Chapter 505

However, Song Yixiao was stunned but did not believe it, “When the late emperor, the forbidden army was always in the hands of the Su family, but a few years before the death of the late emperor, it was taken over by He Wenqiong! With the late emperor’s wisdom, I’m afraid the Su family want to tamper with the inside, but it is impossible to put all the forbidden army are still in the hands of it? So even if there are still a few people left in key positions they may not always be able to decide the overall situation!”

If the forbidden army had been in the hands of the Su family, how could the Su family have endured until now?

Early violent deaths off the Duanhua Emperor’s family of three, may also add a Gu Shao as a hitchhiker, support Su Wang ascended to the throne!

Su Shaoge smiled at her and said gently, ”What Grandma Song said is very true! When He Wenqiong took over the forbidden army, it was at the behest of the late emperor, and the Su family naturally didn’t dare to block it. Today’s forbidden army, indeed, basically under the control of He Wenqiong! And although my Su family left some manpower in which, roughly can also be a wind to report a letter, expect them to restore the situation, but it is not possible.”

He paused and looked around the room, seeing that apart from himself and Ji Zifu, there were only Song YiXiao and YunGu, then slowly said, “However, the Su family has never wanted to carry the reputation of being an unsubordinate minister, so Grandma Song or Brotherinlaw can rest assured! The Su family will not drag the two of you to the side of the rebels and traitors!”

Song Yixiao mused, “I wish to hear more!”

“In fact, it is not just King Xiang who has been assassinated recently.” Su Shaoge smiled before continuing, “The commoner Lu Hehao, who was sent to the Imperial Tomb to guard the tomb of the late Emperor, was also suddenly assassinated yesterday, and although Lu Hehao survived, his whereabouts are still unknown! And his wife and young son, are unfortunately dead!”

This news Ji Zifu also did not hear about it in advance, sniffing subconsciously said, “What?”

“Plebeian Lu He Hao?” Song Yixiao then pondered for a while before saying, “This person … is now in the courtroom, almost all forget him, right?”

In fact, the commoner Lu Hehao left the imperial capital in a few days, the court naturally will not be forgetful to this point.

Song Yixiao said this to mean that Lu Hehao had already been abolished as a commoner, and was also sent to the Imperial Tombs this person can already be said to be abolished by this point, and whether or not he was assassinated has nothing to do with the overall situation?

In normal times, maybe someone would have cared.

Now that everyone is preoccupied with the assassination of King Xiang, who has the time to pay attention?

“As far as I know, before commoner Lu Hehao left the imperial capital, he had sent a letter to Mingren Palace through Her Highness, the Yue family’s True Yang Grand Princess, over and over.” Su Shaoge calmly said, “Hand it over to the Dowager Empress Dowager to personally read it!”

Song Yixiao and Ji Zifu looked at each other with a cautious look, “I wonder if the Empress Dowager has ever read the letter? If she has read the letter, what can she say?”

“After the Dowager Empress read the letter, she was once furious!” Su Shaoge mildly said, “Otherwise, why would I borrow my sister’s name today and ask my brotherinlaw to invite Grandma Song here?”

“What the second son means by this is that the Dowager Empress also has the intention to abolish the Emperor?” Song Yi smiled and pursed her lips, it was not strange that the Dowager Empress would raise the idea of abolishing the Emperor, this old man was the original wife of His Majesty Emperor Huizong, even though she was humiliated in the time when Noble Consort Shentu and Lady Zhenyuan were in favor, by and large, she had been in a high position in her life.

In the last twenty years especially honored, Duanhua Emperor treated her like that, she can stand it is strange after all, the Dowager Empress and more than one grandchildren, who do the emperor, she is not the Dowager Empress?

However, the biggest reason for the Empress Dowager’s enmity with Emperor Duanhua was the death of the Grand Princess of Dai Guo!

And concubine Lu Hehao, was the mastermind of the death of the Grand Princess of Daikoku it was said that even if the Dowager Empress resented Emperor Duanhua, but how should her distaste and hatred for concubine Lu Hehao not be too much lower than that of Emperor Duanhua?

Could it be that the assassination of Lu Hakho this time is also the work of the Empress Dowager?

Otherwise, why would the Dowager Empress liaise with the Su family, imploring them to start dealing with Emperor Duanhua?

However, no matter who did the assassination of Lu Hehao, Song YiXiao sensed that the content of the letter that Su ShaoGe had said Lu Hehao had tossed to the Empress Dowager before he left the Imperial Capital must have been very critical!

It was because although everyone knew that the Dowager Empress would not let Duanhua Emperor go, the Dowager Empress had not been doing much of anything during this period of time, other than occasionally berating Duanhua Emperor.

Even if Emperor Duanhua had publicly ordered her to be forcibly returned to Mingren Palace before, which could be said to have fallen on the face of this first grandmother, the Empress Dowager hadn’t even smashed a single thing when she went back how could she have suddenly sent word out?

Song Yixiao’s mind turned a few times, suddenly said, “But I don’t know, the Empress Dowager’s this imperial decree, is it only informed the Su family, or, also with other people, such as the Empress Dowager’s side mentioned?”

There was of course a reason for her to ask: since the three of them here were clear that the possibility of a compromise between each other and Emperor Duanhua was very low, then the socalled leaving with one’s hand, the socalled freedom to come and go, was merely a bargaining tactic, and it was impossible to really break down the negotiations without a particularly big accident.

So even if Su Shaoge didn’t have a method to deal with the forbidden army that He Wenqiong had at his disposal, Song Yixiao couldn’t possibly get up and leave seriously.

And because of King Su, even if the Su family isn’t the one who contributed the most, with their bloodline relationship with King Su, Song Yixiao and Ji Zifu, these people, after formalizing their cooperation, will definitely have to give the Su family the necessary respect.

Of course it made sense for Su Shaoge to reveal all the advantages and underpinnings of his side in order to gain the initiative.

But it was as if he had just told Song Yixiao that the news that Emperor Duanhua had explicitly said that he wanted Jian Xubai to kill his wife had been conveyed by Empress Su after she had inquiredif it was to show the strength of the Su family, he should have continued to talk about the strength of the Su family: what critical places they had planted manpower in, what topsecret information they had recently inquired about, and what they possessed. critical overturning backhand … so on and so forth.

Su Shaoge, however, suddenly mentioned the Dowager Empress, which inevitably made Song Yixiao suspect that even after counting on Emperor Duanhua, King Su still had a strong competitor and that competitor, too, had the possibility of garnering the support of the Marquis of Yan, so Su Shaoge’s mentioning of the Dowager Empress right now, which appeared to be an attempt to explain the ins and outs of the situation to Song Yixiao, was actually hinting at Song Yixiao:

Look, even an old man like the Dowager Empress from the founding of the country supports us and King Su, you, Marquis Yan, why don’t you hurry up and place your bets?

Sure enough, Su Shaoge sniffed and, after being stunned for a moment, revealed a flash of appreciation, “Grandma Song is as discerning as a torch!”

He also did not cover up, straight to the point, “The Empress Dowager will be very angry, and wants to abolish the current emperor in the shortest possible time so not only the Su family and Wei family received a secret decree from the Empress Dowager, and even the commoner Lu Hehao, have been promised by the Empress Dowager, that if this matter is accomplished by him, she will allow him to ascend to the throne as the new emperor! allowed him to ascend to the throne as the new ruler as well!”

Song Yixiao and Ji Zifu asked at the same time, “What exactly did concubine Lu Hehao’s letter to the Dowager Empress say?!”

“This I however don’t know!” Su Shaoge revealed an apologetic look, and seeing that they all had disbelieving expressions on their faces, he spread his hands out, “I really don’t know! If I knew, how could concubine Lu Hehao be assassinated yesterday?”

“You sent the assassins?” Song Yixiao asked busily, “So, we’ll know what’s in that letter later?”

Her words were clearly a euphemism for asking if Su Shaoge was going to share this secret?

“If I can learn the contents of the letter, I will naturally tell the two of you.” Su Shaoge said cheerfully, “However, things went a bit awry the Wei family’s people also moved! The two held each other at bay, but concubine Lu Hehao managed to escape!”

Song Yi smiled in disbelief, “For such an important matter, your family would have sent out ‘Dai Feng’, right? The Wei family must have sent ‘Biwu’ as well! After commoner Lu Hehao lost his power, he didn’t even manage to keep a few of his servants, so how would he be able to escape from your two families’ elite guards?”

“Grandma Song doesn’t know!” Su Shaoge shook his head and said, “For one thing, it’s because Lu Hehao’s ruthlessness and determination is far superior to normal people! To be honest, when ‘Dai Feng’ and ‘Bi Wu’ were confronting each other, they saw that Lu He Hao and his wife were trying to escape with their young son in their arms, and they were planning to shoot him in the leg to stop him from leaving. However, he first pulled his wife Sikong’s to block the arrows, and at the end even took the young son from Sikong’s hands to use as a barrier … so much so that the secret guards were stunned and negligent, and were fled away by him!”

“If that’s all there is to it, plebeian Lu Hehao will only struggle for a moment longer.”

“The thing is, there’s another cause that caused his escape: he wasn’t really alone, yet he was met by someone!”

Su Shaoge sighed here, “The people who received them were dozens of riders, all masked and wrapped in hair, with only their eyes exposed, and they were very tough! The ‘Dai Feng’ and ‘Bi Wu’ teamed up, but they could only watch them save the commoner Lu He Hao, and the dozens of corpses they left behind could not be traced before I left the house!”

Song Yixiao heard something in his words and frowned, “Who do you suspect?”

“I don’t think it should be someone from the royal family.” Su Shaoge did not answer positively, “If the royal family wants to kill concubine Lu Hehao, no matter whether it’s an imperial decree or a holy decree, it can be done openly, there’s no need to be so secretive.”

After a pause, he added, “Whether it’s ‘Dai Feng’ or ‘Bi Wu’, although they are not as secretive and unpredictable as the world imagines, but when it comes to their hands, I dare say that even the palace guards may not be able to securely defeat them!”

Song Yixiao knew that he was always modest, or rather, used to acting modestly, so when he said “may not be able to secure a victory”, it could actually be interpreted as “absolutely unable to win” she had witnessed the swordsmen of the Song clan’s sidekick when returning to the imperial capital from Liaozhou, and from that she had roughly estimated the strengths of the six valves’ direct line. When she returned to the imperial capital from Liaozhou, she had witnessed the swarthy nature of the Song Clan’s sidekicks, from which she had roughly inferred the depths of the Six Valves’ direct lineage, so the group of knights that had caused the Su and Wei Clans to return without any success must have had astonishing combat prowess.

Amazing battle power could not be achieved overnight.

Most importantly, although Su Shaoge didn’t say it, both Song Yixiao and Ji Zifu knew that when he received the news of his failure, he definitely wouldn’t just send people to check on those corpses, but would definitely also send people to track down the origins of those people, the whereabouts of the commoner Lu Hehao, and so on.

And now that Su Shaoge said that there weren’t any clues, then even if it wasn’t really clueless, at least the clues were pitifully few.

The Imperial Mausoleum is less than a hundred miles from the Imperial Capital, and a fast horse can barely make a round trip in a day.

In such a range that could barely be called the foot of the Son of Heaven, the appearance of such a group of people, who were not sent by the royal family, but told the Su family not to catch a hold of them who Su Shaoge was suspecting, it was easy to see without asking!

Song Yixiao was silent for a while before saying, “Western Liang Shen, Eastern Hu Liu, and Song’s side branch … who do you think it is? Or, are they joining forces?”

However, what no one expected was that Su Shaoge slowly said, “Grandma Song, you seem to have missed mentioning one: Jinxiu Duanmu!!!”