On the way up the mountain, Ren Baqian didn't pay attention to the surrounding environment, and sat quietly behind the empress, holding her waist with both hands, listening to some of her words.
After meeting Qi Ziting, the empress finally told some things, and combined with what Ren Baqian knew before, she finally completed the whole picture of Dayao's 72-year history.
At that time, Yapeng changed the royal family to the surname Qi because he was grateful for the person who destroyed the country of Hao with one hand and then committed suicide.
Naturally, this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface, and there are some other reasons that are not humane to outsiders.
Aside from this incident, Yapeng changed its name to Qipeng.
Before Haoguo was poisoned in the salt in the 60,000 mountains, Qijiazhai suffered heavy casualties. Only a seven or eight-year-old child survived in Yapeng's family, and everyone else died cleanly.
And the child who survived was the empress' father—Qi Yinghao.
Qi Yinghao disappeared nine years ago, and then the Empress succeeded to the throne, who was only sixteen years old when she succeeded.
At that time, Qi Ziting was forty-one years old.
But a year before that, Qi Ziting had an accident.
At that time, Qi Ziting was the protector of the Northeast Protectorate, the fifth most powerful man in the world, famous for his violence and bloodthirsty.
Qi Ziting's reputation in Izumo can be said to stop children from crying at night, and he has made great military achievements.
The enemy's enemy and our hero, Qi Ziting's prestige among the people of Dayao is not low.
However, success is also Xiao He, and Xiao He is also defeated. It is precisely because of his bloodthirsty nature that he is extremely prominent as a general guarding one side, but if he is the emperor in charge of a country, I am afraid that it will not be long because of his temperament. To complain.
In fact, many generals and soldiers of the Northeast Protectorate had already complained a lot under Qi Ziting's strong pressure.
But Qi Ziting still went his own way, blindly suppressing.
It was also in this situation that Qi Yinghao chose the female emperor as the next generation of emperor.
What happened next was what Ren Baqian heard.
Qi Ziting took the opportunity of Qi Yinghao's birthday celebration to go back to the palace. After the dinner, he assassinated the emperor and had his legs cut off on the spot.
Qi Yinghao didn't kill him, but drove him back to the Sixty Thousand Mountains.
In the second year, Qi Yinghao disappeared, and the empress succeeded as a woman.
"Actually, when I was young, my elder brother was kind to me. Every time I came back, he would bring me something new." The empress said something to Ren Baqian, and said quietly.
"I think he also has feelings for His Majesty." Ren Baqian thought about Qi Ziting's performance just now, and said softly behind the empress, his hands changed from the empress' waist to wrap around the empress' abdomen, as if holding her in his arms.
The Empress stiffened for a moment, sighed lightly, and stopped speaking. It can be seen that although the empress was very decisive when she spoke just now, her inner feelings are still extremely complicated, so even Ren Baqian didn't react much to such a bold move.
After all, Qi Ziting is her only relative at present.
But her identity and what Qi Ziting has done in the past also made her unable to let go of some things.
It was not convenient for Ren Baqian to intervene in such matters.
Before the empress and her party arrived at the village, they saw all the people in the village, old and young, waiting outside the village, a total of several thousand people.
The stockade is in front of Yulong Mountain, with three or four thousand people, it is the largest stockade within hundreds of miles.
After all, it is the ancestral land of the royal family. Even though it was almost destroyed in the past, it has developed again after decades.
"I've seen Your Majesty!" Everyone clasped their fists and said when they saw the Empress.
Even ignorant children imitated the movements of adults, and then looked at the empress with curious eyes.
The empress searched among the crowd, but found some familiar figures, which she had seen when she was a child.
Although time has passed for a long time, she still remembers many things.
But he didn't say much, just looked at those people one by one, and some people in the crowd showed excited expressions on their faces. Even if the Empress' eyes only stayed on them for a moment.
But this proves that the Empress still remembers them.
The empress raised her head, and the complexity when she spoke to Ren Baqian just now dissipated without a trace, and she regained her coolness.
Ren Baqian felt that this might be the empress's habitual expression.
When I was young, I used this expression to give people a sense of distance, and at the same time to cover up the uneasiness and anxiety in my heart.
But now, this expression has become a habit.
The empress said: "There are so many people, so don't need these etiquettes, let's go into the village."
When everyone entered the stockade, the flying horse fell behind, and the female emperor rode Qishui at the front, and came to the innermost part of the stockade. There were three ordinary-looking stone houses with the doors wide open.
The empress dismounted and walked into the innermost room, where there were still many strange-looking stones on the table.
"This is the room where His Majesty lived before?" Ren Baqian took a look, the room was very high, nearly four meters, inside was a wooden bed, a table, a few chairs, and a cabinet, and there was nothing else up.
The room didn't look like someone lived in it, but it was very clean. Qi Ziting should have had someone clean it.
"I've lived here for half a year." The empress picked up a monkey-shaped stone from the table and played with it. "I saw this in the mountains back then. I found it interesting, so I picked it up. I didn't expect it to be here after so many years."
"Your Majesty even picked up a heart-shaped one!" Ren Baqian picked up a stone and laughed. In Dayao, this heart shape doesn't have the same meaning as it does on Earth. Unexpectedly, the empress also collected one.
The empress looked a little weird, hesitated, and said a little embarrassedly: "When I was young, I thought this piece looked like a butt!"
"Ahem!" Ren Baqian choked to death with his throat stuck.
Ren Baqian soon discovered the New World. He found a pair of small hammers in the corner. The hammer head was made of animal bone and the handle was made of wood. The hammers should not look too small for a child of six or seven years old.
The pair of hammers were blocked by the chair just now, but he didn't see it.
"This pair of hammers belong to His Majesty too?"
"My elder brother uses a pair of hammers. I have admired him since I was a child, and even pestered my elder brother to learn a set of hammering techniques." The empress said.
"Unfortunately, I can't use a hammer now." A voice came from outside the door.
The crutch made a "da da" sound when it hit the ground.
Qi Ziting wanted to come in from the outside leaning on crutches, but was stopped by the flying cavalry, and his face immediately turned down: "Justice, you are so courageous, you even blocked me!"
"Let him in," said the Empress.
The Empress opened her mouth, but naturally no one stopped her, Zheng Gong punched Qi Ziting and stepped aside.
Qi Ziting entered the house leaning on crutches, only looked at the empress and said: "The house has been guarded for so many years. I heard that you are coming these two days, so I have someone clean it up again. It happened when you came back. A few days ago they You won’t be able to eat it in the palace even if you eat a flower pack, so I’ll give you a full feast at night.”
"Thank you, brother." The empress turned to look at him and said.
"When the time comes, I'll let someone call you." Qi Ziting glanced at Ren Baqian after speaking to the empress: "For Xiaoya's sake, you come too!"
After Qi Ziting left, Ren Baqian smiled and said, "Little Ya?"
The empress was a little ashamed, no one had mentioned this name for many years, and he didn't expect it to be heard by him now.
"Is it meant to be thriving? The late emperor was a bit of a gentleman!" Ren Baqian said.
The empress snorted softly, but she didn't say that it was actually Xiaoya, because she had small teeth at the beginning, and the gap between her front teeth was big, so she got such a nickname.
If he found out, he didn't know what to say.
"Going to see the mother tomorrow?" Ren Baqian's words were twisted in his mouth before he said those two words.
After all, he is a five-good young man in the new century. Although he is used to being called His Majesty, he is still not used to being called Queen Mother.
"You and I have already decided on our marriage. It's fine if you call yourself queen mother." The empress noticed a pause in his words and said to him.
Ren Baqian looked around the room, there was only that one bed, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty said earlier that I can't leave your side when we're in the village, here is the only bed, your Majesty and I want to share the same bed tonight? "
The empress pointed to the ground: "I will give you a place as big as this on the ground."