Chapter 360: A fierce general with full firepower
Zhou Shu let go of his hand after being stunned, "What does my father mean by this?" ”
The air poured back into his mouth and nose, and King Ji'an breathed greedily.
He always thought that he was not a cowardly, greedy and fearful of death, but wandering on the edge of life and death made him truly experience the panic and fear brought by death, and more importantly, the unwillingness to unpaid ambitions.
How has he spent more than a decade? The pain, the anger that had no way to vent, the kind of exhaustive, step-by-step labor, the kind of forbearance and suffering day after day, year after year, almost drained his heart.
Seeing that his mother's last wish was about to be fulfilled and that years of hard work were about to be rewarded, how could he fall short and die at this moment? Even if he died, he would die on a battlefield covered with blood and corpses, not at the hands of his own son.
The fear of death and the desire for life made him no longer care about any dignity and decency, and there was only one thought in his mind, that is, to live by any means. Even if he wants to admit his mistakes to his son, cry and beg for mercy.
"The father is wrong, and the father should not lie to you." Abandon your cheeks, and the words of apology will naturally blurt out.
The corners of Zhou Shu's slightly raised lips were stained with endless mockery, "Father is finally willing to admit it?" ”
"I admit it, I killed your mother...... Killed, but Shu'er, I didn't mean to. King Ji'an said in a trembling voice, "Your grandfather went early, and your grandmother was a father and a mother alone, and she brought me up with hard work.
Your grandmother is the closest person in this world, and she was on her deathbed. I didn't stay by her side, I didn't even see her for the last time.
Just when I was grieving and remorseful myself, I suddenly learned that your grandmother had been strangled to death, and that the person who strangled her was my wife, who shared my bed. I can't believe it, and I don't want to believe it, but all the evidence points to your mother. I confronted her, and she was stumbling, dodging, and refusing to be honest with me......
What's more, I had just lost my mother, who was dependent on me, and I was devastated. It is simply impossible to think calmly.
Others can't understand me. You should be able to understand. What kind of mood did you have for me at this time, and what kind of mood I had for your mother at that time. The feeling of losing a loved one and being betrayed by a loved one is like being in the last days. The sky is falling. It's hot-headed. Lost mind, desperate and crazy.
I didn't even know what I was doing, waiting until I woke up. Your mother is dead in my arms......"
Speaking of this, he burst into tears, and looked at Zhou Shu with sad eyes, "Shu'er, Shu'er, can you imagine how heartbroken and remorseful I was when I knew the truth?"
The reason why I lie to you is because your mother will not let me tell you. The reason why I did not follow your mother is because she did not allow me to die, and she asked me to stay in the world to take care of you, and to atone for my sins in the way of suffering and guilt that I have lived all my life.
Shu'er, you have to believe me, if I can turn back time, I am willing to pay any price; If I could exchange my life for your mother's life, I would not hesitate to do it. ”
Even though he had known the fact that King Ji'an had killed the Qin family, even if he had imagined a face-to-face scene like this more than once, and hearing King Ji'an admit it himself and tell what had happened, Zhou Shu couldn't help but redden.
gritted his teeth so that he didn't shout out the words that were hovering in his heart.
Kill the bamboo paper first, and then use the bamboo paper to poison her sister, a grief-stricken person, unable to think calmly, and lose his mind, will use such an interlocking and tortuous method to kill people?
Princess Meng's disappearance back then was just an accident, and you have been looking for it for five or six years. After killing my mother with her own hands, just after the great filial piety, she couldn't wait to remarry a young and beautiful daughter, have children, and enjoy the blessings of all people and the joy of family.
Is this the price you pay? Is this how you show remorse and guilt and atone for your sins?
Although he really wanted this person who was still trying to deceive him with lies until this moment to shut up immediately, reason told him that now was not the time to settle old accounts, "So, before you killed my mother, you didn't know that it was a trap set by the old lady?" ”
"Of course not." Hearing his tone loosen, King Ji'an suddenly grasped the hope of life, and his expression became more and more sincere, "After your mother passed away, I saw the letter she left me, and I realized that I may have wronged her.
I went to Yun Ma for verification, but Yun Ma refused to say anything, handed over a suicide note left by your grandmother's pen, and committed suicide by taking poison. Although your grandmother's suicide note did not mention this, Yun's mother's attitude and her suicide have proven everything.
That's when I realized that I really blamed your mother for my mistake. But the big mistake has been made, and it can no longer be undone......"
Zhou Shu heard a choked sobs in his throat, as if he was going to show his affection and remorse again, lest he vomit out of disgust and spoil the big thing in the future, so he hurriedly interrupted him, "Why did the old lady do that?"
What kind of hatred does she have with her mother, why does she have to put her mother to death, and even risk her own life to set a trap? Is it just because she doesn't like her mother? ”
The king of Ji'an could not move his hands and feet, and he could not wipe away his tears. As soon as the tears dried, his face was tight, and he couldn't even control his expression, so he could only sigh to express his helplessness and chagrin, "Your grandmother treated your mother like that because of the grievances of the previous generation."
Since Qingmo told you the contents of that letter, you must already know your grandmother's background, right?
More than 50 years ago, because your grandfather sang a Japanese nursery rhyme that he secretly learned, it was listened to by someone with a heart, and he connected a Japanese girl with someone from the Dingguo Mansion, and fabricated a crime of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, so that the Dingguo Mansion was beheaded all over the house. ”
Zhou Shu was dumbfounded for a long time before muttering: "My grandfather is related to the unjust case of the old concubine's mother's family?" Is there such a coincidence in the world? ”
"Yes, that's how things happen in the world." King Ji'an sighed, "Before I saw your grandmother's suicide note, I never thought that there was such a bad relationship between your mother and your grandmother. ”
"Bad karma?" Zhou Shu came back to his senses from the "shock". His face was angry, "When there was an accident in the Dingguo Mansion, my grandfather was still a child, what could he do to hurt others?" He has been, and it was also an unintentional mistake, why was he regarded as the culprit of the Dingguo Mansion?
Even if he doesn't sing the nursery rhyme, the 'man with a heart' will also find other charges to frame him. The old lady wants to hate and kill, and she should also hate and kill those 'people with hearts'.
Besides, not long after my mother married into the palace, my grandfather had already passed away. His 'sins' were also taken to the ground. What is wrong with my mother. Why was she regarded by the old lady as the object of revenge because she was born a long time ago? ”
King Ji'an's eyes flashed, and he sighed again, "I know that your mother is innocent. But your grandmother is the only survivor of the Dingguo Mansion. Burdened with a sea of blood and hatred. Incognito for most of his life. After suffering a lot, it is normal to hate your grandfather, and it is normal to have the idea of 'paying the debts of the father and the daughter'......"
"Normal?" Zhou Shu was furious. He raised his head and laughed twice, "Father actually said it was normal?" If the father's debt is repaid by the daughter, should the mother's debt also be repaid by the son?
According to my father's so-called normal thinking, the old concubine's crime of designing to frame my mother's concubine, as well as the crime of my father's murder of my mother's concubine, must be borne by my father alone. Then I should have killed my father twice to avenge my mother completely. ”
said that his face was cold, and he grabbed the neck of King Ji'an.
King Ji'an didn't expect that he inadvertently defended the old concubine, destroying the atmosphere that had just eased up between father and son, and he was horrified, lest Zhou Shu would strangle him to death regardless of 3721, and shouted urgently: "I won't let your mother die in vain, I will compensate her." ”
Zhou Shu put his hand on his neck, feeling the vibration of his throat because of the rapidity, and laughed contemptuously, "How to compensate?" Do you have a way to resurrect my mother? ”
"People can't be resurrected after death, and I can't bring your mother back to life. But I have a way to make your mother and concubine go down in history, be worshiped by all the people, be praised by the descendants of thousands of generations, and live forever in history. ”
The last sentence has unconsciously brought out a little passionate.
Zhou Shu pretended not to hear the deep meaning of these words, and shouted angrily, "When my mother was not married, she was just the daughter of a poor teacher, and when she married you, she was just a little princess, how can you go down in history?"
What do you say that all the people worship their descendants and praise living on the green history? Now you go out and ask, how many people in this Jinan Mansion remember my mother's surname?
You don't fool me with these empty words, you can't let my mother come back to life, just take your life to die! ”
King Ji'an felt the strength of the hand on his neck getting stronger and stronger, and the feeling of near-death suffocation swept over again. He regretted it, he shouldn't have beaten around the bush just now, and while he could still speak, he threw out the two most critical words, "Queen." ”
"What?" Zhou Shu's movements on his hands paused.
King Ji'an got a chance to breathe, didn't dare to talk nonsense, and went straight to the point, "If your mother becomes the queen, she will be able to go down in history and live forever." ”
"My mother is the queen?" Zhou Shu's expression was surprised and confused, "How can my mother ......?"
"How could it be?" This rhetorical question is full of confidence and certainty, "As long as I ascend the throne as the emperor, your mother will naturally be posthumously crowned as the queen." ”
Zhou Shu's eyes widened, and he looked at him in astonishment, "Father, you don't want to make ...... Rebellion, right? ”
When it came to the word "rebellion", he subconsciously lowered his voice.
"Rebellion? No, I'm trying to get my seat back. The King of Ji'an seemed to have forgotten that he was lying on the ground in a very indecent posture at this time, with a proud expression and a generous tone, like a general dressed in armor, riding on a tall horse, commanding thousands of troops and horses to kill the emperor's throne.
Zhou Shu was stunned, "The seat that should belong to you?" What does Father mean by that? ”
"There are some things you'll know sooner or later, and it doesn't hurt to tell you now." King Ji'an's eyes that were once chaotic and misty because of poisoning bloomed with a strange light, "On the eve of the accident in the Dingguo Mansion, the first emperor once went out to Shandong in a small service and settled in the Dingguo Mansion.
The first emperor valued your grandmother's character and talent, and wanted to make her the queen. It was originally planned to complete the marriage after returning to the palace, but before the first emperor issued a holy edict, the Dingguo Mansion was charged with treason and collaborating with the enemy.
At that time, your grandmother was already pregnant, and under the desperate protection of the generals, she escaped, and then married into the Zhou family incognito......"
"Father is the flesh and blood of the first emperor?" Zhou Shu exclaimed at the right time.
"Yes, I, you, all your brothers and sisters, are of royal blood, and will be the orthodox bloodline of the descendants." The king of Ji'an bit the words "orthodoxy of the branches" heavily.
What is orthodoxy? But relying on the four words "Jun Wu jokes" to put gold on his face, if it is placed in an ordinary person's house, isn't it the son of a lowly man born in the outer room?
Zhou Shu didn't want to belittle him, because to belittle him was to belittle himself, but he really couldn't get used to his self-proclaimed noble face, so he couldn't help but slander him.
The words that came out of his mouth were not very good, "My father is too pretentious."
The old concubine is dead, and the first emperor has also died, who can prove that you are the blood of the first emperor? Even if someone can prove that the rules of the heavenly family and the common people's family are not the same, whoever sits on the throne is the orthodox descendant.
From the moment the current saint ascended the throne, the orthodoxy of the royal descendants has changed course. The saint will not obediently give up the throne just because you are the blood of the first emperor.
If it's not someone who is willing to let it, the father can only rob it hard, and if he robs it, he can't take off the hat of 'rebellion'.
Turning our whole family, which is the nine clans of in-laws, into a traitor who everyone gets and is punished, is this how you made my mother and concubine go down in history? Your so-called worship of all peoples, the history of history, originally means that all the people scold and leave a stench for thousands of years? ”
His extremely ridiculous and derogatory words aroused the blood and pride in the bones of King Ji'an, "Success and defeat, since ancient times, history has been written by the victors." ”
"It is true that history is written by the victors, but it is a pity that the father is not the victor and will never be the victor." Zhou Shu used the fierce general with full firepower, "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister."
You are just a rich idler who has no position and lives on the handouts of the heavenly family, what can you use to compete for the throne with the holy god who is in charge of the world?
You made up such a shocking story just to deceive me, delay time, and wait for others to find out that something is wrong and rush to rescue you.
I'm telling you, it's useless, even if I don't do it, another quarter of an hour's work, you'll die of poison. You better save your energy, wait to go to Jiuquan to explain to my mother, kowtow to her and make amends. ”
After that, he got up, patted his ass and was about to leave.
King Ji'an was immediately anxious, "Shu'er, what I said is true. I have already deployed to stop, and my men and horses will start when the Holy Majesty ascends to the top of the heavens the day after tomorrow. ”
"Your centaurs?" Zhou Shu paused and pulled the corners of his mouth funny, "Father is talking about the hundreds of guards and soldiers in the Ji'an Palace?"
You want to lead such a rabble to fight to the death against the five thousand Praetorian Guards of the Holy Lord, as well as the hundreds of thousands of Governors of Hecao who can come at any time?
No kidding! ”
"If I raid the top of a mountain with hundreds of dead soldiers, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate me; Hundreds of people mixed in with the people to create chaos and prevent the overseers from going up the mountain; Then disperse 10,000 horses from the secret passage in the back mountain to contain the Praetorian Guards on the mountain, do you still think I'm joking? ”
――(To be continued......)
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4000 words written in one go, I don't bother to divide it into two chapters.