234 Lift the fig leaf
The Duke of Chu saw Qing Yi but not Xiao Hua, knowing that Xiao Hua was determined not to see him. //. 78 free e-books download //()
Although he felt desperate, he didn't want to starve himself to death. Besides, the food was sent by his daughter. He owed her too much. If he didn't even eat the food she sent, it would really chill her heart. .
He took the porridge bowl and swallowed it slowly.
Qing Yi waited for Duke Chu to finish, then asked Laotou for hot water, took out the small hair comb she carried with her from her arms, and washed her father's dirty hair.
She remembered that her father only had white hair on his temples, but now his entire head of hair was gray.
Yami sighed.
Qing Yi didn't ask, the Duke of Chu felt more and more sad, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Don't you blame your father?"
Qing Yi combed his clean hair and said, "Father, do you think I should 234 uncover the fig leaf monster?"
Duke Chu was dumbfounded. He was indeed ambitious before, but since Yueniang died, he wanted Xiao Hua to die more, because if Xiao Hua had not insisted on marrying Qing Yi, his wife would not have taken such a stupid step. Dead end.
After a long time, Qing Yi asked: "If you put aside your selfishness, who do you think, you or Xiao Hua, as emperor, can benefit the people more?"
The Duke of Chu was startled for a moment. Before, he had wholeheartedly supported the prince for the late emperor, but the prince really couldn't support him. He began to feel that if the prince became emperor, the Yan Kingdom would be over.
That's why he aspired to be emperor. Because he wholeheartedly defended the late emperor, he rejected Pingyang Hou in his heart.
Because of the rejection, I naturally don't think about who can benefit the people more, him or Xiao Hua.
When asked by Qing Yi, the answer immediately flashed out, Pingyang Hou was strong. He has the ability to protect the country from infringement, and he treats the people very well. When the people suffer disasters, the court cannot take care of them. It's all about him opening the warehouse to stock the food, and he never uses his name to advertise it, so those who know it will know it. Those who don’t know will never publicize it.
Over the years, the court had become accustomed to him contributing money, and sometimes deliberately slowed down the pace of disaster relief, making Pingyang Marquis unable to help but donate money.
At this time, even if Marquis Pingyang knew, 234 Lifting the fig leaf would not ignore him and still generously helped.
Because in his opinion. If you gamble for a day, the people will suffer more and even more people will die.
Because of this, Pingyang Hou is very popular among the people. And his soldiers were even more loyal to him.
The Duke of Chu always felt that this was inappropriate, and asked the fake Emperor Yan to release grain first and steal people's hearts several times. However, the late emperor was afraid that the fake Emperor Yan would squander the silver in the national inventory, so he gave the power of opening the treasury to the Queen Mother. ()
When the empress dowager got old, she devoted herself to praying to Buddha. She lived in the mountains for many years, asking for orders every time, but it only took three or two days. However, the fake emperor Yan was too lazy to pay attention to the people in the disaster area. Every time I encounter this problem, I always take it slow. It often takes ten days and a half to get results for a journey of three or two days.
The Duke of Chu was so anxious that he wanted to open his own treasury to release grain. However, although he was ambitious, he was not a corrupt official. How could he get so much grain and money?
So I have this intention. No such power.
Over the years, he has never understood why Pingyang Hou had so much money.
Now that he knew that Marquis Pingyang was Xiao Hua, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Xiao Hua's money is probably much more than the national treasury, and Xiao Hua's soldiers receive national salaries, so disaster relief money is naturally not a problem for him.
But no matter what, Xiao Hua does love the people very much.
A country is strong only when it is rich, and Xiao Hua's wealth can rival a country.
As a king, even if he forced the Queen Mother to hand over the material power, he would only be guarding the treasury. How could he compare with Xiao Hua, who was the best at making money?
Therefore, the answer is that Marquis Pingyang is more suitable to be the king than him.
However, such an answer severely hit his self-esteem, and he said angrily: "Is it true that women's hearts are turned outward, and the married daughter throws water away? After you married Xiao Hua, you spoke for him everywhere?"
Qing Yi said: "Actually, the father knows better than his daughter."
The Duke of Chu was silent, so what if who is suitable? The winner is the king, the loser is the bandit, he lost...
Qing Yi took out the sachet that had poisoned Xiao Hua. The spices that could have poisoned Xiao Hua had been removed from the sachet and handed it to her father. "Mother has really good intentions."
Duke Chu's expression changed drastically, and his daughter actually knew that the problem was with the sachet.
"It means being a father. If you want to hate it, then hate being a father."
Qing Yi sighed softly and said quietly: "The mother is already dead, how can the daughter still hate a dead person? Why should the father take everything on him?"
The Duke of Chu said anxiously: "I am really a father."
Qing Yi's face was cold, "Father, do you know why this sachet can block Xiao Hua's energy?"
"It's because..." Chu Guogong was speechless.
Qing Yi sneered, "How can my father use this sachet if he doesn't even know the reason? It's better for my daughter to tell her father the reason."
The Duke of Chu was indeed very curious about what his wife was doing, but no matter how he asked, Yueniang would just tell him to do as she said.
Although Yueniang was gone at this time, he still wanted to know the reason and couldn't help asking: "What's the reason?"
Qing Yi said: "Back then, Marquis Pingyang sneaked into the Snake Kingdom and was injured by me. My sword was smeared with the Snake King's poison by my mother."
The Duke of Chu gasped, "So it turns out that he is not a human being or a ghost because of you and your mother?"
A flash of pain flashed in Qing Yi's eyes, "No, he was injured by the snake emperor's poison. Later, he drank the snake emperor's bile and swallowed up the snake emperor's poison. From then on, ordinary poisons were useless to him, but he was afraid of crows. The green sandalwood from Mengshan Mountain..." Qingyi squeezed the sachet, "and this sachet contains the green sandalwood from Wumeng Mountain."
The Duke of Chu was confused. He had seen Mount Wumeng in books, but no one knew where it was. "How could your mother have the green sandalwood from Mount Wumeng?"
Qing Yi couldn't tell her father what happened in her previous life, saying, "Of course I can't have a mother, but I can have a person."
The Duke of Chu asked urgently, "Who?"
Qing Yi looked directly at her father, her cherry lips touched lightly, and she said two words coldly, "Snake Marquis."
Duke Chu's body swayed, his heart felt like it had fallen into an ice cave, and his whole body was so cold that he shivered.
He always wanted to use Snake Marquis to achieve his great cause, but unexpectedly, he was a chess piece in their hands, and his beloved wife knew that Snake Marquis regarded him as a chess piece, but she pushed him behind him and pushed him into the world. The chess game played by Snake Houbu.
With a decadent look on his face, he held up his hands and shook them vigorously, "I don't believe that your mother wouldn't do this to me."
Qing Yi suddenly felt very pitiful for her father in this life. Although her mother was moved by how good the Duke of Chu was to her, she was a person from the fairy world after all. She knew very well that this life was just a reincarnation, and the mortal world was a long one. How much love can be invested in just a few days in heaven? What's more, she uses the people around her to achieve the purpose of her coming to this life.
Sighing, he took his father's hand down and held it tightly, "Father, stop deceiving yourself."
Qing Yi's words were like an awl, directly piercing the barrier in his heart that no one could touch, and picking out the facts hidden under the barrier that he himself had been unwilling to admit.
Over the years, he has always believed that his wife loves him very much and is very attached to him.
But since his wife returned to the Duke of Chu's palace, his belief began to waver. If his wife really believed in him, loved him, and was attached to him, how could he rather be trapped in the Snake Kingdom than ask for help from him.
If he learns of her whereabouts, he will try to rescue their mother and daughter even if he desperately goes to Pingyang Hou.
But she sent no message at all.
But he deceived himself into believing his wife's explanation, and held the shadow in his heart tightly.
But even his daughter could see it, how could he cover it up?
Yueniang died, and he wanted Xiao Hua to die even if his family was ruined.
But when this fig leaf was lifted, it was all his wishful thinking.
The Duke of Chu suddenly lost all hope.
There was a buzzing sound in his ears, and many black spots suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. There were more and more black spots, and he gradually couldn't see the things around him. He pushed Qing Yi away violently, "You came today just to let me know, Didn't your mother have any feelings for me?"
Qing Yi bit her lip lightly, "My daughter has never said that her mother has no intention for her father. She just doesn't want her father to blind her eyes and close her heart because of that obsession, and then go down a dark road."
Duke Chu raised his head to look at Qing Yi, but could no longer see his daughter's face clearly. He suddenly raised his head and laughed, his voice was bleak and sad. He laughed until his voice became hoarse, and then he gradually stopped laughing, "It turns out that she came to pawn Xiao Hua's puppy. For lobbyists.”
Qing Yi knelt down to put away the dishes and chopsticks, "Father, do you think this little thing in your hand can still be used by Xiao Hua? I came today, firstly, to see my father, and secondly, to ask him if he knows how to contact Snake Marquis?"
It is impossible for the mother to join forces with the Snake Marquis without a method of contact. No matter how the mother uses the father, the father is the one who is the mother's pillow after all, the person closest to her. If the father doesn't know, then really no one will know.
The Duke of Chu was shaken. He was now defeated and had nothing. "Did Xiao Hua ask you to ask?"
Although Snake Marquis was defeated, he was still the prince of Northern Xinjiang, and the power of Northern Xinjiang was definitely a great threat to Xiao Hua.
Qing Yi shook his head, "Xiao Hua has been fighting with the Snake Lord for many years, and he has never been afraid of the Snake Lord's elusiveness. I am the one who wants to find the Snake Lord."
She refused to marry the Snake Marquis before, but now she has become Xiao Hua's queen, but she wants to find the Snake Marquis? Duke Chu was suddenly so nervous that he grabbed Qing Yi's hand, "Is it because Xiao Huazhong's poison cannot be cured, so you privately sought the antidote from Snake Marquis?"
"Father still looks down on Xiao Hua. The poison is just a temporary punishment for him. I am looking for Snake Marquis because he may have kidnapped my precious Jiao'er." Seeing that her father was still stubborn, Qing Yi decided that she was Being instigated by Xiao Hua, it would be impossible for her to get any answers from her father.
Her father had seen it and had said what needed to be said. As for what her father thought, it was no longer in her control. All she could do was try to save her father's life.
He stood up, picked up the food box and walked out.
The Duke of Chu looked at his daughter's hazy back, as if he felt that he would never see her again. He was suddenly afraid of losing her. He climbed up from the floor and caught up with her two steps, "Since the day Snake Hou disappeared, there has been no news. I also I don’t know how to contact him... I’m so sleepy, q!!!
