National teacher please get off the car
Chapter 113
Chapter 113
Xiumei hurriedly kowtowed, "Back to the empress, all the empresses, your highness, the slaves have served the first empress for many years, watching the nine princesses grow up, the former empress pretended to be a boy since she was a child, and deceived the saint, The slaves always dare not speak out."
"Besides, the former Empress had a habit of torturing Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess with her own hands every night. She used all kinds of methods, which were extremely cruel, to vent her anger. The Ninth Princess was abused and controlled by others at a young age. It is really pitiful to be forced to pretend to be a prince, and to be abused by her biological mother at night, and the servants really feel sorry for her."
Shen Yuyan rubbed Nao Ren'er, "Okay, let's talk about serious business."
Embroidered eyebrows seemed to be exaggerating too much, so she hurried back to say what she had to say, "Yes, the servant girl should die. After the nine princesses grew up, they became more and more unable to bear the abuse of the former queen. She resisted several times but failed, and instead attracted the exaggerated abuse of the former queen. Finally, at the age of 12, while the first queen was asleep, she sneaked into the palace and strangled her to death with a belt."
Eunuch Yang screamed immediately: "It's nonsense! Since you knew that someone was murdering the queen, why didn't you stop it?"
Xiumei kowtowed again, "Your servant is guilty, you deserve to die! I can't bear to see the princess being abused day and night, life is worse than death. At that time, I only thought that if this little child could live a normal life from now on, my servant Even if he died, it was still a merit, so even though he saw it secretly, he didn't reveal a word."
Xiao Lian sneered, "Then why are you standing up to identify Ben Gong now?"
"Because..., because I know that if I don't stand up and testify against this matter, the princess who disguised herself as a woman and killed her biological mother will become the new king of the dynasty in the future, and I will be a sinner of Shuofang forever!"
"Ha! This hat is buttoned big enough." With a knife on her neck, Xiao Lian looked at her with a cool smile, staring at her with hairs all over her eyebrows, "I ask you, where will you go after your mother's funeral?" ?”
"Returning to Your Highness, the emperor read that the servant was getting old and had served the queen for many years, so he authorized the servant to leave the palace, and specifically pointed it out to the housekeeper of General Huo's mansion."
"So, in your current life, husbands are virtuous, sons are filial, husbands sing and women do what they want? Okay, I understand, I don't blame you."
Xiumei's head, which was originally drooping, suddenly lifted up, and there was a strange light in his eyes looking at Xiao Lian.
That's right, now, her three sons and her husband are all kneeling in Huo Chongguang's study, waiting for her to return to her life!
She knelt on the ground, facing Xiao Lian squarely, and knocked her head three times, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness!"
Shen Yuyan lowered her eyelids and drank her tea slowly, "Okay, now the evidence is solid, Xiao Lian, do you plead guilty?"
Xiao Lian smiled faintly, "I don't remember many things in the past. When you are under the knife, you can do whatever you say. I won't resist, and I won't say no. It's just that I want you to let Qin go." Yueming and Tangtang."
Qin Yueming was stabbed with a knife on his neck, and he was desperately protecting Litang, "Master, at this time, you still say these things, you can't plead guilty, you will die!"
"Let them go!" Xiao Lian raised his chin slightly, the killing chain on his wrist rang softly, and the hands of the guards with knives beside him trembled.
Eunuch Yang lost no time in saying: "Madam, Princess Litang is only two years old, and she won't remember anything in the future. Besides, she is of royal blood. If she is punished with the same crime, everyone in this house will respect Madam, you justly enforce the law. But I'm afraid that you don't miss family affection, my mother."
Shen Yuyan's expression changed a bit.
Eunuch Yang continued: "There is also the Crown Princess, ah bah, look at my mouth, it is Miss Qin. Behind her is Lord Dazai. If you ask the crime so hastily, I am afraid that it will cause turmoil in the previous court. Besides..."
"Okay, needless to say, I know."
Shen Yuyan changed her posture, put down the teacup, and looked at Xiao Lian carefully, "Okay, Xiao Lian, although you are a daughter, you still have a sense of responsibility and integrity! I will be in front of the whole palace today. I promise you from the bottom of my face, no matter who the biological father of Litang Princess is, she is always of royal blood, and the young girl is innocent. I make an exception and spare her from death. As for Qin Yueming, although he knew about it and did not report it to you, he was in collusion with you. Human coercion is also justifiable, death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be escaped, temporarily sent back to Dazaifu for restraint, and will be tried again later."
When Qin Yueming heard this, she hugged Litang tightly on the spot, "Madam, Princess Litang was born by me and raised by myself. She is treated like flesh and blood. Allow me to take her away with me!"
Xiao E scrambled to stop her, "I can't take it away, without her, who can hold back that devil?"
"E'er, you are a golden branch and jade leaf, how can you restrain a two-year-old child, you really don't know the general idea!" Shen Yuyan said: "Since I have publicly promised to let Princess Litang go, I will definitely not break my promise."
She raised her head to look at Xiao Lian, "Xiao Lian, do you trust me or not? I can't say for sure, but I can't trust you. How can you protect me? With your abilities, if Litang is no longer in Bengong's hands I'm afraid that even if General Xiong BeiJi is here, he won't be able to do anything to you, don't you think?"
Xiao Lian glanced at Litang, the child didn't know what happened, his big eyes were flickering, he just watched the excitement, so he smiled at her and winked.
"Then the Empress thinks, how should I be a guarantor?"
"Okay, since you asked Ben Gong to speak, then Ben Gong will speak." Shen Yuyan waved her hand, "Come here, bring it up."
It was Du Qiyan who walked in from the door, holding a pair of objects tied with iron chains in his hand, he glanced at Xiao Lian, "Your Highness, my minister..."
Xiao Su shouted angrily: "When you see the Empress, don't you greet her first, but go talk to that heinous person?"
Du Qiyan was helpless, holding the things in his hands with both hands, and knelt down to Shen Yuyan, "I, Du Qiyan, have brought the five-clawed dragon hook to you by the queen's order."
Qin Yueming struggled and said, "No way! It's used to lock prisoners of war on death row. Once the lock is locked, it can't be taken off again! Our master is the son of a phoenix and the grandson of a dragon, so we can't use it on her!"
"Qin Yueming!" Xiao Lian shouted, "Do what you should do."
"But……"
"Help me take care of Tangtang. From now on, you are her real mother!" Xiao Lian raised her head proudly, and with a loud crash, the killing chain on her wrist fell off and fell to the ground. The soft leather gauntlets were thrown away.
She looked at Du Qiyan with a smile, "General Du, come on, I'm ready."
Du Qiyan came to her with the dragon hook in his hands, with his back to Shen Yuyan, with an extremely difficult expression, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, I..."
"Okay, I know you have your own difficulties. This time, I came back late and lost the opportunity. I fell into the net of heaven and earth. I don't care for anyone. You can do it."
At this time, Xiao Yu shouted: "Wait a minute! Queen Mother, Nine Emperor Sisters have already been captured. After all, she is the most beloved child of the Emperor Father. Can you wait until the Emperor wakes up before making a decision."
Shen Yuyan's coquettish Feng slightly challenged her, "I have always been in charge of the harem matters. Your father has been in poor health recently, so let him fall asleep."
Over there, Xiao Su held up the knife and urged, "Du Qiyan, what are you still dawdling about? Hurry up and get on the sleepy dragon hook. I'm already tired of carrying the knife in this hall, and I don't know when I'll hurt Li Tang's little neck!"
Du Qiyan saw that things were no longer turning around, his hand holding the trapped dragon hook trembled slightly, and he didn't dare to look directly at Xiao Lian.
Xiao Yu was in a hurry, "Wait, wait, maybe the national teacher is coming back soon, if Lao Jiu is locked like this, the national teacher will get angry..."
boom!
Shen Yuyan slapped the table fiercely with her hand full of jewels, "Enough! The national teacher has been missing for more than half a month, and the entire Fallen Tower has been evacuated. He is afraid that he has abandoned Shuofang. How can he talk about it?" Come back, you will be my three-year-old child, and you will move out to scare me as the emperor and the national teacher for a while?"
Xiao Yu plopped down on his knees, "Mother, I dare not, I just can't bear it..."
Shen Yuyan suppressed her angry roar, "Okay, don't just kneel down, it's as if I'm so cruel. Xiao Lian is the emperor's princess, so she should call me the queen mother, and she can be regarded as my child, do you think Is this palace going to have the heart to treat her like this?"
Her face immediately changed, "However, what Xiao Lian did the night Princess Litang disappeared, the whole Xuanji City, the palace and the palace are obvious to all. Now it's a matter of life and death, if she is not locked, with her ability, Go crazy, I'm afraid no one can stop her."
Shen Yuyan sighed deeply, "I have nothing to do, General Du, let's do it."
Du Qiyan had no choice but to hold a sleepy dragon hook in each hand, and said in a voice that he could barely hear: "Your Highness, I'm sorry."
Xiao Lian, however, had no time to pay attention to him, looked at Li Tang who was not far away, with a soft voice, completely lost the pretense of the past, his eyes were bent, and his voice was soft: "Tang Tang, play peek-a-boo with Daddy Is it? Say the little mouse to the lampstand three times, and Daddy will hide it."
Li Tang blinked her big eyes, nodded and said, "Okay."
After finishing speaking, he covered his eyes with his two little hands, and began to murmur inarticulately, "Little Naoshu, go up to the lampstand, steal the oil, and get down, cat, cat, cat, meow, Nerigunu, come down. Little Rat, go to the lampstand..."
There were two muffled chants, the sound of a blunt instrument piercing flesh and blood, Xiao Lian said nothing, two dragon hooks pierced through the lute bone, five claws closed together, tightly hugging the collarbone, connected to the chain, hanging heavily on the Between her shoulders and neck.
Du Qiyan carefully pulled the iron chains on the two hooks, and led the way ahead, Xiao Lian turned around and walked out step by step following Litang's childish rap rhythm, the ground was covered with a series of bloodstains.
Qin Yueming gritted his teeth tightly, tears swirled crazily in his eyes, and tried his best not to let them fall.
The room was full of people, but it was silent. Litang's sweet voice smashed every word into pieces, smashing into people's hearts.
When those little hands were removed from her chubby face, Qin Yueming's smile changed, "Come on, Tangtang, Daddy has hidden it. Concubine Mother will take you to find her, let's go."
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In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Lanyong did not come to the court again, but Shen Yuyan hung the curtain and announced a decree for the emperor.
"Successively, Mrs. Mu is my first spouse. Although she deceived the emperor and deserved her crime, she is dead and forgets the past. Her daughter, Xiao Lian, slaughtered her closest relatives, murdered the mother of the country, deceived the emperor, and plotted to seize the position of the prince. Si Chen committed a heinous crime. Now that there are all witnesses, the evidence is as solid as a mountain, and he confesses unreservedly. At noon on the day of the winter solstice, he will be beheaded under the gate in the name of deceiving the emperor and plotting rebellion."
At this time, Shen Yuyan had already held hostage the emperor who had been sleeping all day long, handed over Du Qiyan's forbidden soldier talisman, and behind him was Huo Chongguang, who held the military power in the North Camp, to support him, and began to listen to the government behind the curtain.
Between her and Xiao Lian, one is the queen of the palace and controls the military power, while the other is the princess who pretends to be the prince and the rebellious person who murdered her biological mother. For a while, no one can replace Xiao Lian in the civil and military affairs of the court. Say a word.
Even the Dazai faction headed by Qin Shou is silent at this time, only showing their ears but not their mouths in the court.
Since his daughter was able to be protected by Xiao Lian and survived the sudden change, the most urgent task is to protect Xiao Litang with the strength of the whole family. Therefore, in the court hall, he changed his usual glib tongue and became cautious and careful. If you dare to make a slight mistake, you are afraid that you will fall into the trap and be implicated, which will not only harm the Nine Clans, but also waste Xiao Lian's thoughts.
When Shuofang announced this shocking news to the world, the winter solstice was still ten days away.
Such a step by Shen Yuyan is obviously for Xiao Su to seize the throne in the future, throwing stones at the holy kingdoms and the capital of the gods to ask for directions. Apart from waiting for time, she is still waiting to see how the holy kingdoms react to this matter.
Sure enough, this news, like a heavy thunderbolt, exploded in the entire West Continent, causing an uproar in an instant.
Everyone said that Hokuriku was about to change!
Three days later, Shen Yuyan really waited for the first letter of credence, but it was from Beiyu, a small country adjacent to the western border.
Above the court hall, the envoy stood upright and respectful at the bottom, Shen Yuyan sat behind the curtain, and Eunuch Yang presented the paper of national letters up.
When the fingers with bright red nails spread out the letter of credence, Shen Yuyan's face immediately changed after only one glance!
She clacked the credentials and threw them out from behind the bead curtain.
"Bei Yu is here as an envoy, what does your majesty mean?"
The envoy said humbly and courteously: "My queen, my king's meaning has been clearly written in the letter of credence."
"How unreasonable is this! Xiao Lian is a traitor of the country. He kills one after another and deceives the king. He asks whether your king Bei Yu is mentally ill. At this time, he proposes a marriage?"
The envoy of Beiyu must be very courageous and not afraid, "Go back to the empress, before setting off, my king said that on the autumn hunt, I saw the nine princesses in person, and they were shocked by the heavens. Yunji, to dominate the Western Continent is just around the corner. But now, this unrivaled hero turned out to be a daughter, and your country wants to take her to be beheaded and her head removed. Since you are so rare, why don't you just treat her as a favor? Send her to my king as a queen, and my king is willing to give half of the country as a gift."
All of a sudden, there was an uproar.
Qin Shou breathed a sigh of relief and coughed lightly.
Later that day, another three or five envoys from neighboring countries came to see him one after another, all for the same thing, begging for the Ninth Princess Xiao Lian!
On the fourth day, letters from several small countries a little farther away sent over, the content was similar, nothing more than wishing to seek someone from all over the country.
On the fifth and sixth days, it was like this every day. In the entire thirty-odd countries in the Western Continent, except for the three dynasties of Kongsang, Zanghai, and Kongque, the three dynasties of the Kongque Dynasty remained silent. For the rest of the countries, the letters of credence for marriage proposals flew over like snowflakes.
Thirty or so envoys gathered together, discussing only one thing, who can bring back the Ninth Princess Xiao Yunji!
Here.
"I heard that the whole body of the Ninth Princess has no good flesh except for that face. Your majesty is so lustful, so forget it."
"Hey? You can't say that. Our king loves sex, but he is not stupid. The so-called marrying a wife, if you can get Princess Yunji as the queen, I am afraid that the territory of the West Land will change every day."
there.
"Your Majesty is Gui Geng this year?"
"Eighty. Where's your majesty?"
"Eight years old."
"……,Nice to meet you."
"..., polite and polite."
"Hiss, I heard that Princess Yunji has a daughter of unknown origin. Does your king not mind?"
"If you can't snatch it, who cares about it! If you snatch a Xiao Yunji and go back, it's better than a million troops, and it's nothing to raise a child for others. Besides, golden eagles are competing for the deer, and there are thousands of pairs of eyes. I have seen how Princess Yunji treated that child, she is a treasure that she will risk her life to protect, if our king treats that child as her own, she will still follow my king wholeheartedly!"
Hey?Why do you seem to have said a bit too much?
"..."
In the Duanfang Hall, Shen Yuyan, who was sitting on Xiao Lanyong's dragon chair, slapped the desk hard, "You bastard! Don't think that this palace will let you go if so many people beg you to marry me! When the hour comes, no matter how many people stop you Now, I will kill you in public!"
She was furious when another little eunuch came outside to report, "Report to Empress Empress, the envoy from the Maurya Dynasty has arrived."
"Qian Yuan is also here to join in the fun?"
"Hui Niangniang, not only did you come, but she also brought a team of thousands of people directly into the city!"
"Xiao Lian! So many people want you to live, I want you to die!"
She swung her sleeves wide and pushed the thick stack of credentials on the case to the ground.
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So it is day after day, and the day of the winter solstice is coming soon.
Deep in the dungeon, there is a dry well.
When the sun was shining directly, a woman's gentle voice came from down the well, reciting and singing a nursery rhyme.
"Little mouse, go up to the lampstand, steal oil to eat, can't get down..."
Every day, only at this time, when Xiao Lian is sitting at the bottom of the well, there will be a little sunlight above his head.
Taking advantage of the sunlight, she carefully carved three small figures on the well wall with her nails, "Tangtang, Daddy, and Mother."
Because the lutes were locked (Note 1), she felt severe pain with a little effort in her arms, so she could only use her nails to grind a little bit on the stone, and there was nothing to do anyway.
"Sheng Chuyi, the winter solstice is coming soon. You said that Donghuang is like spring all the year round, and there are many delicious foods. I really want to go and see it."
She smiled slightly, looked up at the sky, whistled, and a little sparrow fluttered through the gap in the cage above the dry well and flew down.
……
On the day of Wenzhan, Xuanji City was empty with thousands of people, just to catch a glimpse of how Prince Yunji turned back into a woman.
Xiao Lian stood on the prison cart with long hair hanging down. He was dressed in snow-white prison clothes, with heavy shackles on his hands and feet. Between his shoulders was a soaked crimson. The ferocious dragon hook was like a blood-sucking steel poisonous insect. between her neck and shoulders.
Because of the absence of the majestic appearance that she deliberately dressed up on weekdays, her daughter's beautiful eyebrows and eyes were revealed. Although she was in trouble, her strength of character was not diminished by half.
Envoys from more than thirty countries came, but Shen Yuyan gave them a slap in the face. None of them made a successful marriage proposal, but most of them refused to leave.At this time, Wu Yangyang was huddled under the guillotine and waiting, Princess Yunji was not dead yet, so they couldn't finish their errand.
Seeing the prison van stop, Xiao Lian climbed up step by step, and glanced at the sea of people who came to watch the beheading, as if the people below were not here to watch her go to death, but came to worship her.
Huo Chongguang was in charge of overseeing the beheading, he yelled and verified his integrity, "Who is below, still not kneeling!"
Xiao Lian turned around and grinned, "Old man, who should be kneeling?"
Huo Chongguang immediately blew his beard, "Bold! How dare you look at the lawless king when you are about to die!"
Xiao Lian gave him a disgusted look, and stood with his hands behind his back, "Father has been in a coma since then, and there has been no decree to abolish the crown prince. This palace was accused by Shen Yuyan of falsely preaching an imperial decree. Even if he dies today, he is still the righteous crown prince of Shuofang. What should I do here?" Who is kneeling, old man Huo, don't you know?"
"Oh! I don't believe you don't kneel anymore!" Standing behind Huo Chongguang, Huo Chengshuang rolled up his sleeves, came to Xiao Lian, raised his leg and kicked his knee, "I don't think you kneel!"
Ok?
I really didn't kneel!
Xiao Lian tilted his head, "When will it be your turn, a bastard, to mess with me!"
She flew up on the spot, with shackles on her feet, and pressed directly on Huo Chengshuang's shoulders. When her legs were hardened, the dude plopped, unable to bear the force, and knelt down.
When Xiao Lian exerted such force, blood oozed faintly from his shoulder, and one leg pressed him firmly to the ground, "Even if I lock the lute bone and lose all my abilities, it won't take much effort to kill you, Huo Cheng Shuang, don't forget, your life was given by me, and I can take it back at any time!"
Huo Chongguang was furious, "Come here! Take down the criminal Xiao Yunji, and execute him on the spot!"
Hurrah, the two guards quickly outflanked the guillotine, swung their knives and slashed!
Xiao Lian's arms were locked by the trapped dragon hook, and he couldn't move a little bit, but his leg skills didn't decrease by half. With a pair of dozens of people, he was able to do a job with ease.
It's just that more and more blood flowed from the wound on the lute bone, which made the people below who had applauded her feel unbearable.
In the chaos, Huo Chengshuang drew his sword and struck from behind Xiao Lian, "Xiao Lian! I will kill you today—!"
laugh!
An arrow shot in from Huo Chengshuang's wide-open mouth, came out from the back of his neck, and pierced directly into the back of the chair above Huo Chongguang's head.
"Frost!"
Huo Chongguang screamed!
Someone shouted loudly: "Rob the law field!"
All around, the overwhelming crowd of red-clothed flower men came with their knives, stepped on the heads of the onlookers, like a flock of blood-red swifts, flew in the air, the knife flashed, and strangled hundreds of forbidden soldiers in the entire execution ground in a blink of an eye.
Xiao Lian was covered in blood-stained white clothes, and stood quietly on the guillotine, still holding his hands behind his back.
Among the crowds near and far, on the square, and even on the rooftops in the distance, nearly a thousand people knelt down in unison, "Hwarang Savior is late, please forgive me, Your Highness."
Xiao Lian turned around and looked at Huo Chongguang, who had been surrounded by several teenagers, stepped off the guillotine, boarded the execution stage, reached out and took a command arrow, and threw it on the ground, "Beheaded!"
"Xiao Lian! How dare you! This old man is the great general of Shuofang! This old man is the supervisor! This old man is the veteran of the three dynasties! This old man is the chief general of the Northern Camp!..."
puff!
The white-haired head rolled away far away, and a stream of turbid blood was sprayed on the ground.
Xiao Lian kicked the table, "I'm still the prince."
Beside her, Hwarang put on a red cloak for her, "Your Highness, we will send you out of the city!"
"Where's Tangtang?"
"Already waiting ten miles outside the city."
"it is good."
Escorted by everyone, Xiao Lian went down to the East Bianmen, and the imperial army from the entire Xuanji City had already poured in like a tide. The thousand red-clothed youths who had come to rescue, appeared to be alone in front of the army.
Du Qiyan rode on the horse, "His Royal Highness, the responsibility of this humble minister lies, please forgive me!"
Although he shouted loudly, he just surrounded the 1000 people without any real action.
"His Royal Highness, you'd better capture it with nothing. In order...to wipe out all your personal soldiers, not only all the forbidden troops in Xuanji City have been mobilized, but tens of thousands of Huo's troops have been deployed outside the city. Now you have killed General Huo. I am afraid that there is no possibility of escape, why do you..."
Du Qiyan spoke very hard, but explained the current situation to her one by one in detail, "Why do you have to struggle so hard?"
Xiao Lian sneered, "If you don't struggle, are you going to die generously? You and I have been serving the Communist Party for a long time. When will General Du see me? Xiao Lian is a person who accepts his fate?"
At this time, Xiao Su arrived, "What are you talking about with her, the archer is ready!"
All of a sudden, all the archers strung their bows together.
"Protect Your Highness!"
The young Hualang opened the wall of people and protected Xiao Lian, who was dressed in pale white, in the center.
Xiao Lian lowered his head, stood in the middle of the crowd, clenched his teeth, raised his right hand, clasped five fingers on the dragon hook on the left collarbone, then raised his left hand, clasped it on the right collarbone, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes .
Commander Hwarang who was guarding her side saw him, "Your Highness, no! If you are not careful, this life will be wasted!"
Xiao Lian closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, "If you don't fight at this time, this life will end here!"
As he said that, he used all his strength with his ten fingers, trying to forcefully remove the dragon hook that locked the lute bones on both sides.
A burst of severe pain swept through his whole body, and his shoulders were bleeding profusely!
With a lot of strength, under the severe pain, he can only use one or two points.
Seeing Xiao Su, "Hurry up! Let the arrow go! We must not let her break through the trapped dragon hook!"
Arrows rained all over the sky, like a big net crashing down, Xiao Lian knelt down on one knee, and several Hualang used their bodies as shields on top of her head to block the first wave of arrows for her.
what--!
A mournful growl like a raging female beast came from under the stacked corpses.
Xiao Lian's face was already pale, and he was sweating profusely.
The harder she used, the more painful the place locked by the trapped dragon hook would be. The five dragon claws had tightly hugged and locked the lute bone. It is impossible to remove this pair of hooks with bare hands.
"Play it again!" Xiao Su said a second time.
The second wave of arrows came roaring.
The second group of Hua Lang surrounded her, blocking the attack again with his physical body.
what--!
Xiao Lian roared fiercely again, she knelt on the ground and tried her best again!
But the sleepy dragon hook remained motionless.
Xiao Lian was already drenched in cold sweat, grabbed the leader of Hualang who was protecting her, "Jiyue, cut it with a knife, I will release the flames and take you out!"
"Your Highness, no, if the lute bone is broken, you will be completely useless!"
"But I'm trapped by it now, no different from a useless person! Instead of leading you to die like this, it's better to go out alive together! Do it!"
Her eyes were bloodshot, and she sternly ordered!
On top of her head, the third wave of arrows rained down, and the body of the young man who enveloped her head suddenly softened, and finally slid down silently leaning on her shoulders.
These teenagers are all orphans that she carefully selected and carefully cultivated. They are the foundation of her future. She is not reconciled to dying under the rain of arrows for no reason now!
"Do it—!"
Jiyue broke her heart, "I'm sorry, Your Highness! Forgive Jiyue for not following orders!"
He waved his arms, "Take Your Highness to break through the east gate!"
At this time, only half of the Hwarangs who came to the rescue were left. After receiving the order, they quickly surrounded her and retreated to the east.
Xiao Su waved his hand, and the imperial army surrounded him one after another, "Xiao Lian, don't make unnecessary struggles, all the city gates have been blocked from the outside, if you kneel down and die, these children may still have a way out. They are nothing more than thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, if you have the heart to take them to die together, this hall can't bear to watch."
Under the cover of the young man, Xiao Lian retreated all the way, her blood-soaked eyes stared straight at Xiao Su who was riding a horse proudly.
"Jiyue, do it!"
Fighting hand to hand, Jiyue watched the Hua Langs fall one after another, corpses piled on top of each other, and gritted her teeth, "No! This subordinate can't do anything!"
Until he retreated under the gate of Dongbianmen, there were only a hundred people around Xiao Lian.
The door behind him was locked from the outside, no matter how the teenagers slashed with knives from the inside, it would not budge!
Xiao Lian was dressed in blood, standing in the center of the blood-bathed teenagers, pulling Jiyue, almost going crazy, "Jiyue, look into my eyes, listen to me! If you don't do anything now, next year today, you will be killed!" It is the anniversary of the death of you and me and all the Hwarangs, from now on there will be no more Xiao Yunji in the world!"
"But……"
"No but! When did the man trained by me, Xiao Lian, be so cautious and fearful!"
"Your Highness..."
"Go!"
Jiyue held the knife in both hands, her heart heaved violently, and she took a step back, "Okay! Your Highness, Jiyue is powerless to save you, so I want you to sacrifice your life to protect me. When I send you away safely, Jiyue will apologise with death! Ah—— !"
He closed his eyes, turned his heart, and the two knives fell quickly!
Xiao Lian's clavicles on both sides were cut off by the horizontal knife, and without the shackles of the dragon hook, the flames burst forth, and the thick city gates behind him that were originally locked were instantly turned into crispy coke.
With one kick of Xiao Lian's foot, it is a cave of life!
"go!"
Flames blazed all over her body, and she leaned heavily on the city wall with her shoulders, and the entire tower of the East Bianmen was engulfed by the scorching fire!
Tens of thousands of forbidden troops were trapped on the other side of the fire, Xiao Lian stood on the other side of the fire, and shouted to the city through the sky fire: "Xiao Su, please listen to me, one day, I, Xiao Lian, will return to Xuanji City, take your head! Take back everything!"
With her arms hanging down weakly, she turned and took Hwarang away.
Outside the city, there were [-] Huo family troops waiting for them.
Xiao Lian looked back at the red-clothed teenagers who were covered in blood and followed her in a panic. After this battle, out of 1000 people, there were only less than a hundred of them left in the private room.
"The rest of the way, I will take you out, this way, one day, I will bring you back, and pay back the blood debt!"
The flames around her immediately burned brighter, and the flames trailed behind her for several feet, like a phoenix on fire, walking directly into the Huo family's formation.
All those who approached a little bit were instantly wiped out, so no one dared to stop him.
In this way, with the rest of the people, she emerged from the bath of blood, was born from the ashes of fire, and walked out of Xuanji City step by step.
It was not until he was sure that he was completely safe that Xiao Lian gradually put away Yan Yang Huo, closed his eyes, and fell straight down.
……
In a hidden manor in the mountains outside the city, although Xiao Lian's eyes were closed tightly, it was like a nightmare, but he couldn't wake up no matter what.
Until there was a soft and warm body snuggled up to her side, singing in a childlike voice: "Little Rat, go up to the lampstand, steal oil seven, go down..."
Only then did she gradually calm down, gradually revealing a smile, unable to move her hands, she pressed her face to that soft little body, and fell into a deep sleep.
Qian Yuan sat quietly by the bed, watched the mother and daughter sleep together, and then got up to leave.
Bai Shengshou followed behind Qian Yuan, and carefully closed the door, outside there were a hundred or so teenagers who had escaped from death and followed her on their knees.
Bai Shengshou said to Jiyue: "Even if you kneel here until you die, it won't do her any good. Why don't you go to the nearby stream to rest for a while, and when she wakes up, she will be happy to see you all well?" some."
Ji Yue stubbornly raised her head, "No, we have to guard His Highness here, besides, I can't trust you either."
"You still don't believe us! If our prince hadn't brought you into the city and brought Xiao Litang out, your Highness' heads would have fallen to the ground long ago!"
Qian Yuan: "Forget it, they are also eager to protect the Lord, since they are willing to kneel, let them kneel."
He walked around Hualang, entered the bamboo pavilion, and looked at the kneeling teenagers from a distance, "She has a group of loyal people under her command. At such a young age, she protects the lord so much, which is a bit enviable."
Bai Shengshou echoed twice from the side.
Qian Yuan turned around, "Why, besides the trauma, is there anything wrong with her?"
Bai Shengshou was a little embarrassed, "My lord, there is something that I feel must be told to you."
"Then say it."
"Prince Yunji, ah no, it should be Princess Yunji. At this moment, she should be...pregnant..."
Qian Yuan's eyes froze for a moment, "How is it possible?"
Bai Shengshou took a look, what is it? "Your Highness, you don't have anything to do with her, but you can't guarantee that she has...something with other people, the little doll inside is just...something..."
Qian Yuan's face suddenly had unspeakable emotions, and he glared at him, and Bai Shengshou immediately faltered and took a step back.
"Could you be mistaken? It's been more than half a month since she was young. Even if she is pregnant at this time, it's still too early to check the pulse."
Bai Shengshou took a look, ouch, it turns out that you are such a highness, you know when he was young!
"Your Highness, although my subordinate's martial arts skills are low and her medical skills are not the best in the world, it is easy to diagnose a happy pulse. Judging from the pulse condition, Princess Yunji is not only pregnant, but also nearly two months old, so there is no mistake."
Qian Yuan frowned, "How is it possible?"
Bai Shengshou also frowned, "It would be impossible if I just went there, how could it be possible..."
Princess Yunji is really different from ordinary people!
The two big men couldn't figure it out, so they simply didn't want to, anyway, the child is not mine, and it's not like I have a child in my belly anyway.
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The scorching fire at the east gate of Xuanji City burned the thick city wall into a pile of ashes.
On the road from Yuanmen to Dongbianmen, blood flowed like a river, and the ground was full of wreckage.
A pair of beautiful boots stepped over the corpse and stopped.
"It's still a step late! It's troublesome to be far away!" The man just picked a clean place to stand, and an officer who was directing the aftermath of the forbidden army shouted to this side: "Hey! Go away, go away, there is no fun to watch here Now, don't interfere with the military master's work!"
The man grinned, although he looked good-looking, but no matter how he looked at it, the words "I'm good or bad" were written all over his face, "Sorry, I'm lost, how can I get to the palace?"
The officer came over and saw that he was not from Shuofang, and he was dressed in a hairstyle, and his whole body was glamorous, so he asked, "Why are you going to the palace?"
"Submit credentials."
"The letter of credence? There are a lot of people sending the letter of credence these days. Which messenger doesn't ride a horse and a sedan chair? Did you come here like this?"
The man grinned again, and said politely: "In the first place, I should ride a horse, but the horse is not as fast as I am, so I can't be ridden by a horse, so I just came here by myself."
"..." The officer sized him up carefully again, and finally his eyes fell on the pair of boots. On the place where the oars were bleeding, he walked all the way, and there was no trace of blood on his feet, which seemed to be true. is extraordinary.
"What's your name? What country are you from?"
"Make dust, Donghuang."
"What a horse! Donghuang!"
……
On the second day, in Beichen Hall, Shen Yuyan was sitting behind the curtain, a pair of hands with bright red nails tapped restlessly on her knees, her eyes looked through the bead curtain from time to time, looking at the person below who was waiting for her reply.
All the civil and military officials in the court seemed to be looking at monsters. They looked at the man standing in the center of the hall, looking around, and made a fuss about them from the decoration of the hall to the court clothes of the officials and the street layout of Xuanji City from beginning to end.
"Speaking of the construction of this palace, I have experience. My Emperor Taihua's Tianche Palace, you have heard of it. It was built on the cliff, on the top of the waterfall, and the whole palace is integrated with the huge waterfall. , It is simply a miracle in the world, a treasure of glass light. Who came up with such a peerless whimsy? Me! Such a big piece of treasure, who presided over the construction? Me! So I said, what I just told you , the layout of your Xuanji City is unreasonable, your palace has a problem with feng shui, and it is doomed to prosper yin and yang to decline, if you don’t believe it, it won’t work.”
He walked up to Qin Shou again, grabbed his official uniform, "This style, this material, tsk tsk tsk."
Qin Shou is not as tall and handsome as him, but he is dignified anyway. He raised his head and said, "My court clothes are very expensive, so don't touch them randomly."
Nengchen withdrew his hand in disgust, "This kind of grade, in our Donghuang, that is, officials of the seventh and eighth ranks can wear it casually as ordinary clothes, and they are not on the stage. If this kind of thing is used as court clothes, all the officials may think Our Majesty has no money to support them."
He wandered around and found it meaningless, so he urged Shen Yuyan, "Your Majesty, I wonder if you have finished reading our national book? My emperor wrote it himself. It is written in the seal script that is commonly used in the sage dynasty in the Western Continent. You should be able to understand it." Yes indeed."
Shen Yuyan slowly put down the letter of credence in her hand, "Emperor Taihua, would you like to marry the nine princesses as the empress with a thousand miles of red makeup?"
All the way up and down, ah——?Another one!You have cut off contact with us in the Holy Dynasty for seven years, and now you suddenly come to us for marriage?
Nong Chen spread his hands, "I can't help it. Princess Yunji's reputation spreads far and wide, and my emperor is very fond of it. The empress of Donghuang must be Xiao Yunji."
Qin Shou put his hands in his sleeves, "It's late, everyone has run away."
Nongchen still smiled and said: "I ran away, please come back."
"It's easier said than done. How many people did she kill and how many people did she sacrifice? She didn't hesitate to cripple herself before she could go out to the gate of the city. Think of you as a young lady who escaped marriage, and if you say you want to catch her, you will catch her back?"
"Abandoned?" Nong Chen's face finally lost his smile, "Why is she abolished?"
Qin Shou rolled his eyes at him, "In order to escape, she insisted on cutting off the pipa bone with the five-claw trapping dragon hook by herself! Not only did she burn the city gate, but she also sent people to kill many guards in my house, and took away Princess Litang!"
With this glance, he glared at Nongchen on the bright side, but he clearly explained the current situation in a few words.
Xiao Suli yelled angrily in front, "Qin Dazai, what are you doing with these useless words? If you count them all, it will be unfavorable for your Dazaifu to supervise Princess Litang, and the queen mother has not punished you yet!"
Qin Shou lifted up his robe generously, took off his official hat, and knelt down, "Then, I ask the empress to punish you now!"
At the juncture of life and death, a hero descended from the sky to save the beauty in dire straits?
NONONO, Taihua does not use routines, does not use routines.
Taihua's pity, she is an unrivaled funny heroine!
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Note 1: Lutebone = scapula + clavicle, the pity's sleepy dragon hook is locked on the clavicle.
(End of this chapter)
Xiumei hurriedly kowtowed, "Back to the empress, all the empresses, your highness, the slaves have served the first empress for many years, watching the nine princesses grow up, the former empress pretended to be a boy since she was a child, and deceived the saint, The slaves always dare not speak out."
"Besides, the former Empress had a habit of torturing Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess with her own hands every night. She used all kinds of methods, which were extremely cruel, to vent her anger. The Ninth Princess was abused and controlled by others at a young age. It is really pitiful to be forced to pretend to be a prince, and to be abused by her biological mother at night, and the servants really feel sorry for her."
Shen Yuyan rubbed Nao Ren'er, "Okay, let's talk about serious business."
Embroidered eyebrows seemed to be exaggerating too much, so she hurried back to say what she had to say, "Yes, the servant girl should die. After the nine princesses grew up, they became more and more unable to bear the abuse of the former queen. She resisted several times but failed, and instead attracted the exaggerated abuse of the former queen. Finally, at the age of 12, while the first queen was asleep, she sneaked into the palace and strangled her to death with a belt."
Eunuch Yang screamed immediately: "It's nonsense! Since you knew that someone was murdering the queen, why didn't you stop it?"
Xiumei kowtowed again, "Your servant is guilty, you deserve to die! I can't bear to see the princess being abused day and night, life is worse than death. At that time, I only thought that if this little child could live a normal life from now on, my servant Even if he died, it was still a merit, so even though he saw it secretly, he didn't reveal a word."
Xiao Lian sneered, "Then why are you standing up to identify Ben Gong now?"
"Because..., because I know that if I don't stand up and testify against this matter, the princess who disguised herself as a woman and killed her biological mother will become the new king of the dynasty in the future, and I will be a sinner of Shuofang forever!"
"Ha! This hat is buttoned big enough." With a knife on her neck, Xiao Lian looked at her with a cool smile, staring at her with hairs all over her eyebrows, "I ask you, where will you go after your mother's funeral?" ?”
"Returning to Your Highness, the emperor read that the servant was getting old and had served the queen for many years, so he authorized the servant to leave the palace, and specifically pointed it out to the housekeeper of General Huo's mansion."
"So, in your current life, husbands are virtuous, sons are filial, husbands sing and women do what they want? Okay, I understand, I don't blame you."
Xiumei's head, which was originally drooping, suddenly lifted up, and there was a strange light in his eyes looking at Xiao Lian.
That's right, now, her three sons and her husband are all kneeling in Huo Chongguang's study, waiting for her to return to her life!
She knelt on the ground, facing Xiao Lian squarely, and knocked her head three times, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness!"
Shen Yuyan lowered her eyelids and drank her tea slowly, "Okay, now the evidence is solid, Xiao Lian, do you plead guilty?"
Xiao Lian smiled faintly, "I don't remember many things in the past. When you are under the knife, you can do whatever you say. I won't resist, and I won't say no. It's just that I want you to let Qin go." Yueming and Tangtang."
Qin Yueming was stabbed with a knife on his neck, and he was desperately protecting Litang, "Master, at this time, you still say these things, you can't plead guilty, you will die!"
"Let them go!" Xiao Lian raised his chin slightly, the killing chain on his wrist rang softly, and the hands of the guards with knives beside him trembled.
Eunuch Yang lost no time in saying: "Madam, Princess Litang is only two years old, and she won't remember anything in the future. Besides, she is of royal blood. If she is punished with the same crime, everyone in this house will respect Madam, you justly enforce the law. But I'm afraid that you don't miss family affection, my mother."
Shen Yuyan's expression changed a bit.
Eunuch Yang continued: "There is also the Crown Princess, ah bah, look at my mouth, it is Miss Qin. Behind her is Lord Dazai. If you ask the crime so hastily, I am afraid that it will cause turmoil in the previous court. Besides..."
"Okay, needless to say, I know."
Shen Yuyan changed her posture, put down the teacup, and looked at Xiao Lian carefully, "Okay, Xiao Lian, although you are a daughter, you still have a sense of responsibility and integrity! I will be in front of the whole palace today. I promise you from the bottom of my face, no matter who the biological father of Litang Princess is, she is always of royal blood, and the young girl is innocent. I make an exception and spare her from death. As for Qin Yueming, although he knew about it and did not report it to you, he was in collusion with you. Human coercion is also justifiable, death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be escaped, temporarily sent back to Dazaifu for restraint, and will be tried again later."
When Qin Yueming heard this, she hugged Litang tightly on the spot, "Madam, Princess Litang was born by me and raised by myself. She is treated like flesh and blood. Allow me to take her away with me!"
Xiao E scrambled to stop her, "I can't take it away, without her, who can hold back that devil?"
"E'er, you are a golden branch and jade leaf, how can you restrain a two-year-old child, you really don't know the general idea!" Shen Yuyan said: "Since I have publicly promised to let Princess Litang go, I will definitely not break my promise."
She raised her head to look at Xiao Lian, "Xiao Lian, do you trust me or not? I can't say for sure, but I can't trust you. How can you protect me? With your abilities, if Litang is no longer in Bengong's hands I'm afraid that even if General Xiong BeiJi is here, he won't be able to do anything to you, don't you think?"
Xiao Lian glanced at Litang, the child didn't know what happened, his big eyes were flickering, he just watched the excitement, so he smiled at her and winked.
"Then the Empress thinks, how should I be a guarantor?"
"Okay, since you asked Ben Gong to speak, then Ben Gong will speak." Shen Yuyan waved her hand, "Come here, bring it up."
It was Du Qiyan who walked in from the door, holding a pair of objects tied with iron chains in his hand, he glanced at Xiao Lian, "Your Highness, my minister..."
Xiao Su shouted angrily: "When you see the Empress, don't you greet her first, but go talk to that heinous person?"
Du Qiyan was helpless, holding the things in his hands with both hands, and knelt down to Shen Yuyan, "I, Du Qiyan, have brought the five-clawed dragon hook to you by the queen's order."
Qin Yueming struggled and said, "No way! It's used to lock prisoners of war on death row. Once the lock is locked, it can't be taken off again! Our master is the son of a phoenix and the grandson of a dragon, so we can't use it on her!"
"Qin Yueming!" Xiao Lian shouted, "Do what you should do."
"But……"
"Help me take care of Tangtang. From now on, you are her real mother!" Xiao Lian raised her head proudly, and with a loud crash, the killing chain on her wrist fell off and fell to the ground. The soft leather gauntlets were thrown away.
She looked at Du Qiyan with a smile, "General Du, come on, I'm ready."
Du Qiyan came to her with the dragon hook in his hands, with his back to Shen Yuyan, with an extremely difficult expression, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, I..."
"Okay, I know you have your own difficulties. This time, I came back late and lost the opportunity. I fell into the net of heaven and earth. I don't care for anyone. You can do it."
At this time, Xiao Yu shouted: "Wait a minute! Queen Mother, Nine Emperor Sisters have already been captured. After all, she is the most beloved child of the Emperor Father. Can you wait until the Emperor wakes up before making a decision."
Shen Yuyan's coquettish Feng slightly challenged her, "I have always been in charge of the harem matters. Your father has been in poor health recently, so let him fall asleep."
Over there, Xiao Su held up the knife and urged, "Du Qiyan, what are you still dawdling about? Hurry up and get on the sleepy dragon hook. I'm already tired of carrying the knife in this hall, and I don't know when I'll hurt Li Tang's little neck!"
Du Qiyan saw that things were no longer turning around, his hand holding the trapped dragon hook trembled slightly, and he didn't dare to look directly at Xiao Lian.
Xiao Yu was in a hurry, "Wait, wait, maybe the national teacher is coming back soon, if Lao Jiu is locked like this, the national teacher will get angry..."
boom!
Shen Yuyan slapped the table fiercely with her hand full of jewels, "Enough! The national teacher has been missing for more than half a month, and the entire Fallen Tower has been evacuated. He is afraid that he has abandoned Shuofang. How can he talk about it?" Come back, you will be my three-year-old child, and you will move out to scare me as the emperor and the national teacher for a while?"
Xiao Yu plopped down on his knees, "Mother, I dare not, I just can't bear it..."
Shen Yuyan suppressed her angry roar, "Okay, don't just kneel down, it's as if I'm so cruel. Xiao Lian is the emperor's princess, so she should call me the queen mother, and she can be regarded as my child, do you think Is this palace going to have the heart to treat her like this?"
Her face immediately changed, "However, what Xiao Lian did the night Princess Litang disappeared, the whole Xuanji City, the palace and the palace are obvious to all. Now it's a matter of life and death, if she is not locked, with her ability, Go crazy, I'm afraid no one can stop her."
Shen Yuyan sighed deeply, "I have nothing to do, General Du, let's do it."
Du Qiyan had no choice but to hold a sleepy dragon hook in each hand, and said in a voice that he could barely hear: "Your Highness, I'm sorry."
Xiao Lian, however, had no time to pay attention to him, looked at Li Tang who was not far away, with a soft voice, completely lost the pretense of the past, his eyes were bent, and his voice was soft: "Tang Tang, play peek-a-boo with Daddy Is it? Say the little mouse to the lampstand three times, and Daddy will hide it."
Li Tang blinked her big eyes, nodded and said, "Okay."
After finishing speaking, he covered his eyes with his two little hands, and began to murmur inarticulately, "Little Naoshu, go up to the lampstand, steal the oil, and get down, cat, cat, cat, meow, Nerigunu, come down. Little Rat, go to the lampstand..."
There were two muffled chants, the sound of a blunt instrument piercing flesh and blood, Xiao Lian said nothing, two dragon hooks pierced through the lute bone, five claws closed together, tightly hugging the collarbone, connected to the chain, hanging heavily on the Between her shoulders and neck.
Du Qiyan carefully pulled the iron chains on the two hooks, and led the way ahead, Xiao Lian turned around and walked out step by step following Litang's childish rap rhythm, the ground was covered with a series of bloodstains.
Qin Yueming gritted his teeth tightly, tears swirled crazily in his eyes, and tried his best not to let them fall.
The room was full of people, but it was silent. Litang's sweet voice smashed every word into pieces, smashing into people's hearts.
When those little hands were removed from her chubby face, Qin Yueming's smile changed, "Come on, Tangtang, Daddy has hidden it. Concubine Mother will take you to find her, let's go."
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In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Lanyong did not come to the court again, but Shen Yuyan hung the curtain and announced a decree for the emperor.
"Successively, Mrs. Mu is my first spouse. Although she deceived the emperor and deserved her crime, she is dead and forgets the past. Her daughter, Xiao Lian, slaughtered her closest relatives, murdered the mother of the country, deceived the emperor, and plotted to seize the position of the prince. Si Chen committed a heinous crime. Now that there are all witnesses, the evidence is as solid as a mountain, and he confesses unreservedly. At noon on the day of the winter solstice, he will be beheaded under the gate in the name of deceiving the emperor and plotting rebellion."
At this time, Shen Yuyan had already held hostage the emperor who had been sleeping all day long, handed over Du Qiyan's forbidden soldier talisman, and behind him was Huo Chongguang, who held the military power in the North Camp, to support him, and began to listen to the government behind the curtain.
Between her and Xiao Lian, one is the queen of the palace and controls the military power, while the other is the princess who pretends to be the prince and the rebellious person who murdered her biological mother. For a while, no one can replace Xiao Lian in the civil and military affairs of the court. Say a word.
Even the Dazai faction headed by Qin Shou is silent at this time, only showing their ears but not their mouths in the court.
Since his daughter was able to be protected by Xiao Lian and survived the sudden change, the most urgent task is to protect Xiao Litang with the strength of the whole family. Therefore, in the court hall, he changed his usual glib tongue and became cautious and careful. If you dare to make a slight mistake, you are afraid that you will fall into the trap and be implicated, which will not only harm the Nine Clans, but also waste Xiao Lian's thoughts.
When Shuofang announced this shocking news to the world, the winter solstice was still ten days away.
Such a step by Shen Yuyan is obviously for Xiao Su to seize the throne in the future, throwing stones at the holy kingdoms and the capital of the gods to ask for directions. Apart from waiting for time, she is still waiting to see how the holy kingdoms react to this matter.
Sure enough, this news, like a heavy thunderbolt, exploded in the entire West Continent, causing an uproar in an instant.
Everyone said that Hokuriku was about to change!
Three days later, Shen Yuyan really waited for the first letter of credence, but it was from Beiyu, a small country adjacent to the western border.
Above the court hall, the envoy stood upright and respectful at the bottom, Shen Yuyan sat behind the curtain, and Eunuch Yang presented the paper of national letters up.
When the fingers with bright red nails spread out the letter of credence, Shen Yuyan's face immediately changed after only one glance!
She clacked the credentials and threw them out from behind the bead curtain.
"Bei Yu is here as an envoy, what does your majesty mean?"
The envoy said humbly and courteously: "My queen, my king's meaning has been clearly written in the letter of credence."
"How unreasonable is this! Xiao Lian is a traitor of the country. He kills one after another and deceives the king. He asks whether your king Bei Yu is mentally ill. At this time, he proposes a marriage?"
The envoy of Beiyu must be very courageous and not afraid, "Go back to the empress, before setting off, my king said that on the autumn hunt, I saw the nine princesses in person, and they were shocked by the heavens. Yunji, to dominate the Western Continent is just around the corner. But now, this unrivaled hero turned out to be a daughter, and your country wants to take her to be beheaded and her head removed. Since you are so rare, why don't you just treat her as a favor? Send her to my king as a queen, and my king is willing to give half of the country as a gift."
All of a sudden, there was an uproar.
Qin Shou breathed a sigh of relief and coughed lightly.
Later that day, another three or five envoys from neighboring countries came to see him one after another, all for the same thing, begging for the Ninth Princess Xiao Lian!
On the fourth day, letters from several small countries a little farther away sent over, the content was similar, nothing more than wishing to seek someone from all over the country.
On the fifth and sixth days, it was like this every day. In the entire thirty-odd countries in the Western Continent, except for the three dynasties of Kongsang, Zanghai, and Kongque, the three dynasties of the Kongque Dynasty remained silent. For the rest of the countries, the letters of credence for marriage proposals flew over like snowflakes.
Thirty or so envoys gathered together, discussing only one thing, who can bring back the Ninth Princess Xiao Yunji!
Here.
"I heard that the whole body of the Ninth Princess has no good flesh except for that face. Your majesty is so lustful, so forget it."
"Hey? You can't say that. Our king loves sex, but he is not stupid. The so-called marrying a wife, if you can get Princess Yunji as the queen, I am afraid that the territory of the West Land will change every day."
there.
"Your Majesty is Gui Geng this year?"
"Eighty. Where's your majesty?"
"Eight years old."
"……,Nice to meet you."
"..., polite and polite."
"Hiss, I heard that Princess Yunji has a daughter of unknown origin. Does your king not mind?"
"If you can't snatch it, who cares about it! If you snatch a Xiao Yunji and go back, it's better than a million troops, and it's nothing to raise a child for others. Besides, golden eagles are competing for the deer, and there are thousands of pairs of eyes. I have seen how Princess Yunji treated that child, she is a treasure that she will risk her life to protect, if our king treats that child as her own, she will still follow my king wholeheartedly!"
Hey?Why do you seem to have said a bit too much?
"..."
In the Duanfang Hall, Shen Yuyan, who was sitting on Xiao Lanyong's dragon chair, slapped the desk hard, "You bastard! Don't think that this palace will let you go if so many people beg you to marry me! When the hour comes, no matter how many people stop you Now, I will kill you in public!"
She was furious when another little eunuch came outside to report, "Report to Empress Empress, the envoy from the Maurya Dynasty has arrived."
"Qian Yuan is also here to join in the fun?"
"Hui Niangniang, not only did you come, but she also brought a team of thousands of people directly into the city!"
"Xiao Lian! So many people want you to live, I want you to die!"
She swung her sleeves wide and pushed the thick stack of credentials on the case to the ground.
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So it is day after day, and the day of the winter solstice is coming soon.
Deep in the dungeon, there is a dry well.
When the sun was shining directly, a woman's gentle voice came from down the well, reciting and singing a nursery rhyme.
"Little mouse, go up to the lampstand, steal oil to eat, can't get down..."
Every day, only at this time, when Xiao Lian is sitting at the bottom of the well, there will be a little sunlight above his head.
Taking advantage of the sunlight, she carefully carved three small figures on the well wall with her nails, "Tangtang, Daddy, and Mother."
Because the lutes were locked (Note 1), she felt severe pain with a little effort in her arms, so she could only use her nails to grind a little bit on the stone, and there was nothing to do anyway.
"Sheng Chuyi, the winter solstice is coming soon. You said that Donghuang is like spring all the year round, and there are many delicious foods. I really want to go and see it."
She smiled slightly, looked up at the sky, whistled, and a little sparrow fluttered through the gap in the cage above the dry well and flew down.
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On the day of Wenzhan, Xuanji City was empty with thousands of people, just to catch a glimpse of how Prince Yunji turned back into a woman.
Xiao Lian stood on the prison cart with long hair hanging down. He was dressed in snow-white prison clothes, with heavy shackles on his hands and feet. Between his shoulders was a soaked crimson. The ferocious dragon hook was like a blood-sucking steel poisonous insect. between her neck and shoulders.
Because of the absence of the majestic appearance that she deliberately dressed up on weekdays, her daughter's beautiful eyebrows and eyes were revealed. Although she was in trouble, her strength of character was not diminished by half.
Envoys from more than thirty countries came, but Shen Yuyan gave them a slap in the face. None of them made a successful marriage proposal, but most of them refused to leave.At this time, Wu Yangyang was huddled under the guillotine and waiting, Princess Yunji was not dead yet, so they couldn't finish their errand.
Seeing the prison van stop, Xiao Lian climbed up step by step, and glanced at the sea of people who came to watch the beheading, as if the people below were not here to watch her go to death, but came to worship her.
Huo Chongguang was in charge of overseeing the beheading, he yelled and verified his integrity, "Who is below, still not kneeling!"
Xiao Lian turned around and grinned, "Old man, who should be kneeling?"
Huo Chongguang immediately blew his beard, "Bold! How dare you look at the lawless king when you are about to die!"
Xiao Lian gave him a disgusted look, and stood with his hands behind his back, "Father has been in a coma since then, and there has been no decree to abolish the crown prince. This palace was accused by Shen Yuyan of falsely preaching an imperial decree. Even if he dies today, he is still the righteous crown prince of Shuofang. What should I do here?" Who is kneeling, old man Huo, don't you know?"
"Oh! I don't believe you don't kneel anymore!" Standing behind Huo Chongguang, Huo Chengshuang rolled up his sleeves, came to Xiao Lian, raised his leg and kicked his knee, "I don't think you kneel!"
Ok?
I really didn't kneel!
Xiao Lian tilted his head, "When will it be your turn, a bastard, to mess with me!"
She flew up on the spot, with shackles on her feet, and pressed directly on Huo Chengshuang's shoulders. When her legs were hardened, the dude plopped, unable to bear the force, and knelt down.
When Xiao Lian exerted such force, blood oozed faintly from his shoulder, and one leg pressed him firmly to the ground, "Even if I lock the lute bone and lose all my abilities, it won't take much effort to kill you, Huo Cheng Shuang, don't forget, your life was given by me, and I can take it back at any time!"
Huo Chongguang was furious, "Come here! Take down the criminal Xiao Yunji, and execute him on the spot!"
Hurrah, the two guards quickly outflanked the guillotine, swung their knives and slashed!
Xiao Lian's arms were locked by the trapped dragon hook, and he couldn't move a little bit, but his leg skills didn't decrease by half. With a pair of dozens of people, he was able to do a job with ease.
It's just that more and more blood flowed from the wound on the lute bone, which made the people below who had applauded her feel unbearable.
In the chaos, Huo Chengshuang drew his sword and struck from behind Xiao Lian, "Xiao Lian! I will kill you today—!"
laugh!
An arrow shot in from Huo Chengshuang's wide-open mouth, came out from the back of his neck, and pierced directly into the back of the chair above Huo Chongguang's head.
"Frost!"
Huo Chongguang screamed!
Someone shouted loudly: "Rob the law field!"
All around, the overwhelming crowd of red-clothed flower men came with their knives, stepped on the heads of the onlookers, like a flock of blood-red swifts, flew in the air, the knife flashed, and strangled hundreds of forbidden soldiers in the entire execution ground in a blink of an eye.
Xiao Lian was covered in blood-stained white clothes, and stood quietly on the guillotine, still holding his hands behind his back.
Among the crowds near and far, on the square, and even on the rooftops in the distance, nearly a thousand people knelt down in unison, "Hwarang Savior is late, please forgive me, Your Highness."
Xiao Lian turned around and looked at Huo Chongguang, who had been surrounded by several teenagers, stepped off the guillotine, boarded the execution stage, reached out and took a command arrow, and threw it on the ground, "Beheaded!"
"Xiao Lian! How dare you! This old man is the great general of Shuofang! This old man is the supervisor! This old man is the veteran of the three dynasties! This old man is the chief general of the Northern Camp!..."
puff!
The white-haired head rolled away far away, and a stream of turbid blood was sprayed on the ground.
Xiao Lian kicked the table, "I'm still the prince."
Beside her, Hwarang put on a red cloak for her, "Your Highness, we will send you out of the city!"
"Where's Tangtang?"
"Already waiting ten miles outside the city."
"it is good."
Escorted by everyone, Xiao Lian went down to the East Bianmen, and the imperial army from the entire Xuanji City had already poured in like a tide. The thousand red-clothed youths who had come to rescue, appeared to be alone in front of the army.
Du Qiyan rode on the horse, "His Royal Highness, the responsibility of this humble minister lies, please forgive me!"
Although he shouted loudly, he just surrounded the 1000 people without any real action.
"His Royal Highness, you'd better capture it with nothing. In order...to wipe out all your personal soldiers, not only all the forbidden troops in Xuanji City have been mobilized, but tens of thousands of Huo's troops have been deployed outside the city. Now you have killed General Huo. I am afraid that there is no possibility of escape, why do you..."
Du Qiyan spoke very hard, but explained the current situation to her one by one in detail, "Why do you have to struggle so hard?"
Xiao Lian sneered, "If you don't struggle, are you going to die generously? You and I have been serving the Communist Party for a long time. When will General Du see me? Xiao Lian is a person who accepts his fate?"
At this time, Xiao Su arrived, "What are you talking about with her, the archer is ready!"
All of a sudden, all the archers strung their bows together.
"Protect Your Highness!"
The young Hualang opened the wall of people and protected Xiao Lian, who was dressed in pale white, in the center.
Xiao Lian lowered his head, stood in the middle of the crowd, clenched his teeth, raised his right hand, clasped five fingers on the dragon hook on the left collarbone, then raised his left hand, clasped it on the right collarbone, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes .
Commander Hwarang who was guarding her side saw him, "Your Highness, no! If you are not careful, this life will be wasted!"
Xiao Lian closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, "If you don't fight at this time, this life will end here!"
As he said that, he used all his strength with his ten fingers, trying to forcefully remove the dragon hook that locked the lute bones on both sides.
A burst of severe pain swept through his whole body, and his shoulders were bleeding profusely!
With a lot of strength, under the severe pain, he can only use one or two points.
Seeing Xiao Su, "Hurry up! Let the arrow go! We must not let her break through the trapped dragon hook!"
Arrows rained all over the sky, like a big net crashing down, Xiao Lian knelt down on one knee, and several Hualang used their bodies as shields on top of her head to block the first wave of arrows for her.
what--!
A mournful growl like a raging female beast came from under the stacked corpses.
Xiao Lian's face was already pale, and he was sweating profusely.
The harder she used, the more painful the place locked by the trapped dragon hook would be. The five dragon claws had tightly hugged and locked the lute bone. It is impossible to remove this pair of hooks with bare hands.
"Play it again!" Xiao Su said a second time.
The second wave of arrows came roaring.
The second group of Hua Lang surrounded her, blocking the attack again with his physical body.
what--!
Xiao Lian roared fiercely again, she knelt on the ground and tried her best again!
But the sleepy dragon hook remained motionless.
Xiao Lian was already drenched in cold sweat, grabbed the leader of Hualang who was protecting her, "Jiyue, cut it with a knife, I will release the flames and take you out!"
"Your Highness, no, if the lute bone is broken, you will be completely useless!"
"But I'm trapped by it now, no different from a useless person! Instead of leading you to die like this, it's better to go out alive together! Do it!"
Her eyes were bloodshot, and she sternly ordered!
On top of her head, the third wave of arrows rained down, and the body of the young man who enveloped her head suddenly softened, and finally slid down silently leaning on her shoulders.
These teenagers are all orphans that she carefully selected and carefully cultivated. They are the foundation of her future. She is not reconciled to dying under the rain of arrows for no reason now!
"Do it—!"
Jiyue broke her heart, "I'm sorry, Your Highness! Forgive Jiyue for not following orders!"
He waved his arms, "Take Your Highness to break through the east gate!"
At this time, only half of the Hwarangs who came to the rescue were left. After receiving the order, they quickly surrounded her and retreated to the east.
Xiao Su waved his hand, and the imperial army surrounded him one after another, "Xiao Lian, don't make unnecessary struggles, all the city gates have been blocked from the outside, if you kneel down and die, these children may still have a way out. They are nothing more than thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys, if you have the heart to take them to die together, this hall can't bear to watch."
Under the cover of the young man, Xiao Lian retreated all the way, her blood-soaked eyes stared straight at Xiao Su who was riding a horse proudly.
"Jiyue, do it!"
Fighting hand to hand, Jiyue watched the Hua Langs fall one after another, corpses piled on top of each other, and gritted her teeth, "No! This subordinate can't do anything!"
Until he retreated under the gate of Dongbianmen, there were only a hundred people around Xiao Lian.
The door behind him was locked from the outside, no matter how the teenagers slashed with knives from the inside, it would not budge!
Xiao Lian was dressed in blood, standing in the center of the blood-bathed teenagers, pulling Jiyue, almost going crazy, "Jiyue, look into my eyes, listen to me! If you don't do anything now, next year today, you will be killed!" It is the anniversary of the death of you and me and all the Hwarangs, from now on there will be no more Xiao Yunji in the world!"
"But……"
"No but! When did the man trained by me, Xiao Lian, be so cautious and fearful!"
"Your Highness..."
"Go!"
Jiyue held the knife in both hands, her heart heaved violently, and she took a step back, "Okay! Your Highness, Jiyue is powerless to save you, so I want you to sacrifice your life to protect me. When I send you away safely, Jiyue will apologise with death! Ah—— !"
He closed his eyes, turned his heart, and the two knives fell quickly!
Xiao Lian's clavicles on both sides were cut off by the horizontal knife, and without the shackles of the dragon hook, the flames burst forth, and the thick city gates behind him that were originally locked were instantly turned into crispy coke.
With one kick of Xiao Lian's foot, it is a cave of life!
"go!"
Flames blazed all over her body, and she leaned heavily on the city wall with her shoulders, and the entire tower of the East Bianmen was engulfed by the scorching fire!
Tens of thousands of forbidden troops were trapped on the other side of the fire, Xiao Lian stood on the other side of the fire, and shouted to the city through the sky fire: "Xiao Su, please listen to me, one day, I, Xiao Lian, will return to Xuanji City, take your head! Take back everything!"
With her arms hanging down weakly, she turned and took Hwarang away.
Outside the city, there were [-] Huo family troops waiting for them.
Xiao Lian looked back at the red-clothed teenagers who were covered in blood and followed her in a panic. After this battle, out of 1000 people, there were only less than a hundred of them left in the private room.
"The rest of the way, I will take you out, this way, one day, I will bring you back, and pay back the blood debt!"
The flames around her immediately burned brighter, and the flames trailed behind her for several feet, like a phoenix on fire, walking directly into the Huo family's formation.
All those who approached a little bit were instantly wiped out, so no one dared to stop him.
In this way, with the rest of the people, she emerged from the bath of blood, was born from the ashes of fire, and walked out of Xuanji City step by step.
It was not until he was sure that he was completely safe that Xiao Lian gradually put away Yan Yang Huo, closed his eyes, and fell straight down.
……
In a hidden manor in the mountains outside the city, although Xiao Lian's eyes were closed tightly, it was like a nightmare, but he couldn't wake up no matter what.
Until there was a soft and warm body snuggled up to her side, singing in a childlike voice: "Little Rat, go up to the lampstand, steal oil seven, go down..."
Only then did she gradually calm down, gradually revealing a smile, unable to move her hands, she pressed her face to that soft little body, and fell into a deep sleep.
Qian Yuan sat quietly by the bed, watched the mother and daughter sleep together, and then got up to leave.
Bai Shengshou followed behind Qian Yuan, and carefully closed the door, outside there were a hundred or so teenagers who had escaped from death and followed her on their knees.
Bai Shengshou said to Jiyue: "Even if you kneel here until you die, it won't do her any good. Why don't you go to the nearby stream to rest for a while, and when she wakes up, she will be happy to see you all well?" some."
Ji Yue stubbornly raised her head, "No, we have to guard His Highness here, besides, I can't trust you either."
"You still don't believe us! If our prince hadn't brought you into the city and brought Xiao Litang out, your Highness' heads would have fallen to the ground long ago!"
Qian Yuan: "Forget it, they are also eager to protect the Lord, since they are willing to kneel, let them kneel."
He walked around Hualang, entered the bamboo pavilion, and looked at the kneeling teenagers from a distance, "She has a group of loyal people under her command. At such a young age, she protects the lord so much, which is a bit enviable."
Bai Shengshou echoed twice from the side.
Qian Yuan turned around, "Why, besides the trauma, is there anything wrong with her?"
Bai Shengshou was a little embarrassed, "My lord, there is something that I feel must be told to you."
"Then say it."
"Prince Yunji, ah no, it should be Princess Yunji. At this moment, she should be...pregnant..."
Qian Yuan's eyes froze for a moment, "How is it possible?"
Bai Shengshou took a look, what is it? "Your Highness, you don't have anything to do with her, but you can't guarantee that she has...something with other people, the little doll inside is just...something..."
Qian Yuan's face suddenly had unspeakable emotions, and he glared at him, and Bai Shengshou immediately faltered and took a step back.
"Could you be mistaken? It's been more than half a month since she was young. Even if she is pregnant at this time, it's still too early to check the pulse."
Bai Shengshou took a look, ouch, it turns out that you are such a highness, you know when he was young!
"Your Highness, although my subordinate's martial arts skills are low and her medical skills are not the best in the world, it is easy to diagnose a happy pulse. Judging from the pulse condition, Princess Yunji is not only pregnant, but also nearly two months old, so there is no mistake."
Qian Yuan frowned, "How is it possible?"
Bai Shengshou also frowned, "It would be impossible if I just went there, how could it be possible..."
Princess Yunji is really different from ordinary people!
The two big men couldn't figure it out, so they simply didn't want to, anyway, the child is not mine, and it's not like I have a child in my belly anyway.
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The scorching fire at the east gate of Xuanji City burned the thick city wall into a pile of ashes.
On the road from Yuanmen to Dongbianmen, blood flowed like a river, and the ground was full of wreckage.
A pair of beautiful boots stepped over the corpse and stopped.
"It's still a step late! It's troublesome to be far away!" The man just picked a clean place to stand, and an officer who was directing the aftermath of the forbidden army shouted to this side: "Hey! Go away, go away, there is no fun to watch here Now, don't interfere with the military master's work!"
The man grinned, although he looked good-looking, but no matter how he looked at it, the words "I'm good or bad" were written all over his face, "Sorry, I'm lost, how can I get to the palace?"
The officer came over and saw that he was not from Shuofang, and he was dressed in a hairstyle, and his whole body was glamorous, so he asked, "Why are you going to the palace?"
"Submit credentials."
"The letter of credence? There are a lot of people sending the letter of credence these days. Which messenger doesn't ride a horse and a sedan chair? Did you come here like this?"
The man grinned again, and said politely: "In the first place, I should ride a horse, but the horse is not as fast as I am, so I can't be ridden by a horse, so I just came here by myself."
"..." The officer sized him up carefully again, and finally his eyes fell on the pair of boots. On the place where the oars were bleeding, he walked all the way, and there was no trace of blood on his feet, which seemed to be true. is extraordinary.
"What's your name? What country are you from?"
"Make dust, Donghuang."
"What a horse! Donghuang!"
……
On the second day, in Beichen Hall, Shen Yuyan was sitting behind the curtain, a pair of hands with bright red nails tapped restlessly on her knees, her eyes looked through the bead curtain from time to time, looking at the person below who was waiting for her reply.
All the civil and military officials in the court seemed to be looking at monsters. They looked at the man standing in the center of the hall, looking around, and made a fuss about them from the decoration of the hall to the court clothes of the officials and the street layout of Xuanji City from beginning to end.
"Speaking of the construction of this palace, I have experience. My Emperor Taihua's Tianche Palace, you have heard of it. It was built on the cliff, on the top of the waterfall, and the whole palace is integrated with the huge waterfall. , It is simply a miracle in the world, a treasure of glass light. Who came up with such a peerless whimsy? Me! Such a big piece of treasure, who presided over the construction? Me! So I said, what I just told you , the layout of your Xuanji City is unreasonable, your palace has a problem with feng shui, and it is doomed to prosper yin and yang to decline, if you don’t believe it, it won’t work.”
He walked up to Qin Shou again, grabbed his official uniform, "This style, this material, tsk tsk tsk."
Qin Shou is not as tall and handsome as him, but he is dignified anyway. He raised his head and said, "My court clothes are very expensive, so don't touch them randomly."
Nengchen withdrew his hand in disgust, "This kind of grade, in our Donghuang, that is, officials of the seventh and eighth ranks can wear it casually as ordinary clothes, and they are not on the stage. If this kind of thing is used as court clothes, all the officials may think Our Majesty has no money to support them."
He wandered around and found it meaningless, so he urged Shen Yuyan, "Your Majesty, I wonder if you have finished reading our national book? My emperor wrote it himself. It is written in the seal script that is commonly used in the sage dynasty in the Western Continent. You should be able to understand it." Yes indeed."
Shen Yuyan slowly put down the letter of credence in her hand, "Emperor Taihua, would you like to marry the nine princesses as the empress with a thousand miles of red makeup?"
All the way up and down, ah——?Another one!You have cut off contact with us in the Holy Dynasty for seven years, and now you suddenly come to us for marriage?
Nong Chen spread his hands, "I can't help it. Princess Yunji's reputation spreads far and wide, and my emperor is very fond of it. The empress of Donghuang must be Xiao Yunji."
Qin Shou put his hands in his sleeves, "It's late, everyone has run away."
Nongchen still smiled and said: "I ran away, please come back."
"It's easier said than done. How many people did she kill and how many people did she sacrifice? She didn't hesitate to cripple herself before she could go out to the gate of the city. Think of you as a young lady who escaped marriage, and if you say you want to catch her, you will catch her back?"
"Abandoned?" Nong Chen's face finally lost his smile, "Why is she abolished?"
Qin Shou rolled his eyes at him, "In order to escape, she insisted on cutting off the pipa bone with the five-claw trapping dragon hook by herself! Not only did she burn the city gate, but she also sent people to kill many guards in my house, and took away Princess Litang!"
With this glance, he glared at Nongchen on the bright side, but he clearly explained the current situation in a few words.
Xiao Suli yelled angrily in front, "Qin Dazai, what are you doing with these useless words? If you count them all, it will be unfavorable for your Dazaifu to supervise Princess Litang, and the queen mother has not punished you yet!"
Qin Shou lifted up his robe generously, took off his official hat, and knelt down, "Then, I ask the empress to punish you now!"
At the juncture of life and death, a hero descended from the sky to save the beauty in dire straits?
NONONO, Taihua does not use routines, does not use routines.
Taihua's pity, she is an unrivaled funny heroine!
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Note 1: Lutebone = scapula + clavicle, the pity's sleepy dragon hook is locked on the clavicle.
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