mesbooks Chapter 175 Gu Shi crosses the river and destroys the bridge, and turns against Su Liuxi
Chapter 175 Gu Shi crosses the river and destroys the bridge, and turns against Su Liuxi
"I don't need your things, take them."
Gu Shi frowned in disgust.
All I got in return for enduring was no mercy.
Su Liuxi's disguise was finally completely removed.
"Gu Shi, are you still stubbornly thinking that the Crown Princess of Nanyuan is Shen Muxi?
Don't be silly, the envoys from Nanyuan have bad intentions this time. They can even find out that you abandoned your wife. Do you think there is anything they can't find out?"
Her every word was like a sharp blade, cutting open the secret in Gu Shi's heart that could not be told.
Gu Shi was immediately enraged. "What nonsense are you talking about? How could Crown Princess Nanyuan allow you to slander her with just a few words?"
"Whether it's slander or not, you know it yourself. Do you really think that your repeated similarities between Crown Princess Nanyuan and Shen Muxi are just coincidences?"
Su Liuxi sneered, "Those involved are often confused, but those on the sidelines can see things more clearly. The incident at the palace banquet a few days ago is a perfect example of this. She knew what you were hinting at, but she still asked me to go to your appointment. Doesn't that explain everything? She's playing it safe, waiting for a fool like you to take the bait."
As if she was disappointed with Gu Shi, she looked at him with disappointment, "Who do you think you are? Are you worthy of making all women crazy? Gu Shi, you only have a good-looking appearance, but in other aspects, you are useless. That is me..."
"Since you can't pretend anymore, then don't show up in front of me." Gu Shi waved away the food box in her hand with disgust. "Back then, when I first entered the palace to attend the palace banquet, it was actually you who drugged me, which led me to do something wrong, right?"
When did he know about this?
Su Liuxi felt a pang of fear in her heart and clenched her fists.
Deliberately avoiding the subject, "Gu Shi, do you have any heart? After all, I have supported you all the way here. If it weren't for the Su family's help, you would only be able to mourn at home now. How could you take advantage of my feelings to appoint me to a new position?"
Right now, you're just dealing with a Nanyuan Crown Princess who looks a lot like Shen Muxi, and you've already lost your composure. What use will you have in the future?"
"I'm useless, so you just get tough, right?"
It seemed as if he had not expected that Gu Shi would give up on himself and say such words.
Even though Su Liuxi was eloquent, she couldn't help but be so angry that she couldn't even speak, "You...you are simply unreasonable."
Gu Shi flicked his sleeves and turned around, no longer looking at her. "If you have nothing else to do, move back to Luoxia Garden from the main courtyard. Don't come near me unless you have something else to do."
Just then, Wang Ying came.
Seeing the two arguing outside the study, he wanted to leave.
But when I looked back, I still saw his presence.
He raised his head halfway and put it down, not knowing whether to leave or stay.
"If you have anything to say, just tell me."
The scene that Su Liuxi had just caused in front of him was enough to make Gu Shi ready to silence Su Liuxi at any time.
Su Liuxi hadn't even recovered from the intense argument with Gu Shi.
Then Wang Ying greeted him and reported, "Your Highness, Cui'e couldn't stand the torture and interrogation, and she bit her tongue and committed suicide."
"What did you say?"
Su Liuxi suddenly turned around and looked at Gu Shi.
The latter's back was cold and ruthless. "Since the princess already knows, then don't go back to Luoxia Garden. Go directly to the woodshed."
Having said that, he really ordered the guards to take Su Liuxi away.
There was no chance for Su Liuxi to react at all.
After she had walked three or four steps, supported by the guards on both sides, she suddenly realized that Gu Shi had just discovered that it was her who eavesdropped, so he was here to delay time with her.
He had no intention of letting her return to the main courtyard alive! !
Su Liuxi didn't know where she got the strength from, but she broke free from the guards' support, raised her hand to pull out the hairpin in her hair, and flew in front of Gu Shi, "Gu Shi, you beast, you will not die well."
She held the hairpin and wanted to pierce it deeply into Gu Shi's flesh.
Unfortunately, she was just one step away and was kicked away mercilessly by Gu Shi.
"You actually want to kill me?"
The voice was filled with disbelief.
"I...ahem...I belong to the Su Mansion. Killing you is just to eliminate the trouble for my Su Mansion in advance. Why wouldn't I dare to do that?"
Gu Shi's kick just now seemed to have dislocated Su Liuxi's internal organs.
She fell heavily to the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood, and then took a deep breath like a dying fish.
As if he was still not satisfied, Gu Shi stepped hard on her back and crushed her.
Su Liuxi's hair was disheveled and her eyes were red.
She gritted her teeth and said to Gu Shi, "Gu Shi, if it weren't for my Su Mansion's strategy, you wouldn't have been able to return to the capital smoothly. Now you dare to cross the river and burn the bridge. Aren't you afraid that the Su Mansion will fight you to the death?"
"Burn your boats?" Gu Shi said coldly, "The Su family won't do that, at least not for you and me."
If he doesn't touch the Su Mansion, will the Su Mansion not touch him?
Don't be naive.
The struggle for power has always been a life-and-death struggle.
"Gu Shi, you shameless villain..."
Every word Su Liuxi spoke was extremely difficult, as if it was squeezed out from between her teeth with great difficulty.
After all, it is the white moonlight that I have always longed for but could not obtain.
Now seeing her covered in dirt and crawling at his feet, Gu Shi suddenly felt a little bored - the joy of his youth, now that he had finally achieved it, was nothing more than this.
He called the servants and said, "Drag her to the woodshed. No food or drink is allowed to be brought to her without my order. Anyone who disobeys my order will be treated as an accomplice."
"Yes."
...
The news about Prince Rong's Mansion soon reached Shen Muxi's ears.
Thinking back to when she and Xiaoxiao had just returned home, they had suffered a lot because of Su Liuxi and her daughter.
Now the situation has changed and it has come to Su Liuxi and her daughter.
Shen Muxi just wanted to laugh.
"I didn't expect that the relationship between them was much weaker than I thought."
Why did she lose to Su Liuxi in the first place?
Thinking of this, she laughed even louder, and even tears came out.
"girl."
Summer cicada came back from outside excitedly.
Shen Muxi stopped smiling and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. "What's the matter?"
"Today's court was truly exciting."
Xia Chan's eyes were sparkling, as if countless stars would emerge from them in the next moment.
It was rare to see Xia Chan like this, and Shen Muxi suddenly became interested.
"Just tell me..."
Seeing that Shen Muxi was indeed curious, Xia Chan didn't keep it a secret any longer, "Today, news came from the Su Mansion..."
She told him the news she had heard.
Shen Muxi listened attentively.
It turned out that the news of Gu Shi beating Su Liuxi last night reached Yu Yuexi's ears, so Yu Yuexi sneaked out of Prince Rong's Mansion.
Gu Shi had planned everything, but he hadn't anticipated that Yu Yuexi would sneak away.
As soon as the people in the Su Mansion heard that Gu Shi had beaten Su Liuxi, they immediately became restless and revealed the reason why Gu Shi returned to Beijing.
"I was saying, how could Gu Shi do such heroic things when he's so afraid of death?"
Shen Muxi listened and commented.
Xia Chan frowned and said "tsk", "Girl, do you still want to listen to the fun?"
"Listen, listen." Shen Muxi hurriedly bowed to Xia Chan, motioning her to continue.
According to the Su family's expectation, if they reported this matter to the emperor, the Su family would at most lose a few low-ranking officials and their branches; but if it could result in Gu Shi being exiled back to Danyang again, it would be a sure win.
Who knew that a king would suddenly appear in the middle of the journey.
After the Su family reported that Gu Shi had falsely claimed other people's credit in order to return to Beijing, he reported the Su family on the spot, bluntly accusing the Su family of collaborating with the enemy and selling out the country, and presented strong evidence.
Originally, if Su Kang just stepped out of the line, knelt down and begged for mercy, shouting that he was innocent, and then found other excuses to justify his actions, the emperor might have spared his family out of his appreciation for talent.
Who knew...
Su Kang refused to admit that he was collaborating with the enemy. Finally, the Imperial Guards found letters with Huijiang and a dragon robe embroidered with a dragon pattern in Su's mansion.
Su Kangcai didn't dare to be stubborn.
It would be fine if they could solve these problems themselves on their own territory.
But there happened to be an extra spectator, Murong Jingyan.
It would be fine if the Su family only sold out Beichen.
He even sold Nanyuan.
Murong Jingyan certainly couldn't let Beichen handle it on his own.
"Finally, the Su Mansion was ransacked at an astonishing speed. If the young lady were to go up to the Moon Watching Tower right now, she might even be able to see the things that were confiscated from the Su Mansion."
"I won't join in the fun," Shen Muxi poured herself a cup of tea slowly, took a sip, and then continued, "What did Pei Wang say?"
"There's no news from Lord Pei yet." Xia Chan said respectfully.
Shen Muxi looked thoughtfully at the teacup he had just put down.
"You said that Yu Yuexi returned to the Su Mansion, and the Su Mansion is currently raiding the property. Is it possible that during the raid, there were one or two more escaped slaves?"
Xia Chan understood what Shen Muxi meant, smiled and replied, "That's right, young lady," then quietly retreated.
...
Ever since the death of the old princess, Yu Yuexi's life in Prince Rong's mansion has been getting worse day by day.
Seeing that Su Liuxi had also lost Gu Shi's favor, she had to make plans for herself.
The day Cui'e was captured.
She happened to witness the whole thing.
Not long after Cui'e was arrested, she saw Su Liuxi arguing with Gu Shi, and Gu Shi even beat Su Liuxi and had Su Liuxi dragged away.
Yu Yuexi’s first reaction was that she was finished.
The second reaction is to quickly find a backer.
After all, she had lived in the Rongjun Palace for nearly a year. In addition, in order to please Gu Shi and the old Rongjun Princess and frame Gu Xiaoxiao, Yu Yuexi was extremely familiar with some of the main roads and small roads in the Rongjun Palace.
Unexpectedly, she was able to escape from Prince Rong's Mansion in many twists and turns.
She met her grandfather and filed a complaint on behalf of her mother, and her grandfather kept her in the Su Mansion.
I thought I had escaped from Prince Rong's Mansion and was living in the Su Mansion. Once my grandfather had a chance to vent his anger on my mother, everything would be fine.
Unexpectedly, while the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
She had only lived in the Su Mansion for a day when the house was ransacked!
The house search and seizure was so sudden that everyone else in the Su family was making plans for their own children.
She was almost the last one to know that the Su Mansion was going to be raided.
When she heard the news and wanted to escape, someone had already knocked her unconscious from behind.
When I woke up again, it was dark and the sun had already set.
Through the afterglow of the setting sun, she could see her surroundings clearly.
At this moment, she was lying on the solid earth ground, and the other side of the ground was full of firewood.
The surrounding environment was dirty and rats were crawling around her feet.
Her eyes widened and she wanted to scream.
But his mouth was stuffed tightly.
I was shocked and frightened.
In the end, I could only keep shrinking back.
"woke up?"
A young and clear voice sounded beside him.
She turned her head in shock.
She didn't even know when the young woman who was speaking had appeared.
The woman looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Wearing a grand bun.
There was something inexplicably familiar about the look in his eyes and eyebrows.
She didn't dare to act rashly and had to maintain her usual weak appearance.
A pair of watery eyes blinked, looking innocent and pitiful.
Shen Muxi sneered at her behavior and signaled Xia Chan to remove the handkerchief covering her mouth.
"Pretty sister, who are you? Why did you bring me here?"
She knows how to judge the situation.
He is also good at acting.
If Shen Muxi had not seen through her duplicity long ago, she would have been fooled by her pitiful appearance.
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that this time, I want to take someone's life."
"...demanding life?"
As soon as I heard the murder.
Yu Yuexi could no longer remain calm.
What's taking your life?
No, that's not right. Who is she going to kill?
She swallowed hard.
The moving lips trembled like a sieve, and for a long time, no words could be uttered...
She is alone now. To put it bluntly, even if she died here, no one would necessarily know.
He accidentally glanced at the young woman beside him.
I just feel that the more I look at this woman's demeanor and movements, the more she resembles someone...
She searched hard in her memory.
Finally I remembered who I should avenge!!
Gu Xiaoxiao!!
This woman looks somewhat similar to Gu Xiaoxiao.
If it weren't for the fact that she had seen Gu Xiaoxiao's bitch mother and knew that Gu Xiaoxiao and her daughter had no relatives in the entire Beichen.
At first glance, she thought it was the younger sister of that bitch mother Gu Xiaoxiao.
"Beautiful...beautiful sister, I don't know what you are talking about? Is there any misunderstanding between us?"
Yu Yuexi tried hard to force a smile, but she looked even more pitiful.
I have to say, her face looks a lot like Su Liuxi.
Even her pitiful expression was exactly the same as Su Liuxi's.
Shen Muxi sneered, "Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, you'll know soon."
After she finished speaking, she clapped her hands twice.
Two elderly servants came forward.
One of them was holding a medicine bowl in his hand, which contained a bowl of pitch-black medicinal juice.
The other person was holding a pair of pliers specifically for pulling out nails.
Yu Yuexi has always enjoyed torturing his subordinates, so he is naturally very familiar with the pliers used to pull out nails.
Her eyes widened in horror and she tried to shrink back, but was pulled back and roughly forced to drink a bowl of pitch-black medicine.
The medicine was so bitter that it made the root of her tongue numb when it entered her throat. Where the medicine passed through her throat, it felt like it was being mercilessly cut by a knife.
"Cough...cough cough..."
She was choked and coughed repeatedly.
Soon, her coughing seemed to disappear out of thin air.
Her watery eyes were instantly filled with tears and despair.
"Ah...ah ah..."
"I'm sorry," Shen Muxi said sorry, but there was no apology on her face. "Your screams were too unpleasant. I was afraid of scaring the maids and guards nearby, so I temporarily silenced you."