Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 275 Is there someone behind the scenes?

Before the sky was about to turn completely dark, the carriage that Liu Xie and Fu Shou were riding in finally arrived at the foot of a hill and stopped in front of a single-family house.

The hut is square and square, with two stone camels at the door, and pines and cypresses all around.When the night wind blows, there are low rustling sounds.

"Get out of the car." Fu Shou said to Liu Xie.

Liu Xie nodded, suddenly regretting his decision to come to this place.It was quiet all around, and nothing unusual could be seen, but Liu Xie just felt a little restless.

Walking on the road leading to the hut, Liu Xie carefully looked at the scenery along the way: pines and cypresses, stone camels, moiré stone bricks, these decorations and buildings mean only one thing - this house is a ancestral hall for the dead .Especially the expressionless stone camel and the stone bricks carved with turtles, double fishes, leaf veins, turtles, deer, and sheep made Liu Xie feel even more uncomfortable.

Liu Xie knew a little about the ancestral halls of the Han Dynasty.For example, the patterns and patterns on those stone bricks all have a meaning: the circle pattern means "wealth and honor"; ; Deer means "more than enough food"; sheep means "auspicious"...

But although these allusions express the wishes of the living to the dead, those animals are all portrayed either with a gloomy spirit, with a human head and a sheep body, or with a fish head and a human body.In addition, there is really a dead person's spiritual tablet in the room... Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a chilly wind blowing all over his body.

As a time traveler, Liu Xie doesn't really believe in ghosts and gods, but this kind of weird environment is really uncomfortable.Liu Xie looked left and right, suddenly his pupils constricted and his whole body became stiff.

At some point, there was another person behind him, a woman with long hair and white clothes.

This is a young woman under the age of 20, wearing a thorn hairpin cloth dress, with beautiful features, but there is a lingering vicissitudes between her brows, and there are faint wrinkles around the narrow and long eyes and thin lips.

"Concubine Tang?" Liu Xie's voice was cautious.The sudden appearance of this woman instantly made the surrounding air feel a little colder.

After seeing Fushou talking with the woman, Liu Xie was relieved to confirm that the woman in front of him was not a ghost.Seeing Concubine Tang walking towards him silently, without making a sound, she arched her hands and made an empty bow - all the strange things about this woman from her appearance to the present made Liu Xie forget to return the salute for a while.

"Come in with me, Your Majesty, Sister Shou'er has already told me about this matter." This was the first sentence Tang Fei said to Liu Xie, her voice was cold, as if there was no trace of fireworks.

Liu Xie hesitated for a moment, and followed Concubine Tang into the house.Concubine Tang removed the cover of the lantern in her hand and lit two large plain white candles. Only then did Liu Xie see the furnishings in the dark room: This is indeed an ancestral hall. Sacrificial utensils, with a table, incense burner and candlestick in the middle.The ancestral hall is quite simple, and the grade of sacrificial utensils is not high, but it is cleaned and spotless.

In the middle of the case is enshrined a maple tablet, on which it is written "the seat of the old king Hongnong".

Seeing this memorial tablet, Liu Xie's face changed silently. Concubine Tang saw Liu Xie's reaction, put down the lantern, and said calmly: "The deceased husband is not allowed to enter the ancestral temple because of the death of the king of Hongnong. Fortunately, your majesty is kind, and in memory of the deceased husband, here Let’s set up an ancestral hall to comfort Jiuquan.” After saying this, Concubine Tang bowed to Liu Xie again, this time, it was a formal and cumbersome ceremony for monarchs and ministers.

It was at this time that Liu Xie saw clearly that the young emperor's widow was wearing a worn-out palace dress, luxurious in style, but it was washed a little white, and there were still dense stitches and patches on it.

Being led by Concubine Tang's series of emotions, Liu Xie only realized this after he calmed down slightly.He closed his eyes slightly, carefully recalling the records left by this woman in history.

This Tang Ji is the only wife of Hongnong King Liu Bian.After Emperor Ling died, he passed the throne to Liu Bian.It's a pity that this unfortunate guy only sat emperor for four months before being deposed as King Hongnong by Dong Zhuo, and then he was poisoned to death.After Liu Bian's death, Tang Ji was exiled among the people, and it was even rumored that she was forced to marry by Li Jue and disappeared.

Historically, after Liu Xie was welcomed back to Xudu by Cao Cao, Fu Shou reported it. At this time, the emperor issued an edict to welcome the concubine Tang back to the palace after all the hard work, and guard the mausoleum for King Hongnong.

Except for other things, this Tang Ji did not leave any records.At this moment, Liu Xie already had some resentment towards Chen Shou and Pei Songzhi.Even if women were discriminated against in the feudal era, at least Tang Ji's character should be written twice.

However, after thinking about it, Liu Xie soon felt relieved.Historians such as Chen Shou and Pei Songzhi are at most just recorders of history, and they don't want to touch Tang Ji's sensitive identity.After all, if he hadn't experienced it personally, how would Liu Xie know that the death of Hongnong King Liu Bian was actually related to Liu Xie, who was only 11 years old at the time?Even if Chen Shou, Pei Songzhi and others knew about these palace secrets, how would they dare to write about them?

It seems that if you want to know whether the widow of the young emperor has anything to do with the Kansai turmoil, you have to rely entirely on your own exploration.

There are no blankets in the ancestral hall, and one man, two women and three people can only stand facing each other.After Liu Xie thought about it, he first bowed respectfully to Liu Bian's tablet, and then Fu Shou followed Liu Xie to worship Liu Bian.After finishing all this, Liu Xie said to Tang Ji: "Concubine Tang is suffering here, it's my negligence. After returning to the palace, I will ask Concubine Tang to send more things for her."

"No need, your Majesty will still miss you for those who are still alive, and your concubines are already terrified." Tang Ji politely refused. At this time, Liu Xie could see that she was looking at him with a little alertness.

"It's still needed. Concubine Tang lives here alone, so it's very depressing. After I return to the palace, I will send a few more maids to make up for the fault of no one to take care of Concubine Tang after Nuan Xin left." Liu Xie said He spoke very slowly, but just after he said the word 'warm heart', he suddenly saw a trace of fear flashing in Tang Ji's eyes, but she pretended to be calm to cover it up, but she couldn't escape Liu Xie's eyes.

At this time, Tang Ji lifted a strand of hair from her forehead to confuse Liu Xie's sight and calm her mind, and said seriously: "The concubine is just a widowed concubine who has abandoned the king. She is silent and silent, so there is no need for your majesty to do this Thinking about it." This sentence is hidden in the needle, with a hint of sarcasm.

Liu Xie shook his head slightly. Tang Ji's performance showed two points: first, she was passionate about heart-warming, and even participated in it; The person who planned to launch the Kansai Mutiny at the most sensitive moment in the Kanto situation.

As for Dong Bai, Liu Xie believed that Dong Bai also had the same thoughts.But based on Liu Xie's understanding of Dong Bai, he knew that Dong Bai was at most more ruthless than Tang Ji, but when it comes to the current military situation, it is impossible for her to have the ability to plan strategies.

Could it be that behind Dong Bai and Tang Ji, there is another top strategist who planned this matter for them?
Who is that person?

Han Sui?
Impossible, although he has the strength to realize such a conspiracy, but he is far away in Jincheng, Liangzhou, and he does not have the conditions to grasp the situation in Kanto in real time.Even if Tang Ji informed Han Sui through Dong Bai, the situation in Kanto was changing rapidly, and Han Sui hadn't finished analyzing the current situation, and there might have been a storm in Kanto.

From this point of view, the guy who planned everything must be from Chang'an.Moreover, he is also a first-class counselor who understands Liu Xie's temperament and the situation of the Han army very well, and can make accurate predictions.The most important point is that this person also has a deep-rooted hatred motive with Liu Xie.

Changan, is there really such a person?

Liu Xie was very suspicious.

It's not that he underestimated Chang'an, but with his golden fingers as a traveler, he has already included those people who have left their names in history under the eyeliner of the Black Ice Platform.Even Zhang Ji, Fu Xun, and Du Ji in Chang'an Sanfu, who are currently just county government officials, Liu Xie didn't let go of.

Who is this man?
Liu Xie stared at Tang Ji for a long time, trying to find clues that this person did not exist at all.However, to Liu Xie's disappointment, Tang Ji's lips were slightly curled up at this time, which was clearly expressing her tough sarcasm.And Liu Xie, who has a little knowledge of psychology, knows that people who can make such immature expressions are most likely not planners with a strong heart.

At this moment, Fu Shou saw the strangeness between the two, walked to the door, leaned on the door to look around, turned around and said: "Your Majesty, we should go back, there will be a curfew any later."

"Well, it's time to go back." Liu Xie Tang Ji nodded, his face was completely calm and dignified that did not belong to his age.

(End of this chapter)