Xiushan Xiucheng
Xiao Lu wandered here like a bereaved dog. Being thirsty, he ignored his image and lay down on the moat to drink. When the patrolling soldiers saw it, they pointed and laughed.
At this time, a centurion holding a long whip came over and shouted at Xiao Lu: "Who are you? Do you also drink the water of the moat?"
"I said...I am the current prime minister...do you believe it?" Xiao Lu was out of breath and almost collapsed on the side. The centurion was very surprised and hurriedly turned his face to confirm that this was the Prime Minister of the Taiwei Empire!
The centurion bent down in panic and saluted: "This villain has no eyesight, so he didn't know he was the Prime Minister. I hope the Prime Minister will respect you!"
After hearing this, all the soldiers fell to their knees in unison. They would eventually be held responsible for the disrespectful behavior just now.
Xiao Lu stared at the centurion: "What? Do you recognize me?"
"The Prime Minister has the kindness to reinvent the villain!" The centurion's eyes filled with excitement: "To be honest, we are all soldiers of Sanqin Pass. The Prime Minister is clear about rewards and punishments, and is considerate of the corporal. We have admired him for a long time and only hope for him. I will repay my kindness one day, but I don’t want something like this to happen today!”
Xiao Lu smiled awkwardly. He knew that the favors given to him at Sanqin Pass were nothing more than an attempt to seize power and use them to make meritorious deeds.
"My nickname is Su Zhanqing. The Prime Minister doesn't dislike me. I would like to be a personal servant of the Prime Minister. I will serve tea and water, lead the horse and hold the stirrup, and I will do whatever I want!" The centurion gave a very respectful salute.
All the soldiers said in unison: "I am willing to obey the Prime Minister's order!"
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Xiao Lu shivered all over. He gently helped the centurion: "Su Baihu, from today onwards you will be your true bodyguard!"
"Yes!" Su Zhanqing knelt down and kowtowed three times, with an unstoppable smile on his face. He was as simple as a child, smiling happily.
Subsequently, Su Zhanqing ordered the entire army to form, helped Xiao Lu onto his horse and walked into the city. Xiao Lu inquired about the situation in Xiucheng, and Su Zhanqing did not hide anything: "Prime Minister, the current governor here is General Zhao Fuli. This man seems to have some secret order, asking us to get rid of the Prime Minister. But please rest assured, Prime Minister, Su will protect you Your Excellency is considerate!”
Xiao Lu took a breath, and he had realized that he was difficult to stand in the middle of the DPRK, so he came to see the thoughts of the holyness and wanted to return to his hometown.
"Prime Minister, you really guess this. I do n’t know who the confusion of the Holy. I’ m going to fight at the scene. The Holy Drive will be here tomorrow. Then I will cry and protect a living way! "Su Zhanqing replied.
The old and fatuous Emperor Terry will not do anything for military matters. Xiao Lu believes that it must be those strange private affairs. There was once a kitchen and a palace girl who fled privately. The old emperor heard it. The legs that could not be able to go to the downturn had been cured instantly. The chickens and dogs were restless, and the people treated them like plague gods. They even made up a jingle to ridicule:
"The cheating ghost~The eunuch Zui'er~cured the emperor's legs~"
Xiao Lu didn't tell anyone, he just tried to figure out in his mind how those families slandered him to the point of alarming Emperor Terry. If he didn't have a good way to deal with it, the fatuous old emperor would have killed him on the spot without caring about anything.
On the other side, Zhao Fuli heard that Xiao Lu not only returned unscathed, but also gathered a large number of troops, and he panicked. I'm afraid that Xiao Lu will raise soldiers to rebel, and hurriedly ordered to set up a banquet to receive the scale of the prime minister.
That night, Xiao Lu ate the most full meal during this time. Zhao Fuli refused a glass of wine: "I don't want to suffer such difficulties in the prime minister, and I will be ashamed in my heart."
"What are you ashamed of the general?" Xiao Lu asked with a smile.
Zhao Fuli was speechless for a moment, so he had to change the subject: "Does the Prime Minister know? Your Majesty will be here tomorrow. You will be ignorant and hope that the Prime Minister will exercise great power."
"Everything was done by the general," Xiao Lu shook the moonlight wine glass: "His Majesty came to me. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if I did it?"
Zhao Fuli looked at the guard behind Xiao Lu, and finally helplessly had to arrange it from his order.
The next day, all officials of Xuncheng stood neatly outside the gate. Under the arrangement of Zhao Fuli, the people also practiced the laughter of "Welcome to the Tao" over and over again.
"Woo~" The royal horn sounded, and all the officials knelt aside, Xiao Lu and Zhao Fuli knelt in the center. To be honest, the officials didn't take the emperor seriously at all, they just wanted to give Yang Min, who was in power, a face.
Just listening to the old eunuch's drinking high: "The emperor is driving!"
Long Yan was placed gently in the central government. The old emperor Teli revealed his body with the help of eunuchs, and then slowly stood up.
"Emperor Xie!" The shocking emperor's ears hurt, and the momentum had completely covered him.
The ministers escorted the emperor to the prefect's mansion, where he would be received according to royal standards, even though Taili didn't have a few bites.
Terry looked at everyone in the audience and soon noticed Xiao Lu. So he made confusing remarks: "Xiao Lu, you did a good job!"
Everyone was confused by the sudden words. Most people thought that the emperor was here to hold the emperor responsible for the defeat. Only Xiao Lu knew clearly that the emperor must have listened to the slander and made some strange accusations against him.
Terry dragged his old body to his feet and threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground. Everyone present knelt down in shock. Although there were troops behind Xiao Lu, he still knelt down according to etiquette.
"Xiao Lu! You ungrateful person, if I hadn't helped you, you would have been a slave for the rest of your life! Not only did you not want to repay your kindness and serve the country, but you took advantage of my serious illness to have an all-night affair with the queen. What are your intentions?"
The old eunuch on the side continued to encourage: "This is a crime of great disrespect. According to the "Taiwei Law", he will be executed at Lingchi and the nine tribes will be exterminated. Does Prime Minister Xiao know?"
Xiao Luhan was stunned. Although he had already made plans, he didn't expect that the nobles would make a fuss about the dead queen. Xiao Lu always made suggestions for the queen, and he even jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't clean himself up.
"I am not guilty. I hope your Majesty will find out the truth so that the hearts of the scholars in the world will not be chilled..." Xiao Lu could only try his best to defend himself.
As for other things, Terry would not care even if he was defeated and surrendered. But it's not okay to fight for women with him. Although he is old, his pursuit of "love" is no less than that of a young man in his twenties.
Terry twitched his beard and shouted angrily: "Kill him for me! Kill him for me!"
Although it was an oral order from the emperor, except for a few eunuchs, all the soldiers at the scene obeyed Xiao Lu's orders, so they stayed put and no one took action.
Terry was extremely embarrassed for a moment. As an emperor, he could not even order his pawns. Where was his face? He quickly looked at Zhao Fuli who was standing aside: "General Wei! You! I allow you to smash it to pieces with those hammers!"
"Your Majesty!" Zhao Fuli saluted on one knee: "Prime Minister Xiao is indeed innocent. I hope that your Majesty will investigate the case thoroughly and the innocent will self-acquit themselves." He understood that Xiao Lu, who held military power, should be relied upon more than this emperor in name only.
With an intention, it became a lightly written joke. Terry's face was really unbearable, and he turned red with anger: "A bunch of traitors and traitors! Traitors and traitors!" After that, he walked down the steps tremblingly, pulled out the sword on the guard's waist: "I will kill you! I want you to pay with your life!"
Xiao Lu puffed up his chest: "Why does your majesty want me to pay for it with my life? Who is related to the death of the queen? Is it possible that your majesty doesn't know?"
"It's you, you are you!" Terry behaved like a scoundrel, clumsily playing with his sword a few times: "How could I allow you to be the prime minister? You are clearly without a father, no king, no talent and no virtue!"
"His Majesty is the father of the monarch and the father of the people in the world, so everyone has a father." Xiao Lu said back.
Tali completely broke the defense and threw the sword in front of Xiao Lu: "Jun wants to die, the ministers have to die, the father wants to die, and the son has to die! Since you say that he is the father of the world, then the father of the king is the father of the king. My identity orders you to kill yourself immediately to apologize!"
He tried his best to serve the court, but in exchange for this cold sentence of death, Xiao Lu looked at the sword on the ground, his heart was overturned, and he muttered in a low voice: "Don't force me... Don't force me..."
"Don't you dare? Then let me give you a ride myself!" Just as Terry was about to bend down to pick up the sword, he suddenly thought of the so-called power of the emperor and ordered loudly: "You eunuch! Pick it up for me!" The old man The eunuch was lying on the ground like a dog and gently passed the sword to Tele.
Tali held a short sword and slowly walked into Xiao Lu: "I want to take revenge for the dead queen!"
Probably out of the instinct of survival, Xiao Lu squeezed Terry's hand and murmured in his mouth: "Don't force me ... you don't force me ..."
"I just want to force you! I just want to kill you!" Taili used all his strength to fight with Xiao Lu crazily. Everyone was afraid, and no one dared to stop him.
Xiao Lu's tense nerves suddenly exploded. In his prime, he twisted Terry's wrist and completely moved the sword's edge.
"Poof——" He did not expect that the dagger directly pierced Emperor Taili's heart, and blood spurted out from the wound, splattering all over Xiao Lu's body. Emperor Terry opened his eyes wide and looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, then fell to the ground, his dragon robe completely soaked in blood.
Xiao Lu was stunned. He didn't want to kill the emperor, and he didn't want to bear this eternal infamy! But now it's too late. He felt sweating all over his body and stared blankly at the blood on his hands. He understood that it was too late...
The old eunuch hurriedly threw himself on Tai Li's body and cried to Xiao Lu: "Xiao Lu... you... how dare you kill the king!"
Xiao Lu was completely driven crazy. Looking at the emperor's corpse in front of him, instead of feeling anything, he raised the corners of his mouth sinisterly and killed the remaining eunuchs with his hands. All the soldiers, including Su Zhanqing and Zhao Fuli, were frightened and could not recover for a long time.
"No one is allowed to spread what happened today, otherwise... I will kill him!" Xiao Lu said coldly, licking the blood from the corner of his mouth. The soldiers kowtowed hurriedly, saying that they would never make a sound.
Even so, Xiao Lu was still a little scared, so he decided to take Su Zhanqing and other soldiers to escape from Xicheng all night. His goal is to escape to the land of Xiliang nomads, where there may be a glimmer of hope.
It was a coincidence that Zhao Fuli wrote a secret letter that night, telling Yang Min everything about the emperor's death. But he didn't know what kind of chain response would this be produced after the letter arrived in Yang Min, and even directly changed the pattern of the entire world.
To be continued…
