Xu Zhaohua knew that the ghost lady said this, she might not be able to say that the hatred in her heart could not be said to be all gone, but at least it would not prevent them from lifting the witchcraft of the soldiers of Eastern Qi, and the two masters of the Western Regions also saw the situation clearly, they glanced at Xu Zhaohua and waited for her next command, Xu Zhaohua gave the two of them a look, and they knew what she meant.

The two masters of the Western Regions began to cast spells in front of the water tank in the room, and it was done in a short time.

"The emperor and queen mother, the Daduan soldiers are attacking, and they are on their way now, and it is estimated that they will reach the border capital of Eastern Qi before dark!" A soldier ran in to report, Xu Zhaohua saw this and asked Su Mingtuo to gather the soldiers, today they were going to give the soldiers a meal in advance to prepare for the next battle.

Xu Zhaohua breathed a sigh of relief after watching the soldiers finish eating, although now that Daduan is attacking again, Dongqi and Daduan's undead soldiers will not have the upper hand in the confrontation, but she can't also use the same despicable means to win, even if she fights to the death, she must be upright.

At dusk, estimating that the Daduan soldiers were coming, Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai decided to go to the battlefield in person to defend against the enemy.

"Your Majesty, your Queen, no." Su Mingtuo stopped it, Su Qinfeng's matter made him have a new understanding of war, in the past, he regarded war as a game, but now he feels that war is an executioner, and he doesn't care about life and death when he is old, but if the emperor and the queen have any three strengths and two weaknesses, he can be sorry for the ancestors and ancestors.

"It's okay, uncle. When the country is at stake, whether it is the common people or the nobles of the kings and grandchildren, you and I are the people of the Eastern Qi Dynasty. Cuobai and I should go to the battlefield to cheer up the soldiers. Xu Zhaohua said.

Su Mingtuo was immediately speechless, what Xu Zhaohua said was reasonable, he couldn't think of a reason to refute it, since the emperor and queen said so, although he was her uncle in private, but now she is also the queen of Eastern Qi, and she has no right to interfere with her decision.

Zhou Shengcuo looked at Xu Zhaohua with a smile, this woman is his wife, he doesn't know that it is the blessing of several lifetimes of cultivation, he quietly took Xu Zhaohua's hand, even if there is a cliff in front of him, it doesn't matter, the river is clear, and he is not afraid of death.

After the soldiers' Gu poison was lifted, they all felt dizzy for a while, and their bodies seemed to fall apart, but fortunately, after resting for a while, they had eased up, Xu Zhaohua was glad that they had detoxified the soldiers in time, otherwise I really don't know what these soldiers would become in the end.

By dusk, Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Sheng Cuobai had already put on the armor of battle, and the soldiers knew that the emperor and queen were side by side with them, and the warrior spirit suddenly rose. After opening the city gate, Xu Zhaohua took the lead in rushing out with a team of men and horses, and fought his way out. The soldiers at the big end were sallow-faced, skinny but still fighting mechanically with empty eyes, Xu Zhaohua knew that they were the bones soaked in Gu poison, even if the poison was finally dissolved, it would be useless. Now although they look like this, they still have bodies that are inferior to knives and guns, so Xu Zhaohua clearly knows that they can only outwit and not fight hard. After killing the middle of the enemy, Xu Zhaohua gave an order, and the surrounding soldiers began to unload the oil pot on their waists and sprinkle oil as much as possible around, and then Xu Zhaohua fought out of the encirclement.

After the team led by Xu Zhaohua arrived at the safe area, Zhou Sheng Cuobai immediately led the men and horses to shoot rockets at the place where Xu Zhaohua ordered people to scatter oil, and suddenly a fire broke out in the center of the Daduan soldiers, and the fire spread quickly, and soon after, Sui Chen had no way to let the Daduan soldiers withdraw in advance.

After Sui Chen returned to the Daduan Palace, he met Sui Yue on the road.

"How?" Sui Yue asked.

"Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Sheng Cuobai are fighting together, if there is only Zhou Shengcuobai, it would be easy to say, but there is still Xu Zhaohua, a ruthless character by his side, we lost this battle." Sui Feng said.

Sui Yue was also a little angry, he didn't expect Xu Zhaohua to be such a powerful character, he shouldn't have let her leave Daduan in the first place.

"Do you still use fire?" Sui Yue asked, Sui Chen nodded in response, Sui Yue sighed and said, "The old lady is still with you, how are you doing?" ”

"Good food and drink for you, but the body is not reused, I don't know how long I can live."

"Then take it out and use it, bring Sui Feng over, I'm going to start speeding up the research of new witch potions, and I must overcome the shortcomings of the soldiers' fear of fire." Sui Yue said to Sui Chen, and Sui Chen understood Sui Yue's meaning and immediately began to work on this matter.

After Sui Chen left, Sui Yue walked to his dormitory, Chu Chenlu was still busy directing the palace people to clean up outside the hall, she saw him come back and smiled at him from afar, Sui Yue smiled back at her, the two did not speak, their relationship could only stop there.

Arrived at the innermost study of the dormitory, Sui Yue opened a landscape painting on the wall, and there was a hole inside, and from this hole into another world, this was the place where Sui Yue specialized in studying witchcraft, all kinds of strange flowers and plants grew in the dark and damp corridor, and bottles and jars of potions were piled up in all corners of the room, and now Sui Yue was about to create a new witch medicine, and there was a lack of medicine primer - the blood of the Gu King.

Inside the dungeon

"Old lady, don't you really know that your son has the blood of the Gu King on his body?" Sui Chen asked with a wicked smile, the old lady looked dazed, she hadn't come in since she beat Sui Chen and locked herself in, and today as soon as she pushed the door, she began to ask her about the blood of the Gu King, and said that this blood was only flowing on Feng'er's body, and she said that she didn't know, Sui Chen still felt incredible.

So is this Gu King's blood really only on Feng'er's body?

The old lady shook her head: "I really don't know." ”

"I don't know, now we need your help to lure out Sui Feng."

"What are you going to do? Don't hurt my Kaede. The old lady shouted anxiously, Sui Chen ignored her words, picked up a pair of scissors and slowly walked towards the old lady.

"What are you going to do? Sui Chen, you are crazy, I am the concubine of the former emperor! The old lady shouted.

I didn't go crazy, I had already walked in front of the old lady and waved off a strand of the old lady's hair: "Don't worry, your mother and son will meet soon." After saying that, Sui Feng went out.

On the second day, the old lady's hair was sent to Sui Feng's hands, and it was a soldier who was sent, Sui Feng saw that he was wearing the armor of a Dongqi soldier, and after giving him the letter, he turned around and left, without saying a word, Sui Feng opened the letter and there was a strand of hair inside, black hair mixed with silver hair, Sui Feng immediately felt that something was wrong, there was only a note inside: If you want to save your mother, come to the Daduan Palace alone.

Sui Feng loaded the letter and rushed out of the camp tent and rode a fast horse out of the Eastern Qi military camp, when Xu Zhaohua knew about this, Sui Feng had already arrived at the Daduan Palace, and it was Sui Chen who greeted him.

"Would you like to exchange your blood for your mother's life?" Sui Chen asked.

"Yes, come on." Sui Feng said fearlessly.

After that, Sui Feng took Sui Chen to Sui Yue's dormitory, this was the first time that the three brothers stood together and spoke for so many years, Sui Feng agreed to all their requests, and was locked up in a dark dungeon every day, as long as Sui Yue needed his blood, he could provide it at any time, just begging them to release his mother.

After Sui Chen came to the underground palace and let go of the old concubine, Zhou Shengchen Mo said behind his back: "Since Sui Feng has come, isn't our chance of winning much better?" ”

"Of course."

"What will you give me then?" Zhou Shengchenmo asked, originally he only wanted to have a place in Daduan, but thinking that he had left his hometown and was criticized in Dongqi to come to Daduan, where should he put it if he didn't take some face.

Sui Chen sneered: "Heh! What more could you want? I'll leave you with a dog's life! ”

Zhou Shengchenmo clenched his fists after hearing this, he expected Sui Chen to say this, at this moment Sui Chen was facing away from him, it was a good time to start, so he quickly took out the poison he had prepared a long time ago and poured it into his mouth and nose while he was unprepared, Sui Chen looked at Zhou Shengchenmo with his eyes straight after he fell to the ground, and he couldn't close his eyes before he died.

A crisp bowl cracking sound sounded, Xian Yue looked at the broken teacup on the ground and then at Zhou Shengchenmo: "You're crazy!" How are we going to live if we kill him? ”

Zhou Shengchen clapped his hands disdainfully: "It's no big deal if he dies, do you Sui Yue want him to live or do you want him to die?" Stupid woman! With that, he turned and left.

Xu Shaoyun looked at the corpse on the ground and became more and more frightened, she had seen too much killing in this Daduan Palace, she couldn't stay here any longer, she had to go, she had to go.

At night, taking advantage of the moonlight, Xu Shaoyun sneaked into the water prison and saw Xu Qingshan, he had not seen him become extremely thin for many days, and the whole person looked even more fierce: "Father, Sui Chen has been killed by Zhou Shengchenmo, take this opportunity for us to quickly escape from Daduan!" Xu Shaoyun said in a trembling voice while unchaining Xu Qingshan.

Xu Qingshan raised his eyelids and looked at Xu Shaoyun in front of him, a little blurred, rubbed his hands and feet that had been restrained for many days, and said firmly: "Escape? Where to flee? Where are we going to escape from Daduan, to Dongqi? It's a joke! Saying that, Xu Qingshan crawled out of the water prison and walked outside, and he didn't say anything when Xian Yue asked him where he was going, but just walked in the direction of Sui Yue's palace step by step.

"Father! Run away with me! Xianyue finally shouted loudly, but Xu Qingshan didn't pay attention to her.

He climbed the long steps step by step, but Xu Qingshan rushed to his body to become weaker and weaker, this weakness was unprecedented, and then his skin began to crack, almost cracking a little after taking a step, and the blood continued to seep out of his clothes and flow onto the steps, frightening the palace maids next to him, and finally Xu Qingshan couldn't walk anymore and changed to climbing, and slowly couldn't climb, a living person was just gone, and Xianyue watched this scene happen in the corner.

Zhou Shengchenmo also looked at all this with a smile, he expected all this, once Xu Qingshan came out again, he would definitely measure with him, so he had already poisoned the water in the water prison.

When Sui Yue came out, he covered his mouth and nose when he saw this scene, and then Zhou Shengchenmo came to him, when Zhou Shengchenmo told Sui Yue that Sui Chen was dead, there was an indescribable expression on his face, not as happy as Zhou Shengchenmo imagined, but it was not very heavy.

"Next, let's start dealing with Zhou Shengcuobai and that Xu Zhaohua, after defeating Dongqi, it will be yours." Sui Yue said.

Zhou Shengchen rubbed his hands, Sui Yue finally said to his heart, and he nodded with satisfaction: "As long as the king needs it, he is willing to do his best to help." ”

"Your Majesty! Zhou Shengcuobai and Xu Zhaohua came to see at the door! A soldier guarding the city gate came running and said.

This news surprised Zhou Shengchenmo and Sui Yue, Sui Yue smiled: "Okay, it's actually sent to the door, let them in, by the way, from now on, keep this palace for me tightly, don't fly out."

Later, Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai did not act, but told the soldiers to let Sui Yue and Zhou Shengchenmo come out to negotiate, Xu Zhaohua had long known that once they entered, Sui Yue would not be able to let them out. At this time, a familiar figure was stumbling towards this side with hurried steps, and Xu Zhaohua saw clearly that the person was Xu Shaoyun.

Xu Shaoyun obviously also saw Xu Zhaohua standing at the gate of the palace and was a little surprised, but she couldn't care about anything else, so she could only walk towards her, now she had the token she took from the dead Sui Chen in her hand, the soldiers didn't know that Sui Chen was dead, now this is her only chance to get out of this Daduan Palace, if she misses this time, there will be no next time.

"Stop!" Xu Zhaohua shouted, Xu Shaoyun was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, Xu Zhaohua pulled her forward and made sure that the soldiers couldn't hear them.

"Where are you going?" Xu Zhaohua asked coldly.

Xu Shaoyun suddenly burst into tears: "Sister, sister!" ”

Xu Zhaohua frowned: "Don't call me sister, I'm not your sister anymore, it's better to tell where you're going, whether Sui Chen sent you to do something, you'd better tell me the truth, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless." As he spoke, he lifted Xu Shaoyun's collar fiercely.

"Sui Chen and his father were both killed by Zhou Shengchen's ink design, and now I have to leave."

"Sui Chen is dead and Xu Qingshan is dead?" Xu Zhaohua repeated, Xu Shaoyun nodded, and then Xu Zhaohua slowly put her down. It is incredible that Xu Qingshan died, how could he die so quickly, it was really a pity that he didn't die in his own hands. Thinking that Xu Zhaohua felt that her throat was a little tight, she simply lied to herself that she must have been too thirsty, what appeared in front of her was the picture of Xu Qingshan putting her around her neck in a circle in the garden when she was a child, and the scene where Xu Qingshan gently patted her with a wicker when she caught grasshoppers in summer, all of which disappeared with Xu Shaoyun's sentence that he was dead.

Xu Zhaohua can deceive others, but he can't deceive himself.

"Take these, go! Don't be in my sight in the future. Xu Zhaohua took off all the jewelry on her head and neck and threw them to Xu Shaoyun, these things were enough for her to have enough food and clothing for most of her life. Xu Shaoyun looked at the gold and silver in her hand and was a little moved, she suddenly felt that Xu Zhaohua and her might never go back, they were still close sisters when they were young, how did they become like this now?

Xu Shaoyun kowtowed to Xu Zhaohua heavily: "Thank you, Queen Mother." After that, he tore off his clothes, wrapped them up, and fled in a hurry.

When Sui Yue and Zhou Shengchenmo came out, Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai had already ridden back to the place where Daduan and Dongqi met, only here could their safety be guaranteed, and only in this way could Sui Yue and Zhou Shengchenmo be brought in, and today's negotiation was only between the four of them.

After meeting, Xu Zhaohua was the first to speak: "Sui Feng is in your hands, what are you going to do with Sui Feng?" ”

"Don't worry, he can't die." Sui Chen said.

At this moment, the four of them were very plain on the surface, but secretly each had their own plans, and after saying this, the air suddenly fell silent. Suddenly Sui Yue was the first to strike, he pulled out the short sword hidden in his waist and stabbed at Zhou Shengcuobai, Xu Zhaohua reflected and kicked Sui Yue's arm, Sui Yue did not give up and attacked Xu Zhaohua in reverse, Zhou Shengchenmo also took advantage of the situation to help Xu Zhaohua, at this moment Zhou Shengcuobai picked up the knife hidden in his waist from behind and attacked Sui Yue's back, Sui Yue's movements stopped. But at this time, Xu Zhaohua had already been injured by Zhou Shengchen.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Shengchenmo picked up a bottle of witch medicine, which he stole in Sui Yue's room, and now it finally came in handy, he mentioned Xu Zhaohua and said to Zhou Shengcuobai: "Now you have a choice, either you drink this bottle of poison, or she drinks it, which one do you choose?" ”

Zhou Sheng Cuobai put down the short knife in his hand and said to Zhou Shengchenmo: "Don't be like this, everyone is a child of Eastern Qi, there is no need to fight to the death, now that Sui Yue is dead, the war can also end." ”

Zhou Shengchen Mo smiled: "The people of Eastern Qi? Why didn't you think that I was also a citizen of Dongqi when you were driven out, and now I am here to talk to me about these things about boiling beans and burning beans, what did you do earlier? ”

"You should know what you did..."Zhou Sheng Cuobai suddenly thought that he couldn't provoke him now, otherwise it would be difficult to guarantee that he would do something to Crispy and had to keep his mouth shut.

"Zhou Shengchenmo, if you want to kill, you have to kill quickly!" Xu Zhaohua shouted at Zhou Shengchenmo.

Zhou Shengchenmo looked at Xu Zhaohua, this woman he originally wanted to spare his life, but now he has to do this, otherwise he wouldn't want to get out alive today. Now although Sui Yue is dead, Daduan has no one to govern, it stands to reason that he should have sat in this position as a matter of course, but after thinking about it, now Daduan's soldiers are all soldiers of the living dead, even if they return to normal people, they will not live for long, without the strength of the army, a country is like death, he can't guard a dead city.

The only thing to do now is to take Dongqi down.

"Hurry up and make a decision, or I'll pour this bottle of poison down her throat."

Zhou Sheng Cuobai hurriedly said, "Don't! Drink, I drink! ”

After that, Zhou Shengchenmo threw this bottle of poison in front of Zhou Shengcuobai, Xu Zhaohua shook his head desperately, Zhou Shengcuobai slowly opened the poison and drank it, and then fell to the ground. Gradually, Xu Zhaohua felt that the world was spinning, and Zhou Shengchen's crazy laughter came from his ears, and he was crazy.

"Mine! Dongqi is my world, haha! Ha ha! Mother, mother, have you seen it? Saying that, Zhou Shengchenmo raised his hand to the sky, and his mind came to the day when their father announced his will many years ago before his death, if that person was him, what would it be like now?

Thinking about Zhou Shengchenmo, the more crazy he became, Xu Zhaohua knew that he was completely crazy, she picked up the short knife on the ground and stabbed him, and then Zhou Shengchenmo fell to the ground in response, and his dream was over just at the beginning.

Xu Zhaohua didn't care about anything else, she immediately ran to Zhou Sheng Cuobai, and at this moment Zhou Sheng Cuobai was lying on the ground motionless.

"Cuobai, Cuobai, wake up." Xu Zhaohua held back her tears and called, she couldn't cry at this time, Zhou Shengcuobai didn't have anything to do, she had no reason to cry, but her throat was really painful, and she couldn't say a word if she wanted to say anything more.

Suddenly, the person in his arms moved and spit out a pile of water, Zhou Shengcuo became white, Xu Zhaohua was surprised and delighted: "Cuobai!" ”

"Crispy, you shook me to death just now." He said with an aggrieved face.

Xu Zhaohua was angry and annoyed: "What's going on? ”

Zhou Sheng Cuobai explained to her that he didn't drink the bottle of poison into his stomach at all, but just stuck them in his throat with his breath, although a small part of the poison remained, but it was not fatal.

Xu Zhaohua hurriedly helped Zhou Shengcuobai onto the horse, and immediately took him back to the military camp in Eastern Qi to order the imperial doctor to give him a good treatment, and he returned to Daduan to save Sui Feng, which was something entrusted to her by Aunt Shen, and she had to do it so that they could reunite their mother and son.

finally found Sui Feng who had been detained for many days in the dungeon, and Xu Zhaohua immediately rescued him.

"Why are you here?"

"Later, now I only want to ask you one thing, would you like to help me treat the soldiers of Daduan?" Xu Zhaohua asked, Sui Feng nodded without thinking about it: "Okay!" ”

Suddenly, he remembered something: "How to cure it?" He looked at his hand with some trepidation.

"With your blood." Xu Zhaohua said calmly, only by using Sui Feng's blood and the witchcraft he studied could it be possible to save these soldiers.

Sui Feng patted his head, he should have thought of this, and then he could only follow Xu Zhaohua to the water source, although he was unwilling on the surface, Sui Feng was really happy in his heart, he was happier than anything else to be able to save people with his blood.

After three months......

At this time, the harsh winter has passed, and spring is coming with a little green.

At this time, Zhou Shengcuobai's condition had improved a lot, and the poison in his body had been cleared, and he and Xu Zhaohua returned to the palace of Eastern Qi, which was just in time for the monthly dynasty. The sun shone obliquely in front of the main hall, Xu Zhaohua and Zhou Shengcuobai were walking hand in hand to the court step by step, and all the civil and military officials knelt down to worship them.

"Your Majesty, Empress Niang, good news has come from our vassal country, and King Sui Feng will hold an enthronement ceremony tomorrow."

"Send congratulatory gifts for the emperor and queen!" Zhou Shengcuobai said.

"To the old lady, no, it should be the old lady, and send a congratulatory gift to her old man." Xu Zhaohua added.

Xu Zhaohua looked at the sunshine outside the hall and the tender green of spring, and now all this is just right.