Akiba Mountain House.

"I heard you're sick." Pei Zhang was worried, and pressed Chu Zhixia's cup, "Don't drink tea." ”

Chu Zhixia blinked and said, "This is wine." ”

Pei Zhang was speechless, Chu Zhixia put aside his hand, picked up the cup and smelled the aroma of the wine. Pei Zhang looked at her calm and usual expression, and felt worried. He had already heard the news of the killing of the Beidi Mission, and the situation of the Chu clan in the clouds could be called walking on thin ice.

"Do you know why Xu Delu has survived to this day?"

Pei Zhang was stunned, I don't know why she talked about this unrelated person.

Chu Zhixia said to himself: "The regent and Zhuang Songbai, it seems that one is more difficult to deal with than the other, but they are both easily defeated. Only the seemingly inconspicuous Xu Delu has survived to this day, and even made a comeback again and again. ”

"Because he is groveling enough?" Pei Zhang pondered.

"Because he knows His Majesty well enough."

Chu Zhixia leaned back in the chair, his hands folded on his lower abdomen, in a tired and lazy posture, "He understands His Majesty's conceit, selfishness, unscrupulousness, and fear. His Majesty's greatest fear is not the Beidi people, but the courtiers who are as powerful as the regent. Once the peace talks are successful, the plan of holding the snow pass for more than ten years will be ruined once and for all. My brother is in a hurry, and there are many people in the DPRK and China who oppose the peace talks, which has already alarmed His Majesty. ”

Pei Zhang was speechless.

"Your Majesty doesn't need smart courtiers, he only needs loyal courtiers."

"If you know, why don't you obey him?" Pei Zhang was puzzled, "I don't believe that on the day you were punished for kneeling, you had no better way." ”

"Because it's useless."

Chu Zhixia smiled and said: "Once the seeds of doubt are planted, if I make compromises, it will be false and wronged; If I am frank and open, I have no fear. I've been kneeling long enough in the imperial capital that I don't want to look up at people anymore. ”

Pei Zhang frowned, and had an ominous premonition in his heart: "Mo Xue, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Your Majesty is not a Ming Jun."

Pei Zhang's eyes widened in shock, and he looked around at the deserted courtyard, only sporadic birds rising and falling.

"Are you crazy?!" Pei Zhang said incredulously.

"You understand, but you don't dare to say it. Since ancient times, dynasties have risen and fallen, and few people have died from external diseases and many people have died from internal strife. two rebellions in the imperial capital, the plague in Binju, and the rebellion in Gyeongju; The monarch is close to the eunuchs and rejoices in his achievements, while the courtiers are corrupt and mercenary; The blood of loyal monarchs and patriots is splashed in the Golden Palace, and traitors and villains are rampant. ”

Now, the emperor wants to destroy the Great Wall.

Chu Zhixia paused, raised his clear and cold eyes and looked directly at Pei Zhang, "This is a sign of the death of the country." ”

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Pei Zhang's back, and he looked at her fixedly.

"What do you want me to do?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a pair of soft and intelligent eyes, he is not Bai Huan, nor His Majesty, he will not turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people of Li." Chu Zhixia stood up and pressed Pei Zhang's shoulder hard, "His Highness is Huo Wenbai's student, he will live up to our expectations." ”

Pei Zhang had a faint guess in his heart, Chu Zhixia's intention was about to come out, but Pei Zhang didn't dare to speak. Chu Zhixia didn't force him, just smiled lightly, and instead sent the maid to see off the guests.

"Fengge Longlou Lianxiao Han, Yushu Qiongzhi is a smoker, how many times have you ever known how to fight? Once classified as a captive, Shen waist Pan sideburns are grinding. ”

Pei Zhang couldn't help but look back, and under the layers of falling wisteria roses, Chu Zhixia gently chanted the lyrics. She held the glass of wine that she hadn't taken a sip of, and her eyes reflected the brilliant wisteria, revealing a faint smile.

It's so faint that it seems fleeting.

Pei Zhang got into the carriage home with a heavy heart, and pondered Chu Zhixia's words repeatedly.

His Majesty is not the master, the prince is just around the corner, and such words are a manifestation of the wolf's ambition in all dynasties. The emperor is not a wise monarch, Pei Zhang is not unclear, otherwise he would not have helped Bai Ziche in a tortuous way.

How dare Chu Shixia say this, doesn't she know the current situation of the Chu family?

Pei Zhang reacted suddenly, his heart beating like a drum.

Chu Shixia understood the current situation of the Chu family, so he had to make a desperate bet.

The emperor overthrew Zhuang Songbai and the regent, and the next step was to take back the military and political power of the four northern states. Beidi has been eyeing the tiger for many years, and the status of the Chu clan in the clouds has not fallen. But if Beidi surrenders and submits to obedience, the power of the Chu clan in the clouds will be unjustifiable.

The surrender of the Beidi people is fake, but it is true to recuperate.

The emperor insisted on going his own way, and if he wanted to stop the peace talks, the most direct way was to change the emperor.

But Bai Ziche wouldn't do that, and neither would the Chu clan in the clouds, unless-

Pei Zhang almost jumped up from his seat and slammed the wall of the carriage, "Stop, turn around and go back to the Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence!" ”

The coachman was taken aback by Pei Zhang, and quickly turned around and returned to the Akiba Mountain Residence. However, the Pei family is far away from the Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence, and Pei Zhang, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, never takes the avenue, which is quite tortuous. When Pei Zhang arrived in a hurry, he learned from the porter that Chu Zhixia had just entered the palace by edict.

Pei Zhang only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and he almost fainted.

"Childe!" The coachman hurried to hold him.

"Hurry up and find King Jin!"

——

"Your Majesty only summoned Miss Chu alone."

The little eunuch stretched out his hand to stop in front of Yuzhu. Yuzhu looked at Chu Zhixia nervously, her eyes full of resistance.

Chu Zhixia smiled lightly, scratched her nose, and said, "Don't look like you see some flood beast, Your Majesty has always summoned me alone." ”

Chu Zhixia followed Bai Shan into Weiyang Palace without looking back, and the palace door was locked heavily behind her. The cold sweat on Bai Shan's back neck flowed like strands, and his steps were a little soft. Chu Zhixia suddenly stopped Bai Shan, and Bai Shan almost stumbled on his front foot and fell to the ground with his hind foot.

"Father-in-law Bai, when you went to the clouds, I deliberately tricked you by hanging you in the snow for two hours." Chu Shixia said, "I'm sorry. ”

Baek Sun's mind almost couldn't turn, and he turned to look at her blankly.

"Lead the way." Chu Zhixia said.

Chu Zhixia had been to Weiyang Palace many times, but it was the first time he had seen so many Yu Linwei in the palace. Yan Jue stood behind the emperor in full armor and shook his head at Chu Zhixia imperceptibly. Xu Delu was half a step behind the emperor and showed a smug smile to Chu Zhixia.

"Wechen see Your Majesty." Chu Zhixia half-knelt down and said.

"Chu Zhixia, you said that you colluded with the prince, do you have anything to say?" The emperor asked with a gloomy face.

"The minister has nothing to say."

Chu Zhixia was not shocked and said: "The minister and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are gentlemen's friends, that's all. As for who said this and why he said it, the minister didn't want to speculate, and he couldn't speculate. The minister has been in the imperial capital for six years, and he has a clear conscience. ”

"Are you a monster who made you leave your homeland and your family?" The Emperor sneered.

"I don't dare."

"I don't think there's anything in the world that you don't dare." The Emperor rebuked, "When did I let you kill Bai Huan on your own initiative? Are you so anxious to kill him before the battle, are you afraid that if Bai Huan does not die, Bai Ziche will never come out? ”

"Bai Huan is the backbone of the rebels, Bai Huan is immortal, Yu Linwei fights more with less, and is not the opponent of Gyeonggi Wei. Killing Bai Huan before the battle was to revive the morale of the army, not to use it for selfishness. Chu Zhixia replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"And quibble!"

The emperor slammed down a page of testimony and said: "The forbidden army of the East Palace who followed Bai Huan pointed out that Bai Ziche once snatched the body of the edict of the painting academy from the prison cell of Dali Temple, and Bai Yu provoked right and wrong on the road. Since you have no personal relationship with Bai Ziche, why did you stand up for him at that time? The two of you clearly had already secretly communicated with each other at that time! ”

Chu Zhixia chuckled.

"What are you laughing at?"

"The minister laughed that a son with soldiers and horses wanted to behead another son, but His Majesty was angry that he was rescued, and suspected that this son had colluded with the family and betrayed him." Chu Shixia sneered, "It's really a father's kindness and filial piety." ”

"How dare you talk to me like that?" The emperor was so angry that his eyes were full of stars, "Don't you want to live!" ”

Chu Zhixia took a deep breath, straightened his back and said: "The minister asks himself to be worthy of the sky, the earth, and the people." Whether the minister has bad intentions or not, His Majesty has already made a conclusion in his heart, so why bother the minister to refute right and wrong, and bother to speak. ”

The emperor pushed away Bai Shan, who was holding him, pointed at Chu Shixia and said, "You are a mouthful of rivers and mountains, Li Min, is it I who you are loyal to, or the person who sits on this throne?" ”

Chu Zhixia didn't answer.

"In your eyes, in the eyes of the Chu clan in the clouds, how could there have been me, and there was the Bai clan's Jiangshan Sheji? Otherwise, the Chen traitors have been rampant for many years, how can you stand still? What you care about is the life and death of the people in this world, not my Bai Clan! ”

What familiar words, what familiar anger.

Chu Zhixia recalled the nightmare of staying in the palace that night, and the emperor of his previous life was also angry and reprimanded Chu Mingxiu for being disloyal and unjust.

It was so familiar that Chu Shixia wanted to laugh out loud.

"The sage said that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. As a monarch, he should be the first in the world and then his own body. Those who are ministers are the ministers of the people of the world, driven by the country and run for the people, rather than the ministers of a family with one surname and the selfishness of a family with one surname. ”

Chu Zhixia spoke clearly, completely ignoring Yan Jie's frightened eyes, and the emperor's trembling body.

"The rivers and mountains are majestic, and the territory is the convergence of every millimeter; The community is vast and is worshiped by all living beings. Among thousands of people, the king is only a drop in the ocean. If there is no support from the people, the monarch who claims to be the honor of the Ninety-Five is just a lonely family. ”

The emperor said hello three times in a row, and said angrily to Xu Delu: "Bring the wine!" ”

——

The shipwreck ran wildly through the narrow passages of Miyagi.

All that echoed in his mind was the words Pei Zhang said: "Chu Shixia wants to force His Majesty to kill her." ”

Once the Great Zhou accepts Beidi's peace talks, when Beidi makes a comeback, Yongxueguan will be in jeopardy. Chu Shixia understands this truth better than anyone else, so she wants to force the emperor.

The hostages of the Chu family died in the imperial capital, and the Chu family had a reason to disobey the emperor's order, refuse to recognize the alliance between Beidi and the Great Zhou, and carry out the plan of embezzling and encroaching on Beidi for more than ten years. Even the emperor will be pointed out by thousands of people, and Bai Ziche is expected to be the rightful prince. Whether it is a conspiracy or a conspiracy, Bai Ziche will inevitably support Yunzhong's resistance to Beidi after he succeeds to the throne.

The first person to shed blood and die in this epic war was Chu Zhixia.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, you can't go in without His Majesty's summons!"

Yu Linwei in front of Weiyang Palace stopped Shen Zhou.

"Get out of here!"

Yu Linwei couldn't let Shen Zhou break in like this anyway, so he directly pulled out his knife in a hurry. Shen Zhou slashed his palm on the wrist of the nearest Yu Linwei, snatched the knife back, and slashed at the back of his neck with the back of the knife.

Shen Zhou carried Yu Linwei, who had been knocked unconscious, and coldly glanced at the circle of people around him, his eyes were scarlet, "If you don't want to die, get out of the way, otherwise I will use the blade next time." ”

——

"Ah Zhen would actually fall in love with a woman like you."

"Don't call him by that name." Chu Shixia picked up his wine glass, looked at the emperor and said, "He has never recognized the name 'Bai Zhen', his name is Shen Zhou." ”

"I'm his father, and I've got the final say on his name!"

"Your Majesty, do you really love this child?" Chu Shixia asked patiently.

The Emperor looked at her in disbelief.

"Do you really love him, or do you look for a phantom of your former friend in him? You never raised him yourself, how deep can you feel for him? Chu Zhixia easily punctured the emperor's fig leaf, "You self-righteously make up for him, have you asked him what he wants?" ”

"I will give him the best of all that is in the world. And you keep saying that you know him very well, but in order to please me, you coax him to accept it, what kind of good thing are you? The Emperor replied sarcastically without flinching.

It's not that the emperor doesn't know that Shen Zhou resisted him, he understands this matter deeply, just as he understands that Shen Zhou will compromise for Chu Zhixia.

"You're right, I'm as despicable as you are." Chu Shixia smiled and said, "But from now on, you won't have a chance to force him to accept it." ”

"Do you think you can control everything about him? You're thinking too highly of yourself. There are so many beautiful and amorous women in this world, it won't be a few years before he forgets about you. The emperor crossed his arms and looked at her coldly, "Saying so much, you won't be waiting for him to save you, right?" ”

Chu Shixia shook his head and said, "I just want to say one last word to you." ”

The Emperor looked at her stunned.

"I never regret hiding his background, you are not worthy of being his father."

The door of the temple was slammed open, shattered and fell to the ground along with the door panel and the bruised Yulin Guard. Yu Linwei in the hall was shocked, and drew his sword one after another to block in front of the emperor. The sinking boat is like a Shura crawling out of hell, bathed in blood.

Chu Zhixia didn't look back, lifted the golden bottle and drank it all.

"Don't!" The sinking boat was hoarse.

The gold bottle fell to the ground with a crisp "bang".

From this moment on, the sinking boat was free.

Shen Zhou rushed to Chu Zhixia's side, pinched her cheek, and said with a divine voice: "Don't swallow it, spit it out!" Spit it out! ”

As he spoke, Shen Zhou was already in tears.

Chu Zhixia gently held Shen Zhou's wrist and showed a relieved smile.

Chu Shixia thought, it should be like this.

Chu Shixia is a person who has died once, and he has long ceased to be afraid of death. Although she really wanted to spend the rest of her life with Shen Zhou, she really had no other way. Chu Zhixia couldn't watch the plot in the clouds fall through, and he couldn't watch his brother die in battle again, and the mountains and rivers shattered.

She can only be sorry for the sinking boat.

She was only sorry for the sinking boat.

"Sinking the boat, I ......"

Let's go home.

Chu Zhixia didn't finish his sentence, and a scarlet sweetness suddenly surged in his throat. Her chest contracted violently, and she vomited a mouthful of blood in Shen Zhou's hand. The ominous dream struck Shen Zhou's mind again, and he was stunned for a moment before remembering to seal the acupuncture points on Chu Zhixia's body and stop the spread of the toxin.

"Don't speak," Shen Zhou slammed her into his arms, hot tears rubbing against her ears, "liar." ”

"Stop them!" The Emperor slammed a cup and roared.

Yu Linwei didn't move, and looked at Yan Jue hesitantly. Some of them have participated in the defense of the palace city, some have been to Jiangnan, and have seen Chu Zhixia kill corrupt officials with the spit of the imperial history, and they have seen Chu Zhixia Chong fighting at the forefront and keeping the imperial capital under the rebels.

Yan Jie's eyes were red, and he closed his eyes hard, and only after a moment did he say to the emperor: "Your Majesty's safety should be the top priority for now, and Yu Linwei must not leave Your Majesty for half a step." ”

"Bai Zhen, are you going to disobey your father for a woman!" The emperor pushed Yan Jue who was blocking him hard, and he didn't dare to believe it.

"Don't call me by that name anymore." Shen Zhou gritted his back molars and said, "From now on, you are no longer my father." ”

Shen Zhou tore off the dragon blood jade ring around his waist and smashed it to pieces. He hugged Chu Zhixia and stepped on the fragments of the dragon blood jade, and strode away from Weiyang Palace.

""Fengge Longlou is even Xiaohan, Yushu Qiongzhi is a smoke, how many times have you ever known how to fight? Once classified as a captive, Shen waist Pan sideburns are grinding. "From Li Yu's "Breaking the Array"."