"...The future of this great Chu Chaotang will belong to my Song family."
Song Wenfeng took great advantage of his son's words, nodded and said with a smile: "After Sun Shiji's death, I should take another step forward. I advise your Majesty to rectify this smoky court. In the end, this great Chu country depends on me and other aristocratic families. If the big clan comes to support us, what can we do with just those vulgar warriors and farm slaves? In the future, under the leadership of Fu Zuo, the head of the three generations of the Song family, Da Chu will once again become the leader of the world."
"If I hadn't come here tonight, I wouldn't have known that Mr. Song had such great ambitions." An old voice came from the meeting hall where there were supposed to be only three people.
The candles went out and the hall became dark.
Immediately, the lights came back on, and Lu Dantian, the only master of swordsmanship in Western Chu and the commander of the Imperial Guards of the Empress, suddenly appeared on the left-hand seat in the Song Mansion's meeting hall.
Knowing that the personal guard who usually guarded the empress was here for good reasons, Song Wenfeng was able to stand firm in the Western Chu court and show his excellent skills in knocking him down.
The first time he saw Lu Dantian, he immediately stood up from his seat and scolded: "Lu Dantian, you sneaked into my house late at night. Do you want to have evil intentions? Aren't you afraid that I will give you a copy tomorrow morning?"
"If I hadn't read Mr. Song's letter to Southern Xinjiang, I would have really thought that Mr. Song was a great minister of the country." While speaking, Lu Dantian took out a stack of letters and put them on the table.
"That's it!" Song Qingshan's expression changed drastically when he saw the pile of letters on the table, and he exclaimed.
Song Maolin, who had never spoken, also looked pale.
Lu Dantian said: "When Chu was destroyed and Zhao Yi entered the capital, after so many years, only half of the city defense formation was destroyed. It was the old man who took the initiative to inform the inside story of the formation. The old man is a good trick. One thing is divided into I sold two copies, and both sold for a sky-high price. I really admire them."
Song Wenfeng's face turned green and white, "I wonder what your Majesty plans to do with me?"
Lu Danchen smiled and said, "Sir, Mr. Song, there is no need to panic. After all, the Song family is a prominent family in Western Chu. Your Majesty, for the sake of Chu and the Song family, you still have to leave some dignity for everyone."
As he spoke, Lu Danchen swung his sword and smashed the letter in his hand into pieces.
Song Wenfeng asked: "Then what do you want to do here?"
"Your Majesty asked me to hand this thing over to the old man." After saying that, Lu Danchen took out his own parcel, took out a wooden box, and placed it on the table.
Seeing this wooden box, Song Wenfeng shrank, pretended to be calm, and opened the wooden box with trembling hands.
I saw three small porcelain bottles placed quietly in the box.
Song Wenfeng seemed to have aged more than ten years in an instant, and still wanted to fight to the death, and said: "Tomorrow I will write my resignation, and the three of us will retire and return to our hometown together. No one from the three generations of my Song family will appear in the court again. "
Lu Dantian naturally knew what Song Wenfeng was thinking, and said with a smile: "Mr. Song is dissatisfied with the imperial court. After all, the Song family is still a prominent family in Chu, and they have contributed a lot to the restoration of the country. How can your majesty treat you so little? Come here. Before, His Majesty specially told the old minister, if Mr. Song doesn’t want to be decent, then let me help you look decent. Mr. Song, please.”
"Where are the other two families?" Song Wenfeng looked at the porcelain bottle in his hand and felt the coldness on the bottle.
Lu Dantian replied: "The other two families have their own dedicated personnel to help them. After all, Mr. Song is my great minister of Chu, so I must come to see it off in person."
"Alas, Your Majesty, we all underestimated you." After a long sigh, Song Wenfeng drank the contents of the bottle in one gulp.
Then he collapsed in his seat, his face turned black, and he drooped weakly. The porcelain bottle fell to the ground and rolled a few times on the blue tile floor.
"You two, please." After confirming that Song Wenfeng was dead, Lu Dantian said to Song Qingshan and Song Maolin.
Among the father and son, Song Qingshan picked up the celadon vase from the box first. He was silent for a long time, glanced at Song Qingshan, and said, "Father..."
Go with his father.
"Your Majesty..." Song Maolin followed Song Qingshan and left.
The housekeeper of the Song family pushed open the door and entered. First he saw the corpses of the three members of the Song family. He looked shocked at first. The first time he saw Lu Dantian, he saluted respectfully: "Your Excellency."
Lu Dantian said indifferently: "Mr. Song, his son Song Qingshan, and his grandson Song Maolin were drinking in the mansion to celebrate the success of our Great Chu's Southern Expedition. They were poisoned and assassinated by Zhao Gou's spies from Liyang. The three generations died together. You can make up the rest. .”
"Yes." When the Song Mansion's housekeeper looked up again, Lu Dantian's figure was no longer in sight, and he disappeared together with the three porcelain bottles and the wooden box.
After gathering his emotions, the housekeeper cried and threw himself at Song Wenfeng's body, "Master~"
There is a lake in the northwest corner of the Imperial City of Western Chu. The lake is not big, but it is well-known and has an interesting name. It is called "Jianghu" because it is said that the small lake is bottomless and its water source is connected to the Guangling River outside the capital.
Jiang Si, the empress of Western Chu, was dressed in simple and elegant palace clothes. She was sitting in a pavilion by the lake. There was no one around and everything was silent.
There were stacks of copper coins in front of him, some old and new, some big and some small.
She was so beautiful that she looked at those copper coins and wandered thousands of miles away.
The past events reappeared in my mind one by one, including moving books to study by myself, and tidying up the vegetable garden in Wudang Mountain.
"Your Majesty." Lu Dantian came back and interrupted Jiang Si's recollection.
The empress immediately returned to her usual dignified appearance in the court and asked, "How did things go?"
Lu Dantian reported back: "Lao Song and others are already on their way."
"Yes." The empress nodded and clarified the matter: "The capital has been a little uneasy recently. Unwilling to fail, Liyang sent Zhao Gou to infiltrate secretly. Mr. Song and others were brutally murdered. Grandpa Lu was also a member of the Yulin Army. As for the responsibility of the guards, General Zhenbei and the others will return to the court in a short time. Grandpa Lu must be more vigilant."
"I sincerely obey your Majesty's instructions."
After Lu Dantian left, the empress put the copper coins in her sleeves and looked at the calm lake. "I think back then, our country in Chu had Li Mi, the best player in the world, Ye Bai Kui, a soldier in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Li Chungang, who flew across the Guangling River with a sword. , there is Qi Lianhua who suddenly appears, there is Zhao Dingxiu who is the best in the world of calligraphy, there is Wang Qing who is the most popular poet in Beijing, there is Cao Changqing who is the most proud of the Cao family, there is Sun Xiji who is in the center of the center at a weak age, and there is Sun Xiji who is wearing purple and yellow. Zeng Xianglin, the most polite person in the world, and Tang Jiahe, who is proficient in hundreds of schools of thought... I, Da Chu, can be said to have dominated all the people of the Spring and Autumn Period. Now... alas~"
Jiang Si took out several reports collected by Su Wei during this period.
These reports respectively wrote about the situation in Beiliang, Liyang, and Beimang, as well as the news that Aoxiao Hongchen defeated the top ten masters in Liyang and Beimang.
What really worries Jiang Si is a message that has been widely circulated in the Xichu market recently, saying that the empress Jiang Si is actually a roadside orphan girl that Cao Changqing found randomly, and she was only raised to satisfy Cao Changqing's selfish desire to serve as the emperor's master. Get up puppet.
"Li Yang is still thinking about fighting for power and profit before he is destroyed. I hope everyone will restrain themselves after this incident, otherwise..." A ray of light shot out from Empress Zi's eyes.
The light was like sword energy, crossing the rivers and lakes, piercing the two birds above the lake in one fell swoop.
