Your Majesty Cheng Huan

He Xiaowan didn't go back to Xiling Mountain Villa with Hua Ling again. After he came out of Li Chenghuan's house, he made a pot of wine in a nearby wine shop, hooked it on his hand, walked slowly into a brothel, and called a girl. After playing two pieces of music, he waited for the person he was waiting for.

"You go down first."

Throwing a piece of silver to the girl, and dismissing a clean person like this, he stood up and called out respectfully: "Sister Hongxiu."

Hong Xiu seemed to be looking at him in surprise, and while sitting down on the chair, he said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, you are outside here, you are learning the rules."

He Xiaowan still smiled flatteringly, leaned over and winked at her and said, "Isn't I... Do I ask for help? Asking for help should naturally look like asking for help."

Hongxiu glanced at him and thought to himself, indeed, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.She said: "Tell me, you asked me out on purpose. What can you ask of me? We all do things for the Holy One, as long as we obey the Holy One. Although I entered the palace earlier than you, I am the same as you." , it’s just a Royal Forest Army.”

He Xiaowan knew that she was deliberately trying to scare herself by saying this.Zhang Wei, Hongye, and Hongxiu, the first group of Imperial Forest Army to enter the palace, followed Emperor Jing's side since childhood. They were Emperor Jing's most capable subordinates and the most trusted people.If there is anything else they don't know, then no one really knows.

"I do not understand."

Hong Xiu looked at him sideways, his voice didn't fluctuate, but he seemed more indifferent than before, and asked, "What don't you understand?"

He Xiaowan stood up, turned his back to her, and said slowly: "Before entering the palace, I didn't understand my master. Why did he spend his whole life trapped in the mountains, why did he want to drink away his sorrows alone, and ask him what? He didn't say anything. After entering the palace, I don't understand these people even more. But I don't want to understand them either."

He turned around, looked at her and said, "Just like you said, as the Imperial Forest Army, we only need to follow orders, we only need to know 'how', not 'why'."

"Don't you understand very well?" Hong Xiu's eyes dodged for a while, and he didn't look at him.

"But now I want to be able to understand a person! And—"

"Enough! As I said earlier, this is not something you should think about."

"Hongxiu!" He Xiao looked at her, and suddenly said in a soft voice, "Sister Hongxiu, the first person I met when I joined the Imperial Forest Army was you."

Hongxiu was silent for a while, then finally sighed and said, "You say you don't understand, but how much do I actually know better than you?"

That sword was sent into Hongye's heart by herself, it was impartial and accurate.Her blood was red and warm, just as she had thought it would be before she struck.

For a Royal Forest Army, it is the greatest insult to life not to die for the master, but to fall under the sword of the enemy.And this is exactly the punishment the emperor wants to give her.

She seemed to want to say something in the end, but the passing life could no longer support her strong and grand feelings like gushing blood.Her unattractive life, which bloomed silently in the palace of the Great Xia Dynasty 20 years ago, is also silently extinguished now.

Hongxiu seems to be able to foresee her own destiny projected on her, but at least unlike Hongye, she will not die as a betrayal.

The emperor has become more and more elusive, taciturn and serious.Perhaps no one can understand all that he endured alone in the most honored position in Daxia.

On the day he received the secret report from Zhang Yu back to the capital, the emperor drank alone in the half-moon corridor until dawn, and there was not even anyone who could talk to him.She saw from the roof that the queen lingered outside the half-moon corridor for a long time, but in the end she didn't take a step inside.

Women always know women better.As early as the good women entered the palace, the emperor sent her to monitor their every move.The imperial palace will make even the most harmless domestic cats show their sharpest minions. This iron law that has been tried and tested throughout the thousands of years of the rise and fall of dynasties in the entire Central Continent is naturally no exception in the Xia Dynasty.

After giving birth to the prince, Concubine Jing was bestowed with death. From then on, the soul of the only pure and beautiful woman in the Great Xia Palace disappeared.

In the case of the female corpse in Panqiuyuan, Luo Pin died.

After Concubine Zhen was made queen, the noble concubine hanged herself.Before this woman died, she tried to take the prince to the underworld. When she snatched Xiao He from the imperial concubine, the poor child was trembling all over.

Now the queen who is the mother of the world looks harmless on the surface, but in fact she is thoughtful and extremely deep.Lu Youyou herself is actually a deep person. It's just that the Lu family has a eldest son and a second lady, so there is no need for a smart third lady. That's why she has always shown herself with such a mindless appearance.

After entering the palace, Concubine Zhen never served her bedtime. After the case of Panqiuyuan, the emperor canonized her as a concubine.The Empress Dowager Qin wanted to push her to Emperor Jing's side, and the Lu family naturally had the same intention. The emperor wanted to use Lu Guanli's hand to deal with the Qin family, so Lu Youyou naturally took the position of queen.

But Hongxiu even felt a little pity for this woman.Once a woman falls in love, all her calculations will be reduced to childish, inferior and inconspicuous tricks.The emperor's gentleness made her fall, even though she knew that this man's gentleness was just an act, she was willing to accompany him to act.

She thought that the emperor liked girls with simple minds, so she continued to pretend happily.However, even if she is the only one in the world who has the qualification to stand beside him openly, she will not be able to enter the half-moon corridor with the fragrance of osmanthus, because the gate of the autumn palace is always open for only one person.

The emperor had known that Tuoerba would not settle down, and Zhang Hu's letter just confirmed his guess.Since then, the emperor has sent her to investigate the three sects in the southeast.Tuoerba wanted to take advantage of the emperor's lack of time to deal with the Qin family in the north, and his ambition to open up underground business routes in the south with the help of the forces of the Great Xia River and Lake gradually surfaced.This is absolutely intolerable to Da Xia.

Under Zhang Hu's instruction, he rescued Hua Beng who was mistaken by Qianhong's faction as dead. He Xiaowan rescued Li Chenghuan from the deep mountains who almost fell off the cliff. Later, at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, he instigated He Shaolang to provoke the little witch in Feihe Tower. , causing him to die in the end, and as a "savior", he lived in Xiling Villa in an upright manner, secretly protected Li Chenghuan, and investigated Xiling Villa - all of this depended on the emperor's strategizing.

On the emperor's body, he inherited the unparalleled bravery and bravery of the former emperor Xia Wei and Wudi who came from his blood. He also perfectly combined the literary and military strategies of his two mentors, Prime Minister Zuo and General Luo, and even the strength and ruthlessness of his mother, Queen Mother Qin. Hongxiu believes that , he will undoubtedly be the wisest monarch of the Xia Dynasty, and his name will last forever and be famous throughout the splendid history of Central Continent.And just one Li Chenghuan may ruin all of this.

Mr. Mingcha once asked her, beauty or country, which one would the emperor choose.She said it was "Jiangshan", even now, she still believes it.

He Xiaowan asked: "What exactly do they want from the Taifu? One by one, they keep saying they love him, but they always deceive him and hurt him in the name of doing his best. The Taifu is blind, isn't it? Are they willing to die if he really dies?"

"He Xiaowan, that's not what you should say."

"It's not something I should worry about, I know!" He Xiaowan said, "Sister Hongxiu, my master often said that life is a blessing if you live foolishly, so he never taught me to read and understand. But people can't live forever. ——It’s all passed in such a muddle.”

"Stupid people want to be smart, and smart people want to be stupid. But once you become smart, if you want to go back to being stupid, you can only pretend to be stupid for the rest of your life. This is the last advice I can give you."

When Li Chenghuan and Tuoerba finished their meal, He Yishi came to visit.He saw Tuo Erba pick up vegetables in Li Chenghuan's bowl, one chopstick after another, and the chicken bones were cleaned, so he dared to put it in the spoon for him.

He shouted loudly: "Mr. Li, I'm here again, don't drive me away—"

Li Chenghuan slightly tilted his head towards him, although there was no light in his eyes, he still had a pretty smile and said, "The righteous man just joked."

"When did Brother Zifeng come back? It's not kind to let Mr. Li stay at home alone during the day."

"There are students here, but I still think he is here."

He Xiaowan sat down at the table, Tuoerba poured him a bowl of wine, and said, "I want to support my family, how can that be compared to Brother He, who can come and go without any worries and be at ease?"

He Xiaowan curled his lips and clinked glasses with him, then turned to Li Chenghuan and asked, "Can Mr. Li drink?"

"Uh——I—" Li Chenghuan reached out to touch the flagon, Tuo Erba held him, and said to He Xiaowan: "He is too strong to drink, if Brother He is interested, how about I have a drink with you? "

He Xiaowan drank it in one gulp, put down the bowl, and said: "No need, I'll go find my girl from Xun Huan Lou, warm, fragrant and soft jade in my arms, it's not as refreshing as drinking with you--Let me go!"

After he left, Li Chenghuan withdrew his hand and said, "Why did you sit for a while and leave again?"

"You still want him to stay here?" Tuoerba raised his eyebrows and asked.Li Chenghuan didn't answer, he said again: "Everyone in the Jianghu has this temperament."

At night, sleeping on the bed, Li Chenghuan told him about going to the Marriage Bridge Meeting. "Hua Ling wants to go and wants me to accompany him."

"It happened to be the Feihe Tower Appreciation Conference that day. I don't know if there will be any troubles. Can Master Gu let him go?" He hugged Li Chenghuan tighter, and said as if he didn't care much, "Sleep Come on, don't think about it, let's talk about it tomorrow."