Chapter 1 I can't help myself
The sound of fighting grew louder and louder in the summer night, and she began to distinguish the screams of men, the clash of swords, and the wailing of horses...... Just feeling inexplicable, there was a dazzling white in front of her eyes, and soon the white light faded, the gray sky was so low that it seemed to be within reach, and the snow was like catkins, floating gracefully towards her, she felt so beautiful, and wanted to reach out to catch one, but she found that her body couldn't move, and she couldn't even turn her eyes.
'Poof-'
For the first time, Summer Night saw that the sound would have a color, for a red mist rose in front of her eyes, dyeing the snowflakes that had not yet fallen into an erosive pink, and almost at the same time, she heard a scream that seemed to be cut off, and abruptly stopped in her ears.
"Protect the Public—"
"Kill!"
"Swear to protect the princess!"
"Poof—poof—"
"Ahh
She understood that the red mist was blood, and they were blown up by the wind, and fell on her face like a drizzle, and floated into her mouth sticky, with a strange sweetness—strange, all her senses were normal, even a little sensitive, but her body couldn't move. Summer Night's heart was beating and she didn't know what was happening, she was scared and wanted to take a deep breath, but oh my God, she couldn't even breathe - that's when she realized that her sense of smell was completely out of order! Is she alive or dead? Where is she......
An invisible massacre around the summer night gradually subsided, and the lonely 'whimper' of the cold wind was heard. After a while, tired, heavy footsteps slowly gathered around her, and several blood-stained faces appeared in front of her eyes, blocking the sky above.
A man with tattered armor and a beard sticky with blood looked at Xia Ye for a moment, straightened up and said in a heavy tone to the people beside him: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you have gone." ”
"What?"
"Really?"
The voices of grief rippled like ripples, followed by a terrible silence. I don't know how long it took, but one of them asked dumbly, "General, what are we going to do?" ”
"It's not good for us to escort the princess, I should have apologized with death, but there is something that must be done now, that is, to send the princess's daughter back to the Qi country." The general's voice was heavy and mournful.
"The subordinates are the only ones who obey the general's orders!" Dozens of voices spoke almost in unison, and their tone was very tragic.
"General, what to do with these dead brothers?" Someone asked softly.
After a while, the general said in a hoarse voice: "Five hundred soldiers are less than a hundred...... Bring them back to the Qi country, and none of them will be missing. ”
"Yes!" Someone choked up and could barely speak.
"Can you tell the origin of this group of bandits?" The general paused and asked.
"General Hui, I can't tell the slightest clue from the corpses of these people." Someone reciprocates.
"Hmph, it looks like you're prepared!" The general said in a hoarse voice, and suddenly roared, as if to vent the depression in his heart, "Brothers, go back to Pingyang!" ”
"Yes, go back to Pingyang!"
"Back to Pingyang!"
Summer Night thought to herself: What's going on, I seem to be a princess, but I'm dead. I usually read a lot of novels on the Internet, and my first reaction is to cross by myself.
Someone carefully moved the summer night into the carriage, and before long the carriage was wobbly moving. The car seemed to have walked for a long time, but the summer night had no concept of time, only felt that the road was a little long, and after a while the car would stop, sometimes with a long break and sometimes with a short break, and the summer night knew that the sun was constantly rising and setting, but her eyes would never close, and strangely she did not feel uncomfortable. After many days and nights, she heard the noise outside the car become noisy and lively, and the road was much smoother than before.
"Ah, it's Her Royal Highness the Princess's convoy."
"What's wrong with Your Highness?"
……
Summer night was carried into a stately room, and she could see the tall and rich beams above her head, and although she could not see the surroundings, she could see that this place was not ordinary. She was carefully placed on a wooden couch, and the group retreated. After a while, Summer Night saw a man's blessed face, round as the full moon, appear above her, this face was pale and haggard, his skin had begun to sag, his eyes were not big or small, but the tears were shining, his hair was half white, and he could see that he was old.
"Emperor." The man frowned in pain, his lips trembling and spitting out two words, and he reached out to brush the eyes of the summer night, as if to close her round eyes. But to his sorrow, the summer night's eyelids could not be closed at all, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath and straighten up, his body shaking slightly uncontrollably.
"The emperor's condolences." A man dressed as a eunuch immediately stepped forward to help him and took him away from the side of the summer night.
"The last general is guilty, and the last general is not effective in protecting the princess, please ask the emperor to surrender." Summer Night heard the general's familiar voice.
Emperor Qi took a few deep breaths, and suddenly roared, "Chuan Zhen Guohou has come to see me." ”
"Yes." Footsteps walked out.
After being silent for a while, Emperor Qi spoke again: "General Li, I will explain it in detail. ”
"Yes, the last will be ...... a few days ago"
"Get up and talk back."
"The end will be guilty."
"I forgive you for your innocence." Qi Huang's voice was tired.
"Your Majesty."
"Ten days ago, the last general was ordered by the emperor to escort Her Royal Highness Princess Wuye to the Ulan Kingdom to marry the Khan of Helian Chengchengcheng, but unexpectedly encountered a group of unknown bandits halfway through, their number was equal to our army, and it seemed that the treasure was only intended for the princess. The last general swore to fight to the death, although they were finally repulsed, but Her Royal Highness the princess had been poisoned by thieves. Your Majesty, the last general will be guilty! ”
Xia Ye heard a 'plop' sound, and it seemed that General Li knelt on the ground again.
"Do you know the identity of these thieves?" Emperor Qi asked in a hoarse voice.
"I don't know, but the general will definitely find out." General Li gritted his teeth when he said this, as if with boundless hatred.
At this time, a shrill voice said: "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Zhenguo has listened to the announcement outside the imperial study. ”
"Xuan."
"Yes."
A burst of tiger footsteps walked in.
"Feng Tao, the Marquis of Chenzhen, see the emperor."
Xia Ye listened to this voice in a rough voice and was full of anger, imagining that this should be a man with big shoulders and a round waist, similar to Lu Zhishen.
"Uncle Huang is exempt, have you heard about the princess?"
"Yes, after hearing this, the minister is really like a thousand arrows piercing his heart, and the minister is ashamed, why didn't he personally escort the thief who killed these days...... O princess! When the Marquis of Zhen Guohou said that, he couldn't help but let out a sad cry and threw himself towards the place where Xia Ye was lying.
On a summer night, she saw a man with a full mouth and a flying beard crying at her, tears and snot hanging on his beard, and he looked almost as she imagined. Although he is the imperial uncle of Emperor Qi, his face is black and red, and he looks much stronger than Emperor Qi.
"Uncle Huang, pause the grief, I still have important things to discuss."
"Ah, I'm ashamed, the minister has lost his temper, and the minister also has a major news, and he is about to report to the emperor." The Marquis of Zhenguo immediately walked back to Emperor Qi's car.
Xia Ye didn't expect this town-like marquis who looked like a thick branch, but he spoke very humbly, which was really unseemly.
"Could it be that it is the ...... of Wei State?"
"Exactly, the army of Wei has already captured Houwu City......"
"What do you say? Houwu was unexpectedly lost! Qi Huang's voice became sharp with excitement.
"It's all to blame for the dereliction of duty of the last general, if Her Royal Highness the princess is sent to the Ulan country safely, then Helian Khan will send troops to help the Qi country resist the Wei country, the last general is really guilty of ten thousand deaths, the last general asks the emperor to let the last general lead the troops to Houwu City to fight the Wei army to the death." General Li's rhetoric was fierce, and he had the idea of dying with the Wei army.
It turned out to be sacrificing the happiness of his daughter in exchange for the support of other countries. Hmph, what a father, and the face of himself pretending to be sad, it's really disgusting! Xia Ye heard some meaning, and he was very disgusted with this Qi Emperor in his heart.
"Uncle Huang, did you say that the one who attacked the princess was someone from the Wei Kingdom?" Qi Huang asked.
"Well, back to the emperor, what Yichen saw may not be a person from Wei, because although the Wei army captured Houwu and was close to Pingyang, it seems to have the intention of retreating to negotiate peace." The words of the Marquis of Zhenguo at this time are undoubtedly a sharp turn.
"What do you mean by that?" Emperor Qi felt that this happiness had come a little too suddenly, and he couldn't believe it.
Xia Ye thought to herself: This Zhenguo Marquis is really panting when he speaks.
"Your Majesty." The Marquis of Zhenguo said, "As soon as the minister heard about the princess at home today, someone sent a secret letter, and after opening it and reading it carefully, it was the peace book of the generalissimo of Wei State. The minister did not dare to delay and immediately entered the palace to see the emperor, and it happened that the emperor was also looking for the minister. ”
"You can take the letter with you."
"Please take a look at the emperor."
On a summer night, I heard the sound of 'squirping'.
After a moment of silence, I heard Emperor Qi suddenly shout angrily: "It's really too much to deceive people, too much to deceive people." ”
"Your Majesty?" General Lee's puzzled voice.
"Your Majesty!" The tone of the Marquis of Zhenguo's persuasion.
"This Wei State is really a big breath, and it actually asked our Qi State to agree to three conditions before making this alliance under the city."
"Your Majesty, dare to ask what are the three conditions?" General Li was very curious, and wondered what kind of conditions made Emperor Qi angry like this.
"Hmph, they want Qi to promise to pay tribute to Wei every year from now on, and they want Qi to send five hundred beauties for them to bring back to Wei, and what's even more hateful, they even named Yuan Chang'an, the third prince of Wei, to marry Wuye, and said that they were afraid that the princess would marry away and miss home, so they named Concubine Ze to go with them. This is clearly a kidnapping! Speaking of which, Emperor Qi's voice trembled with excitement.
"Ahh How is this good, Her Royal Highness the princess has died. "General Li is a straight gut, forgetting that Emperor Qi is sad at this time.
Just listen to the 'ping-pong nut', it's like a lot of things have been swept to the ground.
"Wei Dog! Wei dog! Yuan Hao, you thief of the country, you are really a wolf with ambition, you are disloyal to your ministers, you kill the king to seek a position, you are unkind to the king, and you are incompatible! Emperor Qi roared, panting like a cow.
"The emperor takes care of the dragon's body, a little peace is not dry, the ministers are not talented, the ancients have clouds to avoid the real and the virtual, that is, the two armies are fighting, remember to avoid the enemy's edge, recuperate, in order to seek later. Now there is a gap between the military strength and national strength of our country and the Wei State, and this time they can take the initiative to negotiate peace, which is just a chance for our country to breathe, and the emperor cannot show a momentary mood! "The Marquis of Zhenguo looks rude, but it seems that there is still some goods in his stomach.
Silent.
After a while, Emperor Qi said in a hoarse voice: "Their conditions, the first two should be the burden of humiliation and humiliation for King Goujian, but this third one, the Nightless Emperor has died, but how is it good?" Saying that, Emperor Qi asked slightly, "Why don't you tell the truth?" ”
"The minister is brave, the emperor must not." The Marquis of Zhenguo immediately denied Emperor Qi's idea, and he said: "The nature of the Wei people's tiger and wolf, if there is any disobedience, I am afraid that I will turn my face on the spot, and immediately point the sword at Pingyang." ”
"What do you say?" Emperor Qi hated the authentic way.
"The emperor is gracious, and the minister remembers that Zhong Miaorong, the daughter of the great Sima Zhong Wannian family, has been in the palace since she was a child to accompany Her Royal Highness the princess to learn and play, but her mother was seriously ill more than a month ago, so she went home to fulfill her filial piety. The minister has seen her, she looks a little similar to the princess, and she has been with the princess for many years, and she knows the princess's habits and behaviors well, so it is better for her to pretend to be the princess and send it to the Wei State, which can be regarded as coping with the past, even if they have suspicions, as long as the emperor insists that it is the princess of the nightless, who can tell the truth from the fake. ”
The emperor pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, that's the only way, and the emperor will be fully responsible for this matter." General Li, when the time comes, you will still escort Heqin's team to Houwu City, and will ...... Princess, hand it over to the generalissimo of the Wei army, remember, there can be no more mistakes. ”
"The last general Xie Huanglongen, the emperor Shengming, the last general is ashamed and has nothing to repay, and he is willing to smear the emperor's liver and brain, and he will never give up."
"Okay, okay, you can step back first."
"Yes, the last general will retire."
When the room was quiet again, Emperor Qi asked a little tiredly, "Uncle Huang, do you understand why Wei Jun suddenly proposed peace?" ”
"I'm ashamed, according to the minister's opinion, it may be that there has been heavy snow in Northern Qi in recent days, and the Wei army is not well prepared, and they dare not go against the sky, so they have the idea of retreating."
"Uncle Huang, do you think that Qi Guo can give a counterattack at this time." Emperor Qi suddenly had a glimmer of hope.
"Your Majesty, the minister is not talented, persuade the emperor to dispel this idea as soon as possible. The Wei army was fierce, and this move would only lead to fire. ”
"Humph!" Emperor Qi seemed to be very unwilling, but after a moment of silence, he finally admitted the reality, but in a blink of an eye, there were new doubts, "I still don't know anything, although the military strength of Qi is not as good as that of Wei, but this time it is so vulnerable, and he was caught off guard by the Wei army, it really shouldn't be!" Uncle Huang, do you think anyone is secretly collaborating with the enemy? ”
"This ...... Your Majesty, the ministers are ashamed, the stakes are very high, and the ministers dare not speak falsely. ”
"Uncle Huang, this matter will be investigated by you."
"Yes, Your Honor."