The Supreme Empress is in poor health, and there is still a charcoal fire burning in the Xingqing Palace. The Nine Dragon Cauldron is burning red, and the palace is warm and cozy.
Shangguan Chiying's eye disease has long been cured. She lowered her eyes. The prisoner kneeling next to her was whispering about the secular affairs. She just listened quietly without saying a word.
After the prisoner finished his report, he glanced around and quickly took out a secret letter and presented it to Shangguan Chiying. "A secret letter from the south."
Shangguan Chiying finally raised his eyelids, took it calmly, and quickly opened the wax seal. The neat small regular script with smoky red tears came into view.
She read it carefully and threw the secret letter into the fire.
"Why not pull the lead longer?" Yan Honglei said to her six years ago. He probably didn't expect that he would become the pulling thread. After six years of pulling, shouldn't there be a pull back?
When?
She is not in a hurry. In the ever-changing palace, only those who are not in a hurry, and only those who hide in the shadows and wait slowly, can see the last drama.
"How did you go about that thing the day before yesterday?"
"Your Majesty, according to His Majesty's instructions, Yi Mei's natal family has been converted from untouchables to official status. They have built a house in Chang'an and purchased hundreds of acres of fertile land in Weishui River.
"Well, has your Majesty ever asked?"
"Your Highness, the Emperor has never asked Yi Meiren about her origin."
"Have you received all the rewards for the past few days?" She sipped tea and slowly pushed aside the floating tea leaves.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty's rewards have been delivered. Every day, the queen and Yi Mei are given a handful of pearls and all kinds of jewelry and clothes. Yi Mei's is superior to the queen in terms of style and proportion."
"Did the Director of Ceremonies ever hesitate about the title of Zhaorong awarded by the Emperor?"
"The Director of Ceremonies felt it was inappropriate, but he did not dare to resist the order."
"Before the Chief of Ceremonies, Zhaorong was awarded"
"promise"
Someone announced outside the door: "I have an audience with the beautiful lady Yi."
This is the first time that Yi Meiren has seen the Queen. Her hands are even trembling slightly. The newly cut gorgeous clothes cannot hide her embarrassment. Fortunately, she has a childish face and a nervous blush.
Adding to the charm.
She knew in her heart that she had found support in this palace. She had been to her new house. The tall building and gorgeous furnishings were much more luxurious than the original owner's house.
Those relatives who had not lent them a grain of rice when her family was poor, all gathered together at some point. My mother wore new clothes with dazzling pearls, and she was no longer asked to wash rice and wash clothes.
Their master, who originally regarded them as livestock, actually knelt down to her. The superior masters, ladies and grandmothers knelt at her feet and begged her for forgiveness. The lady of the master who had never even looked at her, actually
Trembling with fear, she could imagine the complicated expression on her face.
Why should she forgive? She even wanted to thank them. If she hadn't entered the palace, where would she be today?
Now that she has a backer, she no longer has to live a life of today and no tomorrow under the Queen's control.
She knelt down, crawling on the ground, and timidly greeted the Queen. Her downcast brows were like a gentle cat.
If Tang Mingzhen could be so obedient, how could he end up like that?
"Yi" she said the name silently again, she already liked this title very much.
There was a faint sound of whips coming from outside the palace door. It was the guards striking the nine-section golden whip. The sound spread from Chongxuan Gate to Xuanwu Gate, then to Wangxian and Danfeng Gates, and then to Chongyang Hall.
It's a battle report.
After the Khitan annexed several neighboring tribes for several years, its appetite seemed to be enlarged. In the middle of last year, it swallowed up the entire Beihu. This small vassal state on the border of the Zhou Dynasty suddenly became a serious problem.
Ten days ago, the Khitan King led the Beihu cavalry, crossed the natural barrier of the Great Wall overnight, and attacked Liangzhou City directly. The defenders in the city were outnumbered and the city was defeated. They then went all the way south and defeated Yuyang and Qingzhou.
Reports of the war reached Chang'an, and the capital was shocked. From the previous dynasty to the present, there has been a peaceful and prosperous era for nearly a hundred years. Although there were many changes of dynasties, it was ultimately just a fight among the powerful. People in the prosperous era had never heard of war for a long time.
The Chongyang Palace was completely dark and filled with civil servants and generals. Shangguan Jinnian had never seen this bunch of sleepy old stubborns so energetic in the morning. A bunch of people were debating like chicken blood, and the main battle master and the main battle group were clearly distinguishable.
of the two camps.
The literary scholar brought out the moldy and hairy economic principles. He blushed and made an impassioned speech. He wanted to kick his legs when he couldn't breathe. The general was not that literary and artistic. He just fucked your uncle and took off his shoes.
He took off his pants and threw them towards the other side.
"It's something that has never been seen in the world." Shangguan Jinnian was too lazy to stop. Tang Mingzhen's birthdays and deaths were all piled up in a month. He mourned and mourned his death without seeing the light of day. It was rare to see any fun. He dragged his chin with one hand and watched the monkey show.
He first seized the military power and then the world. He could ride a horse at the age of ten and was thrown to Mobei by the son of a bitch from the previous emperor to lead the army. It was almost like an exile. He crawled out from the pile of dead people and practiced hard.
He sent out a lion and a secret guard, from Mobei to the Great Wall, and from the Great Wall to Chang'an, his iron hooves were not stepped on anywhere. (By the way, he also brought home a Tang Mingzhen).
These guys who have been staying in Chang'an every day for decades, lining their own pockets with concubines and waiting to die, when something big happened, they were so scared that they stepped on their own tail. There was no cure.
Finally, the smell of the stinky feet of the Minister of War, who had taken off his shoes and socks, filled the entire Chongyang Hall. Vomiting...
Shangguan Jinnian finally shouted to stop.
"Conquer Liangzhou personally and set off in twenty days."
There was silence.
Shangguan Jinnian is not afraid of Khitan and Beihu. On the contrary, he always likes others to rob the world. Things that are robbed by others are the best.
He just paid great attention to that town, Liangzhou. Seventeen years ago, he slaughtered that city completely and got back a trophy.
The entire Tang family's cemetery is in Liangzhou City.
Tang Mingzhen died to avenge her relatives. He didn't want the things she cared about to be harmed. He had always wanted to move the bones of the Tang family to Chang'an, which was considered as fulfilling her last wish.
It doesn't matter whether he suffers retribution or not. Anyway, Tang Mingzhen is dead and no one dares to ask for his life from Long Live Lord again.
When Liu Erye saw the color of Hua Fan's eyes, he was also a little surprised. He thought for a while and said, "This is the demon clan asking for help from its own kind."
"If there is no second descendant of the Tang family in this world, then Bai Ze's soul has been disturbed and is seeking protection." He covered Hua Fan's eyes with his hand and recited a spell. After a while, the dark red faded away.
.
"No, the tombs of the Tang family are all in Liangzhou, which is almost as far as Beihu. Who would go so far away?" Her heart was already hanging. The Tang family's blood feud has not been avenged, so how can the undead be harmed now?
intrusion?.
"Maybe something bad happened to the ancestor's tomb recently."
"...Your ancestral grave was just dug up!"
"When did I say that your ancestral grave was dug up?" Yan Honglei said unjustly. "But you are right to say that."
Who could it be?
It can't be Shangguan Jinnian. Hua Fan has been living outside for so many years and no one has found her. It is enough to show that Shangguan Jinnian has not even dug up Tang Mingzhen's grave in the past six years. It is not known whether there is anyone inside.
Who could it be? Are there other enemies of the Tang family in this world?
Su Yang and Mobei are thousands of miles away! She is so worried but there is nothing she can do!
Hua Fan was irritated and kicked open the door that Liu Shi had just kicked open.
Outside the door, there was another banquet. The drunken men and women were hugging each other, and the brothers and sisters were shouting at each other.
No wonder, this is Su Yang. What good can a sour scholar do if he is thrown into Fireworks Alley? It is just a vulgar history of adultery.
Hua Fan kicked the door open and heard the sound of infatuation. All eyes in the hall were focused on her. The way out was blocked.
"Young lady, come and sit here!" A certain man pushed the beautiful woman in his arms away.
"Young lady, the color of this skirt is so bright!" A certain man drank so much that he could no longer stand still and was drooling with stars in his eyes.
"Sit down, just sit down." She sneered, kicked the drunkard blocking the road, sat on the big pear wood round table as if no one was around, took a bottle of wine and drank heavily, and poured the rest on the
The young master, who was hugging her from left to right, got up and left, pulling off the tablecloth embroidered with ladies. Everyone screamed and spilled soup all over her body, and no one blocked her way.
The night by the Xunyang River is as cold as water, and Hua Fan still hasn't woken up. His head is as heavy as if he were soaking in a water tank, and his feet feel like stepping on cotton wool. He walks one step deeper and one shallower, as if he is going to die at any moment.
Plant it in the river to feed the fish.
She is still like the old days, not drinking at all, and getting drunk whenever she drinks. If she can't drink, what kind of singing girl is she? Does she think she is a golden girl?
She thought about the history of her hatred of wine, which can be traced back to when she was ten years old, the day she got married to Shangguan Jinnian. She was forced to drink a lot of spicy wine and cried in public. The annoyed Shangguan Jinnian had to keep telling her
"It's almost over, it's almost over."
What a deceptive curse, everything was over quickly.
The lights were brightly lit by the river. She held up the railing and looked at herself in the river. She was wearing a charming red dress and red makeup, her brows were slightly wrinkled, her lips were no longer smiling, and her face was no longer filled with tears.
She thought that if something went wrong in God and Shangguan Jinnian saw her now, she would probably not recognize him even if he met her.
The docility like a little animal and the innocence like an idiot were all returned to Shangguan Jinnian, leaving nothing behind.
No matter what big thing she encounters, she can no longer rely on him, and can no longer be like before, like an octopus, jumping into that warm embrace without caring about anything.
She was jealous of her own past. Under the wings of Shangguan Jinnian, no one dared to touch a hair on her head. Who took the wrong medicine and dared to dig up her ancestral grave?
After leaving Shangguan Jinnian, she learned again and again what it meant to be powerless and what it meant to be at a loss. She was a doll whose strings were torn off. It took her six years to learn to walk on her own and live on her own.
Her eyes began to look strange again, as if she could hear the cries of her relatives.
"I'm going to Liangzhou." She was drunk but not stupid. How could she not see Yan Honglei following him three feet away.
Liangzhou is thousands of miles away from Su Yang, and she has nothing. But if she escapes, it doesn't matter!
"I want to move the bones of my relatives to Suyang. If they guard me, they will be safe."
In the past six years, she has learned to survive and protect. How could that little loser Tang Mingzhen know these things?
"I dont go."
"what ever."
"Do you think I will be like the badly acted character in the storybook, who clearly said I won't go, but then just pick up the baggage and follow me obediently?"
"You think too much"
"Then let me go"
"...."
So what if it's dangerous? Anyway, she won't cry like she did before, as if the whole world owes her.