Yue Wang Gou Jian

At midnight, Gou Jian got up and added some night grass to the stable, but when he returned to the house, Ya Yu came up to meet him and poured him a glass of water.

"It's late at night, and the queen is recovering from a serious illness, so let's go back early and rest."

Gou Jian raised his head and drank all the water in the cup, obviously extremely thirsty.

Ya Yu smiled, shook his head, took off the windbreaker Gou Jian was wearing, hung it on the stone wall, and said:

"The concubine is the queen of the Yue Kingdom, and it is the concubine's duty to take care of the king. The concubine is useless, unable to protect the fetus in the womb. The king's feeding the horse is hard work, and he has to take care of it day and night. Concubine, concubine is very troubled."

"The queen is serious. It is useless for a widow to protect my wife and children. How can I blame you for this matter. I swear, one day I will destroy Wu and avenge our children."

Gou Jian took Ya Yu into his arms, his dark eyes filled with firmness.

Suddenly, the guard outside the door shouted:

"His Royal Highness King Yue, King Wu has an invitation."

Gou Jian's face changed slightly, but he patted Ya Yu's shoulder lightly, signaling her not to worry.

Goujian put on a black windbreaker, and followed the two guards out of the stone room.

Although it's early summer, the night wind on the mountain is still slightly cool, making people feel chills on their backs.

Summoned in the middle of the night, thinking with his toes, he knew what Fucha wanted to do.

Sure enough, he is just a tool to vent his desire when he is called and gone.

Gou Jian raised his head, looking at the dark night sky above his head, a self-deprecating smile curled up on his lips.

When the door of the stone room was opened again, it was three quarters of Yin time, the two guards pushed Gou Jian into the stone room, and closed the stone door with a "bang".

"My lord, how are you doing?"

Ya Yu rushed forward to support the crumbling Goujian.

"The widow is fine, the night is deep, why hasn't the queen returned to Qingfeng Palace?"

With the support of Ya Yu, Goujian sat down on the stone bench, but his face was already pale.

"Your Majesty was summoned by the King of Wu late at night, and my concubines are really worried."

Seeing the blood-red hickey marks on Gou Jian's open skirt, Ya Yu knew it in her heart, so she didn't say anything, and just brought a glass of water to Gou Jian.

"The day after tomorrow is the Leizu Ceremony. The King of Wu will go to the Leizu Temple outside Gusu City to worship the Silkworm God. He wants us to accompany him."

Goujian took a sip of water.

"I'm afraid he wants everyone in the Wu Kingdom to see the king of Yue as his slave."

Yayu said with a pretty face.

"A man should be able to bend and stretch. In the past, King Wen of Zhou ate the flesh of his own son and finally destroyed Shang Zhou. Today, it doesn't matter if a widow is a slave."

Gou Jian glanced at Ya Yudao,

"It's just that the queen has been suffering with me all this time. Otherwise, I will ask King Wu to let him let you go back to the country."

"Your Majesty, please don't..."

Ya Yu suddenly realized that her tone was a little too aggressive, so she slowed down and said:

"As the saying goes, marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog. The concubines are the wives of the king, so naturally they have to follow the king, and the concubines don't want the king to agree to the conditions of the king of Wu for the sake of the concubines. things come."

"If that's the case, let's give it up. It's just that the queen has a deep affection for the widow. It's because the widow didn't cherish it. If the widow can return to the country smoothly, the queen will be honored for the rest of her life."

Gou Jian was moved by emotion for a moment, and pulled Ya Yu's slender hand, but felt that the other party was frightened, and retracted his hand.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, let my concubine serve you to bed and rest. The concubine has to go back to Qingfeng Palace."

"It's almost dawn, why don't the queen rest here."

"The concubine is staying in the stone room. I'm afraid that the king will do such beastly things to the king like last time. The concubine should go back."

……

As the day dawned, in Qingfeng Palace, a woman in green clothes held a carrier pigeon in her hand, and walked gracefully into the garden. During this time, she tied a roll of notes to the carrier pigeon's feet, and immediately released the carrier pigeon.

The pigeon spread its wings, soared into the sky, flew over the palaces and towers of Wu State, with vermilion walls and green tiles, and flew straight to the distance.

And all of this was seen clearly by the pair of eagle-like eyes hidden in the grass in the distance.

……

The second day is the sixth day of March, which is the birthday of Lei Zu.Gusu, the land of Wu, is famous for its silk weaving. More than 20 years ago, Wu and Chu even fought for the border mulberry fields. There was a large-scale "battle for mulberry".

Every year, on Leizu's birthday, King Wu would go to the Leizu Temple outside Gusu to preside over the ceremony. This year, it was the first time that King Wu Fucha presided over the Leizu ceremony, and the momentum was even greater.

The people of Gusu woke up very early and stood in two rows on both sides of the official road, looking forward to the end of the official road, only waiting for the arrival of King Wu's car.

At the gate of the Wu Palace, the palace people are well-dressed and neatly lined up in two rows. In the middle are the chariots of King Wu and the ministers of the court, and behind them are the guards of the Wu Palace who are holding swords and halberds.

"King Wu is here."

The high-pitched and shrill voice of the servant resounded through the palaces, pavilions and pavilions of the Wu Palace.King Wu was wearing a black robe embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon, wearing a crown on his head, and seven curtains with colorful jade hanging down below, his handsome face looming through the cracks in the curtains.Civil and military officials all dressed up, held jade wats, lowered their eyebrows and raised their foreheads, and followed closely behind King Wu respectfully.

"Please come to the chariot, King Wu."

As soon as the waiter finished speaking, there was already a man bowed and kneeling in front of Fu Chai's car.

Looking at the thin back of the man in front of him, Fu Chai frowned unconsciously.

"Is there no one in the Department of Internal Affairs? Today, I actually appointed such a slender and thin person to be my pawn."

Fu Chai slandered, but because today's ceremony was extremely grand, and it was his first time presiding over it, he would never allow any mistakes. Although he was displeased, he calmly stepped on the man's foot with the support of the palace servants. back.

How could the thin and thin back bear the oppression brought by Fu Chai's stalwart body, Fu Chai could only feel his body trembling under his feet, but the man seemed to still grit his teeth and support him.

The chariot moved forward slowly, but Fu Chai felt a little uneasy.That thin back kept spinning in Fu Chai's mind.

"that person……"

Fu Chai suddenly thought of something, he quickly opened the curtain first, and looked back, only to see the man standing up from the ground staggeringly just now, the wind picked up his messy hair, covering half of the face that turned all sentient beings upside down, The other half is exposed outside, and it is all over the country.

"It's him, how could it be him..."

Fu Chai felt a throbbing pain in his heart when he thought of stepping on his thin back recklessly just now.

"Wu Zixu..."

Inside the chariot, Fu Chai clenched his fists and said these three words through gritted teeth.

……

"Look, that's King Yue..."

"Look, the King of Yue gave us the King of Wu as a pawn, and the Yue people are despicable."

"It's not just a pawn, I heard that the king of Yue often sleeps with our king of Wu."

"Hey...how shameless, Yue people have such a king, it's strange if the country doesn't perish."

……

Under the pointing of everyone, Gou Jian got up from the ground tremblingly with a pale face and thin lips.

"Let's go now."

Seeing that Goujian stood still for a long time, the palace servants behind stepped on him and urged him.

……

The Lei Zu Ceremony needs to be held for three days and three nights, and is divided into six links: "welcoming the gods", "sacrificing incense", "sacrificing offerings", "worshiping", "sacrificing dances" and "sending off the gods".During this period, the king of Wu and all his ministers needed to live in the Leizu Temple, and the temple officials of the Leizu Temple had already packed up the wing rooms to welcome the king and grandchildren of Wu to move in.

As a slave of the King of Wu, Gou Jian could only squeeze together with those lower-ranking palace people.After driving for a long time, he was also tired at this time, Gou Jian picked up a quilt and went to sleep in a corner, but he heard Fu Chai's attendant say: "The king of Wu is here to invite you."

Everything seemed to be expected, Goujian got up, and followed the attendant through the winding corridors of the temple to a rather exquisite elegant house.

When I entered the room, I saw a lamp like a bean. Fu Chai, the king of Wu, was sitting next to the table, but there was a game of chess in front of the table.

"Shuizhi, do you still remember that game of chess that you and I played on Penglai Island that day? If you hadn't mentioned something, I would not have been able to find the location of 'Tianwen'."

"It's a pity that Tianwen has been destroyed..."

Goujian was not polite to the King of Wu, he sat down in front of the King of Wu, holding the white piece in his hand, and dropped it, but it just happened to fall into Fucha's trap..."

"The king of Yue was careless and would eat your son."

Fu Chai dropped another son and looked at Gou Jian with ambiguous eyes:

"Although I didn't get Tianwen that day, I got you."

Gou Jian recalled everything that happened in that cave many years ago, and felt as if five years had passed.

"Wu Wang's words are serious. How can a mere Goujian compare with Tianwen Shenjian? Besides, Wu Wang wants to get his subordinates, it's just a matter of one sentence."

"Suizhi, why do you hurt me with your words, today I really don't know that it is you, otherwise I would rather cut off my own legs than step on your back."

"King Wu, don't do this. I am your slave. Me, my wife, and children, our lives are all yours. If King Wu wants it, it's just a matter of one word."

"So, your child, I really didn't mean it."

Fucha knew that Goujian was still angry about making Echigo miscarry, so he explained.

"King Wu doesn't need to explain too much."

After Goujian finished speaking, another son fell down.

Seeing that Gou Jian was not moved by him, Fu Chai sighed quietly, poured a glass of wine and put it in front of Gou Jian, saying:

"This is the special mulberry wine made by Leizu Temple. You can try it."

"Mulberry wine?"

Seeing that Gou Jian was quite interested in the mulberry wine, Fu Chai talked eloquently:

"This wine is very magical. According to legend, a hundred years ago, a mulberry tree in the backyard condensed a special kind of dew. It smells like wine, and it tastes as clear and sweet as wine. But it’s not intoxicating. The host of the Leizu Temple ordered someone to bring a vessel, and kept watch under the big mulberry tree for three days and three nights, and finally saved an altar. Only a small pot is taken for us at the Leizu Ceremony every year. The king of the country enjoys it, and after a hundred years, there should be very few left."

After drinking for three rounds, the chess situation gradually became clear.

Goujian's Baizi has surrounded Fucha's Heizi completely.

"Being preemptive may not be the last laugh."

Gou Jian looked at Fu Chai and said meaningfully.

"I'm happy to lose to Suzhi."

Looking at Gou Jian with deep eyes, Fu Chai raised the corners of his lips slightly, with a doting look on his face.

Suddenly, Gou Jian frowned, with a painful expression on his face.

"This wine..."

"Suzhi, what's wrong with you?"

"This wine is poisonous..."

"Shizhi...Shizhi...um..."

Seeing that Gou Jian's face was distorted due to the pain of poisoning, Fu Chai hurriedly reached out and held his hand tightly, but unexpectedly, his heart ached, and he lay powerlessly on the table.

"Who is it, who is going to kill you and me?"

Fu Chai said weakly while holding Gou Jian's hand tightly.

Suddenly there was a "bang" on the door, and five or six strong men with broken hair and tattoos rushed in, followed by a burst of melodious laughter like silver bells.

"queen……"

"Echigo..."

Gou Jian and Fu Chai looked at the woman in green who appeared in front of them in disbelief.

"Your Majesty, do you know what kind of poison I mixed in the mulberry wine?"

Ya Yu walked to Gou Jian's side, looked at him playfully and said,

"It's Duanchang Powder...hahahaha..."

Before Gou Jian could react, Ya Yu laughed up to the sky, and his normally pretty face became distorted because of this smile, like a Shura ghost walking from hell.

"Broken intestines dissolve in water, colorless and odorless; do you feel that your stomachs are broken into pieces, and the pain is unbearable. Don't worry, after two hours, you won't be in pain anymore..."

"Queen, why?"

Goujian asked Ya Yudao.

"Queen? King Yue, thank you for being able to call me queen. All along, we only have the name of husband and wife, but not the reality. I'm afraid it's because you only want to be the queen of Wu."

Hearing Ya Yu's words, Fu Chai focused his eyes on Gou Jian, with a little surprise and a little joy.

It turned out that he had never had anything to do with this woman.But why did he pretend to care about this woman in front of him.Why does he keep lying to himself.

"But...that night...we clearly..."

Gou Jian ignored Fu Chai, looked at Ya Yu and asked.

"Since you're going to die, I'll make you understand. Nothing happened to us that night. In fact, I was pregnant with my cousin Si Xi's child a month ago. The reason why I chose to marry you was because of Take back from you everything that originally belonged to my cousin and my unborn child. We originally planned to find a chance to kill you and let my unborn child inherit the throne in a legitimate way, but we didn't expect you to see through our plan and still I followed the plan and killed my cousin. I followed you into Wu as a slave, endured humiliation and survived, just to wait for the opportunity, and killed you quietly, but I didn't expect him to protect you with all his life."

Ya Yu pointed her fingers poorly and looked at him bitterly.

"It turns out that the killer on the tea girl's birthday was actually sent by you."

Fucha's voice seemed weak from the onset of toxicity.

"If it wasn't for you that day, Gou Jian would have died long ago."

Ya Yu looked at Fu Chai and said,

"Since entering Wu, you have defended me everywhere. I didn't want to deal with you, but I didn't expect you to reject me that night and tell me that you like Goujian. You even pushed me down cruelly, which made my stomach hurt. The fetus is not guaranteed."

As Ya Yu spoke, there was a trace of pain in her expression, her big black eyes suddenly turned cold, she almost gritted her teeth and looked at Gou Jian and Fu Chai, and said word by word:

"Today, I want you two to pay for my husband Si Xi and my unborn child..."

"You are reaping the fruit of yourself, and you are no different from others."

Fu Chai glanced at Ya Yu contemptuously and said.

"Heh... Fucha, I know you look down on me, but you two fell in my hands today. Hahaha..."

"Isn't it too early to say this now?"

Fu Chai's voice suddenly returned to normal, and he and Gou Jian stood up from their chairs together, one with burning, deep and unpredictable eyes, and the other with gentle brows, with the usual coldness and aloofness, which did not seem to be poisoned.

Ya Yu's heart sank suddenly, he staggered a few steps back, pointed at Gou Jian and Fu Chai, and after a long while, he managed to utter a few words:

"You...you..."

"We're not poisoned."

The corners of Fu Chai's lips curled up into a wicked smile.

"Even if you are not poisoned, you must report to Lord Yan today."

Ya Yu's eyes suddenly turned cold, and with a wave of his hand, those strong men rushed forward and surrounded Gou Jian and Fu Chai.

"Who dares to hurt the king..."

Hearing a shout, a group of red shadow guards rushed in, and within a short while, they restrained those strong men.

"Impossible... My plan is flawless, how could you see through it."

Seeing that she had completely lost power, Ya Yu sat slumped on the ground with a look of frustration and bewilderment.

"This is due to the physician Liu Ziyu who treated you."

Fu Chai turned his head and looked at Gou Jian, and answered Ya Yudao.