The days when I was imprisoned in the harem by the enemy monarch

Hearing his voice but not seeing anyone, Qiu Tong was so frightened that she quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed towards the door, her voice trembling: "Your Majesty, my servant!"

Lin Jian was still holding half a boiled egg in his hand, and he didn't swallow the egg in his mouth. He stood there in a daze, but saw that the person who came in was not Luan Yunye, but Bai Yixiao.

Bai Yixiao walked into the hall, pretending to be surprised and asked: "Your Majesty? Where is Your Majesty?"

Qiu Tong raised her head and took a look, she was slightly relieved, and quickly changed her words: "See Lord Hou."

Bai Yixiao sat down with Lin Jian with one hand, looked down at the maid who was kneeling on the ground, and said to the point: "Aren't you Qiu Tong who is beside Concubine Xu? Why are you here?"

Qiutong said: "Servant..."

Bai Yixiao asked: "Since when did you become a member of the Imperial Medical Bureau?"

"My servant happened to meet the father-in-law of the Imperial Medical Bureau on the way today..." Qiu Tong quietly raised her eyes to look at Lin Jian, rubbed her fingers unconsciously at the corner of her clothes, and said without changing her expression, "That father-in-law sprained his ankle , I am afraid that the medicine will not be delivered in time, so I let the servants do it for me."

Just now she said that she was taken care of by the Imperial Medical Bureau for a few days, and in a blink of an eye she became the maid of some concubine.Lin Jian didn't say anything, just sat next to Bai Yixiao, and continued to eat half of his egg with his head down, while listening to Qiu Tong's nonsense.

"Are boiled eggs delicious?" Suddenly, a hand spread out in front of Lin Jian, "Give me a taste."

Lin Jian quickly hid half of the egg and said, "There's only half of it."

Bai Yixiao went to snatch the boiled egg from Lin Jian's hand, and said, "I like to eat half of it."

Lin Jian said, "I bitten it."

"Have you bitten it before? Then I want to taste it even more." Bai Yixiao said while grabbing the egg, "I'm starving to death, and I'll come to see you next court, and I didn't even eat breakfast."

Lin Jian himself couldn't get enough to eat, so of course he refused to share the egg with Bai Yixiao, and took the remaining half of the egg into his mouth in one gulp.

Bai Yixiao stared at Lin Jian's pale lips, and said with a smile, "Are you implying what I can do?"

Lin Jian:?

Bai Yixiao and Lin Jian looked at each other for a moment, then smiled: "Forget it, you don't understand either."

Qiu Tong kept her head down and didn't dare to look up, and she didn't know what Bai Yixiao was talking to Lin Jian, so she asked cautiously: "Master Hou... Your Majesty is still waiting for the servant to go back to serve, can the servant leave?"

"Almost forgot." Bai Yixiao turned her head, stared at the person kneeling on the ground, sneered, and said, "Before this Marquis entered the door, I heard what you were saying, but I didn't hear clearly. Say it again?"

Qiutong was stunned.

Bai Yixiao raised her eyebrows slightly: "Huh?"

Qiu Tong gritted her teeth, and said, "My servant said, Lin Jian will never be let go even if I die! Lord Hou, this servant's family died at the hands of Lin Jian, and it was all thanks to him that his family broke up and entered the palace as a servant. Lin Jian committed a crime." There are too many to write! Not only slaves, but everyone in the Shang country will be punished! He..."

"Did this Marquis ask you so much?" Bai Yixiao said coldly, "This Marquis wants to listen to what you just said."

Qiu Tong said: "The servant girl said to Lin Jian, 'I will never let you go even if I die'."

"Do you understand, what are the original words?" Bai Yixiao said, "I didn't ask you to add so many messy things."

Lin Jian finally chewed up half of the egg in his mouth and swallowed it carefully. He glanced at Bai Yixiao, not knowing what trick he was playing again.

Qiutong was stunned for a moment, then hesitated and said: "I...will never let you go..."

Bai Yi said sternly: "Come here, pull out this court lady who dares to speak disrespectfully to the Marquis!"

Lin Jian: "???"

"Master Hou, you can't kill slaves!" Qiutong pushed away the guards and shouted struggling, "Your slaves belong to the harem, and Lord Hou has no right to dispose of them!"

"Then see if this Marquis has the right?" Bai Yixiao said to the guards, "Drag out!"

"Bai Yixiao." Lin Jian leaned forward slightly, and whispered in Bai Yixiao's ear, "Since she is the concubine's maid, you offend people like this."

"I will use the power my cousin just gave me." Bai Yixiao pointed to the ground under her feet, and said, "Anyone who walks here, let alone a concubine's maid, is considered a I can kill all concubines on the spot."

Lin Jian asked, "Is there still such power?"

"Isn't that because last night my eldest cousin entrusted me to be responsible for your... here's safety?" Bai Yixiao said, "This is really not an easy job, if you don't give me enough Power, what should I do?"

"These concubines in the harem are not cheap, give them a long memory."

Lin Jian calmly analyzed: "There are court forces behind the concubine, I don't want the peace negotiation to be complicated, and she didn't hurt me."

"I haven't seen you for so many years, and you are still the same." Bai Yixiao raised an eyebrow at Lin Jian, raised her head to look at the beam, and raised her voice, "Okay, Su Xing, you go out and say, don't beat me to death, Just give them a long memory."

It was only then that Lin Jian noticed a man holding a sword squatting on the beam of the room. He and Bai Yixiao stared at each other for a moment, then reluctantly answered "Yes", and went out like a gust of wind.

"This is the secret guard of the eldest cousin, and he likes to make small reports with the eldest cousin." Bai Yixiao explained, "Send him away so we can talk."

Lin Jian: "...Didn't Luan Yunye want to kill me? What's the situation now?"

"That's what I said last night." Bai Yixiao said, "But the eldest cousin is always unpredictable. He said in front of you last night that he would cut you into pieces. In class, he changed his mind again."

Lin Jian: "Huh?"

"Someone in the hall today asked the eldest cousin to kill you, and the eldest cousin dragged you out and cut you in half. It took two or three hours to bleed to death. Everyone was so scared that they dared not speak." Bai Yixiao spread his hands and said, " After a while, you will know that the eldest cousin is always unpredictable, even if you know that he thinks the same way, if you say it, he might still want to kill you."

"The people around him eat on the knife's edge. Anyway, life or death depends on his mood."

Lin Jian: "...Has Luan Yunye always killed people so badly?"

"That's right." Bai Yixiao said, "What I said is quite enjoyable. You haven't seen those tortured for days and nights, and they look like no one. And those who punish the nine clans, put their family and friends Bring them to the front and kill them all, one a day, hundreds of people in a family, until the end of the killing, the remaining people are basically crazy..."

Lin Jian stared at Bai Yixiao, listening carefully, unable to speak.

Bai Yixiao looked at Lin Jian and explained, "This should be related to the shadow left in his heart when he was a child."

"I heard last night," Lin Jian asked, "was it true that his mother was...beaten to death in front of him?"

"Have you heard?" Bai Yixiao lowered her voice and said, "I still remember that it was a snowy day, and I happened to enter the palace with my late mother to celebrate the new year with the late emperor. When I passed by, the ground was covered with blood. famous."

"There were lights and festoons everywhere in the palace, and there were people coming and going. He was kneeling on the ground alone, wearing a snow-white singlet. He was as small as a white cat, and he was piled into a snowman by the heavy snow. At that time, he should be only five or six years old, and he was almost crushed by the snow, so he just knelt there and trembled."

Lin Jian held his breath.

"My eldest cousin was very scary when he was a child. A five or six-year-old child lost his mother and didn't shed a single tear. Do you think it's scary?" Bai Yixiao looked at Lin Jian and continued, "Palace servants passing by There are so many, and no one cares about him. Also, at that time, the mother clan fell, and the first emperor didn't want to see him, who would have thought that he would have such a day."

Lin Jian looked at Bai Yixiao and frowned slightly.

"Fortunately, my mother, Princess Wuyang, has the foresight." Bai Yixiao raised an eyebrow at Lin Jian, and said, "My mother asked me to squat with him for a while, and put a dress on him, otherwise he I'm going to freeze to death by then."

"It's also thanks to that dress, otherwise I would be the same as his brothers and sisters with hundreds of cousins, and I would be the soul of his sword."

Lin Jian was silent for a long time, and asked, "So, did he become like this?"

"Not entirely. After that, he had a surly temper, but I think he just wanted to assassinate Empress He for revenge. There were a few times when I didn't stop him and went to die together. He didn't think about usurping the throne."

Bai Yixiao sighed, and said, "The one who made him want to usurp the throne was about ten years ago, when your father was sweeping the world in high spirits, and asked all countries to send their princes to Liang Guo as hostages. After he came back, his temperament changed drastically. I heard that they were tortured and tortured in Liang Guo, and the situation was horrible."

"Perhaps he seeks power, usurps the throne, and kills with blood in order to avenge some people in the Liang Kingdom one day."

Lin Jian was surprised and said, "I didn't know that there was such a thing?"

"Those brothers of yours did it. They have always been good at doing other things, but they are quite good at bullying people." Bai Yixiao said, "So the big cousin is not moving you now, because he thinks you are just an ordinary courtier of Liang Kingdom Lin Gradually, there is a little bit of pity for talent."

"If he knows that you are the favorite prince of Emperor Shengwu[1] who sent him to Liang to suffer humiliation, and now is Emperor Liang's younger brother Lin Hongjian, he will not only be cut to death, There are eighteen tortures..."

Lin Jian interrupted: "Stop talking, I'm timid and afraid of pain."

Bai Yixiao: "...I really didn't see it."

"If I'm exposed, you must kill me with a knife." Lin Jiandao, "It means I didn't make you a friend in vain."

"Then how can it be? How can I kill you with one knife?" Bai Yixiao patted Lin Jian's shoulder and said with a smile, "Of course I want to watch you live as if you were dying, gloating and applauding."

Lin Jian: "...I knew you would never say anything good."

"Instead of thinking about how to die happily, it's better to think about how to live." Bai Yixiao looked at Lin Jian and said, "Isn't it that far yet, you just think about those."

"I roughly understand what you're talking about." Lin Jiandao, "As long as I don't reveal my identity, there shouldn't be any accidents. However, if even a court lady hates me so much, one can imagine how much resistance there will be in the court. "

Lin Jian lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then asked, "What happened to Beidi recently?"

Beidi is a tribe outside the northern border of Liang State. Ever since Luan Yunye came to power, Beidi fled everywhere and bowed his head to become a vassal.

Bai Yixiao said: "Beidi? Why are you asking this? What can they do? By the way, today happens to be the time for the annual pilgrimage."

Lin Jian said: "Then I have to go and have a look."

"Are you going to listen to the elder cousin's court?" Bai Yixiao asked in surprise, "Eldest cousin told me to watch you and not allow you to run around. You said you were bored and wanted to go for a walk in the palace. For the sake of our childhood sweethearts, I can get you a court lady's clothes. If you pretend to be a minister...where can I get you an official uniform? Besides, although my eldest cousin is face blind, the ministers all know each other. "

"Ladies? That's fine." Lin Jiandao, "Then I want the clothes of the ladies behind him when he went to court."

Bai Yixiao choked for a moment, and asked, "Aren't you afraid of what happened last night?"

"No one in the Liang Dynasty has seen me, and Luan Yunye is busy with state affairs, so he doesn't pay attention to my appearance." Lin Jiandao, "Besides, which country's emperor have you ever seen turn around to look at the court lady behind him when he came to court?"

The next day, the Hanyuan Palace of the Shang Kingdom

On the white marble steps carved with hundreds of dragon patterns, the palace stands majestically, with the eaves reaching straight into the sky.The hall is wide open, and the officials are neatly arranged on both sides. The emperor sits on the resplendent dragon seat in the center of the hall. His majesty is so majestic that one dare not look up. Four maids holding honor guards stand behind the dragon seat.

Although the palace lady behind the emperor is just hidden in the shadow behind the Dragon Throne, usually just serving as a dull background cloth, but today a court lady is like a jade tree in a jade forest, with unparalleled beauty and radiant light, which is amazing Can't move my eyes.

Many ministers glanced quietly at the palace maid behind the dragon seat.

It's beautiful, it's really beautiful.As a result, many ministers were absent-minded and distracted.

Lin Jian was wearing an orange-red chest-length court lady's attire, standing upright behind the dragon seat without moving, quietly acting as a background palace lady, listening to the government affairs very seriously like a good student in class, not noticing that anyone was Take a peek at yourself.

The first few items on today's agenda were basically ministers rebuking Lin Jian's crimes against the Shang country and expressing their deep hatred for Lin Jian. During the period, some ministers also defended Lin Jian. When the two sides argued, Lin Jian himself was indifferent. He calmly listened as if it had nothing to do with him.

The last item on the agenda is about sending envoys from Beidi in the northern part of the Shang Kingdom to come on a pilgrimage.

Beidi was originally a major disaster in the northern part of the Shang Kingdom. It was often burned, killed and looted on the border of the Shang Kingdom. However, since Luan Yunye ascended the throne, Beidi was almost razed to the ground. This is also the key to the recent war between the Shang Kingdom and the Liang Kingdom without any worries.

This was the most important purpose of his visit today. Lin Jian purposely cheered up and stared at the hall intently.

In the court hall, two Beidi envoys wearing narrow-sleeved off-shoulder fur jackets were met. The Beidi envoys said that this time they came here specially to congratulate and give gifts, and they also wanted to send soldiers, horses, money and food to support the Shang Kingdom to annex the Liang Kingdom to unify the world.

Because standing behind the dragon seat, Lin Jian couldn't see Luan Yunye's face, nor heard a word of his statement, so he didn't know what Luan Yunye's attitude was.

The envoy of Beidi expressed a lot of loyalty to Luan Yunye, and said to Luan Yunye: "I have obtained a rare treasure on the border of the Yuezhi, and I believe that only a wise and stalwart king like Your Majesty is worthy of enjoying such a beautiful thing. , deliberately traveled thousands of miles to bring it to the imperial capital and present it to His Majesty, as a token of the loyalty of the ministers and others to His Majesty."

Luan Yunye nodded slightly.

Eunuch Gao said in a sharp voice, "Bring Beidi's treasure to the palace."

What a beautiful and peerless treasure, Lin Jian has heard this kind of talk a lot since he was a child. Those ministers and foreign envoys like to say this when they give gifts, and what they give in the end is nothing more than a pile of gold, silver and jewels, piled up in the palace treasury to collect ashes .

Lin Jian looked out the door indifferently, and saw a pitch-black iron cage being carried up to the center of the hall by eight palace servants, and he couldn't help opening his eyes slightly.

Sitting in the cage was a big snow-white tiger, like an ice sculpture made of snow.The white tiger has thick limbs, four claws that are as sharp as iron, and the muscles all over the body are smooth, with the beauty of blood and strength.A pair of icy blue eyes, filled with the desolation of Saibei Fengyue, so cold that it soaked into the bone marrow.

There was a sigh in the hall, and the officials looked at each other. Some people took a small step back in fright, and some began to whisper.

The Beidi envoy saluted Luan Yunye and said: "Your Majesty is rich in the world, and there is no shortage of gold and silver treasures, but this snow-white white tiger is really a rare and peerless treasure, so we specially tamed the white tiger and dedicated it to Your Majesty. This white tiger also wants to treat Your Majesty very much." Bowing to show your loyalty, I invite you to open the cage door now, and invite everyone to watch the miraculous scene together."

Not to mention the officials of the Shang Kingdom, even Lin Jian had never seen such a pure white tiger. It was hard to imagine that it had been tamed and could even bow to others.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks Beidi is really ridiculous!" A gray-bearded old minister came out and frowned, "How can such a beast be released to walk in the court hall? If it loses control and endangers the holy car, wouldn't it be... "

"Prime Minister Lu's words are wrong." A middle-aged official said, "Your Majesty is invincible, so why would you be afraid of a small tiger? Are you doubting His Majesty's wisdom?"

"He Shangshu, even after being domesticated, he is still a fierce tiger." Prime Minister Lu said, "Your Majesty, there is a saying that 'a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall'. Your Majesty's body is so noble that there must be no difference. You should be careful." superior."

"The world is so big, there are no surprises." He Shangshu didn't think so, and said, "Your Majesty is so wise and powerful. Even a tiger has to kneel down when seeing His Majesty. Prime Minister Lu, don't worry too much."

Prime Minister Lu frowned, raised his head and said to Luan Yunye: "Your Majesty, this..."

Luan Yunye said: "Open."

Seeing that His Majesty did not listen to the advice, Prime Minister Lu frowned anxiously, staring nervously at the iron cage that kept the white tiger.

Although Lin Jian couldn't see Luan Yunye's expression, he felt that Luan Yunye was neither curious nor fooled.Luan Yunye's voice sounded calm and confident, more like watching Beidi play some tricks.

The Beidi envoy opened the iron cage, and the white tiger walked out of the cage calmly.

The king of beasts, with sharp claws carrying the wind, just landed on all fours, frightening the officials on both sides to step back secretly, and the timid ones were so frightened that their faces turned blue.

The white tiger's eyes did not look around, and it was clear of the crowds. As soon as it got out of the cage, it raised its head and stared at the emperor sitting on the dragon chair.

Prime Minister Lu stood aside in a cold sweat, but he didn't dare to rush forward.

"Roar—" Baihu roared loudly, like thunder on the ground, and the whole hall trembled.

Some timid civil servants were trembling with fright, and they backed up and hid behind the pillars of the main hall.

The white tiger squatted fiercely and rushed towards the dragon seat.

"Your Majesty beware!"

"Escort! Escort!"

Shouts of shock and shouts rang out, and the hall was in chaos. Guards rushed into the hall with knives, and the ministers and eunuchs and maids who were nearby ran away with their heads in their arms. The official hats and fallen people were a mess.

The white tiger was too close, the incident happened too suddenly, and Luan Yunye usually didn't allow the guards to come close to him. The guards rushed out of the palace and into the palace, watching helplessly that the white tiger was already a short distance away from the emperor, and there was no time to escort him.

Luan Yunye remained motionless, like a god looking down on the common people showing tricks, with cold eyes staring at the white tiger pounced on him.

Suddenly, like thousands of rays of light reflecting the sun, a piece of orange-red dress and veil fluttered in the air like clouds and wind, reflecting the eyes of the king.

A court lady was like a flying goose, her robe fluttering, and flew down in front of the emperor.

Facing the fierce tiger that was rushing towards her, the court lady was fearless, standing alone like a jade tree, blocking Luan Yunye behind her, not retreating half a point.

The white tiger opened its mouth that could almost swallow people, and Lin Jian's sleeve hid the dagger that he had snatched from Qiu Tong yesterday. Take a stab forward.

The bright red blood flowed down the white forearm like a stream in an instant.The moment his arm was bitten by the fangs, the dagger pierced through the white tiger's jaw from top to bottom.But because the dagger was too short, the point of the knife was not even close to the throat.

"Roar—" The dagger in Lin Jian's hand was too short to kill the white tiger. The injured white tiger roared, furious, and opened its sharp claws to Lin Jian's heart.

Lin Jian took advantage of the moment when the white tiger opened his mouth and roared, and withdrew his hand. He caught a glimpse of the wat board not far away, tiptoeing his toes, and was about to hook it up and use it as a weapon in his hand to resist.

Suddenly, a cold light flashed across his eyes, Lin Jian only felt his waist tighten, he was buckled backwards, and bumped into a firm embrace.

"Boom——" A sharp sword energy slashed across the front door, with a terrifying thunderous fury, the white tiger roared, and its huge body fell to the ground with a bang.

The emperor's sword, blood stained the steps.

The guards who had just rushed to the front of the steps quickly surrounded the seriously injured white tiger.

The cold voice of the Ninety-Five Supreme Master, who holds the power of life and death, sounded in the hall: "Put it back in the cage, and invite Beidi's envoys to go in together."

The officials looked at the white tiger who had been stabbed to the vitals but survived, and they all secretly broke out in a cold sweat.His majesty's method has always been like this, killing people but not killing them, but leaving a third of life to make people struggle and die slowly, even for ferocious beasts.At this time, if a living person is thrown to this seriously injured beast, the consequences will be so terrible that I can't even imagine it.

"Tyrant!" The two Beidi envoys kept yelling and cursing while being escorted into the cage by the guards, "You trampled on our land and destroyed our country! I can't kill you today! Heaven has no eyes!"

"Tyrant, you must die! Ah!"

"Tyrant! I curse you that if you don't survive next year, you will bleed to death from all seven orifices! Ah——!"

The seriously injured tiger was a bloodthirsty beast after all. In its rage, its sharp claws tore the person in the cage to pieces, and the blood and flesh flew all over the place, making the screams unbearable.

Some ministers covered their eyes with their hands, while others simply covered their ears.

This kind of horrible and bloody scene, normal people will inevitably be thrilled and have a nightmare after seeing it.

Only the tyrant who stood on top of the altar did not change his face, blood and life and death fell into the black eyes like the dark night, leaving only indifference and contempt.

It wasn't until the screaming and scolding gradually turned into dead silence, and the white tiger lay completely silent in the cage, that the ministers recovered from the shock and fear one by one, and knelt down and bowed down together: "Your Majesty is wise."

Lin Jian was held in Luan Yunye's arms all the time, trying to break free from Luan Yunye's arms, but his physical condition was not good, and he didn't have Yuhuasan to maintain his strength. He used too much force just now, but now he was leaning against Luan Yunye's arms and lost his strength, and his body moved , Unable to stand still, fell into Luan Yunye's arms again.

"Keng--"

Luan Yunye threw down the bloody long sword, leaned over and hugged him horizontally.

The ministers cautiously raised their heads and secretly looked up, only to see that the king, who had never been close to women, was holding a fierce tiger in his arms and kept his face in front of him, but now he looked like a thin palace lady.The majestic court hall and the worshiping officials are not seen in the eyes, but there is only one person in his eyes.

The maid was hugged in her arms and couldn't see her face clearly, only a white hand was hanging down from the sleeve of the palace dress that was stained red with blood, and the bright red blood slipped down the long and slender fingertips that were as white as snow.

The emperor's deep and cold voice was hoarse: "Tell the imperial physician."