Near the fourth watch of the night, Wan Yanyong was tossing and turning in bed and couldn't fall asleep. He felt increasingly dry and thirsty. He glanced at Qing Ya who was sleeping beside him, tied up the quilts around her, stood up, lifted the bed curtains, and prepared I got out of bed and took a sip of water, only to find that a cup of soothing tea was already prepared on the short table next to me, with a bowl on top to cover it and a saucer on the bottom to hold it.
He held up the tea cup, which was a black-glazed sunflower cup with six sunflowers in total. The style was simple but beautiful. He looked at it for a long time and thought about it secretly for a while before drinking the tea in one gulp.
He leaned against the fence and looked at the "Xu Qi Xie Ji" that was placed next to her pillow. He picked it up and flipped through a few pages. Then he pushed the quilt away from her face, revealing a rosy face. He flipped through it again. After reading this book, I muttered to myself: "Read some weird books every day!"
Her eyes stung by the bright light, she turned over and called out in confusion: "Your Majesty!"
"Huh?" He lowered his head and looked at her dotingly.
"Would you like some water?" he asked.
"Yeah!" She nodded.
After hearing this, Wan Yanyong got out of bed, took the six-cup sunflower cup and poured her a glass of water. After a long pause, he poured the water back into the cup. He looked for the silver soup bottle on the side and poured the water into it. Add a little to rinse once, then pour in all the water, and place the soup bottle on the ancient tripod-shaped stove to burn.
He sat on a small ridge aside and watched the water heat up, then innocently wrapped a kerchief, picked up the bottle, and poured her a cup of tea.
"Here, drink some water!"
She opened her eyes in a daze, and he blew the tea carefully and kissed her: "Be careful!"
She drank half of the hot tea and felt very warm in her heart. When she lay down again, she looked at Wan Yanyong's slightly haggard face.
She lay on the bed, looked at him and asked, "Your Majesty, why can't you sleep?"
He turned his eyes and paused for a long time.
"The lonely king is feeling depressed and panicked, feeling like something is going to happen!"
"What can happen!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a knock on the door outside, and the waiter said: "Your Majesty, King Cao and Prime Minister Zuo want to see you!" Xin
He was confused: "King Cao? Prime Minister Zuo"
Then he asked: "Uncle, what can I do?"
"I don't know, King Cao said that we have something urgent to discuss."
"Okay, the lonely king will be here immediately!"
He paused on the bed, clenched his fists and muttered to himself: "It's so late, what's the important matter?"
He felt uneasy and restless. He stayed on the bed for a long time before he rolled out his clothes and got out of bed. He turned back to her and said, "Madam, the lonely king will come as soon as he goes!"
"good!"
She nodded and looked at him as he walked out, her expression became uneasy, she also changed her clothes, put on a fur cloak and followed him out to the main hall.
King Cao Wanyan Zongmin was the ninth son of Taizu, and Prime Minister Zuo Wanyan Zongxian was the great-grandson of Jin Zhaozu Wanyan Shilu. Both of them were considered Wanyan Yong's uncles.
Qing Ya looked outside and saw that the two people were standing upright in front of the hall. Zong Xian looked calm, but King Cao Zong Min looked panicked and had red cheeks. He kept walking around in place while holding his old body.
Wanyan Yong bowed his head in front of him: "Two uncles, what's the matter? It's so urgent!"
Zong Min came up and took his hand and said, "Wulu, the solitary king and Zuo Xiang just received an urgent summons. Your Majesty summoned me and me late at night?"
He was shocked after hearing this and asked: "Why is Your Majesty so anxious to issue an edict during the fourth watch of the night?"
But Zongxian believed it, and quickly pushed away Zong Min's arm and said: "Hey! His Majesty summoned you urgently and said that he wanted to discuss the matter of establishing a queen. I told him that there was no lie. He refused to listen and came to see me. Nephew you!"
Zong Min turned around anxiously and said: "The palace gates have been locked. We are summoned late at night. I'm really afraid of some scam. Think about it, who doesn't sleep in the middle of the night?"
"Your Majesty will not attack the two of us! He has killed so many people in the past month. The concubine is almost dead, and the concubine De is the daughter of the prince-consort, and they have not been spared. He must kill them. I……"
Qingya was outside when she heard that her uncle's daughter had been killed by the emperor. She was so frightened that she dropped the lantern in her hand before holding it tightly.
After Zong Min heard this voice, he shouted: "Who is it?"
Wan Yanyong walked out in a few steps and saw her eavesdropping in the corridor. He felt a little relieved and turned around and said, "Uncle, don't be alarmed, it's just a cat!"
"Go back quickly!" He whispered to her, then turned around and returned to the hall.
I saw Zongxian, a wealthy man, with his hands on his hips, turned in front of Zongmin, put his shoulder on his shoulder and said: "Zongmin, don't be afraid, your majesty is moody, there is nothing he can't do! I am often summoned by him late at night, It’s not a strange thing to scare you like this!”
He raised his hands and bowed upward, and said with a solemn and upright air: "Your Majesty wants to discuss the establishment of a queen. If you insist on making Chang Sheng's wife your queen, I will definitely fight for it with all my strength."
"If you want to establish a new queen, you may choose a virtuous and virtuous person from the palace concubines, or choose a young girl with both ability and political integrity from a wealthy family. How can you choose a younger sister-in-law as your queen? This is simply against the principles of human ethics and is ridiculous!"
Wan Yanyong was silent for a long time, thinking that there were indeed some doubts in this, and he also had some bad premonitions in his heart.
"Lu'er, you are the most attentive person. Can you help me see if there is any fraud in this?" Zong Min asked again.
"This is certainly not His Majesty's style!"
After saying this, Zong Min became anxious again and said, "Then I'll just say I'm sick and disappear. I'm really scared!"
Zongxian said again: "Hey, it's not good for you to disturb Wulu in the middle of the night. I guarantee you that nothing will happen to you. Let's go! Let's go!"
With that said, Zongxian wanted to pull him away.
"Uncle, you still have to be more careful!" Wan Yanyong warned again and again.
Zong Min hesitated, looking in a dilemma with frightened eyes.
Zong Xian hooked his shoulder again and said, "Even if it's a lie, if he wants to kill you, he will eventually kill you. If you don't see him today, can you survive tomorrow? Hey, don't worry! Everything will be fine."
Under Zongxian's strong persuasion, the two of them walked away together, shaking their big-sleeved shirts. Listening to the conversation between the two of them fading away, Wan Yanyong sat on the rose chair as if he was being weighed down by Mount Tai, looking at the empty cold hall in trance.
"Your Majesty!"
Qingya walked in with the lamp on and looked at him who looked uneasy.
"Let's go back! It's very cold at night," he hugged her waist and walked back with heavy steps.
When he returned to the couch, he became even more uneasy and still couldn't sleep. He leaned against the fence and exhaled or swallowed, but he still couldn't calm down.
"Did His Majesty really kill so many people? Did he kill his cousin?" she asked.
He then hugged her into his arms, leaned against his chest and took a deep breath: "Yes, King Gu didn't tell you because he was afraid you would be sad!"
Her eyes turned red, she nodded, and said, "I heard from my uncle the month before that my cousin was pregnant... As a couple, we have ended up like this."
He stroked her black hair again and again and said, "That's why the lonely king is more and more worried about the safety of our country, and he can't sleep because of it! These two uncles came at night, which made me even more anxious."
"The Lone King is a man, so if he is killed, forget it, but the Lone King is just afraid that you will be wronged and end up like Samao!"
"No, you are humble and low-key. His Majesty always trusts you," she raised her head.
He looked at her, her hands were holding his hand tightly, her warm and delicate fingers were sticking to his slightly rough big hand, her bright eyes were drooping with tears. The slightly curly hair was resting on his arm, and his eyes were anxious and pitiful.
He held her in his arms again, rubbed her cheeks that were red from the cold, and said around her neck: "Don't worry, the lonely king will definitely protect you, act with absolute caution, and will definitely protect you!"
"Go to sleep!"
He raised his head and looked up at the sky, caressing her back in his arms, then pulled up the brocade quilt, covered her tightly, and slowly coaxed her to sleep. But I didn't sleep a wink all night.
That night, Zong Min Zongxian entered the palace and was tied up by Wan Yanliang's men before he reached the entrance of Fu'an Palace.
Zongxian thought that Wanyan Dan had tied him up because he blocked Li
Samao was the queen. Before his death, he still shouted outside the palace: "You cannot have a wife who is always victorious. This is against human ethics. Your Majesty wants me to die. It is not a pity for me to die. It is a pity that your Majesty has no remonstrance ministers around you!" "
After saying that, he was killed by the bodyguard general Pu Sanhu Tu.
Zong Min was summoned into the palace and was frightened when he saw Wan Yanliang. He quickly fell to the ground and kowtowed.
When Wanyan Liang met his uncle, he was a little soft-hearted and hesitant.
Wanyan Wudai said: "This is the son of Taizu. If we don't get rid of him, the descendants of the clan will definitely turn against Your Majesty as the king. Otherwise, we will get rid of him as soon as possible!"
Then Wan Yanliang ordered his servants to kill him, and suddenly he struck Zong Min with a sword. Zong Min ran away from him, his skin and flesh were scattered all over the ground, and he was killed one by one.
The next day in the court hall, the ministers were standing, but they had not seen the emperor sitting high for a long time. Everyone was whispering to each other and mingling in private. On the opposite side, Wanyan Liang, Wanyan Zongxian, and Zongmin, who were in charge of the throne, were all absent. The officials were all frightened, thinking that the three of them had been killed.
"Wouldn't all the prime ministers be killed?"
"Yes! This... the three of them won't be killed!"
Li Shi, who was standing in the row behind Wan Yanyong, took a step closer and whispered: "Wei Chen always feels a little strange!"
Wanyanyong turned his face slightly, and Li Shi pointed at Bingde, Wudai and Tang Kuobian opposite them. The three of them were calmly raising their heads and looking straight ahead, without any fear.
"Look at the three of them. They are all close ministers of King Qi. If King Qi is killed as the big guy said, those three people must be very afraid. But look at the three of them. They don't have any fear at all. !」
Wanyanyong calmed down and asked again: "What does uncle mean?"
"According to Wei Chen's speculation, His Majesty may have been killed, and King Qi has become the emperor!"
Wanyanyong felt even more uneasy. After listening to Li Shi's words, he saw Da Xingguo coming to announce the ceremony: "Your Majesty has arrived!"
After hearing this, the ministers knelt down and worshiped as before.
I just saw Wan Yanliang, who was wearing a crimson robe and a black gauze hat with a futou head, walking in from the side, waving his big sleeves, and sitting on the throne.
When the ministers looked up and saw him taking his seat, there was an overwhelming wave of abuse.
In this hall, Wan Yanyong's relatives - Pu San Zhongyi, the minister of the Ministry of War, Li Shi, the commander of the capital's horse army, Dan Kening, the commander of the horse army and the guards, and Zhang Hao, the minister of etiquette (Zhang Qinli's uncle) , all looked a little bad, standing there at a loss.
A prime minister in front of him angrily scolded: "Wan Yanliang, you are so brave, you dare to overstep your limits. Where is your majesty? Where is the left prime minister?"
Wan Yanliang waved her hips, caressed the small rings at both ends, stood up with her chin raised, and walked down the red staircase step by step.
"I'm here, what do you want me to do?"
"How dare you! How dare you make a mistake?"
Wan Yanliang secretly glanced at him, and the general's servants came to lead him and presented three boxes in the hall.
Those were the heads of Wanyan Zongxian and Zong Min, as well as the white jade belt that Wanyan Quan wore when he was alive.
Wanyan Yong was dumbfounded and filled with resentment in his heart. He stepped forward and asked, "May I ask what crime led to death for King Cao?"
Wanyan Wudai said in the crowd: "God ordered him to die, and now he is dead. He is just a lice, and he is not a person worthy of praise, yet he is still being held accountable for his life or death!"
