Is there a romance novel with excellent writing and high quality? On the first day of the seventh month, I personally killed the emperor’s sister, Princess Changyang. When I
grabbed her by the throat and poured poison wine into her heart, she stared at me, just like everyone who died at my hands. The
violent struggle stained the back of my hand with wine stains, and I had to wipe her twitching face clean, and I had to spend the last of her makeup and lose her dignity before she left.
Changyang fell to the ground, curled up and twisted his knees, like a cricket in the hot sun, painfully and powerlessly resisting the drying up of life. The moment the
door was pushed open, Changyang pulled the last one, after all, did not close his eyes, first cut off the breath.
The emperor came in.
He also took me by the throat. Hatred made him jealous, but reason made him not die in the end. If
the queen is so exterminated, she should be careful to bite back in the future. Word by word
, he vomited with difficulty.
Good, my little emperor Huo Jiangshen grew up, such words to say, unexpectedly also calculate steady, did not show fear and cowardice, also hid the pillow dry.
I moved my neck, which he had pinched until it turned blue, and rubbed his increasingly resolute face. “If one day the emperor really has this ability, what’s the harm in letting you sleep and eat meat?”?
1 He does not know.
Killing Changyang is not my intention.
If Changyang is the princess of her splendor and wealth, I will naturally have a blind date with her.
It happened that she didn’t know what she was interested in, and she didn’t know what she was like. She and her son-in-law, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, Li Yunxuan, ganged up with the rebellious officials and thieves in the court who wanted to get rid of me, and they got together all day long to discuss some things about the Qing Dynasty. I
had no choice but to take a group of officials to spring hunting to ease the relationship.
Spring is not suitable for shooting and hunting, all living beings have to grow up to be fat and beautiful, but also to leave children.
Only the scourge is different. It should be killed in swaddling clothes.
I put my son-in-law into the mountain forest and raised the arrow in my hand to his throat. Beads of sweat as big as beans
on Changyang’s forehead rolled down her delicate little face, wetting half of her skirt. I laughed. Suddenly I put away my bow and arrow and patted her on the shoulder. “What is the princess afraid of?”.
Unfortunately, an hour later, Li Yun-kun was found dead in the mountains, and most of his body had been eaten away by the rich wolves, tigers and leopards.
“Qiu Yu, I will surely eat your skin and flesh!” Holding his incomplete remains, Changyang shouted at me frantically.
At that time, I replied, “When you have the ability.”.
She has no ability, but she likes to be noisy.
Wait for the eyes to report to me, she formed a guard of five hundred people, full of good soldiers, I thought, or have to get rid of her, so as not to make me upset again.
I said hello to Huo Jiangshen in advance, after all, he is the emperor of Muzhou, is the elder brother of Changyang.
I’m just a queen. Even if I want to get rid of the usurper, I should listen to his advice.
The queen thinks twice.
Huo Jiangshen responded to me like this.
So I thought twice, and after thinking twice, I decided to kill her.
After Changyang left, I personally organized a grand funeral. The death of the
emperor’s dearest eldest princess is a terrible thing for the whole nation to mourn.
I ordered a few officials of the court, saying that Changyang was close to you before his death, and now that he has passed away, you will observe filial piety for five years to fulfill the hearts of your courtiers.
Since then, the Changyang Party has been uprooted in the government and the public, and I finally don’t have to do such pickled things as shooting and hunting in spring.
Huo Jiang watched all this happen with cold eyes.
I am like an actor, a person performing hard, Huo Jiangshen can not control the plot, but really share the joys and sorrows.
I don’t think the one-man show is cold, but I’m afraid it’s not satisfactory enough.
July 18, the northwest army victory. The
Western Marshal Zong Ziqi is back. From the gate tower,
I watched his military forces trample on the way home, splashing dust and flying.
Eight years ago, it was the same thing. At the gate of the city, I waited until the gate was about to close. Finally, he rode away from the dust, rode back triumphantly, and shouted to my small characters: “Li Li, Li Li, I’m back!”. When the horse stopped in front of me, he couldn’t wait to jump off the horse, look at whether my waist was thin, whether my cheeks were sharp, and say a few words to make me miss him.
He led the horse and told me what he had seen and heard.
I jumped up and down the streets of the city, wringing my brows nervously as I listened to him talk about his narrow escape, tugging at his sleeve to find a new wound.
These are all things before I married Huo Jiangshen and became Princess Rui.
But now, Zong Ziqi’s military exploits are numerous and hot; I cover the sky with one hand and hold the government and the public alone.
I am the most powerful woman in Muzhou, the queen of all calls, but I am no longer the only one who worries him.
I could only stand on the gate tower and say to him with a deep smile, “I congratulate the general on his victory and his triumphant return.”. All
he could do was dismount, nod his head, and bow respectfully, “I thank you, Empress.”. At
the celebration banquet, everyone was drunk, with the exception of Huo Jiangshen and Zong Ziqi.
Huo Jiangshen was young and mature, and solemnly acted like an emperor.
Zong Ziqi exchanged cups with his soldiers, but he refused to look at me more.
My flushed cheeks were burning with embarrassment, and I staggered and collapsed in the bosom of Huo Jiang beside me.
The queen is drunk, and her appearance is not in keeping with the ceremony.
He spoke coldly, but it did not prevent him from putting his arms around me carefully.
Yes. Shaking my limp arm,
I leaned close to his ear and breathed. Tomorrow someone will join me and play with me, saying that I, the queen, do not obey the rules and interfere in the government, and now I have lost my manners. Where is
the emperor? What will
the emperor do?
Will you destroy me, or will you continue to put up with me?
Huo Jiangshen said that he was tired, so he left first, and everyone enjoyed themselves.
Then he took me back to the pepper room.
Zong Ziqi finally raised his eyes.
Others don’t know why I’m drunk, but Huo Jiangshen knows best.
Zong Ziqi was far away in the northwest, and it was rare for him to return to the court.
Every time Kyoto replies, I have to get drunk.
Huo Jiangshen was so annoyed that he threw me heavily on the ground.
I hit my head on a brick and made a dull sound.
Why?
His voice was full of forbearance and resentment. Why did he have to take this step? Why did he have to kill Changyang?
If the queen leaves Changyang alive and leaves me a relative, there may be a way out between you and me.
“” a way out? As if hearing something incredible,
I laughed so crazily that I pulled a hairpin out of my head and pricked a blood stain in the palm of my hand. At the sight of
blood, Huo Jiang’s silent compassion flashed through his eyes.
I took his hand, and the tip crossed, leaving the same scar. Between
ten fingers clenched, the same scarlet is mixed together, and it is difficult to distinguish between you and me.
There is no way out.
“I smiled bitterly.” Do you understand? We have the same blood on our hands. We have no way out.
That same blood came from seven years ago.
I was Qiu Yu, the only daughter of Qiu Ji, the general of Zhenguo. In that year, I was the princess of Rui granted by the late emperor. When I
married Huo Jiangshen, I was in my early twenties, three years older than him.
On that day, firecrackers were fired from the south of Kyoto to the north of the city. Twelve carriages were loaded with three teas and six ceremonies in Ruiwangfu. Gold hairpins and flowers were ringing. Grapes from the Western Regions mixed with agate were rolling in the glass plate, turning the streamer.
And I brought only one dowry-the amulet to mobilize three hundred thousand troops.
To meet me is Huo Jiangshen’s luck and misfortune in this life.
This amulet didn’t come for nothing. Eighteen years ago, I went to the battlefield with my only elder brother, Qiu Yu.
Our army was defeated again and again, less than half a month, the loss of nearly 30%, elder brother spirit, to put all one’s eggs in one basket, fight with the full remnants of the army straight into the enemy camp.
Enemy ambush heavily, such as our net, this is a dead chess.
However, my elder brother insisted, and I failed to remonstrate, so I could only put medicine in the Zhuangxing wine.
He fell ugly, and I wiped the wine stains from his lips with an embroidered veil, and then led the way to break through the siege.
Despite the loss of troops, in the end barely won the battle. When I returned to Kyoto, Muzhou,
with my brother’s body, I cried with swollen eyes and hoarse voice. I told the story of my narrow escape from death in a particularly shocking and sad way, but I didn’t mention the matter of the cup of Zhuangxing wine.
My father spurted a mouthful of old blood, and from then on he stopped asking about the battlefield.
The Qiu family did not have a second son, so I held the military power, held the military amulet, and never set foot on the battlefield again. It was
also at that time that my father carefully trained Zongzi Qi to develop and emerge, and become a generation of generals.
The late emperor wanted to balance the Qiu family, and also wanted to check and balance the prince. He expected that I, a woman, would have a storm, and sooner or later I would have to hand in the amulet after I got married.
So he pointed me out to the second prince who was not favored, that is, Rui Wang Huo Jiangshen, while calculating when to take back the military forces that belonged to the royal family in his eyes from my hand.
Unfortunately, the old emperor did not live to that day. When he
entered Prince Rui’s mansion, Huo Jiangshen was only seventeen years old, and he was the young man who could be feared. He was not welcomed
since he was a child, so he developed a tolerant personality, but he kept his mouth shut, but he had a soldier’s armor in his chest, and he had eight fights to learn.
Do you want to be emperor?
I lifted the red veil myself and asked him.
That was the first time we met.
He did not speak, but looked straight at me. If you
don’t say it, you will acquiesce.
He still does not speak.
Do not blame me, is my husband-Huo Jiangshen, he wants the world, he wants me to make a move.
So in November of the same year, I withdrew half of the imperial guards in the palace and transferred eighty thousand army horses to surround Kyoto.
In the afternoon, the prince went to the palace for an audience, and I also went to the palace to pay my respects to my parents-in-law. I came with a sincere heart, but by the way, I let someone set fire to a corner of the inner hall. In the midst of the
raging fire, I said to the old emperor, “I don’t know what the emperor wants to happen today. Is it the prince’s intention to force him to abdicate, and his daughter-in-law has come to escort him at the behest of King Rui?”?
Or the emperor Bintian, when the prince came to visit, he accidentally went into the water and died in the fire? The difficult problem of choosing one from
two, the old man will do it, and don’t leave it to me.
The old emperor sighed that the Qiu family had been loyal for generations and had never had two minds. He didn’t want to give birth to such a heresy as me. I
thought it was difficult for a little girl to achieve great success, and I thought the autumn family had run out of gas, but unexpectedly it was the beginning of a disaster. What about
women?
“I’ve been pretending for too many years, and my hand holding the sword is itching.” I don’t see any man here today asking the emperor whether the emperor deposed the prince or whether I helped the emperor depose the prince?
At that time, the fire in the inner hall went out. It
is well known that the prince deliberately murdered the emperor and was deposed. After three days of imprisonment, he died.
The inner hall turned to ashes, and I personally supervised the repair.
But the inner hall was not repaired, and the old emperor died first.
Huo Jiang sat in this position. On the morning of
his accession to the throne, I asked him again, “Do you want to be emperor?”?
“” Think.
This time he answered me.
Too bad the inner sanctum was burned. It
‘s not a pity.
He steadied his crown and clasped my hand.
So I rebuilt an inner hall for him, without the testamentary edict hidden behind the plaque, and without the little secret that the old emperor did not know where to keep it.
After that, I was the queen of Huo Jiangshen for nearly seven years. In
seven years, three of the six cities in the northwest were recovered.
Sometimes persimmons have to be picked soft and pinched, and the same is true in war.
The first two cities were barely easy to attack, but the third Yunlou City was extremely difficult to fight.
Zong Ziqi, the tiger general of Muzhou who would shine in the annals of history in the future, led the troops, and the battle lasted for nine months.
In the end, Mu state got cloud tower, but also spent seventy thousand soldiers, empty a corner of the treasury, countless casualties, hay empty, afraid is to conserve energy for a while.
Up to now, three of the six cities in the northwest have been recovered, and Zongziqi has returned triumphantly with a narrow escape from death. The scene of the palace banquet
that day and the hangover that night are still vivid in my mind, but in just a few days, I have begun to think about where to choose the next place to recover. Where is the
next one?
My fingertips circled half a circle on the drawing and finally stopped in the northwest corner. Without even looking at him
, Xun Yang replied, “Miss, it’s Ye Rong.”.
“” Ye Rong.. Ye Rong, so soon, finally arrived at it.
I vaguely remember that there was another reason for it. I closed my eyes and tapped my fingers on the bridge of my nose. Suddenly I opened them again and swept Xun Yang up and down. “You’re not going to kill me with a sword in my throat while I’m closing my eyes, are you?”?
“Xun Yang knelt down unhurriedly, lowering his eyebrows and looking very clever.” I dare not.
“Without waiting for me to get him up, he got up by himself and said,” The young lady has asked this question 576 times. Ask
again, I still dare not.
So he was counting.
Xun Yang was my elder brother’s attendant, my father’s Xun Shen will be the son, since primary school knowledge, said to be three years old to learn literature, five years old to play martial arts, nine years old with his father’s northern expedition, saw through the opposite jungle ambush trick, first set fire, scorched the five thousand chosen men.
It was a pity that Xun Shen would rebel later. When he was preparing to lead his troops to revolt and murder my father, he was besieged in the camp by an army of my father who had been found out early.
He took me hostage when I was ten years old and begged my father to spare his son.
But before my father could say yes or no, I pulled out the dagger from my waist and wiped his neck with my backhand.
This is one of the reasons why I am particularly afraid of Xun Yang wiping my neck now.
After Xun Shen will go, I don’t know whether my father remembers his old love or cherishes talents. He said that Xun Yang was really a great man who was the pillar of the country. It was a pity to kill him. It happened that my brother was good at martial arts and slightly inferior in writing, so he asked him to assist my brother.
It’s a pity that my brother died a few years later. He died of me and Xun Yang.
I still remember that when I knelt on the ground to wipe the wine stains on my brother’s face, Xun Yang came out of the inner room unhurriedly. It turned out that just now, he had watched the poisoning with a cold eye.
My medicine is enough for my brother to sleep here for three or five days until I finish this battle. If
I put down your master, will you put me down for him?
I asked him with some embarrassment. Why did
the young lady drug the general?
He sauntered to my side and looked down at me.
I continued to wipe it, but I didn’t think it was clean. I folded up the other side of the veil and continued to wipe it. I didn’t want to lose the battle, and I didn’t want too many soldiers to die. But
when the general wakes up, what will you tell him?
“Xun Yang squatted beside me.” Miss, let me help you.
“” Good.
I said.
I thought he would help me move my brother back to bed, that he would lie for me, that he would help me take my brother’s power and let me finish the next battle.
But Xun Pang is far more like a wolf than I imagined. He is bloodthirsty and cunning, sharp and efficient. When I returned to the camp after the
fierce battle, I saw the bloody hole in my brother’s chest and numerous knife wounds. “What did you do?” I asked, rubbing my teeth as my
dry throat rolled with regret. If the general doesn’t die, the amulet will never reach the young lady.
“He knelt at my feet and looked up at me.” What’s more, the enemy’s assassination is impossible to guard against. What does it have to do with me? What does it have to do with the young lady?
Later, when my father opened the coffin, I clenched my teeth and clenched my fist to state the same reason. The enemy’s assassination was impossible to guard against. It was a pity that my brother fought to the death and was still wrapped in horse leather.
Xun Yang this thing can be really beautiful, beautiful vicious, beautiful absolutely.
As we wished, I received the amulet, and our covenant began from then on.
Even if my hands are not stained with blood, it really kills him. Xun Yang and
I are not innocent.
Xun Yang is in my phase, phase to in addition to his master, the northwest army control to my hand, only one point, we are all able to sacrifice everything for what we want to do.
I want to recover the six cities in the northwest, help Muzhou unify the whole country, and protect the border for fifty years without war or disaster, so I will not refuse to die.
Xun Yang wanted to become an unprecedented generation of famous ministers, make contributions and leave a legacy, for which he could change a hundred masters.
But at this moment, he thought I could help him become a famous minister, and I thought he could help me take over the northwest, so we hit it off and acted in collusion.
But I was afraid that he would want to change his master again, and maybe there would be a blood hole in my chest later, so I always asked him if he would kill me.
Fortunately, after asking 575 times, he hasn’t done it yet.
I remember now.
“I knocked on the head.” Yerong is your hometown. As
he spoke, Huo Jiangshen came, and Xun Yang left.
Face to face, HuoJiangShen see Xun Yang is a hundred uncomfortable. People of the same kind
always have inherent attraction and hostility.
Huo Jiangshen said that Xun Yang was a wolf beside me, because he himself was a wolf beside me.
If they can, they all want to bite me to death, but now they have to worship me.
He came to discuss with me the matter of Taixue Doctor Wei Ming’s participation in me. The reason for his participation in me was nothing new. He also said that Zhonggong interfered in politics and monopolized military power.
He also said that I personally went to welcome Zong Ziqi into the city to win people’s hearts and collude with his henchmen. As I
listened, I became tired and interrupted him. “That’s enough. Tell me, what’s wrong with Wei Ming?”?
Huo Jiangshen didn’t want to please me, and he didn’t need to knock me. He came to tell me about this kind of thing, but he just wanted to use my hand to get rid of Wei Ming.
I and the empress are husband and wife, and if someone consults the empress, naturally he thinks I’m not doing a good job as an emperor.
He paused for a moment and then said, Wei Ming and Liu Chengmou, the prefect of Anyang, are members of the same party. Liu Chengmou has many followers in the south. He has made a lot of money by dividing the land. Wei Ming is responsible for providing him with information about the capital. If I had
said it earlier, I would have understood.
Come to think of it, Wei Ming may not have participated in me, but also signed a name in the long signature at the end of my fold.
Huo Jiangshen no longer speaks, at the moment his attention is all on the drawing in my hand and the soldier amulet on the table.
Zong Ziqi returned the amulet to me at the palace banquet and said meaningfully, “Empress, hold it steady.”. I’ve guessed half the meaning of
this sentence, but I’m afraid it’s not all right. He’s been galloping on the battlefield for too many years, watching people suffer, and too many soldiers turn into bones. He wants to live a peaceful life.
Moreover, in the court, there are many people staring at this amulet, such as the wolf who just went out, and the wolf who is now beside me.
The drawings are all yellowing.
Huo Jiangshen said unexpectedly.
Yes, after all, I’ve seen it for years.
Huo Jiangshen is unhappy with Zong Ziqi, unhappy with Xun Yang, and now even unhappy with a drawing.
He stood in silence for a long time and said lukewarm, “The queen sees it more than she sees me.”.
August 14, the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Wei Ming’s son, Wei Yanqing, was sent to the palace.
I personally went to the door to pick him up, in order to tell Wei Ming that I really liked your son. I had heard that Wei’s son was influenced by my father. He was knowledgeable and had a wide range of knowledge. He was even quite proficient in the method of percussion recorded in ancient books.
The palace happened to be looking for a teacher, so he wanted to invite Wei Childe into the palace.
Wei Ming said, “The son of a dog has no talent, and he can’t beat the dog.”.
“I said,” Did I make a mistake?
Wei Ming was silent. “I didn’t know Mr. Wei was so useless,” I said with
a sneer. “In that case, there’s no point in keeping it.
Oh yes, the palace yesterday stopped a car into the city, inside I don’t know why, there is Liu Satrap filial piety to Lord Wei’s one thousand taels of silver, Beijing officials and foreign officials collude with each other, if it is to plan something contrary.. “It was Xiaoguan who made a mistake. The son of a dog knows how to strike.”.
He hurriedly knelt down, without the appearance of a scholar who was proud of his talent.
I smiled even more heavily. “Was Lord Wei lying to this palace before?”?
“” XiaGuan dare not.
It’s all right. Do you dare to do it.
“I helped him up.” Don’t panic, Lord Wei. It’s all a small matter. Since you cheated the palace, you can just compensate the palace for your tongue.
As for Wei Childe, with the palace into the palace.
But Lord Wei knew the rules. The emperor was the only man in the palace, and the only ones left were women and eunuchs.
Wei Ming is nearly 60 years old, and now that he has heard that he is going to be cut off, he spins around and faints before he can get his tongue out. It’s really pitiful to look at him.
Come with me.
“So I didn’t even bother to look at him. I raised the chin of the beautiful Prince Wei and said,” Do something for this palace. This palace bypasses your father. Without saying a word,
Wei Yanqing got into the carriage behind me.
Wei Gongzi looks better than Pan An. I smiled at the moment I looked at him. Who said there was only one man in the palace, the emperor.
That night, Wei Yanqing drew me the route map of the operation of grain, grass and military pay in Anyang under the jurisdiction of Zhang and Liu Chengmou.
Wei Childe has a pair of beautiful bright eyes, eyelashes flutter, like a person coming out of the painting, he looks at the pen walking dragon, I look at him.
As soon as the picture came to an end, he put down his pen and asked me, “The Empress has given me what she wants. Can Empress give the Wei family a way out as the Tathagata promised?”.
“” Not enough.
I took the picture under his paperweight and looked at it carefully through the candlelight. In the war in the northwest, food and military pay were the foundation.
Anyang is a grain-producing land, but Liu Chengmou is fatuous and greedy, unable to take on this responsibility.
Your father and Liu Chengmou in collusion, deserve to die, but the palace to give you a way out, such as Anyang hay quality and quantity for the northwest, the palace to protect your home.
“Wei Yanqing’s face was somewhat flustered and pleading:” What can Xiaoguan do?
“” Make this palace happy.
I patted his face.
The empress is joking.
Wei Yanqing knelt down in a panic and kowtowed one after another. He had grown up reading the books of sages and sages, and his childlike heart seemed to have been defiled by my foul language. Seeing this,
I burst out laughing. Half a round of tomorrow has risen in the east, and the day is about to break.
I didn’t sleep all night.
I don’t want Huo Jiangshen, either.
His queen and his courtiers spent the night alone, which was unprecedented in ancient times, and he could not swallow it.
So early the next morning, Wei Yanqing’s car out of the palace was stopped by Huo Jiangshen’s confidant Zhang Ping, who said that the emperor appreciated Wei Gongzi’s talent and wanted to stay in Wei Gongzi as an official. The kind that
really wants to be clean.
My Feng was watching from behind, Huo Jiangshen’s car was listening in front, and Wei Yanqing was powerless to deal with it.
Lord Zhang, let Mr. Wei leave the palace.
I was tired, so I made a sound.
Empress, this is what the emperor means.
The chapter bent over and saluted, very respectfully. The
emperor wants to keep people, but this palace doesn’t want to keep them.
As soon as I raised my eyes, I looked into the deep eyes of Huo Jiang in the distance. “This Prince Wei is really in the way of this palace’s eyes. Why does the emperor have to find my concubine unhappy?”?
The second half of the sentence is for Huo Jiang to listen to, and it is rare to use a self-deprecating pronoun. After a moment of
silence, Huo Jiangshen waved his hand and motioned for Wei Yanqing to go out. Master
Wei.
“I called out behind me,” Don’t tell anyone what happened last night.
Wei Yanqing ran away.
“The queen really knows how to make me happy!” Put down a cruel word, Huo Jiangshen also left. Of course,
I don’t think Wei Yanqing is an eyesore. There is no reason for a beautiful woman to be tired of seeing her. It’s a serious thing to accompany her every night.
The first night is the route map of the operation of hay and military pay, and the second night is the list of Liu Chengmou’s henchmen in Kyoto.
Wei Yanqing hesitated and spat out three names, including his father. I reclined on the couch, squinted, and murmured, “Not enough.”. It
is said that early this morning Wei Yanqing returned to the Wei Mansion unscathed. Wei Ming was so happy that he fainted again without taking a breath. When he woke up, he touched his baby son left and right. He even pulled down his pants and looked inside in front of everyone.
This old fox has been in the officialdom for many years. He has saved his son’s life and his tongue. Naturally, he knows that I will not let their father and son go in vain.
So what I want, before Wei Yanqing entered the palace for the second time, Wei Ming was ready early in the morning, but if he could not give me, he would try not to give me, and if he could give me less, he would try to give me less.
Liu Chengmou has at least a dozen eyes in Kyoto, and Wei Ming is willing to spit seven or eight at most.
I said not enough, Wei Yanqing knelt down.
Don’t kneel at every turn. A man has a little strength of character.
I kicked him on the shoulder, and Mr. Wei, who was weak and supported the wind, immediately collapsed on the ground.
Forgetting that I was a warrior, I sneered, “Now that Mr. Wei has knelt down, I’ll rub my legs for you.”. First,
he read the “dare not,” “forgive,” and “absolutely not.” Finally, in my silence and gaze, he reached out his hand and carefully pressed it through his clothes. Not feeling well
at all, I didn’t bother to mention him. I closed my eyes again and said, “Go on, next one.”.
“” Already.. The late emperor’s son-in-law, Li Yunxuan.
He held it for a long time.
I smiled coldly and said, “Tell me something I don’t know.”.
Wei Yanqing broke out in a cold sweat. Otherwise, why did he think Li Yunyu’s death was so ugly.
Moved me to recover the northwest hay supply, regardless of whether he is a son-in-law or a princess, now can only be a resentful soul. Before
dawn, he said the names of six people. That’s enough.
The third night is the distribution and roster of the rich squires in Anyang, and the fourth night is the officials who have received money from Liu Chengmou except Kyoto.
Some are Wei Ming really do not want to say, some are Wei Ming really can not say.
Anyway, I gave him a chance. If he doesn’t like to say it, don’t say it later.
On the fifth day, in addition to Wei Childe back to Wei Fu, a pair of scissors also sent to Wei Fu.
I hate to do multiple choice questions, but like to let others do, cut the son’s precious manhood, by the way, cut the blood of the Wei family, or cut his tongue, Wei Ming did not hesitate to choose the latter.
Now the Taixue doctor is really not good, a civil official, also have to move their own knife, pull out their own tongue, their own scissors into the mouth.
It is said that the scene was very bloody at that time. When Xun Yang and I described it, I peeled a grape and swallowed it raw. I choked and clapped my chest.
Xun Yang said I was too anxious, Wei Ming still has something to say.
Hey, Wei Ming is not a white man. His tongue is still there without his hands. He can still write if he can’t say it. Besides, he spits out more than a dozen people. Who can’t make an article on him?
Of course, I’m really in a hurry.
I think of only one thing day and night-no time to delay, capture the night Rong. After
Wei Ming lost his tongue, Mr. Wei begged for seven days to see me in the palace. I was not idle in
seven days. I checked the people on his list. When I finished the last one, I asked Xun Yang to take Wei Childe into the palace.
Does this remind you of this palace? In the
pepper room, I raised his chin and looked into his bright eyes full of hatred.
He gritted his teeth and said, “Please let Lord Xun go out. Xiaoguan has something to say and wants to speak to the empress alone.”.
Just as well, Lord Xun is a wolf like you.
I leaned close to him and felt his short breath slap me directly in the face.
Miss, 577 times, I don’t want to.
Xun Yang made an untimely remark. It’s so
noisy. You’d better go out.
I rolled my eyes at him.
Yes.
He swayed glumly toward the door. The young lady is not afraid of wolves. The young lady is a male lion, and she likes to kill the covetous wolves around her.
Xun Yang really talked a lot today. When he passed by Wei Yanqing, he did not forget to draw a knife beside his neck and reminded him, “Little Wei, take care of your neck.”. The
door chimed in.
All right, there’s no one. What do you want to say to this palace? Before the
words were out, Wei Yanqing pulled out a pair of scissors as expected. With
a sneer in my eyes, I watched him thrust straight at me.
Don’t want to hide.
So the scissors, which had clipped his father’s tongue, also pierced my shoulder blade, and between them, the dark red blood snaked down the handle, wetting the phoenix head embroidery on my chest.
Seeing that he had really plunged in, Wei Yanqing immediately loosened a pair of hands full of cold sweat.
A reckless man.
“I scolded in a low voice,” Your father kept you safe, just to let you do this thing to destroy the nine clans?
Tut-tut, I didn’t expect it to hurt a little. I have been a
queen for a long time, but my body has become so delicate.
“Empress..” Wei Yanqing knelt down again and said, “The Empress has promised to keep me safe. My father and I have said everything. Why does the Empress still want to inflict such torture?”?
“Oh, it’s true that Wei Ming has made great contributions, but if he confesses to others, he will be able to get away with it, and the government and the public will not be able to follow suit and report it!”! Liu Chengmou was in charge of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, but he distributed the land unevenly, plotted for personal gain, delayed the hay, and delayed the fighter planes. The palace had long wanted to deal with him.
Your father helped a tyrant to do evil. On the one hand, he colluded with him to accept money, and on the other hand, he deliberately delayed the provision of food and military pay in the northwest, in an attempt to make the soldiers of this palace suffer losses for no reason, so as to weaken the power of this palace.
I pinched his chin and crushed it with greater force, but the blood in his chest flowed more. What does
he know? What do these people know? They just care about their money, safety and career. In
their eyes, Qiuyu calls a stag a horse, a dove occupies a magpie’s nest, and carries the emperor to command the princes. He is really a disloyal, unjust and heartless person. Everyone wants to prick my heart with scissors, as if they are the cleanest in the world.
I disdain this group of people’s conceit and intention to kill, just don’t stand in my way, otherwise, no tongue or no life, always have to choose the same. There was a lot of
blood. I let go of my hand and sat down. “There are seventy thousand corpses and souls on the northwest battlefield, but I only want your father’s tongue. Isn’t that enough to let your Wei family go?”?
“Empress..” I looked down at Wei Yanqing. If he hadn’t been good-looking, he would have dared to stab me. I didn’t bother to say these words to him.
Wei Yanqing looked at me a little more flustered and humble: “Empress, Xiaoguan, go and call the imperial physician..” Farewell, farewell.
I waved my hand and shouted outside the door, “Xun Yang, come in quickly. I’ve been stabbed!” Xun Yang is a good hand at dealing with wounds. He can bandage me properly when I hurt myself in practice or when I was stabbed in the back on the battlefield. What the
young lady has hurt is the shoulder blade, and I will not look at her with disrespect.
Then Xun Yang found a veil and blindfolded himself. Why don’t
you go out?
Wait and see?
I glanced at Wei Yanqing’s white and clean neck. Xun Yang was talking nonsense. I wouldn’t bite such a beautiful neck.
Wei Yanqing stared at me with a complicated expression. He knelt down for a long time and kowtowed to me three times. He went out without saying a word.
On August 30, Zong Ziqi was going back to the northwest to train troops. I went to the gate tower to see him off.
In the past, every time Ziqi went to war, his Li Li had to catch up with ten miles.
But Li Li can chase, but not Princess Rui, nor Queen Muzhou.
What’s more, I couldn’t catch up with him this time. Wei Yanqing’s stab was deeper than I thought. The weather was hot, and the wound couldn’t heal. I had to change my own medicine every day. In just two days, I was quite weak. It’s bitter and cold
in the northwest. Take care of yourself, General. When I was in Kyoto, I was always grateful for General’s hard work. Huo Jiang-shen, who was
traveling with him, was first polite to him.
Zong Ziqi knelt down to say goodbye to the emperor, but he did not kneel down to me, nor did he look at me.
I know he hates me.
My father had only one thing to ask him before he died. Don’t break the loyalty of Qiu Jiajun and destroy the loyalty of Qiu Jiajun from generation to generation.
Zong Ziqi kept his loyalty and righteousness, but I ruined everything in the Qiu family.
I am the demon queen in the mouth of the officials, the courtier who gets rid of everyone quickly, the curse of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness without propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame, and the shame of the autumn family.
Even if, one side of my heart, still guarding his Li Li.
This palace is still waiting for the general to cultivate himself properly as soon as possible, and then fight against the night army. As soon as
I spoke, Zong Ziqi, who was kneeling, got up.
Empress.
He lowered his head and said, The obsession in the world is harmful to others and oneself. It is good for the empress to let go of some things as soon as possible.
“I did not take his words, but said to myself,” All the logistics, the army’s pay and provisions, this palace must be ready, and the general will concentrate on training.
Zong Ziqi did not answer my words again. He turned around and mounted his horse and bowed to Huo Jiang Shen to say goodbye.
The horse’s hooves stepped on the purple road of the world of mortals. I covered my chest. I felt dizzy and painful. My knees were soft and I collapsed to the ground.
The Queen?
Queen Huo Jiangshen’s voice was ringing in my ears, but I couldn’t see his face clearly. “What’s wrong with the queen?”?
But I heard the sound of hooves in the distance and stopped. After
I fainted for two days, I woke up at a quarter past three. The thick clouds outside the
palace wall dyed half of the sky, stirring into a pool of blood, and the dome in the west gradually sank, like a red eye, like a piece of mud buried in the bone.
I stroked the edge of the bed to the table, found saliva, and managed to moisten my pale and dry lips.
Huo Jiang sank in, looked at my staggering appearance, and rushed over to hold me.
Queen, slow down, be careful that the wound will open again.
His voice was as steady and distant as ever, as if it were no more, no less, just half a foot away from me-even though both of them held out their hands, they could not touch each other, even though he was half holding me at the moment.
In fact, I kind of like the little emperor.
I don’t like my husband, but I like an emperor.
Likes him to respect me, to fear me, to hate me, but needs me more than anyone else, knows how to use me.
The old emperor Bin Tian, when I entered the palace, the late emperor’s beloved concubine, Empress Chen Pin, with her eyes red with tears, stopped Huo Jiangshen in front of the Chaohui Palace, who had just put on her dragon robe and did not know whether to hide or expose her hands.
I saw and heard it all that day. It was she. She had the fire set. She killed the emperor.
She threw herself at Huojiang’s feet and cried, pointing at me with trembling fingers and gnashing her teeth, wishing she could tear me up and chew me up.
I have heard that Chen Taipin treats the old emperor sincerely. It seems that he is so fond of him that he is dizzy with love, regardless of his own life or death. It is really enviable.
The emperor is here. Do you curse the emperor to death?
I pinched her chin and forced her to look up at the dragon pattern on Huo Jiang’s chest. Tell me, what did you see that day?
Chen Pin shook her head violently, broke free of my shackles, and suddenly bit me on my index finger. She tried her best, leaving behind two teeth marks and a few strands of thick blood.
I laughed, let her try hard, really pitiful, can only use this way to attack the husband who she hated deeply. When she was tired of
biting, she loosened her mouth and spat a mouthful of blood in my face and continued to abuse me: “You bitch, you killed the late emperor, and you will die a terrible death!”! I won’t let you go even if I’m a ghost! Chen Tai-pin is tired. Send Tai-pin back to rest.
Huo Jiangshen finally opened his mouth, and then his hand, half tucked in his sleeve, reached out, grabbed my palm, and carefully groped for the new blood stains.
Your Majesty, someone has seen it. What should we do? I asked my little emperor as
Chen Taipin roared as she was dragged away.
Huo Jiangshen focused on the wound that was about to reveal the dense white bones: “I believe in the queen.”.
“I pulled out my hand and said,” Why does the emperor always dirty my hand.
He did not argue.
His hands were hidden in his sleeves, but they showed my hands.
Huo Jiangshen was as attentive to the wound as he was to his country. He sent the best medicine and sent the judge of the Imperial Hospital to say hello every day.
He waited silently for it to heal as if he were looking forward to spring.
It was not until I called Xun Yang into the palace for the first time that I said that the queen could hardly lift my broadsword and asked him to come into the palace to compete with me and let me exercise my muscles and bones. Finally, when the sword in my hand was on his neck, Huo Jiangshen finally breathed a sigh of relief. What
he wanted was never a pair of hands with skin like congealed fat, but a pair of hands that could hold a sword and turn over clouds and rain.
He was too afraid that it would not be able to twist the sword, kill people, and be used by him.
Just like what he wants is not his queen, but the Qiu Yu who holds the amulet and can make him sit firmly in the country.
Chen Taipin was later found in a well and heard that her eyes were wide open and her delicate cherry mouth was filled with stones, which cut her long tongue and her vocal cords.
I helped her for the last time-only by being a ghost can she really let me go.
And alive, she can only be bullied by me. When
Chen Taipin’s coffin was carried out, Huo Jiangshen stood on the palace tower and watched.
Only one was dealt with.
“He said heavily,” The queen is merciful.
Chen Tai-pin suffered a little before she died, so she killed the chicken to make an example of the monkey. There’s no need to kill them all.
I said.
He wants me to handle it cleanly, so I won’t. In the middle of the
work, the remaining living people who served Chen Taipin and now I don’t know where I sent them are a threat to him for half his life.
The queen is always one move better than me.
We looked at each other and smiled.
Things soon got out of control, and Huo Jiangshen found it on the Dragon Chair-I was not just his hands, but the real master in his country.
I’m not the one who outplayed him, but the one who made the rules of the game.
Just like he watched me kill Changyang, but there was nothing he could do.
Just like at this moment, he stroked the wound of my shoulder blade, even if he wanted to poke my heart out again, he could only hope that it would get better soon.
I coughed twice, grabbed him by the arm, and asked in a hoarse voice, “Has General Zong gone?”? In my eyes,
he found three points of nervousness, seven points of expectation, and perhaps some rare weak willows.
But he hated the tension, he hated the expectation, and he hated the pity.
He carried me back to bed and answered, “I put Wei Yanqing in prison.”. Then he
did not forget to taunt her. The queen likes to keep wolves around her, but she was finally bitten.
Then why didn’t the emperor kill the little wolf? If
the queen wants to kill him, kill him early.
“Incredibly, I said with a wry smile,” So the emperor is still helping the palace keep a beautiful woman?
“” Then I sent someone to give me the white silk.
Huo Jiangshen was about to get up and go out.
I grabbed him by the arm, sat up, and pulled him in the face. “Wolf pups without teeth like to bite.”. Look
at the emperor, now the teeth are sharp, the claws are sharp, but he doesn’t bite.
Huo Jiang stared at me and kept silent for a long time. Suddenly he bit me hard on my lips, and the sweet smell of blood burst out on the tip of my tongue, as if to retaliate against my wanton behavior of riding on his neck for so many years.
Who says I don’t bite.
He wiped his mouth.
Then we looked at each other and smiled.
Later, I heard Xun Yang say that Huo Jiang had been guarding me for two and a half days, and he had put it down in the morning.
After all, how can civil and military armchair warriors of Manchao compare with me, the queen who really helped him lay down the country.
HuoJiangShen really poor, hate I hate into the bone, more than anyone else want to my life, but just have to protect me to protect me, carefully guarding my head, at least keep to the hand holding the amulet and autumn warhorse I will northwest six cities in the bag that day.
Xun Yang said that Xiao Wei’s son was really pitiful. He was weak and suffered twenty whips from Huo Jiangshen himself. He was tortured to half a breath and thrown into the cold and damp death row.
Xun Yang also said, the general is also poor. What does
the general pity?
He talked noisily for a long time, and finally a word stirred me.
The young lady is so cruel that even the general has to calculate.
I dropped the rotten northwest drawing in my hand and quickly asked, “Is it true that the general didn’t leave?”?
The young lady fell down in front of the general, and her fate was unknown. How could the general go.
“Xun Yang sighed.” The general is pitiful. Even if he knows that he has been calculated by the young lady, he can only admit that he is unlucky to be calculated.
“I looked at him coldly.” I’m just helping the general. If a
general doesn’t want to do something, there must be a reason not to let him do it.
That young lady treats the general too sincerely.
“Xun Yang, this dog thing, taunted me as he spoke.” Miss, the body of ten thousand gold, in order to keep the general in the capital, she was willing to suffer this. She had never shed so much blood on the battlefield.
“I smashed the drawing in his face and said,” I’ll tear your mouth off sooner or later. Get out.
Xun Yang was used to being bossed around by me. He took two steps out and came back. He picked up the drawing on the ground and respectfully handed it back. It’s old. I’ll redraw it for the young lady another day.
I calculated Zong Ziqi, and I deliberately got Wei Yanqing’s blow, but I was really helping Ziqi.
Zong Ziqi doesn’t want me to attack Ye Rong. If I let him go back to the northwest, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. He has ten thousand reasons not to send troops.
I want Ye Rong, and don’t force him to do anything he doesn’t want to do.
So I left him behind, so that he could not return to the territory where he had fought for several years, nor to our native land.
As for the northwest, there will be someone to take over him, there will be someone in I clean up Liu Chengmou party, after all the hay and army pay led troops into battle, at all costs take the night Rong Cheng.
On that night, the familiar nightmare came again.
I broke Huo Jiangshen’s peaceful sleep.
He woke up and held my hand firmly, wiping the sweat from my forehead.
I woke up in a daze and gasped feebly at the beam.
The queen has made the same mistake.
“He touched my chest and breathed for me.” It’s been a lot lately.
When I calmed down, he did not forget to say sarcastically, “Is someone begging for his life in a dream?”?
“I closed my eyes and said,” Recently I always dreamed that the emperor was wiping my neck in his sleep.
“” No, I’m still reluctant to give up.
He said. On the seventh day of the
ninth month, I met Zong Ziqi in the palace.
Deliberately without makeup, wearing plain clothes, still looks weak, ready to fall down at any time.
Even half an hour ago, I just sent someone to burn down the Jing’an Teahouse in the capital, which was used by Liu Chengmou as an eyeliner.
Murder and arson are really my strong points from childhood to adulthood.
Strolling by the Jingliu Pond, I said to Zong Ziqi, “I had that dream again last night. I’ve had it for 17 years, and I’ve had it more recently.”.
The empress has to let herself go. After
a brief pause, he added, When you are injured, you should have a good rest.
I am no longer his Li Li after all.
In the past, whenever I told him that I was chased by nightmares in a long night, he would try his best to comfort me.
He told me that one day he would kill those evil people, and he would capture Ye Rong and avenge this blood feud for me.
But now, like a Buddha, he advised me to put it down and try to save all the people in the mire.
Then who will spare my mother?
His words suddenly stopped me. I grabbed my collar and shouted at him at the top of my voice. Have you seen my mother’s body?
Do you know how those animals killed her?
Have you ever seen the flesh and blood of a body cut out by a knife, the face scratched by a knife, and the limbs broken by a knife?
Madam, there is knowledge in heaven, and she wouldn’t want to see the empress tortured by hatred like this.
He is still cold, just like Huo Jiangshen.
I don’t want to see my mother tortured like that.
Seventeen years ago, my mother was invited to give a lecture in Yerong, but she was kidnapped by bandits along the way. Those unconscionable people tortured my mother to death and threw her body in the corner of the city wall after they learned that she was from Muzhou.
I went with my father to collect the corpse. That day I touched the wall of Yerong and said to my father, “I will slaughter this city.”.
Slaughter this one, and the next one. Carrying my mother’s body on his back,
my father turned to me and said, There have been too many tragedies like this. Only by taking all the six cities in the northwest can one side be safe.
Since then, my life seems to be to recover the six cities in the northwest, to slaughter all the night soldiers and live all over the city.
I trained hard to lead the troops to fight, make contributions and win the morale of the troops.
I did not hesitate to disobey my father, and even indirectly killed my brother.
But soon I found that military forces are not enough, there must be pay, there is hay, but also the emperor’s orders, the court’s right to speak.
Military pay hay is fat, fed so many corrupt officials in the court, but did not feed the soldiers who went to battle to kill the enemy.
So I broke my engagement with Zong Ziqi and married Huo Jiangshen, the king of Rui at that time, who was also able to compete with the crown prince for the throne. I want to have a good taste of power.
Later, Xun Yang told me that on the day my wedding sedan chair was carried into Prince Rui’s Mansion, Zong Ziqi held his long-hidden daughter Hong in his arms and drank from morning till night. He said that the wine had been hidden for decades and would be opened on the day when he married Li Li. Since he couldn’t wait, he would drink it.
So he drank three times and poured it down seventeen times, and the smell of the good wine filled the camp.
“On a good day for my young lady, everyone will have a good time!” He held the bowl and his eyes were full of hazy clouds.
Perhaps that day he also saw in the fog the Li who greeted him outside the city when he returned triumphantly, the Li who looked for his wounds, and the Li who played with him with knives and guns.
Perhaps he drank too much, and finally he collapsed on the wine jar and muttered to Xun Yang, “Li Li is a man who wants to get things done. For such a man, the obsession in his heart is more important than anything else, not to mention a mere engagement.”.
Then he told Xun Yang to go to the capital to guard Li Li, at least to save her life.
That was the last time he called me Li Li.
Now, he calls me empress.
He said to me, “Since the empress is all right, Xiaoguan will go back to guard the frontier.”.
In the evening, I dug out a jar of wine from under the old locust tree outside the pepper house. In the year
when Huo Jiangshen became emperor, I buried twenty jars of my daughter’s red here, which was the number that Ziqi had prepared for the marriage with Li Li. Over
the years, every time Zong Ziqi captured a city, I opened an altar. The previous one was a celebration banquet for his return to the court last month.
This time, for no reason, I just want to waste some good wine.
First, as always, pour it on the ground to my father. When
he was lying in bed, it was just when I became the queen of Muzhou. At that time, the person who accompanied him was not me, but Zongziqi.
Since the palace caught fire, the prince died, and the news of the old emperor’s serious illness spread to the northwest, my father refused to see me, and would rather die than go to the capital.
I myself went back to the northwest and knelt outside the camp for a whole night, but he also kicked me out in public.
Guozhang is now breathing his last breath in the dust of the northwest wasteland.
I took the sword and three hundred thousand Qiujiajun soldier amulet all the way to the west, driving the old horse that accompanied me for fourteen years through a hundred miles in the yellow sand, and was finally stopped by several rows of soldiers kneeling together outside the barracks, saying that the old general told me not to see the young lady.
I threw the amulet on the ground and said, “The amulet is here. Who dares to stop it?”?
Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to respond.
I opened the way with a long sword: I have killed so many people. I don’t mind washing my own barracks in blood first today. I will also practice my hands first in order to wash Ye Rong in blood in the future. The empress,
please come in.
Finally, the all-too-familiar voice sounded in the corner of the tent and relieved me.
But only a few months, see Zongzi period again, but like the vicissitudes of Linggu, the East China Sea dust.
I am travel-stained, and my face is covered with yellow sand, but he still has a sword, eyebrows and starry eyes, and seven feet high.
We are all so restrained, but it happens to be so natural as if nothing had happened, stirring people’s hearts with the itch of ant bites and the pain of knife gouging.
“Empress, please.”.
“After a moment, he said,” The old general is not very good. I’m afraid he won’t be able to endure for a long time.
Finally, I saw my father for the last time.
It’s just that I saw him for the last time, and he never looked at me. In front of
his sickbed, he was holding Zong Ziqi by the hand, and his instructions, word by word, were also addressed to him: “You must be loyal to the emperor, devote yourself to the day, devote yourself to the country, and die.”.
Zong Ziqi nodded repeatedly.
“If the empress does not submit, she will have two minds..” He took a deep breath and said, “You must get rid of it in order to keep the Qiu family loyal for a hundred years.”.
At last he let go of his anger and said, “Son, remember what I’ve said to you all these years, remember..” As soon as he let go, his head turned heavily in my direction.
He seemed to be waiting for me with this tone, and when I arrived, my father could leave at ease.
Finally, he regarded Zongziqi as his heir, his inheritance and his defender.
I stayed in the northwest military camp for two days to see Zong Ziqi again. It was he who ordered me to leave: “Empress, forgive me for taking the liberty. The old general wants to be buried in peace. Empress is here. I’m afraid it will disturb the old general’s peace after he was born.”.
“” You hate me so much that you think I’m an eyesore?
Zong Ziqi didn’t look at me, and after that, whether in the northwest or in Kyoto, he knelt down to the emperor but didn’t kneel down to me. He respected the emperor but refused to look at me.
It was the old general who told me before he left that he didn’t want to have anything to do with the empress after he was born. You’d better return to the court as soon as possible and not be exposed to the wind and the sun.
“I asked him,” What did you call me?
“He said,” Empress.
“I asked him,” What did my father call me?
“He said,” Queen.
“I asked him,” Who is that Li?
He no longer answered.
Li Li is a pot of thin wine, which was scattered on the northwest land with his drunkenness that day, turned into a full camp of wine fragrance, and finally dried up in this desert. Of course
I remember what my father said to me over the years, and of course I know that I am no longer the queen of Muzhou, the future master of the six cities in the northwest.
I go to lead my horse, my horse is old, lead it, when I think of the rolling yellow sand, its gradually heavy breath, gradually slow pace.
I touched its fur, as if to see the days on horseback, to see the outline of the six cities in the northwest, to see the day and night when I vowed to wash the night army in blood, and now, I cling to the power of a little bit of expansion, it has become so old.
Let’s go, we’re not welcome here anymore. Holding its neck in my arms,
I leaned my head against its eyes. Tears from the corners of my eyes, which I had not seen for a long time, overflowed and slowly moistened an inch of white hair from the corners of his eyes. My father is gone, and I am the only one left in the world. Outside the
camp, Zong Ziqi saw me off. The last question I asked was, What would you do if my father really said that day?
“” If there are really rebellious ministers and bandits, I will get rid of them quickly, do my duty as a minister, and defend the reputation of the Qiu family.
“” That’s good.
“I patted him on the shoulder.” I’m waiting for this day.
“” Empress.
“Zongziqi called me, who had turned his back,” I never want that day to come.
I smiled and pulled the reins. It is always sad to recall
the past, but I thought I had a heart of stone these years, and my heart was still in pain.
A cup of wine escaped to the ground, and I said to my father, “That day will come soon.”. After drinking two cups by myself under the
moon, as expected, I felt stuffy and intoxicated, and I had no interest.
Huo Jiangshen naturally won’t accompany me, after thinking about it, I asked someone to go to prison to mention Wei Yanqing.
Wei Childe’s wound healed a little, but the mottled whip marks under his skirt were still looming, and it was painful to look at them. Is
the empress in good health? When
he saw that I was safe, he didn’t know whether to be happy or disappointed for a moment.
Probably better than you.
I raised his face. There was no blood on Wei Yanqing’s white lips, and the lines of his thin face became sharper and sharper.
I helped him up and said, “Come on, have a drink with me. After that, I’ll let you go back to serve your tongueless father.”.
Wei Yen-ching put on the literati’s set again: “Xiaoguan is too big to drink, and he can’t drink.”. Master
Wei, in this world, there are some things you can’t do, but you have to bite the bullet and do them, such as drinking the wine of this palace.
And there are some things you can’t do, and you’d better not even think about it, like poking scissors into the heart of the present queen. Then
I pointed to my chest.
When he was about to fall to the ground in a hurry, I grabbed him first and said, “No, no, no. Don’t kneel down. Before the flowers and under the moon, with cinnamon wine and pepper pulp, don’t kneel down and spoil the mood of this palace.”.
Wei Yanqing had no choice but to pick up a cup and stare at it in a daze for a long time. He drank it down like a strong man going to die. After three rounds of
drinking, the time was approaching, and the thing I had been waiting for half a night finally came.
Seeing the silhouette of Xun Yang in the dark night, my heart trembled.
It happened that the crow in the tree did not understand the current affairs and made a lot of noise. So I pulled out the pendant from Wei Yanqing’s waist and threw it at the tree with my wrist. With a short whine, only Xun Yang’s approaching footsteps were left in the quiet night.
He delivered the Northwest Express to me and whispered, “Empress, it’s done.”. With
one word, Xun Yang made a bow and disappeared into the night as if he had never been here before. Can’t even a crow listen to what
Lord Xun says?
Wei Yanqing probed cautiously. It’s just
a bird. It’s not a pity to die.
But if you talk nonsense, it will be a pity to die.
“I looked at the place where the crow had died.” Has Mr. Wei ever seen a jackdaw?
Jackdaws live in the west, and are rare in the capital.
Yes, the jackdaw, a migratory bird that comes and goes in spring, often leaves the northwest and returns to the south in late autumn.
Wei Yanqing, of course, will not know that the first day of September is the unique Jackdaw Festival in the northwest frontier.
The battlefield is bitter and cold, and the soldiers in the army regard the departure of migratory birds as their homecoming. They often kneel down to worship their relatives in the southeast direction on the day of Jackdaw Festival, and also worship the dead souls on the battlefield on this day. They display their ranks one by one and face the southeast, wishing them to return home like jackdaw birds.
This is a big day in the northwest frontier, and I used to burn incense for my mother again and again in such a frosty preface.
But this year, I made a game.
As early as the day Zongziqi returned to Kyoto, my secret letter was passed to Zongziqi’s lieutenant Guan Cang. There were only four words
on the imperial edict: “fanning the flames.”.
I don’t know what Guan Cang did, but this calligraphy from the northwest told me that on the night of the Jackdaw Festival, by the north wind and the unextinguished incense of the soldiers, the mourning hall for the deceased soldiers in the army was burned by a nameless fire. It is said that the night Rong soldiers wanted to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the northwest army in Muzhou to order hay, but they set fire to the mourning hall by mistake.
True or false is not important, anyway, the northwest army since the anger, hate can’t immediately a fire also burned the night Rong.
So on the third day of September, when I just woke up, Guan Cang led five thousand troops to attack the enemy camp of Ye Rong and won the first battle against Ye Rong.
From then on, the night Rong this tough battle, even if the period of the son of ten thousand don’t want to, I’m afraid with his own strength, is also can’t stop. When spring comes,
the jackdaws will return to the northwest.
Without waiting for Wei Yanqing to answer, Huo Jiangshen’s voice came from outside the hall.
This little emperor, whenever there is a man in my palace, he must come to intervene.
I was used to nestling on the couch and said, “What if this spring doesn’t open?”?
Wei Yanqing knelt down hurriedly and bowed to the man in front of him who had given him twenty lashes.
Huo Jiangshen paid no attention and said coldly, “The empress is in such a good mood that she drinks with foreign ministers in the middle of the night.”?
“” Yes, such an interest was spoiled by the emperor.
I covered my yawning mouth with my sleeve and waved my hand to Wei Yanqing. I’m tired. Go back and take good care of your father. There will be things he needs to talk about in the future. Every time
Wei Yanqing did this, he came shakily and walked away as if fleeing from famine. Huo Jiangshen and I were the only two people left
in the room. He picked up a cup and sniffed the fragrance of the wine. Suddenly, he threw down his sleeve and held the cup firmly in his hand. The mellow wine dripped through his fingers: Drink even when you go back to the capital, and drink even when you leave the capital. If Zongzi expects not to leave Kyoto, will the empress get drunk every day.
The little emperor was annoyed. As I
looked at his slightly bulging cheeks, I naturally knew that it wasn’t for the sake of my calling Wei Yanqing into the palace to drink. “So what if I get drunk every day?”?
Just give the officials one more reason to visit the palace.
The empress drew three hundred imperial guards to surround General Zong’s inn. Why? He
said what he meant. Naturally
, this palace is reluctant to let the general go, and wants to keep the general for a few more days.
I took a cup from his hand, filled it and put it into my throat. I still owe the general a cup of wedding wine.
I see. Early in the morning, I surrounded the inn with people in order not to let Zong Ziqi leave. In the battle
of Yerong, I didn’t want to borrow Zongziqi’s hand, and I had other plans, but I didn’t want to annoy the little emperor. I thought I had raised my old confidant in Kyoto, and I had other plans.
Huo Jiangshen snatched it back and drank a cup with me. “Empress, I still owe you a cup of poisoned wine.”. On the day when all the six cities in the
northwest return to Muzhou, you will be returned.
“He approached me.” The queen means what she says.
“” You are not joking.
I answered with a laugh. Before
that day, the empress must leave me an heir.
He took hold of my arm.
The next morning, I woke up in Huojiang’s bosom.
I vaguely remember that last night I was drunk and blindfolded, and the last half of the jar was waved down from the table and splashed all over the floor.
I collapsed in the ants on the ground, dipped my fingers in the residual wine, and put it under my nose to smell it briefly, as if it was the taste that Zongziqi had smelled when I married into Ruiwangfu.
But then, Huo Jiangshen went up, pressed my wrist, and encircled my head.
“Li Li..” He called out suddenly.
My body, which was drowning in the wine, suddenly shook.
“Li Li, Li Li..” He barked one mouthful after another as if he were addicted.
In Ruiwangfu, he called me Princess.
Now, he calls me queen.
Only the word “Li Li” has never come out of his mouth. Huo Jiangshen and
I are like two people holding the same rope and falling on the edge of the cliff. Only when one falls, the other can live.
It’s just that before we throw one of them down, we have to put out the fire burning on this rope together. When I
woke up, I broke out of his bosom, and Huo Jiangshen woke up: “Where is the queen going?”? Didn’t
the emperor know last night?
Sitting in front of the mirror, Huo Jiangshen appeared behind me, wearing a thin cloak, and pulled up my hair: The queen’s hair is thin.
Over the years, the queen has spent too much effort.
I’m afraid it will take a few more years.
I pulled my hair out of his hand and combed it gently.
And then?
“He asked,” After a few years, what happens?
I knew what Huo Jiangshen wanted to ask. He wanted me to tell him that when the six cities in the northwest were captured, except for Liu Chengmou, when the amulet would be returned to him, when the world would be handed over, and when I would really be a loyal courtier instead of a queen riding on his neck.
I put down my comb and tilted my head to look at his face in the mirror without joy or anger. “That depends on whether the emperor has the ability at that time.”. Leave
me a child.
He suddenly put his arms around my shoulders and buried his face in my whiskers. Li Li, I beg you to keep a child like you.
“I took his hand from my chest and said,” There is no Li in this world.
Huo Jiangshen no longer insisted. He turned around and straightened his collar as if nothing had happened. The emperor of
today is almost unrecognizable.
“I want to be sarcastic again.” Don’t fall in love with me.
Dressing and dressing, I lifted the curtain of the sedan chair with a bright face outside the inn on Kyoto Street.
Looking directly at Zong Ziqi, who was surrounded by three hundred imperial guards, I temporarily forgot the joy of last night with Huo Jiangshen and the weirdness of this morning. In the case of Liu Chengmou, the prefect
of Anyang, who used the military pay in the northwest to seek personal gains, the emperor and the empress wanted to ask the general to stay in Kyoto to assist in the investigation.
At that time, my capable young general Xun Yang took the lead in stopping Zong Ziqi.
Zong Ziqi leaned sideways and looked at me, who was hiding behind the curtain of the sedan chair, through the layers of human walls. “Do you need so many people to help with the investigation?”?
“Xun Yang leaned close to his ear and said,” I’m afraid the general is eager to return home and refuses to be loyal.
Lord Xun really has a great ambition. He is willing to do anything for success.
Don’t forget whether you are the courtier of the emperor or the running dog of the empress.
“” Hi.
“Xun Yang waved his sleeve and said,” I’m just talking about success and sharing my worries for the young lady.
If the empress had let Lord Xun slaughter Ye Rong, your hometown, would Lord Xun have obeyed?
“Without hesitation, Xun Yang said,” Of course, I will never refuse to die.
Zong Tzu took a resigned breath and said, “Guan Cang’s newborn calf is not enough to conquer Ye Rong, nor can it keep the northwest peaceful for a long time. Please remember this.”.
“” Be sure to convey.
Zong Ziqi lowered his head for a long time and then raised it again. “Please tell Lord Xun that I want to see the emperor.”.
To assist, I only help the emperor; to be loyal, I only serve the emperor. If it is true that he is
absolutely loyal, it is not bad for the loyalty of the Qiu family.
Not good-looking, I put down the curtain of the sedan chair and said, “Let’s go back to the palace.”. Even
if Zong Ziqi doesn’t side with me any more, there’s nothing wrong with his words.
Night Rong is famous for easy to keep difficult to attack, even if I have enough hay and pay, with Guan Cang’s own strength, I’m afraid to attack the night Rong is three years and five years.
I can’t wait that long, and neither can court and the people.
So early in the morning, I dispatched Yu Guangtong, the commander of Sishui, to the front. Yu Guangtong not only experienced hundreds of battles and had great military exploits, but the most important thing was that he was ten thousand loyal to Huo Jiangshen. In terms of sincerity, he was three hundred times better than my father.
Xun Yang said to me, the young lady used to just raise wolves around her, but now she raises wolves everywhere, and even the people of Huo Jiangshen dare to reuse them. “As for checks and balances,”
I said casually, “you can’t let one side dominate. This has been the case since ancient times.”.
“” Check and balance yourself?
“Xun Yang couldn’t believe it.” This has been true since ancient times, and there is no such reason.
Shut up, you’ve been talking too much lately.
“I paused for a long time, and suddenly I was amused.” Why don’t I add you?
Xun Yang shut up.
“Don’t you refuse to die?”.
“I raised the tip of my lips.” Why don’t you help this palace to slaughter Yerong City. Without hesitation
, Xun Yang knelt down and said, I will certainly live up to my trust.
Soon, I discovered a terrible thing.
Huo Jiangshen, the little emperor, did not know where he had seen the fun of having children and grandchildren, but he really wanted a doll.
The most favorable evidence is that I hid at the head of the bed, so that I can not have a pregnant pill, I do not know when he was replaced by a pill to prevent miscarriage.
According to the confidant of my hospital, Huo Jiangshen even cut off the supply of safflower, the most important medicine for my meatballs, throughout Kyoto. Anyway
, I have always been loyal and responsive to Huo Jiangshen. Didn’t
he want a baby? On September 18, the second day after Yu Guang arrived in the northwest, I couldn’t wait to choose a concubine for Huo Jiangshen. I specially chose a face with a broad waist and plump buttocks to send to the palace.
Huo Jiangshen originally did not give me face, this group of Yingying Yanyan, he is not willing to see.
It was not until the talent show I hosted had an accident that a girl with a thin waist and narrow buttocks came forward to reply, suddenly pulled out the pearl hairpin and wanted to assassinate me.
Huo Jiangshen finally hurried here. He took a look at me, who was very skillful and safe and sound. Then he took a look at the beautiful girl and said, “Queen, let her go.”.
“I leaned there and asked Huo Jiangshen,” Is that walking faster or suffering a little?
I mean, let her go out of the palace.
not the kind of walk I always thought. Who is
she?
I became interested and straightened up.
Huo Jiang Shen did not answer. Who are
you? So
I turned to the girl.
Li Leyao.
“” Why kill this palace? Revenge
for my brother. Who is
your brother?
“Queen!” Huo Jiang shouted at me, “I said, let her go.”.
“” If you’ve already come, why should you go?
I waved my hand, “Give..” “Queen!” Huo Jiangshen called again, afraid I give dagger give white silk give poison wine three words followed.
“Give me a gold hairpin, and leave it in the palace for the emperor to have children.”.
“I looked at Huo Jiangshen with a smile.” Well, am I a competent queen? How could
I not know who her brother was?
Li Leyao, the daughter of Li Tu, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, had a brother in her family, who was also very promising. Before her death, she served as the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Most importantly, she married the eldest princess of the court and became a famous son-in-law. It is a pity
that the emperor’s son-in-law provoked me and died at my hands with his wife Changyang before he had a firm foundation in the government and the public.
Unwilling to accept my kindness, Li Leyao continued to swear, “The demon queen, I, the Li family, have been loyal and good for generations, and I have worked hard and made great achievements.”.
My brother Chang Xian Neng and Princess Chang respected each other. Just because he didn’t want to see the world of the Huo family trampled by you, the demon queen, he was killed by you and died tragically in the mountains.
“She held her head high and said with a heroic look,” My brother and sister-in-law were all killed by you. I failed to get revenge today, and you don’t have to humiliate me like this. I
came to kill you, and I didn’t want to get out alive. As she
spoke, the pearl hairpin in her hand went to her heart.
Huo Jiang’s eyes were deep and his hands were quick. He grasped the pointed head firmly. In an instant, blood dripped down Li Leyao’s skirt along his fingers.
“Your Majesty..” There was a glimmer of hope in her dying look, and she called out.
Bored to death, I just want to give Huo Jiangshen for a concubine, toss out such a lot of shit.
If you want to play the role of a lover and a concubine, you can go back to your room to perform after you have given her status. I
lost my patience. I pushed Huo Jiangshen aside, snatched the pearl hairpin, and raised Li Leyao’s chin. Just because I killed your brother and sister-in-law, do you hate me so much?
She stared at me with her beautiful eyes wide open. “It’s not enough that you killed my brother and sister-in-law!” Of course it’s not enough.
“I hooked my lips.” You have been spoiled in Kyoto for many years, but you have never seen any fighting or killing. I will tell you a story.
Many years ago, there was a small village called Wansha Village in the northwest border.
In autumn and winter, when it was dark, there was yellow sand everywhere, and the doors and windows were closed door to door, so it got its name.
Li Leyao was noncommittal: Why are you talking about this?
Twelve years ago, when I was still in the northwest, I often went to Wansha Village to play. It was not far north of Yongcheng, where the milk wine was particularly delicious. At that time,
I loved to play with guns and swords. Every time Archie, the little grandson of the old village, saw me, he called me a female general, saying that the city of Wulan in the north had come to disturb the peace of the village again. Next time, let me teach them a lesson.
I don’t know if I’m getting old, but I always like to recall things from the past recently, or things I’ve never said to Huo Jiangshen before: I said yes, and every time I said yes, I pulled the hook seven or eight times with Archie.
Archie said, with me, I will not dare to bully them in the future, and I will protect them.
I really thought I could protect them until the eighth day of the third month. In March of that year, spring came, and the wind and sand in the dusk of the late sand village gradually diminished.
In fact, that year the northwest soldiers have been very difficult, without many provocations, repeatedly invaded, to invade the city of Yongcheng, Muzhou, is also the place where more than two hundred thousand soldiers were stationed.
My father has long been unable to resist, and wants to give Wu Lan some color to see on the battlefield.
It was a pity that one after another memorials were sent to the court, and what my father finally received was only the old emperor’s stereotyped war, which was a waste of money and manpower, and asked Yongcheng to stay put. The
city of Wulan became more and more rampant. My father remonstrated bitterly and returned to the capital without a letter. He knelt down and begged the son of heaven. Only then did the old emperor finally relent.
But on the sixth day of the third month, the agreed provisions did not arrive, and the documents of the Ministry of War were delayed. The armor of
my father’s party was put on and taken off, and the strong wine was warm in the heart, and the sword was sharpened the most, but there was no supply of hay, no approval from the Ministry of War, and finally he had to give up. On the eighth day of the
third month, I was upset. When I went to Wansha to beg for a drink, I saw that more than 300 households and more than 1000 people in Wansha had been slaughtered. There
were corpses everywhere, blood all over the ground, and the dead lay on top of each other, choking with their last groans.
I found Archie among the dead, lying on his face in the sand, a bloody gash on his neck, his curled fingers pointing at a shack.
So I rescued his eight-year-old sister, Mal, who was the only survivor of the massacre, hidden under the straw in the hut. On the way back to Yongcheng
with Maer on her back, she asked me, “Are you the female general my brother said?”?
I didn’t answer. At that moment, I felt I didn’t deserve it. I wasn’t a general. I was just a spectator of this tragedy. He said
, “You are going to beat Wu Lan to pieces and throw away his helmet and armor.”.
Her dusty little head was buried in my neck. Did you go?
Why do they come to the village to kill people?
She grabbed me by the corner of my coat, and I felt the heaving of my chest and the heavy sobs on my back. Why don’t you protect us?
Why did you drink your brother’s milk wine and let him die? I’m speechless.
I can’t protect them. The sword is not enough to protect them. You have to have power.
Later, Muzhou captured the city of Wulan.
It was the second year when I became the empress. I mobilized the grain and grass in the southwest and personally stamped the imperial seal on the approval of the Ministry of War.
Zong Ziqi was ordered to lead the troops, and when he returned from a great victory, Mar waited for him on the gate tower, saying that she had waited too long that day.
But she saw it, but Archie couldn’t see it, and neither could Wansha Village.
At that time, on the map of Muzhou, the insignificant point of Wansha Village had been erased. In
those years, I often wondered if the court had let my father send troops early in the morning, if the provisions had not gone into the wrong pockets, if we had not drunk the Zhuangxing wine on March 6 that year, and if we had gone to the battlefield and fought happily, would we have closed the doors and windows in Shacun that night every autumn and winter, and would Archie have filled me with milk wine? Will the people in that village not be slaughtered into a river of blood.
I looked at Li Leyao and said, That year, Liu Chengmou, an agricultural official in the southwest, was transferred to the south of the Yangtze River, where there was more oil and water, by virtue of his connections with the capital and the benefits of being sent to the capital.
And your elder brother Li Yun, a new broom sweeps clean, at the behest of Changyang, did not send the approval of the Ministry of War to Yongzhou.
I collapsed on the couch, took a breath, rubbed my nose, and the hall was stuffy with silence.
After a while, I pointed to Li Leyao and said, “Your Majesty, what position should you give to your old acquaintance, Miss Li?”?
“Queen..” He lowered his head and called me heavily.
That’s all. I’m tired. You can discuss it. As soon as
I exerted myself, the pearl hairpin in my hand broke two sections. There are too many blood debts in
this world. Everyone only sees the one counted on others, but can’t see the numerous enmities recorded on his own head.
But I am not the same, I owe them sooner or later will be repaid, but before that day, I have to first owe me a clear sum of money.
Li Leyao entered the palace and sealed Zhaoyi.
I gave her a little jade and gold hairpin to compensate her for the one she broke in my hand.
Standing in front of the mirror and looking at her pink face, her heavy makeup, her luxury, her untamed eyebrows and her new dignity, I found that everything was so appropriate, so just right.
You are like a queen.
I thrust the hairpin slowly into her chignon and startled her into a cold sweat on her temples. Why did
you let me into the palace? Aren’t you afraid I’ll kill you?
She also looked at me in the mirror, fearful and hostile.
If you really kill this palace, you will be sharing the worries of the imperial court.
“I leaned close to her ear and said,” It’s a great achievement. Indifferently,
Li Leyao lowered her head slightly and touched her own bun: Not only do I want to kill you, but everyone in the world has to punish you. For
seven years, I have occupied the nest of magpies and borrowed the world of the Huo family for seven years.
“I raised my lips.” But in these seven years, have I occupied the land of the ploughman or burned the grass of the herdsman?
Is it a 30% tax increase or a million soldiers? When
Li Leyao heard this, she raised her eyelids and looked at my eyes in the mirror.
I’ve only collected three cities in the northwest, but I haven’t been short of rations or pay for the soldiers on the battlefield, and I haven’t let them go.
However, apart from the courtiers of the ruling and opposition parties, I have never been associated with innocent family members, and I also appoint officials on their merits.
It’s just that I have more blood on my hands while you rest easy in the boudoir, but if I don’t kill these people, more people in the world will die because of them.
That’s all, I’ll punish everyone?
“I put my hand on her delicate face and said,” It’s not enough for Changyang to get things done. She has formed a clique for personal gain. If this palace lets her go, she will really be punished.
You think I want to wipe her blood with this hand?
I still feel dirty! Then I tossed my sleeve and gazed at my blushing knuckles. “What a lot of Rouge,” I said. “I’m afraid the emperor will get drunk tonight.”.
As a result, I guessed wrong, and Huo Jiang was drunk.
Not only was he not drunk, but he did not enter Li Leyao’s house at all. Instead, he personally brought Guo yuan of the Imperial Hospital to the pepper room.
Feel the pulse.
He ordered without thinking. Embarrassed,
Judge Kuo raised his hand and said, “I beg you to borrow the jade wrist of the empress and let me feel her pulse.”.
I’d like to see what medicine Huo Jiangshen sells in his gourd. Kuo You-pang felt
left and right, but in the end he was still in a dilemma: “It’s a bit of a sign of a slippery pulse, but the empress’s body has always been hot and humid, as usual, and now it’s really too early..” Smooth pulse?
I understand at once, this is a happy pulse, ah, dare to love the little emperor is not a joke, is really want to ask me for an heir. It’s late
at night, and today is the day the emperor should go to Li Chao-yi’s. Angrily,
I gave the order to leave. Go out and turn left. Less than half a mile away is the Orchid Court where Li Zhaoyi lives. A moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. The emperor should hurry up. Come again
tomorrow and feel your pulse. Ignoring me,
he said to Kuo yuan, “One trip in the morning and one in the evening, until the number comes out.”.
With that, Huo Jiangshen closed the door and took off his coat. “I’m not used to sleeping anywhere else, so I still have to rest here.”. I had another nightmare
that night, but this time it wasn’t for my mother. In the
dream, Zong Ziqi was covered with blood and told him that he was going to walk, and the rest of the way could only be finished by himself. I shouted in my
mouth that I didn’t want it, but I couldn’t catch anything with my hand. He seemed to be a cup of daughter’s red poured into the northwest loess, seeping into the rough sand and stones, leaving only the remnants.
I woke up and saw Huo Jiangshen’s face.
He slowly opened his eyes, as if he had never been asleep, and took my hand in the quilt. “Don’t be afraid.”.
“I touched his forehead and sweated the same way.” Did the emperor have a nightmare?
“He turned his back noncommittally and said,” Queen, I think we have a long way to go.
I guess he had the same dream, but in the dream, I was covered with blood. Tell him that if I can’t help you, I’m leaving, and you can do the rest of the emperor yourself. The first defeat in the
northwest came back in the winter, when Liu Chengmou had been demoted by me, and Zong Ziqi had stayed in the capital for half a year. When
I wanted to kill Liu Chengmou, it was Mr. Wei who came to beg.
He said Liu adult is a good man, Liu chengmou is to his father Wei Ming sent money, is in the capital to cultivate eyes henchmen, is indeed plunder the people fat people feed the local gentry, and even intended to withhold the northwest army pay hay, but this is just he has no way, is he as an Anyang Satrap had to use the art of checks and balances.
When Liu Chengmou went to Anyang to take office, it was the time when the prince was proud. At that time, the Satrap of Anyang was the prince’s uncle. Most of the squires and rich people in Anyang were involved with the prince. Many of the money they got went into the prince’s pocket.
Liu Chengmou had no choice but to be obedient. If he could not feed these people, the people would suffer more.
So he did not want to supply the northwest military pay and hay, to add to the burden of the people.
If you say so, did Liu Chengmou make sacrifices for the people of Anyang?
I asked him.
Wei Yanqing kept his mouth shut.
In this world, someone has to sacrifice. It’s not that great.
But when something is done, it means that you are ready to accept the consequences.
“I paused.” The same is true of this palace.
From then on, there were three more folds of my folding.
Nothing more than to say that I take Anyang hay to feed Qiujiajun, is to enrich myself, ambition.
It is also said that I persecuted the important officials in the court, killing the loyal and good, and calling a stag a horse. I
also dug up the past that I supported the army and forced the palace, saying that I was a rebel and a thief, killing the king and usurping the throne. It was Li Yunyu and Li Leyao’s father, Li Tu, the old minister of the Ministry of Rites, who
called me the most happily. His spittle spurted in all directions. He wished he could eat me alive in the court.
Xun Yang said unexpectedly, Changyang is clearly the sister of Huo Jiangshen, but her son-in-law’s family is the prince’s. Then he
asked me why I didn’t clean up Li Tu earlier so that he could shut up his old mouth.
I rolled my eyes at him and said, “I’d rather you keep your mouth shut.”. It’s easy for
me not to kill Li Tu, because he’s not the prince’s man, and of course, he’s not my man.
That is to say, Changyang was still so small at that time, how could he instruct Li Yunyu not to send the approval of sending troops to the northwest.
Changyang just listened to the first emperor’s words, and the Li family was just the first emperor’s people, the Huo family. What
Li Tu wants to overthrow is never Huo Jiangshen, but me.
Just like now, the prince is dead, he will naturally be loyal to Huo Jiang Shen, whose surname is Huo.
I still listened to Wei Yanqing’s words, not in a hurry to kill Liu Chengmou, Liu Chengmou involved too many people, I want to pick a good time, let him play the greatest effect.
In the past six months, the only time I saw Zong Ziqi was when I found his letter in a pile of ginseng books.
So I summoned him to the palace, and he repeated the request on the fold: Now that the matter of Lord Liu has come to an end, when can I return to the northwest?
“I joked,” The general is eager to return home. Is there a beautiful woman waiting in the northwest?
“” Yes, and ask the empress to marry you.
He actually answered what I said. The fold in
my hand fell to the ground in surprise. Then, pretending to be calm, I picked it up and brushed it? Marr,
a civilian girl, has excellent medical skills and has saved countless soldiers on the battlefield, which is also a great contribution.
For many years and I depend on each other, congenial, now is the age of marriage, I implore the empress to marry.
Mal, the eight-year-old girl I had on my back that year, the little girl who asked me why I didn’t protect her brother.
It turned out that Li Li was really a cup of daughter red sprinkled like loess, which had long disappeared with the scorching sun and wind and sand.
I can’t help but imagine how, in the days that followed, Mar waited outside the city wall for her triumphant general, and how, on the day I married into Ruiwangfu, she cleaned up the remaining wine on the floor, and then dragged the drunken Zongziqi back to the house.
Today, Mar is the bride that Zongziqi wants.
I personally prepared twelve boxes of dowry, and the gold, silver and jade articles were even better than those used by Li Zhaoyi.
Then I asked Xun Yang to take someone to the northwest, and then take Mar to the capital.
Archie and the old village are dead, Mal has no family, I am her mother’s family, I want to personally for her and Zongziqi.
However, it happened that at this time, the news of defeat in the northwest came.
When Guan Cang led his troops to attack the enemy camp at night, he was ambushed by the enemy. In this battle alone, our army lost nearly twenty thousand yuan, and Guan Cang himself was seriously wounded.
Fortunately, Yu Guang arrived in time, cut the enemy’s rear road, confused the other side’s position, and there were no further casualties. The day I
received the news, I didn’t sleep all night.
Guan Cang newborn calf skill is not enough, Yu Guang is too unfamiliar with the northwest terrain, I know that only one person is most likely to capture the night Rong, but I also know that once put him back to the northwest with the amulet, I may not be able to move the autumn family three hundred thousand troops.
From now on, he will also become other people’s general, other people’s husband.
That night, I ordered a dowry for Mar all night. Somehow, the earrings were not beautiful enough. Finally, I simply took off a pair of earrings on my ears and played with them in my hands. Unconsciously, it was dawn.
Such sleepless days lasted for more than ten days, and the news of defeat came again.
This time it was Yerong’s turn to take advantage of our army’s recuperation to invade on a large scale, forcing our army to retreat thirty miles from the line. When I found this letter of retribution
in a pile of my notes, I finally couldn’t sit still and summoned Zongziqi. When I
return to the northwest, I will train my military forces and guard the northwest city. If there is a suitable time
in the future, then recover the night Rong city for the emperor.
Without waiting for me to explain the purpose of my visit, Zong Ziqi first made it clear that he did not intend to fight this battle.
I smiled and waved my hand. “General, I’ve made a mistake these days.”.
He looked up at me.
Like the general, I believe that the general is the only one in the world who has a lot of achievements, who is brave and fearless, who knows the terrain of the northwest, and most importantly, who can make 300,000 soldiers in the northwest loyal.
“I also raised my head and looked into his eyes.” It wasn’t until now that I realized I was wrong. What does
the empress mean?
I am the young lady of the Qiu family.
“Every word I said,” He is the one who should take over from my father and fight against the enemy.
When Zongziqi returned to the northwest, he issued a military order, and within half a year, he would take Ye Rong. Along
with Zong Ziqi, there are my Xun Yang and twelve boxes of dowry.
Before he left, Xun Yang tutted and shook his head and said, “Miss, you are so cruel. You said that you felt sorry for the general for not letting him go back to the northwest and not letting him fight a battle he didn’t want to fight. Oh, I didn’t understand until today.”. What
do you understand?
For one thing, the young lady took advantage of the general’s absence to insert other forces in the northwest to check and balance the general.
Second, first let the northwest fight a few defeats, and then ask the general to win in one fell swoop, so that the emperor knows more, only the young lady can win the northwest.
“Xun Yang pulled his fingers together and got a little closer to me.” There are three more. Try the general’s heart for the young lady.
Tut, tut, tut, it’s hard for the young lady to kill many birds with one stone.
“I was noncommittal and said,” Kill Ye Rong.
Xun Yang’s face froze with a cynical smile.
I patted him on the shoulder and said, “Slaughter this city, the place where my mother died, your hometown.”.
Xun Yang was stunned and bowed with a bow. After half a year
of tossing and turning, everything is finally ready. Outside
the city, Huo Jiang watched coldly at the game, cooperating with Zong Ziqi and Xun Yang.
He was so indifferent, so out of the way, as if Yu Guang had nothing to do with him, the battle had nothing to do with him, and the six cities in the northwest had nothing to do with him. What day is
the empress in a hurry? Why is she in such a hurry to attack Ye Rong?
Looking at the world of mortals raised by Zong Ziqi’s departure, he finally asked me. Before the
emperor’s Manchu court of civil and military officials really ate this palace.
Huo Jiangshen nodded and left in a huff.
Xun Yang has gone, and now only Li Leyao accompanies me in the huge Kyoto.
Li Leyao, perhaps too bored, began to play with guns and swords.
Once I led Wei Yanqing to stroll in the palace, Li Leyao pulled a bow, the arrow was facing my throat. There was only one bow in the
palace, and I recognized it at a glance: “Le Yao, put it down.”.
“I comforted her patiently.” This is the love bow that I used to hunt in the early spring. I remember that at that time, I aimed at your brother’s throat.
Put it down. Be careful not to hurt yourself.
Li Leyao’s bow is even fuller. “Zhaoyi,” said
Wei Yanqing hurriedly, “put down your bow and arrow. Don’t make a big mistake.
Li Leyao pointed her body at Wei Yanqing’s neck and said, “Your father’s tongue was taken away by this demon queen, but you’re here to help a tyrant to do evil. Why don’t you shoot through you first?” This farce is very popular.
I walked leisurely behind Li Leyao, grabbed her jade hand, pitied this pair of tender little hands, pulling such a heavy bow is really hard for her.
In this way.
I helped her pull back a little and adjusted the posture of her hand. Yes, raise it a little more. Did you aim?
Li Leyao’s hands began to shake.
Yes, that’s it. Come on, let go and shoot the arrow.
I tease and whispered in her ear, let that arrow pas through his throat.
I let go of my hand, but Li Leyao did not. The
bow was so full that when my strength was withdrawn, the tail of the arrow cut through her fingers.
She finally lowered her bow and looked at me dejectedly and resentfully.
You’re not even close.
Not seeing the good play, I clapped my hands somewhat disappointedly. Next time, I will teach you how to shoot arrows and how to kill people.
It’s just that I look down on this little girl.
Turning around and walking a few steps, Wei Yanqing suddenly called the empress to be careful.
When I turned around, the arrow in Li Leyao’s hand approached me, and finally I was pushed away by Wei Yanqing’s strength, and the arrow plunged into his calf.
Li Leyao’s kung fu is not worth playing.
Not to mention that she could not aim accurately, even if she aimed correctly, the strength was only enough for the arrow to fall on her leg.
I supported Wei Yanqing and asked, “Why should I accept this for my palace?”?
Xiaoguan once dared to hurt the empress, but even if this was not enough, he would return it to the empress first.
He twisted his brows in pain. A civil servant, who was already weak, pitied him.
I ordered someone to take Wei Yanqing to dress the wound and went to Li Leyao, who was standing there. The bow and arrow in her hand suddenly fell to the ground.
Zhaoyi is in trouble. How can he see blood in the palace.
“I pointed to the willow tree ten feet away.” Go back to Lanting and settle down for a few days. When you can shoot that tree, come out again. When he saw Wei Yanqing
again at the Imperial Hospital, his thin lips were almost bloodless, and his already frail body was even more pitiful at this time.
Judge Kuo said that there was nothing serious, but that he had to rest for a few days. Then he said, “Is the empress all right?”?
“” Of course it doesn’t matter.
I responded disdainfully, “Even thousands of troops on the battlefield may not be able to hurt me. Can Li Leyao really take my life?”?
“Empress Feng Ti, it’s better to let the minister take a pulse and be safe.”. I haven’t let this old guy in
since the last time Huo Jiangshen took Guo yuan’s sentence to Jiaofang. I didn’t expect that he would never give up and still remember Huo Jiangshen’s instructions.
That’s all. No. No child out of thin air, no child out of thin air.
I stretched out my arm, and the judge of the court, Guo yuan, bought it respectfully across the veil. The expression on his face experienced several magical turns, and finally he threw himself to the ground.
“Congratulations to the empress and the emperor!” Cried he. In the days
after that, my whole person was not good. For the first time
, Huo Jiangshen, a man who could not show his emotions, showed unparalleled joy and excitement.
I do not know what he is happy, even if he wants to be a father, but this dragon son, is the eldest son, is the crown prince, I can be unscrupulous, at any time to kill him to make the youngest son as the emperor, from now on no more constraints to rule from behind the curtain, really a hundred calls to the emperor.
But Huo Jiangshen was silly and happy. When I was watching Zhe Zi at night, he put out my candle. When I refused to let Guo yuan enter the pepper room, he personally smashed the door. When I refused to drink the soup for tocolysis, he simply sneaked into the soup for my dinner. It was so bad that I vomited all over him. So
I finally couldn’t help asking him, “Why does the emperor have to have a child?”?
Let my son be the future king.
Huo Jiangshen is still light, but the difference is that he has been smiling all the time.
A courtier can’t even tolerate me. How can he?
Huo Jiangshen stopped talking.
I snorted coldly, and of course I knew the answer-as long as I died, there would be no chicken in the morning, and the demon queen would be in power, and the courtiers would naturally tolerate him.
At the same time, the northwest army attack on the night Rong is not successful. Although
Liu Chengmou was removed, there was a sufficient supply of hay in the south of the Yangtze River, which could be transported to the northwest for a long time.
Passing through the seven counties and thirty-two counties, there are always a lot of people from Li Tu’s party, trying to trip me up.
And Kyoto is also restless, Huo Jiangshen on the grounds that I am pregnant with a dragon fetus, greatly reducing my control of the government, even the northwest war report will be two or three days later than usual in my hands.
Come to think of it, Li Tu may also be the meaning of the little emperor, repeatedly give me resistance, have to take advantage of my pregnancy, the northwest army in the war, I will be overhead.
I did not sigh, the little emperor really grew up, and now the wings are gradually abundant, finally remembered to punish me.
Now is really a good time, HuoJiangShen in the power of the gradually mature, the world’s mess I also to clean up almost, even ZongZiQi have defected to each other, the meaning of his defection, not long ago two people also repeatedly have a long talk, maybe in the discussion of how to depose me.
Alas, it’s nothing. A cunning rabbit dies and a running dog cooks. It’s been like this since ancient times. The letters from the
northwest to the court were no longer passed to me on time and in quantity, but Xun Yang’s letters often came as scheduled.
Zong Ziqi was the first brave general in Muzhou. Although the conditions were difficult and the process was tortuous, he won several battles in the end. In just two months, the two counties under Ye Rong had been captured one after another.
Xun Yang said in the letter, the general on the battlefield, there is no time for the wedding, and the matter of Marr’s marriage will be delayed, the general said, or wait until the capture of the night Rong, and then invite me to Yongcheng to drink a cup of wedding wine.
Xun Yang also said, I always do things carelessly, this time I left the pair of earrings I used to wear in the dowry box, and when he returned triumphantly, I would bring them back to me, and this time I would put them away.
Xun Yang this boy, sharp eyes, people are too smart.
He did not know the origin of this pair of earrings. When Zong Ziqi first emerged on the battlefield, the late emperor gave him a pair of beads, so he found someone to make this pair of earrings and came to my father to propose marriage. Although
my father did not agree to this marriage at that time, I seldom took off this pair of earrings from then on, in the northwest, in Ruiwangfu, and in the palace.
It’s just, I should give it back.
This pair of earrings was given to Li Li, but now, Li Li is gone. In this way, everything in
Kyoto goes on step by step.
Wei Yanqing’s injury slowly got better, and he began to play chess with me in the palace.
Li Leyao couldn’t shoot the willow tree ten feet away. I had already released her grounding, but she locked herself up in the orchid court and practiced day after day.
HuoJiangShen to deal with political affairs, I am also happy to leisure, the little emperor is no longer seven years ago in vain young man, he is now the king of the world, the emperor of the court, he should sit firmly belongs to his country.
In short, everything is good, as long as I do not hinder the recovery of the six cities in the northwest, everything is up to them.
Unfortunately, the day is not what I want. In
May, my pregnancy began to show, my nightmares became more and more, and my temper became changeable.
I always feel that something big is going to happen, and the calmer I am every day, the more fearful I am.
I know that God likes to brew tragedy, but what happened in the past has made me ready for the unexpected.
As a result, great things really happened in such a calm. When I opened Xun Yang’s letter
that day, the blackbird in the tree called. I looked up at it, and then looked down at Xun Yang’s cursive script.
The letter only said one thing.
My army was annihilated and the general was killed.
9 eyes a black.
I saw Zong Ziqi in a bloody nightmare. He turned his back to me and rode away as he had done that day.
I begged and roared, but I couldn’t keep the figure of his long journey. When I woke up
again, I couldn’t help but moisten my eyes. Holding on to the bedding, I clenched my teeth and asked Huo Jiangshen, “When is the news?”?
He gave a long sigh.
Always beware of what I know, but finally through the letter of Xun Yang said to me.
Why is this happening, why?
I grabbed his skirt and let the tears run wild. It was the first time I cried in front of the little emperor, and as soon as I cried, I cried like this. Huo Jiangshen and
I are the same, we hate to be seen vulnerable, especially by each other.
Fragility is a seed, once discovered and watered with ulterior motives, it will grow ferociously, and then grab the nutrition from the bottom of my heart, covering the haze, leaving only a piece of rotten soil.
But this time, I was so fragile that I didn’t hide it. The news
of Zong Ziqi’s death is not only the bitterness of losing his beloved, but also the fact that the six cities in the northwest have been out of reach since then.
“The general will not die, he cannot die..” I murmured as if I were raving, and all I could see from my empty eyes was gloom. “He promised my father. He won’t go like this. If there is no general, one day I will turn against him. Who will be the king? Who will kill the thief?” Huo Jiangshen hugged me and was pushed away by me.
He continued to hug me and I continued to push. After
a few times, I was tired and let him put his arms around my body and pat my trembling back.
The queen is pregnant, so she should be careful.
“He put his chin on my forehead.” I’ll take care of the northwest. Thirty hours passed
from the time the bad news came to the time I made the decision.
I spent two days in the pepper room, and finally picked up the armor and weapons-Zong Ziqi had not finished the battle, and Li Li wanted to finish it for him.
I am the queen of Muzhou, the lady of the autumn family, the owner of three hundred thousand soldiers, and the person who wants to win the night Rong most in the world.
I have no reason to hide in Kyoto and rest easy, and I have no reason to turn a deaf ear to Zongziqi’s departure and stay out of it.
Even if, this is a very expensive thing, big enough and I do not count the same camp of Wei Childe can see. When
I asked Wei Yanqing to help me buy my military luggage, he could hardly believe his ears: “Has the empress figured it out?”? Leave Kyoto
at this time, and go for a few months, I’m afraid when I return, I don’t know who has the final say in the capital and the big one.
Yes, how could I not know? As soon as
I left, I was afraid that the first thing Huo Jiangshen did was to withdraw most of my people from the imperial guards. Above
the court, he can also clean up my henchmen, just as I cleaned up the prince and then cleaned up Changyang.
When the night Rong was captured and returned to Kyoto, the weather had already changed.
The next time the courtiers play me, Huo Jiang Shen Xing may be able to easily take my head.
“Not to mention..” Wei Yanqing lowered his head and said, “What’s more, the empress is pregnant with a dragon seed.”. I
‘ve made up my mind. Why should Mr. Wei care about the life and death of this palace. Smiling,
I hooked his chin and made him look up at me. Besides, isn’t that what you want to see? I, the wicked man who maimed your father, have finally been rewarded for my evil deeds.
Wei Yanqing swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said heavily, Xiaoguan just wants to see that the empress is safe.
“I couldn’t help laughing out loud:” Then when I have no way out when I go back to my palace, I’ll lend me your backyard to hide.
Wei Yanqing didn’t persuade me again, nor did he stop me again. After following me for so long, he knew what kind of person I was. The lion on
the prairie can’t be stopped, or its big mouth will not recognize people.
Huo Jiangshen ten thousand people sitting on the throne of the emperor for a long time, not so discerning to see.
As soon as he saw me start rubbing my sword, he knew what I was going to do.
The little emperor clenched his fists until his veins burst: “Leading the troops to fight is no longer a matter for the empress.”. Without raising my head,
I answered coldly, I don’t need to be told what to do and what not to do.
“He clamped my jaw and forced me to raise my head. I didn’t know that the gentle little emperor had such strength:” What do you take me for? What do you take my flesh and blood for? What the
emperor treats the palace, the palace treats the emperor.
“Every word I said,” Political enemies, allied forces, are in the same boat, acting in collusion with each other. It’s good to be anything, as the emperor is happy.
You are my queen.
“” So what if it is?
“The empress is mine.” He leaned close to me, snorting softly on my cheek. “My wife.
My hand, which was wiping the sword, was stunned, and the veil slipped to my feet.
I never realized that I was not just the queen of Muzhou, not just the courtier who pushed him to the throne but clamped him down, but also his first wife, the only family he has left in the world.
I suddenly realized that for Huo Jiangshen, I was so cruel that I was desperate to go to the battlefield and throw his wife and children into the danger of life and death.
But what choice do I have.
Your Majesty.
I took his hand and told him that I would not change my decision.
His fist became tighter and tighter, so that when I held it, it was like holding a burning anger, a forbearance that could hardly be hidden, no different from the hatred I had on the day I killed Changyang.
We all know that if I go, the child will be in danger, and I will kill his relatives whose blood is thicker than water.
Huo Jiang was silent for a long time. He summoned up his last hope and asked me, “Does the queen have to go to the battlefield?”?
I nodded.
Even this child is reluctant to be left to me?
I nodded.
Good.
“He straightened up and loosened his fist.” I almost thought there was a way out with the queen.
Didn’t I tell the emperor long ago that there was no way out.
By the time I dug out a jar of Daughter Red from under the old locust tree, Huo Jiangshen had already left the pepper room, carrying with him the hope of annihilation and a bellyful of despair.
He won’t drink with me.
It doesn’t matter. One day, he will know that everything I do is for his own good. Of course, if I really don’t know, it’s not important.
I touched my not-yet-bulging lower abdomen and slowly closed my eyes.
I’m sorry. I
don’t know who I’m talking to.
Wei Yanqing arranged everything very well, and then told me to beg me to take him to the northwest.
A weak scholar may not be able to withstand my foot, but also say what absurd words to kill the enemy.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry and told him to stop and wait for me in Kyoto. I was still waiting for the day when I hid in his yard to hide from the pursuers.
But this wave is not flat that wave again, do not know what magic northwest, Wei Yanqing just, Li Leyao unexpectedly also want to follow.
I pinched her thin arm and pinched her tender little face. “What are you going to do?” I asked? A
song and dance show?
“Don’t look down on people, demon queen!” This girl doesn’t even have a good attitude when she asks for help. My elder brother died young, and I’m the only daughter left in the Li family. I don’t want to be a canary in the palace. I want my father to see how I’m not inferior to men.
If you still don’t give way to men, why? A honey trap?
That’s all. I can’t afford to take care of you.
“I patted her little body.” Don’t go back and give this palace another stab in the back. You cleaned it up before you got to Yongcheng.
“Anxious, she hurriedly swore,” If I touch a finger of yours on this trip, no, if I touch a trace of your mind, I will die a terrible death.
Not only that, but he told my brother never to close his eyes, and my father died unjustly! So big a bet?
I looked her up and down, saw her death-defying manner, thought for a moment, and then nodded: “Well, I’ll take you there.”. Before
she was overjoyed, I said, “But the battlefield is dangerous. Life and death depend on heaven. This palace can’t protect your life.”.
If you are really killed in the northwest and wrapped in horse leather, you must also have the consciousness of martyrdom.
Li Leyao immediately nodded and said, It’s a deal.
She reminds me of Li in those days. The difference is that she is beautiful and pure, while Li is vicious and selfish. Her future is bright and open, while Li has no future.
HuoJiangShen still don’t give up, I go that day, he led more than a hundred bodyguards, I will be besieged in the palace gate.
I had expected this, and I could take out a dagger and put it on my stomach to put on a heroic show, threatening Huo Jiang to let me go, or one corpse and two lives.
But I hate these moves, I have a more efficient way-as early as the night before, my people surrounded the palace first.
HuoJiangShen and how can not think of it, as early as I forced the emperor, Kyoto guards, the imperial guards, almost all by my jurisdiction, just a hundred people, in front of my fighters, but the little emperor to keep my last fantasy.
Hearing the voice of the army outside the palace wall, Huo Jiangshen easily gave up his heart to the stubborn resistance of hitting a stone with an egg.
He turned his back and said in a sullen voice, “After all, I have misjudged the empress, and I have misjudged my weight in the empress’s heart.”.
It’s been a long time since I left here. The emperor takes care of me.
I also turned my back, and as far as I could see, the world of mortals was all over the sky, and it was a long journey.
Huo Jiangshen really misjudged everything, but one day, everything will be bright, afraid that day is too late, a little later than end.
It was difficult for us to go to the northwest. On the day we entered Yongcheng, Zhou Taiyi, who was traveling with us, and I, who had worked hard all the way, said that the pulse condition of the empress was not good, and I was afraid that this fetus could not sit steadily.
Unexpected things, experienced great sorrow and trekking, also did not think that the child can be safe and sound. After hearing this,
Li Leyao went to the town and grabbed some herbs for me to nourish Qi and blood, saying that he was afraid that anything would happen to the baby, and Huo Jiangshen felt uncomfortable.
I asked her with a smile, “Do you like the emperor?”?
Li Leyao blushed and told me, If I hadn’t been a demon queen like you, I would have been Princess Rui.
I was taken aback. It was the first time I had heard such an allusion.
It turned out that Li Leyao, as the daughter of Li Tu, a loyal old minister in the court, was the daughter-in-law of the old emperor.
It happened that my father became more and more powerful, and the old emperor wanted someone to check and balance the prince, but the civil servants were not enough, so the old emperor thought of giving the daughter of the military family to Huo Jiangshen, the king of Rui, so that the prince and my father could check and balance each other.
It happened that Li Leyao was still young at that time, so I became Princess Rui, and I broke up the childhood sweethearts without knowing it.
More did not bear to think, I now hit by mistake, unexpectedly turned a regrettable thing into a beautiful thing.
No wonder Huo Jiangshen was so partial to her on the day of the talent show. He was afraid that I would do something to Li Leyao. It turned out that he had an old love.
I hastened to push the sweet soup made from the herbs in front of her and said, “That’s just right. You can mend your body and quickly fulfill the emperor’s desire to have children.”.
“She pushed back.” What the emperor wants now is for you to return unscathed. Can you shoot ten feet with your arrow
now?
I suddenly changed the subject.
She shook her head. “Not yet.”. It
doesn’t matter. If you win and return to the court, I’ll teach you well.
She held her head and looked at me again and again. Sometimes I think you don’t look like a bad person.
“She snorted coldly,” It seems to be more transparent than anyone else, but also more noble than anyone else. That’s what it looks like. It deceives the emperor to be reluctant to part with you. Wei Yanqing is for you, and Lord Xun is for you.
But you can not deceive me, if the victory back to the court, I still want to kill you to avenge my brother and sister-in-law, but also a peaceful court.
“” Yes. Smiling,
I touched my neck. Shoot me through the throat with the archery I taught you. Outside the
northwest camp, Xun Yang led a group of generals to kneel down to greet me and shouted, Please give instructions to the armed forces.
“I dismounted and tapped him on the shoulder.” Go in and say. Inside the
camp, I went straight to the point: Why did the general die? He was lured deep by the
enemy, and his whereabouts with the soldier amulet were unknown.
“I looked up at him.” The whereabouts are unknown, but there is no body?
“” Yes.
Xun Pang answered.
I said tentatively, “The one in the letter died in battle..” Xun Yang also did not conceal: “The general’s life and death are unpredictable now. I can only use this method to let the young lady lead the troops in this battle, so that I can fight with the enemy camp.”.
“Pow!”! I slapped him heavily in the face. It was the first time I had hit Xun Yang. “Calculating this palace?”?
“Xun Yang knelt down skillfully,” I dare not.
Do you know what it means for this palace to leave the capital?
Huo Jiangshen and his officials may uproot the power of the palace.
“I pinched his jaw and shouted,” You want to see me die?
“Xun Yang looked straight at my pupil and fobbed me off with the answers he had said over and over again over the years:” Miss, I dare not.
“How dare you!” I clenched my teeth.
The matter has come to this point, I do not know whether to be happy or worried, Zong Ziqi still has hope in the world, but I am afraid that I can not escape the fate of being cleaned up by Huo Jiangshen.
I looked at Xun Yang’s head hanging down, staring at his slightly hooked lips, and felt that all this was like a game-he and Huo Jiangshen performed this good play together. Like a turtle in an urn,
I was invited into the urn effortlessly by the eagerness for quick success and instant benefit of the captured Night Rong and the burning anger of the general’s death.
Hard Huo Jiangshen, also played a stop me out of the palace gate, almost dispelled my suspicion.
Come to think of it is not surprising, Xun Yang is a wolf, for his dream of becoming famous all over the world.
He could see that I was a woman with a bad reputation. I had moved too many interests and lost too many people’s hearts. I had made great achievements and did not restrain myself. Everyone had to punish me. Sooner or later, I was bound to go and end up in a mess. It is better to use my last value to achieve my eternal fame than to be buried with
me. It’s
human nature, but it doesn’t matter.
I grabbed Xun Yang by the arm and lifted him up forcefully. “I don’t blame you, Lord Xun, but I lost my head.”.
“” Miss.
He still lowered his head and looked up at me cautiously.
I am a comrade-in-arms with you, and you have fought side by side with me, so naturally one day you will be able to make a blood alliance with others. He who
knows the times is Junjie. You are a Junjie. I have only used you for so many years.
“I loosened my clenched teeth. Before he fell to his knees next time,” You don’t have to explain anything. You deceived the palace into going to the northwest underreport the news that the general’s life and death were uncertain. The palace will never be able to trust you and use you.
I had no choice but to do this because the six cities in the northwest were in a big trouble.
“” All good, all good.
“I patted him on the shoulder.” Now that we’re here, let’s finish this battle.
I asked him about the defeat of Zongziqi, and I asked him about the place where the general’s fate was uncertain.
Xun Yang pointed to a place on the map, I covered my heart and sat down, took up the tea and drank it down.
I know that place-Gui’an Mountain, where my mother was killed by bandits.
Xun Yang said, the general has always been calm, not easy to fight without a perfect strategy, but was lured into the mountains and forests in guian mountain, and our nearly ten thousand people were killed and wounded, his whereabouts are unknown.. After listening to what he said, I walked out of the camp shakily, and looked at a piece of yellow sand, which was the scene of Zongzi’s seven years of guarding. I saw Mar in the
evening, and she was lying on my back as if she were eight years old, sobbing heavily and leaning on my arms with her heaving chest.
Never mind.
“I personally put the pair of earrings that Xun Yang found in the dowry into her hand.” You have a marriage contract with the general. The general remembers that he is reluctant to leave you.
When he comes back, you brew a pot of milk wine for me, and I’ll give you a big show.
“” Really?
She looked at me, her eyes as clear as ever. Have I done everything I
promised you?
I pointed to the misty sand and dust outside the camp. When the general comes back, I’ll cover the camp with red cloth, put wine on both sides, and have delicious food on the table. Your veil will be made of the best gold brocade, and your wedding dress will be embroidered with double-sided Mandarin ducks.
Everyone took off their armor, threw away their weapons, drank and ate meat, and enjoyed themselves for three days. If anyone did not enjoy himself, he would pour three more jars on him, and if anyone did not get drunk, he would not be allowed to go back to sleep.
Marmu nodded, his haggard little face resting on my lap, and I felt the heat and the hope.
After coaxing Mar to sleep, I saw Li Leyao dangling outside the camp. She said I had no heart.
I don’t want to talk to her. Tonight I have to analyze the terrain and arrange my troops.
Li Leyao ran after me and shouted, “If you really have General Zong in your heart, how could you give him up to another woman so frankly?”.
If you really have the emperor in your heart, how can you accept me into the harem as Zhaoyi.
You pretend to be affectionate, but in fact your heart is empty and pitiful.
You are very noisy.
“I stopped and said patiently,” If you bother me again, I’ll have you thrown into the desert ten miles away, and then I won’t even be able to find your body. How can you kill me to avenge your brother and sister-in-law.
Li Leyao swallowed her saliva.
I pointed to the Populus euphratica not far away and said, “If you have nothing to do, go and practice your sword. If you really shoot me through the neck, give me a good time.”.
Li Leyao walked away sullenly.
Yes, I seem to be more gentle with women. After
leading several soldiers and winning several small battles, I slowly regained the feeling of fighting in the battlefield before.
I am more and more familiar with the terrain, skilled in the platoon, and more agile and decisive in the station. Among
them, Xun Yang also out of a lot of strategy, helped a lot.
To tell the truth, I quite reluctant to part with this comrade-in-arms, but everyone has the right to defect, not to mention I personally wiped his father’s neck Xun Yang.
I didn’t ask him about the connection between Huo Jiangshen, nor did I ask him if he was afraid that I would kill him. Xun Yang is also a wise man. There is no pale explanation and weak defense. This is our tacit understanding for many years.
Come to think of it is also interesting, in the past in the palace, HuoJiangShen and Xun Yang play a hundred points not to deal with, advised me to be careful of each other, so that I never thought they could form a henchmen, calculate me this. After staying
in the northwest for nearly a month, his skill is getting better and better day by day, but his body is getting worse and worse day by day.
My belly bulges so much that I can’t hide it.
Xun Yang is not blind, naturally can see, he rarely take the initiative to give me the pulse, a take half a wick of incense time.
Then he put away his veil, did not kneel, but said in a calm voice. His pulse confirmed his guess: “I deserve to die. When I sent that letter, I never thought that the young lady was pregnant.”.
Why do you dislike me now?
Did not expect me to come to the northwest this trip, the northwest army not only did not add a general, but more than a burden?
“I teased,” Or, if I had known I was pregnant, would you really not have sent that letter?
Xun Yang didn’t say that I didn’t dare, or even didn’t reply. He was so silent that he didn’t look like Xun Yang, who was so talkative and annoying. How is
my pulse?
“” Not so good.
Xun Yang said bluntly, This child has really suffered a lot from throwing himself into the young lady’s womb. The young lady’s mood fluctuates greatly, and she has worked too hard. If she takes good care of the fetus from today on, maybe the child can survive.
Otherwise.. Did you trick me into coming to the northwest so that I could raise a baby?
“I pointed to my stomach.” Xun Yang, help me protect him for two months. Don’t let him drag me down at this time.
Two months later, I will take Ye Rong.
Xun Yang is the wisest man. He knows that what I have made up my mind will not change.
Since it is useless to say more, it is better not to say a word.
Then he nods: “I receive an order.”.
I know I am sorry for this child, and I know that he has suffered too much before he was born, but this is the only way I can be most worthy of him. There are too few people in
the world who can tolerate him. Even if I die, he is still the remnant of my demon queen.
And Huo Jiangshen’s successor, must be a big fat boy, not my Qiuyu’s child.
If he does come into the world, he has just begun to suffer.
What’s more, I also have selfishness, I don’t want to leave any thoughts for Huo Jiang Shen, not even a flesh and blood.
Because Li Leyao is right, I have no heart, I am empty, very pitiful.
My body is weak down, their battle is less, or let Guan Cang and Yu Guang do competent vanguard general.
As for me, I didn’t come to the northwest for nothing. I left my back hand early in the morning and made arrangements.
From the beginning of Wei Ming, I pulled out the gold and silver treasures that Liu Chengmou fed them one by one from the mouths of Liu Chengmou’s accomplices.
The money also made the best use of everything, part of it was given to the people of Anyang to promote the prosperity of Anyang agriculture; on the other hand, I sent it to Yerong to feed a handful of courtiers of Yerong, so that they could make trouble in the dispatch of Yerong’s hay and army pay, and disturb the order of Yerong at the same time, and then send a message for me.
By this time, half of the six cities in the northwest were recovered by Mu state, in the eyes of these night Rong courtiers, Mu state captured the night Rong is just a matter of time, it is better to take the money, while early to find another way out for themselves.
So as soon as I came to the northwest, I fed these traitors for a long time and offered a lot of information and benefits.
Even when our army was most short of hay, he helped us plunder the grain that flowed on the border of the night army and helped our army tide over the difficulties.
Finally, after a series of victories, we still attacked Gui’an Mountain.
Gui’an Mountain is like the natural moat of Yerong City. Only after Gui’an Mountain can we attack Yerong City. The day before I prepared for
the war, I drank a cup of wine. Strange to say, I have always been a good drinker, but that one was put to me effortlessly. When I woke up
the next morning, my left hand was chained to the head of the bed.
Really, this scene made me laugh.
I Qiuyu, even the emperor of Muzhou dare not move a hair of Qiuyu, unexpectedly one day in the northwest barracks was locked at the head of the bed?
Pianqing, Xun Yang came in.
Miss, I have offended you.
He pulled the chain to make sure it was still secure. The young lady’s body can’t stand the trouble now. If she runs around in the army again, the child will be gone. I’m afraid the young lady herself will be gone.
This Gui Anshan battle, even if the young lady think again, I also can’t let the young lady battle.
Are you making a decision for this palace?
Good boy, even if you drug me down, you still want to stop me from entering Gui’an Mountain.
I know I shouldn’t.
“Xun Yang knelt down honestly.” The general broke his halberd on Gui’an Mountain. I must not let the young lady take this risk.
“I snorted coldly,” Since you want to claim credit with Huo Jiangshen, why don’t you just kill me. If
I die, the world will be at peace.
“If the young lady dies, the northwest will be in chaos, and so will the whole world!” Xun Yang shouted at me for the first time, but then he resumed his usual humility. “Besides, for the 578th time, I dare not.”.
Yes, now is not the time for me to die.
I sighed: “Open it, I see your remaining loyalty.”.
“Miss..” I told you to open it.
“Every word I said, I was determined to kill someone.” You know this palace, this palace is going to personally wash Gui’an Mountain in blood.
If you leave me here, I don’t mind cutting off this hand before I cut off your head.
“Xun Yang stared at me for a long time and then took out a bunch of keys clanging.” I lost to the young lady again.
“I rubbed my loose wrist and said,” Come on, Xun Yang, you still have something to lose.
What Xun Yang was worried about happened. In the first battle
of Gui’an Mountain, my old horse was shot through the abdomen by the enemy in the mountains and forests. It hissed and overturned me.
It writhed twice and finally closed its eyes heavily in my direction. I don’t know if I was wrong. The white hair in the corner of its eyes was wet with tears. It turned out that not only people would cry.
My eyes are too blurred to see things clearly, I can only hear the fighting around me, I can only feel the pain in my abdomen, and my legs are wet with blood.
I and Huo Jiangshen’s child, after all, died in my own hands. The enemy general who had
shot my horse drew his bow again, this time to my throat.
He looked at it carefully, and his lips were full of pride that he was going to be successful. The Empress
of Muzhou, hearing that she could be both civil and military, commanded the capture of the three cities in the northwest, and won successive victories in previous battles.
Confirming that his military forces had easily gained the upper hand by virtue of the terrain of Gui’an Mountain, he approached me with a smile. “I didn’t expect to die on me today..” When his name was not given, his body shook twice and fell straight from his horse, his eyes staring more round than a full bow.
He had an arrow in his neck.
Ten feet away, Li Leyao pulled a bow.
Good, good, the disciple I brought out, the Zhaoyi I summoned to the palace, is really impressive.
“Protect the Queen!” Li Leyao shouted loudly, and slowly someone surrounded me. Our army finally won the first battle of Gui’an Mountain.
Night Rong although there was an ambush in guian mountain, but only five thousand people, and our line of tens of thousands, both the vanguard led by Guan Cang, but also in the wide arrangement of backup layers of encirclement.
As for the interior of the night Rong, it was decided that once ambushed to our army, they would plant flags and blow horns, and reinforcements from two miles away would arrive as soon as possible.
And I just a little subtotal, bribed a few guian mountain foot of the villagers, cut off the reinforcements up the mountain must cross the suspension bridge, and early in the morning let Xun Yang inferred today’s gale and fog, let the reinforcements can’t see the top of the flag, even the horn was blown by the wind can’t tell the source. When
I woke up, Xun Yang knelt outside the camp and took off his armor to apologize. I
didn’t have that in mind, so I went straight to the subject: “The bandit village on the mountain..” Empty, by the look of it, for at least seven or eight years.
“Xun Yang replied,” I’m afraid the young lady will be sad when she sees it. She’s already on fire.
I nodded.
It’s just.
My mother’s death was more than ten years ago, and I didn’t expect that I could really kill the evil man who killed my mother, but somehow, this idea finally came to an end.
Yerong is easy to defend but difficult to attack, because it is blocked by Kuei’an Mountain.
Now Gui’an Mountain has won a great victory, and the recovery of the night army is just around the corner.
Wait for the young lady to slaughter the night Rong, will be able to revenge.
Xun Yang comforted him.
I still nodded.
Xun Yang’s words were as numerous as ever: “Now it is imperative that the young lady take good care of herself.”.
Go and find the general. Gui’an Mountain has been captured. Go and find the general.
I have already arranged it.
“I continued to nod.” Xun Yang, why am I empty? The
young lady’s child is gone.
so my stomach is empty.
Li Leyao later asked me what was the crime of Lord Xun’s pleading with Jing. Lord Xun had contributed a lot to the great victory in this battle.
Yes, there is nothing wrong with Xun Yang, but he wants to help me.
Not to mention an iron rope, even ten chains can’t tie me up. The reason why
he did the above crime was to give me a chance to choose and retreat.
I can insist on going to Gui’an Mountain to avenge the death of the deceased, and I can also stay in the barracks, giving myself and Huo Jiangshen’s flesh and blood a boundless way to live.
Xun Yang knew that I was determined to do things, and had already thought clearly, but still wanted to give me the chance to go back on my word.
He has done his best.
I didn’t answer Li Leyao’s question. I just pinched her arm, which was getting stronger and stronger. Li Zhaoyi also contributed a lot to the great victory in this battle.
“I, I missed my aim!” “My arrow was aimed at your neck,” she explained, pouting.
“” Really?
So I sent Li Leyao back to Kyoto and to Huo Jiangshen’s side. All the way out of the barracks, she bared her teeth and brandished her claws, saying that I, Qiu Yu, had no conscience.
I replied grumpily, “Don’t you want to kill me most?”?
Stubbornly blocked back her words. The experience of escaping
death made me suddenly recall the danger of the battlefield. It doesn’t matter if
I die. Li Leyao can’t do anything.
Zong Ziqi’s life and death are uncertain, and now she is the heroine who can best help Huo Jiangshen kill me.
On August 21, the city of Yerong was broken.
At that time, I lingered on my bed for more than a month. Xun Yang and the doctor of the same trade tried their best, but my body was still worse than visible to the naked eye.
The pain of losing a son, both physically and mentally, is more than a hundred times more painful than I imagined.
The northwest military camp was short of materials and the weather was bad, which made my increasingly weak body worse.
I have some doubts, Huo Jiangshen does not want this child at all, just want to borrow this child’s hand to take my life.
I said to Xun Yang, “You have to get the general back. If the six cities in the northwest have not been recovered, I will die first. Only you and General Qi Xin can destroy the unfinished rivers and mountains in our palace.”.
“Xun Yang nodded,” Listen to the young lady. On the day
when Yerong was captured, I was in good spirits and rode a horse around the wall of Yerong City for half a circle. The
new foal is impassable and sits on my feet.
I asked Xun Yang whether the horse was too thin or the road was too bumpy. Xun Yang said, “The young lady is too thin.”. After
looking at my pale lips for a moment, he added, The young lady should use some lip grease and dye some blood, otherwise the lady will be distressed to see it. It’s been
too long. My mother has been gone for so long that I can’t tell which inch of the city wall has been piled with my mother’s bones.
After thinking about it for so many years, I finally became the queen of Muzhou, the master of the world, and finally captured the night Rong, but my heart was as empty as my stomach. The
military forces and weapons are all ready.
“Xun Yang saw the loneliness in my eyes.” When did the young lady order the massacre?
“” Massacre?
“I turned the horse leisurely.” This is your hometown.
Xiaguan only wants the young lady to be satisfied.
I drew my sword from his waist and struck it hard against the wall.
Worthy of me, the body bone is not good, the strength is still OK, the cracked bricks rolled down a little sand and stone, leaving an ugly mark.
I said, “I cannot slaughter Yerong.”.
Xun Yang was stunned. Why should
I kill Yerong?
I let out a long sigh, as if I had been depressed for many years. Just because I have a high-sounding reason? I
have hatred, I have stories, and they are alien, so I can kill the old and young women and children in this city? What’s the difference between
me and the bandits who killed my mother?
“Miss..” Xun Yang looked at me in disbelief.
I guess he’s disappointed. We’re not really the same kind of people. I’m not as cruel as he is. I even talk to myself about the massacre.
I guess Xun Yang would not have thought of it earlier, Zong Ziqi would not have thought of it, I hate this city so much, in order to capture it, I gave up Ziqi, harmed my brother and Huo Jiangshen’s sister, obviously love this child but deprived him of the chance to survive, in the end, my hate is just a knife mark on the wall of the night Rong.
I owe the general.
“I threw my sword on the ground.” The general went away for my infatuation. Since he didn’t want the palace to slaughter the city, the palace didn’t slaughter it.
On August 30, I returned to Kyoto, and Xun Yang asked me to stay in the northwest to take care of the night army.
I’m on.
He mastered the northwest, Huo Jiangshen consolidated the capital, called Muzhou Baiguan can not bear to look back on the chicken Si Chen, it seems that finally can come to an end. Outside
the capital, Huo Jiangshen personally led a group of civil and military officials to meet me.
I took a look, and none of them were mine.
Similarly, Huo Jiangshen looked at me and knew that the child was gone as we expected.
The queen has worked hard.
“He was like rewarding a general.” The queen has contributed a lot to the capture of Ye Rong this time, but what reward do you want?
I am just a pair of hands of the emperor, helping the emperor to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. With a wave of my hand,
I passed by him. Now it’s done. The emperor has the final say in both the capital and the northwest. Why do you
need these hands? Why don’t you cut them off.
Huo Jiangshen took my hand and said, “Queen..” I stopped.
The queen has lost weight.
He said.
After Muzhou captured Yerong, the Chinese merchants in the fifth city of the six cities in the northwest surrendered without a fight, and the sixth city, Lanliang, fought to the death.
Early said the night Rong is a natural moat, captured the night Rong, behind is not a difficult thing, after the military forces are rectified, it is a matter of time.
Of course, if the general is still alive, still can fight the enemy, must get twice the result with half the effort.
The little emperor is also a character, I help him in addition to Liu Chengmou after a party, he himself is not idle, in addition to a lot of courtiers in the court, also before the balance of Li Tu and other courtiers of the pot are thrown on my head, wantonly promote the Li family and other emerging talents.
He put Li Tu in an important position for another reason. Li Tu was an old minister with a heart of courage to the Huo family. He was over fifty years old and had no successor. Naturally, he was even more loyal.
Now not to mention the capital, even in the palace, my confidant was HuoJiang Shen pulled out most of it.
The imperial guards and the Imperial Hospital were the first to bear the brunt, and even the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had a new face. Once
I saw the pomp and circumstance of the supervisor in the palace and asked Li Leyao who he was. Li Leyao said, “In terms of seniority, he has to call me Second Aunt.”.
Then she told me the story of their big family of eight aunts and seven aunts. I was too lazy to listen and couldn’t understand it. Anyway, it was the one who knew it was Li Tu. During
this period of time, the battle report of the northwest was not presented to me, and I had no right to speak in the court.
In the end, I was too lazy to ask. Every day, I planted flowers and raised birds in the pepper room. There were soft gold, delicacies and beautiful clothes. What more could I ask for.
In June of the next year, the orchid is still not captured, HuoJiang Shen want to deploy the garrison of the central plains to aid the northwest, the central plains commander Zhou Guangcheng although loyal to the virtuous minister of the Huo family, but drag refused to rise.
The reason is very simple-not willing to help me, the demon queen for abuse.
This little boy completely forgot that five years ago, his hometown was hit by a flood, which broke the dam and swept away the people along the coast who had lived and worked in peace and contentment.
At that time, there was a shortage of people to control the flood. It was I who transferred the soldiers of the Qiu family. It was also I who dealt with everything in detail to keep the land of his hometown.
That’s all. It’s human nature to remember to beat or not to eat. The
child’s departure became Huo Jiang’s heart knot. In the past, I killed Changyang and he didn’t hate me so much, but now he looks at me with only resentment in his eyes.
The old drawing I had seen was now turned over and over by him. Once I went to ask him for it. Just as Huo Jiang was resting in the inner room, I saw a box beside his paperweight that I had never seen before.
I opened it casually.
It’s a military amulet.
Is Xun Yang mouth, should follow Zong Ziqi together, the whereabouts of the soldier amulet. So
I watched it lying on the case of Huojiang Shen, watching it finally abandoned me, and there was no wave in my heart.
Huo Jiang appeared slowly behind me: “The queen is coming.”. We have seen very little of each other
this year, and the greetings have begun to become strange.
Kill your father, kill your brother, kill your sister, kill your son. How can we survive?
Was it Xun Yang who presented it to the emperor?
I don’t want to look back, and I don’t want to see him.
No.
“He walked up to me, put the amulet back in the box, and then took my arm and looked at me left and right.” This year, the queen was so haggard that it was sad.
I brushed his hand away.
Huo Jiang pressed his veined hand on the box and kept asking, “Why? I recovered Ye Rong and fulfilled the queen’s wish. What is the queen still sad about?”?
Is it for the sake of the child, or for the sake of General Zong, after hearing the news of the general’s death, the queen will live the rest of her life as a walking corpse?
Yes, I also wondered why I had lost all hope in his eyes when I was doing so well.
“Then if I tell you now..” He lifted the box slightly, then dropped it heavily, making a muffled sound, carrying his resentment that he had nowhere to vent during the New Year. “Is this soldier’s amulet sent by your general?”?
I suddenly raised my head and stared at him without saying a word.
You hate the wrong person.
He sat down, his hand finally removed from the box, and his tone softened. “I didn’t set up this game, it was your general..” Huo Jiangshen told me what happened that year. When I was pregnant
, I received the letter from Xun Yang, and then rushed to the northwest regardless of everything, led the army to capture the night Rong, but lost the child, but also ended up with such a body, but also let HuoJiang Shen pull out my forces in Kyoto.
And the man who designed all this was Zong Ziqi.
He was indeed lured into Gui’an Mountain by the enemy, but narrowly escaped death, so he and Xun Yang planned the game.
Xun Yang wanted to give up the dark and turn to the bright to achieve his own success, while Zong Ziqi was just remembering my father’s instructions before he died: If the empress does not submit to me and has two minds, you must get rid of it, so as to keep the Qiu family loyal for a hundred years.
So he gave him a taste of his own medicine. On August 30 of that year, he wanted to leave the capital. I fell down in front of him because I was assassinated by Wei Yanqing.
He learned to use it flexibly and tricked me into going to the northwest by faking his death.
In order to give Huo Jiangshen enough time and space to clean up my power in the capital, and also let me personally end my years of infatuation in the northwest.
I laughed.
Worthy of my father’s love, worthy of Zong Ziqi, really did not let the autumn family disappointed.
So it’s the general.
Hearing what Huo Jiangshen said, I nodded with a smile. Lord Xun, General Zong, little emperor, everyone wants to die in this palace. It seems that this palace really has to die.
As long as the queen is willing, you will always be my queen, and I will protect you.
He tried in vain to ask him to stay. Again and again
, why doesn’t Huo Jiangshen understand that he can never keep me and change all this?
I picked up the face of the little emperor from a commanding position and patted him twice with a teasing smile. Over the years, his edges and corners have become more distinct and his expression has become more resolute: “The emperor has grown up.”.
The imperial court wouldn’t let me interfere in politics, and the northwest wouldn’t let me lead the army, so I had nothing to do in the palace.
Let’s just do the opposite.
So on August 30, I, Empress Qiu Yu of Muzhou, an old expert in murder and arson, rebelled in the capital. Although
I have only two thousand dead men, there are no military forces in the capital.
Before the imperial guards are my control, now Huo Jiangshen although in addition to my people, but also did not really command the ability of the imperial guards.
As long as you force Huo Jiangshen to abdicate and let me, it’s a success.
My men and the palace guards had a simple fight, surrounded the palace, and set fire to several halls.
I personally drove Huo Jiangshen down from the throne with a sword. He looked at me indifferently, sniffing the beacon fire outside the house and listening to the sobs outside the house.
Huo Jiangshen asked me, “Why?”?
“I said,” I set fire to the palace and sent the emperor to the throne of God.
Later, I personally supervised the construction of the main hall, personally tidied up the palace, now, or let them dust to dust to dust, who will be the emperor in the future, who will rebuild it.
Queen, I lost again, didn’t I? After laughing
up to the sky, the sharp blade returned to its scabbard, and I left in a huff. On the third day of the
ninth month, the capital burned for a few days. I held the emperor around the palace, and no one dared to act rashly.
I didn’t do anything myself. I didn’t cut off Huo Jiangshen’s head, nor did I move the seal and the amulet. Even the lotus seed soup that Li Zhaoyi liked to eat before going to bed, I sent it to her every day. After all, she was still old enough to grow up, so she couldn’t suffer.
No one knows what I’m waiting for.
Until Wei Yanqing went to the palace to report.
He said Xun adult led ten thousand military forces, is going to the capital, I’m afraid it is three or two days.
Ah, here we are at last.
Wei Yanqing knelt down in front of me and begged me piously, “The decline of the empress has been decided. I beg the empress and Xiaoguan to go. Xiaoguan has prepared his luggage and fast horses and is waiting outside the palace. Only in this way can empress find a chance of survival.”.
“” Go where?
“I smiled. It was not easy to wait for Xun Yang. I wouldn’t go.” Hide in your backyard?
Xiaoguan escorted the empress out of the capital. Master
Wei, listen to me. I didn’t pull his face
this time.
I crouched down and looked at the same level as him. When I was in the northwest, my father said something to me. I can’t say
this to the emperor, nor can I say it to Xun Yang, but when people are dying, I still want to talk to you.
He raised his head, and there was something of the pain of life and death on his face.
Hey, what’s the matter? It’s just benevolence for benevolence.
I chuckled. “He said,” retire after success. “Some people’succeed, ‘and some people’retire.'”. In the
government and the public, there is chaos. As courtiers, we can pull out the traitors, make contributions on the battlefield, and even cover up the sky with one hand, but don’t think about retiring after success.
Only when I succeed can emperor retire.
Only when I die, can he sit firmly on the throne, and all the merits and demerits of the past can be counted on my head.
Do you understand?
I saw Mr. Wei’s bright eyes slowly getting wet.
I pointed to my heart and said, “Only when I die will everything be settled.”. In the
history books, I am a demon queen, and he is a wise king. I’ve been stuck with
this for nine years, but I never thought I’d be able to say it again.
I stood up and breathed a sigh of relief. “Liu Chengmou’s party is too deeply involved. We must not dirty the emperor’s hands.”.
That night, the emperor told me that your father, Wei Ming, had signed my book, and I understood that it was time for me to “succeed” one by one to ensure the emperor’s “retirement.”.
Wei Yanqing suddenly took hold of my clothes.
I laughed and said, “Do you still want to persuade me to go with you?”?
“” Beg the empress.
He kowtowed and begged the empress to let Xiaoguan stay in the palace and accompany the empress to the end of the journey.
“I nodded.” Good. What does it matter
who accompanies me? It’s just the way of life. After death, I still have to walk alone.
Even Zong Ziqi is not waiting for me on the way to the afterlife. On the fifth day of the
ninth month, Xun Yang came, with ten thousand military forces, from the northwest to the south, night attack my dead, reversed the situation.
I still remember that when my father died of illness, I asked Zong Ziqi outside the military camp what he would do if I really had a rebellious day in Qiuyu. He answered me, “Rebel officials and thieves, get rid of them quickly.”.
I waited too long, but finally he didn’t catch me with his own hands.
Instead, Xun Yang’s sword was on my neck. “This time, the young lady lost.”.
Then you kill me.
I raised my lips defiantly.
I dare not.
He didn’t count the times because it was the last time.
Xun Yang, I, Qiu Yu, have never lost.
I pushed his sword away with my fingers until it was soft.
He screwed up his eyebrows.
“The spy came to report that the empress was not a minister and wanted to rebel. I was in imminent danger. I had military forces in my hand, and my loyalty could be learned. I quickly went to the capital to rescue him. My contribution was in the country.”.
I read it word by word, watching Xun Yang’s expression change from disbelief to sudden enlightenment, then to dejection, and finally to self-deprecating laughter.
I read, is the letter Xun Yang received, a piece of paper bright yellow, in the tone of Huo Jiangshen, told him the queen to rebel, let him come to catch the thief.
But he didn’t know that the letter was written by me.
Yes, I am so unprecedented, first in the northwest HuoJiangShen people check and balance myself, and write to let Xun Yang to stop my rebellion, more than that, I also deliberately counterplot to go to the northwest, in order to let HuoJiangShen can clean up my forces.
He thought he had won a move, but he didn’t think he was just a pawn on my chessboard. The sword in
his hand fell heavily to the ground.
Xun Yang, you are far from it.
“I picked up his sword, turned my wrist, and thrust it decisively into his chest.” The palace has said that it will not trust you again, nor will it tolerate you again.
If you can kill your master, my brother, you can kill this palace in the future. When you are
in the northwest, you can calculate the palace, and you can calculate the emperor in the future. The palace can’t leave a wolf like you to Huo Jiangshen. Holding his tottering body,
I half bent down and whispered in his ear, “No one in the world can hurt the little emperor of this palace.”.
Then I let go of my hand.
He finally fell down at my feet with a smile on his face. I looked at him just as I did many years ago when he said, “Miss, let me help you,” and I nodded and said, “Yes.”.
But that sentence killed my brother and himself.
“If you meet your opponent, this life will be enough.” Xun Yang looked at me and slowly closed his eyes.
Madman, really, Xun Yang, like me, is crazy. On the way to
the afterlife, it is better to walk together.
I was really lonely all the way.
Do you think my brother will forgive us?
I asked him, but no one answered me.
Ending: All in the sound, when I was locked up in the pepper room, I heard that the court had asked me to pile up the broken pieces of Ling Chi’s car, which almost buried Huo Jiang Shen. I tease the birds and water my daffodils as if I
had nothing to do.
Up to now, it is finally retired after success, which naturally makes people drunk in the frequency of the moon, and the misted flowers do not serve you.
No one likes to come to the pepper room, after all, there are thousands of sinners who have done a lot of evil deeds and killed people. Li Leyao
was the only one who was not afraid of death, and she came to me with a bow and arrow. Looking at her rush, I asked her with a smile, “Is it finally time for you to take revenge?”?
“She threw the bow and arrow at my feet.” Give it back. I don’t want to kill anyone.
I held her hands and looked left and right. Oh, I was really sorry for her. What a delicate and beautiful pair of hands, but I killed someone for me.
These hands should do something more suitable for her. Can
you do one more thing for me?
I asked her sincerely.
What is it?
My birds and my flowers, help me raise them. When
I looked at the chain on the foot of the gauge, it was like looking at me being besieged, and suddenly I changed my mind. “That’s all, the flowers are kept, and the birds are let go.”.
Li Leyao nodded, and as she nodded, tears as big as beans suddenly rolled down her cheeks, one after another, and she couldn’t even stop.
I saw it. There was no
need for me to ask, she said to herself and wept.
What’s the matter? What do you see? I
was most afraid that a girl would cry. I was caught off guard and took her sleeve to wipe her tears. I held her in my arms and patted her on the back. I said, “Why are you crying? Don’t be afraid. Tell me, what did you see?”?
She said that she had seen the letter I had sent to Lord Xun.
Said to see is not appropriate, at that time I have not yet forced the palace, there is Huo Jiang Shen card, my letter is actually very difficult to be sent out of the palace. To be precise
, Li Leyao saw the letter handed out from the pepper room, and then helped me escort it to Xun Yang’s hand.
She said she didn’t understand why I did it at that time, but after going to the northwest with me, she believed that what the queen wanted to do was right.
I asked her, “Do you think I’m doing the right thing?”?
“She nodded vigorously.” You’re all right.
I held her tighter. I
‘m sorry, Le Yao.
I put my chin on her head and whispered.
Thank her for helping me grow flowers, but my hot hands are not suitable for growing flowers.
She won’t know, and I won’t tell.
The bowls of lotus seed soup sent to Lanting were added with medicines that caused women’s infertility.
Li Leyao can be a concubine, can be spoiled, but only can not have children, can not give her father Li Tu to Huo Jiang Shen disloyal opportunities and back road.
This is the last thing I did for the little emperor. When I
do things, I help people and hurt people.
But who is right and who is wrong, and who has the final say?
On September 15, Huo Jiangshen came to the pepper room to see me for the first time since he was defeated. When the
time came, I untied Zi Gui’s anklet. It fluttered twice and flew out of the window. Don’t go to the Three Treasures Palace
for nothing. If Huo Jiang sinks away, he will either kill me or have an accident.
Zong Ziqi has come, and his military forces are just outside the city.
He said that when he heard this, he really couldn’t tell whether he wanted to kill me or whether something had happened.
My heart missed a beat, this is the first time I really heard the news of Zongziqi after returning to Beijing from the northwest.
Still can lead the troops, still can rush to thousands of miles, it seems that the general is really no big deal.
But I still held my little heater quietly. After the child was lost, his health became worse and worse. In September, he had to carry a charcoal fire. I, the bastard who killed and set fire, became more and more helpless.
“The general is too slow,” I teased. “He’s going to disappoint my father.
He told the old man before he left, if I don’t, the general wants to get rid of me personally, how can general come so slowly, but called Xun adult first?
“Huo Jiang took a deep breath and said,” General Zong has surrounded the capital and asked me to return his young lady. The little stove in
my hand went down.
Huo Jiangshen sneered, not knowing whether he was mocking Zong Ziqi or laughing at himself: “Loyalty, righteousness, and filial piety, in the end, are no more important than empress in his heart.”.
My eyes were burning uncontrollably.
To be honest, I didn’t think of it. I really didn’t think of it.
I expected that Zong Ziqi would kill me. I guessed that he would not see me for the last time, but I did not expect that he would save me. He was willing to rebel against everything in exchange for my life.
I suddenly felt that Li Li came to life.
I am not as good as Zong Ziqi. For so many years, I have lived for my ideal and for the country, but I have never lived for a person again.
Li Li is a pot of liquor sprinkled in the northwest sand, scattered without a trace early in the morning, but the fragrance of Li Li has become the blood of the heart, and finally left vitality in our hearts.
Zong Ziqi is more disloyal and heartless than me, but he is more heroic and self-willed than me.
It’s just that I can’t accept his kindness.
Your Majesty has misunderstood me. The general has heard that I, the demon queen, am not dead, so he has come to serve the king. Restraining the surge in my heart,
I slowly pulled out the hairpin from my bun and asked the emperor to fulfill the general’s wish and return my body to the general.
I looked at Huo Jiangshen, and I could feel that he was as restrained as I was, and that he was even more painful and depressed.
He pressed my right hand tightly holding the hairpin and said, “Queen, is there anything you want to say to me?”?
“I nodded.” Mr. Wei is a man of talent, learning, and righteousness. He can be put in an important position. Although he and Liu Chengmou.. ” Not these.
He interrupted me.
“Not long after the northwest was recovered, the situation was complicated, and only General Tsung could guard it.” That’s not it either.
“I smiled.” That’s gone.
“Queen..” I pulled out my right hand and aimed the hairpin at my neck.
His eyes glowed, and at the same time, blood gushed from my throat.
“Now the emperor has the ability to eat the skin and flesh of this palace, and this palace is as sweet as honey..” He caught my swaying body and let out a deep and long murmur.
Some people succeed, some people can retire. When my
life began to dissipate, I thought of what my father said to me before he came, son, what I said to you all these years, remember, remember.
I wanted to sprinkle him with another glass of wine and tell him that I remembered and did it.
In fact, I finally want to ask Huo Jiangshen, these years, between us in the end how much taboo tacit understanding, I do everything, how much he saw into the eyes.
Or is it that he really has only resentment towards me, only hostility, only contradictions that can not coexist, and now he is proud and happy to see the executioner who killed his family being eaten back. Anyway
, I did not ask, people have to leave a little regret, a little confused, to die more like a person is not it? Finally,
I seemed to hear the long roar of Huojiang Shen, and I seemed to hear the loud drums of war, and I seemed to feel the trembling body holding me tightly, and I seemed to feel the past years on the battlefield.
Those people, those things, finally in the sound, all turned into the wind and sand, slowly misting my eyes. On the way
home, I thought I heard Huo Jiangshen calling me.
His voice was more and more hoarse, and he was more and more unforgettable.
The last sentence is: “The queen is so cruel that she wants to take away my only love for the rest of my life.”.
I wanted to touch his little head and tell him that the little emperor had grown up, but this time I reached out my hand and could not reach anything.
If there is an afterlife, I would like to be drunk in the frequency of the moon, and not to serve you.
I used to think that the general was a man like the moon in the sky.
Do not stand tall but stand aloof.
Power is a huge wave, a wild sand, a storm, and killing people is also attractive.
But no matter how turbulent and monstrous these things are, they are only mortal things, which can not touch the bright moon in the sky, let alone contaminate its brightness.
The general’s daughter hid red for ten years, and in the year when she was first buried in the yellow sand, there was a happy event in the capital, as well as in the barracks. Qiu Ji, a general in the
northwest, married his only daughter into the Ruiwangfu Palace, with the legendary dowry as heavy as Mount Tai.
I was ten years old that year, and the bride with ten miles of red makeup was the female general who carried me back from the dead, Miss Qiu Yu.
On that day, her red lips were as bright as blood, like the sunset glow, like the flag of the gate tower, like the red silk wrapped around the general’s wine jar.
And that day the general drank into a pool of mud, melted on the yellow sand and stone, and mumbled, resentful, numbly poured the wine into one jar after another, as if he had no bottom in his stomach.
Later, he could not drink any more, so he poured the mellow wine into the yellow sand all over the sky, as if in this way, he could bury what he was reluctant to give up into the land. When
I helped him back, he was heavier than mud and more rotten than mud.
It turned out that Qiu Yu’s lips, like the corners of his canthus, were all unwilling blood.
At that time, I was so small that I had to drag him, and it was difficult for me to move him.
At last I was tired. I sat down and asked him why it was worth drinking like this.
The general didn’t answer me.
I asked him again what was that priceless dowry of which people spoke, and which I had not known to exist in the army.
The general said that it was the amulet of three hundred thousand soldiers of the Northwest Army.
Oh, now I understand. It turns out that the general is so drunk for the sake of the amulet. It’s not decent.
At that time, I was an orphan girl studying medicine in the military camp, a forgotten villager in Wansha Village. Naturally, my dowry would not be so rich, and naturally it was not worth it for people to open the old daughter red just to buy a night hangover.
Many years later, Xun Yang came to the northwest with twelve boxes of dowry. When I looked at the luminous cups carefully selected by Qiu Yu, I felt that they were so expensive and so cheap that they were not worthy of the red daughter of the general that year, and they were not worthy of being drunk with them.
I remember it so deeply because it was such a special year. After the
young lady married, the capital soon changed, the old emperor Bintian, Rui Wang ascended the throne, Qiu Yu became the powerful empress of Muzhou.
That year, hay and military pay were transported to the northwest, and the old military doctor no longer gave me the only goat’s milk to satisfy my hunger on the pretext that I had to grow up. The
soldiers did not need three people to cover two pieces of bedding, and the broken cotton-padded clothes were sewn and mended for the sixth winter.
That year, the general buried eighteen jars of new wine, at the same time, he also picked up the drawings, put on armor, ready to start the journey to the six cities in the northwest. It was
also that year that I thought the bright moon in the general’s heart was the power to unify the Northwest Army.
Later, I learned that the moon in the general’s heart was never what I thought it was.
But the moon was bright and bright, but it was stained with blood in the killing of the capital that year, and covered with dust in the yellow sand of the northwest. Ten years had passed since
I first heard the general express his longing for power. With his military forces,
he hurried from the northwest to the capital, and came back from the capital dejectedly.
He dug out the daughter red that had been hidden for ten years, just like the day of Qiuyu’s marriage, he sat in the yellow sand all over the sky, drinking more and more soft and heavy.
Mal, if only I were in power.
Mar, I don’t ask for anything now. I have kept benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, courage and filial piety all my life, but you see what I have kept.
Marr, I’ve fooled myself into believing it. For ten years, I’ve always thought that if one day Li Li rose up, I would cut off her head and return her hands to the emperor. I would fill her blood and pour it on the old general who died.
Marr, am I crazy? Look what I did. I led the troops to the capital. I surrounded the palace. I am the disloyal and unjust man. I am the traitor who destroyed the reputation of the Qiu family for a hundred years.
“Mal, it’s good to have power. If I have power, if I have power..” Like that day, he was there, chattering like a curse, like a sigh, like a chant, like a wish. I didn’t understand it
ten years ago, and I don’t understand it now, but I know he’s in pain, regret, and resentment as always.
Ten years ago, he may have been resentful, but for ten years, he has been resentful of himself.
I put my arms around his body. I had grown so much that I could wrap my arms around his neck and feel his trembling.
I asked him, “What if a general is powerful?”?
He trembled more and more, which made my heart cool.
“Just force him..” He said, “Force him to give me back the body of Rip.”.
I understood in an instant. It turned out that ten years ago, what was worth him getting drunk was not 300,000 soldiers at all, not the power of commanding the Northwest Army, but Li Li, Li Li. Sorrow in
wine is Li Li, and so is the bright moon in the sky.
Ten years ago, it was Li Li, and now it is Li Li.
I’m leaving. I’m not supposed to be in his drunken dreams. I
put the last thing I could give him into his hand and turned into the yellow sand behind him.
The general continued to speak inaudibly.
She won’t leave a child to the emperor, but she won’t leave anything to me.
The northwest is so big, and there is nothing she left me. After a long time, he opened the palm of his hand, and there lay the earrings with two beads-not that Li Li left him nothing.
I don’t know what happened after the general went to the capital.
Fortunately, in the end, the emperor did not blame the general for besieging the capital. After the death of
Qiu Yu, the emperor said that the military forces of Zhou Chengguang, the commander of the Central Plains, would also be allocated to the northwest, so that the general could continue to capture Lanliang and guard the six cities in the northwest.
The emperor also said that the previous Aiqing design led Qiu Shi to the northwest, which not only helped me eradicate the forces of the rebels, but also made Qiu Shi lose his vitality on the battlefield and almost died. It was a brave, resourceful and great achievement.
The emperor also said that this time after the abolition of Qiu Shi’s rebellion, the general traveled thousands of miles from the northwest to help me eradicate the thief, loyalty and courage can be learned, it is a reward.
The emperor finally said, the general back, this is the meaning of Li.
The general looked up at the emperor.
For a long time, he made a big bow. The word
Li Li made the two men suddenly communicate with each other.
As if the northwest and the capital, look up and see the same lonely moon. When
Lord Hsun was alive, he always said that he had lost all his life and wanted to win once. On the day of the
farewell, Li Li was gone, and there were only the general and the emperor.
The general said, “I guess Lord Xun is still losing in the end, but this time, he is finally convinced.”. Is
the general convinced?
“The general nodded and shook his head.” There’s only one thing I’m not convinced of. I’ve calculated everyone clearly. Why can’t I calculate a way out for myself.
Perhaps I and the general should help her plan this way out.
“The emperor smiled bitterly.” But we can’t beat her.
The general stepped on the stirrup. This time, there would be no empress behind him who had fallen down because of calculating him, no young lady of the Qiu family who had told him that he must slaughter Ye Rong, no Li Li who made him dare not look at him carefully, and nothing. There was no one behind
him, but he had to go on the road in front of him.
Li Li didn’t leave him nothing. After the battle
of Gui Anshan, the general hid it so well that no one knew his plan except Xun Yang, including me.
Unexpectedly, even I, an orphan girl in Wansha Village who was not worth mentioning, was an important part of his plan, responsible for the true feelings of pear blossoms with rain in front of Qiuyu. I’m in
his plan, but not in his heart.
When Qiu Yu returned to Beijing, the first place he went was Yerong City. The knife mark on the
wall made him unable to move.
The general felt the trace and pinched the rubble. At first, his eyes were shocked by the vitality of the whole city. He was shocked by Qiu Yu’s abandonment of the massacre. Then he was dull and confused, until he suddenly realized how little he knew about Li and how little he knew about what she had done over the years.
The general saw the night from the day under the knife mark of the night army city.
At night, the moon rose in the northwest, and he looked at the earth and the sky.
“With light in the air, the world is precious and nameless. Why should I be so lonely and tall than clouds and the moon?” He silently recited a sentence, and then, step by step, moved to the opposite place of the Night Army City.
Later, he often went there, which was the only thing left for him.
That year the queen asked him who Li Li was.
He didn’t answer.
And now, no one asks again, but the general and I know.
Li Li is a pot of thin wine, always drunk in the heart, also drunk in the horizon.
The general didn’t drink too much this time. The moon in
his heart is still stained with blood, but the dust has faded.
Soon, the general picked up the drawings, put on the armor, Lanliang has not been captured, his journey to the six cities in the northwest, but also continue to finish.
This battle will continue, and the peace of the northwest will be guarded until his death. Now
I know that Li Li is the same person as the moon in the sky.
Do not stand tall but stand aloof.
Those dark nights, the general will see as soon as he looks up.
. Focus on not getting lost ~