Emperor of the Dynasty + Spoiler

Her heart trembled, and she didn't know why, but felt that the king's words were quite meaningful. She took a deep breath, then kowtowed three times to the king, and said, "I... King's crime."

After speaking, it seems that it is not so difficult to continue.

"Chen, I'm... in the form of a daughter, but how can I turn into a son and go to the battlefield...

The minister's family was originally a military household, but his father and brother both died in the battle. They had no fame, and what they got in exchange was only three years of tax exemption. When the minister was 14 years old, the conscription order was issued again. According to the law, I paid a gift, but my family has long been destitute. The weather was dry, and the crops were not harvested... If I really paid a gift, my 50-year-old mother could not survive...

Chen originally had an older brother who would not die, Chen... Chen's twin brother was deceived by the corporal chief during the conscription that year, and took the life of the corporal chief's son to go to the battlefield. He thought that this would make my mother and me safe On that day, I didn’t know that after I went there, I realized that the name I named was actually the name of the corporal leader’s son... But he was already on the battlefield at that time, and it was impossible to come back to ask for an explanation..." Speaking of this, I remembered that when I was young, I was four years old. When Brother took her to hunt birds and catch loaches in the field, she unexpectedly burst into tears:

"In the conscription order after the same year, the corporal leader found my family, because according to the life book, my family still has a force, and the conscription order came down. If my family can't send out this force, as the corporal leader, he can't escape. Yes! So he came to persuade me to replace my brother's name to get the conscription order... I had no choice but to falsely report my age and enlist in the army. As long as I survived, the old mother in the family could receive a meager subsidy. In this day of war... I can still survive .”

She survived, but she was burdened with a shocking lie. What's the point of such a life?

...It's better to be dead, she knelt on the ground and thought quietly, the king will give her the death penalty, right?That's fine, my mother has been gone for many years, it's kind of bleak for her to live alone in this world, even if she dies.

But the king did not give her the death penalty, but asked her with a light smile:

"You've finished your unspeakable secrets, why don't you listen to the marriage that Gu is going to give you now?"

The king's slender hand pointed at Murong Xi standing behind her. Facing her shocked expression, the king said calmly, "Master Gu, what do you think of my lonely sister?"

She followed the king's hand and looked up at the woman who was smiling at her. She was startled, opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word, because her heart stopped for two beats at that moment. .

The king asked her to marry Princess Qinghe, but Gu Ming dared not agree. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed that he did not dare to delay His Royal Highness. Maybe it was her submissiveness that angered the king, or maybe it was her inconsistency that made the king angry. Upset:

"I just asked you to marry or not?" Wang Shang looked at her expressionlessly, with a cold arrogance on his lips, "Master Gu, maybe you came to the capital late, so you don't know. Only members of our Murong family refuse other people's marriages, but no one has ever rejected our Murong family's marriage."

"I don't have the spare time to listen to your nonsense. It's good to say it straight. Today you agree to this relative, and you live. If you don't agree..." The king casually pointed to the stone pillars on the corridor of her mansion, and said to her , "You just hit your head to death and apologize to the princess, so Gu can save himself from grinding his mouth."

Hearing this, Gu Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Being able to apologize with death may be the last courtier's gift she gave to the princess, "I wish to die..." It's just that before she finished speaking, the indifferent king just said Laughed out loud.

"But if you die, won't that orphaned younger sister get the title of 'marriage'? So, aren't you ruining the reputation of the princess?"

Gu Ming was taken aback for a moment, but she was a little dumbfounded when the king asked him such a rhetorical question.

"Gu Aiqing, do you know what crime it is to deceive the emperor?"

She lowered her head, closed her eyes, and said in a low voice, "Death crime..."

The king stood up from the stone bench, walked slowly in front of her, and asked her condescendingly, "Then why does Gu Aiqing risk her life to pretend to be a man?"

"In order to be able to enlist in the army, I will give my mother a discount." She said softly.

It seemed that her answer pleased the king. After hearing the words, the king knelt down slowly, raised her chin with his hand, forced her to meet his eyes, and asked a question she had never thought of before. question:

"Then have you ever thought about why you can't join the army as a daughter and reduce your mother's tax?"

She widened her eyes, and her mind went blank when asked by the king's words.

…why?

Yes, why can't she join the army as a daughter and reduce her mother's tax?

because--

"Because you have never heard of a woman enlisting in the army, have you? But my good general, you know that before Gu, there had never been any female king in Qin State. You think Gu can sit on the throne only by being Is it luck?" The king looked into her eyes, and said word by word, "Gu naturally understands your insincere words, and also understands your involuntary actions. Gu understands your inner struggle, and even more knows your inner fear:

You are afraid that you will be exposed one day; you are afraid that the comrades who fought with you will leave you one day; you are afraid that the teacher who once regarded you as your own will draw a line with you one day; Your king will one day punish you for deceiving the king; you are afraid, you are afraid that you have done nothing wrong, but suddenly you will fall into the abyss of eternal doom - so you carefully guard your secrets, if you are alone today Asking, if you haven't found out, you can be confident that you can still hide this secret, one year or two, five years or ten years..."