There is only one day left before the opening of the Tianxin Tower, which means that the geniuses and Zhou Tu of the three major sects and the daughter of the sect master of the Demon Sect have been missing for a long time.

The legend of the battle of the Imperial City in the Celestial Empire has changed from the initial suspicion to the admiration of this legendary god.

Concubine Yi Niangniang was standing in the Chaoyang Palace, which was where the Zhenggong Niangniang was before, but now the Zhenggong Niangniang has completely disappeared in this world with the summer rain.

She is now the mother of the main palace.

She has something big to do today, and she's quietly waiting.

Until the stone steps of Chaoyang Palace sounded the sound of stomping on armor and combat boots, a figure walked into Chaoyang Palace on the stone steps.

Concubine Yi looked at the man quietly until his figure gradually became clear in her eyes.

- This is exactly the general of the Great Zhou Dynasty Soldiers and Horses.

Ma Chongju got Zhou Xing's holy decree and was ordered to be responsible for protecting the safety of the opening of the Tianxin Tower tomorrow, but he didn't know what the queen had summoned him for today, he stood on top of the main hall, smelling the noble incense coming out of the incense, and suddenly felt a little nervous.

When Zhou Tu was still there before, he liked to smell this smell very much, but now the incense is still that incense, but the person is not that person anymore.

He waited quietly for Concubine Yi to speak.

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Zhou Xing once said that if he became the emperor, then he would be the prime minister, and according to his official position, he would have much greater rights than the mother of the main palace, but he had not been canonized until now.

He's still not rude.

He bowed his hand gently, and then bowed to the ground, "Ma rejuvenate to meet Niangniang." ”

There was no sound for him to flatten down, and Ma Chongju felt a little strange, and he couldn't understand what it meant, so he stood up himself.

However, there was no sound in the main hall.

Ma Chongju was not impatient, he waited quietly - finally, Concubine Yi stood up.

There was a palace maid next to him who offered him tea, which was Zhou Tu's favorite Longjing.

Then Concubine Yi said the first sentence, "General Ma, you have a lot of credit. ”

Ma Chongju quietly looked at the tea bowl in his hand, silent, did not drink, and did not answer this sentence.

Concubine Yi looked at him and continued, "You have been in charge of the military since the time of the old emperor, and there was even a saying that General Ma would not be chaotic every day when he was alive. ”

Ma Chongju lowered his head slightly, "It's all a false name." ”

Concubine Yi reached out and picked up a piece of rice paper from the table, with a faint ink on it, which she had drawn casually when she was upset.

Ma Chongju saw the rice paper and suddenly felt a little uneasy.

The letter that the Demon Sect had brought to him that day was written on rice paper like this.

Concubine Yi finally said, "But after all, you are old. ”

Ma Chong's hand trembled, and a drop of tea fell to the ground.

He understood what this meant,

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When you are old, you will live in seclusion in the mountain gate, when you are old, you will do wrong things, and when you are old, you will have many things that you cannot do.

In short, when you are old, you are not suitable for the position of this great general.

Actually, he is not very old, but Masamiya Niangniang said that he is old.

In other words, if the Holy Saint says that he is old, then whether he is really old or not, he must hand over his position.

He pondered for a long time, like a statue, and the cup of tea in his hand no longer trembled in the slightest.

"I didn't expect this to be the result. ”

Ma Chongju looked into Concubine Yi's eyes and said.

Concubine Yi looked at him and said calmly, "Actually, you should have guessed a long time ago." ”

Ma Chongju said, "But the emperor promised me to be the prime minister." ”

Concubine Yi put the rice paper back on the table, "You can be a good prime minister, but you are not suitable to be a good general." ”

The horse rejuvenated thoughtfully.

"The Emperor lied to me?"

Concubine Yi seemed to have expected him to ask this question.

Concubine Yi's eyes were a little dim, "We have been living in deception and being deceived. ”

The cup of tea was completely still at this point, and then Ma Chongju raised the cup to his lips and took a sip.

This is the finest dragon view, and only the emperor is qualified to drink it.

An incomparably cool breath spread from his mouth to his internal organs, and Ma Chongju couldn't help but exclaim, "Good tea." ”

Concubine Yi said, "If you don't hand over the talisman, the second cup of tea I give you will still be good tea." ”

A palace maid brought out another teacup and put it in Ma Chongju's hand.

It's still Longjing, but it smells much more fragrant than the cup he drank just now.

"There's arsenic in it. ”

Concubine Yi explained, and then she gestured behind the curtains on the left and right sides of her main hall, "Behind this is the knife and axe hand. ”

Ma Chongju understood, and then he thought quietly for a moment, and a tear of unwillingness flowed from the corner of his eye, and then turned into laughter.

He stood on top of the hall and cried and laughed.

Then he drank the previous cup of Longjing in one gulp.

This is not the choice given to him by Concubine Yi, but the choice given to him by the emperor at this time.

He put the teacup back into the hands of the palace maid, turned around and staggered away from the main hall.

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The palace maid held two teacups - there was an extra talisman in the first teacup, which was the talisman of the Great Zhou, and with this talisman it was able to mobilize all the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou.

The palace maid put both teacups in front of Concubine Yi.

Concubine Yi was silent in thought.

A gust of wind blew up the hill from under the summer resort, and then dried the tears from the corners of Ma's eyes and blew around the main hall.

The curtain around the hall was spread out, and the back was empty, and there was not a single ambush.

Concubine Yi was silent for a long time, and then she picked up the cup of tea behind her, and she didn't know when extremely fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

I don't know if it's because of the nervousness of facing the horse weight or because of the hot weather.

With the lessons of Zhou Tu, Zhou Xing would not put the military power in Ma Chongju's hands again no matter what, and the emperor wanted to control the military power himself.

Therefore, in the face of the heavy horse weight, in fact, whether there is an ambush behind the main hall is a result.

He can either skip a second cup of tea, or he can choose not to surrender his military power.

It's a pity that in the end, he didn't dare to rebel after all.

Concubine Yi thought of Zhou Xing's resonance of the horse and the reraising of military power was just an understatement, "If I am a horse rejuvenation, I will not assist me to be the emperor and rebel myself, why not become the emperor myself and give it to a madman? Some people are emperors, because they were born emperors, and some are ministers, because they were born to be ministers—even if they have more soldiers and horses, he is also a minister." ”

Concubine Yi pondered this sentence, picked up the teacup that Ma Chongju had not chosen behind and took a sip.

The fragrance of Longjing hits the nostrils.

She said to herself, "It's really good tea." ”

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