Cheng Huang
Hongyan passed away: I still remember the house slave I had bullied for three years at that time
, and he became the regent above ten thousand people. With a sword hidden in his
smile, he issued an edict to force me to marry the crippled king of an enemy country. Later, he begged me,
“Will you come back and be my queen?”.
“Don’t move.”
Xiao Pingwu casually leaned back in his chair, turning a wolf’s hair pen dipped in ink between his fingers. For half an hour, the white paper on the table was still empty.
I knew he meant to play, but I had to play along.
But it is impossible to keep a posture for half an hour without moving.
“Kill me.”
I broke the pot and collapsed directly on the floor of the jade pile, driving the golden chains on my ankles to rattle.
Xiao Pingwu hates me.
Because I forced him to be a slave in my house for three years.
At that time, he was fifteen years old, with a silver gun in his hand, and he was as handsome as a cloud. One hundred thousand soldiers in the
camp, I took a fancy to him at a glance.
Seeing my expression, Huang’s elder brother knew clearly, “My Wei’er has been in the house for two years, and it’s time to hire more people to guard the house.”
But Xiao Pingwu didn’t want to be my bodyguard.
I looked at him with a half-smile. “If you don’t want to be a bodyguard, you can be a slave.”
At that time, I never knew what it meant to “ask but not get”. A light sentence erased his previous years of hard work and determination to serve the country.
I was a wicked man, so now I have my retribution. The sudden pain in my
wrist brought me to my senses.
“What is Your Highness thinking?” Xiao Pingwu’s line of sight without temperature is wandering on my face.
Thinking.. Will the Prince Regent stay tonight? I put my hand around his neck and exhaled like an orchid.
Xiao Pingwu knocked my arm off like a dirty thing, and his eyes were disgusted.
“Chu Huaiwei, you make the king sick.” Disgusting
, get out of here!
Xiao Pingwu is gone.
But here comes the creep again.
My own sister, the Second Princess, leaned against the door and looked at me with pity. The door behind
her was half open, the cold night wind poured in, and I shivered with only a layer of gauze on my body.
“Poor thing, elder sister.”
Her tone was sarcastic.
I rubbed my arms and didn’t lift my head. “Get out, too.”
Chu Yunhe was choked for a moment.
She strode up to me and before I could react, she slapped me hard.
“Pow!”
Forbidden plaything, what qualifications do you have to be arrogant now? If Your Majesty knew you were alive, guess what would happen to you! Her Majesty in her
mouth was the final Victor in the battle to seize the throne.
Our emperor brother, Chu Yan.
A despicable, shameless man who covets his own sister.
I stood up, but her maid kicked me in the knee socket and threw me to the ground.
Chu Yunhe laughed.
Brother Pingwu said you were dead, but he secretly hid you, but he committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. For the good of brother Pingwu, I can only kill you. She pulled out the gold hairpin from her head and walked toward me. “Sister Huang, don’t blame me.”
She was probably so eager to kill me that she forgot that I only had chains on my feet and that my hands could move freely.
When she approached, I slapped her hard, and when she fell to the ground in shock, I rounded her arm and slapped her again.
My hands were numb, and her maid reacted and pushed me to the ground.
“Ah!” Chu Yun-ho covered his face and screamed.
Xiao Pingwu left and returned.
He looked at the chaos in the hall and frowned slightly.
“Brother Pingwu.” Seeing Hsiao Pingwu, Chu Yun-ho’s eyes flashed a flicker of panic.
In order to prevent her from showing the skills of White Lotus, I decided to act first.
As soon as I rolled my eyes, I went straight to the ground.
At first, I pretended to be dizzy, and then I pretended to fall asleep. When
I opened my eyes again, the first thing that came into my sight was still the roof of the tent with lotus patterns, which I had been looking at for three months.
“Your Highness is awake?” A corner of
the gauze curtain was lifted.
“My humble minister, Jiang Jie,” he said, “I would like to ask for the pulse of your Highness.”
Jiang Jie is the most skilled doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in the Imperial Hospital.
Now that even the hospital has been alarmed, the new emperor must know that I am still alive.
I resigned and closed my eyes.
Bored to death.
Jiang Jie prescribed a prescription and then took out the ointment to smear the red marks on my ankles. Only then did
I realize that Xiao Pingwu had taken off the chain.
“Where is the second princess?”
“Go back to your Highness. The Regent has sent your Highness back.”
I knew it.
He always wants to stand up for Chu Yunhe.
Ironically, Xiao Pingwu didn’t want to be my bodyguard, but he was willing to die for Chu Yunhe.
It was the third year that he was forced to be a slave by me. When he heard that the two princesses had fallen into the hands of bandits on their way to Xiangguo Temple to burn incense, he single-handedly broke into the stronghold. When
I received the news and took people to the past, I only saw Chu Yunhe stumbling down the hill.
She threw herself into my arms and kept crying, her body trembling violently. There are a lot of bodies.. ShaSheng bursts at
the top of the mountain.
Chu Yunhe was sent back to the palace, and I took a thousand guards into the mountains.
I led people to exterminate the remaining evil, and searched for two days and two nights in the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood. I turned over Wuyin Mountain, but I didn’t find any trace of Xiao Pingwu.
I sat down on the ground and let the wind blow.
My mind went blank. Before
that moment, I had always thought that Xiao Pingwu was just a slave in the house for me.
At most, it was a house slave who was forced into the house because I was not willing to have something I could not get in the world.
Until strands of dull pain wrapped around my heart. When
I was shaking my mind, a dagger with cold light pierced my back heart.
It’s a mountain thief who is still alive.
Xiao Pingwu asked me to apologize to Chu Yunhe.
Looking at his gloomy face, I suddenly had an idea and asked him, “When she was kidnapped by bandits, did you go to save her by accident or premeditation?”
His face gave a sudden pause.
I immediately had the answer.
“No wonder you like Chu Yun-ho.” I chuckled. “Of course you like someone who risked his life to help you get your freedom back.”
He sneered, “Of course Yunhe and you are different.”
I tried to hold back my anger and looked at him with the eyes of a fool.
However, in the end also did not restrain.
I rounded my arm and gave him the same experience as Chu Yunhe.
“Hsiao Ping-wu, you’re really out of your mind.”
I made Xiao Pingwu angry again.
I thought he was going to strangle me, but he didn’t.
He simply removed all the serving maids and re-chained my ankles. Silence returned to the
hall.
I lay motionless in bed for three days, opened my eyes again, and saw Jiang Jie again.
He lowered his eyes and was carefully applying medicine to the flesh and blood flying around my ankles.
“Why waste your time?”
I laughed at myself.
Seeing me wake up, Jiang Jie picked up the black soup beside him and scooped a spoonful to my lips.
“I will wrap your Highness with gauze thick enough.” He still lowered his eyebrows and said, “Your Highness shouldn’t fool around with his body. How many sick people in the world are eager to have a healthy body and live without illness or disaster? It’s already a great blessing.”
I looked at him for a moment and obediently drank the decoction spoonful by spoonful.
After several days of Jiang Jie’s recuperation, I gradually recovered my complexion. When he came
yesterday, he brought a cluster of peach branches.
Looking at the vase on the windowsill, I was in a trance. “It’s already March.” It has been more than four months
since the tragic palace change.
Just when I was stunned, someone pushed the door and came in.
I was wondering how long it would take him to come to me.
My brother Chu.
“I haven’t seen you for months. How is your sister?” Dressed in a yellow dragon robe of the Ming Dynasty,
he looks really noble and unparalleled.
But I know what a disgusting heart is under this layer of human skin.
I looked away in disgust. “Get out.”
Chu raised his lips, and his wanton eyes fell on me, and the faint light in his eyes flashed.
He suddenly stepped forward and clamped my wrist, and I couldn’t dodge because of the anklet.
He dragged me by the wrist, threw me onto the couch, and deceived me. “Do you think you’re still the princess who used to live high in the clouds?”? You are lucky that I have taken a fancy to you! With a surge in my
stomach, I pulled out my hand and gave him a slap with all my strength.
“Hsiao Ping-wu is really blind to support such a dirty thing as you to ascend the throne!”
The voice did not fall, I was slapped to the side of the head, after the pain of lip tearing, only felt a black eyes, heaven and earth began to rotate.
Bitch! I couldn’t get you before, and if I can’t get you now, won’t I be ashamed of the throne under my seat?
Chu Yi pinched my neck with one hand and tore the gauze clothes in front of me with the other. The
crisp sound of the split silk rang through my ears, and I vaguely saw the indifferent face of Chu Yunhe behind the crack in the gate.
Monstrous hatred and unwillingness are burning in my chest.
“Chu!”! You’d better hope for my death, otherwise you will surely die at my hands.
I roared with all my strength. As soon as
he moved, the next moment, the door of the temple collapsed, and Chu, who was pressing on me, was thrown out like a rag.
I heard Xiao Pingwu’s slightly frightened voice, but he came a little late.
I didn’t have the strength to open my eyes again, and when my lips moved, blood flowed out.
Whether failure or imprisonment, I have never thought of death, but Chu has the ability to force me to death.
But in the end, I was rescued by Jiang Jie and raised for three months before I could barely speak.
In the past three months, every time Jiang Jie came, he would bring me a cluster of flower branches, or crabapple or green lotus.
I once asked him why he bothered to please an abandoned princess like me.
But Jiang Jie said that he only hoped to bring life to the patient. In his eyes, there are only patients, and there is no difference between princesses and civilians.
However, a few days after this conversation, the doctor who treated me changed.
I never saw Jiang Jie again.
It is said that he was caught on the spot by the regent, who wanted to put him in prison, but he struggled to resist and touched the pillar and died. How could
such an innocent and upright person have an affair with someone? I don’t know when the vase with crabapple flowers in the
room disappeared.
I felt disheartened.
“Don’t — —!”
I woke up from my dream, and the blood-red color in front of me dissipated like fog. In the
dream, Jiang Jie touched the pillar and died, shouting his innocence before he died.
A big cold hand suddenly covered my neck, and Hsiao Ping-wu’s fierce expression appeared in front of me. “Chu Huai-wei, how does it feel to seduce the Imperial Physician?”
“Great.” I looked numb. “It’s better than seducing a house slave.”
Without waiting for me to finish, Hsiao Ping-wu grabbed me by the neck and pressed me under his body. His other hand was clenched around my waist. His strength was so great that I almost suspected he was going to crush me.
From his furious looks, I vaguely recognized some emotions other than anger.
“Hsiao Ping-wu, are you jealous?” The strength of the
waist suddenly stagnated.
I burst out laughing, as if I were prying into the other person’s secret. “Hsiao Ping-wu, so you love me.”
“Love?” He sneered, “You deserve the king’s love too!” The more
he denied it, the more guilty he became.
But there is no fluctuation in my heart.
In my calm gaze, he suddenly let go and strode out of my bedroom.
Half a month later, I received an imperial edict to send me to the State of Wei for marriage.
He wants to marry me to the third prince of Wei.
A cripple who is not good at walking and has a dark disposition.
Chu Yunhe came to see my joke specially.
She covered her lips and said, “Although the third prince of Wei is a cripple, at least he is a prince. If the elder sister marries, she will be the third princess. Yunhe is here to wish the elder sister a happy marriage in advance.”
“Borrow your good words.” I didn’t change my look. Knowing that
he was bored, Chu Yunhe left with a cold hum. On the day I
went to the State of Wei, it was Xiao Pingwu who personally wore the phoenix crown and hijab for me.
“If you ask me, I will keep you.” He fiddled with the tassels hanging from my ears.
I glanced at Chu Yunhe, who suddenly looked a little nervous, and pulled the corners of his mouth.
If I don’t go to make peace, only Chu Yunhe can go to the State of Chu.
I was deliberately silent, and after appreciating the suffering look of Chu Yunhe, I resolutely got into the carriage to get married.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
Before I left, I lifted the curtain of the car and said with a half-smile, “I’ll see you later, sister.”
Chu Yunhe’s eyelashes trembled.
After two months of traveling, I arrived at the capital of Wei. The knuckles of the hand that
reached into the curtain to help me out of the car were long and slightly calloused.
I heard someone call him “Night General”, and I immediately understood his identity.
Wei, the first general, listen to the waves at night.
White cloth body into the Wei court, holding three hundred thousand troops, that is the emperor personally give the power, representing a certain will of the emperor, the whole world can not find the second.
“I respectfully ask the princess.”
I got out of the carriage with his hand, and as the veil swayed, I could only see the corners of his dark purple and gold robe.
Until the big wedding day, I have not been able to see my husband, who is said to be gloomy and disabled, Wei Zheng, the king of Zhao.
All the wedding procedures were replaced by listening to Lan at night. When he took me out of the inn on horseback with a wedding motorcade, he told me that he was guilty. “Wang Yeh is not feeling well. I hope the princess will forgive me.”
I naturally understand. “The night general’s words are heavy.”
When worshipping heaven and earth, whispers of ridicule or sympathy continued in the hall, but I felt that Wei had already given face, at least not to let me hold a rooster to worship the hall.
When I was helped into the wedding room, I breathed a sigh of relief.
There is nothing worse than being imprisoned by Xiao Pingwu in the palace of Chu.
I waited quietly for Wei Zheng’s arrival. He won’t find someone to replace him in the
bridal chamber, will he?
Just as he was thinking, the door opened.
My hijab was also removed, and a handsome man in a wedding robe came into my eyes.
“Wang Yeh’s body is not fit for drinking, so the minister will do the work for him.” He looked at me with a slight smile and could not see the killing on the battlefield at all.
I once went to the battlefield with the emperor’s elder brother, and I also saw the appearance of listening to the soldiers on the battlefield at night when the Chu and Wei joined hands to repel the Xiongnu.
I took my glass and gulped it down, my lips slightly raised. “Long time no see, General Night.”
“Soon.” He put down his glass and whispered.
I raised my eyebrows slightly.
At this point, I still don’t understand what he meant.
“Where is Wei Zheng?” I asked. Listening to Lan Ping retire
at night, the candle flickered, and his exquisitely carved face was covered with a layer of pearls and jade. “Wang Yeh is dining with the concubine of Song, and I can do all the business with the princess.”
I know that Wei Zheng has an eye-like side concubine named Song Yanru.
But this is the beginning of the deal between me and night listening to Lan, if he can make full decisions, then Wei Zheng does not appear really does not matter. The struggle for the throne of the State of
Wei was even worse than that of the royal family of the State of Chu. When Jiang Jie was sent out of the palace, he was carrying a handwritten letter that I wanted to send to Wei.
This marriage is my plan.
I deliberately approached Jiang Jie to make Xiao Pingwu jealous and angry, but I didn’t expect that I would never see him again. I curled my
fingers slightly. “If the third prince is the one chosen by the general, then I will do my best to help the general get what he wants.”
At night I heard Lan bow to me and say, “The princess’s words are too serious. Half of the Jiang family is enough.”
“I only hope that when the general gets what he wants, I won’t forget what I want.”
“Nature.”
The Jiang family is my grandfather’s family, and its financial resources can reach a thousand cities. After helping my father ascend the throne and my mother ascend the throne, the Jiang family retired bravely when my grandfather died, broke up the whole into parts, and gradually faded out of the sight of the world.
Although there is no richest man in the world, Jiang’s inner strength is not reduced. It was originally the last card left by my grandfather to me and my elder brother, but I didn’t want it to be useful one day.
Now I am short of soldiers, night listen to Lan lack of money, naturally hit it off. On the second day of the
wedding, I met Wei Zheng.
As the rumor goes, he was pale and low, sitting in a wheelchair, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in a layer of gloom, completely isolating himself from the outside world.
Only when he saw Song Yanru, his layer of gloom that isolated him would reveal a slight gap and allow her to step in alone.
Her face is charming and bright, like a winter jasmine blooming in winter, full of vitality.
When she saw me, her bright smile was slightly stagnant, and Song Yanru, with some trepidation, turned to me, “..” My concubine has seen the princess.
I didn’t ask her to give me a gift. “I’m one year older than you. If my sister doesn’t give me up, you can call me sister.”
“Hey!” Song Yanru regained her bright smile and called me “Sister Huaiwei” happily.
Wei Zheng looked at me, and his eyes, which seemed to be able to freeze to death, slowed down slightly. Everyone
in Zhaowangfu has a bright eye and a bright heart. My elder brother failed to seize the throne. I became a deposed princess who could be sent to the State of Wei at will from the most noble princess of the State of Chu. However, Wei Zheng already had a person on his heart. In their eyes, I was just an abandoned woman who was not favored by her husband. After being respectful
to me for two or three days, seeing that I had no hope of being favored, he gradually slackened off.
When Song Yanru accidentally ran into a maid who accidentally knocked over the hot tea in my hand without too much fear, she was completely angry.
It was the first time I had ever seen her angry with a servant.
She summoned the royal housekeeper, “Uncle Fu!”! Drag this blind thing down and sell it!
“Yes, your concubine!” On the
surface, Wei Zheng is a prince who has no hope of winning, but his brothers are very cautious, even if his legs have been abandoned, Zhao Wang Fu is still like a sieve, placed in one after another eyes.
Just like this maidservant.
I shook the tea in my hand and looked at it calmly.
She was dragged down by Uncle Fu, who covered her mouth and kept struggling in horror.
Come to think of it, after today, no one in the house should dare to disrespect me.
“The princess is a good trick.”
The night breeze slowly, I am leaning against the window in a daze, suddenly sounded the sound of night listening to Lan slightly gnashing his teeth.
“Night General?” I came to my senses and said with a straight face, “I came here late at night, but I have something important to discuss.” He seemed to be choking on
my sudden solemn look. He cleared his throat for a moment and said, “That maid today is the spy of the seven princes.”
Is it to frighten the snake?
I pursed my lips. “What’s wrong with kicking her out?”
The night listens to Lan to look at me, the facial expression unexpectedly some words are indescribably complex.
“Yes, it’s not right.” He took out a small white porcelain pot from his sleeve and glanced at the silk cloth wrapped casually on the back of my hand. His tone was not very kind. “Three days later is the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. The princess has a wound on her hand. To outsiders, it’s very bad for the reputation of King Zhao.”
“It was my negligence.” I nodded to admit my mistake.
But his expression was not so gentle. He moved his lips but did not say a word. He sighed and reached out to remove the silk from my hand.
Dense blisters and still red flesh together into the eyes, without a trace of medicine, my fingers slightly curled.
Speaking of it, after the death of the emperor’s elder brother, I was imprisoned in the palace by Xiao Pingwu, and there were often times when I was embarrassed.
Originally, the current situation is nothing.
But I don’t want to expose the slightest bit of my embarrassment to the eyes of the night.
I think I met him when I was young and in the limelight. Today, although I am scattered into mud, I still have some pitiful self-esteem.
Fortunately, he did not ask me why I did not apply the medicine, but silently gently smeared the white ointment in the porcelain jar on my wound. The ointment brought by
Ye Tinglan was very good to use. In less than three days, the flesh on the back of my hand had recovered as before, and the remaining half of the jar was carefully collected by me. On the day of
the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Wei Zheng took Song Yanru first, while I took Aman to the carriage behind.
Aman is the dark guard sent by Ye Tinglan to protect me. She usually plays the role of a maid beside me.
It has to be said that night listening to Lan is very prescient.
In the short distance between Zhaowangfu and the palace, I was assassinated.
The assassin’s level was average, and Aman solved them with two or three strokes. After
a short pause, the carriage continued towards the palace. Is
the princess frightened? My subordinates have sent word to my master, and I think we’ll soon know where these assassins came from. Aman said respectfully.
“No need to check.” I lifted the curtain of the chariot, and the smell of blood that lingered on the tip of my nose went away. “They’re not from Wei.”
In the eyes of outsiders, Wei Zheng is not qualified to fight for the reserve, and naturally no one will waste their efforts to assassinate him, not to mention that Wei Zheng is not in this carriage at all.
So, they’re just coming for me.
And I came to Wei but more than a month, today is the first time out of the house, this level of general assassination, in addition to Chu Yunhe, I can not think of the second person.
It seems that the four words “see you later” really scared her.
I hooked my lips, and my eyes were cold. I was a little late
because of this little incident on the way.
The emperors and empresses have been seated, and the princes are shouting long live with their families. There was no seat for me beside
Wei Zheng, so I took Aman and quietly found a corner to sit down. As soon as
I ate three full, there was an official lady who could not bear loneliness.
“Oh, Princess Zhao came all the way from Chu to get married. Why are you sitting here?”
“King Zhao was accompanied by the Song concubines, so naturally he had no time to take care of Princess Zhao, but I think Princess Zhao was used to this kind of cold reception when she was a princess in Chu, right?”
“What are you talking about? She’s a princess of the State of Chu. She opened her mansion at the age of eight, ruled at the age of ten, and at the age of thirteen she was able to fight side by side with General Ye and defeat the Huns..” Another
man picked up the conversation. “Then, when I was 18, I hid in a corner of our Wei palace and ate in secret.” There was a burst of laughter
all around.
I pressed Aman’s veined hand and took my time to eat until I was 70% full and then left the table on an excuse.
Walking to the Royal Lake, I stopped, and the sound of pushing a cup behind me was so small that I could hardly hear it.
“Tut, your master can really make trouble for me.” I looked at the huge moon in the center of the lake and sighed with relief.
Just because I had been with Ye Tinglan for a period of time on the battlefield, I could not forget these women for five years, so I was cynical about them. “Don’t get me wrong, Princess,”
said Aman hurriedly. “The master hates them very much!”
I waved my hand. “That’s all. Go and get me a pot of wine, Aman.”
“Yes!” Not long
after Aman walked, there was a sound of footsteps behind him.
“Ah Man, so soon.” Before I had finished speaking, I was about to turn around when I was suddenly pushed into the lake with great force. There was another burst of women’s laughter
on the shore.
The lake was not deep enough to reach my chest. I struggled to my feet and climbed up the bank on my hands and feet. The rocks
on the shore cut through my skirt, revealing the chain marks on my ankles that had been scabbed but had just been cut again.
They laughed and looked at me suspiciously.
“Does it look good?” Dripping with water, I lifted my ragged and blood-stained skirt so that they could see more clearly. None of
them answered.
“Who pushed it?” I asked with a smile.
Five people still did not answer, and even took a step back in my eyes.
“Very good.” I moved my wrist, grasped the water on the sleeve of my right hand, endured the pain on my foot, and quickly came forward to give them a slap.
“Pa, pa, pa, pa.” After five rounds of crisp applause, there were five screams.
“Ah-”
“Damn Chu Huaiwei! How dare you hit me!
Five people covered the rapidly swollen half of their faces and rushed at me, shouting and cursing.
Without waiting for me to react, the wet side waist was suddenly hooked.
I bumped into a warm and hard chest, and in front of me was a moire pattern of deep purple and gold.
The moonlight was bright, and at night I heard Lan take off her coat and put me under her hood, and behind her there was a succession of “splashes” of falling water.
“Night, General Night, help!”
The ladies flopped in the lake and called to him for help. Without a glance,
he picked me up and walked away without looking back.
On the carriage of Huizhao Wangfu, Ye Tinglan lifted my ankle and put it on his knee, and carefully applied medicine to me.
He held my mottled ankle and blew gently, like a fragile glass.
“Does it hurt?”
Simple two words, but let my heart a astringent.
Once upon a time, the emperor’s elder brother was the same. After I was injured carelessly, he always asked me with a distressed face whether it hurt or not.
I lowered my eyes and shook my head, but I felt uneasy.
Night listen to Lan holding three hundred thousand troops, he represents the will of the emperor, in the absence of clear holy will, he can not favor any prince, but he just in full view of the public to protect me.
And I represent Wei Zheng, the third prince.
It turned out that my worries were not unnecessary.
The next day, before dawn, what happened by the imperial lake spread all over the capital of Wei. Shocked
for a time, the forces of the parties more than surging, numerous speculation, until the night listening to the waves was the emperor’s stick in front of the Xuanyuan gate.
Song Yanru came to see me with wound medicine and tonic. She was simple by nature. She didn’t know the relationship between Ye Tinglan and Wei Zheng in private, nor did she understand the undercurrent in the court. She only told me that Ye Tinglan was punished by a stick as a new thing.
“I heard that when General Ye was carried back to the general’s office, the flesh on his back was blurred, and the blood flowed all the way!”
Hearing what she said, I felt even more uneasy. In the
evening of the same day, I took advantage of the darkness to let Aman take me to the General’s Office.
I went all the way into the night listening room without hindrance. The doors and windows were closed, and there was a trace of blood in the room.
He lay on the couch, his face pale, his eyes closed, and the gauze behind him oozing blood.
I stood quietly for a while, just about to leave, but heard him vaguely for water, then hurriedly poured a cup of warm tea to his lips.
I half squatted at the head of his bed and carefully fed him little by little. His eyelashes trembled like
crow feathers, and then he slowly opened them.
Ye Tinglan looked at me, his eyes still hazy, as if he had not fully awakened. He suddenly raised his pale lips and said, “You’re here again.”
Again?
I thought he was talking in his sleep, but he called my name.
“Huai Wei.”
He only called me “Princess” and “Princess”, and it was the first time he called my name.
I avoided his hazy and burning eyes and tried to ignore the strange thing that rose in my heart.
“General Ye has a good rest. I’ll come and see him another day.” When I
finished, I wanted to get up, but suddenly he held my wrist, and my cold lips with a fragrance of medicine came to me.
I froze in place as if struck by lightning, but the culprit closed his eyes and breathed evenly.
This is.. Sleepwalking?? When I came out of the
night listening room, I was still a little restless.
“Princess, why is your face so red?” Aman looked at me in surprise.
「…… It’s too hot. “Don’t tell your master that I’ve been here,” I replied at random.
Why? My master would be pleased to know that you have been here.
I automatically ignored the second part of her sentence, “Because..” We’ll come empty-handed this time, and we’ll look very stingy. Next time we come with a gift, we’ll tell your master.
Aman scratched his head. “Oh, yes.” For three months
in a row, until near the end of the year, Aman could not wait for me to bring gifts and her to the door of the General’s Office again.
Although I have not been able to communicate with Ye Tinglan in the past three months, the Jiang family will send me letters from time to time, so I can roughly know seven points about his actions with Wei Zheng. At the end of a
recent letter, the Jiang family said they would send me a confidant to the palace.
I waited for seven days, and finally it was Jiang Jie. His
face was covered with a piece of white silk. He thought that King Zhao had entered the palace as a traveling doctor who treated leg diseases. His name was Jiang Jie.
“Jiang Jie pays his respects to the young master.”
Yes, he is from the Jiang family. He is the youngest son of my grandfather’s cousin. At the beginning of the game, he was my helper. He didn’t die when he
committed suicide, but he lost both eyes. I am very happy to
see him. When listening to the waves
at night, I was boiling tea for Jiang Jie with the osmanthus preserved in autumn and the snow water on the top of Cangshan Mountain.
His complexion is as usual, the wound on his body is already good, but when he looks at Jiang Jie, he looks a little bad, and when he looks at me, he has a trace. Hidden bitterness?
“Doesn’t Doctor Jiang have to treat King Zhao?” Listening to the night, Lan stood in front of us with his hands on his back.
Without waiting for me to retort, he lowered his voice and said, “Even if it’s acting, it’s better to be watertight. Princess, what do you think?”
If you ask me.. Night listen to Lan said well, after all, the road to storage, not a trace of deviation.
Although Wei Zheng’s leg disease had been cured as early as two years ago, Jiang Jie’s trip was an opportunity for us to announce Wei Zheng’s recovery.
“Jiang Jie, go and have a look.”
He shook his head and stood up, smiling at the corners of his lips. “Yes.” After
Jiang Jie left, Ye Tinglan sat down opposite me and drank the tea I had just poured for Jiang Jie.
I didn’t even have time to stop it.
「…… Isn’t it hot? I looked surprised.
The night listened to Lan with a sullen face and seemed to look as usual.
He slanted his head, and the white breath that escaped from his mouth seemed whiter than snow on the branches. “It’s not hot.”
Listening to my slightly husky voice, I suppressed a laugh and said admiringly, “The general is mighty.”
Wei Zheng stood up from the wheelchair that day, Song Yanru hugged me and cried excitedly for a long time, so long that Wei Zheng looked at my eyes alert.
I pulled the corners of my mouth, broke off Song Yanru’s hand around my waist, and buckled it on Wei Zheng.
“Please go show where I can’t see. Thank you.”
After getting along with them for half a year, I have become familiar with them.
Wei Zheng did not care, picked up Song Yanru and went back to their yard. Watching the fire
from the other side of the river for many years, when the princes were exhausted on the road of fighting for the reserve, Wei Zheng, like an unsheathed sword, showed himself in front of people and instantly attracted most of the court’s attention.
With the secret financial support of the Jiang family and the assistance of Ye Tinglan, in the winter of the 24th year of Jingming, Wei Zheng, the third prince, was officially conferred the title of crown prince and moved to the East Palace. On the seventh day of
the conferment of the crown prince, there was a letter from the State of Chu, and the envoys who had come to congratulate him were on their way. On the fifth day of the
first lunar month, the envoys of the State of Chu arrived. At the
state banquet, I met Xiao Pingwu and Chu Yunhe, who had been away for several months.
It is said that she has become the Princess Regent. The emperor of the State of
Wei was old and his health was getting worse and worse, so it was Wei Zheng and I who ranked first in the state banquet. Chu Yunhe, who was in
full dress, could not hide his fatigue in his eyes. When he looked at me, he could not hide his deep jealousy. There was something funny in
my heart. She got what she wanted, but she hated me as much as ever.
It seems that life is not comfortable.
Really want to advise her ah, now such a day, she is also a day less.
I smiled and offered her a glass of wine.
But at the moment of putting down the glass, I caught a glimpse of her slightly stretched eyebrows.
I know too much about Chu Yunhe, and this is obviously the appearance of a successful trick.
It seems that there is something wrong with this drink.
But I looked down upon her, the hand can reach this Wei palace unexpectedly!
Looking for a reason, I held the glass and left the table early. I was looking for Jiang Jie to check the residual liquid in the glass, but at the corner of the garden, someone suddenly covered his mouth and dragged him down. I couldn’t even shout the word “Aman”.
This can’t be Chu Yunhe’s handwriting.
It’s Xiao Pingwu! Just after the
thought, Xiao Pingwu’s face appeared in front of me. Compared with half a year ago, the whole person looked gloomy. He put me behind the rockery and stuffed a large group of silk to block my mouth.
“Chu Huai-wei, as a princess of the State of Chu, do you really want to be the mother of the State of Wei?” Come back
with me, and I can make you the queen of Chu. It’s just a matter of me moving my fingers, you know. I was very puzzled by
his two words. What does
that mean? He was the one who
sent me and kissed me, and now he’s the one who keeps asking me to go back.
It’s just a pity that I, Chu Huaiwei, am no longer the one he can control.
However, as soon as this heroic thought passed, I felt my whole body soften and fell into Xiao Pingwu’s arms. When I woke up
again, I was in a slightly rocking ship.
My hands and feet were tied to a big bed, my eyes were covered, I did not know the day and night, only the sound of the waves could not be heard in my ears.
It seems that Xiao Pingwu is going to take me back to Chu by water.
I suddenly disappeared in the palace, Aman must have told the news to listen to Lan at night, but I don’t know if they can catch up and intercept the ship before leaving Wei.
Just as my thoughts drifted away, I heard the door creak open, and then there was a slow and light sound of footsteps.
The man stood in front of my bed and did not make a sound for a long time.
“Chu Yun-wo?” I suddenly opened my mouth.
“It seems that Sister Huang misses me so much that she can recognize me even if she covers her eyes.” “Then be an understanding ghost,” she said, neither too salty nor too light.
Then came the sharp sound of a dagger unsheathed. “Your hands and feet are bound. Living like this is torture. Why don’t I personally deliver you to freedom!” My
whole body suddenly tensed, and I quickly said, “You have become the regent princess as you wish. Why are you not satisfied? Why do you want me to die?” I heard Chu Yunhe sneer at the sound of
material friction.
“Because Hsiao Ping-wu loves you, and he loves you!” Her voice suddenly became shrill. “That’s why you must die!” The sound of the wind at the tip of the
knife was subtle but fierce, and my heart suddenly sank.
Just when I thought I was going to die in the hands of Chu Yunhe, I heard a sound of broken bones, then a scream, and the dull sound of the dagger falling to the ground.
“Chu Yun-ho, you are presumptuous!” It was Hsiao Ping-wu’s voice, “drag the princess down and watch her carefully.”
“Yes!”
Hsiao Ping-wu! Since you know I am a princess, why do you want to marry Chu Huaiwei again today! She’s already married Wei Zheng, and you made the marriage happen with your own hands. She’s still not clear from the night. Even if I can’t kill her, she won’t marry you again. “
With the sound of dragging the floor, Chu Yunhe’s voice gradually disappeared.”.
A hand suddenly covered my face, carrying a chill that made my whole body tremble.
“Hsiao Ping-wu, what are you doing?”
“I will make you my wife.” He softly touched my eyebrows and eyes, and loosened the rope on my wrist. His words were full of paranoia. “When we get back to Chu, you will be my queen.”
I tore off the cloth covering my eyes, and the dazzling red suddenly broke into my eyes. Only then did
I realize that the house had been decorated like a wedding room, and I was wearing a wedding dress as red as blood.
Perhaps it was my silence that made him unhappy. Hsiao Ping-wu persistently asked me again, “Will you be my queen?” The end of his
eyes was red, and his expression faintly revealed the paranoia that seemed to be a demon barrier into his heart.
Seeing this, I have mixed feelings in my heart. I met you when I was
young and in the prime of life. I destroyed your ambition, forced you to become a slave in the house, and cut off your bright future. I forced you to fake death to escape. I’m sorry for you.. Later, you became the counsellor of Chu Kui, standing on the opposite side of me and the emperor’s elder brother. In order to retaliate against me, even if you were a waste like Chu Kui, you still chose to help him ascend the throne. I have five things to do with the way you have become.
“But Hsiao Ping-wu, I don’t owe you any more.” I took a deep breath and slowly pulled off the skirt of my left shoulder, revealing the ferocious scar on the back of my heart. “The life I owe you has already been repaid to you on Wuyin Mountain.”
“It was the emperor’s elder brother who, in spite of the danger, personally went to the cliffs of Yunshan to collect herbs to save me. My life belongs to the emperor’s elder brother.”
And he joined hands with Chu Kui to kill my eldest brother.
“You and I, this life is doomed, never die!” At the moment when
Xiao Pingwu’s pupils shrank suddenly, the night listening Lan appeared behind him like a ghost, and a palm struck him dizzy. There was a sound of fighting
outside.
“Don’t be afraid.” At night, listening to the waves, I closed my lapel and wiped away the tears from my face. “I’m coming.”
Just like that year into the Xiongnu army account to save me, like a God.
Xiao Pingwu was detained in the capital of the State of Wei. I took his token and seal, and borrowed fifty thousand military forces from Ye Tinglan to sneak back to the State of Chu in three batches. The way of
war, I learned three points with the emperor elder brother.
With these three points, I led my troops to the imperial city of Chu. The night before the
enemy came to the gate, I gained the trust of the leader of the imperial guards in the imperial city with the token seal of Xiao Pingwu, and got the amulet of one hundred thousand troops in the western suburb camp by virtue of the testamentary edict given to me by my father before he died.
I have long said that without Xiao Pingwu, Chu is nothing. When
I drew the bowstring, he was so frightened that he couldn’t even stand, so he was shot by me on the city gate like the chopping board fish.
“The guilty king Chu Kui, who pretended to pass on a testamentary edict, murdered the late emperor, and usurped the throne. Now, as a princess, I will set things right and restore the order of the court.”
Yushi Taifu and others took the testamentary edict from my hand and quickly swept to the last sentence, “By my son..” Chu Huaiwei succeeded to the throne!
Every word was written in the blood of my father, and I hid it until today before I dared to tell it to the world.
Even though there was a voice of doubt from the rest of Xiao Pingwu’s party, I personally killed him in the temple.
Military power testamentary edict in hand, only I can be the emperor of Chu.
“Meet the Emperor!”
When one kneels, there is a second.
“Long live our emperor! Long live our emperor!”
……
Then in this mountain shout long live, Aman helped me step by step to ascend the supreme position of the bones piled up and blood poured.
I glanced around, but unexpectedly saw a very familiar face among the Wei soldiers who came with me.
Seeing him, the cold air wrapped around my whole body miraculously dispersed a little.
“Of course, my master didn’t want you to go back to Chu alone, and he was worried that his status as a Wei general would arouse suspicion among Chu courtiers, so he disguised himself as a small soldier and escorted you all the way back.” Aman said to me with a smile.
“It’s just that the master is going to be miserable.” She sighed suddenly.
“Why?” With a red pen in his hand, I asked.
“Because the master lent you fifty thousand military forces on his own initiative, and the prince did not know.”
I was completely stunned.
“The prince urgently calls fifty thousand soldiers back to Wei, and the master will go back with fifty thousand soldiers. After today’s farewell, the mountains are high and the rivers are long. Are you sure..” Don’t you ever see your master again?
Before Aman had finished speaking, I hurriedly ran to the palace gate, forgetting to ask someone to prepare the imperial chariot.
But by the time I got there, the palace gate was empty except for the guards. The feeling
of emptiness swept through my heart, and I looked down at my foot, which had lost a shoe, and clenched my fingers.
Suddenly, heaven and earth whirled, and I was picked up at the waist. Before the cry of
surprise could be heard, the smiling face of the night listening Lan broke into my line of sight.
“You didn’t leave?”
“Your Majesty lost his shoe in order to see me. If I left, wouldn’t I be ashamed of that shoe?” His eyes were darkening, and the tip of his nose was only an inch away from me.
I reflexively covered my mouth. “What do you want to do?”
Again?
He caught the point of what I was saying and locked me with his eyes. “You really came to see me the day I was caned, didn’t you?”
There was a surge of heat, and I quickly turned my eyes away.
He went on to say, “You’ve often come to see me in my dreams since we left the Xiongnu battlefield. But on the day of our wedding, you said to me, ‘Long time no see.’ You can see that you haven’t missed me all these years.” In the end, he was somewhat resentful.
“But it doesn’t matter.” Listening to Lan kiss me between the eyebrows at night, she said, “When we meet each other every day, there will be a day when you miss me deeply.”
“You’re not leaving?” In my words, there was a kind of joy that even I didn’t realize. As soon as
my voice fell, someone sent a letter from the State of Wei.
It is the imperial edict of relegation specially written to Ye Tinglan, as well as the book of He Li written by Wei Zheng to me, and a fragmentary reading by Song Yanru. It was
mentioned that Xiao Pingwu committed suicide in the prison of the State of Wei. When Chu Yunhe learned about it, he was stimulated and went crazy. After
years of entanglement, I can’t tell whose fault it is.
Holding the imperial edict, I heard a sigh at night. “For Your Majesty’s sake, I have offended the prince of the State of Wei. Now Your Majesty is the only one who can protect me. I wonder if I have the honor?”
Looking at his smiling eyes, I put my arms around his neck and said, “My heart is bright, and my heart is clear. Thanks to the general, I am willing to serve you!”.
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the passing away of the beauty: Remembering the time when
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