Empress Mi Benji

Chapter 242 Brother and Sister

The news of Jidu's surrender shocked Zhuang Xun, and everyone was dumbfounded.

"Concubine Li has tied up Master Li. Now open the city gate to welcome the Xia army into the city."

They didn't play according to the routine, and they were still discussing how to solve this problem. They were still waiting for Li Shaoyun to make a move, but they didn't expect the move to come so fast.

"Is your sister so brave?"

Zhuang Xun sighed with emotion at Li Shaoyun's bravery. How many people would be ashamed of this efficiency of action? It had only been a few days.

"I don't know either, but it is indeed the way my eldest sister behaves."

Li Rusi didn't think it was strange. From what she knew about Li Shaoyun, it wasn't strange. It was just strange that her father was caught so easily.

"Then go and see what it's like."

Zhuang Xun took a step forward, and all the previous difficulties seemed unimportant. Without the leader, the remaining rabble of Chengguo was nothing to worry about.

Li Rusi came to Zhuang Xun first to stop him, and said to be on the safe side:
  "Don't worry, send someone in first to disarm and ensure the safety of all joints. Your Majesty, please don't panic."

"Yes, ensure safety first." Thinking of the example of King Zhao, Zhuang Xun showed due caution.

It would be really funny if he was caught. He didn't want to study abroad in Chengguo.

But it was obvious that he was overthinking and surrendering. Li Shaoyun was serious about taking sides. Li Shaoyun was unambiguous about taking sides.

Li Shaoyun had already figured out the various points of city defense and had sent people to take over. She was so perfect that she didn't need outsiders to worry about it, even if it meant surrender.

After handling everything and overwhelming the opposition in the city, Li Shaoyun personally brought Li Pingyuan to the gate to welcome the arrival of Zhuang Xunyi and others.

Zhuang Xun saw a familiar person, but it was not easy for him to say hello in this situation.

She took the jade seal from Li Shaoyun, looked at it for a while, handed it to Li Rusi beside her, and gave instructions.

"A group of surrendered ministers asked General Li to deal with it, and we entered the city."

Since the other party was so understanding and there was no so-called struggle, Li Pingyuan was given the most lenient treatment and was left to his own family. Zhuang Xun did not want to pursue anything further and rode into the city with his soldiers on horseback.

The streets were very clean, and every household must have been notified to clean them. The streets Zhuang Xun had seen before when he married Li Rusi in Chengguo seemed like a world away.

With the protection of the soldiers, there were no surprises. He entered the royal city smoothly, received household registration and maps, and dealt with the surrendered army.

A proclamation was drawn up and distributed to all parts of Chengguo, announcing the demise of Chengguo. At the same time, they were asked to come to see the new king. If they did not come, the army would be sent to find them.

Naturally, what they most want to see is for people from all walks of life to spread the word and surrender. However, given the relationship between Zhuang Xun and the family, it is foreseeable that the reactions from various places will either unite to resist or flee.

No matter which choice it is, it is irrefutable that Zhuang Xun takes charge of Jizhou, it is just sooner or later.

After arranging people to do various tasks and notifying the acquaintances he had just seen, Zhuang Xun went to find Empress Dowager Jiang.

Queen Mother Jiang's expression was cold and dull, as quiet as a statue, but her appearance was more beautiful than a painting. After crying, she became so silent. Without the complicated and exquisite clothes in the past, the cold-faced and plain-dressed beautiful woman looked even more quiet and beautiful. .

"Zhaoyi, let's go meet someone." Zhuang Xun said cautiously due to the cold air, fearing that Empress Dowager Jiang would get emotional and cry again.

The Cheng-Zhao alliance was broken, no, destroyed. There was no one in Zhao who could stop Zhuang Xun from unifying Jizhou.

But he probably thought that Queen Mother Jiang was a little too fragile. Queen Mother Jiang stared at his face for a long time, which made Zhuang Xun confused, and then she stood up.

The entire journey was speechless. Empress Dowager Jiang didn't ask who she was meeting. Zhuang Xun hadn't spoken to her for three or four days, and she didn't know what to say. She was just thinking about her conversation with Li Rusi in the morning.

One was heartbroken, it didn't matter anymore, her mission was over, and the other had thousands of thoughts in her mind, looking forward to whether the next meeting would make Empress Dowager Jiang feel better. She didn't plan to pay attention to it, but she tried her best to make Empress Dowager Jiang feel better.

We came to a quiet courtyard, covered with snow, which was the small courtyard of Zhudao of King Cheng. A white-haired and energetic old man dressed in Taoist robes stood in the snow with the bones of immortals.

"Master Ge, long time no see." Zhuang Xun greeted him first, showing respect and familiarity.

It was Ge Tan, the former national master of Yu State.

Zhuang Xun saw it at the gate, so he asked his attendants to ask Ge Tan to wait here. He went to see Queen Mother Jiang and let the brothers and sisters meet to change the situation in which Queen Mother Jiang was hit.

"Your Majesty, I haven't seen you for a long time, but my junior sister is here?" Ge Tan saw the ceremony and noticed the Empress Dowager Jiang beside Zhuang Xun. He was a little surprised, but he quickly returned to his image as a Taoist master.

"Elder brother..." Meeting an acquaintance, Empress Dowager Jiang understood Zhuang Xun's purpose of calling her out, and her expression finally had a hint of warmth. She had said that she and Ge Tan were from the same sect when they were arguing about their favor, and Zhuang Xun remembered it.

"What's your relationship?" Zhuang Xun's relationship with Queen Mother Jiang was beyond the distance of an acquaintance, and Ge Tan couldn't help but ask.

Ge Tan was a little confused. He had no information. He didn't know that Zhuang Xun had forced Empress Dowager Jiang to marry him. He only knew that Zhuang Xun was at war with the State of Zhao. He didn't know why Jiang Xiannuo, the Empress Dowager of Zhao, appeared in front of Zhuang Xun, the monarch of Xia State. beside.

"Xiannuo is my Zhaoyi, but she was unwilling to do so by force." Zhuang Xun told the truth. It was not a necessary lie. If he didn't tell it, he couldn't hide the matter.

"It's just a transaction, there's no such thing as reluctance." Empress Dowager Jiang was also magnanimous and wanted to show her strength in front of her senior brother, but her defense was soon broken by Ge Tan's words.

"So, little junior sister, the child in your belly belongs to His Majesty King Xia?" Ge Tan looked at the awkward relationship between the two and marveled. He was not surprised that the identity of Queen Mother Jiang and Queen Mother Zhao became Zhuang Xun's Zhaoyi, but mainly Zhuang Xun's. It seems that Xun still can't figure it out with Xuannv. Now he's hooking up with Empress Dowager Jiang. Does it make sense?

"Child, what child?" Zhuang Xun's originally slow mind suddenly started to spin rapidly, recalling the time when he and Empress Dowager Jiang went to bed with lightning speed.

"Senior Brother, what are you talking nonsense about? Zhuang Xun, you..." She wanted to deny it, but Zhuang Xun touched her belly with an endless sense.

Less than three months later, when nothing could be found, Zhuang Xun began to ask questions: "Was it those days? The day your attitude turned cold? So that was it. Sure enough, you were pregnant. Did you know it then?"

Empress Dowager Jiang, who was both a queen mother and a monk, fell into a state of weakness and helplessness when faced with Zhuang Xun's almost factual inference. No matter how she defended herself, the birth of the child was almost certain.

"It seems that the old man said something wrong." Ge Tan probably understood something about this situation. From Queen Mother Jiang's reluctance, he realized that the appearance of this child might not come from the blessing and permission of his parents.

He guessed wrong on this point. At that time, the parents verbally hoped that the child would appear as soon as possible.

"Go away!" Zhuang Xun said coldly as he touched his belly. Empress Dowager Jiang was extremely embarrassed and angry. It was Zhuang Xun who was also her senior brother. She really wanted to use her magic to escape from this environment, but she also had an agreement to do it like a normal prisoner under house arrest.

"Oh..." Being half yelled and half scolded, Zhuang Xun was confused at first and saw the anger of Empress Dowager Jiang.

Empathizing with Empress Dowager Jiang's feeling of being defeated, she retracted her hand angrily, trying to hold back her smile, but the smile on her lips could not be concealed no matter how hard she tried.

It's quite strange, the desire to conquer is mixed with the refreshing feeling of winning, and the happiness of seeing the cold-faced beauty breaking the ice. It's not just because Queen Mother Jiang is pregnant, but more from the sense of superiority in the soul.

Why didn't the Queen Mother Zhao also want to give me a child? The beauty Queen Mother Jiang gave me a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, a despicable pleasure.

In order to suppress the unknown fire in her heart, she turned her eyes away from Zhuang Xun and suppressed his smile. Empress Dowager Jiang looked at Ge Tan, took a deep breath and said:
  "The Kingdom of Yu has perished, and my little sister has followed the Kingdom of Yu into extinction as a senior brother. It's really great that the senior brother is alive."

They still have a kinship, and Queen Mother Jiang is happy that Ge Tan can escape the backlash that occurred after the country was destroyed.

"Actually, he is about to die. His Majesty the King of Xia's national fortune has been extended. Because King Yu surrendered the throne to His Majesty the Xia King. Although he does not have much national fortune, he has a reputation, maintains consistency, and survives by chance."

Ge Tan looked grateful. He could survive. Zhuang Xun's help was huge. He also noticed the awkwardness between the two, so he spoke in harmony and said:

"It's also thanks to my junior sister's recommendation, otherwise I wouldn't be able to find out about His Majesty King Xia, let alone recommend him in front of His Majesty King Yu, and leave this kind of love."

Zhuang Xun listened and looked thoughtful. Queen Mother Jiang's face turned pale, as if she had been stabbed. What she regretted most in her life so far was that she liked Zhuang Xun and wanted to make him the fulcrum of the Yu Kingdom.

He never expected that the thrifty and docile sheep would eventually turn into a hungry wolf, let alone the fact that he was the meat of the wolf's mouth.

Zhuang Xun could understand Empress Dowager Jiang's mood, so he changed the topic and did not touch her thorn.

"How come the Taoist priest is in Chengguo? Didn't the Taoist priest go to bury King Yu and recover? After he has recovered, he will go to Hengdu."

Zhuang Xun followed his memory and said that Ge Laodao had promised to work for him, so why did he come to Chengguo?

"I went to Hengdu once and found that your Majesty's Xia Kingdom does not actually need the old Taoist. All the stars in the sky perform their duties, the weather is smooth, and the four seasons are harmonious. It is enough. There is no need for the old Taoist to do anything. The old Taoist also has some insights and came to Qinghu Mountain to do some spiritual cultivation. , it happened that someone was looking for a demon slayer, so the old Taoist came to have a look, because he didn’t want to kill evil for my king. "

Unlike King Yu who no one pays attention to but tries to amaze everyone and then dies in the mud, there are too many people paying attention to Zhuang Xun, ranging from the supreme being in heaven and earth to the ghosts in the underworld, unless they encounter this heavy snow. Otherwise, it is basically impossible for a natural disaster to occur.

So Ge Tan, who had almost nothing to do, decided to raise it again, and then someone came to ask for a demon slayer. Ge Tan, who didn't want to move, saw the other party's unobtrusive and low-key attitude, and instinctively felt that something big was going on, so he volunteered.

"It's a strange combination of circumstances. I also want to thank Master Ge for his help. What kind of monster is it?" Zhuang Xun thanked him and said that it was a great help.

"Birds, beasts, fish and insects, a big herring, it's amazing, but the old way is better. Your Majesty doesn't need to worry. Your Majesty is now invulnerable to all kinds of monsters, and all monsters have been eradicated."

Thinking that Zhuang Xun was worried about monsters, Ge Tan comforted him by saying that those remnants of the You Kingdom were not worthy of their names, backgrounds, or even battles, so they died in the hands of Ge Tan.

"Master Ge is so powerful. Now no one can stop our Xia State from unifying Jizhou and the world." Zhuang Xun complimented and said that he now aims at the world and expresses his ambition to the respected and familiar old man.

"Dominate the world? It's still unclear who will win." Zhuang Xun's excitement corresponded to the Queen Mother Jiang who couldn't bear to listen. When she heard it again, she felt that Zhuang Xun was about to take off. She was so angry that she shouldn't have said it in her mouth, but her heart was not at peace. .

Seeing Zhuang Xun unify Jizhou, she was still pregnant with his child, and she returned to the state of disapproval.

"Anyway, he will die in my hands, or in the hands of our son, or my daughter is not bad!" Zhuang Xun's position in this regard has long been firm. If he was stabbed by Queen Mother Jiang, he would not fail to respond.

"asshole……"

"Your Majesty, Junior Sister, please stop the unnecessary quarrel. Your Majesty, can you allow me to say something to Junior Sister?"

Ge Tan persuaded the fight and sent Zhuang Xun away at the same time.

"Then let's talk about it. Originally, we wanted you brothers and sisters to meet, but it has become such a mess." Zhuang Xun smiled and backed down, saying that he was definitely not giving in on the issue of unifying the world. This was what he had already stated in his discussion with Li Rusi today. bottom line.

Zhuang Xun was troubled by something again as he left. The senior brothers and sisters in the courtyard looked at each other speechlessly. Empress Dowager Jiang felt shameless towards herself who had just lost control of her emotions. Ge Tan was thinking about how to speak.

"Eldest brother, if you want to be a lobbyist, you don't have to!"

Already realizing that Ge Tan belonged to Zhuang Xun, Empress Dowager Jiang opened her mouth and blocked the road. She was in exchange for making toys for Zhuang Xun, so it was impossible for her to surrender to the enemy.

"Is the nephew a boy or a girl?" Ge Tan pointed at Queen Mother Jiang's belly and said in a roundabout way, without saying it directly.

"It's a boy." Queen Mother Jiang's expression showed humiliation. She had been hating and complaining for several months, but she had almost accepted it.

As a practitioner, the state of mind is equally important. She cannot blame the child for Zhuang Xun's evil deeds. She cannot do it, and she is willing to accept it. If the child does something wrong, she can only blame herself for why she replaced King Zhao.

"It seems that he is the prince of Xia Kingdom. King Xia is very happy about the birth of the child. Your Majesty has very few heirs, and every child is very important to King Xia."

Getan Fuxu said that as a monk who was supported by Zhuang Xun's merits and national destiny, he was naturally on Zhuang Xun's side. He was also pleased that Zhuang Xun had a successor.

"He is not just this child, there will be more in the future. I will bring this child back to Zhao if I have the chance."

In front of the senior brother who looked like an elder, Queen Mother Jiang revealed her thoughts and firmly believed that Zhao Guoguo would win, because if practitioners felt that the country they supported would lose, then the country might really not be saved.

"Old Taoist, I don't want to comment on your desire to return to the Kingdom of Zhao, little junior sister, but my nephew may want to be the emperor of Kyushu."

Ge Tan did not object directly, but spoke with a concerned tone about the possibility of Zhuang Xun ruling the world.

"Empress Xuannv once made fortune-telling for my junior sister, and she was the mother of the emperor. Perhaps she confirmed that it was not the Zhao Kingdom, but the Xia Kingdom. Junior sister, you are indeed the emperor's mother, but you are not from the Zhao Kingdom."

Telling what he thought after seeing and hearing about the relationship between the two, Ge Tan, who is proficient in divination, has his own understanding of the sign language.

Empress Dowager Jiang was dumbfounded, probably because she had been exposed to a misunderstanding in her thinking, and then she couldn't believe it when faced with the facts.

"This is impossible. How could Empress Xuannv predict the rise of Zhuang Xun."

"You can't deny the possibility that my Highness will inherit Kyushu, right?"

(End of this chapter)