"Why the hell am I here to fight this war?"

Chu Xianzhao sat up slowly, clenched his sword scabbard, and asked himself to the sky.

"Instant Call...... A lot of people are waiting for you. Hua Youyue came to him and held his shoulder: "Your brother and the Empress of Shuyue have arrived, and now many things have to be discussed and decided." ”

"I'll go. Chu Xianzhao turned his head to look at the white jade courtyard, the woman had just fallen asleep, Lin Zhi was accompanying her, she had been crying since she woke up, and wanted to pull out the sword on Chu Zhaozhao's waist several times to seek death, but he couldn't do anything but hug her tightly and let her tears spill on his sleeve.

Rather be a Yan ghost than a Yin slave, even he wanted to applaud this sentence.

"I know what happened upset you, and I feel sorry for that poor child...... He came back with his mission...... It doesn't deserve to be treated like this, but we must have a meeting to discuss it first, the news from Chai Muzhi's scout in Rest City, Lu Liangxin's army has arrived in Rest City and joined up with Ye Yunpeng's remnant army, and it may fight back against us at any time. ”

"Lu Liangxin!" he said in surprise, "Their army has gone to the city of rest so soon?"

"War is like playing chess, and victory is always given to the person who first moves Tianyuan. Hua Youyue said.

The meeting on the war was still held in the council room, King Huailing set up a long table similar to his father's golden luan, King Huailing sat at the end of the long table, on the side was his son and the Chai Xiong who killed Cheshire, Chu Xianzhao and the Empress of Shuyue sat together, and what made him even more frightened was that the black-and-white long-haired woman who had inflicted heavy losses on his army in Jingnan City stood behind the empress, looking respectful, I don't know what means the empress used to tame her. The elder brother sat on his right, followed by General Meng Yu, and Huang Pojun, the leader of the Iron Man Tu, Hua Youyue always sat in the corner in solitude, keeping her distance from everyone as much as possible.

The prince of Huailing, who had just suffered the loss of his son, was full of red faces, looking at the people on the long table with excited eyes, as if he was dozens of years younger, Huailing's army began to arrange arms, and could follow the army of Yinguo to attack the Valley of Storm at any time, and finally arrived at the city of rest, the empress of Shuyue looked haggard unabashedly, much weaker than when she was in Yinguo before, Chu Xianzhao put her hand on the back of her hand and cast a caring gaze, the empress smiled softly and smiled reluctantly.

The meeting has been held late at night, from the beginning of the joke Yan Yan to a continuous quarrel, the first fuse is the grudge between the elder brother and Chai Longbao, Chai Longbao thinks that his brother is a waste and wants to fight him one-on-one, Chu Yingyang patted his stomach and said that if you don't pick out your third leg, he will not be surnamed Chu!

King Huailing patted the table several times and motioned for his eldest son to sit down, but he was not persuaded to do so, he had just lost one of his sons, and he could not lose another one. Meng Yu began to be dissatisfied with the attitude of King Huailing, thinking that he asked for too many things, and even complained about Chu Xuanzhao's generosity, and some people made statements to threaten Chu Xuanzhao's safety, Huang Pojun shook the dragon slaying spear, and even that

Some people couldn't bear it anymore and began to leave, drank two jugs of wine and continued to come back to quarrel.

In the process, Hua Youyue kept watching them without saying a word, carefully distinguishing between poison and honey in their words, falsehood and sincerity.

According to the report provided to them by King Huailing, now Lu Mengxin's army has been encamped outside the city of rest, and the army of the royal family has retreated to Tiehe Mountain, and is advancing in the direction of the city of rest.

Huaiquan's army hopes to enter the Storm Valley now and have a final battle with Chai Longmaung to eliminate the royal strength in the city in one fell swoop, and Chai Longbao hopes to summon their army to rest in the city with Chu Xuan, so that Chai Xiong can lead most of Huaiquan's army to occupy Naili, just in time to contain the supply line of the rest city in Huaiquan, and can use their numerical advantage to kill the people in the rest city.

But Chu Xianzhao said that now the Donghuang Bell is still in the rest of the city, in the case of Chai Long's motive is unknown, it is best not to attack the rest of the city immediately, as soon as this sentence came out, it caused the people of Huailing Wangfu to laugh, Chai Long Leopard stood up next to Chu Zhao's shoulder and said Brother-in-law, I didn't believe in this myth of deceiving children when I was eight years old, if they could use the Donghuang Bell, they would have thrown you to the Yin Kingdom and bombarded you into the sky, he suggested that he would set off with the army tomorrow morning, and attack the rest city in one go and cut off the head of the emperor Lao'er, Chu Xianzhao pulled the corners of his mouth and lowered his head。

"The Eastern Emperor Bell exists, and it can destroy our entire army in an instant. Hua Youyue finally spoke, and everyone's eyes were focused on her.

"We can't stop attacking the city just because the Eastern Emperor Bell is in the Rest City, right?" King Huailing said: "The Eastern Emperor Bell was suppressed in the Fengshen Temple, and it has not been used for nearly a thousand years, maybe even Chai Longxiang doesn't know how to use it. ”

"Chai Longxiang doesn't know how to use it, there are always people who know how to use it. Hua Youyue replied: "Maybe I'm overthinking, but we can't leave a gap for Chai Longxiang to destroy our army, and I also hope that I'm overthinking, and no one will want to use that thing...... No one. ”

Everyone gradually fell silent, and could only hear each other's breathing, and after about half a pillar of incense, Hua Youyue finally compromised: "In this way, the Eastern Emperor Bell is set aside in advance, if Chai Long looks dead and rests in the city, and I hope that he will die in front of me with his own eyes - the inheritance of Yan Fu's throne will fall to the princess, I heard that you Yan Fu has a princess named Chai Liangyu, right, so that the inheritance of the royal family will fall into her hands, and we can't let her leave Yan Fu." ”

"You're going to do it to a child?" said Tantening, displeased.

"Chai Liangyu has the blood of the Yan Yu royal family, and we can't let her be obtained by Qingguo. Meng Yu pointed out.

"That's right, this little princess is as beautiful as her mother, and she is the only princess in Yanfu, so we may be able to spare her life

, but she can't continue to sit on Yan Fu's throne. Hua Youyue said.

"She has always been the princess of Yan Ying...... Xing may be the last bloodline of the Yanfu royal family. Chu Yingyang said.

"We can't keep her ......" Chu Xianzhao raised his head, as if this sentence did not come out of his mouth.

"My father said that we can't leave any people from the Yanfu royal family, the matter of the West has already taught us a painful lesson, this time we can't leave any princesses and princes of the country, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to prevent future troubles!"

"You're going to kill this little princess with your own hands, she's only twelve years old this year!" the voice of the Empress Shuyue rose.

"No matter if she is twelve years old or a hundred years old, as long as she is a member of the Yanyu royal family, she can't stay, as long as she is Chai Longxiang's daughter, as long as she has the same blood as Chai Longmaung, we can't keep her!" Chu Xianzhao said this like his father's iron fist, and Empress Shuyue suddenly became a little scared.

"Okay, I'm also in favor of eradicating the grass and roots, then Empress Yanfu can always stay, right? I can lead the warriors of Huaiquan to attack the front of the city of rest-" Chai Longbao kissed Chu Xianzhao's shoulder, but he was immediately knocked away, and his eyes were sharp: "No! I know what you're thinking! Empress Yanfu can die to die for the country, but she must not be tarnished by others! This is the bottom line of our Yin Kingdom!"

"Oh, I heard that when the war in the west was in the past, the queen of the west was cāo by your cavalry from morning to dusk, and the greatest joy of war is to share the enemy's women and treasures after victory, do you understand the third prince of Chu?"

Chu Xianzhao pursed his lips, his face turned blue.

"Since we want to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, we must do it cleanly, and their family will die!" King Huailing decided.

"Why don't we negotiate peace? Now that we have a clear advantage, maybe we can hand over the throne to the Yan Xuan royal family, so that many problems will be solved, and there will be no need to worry about the matter of the Eastern Emperor Bell, and many people will not have to die?" asked Empress Shuyue.

Everyone turned their heads to stare at her, and Chu Xuanzhao said word by word: "Aunt Ning...... It is impossible for Yinguo and Yanfu to negotiate peace, our ancestors have been fighting for generations, and they have killed countless of our relatives and friends...... And vice versa. He drew the Dragon Sparrow Sword and thrust it the long table, the Fallen God Steel Sword shone with a strange light in the candlelight, colder than ice, more than lava.

"Now that Yan Fu's golden chrysanthemum flag is falling in the dust, we will use our sword blade to provoke it!"

Chu Yingyang echoed loudly, and the others also agreed, and Tantai Ningsu said softly: "That's why there are always so many wars in your Yin country, if you feel hard-hearted, think about your relatives in your own family, those who are still alive...... Those who are dead are already dead, if we have a better way to solve this war and get what we want, why not give it a try and send a messenger to make peace with Chai Long Maung and make him relinquish the throne...... A lot of people have died

, how many more lives do we have to pay before we stop!"

"Your Majesty, you are a soft-hearted woman after all, and the matter of war will be left to us and your soldiers. Meng Yu said in a deep voice.

"I'm soft-hearted, if you let Tantai Ninghua stand in front of me now, I'll let you know how soft my heart is!" The Empress of Shuyue blushed for a while: "Tantai Ninghua killed my courtiers and relatives, formed an alliance with Yan Fu behind my back, and let my soldiers go to the battlefield to die, and Tantai Ninghua single-handedly instigated the war between Yinguo and Yanfu, maybe your Yinguo should not have this war with Yan Fu at all! Chu Xianzhao, I hope that your heart can be softer, and you can solve the things with your brain, don't use the sword, try to talk to the emperor of Yan Fu, why do you have to die to each other?I hope you take a different path from your father's emperor, to really meet the girl you like, and live a happy life...... Don't be like us...... Even if you die, you can only go to Huangquan Purgatory!"

Chu Xianzhao blinked, and waited for a long time before asking Hua Youyue: "Father's order is for us to take the land and throne of Yan Fu, right?" ”

The woman nodded.

"It's good to be negotiable and natural...... But how can we make peace with Chai Long Maung, or how to make sure that Chai Long Maung can surrender, if he gives up the throne to me, but Yan Fu's soldiers still exist, and the next day he will rush into the palace and kill me, such a peace negotiation is meaningless. Chu Xianzhao said.

"That's right, in the battle of Yunjian River, we were surrounded and killed by Ye Ba's army, and we killed far more than twice as many soldiers as Yan Yu before we took Jingnan City, if we negotiate peace with them so easily, then what's the point of those who died? Even if it is to negotiate peace, it should be Chai Longxiang who came to negotiate peace with us and ask for surrender!" Chu Ying slammed his fist on the table, as if the final word was final.

"In short, we Huaiquan will no longer admit that Chai Longxiang is the emperor of Yan Fu!" King Huailing proclaimed, propped his hands on the table.

The Empress of Shuyue left, Zhu Ziwei left with her, keeping those voices away from herself, this war between Yinguo and Yanfu should not have happened, and Shentai Ninghua is the mastermind behind all this, he is the sword hanging on everyone's head!

She suddenly missed her daughter and took her to a place where there was no war.

But there can be no such place in the world.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me. King Huailing stood up loudly and put his hand on Chu Zhaozhao's shoulder: "Yan Fu can only have one emperor, and after this war is over, I will only swear allegiance to one emperor!"

After speaking, he raised Chu Xianzhao's arm, and the Huaiquan warrior pulled out his swallow sword and knelt down on one knee, his eyes solemn.

"It's him!The new king of Yan Fu!Chai Muzhi's wish to die for the third prince of Chu!" King Huailing announced in a loud voice.

Kneeling down with his son and servants, Chu Xianzhao looked at the people who knelt down to him with empty eyes, and shouted in his mouth

Just like the words shouted by the hundreds of officials kneeling down when the father and emperor went to court, they resounded in the council hall and did not disperse for a long time!

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

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The two of them walked together in the Huailing Palace, Hua Youyue looked at him again and again, Chu Xianzhao stopped and smiled: "Say whatever you want,"

Hua Youyue looked at him: "What do you guess I want to ask?"

Chu Xianzhao approached her a little closer, and gently hugged her shoulder, Hua Youyue was not unusual, anyway, the two of them were like that.

"Do you really want to be the emperor of Yan Fu?" Hua Youyue asked.

"I don't have any feelings about the land of Yanfu, just to be a conqueror, my father wants me to be the prince of the west, but I don't want to be the emperor of the west, I think about it, it's more comfortable to live a life of fighting the sword and going to the end of the world. Chu Xianzhao smiled.

The corners of Hua Youyue's mouth were slightly hooked.

Chu Xianzhao leaned on her shoulder and whispered: "I made a big promise to my father before I went out, saying that I would sacrifice Yan Fu to my father before the autumn, now I think about it is really arrogant, so many generals of the Yin Kingdom have not been able to take this country, why should I?"

"Why can't you? The Emperor Yan Fu you met is the most incompetent one in the past dynasties, not even a normal person, and the Yinguo Iron Cavalry under your father's flag is the strongest cavalry in the world, with me, your brother and General Meng, and now Chai Muzhi's rebellion has defected to our side, the time and place are favorable, and you Chu Xuanzhao have taken advantage of it, this war has too many favorable factors for you, if you can't attack Yan Fu, it will be a shame!" Hua Youyue said.

Chu Xuanzhao turned to look in the direction of the Huailing Palace's council hall and said softly: "Just now, the Huailing King said in front of everyone that he wanted me to be the emperor of Yan Xuan, and he was willing to die for me Chu Xuanzhao, doesn't it sound very domineering and arrogant? I was almost moved to tears." ”

Hua Youyue nodded and said: "If you really become the emperor of Yan Fu, then the Northern Regions will be unbreakable in the rule of your father and son, and the Yin Kingdom may even become a big country like the Northern Regions Dynasty a thousand years ago, this family business is enough for your children and grandchildren to squander for hundreds of years, and your father is still not satisfied, right?

"This sword, called Dragon Sparrow, was given to me by my father on my birthday last year. Chu Xianzhao touched the scabbard on his waist.

Hua Youyue suddenly said: "I see." ”

"Your father expects more from you than your brothers and sisters, and he began to train you in the art of being an emperor even before you could walk, and he gave you the best teachers to teach you Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and the royal way, and even did not let you choose gods and Buddhas to pray, so that you could know the secrets of your faith, all that you have experienced...... Li Changyuan taught you swordsmanship...... Later, it was Guan Chang's night ...... Now it's me...... Your father seems to have no intention of planting willows, but he expects you to grow into one more than anyone else

You have experienced the feeling of being hunted down and the feeling of being afraid, and you also know what the responsibility of a king is...... It seems that your father doesn't just want you to be the emperor of the Yin Kingdom. "The flower is quiet and the moon is quiet.

Chu Xianzhao squinted his eyes: "King Huailing wants me to be the emperor of Yan Fu, this is beneficial and harmless to him, this old fox shocked me again and again, first stuffed the only female son to me, and then slaughtered his own son in front of us, it seems that he really wants us to win Chai Longxiang and let him be the hereditary king of Yan Fu, with us as a springboard, we have no reason to refuse him, right? ”

Hua Youyue nodded: "Leave the scheming work to us women, you are still young now, follow your own instincts and don't take the path that others have walked, maybe you will see more people and things in the future, and your mind will become as heavy as King Huailing, to be honest, I still like you to be a little more ambitious, this is more like you than like your father, not so annoying." ”

"Anyway, you can help me clean up the mess......"

"I can't help you clean up for the rest of your life, right?" Hua Youyue sighed, and unconsciously came to Hua Youyue's room, Chu Xianzhao looked at her quietly, and pressed his hand on his knee, he was half a head taller than Hua Youyue, and now the two of them were just at eye level.

"I really can't believe that a woman like you would kill more than 10,000 people in Xilin?"

Hua Youyue was silent.

"If you can, don't use the phoenix qin, it's not good for you. Chu Xianzhao reached out and touched her cheek, and his hand was silky and cold.

"Actually, I even left a suicide note before I went out this time, and I didn't think about going back......"

Chu Xianzhao pursed his lips.

"Anyway, I'm going to sleep. She smiled softly.

Chu Xianzhao was silent again, Hua Youyue pushed open the door and walked in, Chu Xianzhao took her hand, looked at the starry sky and said: "I still hope that you can live well, if I have a son in the future, no matter who gave birth to it, I hope you can teach him what you have taught me again." ”

Hua Youyue finally turned, looked at him deeply, and said in a soft voice: "Come in." ”

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