The army began to prepare for the New Year. In order to celebrate the New Year, they also prepared some red lanterns to hang in front of the camp.
Chu Yunning woke up before dawn that day, holding a cup of hot tea in her hand and looking out the window at the goose-feather-like snow.
"Miss, you woke up so early." Bixiu heard the noise, rubbed her hazy eyes and struggled to get up.
"I'm no longer sleepy. You can sleep a little longer. There's no need to get up so early."
Bixiu had already put on her clothes smoothly, washed her face again, combed her hair and said with a smile:
"Is there something on your mind, Miss?"
In the past, when it was still dark, the young lady would sleep until the sun was shining brightly. She must have something on her mind.
Chu Yunning smiled faintly, lowered his head and drank half a cup of tea to warm his stomach: "Now that I'm awake, I plan to make some porridge for Beibei. He is growing tall and cannot miss a meal."
As soon as the curtains were raised, a gust of wind and snow drifted in from outside, mixed with Beibei's excited voice. Chu Yunning thought he was hallucinating.
"Mother!"
Another sound was heard.
Chu Yunning raised her eyes and followed her line of sight, and sure enough she saw Beibei running all the way not far away, seemingly holding something in his arms.
She took a few steps forward to greet him. Beibei was wearing a thick mink fur coat and a gray mink hat on his head. Half of his face was exposed. His little cheeks had turned red from running, and he was grinning at her.
laugh.
"Where have you been so early? Is it cold?"
Beibei shook his head and said excitedly: "Uncle Huang took me on a winter hunting trip. Yesterday I found a lot of animal footprints in the snow. Mom, Uncle Huang is really awesome. He hunted a lot of small animals."
"What about this one in your arms?" Chu Yunning poked her head curiously, wanting to take a look at the one in his arms.
Beibei was exposed generously, one with snow-white fur, traces all over its body, and a few white beards at the corners of its mouth. It looked around curiously with its round eyes.
What's even more terrible is the word "王" on its forehead!
He is actually a little tiger cub.
"Beibei, this is..."
"Mother, I know this is a tiger cub. Uncle Huang said it is only a little over a month old. It can be kissed by whoever raises it. It won't hurt anyone for the time being."
Beibei picked up the tiger cub in the snow. Not long after walking, he found the dying tigress. She was covered in wounds. She opened her big fangs and roared to the sky. After howling, she died. The cub looked a little bit weird.
Unfortunately, Beibei was brought back.
"This..." Chu Yunning had no experience in raising ferocious beasts, but seeing Beibei's excitement, she couldn't bear to refuse, so she had no choice but to agree: "Let him be raised temporarily, and if he is wild, he must be sent out.
"
Beibei nodded.
"Hurry up and follow Bixiu back to wash up. Mother will make breakfast for you." Chu Yunning handed Beibei to Bixiu and turned around to prepare breakfast.
After breakfast, Beibei fell asleep with the sleeping tiger cub still in his arms. Chu Yunning covered him with a quilt, touched his little face and left with a smile.
After going to the main tent camp, Emperor Mingwen had just finished discussing the war with a few people. After drinking half a cup of strong tea, he raised his eyes and saw her coming and immediately put it down.
"You're here."
Chu Yunning nodded: "Is the Emperor planning to take action?"
"This opportunity must not be missed before it comes again. It's the end of the year soon, so procrastinating like this is not an option. I plan to return to Yangcheng tomorrow."
The environment in Yangcheng can be better than that in the camp, and it can also make the mother and son suffer less. Chu Yunning hesitated for a moment and nodded. After all, if there was to be a war, it might affect this side. She didn't want Beibei to see this.
Bloody scenes.
"Okay, I'll clean up later."
Early the next morning, the group got on the carriage and returned to Yangcheng. Unlike the cold and damp conditions in the camp, the room was much warmer and the conditions were much more convenient.
"Mother, when can we go back?" Beibei stared at her blankly with his eyes wide open.
Chu Yunning hesitated for a moment, and then Eunuch Mo arrived: "The deposed prince is making a fuss over there."
Being able to find her means that the deposed prince is causing a lot of trouble. Chu Yunning said to Beibei: "You are in the room now. Mother will be back in a while, okay."
"good."
After setting up Beibei, Chu Yunning followed Eunuch Mo and rushed to the deposed prince's house. Before he even entered the door, he heard ghosts crying and wolves howling.
"The deposed prince has not stopped since we left Yangcheng. He has been on a hunger strike for three days and is clamoring to leave Yangcheng."
Chu Yunning was confused: "Who have you been in contact with these days?"
"My servant has inquired carefully. Apart from the guards who delivered the meals, there are only two old women left. The daily meals are also inspected, and no one has the opportunity to come into contact with outsiders."
Hearing this, Chu Yunning probably already knew in her heart, and then remembered the lustful nature of the abandoned prince. She put on a black veil, opened the door and entered the room. A pungent musty smell hit her face. Chu Yunning
I really can't understand how a dignified prince of a country could be so slovenly.
She once again questioned Queen Yunlan's education methods, and she was stunned that she was playing a good card to pieces. As long as Prince Yunlan didn't make trouble, the throne would be certain.
"It's no use trying to persuade me, get out!" the deposed prince yelled.
Chu Yunning sneered: "Come on, serve poisonous wine to His Highness the Crown Prince!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the deposed prince stood up and turned his head to glare at Chu Yunning: "Who do you think you are? How dare you come to teach me a lesson?"
"A mere deposed prince is like a bereaved dog. How dare he not teach him a lesson?" Chu Yunning raised his chin and said, "Go and prepare poisonous wine!"
"How dare you!" The deposed prince was angry and angry. He rushed directly to Chu Yunning and raised his hand to hit her, but Chu Yunning slapped him very quickly, fast and hard. The deposed prince was not a good person at all.
The opponent, who was beaten so hard that he had no ability to fight back, stumbled to the ground, gnashing his teeth and staring angrily at her.
Chu Yunning looked at him condescendingly, with a look of disdain on his face: "You opened the gate of Yangcheng and surrendered without a fight. Emperor Yunlan rewarded you with ten thousand taels of gold for your head. The deposed prince, don't you still think that you are a superior person?"
Dear His Royal Highness, right?"
Being poked into his heart, the deposed prince became angry and said: "If you kill the orphan, the queen mother will not let you go."
"It's a joke, Queen Yunlan can't protect herself. The whole family has been humiliated because of you. No matter how much your father respects your mother, she can't stand up to the impeachment of civil and military officials. Now your mother is no longer the empress of the world, but
She is a sinful woman."
Hearing this, the deposed prince's eyes widened suddenly and he said in disbelief: "This is absolutely impossible, the father loves the mother and the queen so much..."
"Isn't all this caused by your incompetence and stupidity?" Chu Yunning could even imagine Emperor Yunlan's anger and gave him a heavy responsibility, but in the end he was so stupid that he lost more than half of Yunlan's troops and horses.
Yunlan’s strength.
If Emperor Yunlan hadn't still thought about his friendship with the queen, he would have given her a glass of poisonous wine.
The deposed prince gritted his teeth tightly and said: "Gu was just a moment of inadvertence and was plotted by others. You Nanduan are the outright villains. You tricked Gu to come, but banned Gu. You must use Gu to get something."
"If you weren't so bold and obsessed with the beauty of Dongling, you would have been plotted against. How could Yunlan have such a stupid prince like you!"
These are Chu Yunning's true words.
The deposed prince was punished without saying a word.
At this time, Eunuch Mo brought a glass of wine, which frightened the deposed prince and immediately took two steps back. Chu Yunning sighed, "Originally, I wanted to use you in exchange for something, but unfortunately, Emperor Yunlan still hoped for it when he heard that you were in our hands."
You won't pay a penny while we give you a happy life, but now you have no use value, and the south end will not support useless people."
Chu Yunning approached step by step with a wine glass in hand. The deposed prince said reluctantly: "Who said that Gu is useless? If you let Gu go, I can promise you something."
"Just you?" Eunuch Mo sneered, he really looked down upon the deposed prince's words and deeds.
The deposed prince saw the poisoned wine getting closer and closer to him. He was so frightened that he gritted his teeth and said, "As long as you let Gu go, I can give you one hundred thousand taels of gold!"
Chu Yunning stopped and glanced sideways at the deposed prince: "How do you say this?"
"When I'm released..."
"You are trying to be mysterious, Master Chu, don't believe it," Eunuch Mo said.
Upon hearing the three people from Mr. Chu, the deposed prince became more energetic: "Are you Chu Yunning?"
Chu Yunning pinched the deposed prince's chin with one hand: "Hearing my name from your mouth is really disappointing!"
"Wait!" The deposed prince was so frightened that he lost his mind. He hadn't lived enough yet and didn't want to die at all. He was originally going to seek refuge in Nanduan, hoping to make a comeback, but who knew that Nanduan didn't respect martial ethics and directly detained him?
.
Despicable and shameless!
"Gu Zhen has one hundred thousand taels of gold, which is hidden under a ruined temple outside the border. Gu has set a trap. No one can open that door except Gu."
Chu Yunning raised her lips: "What is the key?"
"Gu Cai is not stupid. Once a Gu has no use value, you will not easily spare Gu. Anyway, there is no one around Gu. If you ask Gu to leave Yangcheng, Gu will tell you." said the deposed prince.
Chu Yunning pretended to be thoughtful and hesitated for a moment, nodded and agreed, and asked people to prepare immediately. She pinched the deposed prince's chin tightly: "If you dare to deceive me, I will sell you to a brothel and let you go."
You guys have a taste of what it’s like to be a prince!”
These words frightened the useless prince to swallow all the curse words. He looked at the person in front of him in disbelief and was inexplicably frightened by her.
"I... I can't do it alone."
Immediately afterwards, Chu Yunning sprinkled the wine in his hand on the ground in front of the deposed prince, and smoked white smoke. It looked like it was really poisonous wine.
"This..." The abandoned prince swallowed his throat, regarding Chu Yunning as a monster, and kept backing away.
Leaving the room, Chu Yunning took out a handkerchief and wiped it with disgust, her lips curled up and said: "Keep an eye on him. Once you get the gold, you don't have to worry about him."
Eunuch Mo was surprised: "Really let him go?"
"There may not be a good end if he runs away. How many people are waiting to kill him, and the first one is Princess Yu'an."
As far as she knew, Princess Yu'an was already on her way.
A few days later, the guard successfully obtained the gold and gave the deposed prince a horse, ignoring the rest.
The angry abandoned prince cursed, got on his horse and ran in a certain direction.
…
"Princess, there is news about the deposed crown prince."
The guard handed a letter to Princess Yu'an, with a direction marked on it and the signature "Chu".
Princess Yu'an guessed that it was the letter sent to her by Chu Yunning, so she immediately led people to the direction of the ruined temple, following the horse's hoof prints and searching around the area.
"Princess, isn't that Your Highness?" The guard quickly recognized the abandoned prince who was drinking tea in the pavilion.
When the deposed prince heard this, his heart suddenly became excited. When he turned around and saw Princess Yu'an, he was overjoyed. The worry that had been hanging over him for many days was finally settled.
"Royal sister!" The abandoned prince put down the tea cup and couldn't help complaining: "Why did you come just now? It's so hard to wait for you."
Princess Yu'an sat on the horse and looked down at the deposed prince, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised: "How come the emperor has become so depressed? I almost didn't recognize him."
"Stop talking about this now, take Gu Gu back home quickly." He smelled so bad that he just wanted to take a bath and have a comfortable meal.
Princess Yu'an raised her chin, with disdain in her eyes: "Where are you going? You are already the deposed prince. Everyone in Yunlan will kill you. Do you still want to hurt us?"
The deposed prince finally heard that something was wrong in his words, and said with a sullen face: "Sister, what do you mean by that? I am your brother!"
"Haha!" Princess Yu'an seemed to have heard something ridiculous, and tears of laughter almost came out: "Brother, my good brother will trick me into going to the south end for marriage, and will also shoot me to death with his own hands.
If I hadn't been lucky, how could I still have Princess Yu'an now?"
After being exposed, the deposed prince looked a little unnatural: "Royal sister, there may be a misunderstanding. Listen to me and explain to you slowly."
As soon as she finished speaking, the hatred that Princess Yu'an had accumulated in her heart for many days suddenly burst out, and she raised her long whip and whipped it at the deposed prince.
"ah!"
After being whipped for more than ten times in a row, Princess Yu'an didn't feel relieved. Her brother-sister relationship with the deposed prince had long since ended.
This one in front of me is just an enemy.
The deposed prince was beaten until he was rolling on the ground, and he glared at Princess Yu'an fiercely: "Bitch, when I return to the capital, I will make you look good!"
Hearing this, Princess Yu'an sneered: "Do you think you still have life to return to Beijing?"
Along the way, she had already instigated the rebellion of the people given to her by Queen Yunlan, and she had no intention of bringing the deposed prince back intact.
"Bitch!" The deposed prince gritted his teeth viciously: "It's no use that Fei Gu loves you so much, and you actually repay kindness with hatred. You will not die a good death!"
"Do you love me?" The more Princess Yu'an thought about it, the angrier she became: "You knew Hui Lu was restless, but you listened to his instigation and sent me to get married. I sent you letters asking for help many times, but what did you do? Turn a blind eye.
You still dare to hire a murderer to kill me in an attempt to provoke a dispute between the two countries. I will give you a reasonable explanation for attacking the southern end. Brother Emperor, you are really my good brother!"
Princess Yu'an gave an order: "Come on, take off his shoes, tie his hands to his ponytail, and let's walk all the way back."
"yes!"
The deposed prince was restrained before he could resist. He walked barefoot in the snow, and soon he was shivering with cold.
The ground was muddy. He had never been wronged like this before, and he soon begged for mercy.