Lu Yuncheng pursed his lips and looked at Su Qingyu with a look of pleading in his eyes.
"Qingyu, my father's protection of King Qi is beyond everyone's imagination. King Qi has been pretending to be stupid for so many years. My father may have known it for a long time, but he still accompanied him in acting, even in order to keep Qi. Because of his position as king, he loves An Wang very much on the surface and treats An Wang as a living target."
"so what?"
Seeing Su Qingyu's eyes becoming colder and colder, Lu Yuncheng's heart was being torn apart inch by inch, but he had to continue speaking.
"So it's just an assassination case, and my father will not really punish him for it. After all, in this assassination, only Princess An died. And if we can alert the snake... "
"If we scare the snake, it won't hurt the foundation of King Qi. It will expose you to His Majesty, and you will lose your only trust, putting your weak status in jeopardy, right?"
What Lu Yuncheng didn't finish was continued by Su Qingyu.
The two looked at each other.
A chill ran from the soles of her feet to the top of her heart.
When did the person in front of me become so thoughtful and timid?
People who are obviously very close to her feel far away.
There was only one last question left, and after asking it, she felt that she should be able to get the answer.
"Since it's not convenient for you to tell me who you want to kill just now, you can always tell me who you recommended in the main hall today to replace General Shen in leading the expedition, right?"
Lu Yun moved his lips, not knowing how to express the words in his throat in front of her.
"Let me say it for you."
There was a warm smile on Su Qingyu's lips.
"I guess the one you recommend is Jiang Yiting, the eldest son of the Jiang Shangshu family."
After the words fell, the entire courtyard was so quiet that you could hear your breath.
Lu Yuncheng was shocked and chose to remain silent.
And his silence was acquiescence.
It is acquiesced that he is attracting people's hearts, acquiesced that he is indeed seizing the heir.
At this moment, Su Qingyu's heart was filled with disappointment.
He repeatedly didn't want to confess to her the fact that he wanted to seize the legitimate son, because he was afraid that the purpose of seizing the legitimate son was not just revenge.
There must be something he didn't want her to know, so he gritted his teeth and refused to reveal a word.
That's why he followed Emperor Ming and did what Emperor Ming expected.
Whether it was true or false, he actually did these things.
And she, like a fool, was fooled by him several times.
Su Qingyu smiled bitterly and said no more.
In addition to the apex of her heart feeling sore and swollen, even her eye sockets were sore and swollen.
She turned around silently, and her arm was suddenly grabbed by the person behind her.
"Qingyu, can you listen to my explanation?"
"I'm tired and don't want to hear it anymore."
explain?
Explain what?
Try another way to lie to her?
On a cold spring night, the two of them, separated only by a courtyard wall, also stayed up all night.
Lu Yuncheng's heart ached all night long.
As long as he recalled Su Qingyu's disappointed and sad eyes, his heart felt like he was accepting Ling Chi, and the knife made him suffocate in pain.
Su Qingyu, on the other hand, was tortured by the cold until dawn, and she was much weaker, but she still took Mingyue to the General's Mansion after dawn.
"Princess, are you feeling uncomfortable? Why do you look so bad?"
"It's okay, maybe I didn't get enough rest."
Su Qingyu raised her hand and touched her face, then without hesitation took out the spare rouge and gouache from the small cabinet and applied it until her face looked normal.
Mingyue hesitated to speak, but finally chose to be loyal to her master.
At that time, with the cooperation of Su Qingyu and Shen Huaide, the general had come to his senses.
Seeing Su Qingyu come in, he wished he could get off the bed and give Su Qingyu a big gift to thank her, but Su Qingyu held him down.
"The general said something serious. I just did what I could. Compared to the general going into battle to kill the enemy, it is nothing."
General Shen was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
The general admired Su Qingyu's kind-hearted yet unobtrusive character even more.
"Girl like you, no matter where you go and no matter how great your achievements are, you never dare to take it with you. You are really as timid as a mouse as the Queen Mother said!"
The eldest princess, who had not been seen for a long time, came to the General's Mansion and sat down calmly on the main seat in the outer room.
Behind her, Huo Jiao winked at Su Qingyu, making her couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips.
"It seems that the general is much better today and his complexion is not bad. It seems that Qingyu and Mr. Yuanzheng have great medical skills and have cured you to a certain extent, right?"
"this......"
The eldest princess clearly came here to visit a patient, but her tone of voice did not allow others to question her.
For a moment, Shen Tuo, who was still half lying on the bed, didn't know how to answer.
"Although the general is internally damaged, with Master Yuanzheng's nine-turn golden needle here, recovery is just around the corner."
Listening to Su Qingyu's words, the eldest princess immediately understood that this girl must have understood her meaning and her purpose.
She slapped the table happily: "In that case, General, please have a good rest! I will ask Your Majesty not to easily replace the person in command, so as not to destabilize the morale of the army!"
Having said this, Shen Tuo could still not understand the purpose of the eldest princess, so he immediately made a half-curtain on the bed.
"In this case, I will thank Her Royal Highness the Princess in advance! I will certainly live up to my mission!"
The eldest princess waved her hand casually: "Don't thank me too quickly. I have one more thing I want to discuss with the general."
"Eldest Princess, please speak."
The eldest princess glared fiercely at Huo Jiao behind her, while Huo Jiao raised her chin proudly, as if she did not want to have any further communication with the eldest princess.
Just when Su Qingyu was wondering what kind of medicine was sold in the two gourds of mother and daughter, she heard the eldest princess gritting her teeth and opening her mouth.
"I only have one daughter like Princess Huai'an. Now this child wants to go to war with the general no matter what. I hope the general can comply with this request of my princess."
Huo Jiao has not been a delicate woman since she was a child, and she has always achieved various achievements on the battlefield in Shuzhou.
Moreover, she was a child brought out by the eldest princess herself. Although she was a woman, she was not inferior to men at all on the battlefield.
So Shen Tuo agreed without even thinking about it.
The eldest princess looked ugly, while Huo Jiao's mood was exactly the opposite. Her whole smiling face was filled with some kind of joy of relief.
Yes, Su Qingyu was sure that she saw it right, it was indeed relief.
So, when the eldest princess was about to take Shen Huaide and Su Qingyu into the palace to meet the saint, Su Qingyu acquiesced to Huo Jiao getting into her carriage.
"Tell me, what's going on? Why are you suddenly going to fight? Are you not going back to Shuzhou?"
Huo Jiao chuckled, then lowered her voice and whispered a few words in Su Qingyu's ear. Su Qingyu was so surprised that she stared at her with her eyes wide open.
"You are such nonsense, no wonder Her Royal Highness the Princess is so angry as she was just now."
