Chapter 414: The Queen and the Empress, Leaving Beijing and Heading South
In Shu, outside the city of Yizhou, there is a mountain called Zhaxia Peak. On one side of it is Jinghu Mountain, which is famous in the whole Yizhou.
There are peaks one after another. When you climb to the top and look at the mountains, you can see the waterfall pouring down from the Mirror Lake. If it is foggy, the waterfall will seem to be rushing down from the sea of clouds. How spectacular!
And on the side of Jinghu Lake, in the viewing pavilion on the cliff of Zhaxia Peak, there were three people, two pots of wine, and a game of chess.
The King of Shu sat on one side, just watching the game of chess.
Fang Wenhe, dressed in green, sat in front of the chessboard. Opposite him sat a man dressed as a Taoist priest, wearing a black Taoist robe and a green lotus crown. He stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Brother Fang, this move of chess cannot be won by Yao."
Having said this, the Taoist shook his head and put the black chess piece in his hand into the chess box, which was considered as admitting defeat.
Play seven games.
All seven games were lost.
After Fang Wenhe, who was holding the white chess piece, dropped the white chess piece in his hand, the originally unpredictable situation on the chessboard suddenly became clear at a glance.
However, this move by the white chess piece completely strangled the black chess piece, which originally had many chances of survival, leaving it with no way to retreat.
The King of Shu looked at the clear chessboard and said immediately, "It is really pleasing to watch you two play chess."
The black-robed Taoist Yao Xisheng said with a smile: "Your Highness, you are joking. I am here to enjoy Brother Fang's chess. I am just making up the numbers."
Fang Wenhe said: "I am just making small plans. Mr. Yao's strategy is not in the chess game, but in the present moment."
Yao Xisheng said with a smile: "You and I each hold 180 pieces. Brother Fang can leave these 180 pieces in the box and make them dead objects. Each piece has its place calculated, so as to plan for the world. Although Yao is a disciple of Zongheng, he is not as good as you, Brother Fang. Compared with us, you are more like a disciple of Zongheng."
Fang Wenhe heard this and immediately said, "The Zongheng Sect is the best at the art of persuasion. Come on, Brother Yao, you are so good at talking. Speak a little more. There are very few people who can be praised like this by you, the current leader of the Zongheng Sect."
Yao Xisheng and the King of Shu on the other side laughed when they heard Fang Wenhe's words.
A gentle breeze blew through the forest, and the laughter of the three people rose with the wind, then was swallowed up by the sound of the waterfall.
At this time, someone from the King of Shu's Palace came to the King of Shu. Without saying anything, he handed the secret letter to the King of Shu.
The King of Shu opened it, smiled and said, "Tingyu has entered Shu. It should be here in about ten days."
After that, the King of Shu looked at the contents of the secret letter and smiled, then said, "My cowardly Bage colluded with foreign tribes before he died. Tingyu told me in the letter that along the way, many people now say that I am also going to collude with foreign tribes because of that coward."
Fang Wenhe and Yao Xisheng heard this and smiled slightly.
The King of Shu casually placed the secret letter on the table and said, "I don't know what's going on in Yan yet, but looking at the methods my niece has shown now, she is even more capable than my fourth brother, so it should be a sure thing."
Fang Wenhe reached out and sorted the chess pieces on the chessboard and put them back into the chess box: "It's not that easy. Yandi has been managed by Xia Chenfeng for so many years, and many things have happened..."
When Fang Wenhe said this
The King of Shu said, "I don't really care about what's happening in Yan. It's just a way to test my niece and see where she gets her confidence from. Zong Ze and Meng Qin alone are not enough to make her act like this. Even if Li Xuance is transferred back by her, it's not enough. I always feel that she has hidden tricks. I'm not that cowardly old Eighth. I won't believe that my fourth brother left tricks for her. If it was really my fourth brother who left tricks, I'd be dead. He loves his daughter the most. Forget it, let's not talk about this. When the news from Yan arrives, we'll know everything."
Yao Xisheng didn't say anything, he just picked up the black chess pieces on the board, but his eyes glanced at Fang Wenhe.
The King of Shu continued, "The emperor has spent half a year, several years of training and using the people left by the fourth brother to bring down Li Nishang, Yang Shanchang, and that useless Xia Chenfeng. Now he has extended his hand to the Jiangnan family. This is also natural. After all, the power and the army have been taken back, and it is time for money to come."
Fang Wenhe didn't say anything, just packed up the chess pieces.
Yao Xisheng said, "Your Majesty, do you want me to go to the south to talk to those noble families?"
The King of Shu looked at Yao Xisheng and said, "Mr. Yao, you have entered the Dao sect now and know the interpretation of dreams. I dreamed of my father and my fourth brother last night."
Yao Xisheng looked at the King of Shu.
Fang Wenhe had already cleaned up the white chess pieces and had started to clean up the black chess pieces. There was no reason not to clean up the chess pieces after the game.
The King of Shu picked up the wine cup on the table, looked at the turbid wine and said, "I dreamed that I was in Luo'an City, my father was riding a horse, walking in front, followed by my fourth brother, and then me."
"In the dream, my father was very young, the same age as when he held a sword and led 5,000 troops to destroy the Tantu Kingdom in the Western Regions. My fourth brother looked like he was in his twenties. They didn't speak, but just kept walking, passing through the palace wall, through the fog, and came to a small courtyard in the palace called Lingqi Pavilion."
"But just when I wanted to go in, the door suddenly closed. I wanted to open the door, but I saw the shadows of two real dragons. Then the door opened, and there was nothing inside, but there was a mirror. I saw myself in the mirror, a dragon. Then, I saw a real dragon in the mirror, holding a knife in its hand, and chopped at me."
The King of Shu looked at Yao Xisheng and stopped talking because he had already finished what he was saying.
Yao Xisheng said: "There is only one true dragon in the world. As long as she is alive, all others are just dragons. Your Majesty, you don't need to worry about this. As for the knife in your hand..."
At this point, Yao Xisheng looked at Fang Wenhe and asked, "Brother Fang, do you think so?"
Fang Wenhe had just closed the chess box. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "The Queen has been practicing with the sword, and all of this started when Your Majesty and the Queen met. The Queen has a high talent for martial arts. If you give her more time, she may be able to reach the realm of perfection."
Yao Xisheng looked at Fang Wenhe as if he knew the answer but asked: "What if that knife belongs to Yan Yunxiao?"
Fang Wenhe shook his head: "The Queen is staying in Lingqi Pavilion."
The King of Shu stood up and walked to the side of the pavilion, facing the Mirror Lake and looking at the cliff waterfall: "That queen is of the sixth rank, right?"
Fang Wenhe nodded: "Yes."
The King of Shu said, "If my guess is correct, the emperor will be touring the south in disguise, but the people of the Shen Ce Army will definitely follow him. Moreover, those noble families are now on a panic. My fourth brother killed them too cruelly in the past. My niece is too much like my fourth brother. They will be afraid and will do anything. And this is what my niece wants."
When he said this, the King of Shu was silent for a moment: "If my fourth brother were in such a situation, would he instigate the enemy or would he directly send someone to kill the emperor?"
Fang Wenhe looked at the King of Shu who was looking at him: "We will let a third party intervene and kill them together."
The King of Shu asked, "A man from the Jianghu?"
Fang Wenhe: “Yes.”
Fang Wenhe went on to say: "When the late emperor did things, he never sought to gain power for one person or one family. He would see the whole picture and invite everyone to join the game. After that, he would become the chess player and hold the knife in his hand. Therefore, he could always avoid disasters and turn disasters into good fortunes. Because he had always been the knife holder."
The King of Shu retracted his gaze and looked at the lake that was exceptionally calm under the sunlight: "Mr. Yao, thank you for your hard work. You injured the Queen last time."
As soon as he finished speaking, the King of Shu looked outside the pavilion, where hundreds of people from the martial arts world were.
At this moment, the face of the King of Shu seemed to transform into a dragon. He opened his mouth gently, exhaled a breath, and said in a low voice: "This time, let's see if we can kill the queen and hurt the emperor."
…
The sun and the moon jump like balls, and time flies like a rabbit.
Three days passed in a flash.
Things are still happening in the capital, such as rumors that the emperor sent the Huanglong Guards to the Zuo and Qi families in order to get money!
The two families were smart and took out dozens of large boxes the next day. On the same day, the emperor ordered the soldiers of the Cavalry Battalion to escort the boxes to Yan.
There are rumors that the emperor has made up his mind and said that if the two families do not pay money, the Huanglong Guards will draw their swords and kill people.
But some people also said that His Majesty sent the Huanglong Guards just to give face to the two big families, so the matter of money had been agreed upon long ago, otherwise if His Majesty really wanted to kill people directly like this, it would make no sense.
As for why these two big families had to pay money, the reason was because some people in their family had committed crimes before, and this money was used to buy their lives!
The exact truth is unknown, but there are many different opinions.
But just when everyone was still angry about what Xia Chenfeng and his son had done in Yandi, as well as the major and minor events that had happened in the capital in the past few days, and the various reliefs and other matters in Yandi.
There was a carriage with several attendants.
Leave Beijing and head south.
(End of this chapter)
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