Happy Little Scholar

The Cui family fell and the King of Shu ran away. It felt to Li Yi as if a fist that had been fully charged and had already punched halfway suddenly lost its target.

If they had known that the old emperor had long planned to overturn the table, they would not have bothered to pretend to be knights knocking on the door of the powerful every night.

Assassinating the legitimate son of the royal family, pretending to be the eldest son of the emperor...

Different from the Green Lord's crime, although these two crimes will still cause great turmoil when they are announced, the old emperor will not be too concerned about his face. He is an emperor and a man. For men, there are What's more shameful than wearing an emerald green hat?

But if you think about it carefully, you can't say that they are really unnecessary.

If it hadn't happened before, there would have been greater waves and turmoil in Kyoto at this moment. Only by smoothing out the source of those waves in advance can the people and the court be stabilized.

The collapse of the Cui family is a good thing, but it also brings new problems.

The throne must always be inherited by someone. It is said that women's thoughts are difficult to guess. Li Yi thinks that men's thoughts are even harder to guess. Who does the old emperor want to pass this position to? Why is it so well hidden?

Li Mingzhu thought about it for a long time, then looked at him and said, "Let nature take its course from now on."

Li Yi knew the hesitation and struggle in her heart. In fact, up to now, she had not really made up her mind. Once she embarked on that road, it would be paved with blood along the way, and the person she needed to face in the end was... That's her father.

Li Yi nodded and said nothing more.

If she can't pass the test in her heart, no matter how hard others try, it won't help.

Fortunately, things are different now. After the Cui family fell and the King of Shu lost hope, their situation was much better than before.

After seeing off the eldest princess, he walked around the yard to relieve the depression in his heart.

Originally they were full of energy and fully prepared, but things went wrong for the Cui family themselves. The energy was held in their hearts, hard to release, and very uncomfortable.

Seeing him pacing back and forth in the yard, with a somewhat annoyed expression on his face, Xiaohuan walked over and asked with concern: "Uncle, what's the matter with you?"

Li Yi sat down at the stone table, shook his head, and said, "I always feel like I have no place to use my strength..."

"You have so much strength but no place to use it?" Opposite me, Miss Liu Er finished wiping off her autumn water, returned her sword to its sheath, looked up at him and said, "Shall I help you?"

Li Yi looked at the expression on her face and replied without any hesitation: "No need."

Miss Liu Er stood up and waved her hand, "Family, you're welcome."

Li Yi said with a very solemn expression: "It's really not necessary."

"There's no point in using my energy. I can just vent out the discomfort I've been holding in. Anyway, I don't have anything to do right now..."

"I really don't need to trouble you..."

…

It's strange, maybe his reminder worked. Li Xuan came over, and Miss Liu Er didn't forget to take Qiushui with her when she went out.

"Did you hear that the entire Cui family was escorted to Beijing?"

Seeing his excited and shocked expression, Li Yi nodded and said, "I heard, Mingzhu just told me, why, you don't even know what your father did?"

Li Xuan shook his head, sat down and drank a cup of tea, and said, "My father didn't tell me when he left. How could I know..."

After speaking, a look of curiosity appeared on his face and he asked: "What should we do next?"

Li Yi wondered: "What should I do?"

"The Cui family fell, and the King of Shu fled in fear of crime. This is our best opportunity!" Li Xuan looked at him, frowned and said: "Take advantage of this opportunity to win over the courtiers, make good friends with the generals, and let Mingzhu take another step forward. …”

He looked at Li Yi and asked with some dissatisfaction: "If you don't seize this opportunity, how can you be a military advisor?"

Li Yi discovered a long time ago that Li Xuan is definitely warm-hearted.

The emperor is not anxious and the eunuch is anxious. If Mingzhu is the emperor who is not anxious, he must be the anxious eunuch beside the emperor.

It's a pity that when it comes to being an emperor, those who should be anxious are not anxious, and those who shouldn't be anxious are useless.

Li Yi shook his head and said, "How about you go talk to Mingzhu..."

"Mingzhu only listens to you..." Li Xuan took another sip of tea, looked at him and asked, "Sit down and talk, are you tired of standing..."

Li Yi rubbed his butt and said, "It's okay, I like standing."

…

The situation in Kyoto is constantly changing these days, and dramas are being staged one after another. One family falls and another rises, including big families like the Cui family, the Qin family, and the Chen family. They are also destroyed, destroyed, and declined. It is wonderful. To such an extent, even Goulan's new drama cannot compare with it.

Compared with these shocking things, the fact that Mr. Qin of the Qin family fled in fear of crime for kidnapping a woman from a good family, and has not been arrested yet, seems less important.

The Qin family has become much deserted these days.

Not only because autumn has arrived, the leaves have turned yellow and fallen, but even the world has become chilly.

The most important reason is that four of the five Qin brothers have been imprisoned one after another in recent days, and their wives and children have been separated...

Now that Prime Minister Qin is ill, the Qin family has dismissed some maids and servants, and the whole house has become even less popular.

"Fifth Master."

"Hello, Fifth Master."

"I've met the Fifth Master."

…

Two figures came out from the depths of the path. Along the way, the servants of the Qin family who met them quickly saluted.

Wu Er swept a yellow leaf off the shoulder of the middle-aged man in front of him and asked, "Fifth Master, are you going to the brothel to watch the show today?"

"Yes." Fifth Master Qin nodded and said, "But it's not a brothel. Let's go somewhere else today."

Outside of Kyoto, somewhere on a desolate riverside.

The riverside was overgrown with weeds and rarely visited. The reeds were more than one person tall. A shabby wooden boat was docked there. It had been there for an unknown period of time...

In the awning of the wooden boat, a man was limp there, like a pool of mud.

He was disheveled, ragged, and his limbs were bent at a strange angle. If it weren't for the hair covering his face that was still moving in a regular rhythm, no one would think he was a living person.

But he was really a living person.

He was biting a piece of broken porcelain in his mouth, and he bent down and tried hard to cut the rope in his hand.

There were footsteps outside, and he put the broken porcelain in his mouth and looked ahead with a blank look.

A ray of light appeared in the boat awning, because someone lifted the heavy curtain and walked in from outside.

He ignored the stench in the boat awning, walked to Qin Yu and squatted down.

"The Qin family has fallen to this point..." He looked at Qin Yu and whispered: "This is what you have always wanted, right?"

Qin Yu's turbid eyes finally showed a trace of emotional fluctuations.

"Your mother's death..., I was powerless back then." Qin's fifth master looked at him and said, "I am only Qin Wu, and there are Qin Yi, Qin Er, Qin San, and Qin Si in front of me. This kind of thing is not my turn to make the decision..."

"Although you are pitiful..." He looked into his eyes and said, "But this is not a reason for you to do other things."

After whispering a few words, he stood up, looked at him, and asked, "It's been hard these days, right?"

"It won't be in the future."

He shook his head, and when he walked out of the boat awning, he turned back and said, "We will see each other in the next life..."

In the river, the wooden boat floating downstream was on fire, and the flames shot up to the sky.

[ps: There is an academic presentation in the evening, which will end very late. You don’t have to wait for the second update. Even if you can catch up, it will be very late. ]