The setting sun hangs on the branches, reflecting the palace walls red. Xuan Jingchen's car drove into the long palace corridor and stopped in front of the Nangong Gate. She did not return to the Chaohui Hall. The first thing she saw when she returned to the deep palace was the special prisoner who was taken to the underground prison in Nangong.
This person is the Nianwang who stabbed the bell from the curtain at night. When Zhong Lishuo asked about the assassin last night, Xuan Jingchen just told her that it was the dead man, and put the matter on Zhong Licheng. In fact, before knowing the truth, Xuan Jingchen also thought it was the work of Zhong Licheng.
But when he learned what Nianwang had done and the other party sent a letter last night to see Zhong Lishuo, Xuan Jingchen had to pay attention. Besides, Si Ming, the supervisor of Tiansi, said last night that Nianwang first went to see Zhong Licheng and induced the Lian Lizhi on him before going to assassinate Zhong Limu.
Both of them are poisonous, and if there is no antidote, they will die. Zhong Licheng is someone who will die soon, but Nianwang still does it himself. Especially after Zhong Licheng woke up and shook out the fact that Nianwang had been assisting the King of Zhongzhou in Zhongzhou for many years, Xuan Jingchen knew that Nianwang had grievances and entanglements with the Zhongli royal family.
Therefore, when he mentioned Zhong Lishuo, Xuan Jingchen raised a heart.
In the dark prison, Nian Wang, who was wearing a white robe, was placed on a torture rack that isolated the five elements. The brilliance of the setting sun leaked from a gap in the corner, mixed with the dim lights in the room, and illuminated Nian Wang's already completely snow-white hair.
Xuan Jingchen walked ten feet away from him, backed away the guards, and looked at Nian Wang, who was still standing tall while being nailed to the rack.
Nianwang raised his eyes, looked at the place where Xuan Jingchen was standing, and called out uncertainly, "Your Highness?"
"She won't see you, Mr. Nianwang." Xuan Jingchen looked at Nianwang, whose face was haggard, his five senses were unclear, and his eyes were sharp, "I have always been curious about the true identity of Mr. Nianwang."
"Zhong Licheng said that you have assisted the king of Zhongzhou for many years and participated in the rebellion of the kings. Obviously, you should be the king of Zhongzhou. But according to the fact that you exposed Zhonglicheng's treason to me, and last night's assassination of Zhonglicheng and King Yunzhong, you It should be a blood feud with the Zhongli royal family. But is that so?"
She asked sharply, looked down, and listened carefully for a while, then she could tell what she meant, and said, "The emperor is suspicious, it's really hard to win your trust, but I didn't intend to. Make you believe me. All I did was put rebellion in your hands and kill those two."
"You're very smart, it's good for your Highness to have a queen like you." Nianwang smiled, his eyes darkened, and said, "As for your identity, I said it before, I'm a river god. I The blood feud with the Zhongli royal family is actually my lord's blood feud with him."
"The people of the Tai family are all carrying out the creed of the death of the confidant, and so do I. Everything I did was just to avenge Young Master Yang Wang."
His face was already getting old, his hair was snow-white, and there was an air of desolation when he said this.
Xuan Jingchen frowned, looked at him and said, "Even if you betray the king and betray your faith, do you still want to implement your creed?"
"Have I ever abandoned my king and faith?" Nianwang frowned and retorted displeasedly, "I became the river god, not for the emperor, but to protect Young Master Yang Wang. You shouldn't know, Feng Bo and The river god, not only the emperor can drive. The emperor and the queen are one body, and both the husband and the queen can drive two envoys like the emperor."
"I am here for Young Master Yang Wang."
Xuan Jingchen said: "If you are for Yang Huangfu, then you should know that the Yang family had rebellion and poisoned the emperor, so the assassination emperor would preemptively clean up the Yang family. And Yang Huangfu was shameless to face his wife and daughter before hanging himself. He died. All this is the fault of the Yang family, and Young Master Yang Wang is affected, why do you keep saying that you want revenge?"
Nianwang was stunned for a moment, as if he was angered by something, he said grimly: "What is hanging! It is clearly someone who was killed by Zhong Lichen! She led the slaughter of the Yang family! She is for Zhong Liyan, everything is For Zhong Liyan, for their sisters to be together, I killed everyone who hindered me."
He will not forget that in the night when the beacon was bright, he saw the sharp sword drawn from Yang Wang's body, and Yang Wang staggered to the ground, looking at the back of Zhong Lichen who turned away, and muttered. "Is this an atonement?" he asked.
His body was covered in bloody sword marks, and he was lying on the ground like a bloody man. Zhong Lichen looked indifferent and threw away the long sword in his hand. A sonorous sound seemed to poke Nianwang's heart, and Zhong Lichen said coldly, "Yan'er doesn't hate you, but I hate you so much, what you have suffered today is what you deserve. Yes. Guhui told Yan'er that you hanged yourself."
After she said that, Da Si Ming, who was waiting on the side, waved his hand, wiped off the sword marks on Yang Wang's body, and left behind Zhong Lichen without looking back.
Nianwang thought, he would never die, all because of Zhong Lichen's sword.
That sharp sword cut off the Yang family, cut off Young Master Yang Wang's pride, and buried his faith.
"There is a debt to the owner, blood for blood, tooth for tooth! Zhong Lichen destroyed the Yang family, why not take the state of Chu as the son's burial?"
His face was ferocious, and there was already a bit of paranoid madness in his tone, and he said hoarsely at Xuan Jingchen: "The Yang family has more than 700 members, and the Chu Kingdom's Zhongli royal family together can't exceed 500 people. Not up!"
"So you're going to use the people and the country?" Xuan Jingchen reprimanded and said sharply, "You are really a disgusting lunatic, Nianwang. If Huangfu Yang knew that you had destroyed a splendid country after his death, I don't know what face you have to meet him."
Yang Wang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I won't see him. People like me can't even go to Guixu. But what does it matter? Chu country is gone, Zhong Licheng is about to die, and Zhong Limu is also going to die. Now, I'm dying too, it's all over..."
He breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Xuan Jingchen, and said, "I did everything I thought I should do, and I have no regrets in my life."
Xuan Jingchen looked at him with pity, "Poor..."
She knew everything she wanted, vaguely understood Nianwang's plan, and said coldly, "However, no one will know that you have done all this. Your Highness will not come to see you, I will not let you see her, Because you don't deserve it!"
Because you ruined the state of Chu and everything she hoped for, her loneliness in her youth was caused by you alone, such a person, Xuan Jingchen would not let her appear in front of Zhong Lishuo.
Xuan Jingchen glanced at him and said, "Your plan is good, but Zhong Licheng will be the one who will take care of it all. Besides, I have already found a way to save the blood cicada you gave Zhong Li under the curtain. Revenge is to destroy Zhongli's home, then you are destined to fail."
Nianwang's face changed drastically, he looked in the direction of Xuan Jingchen, trying to break the bondage, "Impossible!"
Xuan Jingchen shook his head, "No one knows what you have done to Chu State, and those who have been hiding in dark corners from the very beginning will not leave their names on the history books. Don't you want revenge? Endure humiliation for the Lord? Don't worry, I won't let the world know this story."
Nianwang is Subei's military advisor, so let him die in Yuanzhou as a military advisor.
It is regarded as the beginning of the declaration of war with the Northern Kingdom of Qing.
Xuan Jingchen turned around, turned his back to Nianwang in the dark corner, and walked up the stairs step by step. She passed through the dark prison, facing the bright sunset, and walked out.
In the cell, Nian Wang roared mournfully.
Outside the prison, Xuan Jingchen glanced at Xiang Sinian, the chief minister who was waiting by the side, and said, "Go back and measure a good day for me, so that the Lanzhou army can be dispatched."
Su Bei, should be completely honest.
Da Si Ming, who understood what she meant, followed behind her and returned to the palace in the afterglow of the setting sun.
At night, after dinner, Zhong Lishuo sat with his family and coughed a few times before saying, "Father, mother, the child wants to marry His Majesty, what do you think?"
There was no surprise in Zhenbeihou. At this moment, he looked at Zhong Lishuo, reached out and patted her thin shoulder, and said, "You have grown up."
Zhong Lishuo smiled and looked at his mother with burning eyes. Mrs. Le Zheng was confused, looked at her husband, looked at her daughter, and looked at Le Zhengying, and asked, "What's going on?"
"Su'er... why are you suddenly... "
Zhong Lishuo smiled shyly, while Le Zhengying on the side sighed and said, "What else can I do? Your Majesty has taken a look at A Su, and A Su also likes her, so we are going to get married."
But it's just a little thing that you like me.
Zhong Lishuo looked at the eldest sister, the eldest sister also glanced at her, reached out and touched her head, and said, "Don't worry, my sister will beg for you."
The three of them told Mrs. Lezheng about Xishan, and finally Mrs. Lezheng said, "Then I have to quickly prepare a dowry for Ah Su."
They all know that as long as someone like the Queen meets her eyes, she will definitely agree. Although Le Zhengsu looked younger, at seventeen, he could get married.
Zhong Lishuo watched them lively discussing how to ask people for advice on how to prepare for the wedding, only to feel that his chest was full and warm.
After a while, Le Zhengying pushed her and said to her mother, "Mother, Ah Su has to go to the palace tonight to change the wound medicine, and he will be leaving in a while."
Mrs. Le Zheng was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhong Lishuo for unknown reasons, and asked softly, "Su, can't you stay at home?"
Just as he was talking, the Hou Zhenbei laughed and said, "Young man, it's sticky."
As soon as the voice fell, a servant notified the palace to pick up someone. Zhong Lishuo got up and said goodbye to his parents. Le Zhengying took her to the door and saw a tall carriage standing under the dim street lights. Le Zhengying pulled her and gave a few orders, and someone got out of the car.
In the dark night, Xuan Jingchen, wearing a thin primrose-colored gauze, stood in front of the two sisters and called, "Lord Lezheng."
Le Zhengying never thought that Xuan Jingchen would come to pick him up in person, and after a moment of surprise, he hurriedly saluted. Xuan Jingchen nodded, looked at Le Zhengying holding Zhong Lishuo's hand, and said, "Master Ling, can you go with me?"
Zhong Lishuo looked at his gentle profile with a smile on his brows and eyes, Le Zhengying looked at his sister's madness, sighed in his heart, let go of Zhong Lishuo's hand, and said to Xuan Jingchen, "That would be troublesome then. Your Majesty."
Please... take good care of her.
Le Zhengying's eyes were clear, with a little worry. Xuan Jingchen took advantage of the situation to lead Zhong Lishuo, nodded and replied, "Then I will go back."
Zhong Lishuo followed her, turned his head and said to his elder sister, "Sister, see you later."
Le Zhengying stood on the spot, bowed towards Xuan Jingchen's back, and sighed as he looked at the carriage driving into the darkness.