The world's ambitions are unparalleled

Chapter 38
The apron Su Li ordered people to hang in the dungeon has not been removed, and Jinse has been isolated from everyone's sight.

Jinse didn't care, except that she was a little lonely if she didn't see anyone.

She is about to die, and if she is not allowed to see more people, she will only see ghosts when she gets to the bottom.Jinse thought sadly.

Picking up a small stone, she continued to write unconsciously on the wall and the floor, from the Three Character Classic to poems and songs, writing whatever came to her mind.

Until the second "Su Mo" suddenly jumped out of her subordinates, her hand froze suddenly, and the small stone fell to the ground.

After a long time, she stretched out her hand, caressing those two words lightly, and remained silent.

Suddenly, the sound of several people's footsteps came from outside, and they stopped in front of her cell.

The apron was slowly pulled up, and then it was Min Yu who appeared in her eyes!
Jinse was a little bit surprised, for such a thing as death, the head of the housekeeper was required to deliver the decree in person?
"Miss Song." Min Yu didn't have any imperial decrees at hand, so he just bowed slightly and said to her, "The emperor sent Miss Song to enter the palace."

"Huh?" Jinse patted the dust off her body, stood up and said, "Do I still need the emperor to personally interrogate me?"

Min Yu smiled and didn't answer, but stepped aside: "Please, girl."

Jinse followed him all the way out of the dungeon, never thought that there was a soft sedan chair parked outside the dungeon, so her doubts became more intense: "Can death row prisoners also sit in sedan chairs?"

Min Yu still didn't answer, but stepped forward to open the car curtain for her, Jinse thought about it, and thought it was good, after all, she could be comfortable for a while before she died.

Unexpectedly, the sedan chair was carried straight into the palace, and even sent her directly to the imperial study.

Jinse came out of the sedan chair and saw where she was. Although she was a little dazed, she quickly came to her senses, pointed to the imperial study, and turned her head to look at Min Yu as if asking for proof.

Min Yu nodded.

So Jinse went straight forward, pushed the door open and entered.

The emperor was writing at his desk, but when he heard the voice, he looked up and saw her, so he lowered his head to write again, and just casually ordered: "Sit down."

The treatment of death row prisoners is really good.While thinking silently, Jinse found a place to sit down by herself.

There were a few plates of delicate snacks on the small table at hand, the aroma was tangy, Jinse was greedy for a moment, glanced at the emperor, saw that he didn't seem to have time to talk to her, so she took the cakes and ate them on her own.

Unexpectedly, the emperor quickly finished reviewing the few memorials in hand, and when he raised his head, he saw her frowning and swallowing the pastry with difficulty.

"Come here, serve tea." The emperor got up, gave orders to the outside, and then walked to the chair next to Jinse and sat down.

Soon someone came in with a cup of tea, Jinse brought it over and took a long sip, at least she loosened her brows, pointed to the snacks on the table and said to him, "It's bitter."

A trace of doubt flashed in the emperor's eyes, and he took a piece of snack and put it in his mouth, but it tasted very normal, and he raised his eyebrows slightly: "Your mouth is bitter."

After thinking about it, Jinse felt that it made sense, so she nodded and said, "So, is the trial now?"

"A trial?" He raised his eyebrows and looked at her, "What is the trial?"

"How do I know what you want to interrogate?" Jinse wondered for a moment, thought for a while, and then said, "Maybe you want to interrogate things like Tianxiazhi? No one will know. Unless the emperor also wants to rule the world?"

The emperor frowned slightly: "Aren't you afraid of death?"

"Of course I'm afraid." Jinse took another sip of tea, "I'm afraid of those evil spirits, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat delicious food, I'm afraid I won't be able to drink such good tea. But when I think of my father, mother and sister will be there, I'm not afraid anymore."

The emperor couldn't help laughing, but he heard her say: "It's just that there is one thing I want to ask the emperor."

"Let's listen to it." He said lightly.

Jinse hesitated for a moment, then stood up, knelt down in front of him, raised her hand, and what she was holding was the jade wrench bestowed by the former emperor.

The emperor glanced at it lightly, then stretched out his hand to take it: "Use it, just ask me for one thing, it's a loss."

"I'm a dying person, so I don't care if he loses or not." Jinse said, "I use this jade finger to ask the emperor to let go of my second mother and my third and fourth brothers. They were implicated innocently, and the emperor is merciful. I beg the emperor to let me go online."

"Hmm." The emperor responded lightly, "It's not a loss for three lives."

"The emperor agreed?" Jinse looked at him with wide eyes.

The emperor laughed lightly: "Since I rewarded you with this thing at the beginning, if you make a request based on this, I will naturally agree."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jinse lowered her eyes and kowtowed heavily.

"Get up." The emperor said lightly, then looked outside again, "Min Yu!"

Min Yu quickly pushed the door open and entered: "Your Majesty?"

"Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy." The emperor ordered in a deep voice, walked back to the desk and sat down.

It is passed on to the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, that is the main purpose.Jinse was overjoyed, and saluted again: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

The emperor looked up at her and said, "Thank you later."

Jinse was startled for a moment, and nodded half-understanding.

The academicians of the Imperial Academy soon arrived, holding a pen and paper and bowed to stand beside the emperor.

"The decree is to posthumously confer the posthumous title of Song Jingtao, Marquis of Anding, as Duke Huguo, and the title will be hereditary by his eldest son. Ling, the second daughter of the Song family, Jinse, is very intelligent and beautiful, and won my favor. Titled 'Chang'an'."

As he said it, the academician of the Imperial Academy memorized it, and at the end of hearing it, his face was already full of panic, but he still didn't dare to say more, so he wrote it down silently.

"Your Majesty!" Jinse was startled, "What are you talking about?"

She really didn't understand what the imperial decree was going to do, she just found it absurd - her father committed a serious crime of deceiving the emperor, and was accused of treason, yet the emperor still wanted to posthumously grant him the title?What's even more absurd is that he actually wants to accept her as his righteous sister!
The academician of the Hanlin Academy quickly drew up the imperial decree, reviewed it with the emperor, and with the emperor's approval, he withdrew from the imperial study room. After all, only Jinse and the emperor were left.

Under the extreme shock, Jinse finally put aside everything, was not afraid of anything, and only said to the emperor: "Why don't I have to die? Didn't the first emperor order that no trace of the blood of the Yi clan be allowed to stay?"

"It seems that you really want to die very much." The emperor slightly hooked the corners of his lips, "It's just that the late emperor passed away many years ago. In today's world, it's up to me to decide."

Jin Se was startled: "If I don't die, what good will it do you?"

As soon as the words fell, she suddenly remembered what Su Li said to her in the prison that day, "I will never let her die", so she blurted out again: "What did Su Li say to you?"

The emperor smiled and said: "I only have such a younger brother with one mother. Since he desperately came to plead for you, I will naturally agree to him."

regardless of costs?Regardless of what kind of everything?Jin Se frowned, thinking about it carefully, and suddenly understood a little.

Su Li is ambitious, if he marries Zhongli, it will be even more powerful.So, did Su Li reject He Jinghao's marriage?

Jinse raised her head and looked at the emperor for proof.

If this is the case, then in other words, the emperor has always known about Su Li's ambitions, and this time, he is using her to suppress Su Li's arrogance?
The emperor naturally understood her gaze, but he avoided answering, just smiled and said: "Okay, you've been in prison for a few days, it's hard work if you think about it. I'll send someone to take you back first so you can rest. After two days , let’s go to the palace again to see him as a brother.”

For brother.

Jinse's mind became heavy, it seems that this person is really determined to accept her as a righteous sister?

Up to now, she still felt that the matter was absurd—it turns out that all national laws and principles are so worthless in front of the imperial power.

After another pause, when she turned around and wanted to leave, the emperor suddenly said, "Slow down."

Jinse turned her head, with a trace of defense floating between her brows.

The emperor seemed to be amused by her expression, and slowly took the jade wrench that was placed on the table before, and walked towards Jinse again: "This, even if it is a wedding gift from my righteous sister, I ask my righteous sister to accept it." Down."

He actually gave this thing to her again?

Jinse was surprised, and after a while, she took it slowly, then took a deep breath, and said, "Well, please borrow a pen and paper from the emperor."

The emperor smiled, and it was up to her to make the debut.

Jinse went to the back of the imperial desk, laid out a piece of paper, picked out the thickest pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote four graceful and beautiful characters - Qiangu Mingjun.

The irony here is self-explanatory.

Afterwards, she looked at the emperor, and finally smiled: "This is a gift from me to the emperor in return, it is not worth much, please don't dislike it."

"Where is it?" Unexpectedly, the emperor raised his eyebrows and smiled slightly, "Your handwriting is good, I like it very much."

"I'm just in the light of these four words, because the emperor can afford these four words, so I naturally like them in my heart." Jinse said lightly.

When leaving the palace, Min Yu sent his apprentice Zhang Shun to escort Jinse all the way.

In fact, Jinse still couldn't recover, she sat in the sedan chair and didn't know where she was going, until the sedan chair stopped, Zhang Shun whispered outside: "Princess, we're here."

It took Jinse a long time to realize that the voice of the princess was calling her, and a wry smile could not help but bend down to get off the sedan chair, only to realize that she was in the mansion of Marquis Anding.

The mansion seems to have returned to its former appearance, still a noble family, with bright red lanterns hanging high, it is even more grand than before.

Jinse stood at the door for a while, when someone from the mansion rushed out to greet her.

Her vision was blurred for a while, until those people came in front of her, she realized that it was the second mother who brought the third and fourth brothers out to welcome them.

"Jinse." The second wife, Xiao Shi, grabbed her hand and held it in her palm, "You are also back."

"Second Sister!" The two younger brothers also called her sensible.

Jinse nodded slightly, she didn't speak for a long time, her voice was already hoarse: "Er Niang, I'm sorry, I almost got you both involved."

"Silly boy, why are you still saying such things?" The second lady stretched out her hand to caress Jinse's thin face, "Go back, at least now, I can finally go home."

home?Jinse looked up at the tall and heavy gate in front of her, and couldn't help feeling sad.

My sister is gone, my mother is gone, and now my father is gone, where is my family?

Although the second mother and the third and fourth brothers are still there, they have not been very close since they were young. Now it is only after going through great hardships that they are finally touched with pity and understanding.

This family door, the present Jinse, would not dare to step in no matter what.

"Er Niang, I won't go back. I have another place to stay. Please ask Er Niang to take care of this mansion."

The second lady was slightly startled, and then said: "Yes, the emperor accepted you as a righteous sister, will he accept you to live in the palace?"

When Jinse heard this, she just smiled, noncommittal, and said, "Second Mother, you and your third and fourth brothers, take care."

The second lady stared at her for a long time before she finally nodded: "My child, take care too."

Jinse returned to the sedan chair, before saying where she was going, Zhang Shun ordered, "Get up the sedan chair."

As the sedan chair gradually left the Marquis of Anding's mansion, Jinse remembered that Zhang Shun was Min Yu's apprentice, and since Min Yu knew where her small residence was, Zhang Shun must have been ordered.

She couldn't tell what it was like in her heart for a while, she only hoped to see Lu He sooner.

After more than half an hour, the sedan chair finally stopped in front of the folk house, Jinse got out of the sedan chair, and saw a tall horse parked in front of the small courtyard, which was clearly a familiar appearance to her.

That was Su Li's horse——Qingfeng.

Jinse hesitated for a moment, but pushed the door and walked into the small courtyard.

Sure enough, under the eaves of the Tang roof in front of him, there was a tall and tall figure standing. Seeing her enter the door, although he didn't move, his eyes were fixed on her.

Jinse also looked at him, feeling a little dazed, then remembered what happened in the prison that day, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

Su Li finally walked towards her with big strides, his expression was as cold as before, but his tone was slightly lighter: "Brother Huang, did you make things difficult for you?"

"Yes." Jinse tilted her head and replied, "I want to die, but he let me live, even if I want to live, I just want to live peacefully, but he insists on giving me the title of princess. You said, isn’t this a big embarrassment?”

When the word "Prince Lord" was mentioned, Su Li's expression changed slightly, and he paused before saying: "In short, you are finally saved now, and everything else is for later."

"That's what you think in your heart, it may not be what I want." Jinse's attitude was a bit harsh, even arrogant.

However, Su Li didn't seem to think that he was disobedient, and only said indifferently: "If you don't want it, you can live well for this king."

The words were still the same as before, but the tone was much better.

"I don't care about you." Jinse didn't seem to listen, and walked straight into the main room without him.

"Miss!" Lu He rushed out from the back room, saw her, and immediately yelled, almost crying with joy.

"Good girl." Jinse gently stroked her face, "It's rare that I finally get away, what have you prepared for me?"

"I have everything." Lu He replied, "I bought all the food you like, I also prepared all the clothes and jewelry, and grapefruit leaves. I prepared water for you to bathe in."

"It's just right, I'll go take a shower and change clothes first." After Jinse finished speaking, she quickly dodged into the back room.

Su Li was still standing in the courtyard, seeing Jinse walk into the back room without looking back, he frowned slightly.

Seeing his appearance, Lu He paused, and finally said: "Thank you, my lord, for your efforts to rescue my young lady, but it's not like my lord is ignorant of her temperament. How about my lord, come back another day?"

Su Li's eyes were heavy, instead of turning around and leaving, he took a few steps closer to Lu He, and after a while, he asked, "Has King Qin been here?"

A flash of surprise flashed in Lu He's eyes, and Fang said: "No, King Qin seems not to know this place, and has never been here before."

Su Li lowered his head slightly, turned and left thoughtfully.

Lu He sent him out, and then returned to the room, Jinse was lying in the bathtub in a daze.

"What are you thinking about?" Lu He stepped forward, took a silk handkerchief, and gently wiped Jinse's back.

"Luhe..." Jinse called her in a daze, "Su Mo, has he been here?"

After hearing this, Lu He snorted coldly: "No."

"No?" Jinse turned to look at her, but her expression became clear, "If he has never been here, how do you think you can find that finger wrench and bring it to me?"

After hearing this, Lu He sneered slightly and said, "If he hadn't come, I wouldn't have thought of taking that wrench to see you?"

Jinse shook her head slightly, and said, "I just think this matter should be related to him."

"It is true that he has never been here before." Lu He said sarcastically, but suddenly changed her tone in the next sentence, with a slight smile, "But he asked me to see him. You know, you don't know that jade wrench finger." Don't take it to heart, if he hadn't reminded me, where would I have thought of that thing?"

Hearing this, for some reason, Jinse's heart seemed to drop a big rock, but the relief was only for a moment, and the next moment, it suddenly became a little heavy again.

"I've been in the prison for so many days, but he never came to see me." Jinse said in a low voice.

Lu He paused, hesitated to speak, thought for a while, but still said: "Do you know? During the time you left Beijing, when I begged King Qin to go out to find you, he said a word to me. He Ask me, if I am about to starve to death, and there is delicious food in front of me, but I am in a trap, I can jump down and have a full meal, but I will definitely be trapped in the trap, ask me how to choose."

Delicious food is now, but traps are in power?
Jinse's breathing tightened suddenly: "You mean—"

If she hadn't experienced this incident and didn't know what Su Li did for her, Jinse probably wouldn't understand the meaning of that metaphor.However, if Su Li is suppressed by the emperor, will Su Mo also be unable to escape?
She suddenly remembered what the two guards had said in the prison, that Su Mo rejected the marriage with General Zhou, and instead supported Rong Yue as the first princess.

Is this what the emperor wants?No, it should be more than that.

It was the queen mother's intention to marry Su Mo and the Zhou family back then, but Su Mo rejected the marriage. That is to say, he also violated the queen mother's intention like Su Li and turned against the queen mother?

Jinse has always known that survival in the royal family is not easy. At the beginning, when she saw Su Mo and her non-kin mother, the Queen Mother, she had a very good relationship, and she had doubts. Now it seems that those are just a play on the spot that they know each other well?

In this battle, the emperor attacked three parties at the same time without spending a single soldier.

Royal battles, intrigues, and even the first relatives are plotting against each other.

As for Su Mo, who is not a direct relative, the position is probably even more embarrassing and dangerous, right?

So he knew from the beginning that if he chose her, there would be traps waiting ahead.

But why did he still jump into that trap?

Jinse suddenly scooped up a handful of water and wiped her face with a panicked expression.

"What should I do?" Lu He said quietly behind her, "Two brothers from the Su family treat you well, but now the emperor has accepted you as a righteous sister, do you think you have caused a catastrophe? "

"It's more than that?" Jinse smiled bitterly with a pale face, "Now I am besieged on all sides, and disaster is imminent."

"Although I don't know what is going on in your heart, but..." Lu He paused, and finally said, "Let everything take its course."

Let nature take its course, why would Jinse not want to?But now that the situation is so chaotic, she really doesn't know how to follow the natural course.

"Lu He, why don't we leave for a while?" Jin Se suddenly turned her eyes and looked at her.

"Where are you going?" Lu He looked indifferent.

Jinse smiled: "I want to go to the west, I want to go to the place where the Nayi people lived in the past."

"The Nayi people live deep in the mountains. After the clan was exterminated, all the houses and cottages were burned clean, and all the wealth and treasures were looted. Now that you are gone, there is only an empty mountain left." Lu He picked up the water Ladle, scooped up water and poured it on Jinse's back.

"You've never been there, how do you know what's going on there?"

"Although I've never seen it, I've heard of it." Lu He said lightly, "Besides, can you get out of Beijing now?"

After a moment of silence, Jin Se finally smiled: "That's right, I'm really whimsical."

That night, Jinse fell asleep as soon as she fell asleep, until Luhe came to wake her up.

"I'm going to sleep to death, you still haven't woken up for twelve hours!" Lu He dragged her up from the bed, and reprimanded her in a low voice.

Jinse opened her eyes hazily, seeing that it was still dark outside, and hearing Lu He's words, she jumped suddenly: "I slept for twelve hours?"

"Isn't it?" Lu He said angrily, "The man outside has been waiting for you for three hours, and his face is so dark right now."

If someone waits for her and still makes a bad face, it must be Su Li without a doubt.

"Why didn't you send him away?" Jinse pouted while getting up to comb her hair.

"You should do this kind of thankless work by yourself." Lu He said while tidying up the bed for her.

When Jinse finally packed up and came to the hall, Su Li's face was already so dark that it was about to rain.

Seeing Jinse come out, his eyebrows twitched slightly, and his expression didn't turn better, so he said coldly, "Finally woke up?"

"En." Jinse responded lightly, and chose a seat far away from him to sit down.

(End of this chapter)