He quickly jumped off Mingyue's back.
Li Shengyi ran to the guillotine with his short legs, panting.
Seeing Wen Qingxiu's wrinkled face, she wrinkled her nose in disgust, "You're so ugly, and you dare to hit my father?"
Wen Qingxiu was over fifty years old and already had grandchildren. He should have been enjoying his retirement, but the arrival of the fifth prince disrupted the Wen family's life.
When he learned that the child born by the lowly maid had become the prime minister, while his beloved son was mediocre, he was furious. In addition, with the promise of the fifth prince, he immediately packed his bags and came to the capital.
Counting the years, this is the twentieth year since the Wen family drove the mother and son out of the house.
It was also the reunion of father and son after twenty years.
As Wen Songmo's father, what right does he have to not take action against his son?
What's more, the other party is just a young girl.
Unlike his cowardice when facing Meng Jiuan and the others, Wen Qingxiu was so angry that he blew his beard and glared when he saw that Li Shengyi dared to be so disrespectful to him.
"Who do you think you are? I'm teaching this kid a lesson, do I need you to review it?"
When Li Shengyi heard Wen Qingxiu call himself 'Laozi', he curled his lips and said, "You are Laozi? I am still your grandfather!"
"You whipped my father. Are you ready to be punished by me?"
Treason!
It's really treasonous!
Wen Qingxiu was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe. He sat on the ground with his hands on his chest, gasping for breath.
Li Shengyi was too lazy to pay attention to him. He turned his head to look at Chu Huaifeng who was holding the twelfth prince as a hostage. He ran behind Qin Songmo and used a small dagger to untie the ropes on his body.
"Fifth Prince, you are not trying to use the life of the Twelfth Prince as a threat to make my father withdraw his troops, are you?"
"You've been keeping a low profile in the palace these past few years, and you were on the verge of success, but you never imagined that one day you would be defeated by a woman."
"Fifth Prince, how does His Majesty's concubine taste?"
As soon as Li Shengyi spoke out the palace secrets, the people around him, who had originally quieted down, opened their eyes wide again and started talking non-stop.
For ordinary people like them, being able to live a stable life on weekdays is a luxury.
Occasionally they would sit together and chat, and their topics were always about the affairs between Old Wang from the east city and Widow Li from the west city.
Now that they heard the secrets of the palace, especially the secrets of the princes and concubines, everyone wanted Li Shengyi to say more.
They love to listen.
Chu Huaifeng didn't expect that Li Shengyi would start talking about Su Jinrou.
Pian Li Shengyi was absolutely right.
He had been keeping a low profile in the palace for many years, and was about to force the emperor to abdicate, kill the idiot Chu Huaiyu, and replace the helpless prince to ascend the throne.
The appearance of Su Jinrou completely overturned his plan.
Now he has nowhere to retreat. All the forces cultivated by Chu Huaiyu have been caught, and even Chu Huaiyu himself is in danger.
And Su Jinrou...
Chu Huaifeng gritted his teeth and said in a hoarse voice, "I want to leave the city. Prepare a horse and silver for me, otherwise..."
"Otherwise, you would have killed the twelfth prince?"
Li Shengyi spoke up to continue the words he had not yet finished speaking.
The corners of her lips curled up slightly as she stood on the guillotine. Her small body had its shadow lengthened by the sunlight, as if she was the giant standing beside her father, protecting him.
"Fifth Prince, have you ever considered that the little prince is the Crown Prince's only brother? If you kill the little prince, the Crown Prince will definitely not let you go."
"Even a child like me knows that you are colluding with the Daliang Kingdom. You are asking for silver and horses this time, so you must be going to the dock to meet up with the people from the Daliang Kingdom."
"But what were you thinking? You only needed to take the little prince and flee the capital. No matter how far you ran, it would be difficult for us to catch up. But you chose to stay."
The clear child's voice rang in everyone's ears with questions.
At this moment, everyone's attention was focused on Chu Huaifeng, and no one noticed that Li Shengyi, a child of only five or six years old, could speak such logical words.
Chu Huaifeng had good hearing. After hearing Li Shengyi's question, he frowned and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I want horses and silver!"
"Is it because of Su Jinrou? You couldn't bear to leave Concubine Su and wanted to take her with you, but she had already been sent to a brothel by Chu Huaiyu..."
"You saw her at her most miserable state, and finally felt disgusted?"
Li Shengyi's eyes were fixed on the figure not far away.
What she said was just a guess, but when she saw the expression on the other person's face change and his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, she knew she was right.
Chu Huaifeng did see Su Jinrou in her most miserable state.
Because Chu Huaiyu sent the other party to the place where there were the most men.
Seeing the woman who once kissed him with her red lips and was intimate with him by his side, now lying beside men, with the expression on her face made him feel disgusted.
He met her secretly, and when he saw her begging him to take her away with tears in her eyes, he hesitated.
He thought he was willing to give everything for her, even the throne. If she wanted it, he would be willing to fight for her.
But now...
He fled in panic. After escaping from Su Jinrou, he found that the number of imperial guards in the capital had not decreased, and the guarding was even stricter than before.
As a last resort, he could only grab Chu Huaize and hide all the way.
Later, he met Wen Qingxiu in a small farmyard. He asked Wen Qingxiu to kill Qin Songmo, which led to the current situation.
With his lips tightly pursed, Chu Huaifeng pulled out a dagger from his boots and pressed it against Chu Huaize's neck.
"Stop talking nonsense!"
"A gentleman uses words, not fists. You win, you win. Horses and silver, right? Mingyue, go get them."
Li Shengyi immediately raised his hands high and set his eyes on Chu Huaifeng, "Are you satisfied? Someone will send the horse and silver over later."
"But what would you do if you went to Daliang? Would you betray Da Chu? Do you have a map of Da Chu with you?"
"Ah, but I still don't understand. Why didn't you leave the capital overnight? Instead, you chose to run out and kill my father. What happened? Did my father dig up your family's ancestral graves?"
The child was so nagging that Chu Huaifeng looked impatient.
He was not prepared to answer, but just lowered his head to look at Chu Huaize, who had been crying just now but now looked quiet.
With a wicked smile on his lips, he whispered to the person in his arms, "What's wrong, Twelfth Brother? Do you really believe that Li Shengyi can save you?"
He deliberately lowered his voice and spoke in a volume that only he and Chu Huaize could hear.
Feeling the person in his arms' body become stiff, Chu Huaifeng's malicious smile became even wider.
"Don't be afraid. Even if I, your fifth brother, die today, I will definitely drag you to be buried with me."
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