On the
high platform, Fanghua complained: Fireworks are easy to be cold, for whom to bow down
.
I am Xie Chuchu, and my father is the emperor of the former Dynasty.
He was beheaded by the general of the former Dynasty, the present emperor Zhao Ting, wielding a knife. There was no sleep in the imperial city
that night, and the fire burned the palace for seven days and seven nights, and the night was like day.
Not only that, Zhao Ting also ordered to kill all those who resisted him in the court. At that time, there was a bloody storm in the central city, and nearly twenty thousand people died in the massacre.
My mother tried her best to protect me from the fire until I was found by the palace maid in a mess. She took the risk and secretly sent me to Baiyun Temple, the only place that Zhao Ting was afraid of. It
was probably God who opened his eyes. Now Zhao Ting was suffering from a serious illness, and everyone inside and outside the court knew that his life would not be long. But when he was dying, he also killed three doctors with his sword. He stubbornly believed that all the people in the world were looking forward to his death. With a sneer in
my heart, it was just a cycle of cause and effect. In the tenth year of
the Shang Dynasty, it was the Dragon Boat Festival. The central city was decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, and the lights were lit up all night long. It was also that night that Zhao Ting died in the palace.
Now he died, only prince Zhao Xuan and the second prince Zhao Xin.
The two princes were brave and good at fighting, and all the people in the world praised their sons for inheriting their father’s will, which was quite saintly.
After all, general Zhao led troops to storm the palace, now the people talk about is still a fear.
Now the two princes hold the military power north of the Great Wall, Sima Zhao’s heart, is known all over the world.
Now after the death of Zhao Ting, the throne should be passed to Prince Zhao Xuan according to the law of etiquette.
Prince Zhao Xuan has been living in the palace for several years. He heard that he has been looking for flowers and willows all day and doing nothing.
I heard that the night of Zhao Ting’s death, it was not long before the palace was full of knives.
The two princes revealed the most ferocious minions, led troops to break into the prince’s mansion, intended to catch Zhao Xuan.
Unexpectedly, the prince had already disappeared, leaving only a parrot in the room, shouting: “The prince ran away, the prince ran away.”.
Unexpectedly, the escaped man appeared in my yard.
“Chuchu, I haven’t seen you for a long time.” Dressed in blue clothes, he came to me with a tease and did not enter the room at all.
“You are cruel, leaving the bird alone in the palace.”
“You can’t blame me for that. It used to open its cage and refuse to fly. Although I disliked it, yesterday I tried to provoke it, but it didn’t want to step out of the cage.” He sat down casually and frowned slightly.
“This bird is still clinging to its old cage. It’s not like a man running away without a fight.”
“At the beginning, you don’t understand this. Those who achieve great things, regardless of immediate gains and losses, retreat in order to advance, will be able to defeat the enemy without fighting.”
“I can’t beat you.”
“It is good that you know.”
“Zhao Xuan, you shouldn’t be here.” What kind of reason is
needed? When I was here, I came. He fiddled with the jade pendant in his hand, unaware of his status as a “fugitive.”. I had a
lot on my mind. I wanted to say something, but I didn’t know what to say. I couldn’t understand him.
The second prince’s seizure of power was something that everyone in the world could have expected. It is
absurd to say that no one knows who Zhao Xin’s mother is. It is probably an ordinary woman that Zhao Ting met in Mobei. A few years after Zhao Xin was born, Zhao Ting returned to the court and left the mother and son in Mobei, ignoring them for many years.
It was not until he rebelled and ascended the throne that he sent the title of a second prince from thousands of miles away. As for the woman, she had no status at the end of her life.
Zhao Xuan’s birth mother was known by everyone, and she was later Queen Zhong.
Zhong queen married to the general mansion is Zhao Ting back to Beijing that year, just gave birth to Zhao Xuan, that is to say, Zhao Xin is a few years older than Zhao Xuan. When Zhao Ting stepped on countless corpses to ascend the throne,
the empress resolutely abandoned the splendor and wealth, and took the nine-year-old Zhao Xuan into the Baiyun Temple. From then on, she often accompanied the blue lantern and devoted herself to the Buddha until she died of illness. Zhao Xuan and
I were able to meet in Baiyun Temple, and the former princess and the current prince also formed an indescribable fate.
After a few days, the two princes had surrounded the whole city. Fortunately, the place where I lived was remote and sparsely populated, so I escaped the search of the officers and soldiers.
Without Zhao Xuan, the days in the mountains would be quiet for me.
Only now, Zhao Xuan and I have three meals a day to solve the problem, I have limited surplus food at home, there is no extra, to feed an adult man.
Chao Hsuan also thought that the food I cooked was not satisfactory. I was so angry that I slammed the door and left, leaving a sentence: “If you want to eat, you can cook it yourself.” To my
surprise, Chao Hsuan was very good at cooking, and I couldn’t resist tasting a few more mouthfuls. He then stingily protected the dish, waving his sleeve and saying, “If you want to eat it, cook it yourself.” Without saying a word,
I put the few pieces of meat I had left into my bowl. As I ate the meat, I slurred and swore, “It’s just like that. It’s just so so.”
“Next time we go up to the mountains to catch wild boars, we’ll have meat to eat.” He looked at me pitifully.
“a hare is easier to catch than a wild boar.”
“No, no, no. The hare is so small and cute. It’s not allowed. Monks are not allowed to kill.” That’s very good. I seem to see my two broken rooms turned into a Buddhist temple. Zhao Xuan, a bald donkey, twirled the beads and beat the wooden fish.
Recently, people in the village said that a family nearby had abducted a handsome young husband to go back.
I poked my head out curiously. Who is so capable. A few village women who were busy
in the fields also stretched their waists and went to have a look.
So I followed everyone all the way, and the more I walked, the more I felt something was wrong, and finally I stopped at my door.
This seems to be my home. Before
I could react, the others had lined up and stood on tiptoe to look at Zhao Xuan, who was cleaning the yard.
This young man looks handsome, and I think he is a man of great wealth. Who has such a good life in
this family? He has such a husband.
Looks like a little girl.
I quickly picked up the conversation and heard that the little girl was beautiful and kind-hearted. The accusation that
I abducted Zhao Xuan to the depths of the mountains is confirmed. As
the days went by, Zhao Xuan and I decided to go to the mountain to pick some herbs to sell in order to support our family. The mountain road was rugged and the willows were dark and flowers were bright. We met many people. People in the next village also knew that there was a young couple in Xinghua Village who chased wild boars up the mountain every day.
Other than that, I had a leisurely life. I don’t know when
Zhao Xuan became interested in my yard.
“In the early days, the courtyard was really deserted.” “The flowers are too bright, and I don’t like them.” “When I was a child, Chu Chu was so cute that she cried.” I can’t argue with
that.
Recalling the past, my father and mother suddenly disappeared from my side, and Zhao Xuan became my only playmate. All day long
I followed him and called out, “Brother Yan Gui.” Sometimes when he was writing and reading in his room and had no time to take care of me, I would hold the Osmanthus tree in the yard and cry hard.
Nine-year-old Chao Hsuan leans helplessly beside him and recites a poem:
“Yu Rong is lonely and her tears are dry; a pear blossom brings rain in spring.”
I’m not impressed.
“If you keep crying, your eyes will go blind.” He bent down and looked me in the eye tenderly, touching the top of my head for the first time.
I wiped my nose on my sleeve and followed Zhao Xuan in a flash. “Brother Yan Gui, play with Chu Chu.”
“Does Chuchu still cry?”
I was stunned and remembered that when I was fifteen years old, Zhao Xuan and I were separated. At that time, he stood in a green shirt with an expressionless face and cast a quick glance at me. I felt a shock in my heart, “Yan Gui elder brother.”.
I subconsciously pinched the corner of my clothes and called softly, expecting him to hear it and fearing that he would hear it. Suffering from a
long illness, Queen Zhong died suddenly.
Later, Zhao Xuan left Baiyun Temple. After
he left, I had a serious illness, and the people in the temple thought that my life was not long, and that I was the son of the former Dynasty, so they simply gave me to an old herbalist and took me everywhere to seek medical advice. Unexpectedly, I did not know which folk prescription had made me survive. Later, the old herbalist passed away, and I wandered around alone, so I no longer felt the need to cry.
“When you left me that year, I cried for a long time.”
“Chuchu has grown up.” He walked up to me and touched my head for a long time, just like a long time ago. On the second day of
Zhao Xuan’s escape, he heard that the two princes took a sword and led troops into the court. They rewarded each minister with a piece of white cloth and asked them to wrap their heads around their necks. The ministers were so frightened that they bowed down on the spot.
So, in the case of the prince’s life and death unknown, Zhao Xin ascended the throne.
For Zhao Xin, as long as Zhao Xuan does not die, his position will be unstable. For
half a month, has been looking for Zhao Xuan, he, regardless of the court, corrupt officials and traitors make waves, the people suffer unspeakably.
However, the search was fruitless, and finally withdrew the heavy troops guarding the city day and night.
Meanwhile, outside the palace, Zhao Xuan changed into coarse clothes and tried to plant flowers in my yard.
“Even if I plant it, if I don’t like it another day, I’ll pull it all out. You’re wasting your time.”
“So what? I’ll just plant it, and you just pull it out. We’ll each do our own job.” Chao Hsuan smiled triumphantly.
“What are your plans for the future?” I paused, and Zhao Xuan calmly called out his name.
If it’s a matter for the imperial court, it’s natural to take one step at a time. Compared to Chao Hsin, I’m poor and blank except for one name. How can I fight him?
He seemed to be talking about something that didn’t matter.
“In my memory, the prince was a man who could do anything with ease, not a coward who hid in fireworks.” I
have a kind of anger that I don’t know why, and now I’m shouting and bursting out. When he heard
this, he looked at me, and the eyes that stared at me seemed to be bottomless. What was he thinking at the moment.
Soon he lowered his head and continued to work on the flowers in his hands. “Hasn’t the first day changed, too?”
“I’m afraid these orchids are going to bloom. I’ll have to pay more attention these days.”
I am really not Xie Chuchu ten years ago, willing to follow behind Zhao Xuan. After I
left Baiyun Temple, I began to hide here and there. As I grew older, I began to secretly contact the forces of the former Dynasty, vowing that I would never live for myself in this life.
My father and my mother were burned in the fire set by Zhao Ting. I have read all the ancient books and records, and I know that the change of Dynasties is a common thing in history. It is beyond reproach, but I am unwilling.
That’s my blood feud.
If it is not the winner or the loser, then why can’t I be the winner? Besides, this country belongs to me.
I vaguely remember when I was a child, my father squeezed my hand and said, “In this world, you can’t get a new beginning.” In
the past ten years, I went to the south of the Yangtze River to contact the forces of the former Dynasty and fled everywhere.
The continuous income of the uprising army along the road finally formed a force that could confront the court.
Zhao Xin ascended the throne, Zhao Xuan fled, the immediate situation for me, is not necessarily a good thing.
Watching the homeless people in the street humbly stretch out their begging hands to the pedestrians again and again, and the women in coarse clothes crying in despair with their starving children, the scenes are like hell on earth.
It’s about time.
At night, I plan to go to the palace to meet the two princes.
“The West Palace is running out of water.”
Taking advantage of the moment when the guards in front of Zhao Xin’s palace exchanged, I quickly climbed over the wall, entered the courtyard, and carefully opened the door. Before I could close the door again, a cold blade was pressed against my neck, and Zhao Xin’s voice sounded behind me.
“It’s unnecessary. The king has never set up a large army in his palace. The king himself is a sharp sword.”
I gasped and smelled blood in the humid air.
“The emperor really lives up to his reputation, and the little girl admires him very much.”
A “saint” seemed to make Zhao Xin feel satisfied, and the knife on my neck loosened a little.
“a woman has dared to enter the king’s palace. Tell me what she wants, or the king will not let you go out of the palace.”
“If you say so, will you spare my life?”
“Don’t say that the king can let you die now.”
Don’t worry. I was just about to say that General Peng sent me. He asked me to give this to you.
I took out the jade pendant that Zhao Xuan carried with him.
“Why is Zhao Xuan’s jade pendant here?” Zhao Xin’s tone became dignified.
“General Peng asked me to send a message to the emperor. Zhao Xuan is in General Peng’s hands. He’s not threatening the emperor. He just wants to make a deal with the emperor. On the day the emperor promises to ascend the throne, he will scrape the territory north of Liaodong to the general. We will choose a day to offer Zhao Xuan’s head with both hands.”
I said respectfully, carefully rubbing the jade pendant with cold light in my hand, waiting for Zhao Xin to open his mouth.
“Humph!” He laughed, as if contemptuously. “How can king trust you?”
“The little girl was really helpless. She broke into the temple at night and was willing to die to apologize.” I bowed my head and solemnly saluted Zhao Xin.
Zhao Xin loosened the sword around my neck. “A mere woman doesn’t deserve to die by the sword of this king.” When
I slipped out of the palace, the moon was already on the top of the willows.
Creeping back into the courtyard, I could easily smell the flowers, and
the door was suddenly opened. “Chu-chu secretly went out to enjoy the flowers alone in the middle of the night with me on his back.”
“Why aren’t you asleep?”
Chao Hsuan covered his hand and yawned. “I had enough sleep during the day, but I couldn’t sleep at night, so I came out to look at the evening primrose. I didn’t expect that at first I was so cunning that I was one step ahead of me.”
I calmed down and breathed,
“I lost your jade pendant.”
“It was originally given to you, but it was only a small gift to go to.”
“It’s a pity. Maybe we can sell it for some money.”
Zhao Xuan suddenly approached me, breathing warm through my hair.
“The blood is oozing out,” he said, reaching for my neck with a handkerchief. With my head
held high, I looked as if I wouldn’t admit defeat. “I don’t know which branch of the tree I was hit by.”
For Zhao Xuan, I don’t even bother to make up a serious excuse, whether he believes it or not.
“This branch is really sharp, and the wound is so neat.”
“There are all kinds of strange things in the world.” I tried to convince him with my own momentum. With a sneer,
he put a hand on my cheek and exhaled warm air in my ear.
“I’ll believe whatever you say. Just don’t force yourself too much.”
His last sentence was extremely light.
“It’s late at night. I’m going back to my room.” I closed the door in a flurry of footsteps.
I tried my best to ignore the attentive eyes of Zhao Xuan when he looked at me in my mind. I have more important things to do than love at the
moment. I got up early
that day and went out.
“Princess, General Peng has been transferred to suppress the uprising.”
“Chao Hsin was extremely suspicious. I confronted him in the name of General Peng. Even if he didn’t believe me completely, he would never let a major threat stay with him.”
“Once General Peng is gone, we have a better chance of winning.”
“Our troops have moved all the way south, and Zhao Xin has sent a large number of troops south to suppress the uprising. Central City is now poorly guarded, and Zhao Xuan is bound to mobilize troops from the north of the Great Wall to defend Central City.”
North army is the most elite troops, long stationed in the north of the Great Wall, almost invincible, and Zhao Xin trust is the army, but without the emperor’s personal edict, the north division is not allowed to enter the city without authorization, otherwise the chief. After
Zhao Xin ascended the throne, if he wanted to mobilize the army, it would take 15 days to send the letter.
It has been a month since Zhao Xin ascended the throne, leaving me little time.
“What is the current situation of our army?”
“Princess Hui, we met officers and soldiers in the Narrow Mountain area. Because of the terrain, we retreated in defeat and temporarily blocked our advance, but recently the leader of the northwest rebel army came to our barracks.”
“Really? What did he say?”
“He offered to submit to the princess with a hundred thousand troops.”
This is undoubtedly a very good news for me, the leader is loyal, brave and good at fighting, the most important thing is that his hundreds of thousands of troops for me is the key to win the war, the hundreds of thousands of troops from the central city but five hundred kilometers, as long as with the help of force, the first to occupy the central city, and the north army battle has some chance to win.
Princess, as fate would have it, the central city is bound to be in our pocket. Overthrowing the big businessmen is just around the corner. I’ve been waiting for this day all the time for
ten years. After
a short period of joy, I calmed down,
many people in the central city, if take the storm, the sword without eyes, will inevitably hurt the people.
“Let him stay put, and I’ll let him come if necessary.” The best way
now is to take the lead in assassinating Zhao Xin before the arrival of the North Division.
As long as Zhao Xin died, the palace chaos, we seize the opportunity to cooperate with the army inside and outside, occupy the central city, when the time comes, even if the north army, we can be ready to fight ahead of time.
“Chao Hsin must die.”
“Princess, tomorrow Zhao Xin will go to the suburbs to offer sacrifices. There are not many troops in the palace. In my opinion, if you want to assassinate, tomorrow is the best time.”
“Princess, isn’t this a little too hasty? There aren’t many of us in the city, and we’re not prepared for anything right now.”
“Besides, Chao Hsin is highly armed. If he confronts us head-on, none of us can be his opponent.” As soon as the voice fell, everyone was silent for a moment.
“I’ll kill him.” A deep voice came from the corner, and Xu came out calmly.
I almost forgot that he was silent all the time.
He came from Mobei, all the way south to here. When I passed a mountain, I happened to save him from the bandits. I took him home and took care of him carefully for several days before he woke up from his coma.
As soon as he woke up, he sat on the edge of the bed with his sword in his arms and said nothing. Then he left, and a few days later, I heard that the bandits on the nearby hilltop had been bloodied by a young man with a sword.
A few days later, he stood in front of me with gold and silver. “Oh, my guest, do you want to take a job or stay at the hotel?”
I said half jokingly.
He scratched his head, as if he thought I had really forgotten him, and was anxiously trying to say something. He tried to point to himself, but forgot what he was holding in his hand. The gold and silver were spilled all over the floor, and he bent down to pick them up in a hurry.
I leaned against the door and laughed happily. This man’s martial arts are extraordinary. Maybe he can be used by me.
Only after so many years, has not used Xu leisure to do anything, the assassination of the two princes, but can give him a try.
The clock is ticking and we can’t wait any longer.
“What about the behavior of the Union Army?” The letter that the
princess ordered her subordinates to write before the emperor’s death has been sent, and the North Army has now stopped marching. It will take them at least another day to find out what’s going on before they dare to go into town.
All right, as long as it lasts until after tomorrow. It will be too late for them to come.
Life and death is tomorrow, and today has to go on. Think of the family that does not live up to expectations of the prince, I reluctantly saved their private money for many years to buy two roast chicken, success or failure, as their own practice.
With the afterglow of the sunset, I knocked on my door.
“Chu-chu, you’re back.” As soon as he opened the door, Zhao Xuan rushed towards me and held me tightly in his arms, but he was more than a head taller than me, and I could only expiratory dyspnoea on his chest. Before
“I” could say anything, he suddenly turned to protect me in his arms.
“Still not coming out?”
A sound of footsteps came out of the woods, and Xu stood in awe with a sword on his back.
“Funny, I wouldn’t have been able to find you if it hadn’t been for that momentary shortness of breath that betrayed you.”
Zhao Xuan looked at him thoughtfully, while Xu Xiu looked at me all the time.
I patted Chao Hsuan to signal him to let go of me, and he reluctantly withdrew his hand and retreated to the door, looking at me as if he were angry. “I won’t let him in.”
I don’t really want to admit to Xu at the moment that I know this fool.
Who would have thought that without saying a word, Xu leapt over the wall of my house in one breath, landed steadily on the ground, and looked provocatively at Zhao Xuan.
All right, two fools.
“Don’t stand there, go cook,” I said to Zhao Xuan, who looked unhappy, with the dignity of the head of the family. At the
dinner table, I looked at a roast chicken on my plate and thought, “Chao Hsuan, I remember I bought two roast chickens.”
“Oh, I ate it.” He pulled off another drumstick with a calm face. How on earth did
he manage to steal food so justifiably without changing his face.
Fortunately, I grabbed the drumstick from Zhao Xuan’s hand. Zhao Xuan tried to grab it. I made up my mind not to give it to him. I stuffed the drumstick into my mouth. Just out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of Xu Xiu, who looked at me with a blank face.
“By the way, why are you following me today? If you want to be a guest, just say so.”
He paused. “Not today.”
“Huh?”
He stopped talking and looked awkwardly at the ground.
“Do you mean every time?” I suddenly thought of something and looked at him incredibly.
“It’s a remote place, and I’m afraid there will be wolves, tigers, and leopards on the road.” For
so long, I didn’t find that Xu Yu had been following me on the way home. I said why I couldn’t meet those wolves when I was alone.
I hurriedly kicked Zhao Xuan, who was eating the drumstick. He slowly put down the drumstick he had finished eating. Knowing that he was in the wrong, he felt dejected and cleaned up the dishes without saying a word. On
a whim, I decided to see Xu off, but he walked behind me all the way without saying a word. I simply kept silent and went to the place where we were going to break up.
“In my spare time, I would like to thank you for tomorrow and for all the care you have taken over the years.”
I took out some of the treasures he had given me in the past, and he stood there, looking at me with a puzzled face, as if he could not understand my action.
“I have a request. If I fail, you will take Zhao Xuan out of here and go to Jiangnan.”
“Oh, I’m back. I thought I was going to leave my newly abducted son and run away with him.” As soon as I sat down, Zhao Xuan came out.
He got up and opened a window, and the moonlight followed him in.
“Zhao Xuan, if Xu Xiu comes to see you tomorrow, you can go with him.” I kept my head down and tried not to look at him.
We lay in ambush on the only way for Zhao Xin to offer sacrifices.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Xin, dressed in armor, seemed to have come prepared. I noticed something was wrong, but it was too late. Swords and swords
for a moment. In the
chaos, I stabbed Zhao Xin with a sword, but he easily dodged.
You were the woman of the night. I see. The king has been taken in by you. He jumped from his horse.
“The king spared your life that night, but he won’t show mercy today.”
I knew Zhao Xin was highly skilled in martial arts, but I didn’t expect that he had reached such a point. I was no match for him. Soon, I was stabbed by Zhao Xin in several places. According to the plan, I took the crowd back to a valley, where someone was ambushed.
Unexpectedly, he pushed me into a desperate situation step by step so leisurely.
Until there was no way to retreat, I dragged my injured hand to send out the signal. The men
in ambush filed out from the hillside and protected me behind them.
“Do you think you can kill the king like this?”
“How!” I clenched my teeth. I don’t know when there were more and more soldiers behind Zhao Xin, but we seemed to be passive.
I have a vague bad feeling.
“Women are ridiculous.” The speed of
his sword was very fast, and at the same time he dodged more than a dozen people. The silver sword flashed before my eyes again and again, and the blood splashed out and dyed the soil red.
He didn’t seem to care about the swords coming at him at all, but just killed people with an expressionless face. After the battle between the
two sides, we were forced to retreat.
Finally he put his sword to my neck like he did that night.
“Did not the king say that the king himself is the sword?” He thrust his sword at the man who was about to attack from behind.
After a fight with Zhao Xin, I have been seriously injured, trying to support the body, looking at the bodies everywhere.
Zhao Xin walked up to me, “You don’t know, Xie Chuchu, I already knew the letter you sent to the North Army.”. The reason why I accompany you to play this scene is to draw you out. Now I tell you that the North Army has arrived in Central City today, and when the time comes, I will clean up the remnants of the former Dynasty one by one.
“Now go at ease. It is your honor to die by the sword of the king.”
I could not speak, so I closed my eyes and stopped looking at Zhao Xin.
Somehow, I still have Zhao Xuan’s somewhat careless eyes in my mind.
I was afraid I couldn’t come back, and I responded in my heart.
Father and mother, Chuchu has come to you. Forgive Chuchu.
“Zhao Xin, how are you?”
I suddenly opened my eyes and looked up at the familiar voice. It was Zhao Xuan! The
palace army came a burst of screams, a group of men in black to fight out of the tight encirclement, Zhao Xuan came out of it.
“You figured it out. I thought you were going to hide for a while.” Zhao Xin put away his sword and could not hide the excitement on his face. A figure quickly picked me up, and it was Xu who should have left. He looked worried and looked at my injuries.
“Sorry I’m late.”
I struggled to force a smile.
“What are you doing here?”
“I told Chao Hsuan what happened today, and he knew you were in danger.”
He actually expected me to fail.
“Chao Hsuan, do you know how I’ve been through all these years? Why have you been able to sit back and enjoy the splendor and wealth since you were a child, while I can only face the vast yellow sand and bury my mother with my own hands?” Then
Zhao Xin was mercilessly stabbed with a sword.
Zhao Xuan dodged, looked at us, and suddenly chuckled.
“Rest easy?”
I nervously grasped Xu’s clothes and wanted him to help Zhao Xuan.
“His martial arts are not inferior to mine.” Xu frowned and looked at them carefully.
Zhao Xuan drew his sword coldly.
I have never seen Zhao Xuan holding a sword.
When I was a child, Queen Zhong didn’t let him touch swords at all, let alone practice martial arts. In the past ten years, he had experienced more than I thought. I suddenly couldn’t see through the people in front of me. As soon as
Zhao Xuan waved his hand, the group of men in black knelt down and said, “Your Highness.”
I heard a long time ago that Zhao Ting likes to raise dead soldiers. The famous four hundred dead soldiers in Jianghu only take orders from Zhao Ting. One can defeat a hundred.
I thought it was just a rumor, but I saw it with my own eyes today.
“Father passed on the dead to you?” Zhao Xin was a little flustered.
“Why aren’t the Yankees here yet?” He snapped.
A trembling bodyguard came forward and said, “Your Majesty, just now the prince stood in front of the city gate and took out the military amulet and asked them..” Back away! As soon as he finished, Zhao Xin pierced his throat with a sword.
His eyes are already red.
“The amulet is on you, too.” Zhao Xin was furious.
“From the very beginning, I asked Chao Ting to let you go back to the city.”
Zhao Xin suddenly thought of something and shook his sword hand violently. “To get me out of the North Army?!”
“Chao Hsin, I gave you a chance.” Zhao Xuan took advantage of his momentary absence and quickly stepped forward to stab him with a sword. The action was neat and did not give the other side any chance to react.
Zhao Xuan took advantage of the situation and pulled out his sword. With a bang, Zhao Xin fell back.
“If you had stayed in Saibei all your life, I wouldn’t have killed you.” His eyes were full of disdain and arrogance.
Then Zhao Xuan came over and touched my forehead and picked me up.
At first, Chao Hsin wasn’t as easy to deal with as you thought. But it doesn’t matter. I’ve already helped you get rid of it. I’ll give you everything you want.
I was still trying to resist, but I was exhausted, the wound was still bleeding, and before I could say anything, I fainted.
When I woke up again, I saw a dark roof, “Chuchu!”
I followed the sound, and Xu Yu was looking at me through the prison wall.
“At the beginning, you woke up.” I put my hand on my aching head. “Where is this?”
“This is a prison cell.”
“Chao Hsuan has put us in prison. Without his orders, no one could have come.”
I thought, but I did not do anything, is it because I plan to kill the emperor, by the way to restore a country?
“How did we get in?”
“When you were wounded that day, Zhao Xuan asked me to take you to the Imperial Physician. He directly led the man in black to kill all the henchmen of the two princes in the palace.”
“He became emperor, and then he arrested us and put us in this prison.” Xu Xian looked at me with some guilt.
“At first, I took it lightly. He’s not as simple as we thought.” There are so many things about
him that I can’t figure out. Since
he was holding the amulet and had four hundred dead soldiers, why did he abscond from the palace? Why did he lock me up when he had saved me? I was at my wits’ end.
Zhao Xuan was kind enough to call the Imperial Physician to feel my pulse.
I grabbed him and said, “I want to see Zhao Xuan.”
“If you want to see me, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until the emperor thinks of you.”
“You know who I am?”
“Princess of the former Dynasty, Hsieh Chu-chu, now no one in the world knows that you want to restore the country and plan to assassinate the emperor.”
“Which emperor?”
“Nature is the saint of the day.”
Perhaps this decade is long enough to turn a young man who follows his mother into a treacherous and changeable emperor.
Perhaps those days in Xinghua Village were just for Zhao Xuan to get close to me and let me relax my vigilance against him.
Borrow my knife to kill Zhao Xin, at least can confuse Zhao Xin, kill Zhao Xin and then arrest me.
In any case, it must be admitted that the final winner is him, Zhao Xin lost, I also lost in a muddle.
I don’t know how long it’s been.
One day at dawn, I turned over and decided to get up. I turned around and saw Zhao Xuan sitting on the ground next to me.
“Did you sleep well at the beginning?” He tilted his head and asked me.
“No, the floor is too hard, and the thatch is a little damp,” I complained subconsciously.
“It’s safer here than outside.” He patted the dust on his body and got up slowly. Only
then did I see that he was not wearing the dragon robe I had imagined. But an ordinary private server.
I looked across to the cell and saw that Hsu had disappeared. “Where did Hsu go?”
“In another place for the time being.”
“Zhao Xuan, are you going to kill me?”
“Do you believe me, Chuchu?”
“So far, I have never doubted you.”
“I won’t kill you.” He said.
“What are you hiding from me?”
I remember that day: “You are so good at martial arts, but I remember when I was a child, Queen Chung wouldn’t let you touch a sword, let alone practice martial arts.”
Then the light moved to another place, Zhao Xuan’s whole person fell into a dark.
“I’ve killed people,” he paused. “When I was very young.”
My eyes widened.
He continued, “The first person I killed, Zhao Ting held my hand and forced me to stab him.”
“The blood was all the way down to the soles of my feet, and I can still remember his eyes staring at me when he was dead, with my eyes closed.”
I touched his hand and felt that his hands, which usually served flowers and grass, were trembling silently at the moment.
He seemed to smile, took my hand gently, and bowed his head to play with it.
“Chao Ting killed a lot of people. He wanted me to be like him. For ten years, I was locked up in the palace, practicing martial arts day and night.”
“Why don’t you ever tell me?”
“How dare I tell you? In the beginning, when Chao Ting killed your parents, I was beside him.” I
stayed where I was. For
more than ten years, I never thought that Zhao Xuan would have a relationship with his father and mother.
“In the beginning, I didn’t want to kill anyone.”
“That year at the palace, I watched Chao Ting kill one after another. He had no sense of humanity and regarded killing as fun.” He closed his eyes.
“In the early days of the massacre, my mother cried and held me in her arms. She took me away from Chao Ting and brought me to Baiyun Temple, where I spent three days and nights kneeling in the Buddhist temple.” If
I remember correctly, it was the first time I met Zhao Xuan. When I was
six years old, I was lying quietly in front of the window, looking at the boy who was motionless and merged with the darkness in the Buddha Hall. He looked about my age. I was really bored and wanted to talk to him.
“Big brother, are you playing with a wooden man?” He remained on his knees in silence.
“Big brother, it’s so dark inside. Come out. I can play with you reluctantly.”
Still no response.
I snuck open the door and ran to his side, intending to see if he was alive at close range.
Suddenly, he moved. His throat was dry and hoarse, but there was still a kind of cold feeling that went deep into his bone. “Who are you?”
His cold-blooded eyes looked at me as if he were not looking at a living thing. I was shocked by this terrible look and burst into tears.
“Do you know, in the early days, when I was kneeling there, my mind was full of scenes of Zhao Ting killing people in front of me, one person after another falling down, one whine after another, blood on the ground. For three days and three nights, I often looked down at my hands and wondered whether I was a living person or a dead body that should have been buried in the ground long ago.”
“It wasn’t until a little girl burst into tears in front of me for no reason that I realized that this was still the world and I was still alive.”
He said so.
I tried to calm myself down, trying not to think about Zhao Xuan’s pain at that time, but the expression of his eyes seemed to emerge in front of me. It was only
later that I learned that the little girl was the princess of the former Dynasty. In the beginning, the world should have been yours.
He bent down and touched my head. If you wait a little longer, you’ll be able to get out soon. Then
he turned and left.
“Hey, wait, Zhao Xuan, don’t go.” I beat the railing desperately, trying to make him look back at me again, but his pace was too fast, and he didn’t turn back until he turned.
I sat there, unconscious all morning, until someone came to deliver the meal. “Eat quickly, girl, this is what the emperor made for you.”
I pounced on him. “He’s been doing this for so many days.”
He was a little embarrassed.
“Your Highness spends most of his time in Imperial Kitchen these days.”
I couldn’t speak for a moment.
But after today, I’m afraid there won’t be such a chance in the future. The princess might as well eat quickly.
“What do you mean?”
“Other subordinates dare not say much.”
In front of the meal, is not the apricot flower village, Zhao Xuan every day to me? There was a lot of noise
outside, and Xu rushed in suddenly with people.
I looked at the saluting people in front of me.
“Last night, Zhao Xuan let me out,” said Xu Xiu. “At the beginning, our army had already entered Yangcheng.” “Where is Zhao Xuan?”
I asked with trembling lips.
“Don’t worry, Princess. The rebel army has invaded the palace. Now the city is full of our people. Zhao Xin is dead. If we kill Zhao Xuan, we will be finished.”
I looked at Hsu in puzzlement. “Hsu, what on earth is going on?” In the days when
we were imprisoned, our main force led the insurrectionary army to come to support us. This morning, the central city was breached. The palace is surrounded by layers, and they have rushed in to kill Zhao Xuan. At the beginning, the big merchants are going to die. Xu Xiu stepped forward to hold me who was about to shake.
Zhao Xuan wants to hand over the world to me.
Fleeing is to let Zhao Xin can’t free up his hands to deal with me, alone to retreat north division, kill Zhao Xin, is to save me, I will be locked up here is to arouse all the rebels to come to the rescue. In a blur of
consciousness, I had only one thought in my mind. I wanted to see him.
From last night to just now I did not enter the water, to now, I feel every part of my body is clamoring, I broke away from the people, regardless of their own safety to the palace.
Heart only kept repeating a sentence, too late.
I heard loud cheers from the Hall of Golden Bells.
I rushed to peel off the layers of the crowd, and finally saw Zhao Xuan sitting on the Dragon Chair with several arrows.
Blood, like an unopened flower, gradually bloomed from his body.
I looked at Zhao Xuan lying in a pool of blood, and at this moment I understood what was called a heart like a knife. The last thing
he did for me was to die in front of the world and tell the world that the Zhao family was dead and it was time to start the next Dynasty. On the day
I ascended the throne, the old herbalist came to see me. He stroked his beard with regret. The prince was really an eye-opener for me. When I was in the General’s Office, I saw Zhao Ting lock him up with a group of wolves. He was so young at that time. He trembled and shouted at his mother. Zhao Ting was a vicious man who not only tortured others. Even their own family members were not spared, and they were bitten to a bloody mess. Later, they had to keep biting each other with the wolves to survive.
He snorted contemptuously.
This is just what I saw. I don’t know how Zhao Ting tortured your Highness in a place I couldn’t see. But I didn’t expect that your Highness would not become a person like Zhao Ting under such circumstances. Your Highness asked me to take care of you secretly for so many years. It’s just that things change. I didn’t listen to the
next words.
It turned out that they knew each other. During the ten years when we were separated, Zhao Xuan looked at me all the time. From a green and ignorant crybaby to the son of the former Dynasty who was determined to restore the country, he had witnessed them one by one. And
he didn’t say anything. Fifty years after the
new Dynasty, I have grown old.
I have no children in my life, and I can rest assured that I have devoted all my efforts to this Dynasty. Just
as I was about to close my eyes, two historiographers came in arguing, and I woke up again with my last breath of strength.
“I have a matter for Your Majesty’s decision.”
“Your Majesty, the last king of the great merchant Dynasty wrote in the history books that Zhao Xin was still Zhao Xuan.”
“Zhao Xin.”
I seem to see the smiling young man in Baiyun Temple striding towards me again.
“At first, I didn’t admire the immortal exploits of the heroes in the script.”
“The world is full of beautiful scenery. From the singing of fishermen in the south of the Yangtze River to the lonely smoke of the setting sun in Mobei, I want to see a little of it.”
Record No.: YX01VmYJ9oaMgq9rR
Published on 2022-06-23 15:06 · Reprinting
of Nanke Dream
is prohibited Fanghua Complaint: Fireworks Are Easy to Be Cold, For Whom to Bow Down
, Fat Da Feifei, etc.
