cold hearted son-in-law

During the Lantern Festival in the 12th year of Jianwen, Mrs. Hua became the empress in Beijing, and Chu Yunxi saw the eldest princess, and her condition was already serious)

The kind of girl who lives in her own world, likes an outside world, and then tries to be nice to her clumsily, but doesn't know how to do it

In the 12th year of Jianwen, on the 15th day of the Lantern Festival, Princess Hua of the Hua Dynasty changed the country name of Huaxia to Jinfeng in the capital, and the name of the year was Fengwu. The first female emperor of the year.

Later history books called this change of dynasty the "Dragon and Phoenix Calamity", that is, "Dragon and Phoenix Calamity" and "Dragon Falling Disaster".Of course, these are written by the historian based on the later events. No one knew at the time that it turned out to be like that.

On the early morning of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in Huizhou City, the Fanzhen Army triumphantly entered the city. The people in the city rejoiced. The imperial court sent a team of guards of honor out of the city to meet them. There were two rows of soldiers in the city. .

After the guard of honor, Chu Yunxi wore a green robe and a jade crown, and rode in front with a vague smile. Li Mo and Lin Ye rode behind in armor and long swords. , with the three thousand soldiers behind him in armor Yingxia moving to the ground.

After yesterday's battle, there were more than [-] people left, and Chu Yunxi was ordered to go to the city to meet him, so he brought only [-] soldiers and marched in formation. What does a person who has just gone through a brutal killing look like?So what is it like to gather these murderous people into a team?The three thousand soldiers led by Chu Yunxi may not be the most elite, but they are the most brave soldiers carefully selected. The three thousand armors are shining with silver light, fully equipped, disciplined like a mountain, and imposing like a rainbow.However, most of the people only competed to watch the young man in green clothes flying in the iron armor formation, shouting "Chu Lang", "Hou Ye", "God of War", "General" and "son-in-law" endlessly, Chu Yunxi glanced casually. Looking at the crowd of onlookers, there were not many of them, and she didn't respond.

This time, although the soldiers led by Li Mo came to the rescue with the food and grass raised, and he personally went to battle to kill the enemy. In terms of credit, he is the greatest, but Huzhou belongs to Chu Yunxi. Youerzhou formed the division of King Qin, and the common people only knew the name Chu Yunxi and passed it on by word of mouth.

Chu Yunxi calculated in his mind what dangers this face-to-face meeting would entail, and what benefits he could gain by taking advantage of it.In fact, there are many other situations of King Qin, some of them are making a fuss, some are coming to the side of the Qing emperor, and some are determined to seize power. There are also many precedents for King Qin's rebellion and murder.And the attitudes of each emperor towards Qin Wang's teacher are also different. As the emperor's son-in-law, Chu Yunxi leads troops to Qin Wang is a good talk of loyalty, filial piety, but judging from the current emperor's defense against Chu Yunxi, it is very difficult to meet the emperor this time. Good luck and misfortune are unpredictable, just in case there is always some preparation.So apart from Lin Ye's agitated expression, Li Mo just smiled coldly and could not see any other emotions.

The city of Huizhou is not very big, and the three thousand soldiers led by Chu Yunxi divided it into two flat areas to set up camp and settle down. The further you go to the center of the city, the fewer people you see. There are armor-piercing soldiers patrolling back and forth everywhere. .

"Where's the eldest princess?" Chu Yunxi asked directly after seeing the prince again outside the small government office in the city, and dismounted to greet him.

The prince greeted him with a smile, as if nothing had happened before, and said: "Miss Huang is not feeling well, and my father asked Gu to welcome all the meritorious generals, and has prepared a banquet for you to welcome the triumphant return..."

"Let someone take me to have a look. The crown prince took other people to the banquet first. General Zhang was injured and did not come. General Lin and General Li are both meritorious ministers who went to battle to kill the enemy, and Li Mo can make decisions on my behalf. If you need anything, you can just find him." Chu Yunxi interrupted the prince, got on the horse, and had a tough attitude.

Crown Prince Huangfu Chengqian looked a little unnatural, but still waved to the two eunuchs following him to lead the horses to lead Chu Yunxi, but he hesitated for a while before asking: "Miss Xiaowei didn't come with Aiqing?"

Chu Yunxi glanced at the prince and said, "Xiao Wei is still treating the wounded outside the city, and will not enter the city until two days later."

The crown prince nodded, and wanted to ask something. Seeing that the eunuch had come out, Chu Yunxi nodded to Li Mo. Their eyes met. After Li Mo glanced at Lin Ye next to him, he nodded slightly and smiled. Xicai left with his horse.

The eunuch led the way respectfully, the horse was not slow, but it took nearly half a stick of incense to stop in front of a slightly remote house. There were only a few houses, and there were many guards with knives outside.

The surroundings were quiet and birds chirping could be heard, Chu Yunxi felt a little uneasy. Those guards who were the eldest princess naturally knew Chu Yunxi, and seeing that they were led by the prince's eunuchs, they did not stop them.

Chu Yunxi knocked on the door twice, but no one answered, so he pushed the door open and entered.The room is not big, and the smell of medicine is pervasive. As far as I can see, the eldest princess is sitting behind the desk on the left side of the door, dealing with the stacked notebooks. Hearing the sound of the door opening, he does not look up and continues to write something. It is not far from her. On the table in the room is untouched food, which has gone cold, and a Fuxiqin is placed on a soft couch near the window in the distance. The right side of the door is separated by a mahogany floor-to-ceiling screen, which is painted with a picture of spring plums announcing the dawn. On the inside of the screen, there is a large bed hung with a green gauze tent. The bed quilt is plain in color and neatly folded, and everything in the room is clear at a glance.

It wasn't until the door was gently closed again, but there was no sound coming from the room, that the eldest princess raised her head in doubt, with a white veil covering her face, her eyes fixed on the person who suddenly appeared in front of her.

"What are you doing wearing the veil?" Chu Yunxi stretched out his hand to lift the veil on the eldest princess's face as she spoke.

"Don't touch it!" The eldest princess said in a hurry, she leaned back, and naturally waved her hand to block Chu Yunxi's outstretched hand.

The long sleeve of the raised arm of the eldest princess slipped slightly, and Chu Yunxi saw light red pimples scattered on the creamy snowy arm. The eldest princess retracted immediately when she saw this, but was grabbed by Chu Yunxi. Silently breaking free, Chu Yunxi had already lifted her sleeves, exposing the rash on her entire arm.

The eldest princess didn't struggle anymore, she looked at Chu Yunxi quietly, watched her help her to check her pulse, saw her put her hand on her forehead, and let the veil be lifted to see the rash on her face.

After careful examination and confirmation, Chu Yunxi looked at the abnormal redness on the eldest princess's face, frowned and asked, "How does your body feel?"

"Chilling, high fever, headache, fainting, soreness and weakness, and then herpes and pustules appeared." Speaking of this, the eldest princess paused, and then said: "It will be contagious."

Chu Yunxi stared at her eyes, and said calmly: "I have nausea, vomiting, convulsions, rashes and erythematous rashes three to five days after the onset... This is smallpox!"

"Yes." The eldest princess nodded lightly, her bitter smile showed that she already knew it.

"Then you're still busy?" Chu Yunxi looked at her with a stiff tone.

"You can't just let it go and just wait for death?" The eldest princess smiled helplessly, put on her veil again, and said with dim and hopeless eyes: "It's already spreading in the army, but it's just covering up the news."

"How did you get it? How long has it been?" Chu Yunxi moved a chair and sat down opposite the desk.

"Omega died of the pox yesterday, but she didn't know how she contracted it. The soldiers who died in the army also dug the soil and buried it deep and then sprinkled it with lime, but the number of people spread too fast, and it was no longer controllable. That's why, So those people didn't attack Huizhou for a long time, but the epidemic still spread, Bai Lie and Li Tai led the army to slaughter the city." After the eldest princess finished speaking, she closed her eyes as if exhausted.Smallpox is a virus that spreads quickly and has a very high fatality rate. Once infected, people may survive, but they will also be ruined due to acne scars, and most of them will die on a large scale, and there is no medicine to cure or contain it. this disease.

"Massacre? In other words, the epidemic is very serious, and it seems that I shouldn't come here." Chu Yunxi still looked at the eldest princess and said without any emotion.

The eldest princess opened her eyes to look at her, she looked right, but she asked, "Why did you come here?"

"Let's find an answer." Chu Yunxi leaned back and said slowly with a serious expression.

After hearing Chu Yunxi's words, the eldest princess' eyes brightened and then darkened again, but she still sat up straight unconsciously, her hands under the table were also tightly clenched on her sleeves, and she asked cautiously, "What's the answer?" ?”

Chu Yunxi looked at her and said, "There must be an explanation for what happened before!"

The eldest princess supported the table with her elbows, put her hands on her forehead, covered the disappointment in her eyes, smiled at herself, and said, "What happened in the past? It will take a long time to talk about it."

"As long as you are willing to speak, I am patient." Chu Yunxi saw that the eldest princess had something to say, so she also sat up straight to see if the eldest princess would solve her doubts.

"Can I still say 'no' now?" The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi with a helpless smile, but her eyes were so deep that she seemed to see through her, and then said: "But will you believe what I said? ?”

"Tell me, I have my own judgment." Chu Yunxi said with a slight frown, as if impatient with the eldest princess' procrastination and wordiness.

The eldest princess pondered for a while and said, "Why don't you exchange a secret for a secret?"

"What do you want to know?" Chu Yunxi asked suspiciously.

"Who are you?" The eldest princess said out every word.

Chu Yunxi was not too surprised when he heard it, and nodded when he saw her, smiled slightly and said not too much, "The deal is done, but you should talk first."

The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi, nodded hesitantly, and then said: "If you didn't pretend to be Li Mo and would try, maybe everything would have a different result."

Chu Yunxi didn't say anything to the princess's opening 'if', just glanced at her and listened quietly.

The eldest princess also knew that things had already happened, and no matter how many ifs, they could only be ifs, so she continued, "Do you know why you were able to beat Qin Jue and Li Tai to win the championship? Because everything was planned , the top three, Qin Jue ranked second, Li Tai Tanhua, the rankings of the two have already been determined. Li Mo was born innocent and talented. At that time, his mother was dying of illness. Pay attention to this batch of candidates for the general examination, and choose Li Mo who has not yet married."

When the eldest princess said this, she looked at Chu Yunxi who was listening carefully, sighed softly, and said as if nostalgic: "The queen mother was rich and famous all her life, but she didn't live happily, so she chose a person with a clean background for this palace. Ordinary civilians just hope that this palace can live a simple and happy life without being restrained. As far as Li Mo is concerned, although he comes from a poor family, marrying him will not add any help, but compared to a wealthy family, he is also A lot of troubles have been saved, at least after marriage or even after the death of the mother, I have a way to continue to assist Chengqian to ascend the throne. The plan was to bestow the marriage at the Qionglin Banquet, but there was an accident at that time..."

Speaking of this, the eldest princess stopped again, and glanced at Chu Yunxi. There was no expression on Chu Yunxi's face, so the eldest princess could only continue: "When you revealed your identity, your life and death depended on the emperor. In just one thought, maybe in the next moment you will be decapitated... and I have to choose someone to marry, and it is inevitable to help the chaos. Your appearance at that time was unexpected, but in the end it was carried out according to the original plan. Later, I sent someone to investigate your identity and found out that the former Chu Yunxi was just a sick child, few people even knew about it, and he had never worshiped any famous teacher, let alone have such literary talents and medical skills. At that time, I suspected you true identity."

Hearing this, Chu Yunxi raised his head and looked at the eldest princess, her expression didn't change much, but the eldest princess kept checking her face, seeing Chu Yunxi's appearance, she continued, "On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, you also encountered what happened when you entered Beijing. In the first assassination, Bengong sent people to protect you, so I realized that you are not just a frail scholar."

"There were three groups of people that night, who sent the other two groups?" Chu Yunxi finally asked, with a lazy expression, more like asking casually.

"Mrs. Hua sent people to arrest you, and those who shoot arrows to kill you... probably sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion." After finishing speaking, the eldest princess added: "The assassins are all dead."

Chu Yunxi nodded, motioning for the eldest princess to continue, but the eldest princess opened her mouth, wanting to explain something to Chu Yunxi, but she continued to speak.

"I thought you wouldn't be able to make any big troubles, but I still underestimated your courage. Although you committed crimes to save your mother, you will never be redeemed by drugging me. Moreover, you ignored the rumors and accepted Xiaowei as your apprentice." , entangled with Mrs. Hua, I still remember these things, I originally wanted to restrain you after getting married, but..." The eldest princess stopped talking, her eyes looked at the void in front of her, as if she was recalling the past.

Chu Yunxi also remembered that on the day they got married, the empress died suddenly of illness, and today is the Lantern Festival, so it must be the empress's annual memorial day.

After a while, the eldest princess came back to her senses, looked at Chu Yunxi with complicated eyes, and continued to speak, but the progress was obviously accelerated. The eldest princess continued: "Later you went to the border to become the governor, and the Bai family thought you were the original governor. Gong sent someone to go to the Bai family army on the border, so he sent someone to assassinate you on the road, but it was unsuccessful, and your performance in the snow disaster was beyond my expectations. It was only then that I confirmed that you are indeed in charge You are so talented, so I mobilized people to help you with all my strength, thinking that you would become a powerful helper for me, but then the barbarians invaded, and you and other five states jointly asked for the title of "Yongjun Autonomy". The identity of Li Mo, who was the earliest acquaintance with you, has not found any doubts, but my suspicion of you is even deeper, and I can't figure out your intentions. All your secrets, but you don't have any!"

When the eldest princess said this, she saw Chu Yunxi, who was still expressionless, leaning on the back with a little discouragement and exhaustion, and said softly but with some hatred: "Later, Furong was set on fire and assassinated by barbarians. You rescued Mrs. Hua from the fire, and even lost your eyesight because of it. Chengqian tried his best to stop the rumors in the capital when he granted the six prefectures. Throwing it out of the mansion, being slandered and publicized by Murong Xi, Cheng Qiancai became jealous and murderous because of this, I don't want to stop it, thinking maybe it will be like this, and I will pretend that I have never met you!"

"Oh, did you have the mentality of 'Even if I'm not your favorite, but I will be your last woman'?" Chu Yunxi said, thinking of Mrs. Hua coming to visit, waiting for Mrs. Hua After leaving, the eldest princess suddenly appeared and kissed her secretly, and she smiled with a bit of malice.

After hearing this, the eldest princess was stunned for a moment, and then her face turned red, not knowing whether it was shame or anger, she gritted her teeth and said, "You are a woman!"

Chu Yunxi laughed and nodded, indicating that she knew it herself.

"Do you think that this palace can't do anything about you now, so you are very proud, right?" The princess's tone was cold, with a chill on her face.

Chu Yunxi tilted his head to look at the eldest princess, with a half-smile on his face, and slowly said: "What am I proud of? Do you hate me so much that you want my life to be worse than death? Actually, I just want to find out the truth about the Huzhou murder case." I don't care if I know other things!"

The eldest princess choked on these words, and said after a while: "Your parents were killed by Bai Lie's army, don't you already know?"

"I want to understand the whole story." Chu Yunxi's expression became serious.

"That starts from the time of the first emperor, and I don't know much about it, so I can only give you a general idea." The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi and said, her cold expression softened.

However, Chu Yunxi's heart rose slightly, and he motioned for the eldest princess to continue.

"Actually, the reason why the Huzhou massacre happened may need to start with the situation of the Bai family and the border during the first emperor's time..." The eldest princess was speaking slowly when there was a knock on the door.

"My Lord, King Wu and Shi Shangshu are waiting outside." The voice of the guard outside the door came out, listen carefully, and you can hear the words of You Shi clamoring to come in not far away, it should be blocked by the guard, the voice is a little far away.

Chu Yunxi had no choice but to stand up, looked at the eldest princess and said, "Shi Ze probably has something urgent, otherwise he wouldn't be making such a fuss, I'll go and have a look first."

The eldest princess nodded, watched Chu Yunxi go out, and closed the door behind her.

After going out, Chu Yunxi was startled when he saw the two people outside. They hadn't seen each other for just two months. The Shi Ze in front of him had bloodshot eyes and an unshaven beard. Standing next to him was Huangfuze, the King of Wu, who also had black eye circles and looked tired.

"Yunxi, help me tell the eldest princess to let her order Ah Qi to be released. I beg you, Shi, I don't want Ah Qi to spend his last days in that ghostly place." Shi Ze looked at Chu. When Yunxi came out, she approached anxiously in three steps and two steps, without caring about the pleasantries, she just spoke directly.

"Lin Qi? What happened to him?" When Chu Yunxi asked, he basically guessed it in his heart.

Sure enough, Shi Ze immediately said: "Yunxi, they said that Ah Qiran had smallpox and was locked up in a quarantine area." Shi Ze had already grabbed Chu Yunxi's sleeve and said hastily.

"Don't worry! I have a way to cure and prevent smallpox." Chu Yunxi showed a confident and indifferent smile, comforting Shi Ze.

When the words came out, the two people in front of them looked at Chu Yunxi in surprise, and King Wu asked cautiously: "Really? You have a cure for smallpox? Is there really a cure for smallpox?"

As soon as Chu Yunxi nodded to confirm, Shi Ze hugged him. Shi Ze was so excited that he was at a loss, and he kept saying, "It can be cured, Yunxi, it can be cured!"

Chu Yunxi pushed Shi Ze a few times, but Shi Ze didn't push him away, and was hugged by Shi Ze in circles. It was Huangfuze who saw that Chu Yunxi's expression was a little strange, so he was busy remembering Shi Ze and let go. It took a while for Shi Ze to calm down. But he still stretched out his thumb to Chu Yunxi and said with a silly smile, "Yunxi, you still have the ability!"

"I'm not capable, I was almost shaken to death by you." Chu Yunxi rubbed his temples to calm his dizzy head, and really wanted to slap the fool, so he said angrily.

Shi Ze chuckled, and said with some embarrassment: "You came to look for the eldest princess as soon as you came, and you can understand my mood."

After hearing this, Chu Yunxi was silent, but asked in another way: "Did you just come from the banquet?"

"After the emperor issued an order to circulate Bai Lie's head to the three armies, the banquet broke up in a hurry." Huangfuze said after taking the words.

"The chief circulated to the three armies?" Chu Yunxi rubbed his temples and frowned slightly. She only cared about these few words, and glanced at the two of them, without further words.Chu Yunxi still remembers how Bai Lie died. Li Mo led the cavalry and archers forward, and all the soldiers around Bai Lie died without taking a step back. In the end, he was shot and died. Apart from the fatal wound, there were more than a dozen other wounds. Bleeding wounds, and in that battle, the [-]th Army assembled by the three states was almost wiped out, but Chu Yunxi felt a little admiration for this opponent. He was buried in the coffin, and was about to stop for three days and choose a site for burial. Although senior rebel generals like Bai Lie should ask the emperor to make a decision, Chu Yunxi did not bring them to the city this time just to prevent such a situation from happening. Something like 'humiliating a corpse'.What is passing the head to the three armies?It is to cut off the dead head of Bai Lie, embalm it with lime, and bring it to the generals of the left, middle, and right armies to show the generals and the soldiers below, so as to achieve the purpose of encouragement or deterrence. As for what will happen to that head, Chu Yunxi does not know. I know, but the headless body can only be buried with a wooden head carved on top of it.

Chu Yunxi sighed softly, only to hear King Wu say again: "I didn't do well what you left Beijing to me last time." King Wu lowered his head slightly as he spoke, but raised it again after a while, still With a cold face, but with a bit of frustration.

Chu Yunxi nodded, and said gently: "The battle happened too quickly, and the reaction was not in a hurry. I can't blame you. If you are held accountable, don't take it to your heart. Now that there are troubles, you don't go to that person, understand me." mean?"

Huangfuze glanced at Chu Yunxi and nodded seriously.

Chu Yunxi smiled, and said to the two of them: "I'll say goodbye and then go to the quarantine area with Shi Ze, you wait first." Then she hurried into the room again, the eldest princess was still the same as when she left Leaning on the back, it seems that he has been waiting for her.

"I'm going to have a look at the quarantine area now." Chu Yunxi approached quickly and said directly.

"This is a token. Be careful. Lin Qi was infected when he went to check the epidemic." The eldest princess pushed a gold medal that seemed to be prepared on the table.

Chu Yunxi didn't say much, just raised his hand and took it.

"Why did you leave Beijing so suddenly?" the eldest princess asked suddenly.

After hearing this, Chu Yunxi grinned. If he wanted to smile or not, he didn't speak, and turned around to leave.

"No matter what purpose you and Li Mo are here for, I still want to say thank you on behalf of many innocent people in Huizhou!" The eldest princess behind her spoke sincerely.

Chu Yunxi turned around and glanced at the eldest princess, nodded noncommittally, but turned around after opening the door and said in a relaxed and natural manner: "Oh, by the way, Your Highness, I know the method of treating and preventing smallpox, Your Highness can rest Now, I will come to see His Highness again when I have time, and then we will continue to chat."