Chapter 9 The body is bound, but the heart is the same
"But even though it's a plan, it's important to be prepared in all aspects."
Now that the general direction of the plan has been decided, Shang Yang began to plan the specific details of the plan.
"Although I am very unwilling to be hacked to death, there is no good way to do it for the sake of ability. It is certainly unscientific to appear directly in the palace in the first place and declare that you are a monster to attract a large army to encircle and suppress it, and now it takes a few rumors to arouse the vigilance of the current ruling emperor, and to maintain a Cheng dù problem. ”
[This era is really good, at least now you don't have to think about the power of the mysterious side of humanity.] ]①
"Well, then we need a few suitable locations. Ah, what a hassle, and I have to sue sù love. ”
[Cheer up, as long as you have the ability, you can really prepare for the Lunar War.] ]
Miss Lord God persuaded.
"Yes, yes~"
Shang Yang was quite perfunctory.
"Then now let's go find a few good locations in Fujiwara Kyochu and plan the route, ahhh
[Don't forget to inform Love.] ]
Miss Lord God is quite fond of love.
"Okay, when I get to the vicinity of the palace, I'll go to her and collect some benefits by the way."
[Hey!] ]
on the timeline
The invisible "World Correction Power" surrounded the point in time where Shang Yang was, and suddenly, the "World Correction Power" broke away from the timeline and entered the point in time, emerging from the surface around Fujiwara Kyo, dividing into countless strands, and flowing into Fujiwara-kyo along the luck of the entire Eleventh Ward to Fujiwara-kyo.
Shang Yang didn't think there was anything missing, but the arrival of the "World Correction Force" was an unpredictable and unstable factor.
And its storage zài will interfere with what kind of Cheng dù will be in the merchant sheep.
This is unknown.
Fujiwara-kyo Imperial Palace. The palace where love dwells
Near noon, the sun shone in through the window, and Ai moved the chair near the window, and read the book in the sunlight that shone into the room.
The sun shines on the pages of the book, and it also shines on the side face of love. The book she is holding in her hand is also "Journey to the West" brought to her by Shang Yang. ②
Growing up, Love didn't have much to play with, so she could only find pleasure in the world of books.
But compared to the books that Shang Yang brought me, those books in the palace were really boring.
Closing the book in his hand, he rubbed his astringent eyes, and loved to hold the book to his chest, and his heart was full of happiness.
Such an interesting book, I really don't know where Shang Yang got it, although Shang Yang said that he wrote it based on Master Xuanzang's "Tang Western Regions Records" (3), but I always feel that it is not very credible.
However, for the sake of this book, I won't pursue it~
Love thinks happily.
Kara~
The sound of the temple door being pushed open.
"Shang Yang!"
Ai stood up happily and looked in the direction of the temple gate.
"Your Highness, Your Majesty asked your servants to invite you to the Great Pole Hall (4) for dinner."
The palace maids outside the door entered the hall, and the female official headed by them bowed to love.
Love's gaze instantly turned into loss, nodded, and regardless of the palace people, carefully put the book under his pillow, when he touched his pillow, love suddenly smelled a fragrance of herbs, (5) her heart couldn't help but warm again, she carefully spread the pillow flat, and then followed the palace maids out of the palace, towards the center of the palace.
Not long after Love and the palace maids left, several phantoms flashed, and Shang Yang appeared in Love's room.
Shang Yang, who was still carrying lunch in a food box, just wanted to beckon Ai to come over and eat together, and by the way, he would see how Ai ate to heal, but before he could speak, Shang Yang found that Ai was not in her room.
"Huh? Where did Ai-chan go? ”
Shang Yang scratched his head, he hadn't seen him come to look for Ai Ai but wasn't there for so long.
[I guess I was called by the female emperor, it's hard for her to remember such an unknown orphan girl.] ]
Miss Lord God was a little dissatisfied.
When Shang Yang heard this, he smiled indifferently, but he felt that it was better not to remember, and it would be easy for his buddy to elope with Ai-chan after awakening his ability.
However, it is necessary to confirm.
Thinking like this, Shang Yang let out his perception and slowly searched the palace. After a while, I found that Ai was walking towards the Great Pole Hall on the central axis of the palace surrounded by a group of palace people, and there were also many people gathered in the Great Pole Hall, and they all seemed to be royal.
It looks like a royal gathering.
Retracting his perception, Shang Yang smacked his lips and put the food box on the table, it seems that he had to leave it for Ai-chan to eat at night, and it is a pity that he can't enjoy Ai-chan's eating picture today. Meals were brought.
By the way, leave a letter for love.
As soon as he said it, Shang Yang immediately took out the pen and paper he was carrying. Well, it's a habit.
After a while, a letter was written, and Shang Yang folded it, walked to the bedside, and was about to stuff it into the secret pocket under the pillow, which was the place where Shang Yang left a letter for Ai. He picked up the pillow, and suddenly found that the "Journey to the West" he gave to Love was carefully placed under the pillow by Love, and he couldn't help but smile, stuffed the letter into the pocket of the pillow, and then put it neatly, Shang Yang also left the room of love and went to prepare for his plan.
Fujiwara Imperial Palace. Daigokuden
Almost all the members of the royal family sat on both sides of the main hall according to their seats, just like the Central Plains etiquette.
On the throne in the middle of the main hall sits the empress of the previous emperor, the current emperor.
She is fifty years old this year, with some gray hair coiled behind her, her eyes are calm, and she is dignified, although she is also very powerful, but compared to the Emperor Zetian in the Central Plains, she is much inferior.
The palace people are serving all kinds of light food to the imperial family, and the emperor is still light, so the style of the palace banquet is also the same. ⑥
At this time, the palace people sang a promise.
"Her Royal Highness the Imperial Maiden Aihime has arrived~!"
All the royal family members were suddenly quiet, but they began to whisper to the people next to them, and looked at the palace gate from time to time, with a look of disgust in their eyes.
Ai entered the main hall, ignoring the gaze of these royal families, and walked straight to the bottom of the stairs not far from the female emperor, and saluted her imperial mother calmly.
Maybe the first love was still very afraid of her own queen mother, but since she saw the Empress Zetian, she completely disliked this queen mother, compared to the Empress Zetian who ruled the kingdom of High Heaven Plain, her queen mother is simply mediocre.
"Hmm~" The old female emperor glanced at Ai and nodded, Yan Sù's face did not soften in the slightest, "Ai Ji, go and sit down in the back." ”
Hearing the Empress say this, Ai saluted the Empress again, turned and walked to the seat assigned to him, a small table in the corner.
After that, the old female emperor stopped saying a word, and the court maid next to her immediately served her meal.
The royal family below also began to move one after another, and the atmosphere of the entire hall was unbearable.
Halfway through this royal gathering, the old female emperor raised her hand slightly, and the maid immediately approached the female emperor on her knees, and carefully wiped the corners of the female emperor's mouth.
With a wave of his hand, he motioned for the maid to go down. The old female emperor spoke.
"Aiji."
Ai Wenyan left her table, walked to the bottom of the stairs, and bowed.
"Put away the dishes on my table."
The old female emperor commanded blandly.
Some of the surrounding royals let out a malicious laugh.
Ai was stunned for a moment, then calmed down, stepped forward, did not look at the old female emperor, and used his white and tender hands to clean up the leftover scraps eaten by the female emperor.
Old woman, you should be glad that Shang Yang is not here, or he would have killed you on the spot. Love is his future girlfriend who is afraid of falling in the palm of his hand and afraid of melting in his mouth, and he is actually used as a slave by you!
Of course, I can destroy you if I change me, how many people are crying and shouting to protect her, and in this time and space, Ai-chan is a royal family, so you will treat a princess as a palace maid! You're in trouble, you're in trouble! (Raise your face on your toes.)
The old female emperor saw that Ai was so soft, and she couldn't help but glance at Ai Gao while being satisfied, but the disgust in her heart was even better.
"Aiji, your mother begged me to take care of you before leaving, you are also fourteen years old this year, so let's do it, your brother Prince Gaoshi has been in poor health recently, and he doesn't have many heirs, so I will marry you."
The old female emperor spoke seemingly casually.
The surrounding royal families were stunned for a moment.
Well, although the imperial family wants to maintain close marriage, it is common for brothers to marry sisters, nieces and even aunts (7), and the current female emperor is the niece of the previous emperor, but anyone can see that the prince of Takaichi will not live for a few years, okay, and the prince of Takaichi is forty-one this year, isn't it a crime to marry in the past.
I don't want it!
Love was struck by lightning and almost threw all the dishes to the ground, biting her lip tightly, barely calming down, and Ai also spoke coldly.
"Ai doesn't dare to climb the prince's eldest brother, and he loves to be afraid that he will harm the prince's eldest brother's family."
"You ......"
The female emperor almost didn't catch her breath, glared at love, and slapped the armrest of the throne fiercely.
"Presumptuous!"
The female emperor was full of voice.
"When your mother gave birth to you, the gods sent a great drought, and the emperor wanted to kill you to sacrifice to the sky, or did I pray that the emperor would spare your life, so that you could enjoy happiness in the palace for many years as a princess, and you are now repaying me like this?!" ⑧
"Whether I enjoy the happiness or not, the Queen Mother, you can't be more clear."
Love is still cold.
“…… Come! ”
The old female emperor looked at Ai angrily, and without further ado, she called the palace people and pointed at Ai.
"Send this wicked girl back to her dormitory and lock her up! Tie her up and starve her for three days! ”
The surrounding palace people were suddenly like wolves, pressing Love down and kneeling on the ground, and tied Ai's hands behind him with ropes.
When the female emperor saw that Ai was pressed to the ground and tied up, she felt a little relieved and waved her hand to give an order.
"Take it back, tie it to the bed, and then go and untie it in three days."
"Let it go!"
The palace people were about to escort their love back, and the kneeling voice of love was cold and piercing.
"I'll go back myself."
After speaking, Ai himself stood up with difficulty, turned around and walked out of the main hall, and the palace people looked at each other and followed.
The old female emperor had been looking at this qiē coldly, and Yan Sù's face had not moved at all.
Fujiwara Imperial Palace. The palace where love dwells
Ai was tied with her hands behind her back, sitting on her bed, staring coldly at the palace people who followed her.
The palace people, you look at me, I look at you, and their faces are sad.
"What are you doing there?! Whatever Her Majesty the Queen Mother tells you to do! ”
The voice of love did not fluctuate, it was still cold and piercing.
“…… Your Highness, offended. ”
The palace people were silent for a while, and the female official at the head said with some embarrassment, and then instructed the palace people to tie Ai's legs and ankles with ropes, and then let Ai lie flat on the bed, and then they all withdrew from the palace, locked the palace gate with iron chains, and went back to give instructions to the female emperor.
In the gloomy room, Ai, who was firmly tied to the bed, breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the footsteps of the palace people getting farther and farther away. Whether it was against the emperor just now, or a qiē in the back, it was the courage that only had to be open-minded, and now her heart was still beating non-stop.
struggled, the rope didn't move, it seems that those palace people are really offended, and love can't help but be a little annoyed why he didn't loosen his tone just now, now it's okay, the ground is tied so tightly, I can't do anything, I can only lie down like this. But love never regrets the act of contradicting the queen mother.
I've been hugged by Shang Yang and slept together, so I'm already Shang Yang's.
Looking at the pair of cotton shoes given to her by the merchant sheep next to the bed, smelling the fragrance emanating from the pillow, and thinking of the book "Journey to the West" under the pillow, the heart of love is full of warmth and firmness.
I've done what I can.
Love twisted his body with great effort, first kicked open the quilt with his bound feet, turned sideways, supported himself with the elbows tied behind him as a fulcrum, stretched his legs under the quilt first, and then bit the edge of the quilt with his teeth, and slowly lay down, barely covering his petite body. ⑨
Although the body is bound and there is only one person, Ai is not at all scared as before, but smiles reassuringly.
Because love knows, now, someone will think about her.
Someone who will protect her.
But it's really uncomfortable to be tied up like this.
So~
Shang Yang, remember to hurry up and save me.
PS: (1) Onmyoji has not yet appeared in this era, so there is no need to consider the mysterious power that serves the royal family.
(2) Obviously, this "Journey to the West" was obtained by Shang Yangjun from Miss Lord God.
(3) "The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", a book written by Tang Xuanzang to introduce the customs of various countries in the Western Regions when he was studying scriptures in real history, "Journey to the West" refers to quite a lot of things.
(4) The Great Pole Hall, not the Taiji Hall, mmmm~
(5) Needless to say, this pillow is a "medicine pillow" given to love by Shang Yang in order to love and sleep well.
(6) This is not necessarily accurate in the history books, but I think the old people have this characteristic.
(7) It can be seen that the sister control of the people in District 11 has a long history, so in a word, I am not convinced by the ending of "My Sister"! It's right to be together!
(8) This is the reason why love is left out in the palace, in the feudal era, when a child is born when a catastrophe happens, the child will be regarded as a monster, and it is generally absolutely killed quickly.
(9) Don't complain, I've done this action very much, and I'm looking for Ji You to cooperate, of course, the consequence is that I was beaten up.
Ah, by the way, don't forget to collect and recommend ahhey! For my sake, I was beaten up for writing this chapter!