Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 696 Hostage
"Send me to die?" Zhao Xiwei looked astonished.

Liu Jishan snorted coldly: "Didn't he ask you just now, did the Crown Prince give you the right to dispatch troops?"

Only then did Zhao Xiwei remember this, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, Your Highness gave me his jade order..."

Although I don't know why Liu Jishan cares so much about this, but the queen mother has the heart to seize the throne, she doesn't need to hide it.

"Your Highness said that with this order, all the soldiers and horses in Chang'an can be dispatched." She found the jade order from under the pillow, put it in the palm of her hand and handed it to Zhao Ziyi: "The next thing, I have to rely on my father to come forward—"

Zhao Ziyi raised her finger, but she didn't take the jade order, she didn't even look at it, she just stared at Zhao Xiwei: "Miss Wei, you want to help His Highness, don't you?"

Zhao Xi frowned slightly, a little puzzled.

The queen mother intends to rebel and wants to destroy the Zhao family. Even if she doesn't help the prince, she can't stand on the sidelines.

Zhao Ziyi's question was strange. She thought it was because he was still testing her feelings for Li Xuanye, so she evaded the seriousness and said lightly: "I just don't want to see people burn to death and do my best. The next thing has to be done." Rely on daddy to make a move..."

Halfway through, he stopped abruptly.

Because she noticed that Zhao Ziyi's eyes became sad.

He had just recovered from his leg injury, so he had to face such a big event...

Zhao Xi felt distressed, so he said in a soft voice: "Your Highness has already made arrangements, and I also sent Yuan Ce to the palace with two hidden guards. Today's matter should be settled soon."

Liu Jishan smiled coldly again.

Laughing so that Zhao Xiwei was even more confused: "What's wrong?"

"Ah Wei, you are so stupid..." He shook his head, "It's already this time, are you still worried about him?"

"I..." Zhao Xi opened his mouth slightly, and Zhao Ziyi suddenly pushed her wrist, and pushed the jade token back into her arms.

"Father..." She looked at him puzzled, wondering what his intention was.

Zhao Ziyi seemed to be stung by the sound, her arm froze suddenly.

"What's the matter? Are you... are you hiding something from me?" Zhao Xiwei asked this sentence, and suddenly remembered something, "I remembered, when I was unconscious just now, I seemed to hear something outside. Someone said that the Queen Mother sent someone here?"

After she finished asking this sentence, Zhao Ziyi's entire expression became tense instantly.

The surrounding air seemed to be drained, and even Liu Jishan fell into silence.

A bad premonition slowly rose in Zhao Xiwei's heart.

Could it be that something happened in the palace?

"Father?" she called out tentatively.

No one answered her.

After a long silence, Zhao Ziyi let out a soft breath: "Yes."

It was the first time that he didn't dare to look her in the eyes, the first time he showed guilt, but it wasn't because he abandoned her and his mother back then: "Sister Wei... Father wants you to go to the palace."

"What?" Zhao Xi felt as if struck by lightning.

After being stunned for a while, she regained her thoughts and looked at him in disbelief: "Father, you said, you want me to go to the palace? Now?"

Zhao Ziyi suddenly raised her head and looked at her, silent, with guilt in her eyes.

Zhao Xiwei saw his own reflection in such eyes, a little at a loss, a little dazed, like a lost child.

Until the eyes became deeper and darker, and her shadow gradually disappeared.

Zhao Ziyi closed her eyes.

He sat motionless in the chair, his tone was terribly calm: "Yes, let's go now."

"Father!" Zhao Xiwei finally understood.

Why his legs recovered suddenly, why Liu Jishan was so angry that he wanted to strangle him, why he refused to accept this token.

He's going to push her out!

Zhao Xiwei asked himself that he was not so righteous.

She has done her best to do this.

But if she wants to work hard, she won't and can't!
Her life was bought by her mother's life.

Even if she doesn't cherish herself, she can't let her mother down!

"No, I won't go." Zhao Xiwei categorically refused without even thinking about it: "This matter involves the court, and it's beyond my control as a housewife."

She still has a baby in her stomach, even if she is crazy, she will not die in front of the Queen Mother.

"Miss Wei..." Zhao Ziyi opened his eyes, and his eyes were dim: "The queen mother... held the harem hostage." After a pause, he said with some difficulty, "Concubine Shu and the princess are also among them..."

Zhao Xi was stunned for a moment.

Princess……

The princesses are so young, how could the Queen Mother do such a wicked thing to take them as hostages?
But it was only for a moment before she came back to her senses: "Father, I have already arranged for Yuan Ce to bring the hidden guards to ambush! Just take the jade order and go to the capital camp to gather troops and horses to surround the entire imperial city. ! By the way, isn’t there Gu Yong? Isn’t he in control of the arsenal? You join him!”

At the end of her speech, her heart was in pain.

This is her only relative...

This is her close relative...

But Zhao Ziyi's words brought her back to reality once again: "The queen mother said that as long as you enter the palace, you will let your majesty and concubines go..."

His tone was low, with an irresistible force: "Miss Wei, success or failure depends on one move, we cannot put His Majesty in danger, nor can we put Empress and Princess in danger..."

"That puts me in danger?" Zhao Xiwei interrupted him.

"Sister Wei——" Xu Shi was reminded by her words, and guilt gradually appeared in Zhao Ziyi's eyes again.

However, it was only for a moment before he regained his composure: "Father will lie in ambush outside the palace with Gu Yong, as long as you rescue His Majesty, we will take the opportunity to attack..."

"Needless to say." Zhao Xiwei interrupted him again, she sat on the bed slowly, her eyes were full of disappointment: "Father, I won't go."

"Sister Wei." Zhao Ziyi frowned, "If the Empress Dowager becomes successful this time, the entire Zhao Mansion will no longer be able to survive."

"So what?" Zhao Xiwei looked at him as if looking at a stranger. When they met for the first time, she never imagined that he had such a heart of stone. He was so cruel that he wanted to push her out to exchange hostages!

"With my death, the Zhao family's family will be honored, and my father's name will be left in the history. Is this what you want?" She heard her voice become colder, as sharp as ice skates in the cold sky, To mercilessly pierce the man she called her father across the way.

"Father..." Zhao Ziyi opened her mouth, but was interrupted by Zhao Xiwei: "But this is not what I want!"

Her voice was high-pitched and powerful, without the slightest leeway: "Father, I came back to the Zhao Mansion despite my infamy, not to be a pawn for you! Not to be a stepping stone for you! And!"

She smiled coldly and said word by word: "Mother entrusted me to you before she died, so that you can take good care of me!"

(End of this chapter)