Chapter Forty-Seven: The Scarlet Wedding
At night, the cold wind blows, and the flags are hunting.
Qi Zi looked at the ink-like night, his face was gloomy and dignified, and the corners of his hair and clothes were raised with the wind, looking a little more gloomy.
"Your Majesty. Sun Pingling called.
"Hmm. Qi Zi nodded, "All ready?"
"It's all set. Sun Pingling said, "It's just that now, the courtiers don't know whether what they are doing is right or wrong." ”
"Huh?" Qi Zihu turned his head suspiciously, frowning suspiciously, "What do you say?"
"The courtier's daughter has just come from the county lord of Jingyao, the county lord is very happy, and it can be seen that she really wants to marry His Majesty, and we have taken advantage of a woman's best feelings. Sun Pingling said, "The courtiers have a reluctant request, will they be able to spare the county lord's life at that time?"
Qi Zi was silent for a moment and said, "Yes." ”
The corners of Sun Pingling's mouth twitched, and he also looked at the palace in front of him, and sighed softly.
A major event is always promoted by countless inconspicuous people, and there will always be people who will become the victims of it.
The next day, before dawn, Jing Yao was called to get up and dress up, she had the gas to get up, even if she was going to get angry as soon as possible on weekdays, but today's mood was good, she got up obediently, and obediently dressed up by the maid, she hoped that she could become the most beautiful woman in the world, and make today the best memory in her life.
When it was getting dark, she was finally dressed.
She is now waiting for her father to enter the palace to talk to her, and then her father will cover her head, and she will go to the church to marry Brother Qizi.
The sky is already bright, and there will be many ceremonies later, Jing Yao waited and waited, but she didn't see her father coming, she was in a hurry, and asked someone to ask if her father had forgotten the time.
At this time, a maid with a bloody face broke in, and said with an anxious face: "Oh no, county lord, something happened!"
Jing Yao was startled, hurriedly sat up, and asked in surprise, "What's the matter?"
"Oh no, something happened to the prince!"
"What!" Jing Yao's eyes widened, "What's wrong with my father, tell me quickly, what's wrong with my father?"
"As soon as the prince entered the palace today, the palace gate was closed, and then he was surrounded by the royal forest army, and the prince only brought a lot of thirty guards......"
"Impossible!" Jing Yao screamed, "I married Brother Mi Zi today, my father is the lord of the country, who dares to be so bold and impatient!"
"It's Your Majesty! It's Your Majesty!" the maid cried, "It was Your Majesty who personally ordered the arrest of the prince! County Lord, Your Majesty has deceived you, she doesn't want to marry you at all, she wants to make you queen, she just wants to use your wedding to lure the prince to Linyuan, County Lord, you have been deceived!"
"Impossible!" Jing Yao's eyes widened, the green tendons on her temples were exposed, and her face became a little distorted, "You're talking nonsense, it's impossible for Brother Qi Zi to lie to me! You're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense! You're lying to me, you're lying to me!"
"If the county lord doesn't believe it, you can go and see for yourself!" said the maid with tears in her eyes, "The prince's life and death are unknown at the moment!"
"I don't believe it, I don't believe it!" Jing Yao yelled, "Who the hell is it that you are the only one who came to ruin my wedding, who instructed you!"
She said she didn't believe it, but she still couldn't help but run to the south gate, wanting to see is believing, it must be all a lie to her, it must be all a dream, she must have not woken up yet, after waking up is the day of her and Brother Mi Zi's big day, wake up quickly, wake up quickly!
Dressed in red, the runners in the palace, the desperate runners, ran longingly.
Today was supposed to be her most beautiful day, but the blood-red dress was like a wordless curse.
She rushed to the south gate, but she saw a scene that she had not dreamed of in her nightmares.
Blood, blood everywhere.
The corpses of one place, seven and eight vertically.
Her husband, who was about to get married, stabbed a long sword into her father's abdomen.
"Don't!" Jing Yao screamed and hurriedly ran over, "Don't! Brother Mi Zi, please, don't!"
She knelt in front of Mi Zi, crying and begging in despair and despair: "Brother Mi Zi, why? Why did you do that? Please, I kowtowed to you, I beg you, let him be okay? Don't kill my father! I won't marry you, I won't be your queen anymore, you can kill me, just please don't kill my father! I'm willing to exchange my life for a life, please!"
"Your father should die!" Qi Zi slowly pulled out the long sword, "I'm sorry for taking advantage of you, but I have to do it! He wants to kidnap me without saying anything, just talk about my mother, at that time he clearly had the opportunity to save his mother and sister, but he didn't, he chose to watch from the sidelines, and let King Yu Nan kill all my relatives! Such a King of Pingdong, how can you let me forgive? If you don't get rid of him, Nan Chu will be uneasy!"
In the end, King Pingdong finally crawled over, covered the wound on her father's abdomen, and cried: "Father, don't have an accident! Father, don't leave me! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have fallen into the trap I'm sorry it's all because of me!"
"I'm glad to be able to see you one last time, I'm sorry I can't watch you get married!" King Pingdong said with a spit of blood, "It's my father who can't stand you and hasn't thought about your happiness." I have had many opportunities to choose, but I have chosen the wrong one, I have won or lost, and I have nothing to blame today, but it has caused you to be tired!"
"Father...... Father!"
"Your Majesty!" King Pingdong turned his head to look at Qi Zi, "Everything has nothing to do with Jing Yao, she loves you wholeheartedly, she hasn't done anything that can't hurt you, I deserve to die, but she is innocent, I just hope that you will spare her life for the sake of her sincerity to you!"
After King Pingdong finished speaking, his eyes widened and he lost his breath.
"Father!" Jing Yao cried hysterically, "Wake up, don't leave Jing Yao!"
She turned her head and looked at Qi Zi sadly and self-deprecatingly: "You never loved me, did you?"
Qi Zi looked at her indifferently and said lightly: "Never!"
"Hahaha!" Jing Yao laughed, her laughter was desolate and mocking, "Brother Mi Zi, you deceived me so hard, so bitter!"
"I'm not going to kill you. Qi Zi said lightly, "I will arrange your life for the rest of your life, this is the last thing I will do for you." ”
"No need!" Jing Yao stood up from the ground, her eyes were scarlet, and she looked at Qi Zi coldly, "It's me who is blind, it's that I've never seen through you! It's me who has been fantasizing, fantasizing that one day you'll fall in love with me, it's my unrealistic fantasy that has hurt my father and myself! I don't need your pity, you can kill me!"
Qi Zi looked at Jing Yao and turned around to leave.
As soon as he walked out a few steps, Jing Yao shouted behind him: "Mi Zi, I won't forgive you, I won't forgive you!
Qi Zi turned around, only to see Jing Yao pick up a knife from the ground and lay it across her neck, she looked at him with cold and desperate hatred, and then cut it towards her neck, blood splashing out like a fountain.
Jing Yao fell to the ground, in a pool of blood.
She was wearing a bright red wedding dress, which seemed to merge with the blood, as if she had become a red mandala flower.
Mi Zi closed his eyes, revealing a look of unbearability, and finally opened his eyes, his face had regained calm, he didn't say anything, and turned to leave.
Sun Pingling cleaned up the rest of the mess, she squatted in front of Jing Yao's corpse, raised her hand to close her eyes, sighed softly, and said, "Bury the county lord." ”
"Yes. ”
She got up and looked at Mi Zi's back, lonely and resolute.
Maybe that's the fate of an emperor.
At this time, Qing Ling was sorting out some medicinal materials in the courtyard, and asked strangely: "Isn't it the wedding day of the king of Southern Chu today, why didn't you hear the sound of joy?"
Mo Ziyu also felt a little strange, this atmosphere didn't seem like a big wedding.
"Maybe the rules of Southern Chu are different from those of Northern Xia. Mo Ziyu said, "Maybe they are getting married at this time! ”
"Hmm. ”
After a while, a piece of news spread throughout the palace, the king of Dongping was ambushed at the south gate, and the lord of Jingyao committed suicide.
Happy events turn into white events, but in an instant.
The rumors were only a few words, but Mo Ziyu could also imagine that the situation at that time must have been quite tragic, and she also understood why Mi Zi kept saying that this wedding was different from what she imagined, because this big wedding was just a trap from the beginning, a trap that attracted King Dongping.
She also felt some pity for Jing Yao, although she was rude and willful, but she was at least sincere to Qi Zi, and she was really looking forward to this wedding, she never thought that she was just a prop from beginning to end, that kind of insult, that feeling of being betrayed, that feeling of being deceived, and the guilt of hurting her relatives, it was not surprising that she committed suicide.
"It's going to rain!" Mo Ziyu said, "Let's put everything in." ”
"Hmm. Qing Ling nodded.
Several people moved all the medicinal materials in the courtyard back, and sure enough, after a few thunderstorms and a few lightning bolts, it rained heavily.
The rain was pouring down, and all the blood stains on the south gate were quickly washed away, leaving no traces, and after the rain passed, it was as if nothing had happened.
Like this royal palace, there are things that happen every day as if nothing had happened.