"It has nothing to do with the humble minister, it's just that the prince underestimated His Majesty." Xiao Qi said.

Zhao Ling took a few steps back, smiled darkly with calm eyes, and sat back on the dragon chair, tapping on the armrest with his fingers, "I haven't lost yet." He stretched his legs, " Xiao Qi, don't forget that your family is still in my hands. I order you to kill Zhao Chen! Kill these rogues!"

"Forgive me." Xiao Qi put away the weapon in his hand, turned around indifferently, and stood behind Zhao Chen.

"Excuse me?" Zhao Ling roared, "You are so courageous, Xiao Qi! You don't even want your mother's brother's life?!"

Xiao Qi didn't make a sound.

"Okay, very good. Then you just watch carefully, how she was hurt to death." Zhao Ling sneered and slightly raised his hand. Nie Yun captured Xiao Qi's mother from nowhere and pinned her down. palm.

"Ah Wu...Ah Wu! Save me! Save me!" She had a ferocious face, full of fear of death, "Why don't you listen to His Majesty? Why can't you kill these traitors! I'm your mother Dear!"

Xiao Qi gritted his teeth and clenched his fingers tightly in his palm. His complexion turned slightly pale, but he still said after all, "I can't."

Hearing this, the woman's expression changed suddenly. She rushed forward with all her strength, but was firmly suppressed by Nie Yun. She seemed very dissatisfied with this, and struggled desperately under Nie Yun's hands, but everything was in vain.The woman panted slightly, and shouted, "Xiao Qi! Are you going to kill your mother! Who are you standing here for? Xiao Qi! Ah Wu...Are you going to watch your mother die?"

Zhao Chen pressed Xiao Qi who wanted to refute, "If that's really your mother, it's not good to talk back to your mother, come here." He raised his head and looked at the woman in front of him with a little disgust, " Xiao Qi almost died during the heavy snow that year, but no one rushed out and said it was his mother. Your gift of birth, when you sold Xiao Qi to make ends meet, Xiao Qi would not owe you any more. Why do you have to be a clown here."

"What do you know?! Why are you pointing fingers here?" The woman roared angrily.

"Bold!" Gu Youming raised his sword and wanted to step forward, "How dare you disrespect Your Majesty!"

"It's okay." Zhao Chen raised his hand to stop him, then turned to look at Zhao Ling, "Xiao Qi's mother is here, as you said, his brothers are also dying, where are they?"

"Heh." Zhao Ling sneered, "Zhao Chen, don't be stupid. I won't tell you where they are."

"Do you not want to tell, or are there no such people at all?" Zhao Chen said.

"Puff hahaha." Zhao Ling laughed, "Can I still lie to people? Zhao Chen, if you want to win Xiao Qi over, you don't have to do this. Could it be that you plan to deceive everyone with such a lie?"

"Lies? Is it me putting on airs or you." Zhao Chen raised his eyebrows, "The former Zhaolu, now Xiao Qi. Zhao Ling, can you change the way you capture people's hearts with a new trick."

"Isn't it good that the method is easy to use? Brother's words are true. The former Zhaolu is now Xiao Qi, and the former second brother is now you. Hahaha." Zhao Ling looked at Gaotai with his chin resting. In the dense crowd below, there is no one of his soldiers here, "Ah Wu, can you figure it out? Do you want this woman's life or Zhao Chen's life."

"Zhao Ling, why are you so anxious, you are so guilty when I expose you." Zhao Chen said.

"Brother, don't speculate on my own intentions."

"Stop pretending." Zhao Chen looked at him, "Guess what Xiao Qi found in Zhaolu?"

Zhao Ling's expression was visible to the naked eye, "What does it have to do with me if you find anything?"

"It's true that Zhaolu has been with the second brother for many years, but he bought a yard under your nose." As soon as Zhao Chen said that, Zhao Ling's expression changed suddenly.Zhao Chen continued, "Are you curious why no one reported it? Because only Zhaolu's parents knew about the yard. You guessed it, the couple had already died, so you wouldn't be curious, because they Should have been damned."

"What do you want to say?" Zhao Ling stared at Zhao Chen, with a bit of uneasiness in his tone.

"I'm afraid you have guessed it by now. They didn't die from poisoning, but were killed by Zhao Lu. I have always been curious why Zhao Lu committed suicide decisively after killing his second brother, and his so-called parents are also dead. He shouldn't be the kind of person who is willing to bow his head and confess, the only possibility is that Zhao Lu knew that the couple was not his parents at all, but he had already killed the old master who was so kind to him."

"Hahahaha..." Zhao Ling looked up helplessly and laughed for a long while. He laughed so hard that he couldn't breathe. He coughed a few times before regaining his composure. "Zhao Chen, your imagination is really rich."

Zhao Chen shrugged, glanced at the somewhat dejected woman that Nie Yun was pressing down on, "Are you really Xiao Qi's mother?"

She raised her head instantly as if she was stimulated, "Why not?!" After she shouted, she looked pitifully at Xiao Qi behind Zhao Chen, "Ah Wu, everything was mother's fault back then, but you shouldn't Listen to him, an outsider—”

"Your Majesty is not an outsider." Xiao Qi said, "Even if what you said is true, you can't say that."

"How can you child be so brainless! What is he not an outsider? How can he compare to our family!" The woman made a heartbroken look.

Xiao Qi's gaze gradually lost its warmth, and he looked at the woman without a trace of emotion, "Your Majesty is a relative, so I cannot let you humiliate me like this."

"You only use some things that can be found everywhere to identify your relatives without authorization. If you are really Xiao Qi's mother, then tell me something that only Xiao Qi knows, okay?" Gu Youming also understood the situation at this time , he said with a little disdain in the direction of the woman.

"This..." The woman showed some anxiety on her face. She squinted at the man in the stands, and after receiving a cold gaze, she lowered her head and moved her lips. "I..." After a few seconds, the voice became louder again. , "Ah Wu left so early, how many things can be called secrets!"

"That song." Xiao Qi said. "What...?" The woman was taken aback.

"The night before I sold me, the song my mother used to lull me to sleep." Xiao Qi watched the woman's face turn paler, sneered and stopped talking.

Everyone on and off the high platform was silent, and suddenly the woman's painful howl broke the short silence.It turned out that Xiao Qi's "mother" was suffering from poisonous hair at this time, Nie Yun let go, and she fell straight to the ground.The woman curled up, clutching her heart and howling continuously. "Ah Wu, save me! It hurts so much..."

She stretched out her hands and climbed a few steps in the direction of Xiao Qi with difficulty, sweat streaming down her already pale face, "You won't save me! You won't save me! I won't let you go!! Ah Wu !"

"You shouldn't call that name anymore." Zhao Chen frowned, "Why do you dare to beg Xiao Qi to save you?"

As soon as the words fell, the sky suddenly thundered. In such a day, after all, it was still raining at this moment.Xiao Qi took the oil-paper umbrella, straightened her arms, and supported them on top of Zhao Chen's head.The distance between him and Zhao Chen was also separated by the distance of this arm, and the whole body was exposed and wet by the rain.

After a while, the woman's howling gradually calmed down, and she didn't move anymore.Zhao Chen took a look and then looked away.Zhao Ling on the high platform already had wet hair sticking to his cheeks. He was still smiling with the corners of his mouth pulled, and stood up from the dragon chair. His whole body seemed to be completely defeated, and he walked slowly with heavy steps. close to the edge of the platform.

He looked at the audience indifferently, and turned his head to look behind him with a blank expression. There was no one there.Zhao Ling raised his voice, "Today is my enthronement ceremony. This damn Si Tianjian still misjudged the weather. It doesn't matter, it's the best if I succeed in enthroning." He wiped the drool on his face. Yu Shui raised his head slightly and closed his eyes.

"I didn't lose, I never lost. Look, it's me standing here now. Zhao Chen! What are you, you want to look up at my beauty?" Zhao Ling's eyes suddenly became fierce, and he Staring at Zhao Chen, he said word by word, "Zhao Chen, are you satisfied at this moment? The last brother also ended up in this situation. I want you to remember that you, Zhao Chen, are destined to be alone!"

Zhao Ling stepped up to the wall of the high platform. He stood on the highest point and looked coldly at the people below him, "I am the one whom everyone expects! I should be the emperor!" However, no one responded.He closed his eyes and fell straight down from the high platform.

The huge impact made Zhao Chen tremble, and before he could see it, his sight was blocked by a big hand.He properly did not touch Zhao Chen's cheek, but completely covered his eyes.Xiao Qi stood behind him, Zhao Chen froze his head and tilted his head slightly, but only saw Xiao Qi's resolute chin.His magnetic voice sounded in Zhao Chen's ears, "Don't look at filthy things, Your Majesty."

Zhao Chen also did not expect Zhao Ling to be so extreme. It would be a lie to say that he is not afraid in his heart. Zhao Chen has never seen a person fall from a height. It must be very disgusting. Zhao Chen can't control it. Some nausea.Xiao Qi seemed to have noticed it, and he took half a step forward, closing the distance with Zhao Chen.Xiao Qi's body smelled of mountains and forests after the rain, and penetrated into Zhao Chen's nostrils, calming the nausea that was churning in his heart.

"I'm fine." Zhao Chen turned around, but he didn't expect to be so close to Xiao Qi. The arm Xiao Qi had just covered for Zhao Chen hadn't had time to retract yet, and the other hand was still holding an umbrella on the other side.The current posture looks like the two are embracing each other. Before Zhao Chen could lift his eyes to look at Xiao Qi's face, he immediately retracted his arms, turned sideways and stood outside the umbrella, still not far away. An arm's length away.

The corners of Zhao Chen's mouth froze instantly, and his heart was empty.The fragrance of the mountains and forests after the rain still seems to remain in the nostrils, but the owner of this smell does not seem to want to stay closer to him.Suddenly there was a sound of a knife cutting behind Zhao Chen, and he was stunned for a few seconds before turning his head to look at Xiao Qi.

"Nie Yun is gone." Xiao Qi looked at Nie Yun who committed suicide in the distance, and said calmly.

Zhao Chen gave a light oh, what he noticed was that Xiao Qi's gaze never crossed his face, Zhao Chen lightly bit the flesh on the side of his cheek, turned his head a little angry, and snatched the pistol from Xiao Qi's hand. Umbrella, "If you want to get drenched, you can get drenched."

"...Yes." Xiao Qi lowered her brows and slowly lowered her numb arms.

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