After changing his clothes, Ji Chengying sat down and said: "I have heard a lot of rumors about your brother before, but according to Lord Xi, Tang Xiaohao is not the same as in the legend, not as bad as the rumors." ”

Ji Chengying deliberately used the word "bad", because it was rumored that Tang Xiaohao was bad, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil.

Tang Wangshu immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine grew up with his younger brother, what kind of person is he, the concubine is very clear as an elder sister, and those rumors outside must be false." ”

Ji Chengying nodded slightly: "That's very good, at least I didn't choose the wrong husband for Princess Baomeng." ”

However, Ji Chengying knew very well in his heart that the private affair between Princess Baomeng and Sang Luo, he was worried that if this private affair was exposed one day, how would Tang Xiaohao, who was the husband of Princess Baomeng, react? Turn a deaf ear to? Keep the peace? Or is it unusually angry, and even asks the Son of Heaven to condemn him?

Tang Wangshu kowtowed and said: "The concubine bows to thank the emperor for his grace in marriage." ”

Ji Chengying said deliberately: "You are already a noble concubine, and your younger brother is also a concubine, your Tang family is now a veritable royal relative, presumably your mother and grandfather are also very happy, right?" ”

This temptation was very direct and sudden, Ji Chengying just wanted to give Tang Wangshu a surprise attack.

Tang Wangshu was not only completely uninterested in the secret fighting in the court, but also didn't know much about it. Therefore, Tang Wangshu just said with joy on his face: "Back to the emperor, the concubine's mother and grandfather must also thank the emperor every day." ”

Ji Chengying looked at Tang Wangshu's face and found that the expression on his face was not complicated, except that joy was sincerity.

This is not the first time that this kind of temptation has been made, although Ji Chengying has not found anything every time, but he still thinks that Tang Wangshu is the eyes and ears sent to him by the Nanrong family.

In the court, Ji Chengying will not reveal half a word, even if he is lucky, he will use the excuse of tonic and drink that tonic soup with Tang Wangshu.

The tonic soup contains medicines that can prevent pregnancy, but it is actually harmful to the body.

However, if Tang Wangshu is pregnant with a dragon fetus, then the Nanrong family, who originally controlled most of the government, can ride directly on Ji Chengying's head.

Therefore, when eating dim sum, Ji Chengying asked the waiter to bring the bowl of tonic soup and feed Tang Wangshu to drink it with his own hands.

Tang Wangshu could never have imagined that the man he only loved in his life fed himself bowls of poison with love and drank bowls after bowls.

However, Ji Chengying not only did this to Tang Wangshu, but also to other concubines, even if it was the queen, he did not let it go, because Ji Chengying stubbornly believed that his offspring must be born from a woman he really loved and trusted.

Today's queen is also surnamed Jiang, and she is also from the Ruiyuan Jiang family. Empress Dowager Jiang's intentions are the same as Emperor Shunhe's original, and she chose a smart and stable woman as the queen, hoping that this queen will be like Empress Dowager Jiang back then.

It's a pity that when Ji Chengying saw the Jiang woman named Jiang Yuyao, all she saw from her eyes was complex desires, and her conversations with Ji Chengying on weekdays were almost all about discussing the affairs of the court, which made Ji Chengying feel very uneasy.

The Ruiyuan Jiang clan has been a virtuous clan and a wang clan since the Kunlun Dynasty, and its reputation is the head of the major families in Jiuyuan, even if the Jiang family has no intention of competing for the world, it does not rule out the possibility of secret control.

Therefore, Ji Chengying doubted everything, and even his biological mother didn't want to believe it.

Ji Chengying is also disgusted with the suspicion of everything in his heart, and he is unwilling to sit on the dragon chair, but he is already the so-called son of heaven, and once he gives up, the end will be death.

Everything he is doing now is not for the sake of the Jiuyuan world at all, but for the Ji family to keep the throne and for himself to live.

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At the time of the third watch, three men dressed as traveling merchants walked slowly in the dense forest of the Wulian Mountain. Because the temperature in the mountain is extremely low all year round, all three of them wear thick leather jackets and cotton pants, and they all wear leather boots that can protect their calves.

The three men all had short hair, the only difference was that the man in the middle did not have a beard, but he was taller than the other two men, and all three of them were at least a head taller than the Huayuan people, so even if they were wearing the clothes of the traveling merchants, they could tell at a glance that they were from Rouyuan.

"Bo Jin," the Rouyuan man led by him suddenly stopped, and at the same time pulled out the pipe hammer axe pinned to his waist, "Be careful, there seems to be a living creature ahead." ”

The pipe hammer axe is the most common hand-held weapon in Rouyuan, its axe is not large, no more than four inches long, and the back of the axe has a tubular hammer parallel to the blade, because it is called a pipe hammer axe. And Bo Jin means chieftain, which is also a unique name for Rouyuan.

The man known as Bo Jin glanced at the back, and the other person behind him also raised his axe and waited for him, but the Bo Jin did not remove the broad-bladed knife he was carrying, but just pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the movement in front of him.

The reason why the three of them are so nervous is entirely because of the legend that there are unknown monsters hidden in this foggy mountain.

The only barrier between Hwawon and Rouyuan, the Wulian Mountains is actually a mountain range that runs from east to west. Because it is shrouded in fog all year round, it is called Fog Mountain.

To the north of the Wulian Mountains is the Rou Plain, and to the south is the Hwawon Plain, and the only way to get from the Hwawon Mountains is to go through the Wai River where the Valley Castle is located, except to directly cross the Wulian Mountains. However, the reason why Wulian Mountain will become a barrier is precisely because of a series of uncertain factors here, first of all, the strange climate, the perennial temperature in Wulian Mountain is extremely low, although it cannot reach the level of freezing, but the cold and damp in the mountain is not at all a normal person can stand, and it will take three or four days to cross Wulian Mountain as fast as possible, during this time, if you are not careful, people will be infected with diseases, and if you do not get timely treatment, you will die, and you are infected with some unusual strange diseases.

When the rebellion was put down in Rouyuan Tuo Si, someone in the court proposed to send a lightly armed army directly over the Wulian Mountain and the troops under the city of Rouyuan, although this plan was opposed by Hu Shen, the great strategist at that time, but Emperor Shunhe still decided to try, so he sent a surprise attack army of 3,000 people.

However, these 3,000 people had an accident after entering Wulian Mountain, and only 100 people escaped in the end. Not to mention that most of the 100 people were injured, and the rest of them were also infected with various strange diseases, all of which were skin ulcers, and they also claimed that there were monsters in the Wulian Mountain.

Therefore, the existence of monsters and monsters in the mountains is also the second main factor for Wulian Mountain to become a barrier, although almost no one can really describe what those monsters and monsters look like, but those monsters are extremely ferocious, and they will be demonic magic, ordinary weapons and those things have no way, as long as they meet, there is only a dead end.

These two points alone are enough to discourage people, therefore, not to mention the army, even ordinary traveling merchants and merchants dare not climb over the Wulian Mountains in order to take a shortcut.

The reason why these three Rouyuan people dared to venture through Wulian Mountain this time was completely helpless, and the alliance they wanted to see was designated to meet in Wulian Mountain.

Just when that Bo Jin also sensed that something was wrong, and was about to pull out the broad-bladed knife, a black shadow suddenly appeared in the mist in front of him, and the black shadow instantly came to him and pounced directly on the Rouyuan man who was the leader.

Before the Rouyuan man in the lead could swing the axe in his hand to fight back, he was dragged away by the black shadow, and then the surrounding area fell into the previous dead silence, and the poor Rouyuan man didn't even let out a scream.

"Bo Jin! What is that!? Although the Rouyuan man in the back was afraid, he immediately stood in front of Bo Jin.

The boy tried to light the torch, but he couldn't light it because of the dampness, so he threw the torch on the ground, clutched the broadblade with both hands, and stood back to back with the rest of the man, closely watching the movement around him.

Suddenly, the black shadow appeared again, this time directly at the Bo Jin, who was about to swing his sword, but the black shadow was hit by a ball of fire flying in the distance, and after letting out a mournful roar, it quickly disappeared into the darkness. Then, there were strange screams in the darkness, as if hundreds of people were wailing and crying at the same time, and the scalps of the two Rouyuan people were about to explode.

"Hey, don't be in a daze, follow me." A voice echoed in the darkness.

Both of them thought they had misheard, because the fog was so thick that they didn't see any of them, but they were sure that it was a young girl who spoke earlier.

"Here!" The girl's voice came again, and this time the two of them clearly saw a lantern floating in the air, but the lantern was nowhere to be seen, as if there was a ghost carrying the lantern.

The Rouyuan man, armed with an axe, immediately took off the longbow he was carrying, and aimed his arrow at the lantern.

Bo Jin immediately pressed his hand: "Put it down, that should be a person." ”

The man with the bow had to put it down, but he didn't want to believe it was a man, because he couldn't see anyone carrying the lantern.

Bo Jin explained: "The strange magic is mysterious and unpredictable, and the lone army is also a different way, so this is not unusual, not to mention, someone just saved us." ”

The so-called alliance that these two Rouyuan people want to see is the largest person in the heresy who organizes the lone army, to be precise, the envoy of the lone army, and these two Rouyuan people are the envoys sent by the new clan king Gurke of the Torsi tribe.

The lantern slowly fell, encircling the two of them, as if urging them forward. The two Rouyuan people had no choice but to follow the lantern and continue to walk, strange to say, the lantern seemed to be able to dispel the strange fog in the foggy mountains, and even the monsters around them who coveted the lives of the two did not dare to step forward easily.

After walking for about ten meters, the two saw a girl wearing a short leather jacket and a leather skirt, and combing her double bun sitting on a pile of black things, and those things still emitted a fishy smell.

The girl's skin was wheat-colored, and she had a pair of fox-like eyes, and the best thing was the pair of pale pink lips, and the bracelets of unknown texture on both hands and wrists, and the two Rouyuan people who looked at the legs in leather boots couldn't take their eyes off them.

"You must be from the Torth Department, right?" The girl stood up and took the lantern as if it were her pet bird.

The two Rouyuan people haven't come back to their senses yet, because in Rouyuan, it's almost impossible to see such a woman.

The girl was slightly angry: "Answer the question!" Otherwise, you'll soon be like this pile of rotten meat under my feet! ”

At this time, the Bur Jin came back to his senses, and through the light of the lantern, he could see clearly that the pile of black things at the girl's feet was the corpses of seven or eight black monsters overlapping each other.