Suo Diling

The author has something to say: Don't skip to the previous chapters on abuse, otherwise there will be misunderstandings.I can't accept accusing the uncle of the emperor after a misunderstanding

I picked up the opal wrench and squeezed it into the palm of my hand in a daze, as hard as I was holding the bow and arrow when he held his hand that day, but my hand trembled more than then, as if I was hit by a huge force. fell on the couch.I closed my eyes, and heard a slight sound coming from my heart, like a crack in the ice.

The gap spread rapidly and collapsed into a huge hole.

I thought of the sentence Xiao Du asked me, and the stubborn look he had when he asked me.

He asked me, is there a person I can't accept in my heart.

I know the answer now, but he's gone.

I coughed violently, and my lungs made a dull sound.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty must take care of yourself and mourn."

Bai Li whispered nervously in my ear, as if I was about to die.

"Don't worry, I won't die." I smiled and replied weakly.

Of course I can't fall down, I am the emperor, I need to take care of the world, the remaining part can be left to myself, and there is another person.Xiao Yu is still alive, so I can't die. I can't let him do whatever he wants and push me off the platform again.

"Your Majesty, there is not only bad news, but also good news. Bai Yiwei rescued Princess Changge, Empress Wu Zhu, and Bai Chen from Wu Dun."

I braced myself: "Where's Xiao Lan? Is he really dead?"

Bai Li shook his head: "The whereabouts are unknown, life and death are uncertain."

"Okay, princess and queen, they will become important pawns for me to make a comeback in the future." I coughed a few times and took a deep breath, "How is the situation in court during my coma?"

"Prince Yu holds the power, saying that the jade seal is in his hands at the behest of His Majesty."

"Okay, let him be proud for a while, and I will take care of him. You go, hand over Shangfang's sword to Li Xiu, inform Bai Yanzhi, and ask someone to send the princess to his fief Jizhou to guard it strictly, and escort the queen back to Beijing. For the reason, lead troops here. By the way, where is Feiyan?"

"Still in the Zhaixing Pavilion, he heard that the emperor was seriously ill, so he set up an altar in the Zhaixing Pavilion to pray for God."

I thought to myself, that's fine, he can stay away from Xiao Yu temporarily by staying in the Zhaixing Pavilion.

"After finishing the work, you go to the Zhaixing Pavilion and ask for some of his hard work to bring to me."

Bai Li nodded and stood up: "Chen, I will go when the emperor falls asleep."

The words seemed familiar, I opened my eyes in a trance, looked at him, saw that he was bending over, took off the lampshade, and was about to blow out the candle, I couldn't help saying: "Keep it."

Bai Li stopped, picked up a lamp spoon, and added some whale oil into it.

"Bai Li, tell me, will that kid hate me? Would his soul be willing to come back? He died thousands of miles away, and I can see him. Do I keep a lamp waiting for him?"

His hands trembled, and he looked at me in a daze, as if he was surprised that I would say such a thing.

I smiled: "I made you laugh."

"I dare not." He lowered his head again, hesitant to speak.

"Bai Li."

"The minister is here."

"Do you have any wish, do you have someone you want to protect?"

"I wish to protect Your Majesty..."

"I'm asking what you think, Bai Li. I'm not asking about your responsibilities." I asked this, but I laughed in my heart. If I take off this heavy helmet, as Xiao Ling, I will have almost nothing.Until today, I have my own concerns, but I can't keep them.

Sad too.

Bai Li stared at the lights: "Naturally, traveling all over the world, wandering around the world, if you meet someone, you will be an opponent, but also a confidant, know each other, cherish each other, and live a happy life."

"Have you met that person?"

Bai Li nodded, then shook his head again, noncommittal.

"If you meet, even if you can't stay together forever, you can still cherish each other for a while, don't leave any regrets."

After all, I was exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.Half asleep and half awake, the sound of heavy breathing came from my ears, and I smelled the nice musky scent again when I was close at hand, and I groped towards the side in a daze, but found nothing.The sound and the smell dissipated in an instant. I realized that this was just an illusory nightmare, but I didn't want to open my eyes.

But that must be what it feels like to be drunk.

"Du'er, are you back?"

"Uncle Huang, do you miss me?" A familiar voice laughed.

I opened my eyes suddenly.

Nothing.

There was nothing beside him, only a ray of candlelight leaking in from the gap in the curtain.

I looked up and saw that the candle was already dying, flickering, and it was about to go out, so I panicked and crawled to the side of the couch to add oil, but rolled to the ground.

I couldn't move because of the pain, and watched the candle flicker and then go out.

That kid must hate me and doesn't want to come back.

I closed my eyes and lay on the cold ground, my eyes were blurred.

It's deep winter, it's so cold outside, you must be cold too.

I will accompany you.

The door creaked, and the sound of messy footsteps approached: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what are you doing lying here? Quickly, help the Emperor up, don't touch his legs!"

I was helped back to the couch, and the candle was lit again, but I didn't sleep until dawn.

I don't know what night it is, but it's snowing outside the window.With the twilight of the sky, the icy lake can be seen from a distance, a vast expanse of whiteness, and 16-year-old Xiao Du once walked across it with my back on his back.I lost my mind looking there, only to wake up from a dream when I heard the chime of Chenshi.

It's time to go to morning.

But I am so sick, how can I let the courtiers see it?Do you want them to watch me go in and out of the hall in a wheelchair?Why hasn't Bai Li brought Fei Yan's heart and soul?

Just as he was about to call him, he heard an announcement from outside that someone wanted to see him, unfortunately it was Feiyan.

I don't want to face him, and I don't want to admit that he is my biological father, that I am the evil seed born of my concubine's affair with him, an existence that is not tolerated by the Xiao family.

Feiyan didn't dare to ask me to recognize him as my father, he came here just to tell me that my leg couldn't be healed by his heartache.The blood of the Fei clan can heal others, but it has no effect on their own clansmen. It is really a big joke, but it is true.

And I can't allow myself to be a joke and be at the mercy of Xiao Yu.

I asked Feiyan if he had invited the gods, and what enlightenment he had received. Feiyan told me that the gods had never been invited, but he saw Yinghuo lingering by Xinsu on the Temple of Heaven.Since ancient times, this star has symbolized disasters for emperors.

Although this omen was a bad omen, it came very timely.

According to common sense, as the emperor, I need to transfer this disaster to one person.No one is more suitable for this person than Xiao Yu, who is the Duke of Zhen.On this day, I went up to the court in a sedan chair, and lied that I had slipped and injured myself while climbing the mountain to reach the Xing Pavilion. I ordered Feiyan to set up an altar in front of the palace, and publicized the matter of being confidant and guarding one's heart. The whole court knew about it. All over Mianjing.

In order to appease the wrath of the heavens, I amnesty the world and released several ministers who have been imprisoned in the Xingsi Temple, but secretly sent white guards to control their families. The minister was grateful, and jointly "accused" Zhen Guogong with the Ministry of Punishment of imitating the jade seal in his mansion and hiding it in the newly built temple, for fear of treason.

I sent Da Sixian Li Xiu to search Xiao Yu's mansion with Shang Fang's sword, and naturally "searched" and found a fake jade seal - the one that was originally replaced by Xiao Lan and should be placed in my imperial study.

In this way, the imperial edict in Xiao Yu's hand became a fake, and no one would believe it.

When he was captured, he really took out the edict and wanted to die with me.

But the seal on the imperial edict is difficult to distinguish between true and false, cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness.

Xiao Yu didn't expect that I would use the trick of pretending to be real, so he was caught off guard. After all, he was still young, and he was no match for my play hard to get or my emperor's wrath.The sword of Shangfang gave Li Xiu the power to kill the rebellious officials, and even the Yue Taiwei and Concubine Li couldn't save him. I gave both kindness and power, and I didn't order Li Xiu to execute him on the spot, but sent someone to give him good wine and scalpers.

——That is to give death, ordering him to suffer this plague of temptation for me.

It is much more honorable to die for the emperor than to commit the crime of treason.

It was so reasonable that no one dared to plead for mercy.

When Xiao Yu drank the poisonous wine, I sat on the dragon chair and watched.He was dressed in a white robe, with loose hair, and he no longer had the arrogance of the eldest son of the emperor on his face. He raised his neck and drank the wine in one gulp. His pair of slender luan eyes stared at me intently, black blood gradually oozing from the corner of his mouth.

"Father is indeed right. He said that Uncle Huang is a bird that cannot be kept...you have to fold its wings, choke its throat, and prevent it from flying or screaming before it can become a pet."

I lowered my eyes coldly, and smiled: "You are a playful child after all, but unfortunately this court is not your ice rink, if you slip one wrong step, you will break your feet, and you will never recover."

Xiao Yu laughed loudly, and the laughter resounded through the hall, which was actually very sad.

I just remembered that he had just passed the weak crown and was about to die before he became a concubine.

Xiao Yu stood up and walked towards me staggeringly, his eyes began to lose sight.He took out a slender human bone flute from his waist, put it to his lips, and played it.

The sound of the flute is like weeping and complaining, like the mournful cry of a bird.

Before the end of the song, he fell under the dragon chime, and the flute rolled to the side.

"That year, when Uncle Huang taught me to skate on the frozen lake, I was really happy."

I closed my eyes and waved my hand when I heard him stop breathing, "Just drag it on."

On the day of Xiao Yu's death, Bai Yanzhi sent Empress Wuga into the palace, and the Bai family army stationed inside and outside the palace to protect me. I welcomed Wuga into the East Palace according to the tradition, and I was still enshrined as the queen, in order to stabilize the royal court of the Qi clan and temporarily maintain peace.Afterwards, I used Xiao Yu as a gap to pry up the power of the Yue Party, demoted Taiwei Yueyuan as the governor of Xizhou, punished the border gates, and expelled Xiao Yu's mother and daughter Concubine Li from Yueyuan; He ordered Bai Chen to take over the position of Taiwei, and concurrently served as Situ, the chief assistant of the cabinet, promoted Li Xiu to be the assistant of the state, and the minister of the Ministry of punishment. He also rewarded Xiao Mo and Xiao Jing for their meritorious service, and weakened their military power at the same time. The daughter married the princess of the Bai family to them, and set up separate residences for them in Mianjing.

After everything was sorted out, Xiao Du's body was also delivered.

I saw him in his coffin.It was exactly as Bai Li said, beyond recognition.

Such a tall and strong man was burned to the point where only a handful of scorched bones remained, but one hand was tightly curled into a fist and placed in front of his chest, holding something.

I stretched out my hand to break it off, but it didn't move at all. I made up my mind to pull out the jade hairpin on my head and pry it open a gap between his two fingers, only to see what he was holding in the palm of his hand.

It was a molten amber bead, like a bloody tear.

I was spinning and nearly fell into the coffin.

I have never seen this rebellious wolf cub cry.Did he shed tears when he was attacked by enemies and died in the fire?Did he think I lied to him and died of hatred?

I took off Xiao Du's favorite robe to see me wearing, and covered him with it.

The palace people were surprised that I gave such a honor to a traitor. They not only gave him a dragon robe for burial, but also secretly sent him to the emperor's mausoleum. They didn't know that I gave Xiao Du the treatment of a queen.

When I came out of the underground palace, I went to the imperial study room. I wanted to pack up some of Xiao Du's paintings and put them in the imperial mausoleum, but I found the volume "Tianshu" in Duobaoge.He has already repaired it, and added a lot on the back, densely packed, all of which are his suggestions and ideas.

Some immaturities are bold and innovative, and it is worth a try.

I read it carefully, and my eyes fell on a string of small characters written in cinnabar at the end.

——Uncle Huang marrying me, what do you think?

I stretched out my hand to caress the handwriting, and a tear that had been lingering in my eyes for many days finally fell.

In the spring of the eighth year of Xuanhe, Xiao Du was buried.

It seemed to the people that this funeral was fit for a treasonous subject.

When the straw mat is covered, the corpse is exposed to the wilderness, and the beasts share the food.

They don't know that he is lying in the emperor's mausoleum, and I will be buried beside him in a hundred years.

At the end of the year, I changed Yuan to Qianfeng, held a ceremony to sacrifice to heaven, and became the only emperor in the Xiao Dynasty who conferred gods.

After some rectification, the situation in North Korea and China has gradually stabilized.

The Guard Division established by Xiao Du has greatly improved the efficiency of my governance. Since then, my eyes, ears and minions have spread all over the government and the public, connecting up and down, and the power has gradually gathered in my single hand.

In the following three years, Mian Kingdom was thriving, peaceful and prosperous.

But in the past three years, the Western Regions have been turbulent.

The domestic struggle is endless, the three princes are fighting each other, the royal court is divided into three, the queen who holds the power loses power, and when the war is about to break out, it is a prince who is not qualified to be a crown prince who controls the government and becomes the king. king.

As his name suggests, this king of Wujue was ruthless in his methods. He killed the eldest prince as soon as he came to power. In just one year, it has annexed nine neighboring small barbarian countries in the Western Regions, and its ambition to unify the Western Regions is clearly revealed.

If it unifies the Western Regions, it will not only be satisfied with the Western Regions, but will definitely go south to threaten the Mian Kingdom.

In the past three years, I have never allowed the two countries to communicate with each other. In the year Xiao Du died, Wuzhu invited him back to the country. Destroy it, and it will fall apart.

And this King Wujue did not follow the Queen's advice.

I was busy with Bai Chen to implement the new policy of electing officials, and I didn't want to turn against the country at this time, so I ordered Queen Wu Jia to send a letter to King Wu Jue, intending to invite him to be a guest in the name of my in-laws.

But the letter was returned intact, along with the gold and beauties I sent.

But the messenger was killed, and the dead body was holding a letter box in his hand.Inside the letter box was a map, on the territory of Mian Kingdom, there was a bloody fingerprint imprinted on it.

This is tantamount to a letter of war.

I immediately ordered Bai Yanzhi to strictly guard the northern border. Within three days, sure enough, King Wujue sent his troops southward, broke into the border gate, and fought with the Northwest Marquis Bai Yanzhi in northern Hebei. Bai Yanzhi, who had fought undefeated, retreated steadily, and the flames of war spread from Jizhou, all the way to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

There was great chaos in the northern region, and people were panicking. It was rumored that the Wujue King was fierce and tyrannical. He was a demon god descended from the sky.

As the emperor, I had to drag a piece of my body and march in person.