Urban Sims

Chapter 137
After dawn, the gates of the city opened wide, and the two entered the imperial capital at once.

He reined in the horse and stopped at the gate of the palace, and helped the woman off the horse. She had just taken two steps when she went limp and almost fell to the ground.

Zhou Ming supported her again, and said with concern: "Miss Yu'er, are you alright? How about I take her somewhere else to rest and return to the palace later." It is said to be crazy, and the sequelae are naturally what they are now: limping in walking posture, after touching the wound, the eyebrows are raised from time to time, and the expression on the face is extremely unnatural.

The woman gently pushed him away, and said calmly: "Mr. Zihua doesn't need to help me, Yu'er can go back to the palace alone."

After finishing speaking, she adjusted herself for a few seconds, stood up straight, and walked forward with a standard court step, her expression returning to normal.

"Miss Yu'er, one day, I, Tian Zihua, will marry you!"

Zhou Ming called to the figure who had walked a few steps away and said.

The woman turned her head and smiled sweetly, and said in a carefree tone: "Shangguan Yu'er, this life is enough to get Mr. Zihua's words."

This smile made Zhou Ming slightly distracted, so he could only sigh: Da Zhou girl, how dare to love and hate, once she meets a man she loves, she puts down her reserve, like moths to a flame, entrusts her body and mind without hesitation, even if there is no result, she will not Entanglement and hypocrisy, never regret.

A replay appeared in his mind like a movie. His wife Cui Rou, his concubine Chu Jingling, and the four concubines who were born as maids all seemed to be like this. They put all their hearts on him.

Even Princess Anping, who was going to rescue this time, he had already felt that her affection for him had never diminished, but only continued to deepen.

"It seems that the love debt I have to bear in this life will not be less, but more."

However, he will not be particularly troubled by this. He accepts if he can accept it, and accepts it if he cannot accept it. It's natural.

……

After returning to the palace, Shangguan Yu'er went to the inner court to make a report (people in the palace are not allowed to leave at will, and the itinerary must be reported daily), then went to take a bath, changed into clean clothes, and had lunch. So I rushed to Furongyuan, met Emperor Li Zhi and Queen Wu Mei, and presented this "On Great Powers".

"Tian Zihua wrote an article again? Read it to me quickly! I haven't read his article for a long time."

Emperor Li Zhi said excitedly, maybe Tian Zihua has produced too few works in the past few months. He feels that his head has been hurting more recently, and his daughter Anping is not sensible. Knowing that: in order to prevent Dazhou and Turkic countries from fighting again, and for the peace of the people of the two countries, she felt that she had a heavy responsibility, so she offered to marry the Turkic king and keep the peace between the two countries forever.

Li Zhi, who heard the news at the time, was stunned and thought: Is there something that my daughter Anping can't think about, and she wants to do such a stupid thing?

Can the peace between the two countries be maintained by a woman?In the hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it has made peace with neighboring countries more than a dozen times, and the swordsmanship has not stopped, and the battles have to be fought, and no one has shown mercy to anyone.

Therefore, he wanted to call his daughter Anping over, do some ideological work, and persuade her to give up this idea, but Queen Wu Mei rarely came to see him these days, and she also said that she would go to persuade Anping, and promised to persuade her daughter to come back later. Li Zhi felt relieved.

"On a big country? Tian Zihua?"

The queen Wu Mei's eyelids twitched, and something was wrong in her heart. What does Tian Zihua want to do?What kind of moth do you want to get out?

Holding the article in her hands, Shangguan Yu'er cleared her throat and began to read in rhythmic rhythms.

Emperor Li Zhi and Empress Wu Mei opened their ears to listen carefully, and when they heard certain points in the article, they nodded repeatedly, quite agreeing.

After reading the article for most of the time, Wu Mei, the queen, didn't hear any problems. She felt that everything was normal, and even sighed with regret: Tian Zihua, why can't you be used by me?You have such talents and knowledge, you alone can defeat a million soldiers!

Suddenly, her expression changed drastically, and she even wanted to snatch the article and tear it into pieces!
But it was too late, she heard: "Shun, standing for a hundred years and not falling, never perishing to the barbarians around, because he didn't proclaim himself a minister, didn't pay tribute, didn't get along with relatives, didn't cut off the land, the emperor guarded the gate of the country, and the king died. !The country and its people, from top to bottom, are blood-spirited like this, and everyone is strong and alive! Even if they die, they don’t change their clothes and hairstyles, they don’t humiliate their ancestors, and they don’t bow their knees to other races. How can it be considered a big country?”

After listening to this sentence, Wu Mei, who felt bad, heard a heavy panting in her ears, turned her head to look, and saw the emperor Li Zhi, his face was flushed, he was panting like a cow, his whole body was trembling, and his eyes were wide open. Suddenly sitting up from the bed, he roared like thunder: "What a man who doesn't proclaim himself a minister, doesn't pay tribute, doesn't make peace, doesn't cut off land, the emperor guards the country, and the king dies! I can do it, I can do it too!"

After finishing speaking, the emperor Li Zhi seemed to have been tapped on the acupuncture points, and remained frozen there for more than three minutes without blinking his eyelids or not breathing.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you, Your Majesty? What's the matter with you, Your Majesty?"

Wu Mei noticed something was wrong, and quickly patted his back, but there was no response, as if he had died.

"Your Majesty!!" Wu Mei shouted, with a hint of crying in her voice.

"I'm here~"

Li Zhi, who had been stiff for a long time, suddenly relaxed his wooden expression, and his eyes flashed a trace of bewilderment, as if he had forgotten what happened just now, and then he looked ecstatic, and suddenly jumped up from the bed and said: "My head doesn't hurt anymore, a little It doesn't hurt anymore, it's cool, it's cool!"

After the memory recovered in his mind, Li Zhi walked barefoot in front of Shangguan Yuer, bent down, picked up the article she had thrown on the ground in a hurry, lightly dusted the dust on it, held it solemnly in his hand, and swept it away again. After reading the above text, he praised: "This "On a Great Country" should be framed on my bedside, and read three times a day to understand my ambition!"

At the same time, he sighed: "Mr. Zihua, you are so talented, how can you help Da Zhou? Are you waiting for me to visit the thatched cottage?"

Li Zhi thought of the allusion of the corporal who respects the virtuous and pays three visits to the thatched hut.

But with the noble body of the emperor, it seems that this posture is too low, and it is not proper to look three times at the grassroots people in Guizhou.

However, as long as those great talents can be persuaded to become an official, they will really be asked to visit the thatched cottage three times. What is left in the history books is also a good story about a virtuous king and famous minister.

And Tian Zihua's talent is enough to become the protagonist of this story!
For a moment, Li Zhi's heart was ready to move.

The queen of heaven, Wu Mei, looked at the sickly emperor, but now he looked so radiant, and hated her teeth itching. But at the same time, she also understood: It is impossible for her daughter, Anping, to marry the Turkic king. On the contrary, She still had to adjust her strategy to get back the few lies she had told before, so that the emperor Li Zhi would not be resentful towards her, and she had to find a way to seal some people's mouths so that everyone would not know. The idea was hers.

After thinking for a while, she turned her eyes and thought of a good way.

……

Daming Palace, in Princess Anping's room.

"Ping'er, my mother was just talking in a fit of anger at the time, and she didn't intend to let you marry the Turks. Your father and emperor have already told me, and the mother also asked the Turkic envoy to withdraw from the marriage...Ping'er, you are full, your Sister Chang Ping, at this age, is already the mother of two children... For your marriage, the queen mother is worried, Ping'er, can't you let the queen mother relax?"

Empress Wu Mei took her daughter Anping's hand, wiped the corners of her eyes with silk, while speaking earnestly and severely criticizing, and occasionally looked like a helpless loving mother. Anyone who saw her could understand that this mother's good Work hard.

"Empress, Anping has made a mistake!"

Princess Anping burst into tears, threw herself into Wu Mei's arms, and said with great self-reproach: "Queen, Anping is obedient! Anping agrees to find a man to marry, no matter who the man is, as long as it is not married far away, Anping is willing to listen Arranged by the queen mother, no longer willful!"

After suffering such a big blow, Princess Anping finally chose to give in, let go of her obsessions, and only hoped not to live in a nightmare world in the future.

"Ping'er, you're right if you think so. The queen mother also knows who you like in your heart. Ping'er, the queen mother asks you, are you willing to marry that Tian Zihua? If you are willing, the queen mother will marry you for you." Make the decision, call Tian Zihua into the palace and ask his opinion on this matter, if he is also interested in you, the queen mother will not object to you being together..."

The Queen of Heaven, Wu Mei, told Princess Anping something that surprised and delighted her.

Princess Anping buried her head down, and preached with a red face: "Mother, Mr. Zihua already has a wife, and he is a man of love and righteousness. How could he do such a thing as divorce and marry me again..."

A princess of the royal family, with a body of a thousand pieces of gold, cannot marry anyone as a concubine, not even an ordinary wife, she must be a regular wife!
Because the royal family must reflect the dignity and dignity of being a royal family, although Princess Anping sometimes feels that as long as she can stay with the man she loves, it doesn't matter if she doesn't have a status.

but……

If she really dares to be someone else's concubine and do things that damage the dignity of the royal family, not to mention that her father, queen and queen can't tolerate her, the whole royal family will also shout and kill her. place.

And Mr. Zihua's official wife, Cui Rou, has also met Princess Anping many times. She is a lively, cheerful, innocent and kind woman. On the mahjong table, the two have played mahjong together several times, and their relationship is very good.

Therefore, Princess Anping, who is also kind-hearted, can't do anything to hurt this woman.

"Ping'er, don't worry, the queen mother has her own measure, and she doesn't need to tell Tian Zihua to divorce his wife, she can marry you as a matchmaker..."

The queen Wu Mei, in her ear, said a bunch of words that guaranteed the best of both worlds.

Hearing these assurances, Princess Anping's answering voice became weaker and weaker, and her head was buried lower and lower. When she got to the back, she didn't hear what the queen mother was saying at all, and she didn't see the cold killing intent that occasionally flashed in her eyes. , just fell into his own vision of happiness, getting more and more drunk.

……

Early the next morning.

Zhou Ming, who was ordered to enter the palace, waited in the side hall for a whole morning, and at noon, he was summoned by the Queen of Heaven, Wu Mei.

"His Royal Highness, it's not that Caomin doesn't want to marry the princess, it's that Caomin already has a wife. She and Caomin are childhood sweethearts and have a deep relationship. Caomin can't do such a thing as being rich and divorced his wife."

Princess Anping, who was hiding behind the curtain, heard the words of the man in the palace, her smile gradually froze, her heart was extremely bitter, her grief was greater than her heart's death, tears rolled down her eyes uncontrollably.

It's impossible, it's impossible between them, as long as his wife is still there, they will never be together, even if this man just said himself, "Being able to marry the princess is something that the grass people are extremely happy and wish for." things".

But after the word "just", everything returned to reality.

However, the grief-stricken Princess Anping suddenly heard her mother, Wu Mei, say in a cold tone: "You don't need to get rich and divorce your wife. You just need to wait until the auspicious day and marry my daughter Anping. For other things, why use you?" Worry? I have sent someone to take care of all your worries, Tian Zihua, don't be ungrateful!" After that, her heart skipped a beat.

Especially when she heard the words "send someone" and "solve", she immediately thought of something.

"Mother, did you send someone to Mr. Zihua's house to kill Mr. Zihua's wife with poison?"

Princess Anping, with tears still on her face, came out from behind the curtain and questioned her queen mother, Wu Mei.

"what?!"

Zhou Ming, who was somewhat puzzled by the strange words of Tianhou Wu Mei just now, was taken aback, pointed at Tianhou Wu Mei and asked loudly: "His Royal Highness, did you really do this?"

"So what if I did it? People were sent out early in the morning. Your wife must have been dead for a long time!"

Empress Wu Mei's tone was cold, seeing his anxious expression, she was very relieved!
"You...I killed you to pay for her life!"

Zhou Ming clenched his fists, his eyes were red, and after knocking the two eunuchs into the air, he rushed to the hall to kill Wu Mei, but she was so scared that she turned pale, picked up her body and ran, repeatedly calling out "Help, help!"

If it weren't for Princess Anping who was standing not far away, desperately holding Zhou Ming who was almost losing his mind, crying and begging: "Mr. Die! Don't kill my mother, everything is because of me, if you want to kill, kill me!"

Only then did Zhou Ming calm down a little, and when he heard the footsteps of a group of guards rushing towards him, he immediately punched her, gave up chasing Wu Mei, turned around and rushed out of the palace.

After the sound of the alarm gong, almost all the elite guards in the palace started to act at this time, and there was a sound of "catch the assassin" and "shoot and kill anyone in white". He could only stimulate his full potential and run like lightning, all the way Knock down a hundred elite guards, and go straight out of the Daming Palace.

After riding on the red dragon horse, he ran for a hundred miles without slowing down, and he only took half an hour to finish the run. After arriving at the mansion in Fengyang Village, he rushed into the gate, desperately looking for his wife Cui Rou, and found her sitting on a chair in the backyard. In the pavilion, she was playing with a wine glass in her hand. The amber liquid in the glass was as thick as golden juice and exuded a special aroma. She couldn't help raising the glass, wanting to pour the fine wine into her mouth.

"Can't drink!"

Zhou Ming rushed over and slapped the wine glass in her hand away with a slap, and the glass fell to pieces on the ground.

"Husband, this is the Baihuayu brewing wine bestowed on me by the Queen of Heaven. What's wrong with me stealing a cup?"

His wife, Cui Rou, looked aggrieved, with tears in her eyes. After receiving the jug of fine wine specially given to her by the Queen of Heaven, she wanted to listen to the eunuch's words and drink it on the spot, but she wanted to keep it for her husband. After returning, the two shared it together, so they didn't drink it all the time.

However, after being aroused by the smell of wine, she couldn't help but want to have a drink first, but she was treated like this by her husband.

"Don't drink it, it's poisonous wine!"

Zhou Ming motioned his wife to look, but saw a lot of white bubbles coming out of the marble on the ground that had been splashed with wine, making a sizzling sound.

"what!"

His wife Cui Rou's eyes widened in disbelief.

……

In the evening of the same day, before a large number of chasing soldiers from the imperial court came, Zhou Ming, who felt that it was not suitable to stay for a long time, ordered everyone in the mansion to clean up, got into the carriage, took all the soldiers with him, and returned to his hometown in Qingzhou!

"Your Highness, why do you..."

Less than ten miles away from the convoy, under the bright moonlight, in front of the road, a figure wearing a smock and riding on a strong horse appeared in front of the road. Zhou Ming, who rode forward, was taken aback. .

Princess Anping!

"Mr. Zihua, I am homeless, can you take me to wander around the world? I don't care about my status, you will live up to me?" The woman asked, taking off her veil, with two lines of tears on her face.

"You are already like this, if I let you down again, it's just for God!"

Zhou Ming rode up to her, stretched his arms around his slender waist, and hugged her forcefully into his arms, letting her lean on his shoulder and cry loudly. The sound of crying was filled with endless relaxation and joy.

She thought to herself: Mr. Zihua, it's great, it's great to be with you and stay together forever...

　It is a little difficult to deal with the contradictions in this chapter, but it will not develop in the direction of overturning

　　
　
(End of this chapter)