twin moon

Chapter 139 No.17 Scene [-]

early morning.A thunderstorm had just fallen on Yanluoyuan, and the tips of the grass blades were still stained with crystal drops of water.

It is now the ninth day after Jiang Yan was seriously injured and passed out.The god witch in the clan had told Tuya before that if the wound on the young man's body failed to wake up within five days, he might never wake up again.But the princess didn't want to believe it, she still took care of him who was covered in muslin every day.

However, hope has become more and more elusive with the passage of time.At this moment, the girl had just replaced her companion with new wound medicine, but suddenly she fell on his chest and burst into tears.

"You're not--get up--"

A voice slowly drifted into Tuya's ears.But she couldn't react for a while, and replied angrily: "Jiang Yan probably won't be able to save him, why don't you let me cry for a while!"

"If you don't get up again, I will really be crushed!"

Completely beyond the girl's expectation, the black-eyed boy who had been lying motionless on the couch suddenly raised his hand and patted her on the head, making her laugh out of tears:
"I knew it, I knew you would wake up!"

"That's natural. Every day I can hear the ground otter digging, the neighing of horses, the joints of green grass, the sound of wind blowing clouds, and there is a girl who keeps encouraging me. How can I die like this?"

The black-eyed boy grinned, but his smile was very ugly.

"What I said—did you hear it all?"

Tuya covered her mouth with one hand, her cheeks were flushed, and she didn't even know what heart-wrenching words she had said in the young man's ears.

"Intermittently, I didn't hear it completely. I just felt someone whispering in my ear."

Jiang Yan seemed to be in good spirits, and actually made a joke of the other party.But it immediately provoked the Diren girl to blame:
"I'm ashamed to say it. Do you know that I have been scared to death these past few days? The incision on your chest is very deep. If you hurt your heart by an inch, I'm afraid you won't be able to wake up again. coming!"

The joyful expression appeared on Tuya's face for a short moment, and then was replaced by a sad expression again.Seeing this, Jiang Yan couldn't help being surprised, so he asked again:

"Aren't I still alive now? Look at you, it seems like you don't want me to wake up."

"Of course I hope you wake up! But you have committed a felony by killing Erda in front of the whole clan."

"If this person is not eliminated, the entire Muyun tribe will not have a good day." Speaking of Qinna, the black-eyed boy was still resentful, "Let alone you and me."

"I'm really grateful to you. But after all, Erda is the reigning Kahan—"

"So, if you just let me go like this, it's breaking the rules, right? I understand."

Before the other party finished speaking, Jiang Yan understood, "A man, if I killed him, he will not deny it. As long as you and General Yuan Ti won't be implicated by this, it will be fine."

"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 think—"

Jiang Yan wanted to say that his parents' vengeance had not been embraced, and the whereabouts of Ning Yue and Qi Ziyin were still unknown.However, under the current situation, it may be difficult for him to leave this grassland.Suddenly, the young man felt the need to explain what happened behind him.However, the more he hesitated, the more he annoyed the girl Di Ren:
"Don't you want to say, if one day I can meet that red-haired girl for you, can you send a few words to her for you? I can tell you now that I can't! Don't tell me that I am in your heart even today Is it just a role of messenger?"

"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:

"Don't talk about these useless things now. You don't have to be so decisive, in fact - now you still have a second choice, which is to marry me immediately."

"Get married... huh..."

Jiang Yan couldn't tell what kind of feelings he had in his heart for the princess of Muyunbu.He originally wanted to say that most of the time, he might just treat the other party as a younger sister, but suddenly he saw his slightly frowning brows, so he had to swallow those words—after all, he was a member of Ye Country. Coming to Yanluoyuan as Beizi, he knew in his heart that marriage would be 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 the other party's request:

"I'm sorry, I can't say yes to you. I can't just save my life and—"

"So what? Do you think it's an advantage to marry me? To tell you the truth, it is not known 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 reserved for men. Therefore, if I want to succeed to the throne right now, I must have a husband! So even if I get married, it's not that you took advantage of me, but I took advantage of you!"

This time, Princess Muyunbu's expression became extremely serious, and she said word by word, "But if you accept your crime and suffer death like this, then the position of Hehan, which was bought by the ancestors of the Bakwuqin family with their lives, will not be worth it." You can justifiably be taken over by Muhe, and no one in the family dares to fight with him again. Therefore, you must agree to the marriage! Even if you fail to wake up today, as long as you have one breath left, I must agree with you. You are married, you can't wait any longer!"

It turned out that Princess Di Ren had made such a plan from the very beginning.Unexpectedly, the girl who looks gentle and kind on weekdays is terribly calm and calm at critical moments, and she is becoming more and more like a king of the grassland who is strategizing and good at fighting.

"What's more, Muhe is not the only enemy of the Muyun Department now. Those galloping wolves in Lancang Mountain are the threats we really need to worry about. If we can't figure out the origin of these beasts and the people behind the scenes to raise them What kind of catastrophe will the Shuobei Grassland, and even your homeland and states and counties in the south face? The wedding is scheduled for three days later, and you should know in your heart whether you will come or not."

After saying these last words, Tuya withdrew from the tent without looking back, as if she had never been here before.Jiang Yan just sat on the couch blankly, looking at the back of the princess leaving like the wind, he suddenly felt a deep fear.And it was this fear that drove him continuously in the future, leading the iron cavalry across the south of the Pinjin River, overcoming thorns and thorns all the way, invincible and invincible.

Yuansui 12 years, March [-]st.After the spring equinox, in the city of Yujing, merchants gathered, and horses and horses traveled side by side, creating a prosperous scene.In just a few days, the fine weather attracted rhododendrons to bloom all over the city, dyeing the whole capital city colorful.

This situation attracted literati and guests from all over the city to enjoy flowers and wine, recite poems and compose Fu in the city.Even ordinary people put down everything in their hands one after another, and competed to climb high and look far away to see this magnificent scene.It has the national beauty of "peach and plum blossoms are not appreciated, and a red cloud moves the capital".And this magnificent scene also seemed to make people forget the bloody battle that broke out between Cheng Kingdom and Ye Kingdom in the south a few months ago.

Yujing is named for the Yushui that flows through the south of the city.At the beginning of the Dasheng dynasty, the founding emperor Bai Jiangxi went out from the two mountains of Tongyan and Yingying in the north, and finally expelled the last batch of alien beasts that caused harm to the world into the northern tundra, and since then declared that the world is finally peaceful.

However, after ascending to the throne, Bai Jiangxi did not set up the capital on the land south of Suoyang Pass, but instead tried to adjoin the northern border as much as possible, so as to urge his children and grandchildren not to be greedy for comfort, but to always be alert to changes from the north.

In the next millennium, the strange beasts entrenched in the north gradually disappeared, but on the contrary, the Shuodi people who were already precarious on the grassland grew stronger, and suddenly made this capital city, which had no barrier with the permafrost of Shuozhou, even more difficult. Defensive and easy to attack.

However, there has never been an emperor in history who had the idea of ​​moving the capital.Even Baijiang Linran, the British lord who experienced the Shuodi Rebellion more than a hundred years ago, only ordered the craftsmen of the people to strengthen the city wall again.

Therefore, after thousands of years of continuous repairs, the city wall of Yujing is now hundreds of steps thick, unparalleled in the world.On the broad city head, ten six-four horse-drawn carriages can run side by side, and there is still room.After years of wind and frost, even a sharp knife cannot be inserted between the bricks and stones glued together with rice milk and lime.The gate of the urn city, which is more than three feet high, is also strong enough to withstand hundreds of consecutive stone crossbow attacks without being damaged and collapsed.

But right now, in this impregnable capital, the imperial palace, which was supposed to prepare for the sacrifice of the gods after the beginning of spring, was deserted and depressed.The civil and military officials who came to the court meeting learned from the eunuch Gao Li that the young emperor Bai Jiangyou was unfortunately infected with smallpox and could not get up to court, so they gradually hid from the palace gate in small groups.

At this time, several officials in court uniforms were still confronting Gao Li in front of the hall, and the leader who questioned him sharply was Da Situ Duan Hongfang, who was in charge of land and civil affairs.This person is straightforward by nature, and he speaks without hesitation:
"Now that the season of spring sowing has already passed, even if His Majesty is sick and bedridden, the sacrificial ceremony will not be delayed any longer. If it continues to be delayed, it will inevitably lead to discussions among the people of all states."

However, Gao Li, standing in front of Xihe's palace, relied on being Bai Jiangyou's personal servant, so he was not moved by him at all. Instead, he asked impatiently:
"Master Duan's words, could it be that he wants to teach Jinshang how to be an emperor?"

Finally, Duan Hongfang couldn't bear it any longer. He raised his eyebrows and pointed at the other party, furiously: "Your Majesty has claimed to be ill for several months, but there is still no sign of improvement. I have been kept out of the palace for many times, and I have not even sent a memorial. , and there is no edict to be issued, so it all depends on you eunuch talking nonsense. Do you want to take advantage of the serious illness today and wait for the opportunity to usurp power?!"

As soon as Da Situ finished speaking, he saw the other party's expression froze, and a group of imperial city guards in bright armor rushed out from behind, and immediately pushed them down under the white jade steps in front of the hall.

"The sinful minister Duan Hongfang talked about government affairs indiscriminately and accused the Holy Majesty, give me a slap in the face!"

Before Da Situ opened his mouth to distinguish, Gao Li waved his hand whisk and gave 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 so shamed and humiliated in front of the hall, he was suddenly furious.He was slapped several times by the soldiers with iron fingers, not only his cheeks and corners of his mouth were bloody, but his heart stopped beating and he died on the spot!

Seeing the fate of the humerus minister, several other officials who came to the palace to support him didn't dare to say any more, they all raised their sleeves to cover their faces, and left in a hurry.But Duan Hongfang's body lying in front of the Xihe Hall had not yet become cold, before it was covered with a white cloth by some young eunuchs who came from nowhere and carried it out, and threw it like a dead dog in the stinky ditch outside the palace wall inside.

At the same time, just behind the closed gate of Xihe Hall, the young emperor Bai Jiangyou was lying on a bed carved with dragons and phoenixes, so thin that only his skin and bones were left, and no one took care of him at all.And all of this was arranged by the powerful Gao Li.

The weak little emperor heard the commotion outside the door, and tried his best to grab the hanging veil by the side of the couch, trying to get up and call for help, but he couldn't even utter a single word from his dry and cracked mouth.

For half a year, he hadn't eaten his grains, and only a little bit of his own urine and the dirty rainwater leaking from the roof kept him from dying of thirst.But this move made him gradually poisoned, and his body became weaker and weaker.

With a "chi" sound, the tulle that Bai Jiangyou was holding in his hand suddenly snapped in two.He was already struggling to half sit up, and he fell from the couch and fell to the ground. The back of his head hit the stone steps heavily, his brain burst, and he died.

No one could have imagined that the dignified Empress of the Baijiang Clan died in such a tragic way in her bedroom.

After another half a month passed, by the time Gao Li remembered to collect the corpse, the whole Xihe Hall already had an unbearable stench.The little emperor's originally skinny body swelled and rotted rapidly in the gradually warming weather, and countless maggots grew out of his skin and flesh.When the palace people carried it out, all the people who saw it along the way covered their mouths and noses, hoping to be buried as soon as possible.

The history books only recorded a few words about the little emperor who was only 16 years old, saying that he was seriously ill and died in his sleep, and he was posthumously named Emperor Ai.When he ascended the throne at the age of four, it coincided with the most turbulent period of the Dasheng Dynasty. Although he had the name of emperor, he was powerless to change everything.

After Bai Jiangyou died, Gao Li supported his younger brother Bai Jiangxing to ascend the throne, and changed his reign name to Zhaoxi.Helplessly, the last blood of the Baijiang family left in the world is a mentally retarded child with cerebral palsy, known in history as Emperor Mercy.From then on, the government of Dasheng was completely controlled by Gao Li.And this dynasty, which lasted for thousands of years, also started to come to an end step by step since this year.

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