one step closer to the end

"Hurry up and seal it up, don't spread this matter..."

Luo Tan hurriedly stepped on the ladder and jumped up the wall, all the dragon guards ran out, a dozen corpses were piled up at the gate of the courtyard, only Emperor Yongji was hanging from the beam, struggling with disheveled hair, like a madman. roar.

"This is too bad, the Akabane army must come in after learning about this..."

Luo Tan jumped down with an ashen complexion, and ordered: "Go and tie up the emperor with an iron chain, the rope won't hold him for long, the corpse will be burned and disposed of in the backyard, not a single drop of corpse oil can leak out, and the mouth of the well should be sealed completely, wear a Use the mask to find the source of the corpse poison!"

"Luo Tan! You sit here, I'll go find Ye Ruoqing..."

Qiu Ning hurried to the harem. Luo Tan was Zhao Guanren's first concubine and had followed him since the corpse plague in Lantai County. Luo Tan naturally knew how to deal with corpse poison.

"Empress! Where is Ye Ruoqing..."

Qiu Ning led the female guards into the queen's bedroom. The two queen sisters had already changed their clothes and were wiping their hands with alcohol. Upon hearing this, the queen hurriedly said, "Yongning gave birth prematurely. She brought Mrs. Wen to help in the room. Do you doubt her too?"

"If it wasn't her, who else would there be? She is the only outsider who has entered the palace..."

Qiu Ning walked into the house with a murderous look. Ye Ruoqing happened to come out side by side with the prince. Ye Ruoqing said angrily, "Fart! Am I going to frame my own elder brother? Besides, I was also in the East Palace just now. If I ran too fast, I would have been killed too." Bite!"

"You must have been used..."

Qiu Ning stepped forward and stared and said, "You have been imprisoned by Yuan Lao Er for more than a month, and all his subordinates have also been imprisoned by him. Do you dare to say that no one betrayed you during this period? Besides, Yuan Lao Er hated you to the bone, so get some corpses." Isn't it strange that the poison made them throw into the palace?"

"Do you think I'm out of my mind..."

Ye Ruoqing pointed to the two female guards and the two palace maids, and said: "These four are the people I left in the harem, and they have already become yours. None of the people who followed me out of the capital have entered the palace, and all of them are waiting outside the palace." , could they still sneak in?"

"Auntie! Could there be something wrong with the gift you brought..."

The prince frowned and said: "The corpse poison must have come from the backyard. After the father came in, he said to wait for aunt in the study, but something happened within half a cup of tea, and some gifts were sent to the backyard. It is very likely that someone hid the corpse poison in the backyard." In the gift box!"

"This……"

Ye Ruoqing bit her lip and was speechless, but a court lady said: "We have inspected all the gifts, but some of them are candied fruit and shortbread, we can't open them all for inspection, there is probably a girl who is greedy and steals candied fruit Then I got poisoned!"

"Take the gifts and burn them, don't keep any of them..."

The queen shouted in a hurry, but Qiu Ning said again: "Ye Ruoqing! From now on, you can't leave the harem for half a step. Your brother has been captured alive, but we can't kill him, otherwise Ye Yunchen will have an excuse to call in and use him as a kingkiller." Sin kills us all!"

"This matter can't be hidden for long..."

The queen subconsciously stood up, and said: "Let's make Guan'er ascend the throne immediately, and send him an imperial edict ordering him to continue fighting outside. Will he still dare to attack the palace?"

"Queen! It's even more troublesome to ascend the throne..."

Qiu Ning said: "If Ye Yunchen wants to enter the palace for the funeral, you can't keep him out of the palace, but once he enters the palace, no one can stop him if the prince is not around. When he forces the prince to abdicate the throne, we will all be punished." He put him under house arrest, or forced us to commit suicide!"

"No! There is one more feasible plan..."

Ye Ruoqing said with piercing eyes: "The Red Feather Army is led by my sixth brother and third uncle. Both of them and I are very disgusted with Ye Yunchen's poisoning of the common people. Let's say that the emperor hanged himself in shame after learning about this. With support, we can make Guan'er enthroned!"

"you……"

Qiu Ning looked at her in surprise.

"I'm from the Ye family, but I'm a person first, not a beast..."

Ye Ruoqing puffed up her chest and said: "Let me tell you the truth, Brother Xuan fought in Rongma County. I helped him a lot. He promised to restore our engagement. Zheng Yijian can testify for me. If you believe me, Just let me go out of the city to find my sixth brother and the others!"

"I can let you out..."

Qiu Ning said sternly, "But I'm afraid that if you didn't get things done, you would leak the news instead. Your third uncle is a drunkard!"

"You are wrong! My third uncle is a man of temperament, I am sure to convince them..."

Ye Ruoqing said seriously: "After Guan'er ascended the throne, he issued an imperial decree. If he does not recognize Ye Yunchen's identity, he will become a target of public criticism. Let's put the blame on him and let Brother Xuan and the Yuan family join hands to destroy him. No more mess!"

"Yes! We can't help the evildoers..."

The prince suddenly said loudly: "The safety of the Li people is far more important than the throne of our family. What's more, King Zhao has always loved the people like a son. The river is in a mess now. Only he is still building epidemic prevention fortifications. He has never coveted my prosperity. I absolutely believe in his character!"

"Oh! Prince, I'm overjoyed, overjoyed..."

A servant woman ran out from the back hall and said beamingly: "The mother and the child are safe, and they gave birth to a pair of twins. Two fat sons, what a double happiness!"

"Great! I have a son, two sons..."

The prince rushed into the house excitedly, the women hurriedly pulled him back, but the prince hurriedly asked again: "Mother! Can my child abolish the princess now and change Yongning to be the right concubine? Giving birth to a pair of twins is a great achievement!"

"Silly boy! You are the emperor now, she is the empress, and my mother is the queen mother..."

The queen poked him nervously, not like her husband had just died, and the prince also forgot about his own father, only Ye Ruoqing wiped her tears and said: "Actually, it's good that the emperor is gone. It’s been so hard, it’s really a relief for him!”

"Wait!"

Qiu Ning suddenly realized something, and hurriedly asked: "It's not yet the Chinese New Year, and the new year name has not yet been used. If the crown prince ascends the throne, can Yongji's year name still be used?"

"Of course not! If Guan'er ascends the throne immediately, next year will be..."

The empress froze before she finished speaking, and suddenly covered her small mouth in horror. Ye Ruoqing and the other women also changed their expressions in horror, and even the crown prince said with chills all over his body: "The first year of the apocalypse! How...how could it be?" Come so fast?"

Chapter 0622 Fenglin Volcano

Groups of fire soared into the sky, and tents were burned, illuminating the snow-capped grassland, and also illuminating the faces of fear. A large nomadic tribe was completely wiped out, and sycophants and herdsmen ran everywhere. Only many domestic animals gathered together quietly.

"Tattoo..."

Zhao Guanren was riding a white horse, wearing a snow-white wool cloak, a suede sheepskin cap, and a black leather armor inside. He was carrying a long lance, and walked slowly through the snow, overlooking the hiding place. A dozen women and children under the cart.

"Zhamahu! Zhamahu! Woo..."

A seven or eight-year-old boy cried out of fear, and his mother held him tightly in her arms, even though the woman herself was trembling with fright, because "Zhamahu" means "white devil" in grassland language, This is the bad name that Zhao Guanren spent more than two months in exchange for.

"Gemule!"

Zhao Guanren took out a handful of candy and threw it in front of the cart, said in grassland language, don't be afraid, smiled at the children, and continued on his way, but suddenly there was a sound of "噗", and a cold light suddenly shot behind him hit.

"Bang~"

Zhao Guanren stabbed back without looking back, and knocked a young woman to the ground with the butt of a gun, but the other woman groaned in pain and then got up again, and a dozen or so women around rushed out, all holding pitchforks Or throwing a dagger at him desperately.

"Shu~"

Zhao Guanren picked up the horse spear and swept across, and a dozen women were swept to the ground in an instant. Only the young woman had good skills. She jumped up in the air and slashed at his head with a long knife.

"When~"

Zhao Guanren suddenly picked a thread with his gun and picked it up on the opponent's crotch. The opponent let out a distorted scream and fell to the snow with a "plop". Several women wanted to come to rescue her, but Zhao Guanren was caught again immediately. Swept to the ground.

"Go away! Don't get in the way..."

Zhao Guanren jumped off his horse and yelled at him. He had seen this kind of scene many times. All the people in the prairie are soldiers. It's not just for talking. Women and children can go to the battlefield, and their courage is far better than that of farming people.

"Hey~ Queen Qinna! How many times is this your first time, why don't you always have a brain..."

Zhao Guanren put the horse on the young woman's chest. The young woman was a typical prairie beauty. It was an embroidered purple robe.

"Bah~"

Qinna spit at him suddenly, and started cursing. Although Zhao Guanren didn't understand many words, her simple mind kept cursing like that, why did you kill my man? , I'm going to kill your animal or something.

"Have you learned the words I taught you last time? You have to scold your mother when you curse..."

Zhao Guanren picked up a horse tie and sat beside her, stepping on her chest with one foot. Qin Na lay upright without any resistance, and looked numbly at the herdsmen who were being tortured.

But the victims were not the Beiwei Army or the Sirius Army, but the subdued Tuoda and Kelei tribes. They were like a group of crazy invaders. As long as they were not members of a tribe, they would cut off a man's hair , peeing on a woman.

"My lord! The queen of Xirong has caught her, please deal with it..."

A group of men from the Tuoda Department came over and pressed a dozen women to the ground. The leader of the men even cursed at Qinna: "You dirty bitch, you came to assassinate our prince again, wait for us to step over Yan Yunshan will definitely cut off your father's head!"

"You dog slaves, the gods will kill you..."

Qin Na also cursed angrily, Zhao Guanren waved his hands to let the men go away, the queen of Xirong Ministry immediately crawled over, and said in a trembling official voice: "My lord, please, please allow me to kiss your boots, we Is your most loyal subject!"

"Remember, the person who killed the Eight Great Kings was King Dajiyan, not me..."

Zhao Guanren wiped his riding boots with his hands, the queen crawled over and kissed the shoe uppers to show her obedience, and a group of princesses also came to kiss one by one, but Zhao Guanren suddenly asked: "Do you know where Rouran is? Tell me, I will let you all go!" people!"

"Rou Ran is the secret of the first four volumes, we don't know about the next four volumes..."

The queen shook her head helplessly. The lower four tribes refer to the four tribes south of Yanyun Mountain. They have been in contact with the Ji people for a long time. They can be regarded as the lower tribes in the grassland. the Prairie King.

"Queen Qinna! Looks like I can only torture you..."

Zhao Guanren suddenly picked up Qinna by the waist, and strode towards a burning tent. Qinna lay on his shoulder and continued to scold, until she was thrown onto a pile of hay. She gritted her teeth and closed her mouth.

"Queen Qinna! Since I'm here, I'm not welcome..."

Zhao Guanren tore off Qinna's belt, regardless of whether he was under the watchful eyes of the public, his heart became wild when he reached the grassland, and Qinna only resisted a few times symbolically, and then resisted like an old lady, but she couldn't handle it. Brutal look.

……

The shouts of killing gradually subsided, more than a dozen tents were burned out, a large number of prisoners were being escorted back, and the Queen of the Sahe Department, Qin Na, was not afraid of the cold, and turned over from the haystack with her hair full of pigtails. , picked up the woolen cloak and wrapped it around him.

"Two thousand livestock, two hundred good knives..."

Qin Na picked up a pot of kumiss stained with blood, and drank it boldly. Zhao Guanren lay beside her, smoking a cigarette, and said angrily, "Are you here to kill me, or to prostitute yourself?" , is this the third time?"

"The queen of Zahebu is very expensive..."

Qin Na spoke suffocated Mandarin and threw the wine to him a little coldly. Zhao Guanren simply sat up and gulped down half of the pot.

"Ok?"

A general of the Beiwei Army happened to pass by, and when he saw Qin Na, he was surprised and said, "Why is it her again? I don't think this bitch is here to kill you, but she is here to sleep with you. My lord, why don't you change your taste?" ah!"

"The queens from the Xirong Department brought them here, they should be very cheap..."

Zhao Guanren threw down the jug and waved, but Qinna stared and said, "You give them livestock, and I won't let you get them, never again. I am the princess of the Bokan royal family, the sister of the Queen Mother of the Daji Kingdom, and a native of the prairie." Pearls, they are but clay!"

"There are no pearls in the grassland, only sheep eggs..."

Zhao Guanren blew smoke on her face, and said with a smile: "I won't give you weapons. After I hit Mobei, I will cut off your source of iron weapons, but if you tell me Rouran's secret, I will give you five thousand livestock!"

"Huh~ Let's talk about it when we hit Mobei, first give me today's livestock..."

Qin Na took the cigarette out of his mouth and threw it away. Zhao Guanren lifted her pigtails and smiled and said, "You look like Ye Ruoqing when you're angry, and your aunt is just as rascal as her. Why don't I give you [-] livestock?" , let your father become the king of the north!"

"Do not care!"

Qin Na picked up her clothes and was about to leave, but Zhao Guanren suddenly smiled and said: "I know Rouran's secret, it turns out that your father annexed the clan of the Jin Dynasty and established a kingdom in Mobei, and your weapons are all made by Rouran Yes, you want to counterattack Kyrgyzstan!"

"Zhamahu!"

Qinna turned her head and scolded him viciously, but she knelt back in frustration and said, "You are only in Yanyun Mountain, and the fourth department pays tribute to you. Every year, one thousand war horses and twenty thousand livestock are not exchanged for iron or gold and silver. How about here?"

"Little Qinna! Do you think I'm stupid? I won't feed tigers..."

Zhao Guanren grabbed her by the hair and said: "I just killed 15 of your elites, and your vitality has been seriously injured. If I don't take advantage of the victory and pursue it, it will be a waste of opportunity. There are only [-] days before the Chinese New Year. I will definitely cross Yanyun Go to the mountains to celebrate the New Year!"

"you……"

Qin Na said angrily: "Why do you want to kill them all? We have already surrendered, and we are not cowards. The powerful warriors are in the first four!"

"Because you are a pack of wolves..."

Zhao Guanren said harshly: "You don't create civilization, you just think about plundering civilization all day long. With the Beiwei army guarding the plain, you dare to go south to plunder the people. If you don't scare you, you don't know how powerful you are. This time I I will call you fathers completely!"

"Okay! Then I'll wait for you at Yanyun Mountain, and see how you can be defeated by us..."

Qin Na stood up angrily, and Zhao Guanren raised her head and said, "Go and take two thousand animals away, and we'll settle the matter, but if you want to prostitute yourself, come to me obediently, and if you come to assassinate me again, I will kill them all." Your whole family, wipe your Bokan tribe from the grassland!"

"I remember your words, if I can't kill you, I will kill myself..."

Qin Na put on her clothes, jumped on a horse, and ran towards the snow field with her big white legs. The soldiers did not stop her when they saw her, an old peripheral, and let her disappear into the night.

"Chen Guangzhi! Zhang Qiming! Come here..."

Zhao Guanren put on his trousers and walked to the carriage, saying: "Old rules! Send a light cavalry to follow her. If Qinna passes Yanyun Mountain, we will prepare fortifications at Yanyun Mountain, but if she does not go to Yanyun Mountain, we will Just pass Yanyun to Mobei!"

"..."

The two looked at each other in astonishment, and said: "My lord! Is it necessary to fight so deep? Mobei is of no value. Besides, we go deep alone, and our supplies can no longer keep up. When we arrive in Mobei, we will definitely run out of food. Drive the animals all the way!"

"Is it a lone army? Our friends are everywhere here, otherwise why no one came to harass..."

Zhao Guanren smiled and said: "The lower four tribes have been oppressed by the upper four tribes all the year round, and have deep grievances. I have promised them to break Yanyun Mountain and make them the golden family of the prairie. So this is a civil war between the eight tribes. We are here to help The guests, they are full!"

"My lord! You don't understand the grassland tribes, they are just trying to fool you..."

Zhang Qiming said: "Prairie people believe in gods, and their grandma's words are more effective than profuse sweat, and the next four parts have already been written like this, they will no longer be united, maybe they will turn against each other after passing Yanyun Mountain, and stab us back. One knife!"

"Of course they can't unite as one, as long as they are united with me..."

Zhao Guanren said with a smile: "The Kelie tribe pissed on the head of the queen of the Tuoda tribe, and the Tuoda tribe slaughtered the whole family of the Sahe tribe. Tonight will be another madness. There will be irreconcilable conflicts in the next four tribes. As for The gods of the prairie, I'll invite them out!"