Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 636: The Newly-Deceased Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law
"No, I want you to feed me, ah..."

"..."

"It's my turn to feed you, open your mouth."

"..."

"Hehe, is this wine delicious?"

"..."

"Please be gentle. You are hurting me. I am now Consort Dong Shu, a precious body. If you hurt me, you can't afford to pay for it."

"..."

This is... this is Dong Shu Ni's voice.

The groom himself was suffering from poisoning and almost dying in front of the palace, and who was she with?
Li Yuan was immediately furious. It was this anger that supported him to climb over the stairs, walk into the palace gate, turn the screen, and see Concubine Dong Shu, with her hair disheveled and her wedding dress in disarray, lying on the dragon bed.

She was exceptionally beautiful tonight, with a small, vermilion-colored mouth, and eyes full of amorous feelings under her slender eyebrows that seemed too long if one inch longer and too short if one inch shorter. The sleeves of her wedding dress hung low, revealing a crescent-shaped shoulder. At the other end, even a pair of large jade bracelets could not conceal the radiance of her fair wrists.

This was supposed to be her bride, but she was held in the arms of a strange man with a wine jug in his hand and was flirted with and loved by him.

No, not a strange man.

That...that was actually his son-in-law Chai Shao!

Because they had not seen each other for a long time and Li Yuan was in a bad state at the moment, he did not recognize her for a moment. After a careful look, he was sure that the man opposite him, who was so affectionate with his woman, was none other than the husband of his illegitimate daughter Shang Xiufang, Chai Shao, who had once followed Li Xiuning around and showed him all kinds of courtesy.

His harem, his dragon bed, his beloved concubine, and his wedding night were all taken away by this bastard!
"You...you..."

Li Yuan wanted to kill people, but given his current condition, it would be great if he could speak fluently, let alone kill anyone.

"Hey, it's His Majesty coming."

The beautiful and tempting Concubine Dong Shu hugged Chu Pingsheng's neck and squinted at the Emperor Tang, who was poisoned to the bone and had little time left. She snorted, grabbed the hand that had taken advantage of her so much and kissed it, and said angrily, "My new husband is here, why are you even more excited?"

Chu Pingsheng said: "It is because he is here that it is more exciting, isn't it? You are still blaming me, look at your amorous look, just this kind of wildness, compared with you, my wives can't even compare to you."

Dong Shu Ni tapped his nose lightly with her finger and said teasingly, "Aren't you afraid that my husband will be furious and kill you, the lecher who seduced the imperial concubine?"

"Then if I die with him today, who will you help to wear the white robe? After all, we are the real mandarin ducks, and you and him are just a fake couple."

Li Yuan listened to their conversation and felt like his lungs were about to cough out of his mouth.

"Come...someone...come...someone..."

"Your Majesty, are you calling me again?"

A soft, shrill voice was heard, and a breeze blew in, revealing a person at the door. Li Yuan turned his head and saw that it was the eunuch Wei he had been looking for for a long time.

"Eunuch Wei, hurry, hurry...give me the antidote."

Chu Pingsheng gently stroked the fiery red lips of the beauty in his arms, and said with a smile: "Let me introduce your identities again. Eunuch Wei's original name is Wei Lianxiang. He is a disciple of the Yingui Sect and Zhu Yuyan's senior brother. In other words, I should call him brother-in-law. In order to lurk by your side and gain your trust, the price he paid was too high."

"you……"

Li Yuan's old face twisted, he pointed at Wei Lianxiang, then at Chu Pingsheng and Dong Shu Ni: "You..."

"Giggle."

Dong Shu Ni's sweet and crisp laughter echoed throughout Chunhua Palace.

"It seems that Your Majesty has thought it through. Yes, the relationship between me and Li Jiancheng... I lied to you. If I didn't say that, how could you have made up your mind to kill Li Shimin?"

"Bitch...bitch..."

"Oh, your majesty's angry look makes me so scared." She covered her chest and said softly, "In fact, I also played a big role in Li Shimin's killing of Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng."

"Why? Why? I... treat you well..."

The seductive look on Dong Shu Ni's face faded, replaced by the pleasure of revenge: "Humph, if it weren't for your Li family, how could my uncle end up like that."

"So you... you're here for revenge!"

"That's right. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being a pervert. You died humiliatingly at the hands of your own son on the night of your marriage. To protect you from the wind and rain on your way to the underworld, I will give you a green hat to wear. Li Yuan, you must complain to the King of Hell when you go down."

"You guys are so... cruel." Li Yuan trembled, pointed at Chu Pingsheng and said, "Chai Shao, I am your... father-in-law, she... she is your... cough, mother-in-law..."

These words amused Chu Pingsheng.

"Then do you know that the most dangerous job in the universe is being my father-in-law? And this is my first time playing the role of a widowed mother-in-law."

"Xiufang... If Xiufang knew..."

"If she knew? There is no if. Why do you think she came in and out of the palace openly and forced you to take action against Li Shimin?"

"So you guys...you guys team up..."

A trace of death appeared on Li Yuan's face. He struggled a few times and coughed up a large mouthful of blood, staining his dragon robe red. His eyes slowly widened and stared, but he hadn't taken his last breath yet and looked at him unwillingly.

"This is the prophecy of the Heshi Bi, which predicted that Li Shimin would poison his own father. I am just enforcing justice for the heavens."

Chu Pingsheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, I, your son-in-law, will avenge you."

"Ah……"

Li Yuan's throat moved a few times, his body sank, his head drooped, and he died.

Chu Pingsheng waved his hand, Wei Lianhua took two steps forward, carried Li Yuan's body out of Chunhua Palace, and he turned around and pushed the newly widowed mother-in-law onto the dragon bed, and their eyes met.

"My husband just died, aren't you afraid of bad luck?"

"Ask a demon king if he is afraid of bad luck? How is that any different from asking a bad guy if he is afraid of ghosts? What's more, the thought of being a cuckold to my lecherous father-in-law makes me very excited."

……

The next day, at the hour of Mao, the sky was just beginning to brighten.

The four gates of the entire Chang'an City were closed, and the tops and bottoms of the city were filled with soldiers in armor and holding spears. The sounds of horse hooves and the marching of infantry phalanxes could be heard from time to time on the road. Even those who were insensitive to current affairs knew that something must have happened, and it was a big deal.

Yesterday was clearly the joyous day of marrying a concubine, but why did it suddenly change today? What was going on with this solemn and murderous atmosphere that enveloped the entire city?
In the southwest corner of Chang'an City, behind the Taiping Oil Mill, there were many wooden barrels in the house. A green shadow flashed by, and Chu Pingsheng landed gracefully. Rong Jiaojiao, who was waiting at the door of the main house with the Frost Sword in his hand, quickly came to meet him.

"What about her?"

Rong Jiaojiao pointed to the room to the east of the main house and said, "She cried all night and just stopped."

Chu Pingsheng nodded, walked past her, pushed the door open, lifted the cotton curtain and entered the inner room.

A woman was lying on the bed on the north side, wearing small flowered shoes, a light pink skirt and a gauze dress. A golden hairpin was tilted on her head, her hair was disheveled, and there were traces of tears on her face. It seemed that she had been crying for a long time and was tired. She fell asleep in a daze and didn't even notice someone entering the room.

"cough!"

Chu Pingsheng sat down in the armchair in front of the window and coughed.

The woman on the bed shuddered and woke up. She blinked her red and swollen eyes, looked at the person sitting on the chair, and said in pain: "Chai Shao, why did you do this? Why!"

That’s right, the woman who was almost mentally collapsed was the third daughter of the Li family.

After finishing her work last night, on the way back to her residence from Chunhua Palace, she and Hongfu were knocked unconscious by a sudden attack. When they woke up, they found themselves in the gift box placed in the back hall of Ganlu Palace, and then they found that Hongfu was gone. Only she was there, and her acupoints were pressed, so she could not speak or move. She could only observe the situation outside the box through two holes, and then she saw the scene where Li Yuan was discovered poisoning Li Shimin, but was poisoned by his son instead.

What happened next was that Rong Jiaojiao opened the wooden box, carried her out of the palace, and sent her to Taiping Oil Mill.

"You were there during the battle of Funiushan, and you also saw the new prophecy of the Heshi Bi. I am just following the will of heaven and letting you be a witness. Do you have to be so sad?"

It was one thing to see a prophecy, but it was another to witness your father and brother killing each other and be unable to do anything about it.

"Why are you torturing me like this?" She was very excited and ran over to grab Chu Pingsheng's collar: "Why?!"

"I tortured you?" Chu Pingsheng smiled coldly: "If I remember correctly, it seems that all these grievances started when your Li family tried to seize my Chai family's property and wanted to use it to start a rebellion. Do you think Li Shimin can still survive after going through all these things?"

"Then you can't..."

"Let me ask you one question. If you were Li Shimin, would you drink the poisoned wine given by Li Yuan or not?"

Li Xiuning lowered her head and tears fell to the ground.

"You are very sad, but you will drink it without hesitation, right? Because you know that only your death can calm my anger and win a glimmer of hope for the Li family. But Li Shimin did not do so. He killed his brother and father to prove that he was doing it for himself from beginning to end."

Li Xiuning slowly let go of the hand that was holding his collar, and knelt down little by little, covering her face with her hands, tears streaming down her face.

Although Li Shimin's performance in the battle at Funiu Mountain broke her heart, she still held on to a glimmer of hope. After all, they were close relatives who grew up with her. However, she never expected that Li Shimin would do such an unforgivable act as killing his own father.

Chu Pingsheng continued, "You know what? Before I came, Li Shimin's people had already taken over the palace. Li Yuan's cause of death should be linked to Dong Shu Ni. Soon, this despicable man who killed his father will ascend the throne and find a way to kill all those brothers who are still not walking properly."

When Li Xiuning heard this, she shuddered, moved her hands slightly, and looked at him in horror.

"Don't you understand? It has long been circulated that when I ascended to heaven, the new prophecy of the Heshi Bi was that Li Shimin poisoned his own father. Now Li Yuan died inexplicably on the night of his marriage, and he is the biggest beneficiary of the whole thing. How will outsiders see him? That's right, he got the position illegitimately! And people like Li Yuanjing, Li Yuanchang, and Li Yuanheng have the inherent righteousness to kill Li Shimin to avenge their fathers and take over the world. So, what do you think...if you were Li Shimin, would you be afraid? If you were afraid, what would you do? You have killed your biological father and the brothers who grew up together. Would you feel psychological pressure to kill these half-brothers?"

Li Xiuning's delicate body trembled again, her hands and feet shook continuously, and she looked at him with fear in her eyes.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Dramas like this, where a family kills each other, have been a unique scene for the royal family since ancient times. Is it hard to accept? I just cheered a few times while watching the show, and threw some silver coins on the stage to make the actors perform more vividly and excitingly."

Li Xiuning actually knew very well that although this was unpleasant to hear, it was an irrefutable fact. Li Shimin had done so many evil things and exposed his hypocrisy to the fullest. Chai Shao would never let him go. The Li family could only be given a chance to live if they drew a clear line between themselves and the others, or even submitted a letter of surrender - Li Yuan, she or the elders of the clan forced Li Shimin to death.

Then Li Shimin had only two choices: either fight hard with the army in his hands, overthrow his family and get a chance of survival, or accept his fate and die.

And just last night, he made his choice with practical action.

"Tell me, isn't it fun to watch him kill all the members of your Li family one by one, and then I stand up as Li Yuan's son-in-law and kill him?"

"I beg you, don't... don't..."

"Are you begging me not to kill him?"

Chu Pingsheng lifted Li Xiuning's chin and looked straight into her eyes.

"No...no...I beg you...don't let this happen. As long as you can stop him...I...will promise you anything."

Li Xiuning attached great importance to the interests of the family, so much so that she would sacrifice her own interests, but she was not stupid. Chai Shao must have had some ulterior motive for letting her witness Li Shimin's patricide and wasting so much time talking about it.

Now the only valuable thing I can show him is my clean body.

I didn't expect that after so many twists and turns, the final result would be like this.

"Do you remember two years ago when you asked me to borrow 300,000 taels of silver on Chengping Lake in Jinyang? At that time, you were ready to treat yourself as a commodity for the benefit of the family, and you are still like this now."

"..." Li Xiuning remained silent.

Chu Pingsheng hesitated for a moment and said, "This deal can be done, but I have a request."

"any request?"

She raised her head, hope shining in her eyes.

He leaned down and whispered a few words in her ear.

Li Xiuning's expression changed drastically.

"No... no."

"That's fine." Chu Pingsheng said, "But considering that we have known each other for a while and have some friendship, I will take you away from Chang'an, so that you won't do anything to anger Li Shimin and be killed by him."

After saying this, he held the armrest of the chair and prepared to stand up.

Li Xiuning looked at him pitifully and begged, "Do you have to do this? After all, you still want to torture me."

"whatever you think."

He took half a step forward, and Li Xiuning suddenly grabbed his wrist. His eyes darkened and his face became colder. He opened his mouth and uttered a hoarse voice:

"Okay, I promise you."

"See, this is the right way." Chu Pingsheng patted her hands: "Deal."

After that, he wiped her tears considerately: "Be good, don't cry."

(End of this chapter)