If she was willing to die, she would never have escaped to the capital.
"Andi, you are not her, so how do you know she won't commit suicide?"
The emperor did not intend to give Cui Yu to Li Jinan.
First, he wanted to avenge Xu Lingyi personally, not Li Jinan.
Secondly, Cui Yu already knew Xu Lingyi's current identity. Even if she was poisoned and disabled, the marks of torture on her body would inevitably arouse Li Jinan's suspicion.
He didn't want Li Jinan to know that Xu Lingyi was still alive.
"Royal brother?"
Li Jinan keenly noticed that the emperor's attitude towards him was not as kind as before.
"Cui Yu knew that even if I handed her over to you, she would still die. Rather than being tortured by you, it would be better for her to commit suicide. It's not surprising that she was afraid and sought death."
The emperor explained as he looked at Li Jinan lying on the ground. If it were in the past, he would have helped him up personally at this moment, but today he didn't even want to touch him.
"Andi, please return to your fiefdom as soon as possible."
The emperor said it himself. Out of trust in his brother for many years, Li Jin'an could only believe it, and he left the palace in a daze.
Cui Yu is dead?
Before he could torture her and send her away with his own hands, she died on her own?
Li Jinan looked at the scimitar in his hand with cold eyes, feeling disappointed and resentful.
"Yier, it's a pity that your husband couldn't help you and your child get revenge personally."
Li Jinan's voice was choked with sobs and his expression was sad.
"But at least Cui Yu is dead. Although her death was a painful one, it can be considered as some kind of consolation for you and the child."
Even if Li Jinan was unwilling, he had no choice now. The emperor never jokes about his words, and he would not lie to him about this matter.
The last time he entered the palace, he could feel that his brother really wanted to help him.
Thinking of this, Li Jinan had no choice but to give up.
"My Lord, when will you return to your fiefdom?"
"We'll set off tomorrow." Li Jinan said in a deep voice.
There are still two people left that he has not dealt with, one is him and the other is his mother.
"Your Majesty, the King of Changshan has left Kyoto."
Liu Dehai crouched down and reported in a low voice.
The emperor's face was expressionless, but he felt relieved in his heart.
Although Xu Lingyi rarely talked about her ex-husband in the past, the only time she mentioned him, there was no resentment in her words. She only said that they loved each other but were not destined to be together.
As early as when he was in the small courtyard outside Beijing, the emperor had memorized this sentence for a long time and kept it in his heart.
At that time he wanted to kill her ex-husband, but he didn't know who he was.
Now that he knew, the emperor couldn't kill him.
The dead are missed the most. If he attacks Li Jinan and Xu Lingyi finds out, she will probably feel resentful.
The emperor didn't want to gamble, nor did he want to cause any trouble.
Furthermore, the emperor still had some brotherly feelings towards Li Jin'an and was unwilling to take the initiative to commit murder.
On the way back to Changshan, Li Jinan saw a familiar figure.
"Bring her here."
Sure enough, when I looked up, I saw that the person was actually the maidservant beside my mother.
"Why are you here?"
"Your Majesty?"
The maid reacted and quickly grabbed Li Jinan's sleeve, "Please, Your Highness, please save the Concubine Dowager. Since you came to the capital, the Concubine Dowager has been crying and worrying about you day and night."
The maidservant burst into tears. She had followed the Concubine Dowager for many years. "For you, the Concubine Dowager rushed all the way to the capital, but just when we were almost there, she was captured by a group of people!!"
Li Jinan's face darkened and his eyes seemed to be filled with knives.
After all, the concubine was his biological mother. Although he wanted to kill her, he also planned to die with her. How could he tolerate the concubine being abducted?
"Do you know who that group of people are?" Li Jinan's eyes were grim.
The maid shook her head. "Those people were wearing black clothes and had their faces covered. We couldn't see who they were. We only knew they were very skilled. The guards we brought with us were no match for them."
"The guards were also arrested. I happened to get off the carriage to buy some food for the concubine, so I escaped."
At that time, she hid in the dark, daring only to watch secretly and not making any sound.
"Think carefully, do those people have any characteristics?"
The maid lowered her head and pondered for a moment. After a long while, she finally remembered: "Your Highness, the leader... seems to have a strange smell."
After the group left, she cautiously walked closer and could still smell it.
"Your Highness! That man must be a eunuch!"
The maid recalled that it was clearly a very light incense scent, but it seemed a little unpleasant.
Only then did she remember that the very faint strange smell mixed in was exactly the smell of a eunuch.
"Eunuch?"
Li Jinan lowered his eyes and held the bony hand. His eyes darkened. "Are you sure?"
The maid was frightened by his tone, but nodded anyway: "Your Highness, I have been extremely sensitive to smells since I was a child. This is why I can work for the Concubine Dowager. It should be correct."
"You go down." Li Jinan clenched his fists.
Eunuch?
In this capital city, all the eunuchs are the emperor's men.
So it was the emperor's brother who captured the concubine?
But why would my brother do this?
Li Jinan couldn't figure it out, but he intuitively felt that things were not simple.
"Turn around and return to Beijing." Li Jinan ordered.
"But Your Majesty...if we return to the capital, I'm afraid we will be punished by His Majesty?" the attendant stammered.
"This king is speaking!"
Li Jinan didn't want to think too much. He felt something was wrong and his brother seemed to be hiding something from him.
Why did he attack the Toffee?
Perhaps everything will become clear when I return to Beijing this time.
"Yier, I'll take you to see someone."
The emperor took her hand.
"Who is Your Majesty taking me to see?" Xu Lingyi asked knowingly.
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