The beauty is delicate and soft, and he madly criticizes the powerful officials for taking her as th

He took off his soft armor, which was wrapped in layers of cloth strips, which were already stained with blood. There was a hideous wound underneath, which had obviously healed and then opened repeatedly, and was bleeding out.

Zhao Zhen's throat felt tight and he called a trusted doctor to bandage him. She even covered Pei Xu's face.

For the first time, the doctor saw a man in His Royal Highness's inner chamber and hesitantly asked: "Is this?"

"It's a face sent by the governor of Yizhou. He has a bad temper. When he saw that I didn't want to accept him, he insisted on killing himself with a sword."

Zhao Zhen kept her eyes open and kept talking nonsense. After the doctor left, the man next to her pulled off his mask and stared at her and said: "You just talked about the face. Why is the doctor not surprised at all? The governor of Yizhou often sends men to you?"

"Why are you angry? I didn't take it away." Zhao Zhen looked at him, "There are rumors outside that you and I are very different from each other in appearance, and we often get together less and apart more often. They think I am lonely, so it is out of loyalty to send someone to relieve my boredom."

Pei Xu sneered, "They look so good, but they look so different. Did those four children pop out of rocks?"

"There is a storyteller in Xiangyang who explained this matter, saying that I was forced to give birth to an heir for the sake of the common people and you." Sleeping in the same place, in fact, there is someone else in my heart. It is said that she is some kind of Liangzhou dancing girl with a nose and eyes. They say that it was for her that you went to Beihu when you were young."

His face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, "Which storyteller can slander people like this?"

"Just for fun." Zhao Zhen frowned, suddenly remembered something, and asked the maid to bring the child.

Pei Xu hugged his daughter, his face finally softened a lot, and he smiled and said, "Her eyes are the same as Ah Su's, more like Zhen'er."

He lived in Xiangyang pretending to be Zhao Zhen for several months. He couldn't help but sigh that under her rule, Jing Yi was really different from Qing Yan. Scholars could sit on the street and talk about whether the decree was good or bad, and most of the passers-by's expressions were Casual and loose.

After the early winter, Fu Xing was dragged down by Pei on the front line and completely lost his patience. After several defeats, he became more at ease.

The alliance between Zhao Zhen and Shi Zhuo in Jiaozhou broke down. She sent troops to Jiaozhou and divided the confiscated property into three parts. One part was reserved as military pay, the other as a reward, and the rest was sent back to Chang'an to avoid the emperor's suspicion of her.

In the twelfth lunar month, it was snowing outside. The Queen's brother Chengenhou personally visited Princess Xiangyang's Mansion with an imperial edict. Dozens of carriages were parked outside the mansion, all of which were gifts from His Majesty.

There are some silks, rouges and gouache, all used by women, and there are also several altars of Cangwuqing.

Marquis Chengen smiled and said: "This is the wine sent by Princess Qinghe from Beihu. Your Majesty thought of the deep friendship between His Highness and Princess Qinghe, so he rewarded it to His Highness."

A eunuch poured out a bottle of Cangwuqing and presented it to Zhao Zhen with his head bowed.

The emperor rewarded her with fine wine, and she really should drink it. Zhao Zhen was silent for a moment, and his tone was half-joking: "Such a fine wine, Marquis Chengen, have a drink first."

"Your Highness, why should you worry so much?" Marquis Chengen smiled broadly and drank it all in one gulp without hesitation.

Zhao Zhen's eyes were suspicious. Her third brother was timid and lustful, but he had a good relationship with Queen Zhou, and the Queen only had one brother...

She looked around and saw that all the ministers in Xiangyang were there. She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment. The emperor was obviously more afraid of Pei Xu. If she died, no one in Chang'an would be able to check and balance the Pei family.

The emperor had no reason to kill her, so he decided to use the reward to kill her in an open and just manner on her territory.

Zhao Zhen raised his eyes and smiled. After drinking the wine, he felt no physical discomfort.

Until after nightfall, while she was talking to Pei Xu, advising him not to do anything with the child, a burning sensation suddenly spread in her heart, and she vomited a mouthful of black blood.

Pei Xu hugged her and ordered his servant to call the doctor. He was so panicked that he wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth with his sleeve.

Zhao Zhen huddled in his arms and her voice was weak: "Call the Jingzhou Governor, Deputy Qianlongwei and General Zhang to come over and keep the news secret until...until you leave Jingzhou."

After seeing the symptoms of the eldest princess, the medical officer shook his head and said: "There is no cure for this poison. Although the onset of the poison is slow, taking four or five hours, the poison is most torturous after it takes effect. From vomiting blood to bleeding from the seven orifices, the blood flow is slow. But there’s no way to stop.”

When Zhao Zhen listened to his words, she felt a wave of heat overflowing from the corners of her eyes. Her vision was blurry, and she raised her hand to ask the medical officer to go first.

There was slightly cold liquid on her face, and she wanted to reach out and wipe away his tears, but she had no strength, "Pei Lang, stop crying, I have something to tell you."

Ask him to take good care of his cronies, remember to pick up Zhao Qing, and take good care of his children.

There is just nothing about him.

Pei Xu agreed. He nodded subconsciously and kept wiping the blood on the face of the person in his arms, but he couldn't wipe it clean.

Zhao Zhen felt that all the meridians in her body were being stripped away, and her face was twisted in pain. She buried her face in the man's arms and said with great effort: "Remember to bury me in a higher place so that I can see the Spring Mountain Palace."

Before she died, Zhao Zhen suddenly thought about it. Two of her royal brothers had fallen into such a coma that Zhou could not save them.

It doesn't matter who takes the throne, as long as Haiyanhe is clear and the world is at peace.

"Pei Xu, if you abandon the people of Qingyan and come to see me, I will look down on you and refuse to see you after my death." Zhao Zhen swallowed the blood on his throat, "Only when the world is at least half clear and bright can you be qualified to find it." I."

Peace in the world is too far away, and it is still easy to achieve half of this goal, but it is enough for Pei Xu to work hard until he is seventy or eighty.

"I'll give you my Hidden Dragon Guard, don't let me down."

Zhao Zhen gently held his sleeve and moved her lips. She wanted to say that she wished she could never see each other again in the next life, but she felt that it was better to meet each other.

Pei Xu came closer and listened. The woman in his arms was obviously in great pain, and her thoughts were confused and confused. She muttered nonsense to him: "Brother won't let me see you, but I still like you. Pei Xu, you are so good-looking, why are you mute?" .”

"I want to go to Liangzhou with you. You take me to Liangzhou with you, and I will be your military advisor."

"I want to see you, but there are so many shadow guards in your house. I'm afraid of death and don't dare to go in."

Zhao Zhen was afraid that he would look terrible, so he didn't ask his maid to call the child. However, Pei Zhi noticed the movement in the house and walked into his mother's yard alone, where he happened to meet Zhang Yushu.

He walked into the inner room and caught a glimpse of the blood stains on his parents' bodies. When he got closer, he heard his mother talking intermittently and his father's uncontrollable crying.

The fool also knew what was going on. Pei Zhi felt that he should say goodbye to his mother, but it seemed that there was a glazed screen separating his parents from others. They could only notice each other, and even the children whose blood was flowing through them could not walk in and disturb them for a moment.

There was more and more blood on the ground, and he heard his mother's last words, which were shivering and murmuring: "It's cold."

Of course it was cold and there was so much blood.

The governor of Jingzhou followed Zhao Zhen's last words and concealed the news of his death, but his expression changed drastically when Pei Xu insisted on taking Zhao Zhen's body back to Beijing.

It was the twelfth lunar month, and Xiangyang City was in harmony, and everyone was preparing to celebrate the upcoming new year.

In the princess's mansion, a tall man was dressed in brocade clothes. He had long put on a jade belt around his waist to show his identity. He faced Zhao Zhen's confidants with a stern expression: "I am Zhen'er's legitimate husband. She should go back with me. "

The corners of Jingzhou Governor's mouth twitched slightly, he looked at the figure in the man's arms in front of him, and said dryly: "Prime Minister Pei, you..."

He couldn't say a word. After all, Zhao Zhen's last wish was to follow Pei Xu back to Chang'an, but he felt that Pei Xu's current condition was obviously not enough to support a decent funeral.

Zhang Yushu lowered his eyes and said with a pale face: "I will escort Pei Xianghe... and His Highness back to Beijing safely."

He didn't know what he was going to do when he returned to Beijing, but Pei Xu insisted on returning to Beijing immediately.

When the news of Zhao Zhen's poisoning came out, no one in the Jingyi clan could swallow this sigh of relief.

But what else could be done, the Zhou Dynasty had been in ruins for hundreds of years, and the emperor was still the emperor no matter how cowardly he was. Even an unscrupulous man like Fu Xing actually wrote to the emperor in a formal manner, asking the court to make him a general and let him command Jiangzuo in a legitimate and legitimate manner.

Zhang Yushu felt uneasy all the way. When he arrived at Sili, when he saw the troops and horses that had been waiting for him for a long time, he was a little shocked and said, "What is Prime Minister Pei going to do?"

The man's strangely calm voice came from inside the carriage.

"To avenge the murder of my wife."

Zhang Yushu was a little stunned, and took a closer look at the armor of the soldiers, and found that Pei Xu had transferred part of the Liangzhou Army without authorization.

The young general's throat tightened and he tightened his grip on the reins. His mind suddenly recalled a few years ago when Zhao Qing was talking to him in the courtyard of the Princess's Mansion and was caught by His Highness and teased with a smile.

Just like yesterday.

Who the hell is on the throne? Why should the Zhang family sacrifice their lives for that kind of person?

"Prime Minister Pei, can you help me with this kind of thing?"

The bloody light in Xiangyang spread all the way to Weiyang Palace.

A man in armor strode up the hall, the sword in his hand stained with blood, and raised his eyelids to look at the emperor on the throne.

"Prime Minister, what are you doing?" The emperor smiled, "Is there any misunderstanding?"

The Liangzhou army appeared majestically in the early morning, and the cold light in their hands shocked all civil and military officials.

There was silence in the hall, and the ministers looked at the sword on the side of the emperor's neck in shock.

Zhao Zhen's officials in Chang'an were not aware of the news of his death, so they loudly said: "As the consort, is Prime Minister Pei going to regicide and rebel?"

Stimulated by the word "consort", the Qingfeng in Pei Xu's hand trembled. He was so angry that he seemed calm.

"So what?" Pei Xu glanced at the trembling officials, "He harmed the hero and poisoned his own sister, is he qualified to occupy this seat?"

The officials of the eldest princess' group all turned pale and looked at the person on the dragon chair in disbelief.

"I have something to ask your Majesty." Pei Xu looked at the Liangzhou Army in the hall and said softly: "Send your lords home."

When only the emperor and Pei Xu were left in the palace except the blood-stained Liangzhou army, the man covered in blood whispered: "Your Majesty, the queen will be here shortly."

His dead men have found out that it was the empress who planned this matter. The emperor simply did not have the courage and watched from the beginning to the end.

When Queen Zhou was thrown into the palace, she was already covered in blood and shaking like chaff.

She lived in a deep palace, and even if she dared to plot to kill Zhao Zhen, she would do so in secret. How could she dare to look directly at the Liangzhou Army, which had experienced hundreds of battles and was very murderous.

Pei Xu stared at the woman on the ground, narrowed his eyes and laughed. The black boots stepped on her right hand, and the sound of the broken finger bones was particularly obvious.

"Is this the hand you used to write secret letters to Fu Xing?"

He learned on the way back to Beijing that as soon as Zhao Zhen died, Fu Xing besieged Pei's residence again.

Such a coincidence.

"Prime Minister Pei, I decided to give Chengyang death, and it has nothing to do with the Queen."

Seeing that the emperor couldn't sit still, Pei Xu was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the emperor was so lustful and still had some feelings for the queen.

Killing two people like this is too cheap for them.

He was not qualified to die with Zhao Zhen, so why should the two of them die together.

Empress Zhou couldn't help but shudder when she looked at the cold eyes of the man in front of her. She had heard a little about Pei Xu's tactics during the war.

Pei Xu ordered the two princes under the queen's knees to be sent over, and said to Queen Zhou: "I will exchange my son for my husband's life. Choose one."

The woman who was paralyzed on the ground was trembling all over. How could Pei Xu come up with such a method.

"Let me help you choose." The man's voice was cold, and he noticed the hatred in the second prince's eyes. "This one looks disobedient, and I don't like it very much."

After the words fell, the head fell to the ground and rolled around a few times.

Pei Xu glanced at the emperor and saw that he was so frightened that he defecated. He ordered the queen to turn her head to the emperor and said softly: "Your Majesty can survive. You can go and accompany the second prince in peace."

Empress Zhou stared at the corpse of her youngest son, her vision blurred by tears, her teeth chattering and she said: "Prime Minister, do you know why Zhao Zhen had to die?"

She was not afraid of the sudden cold look on the person in front of her and sneered: "It's not because of you."

"Others don't know, but as her third sister-in-law, I know what happened back then." The queen looked sarcastic, "Zhao Zhen is a princess, why should she be killed, but who told you to like her."

"You were finally seriously injured and stayed in Yanzhou without showing up. Who would be willing to let go of such a good opportunity? When Zhao Zhen died, Fu Xing's ambush was all the way from Yanzhou to Jingzhou, waiting for you to go to the funeral. assassinate."

"With a minister like you, what emperor can sleep well?" Queen Zhou's face was distorted. "I don't want to kill her, but I have no choice. I can't think of anyone whose death can make you leave Yanzhou at all costs."

"Pei Xiang hates others as much as he hates himself. If you like a cat or a dog, it won't be the eldest princess who dies."

Pei Xu's face became paler and his eyesight turned black. Finally, he held down his sword and said to the Liangzhou army on the side: "Bring me the poisonous wine."

He forced the emperor to write down the will of the deposed queen and the Yizhou clan in front of the queen, and poured the last pot of poisonous wine into her mouth.

The man sat aside. After seeing her die, he looked at the emperor and said in a consultative tone: "Your Majesty, I still have something to say."

Half an hour later, Pei Xu came out of the palace, got on the carriage, lowered his eyes and said, "Go back to the princess mansion."

The Liangzhou Army blockaded Chang'an for more than half a month, and the capital was in a bloody turmoil. Anyone who had anything to do with the Zhou family would suffer.

After Zhao Zhen's death, no one could stop Pei Xu. When he was awarded the title of King of Wei, he didn't even bother to make concessions and went to the palace with swords and shoes.