Chapter 33: The Emperor's Tears
Northern Qi left the Qingguo Palace in this way, leaving the angry emperor and General Duan, who was powerless to refute.
The emperor could indeed order the Northern Qi to be killed like this, but what about after that? Let the Northern Qi army destroy the Qingguo?
The emperor shouted angrily, and his tightly clenched fists slammed the table. The emperor vented his anger and dissatisfaction, smashed everything in the imperial study, exhausted all his strength, and finally kicked the queen down. When everyone was lying on the ground and no longer looking at the emperor to vent his anger, he finally saw General Duan silently kneeling to the side.
The emperor walked over, pulled out the saber on General Duan's waist, and pointed the sword at General Duan's head,
"How did you promise me, how did you promise me! My daughter was taken away in front of me! My country is going to suffer such a affliction! You name it! What have you done! What are you doing with your sons? You say! You say! ”
The entire imperial study was lying quietly on the ground, listening to the emperor's roar, they didn't dare to raise their heads to see the emperor's expression.
General Duan slowly raised his head, raised his chin, and pressed his throat against his sword. He looked at the emperor's hideous face and calmly said his words,
"Your Majesty, you kill Weichen. Weichen is useless, he can't protect the princess, and he can't protect the country. Weichen is useless, Emperor, you kill Weichen! ”
General Duan closed his glasses and waited for the emperor to penetrate his throat with sharp scissors.
But the emperor couldn't put down his hand, and the end of the sword approached General Duan's throat little by little, and his hand trembled even more strictly. The emperor widened his glasses, looked at General Duan who was kneeling on the ground, and suddenly deflated and threw away his sword.
The emperor turned around and walked back to his seat step by step.
After a while, the queen stood up from the ground, looked at the emperor who was already deflated, and waved her hand to everyone. Palace people and several ministers. The guards who rushed in carefully got up from the ground, jumped over the fragments of various objects, and exited the room.
The queen looked at the emperor's depressed appearance. She felt very tight in her heart, and she really wanted to stay with the emperor, talk to him, explain and persuade him. But as soon as the queen thought of her daughter, who was still missing, she withdrew from the room with a ruthless heart.
Only General Duan. Still kneeling there with his eyes closed.
The sky was getting darker, and the study was cold and desolate. The emperor's whole body leaned on the chair softly, looking at the front with a dull gaze, and constantly recalling all kinds of things about Princess Qixin in his mind. After a long time, the emperor moved his mouth slightly,
"Duan Yu, I'm sorry for you for not marrying my daughter to your mansion."
General Duan opened his blood-red eyes and shifted his position to face the emperor.
"Your Majesty, it's the incompetence of the ministers."
General Duan kowtowed heavily to the emperor as he spoke, and then did not get up again.
The emperor looked at General Duan and smiled,
"Where you are incompetent, it is clear that I am incompetent. I don't have the ability to protect the country, the people, my daughter, and my courtiers, Duan Yu. Zhirong died unjustly. ”
General Duan raised his head suddenly, just in time to see tears flowing from the corners of the emperor's eyes. General Duan didn't say anything, and he also shed tears.
A monarch and a minister faced each other in tears in a mess, they both lost their children. Lost the trust of others, lost many, many things. The room gradually became dark, and there were no palace people to come here to hold the lamp, like a forgotten corner.
The queen is not in the mood to be so sad, for her, the most important thing is not the emperor who was spurned. It was the daughter who was pushed out by her own hands.
"How's it going? Is there any news of the princess? ”
The aunt beside the queen hurriedly ran in, and the queen hurriedly asked. My aunt was out of breath, and it was hard to speak,
"There's news, duke, a letter from the princess."
The aunt hurriedly handed the letter in her hand to the queen, but when she saw the letter, she was blinded.
'The daughter is fine now, and the queen mother has no thoughts.
When it's all over, my daughter will go back.
Just don't talk about it, and don't say anything to your father. ’
The queen looked at the letter in her hand and read it back and forth several times, but she still didn't figure out what the seventh princess meant. However, if there is an opinion that makes it possible, her opinion is the same as that of the Seventh Princess, so she will not make a noise about this matter.
"Mother, how is the princess now?"
My aunt has followed the queen since she was in the palace, and the seventh princess has also grown up with her, so she is also very anxious now. The queen shook her head,
"I didn't say anything, I just said that it's good now and that I'll come back when it's over. He also said not to make a noise about it. ”
Aunt frowned,
"What do you mean, princess? Hasn't he been captured by the Northern Qi Army? How can it be good? And what will be accomplished? ”
The queen did not speak, and after thinking for a long time, she said,
"Since the princess must have her intentions when she says this, let's wait for now, after all, we can't act rashly now."
Auntie nodded,
"Yes, because of the proposal of the Northern Qi Kingdom before, I have been a little bad for the princess. If the news spreads this time, it will be a blow to the princess. ”
Hearing her aunt say this, the queen sighed deeply again,
"Alas, it's all bad for this palace."
"Don't say that, Niangniang, it's all for the good of the princess. But the emperor of the Northern Qi Kingdom, I am too hateful. But Niangniang, is that young man just now really the emperor of the Northern Qi Kingdom? ”
The queen nodded,
"Thinking about it, it should be, he is so presumptuous, the emperor and General Duan have no way to take him. Moreover, the emperor once told the palace that the current emperor of the Northern Qi Kingdom was called Northern Qi when he was a child. ”
"It's really ruthless, otherwise it wouldn't be so powerful in the Northern Qi Kingdom now. Quietly, we can already get our Qingguo to this point. But it's good if he takes Princess Qixin away, this girl can't stay in Qingguo and harm us. ”
The queen was already a little unhappy when she heard her aunt's praise of Northern Qi, in the end she was also the queen and the emperor's wife. When I heard my aunt say about this, I was even more angry.
"What's good, isn't it just that he took Qixin away from us! Isn't Qi Shui being arrested! That girl can't continue to plague us! Do you think that if she leaves like this, the emperor will be able to let her go! ”
The aunt realized that she had said the wrong thing and quickly knelt down and begged for mercy. The queen glanced at her aunt in disgust, waved her hand and told everyone to stand down. He leaned against the table and sighed, looking at the letter from the seventh princess and worried. In the end, the queen burned the letter and decided not to spread the story. (To be continued.) )