Don't Ask Where People Go After Time Travel

Chapter 1430: Handshake
"General Xiahou, if you want to fight me, you need to make it clear." Fang Zilan made no move and looked at Xiahou Yunzhao steadily, "Who is the opponent you want?"

"Zixiu." Xiahou Yunzhao squeezed out the name from between his teeth. As he raised his sword, a strand of Fang Zilan's hair fell off her shoulders.

Fang Zilan still didn't even frown, let alone draw a sword. Upon seeing this, Hongtai wanted to step forward, but she heard her say: "It is natural to kill someone to pay for their life. I have nothing to feel wronged about."

"If you want to die, I will make it happen for you." Xiahou Yunzhao raised the sword again. Fang Zilan stayed there motionless, but her sword never penetrated her body.

"why?"

She paused and smiled self-deprecatingly, "I have killed so many people that I can no longer remember them all."

Xiahou Yunzhao's hand holding the sword trembled a little, and Fang Zilan curled her lips, "As long as I remember that I killed someone, and I admit it, that's enough."

"Why do you have to make a sword?" Xiahou Yunzhao's voice was a little lower, and Fang Zilan chuckled, "Then General Xiahou, why do you have to come here?"

"This is Yan'er, the Xiahou family..." As soon as Xiahou Yunzhaofu opened his mouth, Fang Zilan intercepted the rest of his words, "This is my life, I accept it."

"What do you claim for it?" Xiahou Yunzhao said angrily, "You only have one life, how many times can you pay for it? If you pay my Xiahou family today, what about tomorrow? Have you ever thought about..."

"I have thought about it." Fang Zilan interrupted Xiahou Yunzhao, "Unfortunately, the person who wanted me to live well the most is already dead."

Her words were like a dead leaf falling to the ground, shattering into pieces. It was an expression of unspeakable despair, but there was no trace of unwillingness. It seems as if the time has come and this calamity is due.

For some reason, Xiahou Yunzhao suddenly felt bored. If the person in front of her is Zixiu who killed all Xiahou's family, or the Duke of Xianyue who deceived her, she can use her sword mercilessly.

But the person in front of him was Miss Fang San, the wife of Prince Zhongzheng. She was Fang Zilan, who had accepted her fate and was framed by secular rules.

Such a person is not worthy of her sword.

Fang Zilan watched Xiahou Yunzhao turn around and leave, but she did not feel relieved. Instead, Murong Qing and Hong Tai, who were standing beside her, breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Hearing the sound, Fang Zilan looked over and said to Murong Qing, "If you want to pretend to be weak, then act well. If there is any mistake, I will not clear it for you a second time."

Murong Qing opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Fang Zilan said to Hongtai, "And you, knowing that the Xiahou family would tear you into pieces, you still hang around in front of General Xiahou. Are you tired of living?"

Li Shengxuan told Zhuge Yu about the contents related to witchcraft, and Zhuge Yu nodded in agreement, "What the Prime Minister said makes sense, and such a precedent must not be set."

"So, you also think that Fang Zilan is the real murderer of Princess Rongan and must die?" Li Shengxuan couldn't help but ask. Zhuge Yu remained silent for a long time and then said: "I don't think so."

He changed his self-proclaimed name, and the relationship between the two of them was no longer that of a monarch and a subject with clear distinction between high and low. "Although I have known Sister Lan for only a few short years, I have seen that she has almost never made any mistakes in her actions." He paused, and changed the subject almost abruptly, "I wonder if Your Majesty still remembers the incident last year when the two princesses of Di Rong were robbed and killed when they entered the capital?"

"I remember." Li Shengxuan nodded, and Zhuge Yu continued: "At that time, Wu Sheng, Yang Zhiqing and other adults were killed one after another, and people in the capital were panicked for a while. However, since the wedding of King Yucheng, no similar cases have happened again. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager let the news go out, and the people praised King Yucheng as a lucky star who was alive, and the joy of the wedding shocked the troublemaker."

"I have also heard about this matter." Li Shengxuan seemed to be thinking about it. "Zhuge Yu, what do you want to say?"

"The murderer has not been arrested yet, how could he stop for no reason? I think someone must have done something behind the scenes to prevent the murder from happening." Zhuge Yu said solemnly, "The person who stopped the murderer was Fang Zilan."

Li Shengxuan was startled, and Zhuge Yu continued speaking on his own, "Your Majesty knows that she is inextricably linked to the Ghost Sect, and the Zhuge family is also worried about it. But when chaos arose, she chose the big one." Beijing."

"She..." Li Shengxuan looked complicated, and his compassion became stronger. If Fang Chongzheng's suggestion is followed, will Fang Zilan have a way to survive?
Li Shengxuan recalled what Fang Chongzheng said when he came to the palace that day. Those were the words that he could not tell Zhuge Yu.

Fang Chongzheng frankly admitted that Fang Zilan was the third young lady of the Fang family. His concubine's daughter accidentally killed Princess Rongan against his will. He was also responsible for poor upbringing, and the entire Fang family was willing to share the blame.

After hearing these words, Li Shengxuan hesitated in his heart. Although the current emperor, whether he was his father or brother, was suspicious of him because of his status as a former member of the Fang family in the Prime Minister's Office, Fang Chongzheng acted with integrity and nothing was left to anyone.

In addition, after he married Fang Ziqin, his understanding of the Fang family was different from before. If he were to deal with the Fang family today, he would first feel inappropriate.

However, what he didn't expect was that Fang Chongzheng took advantage of his hesitation to move forward step by step, paving the way out of the deal one by one, and proposed prisoner exchange. After that, the Fang family left the capital and invited Su Heng back to ensure the stability of the imperial court.

If not, Fang Chongzheng is willing to die to apologize and exchange his own life for Fang Zilan's life...

The Fang family is a wealthy businessman, the prime minister is in a high position in the court, and the queen honors her mother. If they are expelled from the capital, I am afraid it will not be as small as the current Fang Zilan incident, but only worse. Nothing less.

Fang Chongzheng had seen through everything and knew that Li Shengxuan would not refuse outright, so he followed the temptation and put him into a dilemma.

For reasons of love and justice, both public and private, Li Shengxuan seemed to have no reason to refuse.

However, if the prisoner exchange was exposed, what would cause an uproar would not be the murder of the Duke of Yue, or the fact that the Fang family was expelled from the capital.

But when the emperor neglected his duty and was immoral, the whole world was angry and attacked him in groups.

Not to mention whether the Empress Dowager will return to Beijing to support King Yucheng Li Qiyou in seizing the throne, Prince Yuning Ji Ningtian, who remains in Beijing, is the first to lose his composure.

So much so that Li Shengxuan once suspected that Fang Chongzheng's proposal was the result of discussions with Ji Ningtian in advance, in order to push him down from his supreme position and never recover...

"Your Majesty?" Zhuge Yu's voice brought Li Shengxuan back from his thoughts, and he composed himself, "What did you just say?"