Chapter Ninety-Five: Rong Zhan's Story

In fact, it's good to sit like this all the time, Yuan Xi held his face and skimmed Rong Zhan from time to time. When he falls asleep, he can hire a carriage and go home quietly. But she was a little careful, Rong Zhan had already seen it in her eyes, the two sat side by side, chatting for half an hour, Rong Zhan was still full of energy, but Yuan Xi covered his mouth and yawned.

"Let's sit bored like this, okay, how about we tell each other stories to relieve boredom?" Rong Zhan took Yuan Xi's fan to chase away mosquitoes for her. If you want to say that the fairest thing in the world is the mosquito, whether you are a common person or a prince and nobleman, it dares to bite.

Yuan Xi nodded: Let him talk about one first, he has already prepared that hypnotic Dafa, and Guan Bao will put him to sleep.

Rong Zhan was silent for a while, gently driving away mosquitoes with a fan, and speaking in a soft voice like water, his thoughts also drifted back to his childhood nights with memories, and to the winter days that made his mother cry.

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A rare heavy snow covered the walls of the Great Chu Palace with a piece of white, and even a pair of white jade unicorns in front of the main hall also changed their fierce and vicious appearance because of the floating layer of snow, and became delicate and cute.

Under the jade steps of the main hall, dozens of civil and military generals stood in the snow with their hands shrunk, they had been standing here for three hours, their faces and ears were red from the cold, and the breath they exhaled suddenly condensed into a white mist, curling up.

A eunuch shrunk his hand into the sleeve of his fur robe, ran down the steps with a shiver, bowed, and saluted. He grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow and black teeth: "Ladies and gentlemen, the emperor is busy, and he has no time to see the adults, so please go back, and see you again tomorrow." ”

Everyone was in a hurry for a while, and they stepped forward one after another, shouting in unison: "Why doesn't the emperor see his subordinates?"

"Didn't I say it, the king is busy with government affairs, and he doesn't have time to see you!" replied the eunuch with his hand, rubbing his cold ears with his hands.

A burly military general with a beard stood up, grabbed the eunuch's sleeve, and said with a prestige: "Is the king in Huaqing Palace?"

The eunuch lowered his face, rolled his thick eyelids up and down, looked the military general from head to foot, and his thick lips were pursed into a slit.

"Are you drinking and having fun with Concubine Li?" the military general's eyes were full of helplessness and resentment, and he gritted his teeth fiercely.

The eunuch snorted from his nose, glanced at the general, and half-pushed the general's hand away, and went straight to Huaqing Palace.

The eunuch's footsteps briskly walked through a willow forest with jade hanging ice, and the exotic and exotic grasses on both sides of the cobblestone path were still worth green onions, flowers and fairy grasses, all covered by thin snow, slightly revealing their original color. After crossing the path, I entered a long and endless road, and the high-walled and deep courtyard was extremely rich.

After the Yongdao, two more than ten meters high on the left and one on the right are exposed, and a Huaqing Palace is held up by the jade step platform, as if hidden in the mountains and clouds. Xianhua Palace is extremely luxurious, and there are countless singing and dancing girls in the courtyard every day. Outside the hall, the heavy eaves are hung with the five or nine sub-bells of Shou *, the cold wind in autumn and winter, and the bell of Qing Ling Ling is good.

The eunuch lowered his head, walked quickly onto the platform, entered the Hande Palace, retreated to embroider shoes, bypassed a red gold dragon nine son screen, and knelt outside a curtain: "Your Majesty, the slave has passed the king's will to the generals." ”

The green jade bead curtain was opened by talented people who stood on both sides like graceful and jade, revealing an old man in his seventies, who was the Shizu Emperor of Great Chu. I saw him wave his hand slightly, and the eunuch retreated aside.

On both sides of the main hall, dozens of lamps and candles were picked, and there was a cloud of drunkenness in the hall, and a talented man with red lips and bright teeth knelt beside Shizu, and his fingertips like green onions pinched a dark Fushou pattern green jade wine jug, and slowly filled the wine glass on the table.

A splendid Shu mattress, embedded with large and small red gold carved lotus platforms, green jade carved jade lotus leaves.

Reflecting the faint halo, the beauty is in front, full of drunkenness, only to see a bright and beautiful woman, slender, barefoot, a pair of jade feet, weak and boneless, wearing the white crane feather coat that the world pays tribute to, leaving the world independent.

Emperor Shizu looked at him slightly, picked up his wine glass, and saluted slightly.

The sound of dance and music is just like the flowing water on the top of the mountain, a burst of graceful and beautiful, like a light crane fluttering. The beauty's arms are bent like white cranes' trembling feathers. Luo sleeves are windy, and there is a cold and strong fragrance, which is refreshing in an instant. At the end of the song, the beauty stood on the golden lotus platform, with a slender waist and a light feather coat, as if the eyes were full of waves, and the fairy crane fell on the lotus.

Shizu glanced sideways, and saw that the two courtiers kneeling under the seat were already fascinated by the beauty, so he smiled a little smugly: "Lang'er, how do you say the dance of the concubine? Is it comparable to Zhao Feiyan in the Han story?"

Lang'er's eyes were staring straight at the cream-like flesh exposed on Concubine Li's chest, and when she saw Shizu calling him, she secretly swallowed her saliva: "If you go back to the emperor, the concubine is a jade girl in the heavenly palace, and Zhao Feiyan is just an ordinary man, so she is comparable to the concubine." ”

Shizu laughed loudly and drank all the Qiong Yao in the cup.

The bright moon outside the hall hangs high, and the lonely and cold moon is eternal.

In the barracks outside the city, another person also looked up at the full moon in the sky. He stood alone under the moon, staring at the vast jade, and looked at it for a moment, not noticing that a friend beside him was already standing beside him.

"King Zhong, since the determination of the Qing monarch has been decided, what else is there to be melancholy?"

He turned his head and saw his friend, Zhang Zheng looked at him with a smile, and sighed: "When this king was fourteen years old, my father canonized me as a loyal king, originally wanted me to be loyal to the king, but now that my father is old, he is obsessed with the beauty of Concubine Li Guifei, and now he is more and more misleading the country and the people." ”

"Your Highness, on the side of the Qing monarch, eradicating the demons may not be loyal to the monarch!"

King Zhong shook his head and sneered self-deprecatingly: "Do you think we are still on the side of the Qing monarch? Wrong, we are forcing the palace, once the army enters the palace, Da Chu Ke will change the sky." ”

Zhang Zheng sneered: "Then it depends on your choice Your Royal Highness, whether you are foolish and loyal to the emperor or loyal to the people." ”

King Zhong sighed, sighed, and immediately returned to his former fierce and brave demeanor, slowly pulled out the sword from the scabbard, and held it in his hand: "All the soldiers, follow me into the palace!"

At the sound of an order, in the calm barracks, the aura of slaughter suddenly rose, and the soldiers lined up, and the black pressure was impossible to see.

"Light the torch!"

Thousands of torches were held in the hands of the soldiers with iron-faced faces, and everyone had a murderous look on their faces, the cruelty of Shizu in his later years made the people of Dachu dare not speak out, and the soldiers have been waiting for this day for too long.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Three roars full of righteous indignation resounded in the sky of the barracks, and the moonlight was still lonely and cold.

Hundreds of bows and crossbows, ten thousand arrows fired at once, dense as a locust, as urgent as a spark. The rebels held shields to block the rain of arrows, and the three of them hugged the thick gateposts, repeatedly hitting the heavy city gates, each dull impact seemed to hit everyone's psychological defense.

Finally, with a loud bang, the gate fell on its back and smashed to the ground like a mountain. The rebels took advantage of the victory and drove all the way to the inner palace.

The palace is shrouded in a vast expanse, and the moonlight is faint, but it can still reflect the golden and brilliant scene of Qionglou Yuyu. There seems to be a fragrant and bright melody in the smoke, as if you can still hear the happy laughter of Shizu and Li Guifei.

"Report!" a hoarse voice pierced the sky, breaking the original tranquility.

The blood-clotted guard rushed into the palace: "Report to the emperor! His Royal Highness King Zhong has rebelled, and the rebels have entered the city, and they are about to come to the palace!"

When Li Guifei boarded, her face was pale, and she couldn't stop shrinking, and Xiao Baojuan was distressed when she saw that the beauty was so panicked, and she tightly held the beauty in her arms, and asked the guard: "Where is the Chinese military minister?"

The guards were silent, and when the Chinese Wu was broken in the city, they walked and scattered, or fled to the loyal king, or moved their families, and there was no trace of them.

"Your Majesty, let's run away quickly, if the rebels enter the palace, we won't be able to leave. Li Guifei lay in the arms of the ancestor, panting delicately.

"You can't go anymore!" I heard a snap, and a general in armor appeared in the shadows, and immediately, well-trained armor-clad men appeared in the lights and shadows of the main hall. Shizu was in a trance for a while, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, but he still hugged the beauty in his arms tightly.

"King Zhong?!You'er?!Your father treats you well, why do you want to betray your father?!" Shizu never expected that the first person to put a knife on his neck would be his own son.

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Rong Zhan's story came to an abrupt end, and Yuan Xi listened attentively, isn't the ancestor of Da Chu Rong Zhan's own grandfather and the husband of the late Queen Mother? Isn't that loyal king who acts for heaven the title of the current emperor before he ascended the throne? Yuan Xi looked at Rong Zhan in confusion: "Why did you suddenly tell this story?"

A sad look appeared on his face: "I was born that night." When my mother gave birth to me, my father was not around, and I was more than two months early......" He sighed: "That night, my father killed Li Guifei, and my grandfather was in a hurry, suffered a stroke, and died three days later." That's why the Queen Mother hasn't been waiting to see me. ”

"But I don't blame you, the change of dynasty is like this. Won-hee was a little distressed.

Rong Zhan smiled bitterly: "My birth was accompanied by killing, so that every time the Queen Mother saw me, she was like a fish in her throat, although I was the eldest son, I have never been favored by the Queen Mother." On one occasion, she even added poison to my soup cakes, and luckily, I escaped...... This is also the reason why the Queen Mother has always favored me, and the Queen Mother has always tried her best to make up for the injustice imposed on me by the Queen Mother. After a long time, the queen mother's temperament also became extremely depressed. ”

He hugged Yuan Xi and said softly: "She always wants to give me what she thinks is the best, and over time, she forgets to ask me how I feel." But Won-hee, I have to understand my mother. If I hadn't had a queen mother, I would have died a dozen times. ”

When he talked about his mother, his heart became extremely soft: "If one day, my mother has any behavior that makes you dissatisfied, you must not blame her, it must not be from her heart." ”

Yuan Xi nodded: "Mothers in the world are all for their children, although I don't have a mother, I can also understand it." ”

She fell into his lap and fell asleep softly.

The night is as cool as water.