The carriage had already been torn apart, and it was easily lifted open by the masked man in the lead, and he sneered and said, "Childe, it's rude." ”

He barely moved, feeling no fractures or internal injuries, but all kinds of broken skin bumps also made him almost faint in pain. He asked weakly, "Who sent you?" What do you want to do? ”

"The palace wants to borrow you for use."

"In the palace?" He let out a cold sweat, but fortunately he didn't use it for a second time.

After that, a few big men started to carry people. As soon as it hurt, the natural nature of the ground was revealed, and he opened his mouth and screamed, completely losing his aristocratic demeanor, making the big men look at each other. It is estimated that the palace has instructed him not to hurt his life, so the masked man did not dare to be rude and forced to lift it when he saw this situation, for fear of aggravating the injury. The leader pondered for a while, then came over and dragged down the peiyu on his waist and handed it to an attendant. After the two whispered, the attendant immediately straddled his horse and left. The rest of the people sat up quietly around the prince of Zheng Guo.

Digging suddenly felt so embarrassed, and thought to himself, do they want to kill people with their eyes? After a while, his bones eased a little, and he tried to sit up. Seeing this, the masked man said faintly: "If the prince is seriously injured, please do not move, the imperial doctor will come soon." If the injury is not serious, please come with us. ”

"I ...... It's okay. "Digging Tu couldn't run anyway, so he was honestly supported by the big men and got into their car. The masked man then went in to accompany him, more precisely, looking at him.

"How did you find out about me?" Digging and trying to get close to the masked man.

"Haha!" The masked man doesn't seem to have any taboos, "Why should Childe ask so much?" The house and the palace are full of eyeliner for each other, and everyone knows it! ”

It's really a foot high, and the magic is a foot high! Di Tu originally thought that his father Zheng Huan Gong was the most awesome yellow finch, hiding in the dark to watch the praying mantis catch cicadas, and the situation was under control. It seems that it is not yet known who will kill the deer!

"Did the king send you or the queen?"

"Is there a difference?"

"The king really trusts the queen." The queen was always more interested, so he tried to keep the topic as high as possible.

"Of course, the queen is an important helper of the Son of Heaven to bring down the forces surnamed Jiang." The masked man asked a little puzzled, "These court insiders, Gongzi must know better than me, right?" ”

Seeing that the other party was suspicious, Di Tu immediately said: "I am lamenting that the saint relied on the queen to bring down the queen, although the power surnamed Jiang has stepped down, and the family surnamed Ji who has turned back to praise has come to power, isn't it the same." ”

"The queen has a miserable background, although she is a concubine, she is actually adopted. And back then, Bao Guo offered her because the nobles of Bao Guo annoyed the Son of Heaven and wanted to kill him to atone for his sins. She can't compare to the princess of the princes who Ming Media is marrying, and the power of the mother country is useless. The family surnamed Hi is embarrassed to climb. ”

Digging suddenly listened thoughtfully. This information seems to have been recorded in ancient books, and it was originally intended to belittle Bao Xi's origin. However, if you interpret it from another angle, it can fully explain why King Zhou You "loves" this woman so much.

Traditional history books always like to paint the faces of the characters, and the Son of Heaven is either holy or mediocre. In these ancient books, the combination of King Zhou You and Bao Xi is a typical faint king and lustful, and it is the same kind of beauty that misleads the country with Daji, Xi Shi, Diao Chan, Yang Guifei and the like. However, real history is often very complicated, especially the characters in political struggles, and it can never be explained by simple labels such as "mediocre" and "lustful". King Zhou You may really like Bao Xi, but to hold her all the way to the queen, the motivation of love is far from enough, and the use of her relatively simple background to replace the queen surnamed Jiang, who is involved in a huge family power, is the deep-seated motivation.

For Bao Xi, as a chess piece with a simple background, she is extremely vulnerable in the face of other princesses who have the support of the family behind her. The love of the Ghost King is only a minimum configuration, and it is far from guaranteeing her long-term survival. Therefore, she can only firmly cater to the needs of the Youwang, and actively acting as a pawn in the political struggle is her only choice.

As he was thinking about it, the carriage stopped, interrupting his thoughts. The masked man on the opposite side got out of the car without saying hello, seemed to have handed over to someone, and galloped away. He poked his head out of the car window and saw two tall towers coming towards him, and it turned out that the palace had arrived.

The carriage continued to move forward, passing through the five tall city towers of Gaomen, Kumen, Pheasant Gate, Yingmen and Lumen in turn, and then turned into the east sandwich road, passing through the sides of the three majestic palaces of the Great Dynasty, the Outer Dynasty and the Inner Dynasty. After that, the route began to become unpredictable, and after a few bends left and right, it stopped in front of a garden-like palace. The plaque at the gate reads "Qiongtai Palace".

As the journey was much more relaxed, the dug finally regained its mobility after adjustment. He awkwardly got out of the carriage and crossed the palace gate with the support of the eunuchs in the palace, and was greeted by patches of interspersed plants. Although it is already a scene of late autumn, you can see a wide variety of flowers, shrubs, and woods, lined with rockery waterfalls, and water pavilions, which can fully imagine the beautiful picture of the peak season. At the end of this garden is a huge rammed earth platform, surrounded by snow-white stone carved with ornamentation. Looking up along the steep steps, there is a five-room three-entry palace with heavy eaves on the top of the platform, and the straight roof ridge is not full of curves like the later ancient buildings, with a strong ancient atmosphere of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

At a glance, he recognized that this was the tall building he had seen on the night he entered the city, and it must have been here that the queen was watching the whole city. But in order to monitor the ascending, even if it was to monitor the ascendant, what he couldn't figure out at the moment was, why was it necessary to be in such a high place in order to interrogate him, a person who had no ability to escape? Looking at the hundreds of steps, the aching muscles up and down his body seemed to twitch, and he secretly scolded the ancients for not building such a high platform without an elevator!

Just as he was complaining, the queen Baoxi's cold and frosty beautiful face appeared at the end of the steps, and said in a strange manner: "The prince just came yesterday, why do you have to go back in a hurry?" ”

"There are a lot of things going on in the country, so I have to go back." Digging said weakly.

"Anyway, it's also the cousin of the Son of Heaven who came to visit the capital, how could the royal family lose the courtesy of hospitality, so I had to send someone to invite you to come to the palace to talk about it."

Digging Tu hated so much that she was almost killed by the traffic accident caused by Bao Xi, and she still had the kung fu to be wronged here. His heart was crossed, and he gritted his teeth and reached the top of the stage step by step. When he saw Bao Xi, he didn't salute, but simply asked directly, what kind of calculation did he have to arrest him.

Without a direct answer, she gracefully paced to the side of the platform, raising her hand to the west. Only then did he find that the outside of the city was already dusty, the horses were neighing, and the mighty and majestic troops of the Sixth Division were gathering. Bao Xi pointed closer again, and looked at it in the direction of his own Situ Mansion. Outside the gate of the mansion is also a gathering of cars and horses, crowded with people, and the word "Zheng" is written on a large flag.

"Father is going on a campaign?" Digging Tu turned his head in surprise and looked at the look on the corner of the queen's mouth that seemed to be a smile rather than a riddle.

"yes. Thanks to Gongzifu, Lord Situ is finally willing to lead the army to crusade against Shen Guo. This time, the king took him to the royal expedition, and he was bound to capture Queen Jiang's cheap woman, as well as her son Ji Yijiu, who betrayed his father and betrayed him! When Bao Xi said the name of his enemy, he seemed to have a gnashing of teeth.

"Thanks to me?"

"Your father, an old fox, thinks that he can make peace with the mud between Ji and Jiang, of course, for various reasons!" Bao Xi stared coldly at the digging tu, "It's a pity that no matter how good a person is, he also has a weakness, the king showed your personal jade pendant, and Lord Situ will be more obedient." ”

Dutu touched his waist and instantly understood the ins and outs.

Obviously, in the morning, above the court, Zheng Huan Gong was forced to follow the Son of Heaven to go to the Shen Kingdom. Lord Neizai had already said that he was determined to ride the wall, so he naturally didn't want to offend the princes surnamed Jiang, so he must be soft and hard. The Son of Heaven didn't want to tear his face, so he simply let the queen capture Dutu as a hostage under the guise of family affection. Seeing that the life of Zheng Guo's heir was pinched in the hands of others, the treacherous and cunning Zheng Huan Gong had no choice but to admit it.

"The royal family actually resorted to such indiscriminate methods!" The tone of the digging was slightly mocking.

"Each other, each other. How many ways do you spread nursery rhymes to slander me? Now that both sides have pierced the window paper, Bao Xi simply stopped beating around the bush and accused sharply, "As a relative of the emperor, your father is at both ends of the head, thinking about his own selfish interests, playing small tricks everywhere, without the responsibility of the elders of the Three Dynasties!" ”

"You don't want the heart of a villain, the nursery rhyme may have been made up by someone from the Taishi family! And everyone is a relative, no matter how tricks you play, you can't joke with my life, right? Digging and rubbing the muscles that were still sore, he couldn't breathe.

"Life? Now that you are involved in the battle of the court, your life is not something you can control. When he said this, Bao Xi's tone softened, and a trace of sadness seemed to flash on his face, but he quickly returned to his cold face.

Digging Tu captured this small change, and couldn't help but feel soft. Because Bao Xi's words were not only aimed at him, but also at himself. After all, this woman is a real involuntary chess piece, and the slightest mistake in the political struggle will be doomed. Digging is a character who crosses over, and losing his life is just a game over. Thinking of this, knowing the final outcome, he actually felt pitiful. Facing this face that can be ranked among the top ten in history, it is not easy to hate.

Just when the atmosphere eased slightly because of the resonance of fate, a childish voice suddenly came from the front of the hall. A little girl came to the door, looked at the digging with curiosity, and asked timidly, "Who are you?" ”