Yue Wang Gou Jian

"My husband sent the head to guarantee that Gou Jian is indeed the son of Wu Xie and Yue Wang Yun Chang!"

Fu Chai's tone was firm and could not be refuted. Although what he said was absurd, it was unbelievable.

At this moment, a carriage approached from far to near, and stopped at the edge of the execution ground.An old woman got out of the car. She was wearing plain clothes, and there were several patches on it. The old woman had a haggard face and a stooped figure. Inserted obliquely is a jade hairpin inlaid with carved double chi patterns on the Ruyi head, which is extremely inconsistent with her village woman's attire.

Fu Chai looked at the old woman, with a smile on his lips, and said:

"The person I was talking about is here!"

……

"The execution ground is a heavy place, idlers should not enter."

Seeing the white-haired old woman walking towards the execution ground, the guards of the execution ground crossed their halberds and stopped her.

"Wu Gu, you came at the right time."

Fucha shouted to the woman who was stopped outside the execution ground, then looked back at Echigo and said,

"An old friend is visiting, don't you want to see Echigo?"

Standing on the trial platform, Echigo glanced at the white-haired old woman who was stopped outside the execution ground from a distance, but felt suspicious in his heart.Although I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Fucha's gourd, but a mere mountain woman can do nothing to her, so she ordered the guards of the execution ground to say:

"Let her in!"

I saw the woman walking to the judgment seat, bowed slightly to Echihou and said:

"See the queen!"

Echihou approached the woman, looked carefully at the front and back, but saw that the man was dressed in rough clothes, with a stooped figure and wrinkled face. He was already an octogenarian, but he didn't know when he had seen this woman , and asked:

"Who are you? When did I see you?"

"Queen Qi, I have lived in the mountains for a long time, and I have never seen Echigo before."

The woman replied that although she faced Echigo's majestic appearance, she was neither humble nor overbearing.

Hearing what the woman said, Echi's heart was slightly relieved, and he was about to ask Fu Chai why he had fooled her, but he heard the old woman say:

"However, I was entrusted by someone to return a treasure to the queen."

As the old woman said, she took out the jade hairpin inlaid with engraved double chi patterns from her white hair, and presented it to Echigo and asked,

"Does the queen still remember this thing?"

Seeing this jade hairpin, Echigo's whole body was shocked, and he snatched the jade hairpin away, but saw the word "Ruyi" engraved in Jin characters on the back of the hairpin.

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"Your Majesty, this hairpin is a dowry gift of your Majesty, it is too precious for slaves to accept."

In the queen's bedroom, a young servant girl knelt in front of the bed with a hosta in her hand, and said to the queen who was lying on the bed and taking a nap.

"Chunhua, you and I grew up together and were named master and servant, but I have always regarded you as my own sister."

The queen sat up from her bed, inserted the jade hairpin into the bun of a servant girl, narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly, and exclaimed enviously,

"Chunhua, look, only your beauty is worthy of this jade hairpin."

Hearing the master's words, the servant felt terrified and buried her head deeper in the ground and said:

"The queen is laughing. How can spring flowers and vulgar fans compare to the queen's peerless elegance."

"Chunhua, I need you to do something for me?"

Before going to bed, the queen suddenly said in a deep voice.

"What's the queen's business, but follow orders."

The young servant girl raised her head and looked at the queen with clear eyes.

The queen bent down, gently rubbed Chunhua's sharp chin with her jade hand, and said with long eyes:

"I want you to seduce Wuxie."

……

Spring flowers?

Echigo looked at the old woman in front of him with a look of disbelief.No, it's impossible, Chunhua was only 16 years old back then, even after 20 years, she can't be this age.

"Who are you? Why is this hairpin in your hand?"

"This hairpin was given to me by my daughter Chunhua before she died. She told me that I must return it to the empress with my own hands."

The old woman's voice was flat and scary.

Hearing Haruka's name, Echigo shuddered all over.Although the old woman stood in front of him with the most respectful attitude, for some reason, Echigo saw the flames of hatred in those cloudy eyeballs.

"Chunhua...how is she?"

Although Echigo tried his best to keep calm, the trembling voice still betrayed the master's mood.

"Thanks to the gift of the queen, Chunhua passed away 20 years ago."

As the old woman spoke, she couldn't help crying, and she looked at Echigo with a little bit of resentment in her eyes,

"Come here, drag this crazy woman who is talking nonsense to me."

Feeling that the visitor was not kind, Echiku took a few steps back and ordered left and right.

"Who dares to touch her!"

Holding the sword in his hand, Fu Chai jumped to the front of the old woman and protected her behind him.

"General Bai Zhuo, take Fu Chai and this village woman down together."

Echigo suddenly ordered Burley to say.

"General Baizhuo, you have been upright all your life, and you don't want to get the name of being disloyal because you accidentally killed the blood of the King of Yue. Besides, you owed a favor to the maid Chunhua back then. If you know how to repay your kindness, please listen to Aunt Wu." Let's finish talking."

Fu Chai said to Bai Zhuo.

……

On the winter solstice day 20 years ago, it snowed heavily in Ancheng. In Bai Zhuo's memory, it was the biggest snowfall in Ancheng.In the ruined temple, he was wearing tattered clothes and squeezed together with a group of beggars, trembling all over, looking at the empty bowl in front of him, his stomach rumbling.

"Cough cough cough..."

"Oh, it's so cold and there's nothing to eat. If you don't freeze to death, you'll starve to death."

"Your Majesty is busy eradicating dissidents, and the whole country of Yue is in panic. How can anyone care about us beggars?"

……

There is no groaning in the ear.Moaning is the sound of moaning and sighing. These people are either old or disabled, have no children, and have no relatives. They have to go to the streets to beg during the day and live in ruined temples at night.But Bai Zhuo is different, he is a young man with healthy limbs, but so what, since he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was this ruined temple.His adoptive father raised him with leftovers from begging.Since childhood, what he has learned is how to pretend to be pitiful to win the sympathy of the rich, stretching out his hand and waiting for them to give some leftovers.

"I'm coming……"

Suddenly, a voice shouted excitedly.Every year during the winter solstice, people in the palace were sent to deliver some food to these beggars, and this year was no exception.

Bai Zhuo opened his eyes, but what he saw was a woman wearing a red cloak. The woman had exquisite makeup and an amiable demeanor, and her eyes were flowing, showing a romantic attitude.Behind the woman were several women in red jackets, with large white steamed buns in the baskets on their hands.

"I am Chunhua, the queen's maidservant. Today is the winter solstice, and the queen ordered me to bring you some food."

The sound of spring flowers is like the warm sunshine in March, which makes people feel a sense of warmth in their hearts.

Under the arrangement of Chunhua, the maids began to distribute steamed buns to the beggars.

"thanks……"

Bai Zhuo said the most common words used when begging, and stretched out his hand, waiting to accept the steamed buns handed over from a palace lady. steamed buns.

"Don't give it to him."

I can only hear the voice of Chunhua saying,

"This person is young and has healthy limbs, but he likes leisure and does not want to make progress. He deserves to starve to death."

That short sentence set off a storm in Burley's heart.Bai Zhuo didn't know when Chunhua and all the maids left. That night, he kept thinking about how to live a man was born between heaven and earth.

The next day, Bai Zhuo disappeared, and the beggars in the ruined temple no longer knew his whereabouts. They didn't know until the winter solstice of the next year, when General Zhengxi Bai Zhuo came to the ruined temple to distribute food and clothes. Young people like them, who live by begging, have become famous generals in the court.

Bai Zhuo never forgot Chunhua's kindness, but when he became a general, what he heard was that Chunhua eloped with the king's male favorite.From then on, on that snowy night, the woman wearing a red cloak and speaking as warm as a spring breeze became the softest place in his heart.

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"General Bai Zhuo, hurry up and take down the traitor!"

Seeing that Bai Zhuo was stunned on the spot after hearing Fu Chai's words, Echihou was furious and scolded him.

"What happened to Chunhua, how did she die?"

Unexpectedly, Bai Zhuo didn't listen to Echigo's words, but instead asked the woman.

"Chunhua was killed by this hairpin."

The old woman pointed to the hairpin in Echigo's hand, her voice choked up, her eyes turned red again,

"Back then, Echigo ordered my son Chunhua to seduce Wuxie, the former king's male favorite. In order to fear that Chunhua would reveal the secret, he put chronic hairpins on this hairpin. Chunhua didn't know it, and thought it was the queen's kindness, so he wore it every day. On the head, but within a month after leaving the palace, he was poisoned and died."

"Impossible, Chunhua is obviously pregnant with an innocent child, that is Goujian tied to the punishment post."

Echigo pointed at Goujian and said.

"No, His Highness Goujian is not my son Chunhua's child, he...he was born by Master Wuxie himself!"

The old woman spoke humanely.

"Heh... heh heh... What a ridiculous absurdity! Since ancient times, it has never been heard that a man can become pregnant!"

Echigo suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, for a long time, suddenly stared at the woman fiercely, and said in a deep voice:

"Come on, take this nonsense man down for me."

"Queen, this woman doesn't seem to be lying, just listen to what she says."

Bai Zhuo suddenly spoke.

Although Echigo is the queen, but Bai Zhuo controls the [-] forbidden troops in Ancheng, and Yue Wang Yunchang has just died, and Echiko has no real power yet, so he can only rely on Bai Zhuo for everything, so since Bai Zhuo has spoken, Echiko will not Well, what more can I say.

"Thank you Lord Baizhuo..."

The old woman bowed slightly to Bai Zhuo, then said,

"If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. My son Chunhua did not elope with Mr. Wuxie. Back then, Chunhua was ordered by the queen to seduce Mr. Wuxie, but later found that she couldn't help falling in love with him. Later, Chunhua found out that Master Wuxie was pregnant for two months, which frightened both of them. The world does not tolerate a man's pregnancy. In order to prevent everyone in the harem from treating him as a monster, Wuxie Your Excellency decided to escape from the palace. At that time, Chunhua was determined to follow him, so she also escaped with him. After the two of them escaped from the palace, Chunhua took him back to our house. Because only our family lives on the mountain. That said, few people come here on weekdays, so although the former king searched everywhere for the whereabouts of Lord Wuxie, he was still unable to find it. After half a year, Lord Wuxie gave birth to a fat boy, but Chunhua was already dead at that time. Lord Wuxie Decided to leave with the baby, he said he would go back to avenge his clansman who was killed by the Chu people."

Everyone in the room felt inconceivable after hearing the woman's words, but what she said was reasonable and impeccable. This story did not seem like an irrelevant mountain woman could make it up.

"This is just your one-sided statement. How do you prove that Goujian is the son of the late king Yunchang?"

Echigo asked.

"This……"

The old woman was at a loss for words for a while, she only knew the facts of the year, but it has been nearly 20 years, how could she produce evidence.

"I have a way."

Just when everyone was at a loss, suddenly a clear voice came from the center of the execution ground.

Everyone looked for the reputation together, but they saw that it was none other than Gou Jian who was tied to the punishment post.