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Chapter 64
The courtiers made a statement for the execution of Qi Xiujie for more than half a month, but Li Jintian remained unmoved from beginning to end, but instead restored Qi Xiujie's position as a noble lord.
Every night, he would dream of returning to the lonely and deep palace, and seeing Qi Xiujie kneeling in front of his tablet and crying, his grief was so suppressed that even if he sat on the throne of the queen, he would not be able to see a smile in his eyes. Torturing his nerves again and again. He thought that Qi Xiujie would live happily after his death, but found that he also became a walking dead. The only thought that motivated him to live was to avenge himself.
In this way, it is a blessing to take one step first, and those who stay behind are trapped in boundless pain and despair and cannot be liberated.
The Qi family did their best to restore the country. Most of the people were killed and injured in the battle, and the rest were only the old and weak, women and children. Qi Xiujie also buried the bones of his late husband and committed suicide, failing to enjoy any glory. Every time Li Jintian wakes up from this dream, his chest hurts.
He really wanted to see how Qi Xiujie was doing, but he felt timid and guilty, so he could only live in a tangle every day. Before he knew it, he had already believed in those two dreams, but he would rather disperse the entire harem for Gao Min. This relationship could not be faked, so he would stay put until the Gao family made an arrogant act.
On this day, the courtiers finally stopped, no longer asking the emperor to execute the remnants of the Qi family, but expressing concern for the frequent aggression of the Xiyi people. Li Wang first stood up and begged the emperor to send troops to Xiyi, followed by Gao Lang, and then the Manchu civil and military.
Li Jintian originally intended to conquer the Western Barbarians, and he said that he would form an army as soon as possible.
"Dare to ask the emperor if he has a suitable general?" King Li bowed and asked.
"No, Aiqing can recommend a few for me."
"Wei Chen recommended General Gao Min Gao, does the emperor think it is suitable?"
When King Li said this, the courtiers were shocked. Everyone knows who Gao Min is, and everyone knows that he was a fierce general guarding the border before entering the palace. However, he is already the emperor's person now, and he has given birth to a prince, how can he mix with the sergeants again? What a formality!
Some people wanted to stand up against him, but they saw Gao Lang take a step forward and vigorously promote his younger brother, and he even called it a good person without avoiding relatives. Li Jintian's love and tolerance for his younger brother has no bottom line, and it is precisely because Gao Lang knows this that he will make such a bold proposal with King Li.
Li Jintian can tolerate Gao Min without any bottom line. This is true, but that was in the past, and now Li Jintian is like a person walking blindfolded and suddenly the gauze is ripped off, and he can see the situation of the court and the harem clearly.
Those courtiers who wanted to oppose silently retreated to their original positions when Gao Lang spoke up. It can be seen that the current court situation has become a hall of speech between Gao Lang and King Li. His emperor is just a decoration, and when the two put forward their opinions, they only need to. Just nod. Nine out of ten of the harem beauties have been dismissed by him, and the few left behind are also due to having children. They have no holy grace, and they all depend on Gao Min's breath to live.
The harem of the previous dynasty has completely become the world of the Gao family, where should the emperor be placed? And why did King Li recommend Gao Min? What is the relationship between the two of them in private?
Li Jintian's heart was burning, but there was no sign on his face. Wen Sheng said that he would need to consider for a few days before making a decision. Gao Lang and Li Wang are no longer aggressive, anyway, they know that when Li Jintian returns to the harem, Gao Min will naturally have a way to get him to agree.
Gao Min was trapped in this high palace wall, and he was tired of it for a long time. As soon as Li Jintian went to court, he came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and begged Xiyi to be in command.
Li Jintian refused on the grounds of taking care of the child, but he still didn't give up, knelt down and said coldly, "The emperor once said that if you want me to walk side by side with you, the so-called walking side by side is to trap me in this golden wire cage. To be your pet? I can die for the emperor, but the emperor can't even satisfy me?"
He raised his eyes and looked directly at the holy face, his pupils were full of unwillingness and resentment. The resentment continued from the previous life to this one, and it could be said that it accumulated more and more and could not be dispelled. He had planned to open his heart to accept Li Jintian, but he didn't expect the other party to forgive Qi Xiujie for no reason, which made his resentment boil again.
At the same time, he hated himself like this, feeling that he couldn't fall into the whirlpool of competing for favor like a woman and live without dignity. He wanted to put on armor, pick up a sword and halberd, and set foot on the free and vast land of the frontier.
If the two can sit down and talk earnestly, they will definitely be able to untie the knot. But right now, Li Jintian was stabbed by the resentment in his eyes. He thought that after covering it for three years, even a stone could be covered with heat, but he didn't expect Gao Min's heart to be harder than a stone. He turned out to hold resentment for the various things in his previous life, and was not willing to accompany him to death. This resentment might drive him to do things that hurt him, and he was powerless to resist his injury.
Li Jintian was horrified, and suddenly felt that the idea of ββbeing reborn and wanting to live with Gao Min was really stupid. He fixedly stared at Gao Min for a while, and finally walked away.
Li Jintian wandered aimlessly in the palace, and unknowingly came to the front of Zichen Palace, hesitating for a long time before stepping inside.
Qi Xiujie was standing behind the desk practicing calligraphy, with his head lowered, unable to see the expression on his face. He was very surprised when he heard the Gong Rentong pass, his eyes were full of disbelief and flattery.
"The sinner sees the emperor." He knelt down respectfully.
Li Jintian didn't shout, but looked at him with unfathomable eyes. After a while, he asked slowly, "Have you been doing well recently?"
"Report to the emperor, the sinner is doing well."
Li Jintian was slightly startled when he heard the words, is this a good time? Living in an empty palace with neither luxurious ornaments nor personal servants is equivalent to a cold palace? Yes, compared to the terrifying Heavenly Prison before, isn't it very good?
A sense of guilt hit his heart again, making Li Jintian feel stuffy in his chest. He picked up a chair and sat down, waved, "Get up."
Zhou Yun Sheng didn't move. After hesitating for a moment, he replied in a hoarse voice, "There is something in the heart of the sinner that cannot be resolved, so I dare not stand up."
Li Jintian seemed to know what he was going to ask, and his face became gloomy, but he still rubbed his eyebrows and said tiredly, "If you have any doubts, just ask."
Zhou Yun Sheng kowtowed cautiously, with a sad tone, "Dare to ask why the emperor wanted to destroy my Qi family? What did we do wrong?"
"Your father secretly colluded with King Xuan to plot a rebellion, don't you know?" When he said this, Li Jintian felt a sense of emptiness in his heart, but he didn't find any evidence of wrongdoing when he cleaned up the Qi family. Now he is not sure whether his decision to seize Qi's house is right. He wanted to find the answer, but he was afraid to touch that answer.
The light in Zhou Yun Sheng's eyes disappeared for a moment, and then his face was like withered. He was so ashamed that he kowtowed several times in succession, and choked out, "So it turns out, the sinner is actually ignorant of this matter. The sinner has no face to face the emperor, please let the emperor give the sinner a death!" A heavy thud broke his forehead.
Li Jintian hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull it, sure to look into his eyes. His pupils were so dark and pure, apart from shame, silence, despair, and guilt, there was no trace of resentment. He wiped out his family by himself, but he had no resentment and was willing to die. His friendship with himself is probably no less than that of Gao Min.
No, this is wrong, he has more friendship with himself than Gao Min. In the last life, although he had a reputation for being arrogant and domineering, he was the most submissive in front of him and never disobeyed him. It was rare for Gao Min to accompany him to death, but he was able to live in humiliation and do everything possible to avenge himself, and the torment he suffered in his heart was probably worse than death.
So in the end, he couldn't hold on, didn't enjoy the glory he should have enjoyed, and hanged himself on the roof beam of Zichen Palace alone.
Seeing the person in front of him who was so humbled into the dust that he had completely destroyed his will to live, Li Jintian felt heartbroken. In the last life, he thought he loved the wrong person, but he was not; in this life, he thought he loved the right person, but it was not. Qi Xiujie did everything for himself, but said nothing, but Gao Min always talked about the kindness of his previous life, for fear that he would forget it.
He has made two mistakes in succession, and now he has been unable to take back his full of affection from Gao Min, he feels that he is extremely sad. But Qi Xiujie, whose heart was ashes, was thousands of times more tragic than him.
Both of them were badly tricked by fate.
In contrast to Gao Min's indifference and resentment, Li Jintian felt even more guilty towards Qi Xiujie, who had no complaints. He pulled the man up forcefully, sat down on the chair, and warned cautiously, "I don't blame you, you have to live well," after a pause, he added, "I will take good care of you. What do you want? , I can make up for it."
Zhou Yun Sheng's deadly eyes leaked a ray of light, and he hesitated, "Is it okay for a sinner to have a child?"
Li Jintian was stopped by him again. He knew that Gao Min poisoned Qi Xiujie as soon as he was reborn, because he suspected that the death of the emperor in his previous life was the work of Qi Xiujie. Li Jintian pretended not to know, and secretly cooperated with him. Qi Xiujie's body has been completely destroyed, and there will be no children at all.
In the last life, in King Xuan's harem, Qi Xiujie also destroyed his body in order to avoid giving birth to King Xuan's evil seed.
This is simply a bad account. Li Jintian had a splitting headache, and he was even more afraid to face Qi Xiujie.
Qi Xiujie seemed to have noticed his hesitation and added, "The sinner didn't mean to want a biological child. The sinner's family committed such monstrous crimes, and the sinner dared not expect the emperor's favor. Now in the palace There are many children who have lost their mothers or their fathers, and the sinner only wants to adopt one. The sinner is alone..."
His humble words were like a dull knife, cutting Li Jintian's heart one by one. He understood what he meant. He was alone and lonely. If there was no consolation, he was afraid that he would never want to live again like the previous life. How much Li Jintian hated Qi Xiujie before, how much guilt he felt now, he hurriedly fled after saying "you choose", his face flushed red, as if he had been slapped dozens of times.