The Ugly Empress

Hearing what he said, Teng Yun laughed a little, and sure enough, kings are always counting pennies and pennies, and even a thousand soldiers will not be spared.But it is also true that the thousand soldiers that Xue Yu can bring to Beijing must be the best, most powerful and most trusted.

Xue Junliang originally meant to embarrass him. He saw the queen and Xue Yu standing together, and it was hard to tell them apart, but he didn't expect the other party to show a clear smile.

He knows that his queen is smart, but no matter how smart she is, she is still a woman in the harem, and she is still subdued by him, but he completely miscalculated Teng Yun. Teng Yun is forbearing, but he is always a general, maybe the harem Women's earth-shaking competition for favor is not something he is good at. When it comes to fighting, no one is more talented than him.

Teng Yundao: "Your Majesty only needs to seize the military power, it's just a matter of a few words."

Xue Junliang said: "I still want Xue Yu to be unreasonable."

"If you want to take it, you must give it first. Since ancient times, all virtuous monarchs have given both kindness and power. If your majesty wants to seize the soldiers of the Marquis of Zhenjiang, why not give him sweetness first."

Xue Junliang seemed to be reminded by him and his heart suddenly became brighter, but he still wanted to hear Teng Yun finish, and said, "Continue."

Teng Yundao: "The name of the Marquis of Zhenjiang entering Beijing is to worship the ancestors. After the ancestor worship, he will return to the fief. It is not too much for His Majesty to review the soldiers before he leaves. Then he will appoint a dozen or twenty imperial guards to escort the Marquis back. .”

Xue Junliang couldn't help laughing when he heard him say this: "I didn't expect my concubine to be such a rascal."

"It's just outsmarting." Teng Yun said: "It's a great favor to anyone to appoint the imperial guards to accompany him, and Lord Hou will not be unhappy."

"That's right, and then exchanging these dozen or twenty guards for a thousand elite soldiers, this deal is really a bargain. Right?"

After Xue Junliang finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to pin back the broken hair on Teng Yun's cheeks, and said gently, "I never thought that women would not give in to men, but there is a queen who is resourceful."

Hearing what he said, Teng Yun suddenly felt chills in his heart. After all, his identity is the leader of Fengguo, and he will always be suspected if he is eye-catching.

But Xue Junliang did not continue to talk about this matter, but suddenly changed the topic just now, and said: "Gu almost forgot one thing... the three-year draft is approaching, and Aifei needs to help Gu take care of it, so as not to mess up the system." .”

Xue Junliang originally thought that the other party would always be nervous when they heard about the draft. The queen did not have a son by her side, and she has not yet been lucky. This is a shocking thing, and there must be a sense of crisis.

And Teng Yun's expression was calm, as if he hadn't changed much from before, and the word "competition for favor" seemed far away from him.

This made Xue Junliang very puzzled, even if it was the most indisputable concubine, her indisputability was just a fake prudence to protect herself, if she had hope of getting ahead, she would still step on others to climb up, but this empress was different.

Xue Junliang squinted at Teng Yun, and said with a half smile and half seriousness: "When I am alone, I always feel that my concubine is very hard to see through."

When Teng Yun said this, his whole body tensed up subconsciously. He took the place of Lord Feng. No one knew, not even his most trusted Teng Shang. At this time, Xue Junliang suddenly proposed to let Teng Yun suddenly felt a palpitation, thinking that he had been exposed, but he felt that it was impossible, after all, the queen and the general of the enemy country were two completely unrelated existences.

Xue Junliang continued: "Look, you won't let me touch it. Which concubine doesn't burn incense three times a day and hang around herself every day if she wants to be a king? You are smarter than Bingxue smart, you can even march and fight alone... Almost forgot, Aifei can also shoot at foot."

He seemed to be joking and said: "Could it be that my concubine was cast in the wrong fetus, if she is a boy, she must be a general."

Teng Yun's hands hidden under his sleeves were clenched into fists, trembling slightly.

Xue Junliang stretched out his hand to hold him in his arms, took Teng Yun's slight trembling as cold, and said: "Are you cold? Fengguo is located in the south, so you must not be very used to the weather here...you will also have rain over there." Let it snow."

Teng Yun subconsciously said: "No..."

Although Feng State is also to the south, it is not as warm as Teng State, and it still snows in winter. Teng Yun has only seen snow once in his life, and that was when he was in high spirits. He defeated Xue State at the border of Xue State Ten thousand years later, it snowed that year, and it was the only snow he saw.

Teng Yun knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and corrected himself, "It's not common."

Xue Junliang naturally didn't take it seriously, the scene of the two cuddling each other in the small pavilion was pleasing to the eye, but they had their own concerns.

The Marquis of Zhenzhuang is the direct heir of the royal lineage. Although Xue Junliang didn't like him very much in his heart, the brotherhood he showed on the surface was deep, so the ministers did not dare to neglect. Many people invited him to a banquet or visited him at home.

Xue Yu could no longer ride a horse when he came to the banquet, the minister thoughtfully prepared a soft sedan chair to invite him back home, and also wanted to send some beauties to match him, but Xue Yu is a gentleman, he has no dirty thoughts at all, as long as he gets the sedan chair, he will leave up.

Xue Yu leaned in the sedan chair, lifted the curtain of the window to let the air in, and saw a man in a moon-white shirt on the street, Xue Yu smiled lightly, stretched out his folding fan and knocked on the edge of the sedan chair, outside The bearer immediately stopped and pressed down the sedan chair.

He didn't show any pretense, just called out through the curtain, and said with a smile, "Mr. Teng, do you still know me?"

Teng Shang suddenly heard someone calling him, and stopped walking, but it was a young man, his face was slightly flushed, as if he couldn't bear the strength of alcohol, and there was a faint smile on his brows and eyes.

Something seemed to flash through Teng Shang's mind, he hid his surprise, and glanced at the aggressiveness of the car.

Xue Yu went to the banquet on horseback, and when he returned, he would naturally have to be led by someone. The hierarchical system of the Xue Kingdom was also very strict, and the color of the reins used by the relatives, relatives, and subordinate branches was very clearly defined.

Teng Shang only needed one glance to understand.

Xue Yu saw that the other party had no surprised expression, raised his eyebrows with a smile, and said, "I haven't seen Mr. Teng for a long time, how about going to the teahouse to catch up?"

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The purpose of the Marquis of Zhanjiang's visit to Beijing was to worship his ancestors. When the late emperor passed away, Xue Yu was fighting in the north, so he didn't have time to come back to see the late emperor for the last time, and he didn't come back in the end.

When the first emperor was alive, he especially doted on this prince who was much younger than the previous elder brothers. Zhen Zonghou said that he felt ashamed in his heart and must go to kneel down and apologize.

Of course, ancestor worship is not something you can do right away if you want to, but any travel of the royal family and aristocrats is a big battle, especially for things like ancestor worship.

This time Xue Junliang will also go with him. Naturally, the battle is even bigger. Before they set off, the officials below are busy. Of course, there is food, accommodation and fun. Although it is not a long distance, they must be properly prepared. Properly.

The next day was about to set off, Xue Junliang personally ordered the crown prince and the queen to go with him, except for the queen, no one else in the harem accompanied him, which inevitably made the other concubines feel disappointed.

It snowed heavily the night before, and the wind and the snow covered the ground in no time.

Hearing Qiushui's plan, Teng Qianyi was impatient to prepare, but the time and place were right. Now that he heard that no one could follow except the queen, he hated and complained in his heart. It happened that it was snowing and windy. The wind is not very strong.

Teng Qianyi asked some court ladies to follow the plan, and when they came back, they had several people killed, saying that their hands and feet were unclean, stole things from the master, and hanged themselves because they were afraid of being found out.

At dawn the next day, the maid got up to clean up the yard, the snow had not been cleaned all night, she knocked down the empress, no one could afford it, so naturally she saw the Gu doll under the tree pit in the yard.

Teng Qianyi was afraid that King Xue would dote on the queen, and it would not be enough to put a few Gu dolls that looked like Marquis Zhen Zong, so he purposely made a few dolls in black robes and crowns, and scraped them to pieces with a knife.

Just as Jiang Yu was transferred back from Teng Yun, when he heard someone rushing to report the incident, his heart skipped a beat. He felt cold from head to toe, thinking that it was really nothing to do.

He could only walk in respectfully with his head down to report, but Xue Junliang's expression didn't change.

Jiang Yu didn't dare to make a sound, and helped King Xue change his clothes. In the end, there was nothing he could do, so he said, "Your Majesty, should we postpone the departure?"

Xue Junliang laughed inexplicably, "Does this trivial matter need to be postponed?"

"Yes... this old slave is stupid."

Xue Junliang stretched out his sleeve robe, and said, "How long is it before departure?"

"Return to Your Majesty, there is still an hour."

"Um……"

Xue Junliang nodded, "Go to Yunfeng Palace first."

Early in the morning, the harem became a little restless. King Xue drove the Yunfeng Palace and recruited all the concubines. Everyone knows about the dolls this morning. At this time, King Xue let everyone go, it must be nothing good thing.

The concubines did not dare to neglect, for fear of bad luck, when Xue Junliang arrived, all the concubines were there, and tremblingly knelt down to greet Xue Junliang.

Xue Junliang's attire is graceful and majestic. This is the robe for worshiping the ancestors. Naturally, it is the most complicated, and it is also the one that best reflects the majesty of the king.

He walked straight into the main hall, without even looking at the concubines kneeling below, he went directly to the big chair at hand and sat down.

After Xue Junliang sat down, he smiled slightly and said, "The queen is sitting next to Gu."

As he spoke, he patted the empty chair lightly.

As soon as he said that, everyone was a little terrified. The empress had committed a crime, and he was still allowed to sit on it?Everyone also had confidence in their hearts. It seems that this is King Xue who knows something and is about to find out the mastermind.

Teng Yun thanked him, walked over and sat down.

Only then did Xue Junliang say: "Yesterday it was windy and snowy, so I sent Jiang Yu over to Yunfeng Palace to bring some clothes to keep out the cold. My concubines may wish to guess, what did Jiang Yu see?"

When he said this, it seemed as if it was true, Teng Qianyi knelt on the ground and immediately felt a rumble in his head, and almost fell to the ground, if it wasn't for the Qiushui behind him, he would be ashamed.

With a smile on his face, Xue Junliang said: "Gu heard someone say, 'The king of Xue Guo is a tyrant, cold-faced and cold-hearted, and he is mean and merciless...'Gu also has a good reflection on himself, it seems that he wants to be a benevolent king From this time on, we must leave a trace of sympathy for you, whoever did the good deeds, tell them yourself."

After he finished speaking, the main hall of Yunfeng Palace was immediately quiet. Jiang Yu was wiping cold sweat from behind. The reason was that he had never been to Yunfeng Palace yesterday...

Teng Yun sat quietly on the side, looking down at the concubines below, all of them lowered their heads, and no one read the words.

Xue Jun's face changed, as if he remembered something, he turned his head and said warmly to Teng Yun: "The weather is cold recently, you should take care of your body, don't get tired of the draft."

Teng Yun sneered in his heart, Xue Junliang was really resourceful, the first moment was a heavy punishment, and every word was a threat, and the second moment seemed to be considerate to himself, but these few words were clearly meant for the court ladies present.

In fact, it is to tell them that the draft is coming, and whoever speaks out will definitely get extra gifts, depending on who is smart and who can understand Xue Junliang's voice.

Before Teng Yun agreed, he heard a low cry.

Qiu Shui suddenly jumped out, threw himself on the ground, crawled over desperately, hugged Teng Yun's ankle, and cried, "Your Majesty, Empress, save the life of this servant!"