If he agrees, it means he is not stupid enough.
If he doesn't agree... It's not surprising for a stupid person to do anything stupid. She has done her best, that's all.
The King of Wei did not think about food and tea for several days in a row. He was getting thinner and thinner, and it was difficult to sleep at night. There were two groups of green and black under his eyes, which were scary.
The servants wanted to persuade him, but King Wei himself didn't know that those were empty words.
What benefit does it have in the current situation!
After a few days of cowardice, someone came to Qingzhou to pay homage to King Wei.
Chang Shi listened to the report and couldn't help but be in a trance: "Zhang Boyin? Didn't he go back to his hometown in Xiaoshan? Why did he come back again?"
The concierge hesitated and did not dare to say anything.
When Chang Shi saw this, he frowned even more: "What did he say? Tell him everything!"
The porter said tremblingly: "He is probably crazy and is dressed in ragged clothes. He is shouting that he is here to save King Wei's life..."
After hearing this, Chang Shi was at first stunned and furious, then thoughtful. After thinking over and over again, he threw up his sleeves and said, "What are you doing standing there stupidly? Why don't you take me to greet you!"
Zhang Boyin was also a famous scholar in Mount Wei. After the King of Wei revolted, he heard about his deeds and sent someone to invite him. However, there was discord between the emperor and his ministers, so Zhang Boyin bid farewell to the King of Wei and returned to Mount Mount to become his hermit. .
Chang Shi had followed the King of Wei for many years, and he had also learned a set of courteous manners. After meeting Zhang Boyin, he did not feel contempt for Zhang Boyin because of his poor clothes and weathered face. He only asked politely: " The servant never recognizes you, sir, and if you miss him from afar, don’t blame him!"
Then he invited him in: "Mr. Zhang, please come in and talk."
Zhang Boyin held a bamboo stick in his hand and went in with him: "I was visiting friends elsewhere and heard that Qingzhou was going to negotiate peace with Dezhou. I was worried that the prince would make a mistake, so I came here to warn him. I met refugees on the way. Take away my horse, luckily I can save my life..."
After hearing this, Chang Shi couldn't help but express a lot of concern: "Mr. Lao Lei is here, seriously, if the prince knows..."
Zhang Boyin raised his hand and interrupted him: "Now that things have come to this point, why bother with these false words? Where is the prince? Please wait for me to go see him quickly!"
Chang Shi hesitated and said, "Sir, why don't you take a quick shower before going?"
Zhang Boyin sneered and said: "I came here day and night, am I just missing the bucket of hot water and a piece of clothing from the house?!"
Chang Shi had no choice but to take him to see the King of Wei.
King Wei had just finished a bottle of wine and was sullen in his study, feeling a sense of malaise that was almost solidifying throughout his body.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Boyin didn't say anything. He picked up his bamboo stick and stepped forward and beat him hard: "Qingzhou is facing a catastrophe. The future of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians depends on you alone. How can you still have the leisure to drink here?" Not ridiculous!"
Although the King of Wei shrank, he was not stupid. He wanted to maintain his image as a courteous and virtuous corporal before meeting him. How could he not expect to be beaten as soon as they met? How could he not be angry?
He changed his color and said: "Zhang Boyin, you are so presumptuous!"
Chang Shi also had a big head: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang! You can't do it!"
Zhang Boyin sneered, threw the bamboo stick aside casually, and cursed: "I just know that you must be so muddy that you can't hold up the wall, so you have to do this!"
"Back off, back off, wait a minute! Do you think that if you keep doing this and wasting it, the result will be good? It's just wishful thinking!"
He said bluntly: "Do you think you have a choice? Do you think you can still turn to the capital if it is not possible? Stop dreaming!"
"You are just stupid and incompetent, but not a very evil person. That's why Li Changsheng is willing to negotiate with you and save your life. Who are those two people? They are scheming and deeply enjoy themselves. , treating all the people as nothing but grass and using the common people as pawns, once the Dezhou soldiers come to accompany the capital, those two beetles in the world will definitely die!"
"By surrendering to the city this time, you can finally save your life and leave a trace of your blood. If you escape to accompany the capital and the capital is destroyed in the future, you will be a remnant of the previous dynasty who stubbornly resisted. You and your children and grandchildren will just wait. Come and bury yourself in honor of the old dynasty!"
King Wei woke up from his confusion and said in surprise: "He, he dares to kill the emperor? How could you know?"
Zhang Boyin scolded angrily, "As the emperor, I couldn't bring peace to the people, so that the people were in ruins. After fleeing westward in embarrassment, I didn't know how to reflect, but slaughtered the officials and people wantonly. All the ambitious people in the world wanted to eat their flesh and sleep on their skin. Isn't this the only one?" Li Changsheng has this ambition? If I were him, I would kill him!"
He pointed at King Wei's nose and said unceremoniously: "If you find your way back, you can still live. If you persist in your persistence, your death may be around the corner!"
King Wei felt awe-struck when he heard this, and it was as if he had cleared the fog and seen the blue sky. He immediately picked up the bamboo stick that Zhang Boyin had thrown aside, handed it back to Zhang Boyin, and then bowed to him respectfully: "Sir, today I would like to thank you for your great kindness!"
However, Zhang Boyin refused to accept his courtesy: "We don't agree with each other in different ways. Although you are not the master I am willing to assist, you were able to get together and part ways easily at the beginning."
"After that, my mother fell ill, and you made a special trip to ask famous doctors for consultation. You didn't care about your heart. Even if you were doing it for fame and reputation, you were still kind to me after all, so I have to repay her."
He took the bamboo stick in his hand and sighed: "After today, we are all settled."
King Wei was silent for this, and for a moment he was speechless.
Zhang Boyin turned his head and looked at Chang Shi again: "Okay, take me to a guest room to bathe and change clothes!"
Seeing that the atmosphere in the room was stagnant, Chang Shi deliberately relaxed it and said with a smile: "Sure enough, he is a real famous scholar and a romantic man. At first, sir, he didn't care about foreign things and was very open-minded. Now he has reorganized his appearance to be polite and friendly to guests. …”
"It's nothing, I'm too lazy to talk to you!"
Zhang Boyin snorted coldly: "Take me quickly to wash up. Haven't the peace negotiation teams in Dezhou not left yet? Later, I will go to Dezhou with them to meet the King of Qin for a while!"
Chang Shi: "..."
Ah this.
King Wei: "..."
King Wei endured it again and again, but in the end he couldn't hold it back: "It's never over! My legs are growing on you. Once you get out of this door, you can go wherever you like. You have to say so in front of me. ?!"
…
King Wei had long known that neither he nor the capital could compete with Dezhou, but if he agreed to so many conditions that would obviously damage his reputation to reach a peace agreement, he always felt a little...
Not to mention that there is still a fork in the road in front of him to surrender and accompany the capital. Even if he drinks poison to quench his thirst, it still seems to be a path, right?
Now that Zhang Boyin had given him a head-on warning, King Wei suddenly came to his senses and no longer dared to take chances, he immediately made up his mind.
After all, he is just an ordinary person living in this world.
A little smart, but not much, a little courageous, but not much, a little vain, but not vicious, a little kind-hearted, but not able to resist to the end in the face of power...
Yu Yingying had a thorough understanding of the father and son of Prince Wei. Back then, he would obey Chang Yongnian's wishes and send poison to Concubine Yuan who was pregnant with Liujia because he was afraid of the power of the Chang family. Today, he would also tacitly agree to remove Chang because he is afraid of Dezhou. Shi.
King Wei expressed his soft attitude to Yu Yingying and accepted several of her requests.
Yu Yingying looked neither happy nor angry, and not surprisingly, she told Li Qiao a few words, took something from her room and took it with her, and then went to the backyard with King Wei to go to the imperial concubine.
I went there after lunch and didn't come back until the sun set.
Li Qiao had no intention of inquiring into the privacy of his sworn sister, and he also knew about Yu Yingying's sad story about the collapse of the Yu family and even the death of Concubine Yu, let alone mentioning it.
It was only the next day that I heard that King Wei was ill and had a high fever. When I was surprised, I heard a confidant mention what happened yesterday.
Yu Yingying brought poison over - since she arrived in Texas, she started to collect a poison recipe. She had to find one that could make people extremely painful without killing them immediately. After mixing it with wine, she , let King Wei personally pour it into Concubine Chang's mouth.
Concubine Chang lay limp on the ground, twitching and struggling for more than three hours before dying. Her death was horrific. Her fingernails were stuck to the ground under severe pain. Her nails were broken like onion tubes, and her fingers were bleeding continuously.
The King of Wei was a fragile scribe, but he was forced to watch Concubine Chang's death, so he was greatly frightened. He didn't even eat dinner that day, and developed a fever in the middle of the night...
Li Qiao listened silently, but he did not feel how cruel Yu Yingying was because of this - if it were him, because Concubine Chang lost all her family members, and her aunt who depended on each other was killed in front of him, he would be afraid Will retaliate even more cruelly.
Yu Yingying obviously did not feel any moral pressure from this. When she heard that King Wei was ill and had trouble sleeping at night, she just sneered: "Why, you can't stand it anymore? You're scared to death, why don't you just scare him to death!"
Li Tianrong, the eldest son of King Wei, returned to Qingzhou at this time.
When Li Qiao was in Shunzhou, he had been with him for a while and felt that this man had a gentlemanly demeanor. When he evacuated with his brother, he also thought that one day he would meet him and he would get drunk before he could stop. But at the moment At this time, I'm afraid it's too late.
He said to Yu Yingying: "Sister, you might as well stay away for a while..."
Li Tianrong is the son of Concubine Chang after all.
Yu Yingying said: "I appreciate your kindness, but I don't have to. I ask myself: why should I dodge if I have no shame in the world?"
After saying that, she stood up: "Not only did I not plan to dodge, I also wanted to meet him!"
Li Qiao: "..."
Regardless of whether he is a step-brother or a step-sister, they are both stubborn!
He was a little nervous and worried that Yu Yingying would be lost, so he hurriedly picked up his weapon and chased after him.
…
When Li Tianrong returned to Gyeongju, he first went to visit his father. When he saw that he was ill, he was inevitably concerned and asked about the reason.
King Wei was still lying on the collapse, and the attendants around him were hesitant to speak.
Only then did Li Tianrong realize that there seemed to be someone missing around him: "Where is the mother and concubine?"
The attendants did not dare to speak. After all, it was a long time ago, and their expressions were confused: "My condolences, the prince, the princess passed away a few days ago."
To Li Tianrong, these words were like a bolt of thunder striking his head off guard. After taking a few steps back in shock, he struggled to find his voice and listed his questions one by one: " Why didn't I receive the news? The mother-in-law's health has never been weak, and there was no sign of mourning in front of the house..."
Chang Shiwei hesitated, and after a long time, he said vaguely: "The princess died... This is the request of Dezhou, and the prince has no choice but to do it..."
Li Tianrong's heart was half filled with grief and half with surprise. During this period, there was also a hint of something that was so clear: "Can't the mother-in-law be allowed to live in Texas?"
Before Chang Shi could say anything, Yu Yingying's voice came from the outer room: "It's because Mr. Chang couldn't tolerate me, so he died."
She entered steadily with a calm look on her face: "Your Majesty, do you have any objections?"
Li Tianrong's suspicion came true, but he didn't feel relieved at all to learn the truth.
It was his mother who died.
It is true that he knows how unbearable and vicious this woman is, but that cannot change the fact that she is his mother.
She had indeed burned everything she had to her son. Anyone could criticize her, but not him.
But the murderer who killed his mother...
He didn't seem to be able to hate her with any confidence.
Whether it's for her life-saving grace back then, or for the Chang family and even her mother's debt to the Yu family...
She just did what she should do morally, so how could he accuse her?
But……
After all, it was his mother who died!
Li Tianrong knelt on his father's bedside, covered his face with his hands, and cried silently.
Yu Yingying was more or less surprised when he saw that he didn't draw his sword against her, and then she thought it was funny: "So you know it too."
She knew that Mrs. Chang felt ashamed of her.
Knowing that it was only natural for her to get rid of the Chang family to avenge her family.
Yu Yingying raised her eyes to look, and saw King Wei slumped on the floor with a sallow face. His eyes were looking at the ceiling of the tent. Even when his son came back, he didn't take another distracted look.
It was as if the tragedy he witnessed that day had exhausted all his energy and energy.
"It's just such a trivial revenge, but it collapsed just like that."
