Chapter 3 Snow Country

This is a continent with many countries, this continent is called the vertical and horizontal continent, the origin of the name is difficult to trace, but this continent has mountains and waters, seas and lakes; the south is hot and the north is cold, and the east is poor and the west is prosperous. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info And there are places beyond this continent that are yet to be explored.

In the west of this continent there is the largest country - the sea country, although they even have only a handful of lakes in the country, but they can't stop the strong army, can't stop the people from rich minerals, can't stop people from having a lot of food, and the most important thing is that the king of the country is surnamed the sea.

To the south is the second-ranked Mengxia Kingdom, where there are more than two, countless fruit trees and countless Jianghu sects, you can pick fruits when you walk on the road, and nine and a half of the ten people who walk around you are Jianghu people, and the other half is an official family. Meng Xia has always kept a low profile, but in recent years, their cowardly monarch has suddenly hardened and subdued many Jianghu sects to work for him.

To the east is the third-largest kingdom of the firmament, with a very powerful name and a very weak national strength. If you can be in the third place, there are many families, the land is large, there are many seas, lakes, and streams. Although he was very weak, few countries came to attack him, not because they didn't want to, but because their ancestors were all on the way to attack and died in the winding lakes and streams of the firmament country.

In the country of the firmament, if you are not a local, you don't know which rivers have water to drink, which rivers have poisonous water, which rivers have fish to eat, which rivers have man-eating fish, and you don't know which rivers have hidden undercurrents, so they can only look at the rivers and sigh. The country of the Firmament is inaccessible and farmland is scarce, and the ancestors here have lived a self-sufficient life on what is in the water for generations.

Between these three countries are countless small countries, rich and poor.

Although the country is small, they are very united, which also makes careerists who want to annex them have to weigh themselves before sending troops, it is easy to deal with a country, and whether it can still be successful in provoking a nest of countries. In this way, an invisible balance was formed between countries, and an era of relative peace was achieved despite constant friction.

Snow Country is located in the north of this continent, a small and inconspicuous country.

Xue Ao, the monarch of the Snow Country, is nearly forty years old and has reigned for more than 20 years, although he has not made the country strong, but he has friendly relations with neighboring countries, and the people are also considered rich.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water. Although the snow country belongs to the country of ice and snow, there is no farmland to cultivate, but the mountains full of exotic beasts and precious medicinal materials are in short supply in other countries.

Therefore, Snow Country is a country supported by merchants, and his brother-in-law Ming Cheng is the largest official businessman in Snow Country.

The Ming family has been in business for generations and controls two-thirds of the business of the Snow Country, so it can be said that there is no monarch in the Snow Country, but it is not possible without the Ming family. He, a wealthy monarch, relied on the Ming family for food, from the army's grain and grass salaries to the street merchants, all of whom were deeply influenced by the Ming family's commerce.

Xue Ao sometimes thinks that the Ming family and their ancestors established the Snow Country together, why do they refuse to be officials but want to do business? Isn't this clear, being an official must be managed by them! But doing business is to let the Xue family eat soft rice. This Ming family is really smart, their Snow family works hard to worry about the big and small state affairs of the Snow Country, but they can make the Snow Country shake three times with their fingers. If these are in their own hands, and they suddenly shake their heads, forget it, as far as their Xue family's minds are concerned, they can only manage the country and become emperors. In business, it's no wonder that the pants that don't pay for compensation are gone.

How good it is now, if you want money, you want power, forget it, the right is in your own hands. There are no rebellious people, no border disturbances? (It seems to be a little unstable recently!) Comfortable is not good, and after thinking about it, I only raised an uneasy prince.

The crown prince Xue Wuxing was born by Concubine Ming, and there are only one queen and two concubines in Xueao's harem, and as for the three thousand beauties in the harem, they can only fantasize about it when they dream back at midnight. One is that there are not so many women to choose from in Snow Country, and the other is that there is a terrible queen.

Queen Luo is the daughter of the general who protects the country, she has been married to herself since she was a child, and she has a pungent personality. The queen has no children, so she has treated the prince as her own since she was a child, and she has been pampered, making the prince rampant and unrestrained.

If this is the case, forget it, I didn't expect the prince to expand the territory, as long as he can guard the country well. As a result, Mingyu never came to Wancheng again, but the prince used the excuse of avoiding the cold every year to go to Ming's house to live permanently.

What do you say this Mingyu looks so good, it's okay if you look good, you are a woman, or a man, how can you make the women of the Snow Country embarrassed. It is said that the blood of the Ming family is also flowing, why does the prince look like this, the monarch thought for a long time and thought of two words "just beautiful", yes, just these two words.

Obviously, the eyebrows, nose, and mouth are not ugly, why did they have a Chinese face? I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out. Xue Ao asked the chamberlain to take a small mirror, look left, look right, no matter how you look at yourself, she is still quite handsome, and then think about Concubine Ming's beautiful face, a little crooked, if it weren't for the appearance of Concubine Ming, I really suspect that this prince is not his family.

He said to himself: "I can only say that this kid is crooked!"

The chamberlain who was waiting next to him looked at the often tangled face of his monarch and said, "Just now, the prince's guards came to report that the prince was going to Lingyun Villa to escape the cold, and he was already packing up. ”

Xue Ao slapped the mirror on the table and said angrily: "Avoid the cold, avoid the cold, avoid the cold! But in his heart, he was thinking: "Lao Tzu also wants to go to Lingshan to soak in hot springs...... The ancestor of the Xue family is really confused, even if he wants to rely on the Ming family to eat, he can't give Lingshan to the Ming family, it is the only hot spring location in the snow country! If you want to build the capital of the country in Lingshan, then you won't be able to ...... every day."

Suddenly the thief smiled: "I am also smart, I have taken the daughter of the Ming family into my hands, and I can still find excuses from time to time, hehe...... Hey hey ......"

The chamberlain looked at the smiling face of his monarch who had succeeded in his treacherous scheme, and felt a chill.

Xue Ao suddenly thought of something, his face was straight, he glared at the waiter and said, "Concubine Ming hasn't been home for a long time, go, tell Concubine Ming, and say that I will accompany her to go back this time." (The fact is that Concubine Ming has just returned home to save her relatives for less than half a year, and there is no country where the concubine is as convenient as visiting the door, the above is the inner monologue of the people of the Snow Country) Well, during this time, let the queen supervise the country, and Mrs. Guo Liguo. After saying that, he went to the queen to resign.

The inner servant mourned for these two in his heart, and when he met such a hand-shaking emperor, there was no country to compare. Other countries are looking at the throne and their eyes are hot, and our snow country is staring at Lingshan one by one, is this hot spring so attractive, the prince is about to become a Ming family, and now even the emperor is ......

Come and usurp the throne!

In the harem, Queen Luo looked at Xue Ao's flattering smile, very weak, and roared angrily: "This is your Xue family's country, isn't the harem not able to interfere in politics? Why let the old lady take care of it again and again, and the old lady also wants to soak in the hot springs!" After the queen was born in Jiangmen, she didn't ask much about college, but she was fierce, but she was able to calm many people, including the monarch of the snow country.

Xue Ao hurriedly lowered his eyebrows and said: "Next time, next time, next time, I will definitely take the queen there, isn't this time to look at the prince?

He peeked at the queen's angry face again, and said: "The prince is also sixteen, and we can't always drag it like this, while we are not here, hurry up and get a princess for the prince, and don't want anything to be famous, as long as it looks better than Mingyu." After a pause, he said: "Forget it, as long as the long one can be compared with Mingyu, this snow country really can't find anything better than Mingyu, and then hurry up and cook raw rice and mature rice, we can rest assured." ”

The queen looked at the emperor speechlessly and said, "How can you cook cooked rice without the prince's raw rice, you are also the emperor of the Snow Country, if you ...... (The queen's heart: "Such an emperor has long been replaced by others.") ”)

You can't go this time, let Concubine Ming go. This Ming family is really, Mingyu is also seventeen, he wants to get married early, and what is the matter with the prince. Let Concubine Ming go back and urge it to do it. ”

But the emperor whispered: "It's not that his daughter-in-law is only ten years old! ”

The queen raised her voice and said, "What did you say?"

The emperor immediately stopped thinking in pieces: "It's nothing, it's nothing, by the way, the queen, I'll go and explain the matter of Concubine Ming." "But in my heart, I was secretly calculating, and I wouldn't let me go, so I would sneak away. Without waiting for the queen to reply, he hurriedly left, and the little chamberlain who followed looked at the queen's angry face, quickly slipped away, and ran away.

In Guo's mansion, Mrs. Guo, who seemed to be trembling, paused and said: "The old man is seventy-seven years old, and he still doesn't let the old man become a master." The old man has worked hard for the country all his life, and he still has a few years to live? Every time he lets the old man manage the country, the old man also wants to soak in the hot springs a few times!"

And supporting his children and grandchildren, they nodded one by one like pounding garlic, "Yes, yes...... You have worked hard and worked hard, everyone in the snow country knows it, and no one in the snow country can do without you!" secretly but thinking: "How can you persuade the old lady and the emperor to make a statement and let them drive with them." They also want to soak in the hot springs. ”

Up and down the snow country, do not envy the mandarin ducks, do not envy the immortals, do not envy the monarch and do not envy the power, only envy the hot springs of the Ming family in Lingshan, but the hot springs of the Ming family are comparable to the emperor's throne, and few can soak in them. Therefore, every time Concubine Ming saves her relatives, it is a great joy for the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and everyone is vying to drive with her, and they all want to get a piece of hot spring soup.

The next day, the officials rushed to the court early, all in high spirits, to express their hearts to the emperor and to travel with them. As a result, when they saw the empty throne and the queen dressed next to them, they all looked at the sky speechlessly: "Your Majesty, this is too unauthentic, how can you leave us and run away!"

It turned out that the emperor left by himself last night, only bringing more than 100 guards with him, but asked the prince to accompany Concubine Ming back to the Ming family to save his relatives. As for why he was in such a hurry, the letter to the queen was: "I want to pay a private visit." "But everyone knows that this is for fear that the queen will stop her from slipping away first!