The night was cold, and the coffin was silent. The sound of shredding in the distance is the sound of the palace people exchanging red candles for white candles and red silk for plain silk overnight.

Shu'er sat alone in an empty palace where Lin Ying's coffin was placed, the blood on her hands unscrubbed.

Lin Ying's voice still echoed in her ears, Chu Di's accent, the familiar tone, so warm and soft, like the reed flowers in the autumn breeze, and like the willow catkins in the spring breeze......

"Three things, you promise me.

After I die, you will be the king of Chu. Zhenghong dragon robe ascended the throne, and I am not allowed to wear plain clothes.

Don't believe anything about me except what I have told you personally.

Weeping hurts, and after today, don't shed any more tears.

At that time, Liu Jing never gave the order to hurt me......

The Peerless Peak...... It was the ...... I sent someone to Liu Jing."

……

Although Shu'er's eyes were open, all he saw was what he had seen at that time—the boat had landed, and they had carried him into the carriage. Looking back at that time, in the shadow of the moonlight under the moon, there was only a large patch of crimson left on the shipboard. Ride back to the palace with him in a car to stop the bleeding for him, and when he was in a hurry, the imperial doctor came in a hurry. When he kept calling him, he heard the imperial doctor say: "The temple ...... His Highness lost too much blood, and his ministers ...... There is nothing the minister can do. ”

has been holding his hand, and when the residual temperature gradually cools down, he still calls him "Xiaoying".

knew that he had been sleepy since he was a child, but he never thought that he would sleep in front of him for a long time.

Stopping outside the Wutong Palace, several palace people carried him off the carriage. The car and body were all stained with red blood, but his ink color was only deeper.

In the Wutong Palace, I don't know when, a gorgeous dragon-patterned coffin has been placed, and it seems that it has been prepared.

Dongfang walked into the hall, listened to the imperial doctor's knowledge of the king of Chu's blood loss, and stood in place without saying a word. He saw that the king of Chu was still holding the arrow tightly in his hand—the arrow he shot with his own bow.

After a long time, Dongfang Shoucai ordered the palace people to change the clothes of the king of Chu and scrub the body of the king of Chu after a screen.

He walked up to Shu'er and whispered, "Sister, I have sent Xiao En back to the Xinlan Palace." You can rest assured. ”

Shu'er Muran nodded.

Dongfang said again: "Wait a while...... Or is it better to let the palace people carry Brother Lin to Ninghui Palace? ”

Shu'er nodded again.

They changed him into a big red dress, which seemed to be a dragon robe when he ascended the throne, and it seemed to be a new dress for the wedding. With tears in her eyes, she knelt down in front of the coffin, watching them carry him into the coffin, as if he were just asleep.

The arrow he had been holding tightly in his hand was in Dongfang's hand at this time.

She took the arrow handed by Dongfang Chou, and when she saw the word "Song" printed on the end of the arrow, she returned the arrow to Dongfang Chou. The two were silent.

At night, Dongfang ordered a few palace people to quietly move the coffin from the Wutong Hall to the empty Ninghui Palace, and when they saw the coffin fall to the ground, Fang saluted Shu'er and said, "Sister, please mourn." Xiao En is still waiting for you. ”

Shu'er said: "You go and get busy, I'll stay here to accompany him." ”

"Sister......

"I'll stay here with him."

……

The nightingale wails like weeping, and complains of the mercilessness of the passing years.

When the tears are dry, the sky will be clear.

"Weeping hurts, and after today, don't shed any more tears."

"I promise you."

"After I die, you will be the king of Chu. Zhenghong dragon robe ascended the throne, and I am not allowed to wear plain clothes. ”

"I promise you."

Shu'er got up, only to find that there were two lines of palace people and two lines of guards standing on the left and right outside the hall, and the palace people led by them were the old men in the Wutong Palace. He walked up to Shu'er and bowed down and knelt down, "In accordance with the edict of the first king, I respectfully ask His Highness to change his court's clothes." ”

As soon as the words fell, a group of palace people presented the garments and jade crowns of the king of Chu.

Shu'er asked the palace people headed by him: "Where is the edict of the first king?" ”

The palace man replied: "Back to His Royal Highness, before the first king left, he took the edict of the prince of Anyi and put it in the secret box under the dragon chair of the Qianqiu Palace. A total of three copies of the edict were copied, one in the Qianqiu Palace, one in the Library Pavilion, and one in the house of a cloth-clothed person in Linjiang, which was sent by the old slave sent by the king. The three edicts were all written by the former king, word for word, and they were all printed with the imperial seal of Zhaohuang. ”

Shu'er continued: "Have you read the edict?" ”

The palace said: "Back to Your Highness, the first king sealed the edict before giving one of them to the old slave." The old slave didn't see it. ”

Shu'er raised her eyebrows: "Then how do you know that the first king wants to pass on the throne of the king of Chu to me?" ”

The palace people immediately knelt down: "The old slave has never read the edict of the first king. It was last night that the prince of Anyi ordered the old slave to prepare the clothes used by His Royal Highness in today's court meeting in the Wutong Palace. Gongzi said that the edict of the first king was passed on to the princess. ”

Shu'er helped the old palace man to get up and said, "Don't panic, I don't doubt what you mean." I just wanted to ask what exactly was written in the edict. ”

After the maidservants served Shu'er and changed into court clothes in the side hall, they had a chariot to Ninghui Hall to pick up the car.

Suddenly, everyone had arrived at the Qianqiu Palace.

The civil and military officials of the Chu State all stood outside the inner hall of the Qianqiu Hall in plain clothes, and only Shu'er wore a red dragon robe.

Everything came so suddenly, and Shu'er only felt that it was a nightmare.

Looking around in a daze, I only heard Dongfang read out the edict of the former king in front of the palace-

"Fortune is unpredictable, and times change.

Today, when she is a strong neighbor, Yingbi will take risks in person, and wants to persuade the king of Song to withdraw from the army with a combination of rigidity and softness, and return the peace of Chu and Song to a hundred years.

However, the king of Song is sinister, if tomorrow Yingying does not go to court, how can Da Chu have no owner?

Therefore, the relatives wrote this edict, announced to all the people and hundreds of officials, and passed on the throne of the prince of Chu Yu, the princess of Dongfang Shuchu, hoping that she would follow the example of the princess of Zhao Dugu to supervise the country, treat the creatures of Chu well, not afraid of the danger of strong neighbors, respect the people, courteous sages, and peace in the world.

Lin Ying, the king of Chu, personally wrote in the Wutong Hall of Zhaohuang Palace. ”

After reading the edict, Dongfang was the first to kneel down and salute: "Minister Dongfang is honored with the edict of the first king to welcome His Royal Highness the King of Chu to the throne." ”

In front of Gongzi, who held heavy soldiers, the hundred officials had to bow down.

There was no room for hesitation, and Shu'er had to move forward slowly.

Xiaoying, it turns out that you have prepared your own coffin and the edict for me. You are worried that there has never been a female monarch in the Chu State, so you use the princess of the Zhao State as a model to suppress dissent for me. You are worried that the officials will not be satisfied, so you ask Dongfang Shu, who once competed with you for the throne, to read your edict.

But Xiaoying, why did you go to see Liu Jing alone, and why did you bring yourself this seemingly well-prepared murderous disaster?

……

On the day of the court meeting, the king of Chu Dongfang Shu adopted the advice of Fengchang and Zongzheng, and named the first king "Hui".

The tomb of King Chuhui has not yet been selected, and the prince said: "In the past, the king and his ministers said, 'There is a secluded place ten miles outside Linjiang City, and a small tomb can be built. The minister thought that the first king probably did not want to move the army back to Yuling, but wanted to rest outside the city of Linjiang. ”

Regarding the location of the royal tomb, although Gongzi did not have an edict from the first king, all the ministers knew that this matter was small, and no one dared to question what Gongzi said because of this, so the ministers had no objection to this.

At the end of the court meeting, Dongfang Chu saluted the king of Chu and said loudly: "The ministers petition, lead the troops to the Song Dynasty, please allow Your Highness!" ”

Shu'er looked at his younger brother standing in the center of the Qianqiu Palace, only to hear Dongfang Xuan continue: "The two places in the dragon body of the first king were both injured by Song Blade!" Song Guo bullied Chu, everyone watched! The minister asked His Royal Highness for permission to order the minister to lead the army to defeat the Song! ”

Vasong?

Many years ago, I was born in the Song Palace. Later, I always thought that I was the princess of the Song Kingdom......

Sure enough, it is unpredictable, and the times change.

Dongfang knelt down and played: "The minister petitions, lead the troops to fight the Song Dynasty!" ”

The ministers seconded: "The ministers petition and send troops to attack the Song!" ”

I never thought that I would make an order to cut down Song. In such a position, in such a situation.

But I finally made a decision, and made a decision that satisfied everyone in the Chu State. No hesitation, no hesitation.