Huaiyu is slightly cool

Zhou Huai cautiously and secretly looked at the emaciated old lady, Emperor Wu Bowen, who was sitting on the grand teacher's chair with a gloomy face all over his body, moved his aching neck slightly, and looked at the sunset glow outside the window after the golden black sun had sunk, and licked it a little dry. lips, she knelt on the thick brocade carpet, her hand holding the pill box trembling.

"Are you foolish? You're talking nonsense!" The old lady, Emperor Wu Bowen, looked at the pill in Zhou Huai's hand and said slowly.He was caressing a finger-length ink-colored jade fish in his hand. He was wearing a black gown. His body was thin and shriveled, and his hair was full of white hair. However, his eyes were still sharp, but with the hazy yellow that is typical of old age.

Zhou Huai shook his hand holding the elixir, and hurriedly shook his head in fear and replied: "Of course not, Huaiyu grew up listening to the heroic deeds of you and Emperor Gaozu saving the common people and rectifying the world. How dare you lie? This The elixir was indeed told to me by a Taoist in my dream, what I just said is true, if the old sage doesn't believe it, he can send someone to investigate."

The old lady, the emperor, stopped talking, and only silently looked at Zhou Huai.Zhou Huai felt a little uncomfortable being watched, but he also had other feelings.She had heard about the deeds of the old lady, the emperor, and was a little curious about the old lady who had been regent for more than 20 years, but now she felt that meeting her was not as famous as it was.Throughout history, there are so many famous monarchs through the ages, or the overlords of the world with lofty sentiments, but in their later years, they are all exhausted and old.What's more, the old lady emperor still has a regency to exercise power. Although during the regency period, the world was stable and the people recuperated, but the officials in the court were overstaffed, the system was chaotic, and the luxury of the nobles gradually revived. However, Zhou Huai only felt a little strange about the 20-year-old regent.

In the fifth year of Longqi in the Xia Kingdom, the 26-year-old Emperor Xiahuai has listened to slander and tyranny since he ascended the throne, resulting in continuous natural and man-made disasters.Under the wrath of the sky and people's grievances, the country of Xia is in danger. At this time, Wu Yunhao, a young hero from a family in Jinning County, Liangzhou, took the lead in leading the uprising.Because Wu Yunhao was intelligent, quick-witted, and good at making friends with heroes, he was well-known as a young man, and with the support of Ren Huaiyuan and Wu Bowen, the father of the prefect of the second county of Hexi, the father and son worked together to plan things, and raised their arms in Jinning. Beijing, like a broken bamboo, captured Kyoto in only four years, killed Emperor Huai, and established the Jing Dynasty. Wu Yunhao proclaimed himself emperor in Kyoto.

After Wu Yunhao ascended the throne, he first took back the military power of his father Wu Bowen, and later he was named the Supreme Emperor and moved to Liangzhou's palace to serve him. He also named the 6-year-old Xia Guo's old prince as King Anshun, and ordered the world to clear the case of injustice. Taxes are reduced, and the ruling and opposition parties are thriving.

Only after the four-year autumn hunting in Yining, Jing Gaozu relapsed due to the relapse of his old disease, and the medicine and stone were ineffective. He died of illness in early March of the fifth year of Yining at the age of 32.Because the prince was not the queen's own, in order to prevent the descendants from taking power and causing chaos, he left an edict to bury the 24-year-old queen Chen with him. Most of the officials of the queen's family were relegated.

Later, Prince Wu Mingtai, who was only 10 years old, succeeded to the throne and changed his reign name to Taiping.At this time, the old lady, Emperor Wu Bowen, who was living in the Liangzhou Palace, returned to the court on the grounds that Wu Mingtai was too young to be in charge of the government, and proclaimed himself the regent and founding emperor, and Xiao Yi among the four assistant ministers set up by Wu Yunhao. He and Chen Wei jointly controlled the government, and later relegated Duan Jie, the other two assistant ministers, from the second-rank censor to the fourth-rank Hanlin Academy servant lecturer, and relegated the second-rank household minister Zhang Teng who was in charge of finance to the fourth-rank official. Guozijian sacrificial wine, from then on the old lady emperor began to govern the country for more than [-] years, but Wu Mingtai sitting on the throne existed in name only.

Zhou Huai recalled the past, and couldn't help but think of Wu Mingtai's time travel. Just as he was thinking about the key points, the old lady, the emperor, said at this moment: "Every sentence is true?" The attitude is still noncommittal, but the tone has eased Not a lot.

"Of course." Zhou Huai tried to look at the old lady with sincere eyes, hoping that the other party would believe the story she just made up.However, it is best for the old lady to believe in the emperor. If she doesn’t believe it, then forget it. After all, the one who can directly kidnap people is definitely not a good man and a believer who can be fooled by a story. She is just delaying time and waiting for someone to rescue.

When Zhou Huai woke up on the carpet of the Yanshou Palace, he saw the old lady sitting above her, the Emperor, staring at her.Although he had expected that the other party might vent his anger on her because of the Xiao family incident, he did not expect it to come so soon.Facing the sharp gaze of the old man above, Zhou Huai did not cry out in panic like ordinary children, but took out the elixir without changing his face, and started talking nonsense.Said that two days ago in the Huguo Temple, he dreamed of a Taoist rider riding a crane, named himself Qingfeng, and told her that he left two pills when he passed by the Huguo Temple. She gave her one and asked her to search for it in a cave in the back mountain. She asked Abbot Jingguan to help her find it. Unexpectedly, Abbot Jingguan found it and refused to give it to him. All the elixirs were taken down the mountain and returned to the palace. One of the elixirs was the life-prolonging golden elixir, which could prolong life, but the exact number of Zhou Huai's increase was not mentioned.The other is Guangfu Pill, which increases blessings and avoids disasters. I originally wanted to find an opportunity to dedicate one to the Supreme Emperor, and the other was going to be dedicated to the Emperor on the Emperor's birthday two months later.This elixir was originally stored in my room, but today I moved, so I carried it close to my body. Now that I see the majesty's heroic posture and wisdom, my admiration is beyond words, so I dedicate both elixir to the old lady.

As for the real origin of these two elixirs, Zhou Huai certainly couldn't say that she found them from the vase that smashed the fourth prince's.Later, I went to the eldest princess to try to ask about the elixir, but the eldest princess only mentioned the vase, and didn't mention the contents in the bottle at all. sentence.However, the eldest princess probably didn't believe her, so Zhou Huai didn't ask who sent the vase. Both of them were wary of each other, and Zhou Huai didn't plan to return the two pills. She looked at them. The aging old lady, the emperor, the other party's expression towards her has obviously eased after seeing the elixir. Zhou Huai knew that he had made the right bet when he took out the elixir. The atmosphere recovered and became popular, and the old lady, the emperor, was the first to bear the brunt. Zhou Huai felt a little relieved at this time.

The old lady, the emperor, looked at Zhou Huai's cautious and calm expression with a slight smile, and couldn't help being a little funny in his heart.He just thought that Zhou Huai was afraid of himself, but he didn't think that Zhou Huai was worried that the old lady, the emperor, would take his anger out on her because of the Xiao family.In fact, although the old lady, the emperor, has been depressed recently because of the Xiao family being punished by the three clans, but it was originally an alliance because of interests, so what kind of feelings can there be?Moreover, the old lady, the emperor, didn't take Zhou Huai seriously at all, thinking that she was just a child, a pawn in the game between the two parties, and there was nothing for revenge.He was just a little curious about Zhou Huai and this piece of jade fish, but after careful study for a long time, he didn't find anything special, and Zhou Huai seemed more well-behaved than other children of the same age because he was not surprised, and there was nothing outstanding about the others. Then she lost interest, and asked the eunuch beside her to return the jade fish in her hand, and looked at the two pills with the eunuch's raised hand. Just as she was about to speak, the eunuch came to report: Your Majesty, .

"What did you say?" The old lady, the emperor, glanced at Zhou Huai before asking the eunuch who reported the letter.

The eunuch knelt and replied: "Reporting to the Holy Emperor, Eunuch Wu in front of Luan said that His Majesty came to visit the Holy Emperor, and he showed a little filial piety and brought a lot of gifts."

Jing Guo respects Confucianism and promotes benevolence and filial piety. Since the old lady came back from the palace to regent and supervise the country, the emperor Wu Mingtai, as a grandson, although he doesn't have to make up his mind in the morning and evening, he will still perform the etiquette that should be done on the surface.

The old lady, the emperor, only snorted coldly after hearing this: "No need, let him go back."

After the old lady finished speaking, the emperor waved the eunuch out, looked at Zhou Huai again, and asked the eunuch to fetch an egg-sized night pearl and gave it to Zhou Huai. Seeing that it was already night outside, he summoned two confidant eunuchs and whispered Instructions: Don't take medicine, just cover your eyes and send it back.He also told Zhou Huai to go back honestly, but not to tell others what happened today.

Zhou Huai nodded, obediently letting the eunuch cover her eyes with a cloth. When her eyes are in darkness, her hearing will be more acute. When the sound of the secret passage opening, the eunuch carried her into the secret passage.

When Zhou Huai stood at the robbed place again, she still couldn't recover. She looked around and saw a figure standing not far away.

Wu Mingtai walked towards Zhou Huai in the imperial garden at the tip of the willow on the moon, step by step, and finally stood facing Zhou Huai across a dense and low crabapple.The night had already enveloped them all, but Zhou Huai felt that she could clearly see the expression on Wu Mingtai's face, which reminded her suddenly of the scene of her mother's blood sacrifice in her previous life, that time they also looked at each other in the darkness, each other It was also the same indifferent expression of staying out of the matter, and then blocked in front of her.A bit of resentment arose in Zhou Huai's heart in an instant. The sudden and strange emotion made her eyes gradually cold and silent as if covered by thin ice. She stared at Wu Mingtai coldly without moving. .

Wu Mingtai sighed softly, and spoke first: "I'll take you back."

Zhou Huai stood still, looked at the other party and slowly shook his head and said, "I want to go back to Yunzhou."

Wu Mingtai fell silent, the expression on his face was hidden in the night, Zhou Huai couldn't tell, and the atmosphere was as solemn as the night, but Zhou Huai continued: "I will die here sooner or later. next time."

Zhou Huai clearly knew that she wasn't a scheming material at all, and she was the one who was lazy to talk about it, so even with Wu Mingtai's help, if she stayed in this palace, she would die sooner or later. Today, she was quite frightened by the kidnapping-like method of the old lady. Although she finally found out that it was just a false alarm, she still wanted to stay away from this power field as soon as possible.

Wu Mingtai shifted his gaze to Zhou Huai's slapped cheek in the morning, and said, "Then become strong, strong enough to decide the life and death of others."

Zhou Huai lowered his head, but said clearly: "It's too tiring to live like that, I don't want to. I don't know what you are planning, but I just want to live a normal life, please let me go back to Yunzhou, my previous life Let it all pass by, and I want to start over in this life."

After Zhou Huai finished speaking, she raised her head and looked in Wu Mingtai's direction. She knew that Wu Mingtai would not let her go easily, but everything was obviously wrong now.Once upon a time, the people of Jingguo knew that the current emperor is extremely benevolent and filial, he does not fight for power, nor is he greedy for the throne.But what about the facts?Eight years ago, the virtuous Prince Wu Mingjue, who was highly praised by the people, died, and the Xiao family, which had power over the ruling and opposition parties, was destroyed as soon as it was said to be destroyed. She didn't understand everything, and she didn't want to figure it out.But she always had a bad feeling in her heart that Wu Mingtai was planning something big on her.This kind of feeling made Zhou Huai a little restless, feeling that she was just like a prey caught in a trap, and she was still fighting. This feeling of sadness seemed to start from the Huguo Temple, or before she didn't realize it, Maybe it was when she came to Beijing, maybe it was as early as when she was born with Yuyu.She is like a prey being targeted by a hunter. At this moment, she has deeply sensed that the hunter is slowly approaching, and she desperately wants to escape, but now she is too weak to resist and has become a prey.

A gust of evening wind blew by, and Zhou Huai shivered.Wu Mingtai, who had been watching Zhou Huai without moving or speaking, finally spoke: "Start over? You can't! You don't have the right to choose either!"

After hearing this, Zhou Huai looked up at Wu Mingtai who could only see a black shadow with a dead face, a cold light flashed in his eyes, then he tilted his head slightly and asked softly, "Why?"

Wu Mingtai stared at Zhou Huai and continued, "Because no matter in the previous life or in this life, if you want to live, you have to fight against the sky."

Zhou Huai was slightly stunned, then suddenly remembered something, and said seriously: "In this life, the Zhou family has no history of genetic diseases."

Wu Mingtai shook his head, and said in a heavy tone: "It's not a disease, because you are my child, no matter in the past, present or future life, as long as your soul is immortal, you will always be a descendant of the Huai family of my spiritual clan. If you are alive, you must return to your hometown."

Zhou Huai suddenly raised his head, stared at Wu Mingtai for a long time before asking: "Spirit Race? Hometown? Where is it?"

"It's far away, but we have to go back. I'll show you something first."