"The emperor already has Bai Chihe, and Heng'er knows that the emperor is afraid of disappointing the queen mother's kindness......" Chu Heng tried to organize the language: "But when the queen mother issued the decree, it didn't look willing. The emperor should talk to the queen mother, and he should be able to persuade her to withdraw her will. ”

Jiang Lan looked at the bright yellow silk cloth on the table, and after being silent for a long time, she opened her mouth and said, "What do you think of this edict?" ”

"How's that?" Chu Heng raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Lan.

Jiang Lan was also looking at Chu Heng, his eyes were facing each other, Jiang Lan's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and there seemed to be a deep whirlpool under the mist, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.

"What do you think of this edict?" Jiang Lan leaned back in the chair: "Don't you want to be the queen?" ”

"What is the emperor talking about, it makes Heng'er panic." Chu Heng knelt on the ground: "Chu Heng is a person who abides by his duties, he has little power, Heng'er doesn't value the queen's position, the emperor doesn't have to take care of Heng'er, and he said it bluntly to the queen mother." ”

Jiang Lan's face became even more ugly: "In your eyes, the position of queen only symbolizes power?" ”

Chu Heng was stunned for a moment, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"You get out." Jiang Lan had a touch of exhaustion on her face.

"Your Majesty." Instead of going out, Chu Heng took a step forward: "The emperor went to Fujicheng, but what trouble did he encounter?" ”

Jiang Lan's face sank a little when he heard this: "Yes, there is big trouble." ”

"What's the trouble?"

"Fuji City was captured by King Fuji, and General Tan was sentenced to beheading. His subordinates died or surrendered. Jiang Lan leaned back, looking depressed: "Now over there." It's already the world of the vine king. ”

Chu Heng bowed slightly, and there was no trace of surprise on his face: "With the ability of the vine king, this is a matter of time." It's just that Fuji City has become an empty city because of the flood. King Fuji's military food reserves must not be running out, as long as the emperor sends troops to besiege and cut off the possibility of King Fuji dispatching military rations from elsewhere, King Teng will not be able to hold out for long. ”

Jiang Lan frowned: "But before the Great Flood in Fuji City." King Vine must have been stockpiling food for a long time, and if the siege is long, it will be protracted. ”

"Yes, but that's the only way so far." Chu Heng's brows also frowned: "Although the vine king has prepared food. But he had to support not only the soldiers, but also the people of the neighboring towns, and he couldn't hold out for long. ”

Jiang Lan shook his head: "King Vine can dig a levee to flood Fuji City, how can he care about the life and death of the people." I'm afraid he won't give food to these people. ”

"Your Majesty. The king of vines will give food to the people. Chu Heng smiled: "Most of the Fuji family army is from the area of Tengcheng, and their family members and fellow villagers are under the nose of the vine king. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"If the people of Fujicheng and the surrounding towns have no food to eat, and they are starving all over the wilderness, the soldiers will see their relatives starving to death one by one. Where is still in the mood to fight, the vine army is naturally disheartened. I'm afraid that the number of deserters alone will be enough for King Fuji to drink a pot. ”

Jiang Lan seemed to be intent on moving: "Then between you, if I block the surrounding areas of Vine City, how long can the Vine King support?" ”

"With the vine king's grain reserves, at least half a year, at most eight months, he will definitely have nothing to do." Chu Heng was respectful and humble.

"It's been so long......" Jiang Lan's face became irritable again, he only had three months left to live.

"It's not a long time." Chu Heng raised his eyes to look at Jiang Lan with a trace of doubt in his eyes: "Your Majesty, you?" ”

Jiang Lan waved his hand: "I understand that marching and fighting for several years is really not a long time. ”

"Then did the emperor agree with Heng'er's method?"

Jiang Lan shook his head: "King Teng will not let himself sit in the besieged city, he will definitely fight back fiercely." ”

"Yes, but in this way, King Vine will inevitably send troops out of the city and across the river." Chu Heng paused and said: "If our army crosses the river to attack the city, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, but if the person who crosses the river to attack is King Teng, his losses will be much greater, and the chances of victory will be on our side." ”

"Heng'er." Jiang Lan frowned, leaning back: "Do you know that the vine king doesn't actually look like a rebellion. ”

"I know." Chu Heng lowered his head: "The reason why King Teng is against is because Princess Teng was poisoned by the Queen Mother. ”

"What did you say?" Jiang Lan seemed to be taken aback, he raised his eyes to look at Chu Heng: "Who are you listening to when you say this?" ”

"What the prince of the vine king said." Chu Heng took two steps forward with a serious face: "But Your Majesty, now that King Teng has raised troops to rebel, do you still expect him to put down his soldiers?" ”

"King Vine is the iron hat king canonized by the previous emperor, and there is a fief Fuji City, what he has done these days is just to regain his fiefdom."

"Why does the emperor think that?" Chu Heng was a little anxious: "Your Majesty, if King Teng just wants to recapture the fiefdom, he can ask the imperial court to help him take it back, but he is his own private automatic sword soldier!" ”

"That's because King Fuji knows that he asks the court, and the court won't care about him, and the person standing behind General Tan, who was originally against King Fuji, is the queen mother."

"King Fuji also kidnapped the Queen Mother!"

"But you just said that the reason why King Vine did this is because Princess Vine was poisoned by the Queen Mother." Jiang Lan frowned and looked at Chu Heng: "This matter is our fault first, according to my intentions, it is better to settle the grievance, I have already told King Fuji, as long as he stays in Fuji City, I will let him continue to be his iron hat king, and I will not pursue the past ......"

"Your Majesty." Chu Heng interrupted Jiang Lan's words with his words: "Your Majesty, you must not do this. ”

Jiang Lan frowned and didn't speak.

Chu Heng continued: "The great crime of rebellion is the worst of the ten unforgivable crimes, no matter what reason he seeks rebellion, it will never be forgiven. ”

"What I just said is that what King Teng did was nothing more than to regain his own city in his own fiefdom, not a rebellion."

"Okay, even if this is not his rebellion, but he kidnapped the queen mother, can this crime be forgiven?"

"Heng'er." The emperor frowned, and his face was displeased: "I don't want to say more." You go out first. ”

"Your Majesty!" Chu Heng looked unyielding: "What matters now is not whether the vine king is rebelling or not, the key is the power in his hands, if he wants to rebel." It's ready to be unveiled! ”

"Because King Vine has the ability to rebel, so whether he plots rebellion or not, I will kill him completely?" Jiang Lan sneered twice: "I didn't expect Heng'er's heart to become so cold. ”

Chu Heng's body stiffened when he heard this, and his face was at a loss: "Your Majesty, how can you think that Heng'er ...... so?"

"Otherwise? What should I think of you? The sneer on Jiang Lan's face became more and more frightening: "Although you have lived in the vine king's mansion for four years, the time you have spent with the vine king is too short. You don't know what kind of person he is at all. I promised him to continue to be the king of iron hats, and he promised that I would not rebel, since the oath of a gentleman was established. He will certainly not rise again in his lifetime. ”

"The emperor believes in making an oath to the gentleman of the vine king?" Chu Heng suddenly smiled: "It's true that Heng'er is not familiar with King Teng, I don't know if he has such a personality, but Chu Heng has seen it with his own eyes." The Fujishiro embankment was destroyed. The corpses of thousands of people are stacked outside the city, and the corpses are flowing all over the ground, the emperor, you actually believe in the oath of a gentleman? ”

Jiang Lan narrowed her eyes: "Yes, I believe it!" ”

Chu Heng couldn't help but sneer: "Even if King Teng keeps his promise and lives up to his holy grace, what about his son? Can you trust Himeshiro's personality? Chu Heng paused, and then said: "Heng'er really doesn't know much about King Teng, but he knows Jicheng very well. Heng'er knew that he was a man of power. He has always been unscrupulous in order to achieve his goals, Your Majesty. You're ......"

"Don't you like Himejo?" A hint of mockery flashed on Jiang Lan's face: "Why do you say that about him behind your back." ”

When Chu Heng heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she suddenly said to Jiang Lan: "If the emperor has nothing else to order, Heng'er will go down first." ”

"Go down, it's long overdue." Jiang Lan waved her hand impatiently.

Chu Heng didn't know why, he was very aggrieved in his heart, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden. Because she was afraid that people would see the tears in her eyes, she lowered her head and quickly walked out of the imperial tent.

"Miss Chu?" Bai Chihe stood outside the tent, and when she saw Chu Heng coming out, she stepped forward to talk, and happened to see Chu Heng's red eyes: "Miss Chu, what's wrong?" ”

"I stayed up late for the past two days, and my eyes were astringent." Chu Heng found a reason to perfunctory the past.

"I think it's me and the emperor who haven't returned for many days, which makes Miss Chu worried." Bai Jihe looked apologetic.

Chu Heng shook his head and said, "Speaking of which, every time I see Miss Bai in the past few days, I am in a hurry, and I haven't had a chance to thank Miss Bai for saving her life." ”

"You are a friend of the emperor, and you are my friend." Bai Chihe's face was sincere, she reached out and held Chu Heng's hand, and the corner of her mouth was a warm smile: "Don't dare to thank you." ”

Chu Heng also smiled: "I don't dare to forget the grace of saving my life, if Chu Heng has a place where he can help the white girl in the future, as long as the white girl speaks, Chu Heng will definitely not have a word." ”

"Miss Chu's words, Chi He wrote it down." Bai Jihe still smiled gently.

At the same time, the ancestral hall of the Bai family.

Bai Chihe's mother, Bai Xi, sat in the side room of the ancestral hall, with an old god on her face. Opposite Bai Xi, Bai Yuanyuan was glaring at Bai Xi angrily.

"Where's Bai Chihe?!" Bai Yuanyuan's knife-like eyes fell on Bai Xi's face, but Bai Xi didn't realize it. Bai Yuanyuan was furious, and turned around and summoned the grandmother outside the house: "Come on, tie Bai Xi up for me!" ”

The door was pushed open, and two grandmothers of five big and three thick walked in, they held ropes in their hands, walked to Bai Xi's side, and tied Bai Xi firmly in two or three strokes.

"Ma'am, the people are tied."

Although Bai Xi was tied with a rope on her body at this moment, she still had that indifferent expression on her face, as if nothing could touch her.

Bai Yuanyuan was even more angry: "Lock her up in the firewood room, and no one is allowed to bring her food." ”

The two grandmothers received the order, and pulled Bai Xi out of the side room.

Mama took Bai Xi to leave the house, and Lu Qiao ran in outside: "Madam, I have found Bai Chihe." ”

Bai Yuanyuan's eyes lit up, and she turned to look at Lu Qiao, with a nervous face, "Where is she?" Nothing happened, right? ”

"She is in the emperor's barracks, and she goes in and out with the emperor every day." Lu Qiao frowned, and his eyes were full of displeasure: "Madam, the slave and maid look, this Bai Chihe just can't be the queen, I'm afraid I will also enter the palace as a concubine." ”

"She dares!" Bai Yuanyuan's face was fierce: "She is pregnant with the flesh and blood of my Bai family, and the little son has not been born yet, she actually wants to marry someone else!" ”

"Isn't it?" Lu Qiao pursed his lips: "The young master's bones are not cold, Bai Chihe actually ran to other men." ”

Bai Yuanyuan's face became even worse when she heard this: "Go and prepare, we also have to go to the emperor's military camp." ”

"Madame wants to pick up Bai Chihe back?" Lu Qiao shook his head slightly: "This Bai Chihe dared to secretly follow the emperor and run away, Madam wants to catch her back, it must not be so easy." ”

"I'm not going to catch Bai Chihe, I'm going to meet the Queen Mother......" A touch of coldness flashed in Bai Yuanyuan's eyes: "Prepare the car, bring Bai Xi with you." ”

Lu Qiao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded again and again: "Okay, the slave will go and prepare." ”

By the river, the emperor's camp.

In the imperial tent, Jiang Lan leaned on the head of the bed and watched the folds, while Bai Chihe sat on the edge of the bookcase with a book.

"Your Majesty, the maiden just saw Chu Heng, and her eyes are red." Bai Chihe sighed, put down the book in his hand, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down beside Jiang Lan: "Since the emperor likes her so much, why should he hurt her." ”

Jiang Lan frowned, and only after a while did she say quietly: "I am alienating him now, making her tired of me, and when I die in three months, she will not feel uncomfortable in her heart." ”

"The emperor is really an infatuated lover." Bai Chihe sighed: "It's a pity that Chu Heng doesn't know about your feelings at all. ”

"I don't need Heng'er to know this." Jiang Lan turned her head to look at Bai Chihe: "It's wronged girl, you, accompany me to act in front of Heng'er every day." ”

Bai Chihe shook his head: "What is the grievance here, it is an honor for the people to be able to help the emperor share his worries." What's more......" Bai Chihe paused, and her face stopped talking, and after a while, she sighed faintly and said: "The emperor is the most sincere person that Chi He has ever met, and my Bai Chi He's heart is willing to dedicate it to the emperor." ”

Bai Chihe's eyes were full of affection when he looked at Jiang Lan, Jiang Lan was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth turned into a line, and his expression stiffened: "But my heart is all on Chu Heng, I only have three months to live, I'm afraid I can't stand the wrong love of the white girl." ”

Chi He understood, Chi He knew that the emperor only had Chu Heng in his heart, and Chi He didn't care. Chi He likes the emperor, it is Chi He's own business, Chi He doesn't ask for anything in return, he just wants to help the emperor in the last three months of the emperor's life. ”

"White Girl!" Jiang Lan sighed.

"Your Majesty, don't be bitter." Bai Chihe smiled: "Look at this, Chu Heng gave it to me just now." ”

Bai Chihe pulled out a sachet from his sleeve, and the sachet was fragrant when he thought of it, and the smell of it made people flutter. (To be continued......)