Invincible son

Chapter 1285 1286 [Breaking Dawn]

Qingfengyuan.

In the side hall, Pei Ning looked out the window, his eyes slightly out of focus.

Pei Yue sighed secretly, even though Pei Rongzhi was talented and eccentric, he was the biological father of this kind woman after all, and he loved her in every possible way back then.Big changes happened tonight, Pei Rong's situation is worrying, she will definitely not be able to calm down for a while.

Turning his head to look at the kind words with lingering fears on his face, he slowed down his tone and said, "Just now I heard Mr. Jiang said that you have acted very bravely, and you have tried to ward off danger for eldest sister more than once."

Liang Yan was startled, then bowed his head a little embarrassedly and said, "Your Highness, the servant girl didn't do anything."

"Third brother."

Pei Ning spoke suddenly, interrupting his thoughts of trying to adjust the atmosphere.

Pei Yue met her gaze and said, "I'm here."

Pei Ning hesitated, "I... I don't know if I should ask, but I really want to know."

Pei Yue said warmly: "It's okay, you can ask anything you want."

Pei Ning clasped his hands together, and said slowly: "Where did these assassins come from? Why did they attack my father?"

After experiencing the initial tension, fear and confusion, Pei Ning finally realized this key issue.

Pei Yue was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "Good words, you go out first."

Liang Yan got up to respond, and there were only two siblings left in the hall.

The night outside the window was like fog, and the sound of insects sounded from time to time.

Pei Yue said softly: "These assassins are dead soldiers secretly trained by Luan Yiwei. They are the sharpest knives in the hands of the Tian family. The reason why they want to complicate simple things and create the illusion that Mr. Pei died naturally is to force me Ding You in the name of filial piety afterwards. As long as I leave the court, those people will be able to do it slowly, and 27 months is enough for them to calmly weaken the power in my hands."

"what--"

Pei Ning became nervous again.

Although she is not as talented and intelligent as Shen Danmo, and she can only see the world within a square inch, but she also understands the horror of the words "Gao Gao Zhen Zhu".Throughout the ages, I don't know how many ministers who had power over the government and the public died unexpectedly.

In fact, when he learned that Pei Yue was going to be crowned king, Pei Ning had a faint worry that prosperity would inevitably decline, but he didn't expect the Tian family's suppression to come so quickly.

Pei Yue said: "This trick looks vicious, but it's full of pettiness. Those people don't know what the general trend is. Sister, you have to believe that your brother is not so easy to be defeated. I don't know how many schemes I have experienced in these years, but I am still the one who laughs at the end. And you don't have to worry. The other party's conspiracy was revealed tonight. I am already on guard, so they won't repeat the same trick. "

Pei Ning nodded with a vague understanding.

At this time, a voice of good words sounded from the outside: "Your Highness, the leader of your guard is waiting outside, saying that he has something to report."

Pei Ning got up quickly and said, "Third Brother, go get busy and don't worry about me."

Pei Yue nodded and said: "You sleep well, if Master Pei wakes up, I will let someone notify you immediately."

Pei Ning responded softly: "Yes."

When Pei Yue came outside the courtyard, he saw Feng Yi standing by the door with a dignified expression, and asked, "Is Governor Luo here?"

Feng Yi bowed and saluted, "Firstly, Mr. Yin Su from the Kyoto Prefecture asked to see him. I followed His Highness's order and turned him away. Later, Governor Luo came alone and said that he was following His Majesty's order to meet His Highness. I could only invite him into the mansion. Now I am waiting in the main hall of the front house."

Pei Yue said indifferently: "You did a good job."

After about a stick of incense, Pei Yue walked slowly into the main hall of the front house, and saw the middle-aged man with a thin figure and a pale face sitting on a chair, and the tea on the high table next to him was completely cold.

The two looked at each other, Luo Ting got up and said: "I will see His Royal Highness King Jin."

These words made Pei Yue slightly dazed.

Back then when he created Xiangyun, the briquette attracted many coveted eyes as soon as it came out. At that time, he had no friendship with Luo Ting, but the latter was willing to risk the anger of Emperor Kaiping, and at the cost of resigning from office and returning to his hometown, blocked a vicious plot for Pei Yue.There is no need to mention the later stories. Whether it was the development of Xiangyun, or Pei Yueshi leading the commander of the Tibetan Front Guard, Luo Ting sheltered him from the wind and rain at critical moments several times.

Time has changed, and the world has changed.

Pei Yue suppressed the thoughts in his heart, and returned the courtesy: "We meet in private, why should Mr. Luo be so polite?"

Luo Ting said seriously: "Courtesy cannot be discarded."

The two then sat down as host and guest.

Luo Ting said straight to the point: "Your Highness personally led the cavalry to gallop late at night. This action shocked the capital. The palace was very concerned about it. Later, when it was learned that an assassin had broken into the Dingguo Mansion, His Majesty was furious. He specially ordered his subordinates to come to check and do our best to resolve the matter for His Highness."

Pei Yue picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said expressionlessly, "This is a bit strange to say."

Luo Ting said: "Please make it clear, Your Highness."

Pei Yueshu let out a sigh of relief, raised his eyebrows and said: "The assassins first entered the inner house as Pei Yun's personal servants, and after using martial arts secrets to knock Pei Yun unconscious, they came to Pei Rong's courtyard to swindle his long-term follower. Afterwards, these assassins poured a lot of strong alcohol into Pei Rong, but they didn't kill him directly. Fortunately, my eldest sister returned home today, and fortunately, I arranged expert guards beside her. After she noticed something strange, she led the assassin away from Pei Rong, and then My guards captured the assassins."

Luo Ting stared straight ahead, his expression gradually became dignified.

Pei Yue continued: "Pei Rong is just a dude. He has long been far away from the court army. In the past few years, he was imprisoned in Shanglin Prison, and then lived in Dingguo Mansion. He didn't think he would have any enemies. What's more, he did not hesitate to sneak into the Duke's Mansion to assassinate him at the risk of ransacking his family and exterminating his family. What makes me even more puzzled is that if someone really hates him for not dying, then these assassins have enough time to kill him a hundred times before my eldest sister finds out the abnormality. Drinking him to death, creating the illusion that he died a normal death?"

He looked at Luo Ting deeply, and said word by word: "Master Luo, can you teach me?"

Luo Ting took a deep breath and said slowly: "Your Highness wants to say that these assassins are not here for Pei Rong, but actually want to deal with others?"

Pei Yue shook his head, and said indifferently: "The assassins would rather die than open their mouths. I don't know who they are, and what purpose they have for doing things like this. Maybe only God knows."

Luo Ting stared.

Of course he could hear the alienation in Pei Yue's tone, presumably at the great court meeting at the end of last month, he, as a representative of the ministers, set off a wave of restraint on Pei Yue, since then there has been a crack between the two of them.

Luo Ting remembered that in that wide and narrow alley in late autumn last year, he and Gu Liang parted ways because of the old Kaiping incident.

At this moment, just as at that moment.

However, as the leader of the Liang Dynasty, he has received the generosity of several generations of kings, and now he is one of the few people in the court who can face Pei Yue directly, and he cannot do whatever he wants based on his personal likes and dislikes.

Thinking of this, Luo Ting gradually calmed down, and tentatively said: "In that case, please hand over those assassins to the imperial court, Your Highness promises to investigate this matter clearly."

"I will definitely hand over the assassin to the imperial court."

Pei Yue responded lightly, and then said meaningfully: "It's just that Master Luo may have forgotten that although I left the residence many years ago, I have always been a child of Dingguo. I can deny Pei Rong, but I can't change the fact that he is my biological father."

Luo Ting nodded and said, "Naturally."

Pei Yue sneered and said: "Now that someone has reached into the Pei family in Dingguo Mansion, Pei Rong and Pei Ning almost died on the spot. No matter what their intentions are, if they can't make the mastermind behind the scenes pay the price, wouldn't it be my filial piety? How can an unfilial person live upright in this harsh world?"

Luo Ting's expression changed slightly.

In fact, when Pei Yue talked about the weird behavior of those assassins, he probably guessed who did it.Perhaps it was for this reason that the emperor asked him to come to Pei Yue in a hurry, obviously hoping to minimize the impact of this disaster.

however……

Luo Ting looked up at Pei Yue and said sincerely: "I can assure you that someone will take corresponding responsibility for this matter."

Pei Yue was silent for a moment, with a self-deprecating look on his face: "Master Luo, it's not that I underestimate the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but even my subordinates can't pry the assassins' mouths open, and I'm afraid they can't do it either. After all, this will become a no-nonsense case sooner or later, because you and I both know that it doesn't matter whether the assassin speaks or not, and no one dares to investigate the real mastermind behind the scenes."

Luo Ting showed a little anxiety, and persuaded: "Your Highness—"

Pei Yue directly interrupted his words, and said seriously: "This matter has crossed my bottom line. Lord Luo, even though you and I are drifting apart, I will always respect you in my heart, because you are one of the few good officials in the court, and your character makes me full of respect. Therefore, I hope Lord Luo will not force you."

Luo Ting was silent, and it took a long time before he sighed: "Why do you force me? It's just that there is a word of willingness in the world."

"Being willing..." Pei Yue lowered his head slightly, and said with a complicated expression: "Could it be that in Master Luo's heart, I am a person like Wang Pingzhang who loves power and position and is greedy?"

Luo Ting shook his head and said: "The lower officials never had such thoughts, otherwise they would not have supported His Highness to succeed Xiao Jin as the commander of the Southern Army and go south to command the border war."

Pei Yue said softly: "I believe that Lord Luo's help to me is more than that. If it weren't for Lord Luo's repeated protection, I would have no chance to get to where I am today, and I might have been swallowed into my stomach with bones and flesh."

Luo Ting drank most of the herbal tea in the cup, hesitated for a long time before asking: "Your Highness is a very smart person, why do you insist on not taking a step back?"

If you take one step back, you will keep going back until you no longer have the ability to change the world.

Pei Yue was thinking silently in his heart, but a smile appeared on his face, and he said with deep meaning: "I have never relaxed my demands on myself in these years, so I want to be a little willful this time."

Luo Ting sighed softly: "But if the stalemate continues like this, it will not be so easy to end in the future."

Pei Yue nodded in agreement, and the smile on Junyi's face grew wider, and he said calmly: "It may also be that there is no way out, and there is another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright."

Luo Ting couldn't laugh.

He has always adhered to the principles of the monarch, the minister, the father, the son, and the son. The reason why he stood on the opposite side of Pei Yue was of course not because he was jealous of the virtuous and capable, and it had nothing to do with Pei Yue's martial arts status.The reason is that the power that Pei Yue has now has exceeded the boundary between monarch and minister, and this is the source of Empress Dowager Wu's worries.

He believed that Pei Yue would not take that path, at least not in a short period of time, because that choice would lead to turmoil in Daliang and then endless civil wars. I don't know how many people were displaced and how many families were destroyed.

Regardless of Pei Yue, the Son of Heaven, the Empress Dowager or the princes of the court, no one wanted to see such a scene happen.

After all, the current glorious scene is the result of everyone's Zen spirit, deliberation and painstaking efforts.

But... the world is always unhappy.

Luo Ting bid farewell and left, his lonely back full of desolation.

Pei Yue sat on a chair, quietly staring at the bewildered night through the open door.

Until dawn comes.

The sun rises as usual, and the first ray of sunshine illuminates the world.

Feng Yi walked into the main hall quickly, and briefly explained the situation in the inner house.

Pei Yue nodded slightly, got up and said: "Bring those four assassins here, and then call all the soldiers."

Feng Yi responded and asked cautiously: "Your Highness, where are you going?"

Pei Yue shook his head, his cold tone filled with chilling intent: "Luan Yiwei."

(End of this chapter)