Yun Zheng was sitting on the bluestone by the river. The gradually darkening sky illuminated his face, which was half bright and half dark. Hua Niang was leaning on a willow tree, her head drooping listlessly. No matter how they looked, they looked like the same person.
To the angry spouse.
Loyalty is a noble sentiment, and people with this sentiment are rare in the whole world. This kind of person is the best kind of person to deal with, and at the same time, it is also the most difficult kind of person to deal with, whether he is full of wit or wit.
Yun Zheng, or the cunning and changeable Hua Niang, there is no good way to deal with people like Xiao Lin.
If it is an enemy, it is very simple to solve. Even if Xiao Lin is a top master, Yun Zheng will always have a way to kill him.
It's a pity that Xiao Lin is his friend and Hua Niang's husband. No rough behavior can be done to him. In this matter, even if he pinches his nose, he has to admit that Xiao Lin did the right thing.
However, the price paid by such people for their loyalty is also tragic, such as the famous Zhao orphans, such as Qi Taishi Jian, Jin Dong Hubi, Qin Zhang Liangzhi, Han Su Wujie.
...where is there a good ending?
There is an undercurrent surging in the city of Tokyo. The emperor is about to change, and everyone's interests are beginning to be divided again. The royal family, the descendants, the nobles, the nobles, the big businessmen, the big landowners, and the big warlords like Yun Zheng, which one?
Not staring at the palace with eager eyes.
Everyone knows that there is an emperor and a minister. Since the emperor was lying on the bed, it would be a big joke to twist them into a rope and use them together.
Pang Ji, who has been prime minister for nine years, is still ambitiously planning to shine for the Song Dynasty for a few more years. Who will give in at this time?
Whose head will this huge pressure fall on in the end? It will all fall on the emperor's head. If the prince has grown up, this problem is not difficult. Everyone can just flatter the prince together. Anyway, he
He is the only legitimate successor of the Song Dynasty.
Now that the prince is only over eight years old and a little less than nine years old, it is impossible to expect him to take charge of the court immediately, at least that is what the queen thinks.
Anyway, the Song Dynasty had a tradition of listening to politics behind the curtain. It was acceptable for Empress Cao to help the emperor look after the court for several years. However, the emperor seemed not to be very willing. He himself had suffered enough from Liu E's listening to politics behind the curtain. How could he deal with this disaster?
Leave it to your own son.
The best way is for the emperor to lie on the hospital bed and drag his son until he grows up. If he cannot drag him, Yun Zheng believes that Zhao Zhen, who is in a desperate situation, will have an extremely terrifying plan at some point.
break out.
If the emperor wins, his son Zhao Xu will successfully take over the power. If the emperor fails, his son will be under the supervision of others and may even be in danger of death.
Regardless of victory or defeat, the outcome of Xiaolin's knife will not be good. If the descendants represented by the queen win, Xiaolin will be dead. If the emperor wins, the descendants will suffer a great purge. There is no doubt that
, Xiaolin and the others are the ones doing the dirty work...
Yun Zheng washed his hands in the river water. He originally wanted to wash his face and wake up, but then he thought that the river water was very dirty, and he shook the water drops on his hands and became more and more irritated.
Hua Niang walked to the river and sat down close to Yun Zheng. She took out her handkerchief and wiped his hands. She asked the maid to bring water and washed Yun Zheng's hands again.
"Over the years, according to your instructions, we have been secretly collecting information about Queen Cao. This woman is not simple."
Yun Zheng frowned and said: "Why do you see that? The descendants have always been under strict supervision in the Song Dynasty. Logically speaking, a woman of Queen Cao's status should not enter the palace at all."
"Queen Cao, a native of Zhending, is also the granddaughter of Cao Bin, the Privy Councilor of Zhou Wuhui.
In the second year of Ming Dynasty, Queen Guo was deposed and Queen Cao was hired into the palace.
In September of the first year of Jingyou's reign, she was officially canonized as queen. Everyone said that Queen Cao was charitable and frugal, and attached great importance to farming. She often planted grains in the royal palace and raised silkworms herself.
On the leap month of the eighth year of the lunar calendar, the emperor planned to display lanterns again on the fifteenth night of the leap month to celebrate the Lantern Festival, but Empress Cao persuaded her to stop.
Three days later, several guards made a rebellion and went through the houses at night, heading straight to the emperor's bedroom. Empress Cao was serving the emperor at the time, and when she heard that things had changed, she became panicked. The emperor planned to flee, and Empress Cao closed the palace door.
He hugged the emperor and hurriedly called to Wang Shouzhong, who was known to all, and ordered him to lead troops into the palace to quell the chaos.
The rebels killed and wounded the concubines and maids in front of the palace, and the screams resounded throughout the emperor's residence. The eunuchs falsely reported that the wet nurse was beating the younger palace maids. Empress Cao scolded: "The rebels are killing people nearby, how dare you talk nonsense!"
"
She estimated that the rebels would definitely set a fire, so she secretly sent someone to follow them with water. Sure enough, the rebels set fire to the curtain, and the followers immediately poured water to put out the fire.
That night, Empress Cao personally cut off the hair of all the eunuchs and attendants who were sent out, and said to them: "Tomorrow we will be rewarded based on our merits, and we will use the hair as proof."
Therefore, people rushed to contribute, and the rebels were quickly eliminated.
The palace ladies who participated in the guards' rebellion were punished with death. They begged the emperor's favorite concubine to spare her death. After the favored concubine told the emperor, the emperor pardoned her death penalty.
Empress Cao put on formal clothes and went to see the emperor, requesting that the rebellious palace maids be dealt with according to law, and said: "Otherwise, the palace cannot be purged."
His Majesty asked her to sit down, but Empress Cao refused to sit down. She stood and insisted on her request. After a while, she finally killed the palace maid."
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "The Yun family and the Di family were also unlucky in that disaster. If something like this happens in the palace, we can't hide it from each other. If the emperor's cousin wants to rebel, what does it have to do with us?
What do you want to say? Empress Cao is a virtuous and virtuous person who can command well, or is it that she has martial arts skills and can control the world?"
Hua Niang looked at Yun Zheng and said, "What's wrong with the woman? Don't you think it's even more unreliable to let a child control the court?"
Yun Zheng shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's none of my business. All I want to do now is to be a coward. As long as I can safely take over the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, I will immediately sail overseas. Who has time to care about them?"
The bad things between.”
Hua Niang said angrily: "If you are so open-minded, why do you put on a dead face?"
Yun Zheng opened his eyes wide and said, "If I weren't worried about you becoming a widow, what do you think I should do now? I should take a bath and then sleep with my wife in my arms on my big bed."
"Hide in the small building and become a unified body, and don't care about winter, summer, spring and autumn. With just this sentence, there are already censors who are ready to impeach you and put your body on top.
You have returned to Tokyo, and countless people are eagerly waiting to see if you can bring new waves to the backwater court of the Song Dynasty. Who knows that you just want to pretend to be a dead dog."
Do you know that your brother has used his power to deprive three thousand soldiers from the Guo family, and he did it without any blood? You don't even think about it, so how can you pretend to be a dead dog?
Who would think you are a dead dog?"
Yun Zheng chuckled and took Hua Niang's hand, patted it, and then said happily: "That's right. For the sake of your husband, no matter who you are, you have to go to death. No good brother can let go. This is
A prerequisite for being a good wife.”
Hua Niang leaned on Yun Zheng's shoulder dejectedly and said, "Brother, that man is a deadbeat. If you don't help him, he will really die.
A fool fell into a pile of human semen. Tell me how he found a way to survive. I can't bear to see him crying in the end. Can you bear it?"
Yun Zheng pulled off Hua Niang's hand on his shoulder. In the past, when Hua Niang was not married, he didn't mind enjoying this dizzy feeling. Now that Hua Niang is married, no one will be sorry if he does this again.
Hua Niang's eyes were a little dim. She used to be able to play with Yun Zheng unscrupulously, but now she has become unknowingly alienated.
"Can you let Xiao Lin play dead like me? Let me tell you, Han Lin is extremely heartbroken. Xiao Lin's trip to western Yunnan probably won't have any effect. Besides, I have a King of Xin there.
As for Chitose, if I get involved, I will be no different from a traitorous minister with evil intentions, so I will not get involved in royal affairs this time."
"Then what should we do? If Xiaolin wants to escape, he must start to escape from now. Once the entanglement is too tight, it will be impossible for him to escape."
Yun Zheng sighed and said, "Do you regret being independent from Xingpan now? When Xiaolin comes back, tell him that Taihang Mountain is not stable. The bandits there seem to be foreign aid from the descendants, and there are monsters from the Maitreya Sect there.
haunt.
Okay, it's getting dark, I want to go home, you can go back too, what we can do is drag Xiaolin outside and prevent him from returning to the big dyeing vat in Tokyo."
After Yun Zheng finished speaking, he waved to Hua Niang and walked along the river bank towards Xuanwumen Hutong.
"I just want to live a happy life for a few days. I have two children!"
Hua Niang cried towards Yun Zheng's back and shouted.
Yun Zheng stopped for a moment, turned around and walked back, hugged Hua Niang tightly and said: "I know, I know, you have always been a good woman, I knew it the first time I saw you.
"
Yun Zheng finally left, and Hua Niang stayed for a long time holding on to the willow tree on the river bank. She didn't leave the river bank until the drum started beating for the third time.
After Hua Niang left the river bank, Duan Hong slipped down from a big tree, looked around for a while, and then gathered into the crowd of people looking for fun in Tokyo City.
Tangtang sat under the oil lamp and held her chin, waiting for Duan Hong to return. The child had fallen asleep and the dishes on the table were cold. When Tangtang was about to reheat the dishes, Duan Hong opened the door and walked in.
Seeing that Tangtang hadn't slept yet, he complained: "You haven't recovered yet, so why are you staying up late again? It doesn't matter whether I eat or not, just go to bed quickly."
Tangtang smiled and said: "I've felt a lot more relaxed these days. It must be because of the big ginseng. I can't sleep well when you're not at home. You haven't eaten dinner yet, so I'll heat it up for you."
Duanhong pushed Tangtang down on the chair, skillfully brought in a bowl of hot soup from outside and placed it in front of Tangtang: "I told you, I can't stop drinking ginseng soup every day. I won't drink this stuff."