Chapter 298 Breaking the City
The cold wind was blowing, and when I opened my mouth I inhaled the bone-chilling cold air.
Chen Yu coughed twice, held her stomach and said, "You say that I work hard and waste money, but wherever my iron hoof passes, corrupt officials are eliminated and thousands of acres of millet grow. What have you done in this imperial city?"
The two coughs drifted away with the wind, and Xie Tingzhou frowned when he heard them.
The cold wind suddenly lifted up Shen Yu's cloak, revealing her bulging belly.
"Oh no!" Liu Cheng leaned against the wall, "She is pregnant."
The others also looked gloomy.
"Chen Yu was cunning. She didn't even mention that she was pregnant. If her argument gets out today, people will say that we are bullying women and children."
Liu Cheng clenched his fist and hammered on the city wall, "Shout out Xie Tingzhou and let him come!"
Before they could speak, a carriage came galloping over.
Xie Tingzhou got off the carriage, and the fox fur coat spread out to cover Shen Yu completely.
"Lean on me." He said softly, picked up Shen Yu and put her into the carriage.
Then he stood on the shaft of the cart and looked up at the city wall, his eyes filled with a frosty coldness.
"What are you talking about? The Great Zhou is on the decline. I want to break into the city today. Who dares to stop me?"
Everyone on the city wall was shocked.
If Chen Yu was willing to reason just now, then Xie Tingzhou didn't want to say a word now.
"Xie Yun!" Liu Cheng shouted, "If you forcefully attack the city today, you will be a sinner for all eternity!"
"Eternal sinner." Xie Tingzhou sneered at the city wall, "Do you think I care?"
Liu Cheng was furious, "You..."
Xie Tingzhou said coldly: "What if I am remembered for a hundred generations? What if I am cursed for a thousand years? History books are written for future generations to read, so let future generations decide how to write about me."
Boom boom
It seemed as if the whole ground was shaking.
When everyone looked up, they saw a black mass of soldiers coming out of the snow.
Xie Tingzhou narrowed his eyes in the face of the wind and snow, his voice echoing in the wind and snow, "A gentleman hides himself when there is no morality, and comes out when there is morality. If this chaotic world needs me, I will come out."
He raised his hand and pointed to the city gate.
"Give it to me, break it!"
The Qingyun Guards behind him were in uniform.
Xiao Chuan stood on his horse and shouted, "Draw your sword! Follow me to break the city!"
Suddenly, there was a noise of cursing and running on the city wall.
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The catapult rolled forward through the snow. Xiao Chuan rode his horse forward a few steps, but stopped with a look of surprise on his face.
He turned around immediately, "Your Majesty..."
Xie Tingzhou frowned and looked at the city gate.
But all the people on the city wall turned around and fell silent.
The heavy city gate slowly opened to both sides.
A man was wearing a thin white inner garment, no crown, and his black hair was casually draped behind him.
He walked slowly in the snow.
"Thank you Tingzhou——"
Li Jifeng shouted: "I am the crown prince of the Great Zhou! Today I take off my hat and robe, and come to greet you!"
The wind and snow seemed to stop at this moment.
Everyone looked at the white figure in the snow.
Gradually, the people on the city wall realized something.
Their crown prince took off his hat and robe and personally opened the gate to accept the surrender.
First there was a faint sobbing sound, and then burst into tears.
"My Great Zhou has a hundred-year foundation! A hundred-year foundation!"
"The prosperity has fallen, and the glory is lost!"
"I swear I will never be a vassal of my country!"
All the cries were swept away by the wind and snow. They will be blown away by the wind, but today, they will leave a heavy mark in the history books.
…
There was no fighting, no palace maids fleeing, and everyone was doing their job, as if nothing had changed.
The palace maid added some charcoal into the charcoal stove and then knelt beside it.
Li Zhaonian looked in good spirits today. The palace maids spent half a day helping him wash and dress. However, he looked at his thin and haggard face in the mirror, but he was still not satisfied and ordered someone to lower the curtain.
The sound of the palace door opening was heard. Li Zhaonian turned his head and saw a blurry figure walking out of the door.
The figure gradually became clearer, and the outline of an old friend could be vaguely seen through the curtain.
“You’re here.”
"Um."
It was snowing outside, and Chen Yu felt cold when she entered the palace. The palace was warm, so she took off her cloak and handed it to the palace maid beside her.
Chen Yu sat down beside the dragon couch.
Li Zhaonian's eyes passed through the curtain and fell on her abdomen. "How many months?"
Chen Yu gently covered it with her hand, "More than four months."
"Time flies by so fast." Li Zhaonian had a gentle expression and a hint of smile in his eyes.
meaning.
"Very soon." Chen Yu asked, "How is your health now?"
"I feel very energetic today." Li Zhaonian said with a smile, "Maybe it's because I want to see an old friend."
His voice was exhausted and he was even panting when he spoke, but he refused to show weakness in front of her.
Li Zhaonian moved slightly and looked at her face through the narrow gap in the curtain.
The childishness between her eyebrows and eyes has been removed, and she is more beautiful than before, but being beautiful has never been her strength. She still has many admirable qualities.
"Chen Yu." Li Zhaonian looked at her figure, "I was not..."
"I know." Chen Yu interrupted softly, "When you are in your position, you have no choice."
Chen Yu looked at the curtain and could only vaguely see the emaciated figure on the couch.
Time passed too quickly, taking away Li Zhaonian, who was as gentle as jade, as gentle as the breeze and as bright as the moon, leaving only a broken body.
Li Zhaonian smiled, his eyes gradually turning red, "If there is an afterlife, I will treat you as my confidant."
"You seem to have said something similar to me." Chen Yu said.
"Yes, it seems like it was a lifetime ago." Li Zhaonian asked, "Is it snowing heavily outside?"
"It's quite big." Chen Yu said, "There's no chaos in the capital, the government is still sending people to clear the snow."
Li Zhaonian nodded. "I don't know how the history books will comment on me. The last emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty is also the most..."
"It's definitely not like that." Chen Yu interrupted him, thought for a moment and said, "It should be...Emperor Yongning is well-read, knowledgeable about the past and the present, good at poetry and prose, music, calligraphy and painting, and has a side knowledge of Buddhism and Taoism. He has a great spirit in his heart and half of the world in his heart."
Li Zhaonian smiled gently, "It sounds good. I will be bold enough to leave it as my epitaph."
The hall fell silent.
Chen Yu turned her head to look at the window, feeling depressed.
As she walked along, people kept leaving, and she seemed to be saying goodbye to different people. The only consolation was that the person next to her was still there.
Li Zhaonian's gaze slid from her face and fell on her hands resting on her legs.
The hand was right next to the couch, so close.
He watched quietly, slowly stretched out his hand, and his fingertips were about to touch it, but stopped at the curtain, and then his fingertips slowly curled up again.
① A gentleman hides himself when there is no moral principle, and comes out when there is moral principle, from The Analects of Confucius
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