335. As a matter of course

"Second sister, are you leaving like this after not seeing you for so many years?"

Ye Yue, who had already walked to the door, froze in her tracks. She looked at the expressionless black guards standing outside the door, and finally turned around with a pale face. Looking at Ye Li, who was smiling calmly on the main seat, she said calmly, "Third sister, it's been many years since we last met." It's been many years, right? It's almost been ten years since they last met. The girl who was still a little immature in Ye Yue's eyes has now grown into the world-famous Princess Dingguo who can stand on her own at any time.

Even if it is just about appearance, the beauty that once made Ye Yue proud now looks so thin and ridiculous in front of Ye Li. Ye Li may not be the most beautiful woman in the world, but she is definitely the most unique and attractive woman in the world. She is completely different from any other beautiful woman in the world. She is calm and gentle, calm and elegant, generous and graceful, and has a toughness and sharpness that even men cannot match. So many different temperaments would never appear in the same person at the same time, but it is precisely because of this that Ye Li looks completely different from any other woman in the world. No wonder Mo Jingli still misses her and even hates Mo Xiuyao.

Prince Ding is so lucky and has a good vision. Many people have said this. Even someone as proud as Ye Yue had to admit that her half-sister did try to make the arrogant Prince Ding bow down.

Seeing Ye Yue's calmness, Ye Li's eyes flashed with admiration, "How has Second Sister been these years?"

Ye Yue lowered her eyes and smiled faintly: "What's good or bad about it? Let's just live on in this world for now."

While Ye Yue was looking at Ye Li, Ye Li was also looking at Ye Yue. No wonder the people arranged by Ding Wangfu in Ye Mansion did not recognize her. Not to mention that Ye Yue has always lived in seclusion and rarely seen people, her current appearance is actually not easy for people to associate her with the bright and charming Ye Zhaoyi many years ago. After so many years, Ye Yue's appearance has also changed greatly. Ye Yue used to be charming and charming, but now Ye Yue is still beautiful but more gentle and delicate. If Ye Yue in the past was a crabapple, then Ye Yue now is more like an osmanthus. It doesn't look as dazzling as before, but if you look closely, it makes people linger and savor it again and again. If they didn't know it in advance, even if someone knew Ye Yue, if they saw her somewhere else, they would probably just think she was someone who looked somewhat similar to her.

"Since you are still alive, why don't you just die?" Mo Xiuyao said nonchalantly beside Ye Li. Even though his words were plain and almost emotionless, they could still make people feel the endless murderous intent.

Ye Yue's face turned pale. The person she feared most in the entire Li City was Mo Xiuyao. If it was Ye Li, she could still negotiate with her verbally, but she could do nothing against Mo Xiuyao. If possible, Ye Yue really didn't want to confront Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li again, and even didn't want to have anything to do with Prince Ding's Mansion. But from the moment she came to Li City, perhaps it was destined that she would have to face Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li at this moment.

Not only Ye Yue, but also Ye Wenhua, Old Madam Ye, and Wang who were standing by the side, were pale. Wang, holding back her fear, stood in front of Ye Yue and said, "What do you mean, Lord Wang... Yue'er is the daughter of the Ye family, can't she be here?"

Mo Xiuyao held Ye Li's hand with one hand, and tapped the redwood handrail with the other hand, which made everyone present nervous. After a while, Mo Xiuyao smiled and said, "It seems that Madam Ye has forgotten what your daughter did to Ah Li?" Ye Wangshi shuddered slightly, "That was such a long time ago, and besides... Isn't Ye Li fine?"

Mo Xiuyao narrowed his eyes and laughed in anger, "That makes sense... If that's the case, Ye Yue asked me to chop her with a knife. If she doesn't die, then the matter of hurting Ah Li will be written off."

Hearing this, Ye Wangshi almost screamed out in shock, and Ye Yue also clenched her teeth and could not speak. If Prince Ding wanted to kill someone, how could he not kill him with one blow? Ye Yue was not a martial arts master. In fact, she was just a weak woman with no power. In terms of martial arts, she was not even as good as Murong Tinghua Tianxiang, who was born in a military family, and Liu Guifei, who was known for her talent in both civil and military affairs.

"Li'er." Old Madam Ye frowned and said, "It is true that Yue'er was sorry for what happened back then, but Yue'er was also forced by others. She has also suffered a lot over the years. For the sake of you two sisters, please don't bother about it." Ye Li tilted her head and looked at Old Madam Ye with a smile. She said she was pleading, but Old Madam Ye's tone was not that serious. Instead, it carried some meaning of an elder giving orders to the younger generation. Although Old Madam Ye was indeed Ye Li's elder, she forgot that Ye Li was no longer someone she could order. "Grandma, my second sister almost killed me back then. Although I have loved my second sister more since she was a child, at the same time, as my legitimate granddaughter, my heart is a little too biased."

Old Madam Ye was stunned. She knew that she was biased, and she always thought that it was natural for her to be biased. Compared to Ye Li, who grew up in the Xu family and her other half in the Xu family, Ye Yue grew up by her side. Ye Yue is good-looking, smart, and can talk to please her, so why is she not biased? But this is the first time she heard Ye Li say it so openly. Her gray eyebrows wrinkled, and Old Madam Ye frowned and said, "Grandmother knows that you have been wronged, but now there are only a few sisters in the Ye family. Can't you be more generous?"

Ye Li blinked and couldn't help laughing. Could it be that Old Madam Ye thought she was complaining about not being favored? She looked up at Mo Xiuyao, who raised his eyebrows. That's what Old Madam Ye meant.

Ye Li smiled and asked slowly, "Grandma, if I let my second sister go, what are you going to do with me?"

Before Old Madam Ye could say anything, Ye Wenhua beside her said solemnly, "Father will build a Buddhist temple in the mansion. She will live in the mansion and practice fasting and chanting. She will never go out."

"Nonsense!" Old Madam Ye's face darkened, and she glared at Ye Wenhua unhappily. She had taken so much trouble to persuade Ye Li, but it was not appropriate for her to add another Buddhist temple in the mansion and keep an extra idle person. Ye Li raised her eyebrows, looked at Ye Wenhua with a smile and said, "So what does grandma think?" Old Madam Ye raised her eyes and said, "Since you and Prince Ding don't welcome us, your father and I plan to go to Jiangnan with Ying'er. Considering the sisterhood with Yue'er, let her go with us."

"Father, is that what you mean?" Ye Li asked calmly while looking at Ye Wenhua. She didn't believe that Ye Wenhua didn't know about the relationship between Prince Ding's Mansion and Mo Jingli. If he also chose to leave with her, it meant that he also planned to become an enemy of Prince Ding's Mansion from now on, so she didn't need to be polite.

"No." Ye Wenhua shook his head and said, "I will not leave Licheng, and Ye Rong will not leave either. As a father, I have no other requests, I just hope to see Ronger marry and have children in peace and stability." Ye Li was very satisfied with Ye Wenhua's choice. Even if she disliked Ye Wenhua, it could not change the fact that he was indeed her biological father. Ye Li was not the kind of person who was so cruel as to not take killing her father and her parents seriously. No matter what happened in this life, after all, her life in a military family for more than 20 years in her previous life made her values ​​​​very correct. As long as Ye Wenhua did not do anything that would endanger the Dingwang Mansion, Ye Li felt that it was not difficult to support him in his old age. Of course, that's all.

Ye Li was satisfied, but others were not. Ye Wangshi and Old Madam Ye were even more furious and glared at Ye Wenhua and screamed.

Ye Wenhua, who always compromised in front of his father and wife in the past, was resolute this time. No matter how angry Madam Ye scolded him, he refused to say a word. Having been in the officialdom for half a lifetime, Ye Wenhua's feelings were definitely more sensitive than Madam Ye, Ye Wangshi, and even Ye Yue. Once he compromised and expressed his willingness to leave with them, I'm afraid today would be the end of the Ye family. He believed that Ye Li would not kill him because of the father-daughter relationship, but Mo Xiuyao's cruelty was also well-known in the world.

Mo Xiuyao, who had been leaning to the side watching the show, seemed to be fed up with the farce in front of him. He sat up, looked at everyone and smiled faintly: "Old Madam Ye... did you know that Prince Ding's Mansion and Da Chu have a grudge?"

Old Madam Ye was stunned, obviously not understanding what Mo Xiuyao meant.

Mo Xiuyao said nonchalantly, "Since the Ye family settled in Licheng, they are now under the command of Prince Ding's Mansion. Now you tell me that you plan to take this man who once assassinated my beloved concubine to Jiangnan to seek refuge with Prince Li's Mansion. Can I think that you are planning to...rebel?" Old Madam Ye's eyes widened in horror, and she couldn't understand how this matter could be connected with treason. But this did not prevent her from knowing what kind of serious crime treason was.

"What's the matter? We are not from your Ding Palace!" Wang screamed.

Mo Xiuyao raised a smile, "You are not from Prince Ding's Mansion? Then you must be Mo Jingli's people. Then... I can also treat you as detectives. What do you think? For Ah Li's sake, I will allow you to choose a way of death you like." This time, Old Madam Ye and Queen Ye were really scared. They trembled as they looked at Mo Xiuyao's handsome face, which seemed to be smiling, "No... Don't..."

Ye Yue, who had been silent, took a step back and fell weakly into the chair behind her. She had underestimated the ability of the Ding Palace. She had planned everything well. She had avoided the war, followed Wang to Licheng, met Mo Jingli and persuaded him as she wished. But she didn't expect to fail at this critical moment. After all, she was just a weak woman with no power. No matter how smart she was, she would be vulnerable to a huge monster like the Ding Palace without enough chips. And obviously, Ye Yue was the kind of person who didn't have enough chips. The chips in her hand were only useful to Mo Jingli, but they were nothing more than chicken ribs in the eyes of others.

Mo Xiuyao stood up and walked to Ye Yue. He looked down at her by the chin and examined her carefully for a long time before saying calmly, "You are the first person who dared to attack Ah Li. I have always remembered you." Upon hearing this, Ye Yue did not feel the slightest bit of surprise. Instead, she shuddered, and fear was clearly revealed in her beautiful eyes.

However, Ye Yue was able to avoid the Queen Mother and the royal family's silence, and was able to avoid the pursuit of Prince Ding's Mansion. After traveling thousands of miles from the capital to the Ye family's hometown in the southwest, and even living a stable life for so many years, it is natural that she is not so easily frightened. After calming down, Ye Yue tried to make her voice sound calmer, and said to Mo Xiuyao: "Prince, what happened to my third sister... was forced by the Queen Mother. I had no choice, and I hope that Prince will be kind. Ye Yue will repay Prince's kindness of not killing me even if she has to be beheaded."

"You were forced to do it?" Mo Xiuyao sneered and shook Ye Yue's chin away with disdain. "Do you think I will let that old woman go? I don't care whether you were forced or not. Anyone who hurt Ah Li should die. Even if someone forced you, you should die on your own. Why don't you die? If you die, maybe I will avenge you and let your son become the emperor."

Ye Yue had seen many unreasonable people. But this was the first time she had seen someone who asked, "Why don't you die?" in such a matter-of-fact way. She was a little confused for a moment, and after a while, she shuddered and said, "What the prince meant was... the queen mother forced me to kill my third sister, so I should die by myself?"

"That's right." Mo Xiuyao nodded with satisfaction and said, "You can all die, but no one can harm my Ah Li. Whoever dares to hurt her will regret living. You should be satisfied after living for so many years."

"Mad man!" Ye Yue shuddered, and turned her head to look at Ye Li who was sitting beside her, and said with a bitter smile: "Third sister, are you really not afraid of following such a mad man?"

Mo Xiuyao's face darkened, and a trace of cruelty flashed in his eyes. He raised his hand to slap Ye Yue on the head, but Ye Li behind him raised her hand and grabbed his wrist, pulled his raised hand back and held his hand with their fingers interlocked. Looking at Ye Yue's astonished expression, Ye Li smiled faintly and said, "Why should I be afraid? I believe that if there is only one person in this world who will not hurt me, it must be him. Don't you think it is a very happy thing to have such a person by your side?"

"Happiness?" Ye Yue stared blankly at the two people standing side by side in front of her, with a trace of confusion in her eyes. Once she looked back, she realized that she had never experienced what happiness was in her life. The only time she felt happy was when she was a girl before entering the palace, and it was the days after Mrs. Xu died and Wang was promoted to the position of the legitimate wife, because before that she was just a concubine of the Ye family. Such days only lasted for two or three years. When she entered the palace, she was walking on thin ice everywhere. How could she be happy? Mo Jingqi had never loved her, and of course she had never loved Mo Jingqi, so she could not understand what happiness Ye Li was talking about. But looking at the two people's tightly clasped hands, she felt extremely envious and lonely in her heart.

"Second sister, tell me, what did you exchange with Mo Jingli?" Ye Li asked softly.

Ye Yue closed her eyes and said nothing. Ye Li did not get angry either. She smiled and said, "Second sister, I don't want to torture you. With your body, I'm afraid you can't stand it." Ye Yue said coldly, "What difference does it make whether you can stand it or not? Will Prince Ding spare me?" Mo Xiuyao smiled and said, "No, but... I seem to remember that the person who performed the autopsy reported that the child who was burned to death in the fire did not seem to be the fifth prince. Hmm?"

Ye Yue's expression finally turned ugly, "Mo Xiuyao, how dare you!"

"Is there anything in the world that I dare not do?" Mo Xiuyao asked, "You are very smart. You did not bring the child to Licheng. How much does the child look like Mo Jingqi? But you are not smart enough. You should not have brought him to the northwest."

Ye Yue's face turned pale, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I said... the emperor gave Mo Jingli a medicine back then, and I have an antidote..."

Mo Xiuyao frowned, "Antidote? Didn't they say there is no antidote?" He also asked Shen Yang to study the medicine. Shen Yang took a look at it and threw it away, saying that there was no antidote.

Ye Yue said: "There is nothing in this world that is incurable. Even the vicious poison in the prince's body has been cured, right?"

"You know quite a lot." Mo Xiuyao raised his eyebrows. If this woman hadn't really violated his taboo, he wouldn't mind giving her some praise. Ye Yue turned a deaf ear and continued, "The reason why there is no antidote for that drug is because the extracted poison and antidote are from the same herb, and they cannot be replaced. In other words, even if you find an antidote extracted from the same herb, it can only cure the poison extracted from the same herb. Therefore, each poison and antidote is unique. The antidote for the poison that Mo Jingli took is in my hands."

"If that's the case, it's no wonder that Mo Jingli dared to do something strange under my nose." Mo Xiuyao raised his eyebrows and smiled. For Mo Jingli, even if Ye Yue had no other use, this alone was enough for him to do his best to take her away. After all, having no children is Mo Jingli's biggest hidden pain and weakness besides the throne. "Where is the medicine?" Mo Xiuyao asked.

Ye Yue gritted her teeth, and Mo Xiuyao said calmly: "I don't need that medicine. I just want Mo Jingli to not get it. You said... Can I kill you now?"

Facing such an opponent, there is no other way to go except to retreat without limit. Ye Yue could only reluctantly pull out a conspicuous hairpin on her head and throw it into Mo Xiuyao's hand. Mo Xiuyao casually threw it to Qin Feng at the door and said, "Take it to Shen Yang to see."

Having lost almost all of her chips, Ye Yue seemed to feel relieved. She fell into a chair and looked at Mo Xiuyao and said, "I have nothing more to say. What else do you want?"

Mo Xiuyao was about to say something when the guard outside the door reported: "My Lord, Princess, King Li is here."

Mo Xiuyao leaned on Ye Li's shoulder and smiled softly, "Sure enough, you hit Mo Jingli's weak spot. You came just in time."

Ye Li looked at him helplessly. Is it really a good idea to take pleasure in such a thing?

Mo Xiuyao laughed enough, took Ye Li's hand and turned to Ye Wenhua and said, "Father-in-law?" Ye Wenhua had never heard Mo Xiuyao call him father-in-law in his life, but at this moment he felt that it would be better not to hear it forever. He stepped forward with some fear, and Mo Xiuyao said, "Ye Yue will be handed over to you for the time being. If anything unexpected happens...you and your family will not live."

"Yes... I know. I will never let them do whatever they want." Ye Wenhua agreed almost in surprise. He had almost no hope that today's incident would end well, and thought Ye Yue was doomed. But he did not expect Mo Xiuyao to unexpectedly give in, so he naturally agreed immediately. After all, Ye Yue was still his daughter.

Mo Xiuyao nodded with satisfaction and pulled Ye Li away.

In the study, Madam Ye and the others did not catch their breath until all the guards outside had left.

Wang pulled Ye Wenhua's sleeve and cried, "Master, what should we do now?" Ye Wenhua stared at Wang for a long time with a gloomy face. Just when Wang thought he was going to say something, a slap hit her face hard. This slap was even harder and heavier than the previous one. Wang's head hit the edge of the table and blood gushed out immediately.

"Master?!"

"father!"

"Hua'er, what are you doing?" The three screamed in fear. Ye Wenhua stared at Wang with a stern look in his eyes and said, "Stay in your room quietly. If you dare to step out of the house again, you will be divorced."

"Grandpa..." Wang was so frightened that she even forgot to cry. After Ye Wenhua finished speaking, he ignored her. Looking at Ye Yue beside him, "And you, if you don't want to die, don't be so smart. Don't bring trouble to the entire Ye family if you commit suicide yourself." Ye Yue lowered her eyes and grabbed the hand hidden in her sleeve tightly, "Dad, I know."

"You know best." Ye Wenhua said in a deep voice.

"Hua'er..." Old Madam Ye frowned, very unhappy with her son's tough behavior. Ye Wenhua didn't wait for her to finish, and said in a stern voice: "Mother, do you really want to see the Ye family extinct?" Old Madam Ye was shocked and said: "How could it be? You are Ye Li's biological father, how dare she..."

Ye Wenhua smiled bitterly and said, "Li'er may not, but when did Prince Ding really regard me as his father-in-law? How many people has Prince Ding killed over the years? Doesn't mother know? Or does mother think he can't do it?"

Old Madam Ye was silent. Not to mention how many people Mo Xiuyao had killed on the battlefield in these years, how many people had he killed just for Ye Li... Thinking of this, Old Madam Ye couldn't help but shudder.

Ye Wenhua snorted coldly, ignored Madam Ye who was hesitant to speak, turned around and left.

Ye Li and Mo Xiu Yao left the study and walked side by side to the front hall. Ye Li asked curiously, "How are you going to deal with Ye Yue?" It's not that she didn't trust Mo Xiu Yao, but it was really unlike Mo Xiu Yao to let her go so easily. Mo Xiu Yao lowered his head and looked at Ye Li with a gentle smile in his eyes, "Since she entertained me, let her be happy for two days."

"Ye Yue doesn't seem like someone who will just leave everything to fate." She was able to find a way to escape death in the palace, let alone now. And Ye Yue is a smart person, she can't have guessed that Mo Xiuyao would not really let her go. If she leaves it alone, I'm afraid something will happen.

Mo Xiuyao smiled faintly and said, "I'm just afraid that she will just resign herself to her fate. Didn't she...want to burn Ah Li to death back then? It would be too easy for her to die like this. Ah Li, don't pay attention to her, just come with me and play with Mo Jingli." After he said that, he didn't give Ye Li time to think, and dragged Ye Li to the front yard.

Zhuo Jing and Wei Rui, who were following behind them, shuddered and glanced at each other. Could it be that the prince was planning to burn Ye Yue alive? If so, they would have to sympathize with her. It would have been better for her to have been killed by the prince. Also, what about teasing Prince Li? Prince, are you sure you are talking about Prince Li and not the little white dog brought from a foreign country by Madam Xu Shao?