Chapter 81 Chapter 81 "Greetings...Your Majesty."...
Zhao Qingyi raised her head suddenly when she heard that. Seeing that Chu Yuanhe didn't seem to be joking, her heart skipped a beat.
"Reluctant?"
Chu Yuanhe narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to find the flaws in her face.
Zhao Qingyi shook her head blankly. She certainly didn't feel reluctant, nor could she sympathize with Li Che. She was just surprised by his decision.
Why does he look like he hates Li Che more than he does?
Just because Li Che is her ex-husband?
"...Do whatever you want, as long as you are happy." Zhao Qingyi still chose to protect herself. Whether Li Che was dead or alive had nothing to do with her.
Their whispers seemed to be full of love to outsiders, and Li Che's dark eyes were about to spit fire.
It turns out that Zhao Qingyi, without him, can be so happy and comfortable with other men!
And you behave intimately in front of him, just to provoke him, to make him jealous, to make him go crazy?
No, he would not let Zhao Qingyi get what she wanted!
He doesn't care!
He just wants them dead!
At this moment, Li Che transferred all the hatred that he had felt from the torture he suffered before his death in his previous life to Zhao Qingyi. If it weren't for this beautiful woman who brought disaster to him, he would never have fallen into that situation in his previous life.
At this juncture, this adulterous couple can still perform such shameless and intimate acts. The more proud they are now, the more miserable their defeat will be in a while!
Li Che cursed darkly in his heart, and King Qi's furious rebuke was heard.
"Waste! You're a bunch of waste!"
King Qi saw the body of Prefect Du and the rescued Meng Jiawen. He did not expect that the people he recruited were so useless that they could not defeat a group of temporarily assembled rebels.
He glared at Li Che fiercely, "Didn't you say it was foolproof? How come the person is dead and the bargaining chip is still gone?!"
Li Che instantly gathered his thoughts, lowered his eyebrows and said, "Your Highness, don't worry. At least, the people are here, right?"
How many people were there in the rebel army? A motley crew, good and bad, how could they possibly be a match for Prince Qi? At this moment, Li Che was still full of confidence in Prince Qi, "As long as we capture the Prince of Pingxi, the rebel army will collapse on its own."
King Qi followed Li Che's words and looked at Chu Yuanhe who was riding on the snow in front of him.
Although he holds the title of prince and is the uncle of the current emperor, he was a vassal at an early age and rarely visited the capital, nor had he ever seen the emperor's true face. Seeing Chu Yuanhe now, King Qi squinted his eyes and looked at him with disdain, "Are you the Prince of Pingxi County?"
At the same time, he also noticed the woman sitting in front of Chu Yuanhe. The moment he recognized Zhao Qingyi, King Qi suddenly laughed.
"Oh? And the Princess of Chenhua?"
It's interesting. Last time at the Flower God Banquet, he asked her to escape. He always thought that Zhao Qingyi was His Majesty's woman, but it turned out that he was wrong.
This woman is very resourceful. On the one hand, she has won the heart of the emperor, and on the other hand, she has an ambiguous relationship with the Prince of Pingxi in Qiantang. And now, she has her ex-husband Li Che by her side.
What a powerful woman, she can juggle three men at the same time.
Prince Qi really wanted to laugh. He raised his eyebrows and scolded Chu Yuanhe, "Little Prince, you and the county lady are... planning a rebellion?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, he started throwing dirty water on the two of them. It was clearly King Qi who wanted to rebel!
Zhao Qingyi made a move to refute, but was suppressed by Chu Yuanhe.
He denounced Prince Qi's crimes and claimed that everything he did was in accordance with public opinion. "I am a member of the royal family. To maintain the stability of Daliang, I must naturally obey the wishes of the people of Daliang. Today, I will enforce justice on behalf of Heaven and eliminate you, a bunch of traitors, to restore stability to Zhejiang."
King Qi seemed to have heard a joke. Public opinion? The group of untouchables behind Chu Yuanhe?
He simply didn't believe that a group of temporarily assembled untouchables could defeat the personal guards he had trained with all his heart and soul. Not only that, he also had his own private soldiers, and today he would make sure that these people would never return.
King Qi gave an order and ordered his men to capture the Prince of Pingxi and the Princess of Chenhua.
Of course Cao Hu would not give in. He led the brothers from the Black Wind Village to charge in the front, followed by the secret guards mixed in with the rebels. These people were the real core, and each of them was worth ten people. However, King Qi did not bring many people with him on this trip, and could barely cope.
As for the group of people behind Shi Dachui, they had only a short period of training and would only die if they rushed forward. Chu Yuanhe had people stop them and only let them stay on the periphery to pick up the loopholes and kill a few deserters.
King Qi did not expect that his personal guards, whom he had spent countless military funds to raise, were so vulnerable. He was frightened and retreated repeatedly. He planned to escape by water first, thinking that there is hope for the best. His private soldiers had not been deployed yet. By the time they arrived, Chu Yuanhe would be dead.
Yes, it is impossible for him to lose. He just needs time to wait for his private soldiers to arrive. The most important thing right now is to save his life.
The King of Qi was just a pampered royal family member from a wealthy village. He had never been to a battlefield, nor had he seen the bloody fights between two armies. At this moment, he just wanted to find an excuse to escape.
Unexpectedly, when his personal guards were escorting him to the dock, their retreat was cut off by the Cao Gang.
King Qi was horrified and glared at Li Che again. In a rage, he slapped him hard, "Didn't you say you had arranged everything? Where's the contact person? Where's the boat?"
Li Che was also caught off guard. He glanced at the aggressive Cao Gang and didn't know what went wrong. He had indeed arranged a retreat route in advance, but now it seemed that the Cao Gang had rebelled against them.
Seeing Chu Yuanhe's rebel army approaching, King Qi stood at the dock with nowhere to escape, and immediately asked Li Che to send out a signal flare to summon King Qi's private soldiers.
Despite his fear, King Qi was very resolute. "You can't kill me. I am King Qi, a descendant of the royal family! Even if your father comes, he has to be polite to me. And you, a mere prince, dare to attack me, you are committing treason!"
He also threatened Chu Yuanhe that if he knew what was good for him, he should withdraw his troops immediately and let him go.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that King Qi was stalling for time and waiting for his private troops.
Chu Yuanhe was not in a hurry. Since he had taken action, he naturally had to capture King Qi's private soldiers as well. So he was not in a hurry to kill him. He just had people block their way and wait for the private soldiers to come and fall into the trap.
Seeing that he was unmoved, King Qi couldn't help but look at Zhao Qingyi in his arms and laughed sarcastically.
On the day of the Flower God Banquet, Zhao Qingyi escaped from his clutches with the protection of the Imperial Guards. This shows that this woman has a close relationship with His Majesty. Apart from His Majesty, no one can mobilize Lin Feng, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guards.
To buy time and wait for his private soldiers, Prince Qi deliberately provoked, "Princess Chenhua is quite cunning. A divorced woman, she previously seduced my nephew, the emperor, and now she's sitting in the arms of Prince Pingxi."
He grinned maliciously, "Or... my unworthy nephew offered his own woman to win people's hearts?"
As far as he knew, the Prince of Pingxi was just a military man with no knowledge of literature. He said this deliberately to sow discord, hoping that Chu Yuanhe would lose his temper for the beauty he loved and disrupt his plan to encircle and suppress him.
Sure enough, Chu Yuanhe's handsome face, which seemed to be smiling but not smiling, became gloomy.
King Qi thought that what he said had successfully angered him, and he then talked about how Zhao Qingyi had secretly had an affair with His Majesty at the Flower God Banquet.
Zhao Qingyi was so angry that her chest heaved. If she had not been with Chu Yuanhe when the incident happened that day, King Qi's words would have surely caused misunderstandings between her and Chu Yuanhe.
She immediately explained that she had nothing to do with His Majesty and that she was not the two-timing woman that King Qi described.
She didn't care what others thought of her, but she cared about Chu Yuanhe's thoughts.
Chu Yuanhe shook her hand to show his trust. No one knew Zhao Qingyi's innocence better than him. From the beginning to the end, she was his. King Qi's attempt to sow discord was in the wrong place.
Chu Yuanhe sneered twice and secretly sighed that King Qi was stupid. However, since he grew up, he had never met his uncle King Qi as the emperor, so it was understandable that the other party did not recognize him.
He slowly bent his bow and aimed his arrow at King Qi.
The King of Qi's foul language suddenly stopped, as if he hadn't expected Chu Yuanhe to be so angry that he would attack him first. Even when facing death, he was still trying to stir up trouble. "I have never done anything to her. If you want to be angry or hate someone, you should hate your cousin! The person you want to hate is the little emperor!"
Finally, he softened his tone and wanted to instigate Chu Yuanhe to rebel. As long as he stood by him today, he would make Chu Yuanhe a vassal king and arrange a marriage for them once his great cause was accomplished in the future.
Chu Yuanhe remained unmoved. He just fiddled with the bow and arrow and asked Zhao Qingyi where to shoot.
Seeing that he looked calm and was not provoked by King Qi, Zhao Qingyi felt relieved and the bow and arrow fell into her hands.
Chu Yuanhe held her hand and taught her how to aim. With the sound of the bowstring vibrating with a "hum", the sharp arrow shot straight towards King Qi's head, grazed his scalp, and instantly shattered the jade crown on his head.
King Qi screamed in panic and took several steps back, only to realize that it was the jade crown that was shot. His tightly bound hair fell down and hung on his face in a mess, and he no longer had the graceful demeanor of a nobleman.
Chu Yuanhe grabbed Zhao Qingyi's hand and shot another arrow. At the critical moment, King Qi's private soldiers finally arrived and surrounded all the rebels including them in an instant.
When he saw his people, King Qi wiped away the embarrassment on his face and laughed wildly.
Zhao Qingyi's heart immediately hung in her arms. She saw Chu Yuanhe holding her hand and shooting an arrow at the sky above his head. The arrow broke through the air with a sharp "swoosh" sound, and the next moment, the ground also shook.
Everyone's eyes subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.
Zhao Qingyi was no exception. When she saw a familiar figure in a crimson official robe riding towards her from afar, her eyes were immediately filled with tears.
"Father?"
The long-missing Zhao Huaiyi suddenly appeared without warning, holding a military token and leading a team of elite cavalry. He rushed over with a loud cry, "The imperial decree is here, the traitors will be put to death!"
What followed was earth-shaking shouts, with thousands of soldiers shouting "Punish the rebels and protect the country's destiny" and surrounding King Qi's party.
Zhao Huaiyi finally had time to look at his daughter and nodded to her to reassure her. But when he turned his eyes and saw Chu Yuanhe behind his daughter, his expression changed slightly.
Zhao Qingyi noticed her father's gaze and her face suddenly turned red. Her relationship with Chu Yuanhe was already exposed, and suddenly her father saw it. The embarrassment was no less than being discovered by Meng.
I never expected that my father would find out in this way.
Fortunately, Zhao Huaiyi quickly withdrew his gaze, rode his horse into the crowd and read out the imperial edict to kill the rebels.
The power of King Qi was mainly in the Qiantang area, and the rest of his supporters were all prominent families headed by the Wang family. These families almost infiltrated the entire Zhejiang officialdom.
Zhao Huaiyi realized this when he was implementing the new policy. Without any arrangements, he would be dead in Zhejiang. After that, he cooperated with His Majesty's plan to escape, pretending to be killed and his whereabouts unknown. His purpose was to get rid of the power of King Qi and others, and carry the secret decree and tiger talisman to Huzhou to borrow troops.
Afterwards, Zhao Huaiyi took his troops and hid in Wukang, waiting for King Qi to show his cards. Then he could send troops to attack in the name of suppressing the rebellion and wipe out King Qi and the aristocratic families who supported him.
The cabinet was also taking action in Shangjing at this moment. With Prime Minister Zhang and the eldest princess in charge, working together with the Imperial Household Department and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Wang Ci Fu and others could no longer escape unscathed, and what awaited them was thunderous wrath.
With such a serious crime as treason, even the Empress Dowager could not save the Wang family.
Seeing that King Qi was doomed, those private soldiers who had been recruited not long ago surrendered one after another. Only a few personal guards remained by King Qi's side, but they were also trembling with fear.
Li Che retreated quietly, and when he was behind King Qi, he suddenly drew out the sword of his personal guard and stabbed King Qi.
Because of Zhao Huaiyi's sudden appearance, King Qi was still in fear. Before he could react, Li Che attacked him from behind. He suddenly widened his eyes, his eyes bloodshot, and wanted to ask Li Che why he betrayed him.
Li Che pursed his lips and said nothing, then thrust the sword forward again.
Blood oozed from the corner of King Qi's mouth. He could not close his eyes at the thought that he had been defeated by his trusted aide.
Li Che still had no expression on his face. His thin hands slowly lifted the cloak, revealing a pale face that had not seen the light of day for a long time. Under the hateful eyes of King Qi, he pulled out the sword with force, and blood spurted out and splashed all over him.
King Qi's body swayed, but no matter how unwilling he was, he eventually fell down.
The guards looked at each other in bewilderment. Their master was dead, so why should they continue to resist? They would die anyway.
Just as he was hesitating, Li Che dropped his sword and stepped over King Qi's corpse and walked forward. After being stopped by Cao Hu and others, he knelt on his knees and saluted Chu Yuanhe with his fists clasped.
"I have been lurking beside King Qi for many days, enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens. Fortunately, I have finally fulfilled my mission."
Li Che spoke with a resounding voice and a righteous demeanor. He then kowtowed solemnly to Chu Yuanhe, "Your humble servant, Li Che, pays homage to... Your Majesty!"
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