Chapter 177 Fishing
This is the situation that Di Yuan is most worried about.
He hurried forward and tried to help Ye Qiongying up, but he couldn't pull her up at all.
Obviously, if he didn't agree, Ye Qiongying would not get up.
Di Yu'an also knelt on the ground.
Ye Qiongying's eyes widened:
"Your Majesty, how can this be..."
"Ye Qiongying!" Di Yu'an had always called her sister, but this time he called out her name with a stronger tone, "Listen, I admit that from the beginning, I approached you with the idea of finding a way to control the disease from you. I admit that my purpose was not pure! But...but I...I never thought about it, I never thought about using you to make some bullshit medicine! When Eunuch Liang asked me, I had already rejected it directly! Don't talk about life or death. If the monarch wants the minister to die, the minister has to die. If the monarch wants the minister to live, the minister must live too!"
Ye Qiongying frowned and looked at Di Yuan in confusion:
"You... Your Majesty, don't you want to completely detoxify?"
"If I don't say I don't want to, you won't believe it," Di Yu'an knelt beside Ye Qiongying, intending to kneel down with her, "Of course I hope to completely eliminate the trouble. But compared to your life, this is nothing. Ye Qiongying, I care about you, I care about you very much. I don't know why I feel this way, but I know that I don't want you to die. If that's the case, I would rather be crazy and be called a tyrant!"
Ye Qiongying had never met a crazy person like Di Yu'an, and she was speechless for a moment.
Di Yu'an then helped her up and said comfortingly:
"You don't have to think too much. My poison is not something scary. Even if I just stay by your side, I can control it. Don't worry about any effects. Don't you want to become a female general? Don't you want to lead the Ye family back to its peak? Don't you want to protect your grandmother and others?
So in order to achieve these goals alive, you should not be too far away from me.
I can stay awake, and you can live well, so why go to such an extreme path?"
If she could survive, Ye Qiongying would certainly not seek death, she is not stupid.
But…who would put their own life in danger for the sake of others?
Your Majesty is really crazy.
She looked at Di Yu'an. This familiar face made her feel strange, but... she could also feel his sincerity.
He didn't lie to her, he really wanted her to live.
"Since you are the emperor, you must know the situation in Pingwu City, right? Do you want to take me back to the capital now?"
If he didn't want to kill her to make the medicine, then he must want to take her away?
Pingwu City is now in crisis. If Ye Qiongying dies here, won’t he be implicated as well?
But she didn't want to leave.
The deaths of my father and brother are closely related to this city.
Di Yuan surprised her again:
"Of course not. I am the emperor, the king of Da Qi. Pingwu City is of great importance, and this is the time when I need to be here in person. How could I leave?
Ye Baichang, you are not the only one who cares about this place. I am concerned about it as well.
Okay, let's go out! Uncle Ye and the others are waiting outside. If we don't go out, they will be worried. "
After saying that, he actually walked towards the door.
Before opening the door, he turned around and said to Ye Qiongying:
"Now is not a good time. Wait until the matter in Pingwu City is resolved. I...I, I have something to tell you. I hope that by then, you can listen to me carefully and calmly, and don't give up on me or push me away blindly."
After saying that, he opened the door and walked out.
This time, he did not disguise himself as An Yu, but appeared outside as Di Yu'an.
The emperor is in Pingwu City!
This news caused panic among the top brass of the Pingwu Army.
But at the same time, I felt a lot more at ease.
With Your Majesty in charge here, there will certainly be plenty of military supplies and the like. If a war really breaks out, their situation will be much better.
Moreover, with Your Majesty's presence, the morale of the army will surely be boosted.
In addition, they have already discovered the collusion between Dongchen and Xili. If they can catch them off guard, it is hard to say who will win or lose!
The little brother who had been following her around turned out to be the current emperor, and he came here because of a pill she took after she disappeared.
This kind of big thing was something that Ye Qiongying could have been troubled by for a long time.
However, as Di Yuan said, now is not a good time.
She simply didn't have the energy to think about this.
No matter who Di Yu'an is or what his motives are, he is still the emperor of Da Qi after all. It is impossible for him to do anything detrimental to Da Qi at this time.
My grandmother once said that although His Majesty has a bad reputation, if you look closely, he is not an unforgivable bad person.
In fact, no innocent person was involved in any of the bloody things he did.
As long as you don't provoke him, he won't kill people for no reason.
Such a person would not even bother to intend to kill her, and deliberately lied to her and told her that he had no such intention.
In that case, she put all these aside for now and get down to business!
Now, the most important issue is not "fake An Yu" but "fake Du Ming"!
Under the severe torture of General Pang and his men, this substitute finally confessed and revealed a lot of useful information.
Xiaowa Village has existed for a long time, and its influence in Pingwu City is no longer limited to just the people in the village.
Many other lines have already developed around these people.
The second uncle of this family, the uncle of that family, the younger brother of this aunt, the nephew of that old man...
He had already established a network of relationships in other places in Pingwu City.
This "fake Du Ming" exposed this network for them.
While he was being tortured, the stand-in for the "fake Du Ming" also went up to Cunjin Mountain.
The talents recruited by the Ye family are indeed amazing.
The disguise he created was so real that it was indistinguishable from the real thing. With the help of Uncle Ye and others in "training" and filling in the past of Prime Minister Du, this second stand-in was even more like the real Du Ming than the original stand-in.
The second substitute quietly blended into Cunjin Mountain without attracting the attention of others, and no one noticed that the "Du Ming" here was replaced by another person.
In order not to alert the enemy, he even participated in the daily work in the exile camp diligently and responsibly. He would even deliberately imitate Du Ming and make mistakes, and then be whipped by the supervisor.
The supervisor is also one of our own.
It could have been fooled by pretending, but in order to make it more realistic, the whip was real.
At night, the second substitute lay in the thatched hut. The whip wounds on his back stung him and it was impossible for him to sleep.
Just as he was groaning in pain imitating Du Ming's voice, he felt someone knocking on the wooden bed beneath him.
Then, the wooden board was turned away, taking him who was lying on the bed with it.
Stand-in No. 2 was delighted: Here it comes! Sure enough, his bait can catch a big fish!