Pei Yuan was startled: "Your Majesty!"
"The situation in Daqin is extremely dangerous as the princes are fighting for the throne." The Emperor of Chu looked at me like a torch. "If you go back with your true identity, I'm afraid you will be assassinated before you even reach the border of Daqin."
After saying that, he walked to the imperial desk, took out a black iron token from the drawer and threw it to Pei Yuan: "On the day of the autumn hunt, I will arrange for someone to create an accident. You will take the opportunity to escape and secretly go to Daqin with a new identity."
"Once you have established your footing, it won't be too late to reveal your identity."
Pei Yuan tightly grasped the token, his Adam's apple rolled, and his heart seemed to be crushed by a heavy hammer, "Then the princess..."
Pei Yuan really couldn't imagine how sad the princess would be when she heard the news of his death.
"I have my own arrangements for Zhaoyang." The King of Chu looked at him meaningfully, "Why, you don't trust me?"
Pei Yuan knelt on one knee: "I dare not."
Chu Huangxu helped him up: "Remember, you must come back alive to see her!"
In an instant, Pei Yuan's chest seemed to be hit hard by something.
He didn't expect that his thoughts had already been seen clearly by His Majesty.
"Your Majesty..." His voice was hoarse, and he finally bowed deeply: "I will definitely live up to your Majesty's trust."
When he walked out of the imperial study, it was already dark. The evening breeze blew coolly in his face. Pei Yuan stood in the corridor, looking in the direction of the princess's mansion in the distance, his hands tightening constantly.
Ten days later, there will be another "corpse" on the autumn hunting ground. And because of him, the court of the Qin Dynasty will soon usher in a bloody storm...
At the same time, Chu Qingluan, who was originally sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up from her dream, feeling an inexplicable pain in her heart.
She took a deep breath, then stood up, opened the window, and happened to see a shooting star across the night sky.
The uneasy feeling in my heart grew stronger.
Zhixia, who was outside the door, heard the noise and hurriedly pushed the door open with a lamp. Seeing Chu Qingluan standing in front of the window, she hurriedly put a cloak on her.
"Princess, the night is cold, and I'm worried about your health."
Chu Qingluan pretended not to hear and stared blankly at the night sky.
"Zhixia." She suddenly spoke, her voice so soft it sounded like a sigh, "Do you believe in premonitions?"
Zhixia followed his gaze and saw that the night had darkened and the meteor had long since disappeared. "Your Highness, are you having a nightmare?"
Chu Qingluan shook her head, her fingertips unconsciously pressing against the window frame: "I always feel like...something is going to happen."
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At the same time, at the Xie family.
Ever since Xie Yunqi announced his departure from the Xie family, the entire Xie clan has been facing a new wave of turmoil.
The old lady immediately announced that no one in the Xie family was allowed to have private contact with Xie Yunqi. Once discovered, they would be punished according to the family rules. At the same time, she also took back some of the rights that Xie Yunqi was in charge of, such as the Xie family's salt and iron monopoly, the order to transfer the secret guards, and the connections that Xie family had planted and won over in the court.
The purpose is to force Xie Yunqi to have nowhere else to go and return to the Xie family.
But if this power is to be taken back, naturally someone has to operate and manage it. So, the second and third branches of the Xie family, who were eyeing it covetously, began to fight for it.
The second master Xie wanted to replace the first wife and cooperate with the prince. He misappropriated funds, which led to the robbery of the Xie family caravan and heavy losses.
In order to make up for the deficit, the third branch of the Xie family sold their ancestral property and even mortgaged part of the Xie family's land deeds to loan sharks.
On the first wife's side, Xie Yunzheng was framed by the third wife's people to seize people's land, which resulted in a loss of life. He was impeached by the censor, and the Emperor of Chu was furious and ordered him to be stripped of his honors and exiled three thousand miles away.
On the day Xie Yunzheng left Beijing, only Xie Rou came to see him off secretly. The once glorious and arrogant Second Master Xie was reduced to a prisoner in the blink of an eye.
Not only that, the reputation of the Xie family in the court was also severely damaged, and the original allies distanced themselves from each other for fear of being implicated. Xie Rou's marriage to the prince of Zhenbei Palace also fell through.
Overnight, the Xie family was in ruins, Great Xia was on the verge of collapse, and only Old Lady Xie was still struggling to hold on.
That night, the old lady sat in the Xie family's ancestral hall, still holding the family head's seal in her hand, her old eyes full of sadness.
She originally thought that as long as she took back Xie Yunqi's power in the court, she could force him to turn back, but reality slapped her hard in the face -
"Grandma! Rou'er begs you to please let my eldest brother come back." Xie Rou pushed open the door of the ancestral hall and knelt down in front of the old lady, crying.
"The Xie family cannot live without the eldest brother!"
Xie Rou really regretted it. She shouldn't have told her grandmother that her eldest brother liked the princess, which forced him to sever ties with the Xie family.
Now that the Xie family is at the end of its rope, she has gone from being a favored daughter of heaven to a sinner of the Xie family that everyone avoids overnight.
Only at this moment did Xie Rou understand that a woman without the protection of her family would be nothing in the outside world.
"Shut up!" The old lady sneered, with fierceness flashing in her turbid old eyes.
"Do you think he can save the Xie family if he comes back?"
"It's too late. He has already surrendered to the princess and become a running dog of the royal family!"
"But grandma!" Xie Rou wanted to argue: "Our Xie family and the princess may not be unable to coexist! Why must we abide by the ancestral precepts? Is this more important than the lives of our entire family?"
Xie Rou didn't understand why her grandmother still followed the ancestral precepts and preferred to support a tyrant emperor rather than establish a female emperor. But the Xie family had been supporting the prince for many years, but what did they get in the end?
Such a big thing happened to the Xie family, but the prince didn't even show any concern. He was so cold and indifferent. What was the point even if the entire family used their strength to help him ascend to that position?
The old lady looked dejectedly at the blue bricks on the ground, and she seemed to have aged by more than ten years in an instant.
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