Married to a nemesis

After his identity was exposed that day, Yuan Ji Nian had already returned to Song Ying.

This matter had already been reported to the Great Zhou Palace, and Emperor Zhou was reading the letter from the border.

After seeing the last word, the letter in Zhou Huang's hand fell down like a falling leaf.

"Your Majesty... what happened?" The eunuch who had been standing by his side hastily helped the frail and grizzled emperor.

Zhou Huang looked at the letter that fell on the ground, and slowly stood up from the soft chair: "Do you believe that there will be people in this world who will resurrect their souls with corpses?"

The eunuch didn't know why he asked such a question, it must have something to do with Xin.But he didn't dare to look down at what was written in the letter, so he could only follow the emperor's question and carefully replied: "It's all in the scriptures, if there is, I have heard people mention it in my hometown. Some."

"Then have you seen it yourself, is it true that such a thing will happen?"

The eunuch looked at the hand that grabbed his arm, and saw that Emperor Zhou was very concerned about this matter, so he followed the emperor out with his head down, and said cautiously:

"I have never seen it in person, but I just heard from neighbors who occasionally talked about it, saying that the girl of the family usually has a voice like a mosquito, and she just lowers her head when she sees people. I heard that even the insects dare not take a second look." ..."

"But one time she fell down and fainted, and when she woke up, she seemed to be a different person. She looked at people with sharp eyes, and her speech seemed to be arguing with people. When she saw people on the road, whether she recognized them or not, I would go up and chat for a few words, just like... like a ghost has entered my body."

Zhou Huang silently compared what happened after his son "resurrected from the dead", and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it matched.

For example, when his son woke up, he looked at people less fiercely than before, and he was not as afraid of horses as before, and he knew how to intercede for others.

At that time, he also felt that his son had just become sensible suddenly, and he would naturally overcome his fear of horses when he grew up, but after hearing the news from the border repeatedly saying that his son was behaving abnormally, he became a little suspicious up.

Until he saw this letter written by Prince Zhou himself, he had no choice but to believe it.

He picked up the letter again, and repeatedly touched the neat and free handwriting on it, but his eyes dared not stop to read the content on it.

He still remembered what was written in it.His son, or the person who took his son's body, said that the real Prince Zhou died long ago.Throughout the letter, Yuan Ji Nian kept apologizing for taking up Prince Zhou's body and helping Da Song instead.

However, the sincere words made Zhou Huang read it, and Long Yan was furious. The hand on the eunuch's arm changed from grasping to pinching. Go first.

"Your Majesty..." The eunuch followed closely behind with small steps.

Finally reaching a waterside pavilion, Emperor Zhou stopped, with his back on his back, as if waiting for him to follow.

"What is the emperor's order?" The eunuch quickened his pace and finally chased after him out of breath.

"Do you think my son..." Zhou Huang looked at the lake, suddenly felt that it was useless to ask a eunuch, so he changed the subject, "Forget it, what about the Pei family?"

The eunuch looked at his face, repeated the words several times in his heart, and said after making sure that he was right: "Your Majesty, after receiving the letter from His Highness the Crown Prince yesterday, you ordered them to be released. Just now, they came out. Palace, the emperor wants to..."

"Leaving the palace?"

The little eunuch was uneasy when asked, lowered his head and was not sure what the emperor meant, so he could only nod his head and answer yes.

The surface of the lake has been covered with a thin layer of mist, and the sky is also gloomy above, making it difficult for people to see the scene clearly.

Zhou Huang was still holding the letter in his hand, and a few pieces of white things floated in front of his eyes, blurring his eyes, and the bright white flakes scattered like feathers of birds, gathering more and more.

The eunuch next to him was more excited than him, stretching out his hand to touch the purest white, watching it melt into his hand little by little.

"It's snowing, the emperor, it's snowing."

"The snow came very early this year." The emperor also stretched out his hand to catch it. What he saw was a vast expanse of snow and mist, but through the hazy mist, he seemed to have seen the situation in the frontier.

Holding the letter paper, he still couldn't help muttering: "It's already winter, why hasn't this brat come back yet?"

The little eunuch was trying to think of a few words to comfort the emperor to miss his son, but unexpectedly, "Emperor" behind him interrupted his thoughts.

Emperor Zhou turned around in response: "What's the matter?"

"Young Master Pei is back, just passed the gate of the city." The visitor said.

"Hurry up and let him come to see me." Zhou Huang's pale face was obviously surprised.

Of course the eunuch knew that the emperor was looking forward to seeing the prince, but seeing the embarrassment on the face of the person who reported the letter, he knew that most of the things the emperor expected were about to come to nothing.

The visitor's legs softened and he knelt on the ground, and added words that shattered Zhou Huang's fantasy: "The only person who came back was Mr. Pei, and he did not see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Emperor Zhou raised his head and laughed, repeating: "It's fine if you don't come back."

As if you want to tell yourself.

His son has changed to another person, and the person who took his son's body has returned to Song Dynasty.The more Zhou Huang thought about it, the more he regretted it. He should have discovered the abnormality of the prince earlier, so that he would have the opportunity to deal with the person who has been pretending to be his son.

Maybe his son will have a chance to come back to life after the person in his body dies.

Emperor Zhou called his most sincere subordinate and whispered a word in his ear:

"Give me the leader of the Song Army, the man who is said to be quite similar to the prince, he must be killed no matter what, and then his body...bring back to me!"

The subordinate didn't notice the abnormality in his words, and only nodded in agreement: "Okay!"

Outside the palace gate, a group of people were walking out, and white snow fell all over them.

"Finally came out." The outermost man in the group was somewhat similar to the Patriarch of the Pei family. He was a head lower than Pei Qian, but there were a few raised bumps on his forehead. He said happily, "I Let's just say, as long as Jiu Yu is still with His Highness the Crown Prince, nothing will happen to our Pei family."

The snow just started to fall, and the ground was still covered with a thin layer of white. The entire road was already paved with pure white. A few people walked in front, and a long series of footprints fell behind them. The snow they stepped on suddenly turned black. .

"Pei Chong's words are not bad." Pei Qian's uncle said.

As he grew older, the Patriarch of the Pei family, General Pei, was already looking old, his hair on the sideburns was whiter than snow, he stopped walking, and the group of people followed him.

General Pei looked up at the snowflakes falling all over the sky, and couldn't help sighing: "Jiu Yu finally did something for our family, and our cultivation of him is not in vain."

"Father, don't forget who caused our Pei family to become like this!" Pei Chong snorted, feeling really upset when his father praised another person.

"That's right, seeing that the Pei family was in trouble, he didn't care about it." Another man related to the Pei family also said, "During the time he was trapped in the palace, General Pei sent several letters to the frontier one after another, but he was fine. We haven’t replied to one letter, you see, we won’t be treated as family members when we are in trouble.”

Pei Chong responded to him: "No, I can only say that there is an outsider in our Pei family."

"Chong'er, what's wrong with your forehead?" General Pei's hastily glanced eyes suddenly settled on the bag on his forehead.

"I was beaten." Pei Chong covered his forehead sullenly, his face twisted together, "I don't know why the guards only beat me with a sack, and just hit me with random sticks."

General Pei was thoughtful: "Did you offend someone?"

Pei Chong seemed to have suffered a great deal of grievance, and he let out his anger in the out-of-tune voice: "I didn't."

After saying these words, he suddenly thought of Pei Qian.

"I know who it is."

General Pei immediately asked, "Who is it?"

Pei Chong hurried over vaguely: "Forget it, I don't know either."

If he said it out, he was afraid that what he did to Pei Qian would also be exposed, and there were others present, so he had no choice but to swallow his anger.

The crisp sound of horseshoes behind them was getting closer and closer. Before they could turn around to see who they were before they decided to give way, a sound like frost and snow entered their ears first.

"So when the Pei family was in trouble, I was considered a member of the Pei family. Is that what the elder brother meant?"

They were about to turn back when the horse behind them had turned in front of them and blocked their way.

Pei Qian sat on the horse, lowered her eyelashes and looked down at the group of people.Lifeng wiped his face red, like a red fruit covered with frost, and the snow fell on his body, as white as small white stripes reflected on his clothes.

The snow slowly melted on his body and seeped into his clothes, and the snow water made the blue color on the clothes deeper.

The horse wagging its tail was still breathing hot air, and the horseshoes were covered with fine snow.

"My brother came all the way from the frontier, and the wind and snow drove the journey day and night. He must be exhausted. Let's go home together."

Pei Chong smiled in embarrassment, as if he hadn't said what he said just now, he enthusiastically pulled the horse's rein and moved closer, as if deliberately trying to cover up what he had done to Pei Qian before.

Pei Qian turned over and got off the horse, automatically ignoring him in her eyes, and avoiding Pei Chong's hand to help him.

General Pei glanced behind him, wondering, "Why are you the only one back, where is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

"He's not too..." Pei Qian started to get tired of the four words His Royal Highness the Prince said from his father's mouth. He frowned impatiently, and didn't bother to explain to his father that the Prince was no longer the original Prince.

Perhaps it was due to revenge. Although Pei Qian was too lazy to talk to them too much, but remembering how excited his father and his brother were when they mentioned His Highness the Crown Prince, she said the words without any scruples:

"His Royal Highness doesn't like me anymore."

Pei Chong, who was still following him to push the snowflakes off his shoulders, stopped, and quickly distanced himself from him, his face became ugly, and his tone of blame came out of his mouth: "What have you done, to make you angry?" Your Highness?"

"Have you apologized to His Royal Highness? Yu'er lowered his posture, said something nice to coax His Highness, and smiled more at His Highness. His Highness will still like you." General Pei patiently pulled his arm to persuade him .

"I just want to kill him." Pei Qian wrote lightly.

But it was because of his casual tone that seemed to say "it's snowing today" that made everyone in the Pei family resentful.

"You...you...it's all because of you, the Pei family is going to end!" Pei Chong pointed at him, his face was livid, and he grabbed Pei Qian's lapel with both hands.

"Damn boy, what's the end!" General Pei stopped him angrily.

The rest of them were almost unsteady, with sad and desolate eyes:

"We just came out of it. If we were caught again because of him, we would have no chance to come out."

"Go back." General Pei said coldly, never looking at Pei Qian again along the way.

After Pei Qian followed a few steps, Pei Chong pushed him away: "Look at what you did, do you still have the nerve to follow us back?"

"Did brother put all the hopes of the Pei family on me?" Pei Qian smiled and flicked the snow on Pei Chong's shoulder. But as soon as it landed on Pei Chong, he silently hid his strength.

"Master Pei, wait a minute."

Pei Qian turned her head and took her hands away from Pei Chong.The one who caught up was a young eunuch in the palace.

"What's the matter?" Pei Qian asked.

The little eunuch made a salute: "The emperor invites Mr. Pei to enter the palace."

Everyone in the Pei family was ashamed. General Pei tried his best to maintain his composure. He tried his best to be as calm as possible, and asked feebly, "Do you know what the emperor wants to tell you, father-in-law?"

The little eunuch bowed again, and smiled falsely at him: "I don't know either."

"Father, Jiu Yu is going first." Pei Qian followed the little eunuch and left behind him.

Finally arrived at the palace, when he entered, Zhou Huang was wearing a long coat and standing under the porch enjoying the snow.

"Master Pei is back." Zhou Huang looked at him and waved to him.

Pei Qian stood beside Zhou Huang, and finally after Zhou Huang greeted him, he understood why Zhou Huang called him here.

After Zhou Huang finished talking about important matters, he greeted him a few more words before Pei Qian left.

As soon as he stepped out of the corridor, the snow covered his body as if to welcome him. The emperor looked at the thin figure in the snow scene from behind, and stopped him: "Mr. Pei, take an umbrella."

Pei Qian declined with a smile: "No need, I happen to like snow too."

The emperor looked at his back, thinking about it for such a long time, and he didn't know what he had experienced. The arrogance of Mr. Pei seemed to be a little bit off.

But in small things there is still the only stubbornness left.

After leaving the palace, Pei Qian's ears still echoed the emperor's whispers.

"If you are willing to lead the battle this time and make contributions to Da Zhou, your Pei family can continue to stay in the capital safely."

"..."

"Mr. Pei is willing?"

Pei Qian remembered that she nodded.

In this way, they will eventually face each other.

Pei Qian remembered the question Yuan Ji Nian asked him before.

If the two of them can only meet as enemies when they meet again, will they still meet in battle?

Pei Qian gave her answer again in her heart this time.

Meeting with soldiers is inevitable, if he can see Yuan Ji Nian, of course he will kill him in order to make meritorious service for Da Zhou.

Isn't this what Emperor Zhou asked him to do?

He can naturally weigh the life of the entire Pei family and that person's life, which is more important.