Chapter 285 Father, You Are the Spy
Xie Yanyan and Zhou Shaoyu looked at each other and raised their eyebrows in understanding.
Xie Yanyan: "You actually came here?"
"Where else can he go?"
Zhou Shaoyu did not go out, and asked the guard who reported: "Where is the person?"
"Just outside the royal city."
"Bring it in!" he ordered calmly.
Xie Yanyan said: "Shall I go and rest first?"
"Okay, you take a rest first, I'll talk to you later."
He put the fox cloak on her and put the furry hat on her head.
When Zhou Xiaocheng was brought in from outside the royal court by the guards, he saw four maids accompanying a woman walking out of the hall. She was wearing a snow-white fox fur cloak and a snow-white fox fur hat on her head. Her face was pale and cold, her hands were folded in front of her chest, and her steps were neither fast nor slow.
That was Xie Yanyan, the empress of the Jiuzhou Empire.
He lowered his eyelids, stood by the wall and let her pass.
Xie Yanyan walked over without stopping or even looking at him.
Zhou Xiaocheng followed the guards and continued walking inside. The royal city could not be compared with the Central Plains. It was just a large courtyard with seven entrances, and it was not a very majestic palace. They arrived at the Golden Palace in a moment.
The guard announced at the door, and Zhou Shaoyu said, "Come in."
Zhou Xiaocheng went in and saw Zhou Shaoyu sitting on the high throne. The guards had closed the door of the hall.
The wind and snow were blocked outside the door, but the hall was not dark, and was illuminated by the snow outside, making it look a little pale.
"Take a seat."
Zhou Shaoyu said something, and the palace servant beside him immediately moved the brocade stool to Zhou Xiaocheng.
Zhou Xiaocheng wanted to get angry, but he felt he had no right to do so, so he sat on the stool in frustration.
Zhou Shaoyu continued to review the memorials in his hand and ignored him. “Just say whatever you want to say. If you don’t want to say anything, I won’t accompany you. I’m busy.”
After a long time, Zhou Xiaocheng warmed up in the hall and said, "How long can you stay here?"
"Not long."
"I, your mother and I can't live here anymore. Can you take us out?" Zhou Xiaocheng was a little embarrassed.
"Why did you come here? How did you live before?"
"Your mother and I were in Chang'an. We wanted to seek refuge with the Yu family, but they refused to take us in. We had nowhere to go. We happened to meet Princess Mou Jiaojiao, who brought us back. But you killed her. I have nowhere to go now."
"You told her about the situation between Emperor Yan and me and asked them to rebel against the Kyushu Empire?"
"I didn't ask them to rebel. They just asked me some questions about your preferences. I thought they were trying to please you."
"Then you gave them advice, and Yan Di killed her on the way to the royal court? Did you tell them about Yan Di and my habits, and give them advice? Yan Di cannot be confronted head-on, and only needs to be outsmarted?"
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"You are also a counselor of the Mou Ri family. The masked general who led the team to fight in Chang'an County with Mou Ribi was you!"
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"You are good at fighting. You asked Mou Jiaojiao to form an alliance with Xiliang first. The Xiliang army held back the Zhou family army. You led the troops to attack Chang'an County. Xie Yong was almost killed by you. Fortunately, he encountered a tornado, otherwise he would have been killed by you." Zhou Shaoyu paused and said, "Father, you are the spy who betrayed me and Emperor Yan!"
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How does he know everything?
I cursed in my heart that Mou Rizhen deserved to be killed for telling everything. He was so stupid and didn't deserve to live.
"I didn't kill Xie Yong. Isn't he alive and well?" Zhou Xiaocheng was annoyed and looked up at him.
So she made up her mind and said, "Jingchen, even if you become the emperor, I am still your father. I am not the emperor emeritus, but I am your father. This can't be wrong, right?"
"When you became emperor, you sent people to kill me and Emperor Yan. Why didn't you say you were my father then?"
"Didn't I kill you? You are the emperor now, and I have lost my country and my family, and I am so poor that I have no food or clothing. What else do you want? I am your father, Jingchen. Without me, how could you exist?"
Zhou Xiaocheng couldn't control his temper after all. Ever since he entered the hall, Zhou Shaoyu had been fiddling with writing and reviewing memorials without even looking at him. There was no need for him to be polite when he was being humiliated like this.
Zhou Shaoyu looked up at him and said, "You seem to be very confident. It seems that you are not in such a bad situation. Go back and have a good rest."
Zhou Xiaocheng stood up and was about to leave. When he reached the door and opened it, a gust of wind and snow rushed in. He coughed for a while and closed the door again.
He said patiently: "Jingchen, your mother is dying!"
Zhou Shaoyu didn't even raise his head.
Zhou Xiaocheng opened the door and went out.
His steps were long and staggering.
The guards followed him and ignored him once they left the royal court.
Zhou Xiaocheng walked a long way, and Zhou Shaoyu did not send anyone to follow him. Jingchen did not beat him or scold him, but instead despised and ignored him.
He slowed down his pace and walked towards a yard step by step in frustration.
This was the separate courtyard given to Mou Rizhen when he was alive.
The yard is not small for the country of Nu, but for various reasons, the houses in the country are not only not tall, but also not like the houses in the Central Plains with blue bricks and red tiles and several courtyards. Here is just a row of bungalows surrounded by bricks and stones, and the yard is big enough.
There are five houses in a row, two on the east and two on the west.
There are five main rooms, one of which is reserved as a living room. The rest are occupied by Zhou Xiaocheng, Princess Pei Yue, Zhuge, and Chen Yuanyuan.
Concubines Shen Yangyang and Wang each lived in a room in the west room.
The two rooms in the east were given to Zhou Yan.
The whole family cooks by setting up a stove under the eaves in the yard.
When Zhou Xiaocheng returned to the yard, before he even entered the door, he heard the sound of women fighting.
"You're a piece of shit. You only know how to seduce men all day long. You don't even take a piss and look in the mirror. You still think you're 18 years old. Do you know that your milk has fallen into the soup bowl?"
"I have been with you through thick and thin for half my life. Who do you think you are? I am not even 18 years old, and you are 18 years old, but I don't see that I like you!"
There was a burst of fighting sounds, mixed with screams.
When Zhou Xiaocheng entered the room, he saw his concubine Wang and Shen Yangyang fighting, her hair was disheveled and her face was covered with bloodstains.
Chen Yuanyuan was not there, Pei Yue was sitting on the porch looking at the sky, Zhuge was picking up rice bran with a small winnowing basket, and was indifferent to the fight between the two women.
"Stop hitting me!"
He roared, pointed at Shen Yangyang and Wang Shi and said, “Lock them up, don’t eat today!”
After he shouted, he saw the two maids hired from the courtyard come over, push Wang and Shen Yangyang into the west room, push them in, and lock the door with a key.
Pei Yue was wearing the locals' half-cloth, half-wolfskin winter clothing. Her face was no longer as fresh as before, and her cheeks were like spider webs from the north wind from the grassland. Her eyes were cold and cloudy.
Zhuge put down the dustpan in her hand, walked up to him and brushed the snow off his body, saying, "Master, are you back? Come in quickly!"
Zhou Xiaocheng felt warm in his heart and looked at Pei Yue again, who was still looking straight at the sky.
Zhuge knew there was no hope when she saw Zhou Xiaocheng's expression, but she wisely did not mention it. Instead, she offered him hot water and asked him to warm his hands first.
He walked to the door and said to Pei Yue: "Sister, please cook the meal!"
Pei Yue still said nothing.
Zhuge saw that she was looking up at the sky again, and she also looked up at the sky. There were a few eagles circling in the cold wind.
"Big sister, stop looking. There's no such thing as a free lunch! Let's just live a good life with the master!"
Zhou Xiaocheng roared in anger: "Pei Yue, is Zhuge talking to you? Are you deaf? Blind?"
Pei Yue finally turned her face back slowly, looked at Zhou Xiaocheng, and smiled: "You didn't get any benefits, did you? If I were Jingchen, I wouldn't even give you warm shit to eat."
(End of this chapter)
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