After undressing and changing, Ji Chengying sat down and said, "I have heard many rumors about your brother before, but according to Prince Xi, Tang Xiaohao is different from the legend and is not as bad as the rumor."
Ji Chengying deliberately used the word "bad" because it is rumored that Tang Xiaohao is bad, bullying men and dominating women, and doing all kinds of evil.
Tang Wangshu immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, I grew up with my younger brother. What kind of person he is. As a sister, I know very well that the rumors outside must be false."
Ji Chengying nodded slightly: "That's very good. At least I didn't choose the wrong husband for Princess Baomeng."
However, Ji Chengying knew very well the affair between Princess Baomeng and Sang Luo. He was worried that if the affair was exposed one day, how would Tang Xiaohao, the husband of Princess Baomeng, react? Pretend to be deaf and dumb?
To calm things down? Or to be extremely angry and even ask the emperor to punish you?
Tang Wangshu kowtowed and said, "I, my concubine, would like to thank the emperor for your gift of marriage."
Ji Chengying said deliberately: "You are already a noble concubine, and your younger brother is also a prince-in-law. Your Tang family is now a veritable royal relative. Your mother and grandfather must be very happy too, right?"
This test was very direct and sudden. Ji Chengying just wanted to make a surprise attack on Tang Wangshu.
Tang Wangshu was not only completely uninterested in the secret fighting within the imperial court, but also did not know much about the inside story. Therefore, Tang Wangshu just said with joy on his face: "Back to the emperor, my mother and grandfather must be thanking the emperor for his kindness every day.
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Ji Chengying looked at Tang Wangshu's face and found that his facial expression was not complicated, except for joy and sincerity.
This was not the first time that he had been tested like this. Although Ji Chengying found nothing every time, he still believed that Tang Wangshu was the eyes and ears sent to him by the Nanrong family.
Ji Chengying would not reveal a single word about matters in the court. Even if he was lucky enough, he would drink the tonic soup with Tang Wangshu on the pretext of tonic.
The tonic soup contains drugs that can prevent pregnancy, but they are actually harmful to the body.
However, if Tang Wangshu is pregnant with a dragon fetus, then the Nanrong family, which already controls most of the government affairs, can directly ride on Ji Chengying's head.
Therefore, while eating snacks, Ji Chengying asked the waiter to bring the bowl of tonic soup and fed it to Tang Wangshu to drink with his own hands.
Don Wangshu never imagined that the only man he loved in his life would feed him bowl after bowl of poison out of love.
However, Ji Chengying did this not only to Tang Wangshu, but also to other concubines, even the queen, because Ji Chengying stubbornly believed that his offspring must be from a woman he truly loved and trusted.
The current queen is also surnamed Jiang and is from the Jiang family of Ruiyuan. Empress Dowager Jiang has the same intentions as Emperor Shunhe, choosing a smart and steady woman to be the queen, hoping that this queen will be like Empress Dowager Jiang back then.
It's a pity that when Ji Chengying met the Jiang woman named Jiang Yuyao, all she saw in her eyes was complicated desires. In addition, most of her conversations with Ji Chengying on weekdays were about government affairs. This made Ji Chengying
Feeling very uneasy.
The Jiang family of Ruiyuan has been a virtuous and distinguished family since the Kunlun Dynasty, and its reputation is the head of the major families in Jiuyuan. Even if the Jiang family has no intention of competing for the world, it does not rule out the possibility of secret control.
Therefore, Ji Chengying doubted everything, even his biological mother was unwilling to believe it.
Ji Chengying also hated the suspicion in his heart about everything, and was unwilling to sit on the throne. However, he was already the so-called emperor. Once he gave up, he would die.
Everything he is doing now is not for Jiuyuan Tianxia, but for the Ji family to keep the throne and for himself to live.
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At the third watch, three men dressed as traveling merchants walked slowly in the dense forest of Wulian Mountain. Because the temperature in Wulian Mountain is extremely low all year round, the three of them wore thick leather jackets and cotton trousers, with their feet
They all wore leather boots that could protect their calves.
The three men all have short hair. The only difference is that the man in the middle does not have a beard, but he is taller than the other two men. The three men are all at least a head taller than the Huayuan people, so,
Even if he is wearing the clothes of a traveling merchant, he can still tell that he is from Rouyuan.
"Bo Jin," the leading Rouyuan man suddenly stopped, and at the same time pulled out the gun ax from his waist, "Be careful, there seems to be a living thing ahead."
The Guanxiong ax is the most common hand-held weapon in Rouyuan. The ax head is not large, with the longest being no more than four inches. The back of the ax has a tubular ax parallel to the blade, so it is called the Guanxiong axe. Bo Jin is the leader.
means, this is also a unique name for Rouyuan.
The man known as Bo Jin glanced behind him, and another man behind him also raised his axe, waiting for the attack. However, Bo Jin did not take off the broad-bladed knife he was carrying. He just raised his ears and listened carefully to what was going on in front of him.
movement.
The reason why the three of them are so nervous is entirely because it is said that there are unknown monsters hidden in the Mist Mountains.
Wulian Mountain is the only barrier between Huayuan and Rouyuan. It is actually a mountain range that runs from east to west. Because it is shrouded in fog all year round, it is called Wulian Mountain.
To the north of Wulian Mountain is Rouyuan, and to the south is Huayuan. To go from Huayuan to Rouyuan, besides directly crossing the Wulian Mountains, the only way is to pass through the Aiwen River where Gucheng is located. However, Wulian Mountain
The reason why it has become a barrier is precisely because of a series of uncertain factors here. The first is the weird climate. The temperature in the Wulian Mountains is extremely low all year round. Although it does not reach the level of freezing, the cold and damp conditions in the mountains are not normal at all.
People can bear it, and no matter how fast it is to cross the Mist Mountains, it will still take three or four days. During this period, if you are not careful, you will catch the disease, and you will die if you don't get timely treatment, and all the people you catch will die.
They are some unusual and strange diseases.
When the Rouyuan Tuorsi tribe was suppressing the rebellion, someone in the DPRK proposed to send a light army directly over the Wulian Mountains and march to the gates of Rouyuan City. Although this plan was opposed by Hu Shen, the great strategist at the time, Shun He
The emperor decided to try anyway, so he sent a surprise army of three thousand people.
However, something happened to these three thousand people after they entered Wulian Mountain. In the end, only a hundred people escaped. Not only were most of the hundred people injured, but the rest were also infected with various strange diseases.
The exceptions are skin ulcers, and there are also claims that there are monsters in the Wulian Mountains.
Therefore, the existence of monsters and monsters in the mountains is also the second main factor that makes Wulian Mountain a barrier. Although almost no one can really describe what those monsters and monsters look like, it is said that those monsters are extremely ferocious and are capable of sorcery.
There is nothing you can do about weapons like those. If you encounter them, there is only one way to die.
These two points alone are enough to deter people. Therefore, not to mention large armies, even ordinary traveling merchants and merchants do not dare to cross the Wulian Mountains just to take a shortcut.
The reason why these three Rouyuan people dared to venture through the Wulian Mountains this time was completely helpless. Moreover, the alliance they wanted to meet was designated to meet in the Wulian Mountains.
Just when Bo Jin realized something was wrong and was about to pull out his broad-bladed sword, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the mist in front of him. The black shadow arrived in front of him in an instant and pounced directly on the leader of the Rouyuan man.
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The leading Rouyuan man was dragged away by the black shadow before he could wave his ax in his hand to fight back. Then the surroundings fell into the same dead silence as before. The poor Rouyuan man didn't even scream.
"Bo Jin! What is that!?" Although the Rouyuan man behind was scared, he immediately blocked in front of Bo Jin.
The man tried to light the torch, but the torch he brought couldn't light because of the moisture. He had no choice but to throw the torch on the ground, hold the broad-bladed knife tightly with both hands, and stand back-to-back with the remaining man.
Pay close attention to what's going on around you.
Suddenly, the black shadow appeared again, and this time it rushed straight towards the Bo Jin. Just when Bo Jin was about to swing his knife, the black shadow was hit by a ball of fire flying from a distance. After letting out a mournful cry, it quickly disappeared.
into the darkness. Then, there were bursts of strange wailing sounds in the darkness, as if thousands of people were wailing and crying at the same time, and the scalps of the two Rouyuan people were about to explode.
"Hey, don't be dazed, follow me." A voice echoed in the darkness.
The two Rouyuan people thought they heard wrongly. Because the fog was too thick, they didn't see anyone, but they were sure that the person who spoke before was a girl.
"Here!" The girl's voice came again, and this time the two of them clearly saw a lantern floating in the air, but there was no one in sight, as if there was a ghost holding the lantern.
The Rouyuan man holding the pipe ax immediately took off the long bow he was carrying, loaded the bow with an arrow and aimed at the lantern.
Bo Jin immediately held down his hand: "Put it down, that one should be a human."
The man holding the bow had no choice but to put it down, but he didn't want to believe that it was a person, because he couldn't see anyone holding the lantern at all.
Bo Jin explained: "The alien arts are mysterious and unpredictable, and the lonely army is also from the alien sect, so this is not unusual, not to mention that they just saved us."
The so-called alliance that these two Rouyuan people want to meet is the largest organizer of the lone army in the different sects. To be precise, they are the messengers of the lone army. And these two Rouyuan people are Gul, the new king of the Torsi tribe.
The messenger sent by Ke.
The lantern slowly fell down and surrounded the two people, seeming to urge them to move forward. The two Rouyuan people had no choice but to continue walking forward with the lantern. Strangely enough, the lantern seemed to be able to dispel the strange fog in the foggy mountains, and even
It can prevent the surrounding monsters who covet the lives of the two from approaching easily.
After walking about ten meters, the two of them saw a girl wearing a short leather jacket, a leather skirt, and a bun sitting on a pile of black things, and those things still gave off a fishy stench.
The girl has wheat-colored skin and a pair of fox-like eyes. The most beautiful thing is the pair of pale pink lips. She has bracelets of unknown texture on her hands and wrists, and she wears leather boots.
The two Rouyuan people couldn't move their eyes away from their legs.
"You must be from the Torsi Division, right?" The girl stood up and took the flying lantern, as if the lantern was a pet bird she kept.
The two Rouyuan people have not yet come to their senses, because such women are almost impossible to see in Rouyuan.
The girl was slightly angry: "Answer the question! Otherwise, you will soon become like this pile of rotten flesh at my feet!"
At this time, the pansy came back to her senses and saw clearly through the light of the lantern that the pile of black things at the girl's feet were the overlapping corpses of seven or eight black monsters. This chapter has been completed!