Today is his sixth birthday, Chu Zheng sat at the head of the bed in the dormitory, kicking his calves, excitedly thinking about what gifts his father would give him this year...... Maybe his father took him to the downtown to see the lantern show, or maybe he set off fireworks in the palace......

Chu Zheng looked at the sky outside, turned to the eunuch who was bowing his head on the side and said excitedly: "Xiao Wuzi, prepare the frame, I want to go to see my father." ”

"Chirp," the eunuch on the side heard it, answered, and said in a long tail note: "The slave will go down and prepare." ”

"Hurry up," Chu Zheng pursed his lips, the excitement in his eyes that couldn't be hidden, "Lone wants to see his father soon." ”

"Your Highness, I can't help but be too anxious, it is estimated that the emperor is still in the early dynasty at this hour." The nurse who was about to come in at the door heard that Chu Zheng was anxious to find the emperor, and said with a smile.

"That Gu is waiting for his father to finish the morning court in the imperial study," Chu Zheng puffed out his small mouth, and he couldn't hide his anticipation in his eyes.

"Okay, good, good, my Highness," the nurse lowered her head and smiled, and the surrounding eunuchs and palace maids were also hit by Chu Zheng's cute tone, and for a while, laughter overflowed throughout the East Palace.

"What are you laughing at, what are you laughing at," Chu Zheng said with wide eyes and pretending to be majestic, "If you laugh again, I will behead you all." And the reddened ears betrayed his shyness at this time.

"Yes, yes, it's Your Highness, the slave doesn't smile," the palace maid lowered her head and looked at the fried little prince, and said one after another.

"It's pretty much the same, seeing that you serve Gu with all your heart, Gu will forgive you this time, and you are not allowed to laugh at Gu in the future," Chu Zheng raised his head, looked at everyone with a furious face, and said stiffly.

"Your Highness Xie, the slave and maid remember the grace of not killing today, and will serve Your Highness more attentively in the future," the palace maid Sakura Lan smiled with a smile.

"Uh-huh," Chu Zheng twisted his head to the side, and everyone realized that Chu Zheng's entire ear was red.

I don't know who started laughing, but it drove everyone to laugh together, and in an instant, warmth overflowed the East Palace, and everyone felt warm on their bodies.

"Don't laugh, I'm really angry if I laugh again," Chu Zheng's pretended majestic voice sounded.

"Yes, yes," the guards at the door heard echoes from inside.

Outside, the wind was biting, and the wind was shouting, "Roar...... The eunuchs and palace maids came and went in a hurry, and there seemed to be a trace of nervous gunpowder in the air.

And in the whole Xiangyang City, there are lights everywhere, and it is very lively, today is not only the Lantern Festival but also the birthday of the prince.

It is said that the crown prince Chu Zheng is the only heir of the Chu Emperor, there is no queen in the Chu Palace, and the most powerful position in the harem is the prince's biological mother Yan Guifei, but Yan Guifei has never appeared in front of everyone in the past six years, and the Chu Emperor has never visited Yan Guifei in the harem. Although the Emperor of Chu also accepts concubines every year, no one is pregnant with the heirs of the Emperor of Chu. Therefore, as the only heir of the Chu State, the Chu Emperor was very gracious to the crown prince Chu Zheng, and when he was born, the Chu Emperor was even more happy, and issued a royal decree: the people of the entire Chu State were exempted from paying the tax for one year.

What is even more talked about is that every year on the prince's birthday, Emperor Chu will carefully prepare a birthday gift for the prince.

For other Gaomen children who live in conspiracy theories every day, Chu Zheng is happy, he has a good father, the Chu Emperor, who covers all the darkness for him.

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"Is Father in there?" The little prince looked at the eunuch standing at the door of the imperial study and asked curiously.

"Your Majesty, you haven't come back yet," the eunuch said respectfully.

"Is there anything big going on in the court today?" Chu Zheng raised his head and looked at the eunuch in front of him, he was the person who served by his father's side.

The eunuch shook his head and did not answer Chu Zheng's question directly.

"Then why hasn't my father come yet?" The crown prince Chu Zheng pursed his lips, walked slowly up the steps in front of the imperial study, and stood in front of the eunuch.

However, the high palace wall blocked his line of sight, "Pick up Lone," Chu Zheng looked at the big palace maid beside him and ordered.

The palace maid Urryan lowered her body and hugged the prince.

Chu Zheng felt that the field of vision in front of him was wide, and his eyes looked at the Xuanzheng Palace. After waiting for a long time, he didn't see his father.

"Let the lonely come down." Chu Zheng pursed his lips, a little unhappy, it seemed that his father seemed to have forgotten that today was his birthday.

"Your Highness might as well go and rest for a while, the emperor is coming, and the servants will come over to make an announcement," the eunuch behind him smiled.

"Okay," Chu Zheng nodded, for fear that the eunuch would forget to remind him and added, "The father is here, you must inform Gu." ”

"Yes, yes." The eunuch watched Chu Zheng walk into the imperial study and turned to look into the distance, his eyes were full of anticipation, and he suddenly felt a little funny.

It was very warm in the imperial study because of the earth dragon, Chu Zheng stood outside for too long, and he was drowsy when he sat on the chair, at first he tried to open his eyes, otherwise he would fall asleep, but slowly he fell into a beautiful dream.

Outside, I don't know when the goose feather snow began to fall. A man in blue fur was followed by several eunuchs and palace maids, and the eunuch closest to him held up an oil-paper umbrella for him.

The man walked to the door of the imperial study, and the eunuch who had been guarding the door came over and reported respectfully, "Your Majesty, the prince came here in the morning and has been waiting for Your Majesty, but now he is sleepy and asleep inside." ”

"Well," Emperor Chu nodded, indicating that he already knew, pushed open the door of the imperial study and walked in, only to see Chu Zheng sitting on the chair in front of the desk sleeping soundly. A cold wind blew outside, and Chu Zheng shrank his body.

Emperor Chu slowly closed the door intimately, walked lightly, walked to Chu Zheng's side, and looked at Chu Zheng's thin clothes. Emperor Chu untied the cyan fur cloak on his body and slowly put the cloak on Chu Zheng's body.

Chu Zheng felt that there was an extra piece of clothing on his body at this time, slowly opened his eyes, looked at the man in front of him, threw himself into his arms, and shouted happily: "Father." ”

"Zheng'er," Emperor Chu touched his head: "Have you completed the homework assigned by Taifu yesterday?"

"The child has already finished writing," Chu Zheng blinked his big eyes, shook Chu Huang's sleeve, and asked curiously: "Father, what is the birthday gift for the child's birthday this year?" ”

"Zheng'er, what do you want?" Emperor Chu lowered his head to Chu Zheng's face and asked with a smile.

"Child, I want to see the lantern market in the palace," Chu Zheng looked at the emperor in front of him and said with a smile: "I have always gone to the people with my father to see the lantern market before, but this year the child wants to see it in the palace." ”

"Okay," Emperor Chu was in a trance, someone said to him a long time ago, "Concubines don't go to the bazaar to see the lantern show, concubines just want to watch the ...... with the emperor."

Emperor Chu was stunned for a while, then took Chu Zheng's immature hand and said with a smile: "Okay, I promise you, let's watch the lantern exhibition together at night." ”

"Hmm," Chu Zheng nodded, his eyes full of anticipation.

At night, the palace is lit up everywhere. Lanterns were hung everywhere, and Emperor Chu took Chu Zheng's hand and led him to the highest wall of the palace, Chu Zheng looked at the brightly lit palace and looked at his father who was smiling at him.

He threw himself into his father's arms and said excitedly, "Father, this is the best birthday gift a child can receive." ”

"Father has another gift for you, come" Emperor Chu took Chu Zheng and walked in the direction of the imperial study.

"Woo woo," suddenly a masked man jumped out of nowhere and covered Chu Zheng's mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and Chu Zheng desperately begged with a "woo" sound. However, at that time, the sound of fireworks and firecrackers in the entire palace covered his cry for help, and the fireworks illuminated the entire palace, and Emperor Chu stopped and looked up at the sky overhead. The masked man took advantage of the fact that the Chu Emperor had not yet discovered him, and stuffed the already unconscious Chu Zheng into the waiting carriage on the other side......

"Is it the prince of Chu?" A gruff man asked in a low voice.

"General, it's true. The minister has already confirmed. It is the crown prince Chu Zheng. The masked man said respectfully to the rough man standing in front of the carriage.

"Yes, yes. I'll pick up Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, you go first," the man nodded with satisfaction, and his back disappeared at the palace gate.

This night, the entire Xiangyang City is destined to be unpeaceful.

When Chu Zheng slowly woke up, he saw himself in the prisoner car being escorted. Where is this? He didn't have time to think about it, because he saw that the city sign above the city gate in front of him was Xiangyang City, and thick smoke billowed above it...... He saw the soldiers in front of him shoot oiled rockets at the city walls, and for a moment he saw smoke billowing from several places above the city.

"What are you doing?" Chu Zheng grabbed the fence pole with his hand and roared hoarsely.

However, without looking at him, they all sank into this one-sided slaughter.

"Open the gates...... We surrender, we surrender. Ahem, ahem......"

"Daddy, mother,......"

"Child, you have to hold on, my mother will definitely take you out......"

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All kinds of sounds invaded Chu Zheng's ears, and his people were slaughtered by their bloody slaughter, but he didn't even have the ability to resist. He looked angrily at the army at the gates, clutched to the railing in front of him and shouted, "Open the gates, let them go, let them go," until finally his emotions changed from anger to pleading, "I beg you to let them go." ”

"Boy, look at your father's choice this way," the rough man walked up to Chu Zheng and pointed to the figure on the city wall, and said with a smile: "As long as your father and emperor jump down, then I will open the city gate, how about it?" ”

"Father, the emperor ......", Chu Zheng looked at the figure on the city wall in disbelief, with fear in his voice that he was not aware of.

He seemed to hear Chu Zheng's voice and paused, looked at Chu Zheng, and then glanced at the luxurious carriage in the army, and then looked at the soldiers who were satisfied, and said silently: "I hope you don't embarrass the people of Chu State." ”

Then he stood on the city wall, closed his eyes, and jumped off the wall without hesitation.

"Father......" Chu Zheng looked at the unrecognizable corpse that was thrown on the ground, and let out a beastly wail.

"Open the gates." The general, who was looking at the unrecognizable corpse that had been fallen, gave the order.

The gate of Xiangyang City was slowly opened, and the people inside couldn't wait to rush out.

"Kill them all, and there will be no one left." He smiled bloodthirsty.

Chu Zheng looked at his people, who were stabbed to death by their swords, and he didn't have any ability to resist. He slowly fell to his knees, the blood of his people flowing from the ground as far as he could see.

He didn't know how long he had been shedding tears, looking at the one-sided slaughter in front of him.

"Enough," a majestic voice sounded from the carriage. Chu Zheng looked at the luxurious carriage, and the voice was a little familiar......

The woman lifted the curtain and met Chu Zheng's gaze, Chu Zheng couldn't help but be shocked when she looked at the woman in front of her, and then it turned into a strong hatred. And that person's eyes from beginning to end were disgust for Chu Zheng that he couldn't hide.

This person is Chu Zheng's biological mother, Yan Guifei