Empress Chu

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Liang Qiang said: "I'm dead, it's not good for you, the frontier army's war is over, it's not easy to support another like me."

The soldier laughed, and said: "So Mr. Liang has the confidence now to blackmail us?"

Liang Qiang shook her head: "I'm not a threat." He looked at the soldier, "I just want to make me live like a human being, please treat me like a human being."

What did the soldier want to say, the other stopped him, looked at Liang Qiang and said calmly, "Stop talking nonsense, can you watch your life like a human being."

Liang Qiang didn't care about this threat, and said: "You were right before, I came to ask for a reward, please tell him to arrange for me to kill Deng Yi and Xiao Xun, now I have Zhong Changrong's trust, and then I will kill the rebels." In the glory of the Lord, my status is unrivaled."

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Slender fingers tapped on the table.

"Brave." Xie Yanfang said, raising her head to look at Cai Bo, "It's not a virtue, it's just an obsession."

Chapter 66 Practice

Cai Bo is not interested in issues of virtue and obsession, he only cares about people.

"Everyone is not worried, and each of them claims to be brave." He looked at the letter on the table, "Xie Yanlai didn't claim to be recuperating, so how dare he give orders? The other party threatened the people's flesh wall, and he actually let the soldiers retreat for hundreds of miles. Give up a city, what kind of bravery is this."

Xie Yanfang smiled and said: "Hey, this is called virtue, and it is quite like Song Xianggong's legacy."

Song Xianggong is not very virtuous, Cai Bo is a little funny, but he can't laugh when thinking about the current situation: "The Xie family doesn't need his virtue."

After all, I couldn't help pacing.

"The war with Xiliang is over. Although Zhong Changrong is not dead, but he has a crippled arm, we can let him recuperate."

"But now the people who can fight for power have left."

He looked at the letter on the table and sneered.

"For the sake of military exploits, for the sake of glory, with the Empress here, where is it their turn to make military exploits?"

Xie Yanfang smiled and said: "Being able to fight side by side with the queen is the greatest military achievement." He leaned on the table, leaned on his chin, and looked out the window leisurely, "I really want to go too."

"My lord, you are fighting side by side with the empress right now. If you weren't in the capital, how could the empress have no scruples to face Xiao Xun?" Cai Bo said.

Xie Yanfang shook her head: "That's different, the distance is different, the feeling is different."

What is the feeling of distance, I really think about it seriously, Cai Bo said helplessly: "My lord, stop joking."

Xie Yanfang smiled, pinched her forehead lightly, and sighed: "No matter how well thought out the things in this world are, the result may not always be what you want."

Cai Bo also put away his helplessness and returned to the previous topic, but a thought flashed in his mind that the young master has become more and more fond of joking in the past two years.

"They really think that they are omnipotent, so they can make their own decisions." He looked at the letters piled up on the table again, "I don't want to think that today is just a push by others."

You can lift your hand up, and you can kill it with your backhand.

Xie Yanfang sighed softly: "It's also understandable, ants still steal their lives."

He smiled slightly, looking at the chess game on the table.

"People are still different from chess pieces."

It is not easy to turn people into chess pieces.

This is the game of chess in the world.

"Okay, the matter is already like this, don't think about it, let's talk about the matter in front of you first." He sat up straight, waved his hand, ended the topic, and looked at the map hanging beside him, "Let our queen win as soon as possible."

Uncle Cai was a little displeased: "It's better for the queen to suffer a little bit, or she really thinks she is omnipotent."

Xie Yanfang smiled and said: "The empress doesn't have to suffer. As an empress, she has to be omnipotent." He pointed to the scattered letters on the table, with different signs on them, "Tell the friends we made over there, now they are It's time to pay me back."

Cai Bo replied yes, and said again: "The son has done so much for the queen, but it's a pity that the queen doesn't know about it."

I don't know if he was influenced by Xie Yanfang, but he suddenly wanted to joke.

Xie Yanfang laughed, and the smile shone softly at the corner of her mouth.

"No, she doesn't need to know," he said.

When all those useless people are gone, she will only have him by her side, and his thoughts are her thoughts.

At this point, Du Qi opened the door and came in.

"My lord." He whispered, "Yu Shang lost the news."

Cai Bo looked at Xie Yanfang: "It seems that Bian County is quite dangerous." Then he asked Du Qi, "Is anyone checking on Yu Shang's news?"

Du Qi glanced at the letter in his hand, nodded and shook his head: "There are in Yunzhong County, but there are a few buyers he is familiar with, and they say that Yu Shang owes them some goods, and they haven't received them for a long time. I couldn’t find anyone, so I came to the government to report the crime.”

This is normal, not a problem, Cai Bo looked at Xie Yanfang.

Xie Yanfang didn't take her eyes off the map, said oh, and said, "That's it, don't worry about it, just take care of his family."

The closest connection to a person is the family, and cutting off the connection with the family will wipe away the traces of this world, Cai Bo responded.

Xie Yanfang picked up a letter from the table and walked out: "I'm going to the palace to see Ah Yu."

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When Xie Yanfang walked over, she could hear the noise in front of the hall from a distance.

In the early winter afternoon, the sun was warm, and there was a chair in front of the dormitory, covered with felt cushions, and Xiao Yu, who was wearing a dragon robe, sat on it, with his hands resting on the armrests, with a smile on his face, watching the excitement in front of the hall.

The two young eunuchs were wrestling with each other, their clothes were disheveled and their faces were wounded, but even so, they still didn't stop.

The servants standing around also watched quietly.

"What's the matter?" Xie Yanfang walked over and asked with a smile.

Xiao Yu smiled: "Uncle is here, I need an ink researcher in my study, both of them have to come, for the sake of fairness, I will let them have a showdown."

Xie Yanfang nodded: "Yes, it's fair to use your own ability to get what you want."

A servant next to him brought a plate of snacks: "Your Majesty, you want peach cakes."

Xiao Yu reached out and took one, and signaled to Xie Yanfang: "Uncle, try it, it's newly made, it's very delicious." He then asked someone to show Xie Yanfang a seat, "I don't know when the game will finish, just sit down and wait."

Xie Yanfang also took a piece of peach cake, but she declined the spectators, and said with a smile: "The winner will be decided soon." He pointed to Xiao Yu, "That one is more powerful——"

After he finished speaking, he saw one of the servants grabbed the head of the other and slammed it on the head. The servant yelled, his hands and feet trembled and struggled for a moment, then he didn't move.

Blood spread on the bluestone ground.

"I won, I won." The previous servant didn't notice it at all, and only shouted happily.

Xiao Yu nodded and said: "You win, and I will hand over my study to you from now on."

The servant kowtowed in ecstasy, "Thank you Your Majesty, slave."

His forehead was stained with blood, it was not known whether it was broken earlier or was stained with blood from the ground.

Xiao Yu swallowed Taosu and stood up from the chair: "Clean it up." After saying that, he walked inward.

The servant who kowtowed kowtowed again to thank the emperor, and was about to get up, but he staggered, but he didn't fall down, but was supported by three or four servants who rushed over.

"Be careful." "Don't move, we will help you." "Treat your injuries first." "I'll go to the Imperial Hospital to hire someone for you."

The servants, who were not cared about at first, were surrounded by people and left.

Another servant dragged away the servant who died on the ground, and splashed water to wipe away the blood.

"Your Majesty." Xie Yanfang followed Xiao Yu into the hall, "Don't do this in the future."

Xiao Yu turned to look at him with a disturbed expression: "Uncle, I did something wrong."

But there was no anxiety in his eyes.

Xie Yanfang didn't expose the children, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty can do what he wants, but don't give reasons, but let them find their own reasons."

The uneasiness on Xiao Yu's face dissipated, and he said thoughtfully: "I understand, I shouldn't let them fight, but they should want to fight for me." Having said that, he sighed, "Yes, I It's not good to do this, it will make people find me boring and make fun of people."

Xie Yanfang asked: "Then what should His Majesty do?"

"I will just watch and then reward the winner of the battle." Xiao Yu said, "This time the order is reversed."

This child is now making no secret of his evil nature in front of him, Xie Yanfang just smiled and said nothing.

Xiao Yu put the last mouthful of peach cakes into his mouth, and did not continue the topic: "Is there any news about sister Chu when uncle came today?"

Xie Yanfang took out a letter: "It's not good news, sister Chu failed to win the battle recently, but lost two cities instead."

With a smile on Xiao Yu's face, he stretched out his hand to take the letter: "As long as there is news about Sister Chu, it is good news."

But he sighed again, with a little regret in his eyes.

"In this case, my sister can't come back to celebrate the New Year together."

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When the cold wind blowing on the face was painful like sand and dust, the first snow in Xingping's three-year winter came.

Chu Zhao put on the hood that had been blown off by the wind, and saw a group of soldiers and horses galloping in the distance.

The first thing that came into sight through the wind and snow was the flying flags, including the frontier army flag she was familiar with, and a familiar yet unfamiliar flag with the word Liang.

Someone coughed heavily in the ear.

"Your old acquaintance is here."

Chu Zhao turned his head to look at Xie Yanlai, who had wrapped himself tightly in a cloak and only showed a pair of eyes.

"Our—" she corrected with a smile, "an old acquaintance."

Chapter 67 Transition

But old acquaintances did not come to see them.

The banner was strong, and a group of hundreds of scouts stopped and stood in the distance. Only the general could come to the empress. Military Marquis Baiquan, I have seen the empress."

Chu Zhao let the soldiers around him take it, and asked, "Where's Liang Qiang?"

Bai Junhou said: "General Liang led his troops to attack the left wing of the rebel army. I can't go away. Please forgive me." After finishing speaking, he took out a letter, "General Liang has a letter for my mother."

Chu Zhao smiled, motioned for the soldier to take it, and didn't ask again: "Okay, I know, you go."

Bai Junhou responded, and the soldiers and horses galloped away.

The snow particles turned into flakes and danced across the ground.

Xie Yanlai wrapped his head and face more tightly, with a half-smile: "This old acquaintance dare not come to see you."

Chu Zhao looked at the flying snowflakes and said calmly, "He's afraid that I'll chop him off on the spot."

Earlier, Zhong Changrong wrote to tell Chu Zhao that he had been attacked and lost an arm. At the same time, he told about Mu Mianhong's capture of a Daxia businessman in Xiliang, and Liang Qiang's voluntary confession of being manipulated.

In addition to Zhong Changrong's letter, Zhu Yong also wrote her a secret letter, expressing that he has started to investigate Yu Shang's affairs.

Seeing these two letters, Chu Zhao was surprised but not surprised.

Zhong Changrong also encountered an ambush in this life, and it was related to the Liang family, so the death of Uncle Zhong in that life was indeed related to the Liang family.

Fortunately, Uncle Zhong saved his life in this life. As long as his life is alive, Uncle Zhong can also be a one-armed general.

However, Xiao Xun was behind the Liang family in that life, but in this life, is it still the same?

If so, was it Xiao Xun's conspiracy that he came to attack Xiao Xun, or did he really turn against Xiao Xun?

There was another cough beside him: "Hey, look at what was written in the letter."

Chu Zhao looked to the side, whether it was the transfer order or Liang Qiang's letter, they were still held in the hands of the soldiers.

She didn't need to read the transfer order. Uncle Zhong had already written a letter to tell her in advance that he accepted Liang Qiang's surrender. In order not to disturb the people behind him, he pretended to reuse Liang Qiang, so he asked him to support him.

These [-] troops were selected by Zhong Changrong's trusted veterans. It was said that Liang Qiang was the chief general, but most of them were controlled by Zhong Changrong's trusted lieutenants, so there was no need to worry about problems with the troops.

As for Liang Qiang's letter——

"If it's inconvenient, I'll avoid it." Xie Yanlai smiled from the side.

Chu Zhao turned to look at him and raised his eyebrows: "You talk a lot today, if you want to see it, just say it."

Xie Yanlai sneered: "Who wants to read a letter written by a big man."