Li Xiang cried so much that he almost wanted to turn his back on it.
Su Ruoqing turned a deaf ear, he took out another brocade box from his sleeve, threw it in front of Li Xiang, and said, "Open it and take a look." ” Li Xiang didn't dare to disobey, so he had to open it with trembling hands.
Inside was a pile of yellowed paper, and he took out the top one, the handwriting on it was exactly the same as the handwriting on the letters that Su Ruoqing had thrown all over the room.
Li Xiang was suddenly struck by lightning, and there was no return.
Su Ruoqing said: "At the beginning, when Rong Di invaded Northern Xia, you communicated with Rong Di, and did not hesitate to defeat Northern Xia on the condition of using the city reconciliation, but also let Rong Di kill Ye Xiu and Ye Song, and for this reason, you also sent Li Gu to the battlefield for internal and external cooperation.
The white and black letters on it are all written by you, as well as Rong Di's reply, which are clearly written.
You can look at it and remember what you did. ” "This, these, how could it be" Li Xiang's eyes widened, and his eyes were full of despair.
Su Ruoqing looked at Li Xiang and said indifferently: "You mean that these communications are agreed to be burned after both of you have read them, so as not to leave clues."
Unfortunately, the letters were intercepted by me, and the letters you each received were transcribed by me. ” He was dissatisfied with General Ye's repeated miraculous feats and military power, and he intrigued with him for decades.
Unexpectedly, in the end, he was defeated by his own hands.
He underestimated Su Ruoqing too much, underestimated his ability, and underestimated his endurance, and ability to plan the overall situation.
It turned out that Su Ruoqing knew everything early in the morning.
"Collaborate with the enemy and traitor", Su Ruoqing said word by word without emotion, "According to the laws of Northern Xia, it should be beheaded everywhere."
The person who killed Li Gu was not Ye Song, but the teacher himself.
If Li had returned to Beijing without dying, he would have been allowed to be not prosperous and rich, but a capital crime. ” Lee Sang forgot his fear, and all that was left was despair.
He crawled to Su Ruoqing's feet, stretched out his hand to hug Su Ruoqing's feet, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "The old minister knows his mistakes, the old minister knows his mistakes and begs the emperor to be magnanimous, for the sake of the old minister's diligence for so many years, please be gracious to the emperor, the old minister knows that the death penalty is inevitable, please ask the emperor to spare the other people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Ruyi has already married into the palace and is no longer a member of my Li family, please don't be angry with her."
Su Ruoqing's eyes when he looked at Li Xiang finally loosened a little, dyed with a little compassion, and said, "What if I don't allow it?"
Li Xiang paused, no longer spoke, only cried and kowtowed to Su Ruoqing until his forehead was broken and bleeding.
Since he is destined to die, the only thing he can do is to protect the lives of the hundreds of people in the Prime Minister's Mansion and the lives of Li Ruyi and the reputation that his Li family has accumulated over the years.
In the end, Li Xiang begged pitifully: "The emperor is for the sake of the old minister who helped the emperor back then."
Su Ruoqing closed his eyes, he was able to sit in today's position, and it was indeed all thanks to Li Xiang's support at the beginning.
He lowered his eyes, couldn't distinguish the look in his eyes, brushed his sleeves and got up, turned around resolutely, and said coldly as he walked out: "I can grant you what you ask."
You know what to do. ” Li kowtowed in the direction of Su Ruoqing, and said gratefully: "The old minister thanks the lord Longen and the old minister to send the emperor."
The next morning, as the head of the hundred officials, Li Xiang has always been on time, except when he was at home on leave due to illness, he was rarely late.
However, early this day, all the officials of the court stood in their respective places, and the position headed by them was empty, and Li Xiang did not say anything.
Su Ruoqing came out of the apse, and his father-in-law next to him sang loudly: "Ascension to the Dynasty" As soon as he sat down, he saw the vacant seat at the head of the hundred officials at first glance, with no expression on his face, and he did not speak for the first time, as if he was waiting for something.
If he doesn't speak, the hundred officials don't dare to take the lead in speaking.
In a short time, from the palace gate to the court, it was reported layer by layer.
The palace people outside hurriedly entered the palace, knelt on the ground with bent legs, and said, "Your Majesty, the prime minister was found hanged at home this morning, leaving only this letter. ” As soon as these words came out, hundreds of officials were in an uproar.
It is inconceivable that the person who talked about it in the court yesterday hanged himself this morning.
Su Ruoqing's father-in-law walked down and took the letter and presented it to him.
He was silent for a while, his voice was a little vicissitudes, and he said, "Read it out." ” So the father-in-law read out the suicide note in front of hundreds of officials.
Roughly speaking, it means that Li Xiang feels that he can't be loyal to the king, he is ashamed of the king, and he is ashamed of the Northern Xia, if he can give him a choice, he is willing to abandon literature and follow the martial arts, and blood is splashed on the battlefield to serve the country.
After the father-in-law finished reading, there was a long silence in the court.
Then the hundred officials knelt down and called Li Xiang righteous.
Su Ruoqing posthumously crowned Li Xiang as the Duke of Comfort and buried him with royal gifts.
At this point, he can be regarded as repaying Li for his kindness for many years, and in the end, he saved the lives of the Li family and others, and also preserved the reputation of Li Xiang's life.
After Li Ruyi heard the news of his father's death, he fainted on the spot.
Her body is not as good as before, and she has been living a peaceful life in the palace, which is as luxurious as she used to think, but her heart has always been empty.
Now, her mother's only support is gone, and she is truly alone from then on.
Li Ruyi returned to his parents' house and personally handled Li Xiang's afterlife.
Put the coffin into the burial and receive condolences and memorials from colleagues.
By the time all the people who came and went to pay their respects had dispersed, it had fallen into the night without realizing it.
The cold wind blew the white silk flowers on the door plaque fluttering.
Su Ruoqing, dressed in black, slowly walked inside, he was the last person to come to pay respects.
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Li Ruyi's back was very thin, she was kneeling on the futon, the fire in the brazier in front of her was slightly weak, and she was quietly burning paper money into the brazier.
Previously, people kept coming to persuade her, but her body was weak and she couldn't withstand such a toss, and she couldn't listen to it.
Li Ruyi didn't cry, and there was no expression on his face.
In general, there is no more mourning than the death of the heart, which means that she is like this.
Su Ruoqing approached, looked at the generous golden silk nan wooden coffin in the mourning hall, and burned a stick of incense with his own hands and inserted it into the incense burner.
He looked sideways at Li Ruyi, and said after a while: "Ruyi, the festival mourns and changes." ” Li Ruyi twisted a few pieces of paper money and put them into the brazier, the firelight reflected her pale face, smiled faintly, and said with a thick sadness and disappointment in that smile: "Today I hear this sentence the most, no less than a hundred times.
The emperor only said this to his concubines. ” Su Ruoqing asked lightly, "What do you want to hear from me." ” Li Ruyi said: "My father's life, although not vigorous, but he has always been a hard-working and positive person, everything I got in the prime minister's house today, everything I have now, is earned by his own hands."
I don't know much more that my father wasn't the kind of person who would hang himself if he left a letter casually.
She took out the last handwriting letter from her arms, quietly reddened her eyes, and raised her eyes to look at Su Ruoqing fixedly, "There are ink stains on it that have been blurred by tears, and my father has no choice but to do it."
Can the emperor tell the concubines what my father was forced to do and by whom?"
Su Ruoqing just lowered her eyes and didn't speak.
Li Ruyi's body knelt stiffly, she supported the ground with her hands and tried to stand up, her body staggered a little, walked to Su Ruoqing's side, looked up at him, blinked, her eyes were slightly moist, as if she wanted to seriously see the true face of the man in front of her, and said: "In this world, there is only one person who can persecute my father."
That's the emperor. ” Without waiting for Su Ruoqing to answer, Li Ruyi impatiently grabbed Su Ruoqing's clothes, shook him vigorously, and said: "Why, you tell me why I have nothing because of you, and now because your family is ruined, what do I owe you in my last life, you want to treat me like this, even the last relative in my world, you don't let go of your heart, is it iron-clad?"
Su Ruoqing said: "When you ask others what they owe you, you should think about what you have done.
Nothing in this world happens for no reason, it has its own cycle of cause and effect.
He held Li Ruyi's side face with his fingers, and with a slight force, he forced her to raise her head, and her red eyes were quickly filled with tears, which slipped from the corners of her eyes and dripped on Su Ruoqing's fingers, "I haven't done anything sorry except for not loving you, everything I did was just to deal with you doing all the things you shouldn't have done because of your love for me, this is cause and effect."
Your father is the same, I respect him, but he does what he shouldn't do because of that respect. ” Li Ruyi blinked, tears falling down.
She shook her head hard, unwilling to believe it.
"Did you love me from the beginning, wasn't it because of my status and wealth, not because of my appearance and temper, could you have hastily married me without meeting me" Su Ruoqing said again, "This path is your own choice, even if you end up with nothing, you tried to get too much at the beginning."
You should feel glad that I became the emperor, otherwise at this moment, all of you Li family up and down would have gone to the execution table. ” It was the first time he explained so much to Li Ruyi, and it was also the first time he confided in her.
But it sounds so cruel.
There are many things, he can only keep them in his heart and figure it out by himself.
There are also many people who don't understand the difficulty and bitterness of his choice, and many people don't know the truth of the matter and forcibly put a hat on him.
He was the emperor, and these were inevitable.
For people who don't care, he doesn't have to take the time to explain at all.
What about Li Ruyi, is it the person he cares about, probably because he has had too many grievances and entanglements with her during this period of time.
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