Empress Chu

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Xie Qiye muttered: "The kid still misses the queen." Seeing Xie Yanfang put on the cloak, "But I didn't expect that kid Xie Yanlai to die like this."

Xie Yanfang pursed her lips. In fact, he didn't expect Xie Yanlai to do this, but it's not surprising that Xie Yanlai did so.

This child who was taken in at Xie's house halfway was to be raised as a lonely brave man.

The final outcome of the lonely brave is to die brilliantly.

This is Xie Yanlai's destined destination.

It is a joy to die well, but——

Xie Yanfang sighed lightly: "The empress doesn't know how sad she is."

That's why he had to pick up Xie Yan in person.

Giving the dead enough scenery is the best comfort to the living.

After finishing speaking, he asked again: "Are you ready to welcome Yan?"

Xie Qiye nodded: "Don't worry, everything has been arranged along the way, and I promise to make this kid come back in a good time."

This is also the scenery of their Xie family.

Xie Yanfang didn't speak any more, took the horse and got on it, looking forward, a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Children miss her, and adults miss her too.

The messy branches and vines were all cut off, creating such a unique and unprecedented queen.

This is the treasure carved by Xie Yanfang.

Take her home.

He urged the horse to gallop away, and Du Qi and others galloped behind.

Chapter 77

Groups of soldiers and horses assembled outside the city of Zhongshan County, the horseshoes were chaotic, and the soldiers shouted, but the atmosphere was not tense, but there were noisy laughter.

This is the frontier army who came to support the whole team, and they are going back to the border county.

And ahead of the army are the scouts of the letter soldiers. They rush forward with light armor and relatively simple clothes.

The outermost team of scouts was dressed more simply. If they didn't have the badges of Daxia soldiers and horses hanging on their waists, they would be regarded as ordinary people.

But this is not surprising, the scouts are originally dressed in a variety of ways to spy.

Xie Yanlai looked up and down the man beside him.

The man was dressed like them, with a beard around his face, but he didn't know whether it was because of those quiet eyes or what, he looked very uncoordinated.

"If you have anything to say, say it." Deng Yi said lightly, "Don't act like you haven't seen me before."

Xie Yanlai raised her eyebrows and said, "Master Deng doesn't look like a bandit even with a beard."

Deng Yi said: "Whether you look like a bandit is not based on appearance, but on behavior." After saying that, he took a look at Xie Yan.

"I act like that too." Xie Yanlai said directly.

Deng Yi still looked at him: "A bandit won't die with his target. Bandit asks for money to save his life. What's the use of asking for money if he's dead?"

Xie Yanlai looked at him: "What do you mean?"

"General Xie doesn't seem like someone who sacrificed his life for fame and fortune." Deng Yi asked, "So I don't understand why you came to die with Xiao Xun?"

Xie Yanlai sneered: "It's an assassination! What does it mean to die together!"

Deng Yi looked at him: "I saved your life, without me you would have died long ago."

Xie Yanlai muttered: "You said she saved me." Standing in front of Deng Yi, she lazily said, "This matter is very simple, the reason why I did this is because people like you are not pleasing to the eye. "

Deng Yi looked at him, as if he didn't quite understand.

"People like you." Xie Yanlai looked at him, "You are self-righteous, aloof, omnipotent, and treat the world as human beings. You are a cancer in this world."

Deng Yi nodded, and said: "So for the sake of the people of the world, General Xie sacrificed his life to get rid of the cancer." He smiled again, "You can only get rid of one person by doing this, in this world——"

"Getting rid of one is one." Xie Yanlai interrupted him, "I, Xie Yanlai, don't want much, as long as I do one thing I want to do, that's enough."

Then he smiled coldly.

"These principles, people like you who are greedy and never satisfied, will never understand."

Deng Yi was silent for a moment, looked up at him, and said: "The family from Han County voted for the imperial court, it must be Xie Yanfang who did it."

Xie Yanlai's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't speak.

"Now I say that Xiao Xun's soldiers and horses and the officials I selected did not massacre the people of Han County at all. No one will believe this." Deng Yi said lightly, "Because the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. What is what."

He looked back into the distance and smiled.

"What kind of person Xie Yanfang is, the world can't see clearly, but you, as a child of the Xie family, can see clearly."

"You dare not tell Chu Zhao the truth at all, because this matter is related to the overall situation, regardless of good or evil, right or wrong."

"Xiao Xun is dead, this matter is over, the people don't have to suffer, Xie Yanfang doesn't have to do evil anymore, and Chu Zhao doesn't have to bear the pain."

"Actually, this is not heroic. You are angry in your heart, helpless, and have nowhere to go, so you rushed over to kill Xiao Xun out of courage."

Having said that, he looked back at Xie Yanlai again.

"General Xie, are you really satisfied with this result? Is this what you want?"

"If you kill one person alone, will you really solve the problem?"

Xie Yanlai stepped forward and grabbed him, and said word by word: "Stop talking so much nonsense to me, put on a look of seeing through everything, so what if you see through, don't do anything, and, I Now it’s not General Xie, and you’re not Taifu Deng—”

At this moment, horseshoes sounded, and someone rushed over.

"Ah Jiu." Mu Mianhong looked at Xie Yanlai first, "Remember to be the vanguard later."

Look at Deng Yi again.

"Zhu Er, you count the supplies."

She didn't seem to see the confrontation between the two, and smiled slightly, shaking the whip in her hand.

"If you don't do well in our village, you will be punished."

After speaking, he urged the horse to gallop away.

Xie Yan took a look at Deng Yi, let go of his hand, turned and left.

"Hey." Deng Yi called him again, "I'm here as a prisoner, what are you doing here?"

Xie Yanlai turned to look at him: "Be a bandit."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and strode away, the corner of his mouth curled into a snort.

In other words, be a bandit waiting for someone.

……

……

Standing on the wall of the county city, you can see the assembled soldiers and horses, divide the troops, form a team, and then gradually go away.

Gu Yan

Chu Zhao couldn't help tiptoing slightly, wanting to follow his eyes further.

There were footsteps coming from behind, but they stopped a few steps away, as if hesitating to go forward, but seeing that Chu Zhao never looked back, and didn't care about people coming and going behind him, he still took the initiative to speak.

"Liang Qiang, I have met the empress."

Only then did Chu Zhao look away, looked at Liang Qiang who was standing behind him, and asked, "Master Liang is here to ask me why I won't let you go back to the border county?"

Liang Qiang was the main reinforcement of the frontier army. Now that the war is over, the frontier army has gathered and left, but only Liang Qiang was left behind.

Liang Qiang looked at Chu Zhao, lowered her eyes and said, "The guilty minister knows why."

Chu Zhao changed the subject and motioned to him: "Young Master Liang, come with me." After speaking, he walked along the city wall.

Xiaoman followed at a distance.

Liang Qiang hesitated for a moment, followed, looked at the back a few steps ago, couldn't help clenching her lowered hand, no matter what, he had a chance to walk with her like this——

Chu Zhao said: "I didn't expect that one day I would inspect the city walls of Zhongshan County, let alone Mr. Liang."

Liang Qiang said: "To be honest, I have never even thought about wearing a military robe. Sometimes when I wake up from a dream, I think I am in the capital, a carefree young master of the Liang family."

Speaking of earlier, the girl looked back at him.

"Young Master Liang, although I had a quarrel with your Liang family before." She said, "But I have no ability to make you guilty."

Liang Qiang nodded: "I know, Liang's conviction is a dispute between court and court."

Chu Zhao asked: "Then who ordered you to murder Zhong Changrong?"

She asked really straightforwardly, yes, now that she is a queen, she doesn't need to be courteous to courtiers, she is qualified to ask directly, Liang Qiang was silent for a moment: "It was an old friend named Cai who helped my father and I join the army."

He told Chu Zhao what happened back then.

"But shortly after we joined the army, Mr. Cai was transferred from Yunzhong County."

"No one has ever directly contacted me and asked me to do things, but I can feel that I am being arranged step by step."

"I often receive orders only when the situation is critical, and the ones who convey the news to me are ordinary soldiers around me, such as General Zhong this time."

"I was asked to see the general non-stop, followed the general, and then saw that the general was in an ambush, and then I was asked to stand aside and wait—"

When he said this, Chu Zhao looked at him, but he didn't avoid his gaze.

"They asked me to wait for General Zhong to die, and then asked me to kill Xiliang soldiers, and then, to obtain meritorious service, and then—"

Chu Zhao took his words and said, "Then you father and son will be able to take over the frontier army and replace General Zhong by relying on their reputation."

Liang Qiang said: "Your Majesty guessed right."

It's not a guess, after all, she saw it herself in that lifetime, so Chu Zhao turned her gaze back and walked forward.

"Many of the soldiers who gave me orders died in battle, or they were transferred and disappeared. They are new faces every time." Liang Qiang followed her and added.

Chu Zhao hummed: "The work is very meticulous." Then he asked, "Does Shipo City have anything to do with you?"

Liang Qiang was silent for a moment, then nodded, "It was me who let the Xiliang soldiers go in."

After he finished speaking, the girl in front turned around abruptly, causing a gust of wind.

Liang Qiang knelt down with a puff, "Mother, I was wrong."

Chu Zhao looked at him: "Wrong? You are wrong. Do you know how many people gave their lives?"

"I know." Liang Qiang knelt up straight, her voice hoarse, "I know, so I regret it, so I regret it, so I know I can't go on like this, so when they let me wait for General Zhong to die , I disobeyed the order and sent out the distress signal ahead of time—I want to escape, I want to escape, I want to get rid of all of this—”

He looked at Chu Zhao with pleading and sad eyes.

"Miss Ah Zhao, please help me."

"I don't want to become like this, I still want to be that Liang Qiang who you once praised for being brave."

Did you praise bravery at the beginning?A self-deprecating smile flashed in Chu Zhao's eyes. In fact, it was just a misunderstanding. She was praising Liang Qiang in that life, but now she knew that Liang Qiang's bravery in that life was just a conspiracy.

"I will take you back to the capital on the grounds of rewarding you for conquering Xiao Xun." Chu Zhao looked at him and said, "I hope that when that person contacts you again, you can let yourself return to that brave Mr. Liang."

Liang Qiang leaned over: "Thank you, Ma'am! I—"

He wanted to say something else, when a soldier not far away reported, "His Royal Highness, Xie Zhongcheng has arrived."

Chu Zhao smiled slightly: "It's really fast." After saying that, he passed Liang Qiang and left.

Liang Qiang leaned down and kowtowed again: "The last general will send you off to your mother." Then she got up slowly, stood by the city wall and looked at the girl who walked down the city wall. Her steps were easy and cheerful. , the wind flapped the cloak of the young master, like moonlight.

He has no jealousy in his heart, and he doesn't expect to be welcomed by Chu Zhao like this one day, as long as he can stay by her side.

He knew that Chu Zhao didn't believe him, and kept him in order to attract the people behind him.

But it doesn't matter.

As long as he is useful.

Not only is it useful for the queen, but also for the person behind it, so that he can still have everything he already has, and even more and more.

I have said everything that should be said before, but there is one thing that I didn't say, all these merits of his were actually obtained under the protection of other soldiers.

That brave Mr. Liang never existed, so he can't go back.