Chapter 35
It was already noon when Yuwen Yu returned to the palace. Yuwen Yu spent lunch in the Queen's Changle Palace and took a nap in the Queen's Palace.
The queen withdrew from the palace servants, and the two lay on the bed, whispering. The queen said: "Emperor, Li Bing is back, now in Chang'an. He risked being Lingchi and sent me a message. He was willing to help the emperor get out of the predicament!"
Yuwen Yu was surprised: "Li Bing is back and took the initiative to find you? Don't he hate me? I can ascend the throne, he is one of the heroes, but I am beaten as a traitor who assassinated the previous emperor, and live a life of evasion."
The queen said: "Your Majesty, what you did with Li Bing is a bit too much. I think it is impossible to say that he does not hate you at all. But if he asks me to tell me this news, it means that he still trusts the emperor!"
Yuwen Yu hesitated: "I live under the strict surveillance of the Datongzhu every day. I can't take risks anymore. A mistake will lead to eternal regret. I can't..."
The queen said: "Emperor, what's wrong with you? Where did the emperor of the previous ambition, endure humiliation, have ideals, and ambitions?"
The emperor pondered for a while: "What plan does he have? Tell me, I'm making a decision."
The queen said: "Li Bing said that he only had plans, but no court-government helps him. He could not implement it alone. The most urgent task is to protect the remaining forces of the Eight Pillar Kingdom first and compete with the Otsukazai!"
Yuwen Yu looked at the queen with a suspicious look: "Do you want me to help your brother-in-law?" The queen said: "My seventh sister just got married, so of course I don't want her to be a widow. But the one who is closest to me is the emperor!"
The emperor was silent for a while and finally squeezed out a sentence: "Okay, I don't care about anything when I sit on the throne. Others have forgotten that I am the emperor!"
The court meeting this afternoon was particularly quiet, and the ministers all lowered their heads and were unwilling to say anything. The eunuch general shouted: "If you have something to say, you will leave the court if you have nothing to do!"
Yuwen Yu, who was sitting on the throne, said: "Wait, I have something to say! Otsutoku, I ask you, how is the case of Yang Zhong and Yang Jian and his son being tried?"
Otsukasaki said perfunctorily: "The trial is still being accelerated." Yuwen Yu said: "Otsukasaki, have you not read the military newspaper sent by 800 miles today? Emperor Gao Yang of Qi has been recruiting troops to expand his army in order to expand his territory."
Otsukazuka was unmoved. Yuwen Yu said: "Once the war starts, Otsukazukazukazu wants to deal with state affairs. The civil officials in the court are all scholars who are powerless. The old people of the Eight Pillar Kingdom are sick, and the dead will die. Who will lead the three armies!"
The ministers were a little surprised, why the emperor suddenly became wise today. Otsukazuka said: "Although the court is right at utilizing people, it is absolutely impossible to use some traitors who have ill-hearted intentions!"
Yuwen Yu said: "I know that in the Battle of Mangshan, both were defeated and Otsuka was sentenced to death, but Yang Zhong was promoted. It is understandable that Otsuka was dissatisfied with Yang Zhong. But it is inevitable that he would act irritably. Otsuka should avoid suspicion!"
Some stubborn old ministers felt that they were old enough to live, not afraid of death or being dismissed from office, so they took the opportunity to make a fuss: "The emperor is wise!"
After dinner, Hua Shang came to visit Li Bing, who had been hiding in an abandoned warehouse. Hua Shang said: "Mr. Li, I will bring you good news. The emperor is going to personally try the case of Lord Yang and Mr. Yang, and the Otsukazu has been forced to agree."
Li Bing was also very excited: "It's so good, Li Chenggong is one step closer." Hua Shang handed the food in the food box to Li Bing: "It's a little cold, so hungry! Eat quickly!"
Li Bing took the meal and started eating it. Hua Shang smiled and said, "You look gentle but you eat so voraciously."
Hua Shang asked: "Mr. Li, can I ask you something, you are gentle and gentle. Why do you have to do those dangerous things?"
Li Bing said: "Miss Four thinks that I am as beautiful as a woman, so she should spend my life quietly like a woman? Or should I also wear a mask to live?"
Hua Shang asked, "Mask?" Li Bing said, "Gao Changgong, the King of Lanling of Qi, is afraid that he will be despised by his soldiers and ridiculed by the enemy because of his beautiful appearance. Therefore, he always wears a mask whenever he charges on the battlefield."
Hua Shang was at a loss by this cold joke for a moment. Li Bing also felt that he had passed a little: "Miss Four, I'm sorry, I'm not saying you're not, I just hate..."
Hua Shang had not yet waited for Li Bing to finish saying: "I like you! I have liked you from the first day I saw you! I know I am very sorry for Gala, but I really have no choice!"
Li Bing said: "Miss Four, there are many people who are confused by my appearance, women and men. But what I hope is to know each other and understand me, I'm sorry!"
Hua Shang burst into tears and wanted to leave awkwardly. Li Bing grabbed her: "Miss Four, please listen to me, Miss Four doesn't have to feel embarrassed. My life here has caused you trouble, I will leave tonight..."
Hua Shang interrupted Li Bing: "You can't leave, where can you go! Go to find Gala? I know you blame me for not telling Gala about you here and did not bring Gala to see you. Gala is a anxious temper and can't hide anything. I am..."
Li Bing said: "I understand. I know." Hua Shang has never been so decisive: "If you understand, stay here. There are 100 servants in this mansion, and there are countless eyeliners outside the mansion. Don't leave secretly!"
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and it is already early summer. Gala sits alone on a big stone in the garden, looking at the moon in a daze. Yang Song comes over.
Yang Song said: "What are you doing here if you don't sleep in the middle of the night?" Galo looked up and saw that it was Yang Song: "I can't sleep, the emperor will personally try the case of his father-in-law and Yang Jian."
Gala sighed deeply. Yang Song squatted in front of her: "I came out in just wearing pajamas!" After saying this, he looked at himself again, and he was also wearing pajamas.
Yang Song was a little embarrassed. The two of them looked like little lovers who had a private meeting. If they were seen by a verbal slave, they would probably have some intriguing gossip.
But Gala seemed to have no idea that way at all. At the age of fourteen or fifteen, two teenagers who were not fully developed and matured, Gala didn't know what to embarrassing.
Yang Song looked on the ground: "Oh, chess is so good, I'm still studying the chess game!" Yang Song looked at the black and white pieces placed randomly on the chess board, and it was not a chess game.
Yang Song picked up a chess piece: "It seems that the chess shouldn't be played like this!" As he said that, he was about to put the chess on the board. But Galo reached out and pushed his chess back.
Gala said: "Don't make trouble! This is the situation chart." Yang Song felt a little warm when Gala's hand touched his hand just now.
Yang Song pointed to a white chess and said, "Who is this?" Garo said, "My father." Yang Song pointed to another black spot: "What about this?"
Gala said, "Yuwen Hu." Yang Song pointed to another white piece: "Where is this?" Gala said, "My father-in-law." Yang Song asked, "Where are these two in the middle?"
Garo said, "Yang Jian and I." Yang Song thought, "Oh, you two are just two inconspicuous little men, but Yuwen Hu used you two to tie the Yang family and the Dugu family together and connected them into this piece of white."
Yang Song said: "This piece of white zi is surrounded by Yuwen Hu and others. The situation is really bad! You and Yang Jian are at the forefront of the Yang family, Dugu family and Otsukazai, the Dugu family are at the forefront of the confrontation between the Otsukazai!"
Gala asked: "If Otsukazuka was the one who played this game, would you choose to eat Baizi now, or use Baizi as bait and then catch it all in one go?"
Yang Song said: "So, you are betting that Otsukazuka will let my uncle and third brother go, let the emperor relax his guard and kill the emperor!"
Gala asked, "What do you think?" Yang Song asked her back: "Do you think I am a white or a black-sized person?" Gala said, "There is a color between black and white called gray."
Yang Song smiled and said, "So I'm not playing this game of chess?" Garo said, "Of course." The dew was deeper and heavier. The two sat for a while and went back to sleep.
The next day, the lobby of the Ministry of Justice Prison, the Emperor, Yuwen Hu, the Ottoku Priest, and the presiding judge Yuwen Hui held three trials. Yuwen Yong stood beside the emperor. The empress specially pleaded for Gala, and Gala was also allowed by the emperor to attend the trial.
Yuwen Hui recited the complaint with great momentum: "Hongnong Yang had been in a bad situation. Yang Zhong had privately kept the Turkic prince Mu Gan. The eldest son Yang Zheng rebelled and surrendered to the Turkic. The second son Yang Jian neglected his duties and blasphemed the favor of heaven. The crime was extremely evil, and the laws of heaven were difficult to tolerate..."
Yuwen Yu said: "Mr. Governor, although I have not been in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, I also know that before the case has been tried, the complaint will cover the crimes of the criminal and the punishments. Is it necessary to be tried?"
Yuwen looked sinister: "Your Majesty, this is a routine procedure." Yuwen Yu said: "You can't use routine procedures to make excuses me. Only after the prisoner signed and sealed the documents could he write the above complaint. Neither of the criminal pleaded guilty!"
Yuwen Hui argued: "Your Majesty, the father and son of the Yang family did not sign and seal the seal, just waiting for the master to come and save them. This matter is already very big now, and there is nothing to be tried!"
Yu Wenshen, who was working on the jury, added: "Emperor, there is really no need to retrial many things that are true. The key is whether the Yang family colluded with other families and led their accomplices out."
Yuwen Yu said: "Take three or four things slowly, don't worry! Let's start with the first one! Take the evidence of Yang Zheng's surrender to the enemy."
Gala suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, you have an injustice! Please observe clearly!" Yuwen Yu said, "Gala, if you have any injustice, you will talk about it later. Let's take a look at the evidence first."
The letter written by the Turkic Khan to Yang Zheng was presented. Yuwen Yu opened the letter and was written by Turkic words, and he didn't know it, so he handed the letter to Gala.
Gala asked: "I would like to ask Master Yuwen, whose handwriting is this?" Yuwen Hui said: "This is the handwriting of the Turkic Khan, which we have personally checked."
Chapter completed!