The emperor's bedroom, Taiji Palace. The huge dormitory was empty, and the guards were empty. On the dragon couch lay a handsome and handsome man with a sickly face.

On the edge of the collapse, kneeling was a man wearing the uniform of a forbidden army.

It was Zhao Qian, the emperor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, and his henchman, Lin Feng.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" There was a coughing sound on the sickbed.

"Your Majesty, the minister will ask the envoy of the Tai Hospital to come and check your pulse." After Lin Feng finished speaking, he was about to get up and leave.

"Wait...... Can the queen give birth smoothly? ”

"Your Majesty, Wen Po said that the fetal position is positive, and there will be no big problems."

"You stay there, and after the queen gives birth, you will personally send it to me...... Don't let anyone else know. ”

"Yes." Although Lin Feng didn't understand why he had to secretly guard the palace with heavy troops. But he has always been loyal, but the emperor's orders are obeyed, and he does them one by one, regardless of the reason.

After Lin Feng left, a man in black quietly fell out of nowhere.

"Master, Lin Guangyao has secretly arrived at the farm a hundred meters away from the imperial city, and he has brought five hundred elite soldiers with him, incarnated as market vendors and people from the rivers and lakes, and wants to enter the imperial city in batches in disguise. The army waited for his orders in the mountains and forests ten miles away from the imperial city. ”

"Does Commander Lin know?"

"I don't know."

"How's it going to get you arranged?"

"Everything is in order."

The coldness in Zhao Gan's eyes disappeared, and only the last trace of hesitation remained. The man in black hid in the darkness, as silent as he came.

Eighteen years ago, on the third day of the ninth lunar month of the Xinmao year, it was a rainy night.

The autumn rain has been quietly falling, slightly cool, and a little lonely. There was silence in the huge palace, and the autumn breeze was bleak.

In the palace of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, an inconspicuous sedan chair shuttled quickly, and its whereabouts were secretly stopped in front of the Taiji Palace.

The commander of the Imperial Guard, Lin Feng even retired from the guards in front of the palace, personally helped the people in the sedan chair to enter the hall, and retreated outside the door, not letting anyone approach.

Chen Shishi wears a purple gold Zhai phoenix bead crown, and wears a crimson gold and silver silk Luan Bird Chaofeng embroidered court dress, with a calm and graceful bearing. The delicate makeup and rouge cover up the pale face and lip color after giving birth, but it can't hide the tiredness in the eyes and the weakness of the body. But when she came, she had already used a decoction in the palace to refresh herself, and at this time, she was even more energetic, so as not to let her face show tiredness, and her beautiful posture was more graceful and luxurious.

"Your Majesty...... How so? Seeing the emperor who was clear and upright in his impression, and now he looked so thin on the sickbed, Queen Chen couldn't help but choke up, and she actually shed tears before she spoke.

Zhao Qian's sick face could still be vaguely recognized, and he barely smiled, and said with tenderness: "Let me see our children." ”

Empress Chen walked in, put the baby in her arms and said with a loving face, "Your Majesty, give your daughter a name." She didn't call her "little princess," as if she had expected something.

The last tangled look in Zhao Gan's eyes passed, and only apology and love for his daughter remained. He stretched out his hand to caress the child's eyebrows, with an obvious smile on his face, and then thought that he couldn't grow up with her, his handsome eyebrows and eyes frowned, and he held Queen Chen's hand with love, and a thousand words were all in his words.

The night rain is dashing, the golden wind is thin, and the leaves and leaves are falling. Zhao Qian listened to the autumn rain pouring outside the window, and muttered lonely: "A leaf falls and you know the world is autumn, Zhao knows autumn." ”

"Good name. Born on a rainy night in the early autumn, I hope she will be smart, open-minded and cheerful in the future, and grow up safely and healthily. Empress Chen held back tears and choked up in agreement.

"Shishi, I am sorry for you, and I violated the promise of one life and one couple."

"Your Majesty...... The concubine knows..... Born in the royal family, you have to do this........" Hearing her long-lost name and her former love words, Chen Shishi couldn't help it, and tears slipped down.

"I love you alone. can be born in the royal family, never self. Your family has been hairpins for generations, Mrs. Chen is highly respected, and her relatives are dominant....... It's not a good thing for Jiangshan Sheji....... Coupled with the complicated relationship between the DPRK and China, as the Son of Heaven, I had to think differently, and in order to check and balance, I also had to take the daughter of the Lin family as a concubine. I thought that the Lin family was born recklessly and had no foundation in the court, and I could control it, but I didn't expect that people were not as good as heaven, and Lin Guangyao ...... The ambition is greater than I imagined, and I have the heart to rebel. It's also strange that I was stupid and merciful for a while, and I didn't cut it off in time when the first signs appeared, I wanted to put the Lin family on the sake of Lin Xuanyi's womb and Lin Feng, but I didn't think about it...... He took a desperate step and simply didn't do anything....... I have deployed my army and are ready to take him down. But I didn't expect that I still fell in love with the old fox. ”

"Your Majesty, what did the imperial doctor say?"

"I've been poisoned for a long time, and I don't have a way to recover. With countless rare and exotic grasses, it is the limit to be able to barely drag it to this day. ”

"Did Concubine Shu poison and murder Your Majesty? Or Commander Lin? ”

Zhao Qian shook his head and said slowly, "Neither." It was Lin Guangyao's old fox who took the trouble to find the 'Drunken Fairy Lingfu' and 'Strange Dahu Xiangmu', which are said to exist only in ancient books, the 'Drunken Fairy Lingfu' is a daffodil-like flower that grows in the miasma woodland, and the 'Strange Dahu Xiangmu' is a kind of coral wood that grows on the bottom of the sea. Although these two substances are extremely rare, they are not toxic in themselves. But if these two aromas are mixed together, they become highly poisonous. ”

"Lin Guangyao is far away from the imperial city, how did he harm His Majesty?"

"Each time he submitted, he made a book of 'Strange Dahu fragrant wood', a letter every half a month, a total of fourteen letters in the past seven months, and the courtiers' recitals were all placed in my imperial study, and the daffodils in the concubine's dormitory were mixed with the 'Drunken Fairy Lingfu'."

Empress Chen shuddered when she heard this, and said angrily: "This person's mind is so vicious. ”

"He knows very well that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and anyone who can enter the concubine's dormitory is not allowed to enter the imperial study except for me."

"Commander Lin is strict in discipline, except for receiving concubines to see Your Majesty today, he has never stepped into the palace of concubines and concubines in the past."

"Exactly, Lin Feng has been my companion since he was three years old, although he is a member of the Lin family, he grew up in the East Palace with me, and he is like a brother." When Zhao Qian said this, his eyes looked at his wife in front of him affectionately.

"If she is a prince, I am willing to give it a go, and I will summon him to assist him, and the general will definitely protect you. But she's an emperor...... Not to mention that it is difficult for people in the world to accept an empress, even my cousin who is far away in Huainan, will be the first to stir up a storm, which will definitely lead to a battle for the throne and ruin the lives of people......... I don't want the people to be displaced by the war. Weigh it again...... I have to wronged your mother and daughter. He looked at his daughter with guilt, the newborn baby's hair was sparse, and the eyebrows had not yet grown, and only the shape of the eyebrows could be faintly discerned. His eyes were even more closed, and he wanted to grow up with this child, but it was a pity that he ....... His body doesn't survive today. ”

Empress Chen's beautiful and vulgar face had a clear look. meekly leaning on his husband, he is also a man who sits on the world. sighed resignedly: "The concubine listens to Your Majesty." ”

"Don't tell your child about her background, let her grow up happy and carefree. Born as a royal person, sometimes he is not as comfortable as ordinary people. ”

"Well...... "Without the protection and favor of the emperor, what will happen to the emperor, Chen Shishi knows in her heart. It is a blessing to grow up safely and healthily in the palace, and even if you grow up, you will become a victim of a power struggle or a gift for the marriage of the two countries.

"You are still young, forget me, forget the palace, forget everything about Jingshi, find a small town in the south of the Yangtze River......."

"Your Majesty! Concubines...... can't do it....... "Although they have only been husband and wife for a few years, they are happy with each other, and they are sincere, she really can't forget him and forget everything to start over."

"For our daughter........"

"Good ........."

Zhao Qian lowered his eyes, the future had been arranged, the stone in his heart was gradually put down, and his voice raised: "Lin Feng, come in ....."

People who practice martial arts have very good hearing, Lin Feng pushed the door in, knelt aside, but did not speak, quietly listened to the instructions.

"The Shadow Guard will send the queen and the emperor out of the palace........ You can do what I told you to do......."

"Your Majesty........ Is that really the case? The queen and the emperor are in the palace, and the ministers must protect them....... Never let .... The new emperor bullied them.......... "Lin Xuanyi's fetal portrait, the imperial doctor said that it is more likely that it is the prince."

Chen Shishi knew in her heart that if Lin Xuanyi gave birth to the emperor's heir, she would be the next new emperor....... And the emperor ...... It should be that he wants to block the news after his death, and announce it after Lin Xuanyi gives birth to the emperor's heir, so that King Huainan will have no reason to snatch the throne.

"The palace is a cage...... Not a good place....... Let's send them away........ "Zhao Qian's mind has been decided, after his death, even if Chen Shishi is the empress dowager, it will be difficult after all, and he doesn't want his daughter to grow up in this environment in the future. He hugged his wife and the daughter in his arms, and took a deep breath, wanting to leave this last warmth and love. closed his eyes, and finally made up his mind to part. Whispered into the darkness, "Where is the Shadow Guard?" ”

"Boom~"

Three people emerged from the darkness, dressed in black and blending in with the night. Although Empress Chen saw it for the first time, she was not surprised.

Zhao Gan hugged the baby in his arms tightly and said to the man in black: "She, Zhao Zhiqiu, is the only bloodline I have in this world, the eleventh heir of the Zhao family, and the future master of your shadow guard." ”

"Yes, master."

Zhao Qian took off the jade pendant that symbolized the imperial power and handed it to the man in black. The three black-clothed men took off the contents of their necks, which were three jade plaques of the same size, but each engraved with different patterns. I saw that they put the jade plate according to the pattern, aimed at the protrusion on the jade pendant, and integrated it with the jade pendant. A nebula pattern is revealed, with a symbol in the nebula.

The head of the man in black held the jade pendant in his hand, approached the baby in swaddling clothes, whispered "master of the house", and then lifted the corner of the swaddling clothes, revealing his left chest, and turned the heirloom jade upside down on the bare skin. Zhao Zhiqiu Xu felt the pain and cried loudly. Empress Chen was distressed, and her eyes were filled with tears. After a few seconds of torment, the man in black took out a white jade porcelain bottle from his arms, poured the blue and black liquid into the wound, and in a cool herb fragrance, Zhao Zhiqiu slowly stopped crying, and his big black eyes fell asleep again with teardrops.

"Your Majesty......" Chen Shishi was a little distressed.

"Don't worry, this is the secret recipe that has been passed down by the Zhao family for a hundred years, and the mark left behind will not be extinguished for a lifetime. After the wound heals, only a pale cyan line remains. A hundred years ago, the Zhao family produced a pair of twins, but there was only one emperor on the throne, so they came up with this method, which has been passed down to this day. Zhao Qian said, revealing his left chest, and he also had the same mark.

"What the Zhao family has inherited so far, in addition to the throne, there is also a unique mark in this world. It has been 164 years since the founding of the Southern Zhou Dynasty by the ancestor of the Zhao family. The reason why the Zhao family was able to rule the Southern Zhou Dynasty stably for more than 100 years was that it relied on the economic and financial resources of the rich country: there were Zhao's private granges and money shops all over the country. Over the past 100 years, all walks of life have been involved, which is related to the lifeblood of the country. This imprint pattern is a certificate, which can call the property of the Nebula Zhao clan. Heads of all walks of life also recognize this mark. ”

"After my death, the only one who can protect the queen's safety is the general who protects the country. I have nothing else to ask for but for you to live your life in peace. ”

After Zhao Qian's words were finished, he used all his strength and pressed the dark grid mechanism under the dragon couch with considerable difficulty. With two "clicks", I saw that under the dragon couch, the heavy marble bricks cracked to the left and right, and a square black hole appeared. The cave was so dark that you couldn't see underneath, but you could feel the cool breeze blowing from inside the cave, which was enough to prove that this was not a dark room, but a secret passage to the outside somewhere.

"This is left by the ancestor of the Zhao family when he established the palace, in order to prevent the life of the descendants of the Zhao family during the palace mutiny. I can't bear the people to suffer from the war in the palace, so I can only grieve you...... The secret guard will take you away and go to Jiangbei, this handwritten letter from me, you give it to General Ye, he will be able to protect you well, and you will be safe for a lifetime. ”

"The Emperor's ......."

"Your Majesty........"

"Let's go~!" He didn't want to die in front of them in the end, so for Chen Shishi, it would be a too unforgettable memory to forget him and live again in the future.

Chen Shishi understood him, wiped the tears on her face, picked up the baby in swaddling clothes, and entered the secret passage without a word.

The Shadow Guard kowtowed, and followed him into the secret passage.

After entering, the shadow guard lit a fire, the faint light was only enough to illuminate the road under his feet, Chen Shishi was weak after giving birth, the effect of the decoction was almost to the limit, and the strength under his feet was getting weaker and weaker.

In this way, I don't know how long I walked, but I felt that the cool breeze blowing on my face became more and more obvious, and then the terrain that obviously went up, and when they came out, it was a deserted forest garden. It was impossible to see where it was under the moonlight, and the shadow guard carried the baby and walked westward, until he was almost at the suburban farm, and on a rainy night, there were several figures and horses waiting there.

These people are all secret guards in the palace, and they are only subordinate to the emperor, independent of the Praetorian Guard and the Yulin Army, and are only arranged by the emperor alone.

Seeing that the eldest brother only had a baby in his hand, Ying Si asked, "What about the queen mother?" ”

The three of them were silent, and Chen Shishi changed her mind after walking not far and said that she wanted to go back to see the emperor for the last time. Let them take Zhao Zhiqiu to meet them according to the predetermined plan. When the emperor dies, she will ask Lin Feng to send her to meet them.

The shadow guard knew in his heart: the queen would not come. When she went back, she wanted to live and die with the emperor, and it was also the best protection for the little emperor.

Because he didn't see the queen's body, only a dead baby girl, Lin Guangyao would not believe that the emperor died after speaking. Only when the queen and the body of the "emperor" appear together can everyone believe it.

Under the moonlight, the baby girl who slept sweetly in swaddling clothes was ignorant of her fate being rewritten......

At this time, no one could have predicted that eighteen years later, going around and around....... Back to where she started, she went home too.