"What, you don't want to accompany me anymore?"
The man's handsome face was covered with grayish-white shadows of dying people. His eyes were slightly cold, and he looked at the stunning woman kneeling in front of the dragon bed.
There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and she is his only favorite.
"Your Majesty, the concubine is willing."
The woman replied, touching the ground with her forehead, and could not afford to kneel.
With a look of relief in his eyes, the man used his last strength to hold her in his arms. With infinite resentment and unwillingness, he murmured to the woman: "Afu, don't blame me. If there is an afterlife, I will promise you. A queen's seat."
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Xiao Yintang shouted, opened his eyes suddenly, and sat up from the bed, sweating all over his head, his hands even trembling slightly because of fear.
"His Royal Highness, what's wrong with you?"
A concubine who was sleeping beside him was awakened, hurriedly got up, knelt beside him, and looked at him with frightened eyes.
Since the last incident of the Cao family, the prince's temperament has become more and more gloomy and uncertain, and the crown prince's illness has not been cured until now, and he does not show his face on weekdays. The East Palace is said to be haunted. The house where Mrs. Cao lived, sometimes in the middle of the night, there would be terrifying cries. When something went wrong, the crown prince was implicated and the emperor was ordered by the emperor. In private, the crown prince was even more irritable and irritable.
Xiao Yintang turned his head sharply, glanced at the half-naked woman beside him, with disgust in his eyes, and said a short "go away".
When the concubine was in a pardon, she didn't even have time to put on her clothes, so she grabbed her and covered her chest indiscriminately, got out of bed in a hurry, and hurried out of the house.
Fang Sigeng is the darkest moment of the night.
Xiao Yintang lay back slowly and closed his eyes, but he was no longer sleepy.
In his mind, the scene of yesterday's day passed by.
Yesterday, the mother-in-law of King Heyang of the imperial family, Pan Shi, died. Xiao Yintang went to sacrifice and saw the female relatives of Duke Wei's mansion from a distance.
Among them was Mrs Zhen, the woman in his dream.
I went to Quanzhou last year, and after coming back, Xiao Yintang dreamed of the daughter of Zhen's family from time to time.
Dreams are very strange. In the beginning, it was only sporadic, not a piece. He always dreamed that he was making out with her. He covets her body and loves her gentleness and innocence.
This was nothing at all, because when she was taken out of the city by him in the same car, he was already moved by this daughter of the Zhen family. Day thinking, night dreaming.
But gradually, with the repeated flashes of dreams, he faintly began to realize that he seemed to have experienced another life in his dream that was similar to the present, but different.
In this world, she married Pei You'an, the only person in the world whom he feared.
In the dream, she first married Pei Xiuzhi, and then she was robbed by herself. From then on, she became his ban. It was only two years before he ascended the throne. He was injured in an accident due to rashly conquering the barbarians. Before that, he could not bear her. , let her be buried with him.
Everything came to an abrupt end.
Such a dream that seemed to have experienced another life was vague before. He wanted to catch it and see clearly, but there was always a layer of fog in front of him.
But just tonight, after waking up from the dream again, he finally grasped everything clearly.
Pei You'an, when he was still a teenager, was brought to Wuding by Xiao Lie, and the seeds of discord were planted in Xiao Yintang's heart.
At that time, he knew that he would never be able to live side by side with this person with the surname Pei, who was not much older than himself, as his father expected.
There was no conflict between them at that time. His hostility to Pei You'an was entirely down to human nature.
Xiao Yintang is talented, and as the only son of the palace, he can be said to be loved by thousands, which also develops his extremely conceited character.
He cannot tolerate others overshadowing his excellence.
The arrival of Pei You'an broke all of this.
He has the name of a young minister, and the reputation this world has placed on him is not exaggerated in the slightest. After he came to Wuding and recovered from his injuries, he soon showed his extraordinary political skills. Later, his military skills were undoubtedly revealed during the Wuding uprising and the battle against Beihu. , like the stars in the sky, shining brightly.
Xiao Yintang is also very good, but he will never be better than Pei You'an. By Pei You'an's side, he was destined to be eclipsed.
When he ascended the throne, Pei You'an had been dead for several years, but his prestige had not gone away. In Suye City, the temples built by the people for him are full of incense all day long. On his birthday, people come from all over to burn incense, pay homage to his statue, and make wishes for blessings.
After his death, Pei You'an, in the eyes of the people, seemed to have been deified and became an idol who could protect their safety.
After Xiao Yintang ascended the throne, the reason why he disregarded the dissuasion of the ministers and insisted on conquering the barbarians in person was largely driven by the extremely repressive psychology that had been subservient to others for a long time.
He was eager to show the ministers and the world that Xiao Yintang was not inferior to Pei Youan, but he had never had the chance before.
In addition to jealousy and underappreciated talent, Xiao Yintang was extremely dissatisfied with the extraordinary attention and love Xiao Lie gave to this outsider.
He even had a feeling that if Pei You'an was another son of his father, then he would definitely abandon himself without hesitation and put Pei You'an on the throne instead.
The seeds of jealousy take root in my heart day by day.
Xiao Yintang endured.
Then one day, an unexpected thing happened.
It was Xiao Lie's second year on the throne. At that time, Pei You'an was an extremely personable minister due to his merits. Just when his power reached the peak of Xuanhe, it happened that the Hu people attacked the border. For some unknown reason, he asked to leave the capital by himself, and used the duty of Jiedushi to guard the gates. After a few years, he never returned to the capital.
His move shocked the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, including Xiao Yintang. Later, although the news of him shaking the north and Dingbian Anmin came into Beijing, Xiao Yintang felt like a needle in his heart from time to time, but at that time, he was still able to suppress his emotions. Until one day later, he suddenly learned of a shocking secret from his mother, the Zhou family.
The Zhou family told him that perhaps it was because of this secret that Pei Youan chose to leave the capital at that time, and the emperor had to let it go.
She warned Xiao Yintang, don't think that Pei You'an can sit back and relax after leaving like this. This is a very scary hazard. Once the emperor changes his mind one day, his status as a prince will be at stake.
Xiao Yintang just woke up like a dream.
Years of doubts and hatred, at that moment, completely drowned his heart.
He made a decision.
He knew that Pei You'an had been in poor physical condition in the past few years after he went outside the customs, and he took medicine from time to time.
Xiao Yintang secretly planned and worked hard. After half a year, he finally bought a servant of the Jiedu envoy who could be close to the kitchen, and quietly poured a colorless and odorless poison into Pei You'an's medicine.
It was a winter night outside the Great Wall, white grass and yellow sand, snow falling on Jimen. After the bowl of medicine was sent to Pei You'an's study, he did not take the medicine immediately as usual, and then buried his head in the official business, but put down the pen tube in his hand, faced the candlelight, and sat silently for a while.
The charcoal fire in the furnace went out, and the cold air in the room gradually invaded.
The servant was peeping outside. According to his later description, Pei You'an looked calm at the time, as if thinking about something in a trance.
Years of long-term work, or mental exhaustion, his stature is a little thin, and his complexion is pale, like the white tunic he wore that night, Xiaoxiao Ruxue.
He sat quietly for a long time, until the bowl of medicine became cold, and there was no trace of heat.
Finally, he turned his gaze to the medicine, and after watching it for a long time, the servant was terrified, thinking that when he saw through it, he picked up the bowl of medicine and drank it all at once.
In the middle of the night, Pei Youan's old illness relapsed, he vomited blood, and his subordinates rushed to hear the news, bursting with tears.
Xiao Yintang didn't know what Pei You'an saw at the time, he decided to die when he had no interest in life, or whether he really took poison by mistake and finally vomited blood and died.
It doesn't matter. The important thing is that in the world he experienced in his dream, he became the final winner as he wished.
In the year after Pei You'an's death, Xiao Yintang noticed the emperor's doubts about him. In order to avoid night long dreams, he planned a meticulous palace change, succeeded as he wished, and became the new emperor of Wei.
In the dream, his only miscalculation was his personal expedition after he ascended the throne. That wrong decision made him die young, and he regretted it!
Xiao Yintang opened his eyes again, jumped up from the bed, strode to the window, raised his arms, and slammed open the two heavy windows of the dormitory, facing the dark and boundless night sky, and spit out the chestnut on his back. With a sigh of turbidity, I only felt that all the previous depressions were gone.
During the day, his husband-in-law told him privately that the only thing he needs to do now is to be patient and adapt to changes without change.
As long as the emperor has no other son, and he knows how to keep a low profile, the crown prince will never fall into the hands of others.
He was right, and Xiao Yintang also knew that now was by no means the perfect time for him to act rashly.
However, this dream experience, which seemed to be real and illusory, not only boosted his spirits, but also served as a fertile soil to nourish his ambitions.
Compared with being a prince who is controlled by others, he is more eager to see the speed of the world's exclusiveness after reaching the top in advance in his dream.
He will indeed endure until the right moment, waiting for the opportunity, will not fail.
When he ascends to the throne of God as he wishes, he will never repeat the same mistakes.
In his dream, Zhen Shi was within reach, he was born, she was his person. When he died, she was also his ghost.
And in this world, he is so far away from her, just like encountering her today, he can't see her.
But he knew that she would be his own sooner or later, which was destined.
Just like the first life in a dream, he was the real dragon and the emperor appointed by destiny, and in the end he got everything.
This will still be the case in this lifetime.
He was convinced of this.