Record of ups and downs in troubled times

"What does it have to do with you?!"

Before the words were finished, the dagger whizzed towards Princess Yonglin's temples, and with a "clang" it was nailed into the jade brick under her body.From the place where the tip of the dagger sank into the jade brick, a few cracks emerged, quickly spreading around like a spider's web.

The princess was stunned and almost forgot to dodge.

"Do you know why the Cheng family refuses to marry Cheng Wei to me?" The emperor saw that the deterrent effect was quite good, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he had to reason with her.

He tried his best to suppress the anger in his chest, but after all, he was not a pleasant person, and there was a faint tremor in his tone as if a rainstorm was coming: "I guess, the Cheng family planned to wait and see what happened, and wanted to keep a hand, and find someone better than me for Cheng Wei." A better family. Don't look at me, you know, I don't want to follow their orders, the Cheng family hates me the most."

"And Fan Guo suddenly asked for intermarriage, which must be a change in state affairs. If Cheng Zhi married Fan Guo, not only would he have a high status, but he could also attract Fan people to join Cheng. You are not stupid, and you should also know that if the frontier is unstable, it is very difficult for you to be an emperor. As far as I am concerned, what is the consequence? Just because the Cheng family does not marry their only daughter to me, it is implying to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty that the Cheng family does not intend to support me at all."

"If you don't support you, who else can you support?" Yong Lin asked blankly. "Prime Minister Cheng is our..."

"Yes, Prime Minister Cheng is our uncle." Liu Pu said in a deep voice, "But what if he becomes the father-in-law of King Xiang, King Yingchuan, or even King Yundian in the future?"

"Impossible," Yong Lin's eyes widened, "Impossible! You are the empress dowager's own son, she can't let the Cheng family depose you!"

The Queen Mother herself?For a moment, Liu Pu felt mixed feelings in his heart, and he became confused for no reason: Nowadays, who can believe that a mere helpless emperor can win the hands of a treacherous and cunning prime minister?It's not that the queen mother doesn't care about her son, but she doesn't believe Liu Pu, and doesn't believe that he can compete with the Cheng family.

If he guessed right, the reward for the Empress Dowager's assistance to the Cheng family would probably be to spare the life of the useless emperor himself after the event was completed, right?

"Actually, no matter who Cheng Zhi marries, as long as he is a prince, he is a descendant of the Liu surname. I have no objection. If Cheng Nan deposes me in the future, he will be replaced by a member of my Liu clan. In the end, it is no different. Even if it happens, he doesn't marry his daughter to the Liu family, but promises to other irrelevant people, but as long as he is under my nose and within the territory of our dynasty, I am sure to fight him."

"So, I think you understand that the only thing I can't tolerate is that he has contact with Fan Guo."

"So, you want to marry me first, just to prevent the Cheng family from getting the upper hand?" Yonglin's voice was filled with a bit of forcibly crying, "I am your sister, why did you abandon me to stop the Cheng family?" Woolen cloth……"

Even the Empress Dowager didn't inform the marriage edict issued this morning, so it was for this reason.

If Yonglin scolded him or beat him, Liu Pu had a way to deal with it, but when Yonglin cried, he didn't know what to say or how to do it.He looked at Yong Lin who was curled up on the ground and kneaded herself into a wrinkled ball, and repeated it softly, rather than convincing Yong Lin, he seemed to be convincing himself: "You are the princess of the dynasty, the only eternal princess of my dynasty. Princess Lin. You and I are named Liu, and this kingdom belongs to you as well as mine."

"I don't want it, I don't want it!" Yonglin suddenly struggled to sit up on her knees, came over on her knees, and hugged Liu Pu's legs.The cracked vase fragments on the ground were still there, and she seemed to be completely unafraid of pain, allowing her knees to be cut and gurgling bloodstains. "Brother! Brother! Don't let me go, don't let me go, okay? The whole court hates Fan people, and they want to eat our flesh and bones, but you let me marry them?!"

"No." The emperor was always stubborn in his words, but this time he gave an explanation for the first time: "You have been here for so long, but the queen mother has not come here to question me about the marriage intention, right?"

"Yes……"

"She's going to chat with Cheng Nan." Liu Pu said in a straightforward tone, not knowing how he felt when he thought of his mother. "It doesn't matter. When the two of them confirm the news, the matter of marriage has been decided and can no longer be changed. Originally, after the decree was announced to the whole court, there is no need to rush for a while, but you just take your mother's matter." Go ask the queen mother, in order to prevent her from harming you, the marriage has to be brought forward."

"How could the Queen Mother..."

In the middle of speaking, Yonglin felt it was ridiculous, and swallowed it back abruptly.

These few times recently, when Fan Yonglin came to him, she either went back angrily or crying, but this time is different from the past.Princess Yonglin stood up slowly, and pushed Zhou Zheng to hold her hands again, but calmly asked Liu Pu again: "I beg you now, as Princess Yonglin of Chaoguo, as you and I Blood relatives, please. Don't let me go, please."

Liu Pu looked directly into her eyes, and shook his head indisputably.

He is an extremely stubborn person, and the decisions he made will never be changed by others. Even if he knows it is his fault, he will not easily admit it, let alone when he thinks he is doing the right thing.

"Then you take your Yangguan Road, and I take my single-plank bridge. From now on, I am no longer a princess of the dynasty, and I have nothing to do with you." Yonglin finished this sentence word by word, Turn around very simply.Even though there were wounds on her knees cut by porcelain shards, she, who was always pampered, did not cry. Instead, she supported herself, pushed aside the support of others, and limped out of Changle Palace.

Liu Pu stood there for a while, then turned around to check Tan Yanhui's bleeding arm, and pulled him in to reapply the medicine.

"Don't take her words to heart." Liu Pu reassured her abruptly, and didn't expect Tan Yan to return him anything. When he turned around, he looked expressionless and invulnerable again, and ordered Zhou Zheng beside him, "Go to the Prince Regent's Mansion, Let's see how the regent's injury is; moreover, tell him to go to Nanhai County to appease the disaster. He doesn't have anyone available there, so you send someone to help and teach him to stabilize the disaster."

Zhou Zheng watched his face carefully, and said hesitantly, "Yes."

I know it's a dead end, but I still send you there.This can only be blamed on God, why did you become a fool when you were born in the emperor's family?

The emperor stood with his hands behind his back, facing the window, paused again and again, and added in a low voice: "Try to save his life. If you really can't keep it, let it go when it's time."

"Yes."

"It hurts! It hurts!" In the Prince Regent's mansion, a person yelled loudly, but there was some usual smirk on his face.He cried, laughed, and pushed the hand that had applied the medicine to him, crying, "Ah! It hurts! Don't! It's itchy!"

"Don't move!" Kuomu also yelled, complaining: "I can't decide whether to cry or laugh, it's so scary. No wonder I scared away such a good-looking female medical officer..."

Liu Zheng grinned and muttered something, but his broad eyes didn't hear clearly, he lowered his head and asked again inadvertently.

"You look good." Liu Zheng smiled happily, "She is not good-looking, but you are good-looking. Well, you are beautiful."

Kuomuye, a strong and strong foreign man, immediately threw himself up and down, trembling like leaves falling in the wind.This is the first time he has been described as "beautiful" in his life.

"Don't talk about it, I used this word, and I'm in a panic all over." He let go of Liu Zheng's kicking legs, stood up and said, "Don't move around, the medicine just applied is about to fall off again. I'm going outside to pick up Zhou Changshi, so don't move!"

Liu Zheng deliberately kicked his legs again with a laugh, and looked at the medicinal juice lying on the bed, and smiled even more happily.

The medicinal juice rubbed on his wound is quite different from the prescription used by the Han people in the dynasty.Although the treatment of the medicinal materials is a bit rough and the taste is a bit weird, but the native method from Kuomuye's hometown may have a good effect, but we don't know.

"I didn't expect you to be quite skilled in medicine." Zhou Zheng always spoke respectfully to everyone, which made others look at him even more highly.

"Where, just mix the herbs and chew them into pieces. If Attendant Zhou wants it, I'll write a copy for you later. But I can't write Chinese well, so I hope you..."

"No, no, no." Zhou Zheng was startled by this sentence, breaking out in a cold sweat.He still can't think of anyone who dares to chew the medicine for the emperor, maybe second son Tan is one of them?He quickly shook his head, turned back to the topic, and said to Liu Zheng, who was sitting on the couch with his legs stretched out, waiting for the medicine to be administered: "Your Highness, do you know about the disaster in the South China Sea? The imperial court wants to send people to appease the victims, and all the ministers recommend you."

"Him?!" Before Liu Zheng could answer, Kuo Mu immediately retorted: "In Chaoguo, who doesn't know that he...has something wrong with his mind? Wasn't it embarrassing him by assigning him on purpose?"

"That's right, the emperor is also unwilling, but how can you beat the courtiers to say what you say and what I say?" Zhou Zheng explained slowly, trying his best to get rid of the emperor from the matter first. "To be fair, what you ministers say is reasonable. Once the regent Wangfu ascended the throne, he must first do some meritorious deeds to convince people. Although the regent King Yundian...is inconvenient, it is inevitable that he must convince others. It is."

"Being the regent is not..." Kuomu also suddenly came to his senses, knowing what to say and what not to say, and cut off the conversation abruptly.

Seeing how he described his behavior, Zhou Zheng knew that he must have something to hide.

What Cai Kuomu didn't finish saying just now should be "Liu Zheng is not happy to be the regent".He had already heard these words from Princess Yonglin's mouth, "Princess Chaoguo is not what I want to be." These two sentences are really similar in purpose.It's a pity that in life, identity and family background alone are not personal choices.

unfair?How can there be fairness in this world?

Zhou Zheng sighed secretly, and asked straightforwardly: "If you don't think the servant talks too much, can I ask, who was the expert who gave the golden tortoise seal of the regent?"

Liu Zheng didn't speak, just kept smirking; Kuomu was not a good teller, so he just blushed and kept silent.

"Since it's inconvenient, there's no need to say it." Zhou Zheng was understanding. "For the regent's trip to Nanhai County, I just came to bring a letter first, and the imperial decree will arrive later. I hope that you two will make plans early. The road is bumpy and painful, so I will thank Your Highness. , His Majesty specially appointed a bodyguard to come to obey his orders, his name is Zhu Qi, and I hope you will take care of him."

As soon as he finished speaking, a thin man in black came out from the shadow of the door leaf, saluted slightly with his movements like flowing clouds and flowing water, and then quietly stood aside.

Kuomu couldn't help but look at this person carefully: he also practiced martial arts, but just now he didn't notice the slightest aura of this person, which shows that his skill is far superior to his own.Furthermore, although this skinny man only walked three steps just now, his gait is very strange, he does not know what kind of kung fu he is practicing.

The man was tightly wrapped, and it was not yet late autumn, but he had already put on a cloak.The brim of the cloak covered one of his faces, and he couldn't see the geometry of his face clearly. The only thing that could be seen clearly from the whole body was the half of his index finger exposed under the sleeve.

Abnormally rugged, shaped like dead wood.