Chapter 628: If you don't root out the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze
Luo Qinghan asked back calmly.
"Concubine Hui, Concubine Ning, Concubine Xian, and the Fourth Prince, none of them participated in the rebellion, but they all died, aren't they innocent?
Or, in the eyes of the queen mother, only the lives of the Qin family are real lives.
The lives of others are just like grass and ants, not worth mentioning. "
Queen Qin looked at him steadily and said, "I will pay for their lives."
Luo Qinghan did not comment.
Queen Qin: "I just want to keep some blood in the Qin family. Qin Xiya is just a woman and she is already married. Even if she is spared, it will not be a big problem for you."
Luo Qinghan: "Qin Lie and Qin Chong were both killed because of me, and even the entire Qin family was wiped out by me. If Qin Xiya is spared, do you think she will live the rest of her life peacefully? Or will she seek revenge on me at all costs?"
Queen Qin: "I will persuade her to give up the idea of revenge."
"Mother, you once warned me.
When doing things, you must be thorough and not give the enemy a chance to counterattack. Being too soft-hearted is absolutely unacceptable.
I think what you said makes a lot of sense.
If you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze."
Queen Qin was speechless.
Luo Qinghan: "If your Majesty has nothing else to say, I will take my leave."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Queen Qin quickly stopped him.
"Prince Xiling gave me something before he left. You should be very interested in this thing."
Luo Qinghan: "What is it?"
Queen Qin glanced at the eunuchs and guards standing around her.
Luo Qinghan waved his hand.
Eunuch Chang led everyone out.
They stopped at the temple gate.
The door to the main hall was open, and Eunuch Chang could see the scene inside the hall by just turning his head slightly.
He saw Queen Qin was speaking, but because of the distance between them and her soft voice, he couldn't hear what she said.
Queen Qin pulled out a letter from her sleeve and handed it to the prince.
Luo Qinghan did not reach out to take it.
He asked coldly, "What is this?"
Queen Qin: "This is what Prince Xiling left behind before he left. I want to use it to exchange for Qin Xiya's life."
Luo Qinghan: "What use is it to me?"
"It will help you seize the throne faster."
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Prince Xiling and his entourage fled overnight, carefully avoiding crowded places, and could only sleep in the wilderness.
Fortunately, the weather is hot now, so it is quite cool to sleep outdoors at night.
The only annoying thing is that there are so many snakes, insects, rats and ants. Several guards have been accidentally bitten by poisonous snakes and insects and died.
The carriage was driving on a remote mountain road.
Xie Chuxue served King Xiling medicine.
As time goes by, the frequency of toxic attacks becomes faster and faster. Even taking medicine can only slightly alleviate the pain caused by the poison.
King Xiling asked in a hoarse voice: "Still no news from Han Li?"
Xie Chuxue said worriedly, "No."
Han Li is a death warrior they have carefully trained. He is very loyal to them and there is no possibility of him betraying them.
Now that they have lost contact with Han Li, there is only one possibility: Han Li is dead.
King Xiling: "We underestimated Fang Wujiu. He should have noticed Han Li a long time ago, but he pretended not to know and deliberately lured us to let down our guard. Although Han Li is a powerful martial artist, he is far inferior to Fang Wujiu in terms of cunning."
Xie Chuxue pursed her lips and said, "If we had known this, we should have taken the opportunity to kill Fang Wujiu when he was injured."
King Xiling: "Now that things have come to this, there is no point in saying more."
Looking at his pale face, Xie Chuxue couldn't help but tear up when she thought about the little time he had left.
"Father, I don't want to see you die."
King Xiling didn't want to die either.
He had a lot of ambitions, but how could he be willing to die before he could realize them? !
King Xiling closed his eyes and said, "Let's go back to Xiling County first, and then have someone go to Nanyue to inquire."
Xie Chuxue's eyes lit up: "The people of Nanyue are good at refining poisons and raising poisonous insects. Eighty to ninety percent of the strange poisons in this world come from Nanyue. If we start from Nanyue, maybe we can find a way to detoxify them."
Nanyue was a small border country located in the south of the Dasheng Dynasty.
That place is very remote, an uncivilized and barbaric land, and extremely xenophobic.
It is a bit difficult to deal with them, but Xie Chuxue believes that as long as enough benefits are given, the people of Nanyue will definitely be willing to help.
The road ahead was long and sitting there was too boring, so Xie Chuxue turned to ask about something that she had been curious about for a long time.
"Father, what did you leave for the Queen when you left the palace?"
Prince Xiling said, "It is a letter written by the late emperor before his death."
Xie Chuxue became more and more curious: "Is it the late emperor's will?"
"No, the late emperor passed away in such a hurry that he didn't have time to issue a will."
Xie Chuxue frowned, looking puzzled: "But I remember that when the emperor ascended the throne, there was a will."
Speaking of this, King Xiling couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth and reveal a smile full of sarcasm.
"That will is fake."
Xie Chuxue was shocked: "It's actually fake?"
"The edict was written by Qin Lie imitating the handwriting of the late emperor, and the jade seal on it was also stamped by the Sixth Prince himself. Prince Chenliu and I were responsible for handing the fake edict to the cabinet. After the cabinet elders confirmed that it was correct, the Hanlin Academy drafted an edict to announce it to the world. The Sixth Prince ascended the throne and became the new emperor."
Qin Lie is a world-famous calligrapher. He not only writes well, but also has a first-class ability to imitate other people's handwriting.
Qin Xiya learned the skill of imitating handwriting from Qin Lie.
Even after the six ministers jointly examined the edict, they were unable to find any clues.
To this day, the edict is still placed in the ancestral temple, and no one knows that it is a fake except the few people who were present at that time.
Xie Chuxue didn't expect there was such a hidden secret.
She followed King Xiling's thoughts and couldn't help but ask.
"If the will is a fake, then is there something wrong with the late emperor's death?"
King Xiling: "What do you think?"
Xie Chuxue just felt terrified when she thought about it carefully.
"So what is the letter you left for the Queen?"
King Xiling slowly told the whole story.
"That was a secret letter from the late emperor to Duke Changguo.
At that time, the late emperor was already seriously ill. He noticed that there was something wrong with the elixir he took every day and suspected that someone had bribed the Taoist priest to murder him.
The first person he suspected was the Sixth Prince.
But the late emperor was too ill to get out of bed, and at that time the Sixth Prince had gathered a large number of supporters around him, so it was difficult to punish him.
So the late emperor wrote a letter to the Duke of Changguo, asking him to help collect evidence of the Sixth Prince's crimes.
Duke Changguo is the late emperor's uncle and also the previous chief minister of the Dali Temple. Logically speaking, it would be safest to let him handle this matter.
Unfortunately, I intercepted the letter before it left the palace.
After reading the contents of the letter, I knew that the late emperor had become suspicious of the Sixth Prince.
But I did not report this to the Sixth Prince, but secretly kept the secret letter."
(End of this chapter)
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