Chapter 109

The scene in Tangyi City is shocking. Most of the soldiers in the city were soldiers from the palace, and the rest were recruited by the Zhang family. Zhang Fengtong’s two brothers spread news everywhere in the city, saying that the imperial court had just lost the battle outside the gate, and their vitality was severely damaged. When reinforcements arrive, everyone must protect the city with their lives. If the imperial city is conquered in the future, all of them will be awarded officials and titles. If they are defeated before the reinforcements arrive, they will be slaughtered and all will die without a place to be buried.

In the streets and alleys, from time to time you can see the corpses of soldiers who died in the infighting a few days ago and who were too late to dispose of and no one to dispose of. Some of them had already begun to rot, and they were piled up to the corners, randomly covered with some straw or broken seats. The soldiers seem to have not had enough to eat for many days, and everyone's eyes are red, intertwined with fear and hysterical eyes like trapped animals. The air was filled with a foul smell of pus and blood.

The Changle Palace is now occupied by Xiao Yintang. The palace occupies a vast area, the front courtyard and the back garden are luxuriously decorated, and the beautiful maids stand with their hands down, waiting for orders, the door inside and outside the door, like two worlds.

When Jia Fufu entered, he saw a figure of a woman in a fancy dress standing inside the door, her body extremely straight, almost stiff.

This woman is Zhang Fengtong.

She hasn't seen her for several years, and her appearance has changed dramatically. The round and jaded face that Jiafu remembered was gone. She was now as thin as firewood, a woman in her twenties, looking like a middle-aged woman, and her expression was no longer as calm and steady as before. Unreservedly revealed in her raised cheekbones and dark eyes.

She stared at Jiafu like this, her eyes fell on her after she came in, without blinking, suddenly, her eyes moved slightly and turned to Xiao Yintang again.

Xiao Yintang didn't seem to see her at all. From her side, he entered directly, led Jiafu in, and pushed open a door.

Jiafu slowly took off her cloak, turned around, and faced Xiao Yintang who followed her inside.

Xiao Yintang didn't speak, just looked her up and down for a moment, her eyes flashed, she raised her footsteps, and walked towards her slowly.

Jiafu did not retreat, but met his eyes: "Xiao Yintang, if I guessed correctly, you want me to come at this time, just to hold my husband with me. Even if you can get what you want, your father I passed the throne to you, but you are still afraid of my husband. Since I am here, I will not be afraid of death. You know better than me which one is more useful to you, a living me or a dead me. "

Xiao Yintang stopped in front of her, looked at her for a moment, and her eyes narrowed: "you know, you still come? What did the emperor say?"

"He fell ill, and when I came out, he hadn't woken up—"

Jiafu stared into his eyes: "How do you know I'm in Beijing? If I can't arrive within ten days, do you really want to burn everything?"

"Guess you're in the palace, what's the problem? My father, at the time of his longevity, carried a child into the morning gate tower. Don't I know who the child is? The so-called queen of goddesses..."

He sneered.

"He is going to pass the throne to Pei You'an's son! Since the child has entered the palace, I think you are not far away. I have been forced to such a point, why can't I give up now? I was originally a prince, I My father, I am so eccentric, and Pei You'an has hurt me the most. During the years I was imprisoned in the high wall, I cried blood day and night, life was better than death! Instead of living like that, it is better to fight to the death today!"

"If I don't come, General Liu has breached the city, how will you release the news? Who in the world will believe what you say?"

"Let me tell you the truth, I know that my royal father will not agree to it easily. I can't keep this city for long. As soon as I let go of my words, I have made all the preparations. Today is the tenth day. I have already arranged people, if you do not come, or if the news of my death spreads, within a few days, the clan kings of various places will receive news about this matter!"

His expression gradually became excited, and his cheeks were flushed with excitement: "Those clan kings, who have lost their land and power over the years, have all been cornered by my father and emperor, and now if they are told that the emperor has After Tianxi Yuan had an affair, Pei You'an was actually the son of incest. How do you expect them to react? What does a fake Xiao Yu calculate? By then, I am afraid that there will be fake Xiao Yu everywhere! My father, as long as he is still alive One day, the world will never have peace! He is dead, and the scandal between him and Empress Yuan will be known to everyone in the world! At that time, I think Pei You'an will still have a face to live in the world!"

He laughed wildly: "It doesn't matter if I die, I want to call my father Huang and Pei You'an, life is better than death! Even if they die, they will never get peace!"

Even before she came, Jiafu had already predicted that with her understanding of Xiao Yintang in her previous life and his paranoid temperament, the words in the letter would definitely not be just empty threats.

But when he heard such words come out of his mouth, the horror in Jiafu's heart could not be suppressed.

She stared at the almost crazy man in front of her, cold sweat broke out on her back, and her heart almost jumped out of her throat.

"Xiao Yintang, how do you know about this? Who else knows besides you?"

Xiao Yintang stopped laughing and stared at Jiafu, a strange smile gradually appeared on her lips that made Jiafu creepy: "Afu, to be honest, it is beyond my expectation that you are willing to come here today. Are you trying to talk to me? You really disappoint me. You don't know, in your life, you were originally destined to be my Xiao Yintang's woman, and I was supposed to be the emperor of this world. But now, you are both Come, I won't care about you anymore..."

He stared at her, his eyes gradually became very gentle, and he said softly: "Afu, from now on, forget about Pei You'an and stay by my side with peace of mind, okay?"

Jiafu was horrified, and suddenly, she understood everything.

Since Xiao Yintang opened her mouth and called her "Afu" for the first time, the familiar tone reminded her of her previous life.

She opened her eyes wide and stared at the man in front of her in horror.

It turned out that he was just like her!

"Afu, you don't know, you were my Xiao Yintang's person in the last life. In this life, if I can still be the emperor, you will be my lucky star. I will fulfill my promise to you in the past. In this life, I will I must make you my queen, and I will treat you very well..."

He stretched out his hand towards Garf and walked slowly.

Jiafu retreated, kept retreating, and finally retreated to the wall. There was no way to retreat, and suddenly said coldly: "Xiao Yintang, I was imprisoned by you in my last life, without a name and without the sun. You will die. Now in this war outside the border, you were injured and died, and you still didn't let me go. You want me to be buried with you. It's okay to be buried. Do you know how I died in the end? I was still alive, but was nailed into a coffin! "

Xiao Yintang was stunned and stopped, the soft color in his eyes disappeared suddenly, and his face was horrified.

"You don't have to be so surprised. You remember your past life, and so do I."

After a long while, Xiao Yintang seemed to finally react, gritted his teeth: "That bitch, how dare you treat you like this! When I get out of trouble, I will avenge you, and I will never let her go! How did she treat you in the past? How to pay her back!"

Jiafu shook her head: "I didn't care about what happened in my last life. I just ask you, Pei You'an died in Suye City in the end, was it your murderous hand? After his death, you ascended the throne and became emperor the following year. , and then encountered this war outside the customs. You are jealous of him, even after his death, even if you are the emperor, his wiseness will still overwhelm you. If you are not worse than him, you will go on a personal expedition, but God will not help you. You died in this battle, which can be described as karma."

"I still remember that before you died, you were still afraid of his heroic soul in your dream. It was like this in your past life, and it still looks like this in this life. I am a woman, and since I came here alone, everything is going to be a big deal. It's just death. But Xiao Yintang, you are a man, and you keep saying that you want to be nice to me, but besides coercion, what have you done?"

Xiao Yintang's eyes showed a look of surprise and embarrassment, his expression gradually cooled down, and he didn't say a word.

Xiao Yintang stared at Jiafu for a long time, and then said coldly: "I am the real Dragon King, he was not my opponent in the past. It is not so easy for him to win me in this life!"

After he finished speaking, he turned to leave the house and locked the door.

It was getting dark, and it was night. A maid came to serve Jiafu. Xiao Yintang himself didn't show up again, and Zhang Fengtong didn't see anyone. Three days passed in a flash, and Jiafu was only locked in that room, and she didn't know what was going on outside. In the middle of the night on the third day, Jiafu and Yi lay on the bed, closed her eyes and meditated, and tossed and turned when she heard a faint noise outside, as if someone was shouting loudly, that voice, in this quiet late night , which sounds extraordinarily harsh.

Jiafu climbed off the bed and ran quickly to the window. Through the nailed gap, she saw the direction of the gate of the palace, and there was a large fire. There was another roar one after another, as if someone was forcibly rushing in.

Jiafu quickly glanced around, pulled out a candle, and held the copper-pedal pointed candlestick in her hand, and hid the handle in her sleeve. Just after hiding it, she heard hurried footsteps outside the door. The locked door was kicked open by Xiao Yintang. With a gloomy expression, he entered a few steps. Seeing Jiafu hiding in the corner, he grabbed her and took her with a quick pace towards the backyard. go.

Before the officers and troops from outside attacked in, chaos broke out in the city. In the past two days, I don’t know where the news came from. It was spread all over the city. It was said that the imperial court was victorious outside the customs, and it was sending heavy troops here. The so-called reinforcements in the city were all false. No less, a handful of palace soldiers who couldn't get enough to eat in the palace rallied tonight and killed one of Zhang Fengtong's brothers before they entered the palace. Another brother of Zhang Fengtong was leading his own people to resist, and the situation was out of control for a while.

Xiao Yintang didn't say a word, forcibly dragged Jiafu, who stumbled, to the backyard, passed through a hanging flower gate, ran to a rockery, pushed it open, a door was exposed behind the rockery, Xiao Yin Tang went to push, but couldn't push it open. He lowered his head and, by the moonlight, saw that there was an iron rope on the door.

Xiao Yintang seemed a little frightened and angry, and immediately raised his foot and kicked, but the door was firm and could not be opened for a while. Xiao Yintang pulled out the long sword on his waist again, and chopped hard, the blade and the iron rope collided, and sparks splashed out in the night.

"His Royal Highness, where are you going?"

Suddenly a voice came from behind.

Jiafu turned back and saw a figure slowly walking out from behind a clump of trees. The moonlight shone on the man's face, reflecting Zhang Fengtong's face.

She was still wearing a gorgeous palace attire, with a phoenix crown on her head, shining in the moonlight, staring at Xiao Yintang with both eyes, looking like a smile but not a smile, looking extremely strange.

Xiao Yintang glanced back at her, and continued to cut the rope with all his might. With a bang, the sword in his hand was broken into two pieces.

"You want to escape from this secret passage and make a comeback in the future? This iron cable was hit by Wujin, and you can't stop cutting it." Zhang Fengtong said with a smile.

Xiao Yintang shouted angrily: "It turned out to be your bitch! Success is not enough, failure is more than enough!"

He turned around abruptly, strode towards Zhang Fengtong, walked to the front, reached out and grabbed Zhang Fengtong's jacket.

"key!"

He shouted sharply, and suddenly, his body seemed to be slammed with a stick, and he froze, and slowly, he stooped down.

With a puff, Zhang Fengtong pulled out the dagger that had just pierced into his abdomen.

Xiao Yintang fell to the ground, covering his lower abdomen, with a painful expression on his face, staring at Zhang Fengtong in disbelief.

"You... bitch..."

Zhang Fengtong took a step back, stared at Xiao Yintang who was struggling on the ground, and sneered: "His Royal Highness, since I married you, I have asked myself to take care of you, and I am not sorry for you at all. You worry about you day and night. In order to have a chance to rescue you in the future, I even killed my daughter. I pretended to be crazy. In order to hide people’s eyes and ears, I even swallowed my own filth. After I left the palace, I said My family ran for you in secret and finally rescued you. But how did you treat me? But just because of the nonsense of that woman, you are going to bury me alive? You still want her to be your queen? How cruel you are! "

She laughed: "To tell you the truth, the rumors in the city these few days are all my actions! You want me to die, how can I let you live alone? If you want to die, it's better for everyone to die together."

After she finished speaking, she left Xiao Yintang and walked towards Jiafu, the dagger in her hand shining brightly.

Jiafu was stunned by what happened just now. Seeing Zhang Fengtong walking towards her, her eyes glowing like a ghost, she turned around and ran back to the hanging flower door just now, only to realize that the door was also locked by Zhang Fengtong. Now, there is no way out.

Zhang Fengtong had already chased behind him, swung the dagger, and stabbed Chao Jiafu fiercely.

Jiafu clenched the candlestick in her hand tightly, and turned the pointed end over. Before Zhang Fengtong could rush in front of her, she waved her arms to sweep away. Zhang Fengtong was unprepared, and screamed in pain, her wrist was scratched by the sharp head of the candlestick, and blood immediately flowed.

"Bitch! You bastard! I have to kill you!"

Zhang Fengtong covered his injured hand, jumped like thunder, and the phoenix crown on his head was crooked, but he was so fierce, he even held the dagger tightly, and stumbled towards Jiafu and continued to chase.

Jiafu was shocked, so she could only try her best to avoid her by going around the courtyard, and finally took advantage of the night to hide in a hollow around the rockery.

"Bitch! Come out to me!"

Zhang Fengtong was in a state of madness, swearing loudly, waving the dagger in his hand, stabbing the bushes and stones randomly, making a ding ding sound.

Jiafu held her breath, motionless.

"Bitch! Bitch!"

Zhang Fengtong's voice was getting closer and closer. Seeing that she was approaching, Jiafu was horrified, and was about to run away when she suddenly heard a scream.

Through the crevice of the rockery, Jiafu saw Xiao Yintang climbed up from the ground at some point.

He stopped behind Zhang Fengtong, and the broken sword in his hand slid straight into her back and came out of her chest.

Zhang Fengtong's figure froze, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground.

The moonlight illuminated her distorted face, her eyes were straight, she turned around slowly, and said in a low voice, "Prince, you..."

Xiao Yintang's face was cold, and he pulled out the broken sword with a wave of his hand, and Zhang Fengtong fell at his feet. After a while, he slowly stopped struggling, and one hand still tightly grasped his ankle.

Xiao Yintang pulled out her legs in disgust, kicked her body away, then tore off a piece of her clothes, wrapped her abdominal wound, looked around, and said, "Afu, where are you? Come out, I will take you out of here."

Suddenly, there was a faint sound of fighting outside, and the fire was soaring into the sky, and almost half of the palace was on fire.

Xiao Yintang looked impatient, and continued to call while looking around.

"Afu! You can't escape! If you don't come out again, when I find you, I'll be rude to you..."

His footsteps approached.

Jiafu shrunk her body desperately into a ball and hid in the hole, not daring to take a breath.

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the hanging flower door, and then, Liu Jiushao's voice rang out: "Abandoned prince! This place is surrounded by my people! If you capture your hands, there may be a way to survive. !"

Xiao Yintang had a certain figure, his broken sword rested on a rockery, turned his head slowly, fixedly looking at the light of a fire stick outside the door, lost for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Liu Jiushao, what kind of thing are you? Are you qualified to speak to me? I am the crown prince! Go and call the emperor over here! If he comes in person, he will fight or kill him, and I will let him do it! Otherwise, do you know who the woman who was sent to the city the day before yesterday is? She It's in my hands at this moment, it's not a loss for me to die with her!"

There was a bang outside the hanging flower door, the door was forcibly split open, and under the light of a row of torches, Xiao Yintang saw a sedan parked outside the door, with eunuch Li Yuangui standing beside it.

The guards retreated, Liu Jiushao also went down, and in the end only Li Yuangui was left.

Li Yuangui opened the sedan curtain, and from the sedan, a figure slowly emerged, the man in blue clothes and cloth shoes, looking at Xiao Yintang, who was already stunned, walked in step by step.

Xiao Lie is here.

"Bastard! Don't kneel down to me!"

Xiao Lie stared at Xiao Yintang with both eyes, and said in a deep voice without anger.

Xiao Yintang's eyes were wide open, and his hands gradually trembled. With a ding, his hand broke off the sword and fell to the ground, slowly kneeling on the ground.

"Father—"

With tears in his eyes, he shouted.

"You son of a bitch! Back when you killed me first, I thought of my father and son's love, spared your life, you didn't die, and you colluded with outsiders to make trouble. That's all. Today, you are still..."

Xiao Lie stopped.

Xiao Yintang bowed his head at first, slowly raised his head, gritted his teeth and said, "What the emperor taught is, but why don't you say that you are too partial! Pei You'an is your son, so I am not? You think about him everywhere. , give him anything good! I asked Zhen Shi first, and you clearly agreed. When Pei Youan opened his mouth, you immediately changed your mind! Father, you are so fond of one another, why do you have my son in your heart?"

Xiao Lie said coldly: "If you don't have enough people to swallow an elephant, you are the one who is talking about you! When I first ascended the throne, I named you the crown prince. If you keep the book, why would I want to abolish you? Abolishing you and sending you back to the ancestral land of Gengzhou, I hoped that you would meditate and think about it, but you do not want to repent, but now you have committed this sin and brought your own destruction, what can God do?"

Xiao Yintang looked at Xiao Lie steadily: "Father, do you want your son to die?"

Xiao Li closed his eyes.

With tears in his eyes, Xiao Yintang walked forward on his knees, lay on the ground, cried bitterly for a moment, then raised his head suddenly, and roared: "Father, I was born in the family of an emperor, and I am an emperor. I am not reconciled, I will not Willingly-"

He suddenly stood up from the ground and rushed towards Xiao Lie. Before he could reach him, Li Yuangui quickly drew his knife, with a dull thud, the blade pierced into Xiao Yintang's chest.

Xiao Yintang's tall body fell to the ground silently, his body twitched for a moment, then stopped, blood slowly poured out of his mouth, and his eyes were wide open for a long time.

The huge courtyard was silent, Jiafu was still hiding in the rockery cave, and she could almost hear the thumping sound in her heartbeat.

Li Yuangui knelt down to Xiao Lie.

Xiao Lie slowly opened his eyes, his expression was bleak, he didn't look at Xiao Yintang's body on the ground, he muttered: "You found Mrs Zhen and went back..."

He turned around, stepped forward slowly, walked to the hanging flower door, stopped, his body slowly leaned over, leaning weakly on the door frame.

The rebellion of King Changle, which lasted for more than half a year, was finally quelled.

When the emperor left the capital, Imperial Physician Hu accompanied him. Under the advice of Imperial Physician Hu, the imperial driver and his entourage stayed secretly in Tangyi for a few days. After recuperating, they were ready to return to Beijing tomorrow.

In the evening, Jiafu brought the medicine inside, and together with an accompanying palace person, served the emperor to take medicine. Li Yuangui hurriedly entered, with a slightly happy expression on his face, leaned over to the emperor and whispered: "The slave and maid have just been reported, and we have tracked down the remnants of the abolished prince from the mouth of the Zhang brothers. , none of them slipped through the net, and the secret guards also closely guarded the palaces, and everything was safe."

After Li Yuangui finished reporting, he glanced at Jiafu, nodded at her, smiled slightly, and then stood aside.

The emperor seemed to have fallen asleep.

Jiafu closed her eyes, let out a slow sigh, and was about to exit quietly when she heard the emperor call her and stopped.

The emperor opened his eyes and stared at the golden sunset shot in the window lattice. After a while, he said, "You'an will come here soon. You don't have to come with me tomorrow, just stay here and wait for him. See you. He, tell him, Xiao Yu has been imprisoned on Golden Dragon Island for the past few years, and he can go whenever he wants."

After the emperor finished speaking, he closed his eyes again.

Jiafu knelt down slowly, and bowed solemnly to the emperor on the couch.