Reborn as King again

After He Wenyan left, the court reshuffled the cards. The leftover members of the He family either remained neutral or began to seek refuge with the other three families. I was quietly waiting for the opportunity, waiting for Xia Ligang's return, to start planning for me. The next family to go under the knife.

For a whole year, I frequently went out of the palace to visit Huajie and Liuxiang, selected beautiful women twice, raised troops to attack Dayan, and played games with my group of lovely captives every three days.I have been waiting, waiting for He Wenliu to turn around, but he is determined to die of old age in the cold palace. In fact, it doesn't matter to me. Without him, my life is not lacking.

In mid-September, when the air is high and clear in autumn, before the Taiye court, the eunuchs brought out another batch of royal prisoners for me to have fun with.At the end of last year, General Gao, who was stationed in the Northwest, caught a Sha-Pei tiger. It was so ferocious. General Gao gave this tiger to me as a New Year gift.So lately I've been playing man vs. tiger.

The game is simple and crude. I first ordered people to build a huge iron cage, which took up half of Taiye Court, and then put the Shar Pei tiger into the cage.After that, I will find those royal children who were once brave and good at fighting, give them weapons, and throw them into the cage.In this way, they have only two ways to go, either kill the Sha-Pei tiger, or become the meal of the Sha-Pei tiger.

I have played this game three or four times so far, and the Shar-Pei tiger is full every time.

Today, the inner eunuchs guarding the prison brought four more prisoners of the imperial family. According to the inner eunuchs' report, two of them came from the natural kingdom and two from the great merchants.

At this time, the Shapi Tiger is eager to try in the cage, because every time I play this kind of game, I will starve him for two days in advance, so that it can become more ferocious when facing food.

I was sitting on the dragon chair, and the inner eunuchs had already brought the four imperial prisoners over. I glanced over and stared blankly at one of the four.

The inner eunuch walked up to me, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, the person has been brought here, shall we begin?"

I didn't answer the prisoner's words, but pointed to the second prisoner from the right ten meters away, and said, "You, come forward."

The four royal prisoners all lowered their heads in fear, how could they see me pointing at someone.

Seeing this, the inner eunuch immediately walked over and pushed the man. The man was terrified, probably he didn't even hear what I said just now.

Wearing a bracelet and anklet, the man walked up to me with difficulty, still not daring to look up.He was wearing a half-worn gown, and his body was very thin, as if he could fall down when the wind blows.

I smiled playfully and called out: "Duanmuchen."

Duanmuchen finally raised his head to look at me, his face was filled with astonishment and disbelief, he never thought that I would remember him, after all we only met once.

Duanmuchen, of course I remember the Ninth Prince of the Duanmu clan of the royal family of Ran Kingdom, because his eyebrows, his temperament, and the breath he exudes are too much like a person, that He Wenliu who has been angry with me all the time!

The last time I saw Duanmuchen was two years ago, when he was captured together with the Duanmu clan. At that time, I almost mistook him for He Wenliu.Compared with two years ago, Duanmuchen was even thinner, probably because he suffered a lot in the cell.After this period of "baptism", he seems to me to be more like He Wenliu.

"Let's play a game." I said subconsciously.

"..." Duanmuchen didn't answer, but his trembling body betrayed him, it could be seen that he was terrified.

That's when I realized that I had scared him.Because every time I want to play.When dealing with any captives, I would always say, "Let's play a game," and immediately afterward, those people would be maimed or killed by me.I think Duanmuchen must have heard similar rumors in prison, so he was terribly frightened.

"Don't be afraid," I smiled and comforted him, "I just want to play chess with you."

Then I asked, "Can you play chess?"

Duanmuchen still didn't speak, but the eunuch beside him was in a hurry. He was about to scold me, but I stopped him with a wink. I didn't care about Duanmuchen's silence, but asked again: "You Can you play chess?"

Duanmuchen finally reacted this time, he nodded, indicating that he would go.

"It's good to know how to play, and I haven't played chess for a long time." It started when He Wenliu moved into the cold palace.I told Wanfu: "Go, find him, I want to play chess with Lord Duanmu."

"Yes." Wanfu stepped back quickly, and after a while, he came with two young eunuchs, holding a chessboard and a box for chess pieces.

The little eunuch put the things on the table and stood aside.

"Give a seat to Prince Duanmu." I ordered.

"Yes." Another young eunuch immediately moved a stool, placed it on the other side of the table, and said respectfully: "Prince Duanmu, please take a seat."

Now Duanmuchen's mind is blank, his body seems out of control, and he will do whatever the voice tells him to do.He didn't understand, and couldn't see through, what was the plan of the person in front of him.

I put a box of chess pieces by Duanmuchen's hand and said, "Let's start."

Duanmuchen opened the chess box tremblingly, and finally spoke, "Please first." Even the tone of voice was similar to that of He Wenliu.

"Okay, then I won't be polite." I said, holding down the first sunspot.

Immediately afterwards, Duanmuchen started to play the second chess piece. From the very beginning of the game, I was in the upper hand. I could clearly feel that Duanmuchen was giving way to me. Thinking about it, he was afraid that after he won me, the emperor, Will be angry at me.After reading through his thoughts, I said: "Prince Duanmu, I forgot to remind you, if you lose, I will slaughter all of your Duanmu clan."

As soon as my words came out, Duanmuchen's white piece that should have been held between his fingers fell off, maybe he took it seriously.

I said: "So Duanmu Prince, show your strength and beat me."

It's a pity that Duanmuchen is not He Wenliu after all, his chess skills can only be regarded as mediocre, not to mention that he deliberately let me move so many moves at the beginning, and within three sticks of incense, he lost everything.

"You lost," I glanced at the disastrous result on the chessboard, and said casually, "Your chess skills are simply incomparable with Concubine Wen's." Sure enough, they are just similar, not exactly the same.

The next moment Duanmuchen knelt down in front of me, kowtowed and begged me non-stop, "Please spare our Duanmu clan, please, let me do whatever you want." Duanmuchen's voice choked, He really didn't know what to do, even if he was alive, he didn't want his family to be destroyed. His Xin'er was still so young, as long as he lived, as long as he lived, there was hope!

"Prince Duanmu, raise your head first." I said without emotion.

Duanmuchen didn't dare to disobey, he raised his head tremblingly, just now he kowtowed so hard that there was a red mark on his forehead.In all fairness, Duanmuchen is very beautiful, but his two years in prison made him miserable.

I stretched out my hand and stroked the corner of his brow lightly with my fingers, "You really look like him."

"..." Duanmuchen couldn't understand what I was saying, and just looked at me.

I smiled slightly, "Are you really willing to do anything?"

Duanmu Chen nodded without hesitation, "As long as you can let our Duanmu clan go."

"Okay," I leaned down and whispered in his ear, "Then I will let you sleep?"

The author has something to say: Duanmuchen appeared before, please review Chapter 141 for details →_→ Concubine Wen will stay in the cold palace for a long time, dear friends, don’t worry.As for Duanmuchen, I believe everyone can see that he is Concubine Wen's stand-in, really just a stand-in! !