The alien god of war has to be my cat
Chapter 51
The palace change ended on the tenth day.
The third prince committed suicide in prison, while Jian Kong was still on the run and was wanted all over the country.
In the past, the incense was prosperous, and Buddhist temples spread all over the states, but they declined rapidly overnight, and the theocracy fell into dust.The prestige of the Great Zhou royal family reached its peak for a while.
At this time, inside the Kunning Palace, white cloths were hung everywhere, which looked like a funeral scene.
When His Majesty came in person, the palace people were all trembling with hands and feet, and their faces were pale. They prostrated themselves on the ground, their foreheads firmly pressed against the ground, wishing to tear a thin crack in the ground and get in.
"Let's all go back."
Hearing this sentence, all the palace people kowtowed their heads to express their gratitude as if they were about to receive an amnesty, and retreated in a hurry.
Juan Gu hesitated for a moment, and finally saluted with a pale face, and then backed out.
The huge and gorgeous palace fell silent.
"what a pity......"
Emperor Zhou looked at the white banners all over the room, with a regretful expression on his face,
"The empress personally arranged everything carefully for me, but in the end it was useless."
"Ah......"
The woman in the phoenix robe didn't look back, but just stared at the Buddha statue in front of her. There were some tears on her dignified and beautiful face, but more of it was unwillingness and resentment.
"You knew it a long time ago, you knew it from the beginning, you should be very proud now, right?"
she smiled miserably,
"Looking at all the prey jumping into your cage one after another, you should be quite proud."
"I just don't understand,"
Emperor Zhou did not answer her words, but also looked at the Buddha statue that the woman was looking at,
"Jian Kong...or Zhou Hongyuan, an illegitimate prince with no name or distinction, in what way is he better than me?"
Hearing this sentence, the queen was surprised for a moment, then laughed out loud,
"Zhou Hongjin, you don't love me, and you never loved me, why would you ask such a ridiculous question?"
After finishing speaking, she seemed to realize something, and gave a soft "oh",
"I'm being self-indulgent. You're asking the late emperor, right? Ask him why he prefers an illegitimate prince?"
"You are my queen, so naturally I have to be allowed to be alone in my heart,"
Emperor Zhou glanced at her indifferently, his majestic tone was suddenly tinged with resentment,
"As for the first emperor...he would rather use King Jing as a stepping stone than send that illegitimate son to the throne. Even if he fails in the end, he still wants to be given the status of a national teacher, and even wants to climb to my head superior."
"But my Yu'er——!!!"
The empress interrupted him abruptly, and even forgot to call herself Bengong, her beautiful face was no longer dignified, but became crazy
"What's wrong with my Yu'er?!! Even though I used to have an old relationship with Jian Kong, but Yu'er is your son, the prince of Dazhou!"
"Why did you kill him? Why did you kill him?!!"
Shock was revealed in Emperor Zhou's eyes,
"It turns out that you have always thought this way. How could I hurt my own flesh and blood?"
Hearing this, the queen suddenly laughed out loud, as if she had heard some big joke, she even burst into tears.
"What about Zhou Huaiyan? Didn't you do something about his congenital deficiency?"
Her face was stained with tears, and she could hardly breathe from laughing,
"Oh, no, Zhou Hongjin, your purpose is not to make him congenitally deficient at all, you want to kill him and die in Jiang Min's stomach."
The queen seemed to want to confide so much resentment over the years, as well as all the funerals of the emperor she knew,
"Zhou Huaiyan was five years old. When he was five years old, did you touch him once? It's a pity that you made such a careful plan, but let a cat become a scapegoat."
"Zhou Hongjin, you were angry for a long time, right?"
She laughed loudly, tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, almost wet her temples,
"Jiang Min...Jiang Min is worse than me. She thinks that she can exchange her child's life with her own death, but who knows, the man she once loved is still trying to kill their children. Where is the child hahahahaha..."
She wiped away the tears all over her face and sighed——
"It's... so sad."
"..."
At this time, Emperor Zhou's expression became dark,
"Doing this is naturally for the stability of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty. The power of the Jiang family is almost overwhelming. If they have a healthy prince, it will be a matter of time before their relatives seize power!!!"
"—Then why did you marry her in the first place!"
The queen's body was almost crumbling, but her eyes were extremely resentful,
"And why...you have to marry me?"
It's not a question, but just an outlet for resentment.The reason why you want to marry is naturally because after they are behind, they can help his forces and military power.
"I thought...you would kill Jiang Yi."
The queen's voice became hoarse, but a little calmer than before,
"You see his regicide, don't you?"
"If he really led troops into the Xuanzheng Palace that day, he would naturally be killed."
Since the courtiers have already brought soldiers to chop off his head, if he doesn't kill him, what is he an emperor?
Although this approach suits Qi Shoubang's wishes, it is not that he has no other way to divide and gather the military power in the northern border, but it will be a little more troublesome.
"Oh, to put it lightly,"
Queen scoffed,
"Jiang Yi was deeply trapped in the chaos back then, and still relied on one man and one horse to break out of the siege. Now there are thousands of cavalry behind him. How are you going to kill him?"
"Want to talk to me?"
Emperor Zhou sat down slowly,
"But it's nothing to tell you now. When the palace changed, I was not in the Xuanzheng Hall,"
——but hiding in the dark to watch the play.
Emperor Zhou has studied Wei Guogong for decades, so he naturally knows him well.
"Jiang Yi regards his only younger sister as his fate. Now that he has learned the truth, he will definitely rush into the Xuanzheng Hall in anger. The small Xuanzheng Hall cannot accommodate his thousands of cavalry. The [-] dead men in the secret passage between the walls will flock to him immediately."
After a pause, Emperor Zhou laughed again,
"But of course, I know how brave and invincible he is, and three hundred dead soldiers will naturally not kill him. But even though he has swept thousands of troops, he is still human after all. Even if he can resist, he cannot escape."
"No one knows that there is a tens of meters deep pit under the Xuanzheng Palace, which is filled with oil. Once the dead soldiers are dispatched, the hidden mechanism inside will be activated..."
Buried alive, then burned—
At that time, even the gods will be hard to save.
"Zhou Hongjin, you told me so much because today is my death day, right?"
The queen looked at him and smiled bitterly,
"Zhou Hongjin, you are so pitiful, only the dead will listen to you."
"If things really come to that point, you will kill him, queen."
Emperor Zhou didn't answer her words, his dark eyes were smudged with the indifference that belongs only to the emperor
"You know Zhen and Jiang Yi, but you still told him about it."
It seemed that he didn't expect him to say such shameless words, the queen was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, Emperor Zhou smiled slightly as if thinking of something.
"Fortunately, the scene of the death of jade and stone did not appear, and I saved myself from dealing with subsequent troubles, but there was an interesting accident."
Although it was heard before that the foreign slave had won the old eighth in archery, Emperor Zhou just took it for granted. Duke Wei chose a more novel guard for Zhou Huaiyan to put beside him.It can not only be enjoyed, but also be personally protected.
But on the night of the palace change, the sudden appearance of a young man of a different race shocked Emperor Zhou.
He came to rescue him with a fake imperial decree, and even blocked hundreds of cavalry all by himself, even against Duke Wei.
Such an astonishing talent, even Emperor Zhou couldn't help sighing.It was as if someone specially sent him such a sharp peerless weapon.
Although I don't know what this person's strategy is, this is not a problem. It is better if he is stupid, and it is easier to control.
Such bravery is enough to replace Wei Guogong. Similarly, such a humble background is also best coaxed.
The Queen naturally saw what he was thinking and said with a sneer,
"But don't forget, he belongs to Zhou Huaiyan. Maybe you thought you found a knife, but you don't know that it was used by someone else to kill you."
"He's not from Zhou Huaiyan."
Emperor Zhou smiled meaningfully,
"It's a servant, it's just a plaything, how sincere can it be?"
Zhou people are the most contemptuous of foreigners, let alone slaves?
"With a man's body, a female lying under a man's body, being molested for so long, I'm afraid that the resentment in my heart has already accumulated into a mountain, otherwise, how could I risk my beheading and do such a horrible thing during the palace change? "
At that time, Emperor Zhou was watching in the dark. He knew Jiang Yi too well. His expression and actions at that time could never have been colluded with them in advance.
Therefore, the alien slave's rescue could only be done temporarily.
When people are in a desperate situation, they will always try to grab everything that can pull them out.
A rescue is enough.
Of course, Emperor Zhou was suspicious by nature, so it was impossible to simply believe it, and he would have more temptations, but now such a good knife made him reluctant to let it go.
However, at this moment, the queen's heart was ashamed, she didn't want to know about Wei Guogong anymore, and she didn't want to know how many other schemes the emperor had.
She just asked sadly,
"Zhou Hongjin, if you didn't do Yu'er, who is it?"
This man told her so many secrets just now, and admitted all the dirty things he had done, but Zhou Huaiyu's death alone, he didn't admit it.
In this way, the queen began to doubt herself, and if she really hated the wrong person for so many years, then what is she?
However, at this moment, Emperor Zhou sneered and asked her,
"If Yu'er doesn't die, if you don't mistake it for Zhen's hand, will you still go to this point with Jian Kong?"
"......"
The queen was stunned.
She clasped her arms tightly and began to tremble. She suddenly felt an unprecedented coldness, piercing to the bone.
"Yes... is it him?"
The woman collapsed on the ground, vomiting out a mouthful of blood.But she didn't seem to feel any pain, she just laughed, laughing hysterically
"hahahahahahahaha......."
"It's him...Jian Kong...Zhou Hongyuan hahahahahaha...Zhou Hongyuan..."
Loved her man, killed her child.
The man who marries her will kill her.
How sad, how sad...
The next day, the queen passed away.
At the end of the funeral ceremony half a month later, Zhou Huaiyan stood by the window for a whole day, and when the sun went down, he personally lit a Buddhist lamp for her.
"Your Highness."
Hongdou's tone is worried,
Zhou Huaiyan knew what she wanted to say, and it was not a wise move to light the Buddha lamp at this time.He was silent for a moment, drew back a little,
"That's gone."
"Yes."
The grand lady immediately stepped forward and cleaned up all the traces.
No one spoke, and the study room fell silent for a moment.At this time, the boy suddenly caught a glimpse of the pot of camellias placed by the window,
The flowers that were so delicate and beautiful at the beginning have already withered now.Sure enough, people like him are not suitable for growing flowers.
Uncle is right, he is not suitable for raising flowers, nor is he suitable for raising cats. After a long silence, Zhou Huaiyan suddenly said,
"Red bean, take that flower out too."
"Yes."
After a pause, the grand lady asked one more question,
"Your Highness, this camellia will bloom for the second time in three months. Will it be placed in the yard to continue serving, or..."
"lost."
The boy's tone was calm.
"No more."
Hearing this, Hongdou didn't ask any more questions, and she didn't even say "yes" any more, but silently walked out with the flowerpot in her arms.
In the month since the palace change, the emperor visited A Fei every day, and the treasures bestowed by the emperor were even more dazzling.Even the current head of the Yun family was summoned into Beijing.
With a surname, Ah Fei is no longer a lowly alien slave, but the descendant of the Yun family, included in the family tree.
Now, his name is Yun Fei, he is named the Great General, and he is the third rank.
This kind of favor is unprecedented, and others are envious.
——Everything is developing as His Highness expected.
On the surface, the Duke of the State was the hero who captured the traitor and the third prince, but both he and the emperor knew that on the night of the palace change, his face had been torn apart.
Now, only some superficial peace remains.
Hong Dou took the flower pot in her hand to the little eunuch Dou Sha,
"Your Highness is bored, take it away and throw it away."
"But this... it will bloom in two or three months."
The little eunuch scratched his head, thinking,
【I didn't think His Highness liked it at the beginning, and I watered it and took care of it myself every day. Why did it happen so quickly...】
However, he was smart enough not to say anything more, he just picked up the flower pot and walked out of Qiwu Palace.
At this time, the maids holding ice basins came back one after another.Red Dou hurried over,
"Hurry up, hurry up, Mo Hua, put all these in His Highness's bath."
As the sky gradually darkened, Hongdou came in with the freshly brewed medicine.There was a strong smell of medicine in the room.
The young man frowned subconsciously, but he didn't say anything. He just took a mouthful, and then cleaned his teeth.But even after cleaning several times, there is still a lingering bitter taste in the lips and tongue.
But Zhou Huaiyan would no longer be like before, complaining to the palace maid about the bitterness of the medicine and not wanting to drink it, nor would he beg for candied fruit cake like a child after drinking the medicine.
Zhou Huaiyan finally realized now that people always have to suffer, so that they can see clearly the road ahead.
After all, the ancients were wise, born in sorrow, and died in peace.He had been too comfortable before.
Seeing the young man's calm face, Hongdou silently put away the candied fruit jar.
"Your Highness, everything is ready."
"Ah."
The maid of honor held the young man's hand, because it was just September and the summer heat had not faded away, she only felt that His Highness's hand was getting colder and colder.
Thinking of the ice bath to be taken later, Hongdou's face showed distress,
"Your Highness, or..."
Before she could finish her words, she felt her wrists being tightly grasped.
"No need."
Zhou Huaiyan let go of her, and walked to the bathroom alone.The decoration inside is the same as before, except that the warm hot water in the pool is now replaced by ice cubes, and there is a jar of spirits next to it.
The boy took off his shirt and walked in.
Just like what A Fei once worried about, the use of the female worm to induce the child Gu left a sequelae.
Compassionate Gu, comprehension can be solved.
The same is true for sequelae, blood, or body/fluid, no matter which one is poppy/poppy to Zhou Huaiyan today.And the pain he was enduring at the moment was like those modern addicts who had fallen into an addiction.
It happens once every five days, which happens to be today's turn.
Doctor Li said that he could do nothing but use some warming and tonic medicinal materials to regulate the young man's body. If he wanted to get rid of the pain, the palliative method was that person's blood or body/fluid.But if you want to get rid of it, just like quitting poppies, rely on willpower to survive and force yourself to quit.
Zhou Huaiyan would naturally only choose radical treatment.
The bone-eroding pain, it felt like thousands of ants and insects were gnawing on his body, causing every cell in his body to vibrate and make a whining sound.
The boy's face was pale, and he didn't make a sound. He just shook his arms and poured down bowl after bowl of wine.
Excessive low temperature can paralyze the nerves, and you can't feel it when you are drunk.
This process usually lasts for one to two hours.
Just when it was about to end, the voice of the grand lady came from outside.
"Your Highness, His Majesty suddenly became interested and said that he wants to hold a family banquet, please go."
After a pause, Hongdou continued,
"Why don't the servants go to refuse and say that His Highness is unwell?"
"...family dinner?"
Zhou Huaiyan's voice was very hoarse, and he got up from the ice pool very slowly, and it took a long time before he walked up slowly.Feel free to throw on an outer shirt.
"Since it's a family banquet, why not go?"
Half an hour later, Zhou Huaiyan, wearing a red brocade suit, arrived at the banquet venue belatedly.After drinking, his originally pale complexion finally turned a little drunken red, and he didn't seem to have any abnormalities.
At this moment, the night is dark, and the hall is full of brilliance, like a bright day.
In the hall, the emperor is pulling General Yun Fei to drink.The second prince, the eighth prince, and Xiao Shisan sat on both sides according to their rank.
The boy's eyes paused slightly on the familiar figure,
Officials of the second to third ranks of the Zhou Dynasty all wore scarlet court clothes.And Zhou Huaiyan only chose the red clothes for the sake of publicity, but he didn't expect to bump into him.
Zhou Huaiyan looked away, walked in, knelt down, and saluted
"My son pays homage to my father, long live my father, long live my father."
Ah Fei was sitting next to the emperor, and Zhou Huaiyan's kneeling inevitably turned in the opposite direction. He immediately pretended to accidentally touch the wine glass, and hurriedly got up and went to pick it up.
"Oh, it's just a cup..."
Emperor Zhou was having a good chat and didn't have time to talk to Zhou Huaiyan. He just waved his hand casually and said,
"Excuse me, give me a seat."
"Thank you, Father."
Zhou Huaiyan found his seat and sat down.Hongdou stood behind him
As soon as the young man sat down, he felt that the eyes of the whole hall were focused on him.
After all, everyone knows that the great general who is now in the midst of Sheng Chong was once a servant in his room who was playing and teasing.
On the day when the palace change ended, Zhou Huaiyan stormed into the palace where the great general was recovering from his wounds, humiliated and belittled to the utmost, and smashed everything inside.
After all, a servant not only stole Wei Guogong's Heaven-breaking Halberd, but also slapped that iron-blooded general in the face in full view.
The domineering Ninth Prince, who has always relied on Duke Wei's power, must have gone mad with anger.
The banquet in the palace is nothing more than that, listen to operas, ditties, watch court dances, eat and drink, you come and go, the verbal battle is over,
—But today is a little different.
Zhou Huaiyan supported his pale side face with one hand, watching the graceful young girls of different races walking up in dance costumes.
"I'm tired of watching those dances in the palace, so I want to see something new."
The emperor has said so, and they, the princes, can only follow suit one by one.
Before he came, Zhou Huaiyan guessed that the emperor was testing his relationship with Ah Fei again, and this was the fifth time this month.It makes sense.
The other princes also saw Emperor Zhou's thoughts, and they all buried their heads as background boards, and dared not speak.
Zhou Huaiyan glanced at it twice, then laughed out loud,
"This dance is new, it's danceable...but it's not very good."
"Oh?"
Emperor Zhou seems to be interested,
"I think it's not bad."
If it were an ordinary person who heard the emperor speak, even if he didn't like it, he would have to agree with him, but Zhou Huaiyan looked straight at the emperor, the general in scarlet court uniform,
The boy of the foreign race was wearing a gorgeous and eye-catching court dress, with deep eyebrows and eyes, and was extremely handsome.
Zhou Huaiyan sat crookedly in his position and looked at him, as if he was drunk.
His expression seemed lazy, but his eyes were extremely aggressive. The young man smiled lazily, and his voice was still hoarse, but there was something special about it.
"Father, you must have never seen the dancing posture of General Yun Fei."
"..."
Hearing this, Ah Fei's body froze, and her five fingers clenched the cloth until it crumpled.He twitched the corner of his lips, but didn't dare to look over.
"Your Highness... just kidding."
Emperor Zhou waited for a while before waving his hand.
"How can my pro-appointed general be used to dance and have fun with others?"
"Heh...then father will not be blessed."
Zhou Huaiyan casually put his arms around the dancer who came to toast, lifted her chin, and took a closer look.
"Those blue eyes are born well."
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your compliment."
The latter's Zhou Yu was not natural, but he blushed suddenly.
Ah Fei saw all this from the corner of his eyes, his expression was calm on the surface, but the dark killing intent in his heart clearly grew out.
At this time, Zhou Huaiyan suddenly hugged the girl in his arms, looked at Emperor Zhou,
"Father is the one who robbed me and left, shouldn't I give it back?"
"Hahahahaha..."
Hearing this, Emperor Zhou laughed,
"It's up to you, I will reward you with all of these today."
"My son is cold, so I'll choose someone to go back to warm my couch tonight."
Zhou Huaiyan turned his face sideways, and looked at it from the angle of the hall, as if he buried his head in the woman's chest.
But only the young man knew that his addiction had flared up again, and he was about to lose control of his expression, so he could only use this movement to cover it up.
Because Emperor Zhou hurriedly sent someone to invite him, he was supposed to stay in the ice pond for two hours, but he came out after only one hour.
He put his arms around the alien girl, and seemed to be stroking with his fingers irregularly, but accidentally touched the wine glass on the table.
The spilled wine immediately wet the young man's bright red brocade clothes.
Hongdou saw the strange behavior of the young man, and immediately reprimanded him sharply,
"How did you serve His Highness? Did you stain His Highness's clothes with wine?!"
The alien girl was horrified and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Zhou Huaiyan just laughed drunkenly,
"Don't, don't scold her, it's just a piece of clothing, just change it."
He stretched out his hand and pulled the girl into his arms,
"Let's go, accompany me down...to change clothes."
With such actions and such tone of voice, a discerning person can tell what it means at a glance.
Emperor Zhou also waved his hand,
"Go, go, go back to your own palace and change."
"Thank you...father."
The young man fell to the ground and saluted, as if he was really drunk.
It's just that Zhou Huaiyan still overestimated his endurance, and before he returned to Qiwu Palace, he was already dying.
In order to cover up, Hongdou had no choice but to find an empty palace nearby and place him there.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, bear with it, bear with it..."
She put Zhou Huaiyan, who was covered in cold sweat and trembling with pain, into the bathtub full of cold water, and tried to comfort him.
"Immediately, it will be over soon."
You can't get a lot of ice cubes here, only cold water.
"go out......"
Zhou Huaiyan managed to retain three points of reason, but even if it was the court lady whom he regarded as his confidant, the young man was unwilling to let others see his embarrassment.
"Your Highness..."
"roll."
He really didn't have the strength to say one more word.
Squeak.
The door was closed, and Zhou Huaiyan was the only one left in the empty room. He finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell into the water.Overwhelm the former with another painful suffocation.
In less than a few breaths, he was helped up by someone.
Whoa-!
A large swath of icy water splashed in all directions, and in a daze, Zhou Huaiyan saw a pair of familiar blue eyes.
"...Go away."
Zhou Huaiyan wanted to push the other party away, but he had no strength left, so he could only be embraced by the other party,
At this moment, the boy clearly heard his own short and painful breathing, and also heard the man's mournful and hoarse apology.
But now, Zhou Huaiyan is no longer the person whose heart softens because of a crying apology.
He wanted to call out for Hongdou, for that maid of honor who was born as a dead soldier and was highly skilled in martial arts, and never lied to herself about anything, to come in, come in to protect him, and drive away all threats and dangers.
But the moment Zhou Huaiyan opened his mouth, he suddenly felt a fiery temperature on his icy lips.
Can't push.
The opponent's hand clasped the back of his head, and there was no way to retreat.
But this kiss made Zhou Huaiyan feel humiliated, or he didn't regard such contact as a kiss.
—but humiliation.
Ever since he was born, he has lived in fear, like walking on thin ice, so Zhou Huaiyan hated this kind of feeling of being controlled by others the most in his life.
But under the current situation, he has no strength to break free at all, and can only be forced to accept that the other party decides to end this overly intimate contact.
"Why, being a general...isn't it as comfortable as a servant?"
Zhou Huaiyan's chest heaved violently, and he didn't know whether it was because he felt too much anger, or because he was out of breath because of the too intimate contact just now.
"You are really... cheap, so anxious... to find a man."
However, the boy's words clearly meant to humiliate the other party.
But the man nodded seriously, and then swiftly raised his crimson court clothes.
Zhou Huaiyan: "..."
The author has something to say:
There should be no foul this time (be careful.)
The third prince committed suicide in prison, while Jian Kong was still on the run and was wanted all over the country.
In the past, the incense was prosperous, and Buddhist temples spread all over the states, but they declined rapidly overnight, and the theocracy fell into dust.The prestige of the Great Zhou royal family reached its peak for a while.
At this time, inside the Kunning Palace, white cloths were hung everywhere, which looked like a funeral scene.
When His Majesty came in person, the palace people were all trembling with hands and feet, and their faces were pale. They prostrated themselves on the ground, their foreheads firmly pressed against the ground, wishing to tear a thin crack in the ground and get in.
"Let's all go back."
Hearing this sentence, all the palace people kowtowed their heads to express their gratitude as if they were about to receive an amnesty, and retreated in a hurry.
Juan Gu hesitated for a moment, and finally saluted with a pale face, and then backed out.
The huge and gorgeous palace fell silent.
"what a pity......"
Emperor Zhou looked at the white banners all over the room, with a regretful expression on his face,
"The empress personally arranged everything carefully for me, but in the end it was useless."
"Ah......"
The woman in the phoenix robe didn't look back, but just stared at the Buddha statue in front of her. There were some tears on her dignified and beautiful face, but more of it was unwillingness and resentment.
"You knew it a long time ago, you knew it from the beginning, you should be very proud now, right?"
she smiled miserably,
"Looking at all the prey jumping into your cage one after another, you should be quite proud."
"I just don't understand,"
Emperor Zhou did not answer her words, but also looked at the Buddha statue that the woman was looking at,
"Jian Kong...or Zhou Hongyuan, an illegitimate prince with no name or distinction, in what way is he better than me?"
Hearing this sentence, the queen was surprised for a moment, then laughed out loud,
"Zhou Hongjin, you don't love me, and you never loved me, why would you ask such a ridiculous question?"
After finishing speaking, she seemed to realize something, and gave a soft "oh",
"I'm being self-indulgent. You're asking the late emperor, right? Ask him why he prefers an illegitimate prince?"
"You are my queen, so naturally I have to be allowed to be alone in my heart,"
Emperor Zhou glanced at her indifferently, his majestic tone was suddenly tinged with resentment,
"As for the first emperor...he would rather use King Jing as a stepping stone than send that illegitimate son to the throne. Even if he fails in the end, he still wants to be given the status of a national teacher, and even wants to climb to my head superior."
"But my Yu'er——!!!"
The empress interrupted him abruptly, and even forgot to call herself Bengong, her beautiful face was no longer dignified, but became crazy
"What's wrong with my Yu'er?!! Even though I used to have an old relationship with Jian Kong, but Yu'er is your son, the prince of Dazhou!"
"Why did you kill him? Why did you kill him?!!"
Shock was revealed in Emperor Zhou's eyes,
"It turns out that you have always thought this way. How could I hurt my own flesh and blood?"
Hearing this, the queen suddenly laughed out loud, as if she had heard some big joke, she even burst into tears.
"What about Zhou Huaiyan? Didn't you do something about his congenital deficiency?"
Her face was stained with tears, and she could hardly breathe from laughing,
"Oh, no, Zhou Hongjin, your purpose is not to make him congenitally deficient at all, you want to kill him and die in Jiang Min's stomach."
The queen seemed to want to confide so much resentment over the years, as well as all the funerals of the emperor she knew,
"Zhou Huaiyan was five years old. When he was five years old, did you touch him once? It's a pity that you made such a careful plan, but let a cat become a scapegoat."
"Zhou Hongjin, you were angry for a long time, right?"
She laughed loudly, tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, almost wet her temples,
"Jiang Min...Jiang Min is worse than me. She thinks that she can exchange her child's life with her own death, but who knows, the man she once loved is still trying to kill their children. Where is the child hahahahaha..."
She wiped away the tears all over her face and sighed——
"It's... so sad."
"..."
At this time, Emperor Zhou's expression became dark,
"Doing this is naturally for the stability of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty. The power of the Jiang family is almost overwhelming. If they have a healthy prince, it will be a matter of time before their relatives seize power!!!"
"—Then why did you marry her in the first place!"
The queen's body was almost crumbling, but her eyes were extremely resentful,
"And why...you have to marry me?"
It's not a question, but just an outlet for resentment.The reason why you want to marry is naturally because after they are behind, they can help his forces and military power.
"I thought...you would kill Jiang Yi."
The queen's voice became hoarse, but a little calmer than before,
"You see his regicide, don't you?"
"If he really led troops into the Xuanzheng Palace that day, he would naturally be killed."
Since the courtiers have already brought soldiers to chop off his head, if he doesn't kill him, what is he an emperor?
Although this approach suits Qi Shoubang's wishes, it is not that he has no other way to divide and gather the military power in the northern border, but it will be a little more troublesome.
"Oh, to put it lightly,"
Queen scoffed,
"Jiang Yi was deeply trapped in the chaos back then, and still relied on one man and one horse to break out of the siege. Now there are thousands of cavalry behind him. How are you going to kill him?"
"Want to talk to me?"
Emperor Zhou sat down slowly,
"But it's nothing to tell you now. When the palace changed, I was not in the Xuanzheng Hall,"
——but hiding in the dark to watch the play.
Emperor Zhou has studied Wei Guogong for decades, so he naturally knows him well.
"Jiang Yi regards his only younger sister as his fate. Now that he has learned the truth, he will definitely rush into the Xuanzheng Hall in anger. The small Xuanzheng Hall cannot accommodate his thousands of cavalry. The [-] dead men in the secret passage between the walls will flock to him immediately."
After a pause, Emperor Zhou laughed again,
"But of course, I know how brave and invincible he is, and three hundred dead soldiers will naturally not kill him. But even though he has swept thousands of troops, he is still human after all. Even if he can resist, he cannot escape."
"No one knows that there is a tens of meters deep pit under the Xuanzheng Palace, which is filled with oil. Once the dead soldiers are dispatched, the hidden mechanism inside will be activated..."
Buried alive, then burned—
At that time, even the gods will be hard to save.
"Zhou Hongjin, you told me so much because today is my death day, right?"
The queen looked at him and smiled bitterly,
"Zhou Hongjin, you are so pitiful, only the dead will listen to you."
"If things really come to that point, you will kill him, queen."
Emperor Zhou didn't answer her words, his dark eyes were smudged with the indifference that belongs only to the emperor
"You know Zhen and Jiang Yi, but you still told him about it."
It seemed that he didn't expect him to say such shameless words, the queen was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, Emperor Zhou smiled slightly as if thinking of something.
"Fortunately, the scene of the death of jade and stone did not appear, and I saved myself from dealing with subsequent troubles, but there was an interesting accident."
Although it was heard before that the foreign slave had won the old eighth in archery, Emperor Zhou just took it for granted. Duke Wei chose a more novel guard for Zhou Huaiyan to put beside him.It can not only be enjoyed, but also be personally protected.
But on the night of the palace change, the sudden appearance of a young man of a different race shocked Emperor Zhou.
He came to rescue him with a fake imperial decree, and even blocked hundreds of cavalry all by himself, even against Duke Wei.
Such an astonishing talent, even Emperor Zhou couldn't help sighing.It was as if someone specially sent him such a sharp peerless weapon.
Although I don't know what this person's strategy is, this is not a problem. It is better if he is stupid, and it is easier to control.
Such bravery is enough to replace Wei Guogong. Similarly, such a humble background is also best coaxed.
The Queen naturally saw what he was thinking and said with a sneer,
"But don't forget, he belongs to Zhou Huaiyan. Maybe you thought you found a knife, but you don't know that it was used by someone else to kill you."
"He's not from Zhou Huaiyan."
Emperor Zhou smiled meaningfully,
"It's a servant, it's just a plaything, how sincere can it be?"
Zhou people are the most contemptuous of foreigners, let alone slaves?
"With a man's body, a female lying under a man's body, being molested for so long, I'm afraid that the resentment in my heart has already accumulated into a mountain, otherwise, how could I risk my beheading and do such a horrible thing during the palace change? "
At that time, Emperor Zhou was watching in the dark. He knew Jiang Yi too well. His expression and actions at that time could never have been colluded with them in advance.
Therefore, the alien slave's rescue could only be done temporarily.
When people are in a desperate situation, they will always try to grab everything that can pull them out.
A rescue is enough.
Of course, Emperor Zhou was suspicious by nature, so it was impossible to simply believe it, and he would have more temptations, but now such a good knife made him reluctant to let it go.
However, at this moment, the queen's heart was ashamed, she didn't want to know about Wei Guogong anymore, and she didn't want to know how many other schemes the emperor had.
She just asked sadly,
"Zhou Hongjin, if you didn't do Yu'er, who is it?"
This man told her so many secrets just now, and admitted all the dirty things he had done, but Zhou Huaiyu's death alone, he didn't admit it.
In this way, the queen began to doubt herself, and if she really hated the wrong person for so many years, then what is she?
However, at this moment, Emperor Zhou sneered and asked her,
"If Yu'er doesn't die, if you don't mistake it for Zhen's hand, will you still go to this point with Jian Kong?"
"......"
The queen was stunned.
She clasped her arms tightly and began to tremble. She suddenly felt an unprecedented coldness, piercing to the bone.
"Yes... is it him?"
The woman collapsed on the ground, vomiting out a mouthful of blood.But she didn't seem to feel any pain, she just laughed, laughing hysterically
"hahahahahahahaha......."
"It's him...Jian Kong...Zhou Hongyuan hahahahahaha...Zhou Hongyuan..."
Loved her man, killed her child.
The man who marries her will kill her.
How sad, how sad...
The next day, the queen passed away.
At the end of the funeral ceremony half a month later, Zhou Huaiyan stood by the window for a whole day, and when the sun went down, he personally lit a Buddhist lamp for her.
"Your Highness."
Hongdou's tone is worried,
Zhou Huaiyan knew what she wanted to say, and it was not a wise move to light the Buddha lamp at this time.He was silent for a moment, drew back a little,
"That's gone."
"Yes."
The grand lady immediately stepped forward and cleaned up all the traces.
No one spoke, and the study room fell silent for a moment.At this time, the boy suddenly caught a glimpse of the pot of camellias placed by the window,
The flowers that were so delicate and beautiful at the beginning have already withered now.Sure enough, people like him are not suitable for growing flowers.
Uncle is right, he is not suitable for raising flowers, nor is he suitable for raising cats. After a long silence, Zhou Huaiyan suddenly said,
"Red bean, take that flower out too."
"Yes."
After a pause, the grand lady asked one more question,
"Your Highness, this camellia will bloom for the second time in three months. Will it be placed in the yard to continue serving, or..."
"lost."
The boy's tone was calm.
"No more."
Hearing this, Hongdou didn't ask any more questions, and she didn't even say "yes" any more, but silently walked out with the flowerpot in her arms.
In the month since the palace change, the emperor visited A Fei every day, and the treasures bestowed by the emperor were even more dazzling.Even the current head of the Yun family was summoned into Beijing.
With a surname, Ah Fei is no longer a lowly alien slave, but the descendant of the Yun family, included in the family tree.
Now, his name is Yun Fei, he is named the Great General, and he is the third rank.
This kind of favor is unprecedented, and others are envious.
——Everything is developing as His Highness expected.
On the surface, the Duke of the State was the hero who captured the traitor and the third prince, but both he and the emperor knew that on the night of the palace change, his face had been torn apart.
Now, only some superficial peace remains.
Hong Dou took the flower pot in her hand to the little eunuch Dou Sha,
"Your Highness is bored, take it away and throw it away."
"But this... it will bloom in two or three months."
The little eunuch scratched his head, thinking,
【I didn't think His Highness liked it at the beginning, and I watered it and took care of it myself every day. Why did it happen so quickly...】
However, he was smart enough not to say anything more, he just picked up the flower pot and walked out of Qiwu Palace.
At this time, the maids holding ice basins came back one after another.Red Dou hurried over,
"Hurry up, hurry up, Mo Hua, put all these in His Highness's bath."
As the sky gradually darkened, Hongdou came in with the freshly brewed medicine.There was a strong smell of medicine in the room.
The young man frowned subconsciously, but he didn't say anything. He just took a mouthful, and then cleaned his teeth.But even after cleaning several times, there is still a lingering bitter taste in the lips and tongue.
But Zhou Huaiyan would no longer be like before, complaining to the palace maid about the bitterness of the medicine and not wanting to drink it, nor would he beg for candied fruit cake like a child after drinking the medicine.
Zhou Huaiyan finally realized now that people always have to suffer, so that they can see clearly the road ahead.
After all, the ancients were wise, born in sorrow, and died in peace.He had been too comfortable before.
Seeing the young man's calm face, Hongdou silently put away the candied fruit jar.
"Your Highness, everything is ready."
"Ah."
The maid of honor held the young man's hand, because it was just September and the summer heat had not faded away, she only felt that His Highness's hand was getting colder and colder.
Thinking of the ice bath to be taken later, Hongdou's face showed distress,
"Your Highness, or..."
Before she could finish her words, she felt her wrists being tightly grasped.
"No need."
Zhou Huaiyan let go of her, and walked to the bathroom alone.The decoration inside is the same as before, except that the warm hot water in the pool is now replaced by ice cubes, and there is a jar of spirits next to it.
The boy took off his shirt and walked in.
Just like what A Fei once worried about, the use of the female worm to induce the child Gu left a sequelae.
Compassionate Gu, comprehension can be solved.
The same is true for sequelae, blood, or body/fluid, no matter which one is poppy/poppy to Zhou Huaiyan today.And the pain he was enduring at the moment was like those modern addicts who had fallen into an addiction.
It happens once every five days, which happens to be today's turn.
Doctor Li said that he could do nothing but use some warming and tonic medicinal materials to regulate the young man's body. If he wanted to get rid of the pain, the palliative method was that person's blood or body/fluid.But if you want to get rid of it, just like quitting poppies, rely on willpower to survive and force yourself to quit.
Zhou Huaiyan would naturally only choose radical treatment.
The bone-eroding pain, it felt like thousands of ants and insects were gnawing on his body, causing every cell in his body to vibrate and make a whining sound.
The boy's face was pale, and he didn't make a sound. He just shook his arms and poured down bowl after bowl of wine.
Excessive low temperature can paralyze the nerves, and you can't feel it when you are drunk.
This process usually lasts for one to two hours.
Just when it was about to end, the voice of the grand lady came from outside.
"Your Highness, His Majesty suddenly became interested and said that he wants to hold a family banquet, please go."
After a pause, Hongdou continued,
"Why don't the servants go to refuse and say that His Highness is unwell?"
"...family dinner?"
Zhou Huaiyan's voice was very hoarse, and he got up from the ice pool very slowly, and it took a long time before he walked up slowly.Feel free to throw on an outer shirt.
"Since it's a family banquet, why not go?"
Half an hour later, Zhou Huaiyan, wearing a red brocade suit, arrived at the banquet venue belatedly.After drinking, his originally pale complexion finally turned a little drunken red, and he didn't seem to have any abnormalities.
At this moment, the night is dark, and the hall is full of brilliance, like a bright day.
In the hall, the emperor is pulling General Yun Fei to drink.The second prince, the eighth prince, and Xiao Shisan sat on both sides according to their rank.
The boy's eyes paused slightly on the familiar figure,
Officials of the second to third ranks of the Zhou Dynasty all wore scarlet court clothes.And Zhou Huaiyan only chose the red clothes for the sake of publicity, but he didn't expect to bump into him.
Zhou Huaiyan looked away, walked in, knelt down, and saluted
"My son pays homage to my father, long live my father, long live my father."
Ah Fei was sitting next to the emperor, and Zhou Huaiyan's kneeling inevitably turned in the opposite direction. He immediately pretended to accidentally touch the wine glass, and hurriedly got up and went to pick it up.
"Oh, it's just a cup..."
Emperor Zhou was having a good chat and didn't have time to talk to Zhou Huaiyan. He just waved his hand casually and said,
"Excuse me, give me a seat."
"Thank you, Father."
Zhou Huaiyan found his seat and sat down.Hongdou stood behind him
As soon as the young man sat down, he felt that the eyes of the whole hall were focused on him.
After all, everyone knows that the great general who is now in the midst of Sheng Chong was once a servant in his room who was playing and teasing.
On the day when the palace change ended, Zhou Huaiyan stormed into the palace where the great general was recovering from his wounds, humiliated and belittled to the utmost, and smashed everything inside.
After all, a servant not only stole Wei Guogong's Heaven-breaking Halberd, but also slapped that iron-blooded general in the face in full view.
The domineering Ninth Prince, who has always relied on Duke Wei's power, must have gone mad with anger.
The banquet in the palace is nothing more than that, listen to operas, ditties, watch court dances, eat and drink, you come and go, the verbal battle is over,
—But today is a little different.
Zhou Huaiyan supported his pale side face with one hand, watching the graceful young girls of different races walking up in dance costumes.
"I'm tired of watching those dances in the palace, so I want to see something new."
The emperor has said so, and they, the princes, can only follow suit one by one.
Before he came, Zhou Huaiyan guessed that the emperor was testing his relationship with Ah Fei again, and this was the fifth time this month.It makes sense.
The other princes also saw Emperor Zhou's thoughts, and they all buried their heads as background boards, and dared not speak.
Zhou Huaiyan glanced at it twice, then laughed out loud,
"This dance is new, it's danceable...but it's not very good."
"Oh?"
Emperor Zhou seems to be interested,
"I think it's not bad."
If it were an ordinary person who heard the emperor speak, even if he didn't like it, he would have to agree with him, but Zhou Huaiyan looked straight at the emperor, the general in scarlet court uniform,
The boy of the foreign race was wearing a gorgeous and eye-catching court dress, with deep eyebrows and eyes, and was extremely handsome.
Zhou Huaiyan sat crookedly in his position and looked at him, as if he was drunk.
His expression seemed lazy, but his eyes were extremely aggressive. The young man smiled lazily, and his voice was still hoarse, but there was something special about it.
"Father, you must have never seen the dancing posture of General Yun Fei."
"..."
Hearing this, Ah Fei's body froze, and her five fingers clenched the cloth until it crumpled.He twitched the corner of his lips, but didn't dare to look over.
"Your Highness... just kidding."
Emperor Zhou waited for a while before waving his hand.
"How can my pro-appointed general be used to dance and have fun with others?"
"Heh...then father will not be blessed."
Zhou Huaiyan casually put his arms around the dancer who came to toast, lifted her chin, and took a closer look.
"Those blue eyes are born well."
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your compliment."
The latter's Zhou Yu was not natural, but he blushed suddenly.
Ah Fei saw all this from the corner of his eyes, his expression was calm on the surface, but the dark killing intent in his heart clearly grew out.
At this time, Zhou Huaiyan suddenly hugged the girl in his arms, looked at Emperor Zhou,
"Father is the one who robbed me and left, shouldn't I give it back?"
"Hahahahaha..."
Hearing this, Emperor Zhou laughed,
"It's up to you, I will reward you with all of these today."
"My son is cold, so I'll choose someone to go back to warm my couch tonight."
Zhou Huaiyan turned his face sideways, and looked at it from the angle of the hall, as if he buried his head in the woman's chest.
But only the young man knew that his addiction had flared up again, and he was about to lose control of his expression, so he could only use this movement to cover it up.
Because Emperor Zhou hurriedly sent someone to invite him, he was supposed to stay in the ice pond for two hours, but he came out after only one hour.
He put his arms around the alien girl, and seemed to be stroking with his fingers irregularly, but accidentally touched the wine glass on the table.
The spilled wine immediately wet the young man's bright red brocade clothes.
Hongdou saw the strange behavior of the young man, and immediately reprimanded him sharply,
"How did you serve His Highness? Did you stain His Highness's clothes with wine?!"
The alien girl was horrified and knelt down to beg for mercy.
Zhou Huaiyan just laughed drunkenly,
"Don't, don't scold her, it's just a piece of clothing, just change it."
He stretched out his hand and pulled the girl into his arms,
"Let's go, accompany me down...to change clothes."
With such actions and such tone of voice, a discerning person can tell what it means at a glance.
Emperor Zhou also waved his hand,
"Go, go, go back to your own palace and change."
"Thank you...father."
The young man fell to the ground and saluted, as if he was really drunk.
It's just that Zhou Huaiyan still overestimated his endurance, and before he returned to Qiwu Palace, he was already dying.
In order to cover up, Hongdou had no choice but to find an empty palace nearby and place him there.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, bear with it, bear with it..."
She put Zhou Huaiyan, who was covered in cold sweat and trembling with pain, into the bathtub full of cold water, and tried to comfort him.
"Immediately, it will be over soon."
You can't get a lot of ice cubes here, only cold water.
"go out......"
Zhou Huaiyan managed to retain three points of reason, but even if it was the court lady whom he regarded as his confidant, the young man was unwilling to let others see his embarrassment.
"Your Highness..."
"roll."
He really didn't have the strength to say one more word.
Squeak.
The door was closed, and Zhou Huaiyan was the only one left in the empty room. He finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell into the water.Overwhelm the former with another painful suffocation.
In less than a few breaths, he was helped up by someone.
Whoa-!
A large swath of icy water splashed in all directions, and in a daze, Zhou Huaiyan saw a pair of familiar blue eyes.
"...Go away."
Zhou Huaiyan wanted to push the other party away, but he had no strength left, so he could only be embraced by the other party,
At this moment, the boy clearly heard his own short and painful breathing, and also heard the man's mournful and hoarse apology.
But now, Zhou Huaiyan is no longer the person whose heart softens because of a crying apology.
He wanted to call out for Hongdou, for that maid of honor who was born as a dead soldier and was highly skilled in martial arts, and never lied to herself about anything, to come in, come in to protect him, and drive away all threats and dangers.
But the moment Zhou Huaiyan opened his mouth, he suddenly felt a fiery temperature on his icy lips.
Can't push.
The opponent's hand clasped the back of his head, and there was no way to retreat.
But this kiss made Zhou Huaiyan feel humiliated, or he didn't regard such contact as a kiss.
—but humiliation.
Ever since he was born, he has lived in fear, like walking on thin ice, so Zhou Huaiyan hated this kind of feeling of being controlled by others the most in his life.
But under the current situation, he has no strength to break free at all, and can only be forced to accept that the other party decides to end this overly intimate contact.
"Why, being a general...isn't it as comfortable as a servant?"
Zhou Huaiyan's chest heaved violently, and he didn't know whether it was because he felt too much anger, or because he was out of breath because of the too intimate contact just now.
"You are really... cheap, so anxious... to find a man."
However, the boy's words clearly meant to humiliate the other party.
But the man nodded seriously, and then swiftly raised his crimson court clothes.
Zhou Huaiyan: "..."
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