Chapter 263: The Sword Dance of 100,000 Years Ago
Who dances the sword for whom? Who is smiling in the face of the wind and rain?
Zhu Hongyan looked at the palace maid dancing with a sword in front of her, her heart was full of ups and downs, ten years of preparation, ten years of planning, and now she is about to witness the ending.
As early as ten years ago, on Zhu Hongyan's twentieth birthday, she made this plan in her heart.
She wants to be the empress of this empire, so she must be the only heir of this empire, so her younger brothers, all need to die.
Today is her thirtieth birthday, and she has married a wife, but no one knows that the man she married is actually just a pawn she secretly planted.
The so-called chess pieces are actually very simple, it is nothing more than that Zhu Hongyan secretly established an organization called the "Holy Maiden Sect" when he was ten years old, and then collected some orphans to cultivate, helped them when they were weak, and ended up with the most tenacious loyalty in their hearts, and then put them on the battlefield of the empire.
Ten years later, one of the Saints became the youngest general of the empire and proposed to Vermilion.
At that time, this incident caused a sensation in the entire empire, after all, Zhu Hongyan was high and was the most outstanding princess of the empire.
Then Zhu Hongyan's reply was that unless you can become the marshal of the empire, forget it.
Such a reply left everyone speechless, and the young general fell silent.
It wasn't until five years later that the general had really accumulated enough military exploits and advanced to the rank of marshal of the empire.
It was a romantic evening, and the handsome marshal knelt in front of Vermilion and handed over the red flowers he had picked.
"Will you marry me?" He asked.
Zhu Hongyan didn't answer, just turned around and folded a pink flower, put it in his hand, and then took his red flower.
This kind of though is not explicitly stated. But in fact, it strongly hints at Zhu Hongyan's thoughts.
Therefore, not only the handsome marshal understood, but also those who were onlookers.
So soon after, the emperor of the empire gave marriage and married Zhu Hongyan to this young and handsome marshal.
Zhu Hongyan got married at the age of twenty-five, and has been planning since then.
Seeing that Zhu Tianlong was getting older and older, he gradually had the idea of preparing to abdicate.
Zhu Tianlong didn't want to die on the throne of old age, and as he got older day by day, he gradually had plans to abdicate.
Zhu Hongyan was thirty years old. Zhu Tianlong is fifty-one years old. At this moment, he was already very old, not physically, but mentally.
Every time you work. Worrying about the throne and political affairs made him extremely tired every day, and basically there was no moment to relax, every minute and every moment. They were all very nervous.
Seeing that Zhu Tianlong is ready to set up a prince, he is going to set up a prince. Instead of her, the eldest princess, Zhu Hongyan couldn't help but feel lost in her heart.
She thought that she could just forget it, and it was good to live a happy life.
But some people regard her as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. I can't wait to get rid of her.
The experience of almost being assassinated on the street several times made Zhu Hongyan angry.
Her current cultivation is already a martial arts sect, but those who came to assassinate her. They are all dead soldiers who are only one realm away from her, cultivated with secret medicine. This kind of dead soldier exhausts his physical potential, and basically dies after the age of twenty, but he stimulates his physical potential in advance, has terrifying strength, and is not afraid of death.
Zhu Hongyan touched her wrist, there was a mark on it that was cut by a knife, no matter how she covered it, she couldn't cover it, although it wouldn't be long before her own phantom true qi could eliminate this trace, but in her heart, she was really angry.
"Okay, if you want me to die, I'll kill you all." Zhu Hong looked at these princes and princesses who came to attend her wedding with a smile, those princesses did not pose a threat to her, and those princes needed to be eliminated.
Zhu Hongyan naturally won't do it herself, wait for her to direct a turmoil at the moment, the two assassins arranged among the dancing girls will kill the four princes, and they are also the only four princes in the Liyan Kingdom, as long as these four princes are all dead, then she has the possibility of becoming a female emperor.
This was all forced by others, not her own willingness.
Although she has been hiding her strength and slowing down her cultivation, Zhu Hongyan is still regarded as the biggest threat to the throne, and the supporters of various princes all regard her as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, she has been assassinated since she was ten years old, and until she got married at the age of twenty-five, the assassination was temporarily less, but it also appeared frequently, once a month before, and now once a few months.
These constant assassination activities have left a flame of anger in Zhu Hongyan's heart again and again, and she often asks herself whether it is worth it to do this, giving up the throne, just for the stability and peace of this kingdom, giving up fighting, enduring the bullying of others, and only asking for the most basic to live.
These people, can only let her go if she is dead? But if she dies and doesn't let it go, what's the difference?
Zhu Hongyan became silent in anger, and then on her thirtieth birthday, at this banquet, the wine glass in her hand had become extremely stable.
"Bang" Zhu Hongyan made a mistake and knocked the wine glass to the ground, so he reached out to pick it up.
The moment she lowered her head, the dancing girl in the field suddenly changed the direction of the sword, and before everyone could react, the two swords were inserted into the hearts of the two princes, and then they were withdrawn and continued to stab towards the other two princes.
Everyone entered a state of stunned speech, Zhu Hongyan raised her head, but did not stop it immediately, if she wanted to stop it, naturally she could, she just watched like that, until the remaining two princes were also stabbed to death, then rushed out of the seat, and the body drew an afterimage, and beat the two dancers to the ground, without breathing.
A female officer shouted, "There are assassins! ”
The guards rushed in, knelt on the ground in panic, Zhu Hongyan walked back to his seat, and said: "This matter is important, report to my father and emperor quickly, the assassins attacked the banquet, and the four princes were stabbed to death." ”
The remaining six princesses, including Zhu Zixin, who was not yet married, were all nervously calling around the four princes who were stabbed at this moment, but unfortunately they were pierced through the heart by the sword, and they all couldn't die anymore.
Zhu Zixin felt pain in her heart, ran to the dancer who was killed by Zhu Hongyan, and pulled the other party up, although it was a corpse, she pressed the other party's body angrily, shouting: "Why do you want to do this? Why did you kill my four brothers? ”
Zhu Hongyan watched silently, Zhu Zixin's performance was in place.
In the previous incident, Zhu Zixin, as Zhu Hongyan's sibling sister, naturally participated together.
The relationship between Zhu Zixin and Zhu Hongyan is not an ordinary sister, the two have long been connected, and they don't even shy away from Zhu Hongyan's husband.
Zhu Hongyan's husband is a member of the Holy Maiden Sect, of course he doesn't dare to really sleep with Zhu Hongyan, he actually lives separately from Zhu Hongyan every day.
Sleeping with Zhu Hongyan and accompanying her was actually Zhu Zixin.
This thing has been hidden from other people,
Zhu Zixin pretended to be a man with Zhu Hongyan and slept with her, deceived the test of some necessary procedures after the wedding, and then participated in Zhu Hongyan's plan, and the two of them served as saints and sect leaders respectively in the Holy Maiden Sect.
Now that he has stabbed the four princes to death with assassins, Zhu Hongyan knows that his father will inevitably be furious, but there is no way, there are some things that must be done.
This huge conspiracy, which began ten years ago, has finally entered the stage where it really begins. (To be continued.) )