Lonely King and Widow

Chapter 1342 The pit is 328 meters deep, who is it for?

The cool night with a high moon passed.

At dawn, thick fog enveloped the fields.

Fangzhou, the South Rongbing Camp, was eerily quiet.

After retreating from Xinglong Mountain, the commander-in-chief Liu Mingsheng suddenly became a prisoner. Emperor Jingchang, who was thought to be dead, was alive and well. beat them...

Everything is changing so fast, and in a blink of an eye, it seems that the sky is turned upside down.

These things are too bizarre, even if they happen in front of their eyes, it is unbelievable, even if they are written into the unofficial history one day, it will make people doubt whether it is true or not, let alone the official history.For some high-ranking generals and schools, these disturbances may be a matter of life and death and fate, but for ordinary soldiers, there are not too many jokes about how to live and how they live.

Above the barracks, smoke curled up, adding a bit of graceful fireworks to this piece of land devastated by war.The gang leader recovered his life from the great battle and was devoutly preparing breakfast.The wooden gate of the camp was suddenly opened, and Song Xi rode back from the outside alone, covered in mist and cool wind, and a pair of cold eyes seemed to be dancing with a gloomy light.

It was not dark today, but there was news from Xinglong Mountain.

... Mo Jiu gave birth to a daughter, and the mother and child are safe.

Song Xi, who got the news, didn't say anything, went out to lead the horse expressionlessly, and then ran out of the camp alone.

No one knew why he went out and where he went, just as no one knew why he came back with a dark face without saying a word, making people hold two jugs of wine, and poured down his throat with his neck raised.

No one dared to ask, and the people waiting inside and outside were all quiet.

In the thick fog, the sky was dark, and there was an oil lamp in the room.

Li Fu tiptoed in and carefully added lamp oil.

"Li Fu—" Song Xi held up the jug, and suddenly turned to look at him.

Colliding with his cold eyes, Li Fu shivered abruptly, quickly raised his robe and knelt down in front of him, lowered his head and lowered his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, the old slave is here."

Song Xi lifted the corner of his robe, sat down slowly, and took another big gulp from the spout. When the pot was empty of wine, he shook it violently, and found that there was no more wine in it, and wiped his mouth again , that action doesn't look like an emperor, but rather looks like a hero.

"His Majesty--"

Seeing that he was going to open another pot of wine, Li Fu dared not persuade him, but couldn't help it.

"Drinking too much alcohol will hurt your health, so take it easy."

Song Xi hesitated, put the jug back on the table, and suddenly said something without thinking.

"Go, let them bring the man up."

Li Fu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized who the "person" he was talking about was.

"Old slave takes orders!"

With a deep sigh, Li Fu bowed and went down.

He originally thought that the emperor brought Xie Qingshan back from Xinglong Mountain Town, so he would have to wait until he returned to Lin'an to settle the score after autumn, but he didn't expect that after drinking a pot of wine, he couldn't wait to interrogate her.Seriously speaking, Li Fu is an insider of the "respect as guests" behind the "love" of the emperor and empress.He understood that the emperor did not like the queen.But this matter, after all, is not just their housework, to put it more seriously, it is enough to kill the nine clans——

But the emperor himself is also among the nine clans of the empress, how to settle this confused account?
O sin!
Li Fu didn't understand so many reasons, but living in the palace for a long time, he could see through the coldness and indifference between the royal family and relatives, and didn't have much sympathy.Going out slowly, he called Shi Deshun, the commander of the imperial army who had just been promoted, to come over, and then bowed his ear to explain the emperor's order to him.

The emperor did not specifically ask him to keep it secret.

But out of years of habit and his speculation about the holy will, Li Fu took the initiative to regard this matter as a task that needed to be kept secret.

Therefore, when Xie Qingshan was led by two imperial guards and slowly walked towards the emperor's room, no one noticed anything unusual.After all, the war on Xinglong Mountain was over, and Song Xi only had Liu Mingsheng arrested and brought back to Beijing for criminal trial. As for the empress, she just didn't recognize the face of the real dragon emperor when the night was dark and the wind was high. He didn't criticize her harshly, and didn't even mean to embarrass her. On the way back to Fangzhou, he even ordered someone to prepare a carriage for Xie Qingshan, which can be described as heart-warming.

Moreover, it is actually impossible to convict Xie Qingshan of a major crime based on this trivial matter.

Husband and wife spat, fighting at the head of the bed and fighting at the end of the bed.Many people thought that it was certain that Liu Mingsheng was going to die, but Xie Qingshan "took a long distance to find her husband, and recognized the wrong person", nothing would happen.The big deal is that the emperor will spend a few days with her.

Therefore, watching Xie Qingshan go to Song Xi's room, some people even felt that after a short period of neglect, the queen's spring came again, which was clearly a sign of the emperor's reconciliation.

But Xie Qingshan didn't think so.

Glancing at the closed door, she was silent for a long time, and with a wry smile, she stepped up the steps step by step.

The steps were only a few steps, but it seemed that she had exhausted all her strength.

The imperial guards stood at the door and glanced at Li Fu, indicating that they had arrived.

Li Fu bowed to Xie Qingshan, and shouted loudly, "Report—the Empress is here."

It was quiet inside, like no one was there.

After waiting for a while, I heard Song Xi's voice.

"Come in!"

A voice without emotion, without anger or annoyance, but like a piece of cold iron, it weighed heavily on Xie Qingshan's heart, making it extremely difficult for her to step over the threshold.

The door closed again.

Li Fu stretched out his hand to close the door, and waved his hand to make the imperial guards on duty outside the door retreat a little bit.

Then, looking back, he also shook his head and walked away.

In the room, the smoke was faint, with a sultry fragrance.

But the two people in the room made the atmosphere chill.

Xie Qingshan stood motionless in the middle of the room, waiting for Song Xi's question.But the slender figure in front of her, with her hands behind her back, was staring at the painting on the wall fascinated.I don't know what I was thinking of, I didn't turn my head, and there was no sound, as if I had forgotten that she was in the room.

"His Majesty!"

With a light cough, she had no choice but to remind her.

Looking back slowly, Song Xi's eyes were very strange.

He was indifferent, yet seemed to have a bit of pity, which made Xie Qingshan unable to figure him out for a moment.

Finally, he swung his sleeves, "Sit down, queen."

The queen's voice made Xie Qingshan's eye sockets hot and moist immediately.

He still recognized her as the queen, and they were still husband and wife, but how could they... go back to the past?
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xie Qingshan gathered his clothes, smoothed his hair, and slowly sat down on a chair not far in front of him. He was silent for a moment. The concubine came here just to sit upright with me and play charades, right? The concubine thinks that there is no need to cover up between you and me, if your majesty wants to say anything, just say it, if your majesty wants to ask, just ask."

Song Xi nodded slowly, with a cool air in his eyes.

"You must know what I want to say. You may not be willing to answer what I want to ask."

Xie Qingshan laughed at herself, her expression was extremely indifferent, "I dare to do such a thing, I have long been not afraid of life and death." She raised her eyebrows, and her eyes were full of sadness and sorrow, "However, I have come here One step, isn't it all forced by His Majesty?"

"Persecution?" Song Xi smiled suddenly, and tapped the edge of the table with his fingers as if there was nothing, with a slow voice, "You are not greedy enough, and your desires are hard to fill, how dare you accuse me in turn?" His eyes flickered, and he raised slightly , staring solemnly at Xie Qingshan's pale face, "Can the empress tell me when she started to separate from me and plan these things?"

"Centrifugal?" Xie Qingshan asked back, "The concubine and Your Majesty, have you ever been in the same heart?"

Song Xi raised his eyebrows, "I didn't know that the queen's ambitions are so big! If there is no prince, are you going to change Jiangshan's surname to Xie?"

Xie Qingshan also smiled, but did not answer his sharp words, but turned his gaze to the flagon in front of him.

"Have you had a drink, Your Majesty? The wine is very fragrant, can I have a glass of wine for my concubine?"

Song Xi looked at her, Jiujiu lowered his eyes and called Li Fu to come in with a wine glass.

When the frightened Li Fu took the wine glass and came in and then went out to close the door, Xie Qingshan picked up a glass of wine and left for most of the time, her face finally had a rosy face, and her words were smoother than before.

"Your Majesty asked me, but I actually don't know. It probably started when His Majesty had a drink with Mo Jiu at the Chrysanthemum Terrace, or it may have started when His Majesty disobeyed the emperor several times because of her, or it started when His Majesty gave her a jade finger ring token?"

Too much, bit by bit, all sad.

He asked her to say, how can she make up for all the hurt she has suffered all these years?

"But what I hated most at that time was that His Majesty secretly let Xiao Qian go for her sake!"

Hearing her mention of this matter, Song Xi was slightly startled, and sneered, "You are well informed."

"Heh!" Xie Qingshan chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Why does Your Majesty mock me? Why am I well-informed? If you don't say these things, I won't say them, but don't we all know them well? It's meaningless if you have to pick them out. "

Yes, Song Xi understood.

Not only him, but the entire Nanrong Dynasty Hall may understand.

During the Zhihua Dynasty, the Nanrong court was divided into two factions, one surnamed Xiao and the other surnamed Xie. The members of the Xiao and Xie families were all over the court, and no one would obey the other. They fought fiercely secretly.And Emperor Zhihua used their snipe and clam to fight each other, and has been a fisherman to balance the government.It was a bit difficult to serve this bowl of water, and there were occasional leaks, but it was always safe.

But it was different when Song Xi came to power.

No matter whether it is him or the original King An and Song Ao, they are the princes of the two factions trying to secure the top position, and both princes have a huge team of foreign relatives.However, if the prince is the boat, then the relatives are the water.Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.They enjoy the fruits of victory brought to them by this faction, and they have to pay the corresponding representatives - bound by this faction.

When Song Xi came to power, Xiao's party feathers had been basically cut off, but Xie's party feathers were like weeds that had been exposed to the spring breeze. The longer they grew, the more vigorous they became.It cannot be said that Song Xi is incompetent. He has only been on the throne for one year, and he is out of work. The court has internal and external troubles, and all kinds of complicated things have to be sorted out by him. Even if he is a superman, he can't break so many hands to work.

What troubled him the most was that the people who helped him to the top were basically Xie's people.

If they wanted to protect Xie's position in Nanrong, they had to let Xie's son be the emperor.

The stakes in this are extremely delicate, they use each other, rely on each other, and guard against each other.

"Whether it is Feng Dingshan or Liu Mingsheng, they are all my father's loyal old followers. Your Majesty knew it clearly before he ascended the throne of God, but he never shied away from it, and even used them very much. There are indeed foreign invasions, Your Majesty But there is no one to use it as a last resort. Chen Qie always thought so. But after the battle at Xinglong Mountain, Chen Qie suddenly understood a lot of things."

Song Xi glanced at her indifferently, "What do you understand?"

Hehe, Xie Qingshan's tone was full of mockery.

"I figured out why His Majesty wanted to know people and make good use of them, and gave them the opportunity to do rebellious things, but turned the crisis into safety at a critical moment. Even the concubine also wanted to understand why His Majesty let Xiao Qian go on purpose."

"Oh?" Song Xi picked up the wine glass with great interest, and took a sip, "Tell me about it?"

Xie Qingshan sneered, "At the execution ground in Lin'an at that time, my concubine thought that your majesty was smiling because of Mo Jiu and the beauties, and she did not hesitate to let the tiger go back to the mountain, causing future troubles for Nanrong. I couldn't sleep all night because of it, wishing to get rid of it quickly. Unfortunately, my minister After all, the concubine misjudged His Majesty, and then sent a letter to Feng Dingshan—and thus brought about today's disaster."

Song Xi smiled slightly, "According to the Queen's words, what am I doing?"

Xie Qingshan's eyes were slightly closed, as if there were nails, they were nailed straight to his face.

"It is His Majesty who made the courtiers and concubines see clearly that all men in this world are unlucky, how could they do this for a woman? If you really love her, shouldn't you let Xiao Qian die completely, and there is no place for him to turn around? Human death , Shi Yi, if you want her, she will be yours after all. As long as he lives, you have no hope, right? "

She said it firmly, but made Song Xi laugh.

"The queen judges others by herself, do you really think that if you have dark eyes, the whole world will be black?"

"Your Majesty is far-reaching, and my concubines are ashamed to be ashamed, but don't let your concubines be black-eyed. Song Xi, you were originally such a person."

With a hook on his lips, Song Xi continued to smile gently, "Then tell me, why did I let Xiao Qian go?"

　There is one more!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)