In the cream-yellow candlelight, Shen Ce sat beside the bed.

A jade bottle was thrown in a mess beside the couch. Half an hour ago, the imperial doctor knelt down here and looked for which one could save her. Finally, she threw it on the ground and kept kowtowing, saying that the girl had been drinking poison for a few days, and her bones and blood were broken early. , there is no cure.

After Zhaozhao was imprisoned, no one saw him except his cousin, the Fifth Prince. The two have known each other since childhood, and there have been rumors of marriage and marriage for several times. Everyone thought that she was in love with the fifth prince, so the fifth prince persuaded her to kill her relatives righteously, and lured Shen Ce to commit suicide. . "Zhaozhao asked me if I wanted to take her as a hostage and force you to commit suicide," the fifth prince told Shen Ce, "She begged me to help her die. Even soaking the poison with incense was something she had planned in advance."

The unfamiliar maids and guards thought that the fifth prince sent the blessing incense for a smile to Bomei, and the beauty did get the box of incense, showing a rare smile, like a treasure, and bowed to her cousin. She was afraid that people would notice that she had swallowed the poison, so she forcibly induced vomiting to save her.

The mortals are powerless to return to the sky, so they can only lay down a heavy needle to wake her up for a moment.

Shen Ce didn't let anyone touch her, so she took off her clothes, leaving Yixinyi, two thin straps hanging on a piece of cloth, blocking her chest. She first arrived at Chaisang when she was young. Seeing that her cousins ​​were wearing this, she sketched it on paper one day, saying that my brother and I want it too. Shen Ce had never seen this thing, so he put it in his arms and went to find a tailor, saying that it was bought for his sister. When he thought that he would join the army soon, he was afraid that she would want it in the future, and he was thin-skinned and didn't have to wear it, which made him eighteen years old from a young age. When she first arrived at the barracks to stay with him, she wore this dress. He hugged her on the couch, and her soft skin was covered under his palm. Only then did she realize that this dress could only cover the front of the chest, and the back was only tied with thin straps... He has never been close to a woman, so Zhao Zhao is the only woman in him.

In Shen Ce's life, all the memories of the woman were related to her.

After the needle was placed, everyone in the hall told him to back off.

Shen Ce put on her clothes patiently, and saw that Zhao Zhao's eyelids moved slightly, and his fingers were hanging there...

Her throat bone slid a few times, and her panting became heavier. Shen Ce didn't dare to move her, so she leaned over and asked softly in her ear, "It hurts?" He lied to her in a hoarse voice, "It's just like detoxification."

She tried hard to breathe, shook her head, laughed and cried, her lips parted slightly, she wanted to say, bro, look, I'm not dead...

Zhaozhao's breathing was beside his neck, urgent and heavy. He understood that her death was approaching, and this opportunity to never see her again, he pressed his voice and said, "Brother knew something long ago, and always kept it from you." He said.

They took refuge in the depths of Mount Lu. Zhaozhao fell into a coma and held his hand, murmuring, afraid that Chaisang would not take in Shen Ce, and that after his death, Shen Ce would be homeless. The young girl kept saying, brother, you can go to the Southwest Yi, go to the Southwest Yi. At that time, he was so anxious that he only cared about the safety of his younger sister, but wondered why she knew the Southwest Yi tribe at such a young age. Afterwards, he thought about it many times and thought it was unusual. When he saw Zhao Zhao again, he felt that her attachment to him was no longer the same as when she was a child, very much like the relationship between a man and a woman. He was suspicious and ordered people to investigate. Although he could not find any solid evidence, he learned the truth from clues.

...

He leaned into her ear and told him.

"You and I are not my biological siblings," he said. "In Mount Luojia, the abbot asked my inner demon, it was you."

She wanted to open her eyes, but she had no strength, and the hot liquid slid down her face with a flush.

He wiped the blood off with his fingers, and seeing that blood was also coming out of her ears, he couldn't imagine how painful it was to bleed from the seven orifices. Zhaozhao was afraid of pain, and since he was a child, a piece of skin that was broken on his finger would be raised in front of him, lest he would not notice.

He hugged her into his arms: "The poison you swallowed is too strong, just stay up all night. At this time, my brother can't do anything, just bear with it."

Her body softened.

He held her head so that she could lean on his shoulder: "The battle across the river has been won. When you recover, my brother will take you across the river."

...

Dark blood dripped from the back of his hand. He seemed to see a little girl walking in front of him with bare feet, pushed open the door of the palace, as if pushing open the backyard door of his aunt's house in Wuling County, and said, "Brother, I'll send you secretly so that no one can see it.

...

The door to the side hall was closed all night.

The eldest prince and Shen Guifei, who advocated the design of killing Shen Ce, had already paid for their lives when the palace was broken. The prince pushed open the hall door, and Yu Rong and Chao Yan entered the hall under the supervision of Yu Rong and Chao Yan.

Shen Cefeng had never entered the capital, and the last time the crown prince saw him was before the Western Expedition, when he was a second-rank chariot general. That day, Chai Sang Shen Lang, who was not like an ordinary military general, looked like a civil servant with a jade crown, and entered the city in a chariot. There are countless children of aristocratic families gathered in the capital, but no one can match his flair, even the prince who is known for his handsomeness is ashamed.

But in front of today, the man sitting in the drapery seemed to be taken away from his soul, and his phoenix eyes were soaked with blood.

Behind him, the red cloth wrapped around his body and face was Shen Zhaozhao, who had died long ago.

"The north is divided, and the two countries are enemies of each other," he said in a low voice, sitting on the couch, "consuming each other's military strength. As long as you don't attack, they will never be able to cross the river. Tuyuhun in the west can be used by the snow-capped mountains. Dangxiang clan restraint. Dangxiang people are not involved in agriculture, but animal husbandry makes a living. We have a lot of grain in the south, and when necessary, we use grain to meet each other. Dangxiang people have a weakness, and they will avenge every revenge, and they can use it when necessary..."

"I would like to pardon King Jianglin!" The prince had already heard his intention to go, and hurriedly persuaded him.

He seemed to have not heard what the prince said: "After Shen Ce leaves, please ask your Highness to issue an decree and announce to the world that Shen Ce burned the palace and killed the emperor. Please reward your Highness one by one, so as to stabilize the military's heart."

"Prince King!" Yu Rong interrupted anxiously.

"Kill Shen Ce, establish a monarch, and the southern border can be determined." He made a firm conclusion to himself.

The prince eagerly went to Shen Ce: "Does the prince believe me? Do you believe that I can protect you?"

Shen Ce's eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed unable to focus, looking in the direction of the prince's voice. The prince still wanted to persuade him, and he choked his throat immediately when he faced his eyes that were almost blind due to the uncontrollable grief all night.

He picked up Zhaozhao and slowly walked out of the hall following the light.

Unsteady under his feet, Chao Yan reached out to support him, and said quickly in a low voice, "General Yu and more than twenty generals took advantage of the chaos to pass on you to get along with your sister earlier than Chai Sang, and now you are even more disregarding ethics, hanging out in the palace hall, preparing After being proclaimed emperor, Yu Rong and I both strongly denied it. Only, except for us..." Chao Yan told him with difficulty, "They are not willing to believe it all. Those generals who are willing to protect you have a request before they are willing to believe you. ."

"Only if you hand over Zhao Zhao and admit that you have been bewitched all the time, can you appease the resentful soldiers below."

Shen Ce looked at Chao Yan, and Chao Yan looked at him earnestly: "Zhao Zhao... is already dead."

Handing over the body would save his brother, Chao Yan believed that even if Zhaozhao could speak, he would immediately let Shen Ce do so.

He shook his head lightly, covered Zhaozhao's face with the red cloth, and walked out of the hall in silence.

He slowly adapted to the morning light, and looked around. Under the steps, beside the steps, and around the hall were the shadows of soldiers and soldiers in armor. Half were the old troops of the Shen family, and the other half were famous generals and advisers recruited by the army.

The expressions on each face are different, he can't see it, he can expect it.

Yu Rong and Chao Yan drew their swords and stood by Shen Ce's side, waiting for him.

"Shen Ce," a general Yu led by him stood in front of him, "Today, you can only apologize with death! The Shen family's army will never let you walk out of the palace gate alive! Besides my sister, God will not allow it! !"

"Yes! Those who have humiliated the Shen family's army must apologize to themselves, smashed to ashes, and have no body left! This is the military rule you set!"

The group echoed, the low-ranking soldiers had been incited all night long, and they wished they could immediately rush forward to snatch Shen Zhaozhao and kill this unethical pair of men and women. The general defending Shen Ce was in a hurry, shouting as hard as he could, trying to save the situation: "Your Majesty! Hand over Shen Zhaozhao to us! We believe you in today's affairs!"

...

This scene had been imagined hundreds of times in his mind. If he could find a way to survive, he would not hide it until today.

Yu Rong and Chao Yan, with a few subordinates who swore to follow, surrounded Shen Ce.

Shen Ce could already foresee a bloody battle to come.

How will these old brothers and sisters meet with weapons, and they will never die...

At this stage, if you want to quell this cannibalism, there is only one way to go: admit that you are not a descendant of the Shen family. To pretend to be a son of a famous family and enter the court as an official is a capital crime to deceive the court and deceive the world. There was an insurmountable gulf between the nobles and the commoners. These generals were all descendants of prominent families with detailed genealogy, and they would even despise their past experience of following Shen Ce.

Once he opens his mouth, everything in his life will vanish, no one will defend him, and naturally there will be no cannibalism.

He held down the knife in Chao Yan's hand, his bloodshot eyes, and looked at the former brothers in front of him, especially the ones in front of him, and the people who survived from Jingzhou City... After a short period of reluctance, he finally chose to quell the fight.

"Shen Ce," he said slowly, "is not the queen of a famous family."

Yu Rong and Chao Yan changed their faces, their fingers holding the sword froze, turned their heads in shock, and looked at him together.

"I'm just an impostor. Shen Zhaozhao is the real descendant of the Shen family. She has never violated ethics, and if there is anything wrong, it is also wrong..." Believe me, believe me, I can cross the river and take her to the north. , I believe this is a way of life.

The uproar and quarrel just now were silenced.

The person who heard these words was a person with a grade within a few dozen meters. In a moment of shock, the eyes of the person who returned to God were filled with various emotions, anger, confusion, deep humiliation... and so on.

A helmet, thrown on the ground, was the Pi general who had just been defending him.

Those who discouraged him and followed him in the past, generals Pian, generals Pi, generals in the middle, and captains... all threw helmets one after another to the ground.The silver light reflected from the helmet piled up into a mountain, shining on his eyebrows.