He raised his head abruptly, his eyes were bloodshot, and suddenly there was a cracking sound, and the porcelain cup in his hand exploded into pieces. He was unaware that several pieces of broken porcelain were deeply embedded in his palm.
"Bullshit!" Every word sounded like flesh torn from the throat, carrying with it the bloody fact that the emperor was suspicious of.
Li Huaiying slapped the coffee table with his palm, and the rosewood coffee table weighing dozens of pounds was broken in half.
Xifu was really frightened by Li Huaiying's palm. Looking at the shattered coffee table, he almost saw his head being smashed.
"My Lord, you, tell me, why are you so angry? This happened so suddenly, and the Emperor did not expect things to develop like this."
"If the emperor knew, he would definitely not let General Ye take them to drink. Giving them more silver is better than anything else."
Li Shuangwan sneered: "The emperor meant well but did something bad."
The corner of Xifu's mouth twitched, but he quickly calmed down. Having been in the position of the Chief Eunuch for a long time, he had seen all kinds of things.
Li Huaiying is now just a general without soldiers, just like a wolf with its fangs pulled out. No matter how ferocious he is, he can only grin.
He stood up, brushed off the nonexistent dust on his body, and said calmly, "Duke, His Majesty has asked General Ye to investigate this matter. I came to tell you out of kindness, so why are you still angry with me?"
"Forget it. Since the Duke doesn't appreciate it, I will return to the palace to report."
"Get out!" Li Huaiying stood up with fire in his eyes.
The beast-like roar frightened Xifu so much that he quickly fled with the young eunuchs.
In the main hall, it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Li Shuangwan was also shocked by Xifu's shameless words.
She knew how shameless the Ling family was, but she had never imagined that a person's bottom line could be so endless and outrageous.
As a warrior, the knife in their hands is their life, so it is impossible for them to get drunk.
Even if he was really drunk, there was no way that his knife could be taken away and he could be killed.
These five thousand soldiers worked tirelessly and traveled thousands of miles to rescue the emperor.
Everyone thought that they had made a great contribution and could bring honor to their family.
But who would have thought that the person they had just rescued would raise a butcher knife towards them in the blink of an eye.
At dinner yesterday, we were still talking about asking Dad to go to the palace today and take Uncle Zhang and the others back to the northwest.
Gu Xingyan supported Zhu Anhe and came in.
Zhu Anhe lost all strength in her body, her mind was blank, and she even lost her voice when crying.
As soon as Gu Xingyan came in, he looked at Li Shuangwan. He was very worried.
Li Shuangwan was calmer than his parents. He nodded slightly to Gu Xingyan, then came over to take his mother from his hands and placed her on another chair next to his father.
He squatted down and looked at his father.
She knew that at this moment, her father was feeling worse than anyone else.
Those people were the ones he brought to Shengjing. They were his brothers and even more so his relatives.
Li Huaiying lowered his head and said nothing.
His left hand was covered in blood.
Li Shuangwan carefully took out the broken porcelain pieces and wiped the blood off his father's hands bit by bit with a handkerchief.
He then brought out the medicine box and applied medicine and bandaged him.
As soon as the words came out, tears could not stop falling: "Daddy, Mommy..."
Li Huaiying looked up at her. The middle-aged man, a great general who had been guarding the border for many years and the commander of a large army that the Northern Qi cavalry was terrified of, was as fragile as a baby at this moment.
Li Shuangwan knelt in front of them, hugged his parents' heads and let them rest on his shoulders.
Gu Xingyan accompanied her without saying a word.
Li Yuanqiao raised his head and used all his strength to force the tears into his stomach bit by bit: "Dad, there is definitely something wrong with General Zhang's food and drinks."
The voice was so hoarse that even he himself didn't believe it was his voice.
Li Shuangwan helped his parents up and stood up: "Brother, their food must have been poisoned."
Li Yuanqiao nodded. He felt sorry for them if he didn’t get to the bottom of this matter.
In the imperial palace, no one else could have done such a large-scale poisoning except Emperor Jingzhang.
Even the crown prince Ling Heng can't do it.
And what he meant by asking Ye Chen to investigate was nothing more than finding a few scapegoats.
"Dad, we have to go to the palace and ask the emperor for an explanation, and bring our brothers back!" Li Yuanqiao clenched his fists.
Li Shuangwan said to Hong Shuang who came in later: "Hong Shuang, please help me take good care of my mother. I have to accompany my father and brother to the palace."
Hongshuang nodded.
It was so painful, those soldiers, she was fighting with them two days ago.
Why did the Emperor of Northern Jin do this?
Even if he felt that the Duke of Zhenguo was too successful to be tolerated by the emperor, there was no reason for him to do so.
Nearly five thousand people, they were killed without blinking an eye.
And the prisoners who surrendered.
Li Huaiying and his son Li Yuanqiao were still wearing court robes.
Li Shuangwan didn't let her father and brother ride horses because she was afraid they would be cut off from the horses.
"I'll take you there." Gu Xingyan said.
Li Shuangwan nodded.
However, Gu Xingyan was a foreign prince after all, and it was inconvenient for him to enter the palace at this time, so he could only send them to the palace gate and wait for them outside the palace.
There were two headless corpses hanging at the palace gate. The imperial guards said that they were the cooks from the imperial kitchen, and they were the ones who tampered with the food.
Li Huaiying and others did not believe a word and went straight into the palace.
Gu Xingyan watched the three of them leave.
The imperial palace of Northern Jin, with its red bricks and red gates, looks like the bloody mouth of a vicious beast.
Shu Wenbo and Liang Tianyou also arrived.
Mo Lin knew that the three masters must have something to discuss.
So he drove the carriage away from the palace gate.
There were guards from Daliang all around, and the master's secret guards were guarding in the dark. Mo Lin was not worried that anyone would be able to eavesdrop on the conversation between the three masters.
Inside the carriage, Shu Wenbo looked at Gu Xingyan worriedly: "Brother Jiu, what are your plans?"
Liang Tianyou also looked at him.
Gu Xingyan didn't say anything for a while. On the way to send Yanyan and others into the palace, he was also thinking about this question.
Now, what should he do?
What should Yanyan, her uncle, her aunt, and her brother do?
This heart-wrenching pain was no less than what Yan Yan felt in her previous life when she watched the destruction of the General's Mansion.
Shu Wenbo and Liang Tianyou looked at each other.
Liang Tianyou slammed his fist on the small table: "If you ask me, Brother Jiu, let's go back to Daliang now and lead the troops to destroy Beijin!"
"Brother Jiu, if you become the commander-in-chief, I, Liang Tianyou, will be the first to follow you. I will never return to the court until Northern Jin is destroyed!"
With a court like this, the Duke of Zhenguo would have to be a blockhead to still want to be loyal.
Shu Wenbo did not speak, but looked at Gu Xingyan. He knew that his ninth brother hated Beijin so much that he wanted to torture all the members of the Ling family to death immediately.
But my younger sister and the Duke of Zhenguo’s family are still in Shengjing City, and they are still people of Northern Jin!
What's more, how could he feel at ease if his ninth brother went back just like that while leaving his younger sister in Shengjing?
We must first find a way to bring my younger sister and her entire family to Daliang.
Once they are safe, they will destroy Northern Jin in one fell swoop without any worries.
"Brother Jiu, do you have any better ideas?" Shu Wenbo asked.
Gu Xingyan raised his head and looked at the two people in front of him, his eyes were already very determined: "Tomorrow I will go to the palace to bid farewell to Emperor Jingzhang and return to Daliang."
Liang Tianyou clapped his hands: "I've long been tired of staying in Shengjing City!"
Shu Wenbo frowned slightly.