About forty years ago, Huangfu Li's mother followed her brother and sister-in-law to the capital.

Compared with the western part of the country, where the yellow sand dances wildly at every turn, and where grain, grass and water are in short supply all year round, the capital is like a paradise, which makes people forget to return. Fortunately, they entered Beijing this time because they were ordered by the emperor to leave a maiden family for the noble concubine Huangfu in the palace who could be summoned from time to time and settled here.

Huang Fuli still remembers that her mother said that the first meal she ate after entering Beijing was a palace banquet, singing and dancing, delicacies from the mountains and seas, and brilliance, which was a scene that she had never seen in the west for eight lifetimes.

Within a few years, Huangfu Lili was born. After he was born, like all the children of the nobles of the family, he went to the palace to study with him and went out of the palace to have fun.

But gradually, he realized that he was different from others. Only the imperial concubine treats him well, and the only ones who can play with him are the concubine's children. And almost no peers outside the palace are willing to have a deep friendship with him.

Those people were either cold, or disdainful, or disgusted, in short, what Huangfu Li felt in the capital was nothing but luxury, only loneliness.

At first, he thought it was because he was a foreigner, or because his father had surrendered with the whole country, making him a shameful prince of the dead country.

Therefore, he did not like the West, and even though his father and his brothers had won many battles, he was not proud.

And when he went to the border pass once, that kind of environment, the spirit of the people of Xiguan, made him even more sure that he wanted to gain a foothold in the capital.

Huangfu Li: "I remember that the second brother joked at that time, saying that when I became an adult, he would exchange with me, I would go to the west, and he would live in the capital." I was angry on the spot, and the atmosphere in the military tent was awkward all of a sudden. But I don't care, going back to Xiguan to stay is simply waiting for death.

When I left, the eldest brother said, 'The blood is from the blood, and he will come back sooner or later'.

At first, I didn't understand, but what about the bloodline? The major families in the capital, they married and intermarried, and the bloodline was long indistinguishable.

I grew up in Beijing since I was a child, even if they look down on me and look down on the emperor, as long as I work hard, learn to be sophisticated, learn to be clever and beautiful, and then rely on the grace of the concubine, I will impress them sooner or later. ”

But at that time, Huangfu was still young, and he thought too well. It's not that he doesn't work hard, it's that they don't even give him the opportunity to work hard.

When the imperial concubine in the palace was pregnant with her third child, the prince had just left the palace and went to Tianqing. Empress Rong was secretly angry, and united with Xiahou Taishi to let the head of the Xuanling of the Azure Realm refuse Huangfu Li's apprenticeship with no talent.

It didn't matter if Tianqingjing rejected him, but more than a dozen Xuanmen around the capital also turned him away.

Huangfu Lili was not convinced. His mother persuaded him, his uncle persuaded him, and even the imperial concubine persuaded him that it was better to be an idle son, and he would marry a wife and have children in the future and live a peaceful life.

Ah Lu: "But you can all practice evil arts, how can you have no talent?

Dong Junqin: "I'm afraid it was the head of Xuanling who saw that you were not talented, but talented." So for the sake of safety, the court secretly ordered the dozen or so Xuanmen not to admit you to entry. ”

Alayu: "To be safe?

Dong Junqin said: "The family bloodline is safe. ”

Huangfu Li: "Hmph, seeing that you are young, and you don't look like you have led soldiers to fight with a cane, you can actually think of this layer." ”

Dong Junqin: "I have to thank you, seniors, for leaving us juniors with a situation after the troubled times, we must pay attention to here and there since we were young, and I can't think about it." ”

Lu: "Uh, wait, wait, what?"

Nangong Lu: "What they mean is that the Central Plains royal family is suspicious of the emperor's rebellion." ”

Ah Lu: "Well, why? Didn't they lead troops in Xiguan in peace?"

Nangong Lu: "That's right! It's because they led troops in Xiguan, and their soldiers guarded the entire northwest border, so it was dangerous."

Generally speaking, it is difficult for foreigners to obtain high positions in the imperial court. Look at me, although our family was given the emperor's surname, if I weren't a non-human, I might only eat, drink, prostitute and gamble in my life.

Even if I had a demon slayer now, wouldn't I be able to show myself idle?

What's more, the Huangfu clan has military power in their hands. Military power, Alu, military power is better than imperial power. Huangfu was once the king of a country, do you think your emperor of the Central Plains can not worry?"

Ah Lu was embarrassed: "Then why do they have to accept the surrender of the emperor? Why do they give them this military power? Just find a place to confinish them!"

Huangfu Li: "No, the war in Xiguan was constantly approaching the territory of the Central Plains, and the Central Plains had no suitable army to fight against at all. Therefore, they need Huangfu who is familiar with the terrain of Xiguan and the methods of warfare.

The reason why Huangfu was willing to surrender was originally to get the support of grain and grass from the Central Plains, to completely defeat those small countries earlier, and at the same time to allow our people to move to a more suitable place for survival. ”

But when the danger cleared and the situation improved, the problem turned to the royal bloodline.

Dong Junqin: "So at that time, your mother entered Beijing to put it bluntly as a hostage of the royal family?"

Huangfu Li acquiesced: "Young man, you just said that I don't know the current little emperor, you said that he would kill others after using him." In my opinion, this point is not unique to him, it is a characteristic of your Central Plains royal family.

When I was 10 years old, my father died in battle. The following year, the emperor sent the then right prime minister to various small countries outside Xiguan, in the name of peace and reduce the pressure on Xiguanhou, but in fact it was to probe the loyalty of the emperor and prevent us from colluding inside and outside.

And forget it. However, when the right prime minister left the customs, he did not take the official road, but preferred to take the small road, and finally was trapped in the wasp. The eldest brother was buried alive by the dust in order to save him.

Two years later, the second brother was requested by Xiguan to fight in the West, the battle was extremely dangerous, but the planned surprise attack ambushed by the Xiguan army was delayed, and finally the second brother picked up a life, but he lost a pair of legs and was on crutches and a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

At that time, the emperor had asked the imperial court for help. However, the Dog Emperor and Prime Minister Zuo rejected us with a marquis to take care of their own fiefdoms.

I only hated that I was still a minor at the time, and the third sister had no choice, so she took up the gun and held the sword and guarded the city on behalf of her brother.

In the past ten years in Beijing, no matter how much power I have learned, how many cities I have, and how smooth I am, I can't change the impression of Huangfu in the hearts of the world.

In the first year when the third sister defended the city on behalf of the brothers, the emperor pretended to find a private school teacher who knew some spells to be my master, so as to appease the third sister.

At first, I was not happy to see him look like Zou Zou, and in the three years after his apprenticeship, he only taught me the mind method that I didn't know how to use.

But after three years, I found that when I look into someone's eyes, I can sense what they're thinking and what they're going to do next. I even predicted early on the winner of the sword fighting ring of that year's Immortal Law Society.

Then my master taught me how to take advantage of this opportunity to achieve my goals. ”

Dong Junqin: "It is worthy of evil art, and the most difficult thing in the world is people's hearts." I think if the royal family had known that you could learn this kind of skill, it would have been better to let you go to the sky in the first place. ”

Huangfu Li: "You're wrong, it's not an evil art to spy on people's hearts. I didn't want to hurt anyone in the first place.

It's all your Dog Emperor's fault! And that Xuan Ling! The master they found secretly threw Ningxi's half of the Yuan Spirit into me. I practiced with him for five years, and my skills increased greatly.

But gradually, I discovered that there was another force in my body, and when I didn't want to embarrass others, when I wanted to take someone's life, it would come out against me.

I fear that this force will not only help me to manipulate other people's hearts, but it may also want to control me. So in the seventh year, I killed my master and began to look for a way to subdue this force.

At this time, your emperor, as well as Empress Rong, and Taishi Xiahou, they didn't ask a word and criticized me for killing my teacher, saying that I went crazy in practice. I also found out that the water hidden grass that the third sister sent me was to suppress the demons.

The third sister sent it to me because it was hard to find, so I could find a substitute in the inland.

Hmph, I didn't expect the pharmacists in the Central Plains to take advantage of the misinformation of the imperial court to buy on a large scale. A group of stupid people ran to the west and grabbed the medicine from the people who really needed this herb, and this pull was interpreted by the medicine merchants as the water hermit herb had an excellent effect, fooling those monks who wanted to reach the peak overnight to buy it at a high price, thinking that as long as they had the water hermitage, they were not afraid of going mad, and they could cultivate casually.

There is also the head of the Xuan Ling, who knew that I was looking for an immortal artifact that could help me control my spiritual power, and actually sent a false message to let me enter the camel mountain. There are white charms living in the camel mountain, and I will fight against them, if I don't rely on Ningxi, there will be only one way to die. But what is the result? What kind of bullshit camel mountain stone, not only can not suppress Ning Xi, but instead help him awaken his energy.

I'll admit, I really can't control Ningxi, but I've been looking for a way. On the other hand, you Central Plains people, I am suspicious of the emperor.

It doesn't matter. It's a big deal that we're in decline, hiding at the bottom with our tails between our legs.

However, your royal family has already set the tide of death. The third son of the imperial concubine was poisoned and died, and the daughter was sent to a neighboring country at the age of eight to marry an old man who was about to enter the earth. And what about the eldest son, he entered the Xuanmen and worshipped the famous teacher, but was killed by the monster.

The imperial concubine is crazy and has completely lost her grace. But they didn't want to let us go.

Because his daughter was unwilling to marry Xifan in exchange for a truce, the right prime minister joined forces with the four princes of Xifan.

He forced my third sister to secretly marry his daughter. My sister thought that this would be in exchange for a truce, but when she went to the camp in the west, the four princes acted in a play to escort and destroy the son of evil, he killed the king, killed his father and brother, and also killed the female general of the emperor who had been in the northwest border for eight years.

Outsiders only knew that the only daughter of Youcheng sacrificed for the country, so the people's anger boiled, and the court sent troops to press the border, and finally reached a ten-year truce agreement with the new king of Zefan. And my sister, who can't even find her bones, is ridiculed for being too fierce and can't marry for the rest of her life. When I go back to inherit the title, she will be a useless old woman.

You say, is it my fault or theirs? You say, the imperial court dares me to go back to Xiguan to inherit the title, do I have to rebel before they join forces with other countries again? You say, do I want to join forces with Ningxi?"

When the crowd listened, they were silent. No one could say a word.