The beauty is endless

Chapter 1 Prologue: The Quxia Rebellion

Dayou Junpei 17th year, December.

Rumors that Emperor Chongji intends to cut down the vassal are rampant, and people in the imperial capital are panicked.At the beginning of the month, Shen Qianchi, the eldest son of the Juze feudal prince, led 120 people from his entire family to leave Liaoyang capital overnight in the name of visiting relatives. Niece Princess Yanrong.

The emperor was furious and sent troops to pursue him.

There are heavy cumulonimbus clouds over the Dianjiang River. Even in the afternoon, the sky is still dark and gloomy. The cold wind blowing from the northern plateau rolls up the muddy river water and beats mercilessly on the sides of passing ships.

A heavy rain is imminent.

But at such a moment, a big two-masted ship still fully draws its sails and sails downwind, much faster than other ships.The sailors on board performed their duties, silent and busy.

As the cold wind passed by, a loud noise suddenly came from somewhere in the side cabin. The sailors on the deck looked for the place where the sound came from, but in a blink of an eye they saw a white shadow passing by quickly.I couldn't see her face clearly, but I could only vaguely distinguish a barefooted woman with a tall and slim figure.The long black satin-like hair and the snow-white skirt fluttered in the wind, looking like a fairy, especially the bloodstain on the hem of the white dress, which bloomed like a beautiful flower.

Behind her, a solid wooden door fell to the ground, already torn apart.

"It's so beautiful!" The young sailor who was the closest and could see the most clearly couldn't help exclaiming, "There is such a beautiful girl on our ship..."

But before his words fell, there was a violent shout not far away: "Shen Qianchi, you bastard, get out of here!"

The eyes of the young sailor froze instantly...

Murong Qi was very angry, very angry, almost pissed off.

She lifted her skirt, raised her foot to the door of the main cabin, and shouted: "Shen Qianchi, you bastard, get out of here!"

After several kicks, a middle-aged man opened the cabin door a little, and said with a sneer, "Ma'am, my son, please respect yourself."

"Self-respect? If I had any more self-respect, I would be thrown into the Dian River to feed the fish."

Murong Qi's face was dark, and he stretched out his hand to wipe away the hair sticking to his face, but unexpectedly, his hand was wet and it turned out to be blood.The door panel on this boat was really thick, just now when he was eager to get out of the trap, he hit it hard and broke his head.

Probably frightened by her fierce appearance with blood streaming down her face, the middle-aged man softened his tone: "The prince is busy."

"What are you busy with? Are you running for your life?" Murong Qi glared at him and pushed open the door forcefully.The middle-aged man didn't expect her to have such great strength, and he couldn't stand and fell to the ground. He could only watch her stride in, and felt sorry for her.

Poor son, what kind of shrew was he forced to marry...

"Shen Qianchi, if you are still a man, don't hide your head and show your tail." Murong Qi walked like the wind, and went straight to the main hall, "Don't you just want to kill me, how about I send you to kill me? You don't want to plot against a woman." Embarrassed?"

"Madam misunderstood." A warm and elegant voice came from behind the tall and delicate sandalwood screen, "It's just that there are many soldiers chasing after me, so I have to borrow Madam for help."

"You want to take me as a hostage?" Murong Qi understood, and turned his head to think for a while, "Given your current situation, this is not a bad idea."

The person behind the screen probably didn't expect that the other party was not angry, so he couldn't help laughing: "Madam agrees?"

"I don't agree." Murong Qi rebuffed straight away, "And I don't think the act of making me dizzy while sleeping, carrying me on board and letting four masters raise knives to chop me up is to take me as a hostage. A precedent for taking dead people as hostages?"

She finished speaking in one breath, before the man behind the screen had time to say anything, a woman whispered softly: "Oh... so scary!"

Murong Qi squinted her eyes, but saw two figures reflected on the screen, the tall and slender one should be her husband whom she married for a month but hadn't even met, Shen Qianchi, the eldest son of Ju Ze.The other shadow nestled in his arms was petite and exquisite, obviously a woman.

On the way to flee for his life, he still didn't forget that the beauty was enjoying the beauty in his arms. This son of Juze is really... so courageous.

Murong Qi lifted up her skirt and sat down in front of the screen, folded her arms, narrowed her eyes, and said curiously: "Girl, I am his wife, are you sure you want to do this in front of me, so you're not afraid of my revenge?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, and said softly: "I'm not afraid, the prince said that you will soon become a useless cripple."

Murong Qiyi raised his eyebrows: "Shen Qianchi, there seems to be a big difference between a hostage and a disabled person, right?"

Behind the screen, the son of Juze still didn't have any unease about being exposed to lies, and sighed calmly: "Madam, please don't believe in Linglong. There is an old saying that only women and villains are hard to raise. If you tell the two Naturally, there will be a discount...but then again, those four people have really been settled by Madam?"

"Lying in my room. Let me tell you, Shen Qianchi, these guys are too bad. Next time I need to pick better thugs."

"Princess Yan Rong has been with the emperor and empress for so long in the palace. I only heard that you are outstanding in appearance and talent. I didn't know that you also possess unique skills. The spies of the Shizifu should deduct their salary."

"..."

In fact, she did not expect that the son of Juze, who is known as the most beautiful man in the imperial capital, would be so... shameless.

Wait, the conversation seems to be going in a weird direction.

She coughed and went straight to the point.

"Shen Qianchi, I have three things to tell you. First, you are a bastard. I have just told the whole crew of this."

Shen Qianchi was silent for a moment, then sighed: "You say so."

"Secondly, you probably didn't marry me voluntarily, and I married you for another purpose. The current situation is not what I expected, so I ask for reconciliation."

This time, Shen Qianchi didn't answer her directly, but asked, "What about the third one?"

"Third, I want to leave right away." Murong Qi thought for a while, and then added, "Although you want to put me to death, for the sake of a husband and wife, I might as well remind you that Quxia is ahead. If you turn around and admit your mistake to the emperor in time, you may still survive, but if you still insist on returning to the old place of Juze, the consequences will be hard to say."

When she said these words, her expression was absolutely serious. "A husband and wife" is naturally just an excuse. The real reason is the lives of the 120 people on board.

However, through the curtain, Ju Ze Shizi couldn't see her eyes.He just smiled playfully and said: "For a husband and wife... I really want to thank Princess Yanrong."

As soon as the words fell, suddenly a cold wind blew up, and at some point in the empty room, dozens of well-dressed guards appeared in a circle, with iron bows and arrows in their hands on the strings, and the shiny arrows pointed directly at the man sitting on the ground with arms folded. Murong Qi.

The little girl Linglong behind the screen screamed again: "My son... the servants are afraid!"

Afraid of your size, Murong Qi twitched his eyes and said, "Shen Qianchi, are you really going to drive me to death?"

Shen Qianchi was hugging Miss Linglong and comforting her softly. At this moment, she chuckled softly, "I don't want to, but you said you want to go...Princess Yan Rong, I don't want to let you go even if I die..."

"Shut up, it's so disgusting!" Murong Qi couldn't help getting goose bumps all over his body, and slowly let go of his arms to support the ground, "Let's see if your people can stop me before we talk!"

After saying that, he exerted strength suddenly, his body was as light as a swallow, and he floated up.

By the time Murong Qi got rid of the tenth person, Shen Qianchi and Linglong behind the screen had already disappeared.

A white dress was covered with blood, although it was probably not her blood, but it looked quite scary, half of the left sleeve was torn off, and there was a scratch left on the arm because it was too late to avoid it. Tangled long hair... whoever said that a woman with fluttering long hair must be a beauty, and she may also be a female ghost!

But even though he was embarrassed, his opponent was even more embarrassed than her. While fighting, Murong Qi still did not forget to thank his mother for his cultivation. These 18 years of martial arts were not for nothing.

She snatched the knife from a guard's hand, kicked open the door just like she did when she came, and rushed to the deck.

At some point, the heavy rain was pouring down, and the surroundings were in chaos.

Before she could see the terrain clearly, an arrow whizzed by, brushed the tip of her nose and inserted into the mast beside her, her tail feathers trembled in front of her eyes.

She couldn't help taking a step back, and she heard the sound of sword feathers whistling one after another in her ears. She hurried to hide behind a big wooden barrel. In an instant, hundreds of arrows shot down on the deck and cabin, mixed with aggressive sounds. The screams of the person hit by the arrow can be heard all the time.

This scene is obviously not something that a few guards can do.Murong Qi's heart moved, he raised his eyes to look, in the hazy rain, the green hills on both sides of the bank were towering and stretched straight into the sky, and he had already reached the entrance of Qu Gorge.

Looking around again, I don't know when, the front, back, left, and right have been surrounded by several well-camouflaged cargo ships, and the shadows on the ship's side seem to be people holding bows.

She immediately understood, and couldn't help sighing: "The imperial guards usually do things slowly, but this time they acted so quickly, it seems that the emperor must have promised a lot of benefits."

After finishing speaking, she looked back at the messy deck, and said softly, "It's not that I didn't save you, it's just that your luck is too bad." After finishing speaking, she hugged the big wooden barrel and jumped into it without hesitation. In the river.

In December, the water in the Dian River is as cold as ice.

Murong Qi threw herself around the wooden barrel a few times, her teeth chattering, she felt her whole body was about to go stiff, her ears were filled with the whizzing sound of arrows entering the water, she didn't dare to stay, she roughly looked in the right direction, and hid in the Behind the wooden barrel, he struggled to row forward along the current.

Murong Qi didn't know how long he had been drifting, when a dark cliff appeared in front of his eyes, and the rocks around the cliff were jagged.She managed to stay still, and turned around again. The big ship had been left far behind. In the pouring rain, the hull of the two-masted ship was tilted, and a small half of it had entered the water. There was a faint exclamation from the ship, but immediately Covered by the sound of stormy waves.

There was a gust of cold wind blowing between the two cliffs, Murong Qi couldn't help but sneezed, and muttered: "It was agreed to come to meet him, where is he?"

Before she finished speaking, a black rope suddenly flew from the gap in the cliff, and it fell from the top of her head impartially, and caught her waist.

The inner force coming from the other end of the black cable was powerful but gentle, Murong Qi immediately let go of his whole body's defenses, let the black cable drag him, and went all the way back against the current.

The people who pull the cable are obviously very familiar with the terrain in this area. Even if the heavy rain blurs the vision, they can still control Murong Qi to shuttle freely among the many hidden reefs, until he gets close to the cliff wall, the black cable trembles slightly, and bypasses a screen-shaped reef , pulling her into a natural mountain crevice.

This gap looks very narrow from a distance, but who knows there is another hole behind it.Murong Qi felt her eyes dimmed, and when she looked up, she could vaguely see the suddenly wide cave behind the cracks in the rocks, with long stalactites hanging upside down from the roof, and she was floating in a dark river with a wooden bucket in her arms. The Dian River outside the gap is connected, but the other end is blocked by a long and narrow black wooden boat, and it is not known where it leads.

She recognized this kind of wooden boat, it was very handsome in appearance, and it was light and fast to drive, so it was nicknamed "Yuge".The entire Dayou can only be found in the Hongshui Gang, which dominates Dianjiang and fears even the imperial court.

Murong Qi's eyes lit up, and he waved and shouted: "Ache, Ache, I'm here..."

Before she finished speaking, the black rope tightened and pulled it forward quickly. She didn't notice for a while, took a mouthful of cold river water, and suddenly coughed profusely. .

A ray of light slowly came on, she raised her head vigorously, and saw a figure at the bow, holding a copper wind lamp in her left hand, tight black ropes wrapped around her right wrist, and two black and silver inlaid jewels on her middle index finger. The ring shines brightly under the outline of Hesuo.He was stepping on the snake head relief on the bow of the ship, his tall body was slightly bent down, looking at her solemnly, the wind in the mountain crevice blew his black clothes, and his black hair and hair strands were all the same. The silver hair rope in the middle flutters and dances together, and the tassel at the end of the hair rope brushes against the two small opal earrings on the ears, and the faint light floats.

He just bent down to look at her in the water, without saying a word, a pair of eyes that were already radiant reflected the water light under the wind lamp, making them appear deeper and deeper, softening the originally sharp facial features.It's just that at this moment, those eyes are dark and expressionless, and it makes people a little frightened to look at them.

Murong Qi, who was originally grinning, finally couldn't laugh under such eyes.

She held the barrel in one hand and waved it with the other: "Ache, I'm so cold, pull me up quickly."

I don't know if it was because it was really cold or for some other reason, but her voice was a little hoarse.

Behind the man in black stood several men in sharkskin swimsuits. One of them was about to go forward, but the man in black stopped him with his hand.The man who wanted to go forward stood where he was and couldn't help but said: "Young master, Miss Murong is very cold, if there is anything else, why don't you talk about it first when you get on the boat."

He nodded while talking about Murong Qi, and sighed: "Boss Guo, you are a good person!"

But the man in black was still indifferent, and said in a calm tone: "She has cultivated the mind of Kasyapa Palace since she was a child, and she has no problem staying in the snow mountain for three days and three nights. What is the water of the Dian River in December?"

Manager Guo: "..." silently backed away.

Murong Qi was exposed by someone, so he lay down on the wooden barrel and muttered a little discouragedly: "...Have no conscience, what if I get injured and can't practice my kung fu?"

The man in black didn't answer, but narrowed his beautiful eyes slightly, looked at her disheveled hair and her blood-stained face under the disheveled hair, and said expressionlessly: "I heard that you don't have the words of your parents and matchmaker, so let's go with you." Is Prince Ju Ze married?"

Murong Qi felt a little guilty when he heard the words, he hesitated and said: "It's...well, it's possible, the emperor bestowed the marriage, after all, the emperor is also my uncle, besides, everyone in the world is the emperor's subjects..."

The man in black interrupted her: "Have you met Shen Qianchi?"

"No...no..."

"He admires you very much?"

"No... never..."

"Then," he leaned down again, with no fluctuations in his tone, "...is it fun to get married?"

Under his emotionless gaze, for some reason, Murong Qi couldn't hold back even with the magic power to protect his body, and he shivered a little bit when he spoke outrightly: "It's not fun. But I ...I have reasons why I have to."

He stared at her for a moment, didn't ask any more questions, but turned his head to look at the gap in the mountain, there were faint screams and the sound of soldiers amidst the sound of wind and rain.

"So, you also knew about this sneak attack in advance?"

"I don't know." Murong Qi replied simply, "I just guessed that with the emperor's temper, the limit of patience will never exceed Qu Xia, so I sent a letter to you to come here to pick me up. Same, you will be able to find me."

She said it so firmly, as if she never thought that "he couldn't find her" would happen.

The cold eyes of the man in black loosened a bit, but his tone did not change: "This time I guessed right, but it doesn't mean that I did the right thing. There are always mistakes when relying on intuitive judgments. I have been locked up in the palace for a few years. Come on, you still haven’t learned to think twice.”

"Thinking too much, it's a waste of time and a missed opportunity, maybe even your life is lost, how do you act?" Murong Qi was noncommittal, the rushing water under her body made her very uncomfortable, and she couldn't help being slightly annoyed, "You Is the interrogation over yet? Hurry up and pull me up, knowing that I don't know how to swim, after soaking for so long, I feel so uncomfortable!"

The man in black glanced at her, and slowly said: "If you don't let you suffer, you won't know how to restrain yourself..."

Murong Qi raised her brows immediately: "Ji Che, why are you teaching me a lesson!"

"This is the original words of the Moon Palace Master."

"..."

Well, forget about what your mother said, she was not afraid of anything but a mother in her life.

"But obviously, you haven't suffered enough." Ji Che's words turned around, making the breath she had just swallowed go astray again, coughing and waiting for him.

He continued: "Let me ask you a few words."

"You ask." Murong Qi gritted his teeth and replied.

"Will you marry casually in the future?"

"No more." She endured.

"Do you still dare to act willfully?"

"I dare not." She endured it no longer.

"Very well, if you dare to cause such a big trouble again, remember, I will never help you next time!"

I can't... I can't help it, bastard!
"Hey, Ji Che, enough is enough! If you want to save me, what are you talking about? What's the big deal, girl, I'll drown today, and I'll be a good man again in 18 years. Don't blame me for snatching your wife and wife... "

"To shut up."

He interrupted her impassioned speech abruptly, with a flick of his wrist, the black rope suddenly tightened, dragging her and the wooden barrel out of the water, and then flipped skillfully, the wooden barrel fell back into the water, Murong Qi was completely covered. Wetly hugged by his waist.With a short "go", Yu Ge quickly turned his head and drove towards the depths of the cave.

While Murong Qi picked up the clothes on his chest and wiped his face, he remembered that there were still important things that he hadn't explained.

"Ji Che, I wrote in the letter that we must find a way to save those old and weak women and children. Have you ordered someone to do it?"

"..."

"Hey, did you hear me?"

"If you have time to worry about others, why not worry about yourself first, the Moon Palace Master has been waiting on the shore for a long time."

"Ah? Ah! Why are you here, mother! You bastard! You have no loyalty! Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"Did you ask me?"

……

In the 17th year of Dayou Junping, the year is approaching, and the capital is covered with snow.

Emperor Chongji sent 2000 imperial guards to successfully intercept Shen Qianchi, the eldest son of Juze, in Quxia, Dianjiang. Nearly a hundred guards of the Shizi's mansion were quickly defeated. During the melee, Shen Qianchi was killed by several arrows falling into the water, and his body was intercepted by the imperial army. , brought back to Liaoyang capital, and buried with the ceremony of a vassal king.Princess Yan Rong sank with the boat.There were 120 and six people in the whole house. Most of the women, children, old and weak were rescued by nearby fishermen, and the guards suffered heavy casualties.

Because Shen Qianchi had no heirs, the blood of Juze's royal family has been extinct since then.Emperor Chongji brought the territory of Juze back to the central government, changed Juze Fan to Juze County, and the imperial court directly appointed a county guard.

This battle was known as the "Quxia Rebellion" in history.

This was a cold winter with dark blood, but soon, the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year diluted the bloodiness of the killing.The north wind from the Baishuo Grassland blew the remnants of firecrackers, wandering in the streets and alleys of Liaoyang, and the conversations of the common people have already changed several times.

When the news came, Murong Qi was locked up at home and was copying Buddhist scriptures. Hearing the words, he let out a long sigh: "I said earlier that I would reconcile, but in the end I would still be a widow. My luck is really bad..."

(End of this chapter)