MTL - Let Me Pursue You-Chapter 103 103
The moment she looked up, she ran through the events in her head.
This robbery seemed to be done in one go, but in fact it was not easy, and it was not something that any of Lu Shiqing's political opponents, cats and dogs, could do. From the very beginning, she only thought of two possibilities: one is King Ping, and the other is Xiju.
Judging from the whole incident, the other party must have been planning for a long time, rather than a one-day achievement.
First of all, Yuan Cixian gave birth earlier, but the child who was used to change the package appeared to be born around the same day, and the error was hardly more than one day. This is by no means something that can be arranged properly in a hurry. That is to say, it is very likely that the other party has collected several women who are close to her pregnancy from all over the place beforehand, and arranged them in the capital in advance to wait for orders.
Secondly, secret ways are no less than the lifeblood of Lu Shiqing and Zheng Zhuo. After Lu Shiqing left Beijing, this road has never been used again, and Xu's house is more tightly guarded than usual. To say that it was really exposed recently is really unbelievable. So Yuan Cixian thought, I am afraid that the secret way was discovered earlier.
And from this point alone, it can be concluded that the initiator of this plan is not King Ping, but Xiju.
Because the secret way is exposed, it means that the identity of "Xu Shan" is also exposed. Once King Ping found out about this, he would not use it to rob people at all, but should have stopped targeting Cai He and instead pursued Lu Shiqing fiercely, or revealed the existence of this secret path to Emperor Huining.
But Hoshii's position is different. After learning about Lu Shiqing's relationship with Xu Shan, his first reaction was not to expose it to the world. He did cooperate with King Ping, but it was impossible to be his forever friend. It is a good thing for Nanzhao to ask Zheng Zhuo, Lu Shiqing and him to continue to fight and consume each other.
So he chose not to tell King Ping or Emperor Huining about the secret way, but secretly planned a plan to rob people.
But this plan would not work on his own.
From robbing people to dividing troops into four groups, all the actions took place in the second half of the night. At that time, the gates of Chang'an City were closed, and it would have been impossible to realize it if a few orders to leave the city had not been prepared in advance. However, he, a Nanzhao prince, could not get such things as the order of going out of the city, so he had to rely on King Ping.
Therefore, Xiju found King Ping in advance and persuaded him to help him complete the follow-up plan of sending people out of the city.
However, King Ping would not take risks because of unprofitable things, so why did he agree to this? Compared with Xiju, his purpose is simpler, that is, to use Yuan Cixian's mother and son as bait to take Lu Shiqing's life.
He may not be aware of Xu Shan's link, but after so many years, it is impossible for him to be unaware of Lu Shiqing's needle-like manipulation of the court, and his existence as an obstacle to his succession.
What cannot be helped should be destroyed. After Lu Shiqing sent envoys to Nanzhao and Uyghur one after another, and his momentum became more and more powerful, he felt even more threatened, so it was not incomprehensible to use the power of Xiju to get rid of them quickly.
Yuan Cixian's train of thought was very clear until this step, but when Lu Shiqing said the phrase "Kill the old king of Nanzhao", she found that she still thought too little.
She began to think that since she and Shaohe were close in pregnancy, Xiju might want to send her child to Chang'an as a so-called "proton", so that she and Lu Shiqing could not be reunited with him while seeing the child so close. He had to worry about it every day, and even for the safety of the child, he had to do something for Nanzhao at the critical moment.
But now it seems that Xiju knows that Lu Shiqing is not a mediocre person, and it is enough to lose his beloved son by accident, and it is impossible to continue to let Nanzhao do whatever he wants, so although the plan is perfect, it is actually very difficult to realize.
So, since he knew that this wish would most likely come to nothing, why did he insist on taking so much trouble?
Yuan Cixian thought that it was because, even if the plan failed, Xiju was still profitable.
The child's whereabouts are unknown, Lu Shiqing intends to find Lu Yuanzhen in the shortest possible time, and the only way is to let the "proton" enter Beijing as soon as possible. So he has two things to do: first, assassinate the old king of Nanzhao, so that Xiju can ascend the throne as soon as possible; second, transfer the child back before he arrives in Chang'an.
And these two things are in the middle of the heart.
Let me talk about the first thing first.
Ever since Xiju went to Dazhou as an envoy and reached a peace agreement with the imperial court, he had the upper hand in the battle with his second brother, and the momentum has been flourishing for more than half a year. But if the old king does not die, he will not be able to succeed to the throne. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, he had already thought of killing his father.
It's just that this thing is too risky. He could kill Lao Wang, but it was difficult to ensure that no one would notice him, and that he would not leave any clues behind. It was inevitable that the political situation would be unstable when he ascended the throne in the early days. If someone took this opportunity to rebel on the grounds that he killed his father and usurped the throne, he would have been busy in vain.
Therefore, the more ideal situation is: he does not do anything himself, but deliberately neglects the defense of the palace and lets others kill him. It would be even better if the murderer happened to be a member of the power center of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Let's talk about the second one.
No matter whether Shaohe's pregnancy is true or not, what is certain is that Xiju never planned to send her biological child to Dazhou. Long before deliberately releasing the news about Shao and Youxi, he had already arranged a suitable candidate in Nanzhao to be the so-called "proton" in the next life.
Only later, when Yuan Cixian also became pregnant at about the same time, did he think of this "better" plan.
But it is also risky to use a fake child to fool Emperor Huining.
Xiju cannot guarantee when Da Zhou will notice the trick, nor can he guarantee that when Da Zhou notices the trick, whether he has already secured the throne and whether he no longer needs the support of the court. In order to add a guarantee for the unpredictable future, it is best to Design a "swapping" incident to shirk responsibility.
When the matter is exposed, he can insist that the child he sent is real, but was transferred by Lu Shiqing halfway, and he can even beat him up and ask Da Zhou to return the child to him.
Lu Shiqing could see Xiju's motives clearly. But this is a conspiracy. For the sake of the child, he must do these two things.
After figuring out these links, Yuan Cixian couldn't help but wrap his arms around him worriedly.
But Lu Shiqing smiled: "How can there be such a cheap deal in this world, all the benefits are given to him alone? My knife is already on the neck of the old king of Nanzhao. If I really killed him, wouldn't it be too stupid? "
Yuan Cixian's eyes flickered for a moment, she stopped her tears and said, "You mean..."
"Fake death." He blinked lightly, "Yue Zhang will tell him to come back to life at the most exciting time."
That night, after listening to Lu Shiqing's careful account of what happened that night, Yuan Cixian realized that her father had "assassinated" the old king of Nanzhao and stolen his "corpse" twenty or so days ago. In fact, Xiju had already ascended the throne at that time, and sent her "son" out of Nanzhao, but she didn't know about these things because she stayed in the house and confinement.
But Xiju, in order to avoid any trouble, did not take Lu Yuanzhen to Nanzhao after robbing him, but hid him in Dazhou, and carried him into the carriage after the team that sent the proton to Beijing passed by.
Therefore, the child did not suffer from the bumps.
It was also at this time that Yuan Cixian finally understood why Lu Shiqing named the child "Zhen". At first, she always thought that he took the word "Zhen" to mean "complete", and hoped that her son would be able to excel in both civil and martial arts in the future. It turned out not to be.
The word "Zhen" first had the meaning of "coming" before it was derived as "complete".
He is looking forward to the child's return as soon as possible.
The reason why he didn't hold the Liushang banquet or the full moon banquet was because he didn't want others to have a chance to see the child who replaced Yuan Zhen, he didn't want to cause any criticism to Yuan Zhen, and he didn't want anything belonging to Yuan Zhen to fall into the hands of others.
Lu Shiqing looks so cold and calm, but he is a father who protects the calf to the extreme.
Two years ago, Yuan Cixian would never have believed such an incredible thing.
Lu Shiqing didn't break his promise, and said that three days would be three days.
Three days later at dusk, Yuan Cixian was standing in front of the mansion gate like Wang Fushi, waiting for him to finally get down from the carriage with a bright yellow swaddle in his arms, and a baby boy was sleeping in the swaddle.
She rushed forward, seeing the child's heart agitated for a moment, she almost shed tears again.
Lu Shiqing held the baby in one hand, and walked in with her in the other: "Don't cry, you're wasting water, didn't you always want to feed Yuan Zhen? Come, I'll tell you to feed her enough."
Yuan Cixian wanted to cry at first, but when he said it, he broke into tears and laughed, and twisted his waist severely.
The couple still didn't know how to tell Xuan Shi about this matter, so they secretly carried the sleeping Lu Yuanzhen into the bedroom like thieves, and then invited the doctor to confirm that he was in good health, and that he ate and drank well these days Only then can you rest assured.
When the doctor left, Yuan Cixian remembered Lu Shiqing's reminder, and the long-standing desire in her heart became more and more intense, and she urgently wanted to breastfeed Yuan Zhen.
In fact, she has a lot of milk. At the beginning, when Lu Shiqing said that she was weak and did not have enough milk, she was bluffing. If it weren't for Yuan Shu's small size but her amazing appetite, and she would come to sip her every hour, she might be driven crazy by the engorgement of breast milk.
But even so, there were several times when my **** became unbearable. At that time, she had vaguely guessed that the child was not Yuan Zhen, so she didn't propose to feed him the extra milk, thinking about squeezing it out by herself.
It's just that Lu Shiqing never leaves her every day, and whenever she feels uncomfortable, he will notice it, so naturally he won't labor her, and sincerely comes to rescue her. At first, I used my hands, but then I thought it was a waste, so I changed my mouth.
Yuan Cixian looked back and thought about it, this father really robbed his son of food for a month.
Now that Yuan Zhen is back, she wants to make it up to him.
Yuan Cixian flicked up the front of his clothes, picked up the baby who had just woken up familiarly, and prepared to feed him.
Lu Shiqing sat on the edge of the bed, stared at her intently, saw his son turned his head and looked like he didn't really want to eat, thought for a while and said, "Maybe he just ate enough, let's feed him later." After finishing speaking, he added, "If you feel uncomfortable, I will come first."
Whoever gives him such a good life will come first.
Yuan Cixian gouged him out and insisted on trying to make Yuan Zhen suckle.
The fact is that she is not domineering, but that she is afraid that her son will not be by her side when she is born, and that after leaving for a month, she will not kiss her anymore.
She coaxed Yuan Zhen apprehensively for a long time, and finally saw the little guy turn his head to sip her.
Yuan Cixian was overjoyed, and was about to flash a smile full of maternal brilliance, but unexpectedly, after he sucked her hard, he suddenly let go of his mouth and turned his head away.
With a "swish", the milk splashed and shot straight at the face of Lu Shiqing who was close at hand.
But the instigator, Lu Yuanzhen, escaped in time and was unscathed. He looked at his father with white foam on his face, and then at his mother who was stunned in place, "giggling" heartily.
After a while, Lu Shiqing wiped his face with his hand, swallowed and said, "This time it's my own son, that's right."
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