Chapter Twenty-Seven: Broken Dreams

The cell was dark and damp, and Master Kou led me through one cell after another, which was full of straw on the floor, and finally arrived. Seeing the hibiscus cloak, the golden clothes were also dirty, leaning against the corner and saying weakly, you kill me.

I smiled and said, I won't kill you, if you're dead, aren't you going to entangle Chu Ming underground?

I don't want you to have a little contact with him, you can live here well in this life, I will find a few imperial doctors to watch you in turn, I won't let you die. When I die, I will have someone kill you, and I will never allow you to see him before me in the next life. Fleur is crazy and screams, you madman, you madman.

I turned to Master Kou and said, you must take good care of her with good food and drink, and you must find a way to make her live a long life.

Lord Kou said that the empress will do her best

Yue Hibiscus, after hearing it, you screamed even louder, you are a madman......

Lord Kou, let's go see Princess Huaiyin. Master Buckle said that the empress should stop her mouth. I'll leave the voice behind, hehe, she's just that capable now, don't worry about her, let her call if she wants.

I walked to Princess Huaiyin's cell and saw that Princess Huaiyin was now depressed. I said to her, I already knew that Kun was sent by you, but I didn't expect you to send your lover to your opponent for the throne, but it is not easy for people to be sad.

Princess Huaiyin crawled in front of the cell door and said, "Please, Queen, please let me see him."

I'll call someone, Kun also took it to the cell, looking at Kun's haggard face in front of him, Kun, do you really only love one person in your life?

Kun knelt down, yes, the empress, I only love Princess Huaiyin in my life. Ask the empress to bypass the princess's life.

Lord Si Kou and I walked out and said to Lord Si Kou, let them go, but exile to Huixing Island on the edge of the Moon Country, and never let Princess Huaiyin step into it for the rest of her life.

Lord Si Kou gave up his hand, and he was the empress.

The first time Qianfeng and Qianxue brought Siming into the palace to see me, it was when he was still very young, and he looked very much like Chu Ming between his eyebrows and eyes, and he was very timid, hiding behind Qianfeng, I knew that the kid was afraid of me, and he must have experienced a lot.

I smiled and said, come over and eat a piece of snack, and slowly it will be familiar with me. My name is Qianfeng, and I often take him into the palace. Siming's enlightenment was very slow. It wasn't until after the age of twelve that I became interested in poetry and songs, arranging troops and so on. When Siming was interested, he learned very quickly, and he had good grades in both books and paintings. I asked the best teacher in the country to educate him.

It's not the same as Chu Ming. Siming is a little introverted and doesn't like to talk, but he is arrogant in his bones. Thousand Winds said that Siming was most like me.

When Chu Ming was sixteen years old, we heard that a strange beast had drifted from the sea. Landing in Gunan, caught by the locals and locked in a cage in the Colosseum, our civil and military officials went out on patrol to Gunan, the southernmost part of the Moon Country, to see the excitement.

As soon as we arrived at the Colosseum, we saw that the beast that looked like a dinosaur was locked in a cage, and we walked over to take a look. I don't know if it's because there are too many people or what's going on. The beast roared wildly and broke through the cage like crazy.

All the civil and military officials scattered in fright, and I also sat down on the ground in fright, the strange dragon was four or five meters away from me, and it stood up as big as an off-road vehicle. I thought I was sure to be done this time.

Unexpectedly, Siming suddenly pulled out his saber and stood in front of me. At that time, it was very dangerous, Siming was only sixteen years old, and he rushed towards the strange beast with his sword, and slashed it a few times, and the strange beast was attracted to the side, buying me time.

The thousand winds on one side also come over, I pulled it away. The monster was too powerful, seeing that Siming was very difficult to deal with, he asked the crossbowmen to prepare, Siming jumped to the side flexibly, and a row of more than a dozen crossbowmen next to him fired arrows together, and more than a dozen arrows shot at the strange beast, and the strange beast also turned around smartly and used the armor behind him to block the arrows that came over, and the arrows hit the armor on the strange beast as if they were shooting on a stone without any damage.

Then everyone was stunned, and the crossbowmen retreated a little.

At this time, Siming said, the crossbowmen are covering, and I will attack it in front. At this time, all the crossbowmen fired arrows at the strange beast in unison, and Siming detoured directly opposite the strange beast and stabbed the monster's neck, although the monster had a body of armor, but the neck without armor in front should be the softest place.

Siming jumped up and stabbed the monster in the throat with an arrow, and the monster frantically swung its two front paws.

Siming's arrow missed, and he held the sword in both hands and slashed at the monster's neck, leaving a bloody wound on the monster's neck, and blood gushed out. But the monster's last grab cut through Siming's right elbow, and when it was Siming's elbow, the sleeve was cut, and the deep bone grit inside was seen. But the nameless monster finally fell to the ground.

Later, the Imperial Physician healed Siming's hand, but because of the meridian injury, he may no longer be a good swordsman. Siming didn't say anything, Siming always silently protected everyone like this.

The weather in the back garden is really good, the temperature is suitable, Qianfeng and I are old, wearing idle cloth clothes and sitting on the mat under the hundred flower trees, drinking tea while watching Siming in the waterside pavilion in the distance is reviewing the folds, Siming doesn't like to blow the flute, he likes sword dancing the most, but now he can't dance the sword. We looked at Siming seriously looking at the fold and the fold in his hand, Siming has indeed grown up.

Looking at these Siming's comments, I feel that there is hope for the future of the Moon Kingdom. Qianfeng Siming is almost eighteen years old.

Qianfeng said yes, I have to find a good daughter-in-law for him. A boy is a man after he gets married, and as soon as the words of Qianfeng changed, the empress is your big day of choosing a son-in-law every two years, and this son-in-law is about to become a festival for you to gather virtuous and virtuous people.

I laughed and said that that was what I intended, and Siming said, empress, can't you still forget him?

Ever since I met him, how can I still look at anyone else?

Qianfeng, said thoughtfully, the empress has not had any men all over the country in the past five years, haven't you taken a fancy to any of them?

I bow my head, so that I can summon those examinees tomorrow.

Siming also finished reading the day's recitals, and walked over, and Siming and the palace maid took the recitals that he had reviewed and brought them over to us for a look. Aunt, stepfather.

Qianfeng said that there is progress.

I stared blankly at him as he walked over.

Auntie, do you have something on your mind?

Retracting my thoughts, I just saw that you have grown up and I am also old. You've also reached the age to talk about marriage.

Siming said, I don't want to get married, so it's good.

Qianfeng said, Siming is also eighteen years old, it's time to marry a wife, I have to help you find a woman who can teach you a husband and children, and can help you wholeheartedly, so it is also right for your father's entrustment?

Siming opened his mouth and said, Si Ming's family affairs of his father-in-law Siming wants to make his own decisions, and if he doesn't worry about his father-in-law, I think his father's spirit in the sky will agree.

Qianfeng said, but a man marrying a wife focuses on helping himself, and marriage must be the right one.

Chu Ming said, whose daughter is the stepmother, and her father is a good family, right, how can you get married?

I smiled and said to Qianfeng, we are still like this all our lives, young people let young people solve it themselves, there is no need to make any of our sins.

Chu Ming showed a slightly guilty look on his face.

I see that Qianfeng has something to say, Siming, you go down first.

Siming gave up, the empress, and Siming retired. Let's go.

Qianfeng said, Empress, I'm sorry for you.

I don't blame you, I know you had your own considerations at the time, and if I were in your position I would do the same, you just did your best to be a minister. I and Chu Ming are indeed inseparable.

The empress, in fact, I don't want the empress and the general to be together, so the power over the king is too great, and the country will be easily disrupted.

I said to him, it's been more than ten years, what do you still want him to do, you can put it down.

A month later

I summoned all the candidates for this year in the Taiji Palace, and the candidate who had been taking the test for ten years did not come again this year, and I think he might have finally figured it out, and finally looked back and saw the girl who had been waiting for him.

As before, the Ministry of Officials drew up a list of officials, and gave everyone a rank according to their ranks, and some people could also return to their hometowns to become officials if they agreed. Now in the imperial court, there are as many men and women as officials, and men and women are basically equal. In fact, when I first allowed both men and women to participate in the selection of sons-in-law and marriage, it was rumored throughout the country that I had a habit of sunglasses. They all said that it was no wonder that I was so old and didn't get married, it turned out that I had a habit of sunglasses. So there weren't many women coming. Divide some. That's all left for the top four. One of them, I was shocked. I sealed everyone and left that person alone in the Taiji Palace. He was a monk, exactly like Chu Ming, the monk I saw at first sight. It reminds me of the last meeting with Chu Ming.

In the Taiji Hall, I looked at the monk standing in the center of the hall who was seven points similar to Chu Ming. What is your name?

The monk is called, and there is no flower.

Where are you from?

I came from the sea.

The sea over there?

West.

In the West Sea, there is a Confucian country, have you ever been there?

That's where I came from. I have one more thing entrusted to the Empress. Wuhua looked at the invigilator. The invigilator went down and took a bag and handed it to Wuhua, the prosthetic leg in the baggage of the five-flower bar, and the palace maid took the prosthetic leg carefully and handed it to me. I took this rubber prosthetic leg and touched it, and there were still the words "never admit defeat" that I had carved on the middle wooden branch. Mo Xuan, is he okay?