The Way of Favors

????The army triumphed, the people scrambled to watch.

The horseshoes are clenched, the armor is sparkling, the generals are energetic, and the king of Huai is not seen.

Xu Jin went into the palace with Guo Lu, governor of Shaanxi. Emperor Jiahe did not see the six sons and frowned and asked, "Where is the king?"

Xu Jin said in a deep voice: "Last night, my son and my sixth brother were talking about the wine, but they were poisoned in the wine. Fortunately, I found out early. The sixth brother had no worries about his life, but his face was swollen from the toxin. When the day gets better, he will return to the palace first, and after a few days he is well wounded, he will enter the palace to greet his father."

"Is there an assassin?" Emperor Jiahe looked solemn.

Xu Jin didn't squint: "Yes, the assassin has taken poison and committed suicide. The sons and ministers guessed that it should be the remnant of the Huren."

Emperor Jiahe had no words, and after a moment of silence, he told him to check it out.

After leaving the celebration banquet that night, Xu Jin went to the Royal Palace of Huai.

"Is the person picked up?" As soon as he entered the room, Xu Jin asked the man sitting at the window blankly.

Xu Hao received four slaps on his right cheek in a row. Although he had applied the best anti-swelling medicine, it was still obvious, a large bruise. Xu Jin looked unmoved, only staring at Xu Hao's eyes.

Xu Hao nodded silently.

Once he returned to the mansion, he sent someone to pick up Cui Wan. After Cui Wan came back, he did not go to see her, nor did she beg to see him.

"Bring it here now. If she admits, you solve it by yourself, if she doesn't admit it, I will send someone to investigate it tomorrow."

Xu Jin said coldly, leaving behind the screen.

This matter has something to do with the face of the sixth brother. At present, in the eyes of the sixth brother, only their brother Cui Wan and the people who become kings know about it. Xu Jin does not want his subordinates to pass the evidence over and make the sixth brother lose face inside and outside. Easily coaxed by Cui Wan, he can only slap him again.

Shi Shiwei, Xu Jin did not know before. His dark guards were also ordinary people. It is impossible to know all the chess pieces left by Cheng Wang. After all, these chess pieces usually rely on letters to communicate. This was clear, but he knew that the king would definitely take action when the sixth brother killed him, so Xu Jia stared at him outside.

The deceased have a strict mouth, but it's not that they can't deal with it, otherwise they won't take the poison at any time. If the medicine is gone, isn't it that they would rather take the poison and die quickly? Shi Wei did not die, and Xu Jin asked Xu Jia to interrogate him in front of their brothers. He recruited everything without insisting on an hour. In fact, Shi Wei didn't know much, and Cheng Wang only asked him to take action after he killed his brother when he was pregnant, but this one was enough.

Xu Hao was slapped four times, and the anger of his sweetheart being abused and humiliated, and the anger of being betrayed by his brother was calmed down in that bitter cry, perhaps not calmed down, but at least he did not forget to think impulsively. After regaining his senses, he heard Shi Shiwei's confession again, without Xu Jin reminding him, he also guessed something.

Why would Cheng Wang know that he was going to kill his brother?

Why does Cui Wan frame her brother?

She asked him to kill her brother to avenge her. That was their fourth brother. Is she really the kind girl he has liked for more than ten years?

Perhaps this letter was fabricated by the king? Her steward was also bought by Cheng Wang? Then why didn't she come to explain to him? She knew that he was returning to Beijing today, why didn't she come back from her parents' house and wait for him early?

Every time she thought of an excuse for her, she was quickly overthrown by herself.

There was footsteps outside, and Xu Hao raised his head and looked over.

Cui Wan walked in by herself, wearing a plain white dress. There was no embroidery on the skirt, and only a plain white hosta was left on her head. Seeing her husband sitting there with swollen cheeks and tears in his eyes, Cui Wan was surprised at first, and then smiled lightly, "Brother Sixth is like this. Did Brother Fourth fight? Did Brother Sixth really want to kill Brother Four?"

This stupid man is still so impulsive, so believe her.

Xu Ye looked at the familiar smiling face in a daze, "You really wrote that letter?"

Cui Wan sighed, sat down beside him, looked at him and said, "Yes, what I told you in the letter is almost all true. It's just that the one who bullied me was not the fourth brother, but Cheng Wang. Cheng. Wang forced me to write, and if I didn’t write, he would ruin me. Sixth brother, I was afraid of death, I was really afraid of death, and then I wrote.”

At this point, is she still necessary to lie?

Xu Jin came back alive, it means that he saw the letter, Xu Jin hated her, now that she instigated their brotherhood, can she spare her? He didn't kill her right away, just to let Xu Hao see it clearly. Instead of lying and being laughed at to death, Cui Wan hopes that she will die better.

It's really strange that I was threatened by the king at the beginning, so I was afraid of death. I would rather kill the brothers of Xu Jin and Xu Wei to survive, and try to fight for that ray of life. Now I knew that I was bound to die, and my body seemed to be relieved all at once. I no longer have to worry about being discovered by Xu Jin in the future by plotting Fu Rong's revenge on her, and I no longer have to worry about Cheng Wang suddenly revealing her affairs.

In fact, at the moment she woke up under Cheng Wang, Cui Wan knew she was dead, but she was not reconciled to confess her fate or lose to any of Fu Rong, Li Huarong, or any other woman, so she forgot about her aunt’s nurturing grace. Since I was young, I chose to give it a go. She could live on Fu Rong and Li Huarong, but she would only die if she lost. Anyway, she would die if she didn't gamble.

"Why don't you tell me?"

She was too calm, and Xu Wei calmly felt that all this was just a dream. He grabbed her hand and cried and asked her: "Why didn't you tell me? Tell me, I will kill him, and I will pity you more. , Do you think I will despise you? Is my good to you all false?"

Why didn't she say a word for such a long time from his inspection of the Yellow River to the expedition?

Cui Wan picked up the veil to wipe his tears, and the tears fell, "What can I tell you? He is also the prince, will he not guard you? I am afraid that the sixth brother will go out to find him. Zhang Yang came out. At that time, Sixth Brother thought I could live? I was scared, so I didn't dare to tell you and became a...

Stained by evil spirits, he will either die or become a ghost. Cui Wan is afraid of death and can only choose the latter.

"Sixth brother, in my life, I am most sorry to you. When you were a kid, you liked me so much, but I only have the fourth brother in my eyes. I like him and like him so much. Even if he treats me coldly, I look forward to marrying him. Brother, I’m afraid you don’t know. In order to marry him, I murdered Sisao, wanted to destroy her child, and killed a palace lady. You didn’t know about these. The time I fell into the water, I also hoped Sisao would save him. Mine, that way, if he touched me, I could marry him. When I found out that the fourth brother really didn’t have me at all, I immediately agreed to marry you. Sixth brother don’t cry, I don’t deserve you to cry. My heart is vicious and selfish, and I do everything because of your love for me. Sixth brother, my fate is good. You have always liked me, but I really don’t deserve you to treat me like this..."

She fell in his arms and cried, Xu Wei held her instinctively, his mind went blank.

It turned out that she never liked him.

He doesn't believe it.

"Did you pretend to be good to me after marriage?" Xu Wei lifted her head to see her crying red eyes.

Cui Wan didn't evade, facing his eyes that he couldn't believe it seemed to imply expectation, and honestly said: "It's not a pretense, but I don't like it. Even if I don't like the sixth brother, I still treat the sixth brother as the older brother. I gave it to you, and I wanted to be what a wife should do, to have children for you, but I did too many wrong things, and God thinks I don’t deserve to be loved by Brother Six..."

She is destined to die, and Xu Wei is the best person to her in this life. Her mother uses her to enjoy more prosperity and wealth. Aunt treats her like a daughter, but she also doubts her. Only Xu Wei, he stupidly holds her in In the palm of his hand, he believed everything she said. He was so good. Cui Wan couldn't bear to bear her death and he still missed her...

"Brother Six, you forget about me, my life is hard, but I deserve it, you see how cruel I am, in order to survive on my own, I would rather provoke you and the fourth brother to kill each other... You know the sixth brother? Listen this morning When you and the fourth brother came back without incident, my first thought was disappointment, and then I confessed my fate."

Having said everything in her heart, Cui Wan was surprisingly calm, wiped away the tears from her face with her sleeves, she got up, took a step back, and knelt down towards Xu Hao: "Brother Six, Brother Yu is not your flesh and blood. He is the biggest humiliation of my life. Afterwards, you can find an excuse to send him down to accompany me. Our wife is in the underground company for each other.

"Brother Six, I know you will avenge me, but if you listen to Brother Fourth, you can avenge it secretly. Don’t make trouble, it’s happening. I’m not at peace on Huangquan Road, and Brother Six is ​​not good-looking. The fourth brother is so smart, he must be able to think of a perfect solution against Chengwang."

"Brother Six, I have failed my aunt's nurturing grace, and I have no face to see her again. I only ask Brother Six to take good care of myself and do my share of filial piety for me."

Turning to the direction of the imperial city, Cui Wan slightly knocked three heads, then moved to Xu Wei's knees, tilted her head on his knees, and asked him crying: "Sixth brother, I'm so bad, if I have another life, Will you still like me?"

Xu Hao looked down at her and couldn't tell what it was like. He was bitter and salty, and didn't know how to answer.

Cui Wan smiled slowly and closed her eyes.

After the screen, seeing Cui Wan's right hand underneath take out a short dagger from her sleeve, Xu Jin didn't know if she really wanted to punish herself or murder her sixth brother. She rushed out, and Xu Jin took it away when Cui Wan suddenly fell back. pace.

"Tanwan!"

Cui Wan's snow-white clothes quickly dyed red. Xu Wei looked at the red blankly. After a while, he returned to his senses. He cried and knelt down, picking up people and crying, "Why are you so stupid? Why are you so stupid... …"

Cui Wan's gaze crossed his head, and cast onto Xu Jin.

She looked at him with uncontrollable grievances in her heart, and inhaled and asked him: "Fourth brother, why did you suddenly alienate me when you were ten? Tell me? I don't want to, I can't die."

In the past, the fourth brother treated her better than Yunyu, but then he suddenly fell cold and never looked at her directly.

Xu Jin was expressionless until Cui Wan broke her breath completely, and he didn't say a word.