In the heavy snow, the entire imperial city was burning, and the night sky in Chang'an turned blood-red. The tongues of fire kissed the ruins and corpses, making people think of the wolf smoke outside the Great Wall that destroyed the entire Liangzhou City ten years ago.
When Shangguan Jinnian found the open gold collar in the East Palace, his suspicions were further confirmed. He personally led his troops and searched everywhere in the imperial city, but could not find Tang Mingzhen anywhere, and he was quite worried.
A bloody white feather floated down from Shangguan Jinnian's eyes.
Shangguan was stunned for a moment and suddenly raised his head.
Tang Mingzhen was sitting high on the somewhat burnt cornices of the East Palace. He plucked the feathers from his wings and threw them on his head in boredom.
"Get down!" The big stone in Shangguan Jinnian's heart fell to the ground, and his eyes like cold stars were even a little moist.
"I won't go down, just come up." Tang Mingzhen said.
Tang Mingzhen would not tell him that he was afraid of fire just now and flew to the eaves, but he did not dare to fly down anymore.
Shangguan Jinnian was obviously extremely abnormal today because he actually asked for a long ladder and climbed up the eaves in full view of everyone.
Seeing An Guogong climbing the ladder, Tang Mingzhen couldn't help it. He wiped his tears and laughed forward and back, his wings trembling wildly.
It is such a quiet and beautiful night sky. It seems that God has never seen the bleeding and crying in the world. No matter what time of day, the starry sky in Chang'an is as beautiful as picturesque.
Shangguan Jinnian couldn't help but put the gold collar around Tang Mingzhen's neck. After a while, the ferocious giant wings disappeared, and Ah Zhen's eye color returned to normal.
Almost instantly, she pounced on Shangguan Jinnian like an octopus and burst into tears. All her uneasiness and fear were accepted by Shangguan Jinnian's arms. She felt the warmth of that arms. The night of physical and mental exhaustion made her almost want to
As soon as his eyes darkened, he fell asleep.
She looked like a little doll nestled in the arms of her master. She was so immortal that she remembered Princess Anya's words and the two words she said, "concubine". She
He raised his head from Shangguan Jinnian's arms and traced the graceful but cold lips with misty tearful eyes.
"If you can't ask for it, you can't escape..."
She kissed Shangguan Jinnian's lips docilely like a doll, and then bit down hard.
Shangguan Jinnian was startled and stared into her eyes in surprise. Blood streaked across Tang Mingzhen's childish jawline, blooming into a coquettish flower.
The clear pupils flashed a faint dark red again, and then faded away.
When the fire in the imperial city began to extinguish, goose feathers were still flying in the sky. It was another dawn with corpses everywhere. Walking on the scorched earth and blood, Shangguan Jinnian led his army to the Chongyang Palace. The symbol of supreme power
The palace has gone through several wars and wars, and has always been safe and sound.
Shangguan Chiying was smart. As soon as the crown prince failed, she immediately announced her abdication and gave way to Shangguan Jinnian on the grounds that she was physically frightened. In this way, she covered up all her guilt and preserved her power to the maximum extent.
.Not only could Shangguan Jinnian not accuse her, but he also gave her the title of "Supreme Empress". It is not yet known who the winner will be among the emperors.
This should be regarded as a simple enthronement ceremony. In the smell of blood and scorched earth, the ministers knelt down and kowtowed, shouting long live. There were no bells, drums, and music. Shangguan Jinnian was dressed in black clothes, not even a yellow robe. This ancient
The country has changed from day to day.
"He doesn't want to be justified. He is neither afraid of people nor ghosts," Tang Mingzhen said quietly to Yan Honglei beside him.
They were outside the Chongyang Hall, breathing air to warm their hands, and secretly looking into the hall. Tang Mingzhen's hands were still shaking a little, and he had not yet recovered from the bloody scene.
"All he wants is people's fear. Only with fear can people obey and not dare to resist." Yan Honglei seemed thoughtful.
Tang Mingzhen once heard Shangguan Jinnian say to Du Chengxian that it was much easier for him to manipulate people's fears than it was for Confucius to manipulate people's hearts.
"What about me? I'm not afraid of him. Will he still like me?" Her silly and incomprehensible question was met with laughter from Yan Honglei.
"Well, I still like it now." He thought for a while and said.
Just after the fire, Shangguan Jinnian carried out a large-scale construction project and rebuilt the Daming Palace. The newly renovated palace was many times more grand and extravagant than the previous dynasty. The imperial city became a forest of palaces, high and low, which was the song and dance.
Another world in the kingdom of Shengping, with jade inlays and carved lanterns, has never been seen in the world again.
When he officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, it was already the third month of Yangchun. The golden and red palace gates of the Nine Layers of the Palace were opened. All the nations of Chang'an City came to pay homage, and the ministers in the Chongyang Palace kowtowed.
Shangguan Jinnian wears a golden dragon. He is the emperor's twelfth daughter, and he is born with the aura of an emperor. The cold star-like eyes behind the crown look even more alienated and alienating. Shangguan Chiying retreated from the dragon chair behind the bead curtain, which blocked the view.
, can’t see the face clearly.
The woman who is the first wife of the female family, with green clouds, light fur, and golden steps. Every gesture and gesture is calm and noble. Although she is the princess of the Li family in the previous dynasty, she is also the daughter of Shangguan Chiying. There was no queen in Shangguan Jinnian.
Next, she is the most noble woman in this palace besides the Supreme Queen.
Kneeling, kowtowing, and saluting, her eyes never left Shangguan Jinnian on the dragon throne for a moment. Princess Anya thought, how could she tolerate a second woman ascending the Golden Palace and becoming a more noble mother than herself? So, she
You must become the queen of Shangguan Jinnian!
There was no sign of Tang Mingzhen in the noisy imperial city. On the banks of Chang'an's moat, men and women were outing one after another, and the weeping willows on the embankment also began to sprout new shoots. There was a yellow and green whirling on the snow.
Tang Mingzhen also changed into a soft pink spring shirt, and in her sleeve was the mouse that almost cost her her life.
She kicked the stones under her feet and watched the cats and dogs fighting by the river.
"Empress~" Yan Honglei stood on the long embankment, constantly rubbing salt into her wounds. Out of resistance to natural enemies, Yan Honglei stayed three feet away from Tang Mingzhen.
"Little **." Tang Mingzhen threw stones at him out of boredom.
"Do you think the Emperor will make my concubine your foot-washing maid?" Yan Honglei continued to tease her.
"Brother, your sleeve is broken." Tang Mingzhen simply pulled out the gorgeous and unseemly scabbard, threw it far away, and then gloated as he watched the natural enemy pick up his treasure like a dog picking up a bun.
"It is better to have cut sleeves than to be a man or an animal."
"Get lost!"
....
"Do you know Xizi back then?" Tang Mingzhen lowered his head and looked at the gravel road, crushed the dandelions in his hands into pieces and scattered them along the way.
"When King Gou Jian of Yue conquered the world, Doctor Fan Li sent Xizi to live in seclusion in Taihu Lake. I see that we are in that situation now."
"Xizi? Didn't you look in the mirror today? Or are you blind? How could this slave be that foul-browed Dr. Fan Li?" Yan Honglei pretended to be puzzled.
"Then tell the truth, do you really think I will become Shangguan Jinnian's queen?"
"No." After a long silence, Yan Honglei told the truth.
"Do you think anyone in Chang'an City still doesn't know that you, the little princess, are a tigress with wings?" He was still so presumptuous.
"If Shangguan Jinnian is still the treacherous sycophant who held the emperor hostage to order the princes, then it doesn't matter if his wife is the devil? The natural enemy mercilessly threw the stones back to Tang Mingzhen, who was in a daze. In the bright spring light, her eyes were a little...
Red.
"Crying?" Yan Honglei despised her.
"I'm not crying." Tang Mingzhen turned away in a disguised manner.
Within two days, she received the order to enter the palace.
She was very reluctant to leave Anguo Mansion. She grew up here, sang and cried here. Compared with the empty and gloomy palace, she loved her beautiful spring-like Chunlang Pavilion, her chickens, ducks, mice, big cats and kittens.
If it weren't for the fact that Yue Han at the other end of the corridor was empty of people, she felt that there was no harm in staying here alone for the rest of her life.
Yan Honglei kicked away the big fat cat called Pig Liver, "You'd better be smarter!"
Only then did Tang Mingzhen get on the carriage driven by eight white horses. The speeding sweat-blooded horse galloped through thousands of houses in Chang'an, stepping on the black stone slabs and sinking into the depths of the row upon row of palaces.