As soon as these words were spoken, the mourning hall fell into silence.
The envoy naturally heard the unkindness in Zhai Huan's words.
The so-called "other things" are clothes or miscellaneous items, anyway, not a person. In front of the envoy, Zhai Huan insulted the sister of the current king in a roundabout way. His words were no different from a slap in the face. The envoy's face darkened.
He changed his previous flattering tone and said with a bit of condescending arrogance, "Zhai Lang has done nothing, how dare you look down on Princess Wang? Thunder and rain are all grace from the emperor. Princess Wang favors you, so you should serve her with your whole body!"
Zhai Le almost exploded after hearing this.
Zhai Huan raised his hand to stop him and said calmly, "According to the national law, when a wife dies, the husband must mourn for twelve months. Before the seventh day of mourning for my wife, the princess sent an envoy to visit her. Firstly, this is a disregard for national law and ethical principles; secondly, the cause of my wife's death is strange."
He didn't say anything else, but just looked at the messenger with his indifferent and cold eyes, as if he was a dead person.
The messenger was not at all panicked. He had helped Wang Ji with similar tasks more than once or twice and was already familiar with it.
Even if Zhai Huan had evidence, what would happen? Could he still file a complaint with the emperor? Would he win? If the king knew that his sister liked Zhai Huan, it would be a good thing that he didn't push Zhai Huan to his beloved sister's bed. Who dared to disobey
Not to mention a mere Zhai Huan.
Even if he was Shuji's brother-in-law, she would still get him if she liked him. In the eyes of the envoy, Zhai Huan was simply courting death. Do you really think that Qudian Zhai was from decades ago
The most glorious era has long passed. The older generation has died, become disabled, or retired. Who among the younger generation can carry on the responsibility of the Zhai family? The messenger sneered contemptuously.
"What are you talking about, Zhai Lang? Are you trying to accuse the dignified princess of harming innocent women for the sake of her own superficial male lust?"
Zhai Le heard the messenger use the contemptuous word "male homosexual" to describe his cousin, and in front of his cousin's wife's mourning hall! Anger surged again, and he looked at his cousin and asked him if the messenger wanted to walk out of the Zhai Mansion mourning hall upright as long as he gave the order!
Zhai Huan, however, remained indifferent.
He flicked his sleeves and half turned his back to the messenger.
No one knew that the veins on his hands in his sleeves had already bulged, and he said lightly: "Not the best."
Zhai Le opened his eyes wide in surprise: "Brother!"
Zhai Huan ignored him and said, "Today is my wife's seventh day of death. There is a lot of negative energy in the mansion. It would be better for the messenger to leave early to avoid any disturbance. My wife was gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. No matter how stubborn she is, she can't bear grudges."
The envoy snorted coldly when he was ordered to leave.
Before leaving, he suddenly remembered something.
His eyes darted around at Zhai Le for a few times, and he sneered.
"Since Zhai Lang is required to observe filial piety and not marry within a year, Your Highness cannot force him to do so, as it would ruin his fate. But Your Highness admires the Zhai family tradition and also admires A Lang..."
Zhai Huan: "What do you mean?"
The messenger said, "This young man from the second house is also acceptable."
Zhai Le almost jumped up and pointed at the messenger's nose and cursed, "What the hell is this? Why are you saying these things in front of the mourning hall?"
Are you ashamed or not? Do you have any shame? Judging from the faces of the messengers sent by Shuji, the death of my cousin's wife might be related to them.
Zhai Huan: "Wang Ji admires A Le?"
The messenger deliberately disgusted Zhai Huan: "Zhai Xiaofang hasn't even come of age yet, so she can't be engaged or already married, right? Zhai's family held two funerals in such a short period of time, this is also..."
Zhai Le looked at the messenger in anger.
The Zhai clan members in the mourning hall also stood up one after another. The older ones were so angry that their faces turned blue and they could hardly catch their breath. The messenger's words were not only a blatant threat, but also a disguised admission that the death of the clan woman was Shuji's intention.
This was no longer just a provocation! This behavior was outrageous! But the envoy was not afraid. He bet that Zhai would not dare to take action.
The Zhai family did not take any action.
To be precise, someone wanted to fight, but was stopped by Zhai Huan. He said indifferently: "If you want to fight, go outside. This is my wife's funeral hall, and the blood of nothing can stain this place. Zhai will remember this matter, and the messenger can do as he pleases."
Upon seeing this, the messenger strode away with a sneer.
When he reached the gate, he turned around and looked in the direction of the plaque on the gate of Zhai Mansion and spat a mouthful of turbid saliva.
"Bah, what a coward!"
The messenger went back to reply to Shuji.
He told Shuji everything that happened in the mourning hall in detail and exaggerated it, making her laugh and tremble. The messenger half squatted, pinched Shuji's calf with moderate strength with both hands to relieve her fatigue, and also put eye drops on Zhai Huan: "In my opinion, this Zhai Yuewen has a false reputation and is afraid of death. He knew that the woman's death was strange, but he was too scared to make trouble."
Shuji was leaning lazily on the table.
"Are you really that cowardly?"
The messenger said, "What a coward! Zhai Xiaofang is really hot-tempered. He tried to lash out several times but was stopped by him. He was also afraid of the dignity of the royal family and knew that disaster was imminent. She looks rotten inside, and only her appearance can deceive people..."
After hearing this, Shuji's interest dropped by three points.
"I didn't expect him to be such a heartless man..." But she still remembered the Zhai Huan she saw on the river that day, the elegant scholar standing in the wind, not only had good looks, but also a temperament that other vulgar women could not match. She had seen many such vulgar men, but she still hadn't given up the idea of getting him. She wanted to get him and then discard him. "How about that Zhai Xiaofang?"
There seemed to be some envy in the messenger's eyes.
"Unlike his cousin, he is a brave warrior with outstanding talent. Although he is not very old, he is not comparable to those skinny scholars. If you look closely, one can see that she is ten times more gorgeous. It's a pity that she is wearing mourning clothes in the mourning hall. If she wore a bright red dress, she would definitely be a stunning beauty in the world." The messenger knew Shuji's taste very well.
She likes all kinds of scholars, because she likes their appearance and the refined bookish temperament of dealing with books all year round, just like eating big fish and meat all year round, and occasionally want to change the taste. But she likes brave warriors even more, because she likes their appearance and their ferocity in sex.
Scholars are usually proud, and those who are truly generous will not crawl at her feet. If they are willing to crawl, she will despise them for not being noble and proud enough. However, it is different for martial warriors. The threshold for martial warriors is low, and they come from all kinds of backgrounds. There are too many who want to rely on her to get to the top, and they use all kinds of means to please her.
Zhai Le is more likely to arouse Shuji's interest.
"really?"
Shuji's eyes seemed to brighten a few degrees.
The messenger leaned close to her ear and said, "Really? I heard that when Zhai Le left Shen State to travel around the countries, he was already a sixth-rank official. After a few years, he is probably a seventh-rank official now."
Shuji was completely aroused.
Even though she is spoiled and her brother will give her any man she wants, for her own safety, the level of the Wudan warriors will never be too high - of course, it is also related to the fact that high-level Wudan warriors are unwilling to get involved with her.
She didn't expect that Zhai Le had such a background at such a young age. She frowned, feeling a little moved and a little worried. After all, she was just an ordinary person. Although there were powerful warriors around her to protect her at all times, this protection was greatly reduced in bed.
If Zhai Le wants to take revenge, his life will be in danger.
She likes male beauty, but she values this life more.
The messenger saw her concerns, leaned over and whispered something in her ear. Shuji's eyes became brighter and brighter.
"That's good."
Shuji had been urged to get married by the Queen Mother.
Her brother the king also helped to find young talents.
But when every family heard that she was going to get married, they hid away faster than rabbits. On the first day, they said they had no marriage, but on the second day, they found a woman, and they wanted to complete all the procedures within one day. In the past two years, there have been many marriages in the capital.
Shuji was so angry.
That's why I came out to relax and have fun.
Outside the capital, there were many people who wanted to curry favor with her.
But none of them satisfied her.
This Zhai Xiaofang is not bad.
Now that they were a family, there would be plenty of opportunities to make Zhai Huan her own. With the identity of an uncle, her sense of novelty might last a little longer. Shuji yawned, closed her eyes slightly, and enjoyed the messenger's careful service.
The Zhai family was in chaos.
To be precise, Zhai Huan was punished by the head of the Zhai family who rushed back after hearing the news, and Zhai Le's father couldn't stop him. When Zhai Huan's other brothers heard the details of what happened in the mourning hall, they also felt a little disgusted with Zhai Huan's cowardice.
Is this still the same Zhai Huan from back then
All the wives who had not yet married were killed...
What else can he endure
The bullying has even reached the funeral hall, how can I retreat
If the Shen Kingdom cannot survive, the whole clan can just relocate. The current ruler is very weak and cannot control the entire territory of the Shen Kingdom. As long as you leave his sphere of influence, you can survive anywhere.
"Uncle..."
Zhai Le tried to plead for mercy and was almost kicked.
"Go to the side and watch, and stop speaking for the rebellious son!"
Zhai Le was taken aside by his father.
Zhai Huan still said nothing.
His father got angry when he saw him like this.
After going out for a trip, all my blood was gone.
"Zhai Yuewen, what exactly do you want to do?"
Zhai Le saw blood on the sleeves of Zhai Huan's mourning clothes, and relying on his favor, he carried his uncle and led him back.
He pulled the father and son apart and said hurriedly, "Uncle, if you hit my brother again, something bad will happen! My brother is injured!"
Injuried
The head of the Zhai family pulled up Zhai Huan's sleeves, and blood soaked the white cloth, forming small winding snakes.
"When did you get hurt?"
Zhai Huan looked at the wound with a sad look.
Only then did Zhai Le remember that the wound on his brother's arm was in the same location as that on his cousin's wife's body.
"Father." Zhai Huan put down his sleeves. The wound was wrapped in a patch, and no one knew that there was a piece of flesh missing, a piece of flesh bitten off with teeth. He said, "My path as a scholar has been fulfilled..."
The head of the Zhai family didn't react for a moment.
"you-"
The Way of the Scholar is easy to awaken but difficult to perfect. Different people have different ways of perfecting it, so it has no reference value. I only know that when you have mastered the Way of the Scholar to a certain level, you will naturally know how to perfect it.
Zhai Huan’s way of being a scholar is “Eight Days of Hexagrams”.
Every eight days, one can tell the future by fortune-telling.
To complete it, one must be heartbroken when losing a loved one, and become one with the other person's flesh and blood.
Zhai Huan knew the method of perfection on the day he acquired the Way of the Scholar, but he was disdainful and did not want to perfect it.
Isn’t the absence of loved ones an incompleteness
How is this perfect
Moreover, there is an extremely strict "unspoken rule" here - he cannot take the initiative to kill his loved ones in order to perfect the way of a scholar, and he cannot even have such an idea. Because once he has this idea, it means that his pursuit of worldly interests has surpassed his loved ones, and his feelings are no longer pure.
Naturally, the other person is not your closest relative.
"Because of Jing?"
Zhai Huan said: "Yes."
"So what are you going to do?"
The son whom I raised myself knows him well.
Zhai Huan is not someone who would swallow his anger.
"Shuji relies on the king and the queen mother. It is these two who give her the confidence to do evil things."
His enemy was not just Shuji.
It is the royal family of Shen State.
"you-"
Zhai Huan said, "Son can."
When the Way of the Scribe was completed, he knew that revenge was not far away. In the initial stage, the Way of the Scribe could only tell fortunes and predict certain things in the future, but after completion, every seven days, he could interfere with anyone's past at will.
Even if every time he launches it, it costs him his lifespan.
"The royal court is not so easy to approach. The retainers and followers that Zhai has are only a few thousand people..."
The royal court
impossible.
Zhai Huan smiled coldly, looked at the tablet in the mourning hall, and said, "We don't have it, so let's borrow it from others."
"borrow?"
"Tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the capital."
"The commander is a relative of the king's mother's family."
It would be strange if people would lend it to you.
Zhai Huan’s answer was that it could be borrowed.
But an opportunity is still needed, a chance to enter the capital and the royal court openly.
The head of the Zhai family was beating in his heart: "What opportunity?"
Zhai Huan looked at his beloved cousin: "Within two days, that Shu Ji should come to ask for Ah Le's hand in marriage..."
The head of the Zhai family: "..."
He might as well beat this abnormal son to death.
Zhai Le’s horrified face.
Zhai Huan is indeed not normal.
All kinds of rumors surrounded Zhai, and the market began to talk about it, with all kinds of unpleasant words. The local noble families watched the excitement with cold eyes, while some scratched their heads and wondered what Zhai was thinking, and actually agreed to the king's marriage.
Outsiders said that Zhai Huan was ready to sacrifice his cousin to save his family.
I couldn't help sighing for a while.
Xunnan Zhao was the most shocked by this. Zhao's third mother fainted on the spot when she heard the news and burst into tears when she woke up.
What was equally absurd as the speed of this marriage was its speed. All the procedures were finalized in half a month, and the wedding was to be completed at the end of the month.
The king was a little worried. He knew his sister well, so he specially investigated Zhai, but found that Zhai was just preparing for the wedding. Although he was not in a good mood, he did not strike to protest... Was he ready to accept his fate
I don't understand.
But what was even more confusing to the king, the common people, and the noble families was yet to come. On the day of the wedding, the king's most trusted uncle led tens of thousands of soldiers under the leadership of Zhai Huan to surround the palace, cutting down melons and vegetables along the way, and blood flowed like a river.
The red veil was not as glaring as the blood on the ground.
The king looked at the soldiers surrounding the hall in shock and fear. Leading them was his uncle. His uncle mutinied
"What's going on?"
The ministers were also puzzled as to what was going on.
But each of them had two knives on their necks.
I can only watch the show first.
Until a young man in mourning clothes walked out of the army with a cold face. Who else could it be but Zhai Huan of the Zhai family? He said, "It's nothing. He is loyal to me, that's all."
The king said angrily: "Impossible!"
Zhai Huan: “Nothing is impossible.”
Because in the eyes of this commander, Zhai Huan is the "real nephew", who was accidentally brought up by the Zhai family, and the current nephew of the king is just a fake prince who was replaced by a cat. Leading troops to surround the palace is not a rebellion, but a defense of the king.
The king was so angry that he wanted to sacrifice the national seal.
result-
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the king rolled over and cried, and personally handed the national seal to Zhai Huan, calling him "brother". Zhai Huan raised his hand to take it and admired it for a while.
Indifferently, he said, "Kill him."
The king woke up and was wondering what happened to him when a white light appeared in front of him...
His own uncle chopped off his head.
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