A figure in a black robe gradually appeared in the empress dowager's tear-blurred vision.
With a tall body and upright posture, he looked like an exquisite statue of a god, looking down upon himself with great pride.
There was clearly no wind in the room, but the hem of his clothes was swaying, giving people the illusion that he was riding on the clouds.
Is this a dream
I brushed my fingers across my cheek, and the tears on my face seemed so real.
Is it realistic
But why is it that even though he is so close and right in front of me, I still can’t see his face clearly
He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and rubbed his eyes hard.
But I can’t see clearly, I can’t see clearly, I still can’t see clearly.
She panicked, staring at the figure closely, and asked anxiously, "Nian'er? You are Nian'er, right? You are still alive, you are still alive and well..." She tried her best to control her emotions, even though her heart was already surging.
He was standing right in front of her, the man she thought had been dead for eighteen years. She could even hear his breathing clearly.
She had dreamed of their meeting thousands of times, but never once was it the same as this time. It was clearly reality, wasn't it? But why was it like a dream? No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't see his face clearly. She really wanted to see what Nian'er looked like when he grew up.
"I told you not to call me by that name. These two words from your mouth only make me feel sick!"
The empress dowager's heart sank, and she quickly replied: "Okay, okay, I won't tell you, I won't tell you, Nian'er, don't be angry..." Before she finished her words, she felt her breathing stagnate, and her slender throat was clamped by a big hand as hard as iron. She could even clearly see the back of her hand with bulging veins due to rage.
She didn't blame him, she could understand his hatred. So, even if she died in his hands today, she wouldn't have a single complaint. She just wanted to see his face, see what he looked like, see if he looked like her mother or her father.
"Empress Dowager, don't look at me with such regretful, loving and expectant eyes. You should not worry about me now, but your son, Emperor Shi Tian!" The gloomy tone, with three parts of threat and three parts of ridicule, gnashed teeth. Especially when he mentioned the three words Emperor Shi Tian, it seemed that he wanted to tear him into pieces, and then trample his flesh and blood into the mud bit by bit...
That is the hatred that emanates from the bones. The kind of hatred that can destroy the world and devour a person's kindness, compassion, and even normal thinking.
Sure enough, when the Queen Mother heard the name of Di Shi Tian, she panicked.
"Tian'er, what are you going to do to Tian'er? No, no, no, you can't do this, you can't hurt Tian'er, this is disrespectful. If you want to hate, then hate me. It's all my fault. This has nothing to do with Tian'er. He is a good boy, you can't hurt him!"
Ignoring the pain in her neck, the Queen Mother used all her strength to grab the robe of the man in front of her, speaking in an almost pleading voice.
"Please, don't hurt Tian'er. This has nothing to do with Tian'er. Tian'er is innocent. He was just a child at the time. He knew nothing. If you want to blame someone, blame me. Please, you can't do this. You can't hurt Tian'er. This is against the will of heaven!"
So anxious, so sad, so scared, but all this is indeed a greater mockery in the eyes of the person in front of her.
Seeing this high and mighty woman begging him in such a humble manner, he actually laughed until tears came out.
"Good! Really good! You are worthy of being the mother of Di Shi Tian! You are worthy of being the Queen Mother! You are really, really good! I thought you were just acting to protect your own wealth and glory, but I never thought you were so into the play, hahahaha..." Every word was clearly pronounced. He almost bit his teeth to pieces, wishing that every word at this moment would turn into a sharp blade, slicing this woman's skin inch by inch. Why could she love Di Shi Tian so much, why could she be so cruel to herself. Is this really the same person
"If I say that I can let Di Shi Tian go as long as you die, are you willing?" His deep eyes were filled with an unfathomable light, and his tone was neither positive nor negative, and his emotions were unpredictable. It seemed like a multiple-choice question, or a test question, but the Queen Mother had no time to figure out his true intentions at the moment, and just nodded and said, "That's what I meant, that's what I meant."
It was this original meaning that completely infuriated this madman who was on the verge of exploding.
"Hmm~"
Her hands gradually tightened, and the queen mother whimpered in pain. Because of the difficulty in breathing, her originally pale face was now red. But she did not struggle at all, but accepted her fate, calmly, and closed her eyes with relief.
Just when the Queen Mother was about to collapse, footsteps were suddenly heard outside the door.
The next second, everything went black and he fell into a coma.
Mei Gu knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response from the Queen Mother. She suddenly had a bad feeling and pushed the door open.
But the scene before her really frightened her.
The room was in a mess. Things that had been on the tables, cabinets, and shelves were scattered all over the floor. The vases were also all over the place, as if they had been swept away.
He thought to himself, "Oh no, Queen Mother!" Then he immediately ran to the inner room, but there was no one there.
"Empress Dowager? Empress Dowager? Where are you? Please don't scare me, maidservant."
All she got in response was an empty house.
"Someone come, the Queen Mother is missing, come quickly!"
…
There were pavilions, towers, and winding waterside pavilions. A woman in a bright red outfit was practicing swordsmanship in an open space in the garden.
Every thrust, every stab, and every sweep was done with incredible force. The sword energy was like falling leaves in the air, and the technique was used flexibly and the posture was agile.
"Sister, your martial arts are really improving."
Not far away came another woman in green, with light steps and graceful posture. If the woman in yellow was as proud as the wind, then the woman in green was as delicate as a flower. Her every word and action, every frown and smile, carried the aura of a lady from a noble family, like a peony in full bloom, graceful and elegant, beautiful beyond description.
If the woman in green looked back, you would be surprised to find that the two sisters looked very similar. If it weren't for their different personalities, it would be difficult for others to tell who was who.
Suddenly the scene changed. It was still the same place, but it was surrounded by raging flames.
The woman in green was holding two newborn babies, covered in wounds and dying.
"Little sister...little sister...little sister..." The person who was originally sleeping soundly suddenly murmured. Seeing this, the maid who was serving beside her immediately stepped forward to check.
"Madam? Madam? Are you having a nightmare? Wake up?"
The door opened with a creak. The enchanting red dress blocked out the sun's rays for a moment, and then a pleasant and intoxicating voice sounded.
"What's wrong?"
As soon as the maid saw her master coming, she immediately knelt down and replied.
"Master, this lady seems to have had a nightmare. She looks very bad and keeps calling out 'little sister' or something like that."
The beautiful peach blossom eyes slowly fell on the person lying on the bed, the eyes were deep and mixed with complex emotions. After staring for a moment, the thin and cold lips moved, "Next time Madam goes to sleep, remember to use some calming incense."
"Yes, Master."
"Wake her up."
The girl lowered her brows and nodded, then continued to call softly. After a while, the person in the sleep finally woke up.
I felt a headache, and my blurry vision gradually became clear, and all I saw was a strange and exquisite thing.
"Madam, you are awake. Do you feel unwell?" Seeing the lady waking up, the maid immediately asked attentively.
Hearing the sound, the person on the bed looked towards the source of the sound and saw a pretty little maid.
"Who are you? Where am I?" That's right, the person lying there was none other than the missing Empress Dowager.
Her mind gradually became clearer, and she looked around blankly. But she really had no impression of this room. However, the decoration was also the plain color she liked.
"Help me up."
The little maid reached out and helped the empress dowager sit up.
The past events gradually came into her mind. She seemed to have seen Nian'er and talked to her. But where was this? Where was Nian'er? Why couldn't he remember what Nian'er looked like? Was it just a dream
She reached out and touched her neck subconsciously, and she remembered, "hiss~"
The pain of the touch was so clear, so what just happened was not a dream.
"Nian'er?" She called out the name involuntarily, then quickly turned around and grabbed the little maid's arm, asking anxiously, "Where is Nian'er, where is Nian'er? Where did he go? You asked him to come and see me? He can't hurt Tian'er, he can't, but they..." Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by a pleasant voice.
"Empress Dowager, you should first take care of your own situation." Jun Liufeng's evil face was cold, the concern just now was no longer there, replaced by his usual ruffian spirit, mixed with a little indifference and alienation.
Suddenly another voice broke in, and the Queen Mother then noticed that there was another person in the room.
Her eyes were a little red and swollen from crying, and she slowly looked at Jun Liufeng. He was dressed in a red dress, as charming as fire, and had a pair of extremely beautiful eyes on his handsome face. Peach blossoms were shedding tears, cinnabar was full of affection, but there was no trace of femininity. For the first time, she felt that beauty could also be used to describe men.
His brows seem romantic, yet with a bit of rebelliousness. These two incompatible temperaments appear on the same person, but it does not seem abrupt at all, but instead adds a bit of evil charm.
Who is this man? The Queen Mother was full of doubts, and she always felt that she had seen him somewhere. However, although she was already middle-aged, her memory was still very good, and she knew clearly that she did not know this man.
"Who are you?" Her eyebrows were tightly knitted together, silently expressing her doubts. These questions one after another made her feel confused at the moment. She even wondered if she was still dreaming at this moment
Jun Liufeng's face showed an ambiguous smile, with the corners of his eyes slightly upturned, bewitching and seductive.
The more I look at it, the more familiar it seems. But I can't remember where it is.
"You don't have to be afraid, Queen Mother, or be confused. I am a good friend of Emperor Shi Tian, and I was entrusted by him to protect you. The farm is not very safe recently, so you can stay in my garden for a while."
"Whatever this lady needs, you must satisfy her and take good care of her. If there is any negligence, you know the consequences." Unknowingly, the jade flute that was originally hanging around his waist was already in his hands, spinning and tumbling, with graceful and smooth movements, and the jade flute never fell. A pair of eyes, carefully observing the movements of his hands, gave people a feeling of uninhibitedness.
When the maids heard Jun Liufeng's words, they immediately bent down and obeyed his orders.
"That..." The Queen Mother wanted to ask something, but the crimson figure was no longer in front of the door.
Helpless, he could only seek answers from the maid beside him, but she didn't know anything, not even how she got here. When asked about their master, she made excuses to evade. So in the end, after a long time of talking, he still didn't understand anything. As for Jun Liufeng, he hadn't seen him since he left, and the servants didn't know where he went.
On the other side, the people sent by the men in black to capture the Queen Mother searched the Tianze Palace but could not find any trace of the Queen Mother.
"Master, I have failed to complete the task you assigned me. Please punish me."
"Waste!" The man in black who was sitting in the main seat drinking tea threw the teacup directly on the kneeling man's head. Although the scalding hot tea splashed on his face, the kneeling man did not move at all. He was not doing his job well, so it was right for the master to get angry. No matter how the master punished them, they deserved it. This was the teacup between the master and the servant.
"A bunch of useless people, what's the point of keeping you!" Yang Lin failed to conquer the Thirteen States for a long time, and the morale of the army was greatly reduced. The so-called monarchs of small countries even wavered in their original intentions because of fear of Emperor Shi Tian, and demanded to renegotiate the battle plan and change the strong attack to negotiation. This series of events has already made him very angry, and now he heard the report of failure again, how could he not be angry.
He did not believe in the ability of the human race to do things, so he sent his own soldiers to capture Queen Mother Tianze. But the news they brought back was not a victory report. Wasn't this a slap in his face
Damn Emperor Shi Tian!
Seeing this, Omi Makino, who was standing nearby, immediately stood up and stepped forward.
"Don't be angry, envoy. This is understandable. Emperor Shitian is most afraid that something will happen to the Queen Mother, so he will not let us find her so easily. However, Jinjiang has received a piece of news."
"What news?" The man in black looked a little impatient at this moment. After failing again and again, he didn't want to do it anymore.
"The Queen Mother has disappeared."
"What do you mean?" His personal soldiers couldn't find the dead old woman, so she was missing, right? But Omi Makino shouldn't mean that, because if he said nonsense at this time, he would immediately chop him with a palm.
Jin Jiang Muye curled his lips and smiled, and continued: "Jin Jiang means that Emperor Shi Tian doesn't know where the Queen Mother is now. In other words, the Queen Mother disappeared at the hands of the people arranged by Emperor Shi Tian."
The man in black frowned, glanced at Omi Makino, and then walked towards Omi Makino.
"Could it be you?" He wanted to prove his strength, so he took the initiative and kidnapped the Queen Mother
Facing the scrutinizing gaze of the man in black, Omi Makino shook his head honestly.
"It's not what the envoy thought. It's just that the spies planted by Omi in Tianze Palace sent news that the empress dowager is missing. The empress dowager had long been secretly transferred to a farm by Di Shitian. If the disappearance of the empress dowager this time was not of great importance, Omi's spies would not have been able to know the news. Di Shitian has always been foolproof in what he does." The last sentence sounded like a compliment to Di Shitian, but in fact it was indirectly proving that everything he said was true, and at the same time erasing the doubts of the man in black about him.
"Only you and I know about this matter. Since it wasn't you, who took the old woman away?"
In fact, the man in black had suspected Omi Makino at first, because there were only a few people who knew about this matter. He had a high opinion of himself, so he naturally would not suspect that his men had betrayed him, so the first suspect was the man in front of him. But after hearing what he said, he was relieved.
Of course, it was not an affirmation of Omi Makino's positioning of Emperor Shi Tian, but an affirmation of himself.
He knew that Di Shitian was a smart man, and even he himself had a hard time dealing with him. So if he believed that Jin Jiang Muye could easily find the person that Di Shitian had carefully hidden, wouldn't that be equivalent to affirming Jin Jiang Muye's talent, and also lowering his own wisdom. Not only did he rank below Di Shitian, but he also rank below a villain like him. So, whether for his own face or to continue to use this person's surplus value, he had to choose to believe him.
Of course, these were also included in Omi Makino's calculations.
A truly smart person will never tell others that he is smart. And often those who think they are smart are the most foolish fools.
In the moment when the man in black could not see, a light flashed in Omi Makino's narrow eyes, but no one noticed.
"In Jinjiang's opinion, no matter who has captured the Queen Mother, it will be beneficial to the adults. It doesn't matter whether the Queen Mother is in our hands or not. What matters is that she is missing, isn't it? Concern leads to confusion. The current situation in the Thirteen States of Yanglin seems to be that Emperor Shitian has the upper hand, but it is just a mantis trying to stop a chariot. The huge disparity in military strength cannot be changed, and now it is just a desperate struggle. As everyone knows, the Queen Mother is the person that Emperor Shitian cares about the most, and concern leads to confusion. Even if we don't have the Queen Mother as a hostage now, as long as the news of the Queen Mother's disappearance is released If the news reaches Emperor Shitian's ears, can he still remain calm and win a battle thousands of miles away? As the military strategists say, attacking a city is inferior to attacking the heart. Of course, Jinjiang knows that the adults' purpose is not this, but since the queen mother has disappeared, this place is thousands of miles away from the imperial capital, and Emperor Shitian can't just leave this place alone and go back to investigate the whereabouts of the queen mother. In this way, isn't it up to the adults to decide who has the queen mother? At worst, find someone with a similar figure to the queen mother and put on makeup. Even if Emperor Shitian has doubts in his heart, he would rather save the wrong person than let him go!"
Omi Makino was so excited when he spoke that it seemed as if he had completely fallen into his own imagination, as if he had seen Di Shitian kneeling before him helplessly, destitute, and like a stray dog. Every pore of his body exuded the pleasure of a winner.
Emperor Shitian had never provoked them, but they always regarded him as a thorn in their side. Hatred was the least of the reasons, but jealousy was the most common.
They are jealous of Emperor Shi Tian's ability and talent, and some are even jealous of his appearance. There are all kinds of people. Regardless of appearance or family background, the most important thing is quality. Only when the quality is precious can one be called an upright person, so there is the saying that you can't judge a person by his appearance.
People like Omi Makino, who have good looks but a heart as vicious as a snake, are not worthy of being called human beings.
"But, are you sure about the whereabouts of that old woman?" What if someone familiar to Di Shitian hid the empress dowager in a covert way, then everything they had planned would become a monkey show for Di Shitian.
Not only will you fail to achieve your goal, but you will also be laughed at. So, it is better to be cautious.
"Don't worry, envoy. Jinjiang has received accurate information that the Queen Mother is now in the Cangsheng Sect. The leader of the Cangsheng Sect, Jun Liufeng, is the mortal enemy of Emperor Shitian. The purpose of arresting the Queen Mother at this time is obvious." Even if it is not the same as his, it is almost the same. Anyway, it is all to threaten Emperor Shitian.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, right
"In that case, then what's next..."
Before the man in black could finish his words, he was taken over by Omi Makino.
"Next, of course, we'll watch the show."
This book was first published by Xiaoxiang Academy. Please do not reprint it! (To be continued)