Chapter 15: Painful Memory
No one would have thought that Zhao Yanchun, the uncle of the Third Emperor, would be so frightened that he would fall unconscious in the court.
When he was carried back to the palace by the soldiers, all the princesses in the family were frightened, and they didn't know what happened to Zhao Yanchun in the palace.
A group of people stood in front of Zhao Yanchun one after another, shouting and crying, and Zhao Yanchun, who was lying on the ground unconscious, was like dead, unable to move.
The hour was still early, and after Zhao You returned to the palace, he snorted all the palace maids, standing upright in front of the mirror, dejected.
recalled the scenes in the Daqing Hall just now, she was so angry that her delicate body was running around, and her jaw trembled again and again.
The Zhao royal family had no one else to suffer back then, but fortunately, Zhao Yanchun, Zhao Yanting, Zhao Yanjin, and Zhao Yanlu fled all the way back from the far north Xia Kingdom.
came to Wan'an City and recognized the first emperor Chu Jizong Zhao Deji.
At that time, the foothold of Southern Chu was not stable, and the first emperor suffered from the fact that the Zhao royal family had no one else, and only he was left, regardless of the distance of blood, and the four of them were named kings.
No one knows this matter better than Zhao You's heart, if there is no Emperor Jizong, Zhao Yanchun and the others, they are no different from the ordinary people now.
Thinking about it, there were as many as tens of thousands of members of the Zhao royal family who were escorted to the Xia Kingdom by the Jin Ge Iron Horse of the Xia Kingdom, and all the others stayed in the Xia Kingdom, either dying of old age or illness, or being tortured to death.
All of them were reduced to prisoners.
Zhao Yanchun and others fled back to Chu from the Xia State, and thanks to the Holy Grace, they were crowned kings, and they were not grateful, and they even wanted to kill Zhao You secretly in the end.
The darkness of human nature really amazed Zhao You.
Zhao You looked at himself in the mirror, shook his head and sighed, and suddenly a violent feeling of exhaustion surged up from his heart, and soon spread from head to toe.
Her whole person seemed to be dragged into a sea of suffering, and the abyss was bottomless, like the eighteenth layer of hell.
Not long after, Zhao You fell to the ground on the spot, closed his eyes, and was unconscious.
In the dark, time went back for a while, as if he had returned to the fifth year of the Jizong Dynasty in a snap of his fingers.
At that time, the first emperor Zhao Deji ascended the throne as the emperor in the southern land and restored the Great Chu, and the Xia State soon learned of this incident, sent a full 58,000 soldiers, and ingeniously gave this military operation a name, called "Searching the Mountains and Checking the Sea to Capture Deji".
At that time, Zhao Deji was leading the civil and military officials to hide in a mountain city, and the speed of the Jin Ge Iron Horse of the Xia State was too fast, and when Zhao Deji heard about this military operation of the Xia State, it was too late.
The army is already under the city.
In order to protect himself, Zhao Deji ignored the ancestral foundation and led everyone to escape overnight.
The road was stormy and steep, and when he was resting in the cave that night, a palace maid accidentally kicked over the stove and scared the two-year-old prince to death, who was still babbling.
Zhao Deji was furious and ordered the palace maid to be beheaded on the spot.
Zhao Deji only has a son and a daughter, and no second son, after this incident, he originally wanted to be with the concubine in the future, but there was only one prince left to take over the country in the future.
But how did he think that in the next three years, no matter where Zhao Deji led the civil and military officials, the Jin Ge Iron Horse of the Xia Kingdom would chase him.
The difficulties and dangers encountered along the way are naturally unknown, and therefore, one of Zhao Deji's genes was too panicked, so frightened that he lost his fertility, and was forced to have no choice but to disguise his young daughter Zhao Younu as a man, pretend to be a prince, and raise her by her side.
Probably Zhao You will never forget the Jin Ge Iron Horse of the Xia Kingdom, and it seems that no matter when the Great Chu Jiangshan will be served by the Xia Kingdom.
Because of this, Zhao You had already learned how to be an emperor at a very young age.
Later, Emperor Jizong took the initiative to abdicate and make way for Xian, became the Emperor Taishang, and Zhao You ascended the throne and became the second emperor of Southern Chu.
Seven years later, Emperor Jizong died and returned to heaven, and the secret that Zhao You was a woman was only known to Zhao You himself in this world, and no second person knew it.
Now, all kinds of things seem to have been transformed into ethereal snowflakes in memory, and they have never been remembered in their hearts.
Zhao You didn't know how long he had been asleep, and when he opened his eyes again, it was completely dark.
Slowly sat up, shook his head vigorously, and reproduced all the events of the year in turn in his dream, Zhao You saw everything clearly like a bystander.
After coming to his senses, he turned his head and looked at himself in the mirror, his face radiant and his eyes full of determination.
"Someone!"
Zhao You shouted, and soon, a column of palace maids walked in briskly from outside.
"Your Majesty! What are the commands? ”
The palace maid at the head looked at Zhao You and asked.
Zhao You said expressionlessly: "Take the little green coat and hat I wore two days ago, I want to travel." ”
The palace maid was full of shock, looked at Zhao You in trepidation, and said timidly: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, do you still want to go out?" ”
Zhao You frowned slightly and asked, "When?" ”
The palace maid said: "Back to Your Majesty, it is now the time of the card. ”
Zhao You jumped up from the ground and laughed loudly: "It's a real joke, it's just a long time, it's too late!" ”
A group of palace maids quickly presented the green coat and hat that Zhao You wore two days ago, and Zhao You took the clothes as soon as he turned around and walked behind a screen.
Over the years, Zhao You didn't like to use eunuchs or palace maids every time he changed his clothes, and these servants didn't know what was going on in their hearts, but they just thought that maybe the saint had some quirks.
Since Emperor Jizong was forced to raise Zhao You as a boy in desperation, Zhao You has always been quite cautious, for fear that others will find out the secret that she is actually a daughter.
Because he has always been very careful, this secret has never been discovered.
No, since that night, there has been one more person in the world who knows her secret.
It's the dead eunuch, Cao Yi.
When Zhao You stood behind the screen and changed clothes, Cao Yi's voice and smile appeared in his mind, and under the gloomy eyes, a faint smile rippled on his pretty face.
After Zhao You finished changing, he walked out from behind the screen quickly, came all the way to the palace maids, and said in a deep voice: "Prepare a horse for me, I want to leave the palace immediately." ”
A group of palace maids hurriedly said: "Yes! Your Majesty! ”
Zhao You took a paper folding fan from the hand of a palace maid, held it tightly in his hand, and walked all the way out, while carefully touching the black hair that was coiled up high.
Zhao You pretended to have a strong voice, and said loudly: "You all retreat quickly, don't be in front of me, it really obstructs your eyes!" ”