cold hearted son-in-law

"I heard that His Highness doesn't eat anymore?" Chu Yunxi pushed the door open with one hand and walked in, holding a steaming medicine bowl in the other, and asked as he approached the eldest princess' bed.

"No appetite." The eldest princess was dressed in moon-white plain clothes, her hair was simply tied behind her back, and she was covered with a veil. She replied lightly. Seeing Chu Yunxi holding the medicine, she signaled to the two maidservants beside her to help her up and sit on the bed. He took the medicine bowl that Chu Yunxi handed over with his own hands, and motioned for Chu Yunxi to turn his back on him. After drinking the medicine, he said to Chu Yunxi, who was still turning his back on him, "Aren't you very busy?"

"It's not too busy. Li Mo takes care of most of the military affairs, and the handling of the epidemic is also in charge of King Wu and Shi Ze. In fact, I just come up with ideas, and they will handle the actual implementation and how to implement it." Chu Yun Xi turned around and said it naturally and calmly, but his face looked tired, and there were obvious dark circles under his eyes. He looked at the red rash on the princess's face, his eyes flickered but he didn't say anything, he lowered his head Sitting on the side of the bed, the eyes always close for a while before opening slightly, and then close for a while and then open again, as if not waking up, maybe more like trying to stay awake.

The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi's appearance and remained silent for a long time.The maidservant on the side had already taken the medicine bowl, and they all retreated out. After the door was opened and closed, there was silence, and there were only two of them in the room, and the eldest princess said slowly: "Check yourself for any discomfort. , you often go to the isolation area these two days, be careful of infection, and you don't have to come here in the future."

"No, I have been inoculated with cowpox, and I always have to see your condition with my own eyes to be at ease." Chu Yunxi's tone was firm, and he especially emphasized the word 'condition', and the corners of his mouth slightly turned up after speaking.

The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi's frowning brows and pursed lips and looked a little weird, and felt something was wrong in her heart, but she couldn't figure it out. After Chu Yunxi said last time that she had a way to prevent the epidemic and cure smallpox, two days later Chu Yunxi The organizers began to vaccinate everyone in the city with vaccinia and pox paste. First, it was implemented in the isolation area and the prisoner-of-war camps, then in the military camps, and then in the city.

"What's the situation inside and outside the city?" the eldest princess asked, with worried eyes.

"King Qi retreated. It seems that someone in his army has been infected. The army did not retreat to Haozhou. The spies said that they saw corpses being burned in the enemy's barracks every day. The epidemic in the city was so serious that almost ten rooms were empty. Now, the total number of soldiers in the army who still have combat power is less than [-], and now there are no recruits, so I am curious, where did you find so many people when you entered the city two days ago?" Chu Yunxi said With a cold and mocking expression.

The eldest princess is speechless, the situation is really bad now, she knows this in her heart, and Chu Yunxi's arrival has saved many people, but the eldest princess can't feel grateful to Chu Yunxi from the bottom of her heart, because she feels more What I saw was Chu Yunxi's extreme reluctance, as if he disliked burdensome attitude. Although Chu Yunxi didn't show it in any matter, what she felt with a woman's innate intuition still made her feel uneasy.

The eldest princess knows that whether Chu Yunxi saves people depends on Chu Yunxi's free choice, and now in Huizhou city, no one can do anything to Chu Yunxi, and Chu Yunxi's coming to King Qin is unexpected, she has never It can be seen that Chu Yunxi has the loyalty of monarchs and ministers of civil servants and generals in the world.

When she first learned that Chu Yunxi had left Beijing secretly, she thought that Chu Yunxi was really sad, and left completely. She stared at the hand that slapped Chu Yunxi, feeling remorse and anger in her heart, but she didn't send it away. People go to track and find.But for a rare time when she let go, Chu Yunxi came back by herself. The eldest princess has been guessing the purpose of Chu Yunxi's coming here for the past few days.

Is it for fame and fortune?If Chu Yunxi wanted it, she could give it to princes, generals, and ministers, and Chu Yunxi had already grasped it.For the sake of the country and the country, uproot the chaos anyway?Based on the impression of Chu Yunxi in my heart, Chu Yunxi doesn't care about other people's life and death, and she may be included in these other people. Chu Yunxi has indeed done many things that are beneficial to the people, but Chu Yunxi's attitude is As if treating everything as a fun game, Chu Yunxi always seemed to be standing outside the situation, as if he had nothing to do with it, watching indifferently, and also seemed to be controlling the direction of the situation within the situation, which was really puzzling.

"Mingyue?!" Chu Yunxi approached and shouted loudly.

The eldest princess was startled, she recovered her senses and looked at Chu Yunxi staring at her, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Sure enough, you have to call your soul to hear it. What was your Highness thinking just now? So preoccupied? I've already called you several times." Chu Yunxi smiled and shrugged, with an innocent expression.

The Eldest Princess looked at her with frowning eyes, and after a long time, she gritted her teeth and said: "I already know the purpose of your coming here, you are here to torture me!"

After hearing this, Chu Yunxi smiled, looked at the eldest princess with a happy evil smile on his face and said, "The eldest princess doesn't want to be tortured? I have medicine, do you want it?"

"Get out!" The eldest princess yelled at Chu Yunxi, furious.

"Before I finished what I said last time, why did the eldest princess drive you away?" Chu Yunxi suppressed his smile, as if everything just now was just a small prank.

"I don't want to talk about it anymore, and I don't want to know who you are. You can find out everything by yourself, and you don't have to worry about Bengong lying to you." The eldest princess sneered, looked at Chu Yunxi and said.

"Princess, why is there no mirror in this room?" Chu Yunxi said this lightly, with a smile on his face.It's a joke, the key person Bai Lie is dead, who is she looking for?

A sentence that seemed like a bull's head was wrong, but it made the eldest princess's face darken. This time, she really wanted to beat Chu Yunxi. The eldest princess's face was as cold as ice, and she looked at Chu Yunxi without any expression.

"The eldest princess doesn't want to be tortured? I have medicine, do you want it?" Chu Yunxi said the previous sentence again.

"If we want to find out the whole story of Huzhou, we must start with the first emperor." The eldest princess said slowly, she was completely out of temper, and she could only grit her teeth secretly. There was no way to deal with this person. Hate, I feel that the ignorant and fearless Chengqian's simple and rude method can teach this person a lesson, and other coercion, bribery and even seduction have no effect on this person.

"Listen carefully, Your Highness will speak quickly." Chu Yunxi nodded and said, trying to sit upright.

The eldest princess glanced at her sideways, leaning against the head of the bed with all her weight, and continued: "The Bai family is one of the four founders of the country. The loyal and loyal Bai family has guarded the western border for generations. The frontier is strong, but the army is strong and the horse is strong, and there is an order from the founder of the country to give preferential treatment to the Bai family army. The Bai family may not have the heart of rebellion, but the merits are high. At that time, the first emperor was going to suppress the Bai family. The plan was to pull one faction to fight the other. But the actual situation is that the Li family of Rong’an, the founder of the four kingdoms, and the Bai family were related by marriage, and the Qin family of Mingxian Gong and the Yang family of Wende Gong were both civil servants and could not be supported. The first emperor might be able to get rid of the Bai family at that time, but 20 Most of the generals of the Bai family army are members of the Bai family. They are not easy to win over and they are afraid of leaking secrets. At that time, no one in the court was able or willing to take the position of the head of the Bai family army. The big Bai family noticed that the plan was replaced by Xu Xu's plan, and the candidates were mostly new scholars from that year. Four of the six Jiedu envoys of the original six states were from that group of Jinshi, and Ben Gongcha However, so did Chu Fu and Lord Chu. Unfortunately, not long after that, the late emperor died violently, and the queen mother listened to the government behind the curtain. The wife reconciled in the middle, and the Bai family began to act low-key and did not use family influence to interfere in the government. It is also the credit of Mrs. Hua. There are frictions but we are in peace." The eldest princess said this, paused for a while before saying: "At least it seems that they are in peace, and I don't know what's going on behind the scenes." The eldest princess frowned slightly, as if thinking After a while, he looked at Chu Yunxi who was on the side, wanting to see her opinion.

Chu Yunxi on the side had already bowed his waist and lowered his head, drowsy. Hearing that the eldest princess had stopped talking, she opened her eyes after a long time, looked up at the eldest princess, her eyes met, Chu Yunxi smiled awkwardly, and was about to say something, There was a knock on the door, which could be heard clearly in the silent room.

"What's the matter?" Chu Yunxi walked over directly, opened the door but didn't go out, and asked.

"My son-in-law, the prince's personal guards came to report that Shi Shangshu and Li Fushi had a quarrel, Shi Shangshu moved his hand and knocked Li Fushi unconscious, Li Fushi's men tied Shi Shangshu, and Wu Wang led people to stop him , The two sides were already fighting each other with knives, and the crown prince happened to pass by and bumped into each other, so he sent someone to ask the son-in-law to take a look, and said that the apprentice of the son-in-law had already entered the city and was blocked there."

"What caused the trouble?" Chu Yunxi sighed with his hands on his forehead when he heard it. Shi Shangshu is Shi Ze. The former Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment Li Geng fell ill on the way to the south, so the eldest princess brought Shi Ze up. Then he and Li Mo fought with everyone.

"Going back to my son-in-law, I don't know what to say." The guard replied cautiously.

"Oh, what's your name?" Chu Yunxi asked lightly, and the guard was so frightened that he knelt down on the ground.

"Go back to the son-in-law, little Qingshi." The guard replied respectfully.

"Oh, blue stone, it also starts with the word blue, why is it a bit awkward, get up, and don't be disturbed anymore." Chu Yunxi closed the door after finishing speaking, and did not go out.

"What happened?" The eldest princess asked Chu Yunxi when she saw that Chu Yunxi's expression was not good.

"It's okay, let's continue, but let's be concise." Chu Yunxi rubbed his brows and said.

"It can't be short, why don't you come up and lie down and listen?" The eldest princess was also helpless, and wanted to be more concise in her heart. Just one sentence, Bai Lie sent people to massacre the whole family of the Chu family. She added yellow lotus to her medicine.

Chu Yunxi was not too polite. He took off his bamboo green robe and was about to go to bed. The eldest princess was dumbfounded before she moved inward to a position that was as wide as one person. Chu Yunxi lay directly next to the eldest princess, resting on her back On the pillow, he finally stretched out his frowning brow comfortably.In fact, Chu Yunxi basically didn't sleep these two days, it can also be said that he hasn't had a good sleep since he sneaked out of Beijing last time.

The eldest princess looked at the people around her, and after being speechless for a while, she had no choice but to say as concisely as possible: "Later, the emperor took over the government personally, and at first continued the empress dowager's easing policy, but soon, the Bai family began to wither. Bai Jue also died at that time, and Mrs. Hua was taken to Longhua Temple by the queen mother. After that, the military supplies were restrained, and even the military pay was delayed. At the edge of the border, the three powers of military, government, and finance were combined in one body, and the six states were rapidly expanded, but at the end of the Bai family lineage, only Bai Lie and Bai Shaotang remained. At that time, it was estimated that the Bai family had already hated their father. The Bai family and the six prefectures began to compete. Later, Li Jiedu of Huzhou died of illness, and your father went to take over. At that time, it was the emperor's decree, and it seemed that there was a Taoist secret. When Master Chu took office, the secret has been done. It was spread out, but nothing happened in the first two years, until the autumn of the ninth year of Jianwen, when the tragedy happened. The reason for this incident is that someone from other five prefectures colluded with Bai Lie, because Mr. Chu may have investigated other five prefectures The criminal evidence of the Jiedushi may be the Bai family, but at that time, the relationship between the imperial court and the border was a little sensitive, and anyone who was investigated could affect the whole body." Speaking of the eldest princess who seemed to be falling asleep , shook his head, and continued to narrate.

"Your father should have found out something and got into trouble. Bai Lie is the blade. Who else should cooperate with him? In fact, it is not the generals in the army who handle these things, but a group of assassins secretly supported by Bai Lie. She went to Youzhou to commit crimes in Huzhou, and the methods were clean and neat. Bai Lie probably had the intention of committing crimes many times. If this case is not solved, the next six states may be Jiazhou or Jingzhou, the two envoys. You It can be regarded as the fish that slipped through the net in that incident. I sent someone to look for you at the beginning, but after you escaped from the sky, you came to the capital after disappearing, and became the number one scholar. You also publicized the case and caused a sensation. While investigating the real culprit, Bai Lie and that person did not dare to act again immediately, and stopped all actions until half a year later, at the end of the tenth year of Jianwen, the people in this palace found those assassins again near your house, but those The assassin seems to be only observing you, and didn't attack you again. I sent someone to catch you, and tried to interrogate you, but failed, and even started to scare the snake, and then disappeared. In fact, I don't want Bai Lie's purpose. Zhou, he wanted to take revenge, revenge on those scholars back then, revenge on the current emperor, so he dared to assassinate the court officials and dared to rebel. When he heard the news, there was an uproar in the court, and his father sent Li Geng, the minister of punishment, to investigate and deal with it. In this case, although many officials were taken into custody as soon as they went, there was quite a commotion, but the Chu family slaughtered first and then burned, and the crime was committed quickly. There were no witnesses, so the case became an unsolved case, and in the end it might have to be dropped And now that Bai Lie is dead, you have avenged him. As for the person who colluded with Bai Lie, unless he knows what Master Chu found out, he has no clue, and there is nothing left from that fire."

"Why don't you say it?" Chu Yunxi opened his eyes and looked at the eldest princess. After he finished speaking, he said 'oh' again, got out of bed, poured a glass of water on the table and handed it over.

The eldest princess took the water glass, and looked at Chu Yunxi with a somewhat strange expression. Chu Yunxi saw that the eldest princess was watching her not drinking, so she turned her back foolishly.

"I'm done talking." The eldest princess said to Chu Yunxi's thin and straight back.

Chu Yunxi didn't turn around, said 'oh', and didn't comment, with a calm expression, and didn't make any comments on what the eldest princess said. He always felt that something was wrong, but he just couldn't think of anything wrong.It's just that if the matter is really that simple, why did everyone avoid it before?But who is the person who colluded with Bai Lie mentioned by Mrs. Hua and the eldest princess?

After taking the water glass that the eldest princess had finished drinking and putting it back on the table, Chu Yunxi lay back on the bed, and was about to sleep and wait until her mind cleared up before talking, but found that the eldest princess was looking at her, so she asked, "What's wrong?"

"Now can you tell me about your real identity? What I want is the ultimate truth, and I can accept any truth." The eldest princess saw that Chu Yunxi was thinking about something with her eyes open, so she asked, saying this When she was talking, Princess Chang had a strange look on her face, and she even held her breath, feeling her heart beating in her chest.

"Your Highness is so interested in my identity? In fact, it's fine if it's useful!" Chu Yunxi smiled, but suddenly thought in her heart, why didn't those people who knew her identity in the past never asked her?Don't you want to know who she really is?from where?What is the purpose of dressing up as a man?Or is it that who she is doesn't matter to them?Or they knew that the Chu family had a pair of dragon and phoenix twins who looked very similar, so they didn't ask if they guessed it?No, Mrs. Hua wanted her to be a female prime minister. She must have investigated everything about the Chu family, especially the twins of the Chu family. She was careful, so she naturally knew about her abnormality. Then why did Mrs. Hua never ask her?Not even her 'real name' Mrs. Hua!

The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi who seemed to be frowning, and said helplessly: "I have told you everything. Believe it or not, I will tell you everything you know. My attitude has already shown why you Can't tell your real identity? Is it true that your identity can't be revealed?"

"It's not that you can't say it, but your Highness may not believe it." Chu Yunxi smiled as he spoke, with a meaningful smile, and looked at the eldest princess with a flat look in his eyes, and then said: "Sometimes the real truth is not important. A truth that everyone wants is enough."

The eldest princess's expression changed, her eyes flickered, and it took a while for her expression to become firm. Looking back at Chu Yunxi, she said in a flat tone, "You speak first."

"Well, in fact, my real identity is very simple. It can also be said to be where I come from! But I have to think about how to say it so that His Highness can understand me." Chu Yunxi said, got up and spoke The eldest princess sat side by side on the head of the bed, saw a copy of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" next to the pillow, and reached out to take it, folded a long strip about one finger wide on the opposite side of the book, and carefully tore it off. There was a long and narrow piece of paper in his hand.

The eldest princess watched her movements, didn't speak, just watched seriously.

Chu Yunxi held the note, pointed to the curved surface on both sides of the note, and said: "This note has two sides, an ant can crawl all over the curved surface without crossing its edge, do you think it can be done? "

"What do you mean? What does this have to do with your identity?" The eldest princess was confused by Chu Yunxi's actions.

Chu Yunxi twisted the long and narrow strip of paper in his hand 180°, spliced ​​the two ends together to form a paper loop, and then slowly said: "Look, this strip originally had two curved sides, but now it only has two curved sides. There is a single-sided surface, and a bug can crawl all over the surface without crossing its edge. This kind of paper circle is called a "Mobius strip" in my place, and I was originally on the other side surface. , belongs to another time and space, maybe it is in balance with the current time and space, but there is no intersection, but one day, I was like that little bug, time and space reversed, I came here along that side, into this body, Do you understand?"

The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi, then at the paper circle, and nodded slowly.

Seeing the eldest princess nodding, Chu Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "You really understand? But it's good that you don't treat me as a monster."

"I can understand that I have turned to this manuscript written by a stargazing warlock before, because the content in it is so strange that it is even like a dream, so I can remember it clearly. It says that the place we live in is a star, like countless stars in the sky. One of the stars is average, there may be people like us living on those stars, not some gods and gods, although I don't like those warlocks, but I can understand your words." The eldest princess looked at Chu Yunxi said seriously.

"Your Highness is indeed extremely intelligent, and what we live in now is indeed a star in the entire universe, but to us, it is so big that we don't know it is round, but to those countless stars, it is just a star. It's just one of the billions of stars. Although I don't know if there are human beings living on those stars, but I think it should just pass through time. China's current technology and economy are equivalent to the Tang and Song Dynasties in my time and space. And I live in the high-tech electronic age after more than 1000 years." When Chu Yunxi said this, his expression was a little hesitant.

"Then the original Chu... Where did Chu Yuyan go to where you lived?" The eldest princess asked a little difficultly, and she couldn't understand what Chu Yunxi said later, but she didn't ask too much, because it felt too far away.

Chu Yunxi shook his head. The eldest princess doesn't know whether Chu Yunxi doesn't know or doesn't know, but this matter is indeed too weird, but it can also explain Chu Yunxi's persistence in the Chu family tragedy and the fact that it is not true. The accompanying calmness, as well as Chu Yunxi's performance in every move, seems to be the only way to explain it. Chu Yunxi is a ghost from another time and space. There seems to be a huge gap between them by the historical changes of more than 1000 years , but now that their bodies are so close, it feels like the future and the present have suddenly converged at a certain point.

There was a sudden silence between the two, and the atmosphere was dull. After a long time, the eldest princess said: "Then what is Li Mo's identity? What does he want to do?"

"This is another issue. The main purpose of Li Mo's coming to Beijing should be Mrs. Hua, and they did cooperate, probably because Mrs. Hua didn't value it, so he asked me to cooperate... As for what he wants to do, guess what? "Chu Yunxi also seems to have come to his senses. The past is the past. People should grasp the present. They can miss it, but they can't be obsessed with it. It won't help, so why worry about it.

"Li Mo is from Huzhou, or grew up in Huzhou." The eldest princess said slowly, with an affirmative tone.

Chu Yunxi smiled and lay down again, closed his eyes, put his index finger to his lips and said, "Guess for yourself." After finishing speaking, he ignored the eldest princess beside him, and went to sleep on his own, everything waited for him. Wake up and deal with it, she is a little tired now.