The devil is coming

Chapter 459
Qingming Festival,
light rain.
During the continuous rain, like a passionate woman in the soft water, she pauses, looks at, pauses, looks forward and looks back five times;
It's like the sky is covered with a thin layer of rain gauze,
Moisturizing a group of people and boring a city.
In the Jade Heart Palace of the Queen Mother, the green of the pond is already clear.
Unlike other nobles who like to be extravagant, the Queen Mother of Chu has always been a simple person. Every winter, there are always one or two courtyards for greenhouses in the mansions of many great nobles of Chu. The four seasons are like spring, but the Queen Mother of Chu does not. So happy.
In her words,
This person,
I'm getting older,
I am thinking more and more about the changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter;
When I was young I was ignorant, when I became an adult I had no sense, when I got older I was flawless, until I suddenly looked back when I was old, I was shocked that I had missed so much.
This spring, summer, autumn and winter, every swing is like an extra layer carved on the bluestone pillar. One glance is missing, one glance is short, the greenhouse is comfortable, but it seems like it has been picked up. Zhizhi lost the watermelon and made himself indistinguishable from all seasons. Why bother to become a stupid creature imprisoned in a deep palace?
The Queen Mother sat under the eaves, holding a soup drink in her hand. From time to time she would pick up a spoon, take a few bites, and then look at the mist in the yard.
Outside the Yuxin Palace, the Fifth Highness, Xiong Tingshan, was wearing a red python robe. He looked inside from time to time, but did not dare to go in. Behind him, there was a woman wearing gorgeous makeup.
Among the eunuchs and maids around, no one dared to talk or look, they all lowered their heads. It was broad daylight, but they seemed to have covered themselves in the drizzle.
The position of prince is certainly respected, but just being a newly promoted prince does not make these eunuchs and maids so cautious.
In fact, for all the years that His Highness the Fifth Prince has been guarding Wutong County, stories about His Highness have been circulating in Yingdu.
Some people say that he formed a blood-based alliance with the Shanyue people, and that he loved eating human flesh and drinking human blood, and that the sixteenth-year-old girl’s sharp liver was cut into the wine;
Some people also say that the Shanyue women around him have to find a Chu boy to marry him every night, and when they do, they have to do their job and make wine to pray for eternal youth.
In short, these rumors are so disgusting and frightening.
But no one deliberately spreads this.
But in Dachu,
The Chu people's contempt for the Shanyue people has long been engraved in their bones.
Just as the Yan people looked at barbarians and the Jin people looked at savages, in fact, what they looked at were not humans at all, but animals.
Therefore, His Highness the Fifth Prince, who is called brother to the Shanyue people and also married to the wife of the Shanyue people, naturally has an image as scary as possible among the people.
At this time, a young eunuch from the imperial court trotted over and saluted Xiong Tingshan:
"I'm here to see you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty, Your Majesty has ordered you to go and see the Queen Mother first. Your Majesty has something to do in the south study room and is delayed."
"This……"
If Xiong Tingshan hadn't been in the palace at this moment, he would have really wanted to yell at his fourth brother.
But no way,
Xiong Tingshan could only tidy up his clothes one last time, then turned around and helped his wife tidy them up himself.
Unlike her husband, who is "trembling with fear", his wife appears to be down-to-earth and generous. This woman named Wu Tingting is from the Wujiang Tribe of Shanyue. The tribe has a population of [-] to [-], and is considered a relatively powerful Shanyue Tribe in Wutong County. .
"When you meet the Queen Mother later, you have to behave yourself." Xiong Tingshan reminded carefully.
"Ms. sir, you have been saying this since last night."
"Ha ha."
Xiong Tingshan nodded, pointed to a eunuch next to him, and motioned for him to pass the message.
The eunuch trotted in immediately.
for a while,
A shout came from inside:
"The Queen Mother has decreed that the prince will come to see you."
Xiong Tingshan breathed a long sigh of relief and led his wife into the inner courtyard of Yuxin Palace.
On the steps of the inner courtyard, the Queen Mother could not wait to stand up and looked at Xiong Tingshan who was walking towards here.
"I, Xiong Tingshan, have met the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother is blessed!"
Wu Tingting also knelt down and said, "Queen Mother Fukang."
"Come in and talk, don't let the rain get your clothes wet."
The Queen Mother went straight into the palace without saying much. Xiong Tingshan stood up and everyone entered the palace;
The Queen Mother sits in the first seat, and Xiong Tingshan and Wu Tingting sit in the lower right seat.
A maid of honor served tea and snacks.
Wu Tingting had been waiting outside with her husband for a long time. She entered the palace early and didn't even eat a few bites of lunch. Now she was really hungry, so she didn't hesitate to reach out and pick up the snacks on the plate and started eating.
This kind of behavior is somewhat disrespectful.
after all,
The food served and placed on some occasions is not for eating, but for decoration.
Seeing this, the Queen Mother smiled and said, "Seeing how delicious the food of the Wuzi family is, the Ai family is also a little greedy."
immediately,
The Queen Mother reached out and picked up a piece of snack and took a small bite.
After sitting down, Xiong Tingshan's eyes turned red and he said;
"Your Majesty, I miss you so much."
The Queen Mother picked up the handkerchief, wiped the corners of her mouth, and cursed with a smile:
"What do you want to do to Aijia? Do you want to be beaten?"
"I really want to be beaten by you."
"Bloody bones, just like when I was a kid."
"That is."
When she was a child, Xiong Tingshan's mother-in-law had a humble status. She didn't even bother to discipline her children, and sometimes she didn't even dare to speak louder.
At that time, the Queen Mother was a noble concubine, and her status was respected in the harem. She often whipped Xiong Tingshan.
This is not abuse;
But sometimes when Xiong Tingshan and his fourth brother went to the Queen Mother's Palace to eat together, and saw Xiong Tingshan sitting there submissively, the Queen Mother would order the eunuchs to whip him with a cane. As a prince, how could he be so cowardly sitting in such a posture?
Another example is that when I heard the servant's arrangement in other places, I felt wronged and hid crying next to the rockery. The Queen Mother who was passing by saw it. After asking the reason, the Queen Mother asked the surrounding eunuchs to throw Xiong Tingshan into the cold winter weather next to it. in the pond.
"Cry, cry, cry, just cry. You are the prince, and you have the blood of Fire Phoenix, and you can actually be bullied by the servants. Don't you like crying? Just cry as much as you want in this pool. !”
The next day, the fifth prince beat up the maids and eunuchs who had spoken ill of himself and his mother-in-law, and threw them into the pool.
As a result, word spread about this matter, and a foreign minister copied it, saying that His Highness the Fifth Prince was unbecoming a prince when he abused his subordinates.
The Emperor of Chu did not like his son very much, so he punished him heavily. At the same time, his mother and concubine had their fees reduced for half a year because they were unable to educate their son.
then,
The Fifth Highness was called over by the Queen Mother again, tied to a big tree in Yuxin Palace and whipped more than a dozen times.
"Idiot, you can end up in this situation by just taking care of a few servants, and your mother and concubine are also implicated. Isn't your mind full of mud!"
For a long time,
The fifth prince is actually a transparent person in the palace.
There were rumors in the palace that the then imperial concubine, who was now the Queen Mother, was most displeased with the fifth prince, who came from a humble background, and often used lessons and corporal punishment on him.
But only the fifth prince himself knew how difficult it was for an elder at that time to be willing to teach him a lesson, teach him, or even... be willing to beat him.
Later, after being crowned, Emperor Chu directly sent his son, whom he was disgusted with, to Wutong County. At that time, the Shanyue people in Wutong County often rebelled and would attack the county at every turn, throwing the fifth prince away. , that is, letting him fend for himself.
The so-called tiger poison cannot eat its children is not true in the royal family, because excluding some special circumstances, the emperor generally has many sons.
Everything follows the law that things are rare and valuable. If there are too many sons, they will be worthless.
After going to Wutong County, the fifth prince would send people to send the local specialties of Wutong County that he carefully prepared to Yingdu every year. Each time there would be two copies, one for his mother-in-law and one for the Queen Mother.
Later, when his mother's concubine passed away, the fifth prince asked for orders to return to Yingdu to attend the funeral. However, the Emperor of Chu took away his love on the grounds that the situation in Wutong County was not bad, and deprived the fifth prince of the honor of returning to the capital to attend the funeral and observe filial piety.
In the end, the Queen Mother at that time asked the fourth prince to handle the funeral arrangements for the fifth prince's mother and concubine on the grounds that human relations cannot be abolished.
At the beginning of last month,
The fifth prince, Xiong Tingshan, personally went to Wutong County to ask the regent to be crowned emperor and succeed him to the throne.
This move marked the recognition and support of Wutong County and the forces represented by Wutong County for the legitimacy of the Regent.
Some people in the court and public of the Chu State thought that His Highness the Fifth Prince saw that the Regent was now in a strong position, so he was unwilling to attack the situation with an egg, so he chose to surrender;
Some people also believe that the fifth prince is a son of the royal family after all, and he did not want the Chu Kingdom to continue to suffer from internal strife, so he chose the Gongxinti Kingdom.
In fact, it was both, and there was another one. Xiong Tingshan didn't tell others that he had to pay back what he owed the Queen Mother.
"It can't be beaten, it can't be beaten."
The Queen Mother smiled, waved her hand, and continued:
"Your brothers have grown up and have married and had children. The Ai family just wants to fight. Firstly, I can't fight. Secondly, the servants don't dare to attack you."
"Queen Mother, the fifth son is thinking about your whip."
"You bitch, bitch, look at you, what are you saying in front of your daughter-in-law? If your daughter-in-law hears it, she will think that the Ai family was harsh to you when they were children."
Wu Tingting heard this, put down the food in her hands, and said:
"The Queen Mother, how dare I think like this? He is at home, but he keeps talking about the Queen Mother's kindness to him. He also tells the children that they have a grandma in Yingdu."
The Queen Mother set her sights on Wu Tingting. This woman, who was from the Shanyue tribe, seemed so out of place in the palace where the rules were overwhelming. She exuded a wild and untamed nature.
It is said that if the fifth prince had not met this woman when he first arrived in Wutong County, he might have died long ago.
"But your name is Tingting?"
"is my name."
The eunuchs and maids beside them all lowered their heads and did not dare to show any other expressions.
Xiong Tingshan licked his lips. His wife was like this and didn't like to follow rules.
"She's quite a good-natured person."
"Yes, that's what my mother said about me."
The Queen Mother pointed at her and said:
"When His Majesty chooses your girls to enter the palace, you have to help select them carefully. They have to choose someone like you. My grandsons are all delicate and frail. The Ai family, but I want to hold a knot in my arms." A solid grandson."
Taking women from the Wujiang tribe into the palace was originally one of the agreements reached between the regent and the fifth prince.
Wu Tingting reached out and patted her chest, and said boldly: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, if you put it on me, I will definitely choose someone with a big and firm crotch for Your Majesty the Regent."
"Yes, yes, that's the way to choose, that's the way to choose."
The aristocrats of the Chu people tended to favor softness in women's aesthetics, preferably those with petite figures, slender waists and graceful waists.
"Where are your children? Why didn't you bring them into the palace to show the Ai family?" the Queen Mother asked.
Wu Tingting replied: "Your Majesty, they all clamored to come into the palace to see the grandma their father mentioned, but my family said they didn't understand the rules and disturbed you, the Queen Mother, so they didn't bring her into the palace."
Xiong Tingshan supports his forehead,
It's enough that you are the only mother who doesn't understand the rules. If you add a few little ones like skinny monkeys, then the Yuxin Palace will really have no rules at all.
The Queen Mother glared at Xiong Tingshan and said: "This man is old. He is old and afraid of being deserted. Bring him to the palace next time and make my place lively."
Xiong Tingshan smiled and said: "This is natural. The fifth son also wants to let them come to the Queen Mother and let the Queen Mother help teach them."
"Don't don't."
The Queen Mother waved her hands hurriedly,
Then he covered his chest with his other hand and said:
"The Ai family has already taught such a good girl, and we don't dare to mislead anyone again."
Xiong Liqing, the princess of Dachu, took the initiative to throw herself into the arms of the plain uncle of Yan State on the occasion of the Qu family's wedding, and even rushed out of the other garden to enter Yan with him.
This move caused an uproar in Chu State.
Chu people felt that this was a great shame and humiliation for themselves!
Of course, the biggest victim was Qu.
Although the royal family immediately married another princess to another son of the Qu family, and the Qu family immediately swore to continue to support the regent, and everyone announced a political signal to continue cooperation, but everyone understood that Qu This time, Shi really lost his face.
Wu Tingting heard this and said directly:
"Queen Mother, this is wrong."
"Isn't it right?" The Queen Mother was a little confused.
"I think the princess did the right thing. Just imagine a man who dares to take great risks to an enemy country and take himself away at a wedding surrounded by heavy soldiers;
Such deep feelings, such thoughts,
How many women in this world can't help but be moved by this? "
The Queen Mother was speechless for a moment, because she found that she seemed not very good at communicating with this woman from the Shanyue tribe.
Wu Tingting looked at her husband sitting next to her and continued:
"Back then, my father wanted to betroth me to the young clan leader of a neighboring tribe. It was he who brought two of his men into my tribe and asked my father to betroth me to him."
Xiong Tingshan continued to hold his forehead.
Seeing the Queen Mother's eyes falling on him again,
Xiong Tingshan could only say:
"This is young and frivolous, young and frivolous."
Isn't it just young and frivolous? But being young is really good.
Wu Tingting continued: "At that time, he was tied up by my father, but he still yelled my name and told me not to marry anyone else. At that time, the entire tribe was alarmed by him .
In the end, I had no choice but to cry and beg my father, who spared him and let him go back. "
The Queen Mother nodded and asked, "What happened next?"
"Later I packed my bags, escaped from the tribe, and went to the county to look for him. His troubles made me famous in my tribe and the surrounding tribes. Besides him, I could marry who?
So, after marrying him, I worked hard to give him babies and have babies to get revenge on him! "
"Hehehe."
The Queen Mother was really amused.
"Okay, it turns out the root cause lies with her fifth brother."
The Prince Regent came from outside.
All the maids and eunuchs around knelt down:
"See His Majesty the Regent."
"Sir, see Your Majesty."
"My dearest son, please give my best regards to your mother, may she be well."
The Queen Mother glanced at her son and said: "Lao Wu's family, please accompany the Ai family for a walk in the garden. Here, let them talk among themselves."
"Yes, Queen Mother."
Soon, only the Regent and His Royal Highnesses were left in the hall, and even the maids and eunuchs consciously went outside to wait.
The regent looked at His Royal Highnesses,
Road:
"So, Li Qing learned from her fifth brother, right?"
Xiong Tingshan was submissive in front of the Queen Mother, but he was not as restrained in front of his fourth brother. Hearing this, he just smiled and said:
"You can't rely on me for this. I heard that you, Fourth Brother, were with him back then. When we were competing on the riverside, wasn't he watching from the side?"
"Ugh."
The Prince Regent sighed;
Road:
"Who knows."
"Fourth brother really didn't notice anything?"
The regent shook his head, nodded again, and said:
"I don't think he looks like Su Mingzhe, but I thought he should be a real talent from the Qian Kingdom, but I didn't expect that he turned out to be Zheng Fan.
If I had known it was Zheng Fan,
I just..."
"How about fourth brother?"
"I directly regret my marriage to Mr. Qu. If he likes Liqing and Liqing likes him, then let them get married in Dachu."
"If sister Liqing hears this, tsk tsk..."
"I have appeased the Qu family and nothing major will happen. If you lead Wutong County to surrender, the great Chu will be in my favor.
As a king, you must put centralization of power first. Qu did not dare to take this risk, and he would not take this risk. "
"You don't have to worry about the Qu family. Once Qu Tiannan disappeared, the Qu family's status has actually been reduced to one level. Fourth brother, what we have to do now is to consolidate the royal imperial army. We can't continue to be suppressed by the Yan people like before. On the forehead."
"I also understand, but we have to do it step by step. Managing a big country is like cooking a small dish. There is no need to rush. As for the Forbidden Army, I am determined to let you take charge of this task. Let's organize and train it first. I will figure out a way for the rest.
They are brothers who fight tigers. "
"My younger brother will not disappoint my fourth brother."
"Oh, by the way, Nian Yao is back. I met him in the south study room before, and he is waiting outside now.
Come, go and invite General Nian in. "
"Yes, Your Majesty."
quickly,
Nian Yao walked in,
"This servant wishes to express his greetings to His Majesty and to the Fifth Master."
According to the rules, people within the family are called slaves, and people outside the family call themselves ministers.
Although Nian Yao was an unparalleled general outside, in front of the regent, he had to call himself a slave because he was born a domestic slave.
Of course, calling yourself a slave is not a simple term of contempt. In fact, many people want a "slave" status but cannot get it.
The regent pointed at Nian Yao who was kneeling on the ground and said to His Highness:
"Fifth brother, do you know what information this thing delivered to me last month? In the information, this slave actually dared to suggest that I let Qu's Qingluan Army move to Zhennanguan;
What else can I say, Qu will definitely do his best to ensure that Zhennanguan is not lost. "
Xiong Tingshan touched his head and laughed:
"Hahaha, you slave is too courageous to bury people like this. What's the matter? Can't we let the Qu family go to Zhennanguan to reunite with the family there?"
"I don't dare," Nian Yao said aggrievedly.
"Oh, there is also something that your young general doesn't dare to do. What are your intentions in this statement? Do you know that if I really do this, then the Qu family will suffer such a great humiliation. I don't want to do it, but I have to do it! "
"Slave should die, slave should die!"
"Hey, hey, don't kowtow in a hurry, Nian Yao, let me ask you, how do you feel about playing chess with the Marquis of Nan from Yan?"
Nian Yao immediately cried and said:
"But it scared the slave to death."
"Humph."
The regent snorted coldly.
Xiong Tingshan smoothed things over and said, "Okay, okay. I can still make a crying face, so I'm pretty comfortable with it."
The regent closed his eyes and sighed:
"Li Qing ran away with the man surnamed Zheng. Although I made Da Chu very passive, in the end it was impossible to shake the fundamentals. If our Da Chu could not leave Zhennanguan in the north, we would have to be beaten by Jingnan of Jin. The army was suppressing him.
Although the Ganren people are having a good time, it's just a big thunder and a small raindrop. The Yan people are in a great situation. Now it actually depends on the Yan people themselves, how long they can hold on. "
"Fourth brother, don't worry. Since ancient times, there has been no constant strength. 800 years ago, the Great Summer was like a sun rising in the east. Didn't it mean that it would perish if it was destroyed? I think the Yan Kingdom is now so powerful that Xuhuo will occupy four Five points, let’s see how long his firewood can last.”
"But after all, I was so unhappy that I even invited Zheng Fan to drink."
"Hahaha, does this count as my uncle inviting my sister-in-law to a meeting drink in advance?"
The regent glared at Xiong Tingshan, but Xiong Tingshan didn't take it seriously and continued to laugh.
Nian Yao, who was kneeling on the ground, also laughed in agreement with "hehehe".
When the regent saw this, he kicked him directly.
Nian Yao did not dare to bear the force, let alone mobilize the energy and blood in his body to bear the kick, so he was kicked and spun around on the ground, and then he immediately knelt back to the original position.
"Xiao Xiaoxiao, weren't you, General Nian, rated as one of the four most famous young generals of the world along with Zheng Fan? Well, now Zheng Fan has come to our Da Chu and kidnapped my princess. When will the general go to Yan State and bring back a princess for me?"
When Nian Yao heard this, he immediately showed his bitter face and said aggrievedly:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, slave, slave can't do it."
When the regent heard this, he kicked him again.
General Nian made another circle of gourds on the same spot.
After returning from kneeling, he continued:
"Your Majesty, slave, I really can't do it."
"Good-for-nothing," scolded the Prince Regent.
Nian Yao was very aggrieved.
Road:
"Your Majesty, this slave has to be abducted if he wants to, but Emperor Yan is a son, not a daughter."
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The next chapter is before 2am.
(End of this chapter)