In the palace of Chu, the king of Qi stood in front of the main hall, inspecting the palace, here has been cleaned up overnight, the four vermilion thick pillars at the door are carved with golden coiling dragons, the golden glazed tiles on the roof shine with dazzling light, the carvings under the eaves are exquisite, enter the main hall, the carved dragon throne is placed on the platform of vermilion lacquer in the middle, the marble slab on the ground is smooth and shiny, look up at the top of the palace, there is a huge dragon coiled on the central caisson well, and the red auspicious clouds are surrounded by the dragon.

King Qi smacked his tongue, this Chu country has good geographical conditions and rich products, it is really a rich place, look at this palace repair, compared to his own Jiangning City, but it is much more magnificent, and this Jiangnan woman is weak and boneless...... Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh twice with a smug "haha".

The ghost looked at him coldly, "You ordered your men to search for a long time, but no one was found, so don't be too happy." ”

King Qi listened to his yin and yang strange tone, and was very angry, "I heard that you let go of two people last night, a man and a woman. ”

When the ghost heard this, where was this, it was clearly framed, and he hurriedly said: "Why did I let it go?" Obviously, there were immortals present last night who rescued people, and I was injured. ”

King Qi: "Hmph! "Immortals, where are so many immortals in this world running down from the sky?" It's a coincidence that it's in this Chu Palace, and no one believes it! ”

The devil is angry, if the demon emperor hears this, will he have a good end! So he stood in place, stretched out his long arms, grabbed King Qi's collar, gritted his teeth, and said, "You want to harm me, what's in it for you?" Watch out for your dog's life! ”

"Left Protector, don't! Let go, let go, I just want to remind Zuo Protector, I don't mean anything else. King Qi saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly laughed.

"Besides, this princess of Chu is not necessarily the emperor she is looking for, maybe she is hiding in the people, and she can't be found in this palace, when I take the entire Chu country, I will look for it carefully throughout the country, and I am worried that I can't find it! You can rest assured. ”

After speaking, he pointed to the devil's arm.

Seeing him say this, the devil let go of his hand: "Count you as acquaintances!" Next time, you should know what I'm going to do to you! After saying that, he shook his hand and disappeared.

King Qi saw that he was gone, lowered his head and straightened his collar, and his eyes showed a fierce light: "Isn't it just a monster, when I unify the world, I am worried that I can't find a master to clean you up, one day, I will look good with you!" In a blink of an eye, he thought of the demon emperor again, and his heart trembled with fright, and he looked around, there were no demon soldiers, only his own people, and the king of Qi patted his chest, comforted himself, and sat down when he saw the golden luan throne in the main hall.

Sitting on the dragon chair is different, King Qi is in a good mood, closes his eyes, and pretends to sleep there.

At this time, King Qi heard heavy footsteps in the hall, opened his eyes, and it was his internal general Ma Ping, so he sat up straight.

Ma Ping saw the king of Qi,

Kneeling on one knee: "My subordinates have seen King Qi." ”

"Get up and speak."

"Yes." Ma Ping got up.

"How's it going?"

King Qi asked.

"The message to the Jin Emperor has been sent, and the army on the border of the Jin State will soon receive it."

"Okay, it's done, did you find the woman?"

"Not yet, my subordinates ordered all the dead and alive women in the palace to be counted, as long as they were younger, and no women with marks on their necks were found. All that remained alive had been killed, and the bodies had been disposed of. ”

"Nothing is missing?"

"The subordinates all checked it personally, and nothing was missed. However, this portrait was found in the princess's bedroom, and there was no such woman in all parts of the palace, including people. ”

After Ma Ping finished speaking, the portrait scroll was presented to the King of Qi.

King Qi opened the scroll and saw that the woman in the portrait was overwhelmed by the country and the city, and he had never seen such a beautiful woman, so he was stunned for a while.

Ma Ping saw that King Qi was in a daze there, he didn't know what to think, and he didn't dare to disturb, so he waited for King Qi to speak.

King Qi looked at it for a long time before he came back to his senses, touched the person on the portrait with his hand, and saw a line of small words in the upper left corner of the portrait "Portrait of Princess Chaoyang", it turned out to be the princess of Emperor Chu, it was really beautiful, could it be the woman who was rescued last night?

"Get her back for me, don't hurt her face."

The king of Qi gave an order to Ma Ping.

"Yes!" Ma Ping should arrive.

In the afternoon, the hall was crowded with people, all the ministers who had been arrested, and their families, and the hall was crying and making a lot of noise.

King Qi sat on the dragon chair, looking at the trembling and crying crowd below, annoyed to death, with a wave of his hand, his subordinates immediately understood, grabbed a minister, went down with a knife, split it in half, and it was bloody. The people in the main hall were so frightened that they retreated, and the adults holding the children hurriedly covered the eyes and mouths of the children to prevent them from crying. Some of the faint ones have fainted.

The hall was silent, except for the sound of small convulsions and crying.

King Qi stood up and clapped his hands: "Okay, everyone, I invite you to come today, because I want you to be a talent for governing the country and the country, and I don't want you to be buried. ”

There was no one in the temple to talk.

King Qi smiled: "It seems that you don't seem to understand what this king means. Then he pointed to one of the ministers at the front and said, "You, stand up." ”

The courtier stood up trembling and moving his feet.

"Tell the king, what do you mean by what you just said?"

As soon as King Qi finished speaking, the courtier made an ordinary sound, knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously: "Lord Wang, I am willing to listen to the dispatch of the prince." ”

"Good, good, decent. If anyone does not want to submit to this king, this king will not be reluctant, let alone embarrassed, so please stand up. ”

A younger courtier stood up, neither humble nor fearless, raising his head and looking at King Qi. Then a few more people stepped forward.

Du Wenbo, his father and family were also in this hall, and he saw someone standing up and was about to respond, at this time, Du Shangshu held him down, shook his head, and signaled him not to move. Du Wenbo's hands trembled with hatred, and his heart was uncomfortable, he didn't know that Xin Yao was not dead, he only knew that she was killed in the palace last night, she was so beautiful, she was gone, she couldn't do anything, look at his father, look at the family next to him, he could only endure the hatred in his heart, his hand hung down, and his face returned to an indifferent look.

King Qi looked at the ministers who stood up and said with a smile: "Okay, it's good, it seems that this Chu State is not without loyal ministers, I will bury your family for you, you can go with confidence." ”

The people below heard the crying.

With a wave of King Qi's hand, his subordinates immediately dragged out the courtiers who had just stood up, and another team of soldiers came to pull out the families of those courtiers just now and take them out together. Screams continued outside the hall, and for a moment it was all silent.

The atmosphere in the hall was very heavy, and some family members saw that the children kept writhing and wanted to make trouble, so they simply knocked the children unconscious, for fear of upsetting the king of Qi and killing them.

King Qi looked at these spineless courtiers of the Chu State who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and those who should be obedient did not dare to have any more dissent, and said: "You go back and think about it, how to show loyalty." ”

Then, he said to the guards, "Let them all go." ”

"Yes." The guards took the order and drove the men out of the palace.

Seeing that the city of Tanzhou had been taken, King Qi said to himself, "It's time to join my father." ”

Du Wenbo and his son returned to the house, and Du Shangshu said to Du Wenbo: "You follow me to the study." ”

When he arrived at the study, Du Shangshu closed the door and said earnestly: "Wenbo, you can't be so impulsive in the future." Can't you see the current situation? The state of Chu is over! ”

When Du Wenbo heard this, he immediately said angrily: "How can my father talk like this, we are the people of Chu State, how can you draw such a conclusion, the Chu Palace is now suffering from such a catastrophe, and there are also generals who protect the country and frontier soldiers." ”

"You know what! The court is over, and there is still a country! Now only by relying on them can we have a way to live and keep our family business! ”

"I won't give in, they killed Xin Yao, and I want to seek revenge on them!" Du Wenbo shouted loudly.

Du Shangshu hurriedly stepped forward and hurriedly said: "Be quiet, be quiet, my ancestors, my son, you just don't care about me, but also think about your mother, your sisters, look at this family, do you want them all to die!" ”

Du Wenbo sat on the chair weakly, hugged his head and cried, feeling that he was too useless, his beloved was gone, and now he still had to listen to his father, and he was alive, why was this world so cruel!

Du Shangshu looked at his son, he still understood him, so he patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Child, people can't be resurrected after death, you have to think about the living, endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky!" ”