Chapter 344 Revenge

The light in the house facing north is unavoidably a bit dim, Huo Mingyu steps through the door, and for a moment, he can only see Huo Xiu’s blurry silhouette as he turns sideways to this side.

“Brother …….”

Huo Xiu turns around, his backlit eyes like two pools of water. “The matter of Miss Cheng losing her virginity has nothing to do with me, Long San arrived in the capital half a year ago and took the liberty of doing this for me.”

“Why did he do that!”

“Because, he knew that our mother was killed.”

Huo Mingyu’s eyes instantly turn red as she walks up to him, “What proof do you have!”

“The battle at the time of mother’s sacrifice, you should have heard how the shape was quite a few times, that battle should not have been sacrificed so tragically, and mother, who has been through a hundred battles and has experienced many more treacherous battles, is even more unlikely to have planted herself in that kind of a closing battle. But she planted it on her own, planted it in the moment when the world was at peace and the dust had settled, don’t you think it’s strange?”

Huo Mingyu is slightly stunned, “But the enemy wasn’t weak, and at that time, when the generals of Da Liang were winning great victories one after another, it’s only normal to be gullible and get hit at that moment.”

“Others might, but not mother. If she would have been gullible, she would never have made such a detailed deployment before going on the expedition! The public opinion maps hanging on the wall of the Book Depository today are partly those that she studied in detail before she left for war, and partly those that she brought to Guangxi and studied with the generals every time she left for war. Do you think that someone who can take a battle so seriously would she take the enemy lightly?”

Huo Mingyu is rendered speechless by his forced questioning. She had no words available to retort.

But ……

“Think again, what kind of moment was it when mother had her accident?”

Just when she wanted to question, Huo Xiu opened his mouth again. This time, the voice that comes out is significantly softer.

Huo Mingyu re-runs her brain, and after a moment she shakes her head. “I wasn’t young and uninformed at that time, I didn’t quite understand.”

Huo Xiu lowers his voice: “You naturally don’t know. Not only because you were young at that time, but also because you didn’t have the channels to learn about it. After the stabilization of Da Liang, mother had already discharged her armor and returned to the field, letting go of her horse to the South Mountain, only wanting to return to the inner house to be a good wife and mother at ease. That battle also simply do not need to send her again.

“But Ci Ning Gong dowager but several times lobbying, persuade her for the world as an example of women, to go to the end of this certainty of the war, but also promised to come back to grant her a title, mother was persuaded by her, re-armor on the battlefield. Of course, my mother did not go for the title, but rather for the words to the world’s women to be an example of turning over a new leaf. But once she went, she never came back.”

Huo Mingyu nears, “Are you saying that mother’s death was related to the Empress Dowager?”

Huo Xiu slowly paces past her, his entire body lost in the shadows, “As long as you understand a few more points about the prestige and power of the Huo family at the time, you will have no trouble knowing why. As a matter of fact, it was mother’s fellow warriors and ministers who proposed knighthood for mother, not the palace that first proposed it.

“With the achievements of both mother and father, once the king is crowned, the Huo family’s status and prestige will exceed that of any of the nobles in the dynasty, and even if the king is not crowned, with so many achievements, the Huo family is a family that no one in the dynasty would dare to underestimate.

“Standing in the position of the royal family, they are very easy to give birth to the worry that the tail is too big to fall off, especially at that time, a part of the people in the dynasty to this very high voice. So at that time the palace delayed the decree, so until the Guangxi emergency, the empress dowager responded to this matter. And raised the world women pressure, persuaded the mother to go south.

“You see, this series of things, there is a reason, mother died, Huo family strength weakened at least half, can no longer become a threat to the Lu family. This reason exists, plus the fact that it was mother who died in the battlefield, not someone else, can you still think that this is normal?”

Huo Mingyu takes half a step back, her backside against the edge of the table. “But the empress dowager, the empress dowager and the first emperor are very good to us ……”

“Can it be bad?” Huo Xiu turned around from that piece of yin and yang, “Killed the head wolf, who still cares about the two little wolf cubs? Why don’t you take a look at what she has gained by being kind to us all these years? She has gained the reputation of her subjects, the praise of the people, and perfected her perfect image. This deal is not a loss for her.”

Huo Mingyu bites her lower lip tightly, her eyes already turning red.

“How can you be sure of all this? Is this all your guess?”

“If there is no evidence, then wouldn’t I be a reckless person?” Huo Xiu slowly sat down and said, “When she had her accident back then, father was not far from her, he witnessed a long spear flying over and throwing itself into her chest, it was a weapon of our Han people, but by the time he rushed over there, mother had already collapsed, and the spear was no longer there. He has since inspected his mother’s wound repeatedly, and that was indeed the lance held in the Da Liang army.

“He left some evidence behind, and if you want to see it, I can show it to you as well.”

Huo Mingyu grips the lapels of her coat tightly, tears streaming down her face, and her voice unconsciously becomes muffled: “Is it possible that it wasn’t the Empress Dowager who did this, but someone else? Like the person who stole the armor coat this time-”

“Besides the Empress Dowager, who else had the reason to kill her? After her death, besides the palace, besides the Lu family, who else got the benefit?” Huo Xiu raises his head, a sharp light bursting from his eyes, “Besides, where is the person who stole the armor? The armor is always in my hands.”

“You! –”

Huo Mingyu sucks in a breath of cold air, instantly holding her breath and staring, “It’s you?!”

“It’s me.” He faintly says, “Escorting the armor to the capital, as well as the theft of the armor, is just a legitimate reason for me to be able to return to the capital for revenge. It was my mother’s relic, and it still has the blood of my mother’s conquests on it, so how could I possibly allow it to slip through the cracks?”

Huo Mingyu looks at him for a long time before she gasps sharply, “No wonder, no wonder you’re not in the least bit anxious to investigate the case, no wonder you–how do you want to take revenge? Do you want to rebel?!”

Huo Xiu looked down at his palm and said half-heartedly, “I’m not interested in that seat, and I don’t want to be a woeful avenger. Even more so, I don’t want the original righteous revenge to deviate from the right path. I just want to seek justice for my mother, letting the people who killed her pay for their lives one by one, and letting her have the honor she deserves. When this is done, I will take you back to the south. Never come back to the capital again.”

“Then what else can you do? If you don’t rebel, then you’ll have no choice but to take on the Lu family – now that it’s the Lu family’s kingdom, who will be able to do this justice for us?”

“How she was so pleased with herself these past ten years, I’ll let her taste what it’s like to be at the end of her days.”

Speaking here, Huo Xiu was a bit agitated. He stood up, walked to the window and said with his back facing the house, “I didn’t do anything wrong, I’m just heartbroken for my mother. As her son, I have the obligation to avenge her. But what is the identity of the murderer.”

Huo Mingyu bites her lower lip tightly, then also says, “So the day you just returned to the palace, you rushed the Emperor?”

Huo Xiu’s back paused and turned around, “That wasn’t me who laid hands on him.”

“Not you?” Huo Mingyu froze, “Then who could it be?!”

Huo Xiu’s brows furrowed, “This is what I’m also puzzled about. I’m not that savvy to put my hands into the palace. And even if I had that ability, I wouldn’t have enough time to deploy it when I returned to the capital at first glance. That matter is indeed strange.”

The room goes quiet for a moment.

After a long while, Huo Mingyu’s unsteady breathing resumes, then she turns around, holding onto the doorframe, and staggers out the door.

Long San, who is guarding the door, is about to go after her, but is called back by Huo Xiu: “Let her go.”

“If the county princess leaks the news ……”

Huo Xiu glared at him, “If it leaks, it leaks, and I have nothing to hide.”

If it wasn’t for the fact that that person was the Empress Dowager of the current dynasty whose status was supreme, why would he have to be so circuitous in order to preserve himself and Sister Yu?

In the new year, I wish you all peace and joy, and I wish myself good yardwork (●”●)