A cold dream is not a dream come true

"Hahahaha!" I heard a man laughing outside the door, and then the door of the room was pushed open, and the man who just grabbed me came in clapping his hands.

Prince Xi immediately recovered from the shock of the iron cage, and turned to look at the door.

The man walked to the iron cage with a smile, and said to Prince Xi inside the iron cage, "Isn't this Prince Xi from Pingyang Kingdom? It's a pleasure to meet you."

"Who are you?" Prince Xi frowned and asked.

The man shook his head and said, "I'm just a little country uncle of Korea, how dare I declare my name in front of Prince Xi."

Prince Xi lowered his head in thought, then raised his head and asked, "Zhang Xiong?"

The man was taken aback when he heard Prince Xi's words, and then said: "Oh, Prince Xi actually knows my name, dare not take it for me."

Prince Xi frowned and asked, "Why are you imprisoning me in an iron cage?"

The corner of Zhang Xiong's mouth raised, he stretched out his hand to caress the iron cage, and said slowly: "I just want to meet the famous Prince Xi, why should I lock you up?"

"Don't say it so nicely, you just want to catch me." Prince Xi said coldly.

Zhang Xiong immediately put away his smiling face, lowered his voice and said, "I know so many questions."

Prince Xi did not show weakness, and responded, "Despicable."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiong laughed. He squinted his eyes and looked at Prince Xi and said, "Aren't you despicable? You planned to secretly rescue Prince Cheng, and then ordered the siege of our army camp. Aren't you despicable?"

"You were the ones who captured Prince Cheng first." Prince Xi responded.

Zhang Xiong's eyes widened in anger, he grabbed the iron cage with both hands, and shouted at Prince Xi: "You were the ones who killed my son first! My son just entered your county town to play, and you killed him!"

Prince Xi probably couldn't find the words to refute, so she said after a long time: "In this case, if you want to kill me, come at me and let my brother and Chu Han go."

No, how can I come at you?Prince Xi, how could you die?

I shook my head desperately, trying to tell her not to make fearless sacrifices, but the rags were stuffed in my mouth and I couldn't make a sound.

Zhang Xiong shrugged his shoulders, came to the false Prince Cheng who was tied to the wall, grabbed his hair and said, "It seems that your younger brother is very important to you, but this person is only used as a bait. Prince Cheng is dead."

When Prince Xi heard Zhang Xiong's words and saw the face pretending to be Prince Cheng, he was stunned for a moment.Then she restrained her anger and asked in a low voice, "What did you say?"

Zhang Xiong said word by word: "I said, he's dead!"

Prince Xi looked a little scary, her eyes widened, she grabbed the railing of the iron cage, and said in a trembling voice, "I don't believe it!"

Zhang Xiong showed a helpless expression and said: "I don't need to lie to you. We arrested him and hoped that he would seek refuge in Koryo, but he would rather die than surrender, and committed suicide by biting his tongue."

"impossible!"

"Believe it or not. Anyway, people are gone." Zhang Xiong showed a regretful expression.

After a long time, Prince Xi gritted his teeth and said, "Where's the corpse?"

"lost."

"You!" Prince Xi raised his hand angrily and pointed at Zhang Xiong.

Zhang Xiong smiled helplessly and said: "Anyway, the death of Prince Cheng has nothing to do with us. We originally wanted to use him as a hostage. I didn't expect that a dead person could bring me two living hostages. It's not bad."

Prince Xi looked at me who was tied to the wall, the corners of her mouth twitched, and then she said to Zhang Xiong, "You let her go."

Zhang Xiong shook his head and said, "How can this be possible? I know your soldiers are outside the camp, and I want to exchange your lives for Xifeng County."

Immediately Zhang Xiong called a soldier and ordered: "Send someone to inform General Fu Cheng of Xifeng County that Prince Cheng of Pingyang Kingdom is dead, and Prince Xi and a girl have been captured by me. The official seal of Xifeng County, otherwise their lives will be in danger."

"Yes!" The soldier got the order and went out to report.

At this moment, I had a lot of questions I wanted to say, but my mouth was stuffed, so I could only struggle desperately and make a "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"Zhang Xiong noticed me, walked to my side, and took the thing off my mouth.

"What's your relationship with Japan and the country?" I shouted out immediately after recovering my ability to speak.

"What?" Zhang Xiong was stunned when he heard my words.Prince Xi didn't react either, and looked at me with a frown.

Zhang Xiong tried his best to hide his panic, not daring to look into my eyes, and explained slowly: "We... Koryo and Hiwa are just allies."

"What else?" I asked.

Zhang Xiong became a little impatient, and he shouted at me: "How can there be so many relationships?!"

I'm not afraid of him, so I tentatively said a person's name: "Murong Ranshu..."

Zhang Xiong's reaction started to go wrong, his face turned pale, and cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.Then, with a trembling voice, he said, "I, I don't know her..."

Seeing Zhang Xiong's performance, I more or less guessed that this Murong Ranshu must have something to do with Zhang Xiong, maybe the death of Prince Cheng was also instigated by Murong Ranshu.

I was just about to continue asking, but unexpectedly a soldier came in from the door and leaned over to report: "General Qi, the general guarding the city of Xifeng County in Pingyang Kingdom has surrendered, and is willing to hand over his official seal in exchange for Prince Xi's life!"

"Okay!" Zhang Xiong laughed and shouted.

At this moment, for the first time, I saw Prince Xi's expression other than frowning and anger, which was the despair and humiliation after the defeat.

Prince Hee and I were then taken outside.Lin Guangyuan, magistrate of Xifeng County, signed the instrument of surrender, handed in the official seal, and promised to withdraw from the county within three days.Zhang Xiong didn't cheat either, and immediately released us, and promised that we could search for Prince Cheng's body at will.

Under the guardianship of the Koryo army, our group searched the Koryo barracks from the inside out, but never found Prince Cheng's body.Prince Xi still didn't give up, and found a shovel to dig up the ground to see if they had buried Prince Xi underground.I stretched out my hand to pull the corner of Prince Raxi's clothes, and shook my head vigorously at her.

Prince Xi glanced at me, her eyes were bloodshot, she looked sleepy and tired, her spirit was on the verge of collapse.She looked at me blankly and said, "Eighth brother, it's impossible to just die like this."

I nodded and said comfortingly: "Since Prince Cheng is not dead, of course the body cannot be found."

Prince Xi sighed, turned and left.

As soon as Yinshi passed, Prince Xi and I built an empty tomb for Prince Cheng outside Xifeng County.There are only a few simple words on the tombstone - the tomb of the eighth brother.

While kneeling in front of the grave and burning paper for Prince Seung, Prince Hee said, "Suicide is not in line with the eighth brother's character. And how could such a huge Koryo country lose a corpse. Anyway, I can't see the eighth brother's body. I don't believe he's dead."

"Could it be that the Korean National Assembly secretly hid Prince Seung?" I also asked while burning paper for Prince Seung.

Prince Xi shook his head, but did not speak.

At dawn, we went back to the yamen to rest.After noon, we packed up our things and boarded the carriage back to Luoyang.

Along the way, Prince Xi was thinking about Prince Cheng, and I also said in passing: "By the way, why did Zhang Xiong react so strongly when he heard Princess Murong's name?"

Prince Xi nodded and said, "I also have this question."

"Could it be that Princess Murong ordered Zhang Xiong to do this?"

Prince Xi shook his head and said: "Princess Murong is in Muhai City at this time, how can she order Zhang Xiong?"

I lowered my head to think for a moment, and then said: "Rihe Kingdom and Koryo Kingdom formed an alliance at the beginning of this year, maybe Princess Murong made a plan at that time."

Prince Xi nodded and said, "But there is no evidence."

I thought about it for a while, and I was right, nothing is convincing without evidence.

The carriage drove very slowly, and we did not enter Luoyang city until it was dark the next day.Su Cui went back to the mansion first, and Prince Xi, Lin Guangyuan, and Fu Cheng and I went into the palace to report to the emperor.

The empress had been waiting in the hall for a long time, and she stood in the middle of the hall aggressively with an angry expression on her face. It seemed that she already knew the results of our battle.When our group saw the emperor at this time, we didn't dare to say a word, so we immediately knelt down.

The empress glared at the four of us with her hands behind her back.Then she roared: "A bunch of useless things!"

In the palace hall in the middle of the night, echoes echoed over and over again, and after an unknown period of time, it became extremely quiet, even with a deathly solemnity.The cold light reflected from the gorgeous golden walls makes people feel bitingly cold.The empress stood there straight, and the few of us didn't even dare to make a sound.

"Punish!"

The queen's cry made me tremble.I looked up a little at her face, and found that it was even uglier than before.

"Lin Guangyuan, downgraded to Canon History, one year's salary will be deducted."

"Pay it, deprive the military power, and reduce it to a soldier."

The empress didn't continue talking, but she squinted her eyes and looked at Prince Xi, as if she was thinking about how to deal with it.

"Prince Xi..." the female emperor elongated her voice and said slowly, "The throne will be abolished, and the frontiers will be distributed."

What?Removing the throne is already a big enough punishment, why do you need to distribute the frontiers?

At that time, my head was so hot that I no longer knew what I was doing, so I stood up and said to the emperor: "The emperor is wise, the death of Prince Cheng has already had a great impact on Prince Xi, the emperor, as the prince Sister, punish her like this. Losing Xifeng County is important, but have you ever thought about her feelings?"

"Bold!" the empress roared, and I covered my ears in fright.Kneeling at Prince Xi, Prince Xi pulled down my arm forcefully, and I fell to my knees again.

The empress gasped angrily, and was about to slap me when she raised her hand. I squinted my eyes and covered my face.However, she stopped the movement of her hands, and then she put down her palms again.

After a long time, she said slowly: "I didn't intend to punish you. Since you toasted and didn't eat fine wine, I will punish you properly."

Biting my lips with tears in my eyes, I nervously waited for the emperor's decision.

"Well, from today onwards, you will leave Prince Xi's mansion and come to the palace to serve me. From now on, you will be my man."

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