Gu Qingci

In the 62nd year of Daxing Dynasty, the first year of Yuanqing.

Emperor Lingkong moved his capital to Jincheng at the end of the year after capturing the leader Sha Jin alive and destroying the main force of the Nanman last year.So far, Rongcheng, which has been the capital of Daxing for 61 years, has been recorded in history.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the emperor changed Yuan Yuanqing and amnesty the world.On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Mount Tai was enshrined in Zen; large tracts of land in Nanban were well reclaimed, and granaries were built in various states to report to the heavens, and the lives of the people no longer had their last meal.As a result, there were endless carols in the streets and alleys, and the fireworks and lanterns were brightly lit day and night. In history, this period of history is called the prosperous age of volleying.

After the new year, the weather gradually warmed up.The Northern Qiang has already been appeased and gradually sinicized, and most of the Southern Man has been included in the territory, leaving only some non-threatening remnants.Daxing's huge army has been well cultivated, and the behemoth of Daxing Dynasty is operating in an orderly manner, and the court is fine for a while.

Sha Jin used to make insidious tricks during the fierce battle between Daxing and Northern Qiang. Although he didn't get any benefits in the end, Liang Zi ended up as it should be, so naturally it didn't end well.Before the great prosperity and moving the capital, he was beheaded in Rongcheng and made a public offering to the emperor.

As for the old Southern barbarian nobles who were imprisoned together in Beijing, the ruling and opposition parties were surprisingly unanimous in their opinions—cutting the weeds does not remove the roots, and the spring breeze blows and regenerates.It's just that when counting the number of people, a small accident happened.

Sha Jin's brother-in-law was not among them.

He took Sha Jinfeng's national teacher as a deserter on the battlefield, and sneaked away early in the morning.Because of their escape, when the Xing army attacked the southern capital, the western army was very weak, and it didn't take much effort to attack the city.

After Daxing moved the capital to Jincheng and strengthened its rule over the south, a month or two later, the remnant forces of Sha Jin's brother-in-law really began to emerge.They hid in the deeper forest in the south, where there were cliffs everywhere, and the raging torrent below, and the supplies were also very scarce.Since the forces are really weak and the living environment is harsh, Daxing doesn't need to wipe them out immediately.

The days passed day by day like this, and the second line of the canal will be completed soon. I think that the matter of connecting the rivers that were originally the Nanman territory will be put on the agenda for another day.

But I haven't even mentioned it yet... Well, I don't know why this happened.

I once saw soldiers making gunpowder in the armory. The thick iron sheet was rolled into a barrel shape, and sulfur, charcoal, and plant ash were tamped at the bottom, and the top was sealed, leaving long leads hanging outside.Those gunpowder barrels are ready to go, full of destructive power, only waiting for sparks to ignite before they can make a piece of land miserable.

Now Liu Yueying and I seem to be warm and gentle, but in fact it is just on top of a pile of gunpowder, filled with many layers of silk cloth because of the dark color of lust (1).

You can caress and kiss as much as you want on this soft and smooth silk, whether it is right or wrong, the silky touch will respond to you; but you must not light a fire on the silk.

Those dangerous conflicts and fierce contradictions exist in the deepest part like gunpowder. If a spark is splashed from the top, the restless iron bucket will be blown up in an instant, and there will be no physical body, skin, and sentient beings.

Finally, finally, that spark came out, burning wildly and violently, from one point to one piece, it was going to burn my eyes, my hands, and my heart into ashes, without any tendency to go out.

I got a letter from Xiao Xiang in Shengqing Building, sent by Yangzhi—the mountain is high and the road is far away, and it took several months to arrive.

The time was last December, before the capital was moved.

The location is Yingzhou in Jiangnan County, close to the border of Nanman.

She and Yan Xi were assassinated, Yan Xi almost died on the spot, the piercing wound was only an inch away from the heart.

When I saw this, my hands began to tremble, and all I could think about was: What kind of enemies did Yan Xi make?

Yan Xi is a down-to-earth person and does things in a down-to-earth manner. She has a lot of opportunities in Beijing and China. Whenever people see her, she always says hello, Mr. Yan. What kind of enemies can she make?

As a result, the following line read: Suspected to be the work of the Wind Banner Army.

Wind Banner Army.

I feel my eyes are red, and something is spinning in the eye sockets.Although Yangzhi didn't say it explicitly, I know that she had a good impression of Liu Yueying in the past.Without full evidence, she would not write this sentence hastily, definitely not.

"...The knife stabbed Xi's chest. I was so shocked that I was surrounded by all the thieves and couldn't escape. Sha Yu and Mu Diezhi descended from the sky and killed more than ten assassins."

"The assassins were dressed in black clothes and black cloth, and the body was searched for only broken golden ears. There was nothing around them, nothing to prove their identity." The group of assassins didn't have anything to prove their identity, so they must have done enough. Plan, carefully arranged.

"When he was at a loss, Sha Yu had no intention of picking up the leading assassin's knife, and began to be solemn. After a long time, he said: "Gai the unique saber of the imperial guards." . ” It seemed to start to ring in the ears, and there was buzzing in the ears, so I endured and continued to read.

"Thanks to Dr. Mu's hard work, I was able to survive, but I didn't wake up again; the disease in my arms and thighs was slightly relieved."

...Fortunately, fortunately, Yan Xi did not die, and Xiaozhi was also treated by Miracle Physician Mu.

I squatted down and let out a long breath like the rest of my life after a catastrophe. I wanted to spit out all the air in my lungs. It was so numb that I couldn't move, and I felt chilly as I grabbed the scalp on the top of my head and it hurt.

He grabbed his cuffs tightly, trying to suppress the painful murmurs, but to no avail.

Liu Yueying, you clearly said that you are tired of doing these things all the time, why don't you know how to stop?Why do you still have to... break your friendship with me?

This is more like what she did. She calculated everything in a minute, just like she counted all my master's pigeons in the beginning, and it didn't leak.

How stupid of me!Once seeing the new moon, the night is still clear and cold, Liu Yueying doesn't even believe me, how can she trust other people?Now that she reused Nangong, Xiao Chu would feel dissatisfied if she didn't keep it together, and then cooperated with Yan Xi in private, doing some deeds to threaten the imperial power.

Even if Yan Xi escaped from the height of the temple, Liu Yueying would still have doubts and worries.

But her skill is wonderful. She didn't rush to kill Yan Xi immediately after leaving Beijing, but hibernated for more than a year, so that people would not easily suspect her; Being killed by a bandit, who dares to ask again? !Those assassins were uniformly dressed, and apart from a bit of gold, they didn't have anything to prove their identity—how could ordinary people have seen the weapons of the imperial guards?And who would have thought of putting together the pieces of gold on those assassins?

Her calculations were too comprehensive, her methods were too clever, and she almost succeeded, just a little bit.

It's just a coincidence that I met Sha Yu.If Sha Yu hadn't happened to pass by, if she hadn't picked up the assassin's weapon and examined it carefully, who would have guessed who the forces behind these assassins were?Yan Xi and Yang Zhi may have become their dead souls for no apparent reason!

Clenching his hands into fists and slamming them to the ground, he still couldn't relieve the anger in his heart, his head was heavy and heavy, and his stomach was so full of nausea that he wanted to vomit, but he could only make the sound of retching.Even if I don't want to believe it, the facts are already in front of me, what else can I say?What more to say!

Sha Yu was someone who had fought with Lei Qijun, so she naturally recognized the weapons of those people, so there was no mistake.Most of the general guards and soldiers in Daxing mainly use sabers, but only her three pro-armies of Liu Yueying use sabers!

"Liu Yueying..." I gritted my teeth and read out her name, bitterness appeared in my mouth, it was so astringent that my tongue was numb.Very good, Liu Yueying, I finally recognize you.You are not that cold name in the history books, you are not the illusory image described by others, you are not the pattern I saw in the portrait... and you are no longer the unattainable god in my heart.

"Killing everything" is what you pursue all your life. Love and love are just something for entertainment after dinner. Only vicious snakes and scorpions, heartless ice, and arrogant and ruthless women will become the eternal emperors praised by others!

The next morning the imperial court rested, and Liu Yueying was going to summon the ministers to discuss the remnants of the Nanman tribe in the morning, so I broke into Chaofeng Palace early in the morning.

She had just finished washing, and was lazily leaning halfway on the table to eat breakfast.Surrounded by maidservants, Pianqiu was serving vegetables.There are so many servants here, I can't tell her directly at this time, I took a deep breath and suppressed all my emotions.

"You're here." She raised her eyes to see me, her eyes lit up.

"I'm early." His face was expressionless, and he dealt with it in an official tone.

"Give me a seat and eat some with me."

"This is against the rules, and I hope His Majesty will take it back."

"Where is it inappropriate?" She was a little displeased, her eyebrows were raised high, but her tone was calm and restrained.

I looked at her face, which had been treated too tenderly by time, and suddenly felt very strange—do I really know her?

"Sit down." Liu Yueying saw that something was wrong with me, she stretched out her hand to grab my wrist and pressed it down, "Eat with me, okay?" Her voice softened.

After breakfast, she led me to the study.The study in the emperor's palace is a place for leisure. She never handles government affairs here, and I also realized it later.

Several large cabinets in the study room were filled with books, brush brushes of different lengths and colors were hung on the table in the middle, and a large student leaflet was laid out on the table.

I am no longer in the mood to flirt with her again.

"Xiao Li, what's the matter with you today?" She paced to the low table where the Go board was placed and sat down.

"It's nothing." By now, I've calmed down instead. All my unwillingness, doubts, and grief and indignation have all turned into stagnant water of disappointment. There is no wind, no waves, and no heart, drying up in loneliness and cold.

My feelings for her, these 20 years of time flow are a complete joke.

"I just feel that Your Majesty is both arrogant and arrogant, but also domineering and indifferent. It's simply lack of human virtue." She stopped holding the chess hand, frowned her long eyebrows, and turned to look at me.

The regular clothes Liu Yueying wore when she went to bed hadn't changed yet, and the wide sleeves drooped down from the table following her movements, revealing a white arm with a bright green bracelet on it.

"Why did you say that?" She looked a little cold, but she didn't get annoyed or questioned.

"Why did you say that? When you ordered the Wind Banner Army to kill Yan Xiyang Zhi, why didn't you ask yourself?" I stood still.

"What nonsense are you talking about today, full of nonsense," she heard this and stood up, frowning tightly together, "I have already promised Yan Xi to take your sister away from the capital for medical treatment, how can you not?" Let the Wind Banner Army do such a thing?"

"Oh, isn't it? You are the emperor. If you say you did it, you did it; if you say no, then of course it's not. Who dares to question it? I should have given up a long time ago, and I should have seen you clearly—Sha Yu Mingming reminded me, but I was deeply obsessed with it, and I had fantasies and greed for you, Liu Yueying. It turned out that I was ridiculously stupid, and you must be very proud of being played around by you, right?" Just kidding, those things in the past broke through the ground, and every one of them hit my face, digging countless holes in my gradually cold heart.

[(1) The correct order of the latter is Lust. Desire. Love. Depth, I changed the order for fear of being affected by river crabs】