King Ning left, and Empress Dowager Luan leaned against the door, unable to move for a long time.

The female officer hurriedly ran over, tore off the strip of cloth in her mouth, and said loudly: "Come and help the Queen Mother!" ”

Finally, a bold servant woman came over and carried the Queen Mother back to the soft couch.

"Oh my God, my God, I thought...... I thought I was going to die. Are you okay? The Queen Mother asked with concern.

The female officer shook her head, "I'm fine." The Queen Mother endures a little longer, I heard that after nightfall, King Wu will send the Queen Mother outside the city. ”

"Out of town?" The Queen Mother was a little frightened, not knowing what was outside the city.

The female official sighed: "Did the Queen Mother forget? The king of Xiangdong and the king of Jibei took the queen mother to Yecheng in Jizhou, and now the two kings led their troops to rescue the eastern capital, and the king of Wu was quite familiar with current affairs and wanted to send the queen mother to the Jizhou military camp outside the city. ”

"Really?" Empress Dowager Luan was still terrified, for her, the officers and soldiers outside the city were as terrible as the rebels inside the city.

The female official sighed again, "People like the Queen Mother should not live in troubled times." ”

Empress Dowager Luan smiled reluctantly, "What can be done about the fateful thing?" ”

"The Queen Mother rarely says such things, in life, there is always a way, but some people don't want to do it and dare not do it. The Queen Mother listened to me, rather than living and being humiliated, and keeping the festival without dying. ”

"If I kill myself, I'll go to hell." Empress Dowager Luan shook her head, "I have believed in Buddhism for many years, how can I fall short?" ”

The female official smiled bitterly: "The Queen Mother lives like this, what do you want to fall short?" ”

The female official's words were disrespectful, and the Empress Dowager Luan was not angry, and smiled: "Thank you for standing up just now." ”

"It's a pity that I didn't have enough strength to kill the shameless traitor, and I don't even have a dagger."

"Fortunately, King Ning didn't kill you."

"That's because the Queen Mother interceded." The female official knelt in front of the Queen Mother and said earnestly: "Queen Mother, make a decision as soon as possible, not only to avoid the pain of life, but also to be famous for eternity, what's wrong?" ”

"Famous through the ages...... I don't think the world even knows my name, and they won't remember me as a person. You are the same-" Empress Dowager Luan showed a hint of apology, "You've been with me for almost three years, right?" I don't even know your last name, where you are from or who your parents are. ”

The female officer was stunned for a moment, "My surname is Lin ...... It doesn't matter who I am, the Queen Mother is different, you are the only person in the world. ”

"Am I?"

"Of course, there is only one crown princess, one queen, and one queen mother in the world, and that is you."

Empress Dowager Luan motioned for Lady Lin to get up, thought for a while, and said, "Alas, I don't ask for a name, but you don't use your name to pressure me." ”

Lady Lin refused to get up, "The Queen Mother thinks again, which is better, falling into the quagmire or dying to clean herself?" ”

"You get up."

"The Queen Mother's ......"

"You get up before I can speak to you."

Lady Lin got up slowly.

"I still can't kill myself, but if I am killed by someone else, it will be providential, and the gods and Buddhas feel that I have paid the debt of this life."

"Although King Ning is a reckless traitor, he will not kill you, he will only ...... It's only going to ......," Lady Lin couldn't continue.

"I don't want to die at his hands either, I want to ...... Death is at your hands. ”

"Queen Mother!"

"This is the only reasonable solution, I don't want to kill myself, and you want me to die for my life, you kill me, and we all have what we want. Maybe I owe you something in my previous life, so I am destined to die at your hands in this life, and I don't owe each other. You kill me for a cause and effect, and you will not be punished by the Buddha. ”

Lady Lin was stunned for a long time, "But ......"

"If you think it's too hard to kill me, you should understand that it's even harder to kill yourself."

Lady Lin gritted her teeth, "Okay, if you can't get out of the city smoothly, or if you regenerate right and wrong after leaving the city, I will give the Queen Mother a ride, but unfortunately the dagger is gone, but there is always a way." Killing the Queen Mother, I also committed suicide to apologize, I am not afraid of falling into hell. ”

Empress Dowager Luan smiled, "Then that's it, right?" I haven't finished my book for today. ”

Lady Lin retired, feeling sad and indignant for a while.

When it was getting dark, Xu Ji came.

Hearing that King Ning broke into the palace and left, Xu Ji was a little disappointed and a little ashamed.

Disappointing, the plan failed to succeed, King Ning's behavior was as he expected, but Niu Tiannu's reaction surprised him, and he felt more and more that he had underestimated this Mrs. Ning Wang.

It's a shame that he took advantage of the Empress Dowager Luan, but later he had to pretend to be a good person.

"Now is not the time to speak of righteousness." Xu Ji comforted himself like this.

Lady Lin didn't understand King Wu's thoughts, and when she saw him coming, she was greatly relieved, and immediately opened the courtyard door and asked, "Is King Wu here to send the Queen Mother out of the city?" ”

"Exactly. I didn't take good care of it, which frightened the Queen Mother, and looked at Haihan. ”

"You can't blame King Wu for this. When to go? The Queen Mother is ready. ”

"Then you're good to go." Since he couldn't use the Queen Mother to separate King Ning and his wife, Xu Ji decided to send her out of the city in exchange for the temporary trust of the Jizhou army.

"King Wu, wait a minute." Lady Lin hurriedly went back to the house to invite the Queen Mother, and came back after a while, "The Queen Mother wants to see King Wu." ”

"Huh?" Xu Ji was not ready to see the Queen Mother.

"The Queen Mother wants to thank King Wu in person."

"This ...... Please lead the way. ”

This time, Xu Ji was not left in the courtyard, but was taken into the living room.

King Wu is also a traitor, and he is also one of the murderers of the Emperor of All Things, but Empress Dowager Luan did not panic at all when she saw him, "Thank you King Wu for sending me out of the city." ”

"Maybe it's just temporary, the Queen Mother will be able to return to the old palace in the future."

Empress Dowager Luan smiled slightly, "Borrow King Wu's auspicious words." When I saw King Wu, one was to thank him, and the other was to ask for something. ”

"The Queen Mother, please say, as long as I can do it, I will never refuse."

"The Zhang family has no virtue, Tiancheng is lost, but the palace people are not guilty, please treat them well and don't let them be displaced."

Xu Ji was stunned, and the female official Lin who was listening was also stunned, but she didn't expect the Queen Mother, who had always been cowardly and inactive, to say such a thing.

"Do what I can." Xu Ji said perfunctorily.

"I'm just a woman with little knowledge, and I've only met King Wu twice, but I believe that King Wu is not a cruel person. If you kill the Emperor of All Things, you must not want to see another Emperor of All Things appear. Alas, what am I talking nonsense, everything has its own providence, King Wu does good, and he will also get good results. ”

Empress Dowager Luan got up, "It's time to go." ”

Xu Ji sent the queen mother and the palace maid to the car, and personally led the troops to Xicheng, and there were many worries along the way.

Ning Baoguan didn't come to make trouble.

The city gate opened, Xu Ji stopped, and Lei Dajun escorted the queen mother out of the city, and the officers and soldiers had already received the news and sent people to wait outside.

Xu Ji climbed the city wall, appeased the soldiers, looked out, the night had fallen, and the queen mother and her party could not be seen, and the scene in the eyes was only a little fire in the distance.

He once again remembered the Queen Mother's parting words, and wondered in his heart, why did Fei Xun, Tan Wuwu, and the Empress Dowager Luan think he was a "good person"? The kings stood side by side, as if he alone could do the way of righteousness.

Xu Ji doesn't want to be a "good person", at least at this time, in the troubled times, what he fights is strength and wisdom, and "good person" is almost synonymous with weakness.

He was afraid that even his soldiers would think that King Wu was a "good man" and lose the awe he deserved.

There seemed to be a riot outside the city, a team of people and horses rushed to the city, and when they were about to reach the city, Xu Ji recognized that it was Lei Dajun, and hurriedly ordered the door to open the door to greet him, and the city was on guard, in case the officers and soldiers took the opportunity to seize the door.

There were no pursuers behind Lei Dajun, and as soon as he entered the city gate, he immediately got off his horse and went to the city to see King Wu, "Ruling the government, King Ning has led his troops out of the city again." ”

"He still wants to rob the Queen Mother?" Xu Ji somewhat hoped that Ning Baoguan would make this mistake.

Lei Dajun shook his head, "King Ning led his troops to attack the camp of officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were very angry, thinking that King Wu was cheating, so I hurried back to ......."

Xu Ji immediately ordered someone to go to Beicheng to inquire about the situation.

Not long after the people sent out, Gan Zhao's people came over first, and reported that King Ning did lead a cavalry out of the city, had a brief confrontation with the officers and soldiers, and soon returned to the city without entanglement.

First forced into the queen mother's bedroom, and then went out of the city for no reason to fight with the officers and soldiers, in the same day, Ning Baoguan twice did his own thing, although the former was designed by Xu Ji, but in the eyes of outsiders, it was King Wu who could not live in charge of King Ning.

Xu Ji had to do something, he really didn't dare to go straight to Beicheng, the disputes between the kings were reduced a lot, but the contradictions were more and more concentrated between the two kings of Wu and Ning.

Xu Ji sent a messenger to Beicheng and invited King Ning to meet him in the camp of the King of Shu.

Xu Ji had already made up his mind, if Ning Baoguan did not accept the invitation, he would have to give an order, and the order was still not to be obeyed, so he had to force Ning Baoguan to come with a large army.

Things didn't get too stiff, Ning Baoguan accepted the invitation, came a little later, only brought a dozen guards, dressed in military uniforms, and went straight into the hall without reporting.

Xu Ji and Gan Zhao were chatting, and when they saw Ning Baoguan coming in, Gan Zhao got up, and Xu Ji sat still in place.

Ning Baoguan held the golden horse whip given by King Wu in his hand, strode over, nodded his head at Chong Gan, and said to King Wu: "Are you looking for me?" ”

"If King Ning is dissatisfied with my plan to withdraw from the army, he can say it directly, let's discuss it together, why bother to make a stumbling child in private, so that the soldiers of the righteous army do not know what to do?"

Ning Baoguan inserted the horsewhip into his belt, turned his head and glanced at it, there were only three kings in the hall, and no one else, "There is no dissatisfaction, King Wu asked the kings to take turns to attack, to exhaust the officers and soldiers, I am acting according to the plan." ”

"The attack in turn is not a random attack, I sent the Queen Mother out of the city, in order to confuse the officers and soldiers, make them slack, and then attack them by surprise, but King Ning sabotaged the plan and kept the officers and soldiers vigilant."

"Hey, King Wu's ghost eyes are always so much, but you have to say it clearly, do you want us to guess roughly?"

"I have sent messengers to inform the kings of every step of my plan."

"That's your person is too literate to speak, I don't understand."

Xu Ji got up, "If King Ning thinks that he can defeat the officers and soldiers, it is very good, I can let out the position of the army master, or King Ning will do his own thing in Beicheng, and the other three sides will be under my command." King Ning is a hero, there is no need to be insincere, everyone has the same goal, they are all to repel officers and soldiers, why bother with each other's tricks? ”

"King Wu is really right, why bother with each other? You are still the lord of the whole army, and I will not go out of the city without your orders in the future. Ning hugged Guan slightly and turned to leave.

Ning Baoguan will not be used by people after all.

Xu Ji suppressed Ning Baoguan on the surface, but he was not proud, and beckoned to Gan: "King Ning only has Ning Jun in his heart, and there is no righteous army. ”

Gan Zhao stepped forward and said: "King Ning is good at fighting, if he can get it, he will use it, like a tiger with wings, if he can't get it, King Wu needs to be careful." ”

Xu Ji smiled and said nothing, he still couldn't believe too much in Gan Zhao.

Back at the camp of the Wu army in Xicheng, Lei Dajun reported that a team of envoys had come from the officers and soldiers and had been waiting for a long time.

Also accompanying the envoys into the city were Meng Shenglun and Tang Weitian.

As soon as Tang Weitian saw King Wu, he knelt down and kowtowed a few times, got up and said, "It's really good that the Metropolitan Governor is not dead." ”

Xu Ji also missed this personal guard, and said with a smile: "You have worked hard. Who is the messenger sent by Yecheng this time? ”

Meng Shenglun stepped forward and replied: "We haven't seen each other, but Fei Xun said, 'King Wu wants a guarantee, and the King of Jibei will send a guarantee'." ”