Jiang Qing

After that day, Zhao Zhen never saw Mei Shao again.

Everything was developing according to his expectation. He announced Cao Bai's crimes to the world, searched Cao's mansion, even the court hall was completely cleaned up by Zhao Zhen, and the palace servants and eunuchs who served in the palace were also replaced. After a large number of people arrived, the "Emperor Mu Lie" that Cao Bai was talking about still did not appear.

After Bai Zijin gave birth, he still found out the news of Bai Bingchen's death. After a big fight with Zhao Zhen, he was disheartened and never saw him again. They could only maintain each other by relying on the little blood relationship of the child.

And on the third day after Bai Zijin refused Zhao Zhen to enter the palace, a young eunuch who had just entered the palace bumped into Sheng Jia, saying that he had something important to present to him.

Zhao Zhenping backed away, but the little eunuch asked Cao Bo repeatedly if he was really dead before sending him a paper bag.

Opening the paper bag, the familiar handwriting jumped into Zhao Zhen's eyes, and his eyelids twitched - it turned out to be Fushun's handwriting.

"Your Majesty, when you read this letter, the old slave should have died in Huangquan. Since His Majesty was a child, the slave has been with His Majesty and has never left. This time, he is disrespectful and disloyal. He left early. up.

Your Majesty doesn't know that before becoming an eunuch, this servant had a family outside the palace, but he escaped during the turmoil. In order to survive, this servant was eunuched and served in the palace. Originally, he wanted to find his family, but later But he stopped thinking.

Until my apprentice Shuangxi told me that he had found traces of my long-lost family outside the palace, but the man had already passed away, leaving only one child.His Majesty knew that Shuangxi had contacts with the eunuchs in Jiangjiazhuang outside the city, and he had a way to know the privacy of the servants.

When I first got this news, I was very happy in my heart, but Shuangxi used this incident to threaten me to do a conspiracy against His Majesty, but I refused, so he put medicine in my diet, and then I fell seriously ill .

During his illness, the slave also wanted to understand. If the child of the slave is still alive in the world, why did it appear at this time? It doesn't matter whether the child is real or not. What the slave has to do is to follow the mother's instructions and protect His Majesty.

But Shuangxi took advantage of the servant's illness, and quickly took control of the people around His Majesty. The servant was afraid that he would harm His Majesty, so he pretended to surrender, and took the initiative to tell him about His Majesty and Lord Bai's plan to fake death.

Soon, Shuangxi brought news that the slave should replace the fake poison at the critical moment. He knew that His Majesty hated betrayers, and as long as the slave didn't have the eyes to carry the wine pot that His Majesty entrusted to him in the hall, His Majesty would definitely feel that the slave had betrayed His Majesty. , thus killing the slave.

And the more His Majesty believes that the slave is a traitor, the more the slave will gain his trust.The servant just changed the jug, and the fake death medicine in the wine was still there. After Lord Bai drank it, the servant secretly transported him out of the palace, and hid him in the mansion that His Majesty gave to the servant when he became king. That house was privately owned by His Majesty Given, and the servant has never lived there, no one will suspect it.The slave asked a reliable person to look after it there, and asked Xiao Lizi to bring this handwritten letter to His Majesty and tell His Majesty the truth after confirming the news of His Majesty's purging of everything.

The servant also thought about telling His Majesty about this matter directly, but as soon as the servant opens his mouth, the people behind him will be vigilant, and they will definitely not use the information disclosed by the servant to let Lord Bai die in the hall in a grandiose way. Since this method of feigning death was discussed by His Majesty and Lord Bai, it is naturally the most convincing. If because of the servant's confession, they secretly changed the method of killing Lord Bai, and the servant did not know about it, then the situation is even more serious. critical.

Moreover, the servant knows that His Majesty values ​​affection. If the servant tells His Majesty the truth, His Majesty will definitely save the servant's life after Lord Bai fakes his death. Such a contradictory behavior will make them suspicious.Only when the servant dies under His Majesty's wrath, along with the eyeliner he buried in the palace, will they believe that the servant really betrayed His Majesty, and Lord Bai is really dead.

The slave is stupid, he can only do this deceitful act after tossing and turning, and it is not a grievance to die in the hands of His Majesty.

Sincerely, Fushun, a sin slave.Last word. "

After Zhao Zhen finished reading the manuscript, he couldn't calm down for a long time, but thousands of thoughts came to his mind, and they all turned into a bitter sigh between his lips.

Fushun stabilized Cao Bai with his life, and also made up for Zhao Zhen's greatest regret in his life.

He never lied, he was always loyal to himself.

Full of joy, Zhao Zhen sneaked out of the palace to see Bai Bingchen who was hiding in Fushun's outer house, but only saw a sleeping man.

The imperial doctor said that Bai Bingchen had too much inner demons, fell into a coma, and never fully woke up, and it was very difficult to feed medicine every day.

Zhao Zhen's first reaction was to send someone to find Mei Shao, but Mei Shao seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, together with his subordinates.

There was really no way, Zhao Zhen finally remembered that when Jing Ning's life was hanging by a thread in Beidi, it was Wuwo Daoist who saved her, so he ordered to find Wuwo.

While asking his subordinates to look for the trace of Wuwu in the name of offering sacrifices, he also sent people to look for Mei Shao, and a net of people scattered out. All he could do was wait.

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The noisy people in the night market gathered around the office board, pointing at a piece of paper on the missing person's office.

"It has been raised to a hundred taels of gold!" As soon as the clerk of the yamen posted the notice, the crowd rushed over like a tide, all gasping in amazement.

"The emperor is really rich!" A voice muttered, and then squeezed in, "Let me see."

Squeezing to the front, looking at the portrait, Wuwo exclaimed in admiration: "The painting is quite similar."

The people next to him looked at his old face that he couldn't recognize in the crowd, and said with a smile: "This old man speaks as if he has seen the Taoist priest above."

Wu Wo giggled, "I know him now, if I can find him, there will be a coffin board."

The crowd burst into laughter, "This old man wants to make a coffin out of gold!"

In their eyes, he retreated with a cane, turned two or three alleys, and came out as a big man in his 30s.

He casually walked to a wine shed, casually chatted with a table of peddlers in the shed, and got a bowl of rice wine. He sat in the space allocated by them and drank it. From time to time, he glanced at a restaurant in the distance, and on the eaves of that restaurant, there was a person sitting concealedly.

The man at the same table saw him looking around frequently, followed his gaze, thinking that he was looking at the girl in the brothel opposite, and teased: "Brother, do you want to see the world?"

Wu Wo twirled a peanut and bit it, and said vaguely, "How dare you go with the few copper coins in your hand."

He glanced at the lone figure on the roof again, with a trace of complicated emotions in his eyes, and then he concentrated on punching the people on the table.

The night wind blew a peanut skin, rolled it up to the restaurant, then squatted beside the man in purple and remained still.

A man in fine clothes is sitting on the eaves of a restaurant, holding a jug of wine and looking down at the bustling night scene. The small and bright night market almost dazzles his eyes - after staying in the Fudi Pavilion for a long time, he has already I haven't seen fireworks in the world for a long time, and I haven't eaten food in the world.

The strong wine drank down his throat, but Zhao Heng couldn't taste anything, but he could feel that the smell of the wine was rapidly eroding his throat, and eroding his already broken body along his lungs.

He has been looking for that person for more than 100 years, but there is no news. He can only rely on the weak connection between Fudige and them to survive until now. But today, after he woke up, what he saw was not the person on the wall. The hanging portrait was a piece of skylight—the Fudi Pavilion disappeared out of thin air, and the weak connection between him and that person was completely broken.

After leaving the Fudi Pavilion, he could not live for more than twelve hours, so Zhao Heng simply found a place to drink and calmly waited for his life, which should have ended long ago, to stop.

The location of this restaurant is good, and the location is also very interesting. To the west is a row of high-rise buildings, which is the busiest street in Pingdu. It is as lively at night as in daytime, while to the east is a shantytown for coolies, with only a few Luoluo's wine shed is the favorite place for Jianghu tourists to rest their feet.

Zhao Heng took a big sip, feeling the burning sensation in his internal organs almost masochistically, his eyes turned from west to east, watching two people with completely different status and status toasting and drinking under the same moonlight.

And he also drank with them on the eaves, and it didn't seem to make any difference if the wine entered their stomachs.

"Ten years of heavy drinking, and a hundred years of drunkenness." Zhao Heng raised the wine jar and respected the moon from a distance, showing a gentle smile, and then took a last look at his boring world, and said straightly. fell from the house.

Amidst the crackling of the wine jar, Zhao Heng became old instantly when he fell to the ground. With his white hair, he looked like a centenarian. His sunken eyes were closed and he was silent.

The gorgeous purple clothes are like gold and jade wrapped outside. He fell in the deserted shanty town, and no one saw the dry bones under his gorgeous clothes.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a sound of footsteps in the alley, Wu Wo looked at the dead bone on the ground, and sighed, with relief in his eyes.

He leaned over and hugged him in his arms, and walked into the depths of the night.

The sound of sighing fell in the evening wind.

"Stupid apprentice."

-

Zhao Zhen had a lucid and confused dream.

He could clearly hear every word of the man in the dream, but could not see his face clearly.

There are only two steps between him and the person in the dream, but it seems that they are far apart. Even the voice of the person in the dream is ethereal.

"who are you?"

"Your ancestor, the founding emperor of the Li Kingdom, also asked me this question in a dream."

Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, reacted very quickly, and stammered: "Are you Mr.?"

How could the immortal who was recorded in the history books of the Li country, established the Fudi Pavilion, and helped Zhao Heyu conquer the country of Li, fall into his dream?

Zhao Zhen immediately thought of what he did to Fudi Pavilion, sweating faintly behind his back, "Do you want to kill me in your dream?"

The man chuckled and said, "There shouldn't be a god in the world. You've done a good job. Why should I kill you?"

Before Zhao Zhen turned the corner, a dragon chant suddenly passed by his ears, and he realized that in his dream he was standing at the foot of Cangshan Mountain. Drilling into the clouds before my eyes, disappearing into the sky.

"You should have seen such a scene."

I have seen that in the history books of the Li Kingdom, Zhao Heyu also had a dream before he raised his troops. In the dream, there was a golden dragon hovering, and then the fairy in the dream guided him to build the country in Pingdu.

But the scene in the history book really appeared in the dream, Zhao Zhen's head was empty, and he couldn't say a word for a while.

The immortal seemed to understand his mind, and thoughtfully explained: "Into the mountain and out of the mountain, one drink and one peck, the fate has been fulfilled. When the golden dragon entered the mountain, Zhao Heyu asked me to ask for the peace of the Li country for 300 years. Now that the golden dragon comes out of the mountain, you also You can ask for a vision. Do you want Li Guo to be permanent, or you want to live a long life, or something else..."

Hearing his very seductive words, Zhao Zhen's face darkened, "Does that mean that Li Guo re-established the contract with you?"

"It depends on what you want. If you want Li Guo, I will establish a relationship with Li Guo to help you complete your hegemony. If you want to live a long life, it will only increase your personal lifespan..."

"Growth?" Zhao Zhen keenly caught his words and asked, "Can you really determine a person's lifespan?"

"The cause and effect of retribution, the way of heaven will not stop it."

"Okay." Even in a half-believing state in the dream, Zhao Zhen still solemnly stated his vision, "I have two subjects under my command, one is unconscious now, and the other is missing. If you can really My wish is to let both ministers be safe and enjoy life."

"This is an opportunity bought by your country, just give it to two courtiers, have you thought about it?"

"Nothing is worth more than them." Zhao Zhen said firmly.

"Okay." The immortal responded, and then Zhao Zhen felt himself being pushed away abruptly, opened his eyes, and was awakened suddenly by the sound of thunder outside.

Every word in the dream hovered clearly in his mind, Zhao Zhen's back was already drenched with sweat, his ears were filled with thunder, and there were noises outside the hall.

A white light suddenly passed from the corner of his eyes, Zhao Zhen was taken aback for a moment, ran to the window barefoot, and opened it.

A golden dragon hovered above the palace amidst the thunderclouds, circled the palace three times and then submerged into the clouds.

The attendants in the palace all exclaimed in amazement, saying that the heaven of Li Kingdom is auspicious and blessed for thousands of years.