Chapter 042: Nangong Internal Changes
On the fifth day of the first month of the tenth year of the Great King calendar, the palace is still full of colors, the princess and the royal family come and go, the prince and the little lord shuttle non-stop, everyone is dressed in red, and the guards and maids are full of laughter, a festive atmosphere. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The second king and the third king rushed to the palace together, and visited the eldest brother king as usual, but the palace guards only announced that the third king had entered, and while the second king waited, he walked through the palace garden alone.
In the past, the flowers and plants were no longer there, only the plum blossoms bloomed alone in the thin snow, he slowly moved to a plum tree in full bloom, shook his sleeves and played with a delicate petal, his brows were tightly wrinkled together, thinking about it, his hands froze, looking at the palace people who were laughing and laughing, he secretly let out a sigh, and couldn't help but chant Mu Feiling's "Plum Blossom":
Astringent and shy, she laughed at the snow and she was foolish, and asked why the cold winter was again, but she made Changtian a poem.
Once upon a time, two beauties of a plum blossom were once so obsessed with embracing each other, without any suspicion. But in the blink of an eye, the wonderful girl flew away, without a trace, he took out the Qingfeng sword, wiped it with two fingers with affection, and vaguely felt that the sharp sword was once stained with beautiful tears......
The king's bedroom is dripping with brocade, red tents are clothed, two charcoal fires are burning slightly, and messy sparks jump from time to time, and there are only two palace maids waiting inside. The king sat on the ground on the red carpet, wearing a red brocade cotton coat, with slight beads of sweat on his forehead, picking up bamboo chopsticks and fiddling with a few dishes on the table in front of him, and then raised his head to look at the third brother, and did not speak for a long time.
The three kings tightened their jackets, their bodies were a little curled, their faces were pale, and they couldn't see the excitement of the festival and the warmth of the warm hall.
"Come, eat!" the king pointed at the three kings with bamboo chopsticks, and then pointed to the wine and food on the table, "Today, on the fifth day of the new year, this king and the third brother have a few drinks." So saying, he lifted the wine bottle and poured wine for the three kings, and the three kings hurriedly leaned over and stretched out their hands to stop it, intending to pour it himself, but the king opened it with his hand, and carefully poured him a glass of wine.
"Why don't you call the second brother together?" The third king saw the eldest brother king calling his third brother, and he also called the second brother. Every year on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the king deliberately took a day to announce the two brothers into the palace, and then invited the princess to accompany them. Now that the princess was gone, the feast was immediately dead.
"Let's talk to you first," the king picked up a fragrant rice, put it in his mouth and chewed it constantly, and immediately came out of Gege's voice, and the cheekbones on his ruddy face continued to rise and fall, but he couldn't see the slightest smile, "How are the third brothers and sisters lately?"
The three kings nodded slightly, and also picked up the bamboo chopsticks, and leaned towards the table, only to find that in addition to some lining vegetables in front of him, there was only a soup of beef and a plate of fragrant rice, and he suddenly became vigilant, which was like the king's meal, which were his two favorite dishes when he was a child! At those times, the eldest brother always secretly moved these two dishes to the eyes of the three kings behind his father's back, and then saw that no one noticed, so he looked at each other and smiled, and quietly high-fived to celebrate.
"Big Brother Wang ......"
"Just call me eldest brother," the king bowed slightly, poured wine for the three kings again, and drank the wine bottle in front of him directly, pointed to the three kings, and signaled to drink, "I heard that my brother and sister are pregnant, my cup is congratulations!"
The three kings also drank it all, but their hands trembled slightly.
"Hey," the king sighed, picked up a small piece of beef, and threw it on the plate, "Without the four royal sisters, this meal will not be delicious!" Thinking of the battle in southern Xinjiang, our dynasty suffered heavy losses, the whereabouts of the four royal sisters are unknown, and the little princess and prince of the northern soil have been lost, and the king has not told the northern soil so far...... he raised his head gloomily and looked at the three kings meaningfully.
The third king hurriedly lowered his head, frowned slightly and replied: "Big brother, don't always worry about it, take care of your health, Li Zheng has already wiped out the Yi clan, and it can be regarded as avenging the royal sister; the third brother just thinks that after all, the assassin of the fourth sister is a person from the northern soil, and the death of the princess and the prince of the northern soil can also be regarded as retribution; however, there is something unclear for the younger brother, and the kings of the court have repeatedly urged the king to find out the truth, and asked the king of the north to give an explanation, why did the eldest brother delay for a long time?"
The palace maid stepped forward to pour a full cup for the two, the king shook his hand, drank a cup alone, and did not let the three kings serve the cup, he picked up the wine bottle, his hands trembled, and once again took the opportunity to eat wine to look at the three kings, his face was immediately full of disappointment and sadness, a sip of strong wine into his stomach, his face became more ruddy, the wine bottle was parked on the table very slowly, thought for a while, suddenly raised his head and said lightly: "Big brother just this cup of respect to you, it is considered to repay the love of your compatriots!"
The three kings were stunned, their white faces twitched, and their eyes became frightened. A cup of respect for the New Year, a cup of thanks, this cup actually seemed to cut off the brotherly love! His body shook suddenly, and a sense of foreboding struck, as if he remembered the fourth royal sister, and his eyes also revealed a trace of guilt, and suddenly he forced himself to calm down, almost squeezing out two words from his throat: "Big ...... Brother?"
"Smack!" the king's body did not move at all, and suddenly slapped his hand on the table, but his head rushed to the three kings, and said slowly and heavily: "I am no longer your eldest brother, and you are no longer my younger brother!"
The three kings shook their bodies, leaned back in shock, and stared at the king fiercely.
The king's eyes were also round, and the corners of his eyes were obviously beating, as if he had suppressed the anger that had been deposited for a long time, and the bones in his cheeks were bulging, and he was panting.
"Come on, give a parting wine!"
Parting wine, in the southern dynasty was named by the king for the first time, after he obtained the throne, he saw through the true face of several traitorous ministers, gave them poisonous wine with tears, was given as a parting wine, when the king actually pierced his fingers, could not bear to kill these old ministers, but the princess categorically did not allow, afraid that they would make a comeback and continue to harm the king.
Parting wine?!
The three kings gasped sharply, their throats were pressed against the last mouthful of fragrant rice they had just eaten, and they almost wanted to vomit!
Want to kill me?!
He instinctively wanted to get the sword, but he let go of his hand, in the southern kingdom, except for King Chen, no one could defeat the king, and he could not make five moves.
"You're a gratuitous cleanup brother!" the Three Kings roared suddenly, red threads flashing across their fair faces, and they turned pale again in an instant.
"Slap" was another sound, the king slapped the three kings hard, his red round face was full of anger, and the two maids around him were almost frightened, not daring to approach, and their legs kept shaking.
"Clean up brothers?" When the king heard this, his eyes were even more confused, and he said bitterly, "If you regard me as a brother, why did you harm the king of the north, assassinate Chen Ying'er, and plan to kill the princess, they are all our relatives! If you regard me as a brother, it has been several months since the battle in southern Xinjiang, why have you not come to confess? If you still have a brother in your eyes, why did you instruct the Beifan tribe to rebel in the name of your second brother?!"
With that, the king pulled out the secret letter from the princess and threw it to the three kings.
The three kings hurriedly copied over to watch, and sat on the red carpet with a slump of butts, in the secret letter sent by the Ronging clan, the Ronging clan had deceived the northern king to the clan land, so in his mind, Ke Kuang had already succeeded, and the northern king had already collapsed, maybe the northern soil was already going to raise troops to the south, so he had been instigating the kings under the door to advise the king to send troops north in the name of the princess's assassination, but Chen Ying'er did not succeed in the assassination, and Chen Wang has been blocking the party but has not succeeded.
"Brother, dear, hahaha......" He found that the secret letter with the Genging clan had reached the hands of the king, and he knew that he could not escape the doom, so he suddenly laughed, and the laughter stopped abruptly halfway, and he also lowered his head and stared at the king tightly, "I know that I have no place to stand, so I have to strike first! Therefore, if you want me to drink this parting wine, you need to ask the 500,000 military horses in the north and south if they agree or not!"
The three kings, who were annoyed and angry, began to threaten the king.
The king's eyes closed, and the tears that surged up in anger were pressed back, and his body suddenly withered, and he lowered his head and stretched out his hand, pointing his index finger at the three kings: "You, you brute!
A few days ago, the three kings had secretly ordered the people of the sect to immediately raise troops to persecute the king once they were banned or had an accident. How did he know that the letter was still the same, but the city lord had changed.
Even a pleading, an apology, may touch the king's benevolent heart, after all, as early as the end of winter, the king has learned everything, has been waiting for the third brother to confess, even if desperate, it is for him and his family to spend the New Year and enjoy the last family happiness.
Who knows, these days the king is like hell, suffering in pain!
The three kings thought that they had succeeded, and said with a sneer: "The king should also behave himself!" Just as he was about to get up, there was an extra handwritten letter in front of him, and the envelope was written "Four Wang Sisters"!
The princess didn't die?!
The three kings opened the secret letter in a panic, their faces were even more pale, and beads of sweat were dripping down, it was not because of the heat, but fear, a fear of facing death, I never thought that I would show off my might in the palace, and the letters under the door were the same as before, and the seven heavily armed cities in the north and south had been subdued by the princess and the prince of the northern soil, and I was the only one left in the world!
He sneered, shed tears, wiped the blood stains drawn from the king's mouth at the corner of his mouth, dressed up, no longer looked at the king, thinking of his concubine and the fetus in his arms, staring fiercely at the secret letter, knowing that with just one piece of paper, more than a thousand people lost their lives, and more importantly, the seven cities still had his rebellious voice.
The three kings slowly took the glass of wine, threw their necks up and swallowed it into their stomachs, and in a moment black blood gushed out of their mouths.
"My lord," the blood dripped from the mouth of the three kings, "don't think I'll be safe when I'm dead, do you know why I'm disagreeing?"
The king did not look at him, but gasped roughly.
The third king wiped the corners of his mouth, his hands were full of blood, and he still smiled fiercely and said: "The eldest sister-in-law did not die of illness at all, but was poisoned to death, she knew that the medicine was poisonous, and still insisted on drinking it, but the person who harmed her was definitely me, so the sister-in-law will definitely harm me in the future, what can I do, don't do it...... Just wait...... Die!"
As soon as the word death was finished, he also collapsed to the ground, convulsed a few times, and died in the west.
"Pounce—" When the king heard this, he was furious, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. The suffering of the days, coupled with the slashing brothers, was already in a hurry, and it was even more unbearable to hear that Concubine Ai was drinking poison for herself.
"Come on!" the maid cried out in terror, and in an instant several people sprang in.
The king shook and stood up, furious, and drew the sword of the guard to stab at the corpse of the three kings, but was stopped by the courtiers, and said angrily: "Why didn't you tell this matter earlier?!"
The king was about to fall, but was held up by everyone, and slowly raised his head and ordered the guards: "Kill them both!" and his finger reached out to the maid.
In an instant, the two women died in Huangquan.
This is the king who is in pain! The king who has no choice! "Order!" The king gasped and ordered the civil officials, but he himself was also sick and collapsed.
The two kings outside the hall suddenly heard the cry, and with a movement of their hands, a plum blossom fell off......
Soon, a great royal decree spread throughout the palace and beyond:
On the fifth day of the first month of the tenth year of the Great King calendar, the three kings died of a violent illness; Zhang He, the general of the southern expedition, died in battle, and was posthumously crowned the vice king; Feng Jichanggong, the commander of the Southern Liang Dynasty, was promoted to the title of King Feng; after the death of the great queen, she came to Ruixue, showed the will of heaven, and gave her the eternal queen, and the world admired and could not be blasphemed; and then ordered, King Chen protected the country and made the king of Jinheng, and the second king was the prince!
In the Southern Kingdom, only the princess had blood in her heart, and this was a completely false royal decree! A blood letter that she had no choice but to do! She knew that her brother was almost desperate.
The princess led the horse and walked back in the snow, if it weren't for the three kings "dying" and the king falling ill, she would never have returned to Beijing so soon. She gazed at the palace in front of her, it was still so magnificent, with a layer of white on the magnificent eaves ridge, quiet and solemn. But I always felt that there was something missing, and when I thought about it, I unconsciously tightened the forging and embroidery on my chest.
"Would you like to go back to Beijing?" the princess asked the two guards beside her, but her eyes kept on the palace, as if she wanted to force the man who had struck her chest.
"Where the princess is, we are willing to ......"
"What a sweet mouth!" said the princess. However, as soon as she arrived at the palace, she remembered those changes, and she also remembered the man, and when she thought of him, her heart twitched, and it was very unpleasant, only she knew it in her heart, and she already had a picture in her heart! It was a sweet feeling, a feeling that made me want to cry when I was a little quiet.
misses Wentu, and Chen Ying'er!
She has lost weight significantly, since she heard that Wentu and the two princesses were suspected of being killed in battle, she has never laughed out loud, crying and crying every day;
"Miss, the master is the king of Heng, so you will also be the king in the future, what should I call it?" Yu'er saw that the young lady was sad every day, and she also wanted to make her laugh.
"If that Wentu is safe, the king is healthy, and an ordinary woman is fine!" Chen Ying'er burst into tears again.
Yu'er was flustered, but she didn't expect the sentence to make the young lady cry, so she hurriedly wiped it and didn't dare to say anything more.
Chen Ying'er saw that Yu'er was nervous, so she took her hand and stroked it, and said with a wry smile: "There are only two men in this world who worry me the most, one is Wentu, but there is still no news after half a year;
Chen Ying'er's eyes gradually lost their light!
Yu'er was shocked, now just now, although the sky is not bright, but it is never time to light the lights, a kind of fear hits, but she does not dare to make a noise, silently go to light the plum blossom lantern......
The next day, outside the Grand Palace.
A round of red sun reflects the sky, endless snow is in the ground, several rows of colorful flags are swaying, and columns of elite soldiers are standing.
In the distance, there is a person walking, sassy and heroic, with fast steps, he is Leng Ling!