Chapter 397 Extra 5: Zhaohua Chapter (2)

Later.

She personally asked the man whether he approached her in the beginning because he knew her identity.

But that person, the one who had always been sincere in front of him, bowed his head in front of her for the first time.

He said, "Zhaohua, I don't want to lie to you. I admit that I had an agenda when I first approached you, but I just wanted to find out the truth about why my family was wiped out.

I swear, everything I do for you is sincere, and Zi'an will only belong to the princess in this life."

She believed him, but not completely, and his military achievements could only save his life.

There is no possibility of reconciliation between them.

then.

I don't know what her mentality and purpose were, but she personally prepared the wedding for them.

My brother has done a really good job as an emperor. He knows how to use people, and Dayu has also been getting better visibly.

But Chu Zhaohua felt as if he could never be happy again.

In the next two years.

No one expected that the Emperor of Yue pretended to be incompetent, causing the surrounding countries to become restless.

Several countries united to try to swallow up Yue. At that time...the Yu Kingdom received frequent news of victory.

No one would have thought that the collusion between Sheng State and Yue State was actually aimed at Yu State.

But Chu Zhaohua did not expect that his brother was too greedy in order to expand his territory. Too many victories paralyzed him, causing him to waste too many resources on the way to attack Yue. Liang State chose to protect itself at this time, and Yu State was caught in a dilemma.

It was also at that time that the envoy of Jia Lan came to Yu and proposed to marry Chu Zhaohua.

At first, the emperor refused.

But... Jia Lan has behaved too well in recent years, which resulted in that the civil and military officials in the court don't know much about him.

By the time Chu Zhaohua realized the problem and took the person under control, it was already too late.

They released poisonous insects in the capital to pollute the water source. People began to develop ulcers on their fingers and suffer from diarrhea. None of the medical officials in the capital could find a solution.

Without hesitation, she proposed to her brother the idea of ​​personally leading 5,000 elite soldiers to defeat Jia Lan.

She thought that dying on the battlefield was better than being humiliated in her marriage.

The emperor refused.

This was the second time that the emperor's brother apologized to her with guilt in his eyes since he came to power.

She had ignored state affairs for too long and had never expected that her brother would dispatch almost all the troops to help turn the tide on the battlefield.

Now, there are less than 20,000 elite soldiers available in the entire capital, and food and fodder are even more precarious. It is not enough to support her to lead the troops to attack Jia Lan.

The State of Yu encountered its biggest crisis in many years.

Among thousands of choices, only her marrying Jia Lan is the best solution to Dayu's current predicament.

The emperor, who had devoted himself to the country over the years, had not chosen to sacrifice his sister to marry in Jialan, but had been thinking of other ways to deal with the situation with his ministers every night.

Chu Zhaohua thought that this was enough.

then.

She agreed to the marriage and negotiated with the envoy Jialan in private.

The messenger promised that Jia Lan would do his best to help Dayu turn the tide of the war and would also provide Dayu's army with an additional one month's worth of food and fodder.

And she will also use all she has learned in her life to help King Jialan take control of the government.

After receiving the poisonous cigarettes provided by Jia Lan and confirming that the situation had turned around, Chu Zhaohua got married.

On the day of her wedding, the emperor promised that he would kill Jia Lan and take her home personally in the future.

But she didn't expect that she, who had already prepared for the worst, would encounter the most humiliation she had ever imagined in her life in Jialan.

King Jialan wanted to marry her simply for revenge.

It was because when his father was in power, he had friction with King Jia Lan, and he shot and killed King Jia Lan's younger brother with an arrow on the battlefield.

And she is the most precious person to my father.

Now that his father has passed away, Jia Lan has finally found an opportunity to take advantage of someone's misfortune.

So, the revenge came upon her.

Countless times, facing the eating of poisonous insects and the humiliation of the Galan royal family, she had thought about dying.

But the more she got to know Jia Lan, the more she realized the horror of this small country.

Moreover, Jialan actually has many interests connected with several countries. Although Jialan is not seen in the unrest in several countries, its shadow can be seen everywhere.

Dayu had never known this news.

My father once said that although Jialan is a small place, it would be very difficult to break into it. If we want to destroy it, we must understand Jialan's poison technique. If someone cooperates from inside and outside, it may be possible to destroy it.

She now understood that as long as Jia Lan was not destroyed, a sharp blade would always hang over Dayu's head.

Although she had resented her brother, she also knew that the country was more important.

For this reason, she could only endure the humiliation and learn to be a charming concubine to seduce the king on the surface, while secretly stirring up trouble among the royal family and learning the art of the Galan poisonous snake.

Later, during the days when there was no sunlight for a long time.

Chu Zhaohua finally waited for the day when Dayu's army attacked Jialan.

She thought...she could finally be free, everything would be over.

What she didn't expect was that the person who led the troops was Chu Wenzong, the little brat who used to stick to her aunt and call her that aunt.

She took advantage of Dayu's attack on Jialan to make all the poisonous insects go crazy and devour their master.

She didn't care at all about King Jialan trying to use her life to kill Dayu on the city wall, and she even made plans to die with King Jialan.

But she didn't expect it.

That man came, and took advantage of the turmoil in Jialan to secretly bring a group of people into the city tower.

A fierce struggle broke out on the tower.

The man passed through layer after layer of poisonous insect barriers and came to her step by step.

He seemed to have aged a lot.

She thought.

The man smiled and bowed to her: "Princess, long time no see. I am sorry that I am late. I brought you a gift."

It was a string of bells, which came from the Jialan royal family.

King Jialan's attention was successfully attracted by him. A bullet came from nowhere and bounced off the dagger in King Jialan's hand.

The next moment, the man reached out and pulled him over, then rushed towards King Jialan.

King Jialan reacted quickly. The daggers in the two of them stabbed into each other's abdomen almost at the same time. He held the man tightly and refused to let go.

At the same time, he roared, and a sharp arrow soared into the air, piercing through his back and straight into King Galan's chest.

Everything happened so fast that Chu Zhaohua was a little confused.

She rushed over to try to save him, but the man fell off the city wall holding King Jialan.

The last words that person left for her were: "Live well."

She survived.

Living like a walking corpse.

The court is changing too fast.

When Chu Zhaohua returned to Dayu, he could not find the slightest sense of belonging.

She heard the servants' offensive remarks about her in private, and everyone in the palace seemed strange to her.

Thinking of that man's death, she blamed her brother for being so reckless back then, and also blamed her sister-in-law for always standing on her brother's side.

So she did the only bad thing in her life.

She plotted to take away the old girl in the emperor's sister-in-law's belly.

She even wanted to... kill her.

But later, when she learned that a palace maid had the audacity to take her away, she softened her heart.

Well, this is her chance.

If she had not been a princess, she might have had a different life. Making her royal brother and sister-in-law not recognize their daughter when they meet in the future can be considered a kind of revenge.

And the girl from the Jiang family was also caught up by the people she controlled with the poisonous insects.

Looking at the little girl crying in the bamboo basket, she couldn't help sighing for a long time.

She has done so much for the Yu Kingdom. If she occasionally does something bad out of willfulness and lets down her two children, the ancestors should forgive her prank, right?

then.

The next morning, she arranged for someone to personally send the child to a place.

A place where the good friends she made during her travels would go to wash dishes every day.

After making sure that the bamboo basket containing the child was taken away by a friend, she looked at the mess in the palace, her brother's self-blame, and her sister-in-law's tears, and suddenly she felt relieved.

Later.

The New Year's Eve banquet ushered in an assassination.

Her other nephew, the current Crown Prince, died trying to save his younger brother, Emperor Wenzong of Chu.

The emperor fell ill due to the continuous stimulation and passed away not long after.

Emperor Wenzong of Chu, who was rescued by his brother, was in great pain, but he had to calm down and ascend to the throne.

He adopted his brother's young son, and on the day he ascended the throne, he swore to make Chu Wenjing the crown prince, promising to help him ascend to the throne of emperor in the future.

It all seems to be almost over.

Chu Zhaohua suddenly felt that nothing was interesting anymore. She wanted to go to Jiangnan, which was the last clean place in her memory.

Before leaving, she ran around the places she used to visit in the palace, and finally found an apology letter left by her brother in the hole of the persimmon tree in her bedroom.

Only then did she know.

It turns out that my brother heard what my father said when he was drunk that day.

The emperor's brother, who has always been diligent and hardworking, has always been overwhelmed by her light.

The emperor loved her, but he also resented her after hearing so many comments that it would have been better if Princess Zhaoshu was a man.

According to common sense, he is no worse than any other prince in history.

But because of her existence, no matter how hard he tries, he will always be the second choice in other people's hearts.

Therefore, he tried harder to prove himself, and was too eager to prove himself, which led to mistakes in the subsequent wars among several countries.

At that moment, Chu Zhaohua completely understood what his father said before his death.

The resentment in my heart towards my brother dissipated little by little.

Later.

She came to Jiangnan.

In that small nunnery, I just live a miserable life.