box of hearts

Chapter 94
But after a while, Zuo Jian's smile froze.He saw Qi She, who was sitting on the shoulders of countless soldiers resisting him, suddenly swept away his face with a wanton laugh, and cold hatred crawled out of his eyes. He saw Qi She raised a hand, pointed Pointing at himself from afar.

Zuo Jian knew that disaster was imminent, so he hurriedly took out the edict of exoneration from his pocket, and shouted his defense: "My lord, if the slaves hadn't carefully selected this group of Chinese soldiers who were promoted by you personally, the result would be But the world is turned upside down! My lord! Have you forgotten your oath, my lord? It doesn't matter if you lie to your slaves, but how dare you tell your own father—"

Before Zuo Jian could finish his sentence, he was cut in half by a subordinate's saber because of his betrayal.

Before he died, Zuo Jian still couldn't believe that a person, a noble, noble, decent and loyal person like Qi She, would actually desecrate his father's heroic spirit?What Zuo Jian couldn't guess was that as long as Qi She took a look at his crippled right leg, let alone blaspheming his father's heroic spirit, even if he pushed this soul into hell with his own hands, he would not be lenient.

At the top of the crowd, Qi She made a gesture.The left button of the unrepentant death was broken off the right hand, and the book of pardon was taken out.Qi She took it, tore it up, and threw the bloody pieces into the air.

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This latest incident was sent into the city in less than half an hour. "The Beijing camp surrendered collectively. Not only did they not encircle and suppress the Regent, but the three major battalions gathered together, surrounded the Regent and entered the city in mighty force!"

Facing the panicked scouts, Wang Chaezhao and Wang Zhenghao looked at each other in shock, but the youngest Wang Zhengting showed abnormal composure, even—— abnormal satisfaction.In the magnificent flower hall, Wang Zhengting stood up, raised his arms high and slapped twice.A group of soldiers came out from nowhere, grabbed the scout and dragged it away, and closed the hall door.

In this unsettled family upheaval, Wang Zhenghao watched in bewilderment as his third brother took off the chi tiger pattern hanging sword on the wall, pulled out the sheath, and approached him step by step, he couldn't help feeling flustered. Backing away, he shouted: "Third brother! What do you mean, third child? Are you out of your mind, third child? Third child! Old man—ah!"

The old man Wang Chaezhao's normally flushed face lost its color. He watched the third son lift the eldest son's shoulders with one hand, and pierced his heart with a sword with the other.The dying man fell on a low table, knocked down several celadon cups on the table with his fingers, and large swathes of blood poured out from his chest, mouth and nose.Wang Kezhao wanted to stand up, but he could only hold the countertop trembling, and coughed loudly, "Ni, Nizi, what are you doing?! What are you doing?!"

Wang Zhengting withdrew the sword from his elder brother's lung, his face half turned, and as a matter of course, "Apologize to the Regent."

"what?"

"My lord father, you still don't understand? Even if we can instigate generals, it's useless. The army only listens to the regent alone. This lion has been pissed off now. You don't dare to lead troops to join us. Is there no clan slaughter? Up to now, only a strong man can win a chance of survival by cutting off his wrist. If you want to do Jing Ke, you must first have a—” Wang Zhengting leaned over and held his breath Wang Zhenghao, who hadn't swallowed it all, pressed the blade of the sword against the back of his neck and filed it back and forth.After many repetitions, he finally grabbed a bunch of beards with blood in his hands, lifted the detached human head into his hand, and shook it up and down, "Is it Fan Yuqi's head?"

Wang Chaezhao, who was on the chair, leaned his upper body back vigorously, but pointed at Wang Zhengting with shaking fingers, "Wang family, Wang family, why did you become such a rebellious thing?"

"Wang? Family?" asked bitterly, throwing away the sword in his hand, "Father, father——, have you never thought about why our Wang family went from taking advantage of the first opportunity to retreating steadily until the end? Reduced to today's situation? Why did the younger sister become a "queen queen" at the age of 22? Why did the fourth brother become the victim of an ignorant grandson? It is because of you and the eldest brother! You are so sharp and self-willed , Arrogant and arrogant, determined to go his own way!"

Wang Chaezhao, who used to call the wind and call the wind and rain, is now incapable of responding to the sky. His old eyes are staring at his son nose to nose, and the other son's head is dangling by his ear, bloody and stinging. nose.

"That's it—" Following the old father let out a sigh of relief, Wang Zhengting withdrew his face and hands, and put his tone in a humble tone. At the same time, he put his brother's head in the blue and white glazed red fish basin on the basin stand and washed it twice with water. , "For the sake of our royal family, you are so dishonest. The regent is young and heroic, and you, father, are cheap, old, old. It's better to let me, my son, stand for you in this evil battle. Let's fight for the Wang family." Wang Zhengting faced Wang Chaezhao, shook his brother's head in his hands, and then walked out, throwing an old man who was coughing and crying, with trembling hands and feet, into a locked room. in the room.

There are horse piles tied with rice blue stones, large stone lions made of white marble, and outside the red heavy doors of the Wang family's mansion, there are densely packed Beijing soldiers on the inner three floors and the outer three floors. .Headed by the silent regent Qi She, his eyes were focused on a head presented on a chiseled silver tray, and under the tray was Wang Zhengting, kneeling low and arms raised.Due to the large number of characters and the lack of voices, this scene becomes the main scroll of sub-shakuhachi.When the scroll was rolled up and unfolded again, the setting had been replaced by a private hall with interspersed bamboo and cypresses and Qiongyao.

In the room, Qi She and Wang Zhengting each occupy one side.Qi She's tone was kind and ordinary, without the slightest aggressiveness, "Convince me with reasons."

Wang Zhengting changed his humility when he was suing for peace, and the gold silk auspicious suit was straight down without a trace of extra waves. He stood upright and calm, "Regent, your mother is my aunt, and my little sister She is still the queen mother and empress dowager of today. The civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are all disciples of my royal family. The six cabinets to the four governors and governors are all buddies. The two local armies in Hunan and Shandong only obey my royal family. , 120 imperial troops, and [-] patrol shops in the city are still in our hands. If the regent thinks he can swallow so much in one gulp, then you can drive our royal family to extinction. If you don't have such a good appetite for the time being, You might as well save my life. You will be the Wang family back then, and I will be you who had nothing else and started from scratch. Don’t you want to try, can you defeat your old self?"

"That's right, I really don't have such a good appetite right now, but what I can eat is more than just—" With a smile in his eyes, Qi She used one finger to put the silver plate on which the eldest son of the Wang family was placed. The other side pushed an inch, "This is a head."

Wang Zhengting put his hands in his arms, and took out a piece of dark-flowered rice paper, "This is a menu specially prepared for you, the Regent has a look."

Qi She took it, looked at it, and a smile overflowed his entire face from his eyes.He looked up at Wang Zhengting and looked at him with admiration, "Your opponent is much more interesting than your old man."

"Heroes see the same thing."

"Okay, let's see who wins in the end."

Wang Zhengting relaxed his chin slightly and cupped his hands, "Please, Regent—Third Cousin."

"As you please," Qi She returned the gift, "Third cousin."

So, the third man in one family left, leaving the third man in another family poring over a piece of paper with great interest.Zhu Sige, who was typed on the paper, was full of people's names and official titles.

The regent Qi She squeezed the edge of the paper with his hands, and looked far ahead. He didn't know what he saw, and smiled silently.

Notes:

[1] (Tang) Wang Changling's "Send Xinjian off at the Furong Tower": "Cold rain and continuous river night enter Wu, Pingming sees off guests in Chushan Gu. Relatives and friends in Luoyang ask each other, and a piece of ice is in the jade pot."

[2] The sentence comes from (Chunqiu) Sun Wu's "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

[3] Kunqu Opera "Testing the Horse", which tells the story of Lu Bu, the general of the Three Kingdoms, taming the red rabbit and BMW, showing his heroic spirit of "the red rabbit among the horses, and Lu Bu among the people".

[4] Kunqu Opera "Liu Er Dang Yi", which is a joke.

[5] See (Qing) Zhang Chunfan's "Nine-Tailed Turtle" No.30 Chapter [-]: The clown who hangs his arms helps, and Qiuniang falls into the trap.

[6] See (Qing) Zhang Chunfan's "Nine-Tailed Turtle": Fake tenderness is tricked by plague, but real prostitutes elope.

[7] The legendary beast, the seventh of the nine sons of the dragon, is anxious for justice and good for justice, and can distinguish right from wrong. It is often used as a decoration for prisons and government offices.

[8] After the Ming Dynasty, Beijing formed an architectural pattern with four gates in the imperial city and nine gates in the inner city, so it was called "Four Nine Cities".

[9] "Autumn Cao", another name for the Ministry of Punishment.

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