palm river mountain

Chapter 178

"So the emperor moved his hand?"

Dingzhou is a very delicate place.

Now Chen Heqing is calling himself King Zheng, using Dingzhou as his capital, and attacking Kyoto.This shows what?It shows that he has a foundation in Dingzhou, and it is also in this place that there have been rebellions several times.

Duan Yi alone has heard of at least three major rebellions in the past six years.

Cui Zi looked at Duan Yi in surprise, "Dingzhou is the old lair of King Zheng, why don't you think it's them? Isn't this kind of assassination method more in line with the group of dead men with Jin Bo embroidered on their shoes? Is your style of acting?"

They are bloodbathed at every turn, to drive a wedge between His Majesty and the vassal.

Duan Yi shook her head, "It's very simple. Because you started with the story of Golden Ripple, and it's hard to know about Jinbo unless someone in the royal family. The reason why King Zheng was able to use this to win the favor of the emperor is because you Mother ordered him."

"Besides, Cheng Wang's mansion is in trouble. If there is no one in the royal family to respond, your mother wants Li Daitao to be stiff and escape from birth. It is not an easy task. King Zheng reciprocated and saved your mother's life."

Cui Zi looked at Duan Yi even more, and nodded slightly.

"Things are unpredictable. My grandfather saved Chen Tong on a whim and got killed; my mother called Zheng Wang on a whim, but she was able to live again."

"At that time, King Han had been replaced as the emperor, and Chen Tong had already died. But the emperor was suspicious, and always thought that Cheng Wang's mansion and Zheng Wang's mansion would unite and take revenge. My mother would rather be a concubine than follow the Jiangnan king. , is the best proof that they don't give up."

"It's better to kill a thousand people by mistake than to let one person go. Now our emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is such a tyrant," Cui Zigeng said, smiling mockingly, "Otherwise, how could your father, Duan Sixian, think of using This kind of tyrannical method is used as a divisive measure?"

"It's precisely because this style of behavior belongs to the current Emperor Zhou. So even Gu Congrong, who is as loyal as your grandfather, has tightened his military power and become suspicious of him."

"At that time, there was a riot in Dingzhou. The emperor used this as a cover to lie that my mother was killed by the rebels, and then issued an edict to send me to Dingzhou to suppress the rebellion." Cui Zigeng said, tightening his hands.

His fingers are beautiful, very slender, with well-defined joints.On the side of the index finger, there is a faint wound, if you don't look closely, you can't see it clearly.
Duan Yi was taken aback, she shook her head, and asked in surprise: "So the Dingzhou counter-insurgency that you became famous in the first battle was actually a trap for you to besiege?"

Cui Zi took a deep breath, picked up a piece of firewood, and poked it skillfully. The bonfire that had been small before suddenly grew bigger, making people feel much warmer.

"At that time, there were not many people in the Xuanying Army. I remember everyone's name. Every brother is a brother who can be trusted with life and death. The world only knows that I succeeded in suppressing the rebellion. flow like a river."

"Some people praised me for being invincible, and some called me for committing crimes, but no one cared about it. Less than half of the Xuanying Army came back from Dingzhou back then."

Cui Zi pursed his lips even more. After so many years, once he thought about it, the great battle was still vivid in his mind.

"Where are the real King Zheng's remnants and the so-called rebels? I think no one in the world knows better than you, Duan Yi."

Duan Yi sighed a little, "Speaking of which, we are really destined. Zhou Tianzi pretended to be a rebel army and came to surround and kill you; and the real rebels pretended to be Zhou Tianzi and killed me in the post station. They should be praised. They are surnamed Chen, not a family." Won't you go into the house?"

"Like to do evil, but never dare to admit it. Like a mouse in the gutter, only dare to sneak across the border."

Cui Zi looked at Duan Yi more deeply.

"Well, it is indeed very fate."

He said, and quickly said, "As soon as we arrived in Dingzhou, we fell into a trap. Although I was born as a concubine, but because my father loved me, and I was far more dazzling than my elder brother, the previous few expeditions went smoothly. Never lost."

"At that time, I was young and energetic, very conceited; moreover, because of my mother's death, I was eager to take revenge..."

Cui Zigeng's tone was still very calm.

But Duan Yi could hear the sorrow that he had never seen before in his words.

Just like the scar on his hand, it seems to be gone, but it will never disappear.

She thought, stretched out her hand, and patted the back of Cui Zigeng's hand lightly.

She is now Cui Zigeng.

Cui Zi withdrew his thoughts, and looked down at the hand on the back of his hand.

Duan Yi's hands are different from ordinary girls' hands. Those "tender as onions" and "skin like creamy fat" descriptions for ordinary girls seem a little too superficial for her. .

This is a pair of hard-working hands.

Looking at the cocoon on the top, he could almost immediately imagine a little girl with her mouth pursed and meticulously practicing with a spear.

He likes this kind of hand very much, just like what he always told himself, there is nothing that can be achieved overnight without hard work.

"I climbed out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood, and became famous in Dingzhou. After that, the emperor's edict was like a torrential rain in June. I took the Xuanying army and fought outside almost all the year round..."

"One general will be successful. My military achievements will increase, and Xuan Yingjun's reputation will also increase, but the brothers who followed me from the beginning are also less and less. Do you know Zhu Xi?"

Duan Yi nodded, Cui Zigeng went to Jiannan Road, besides Mr. Yan, the military adviser, the veteran Dongping and the young Zhu Xi were his right-hand men.

"Crested Ibis' father was the first person to follow me. He was good at closing the knife. He died in the battle and entrusted his son, Zhu Xi, to join the Xuanying Army to protect me."

Duan Yi sighed lightly, raised her hand to pick up the bag of wine, and handed it to Cui Zigeng.

Cui Zi didn't say anything, and took a big gulp of the wine.

"When I met Ambassador Su that day, let me tell you that people are very complicated, not all black and white."

"It's the same with my father. If you say that my mother is the one he loves all his life, but after he learned of the death of Princess Mingyang, he quickly obeyed the family and married someone else."

"If you say no, after my mother died, he fell seriously ill. His whole body deteriorated as far as the naked eye could see. I was away all year round, and when I returned home occasionally, I often sighed, how can a person age so quickly .”

"When my mother was still there, he would beat me to the ground from time to time, galloping around the lake with a sound like a bell. I knew in my heart that in a few years, he might go after my mother..."

"But I never imagined that that day would come so soon."

As Cui Zigeng spoke, he picked up the wine bag again and took a long gulp of wine.

(End of this chapter)