"But have you ever seen anyone who looks like her? Over the years, the emperor has chosen concubines. How many people have looks like hers? Look like her? Have a smile like her? They are all kept in the harem. How can these be the three thousand beauties in the harem? In fact,

It's all her!" Xia Rongxin was almost hysterical.

"But the person on top of the war drum today, her dancing and coquettish postures are just like in the past when Lu Fushuang was alive. The distance is too far to see her true face, but I can always feel that every smile and every move is what she looked like back then.

This is how she used to be. Have you ever seen anyone who looks like her? Even I almost admitted it." Xia Rongxin said in a broken voice.

Yun Xi burst out laughing. Hearing what Concubine Mei said to such a person, she always felt a chill in her back: "Concubine, don't scare yourself... The late queen has been dead for so long... It shouldn't be hers. It's better to rest early.

Otherwise, the prince will also be worried on the front line."

"Yun Xi! Yun Xi, you go to Qintian Prison tomorrow, early tomorrow morning, and get your name back. I want to know who that person is." Xia Rongxin grabbed Yun Xi's hand and ordered.

Yun Xi seemed to not recognize the empress in front of her, always feeling that she was very strange because of her panic, but Yun Xi still agreed: "Okay."

"Mother, it's getting late, go to bed early." Yun Xi advised.

Xia Rongxin fell silent, feeling that she had been too excited just now. She sat on the bed and looked around blankly.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the bronze mirror on the dressing table. Yun Xi accidentally touched it when closing the window, causing it to shift.

Now when she was sitting on the bed, she could just see the offset bronze mirror, looking at her years that had already passed. The traces of time had carved indelible wrinkles on her face. The woman she saw today looked no more than young.

Twenty-eight is the most beautiful age.

Xia Rongxin felt that she was exhausted both physically and mentally. After all, she was in love with Chi...

"Hahahahahaha." She suddenly laughed.

"Your Majesty?" Yun Xi felt frightened, "What's wrong with you, Your Majesty? Do you need a doctor?"

"Yun Xi, the woman on the drum stand today is only twenty-eight years old, and she is at her most beautiful age." Xia Rongxin said with a smile, "I think that even if Lu Fushuang was alive, she might not be as good as her, right?

I thought I was going to lose to Lu Fushuang again, but when I think about it, we have all lost."

Yun Xi looked embarrassed: "My queen is as beautiful as a fairy, even after all these years she still looks like she was in her twenties. My queen, you'd better go to bed early."

"Please step aside. I want to be alone." Xia Rongxin slowly suppressed her smile and stared at her own face in the bronze mirror.

Yun Xi looked around, responded, and then retreated.

"Hey!... Your Majesty hasn't slept yet?" When Rongfu passed by the dormitory and saw that Yun Xi was not there, he thought that he might have something to do and left. However, the prince had just left for the expedition today, so he thought that his Majesty might not be able to sleep, and he was worried that no one would be there when he sent someone to summon him.

Here, he waited for Yun Xi at the door. When he was sitting at the door and fell asleep, Yun Xi suddenly opened the door and came out, startling him.

"Ah!" Yun Xi was also startled by Rong Fu. She patted her chest to calm herself down and shook her head, "No, now let me come out and be alone for a while."

As he said this, he looked inside uneasily.

"Please try to persuade the queen not to worry. The prince is very skilled in martial arts and can protect himself. Moreover, General Liang is also with him, so there is no need to worry." Rongfu said in a low voice, "If nothing else works, there will still be that hundred thousand troops.

I secretly went to the school grounds today to see it, and it was so shocking! It was so crowded with people, and the sound of the bowl being thrown was probably heard by the whole of Kyoto."

"You still went to see it? How brave you are."

For such a grand ceremony, they, as accompanying slaves, could only wait behind the balcony, and could not see the school grounds from there.

"Shhh" Rongfu was worried that Concubine Mei would hear it inside, so he quickly made a gesture of silence and pulled Yun Xi a little further away, "Isn't this just out of curiosity? I wanted to be a soldier before I entered the palace, but I had no choice about my family background.

We are poor, and we won't be able to get military pay for a while. And that money can save my father's life. I have a younger brother and a younger sister at home. If my father survives, they can all survive."

As he was talking, a gust of autumn wind blew by. The cool autumn breeze at night made Rongfu shrink his neck. He rolled up his sleeves and looked at Yun Xi with a naive smile.

Yun Xi suddenly felt uncomfortable. She turned away and said awkwardly: "Be careful in the future. If someone finds out, I won't be able to protect you."

"Don't worry. I just took one look and left." Rongfu said with a smile.

Yun Xi nodded gently, her eyes were a little moist, but she suddenly thought of something again, turned her head to look at Rong Fu, and asked: "Then have you ever seen the goddess in white dancing on the war drum?"

Rongfu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "When I went there, I didn't see any goddess on the war drum. What's wrong?"

Yun Xi shook her head: "It's okay. Eunuch Rongfu, please go back and rest early. I have to keep vigil for the queen."

Rongfu nodded: "Okay, I'll go back first. It's getting colder. Please wear more clothes during the night watch."

Yun Xi responded and turned around to go back.

Prime Minister's Mansion.

"It's hard on my son." Mrs. Lu said distressedly while bandaging Lu Huiling's foot injury.

Because Lu Huiling wanted to dance on the war drum, which had a thin drum head and was worried that the drum head would be broken when wearing shoes, he danced barefoot. When he walked out of the Xuanwu Gate, he stepped on the porcelain that had been dropped by a hundred thousand soldiers after drinking the farewell wine.

The bowl was broken into pieces, and he stepped out of the Xuanwu Gate step by step with bloody footprints.

"Mom, I'm fine." Lu Huiling smiled, not caring about the scars on the soles of her feet, and instead went to comfort her mother.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have let you go." Mrs. Lu looked at her daughter with tears in her eyes. She was pregnant with Hui Ling in ten months. It was Hui Ling who made her a mother.

How can the dearest baby at the top of my heart endure the pain of having his heart cut out?

"What nonsense are you talking about? Mom, this is a good thing for the country and the family. Others are fighting for it and can't get it. There is no reason to shirk it." Lu Huiling smiled and wiped away the tears from the corners of Mrs. Lu's eyes and said with relief.

"How can you bear it, Mr. Prime Minister... There is nothing good about these feet... They are all rotten..." Mrs. Lu couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so she could only blame Lu Gaohong and cried.

Fortunately, Mrs. Lu didn't know about Lu Gaohong's plan, otherwise Lu Gaohong would not have recommended Lu Huiling to the drum stage no matter what she said.

Lu Gaohong was listening outside the door at this time, and he couldn't help but feel heartache in his chest. After all, that was his daughter. What Mrs. Lu saw was only visible skin trauma, but he was going to push his daughter into an abyss.

Lu Huiling smiled faintly. She patted Mrs. Lu's back to comfort her, thinking about the scenery she saw on the drum platform today.

A hundred thousand troops gathered in Mingtai Campus in a mighty manner. Qi Jingqin commanded them with majesty. She also became proud. He was indeed the man she admired.

On the drum stand, she stepped on the drum head and played exciting drum music to bid farewell to her beloved. After the drum beat stopped for a moment, she lowered her head to face the king who stood above thousands of people. When she raised her head to face the king, she was filled with joy.

With tears on her face and a smile on her lips, she slowly let go of Qi Jingqin in her heart.

When she stepped off the drum platform, she walked out of the Xuanwu Gate with hundreds of thousands of troops. Her tears fell on the sharp pieces of the porcelain bowl. She was completely unaware of the pain in her soles, and she walked out of the Xuanwu Gate with bloody footprints step by step.

The fragments she walked over were mixed with her blood and tears.

The blood is the blood of the soles of the feet, and the tears are the blood of the heart.

she thought.

Qi Jingqin, I will see you off for the last time. When we meet again, we will all be enemies.

East Palace.

Tonight, Qi Jingyang was no longer singing and dancing in the East Palace. Instead, he was sitting on the high platform of the East Palace alone with a pot of strong wine, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and swallowing the strong wine in one mouthful.
Chapter completed!