I wanted to embrace my master and return home

"Can'er, Can'er..." Ming Qing knew that he was greatly stimulated, so she hugged him gently.

"Open, open the national treasury, allocate funds..." Gao Motang's body was cold and stiff, his hands were trembling, and he couldn't calm down for a long time. He thought it was just a small epidemic, which could be solved by closing the city gate for a few months. .

Unexpectedly, it developed into this appearance. The Chaoyang Palace is full of devastation, and the people are in dire straits, while the inside of the palace is still covered with flowing water and painted walls with gold powder.

In the second month after the treasury was opened, Chaoyang Kingdom had 170 out of 120 cities, [-] of which had fallen. The area of ​​Chaoyu was getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more refugees, half of the treasury had been emptied.

I don't know when it started, and I don't know where it spread. There is a saying in Chaoyang country that there is a "destiny disaster star", which has spread throughout Chaoyang.

According to the rumors, the fate disaster star is a sign of the country's subjugation from the sky, and it is a person who has cut off the dragon veins of the rising sun. The former state teacher used the astrology to calculate it, but the state teacher has been buried for a long time, so there is no way to verify it.

This is because the common people have attributed the title of "Destiny's Disaster" to the current king.When the former king was alive, the people of Chaoyang lived and worked in peace and contentment, and lived a prosperous and healthy life. After the new king succeeded, the country was still rich, but the people suffered, and the tax doubled. People were forced to work for a full meal. Marriage requires a selection of court ladies, and only those who are left can be married.

Now the plague is breaking out all over the country, and this rain is an extremely strange thing. There has never been an ancient book that records such a strange rain and a strange disease. All of these are caused by the king. The king must be Destiny disaster star!

"I heard that when the lord was still the prince, his mother was a low-class court lady, and she hanged herself in front of him for no reason." The court lady carrying the food plate was walking on the path, gossiping with the accompanying maid.

"This is a true story. The old lady in the outer yard of the Huanyi Bureau told me that there were eight princes in total when the late emperor was alive, all of them died, and one of them also died after being assigned. Only our lord is left. .”

"It's terrible, so the king has killed so many people..."

"This matter has spread outside the palace. Those people who have suffered from the plague all say that this disaster was brought about by the lord of the country, and that he is the rumored disaster star..."

"What are you talking about?" A bone-piercing voice came from behind.

The ladies in the palace felt as if they had been struck by lightning, their backs were so frightened that their backs shivered, and when they turned their heads, they were actually the lord of the country.

"See, see the king..."

"What did you say, say it again, but I can't hear you clearly." Gao Motang looked at them with a sullen expression, and said word by word: "The curse of destiny?"

The maids hurriedly wept and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life! It's all, it's rumors outside the palace!"

"Outside the palace?"

"Yes... it was said by people outside the palace, and the slaves just said it casually..."

Gao Motang's finger bones turned white, and said to the guard: "Kill them all."

The maids were stunned for a moment, and their faces turned pale: "Your Majesty—"

Before he finished speaking, blood splashed everywhere, and several corpses fell to the ground with their eyes still open.

"Check, go check, if anyone outside the palace dares to mention these four words, they will be killed immediately!" Gao Motang's lips trembled, and he could not stand still.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, but there are rumors everywhere outside the palace...too many." The guard with the knife was in a cold sweat.

"Then kill them all, kill them all." Gao Motang's eyes were gloomy, filled with a great chill.

"Think twice, Your Majesty. Doing so will definitely distract the hearts of the people. I am afraid that the hundreds of ministers in the previous court will not be able to..."

"I don't want to say it again, go out of the city immediately to arrest those who spread rumors, bring them to Gu, and watch them die with my own eyes!"

"Yes……"

As usual, Mingqing took a short period of time when the rain stopped, and commanded officers and soldiers to give out porridge outside the palace. Suddenly, he saw a group of soldiers in armor, holding tasseled spears and long knives, driving a group of people to the gate of the city. There were about four hundred of them, walking staggeringly.

Mingqing walked over without knowing why, only to see clearly that the guards leading the team were the guards with swords next to Gao Motang. He felt something was wrong, could it be...

Sure enough, the city gate was wide open, and the sedan chair belonging to the lord stopped at the door. The curtains in front of the sedan chair were lifted from both sides, revealing a handsome and gloomy face, and spoke slowly.

"Kill them all, leave no one behind."

In the next second, flesh and blood flew, and the entire city gate was like a slaughterhouse, screaming and crying for mercy one after another, some of them were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and before the plague could kill them, they died in the hands of the king.

Mingqing seemed to be blindfolded by the bright red in front of her eyes, and it took a while to react suddenly, and rushed forward and shouted angrily: "Stop! I am the current imperial tutor, who dares to disobey the order!"

Everyone knows the majesty of the Taifu. This is a person who can abolish the current king under the order of the former king. There is no official in the entire court who speaks more than him.

This was the first time that the Taifu had so decisively blocked the order of the lord in front of people, but the officers and soldiers put away their swords without hesitation and stood aside.

"You... what are you doing, why stop and keep killing!!!" Gao Motang yelled at them like crazy, but no one responded.

More than 50 high-ranking ministers from the previous dynasty also rushed over from behind, knelt down together, and shouted loudly: "Please follow the king's will and abolish the Lord Taifu, and we will always be loyal to the Taifu!"

Most of these courtiers are important ministers left over from the previous dynasty, and some are first-rank officials who are dissatisfied with the current king. At this time, they have completely given up. Prime Minister You found the golden seal of the king from nowhere and presented it to Ming Qing .

Gao Motang was almost stiff all over, staring at the golden seal with his eyes wide open, he gritted his teeth and said, "Mingqing, how dare you..."

"It turns out that you have wanted to usurp the throne for a long time... It's all rebellion, it's all rebellion! You want to rebel!!! You want to usurp the throne, you want to rebel! For these hundreds of untouchables, you will die!"

"Liu Shiwei, kill all these people, all of them!"

"Liu Shiwei, Liu Shiwei! Did you hear that! I want you to immediately lead your troops to kill them all!"

Gao Motang roared with all his anger, his handsome face was completely changed, but no one responded, and no one did what he said, they all looked at him coldly, Prime Minister You knelt in front of Ming Qing, and said loudly:

"Since the succession of the country's lord...he has been violent, incompetent and immoral. Please, Lord Taifu, act on behalf of the heavens, kill the scourge of destiny, and protect Chaoyang Kingdom from the east!"

Dozens of ministers echoed it one after another, and the words "Destiny's Disaster" reverberated in Gao Motang's mind like a curse, as if he had been hit so hard by a heavy hammer that he couldn't even stand up.

what are you doing...

He saw Ming Qing slowly stretching out his hand towards the golden seal, caressing the golden seal that symbolizes Chaoyang Kingdom.

"Let go! I want you to let go! This is mine, this is mine! You are not allowed to take it!" He roared heart-piercingly, and his whole body fell off the sedan chair, lying on the ground like a dog, His eyes were wide open, and he was extremely embarrassed, as if the past time was instantly taken away from his eyes, as if life was ending here.

Mingqing picked up the golden seal, passed through fifty ministers, and passed through the corpses all over the floor. His clothes were stained red with blood. He overlapped with the figure of the handsome young master of the Ming family in a trance, and walked towards him step by step. , as if they had spent their entire lives.

Ming Qing stood still in front of him, Gao Motang's eyes were full of fear, he flinched and wanted to step back, looking desperately at the golden seal in his hand, unexpectedly Ming Qing knelt down, knelt down, and hugged him.

Gao Motang's body froze, and when he heard the trembling and subdued sobs on his shoulders, he realized that Ming Qing was crying.

He cried with extreme restraint, with very little movement. This was the first time he cried, but it seemed that he had cried out all the helplessness and grief of his life. He choked his hoarse voice and said:

"Jan'er, what do you want...what do you want from me..."

What are you trying to do... What should I do with you...

How should I choose? Is my original belief really...wrong?

After ten years of persistence, how should I continue...

"Teacher! What the lord has done is enough to destroy heaven and earth! Taifu must not be soft-hearted!" Prime Minister You shouted loudly.

"My lords, go back to your residence to rest first. Your Majesty's side, the lower officials will give advice, so you won't be troubled by your lords." Ming Qing raised his voice, and the ending sound was still full of tears.

Gao Motang raised his head and saw the tear stains on Ming Qing's face, which was almost shocking in his eyes.

Mingqing handed the golden seal into his hands, and when the heavy golden seal fell on the palm of his hand, Gao Motang even felt unreal, then he was lifted up by Mingqing and walked towards the palace.

Back in the bedroom, Mingqing asked him to sit down, but he knelt in front of Gao Motang's knees, and he almost begged and said, "Can'er, please... I'm really tired."

"I don't want to repeat this sentence to you day after day, you are not a disaster of destiny, and I don't want to endure your moody emotions anymore, I don't want to watch you kill indiscriminately with my own eyes, I am really tired... Please is you……"

Gao Motang trembled his lips and said, "Gold...Gold Seal..."

"The golden seal is yours. I have never coveted it. Since when did you start to look vigilant and afraid in my eyes?" Ming Qing said weakly. He really didn't understand why it changed. into this.

He knelt down humbly, beggingly looking at him, his brows and eyes full of tiredness: "Can'er, you have done too many evil things, what do you want me to do, I am your Taifu, your benefactor, yes The person who made a wish to be with you for the rest of your life, what do you want me to do?"

"I don't know, I don't know why I became like this, I really don't know... I am a disaster star, so I am really a disaster star..." Gao Motang murmured out of focus while holding the golden seal murmur.

Ming Qing didn't speak, and fell to the ground with a bang, unconscious.

Gao Motang was stunned for a second before he came to his senses, bent down and hugged him: "Mingqing! Mingqing! Call the imperial physician, come here, call the imperial physician!"

He touched Mingqing's back neck with dense pimples, and when he pushed back his hair, he saw a large rash extending to his back.

Mingqing's complexion was pale, jade-like in color, as if carved, and at the same time lifeless, as if dead.