Ninth Princess would cover it up for him without any threats.
Ambition is an innate catalyst for men, but women are different from men. Sometimes, she needs some intense emotional push to get on that path.
Such as hatred.
As expected, the Ninth Princess did not show any abnormality in front of others: "I'm fine, I just suddenly missed my consort and felt sad... You all should step aside!"
The attendants hesitated, and the wet nurse who had served her since she was a grown-up said outside: "Princess, can I please go in and accompany you?"
Princess Ninth's voice was slightly softer: "Mommy, I'm really fine. Let me be alone."
Only then did everyone retreat.
The Ninth Princess turned to look at Wu Erlang.
In the dark night, her eyes were as sharp as a knife: "If you want to avenge them, you can kill me now. I have only one request. This matter has nothing to do with the two children. It doesn’t matter, and they are also flesh and blood of the Wu family, so don’t vent your anger on them!”
Wu Erlang asked her: "Up to now, has the princess still decided to stand on the side of the emperor and the emperor?"
The Ninth Princess was silent for a moment, and finally said sadly: "I have no choice."
She whispered: "I see no hope in the Wu family, I can only stand with them. Even if I know that they jointly killed my mother and concubine and played me as a fool, what can I do?"
"If I'm alone, that's fine no matter what. I can seek temporary quickness, but there are people I can't let go of, so I'm destined to not be able to make a desperate move."
After hearing this, Wu Erlang was silent. Finally, he took back the dagger in his hand, panted heavily, and sat down on the stool slumped.
"I brought a medicine box. Come and bandage Dalang's wound."
The Ninth Princess said in shock: "You, won't you kill me to avenge mother and Wen Niang?"
Wu Erlang huddled in the shadows, depressed, full of sorrow and helplessness: "It was the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor who killed them. You are just a knife in their hands. If it wasn't you, it would be someone else... "
He covered his head in pain: "If you die, they will immediately suspect the Wu family. I will die too. Dalang and Yingniang have lost their father, and several of my children have also lost their mother. Is it really true? Do you want all the children of the Wu family to become fatherless and motherless orphans?!"
"If you want revenge, you should go to them. It's not worth it to trade your life for my life!"
The Ninth Princess was touched by this, and she had thousands of words in her heart that she wanted to say, but when she came to speak, she felt that they were not enough to offset the harm she had caused to the Wu family.
Finally, she said in a difficult voice: "I'm sorry, I really..."
Wu Erlang waved his hands in pain: "Stop talking, don't say anything!"
The Ninth Princess rested her hands on the ground, sat up, staggered to the window to get the medicine box brought by Wu Erlang, untied her son's clothes, took a deep breath, and bandaged his wounds. Suddenly, in the flash of lightning,... Thinking of something, I couldn't help but stop my movements.
"There's something I don't know if I should tell you..."
Wu Erlang said numbly: "What?"
The Ninth Princess hesitated and said: "Cui Cui is very close to the Supreme Emperor and has always hated the Emperor. Even Li Qiao is vaguely biased towards the Supreme Emperor. If this is actually a show jointly performed by the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor... …”
Wu Erlang's expression suddenly changed.
The Ninth Princess looked at him and slowly expressed her speculation: "Li Qiao is a rare shrewd person in the world, but he is not omniscient and omnipotent. He does not know enough about the top-level structure of the empire, so he only You can understand it from Cuicui’s mouth.”
"If Cuicui gave him completely wrong feedback and he made an important decision on this basis, he would probably be doomed at a critical moment..."
"Isn't Li Qiao already leading his troops to go on an expedition?"
She said: "If the emperor and the emperor are two persons, it would be very strange to attack the king of Wei before the foreign invaders are cleared, isn't it?"
Chapter 131
The words of the Ninth Princess made Wu Erlang feel like he had fallen into an ice cave.
Admittedly, as the only surviving son of the Wu family, he was somewhat dissatisfied because his mother had used all the family's efforts to support Li Qiao, but this complaint actually only existed in words and in his heart, and did not exist. Put it into practice.
Because Wu Erlang knows very well that the flowers on the surface of the Wu family are actually castles in the air. Although Li Qiao comes from a humble background and has a poor family background, he is the foundation that supports the majestic mansion of the Wu family to stand!
If something happens to Li Qiao...
The first one to bear the brunt is Cuicui, and the second one must be the Wu family!
Thinking of this, Wu Erlang couldn't sit still anymore. He hurriedly said a few words to the Ninth Princess, then followed the path he came through and left through the window.
He was originally a weak scholar, and of course he did not come alone today. There was also a group of followers loyal to the Wu family waiting outside to support him. When he saw him coming out, he was about to ask questions, but Wu Erlang had no intention of saying anything. He hurriedly mounted his horse and took advantage of the darkness of the night. Left this mountain temple.
It was already curfew time in the city, but to people who were truly from high families, what did a mere curfew mean?
Wu Erlang has the golden name of the Wu family and is the uncle of the Ninth Princess, so of course no one dares to stop him.
