"The gentleman sings, the lady follows, and I will appear on the stage after you sing. Aniangci, daughter filial piety, competing for demons in front of the Son of Heaven Hall."
In December of the first year of Yuanjia, a nursery rhyme spread throughout the streets and alleys of Dongdu. Chui Mao'er sang a song and played around in the street. Passers-by on both sides were afraid to talk after hearing this, and hurried past with their clothes tightly gripped. Only the parents of the children will cover their children's mouths in a hurry, drag them home and curse: "Don't die, you dare to talk about that one? If you don't obey me, I will put you at the door and let you be suppressed by demons." The monsters of the department caught and ate them!"
The children didn't understand what the ballad meant, but when they heard Zhen Yaosi, they were so frightened that they burst into tears and couldn't be coaxed.
In the first year of Yuanjia, also the eighth year of Chuigong, and the eighth year of Empress Wu Zhao's accession to the throne, the notoriety of the demon township has resounded all over China, and it can stop children from crying at night. Also famous is Princess Anding, Li Chaoge, the commanding officer of the Demon Suppressing Division, who recruited party members, made up crimes, framed countless unjust and wrong cases, and ruined countless famous families.
Li Chaoge knew that many people hated her, and how many people in Dongdu prayed to God and worshiped Buddha, looking forward to her death day and night.
Her younger siblings, her cousins, even her husband, look forward to this day.
Unfortunately, they will be disappointed after all. The female officials in red palace attire knelt in front of Li Chaoge, drew his eyebrows, outlined his eyes, and put on lip balm for Li Chaoge. Finally, they put gorgeous and grand crowns on Li Chaoge's head, and knelt together: "Long live Your Majesty."
Inside and outside the Daye Hall, everyone knelt down on the ground, bowed their necks softly, and shouted: "Long live Your Majesty."
Li Chaoge stared at the person in the mirror without moving. Thin and slender eyebrows, high and straight nose, beautiful and sharp eyes, dressed in crowns and pearls, beautiful teeth and claws, menacing. No matter how unbearable the outside world spreads about her, no one can deny that this is an extremely beautiful face.
She is Princess Anding, a princess who grows up in the folk, is notorious, and lives like a joke. But now, she is the new queen of Datang.
Dasheng Emperor Wu Zhao died suddenly last month. Before he died, he passed the throne to his eldest daughter Li Chaoge. Li Chaoge follows the time of day and succeeds to the throne, today is her enthronement ceremony.
The female officials lowered their eyes halfway, not daring to look at Li Chaoge at all. The female official of the Shangyi Bureau stepped forward, bowed respectfully, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the auspicious time is coming, please move to the Hanyuan Hall."
Li Chaoge nodded lightly, and the twelve beads collided lightly, making a pleasant sound. Li Chaoge didn't need the help of the palace servants, he stood up steadily from the cattail mat. Just as Li Chaoge stood up, another female officer hurried over, her complexion was pale, her eyes dodged, and she didn't dare to face Li Chaoge at all. Because she was too scared, the female officer's body was trembling slightly.
No need to speak, Li Chaoge already understood: "The emperor has something to say? The ceremony is about to begin. If the emperor has anything to say, let's talk about it after the ceremony."
"No." The female official said tremblingly, "The imperial husband is not wearing Jiyi. The imperial husband also said that he wants to see His Majesty."
I didn't even wear it. It's a pity for Li Chaoge, the husband and wife have been separated for six years, and they have turned against each other. But even so, after she ascended the throne, she still wanted to make Pei Ji'an her only companion.
It was widely rumored that Li Chaoge was licentious and had countless faces, but Li Chaoge knew that he was the only one.
Li Chaoge sighed very lightly, and said: "Forget it, since the emperor's husband is in a bad mood, let's postpone the enthronement ceremony for a while. Come here, spread the word, and the enthronement ceremony will begin immediately."
The female officer should be, and walk out with restraint. But they didn't take two steps and were stopped by the movement outside. The eunuchs guarding the gate were thrown into the palace gate like sacks. The head eunuch got up and tried to plead guilty with Li Chaoge: "Your Majesty, the slave is guilty..."
Li Chaoge raised his hand, and said lightly: "Enough, I understand. You all step back."
Li Chaoge knew that he had offended many people, so he cultivated his party members, recruited strangers, and set up heavy guards outside the bedroom. But Li Chaoge also knew that these people only had superficial fist skills, how could they stop Pei Lang, who was once well-known in both civil and martial arts and was well-known in Chang'an
The palace people all knew that the empress had a lot of entanglements with the imperial husband, so they didn't dare to stay any longer, so they slipped away immediately with oil on their feet. After the attendants who looked like colorful clouds retreated, the Great Industry Hall was empty, grand and magnificent, with a silent loneliness and oppression.
At the entrance of the bright hall, a blue figure stepped across the threshold and stood in the center of the hall, looking up at Li Chaoge coldly.
Li Chaoge was wearing a grand imperial crown, looking at Pei Ji'an from afar. She was dressed in a splendid attire, while Pei Ji'an was still wearing the Tsing Yi he often wore, with only a jade hairpin and a long sword all over his body.
Just like seeing you at the beginning of the year. Li Chaoge still remembers that the first time she saw Pei Ji'an, Pei Ji'an was dressed like this. The gentleman dressed in Tsing Yi, like the breeze and the moon, the fairy under the moon, captured Li Chaoge in an instant.
From that moment on, Li Chaoge wanted to get him by all means. But she showed up too late, Pei Ji'an was already engaged to the imperial sister Li Changle. Li Changle is the youngest child of his mother, and the most favored princess in the palace. He grew up enjoying fine clothes, fine food, good reputation and honor. The marriage between Pei Ji'an and Li Changle can be described as a man of talent and beauty, a match made in heaven, and everyone is happy to see it happen.
Only Li Chaoge refused to accept it. In order to ask her mother to marry her and Pei Ji'an, she gave up her dignity and conscience, turned from the light to the dark, and did some shady work for her mother. Some people objected to the empress dowager coming to court, some people objected to a woman ruling, some people objected to their mother proclaiming the emperor, and it was inconvenient for the mother to come forward, so Li Chaoge would frame the crime and kill all those who opposed it.
With these bloody credits, Li Chaoge got a marriage decree. She has been living among the people since she was a child. She couldn't eat enough and couldn't wear warm clothes. She was used to relying on robbery to make a living. She likes someone, but she doesn't know how to tell him, and she doesn't know how to make him like herself, so she snatches him over and treats him very well. Li Chaoge thought that as time goes by, Pei Ji'an will definitely change his mind as long as she gives her sincerity.
But no. Her favorite son-in-law, the honorable husband-in-law, wore cold plain clothes at her enthronement ceremony and conferment ceremony, wounded attendants along the way, and came to confront her in the bedroom.
Li Chaoge smiled at Pei Ji'an and said, "Husband, why are you here?"
"Don't call me imperial husband." Pei Ji'an looked at her coldly, his thin lips parted slightly, and every word he uttered was as sharp as a knife, "This title makes me feel sick."
"Okay." Li Chaoge tolerated him with a good temper, and said to him, "Since you don't like it, I'll let someone call you a son-in-law."
Pei Ji'an's face was still cold, he didn't want to have anything to do with Li Chaoge at all, but his marriage relationship with Li Chaoge was clearly written in the imperial decree. Thinking of the purpose of his visit, Pei Ji'an turned his eyes cold, and slowly asked: "Li Chaoge, this is the last time I come to you on my own initiative, and I will not say these words a second time. Let me ask you, did you kill King Zhao? "
The smile in Li Chaoge's eyes dimmed, and his expression turned cold. It turned out that this was his purpose. If it wasn't for these people, he wouldn't even bother to come to her bedroom.
Dare to act boldly, Li Chaoge nodded without any hesitation: "It's me."
Zhao Wang Li Huai is Li Chaoge's younger brother and former prince. Since last year, the voices in the court calling for Zhao Wang Li Huai to be the heir have become louder and louder. Many courtiers secretly spoke for Li Huai. The frightening thing is that the mother also showed a tendency to pass the throne to the younger brother. Li Chaoge has offended so many people, if she is not the emperor, she will be the next to die. Li Chaoge could only frame Li Huai for rebellion, exile him, and kill him on the way.
It really was her. Pei Ji'an's fingers clenched into fists, with veins popping out from the back of his hands: "The Great Sage Emperor died suddenly, is it you?"
The Great Sage Emperor is the mother Wu Zhao. Li Chaoge readily admitted: "It's me."
After news of Li Huai's death spread to the palace, his mother vomited blood and her condition suddenly worsened. In November, my mother called Li Chaoge to the front of the cave and asked her what happened to Li Huai's rebellion.
What can Li Chaoge do? At this point, she has no way out. She could only kill her mother, pretend to be an imperial decree, and make herself emperor.
"My Pei family has been famous for a hundred years, and my grandfather's family has made great achievements for many generations, but in the end it ended up with the destruction of the family and the deprivation of officials and nobles. Did you do it?"
"it's me."
Pei Ji'an's foreign family is the eldest grandson's family, a well-known and prominent family in Chang'an. The eldest grandson's family had produced a queen, and was highly valued by the two emperors Wen and Gao. If the mother wanted to lift the bead curtain and establish herself as emperor, she had to destroy the eldest grandson's family. Pei Ji'an's father was ignorant, and he helped the eldest grandson's family to speak, and he was also convicted. Li Chaoge has tried his best to save the lives of the Pei family, otherwise, if they fall into the hands of those cruel officials, how can the Pei family get away unscathed
Pei Ji'an's eyes were red, his canthus were about to burst, he wished he could swallow the woman in front of him alive. Over the years, every time he thought of what his grandfather, cousin and Pei family had experienced, he wished he could kill himself and disappear from this world forever. It's all his fault that he provoked this woman and brought endless disasters to the family and grandfather.
Pei Ji'an closed her eyes forcefully, forced herself, and continued to ask: "Chu Yue was attacked from the sidewalk on the way into the palace, the car was destroyed and she died. When she died, she was still three months pregnant. This is what you did of?"
When Li Chaoge spoke earlier, his eyes were clear and his tone firm. She knew that she had killed people, and she also knew that if she didn't kill them, Li Huai, her mother, and the eldest grandson's family would kill her. It's just a political struggle. Whoever loses will admit defeat. What grievances can there be? But only this time, Li Chaoge was silent.
Pei Chuyue is Pei Ji'an's younger sister, and she has a good relationship with Li Changle. They can be regarded as playmates who grew up together. When Li Chaoge ordered Pei Chuyue to be killed, he didn't know that she was pregnant.
But so what, killing is killing, Li Chaoge didn't defend himself, and admitted straight away: "That's right, it's me."
This sentence was like the last straw, completely crushing Pei Ji'an. Pei Ji'an stared at Li Chaoge with pain and hatred: "Why? Li Chaoge, why did you do this? If you hate me, you can attack me. Why do you want to hurt my family and bully my family?"
Li Chaoge didn't want to answer this kind of question. This conversation was really unpleasant. Li Chaoge turned around, straightened his sleeves from the bronze mirror, and said, "The auspicious time has come, and the officials are still waiting outside. I'm going to Hanyuan Palace. You don't want to Follow me to the ceremony, then, son-in-law, please go back."
Li Chaoge turned his back to Pei Ji'an, unaware that there was a faint red light in Pei Ji'an's eyes, strange and crazy, not like ordinary people at all. With the last trace of luck in mind, Pei Ji'an asked, "Where's Chang Le?"
Li Chaoge's hand that straightened his sleeves froze. She lowered her eyes for a moment, slowly put down her sleeves, and smiled with her lips curled up: "It's me too."
She killed so many people, but when she killed Li Changle, she was happy.
Pei Ji'an's last illusion was also shattered. When he asked this sentence, he even begged Li Chaoge to deny him, even if she lied, it didn't matter. However, she didn't even bother to lie to him.
This woman is so vicious and heartless.
Pei Ji'an's back suddenly fell apart, he fell two steps back, and asked in a panic: "Li Chaoge, what do you want to do? She is just a naive princess, carefree all her life, not willing to step on an ant to death. She It won't hinder you at all, why did you kill her?"
Li Chaoge laughed angrily when he heard these words. Why kill Li Changle? Thanks to Pei Ji'an for being able to say such things.
Li Chaoge endured Li Changle for a long time, but she finally chose to do it, firstly because of political factors, and secondly because Li Changle really offended her bottom line.
In July of this year, the current situation has become turbulent and the grass and trees are full of soldiers. Many ministers are convicted and imprisoned every day, and the number of crimes issued by Li Chaoge is even more unknown. Li Chaoge thought that she hadn't seen Pei Ji'an for a long time, and that she was sorry for Pei Ji'an's affairs after all, so she wanted to take advantage of Pei Ji'an's birthday to apologize to Pei Ji'an and ease the relationship between husband and wife.
On the sixth day of July, Li Chaoge specially asked for a day off and quietly went to Pei's mansion to celebrate Pei Ji'an's birthday. Since two years ago, Pei Ji'an moved out of the Princess Mansion and lived separately from Li Chaoge. Li Chaoge ignored the hostile eyes of the servants of Pei's family, cooked a table of birthday dishes for Pei Ji'an with his own hands, and then happily sat in the room and waited. She waited all night, the dishes cooled down, heated up, and then cooled again, Pei Ji'an didn't come back.
Li Chaoge's heart also became cold, she threw away all the food, and the next morning, with eyes that hadn't slept all night, she asked someone to check Pei Ji'an's whereabouts. The city gate guard reported that Mr. Pei Lang left the city early in the morning on the sixth day of the junior high school to celebrate the birthday of Princess Li Changle of Guangning at Qingguan on Jingting Mountain.
Li Changle's birthday was the seventh day of the seventh month, and he was only one day away from Pei Ji'an. While Li Chaoge was waiting in Pei's mansion, Pei Ji'an was waiting with Li Changle for his birthday. The spies also reported that after midnight, Pei Ji'an was the first to bless Li Changle, and the princess was very moved. In addition, they both drank and rolled on the bed.
Li Chaoge was completely enraged. Pei Ji'an said that he felt disgusted when he heard the title "Imperial Husband", but Li Chaoge also felt dirty from the bottom of his heart when he saw Pei Ji'an. As soon as she saw Pei Ji'an, she would think of the picture of him and Li Changle rolling on the bed, and she almost felt sick to her stomach.
Afterwards, Li Chaoge single-handedly led the Zhao Wang rebellion case, and Li Changle was implicated in it. Within a few days, Li Changle "suicide in fear of crime" and hanged himself in the Shangqing Temple.
Now, Pei Ji'an asked her why.
Li Chaoge had a lot of anger and disappointment in her heart, but when she spoke, she omitted those questioning words, and just wrote lightly: "I want to kill, so I will kill."
I wanted to kill, so I did.
These words drove Pei Ji'an completely crazy. Pei Ji'an suddenly drew his sword and flew towards Li Chaoge. Li Chaoge just turned sideways unhurriedly, clamping Pei Ji'an's sword with two fingers.
Li Chaoge didn't move his body, only the bead above his head shook slightly. With a slight force of his fingers, Li Chaoge pushed Pei Ji'an away with his sword. Pei Ji'an stumbled back to the main hall. Li Chaoge looked down at him with tolerance and compassion: "I have broken through to the ultimate realm, my body and sword are united, and my body is invulnerable. There is nothing in the world that can hurt me. Pei Ji'an, you can't kill me." mine."
Pei Ji'an reached out and wiped the blood from his mouth. Of course he knew that this woman grew up in the mortal world, but for some reason she had learned a high level of kung fu, she was able to fly over walls, conquer demons and exorcise ghosts. It was because of her omnipotent force that she was reused by the queen, and the demon suppressor became very popular. Li Chaoge had offended many people over the years, and I don't know how many people hired her to kill her. Unfortunately, no matter how famous the killer was, no one survived. And soon, the treacherous person will be retaliated wildly by Li Chaoge.
Zhen Yaosi can stop children from crying at night, mostly because of Li Chaoge. When everyone in the court mentioned Li Chaoge, everyone was so angry that their teeth itch, but they were also terrified.
Not even Pei Ji'an. He attacked Li Chaoge with his sword, but Li Chaoge was not damaged at all, but Pei Ji'an was shaken by her powerful qi, causing his internal organs to churn, and his meridians were in severe pain.
Li Chaoge went through a very unpleasant conversation and prevented the son-in-law from killing her for the first time, and he was extremely exhausted. Obviously today is a great day for her to ascend the throne.
Because he moved his hand just now, Li Chaoge's crown was messed up again. Li Chaoge turned around to tidy up his jade pendant, and said to Pei Ji'an nonchalantly: "You go back now, I can pretend that what happened today didn't happen, and you can still be my royal husband in peace. You are obedient, the Pei family and the eldest grandson The rest of the family can continue to live."
Pei Ji'an swallowed the blood foam in his mouth and smiled sarcastically. What was he in her eyes, a canary without dignity or opinion? Pei Ji'an knew that there were many people in the court who wanted to recommend themselves to Li Chaoge. Li Chaoge was top-notch in terms of appearance and power. But Li Chaoge didn't look at him at all, and as time passed, the people below didn't dare. Everyone in the world envied Pei Ji'an's good fortune, but Pei Ji'an wished Li Chaoge could linger in the flowers and feed his face.
He can't bear such good fortune.
Li Chaoge did not shy away from exposing her back to Pei Ji'an, because in her perception, no one in the world could hurt her except old man Zhou. But she forgot, the world can't do it, what about that day
Pei Ji'an wiped his finger on the blade and swiped hard. Blood gurgled through the Qianyuan Sword, and what was even more strange was that this ordinary-looking sword actually absorbed the blood without leaking a single drop.
Qian Yuanjian was full of blood, and suddenly glowed red. Li Chaoge felt a fierce murderous aura coming from behind, and its realm was far beyond what anyone could do! Li Chaoge was shocked, and immediately turned around, sacrificing all his skills to resist. Unfortunately, it is still too late.
A sword pierced through the heart, the icy edge of the sword passed through the gorgeous mianfu, and passed through Li Chaoge's warm body. Li Chaoge reached out to hold the sword, ignoring the pain, and stared at Pei Ji'an persistently: "You want to kill me so much? Are you willing to sacrifice yourself to the sword?"
Li Chaoge has been in charge of the Zhenyao Division for so many years, and she has seen many things about ghosts and ghosts. How could she not recognize it? This is a fierce sword. The owner of the sword seemed to have committed many murders, and the evil spirit on the sword was enough to cut through the protective barrier of a half-immortal. Such a sword cannot be used casually.
Pei Ji'an was able to drive the fierce sword, and what was even more surprising was that he did not hesitate to sacrifice the sword with blood. Once the Fierce Sword has opened the precept, it will never stop until it absorbs all the blood of the messenger.
Pei Ji'an has been preparing for today for a long time. Before coming, he considered every possibility. But when he really achieved this step, after he really stabbed the sword into Li Chaoge's chest, a huge barrenness filled his heart.
He literally killed her. He really got rid of her.
Pei Ji'an stared at her, almost unable to blink. He felt that his whole body had lost consciousness, his hand was on the hilt of the sword, and he should take the opportunity to go deep, but he couldn't use his strength for a long time: "I'm sorry. In the next life, please don't love me anymore."
Li Chaoge looked at Pei Ji'an, and suddenly laughed uncontrollably. She had been husband and wife with him for six years, but in the end, he said please don't love him anymore. Their marriage brought Pei Ji'an a lot of pain, so why not for Li Chaoge
Li Chaoge suddenly slapped Pei Ji'an without warning. Her heart is broken and she can't live anymore, but the person who killed her for no reason can live well. Li Chaoge has never done a few good things in his life, except for repaying kindness for kindness and revenge for revenge, never treating benefactors badly, and never letting enemies go.
Even if Li Chaoge liked him so what, if she died, Pei Ji'an would not even think about living.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, even if Li Chaoge is about to die, Pei Ji'an can't take a slap from her. With such a short distance, Pei Ji'an couldn't hide at all. In fact, he didn't hide either.
Pei Ji'an was hit in the heart and lungs with a palm, and his internal organs were shattered immediately, and his sternum was broken. Pei Ji'an spat out a mouthful of blood, was beaten several meters, and fell heavily to the ground. Li Chaoge also affected the wound, she clutched the bleeding sword hilt, and slowly fell to the ground.
In her life, she was separated from her family when she was young, and was abandoned by old man Zhou when she was a teenager. She found her family with great difficulty, but she became an existence that everyone hated. She killed her younger brother, her younger sister, her mother, her husband's grandfather, her sister-in-law, her mother-in-law became ill, and her grandmother died of anger. She ascended the throne as the emperor, but she has nothing.
In the end, she too was killed by her own husband.
Everything is Li Chaoge's choice, and Li Chaoge has no regrets. But if she does it again, she doesn't want to go this way again.
Especially, she doesn't like Pei Ji'an anymore.