Chapter 46: Change of ownership
On the other hand, after Wuchun and Zheng Zhou left Ningzhou, they traveled in Dezhou for a month. They were safe and sound all the way. When they arrived in Chicheng, they found a clinic to work and rest as usual.
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This time, the doctor in the clinic was a gentle and elegant man in his early thirties. He had a wife and a child at home. Seeing that it was not easy for Wuchun and his group to travel a long distance, he accepted them.
There were no people from Xiyou in Chicheng, and life finally became peaceful.
Zheng Zhou's feelings for Wuchun became deeper and deeper. Wuchun turned a blind eye to it, occasionally giving Zheng Zhou some sweet things, and then speaking coldly to him, holding the heart of the wild man tightly in her hands.
In this world, these little tricks of hers are just for survival.
——Thinking carefully, how could Zheng Zhou not know her thoughts? Since he was willing to escort her all the way, her tricks to play with his feelings must be nothing.
Summer was showing signs of fading. The cicadas’ chirping became fainter, the shadows of the sycamore trees were showing a tired light yellow, and there were twos and threes in the lotus pond. Before the first fallen leaf of autumn fell, a piece of news came from afar that shocked the whole of Daliang.
The third prince Shen Sui ascended the throne.
No, it should be... Xie Sui ascended the throne.
This news was also brought by Zheng Zhou.
At that time, Wuchun was drying white grass, and the cool wind blew on her body. Zheng Zhou spoke from behind her: "I heard today that the former Third Prince changed the entire Daliang in the name of clearing the emperor's side. That..." He didn't know much about this, and thought for a while, "The previous emperor died of a sudden illness, the emperor's uncle Chen Shan passed away, the empress also passed away, the Chen family was eradicated, Prince Ze'an was imprisoned, and the one sitting on the dragon throne was the former Shen Sui, who was also..."
The emperor's name couldn't be said directly, Zheng Zhou gradually lowered his voice and leaned close to Wu Chun's ear, "Xie Jiange. I don't know much about the nobles in the imperial capital at that time. I heard that Xie Jiange was the son of the Xie family, the only son of General Xie, and the only survivor of the battle of Cangshan that year. "
"Now he has abandoned the surname Shen and changed his surname to Xie, but his name and courtesy name have not changed. "
"They said that Xie Jiange was dead. Seventeen years ago, there was no such person as Xie Jiange. The one who lived from now on was Xie Sui, whose courtesy name was Ci Ning."
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. Sui was given by the previous emperor. He will always remember this humiliation, and Ci Ning may be a brief summary of his life's hard work.
Something was strung together in Wu Chun's mind...
No wonder.
If Shen Sui was not a descendant of the Shen family, then his various behaviors in the palace would make sense.
He had no feelings for his two elder brothers, the eldest and second princes. Even though they were raised outside and brought back to the palace when they were seven or eight years old, they had spent a long time with Shen Heng. Shen Heng was kind and generous, so he naturally took good care of Shen Sui. However, Shen Sui was always like a piece of ice that could not be warmed up, and always kept Shen Heng at a distance.
He always had the greatest malice towards Queen Chen, and even hated her so much that he caused her to have an abortion and spared her life, presumably to torture her to the utmost. Perhaps the only person who could hate the Chen family so much was the Xie family who died unclearly that year.
The fire in Cangshan is terrifying even after more than a decade, not to mention the fact that there is no grass growing on Cangshan until now.
Wu Chun's heart was pounding, it was too sudden.
Shen Sui... No, he should be called Xie Sui.
Xie Sui ascended the throne a year later in his previous life, but it was earlier in this life.
Cause and effect are connected, and no one knows what impact a small change will have on this life, let alone such a big event as the change of dynasty!
Zheng Zhou called her several times before she came to her senses and turned to meet Zheng Zhou's worried gaze.
"I'm fine, but I'm a little scared. If he ascends the throne and becomes the emperor of Daliang, the power and manpower in his hands will be the highest in Daliang, and it will be easier to find someone."
Wu Chun's lips turned pale. Even if she could calm down and deal with Xie Sui's pursuit before, now is different from the past. Everything has changed. If he really wants to find her, it will be more difficult for her to escape back to Southern Xinjiang.
However, there is one thing she has been thinking about. What will Xie Sui do after he ascends the throne?
In her previous life, she died early, so she didn't know. She thought Xie Sui should govern Daliang in an orderly manner and then spend the rest of his life on his dragon chair.
Imagination is not as good as seeing it with your own eyes.
...
One month ago.
When Xie Sui returned to the imperial capital, it was a stormy time. The court was shrouded in a haze. The loyal court officials resolutely resisted Chen, but their resistance was fruitless and they were killed by hitting the beams in the hall.
Their blood flowed from Mingde Hall, through the bluestone tiles, through the ordinary streets, and to the feet of three thousand literati and scholars. They were old and young, full of indignation and righteousness. They united to enter the imperial capital and gathered outside the walls of the imperial palace. The soldiers guarding the palace did not dare to kill them, but they could not persuade them to retreat.
Xie Sui appeared at this time.
Chang An raised his arms and shouted: "Follow the Third Prince, clear the emperor's side, and kill the treacherous ministers!"
This sentence spread all the way from the center of the imperial capital. With the help of the brave and combative General Cheng, Xie Sui was quickly protected. Jiang Xuanning and Xiao Huaiwen jointly investigated the old case of Xie Ruanruan and concluded that Xie Ruanruan did not die of illness in the cold palace, but was killed by the people of Queen Chen.
This incident was the fuse for the Xie family to rush back thousands of miles. If Xie Ruanruan had not died and the emperor had not written a notice, how could the Xie family have perished in Cangshan!
The anger of the crowd reached its extreme.
In a moment, the sky of Daliang changed.
"Chen family bastards, thank you for your family's good reputation!"
"The king is not careful, please change the country!"
The weather that day was not cold, and the wind blowing on the body still made people full of goose bumps. Cold sweat fell along with a few strands of cold rain, and blood flowed all over the imperial city.
Corpses were everywhere, and in the bloody rain, this towering palace changed hands again 26 years after it was built.
Chen Shan was fighting a desperate battle. Before he died, he exhausted all his manpower and military forces, and he was deadlocked with Xie Sui for a long time.
Xie Sui killed many cavalry along the way, but was grazed by a poisoned long arrow in the thigh!
The poison must be the strongest and must be lethal. Xie Sui didn't hesitate at all and cut off a piece of flesh from his thigh. But even so, the poison still made him dizzy and almost fainted.
The scattered troops gathered to protect Xie Sui's safety. Xie Sui held on and chased Chen Shan all the way to the forest where the nobles usually hunted.
Even if he died, even if he had to crawl over, he vowed to kill Chen Shan!
Chen Shan was left with only an empty mountain behind him, isolated and helpless, and at the end of his rope. He laughed a few times and said, "I never thought, I never thought, there was still someone from the Xie family alive! If I had known this, I would have dug deep into the ground to find Xie Jiange's body! I, Chen Shan, have been planning for half my life and fighting with the Xie family for half my life, but I didn't expect to fall into the hands of a little bastard back then!"
"Xie Jiange, you probably don't know that in the previous dynasty, your grandfather and my father were old friends. When your father and I were in Weihe, we were both seventeen years old and agreed to go to each other's son's full-month banquet in the future. Later, your father had you at the age of twenty-four and was already a general in charge of the country, but I didn't go to your full-month banquet. The friendship between the Chen and Xie families also happened to end in that year." This book is exclusively compiled by the LK team for you
. Xie Sui endured the discomfort and said coldly: "Stop talking nonsense, you should have died seventeen years ago. You have stolen all these years to kill my Xie family!"
Chen Shan laughed treacherously, "There is something you definitely want."
Xie Sui looked at him coldly.
"Back then, your father fought his way through the sea of fire and found me, but of course I would not let him go. I did not kill him immediately. I first chopped off his fighting fingers one by one, and then his toes that had walked thousands of miles. Seeing that he was in great pain yet refused to make a sound, I cut off his limbs again, until he died of the pain..." Under Xie Sui's increasingly sinister and hateful gaze, Chen Shan took out a small box from his arms.
"In here are the things he hid in his clothes when he found me, all intact. His clothes were burnt and torn."
There was a gold lock in the box. The gold lock was different from ordinary children's safety locks. The small words on it were very unique. Chen Shan was afraid that Xie Sui could not see clearly because of the distance, so he read out loud: "Jian Ge Jian Ge, don't forget this reward."
Chen Shan's smile was disgusting. "Is it saying that you have made great contributions on the battlefield and put down the war, so this is a reward to encourage you?"
Something in Xie Sui's mind buzzed.
At that time, he followed his father to the military camp. When he got up at night, he passed by his parents' tent and heard them whispering something. He couldn't hear clearly through the curtain, but he roughly knew that they wanted to give him a surprise.
His mother said that he was too old for a half-grown child, and it would be good to come to the military camp and give him some rewards to appease him.
His father said, well, since he has great ambitions, I will encourage him to do something big in the future and bring peace to the world.
He left after listening to it. He didn't feel very happy at the time. He was too mature at a young age, and he seemed too calm when facing many things.
But he didn't expect that the things he thought were ordinary at the time would never be the same now.
At that time, he just thought it was normal.
The torrent in Xie Sui's mind was rolling and collapsing. He was filled with anger and hatred and started to fight with Chen Shan. In order to seize the box, he killed Chen Shan, but he was stabbed in the abdomen. Under the effect of the poison, he fainted on the spot.
Xie Sui was carried back by the soldiers.
The imperial physician wanted to save his life, so he used his special skills to treat Xie Sui. When he examined his pulse, he found that in addition to the golden lock, he also held a peace amulet in his hand.
The peace amulet came from Pingshan Temple, and it was inscribed with blessings such as wishing him peace and health, and the name of the person who asked for the amulet, "Wu Chun", was specially written.
After seeing this, Chang An wondered, "Didn't Your Highness never believe in these things?"
He thought about it carefully for a long time, and then said to himself in disbelief, "So Your Highness went to Pingshan Temple for this last time... How come Your Highness is like a three-year-old child... This is so unlike Your Highness! I must not be dreaming, I must not be dreaming..."
...
Xie Sui woke up again seven days later.
The Chen family was completely eliminated. Shen Heng did not want to cause any more trouble. He knew that he could not compete with Xie Sui, so he volunteered to be imprisoned.
Xiao Huaiwen surrendered to Xie Sui on the condition that he would not kill the former princess Shen Ying. Xie Sui agreed and temporarily imprisoned Shen Ying in the cold palace.
In this way, Xie Sui ascended the throne legitimately.
The first thing was to change the country's name to Ning and the reign title to Pingqing; the second thing was to build the imperial mausoleum, demolish the Zhaotian Tower, and bury the 300 corpses of Xie's army in the imperial mausoleum; the third thing was to eliminate the dissidents, support those who had made contributions in the palace coup, and at the same time recruit those who could be used to surrender.
The fourth thing was to find the empress.
He did not write an edict to order this fourth thing, but told his confidant.
During his coma, his dreams were a mess. He dreamed of many things in the palace coup, but they were not the same.
He still killed many people, but Xiao Huaiwen, such an important leader of the palace guards, was not by his side. In his dream, the palace coup never appeared, and was replaced by another stranger.
In his dream, he seemed to have plans to look for Shen Gong - but Shen Gong was obviously dead, why did he want to look for Shen Gong?
His thigh ached slightly, the same arrow pierced his flesh and blood, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
It hurt.
The wind was cool and the blood was warm.
Why was the experience in the dream so real?
Then, the guards beside him recalled the team that was looking for Shen Gong without hesitation. He was hit by a poisoned arrow, and this was the most comprehensive way to save his life.
But why did he have a vague premonition in his dream?
Xie Sui looked at his dream carefully and found that Wu Chun was not there from beginning to end!
It was still Chen Shan holding the golden lock to provoke him, and it was still him who ascended the throne, but she was still missing.
The scene changed, he was dressed in casual clothes, seemed to have dealt with the affairs in the palace, got off the carriage, and walked into Pingshan Temple. The
dream stopped abruptly when he reached Pingshan Temple.
The palm seemed to be hot, and when he opened his hand, there was a lucky charm that made people laugh and cry.
In the winter of the year before last, he returned to Yuning Palace in triumph, and the first scene he saw was Wuchun burning the lucky charm he asked for him.
After a while, he became more and more depressed and regretted it. He couldn't ask Wuchun for it again, so he went to Pingshan Temple by himself. In the monk's embarrassed and strange eyes, he asked him to write a lucky charm for himself and add the signature "Wuchun".
Only then did he return to the palace with satisfaction.
...
Xie Sui felt that this dream was too weird, as if it was a past life...
Wait, past life?
Thinking of Wu Chun's abnormal behavior after the winter of the previous year, he had a vague suspicion.
The most important thing at the moment was to find her.
Want to go back to Southern Xinjiang? Impossible.
This was his Daning. If he wanted to escape from his land, he would have to die.
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