Chapter 139: Act 17, Nine Songs, Five of the Nine Songs
In the early morning, a thunderstorm had just fallen on Yanluo Plain, and the tips of the grass blades were still stained with crystal water drops.
It is now the ninth day after Jiang Yan was seriously injured and fell into coma. Previously, the shaman of the tribe had told Tuya that if the young man failed to wake up within five days from his injuries, he might never wake up again. But the princess He didn't want to believe that he was still taking care of him every day, his body covered with fine cloth.
However, hope became increasingly slim as time went by. At this moment, the girl had just replaced her companion with new wound medicine, but suddenly she lay on his chest and burst into tears.
"Why don't you—get up quickly—"
A voice slowly floated into Tuya's ears. But she couldn't react for a moment, and replied angrily: "Jiang Yan is probably impossible to save, can't you just let me cry for a while?"
"If you don't get up again, I will really be crushed to death!"
Completely beyond the Di Ren girl's expectations, the black-eyed boy who had been lying motionless on the couch suddenly raised his hand and patted her head gently, causing her to burst into tears and laugh:
"I knew it, I knew you would wake up!"
"That's natural. Every day I can hear the sounds of ground otters digging the soil, horses neighing, green grass jointing, wind and clouds moving, and a girl constantly encouraging me. How could I die like this?"
The dark-eyed boy grinned, but his smile was very ugly.
"Did you hear everything I said?"
Tuya covered her mouth with a blush on her cheeks. Even she didn't know what heartfelt words she had said in the young man's ears.
"Intermittently, I didn't listen completely. I just felt like someone was talking in my ear."
Jiang Yan seemed to be in good spirits and actually made a joke at the other party's expense. However, the Di girl immediately became angry:
"I have the nerve to say it. Do you know that these past few days have scared me to death? The incision on your chest is very deep. If it hurts your heart by an inch, I'm afraid you won't be able to wake up again. Coming!"
The happy look only appeared on Tuya's face for a short moment, and was replaced by a sad look again. Jiang Yan couldn't help but feel strange when he saw this, and asked again:
"Am I still alive now? Looking at you, it seems you don't want me to wake up."
"Of course I hope you wake up! But you have committed a serious crime by killing Erda in front of the whole clan."
"If we don't get rid of this person, the entire Muyun tribe will not have a good life." Speaking of Qina, the black-eyed boy was still aggrieved, "Not to mention you and me."
"I am really grateful to you. But Eda is the reigning Hehan after all——"
"So, if you let me go like this, you're breaking the rules, right? I understand."
Before the other party finished speaking, Jiang Yan already understood, "A true man, I will not deny the person I killed. As long as you and General Yuan Ti will not be implicated for this."
"Don't you care if you are sentenced to death?!" Tuya suddenly became anxious.
The young man in front of him just shook his head calmly: "Of course I care...but...I want to——"
Jiang Yan wanted to say that he had not taken revenge on his parents, and the whereabouts of Ning Yue and Qi Ziyin were still unknown. However, under the current situation, it might be difficult for him to leave this grassland. Suddenly, the young man felt that it was necessary to explain what happened after his death. However, the more he hesitated like this, the more angry the Di girl became:
"Don't you want to say, if one day I can meet that red-haired girl for you, can I help you send a few words to her? I can tell you now that I can't! Could it be that I am still in your mind today?
Is it just a messenger role?"
"That's not what I meant—"
The boy immediately wanted to defend himself, but Tuya didn't seem to want to continue arguing on this issue:
"Now don't say these useless things. You don't have to be so decisive. In fact - now you have a second choice, which is to get married to me immediately."
"Getting married...?"
Jiang Yan couldn't explain clearly what kind of feelings he had for the princess of the Muyun tribe. He wanted to say that more often than not, he might just treat her as a younger sister, but suddenly Xian saw the slightest difference.
Frowning, he had to swallow these words back in his stomach - after all, he came to Yanluoyuan as Ye Guo Beizi, and he knew in his heart that getting married would be put on the agenda sooner or later.
He stared into the girl's eyes and fell into a long silence. When he spoke again, he firmly rejected her request:
"I'm sorry, I can't promise you. I can't just survive for myself -"
"So what? Do you think you are taking an advantage by marrying me? To tell you the truth, we don't know when the Hulantai Conference will be held, so the position of Hehan still belongs to the Bakwuqin family, but this
The seat has always been occupied by men. Therefore, if I want to succeed to the throne in a legitimate way, I must have a husband! So even if we get married, it is not that you have taken advantage of me, but that I have taken advantage of you!"
This time, Princess Muyunbu's expression became extremely serious, and she said every word, "But if you accept the punishment and die like this, then the position of Hehan that the ancestors of the Bakwuqin family have fought with their lives for generations will be lost."
You can be justifiably taken over by Mu He, and no one in the clan dares to argue with him anymore. Therefore, you must agree to the marriage! Even if you fail to wake up today, as long as there is still one breath left, I must agree.
You get married, you can’t wait any longer!”
It turns out that Princess Di Ren had already made such a plan from the very beginning. Unexpectedly, the girl who usually seemed gentle and kind-hearted was actually terrifyingly calm and calm at critical moments. She became more and more like a strategist and good at fighting for power.
The king of the prairie.
"What's more, the Muyun tribe's enemies now are not just Muhe. The galloping wolves in Lancang Mountain are the threats we really need to worry about. If we can't figure out the origins of these ferocious beasts and the people behind the scenes who raise them
What kind of disaster will Shuobei grassland, and even your motherland and states and counties in the south face? The wedding is scheduled for three days later. Whether it comes or not, you should know in your heart."
After saying these last words, Tuya withdrew from the tent without looking back, as if she had never been there before. Jiang Yan just sat on the couch blankly, watching the princess's back leaving like the wind.
, suddenly felt a deep fear. It was this fear that continued to drive him in the future, leading the cavalry to cross the Pinjin River and go south, overcoming thorns and thorns along the way, invincible and invincible.
In the twelfth year of Yuansui, on March 21st, after the spring equinox, merchants gathered in Yujing City, and carriages and horses were passing by, creating a scene of prosperity. In just a few days, the fine weather caused rhododendrons to bloom all over the city.
The capital city was dyed in brilliant purples and reds.
This situation attracted literati and elegant guests from all over the city to come to the city to enjoy flowers, wine, and write poems. Even ordinary people put down everything they were doing and climbed up to take a look at this magnificent scene. It is quite interesting. "The peach and plum blossoms are blooming without anyone to appreciate them, and a red cloud moves the capital." This grand scene seems to have made people forget about the bloody battle that broke out between the Cheng Kingdom and the Ye Kingdom in the south a few months ago.
Yujing was named after the Yu River flowing through the south of the city. At the beginning of the Great Ascension, the founding emperor Bai Jiangxi went out of the two mountains of Tongyan and Qyingying, and finally drove the last batch of strange beasts that were causing harm to the world. The tundra in the north has since declared that the world will finally be at peace.
However, after he ascended the throne, Bai Jiangxi did not set up the capital on the land south of Suoyang Pass. Instead, he tried to be as close to the northern border as possible, in order to urge his descendants not to be greedy for comfort and to always be alert to changes from the north.
Over the next thousand years, the alien beasts entrenched in the north gradually disappeared, but instead the Shuodi people who were originally precarious on the grassland grew stronger, and suddenly the capital city, which had no barrier between Shuozhou's frozen soil, became more and more difficult to survive. It is easier to attack than to defend.
However, no emperor in history has ever thought of moving the capital. Even Bai Jianglinran, the British ruler who experienced the Shuodi Rebellion more than a hundred years ago, only ordered civilian craftsmen to re-strengthen the city wall.
Therefore, after thousands of years of continuous repairs, the city wall of Yujing is now a hundred paces thick, unparalleled in the world. The broad city top is enough to run ten six-horse carriages side by side and still have plenty of room. After years of wind and frost, with rice Even a sharp knife cannot be inserted between the masonry and stone bonded with mortar and lime. The Wengcheng gate, which is more than three feet high, is strong enough to withstand hundreds of consecutive stone crossbow attacks without breaking or collapsing.
But right now, in this impregnable capital city, the palace, which was supposed to be preparing for sacrifices to the gods after the beginning of spring, was deserted and desolate. The civil and military officials who came to the court learned from the eunuch Gao Li that the little emperor Bai Jiangyou was unlucky. They were infected with smallpox and could not get up to go to court, so they gradually hid in groups from the palace gate.
At this time, several officials in court uniforms were still confronting Gao Li in front of the palace. The leader was questioning Duan Hongfang, the great Situ in charge of land and civil affairs. taboo:
"Now that the spring sowing season has passed, even if His Majesty is ill and bedridden, the sacrifices will not be delayed any longer. If it continues to be delayed, it will inevitably lead to discussions among the people in various states."
However, Gao Li, who was standing in front of Xihe's palace, was not moved at all because he was Bai Jiangyou's personal servant. Instead, he asked impatiently:
"With these words, Master Duan, are you trying to teach me how to be an emperor?"
Duan Hongfang finally couldn't bear it anymore, raised his eyebrows and pointed at the other party, furious: "His Majesty has been claiming to be ill for several months, and it has not improved at all. We have been blocked from the palace many times, and we have not even been able to send a memorial." , and there was no edict issued, so it was all up to you, an eunuch, to talk nonsense. By trying so hard to stop it, could it be that you wanted to take advantage of your serious illness to seize the opportunity to usurp power?!"
As soon as Da Situ finished speaking, he saw the other party's expression stern. A group of imperial guards wearing bright light armor rushed out from behind him and immediately pushed him down at the foot of the white jade stone steps in front of the palace.
"The guilty minister Duan Hongfang made arrogant comments about the government and criticized the Holy One. Give me a slap in the face!"
Before Da Situ could say anything, Gao Li waved the dust in his hand and started giving orders directly to the imperial guards that only the emperor could mobilize.
After all, Duan Hongfang was over sixty years old, and now he was actually subjected to such a shame and humiliation in front of the palace. He was immediately furious. He was hit several times with iron-fingered slaps by the soldiers. Not only his cheeks and corners of his mouth were bloody and bloody, but also
His heart stopped and he died on the spot!
Seeing the fate of the important minister Humilius, several other officials who came to the palace to support him did not dare to say any more. They raised their sleeves to cover their faces and left in a hurry. However, Duan Hongfang's body lying in front of Xihe Palace had not yet turned cold.
, he was covered with white cloth by several young eunuchs who came from nowhere, carried him out, and threw him like a dead dog into the smelly ditch outside the palace wall.
At the same time, behind the closed door of Xihe Palace, the young emperor Bai Jiangyou was lying on a bed carved with dragons and phoenixes, so thin that he was only skin and bones, with no one to take care of him. And all this
, all arranged by the powerful Gao Li.
The weak little emperor heard the noise outside the door. He struggled to hold on to the drooping gauze beside the couch and tried to get up to call for help. However, he could not shout a single word from his dry and cracked mouth.
For half a year, he had not finished all the food, and only a little urine and dirty rainwater leaking from the roof kept him from dying of thirst. However, this gradually caused him to be poisoned, and his body became weaker and weaker.
With a "chi" sound, the tulle Bai Jiangyou was holding in his hand suddenly broke into two pieces. He, who had already struggled to sit up half-sitting up, immediately fell from the couch to the ground, and the back of his head hit the stone hard.
On the steps, his brain burst and he died.
No one could have imagined that the majestic Queen of the Bai Jiang clan would die so tragically in her own palace.
Another half month passed, and when Gao Li remembered to collect the body, the entire Xihe Hall already had an unbearable stench. The little emperor's originally skinny body quickly swelled and rotted in the gradually warmer weather, and countless maggots were born between the skin and flesh.
When the palace officials carried him out, everyone they saw along the way covered their mouths and noses, hoping to bury him as soon as possible.
The history books only recorded a few words about the 16-year-old little emperor, saying that he was seriously ill and could not recover. He died in his sleep and was given the posthumous title of Emperor Ai. When he ascended the throne at the age of four, it coincided with his ascension to the imperial court.
During the most turbulent period, even though he had the name of emperor, he was unable to change everything.
After Bai Jiangyou's death, Gao Li supported his younger brother Bai Jiangxing to ascend the throne and changed his reign name to Zhaoxi. Unfortunately, the last descendant of the Bai Jiang family left in the world was a mentally retarded child with cerebral palsy, who was known as the Compassion Emperor in history. From then on,
, the political affairs of Dasheng were completely controlled by Gao Li. And this dynasty, which had lasted for thousands of years, also began to come to an end step by step from this year.
The only thing missing now is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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