Chu Zhixia walked out of the door of the Yongyi Marquis Mansion in a trance, and it would take a while from here to the bustling street. In this narrow alley, several thick horse chests blocked Chu Zhixia's way.

"Third prince," Chu Zhixia looked at the baby-faced young man led by him, "What are you doing here?" ”

The third prince stood proudly on horseback, carrying a long sheathed knife in his hand, leaning idly on his shoulder. Behind him was the young man with the bruises on his face, and he glanced at Chu Zhixia weakly and quickly withdrew it.

Chu Zhixia looked familiar to him, but he didn't bother to think about who this person was.

"You really like Yan Jue." The third prince showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth, and said with a smile, "You beat Deng Mian, should this not happen?" This prince is here to administer justice for Deng Mian today. ”

"Who is Deng Mian," Chu Zhixia's gaze fell on the face of the young man behind the third prince, "You?" ”

"The son of Dali Siqing, Deng Mian. You smashed half of the bookstore, and you didn't remember the name of the bitter master? The third prince pretended to smack his tongue, "Chu Zhixia, you are too much." Well, if you sing us a song in the clouds here today, I'll let you go, how about it? ”

"What, the third prince also wants to enjoy this honor?" Chu Zhixia glanced at him pitifully.

The third prince had a hard mouth, but his body was very honest, and he took a step back with his horse, "Don't think that if you bring a sword, I'm afraid of you!" ”

"Did I say you're afraid of me?" Chu Shixia said, "I'm in a bad mood, you'd better get out of here." ”

The third prince was annoyed and waved his hand at the six young men riding horses behind him. The six of them rode out and surrounded Chu Zhixia. There was a seven-foot-long spear on their saddle, and they smashed it down at Chu Zhixia with their heads and faces.

A figure suddenly leapt up the wall and galloped from a distance, throwing a sheathed sword in the distance. The scabbard slammed into the head of one of the teenagers, knocking him off his horse on the spot.

Chu Zhixia seized this gap, drank the stream of snow out of its sheath, stuck in the head of a spear, and picked it away.

The figure of the person who threw the sword swept away, and a ghostly figure appeared where the boy landed, and raised his hand to draw the sword. The thick green shade of the alley swayed, and the shredded sunlight danced on the edge of his sword, stabbing people's eyes.

It's a sunken boat.

The panicked horses kicked to break free of the reins, Shen Zhou's wrist twisted, and he swung his sword into a cloud of silver light.

The soft belly of the horse was silently sliced open, and the thick blood of the ape was like a pouring rain, splashing on everyone's face. The man in the saddle was thrown down and rolled out of the ground in a tumbling way.

His pitch-black eyebrows and plain white neck were covered with red blood, like a black-and-white landscape painting splashed with cinnabar.

Everyone was shocked by his fierceness and didn't dare to move for a while.

Shen Zhou turned his wrist sideways, and a line of cold light on the blade fell straight into the eyes of the third prince.

Shen Zhou looked at this innocent and harmless face, but the appearance of him proudly smashing the plaque of the Zhenbei Wangfu appeared in his heart, and his heart was full of murderous intent.

"Y-Who are you?" The third prince couldn't hide his fear, "Don't come here, my grandfather won't let you go!" ”

Shen Zhou's eyes were cold and familiar, which made the third prince tremble.

Chu Zhixia smashed the person beside him down with a punch, grabbed the reins, and flew on the horse. Shen Zhou understood what she meant, grabbed her hand and sat behind her.

"Next time you trouble me, don't bring so much waste." Chu Zhixia drove the horses out of the alley, and no one dared to stop her.

"You bunch of shit!" The third prince was angry.

——

Chu Zhixia couldn't ride a horse and walked very far.

This is not in the clouds, she can't get out of the gate of the imperial capital. The war horse was a little afraid of her, and walked on the crowded street. Shen Zhou's warm breath ruffled the hair on the top of her head, so that she would not indulge in the panic of stepping into the air.

At last she stopped at a small bridge, where there were people singing lingering tunes in the wine shop in the ditch.

As the sun sets, the river sparkles.

Chu Zhixia wiped the blood off his face for him, feeling uncontrollably tired.

"I'm relieved only when you're there." Chu Zhixia's forehead was against his shoulder, "Shen Zhou, I don't want to be a selfish person, I want you to go." But I'm afraid, if you're not there, what will I do alone? ”

You won't be alone, never again. Shen Zhou said silently in his heart.

"If I say that I am the one who came back from the dead, would you believe me?" Chu Zhixia didn't dare to look up at Shen Zhou's sign language, she herself felt ridiculous.

But she felt Shen Zhou nod without hesitation.

Chu Zhixia's tears fell instantly.

"He killed my brother," Chu Zhixia lowered his voice, as if he was crying bitterly, and as if he was roaring, all the sounds were drowned in Shen Zhou's neck socket, "He killed my brother!" ”

In his previous life, the emperor was defeated in the seizure of power, and finally ended up with the same "violent death" as Chu Mingxiu. His most hated eldest son, the crown prince born to Empress Chen, ascended to the throne.

Before this, he may have coerced, or he may have lured Chu Mingxiu to do something for him. Chu Shixia guessed that he wanted Chu Mingxiu to encourage Yunzhong to send troops to King Qin, or something else, but Chu Mingxiu did not agree in the end.

The emperor was at the end of his rope and killed Chu Mingxiu madly. Yan Jue saw this, and had compassion to let Chu Mingxiu go, but Chu Mingxiu couldn't get away in the end.

So, in the seventh year of Xiangfu, Ming Xiu of the Chu clan in the clouds died violently in the imperial capital due to illness.

Don't cry anymore. Shen Zhou patted her on the back, as if coaxing a child.

You give me a name, and I'll kill him.

Heaven and earth, even if it is a shrine god, I will die endlessly.

——

Chu Zhixia beat the three princes, and this half-truth and half-truth news spread, and Chu Zhixia was summoned to the palace that night.

Through the rising sandalwood, Chu Zhixia knelt at the bottom of the steps. The emperor was cutting a pot of begonia flowers on his seat, and only the sound of scissors clicking repeatedly sounded in the room.

Chu Zhixia had been kneeling here for an hour.

She knelt up straight, her fingers constantly caressing the hanging beads in her wide sleeves.

"Your eyes are so red, have you cried?" The Emperor sighed, "Get up, I'm just trying to give an explanation to outsiders, and I don't really have to punish you." It must have been the third child who started the incident first, right? ”

The emperor had gone to see the three princes, and apart from being a little frightened and crying, there were no external injuries. It's just that the few people who are fighting with him, those who break their legs, those who break their legs, those who sprain their arms, and those who sprain their arms.

"The three princes are young, and the courtiers have no words and deeds, and they collide with the three princes." Chu Zhixia said in a low voice, "It's the courtier's fault." ”

The emperor is an outsider, but Chu Zhixia knows that no matter how much the emperor dislikes the crown prince and the third prince with the blood of the Chen family, they are a family.

"Don't talk angry, what are you doing on your knees?" The emperor motioned to the eunuch to help her up with his eyes, "I know that you have been wronged, you are still martial in the clouds, and the imperial capital is really boring, and Taixue is not suitable for you." In my opinion, why don't you go to Yulinwei? ”

Here it comes.

Chu Shixia sneered in his heart.

She had guessed that there would be such a day.

If the emperor wants to take power, he must have his own people. Chu Zhixia is the best choice, as long as she is tied to the emperor, it will be difficult for Yun Zhong to help him or not. And the emperor can also divide the imperial capital military power from the regent little by little.

But in her previous life, she had never heard of Chu Mingxiu holding any official position in the imperial capital.

Chu Mingxiu refused, this was the emperor's first step to kill him.

"Mo Xue, what do you think?"

The eunuch persuaded on the side, "The eagle in the clouds should not be a canary in a cage, this is also a good opportunity for Miss Chu to show her ambitions." If the Chu family can produce a general in the imperial capital, the prestige of the Chu family will not stop in the clouds! ”

If you don't agree, the eldest lady's style and willfulness will be excessive. If you don't say yes...... Could Chu Zhixia be Chu Mingxiu in his previous life?

"Courtier," Chu Zhixia raised his head, clasped his hands into fists, and looked straight at the emperor's harmless smiling face, and the Buddha beads collided with a crisp sound, "Command." ”

It was getting late, so Chu Zhixia rested in the palace.

The side hall that was cleaned up was elegantly decorated, and Chu Shixia flipped through it casually and found a few military books on the table.

"Before you arrived in the imperial capital, this place was cleaned up." The eunuch flattered, "I thought it was the second son of Chu who came, so I took these military books from the library pavilion, thinking that the eldest lady was brought up by her brother, and the women were not allowed to have eyebrows, so she should also love to read them, right?" ”

"Here, it was meant to be for my second brother?" Chu Zhixia was a little distracted, "You go out first." ”

Chu Zhixia Heyi was lying on the bed, looking at the top of the tent embroidered with gold thread, and the posture board was like a coffin.

Slowly, she fell asleep.

She slept restlessly and faintly heard someone arguing.

The lights and shadows were full of shadows, and the sound of the crown shaking and the collision of pearls and jades was loud, like an endless heavy rain.

"Your Majesty, the minister cannot agree. Now it is the border war that is tight, and when my brother went to Beijing to report on his work, he said that the Beidi people were menacing. What's more, the road in the clouds is far away, and it is impossible to surprise the imperial capital. The young man knelt in front of the desk, shook his head and said, "The soldiers in the clouds can't leave the Yongxue Pass. ”

"What do you call a soldier in the clouds?!"

The emperor was furious, slapped the table and said, "I am the emperor, you are my courtier, that is my soldier!" The regent's guillotine is about to slash at my neck, is it important for me to be important, or is it important to hold the snow pass!? ”

The young man's voice was difficult: "Yongxue Pass relies on natural danger to hold the pass, and after the pass, there is a flat river." If the snow barrier is broken, the Beidi people are like entering a no-man's land, and no one can stop them. That's thousands of miles of bloodshed and millions of corpses, Your Majesty thinks twice. ”

"Okay, well, but it's not mine. The regent was anxious to help his grandson ascend the throne, but he was in the way; Your Chu family has a ghost in your heart, and you hold the power of the army but refuse to send troops to the king. The emperor laughed angrily, stood up and pointed at him condescendingly and scolded, "They are all chaotic ministers and thieves!" ”

"I don't dare."

"Don't you dare? Chu Mingxiu, I see how dare you! ”

The Emperor brushed his sleeves away.

The three words "Chu Mingxiu" thunderously landed on Chu Zhixia's spiritual platform, shaking her heavenly spirit cover numb. Chu Zhixia wanted to sit up, wanting to take a look at the person's face through the blurred light on his eyelids, but he felt weak.

She struggled to open her eyes, only to see a slender silhouette sitting by the bookcase.

The second son of the Chu clan in the clouds rarely has such a quiet time, flying eagles and lackeys, fights and brawls, and he has done all kinds of bastard things.

The eunuch stood in front of him proudly, and said in a sharp voice, "Second Prince of Chu, Your Majesty has worked hard in the Chu family, leaving you a whole corpse." If you insist on breaking out, it will not look good if the Yulin Guard and the Forbidden Army will trample you into a pulp with one horse per person. ”

Chu Mingxiu looked down at the wine in front of him, and laughed meaninglessly, "Is that what Your Majesty meant?" ”

"That's what Your Majesty meant."

No, no, no, Chu Zhixia screamed in his heart, don't drink, don't drink, don't drink!

"The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die." Chu Mingxiu picked up the wine and said with a long sigh, "When burying me, remember to let me toe north." ”

So as soon as I sat up, I was facing the direction of the clouds.

Don't don't don't don't don't Chu Zhixia heard his miserable cry, please, second brother, don't drink, don't drink, don't drink, don't drink...... My sword, where is my sword?

"Changle, I want you to guard the snow pass in the future."

The glass fell to the ground and fell to pieces.

The light and shadow in front of Chu Zhixia's eyes dissipated, and her hand was tightly clenched. Chu Zhixia cried so hard that he was drenched in cold sweat. The man had the familiar scent on him, and he pinched the back of her neck to soothe her.

She knew who it was.

"I'm going to kill him......" Chu Zhixia grabbed the clothes on Shen Zhou's chest, his eyes were clouded after tears, "I'm going to kill him!" ”

Shen Zhou answered her silently, "Okay." ”