Hey!How dare you take me as a substitute

A newly born female wolf is extremely vigilant, she will protect her cubs, even the male wolf in the wolf pack, and even the father of the wolf cubs will never get close.

It is vigilant about everything around it, and all creatures it judges to be harmful to its wolf cubs will be rejected by it, which is its instinct.

But maybe because Feng Qi saved the wolf cub, the female wolf reluctantly accepted Feng Qi's existence, instead of driving him away, she allowed Feng Qi to sit very close to the wolf cub.

Feng Qi didn't know what was wrong, he sat there like a rock, motionless, as if he was lost in thought.

The wolf boy didn't have much contact with Feng Qi before, and he was obviously curious about Feng Qi. Seeing that Feng Qi didn't seem to have any intention of hurting them, he looked around Feng Qi, poking Feng Qi with his hand from time to time.

As soon as Heng Mingshi appeared in front of the courtyard, the wolf boy and the wolves looked over. They were already familiar with Heng Mingshi, so they just took a look at Heng Mingshi and turned to do their own things.

Only the wolf boy crawled over and sniffed around Heng Mingshi.

Heng Mingshi knelt down and touched the wolf boy on the shoulder as a greeting.

The reaction of the wolves made Feng Qi realize that someone was coming, he looked up and saw that it was Heng Mingshi, subconsciously wanted to stand up and salute, but he heard Heng Mingshi ask: "What is the general thinking?"

Feng Qi: "Back to the emperor, the last general is just a little emotional, insignificant."

Heng Mingshi: "But I want to hear it, so let's hear it." After finishing speaking, Heng Mingshi added: "Come out and say it, don't disturb the little wolf cub."

The two left the small courtyard and walked along the path.

Feng Qi didn't know how to describe his current mood, and Heng Mingshi seemed to have forgotten what he asked him to say just now, and didn't ask any more.

The two walked side by side, and no one spoke to break the silence.

When they reached the end of the path, there was a high city wall in front of them. The flags on the walls moved with the wind. Looking at the direction in which the tip of the flag fluttered, one could tell the direction of the wind at the moment.

Heng Mingshi: "While the wall protects people, it also confines people here. The most terrifying thing is that enclosing the land for self-adaptation and drawing the land as a prison has gradually become a habit, a consensus, and a lifelong pursuit and enjoyment."

Heng Mingshi put his hand on the rough wall, and said in a calm tone: "They are also human beings. Some people regard themselves as trees, rooted in one place all their lives, spreading branches and leaves, forming a forest with intricate roots. , and take it for pleasure, and take pride in flourishing. Some people either take the initiative or are forced to become tools, picked up and put down by others again and again...Obviously they are the same people, but they live differently. These are all It is something that the beasts living in the wilderness cannot understand, they live in freedom naturally, of course, the price is to be attached to nature."

"They are free, and they are what I yearn for, but I will not give up everything to blend in, because that is just yearning, and the reason why yearning is yearning is because I can't afford the price, or I don't want to pay that price. "

After a pause, Heng Ming said, "I wonder what General Feng thinks?"

Feng Qi: "...Back to the emperor, the last general didn't think about it so much. He just felt that it is not easy to be a wolf, and it is even more difficult to be a human being."

Heng Mingshi: "It's not easy to be a man, and it's even more difficult to be a king. Kindness and softness are hard to persuade people. Arbitrary actions go against people's hearts. To be a king needs to know the world, but the palace has become a cage and barrier."

"The emperors of all dynasties have ambitions, but most of them have more than enough ambitions but not enough strength."

"But I'm different, I have my general." Heng Mingshi raised a smile on his face, and raised his hand to caress Feng Qi's face.

Feng Qi lowered his eyes, held Heng Mingshi's wrist with one hand, turned his face slightly, and kissed Heng Mingshi's palm lightly: "The final general will definitely live up to the emperor's expectations."

The smile in Heng Mingshi's eyes deepened, his hand slowly stroked across Feng Qi's face, fell to the side of Feng Qi's neck, hooked around Feng Qi's neck, and forced him to lower his head.

"Besides that, I have other expectations for Feng Aiqing. I wonder if Aiqing is willing to accompany you?" Heng Mingshi hooked Feng Qi's neck with both hands, and with all his strength, he jumped onto Feng Qi's body. He firmly hooked Feng Qi's waist.

Feng Qi: "..." It's really going to kill me!The little emperor was still crying and tired last night, how long has passed, and he doesn't have a long memory!

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During the period when the troops led by Heng Mingshi and Feng Qi were stationed in the border town, the weather became hotter and hotter, and along with the heat came drought.

The rain is getting less and less, and it hasn't seen a few drops for several months. The fields are drying up day by day, and the well water is becoming more and more turbid.

This severe drought not only swept across the wasteland, but also spread to the Yuan country, causing the people of the Yuan country to fail to harvest the crops they had worked so hard to plant this year.

Not only that, but locusts came along with the severe drought.

Hungry locusts flew over the sky and covered the sky. From a distance, it looked like a sandstorm, with bursts of buzzing, sweeping away the already scarce food in the fields, and the people suffered unspeakably.

Insufficient food, taxation and corvee, corrupt officials in power, many people finally joined the rebel army in order to seek a way out.

The power of the rebel army gradually expanded, so that Queen Mother An could no longer ignore it.

But Empress Dowager An did not order the rebels to be strangled, but was trying to find a way to order them to be used by her.

It's a pity that the drought has turned countless people into refugees. Under such circumstances, the inactive court naturally became the target of attack.

Accept Zhao'an?

Just a joke!

Who can't draw big cakes?

In front of the victims who are starved of food, the big cake drawn is obviously not as real as a piece of hard bun that can be given to the hand.

But at this time, Empress Dowager An fell ill.

Too many things have happened in recent years, and none of them are trivial things that can be dealt with simply.

Foreign enemies harassed, internal strife continued, the court was divided into courts, and courts formed cliques.

The war had already consumed a large amount of material and national power of the Yuan Kingdom, and the power turmoil in the court had also greatly consumed Empress Dowager An's mental strength.

Even though Empress Dowager An was scheming, she still couldn't withstand the trials of time.

After all, Queen Mother An is old, but she has the heart but is powerless.

And where she was, there were so many people watching, always ready to pounce on her and snatch the food.

It stands to reason that Queen Mother An has been in power for so many years, and there should be quite a few forces under her.

In fact, if it weren't for the insurgents who turned out to be out of nowhere, Empress Dowager An would not have come to this stage.

Or rather, not so soon.

Since the rebel army has grown stronger, Queen Mother An's men have reduced a large number of troops and lost many elite soldiers in order to fight against the rebel army.

This is what makes her so passive now.

Perhaps, she shouldn't have been so anxious to announce Heng Mingshi's death at the beginning, and then support a child who couldn't get on the road steadily.

A fool died, and another child with no hair at all came. The ministers who came to court watched, although they didn't show it on the face, they were all sarcasm in their hearts.

How can this tell them not to collude in private and find another way out?

"... Empress Dowager An should not be ill, but be controlled by others." Hearing the news from Yingwei, Heng Mingshi boldly guessed: "Perhaps, Empress Dowager An has been sick since a long time ago." You are under the control of others, do you still remember the imperial decree ordering the army to withdraw?"

Feng Qi nodded: "That really doesn't seem to be the Queen Mother's will."

Heng Mingshi: "At that time, we guessed that Yizhi was replaced by someone. Now that I think about it, if Queen Mother An can control the inside and outside of the court, how could Yizhi be replaced by someone? Presumably since then, she has become a prisoner. Bird, maybe even she didn't realize it, her hand can no longer reach the palace."

Heng Mingshi connected the events of these days together, "Later, the news of my death came out in the palace. It should not have been the Queen Mother An's order, because in terms of emotion and reason, I am her son, and only I am alive. She is Ogaki's righteous queen mother, and if I die, the queen mother position will fall to Concubine Hua, and she..."

Although Heng Mingshi didn't say it clearly, Feng Qi could understand what Heng Mingshi meant.

The so-called one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. Originally, there was no queen in the harem of Heng Ming Dynasty, only some concubines, so the queen mother is the legitimate master of the harem.

But if Heng Mingshi "passes away", then the only "prince" will become the best candidate to inherit the throne, and the concubine Hua who gave birth to this prince will naturally become the queen mother, jumping from a concubine to a concubine. The noble queen mother has surpassed the title of "queen" and directly became the new master of the harem.

How could Queen Mother An allow such a thing to happen?

Empress Dowager An couldn't tolerate any sand in her eyes. Of course, it was impossible to allow Concubine Hua to have the same status and power as her.

But Concubine Hua is still alive and well, so that can only explain one thing - someone is protecting Concubine Hua.

So, who will protect her?

In other words, who has the strength and reason to protect her right now?

After much deliberation, there was still only An Huaiyan.

This man who had been in secret communication with Concubine Hua for a long time.

"But if it's what I guessed, then Queen Mother An made a wedding dress for An Huaiyan after all the tricks, wouldn't it be too ridiculous?" Heng Mingshi rubbed his chin.

Feng Qi hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, there will be a guess at the end, I don't know if it should be said or not."

Heng Mingshi: "Tell me and listen."

Feng Qi: "Then An Huaiyan is not much different from the emperor in age..."

Heng Mingshi: "..." Isn't it just that there is not much difference in age?An Huaiyan is only two or three days older than the original body!

Feng Qi: "The last general would venture to guess... that An Huaiyan might be the empress dowager's biological son."

Heng Mingshi: "..."

Heng Mingshi raised his forehead: "General Feng, did I spoil you so much that you dared to say this in front of me? If this is true, aren't you afraid that I will kill you to silence you?"

Feng Qi's expression was innocent: "Your Majesty, the last general is not questioning the Emperor's bloodline. It is a well-known fact that the Emperor looks like the former Emperor!"

Heng Mingshi: "Then why do you still have such guesses?"

Feng Qi: "The emperor is the son of the former emperor, but if the emperor is not from the empress dowager, then..."

Heng Mingshi:! ! !