Thirty-two years later, Jingzhe was awakened.
When he woke up in the morning, Jiang Yixue received a letter from Yin Shang.
This was the third letter written by Yin Shang to him since the two separated for more than a year. When Li Min gave it to him, he was still a little in disbelief. He hurriedly took it before he got up to wash up, and opened it carefully to read it.
It was still a familiar handwriting, but it was a little more sloppy than before. Seeing the word "Axue" at the beginning, Jiang Yixue couldn't help but show a gentle smile and looked down again.
"Axue, are you okay?
The current situation is critical. The battle between Dongpei and Lingzi has shown signs of decline. I have recalled the Qi Huiwei stationed in Dongpei.
To me, they are not just slaves and guards, but also my people in Qi Hui. I cannot give up on anyone, so Li Min is among them. Soon he will temporarily return to Dongpei to settle down.
But you don't need to worry, I have not forgotten the promise I made to you. All you have to do is protect yourself and wait for me to come to you.
Don't miss it.
Yin Shang. "
After reading the last word, Jiang Yixue reached out and touched the place where the name was written at the end of the article, then put the letter paper together with the other two letters and pressed it under the pillow.
Seeing that he had finished reading, Li Min came forward with some hesitation and said: "Your Highness..."
Jiang Yixue said in a gentle voice, "When are you leaving?"
Li Min paused and said, "Tomorrow night, there will be someone outside the palace to meet you." Seeing Jiang Yixue's calm expression, he couldn't help but said, "His Royal Highness, he just cares about us, it's not that he doesn't care about you."
He had been with Jiang Yixue for more than a year, and he had always been very kind to him. Now that he was recalled at this critical moment, he was in a safe situation, but he couldn't help but worry that he was alone.
"I know," Jiang Yixue smiled, her cyan eyes filled with pure seriousness, "You don't need to say this, I believe her."
After thinking about it, he added: "She...she is very good. This is what she should do as the Crown Prince of Qi Hui. In such a situation, it is dangerous for you to be with me. If something goes wrong, how can you stay in Lingzi?" Protect me under a thousand troops? Why not go back to Qi Hui and take care of yourself, maybe we can see you again in the future."
Hearing this, Li Min also breathed a sigh of relief, showed a sincere smile, and said: "Thank you for your understanding... You really think about what our Highness thinks. I hope you can reunite soon."
"Yes," he stared at the wooden window not far away, and murmured again, "Yes."
Li Min's departure went smoothly. After all, everything inside and outside the capital was already in a state of panic, and no one had time to pay attention to an inconspicuous palace official.
However, within two days after Li Min left, the number of guards around Mingxue Pavilion suddenly increased several times, patrolling day and night, and stationed in front of Jiang Yixue Palace.
Under this situation, Jiang Yixue's usually calm heart became a little panicked.
After all, Dong Pei didn't have many days left now, but Jiang Yiyu used his insufficient manpower to look after him. He said he was protecting him but he didn't believe it, but he could only look after him and do whatever he wanted to do with him.
He was worried for a moment and couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Fortunately, he didn't wait long. When it was almost Qingming, he found that there were suddenly fewer guards around him. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he also secretly guessed that the war situation had been decided and he was unable to change it, so he would be of no use.
Sure enough, at dusk, Jiang Yiyu suddenly broke into his palace with a knife and beat him angrily. Finally, he pointed the sword at him and cursed bitterly: "Useless thing! It's all in vain. I brought you back to the east." Pei!"
He always carried the aloof demeanor of a prince, graceful and dignified, but this was the first time Jiang Yixue saw him looking so embarrassed - disheveled clothes, disheveled hair, and red eyes.
Hearing this, Jiang Yixue still sat calmly in front of the case and said quietly: "I didn't ask you to bring me back."
If it weren't for him, he should be by Yin Shang's side now,
Thinking of this, Jiang Yixue's calm eyes turned cold and cold, and she looked at the other party for a moment.
"Hahahaha..." Jiang Yiyu laughed wildly and mocked: "You are so calm, you don't think someone is coming to save you, do you? Zhan Lubo? Or Yin Shang?"
He waved the sword in his hand and said to himself: "No, it can't be Zhan Lubo. He came to Dongpei to present your portrait to his father. If I hadn't seen your face, why would I have come all the way? Bring you back? He doesn’t really want to take you away, and he doesn’t want Yin Shang to take you away... Oh..."
He showed a look of realization and said, "You think Yin Shang will come to save you."
Jiang Yiyu took a few steps closer, came face to face with his face, and said word by word: "You are dreaming..." After saying this, he took a few steps back in an exaggerated manner, with a crazy look on his face, and shouted: "You are dreaming! "
"No one will come to save us... It's over! It's over!"
"You are really useless, Jiang Yixue... a lowly prostitute's son. He has a beautiful appearance, but he doesn't even have a chance to be a bargaining chip... Do you know how many envoys we sent to Lingzi?"
His face was ferocious and regretful: "King Lingzi is lustful and licentious. I wanted to offer you to him in order to save Dongpei's chance of survival, but he was not deceived by you? This is impossible..."
"Who is protecting you behind your back?"
As he talked, he figured out the joints. He was filled with jealousy and asked sternly: "Who is protecting you from behind?!"
However, Jiang Yixue remained calm and sat there, watching indifferently as he talked to himself uncontrollably.
He went crazy where he was, and soon knelt on the ground in despair, saying: "But now it's all over... it's all over..."
After a long time, Jiang Yixue said, "Is Jiang Mingwu defeated?"
"Defeated?" Jiang Yiyu's voice was hoarse, and his tone was full of ridicule, "How has he ever been defeated? He abandoned the city with his confidants in the border town and fled, giving up the entire Dongpei."
Jiang Yiyu's tone was filled with anger and sorrow, as if it was still difficult to accept this fact.
However, Jiang Yixue was not surprised, and her expression remained indifferent, saying, "It's his style."
Nothing is as important as himself, and he has long understood this.
…
The news that King Dongpei had abandoned the city came with Lingzi's army, which didn't even give everyone in the palace time to escape.
When Jiang Yiyu arrived, both inside and outside the palace were already heavily surrounded by Lingzi's advance Qingqi. They only waited for Zhan Luzhen and Zhan Lubo to arrive before they went straight into the palace and captured the royal family.
...No wonder he said it all.
Jiang Yixue's thoughts were confused, her eyes were fixed on the open wooden window in the palace, and she was speechless for a moment.
…
The suffocating wait did not last long. At noon on the Qingming Festival, Zhan Lubo and Zhan Luzhen led the Lingzi army to Jingsu, the capital of Dongpei.
Jiang Yiyu was helpless and sat silently waiting for death. Only the eldest king Ji Jiang Yiqiong led the imperial army to make a last-ditch effort, but still to no avail. Zhan Luzhen was beheaded by his horse and died for his country.
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The drizzle is continuous, and the path to Sioux City is broken.
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There was a chaos of fighting outside, and the screams and pleas for mercy from the palace residents filled every corner of the palace.
The broken door of Fuyuzhai opened, and Jiang Yixue knelt down calmly in front of her mother's grave and burned the paper for her again.
It was still drizzling in the sky, and the ignited fire was moving wildly. It seemed that it was about to go out, but it burned up again in an instant.
"Mother, I might have to leave."
He was soaked in the rain, his voice was slightly hoarse, and the corners of his mouth were slightly curved: "Don't worry, I know you don't like it here. As long as I can live, I will definitely come back and take you away... You don't have to worry about me, I believe Yin Shang, she will Come to me."
The paper money gradually burned out and the flames went out. Jiang Yixue frowned, with a trace of pity in his eyes, and said, "If it doesn't work... If it doesn't work, you can take me away. I miss you too..."
As he spoke, his voice weakened, but after a few breaths of silence, he said unwillingly: "Please bless me... Mother, I want to go to her."
Following the low voice, a drizzle of breeze blew past my eyes, and the ashes of the paper money were blown up and scattered in all directions.
Jiang Yixue looked up, but before he could react, there was a heavy sound of the door being pushed down behind him. He immediately looked back and saw Zhan Lubo walking in with a team of people.
As soon as he saw him, Zhan Lubo showed a proud smile and said, "So you are here."
Jiang Yixue showed no expression, just stared at the rain-wet dust on the ground in the distance.
Zhan Lubo stood at the door and stared at him through the thin rain curtain. After a year of not seeing each other, his appearance had improved to a higher level - his cheeks were as thick as water and moon, porcelain white and soft, The beauty is astonishing. The rain has wet his forehead and clings to his face, showing a fragile and messy beauty, but his expression is indifferent, as if he is unattainable.
Seeing this, Zhan Lubo grinned a vicious smile, stepped forward, and picked up his face with the blood-stained sword edge, instantly staining his flawless face.
He said in a deep voice: "No one will come to save you today."
Seeing that the other party was still silent, Zhan Lubo continued: "Yin Shang saved you before, but you didn't confuse her with this face, but now that Yin Shang is the heir, you don't still want her to marry you, right?"
Hearing this name, Jiang Yixue's eyes moved slightly, filled with coldness.
"You are just a man who has subjugated his country now. It is impossible for Yin Shang to go against Lingzi for you... Nowadays, there are many people who covet the position of Prince Qi Hui, and even Lingzi is no exception."
He was extremely calm, and there was even a hint of sincerity in his words, but it was quickly replaced by ridicule: "In short, it is possible for anyone, but it can't be you." He pointedly said, slowly: "A person with nothing but beauty. The dead king’s minister.”
After hearing what he meant, Jiang Yixue's face turned pale, and her hands hanging by her sides were trembling.
Zhan Lubo smiled with satisfaction, and his tone became even more vicious, and he deliberately said: "But you are also lucky. You have such a face, which made my father fall in love with you when he saw your portrait. He sent troops to Dongpei for you. This time, I want you by name."
"I think it won't be a problem for you to survive in the future, but I don't know how many people will you have to move around in?"
Upon hearing such nonsense, Jiang Yixue should have been filled with anger and hatred, but what came out first was what Jiang Yiyu said in his palace a few days ago.
Portrait...Messenger...
For a moment, Jiang Yixue's mind was like a red furnace, and she suddenly realized everything she had never thought about before.
Why did Jiang Yiyu say that the envoys sent out never came back... Because King Lingzi didn't want to start a war at all, he just wanted him, so he sent Zhan Lubo to capture him, but he deliberately let him go when he was pouring water. They finally used a trick to send him back to Dongpei.
Dongpei saw his appearance and felt that he was valuable. Later, when the battle of Dongpei was about to break out, Jiang Mingwu kept trying to sacrifice him to save himself.
King Lingzi and Jiang Mingwu came up with the idea of treating him as a bargaining chip, one pretending to be a threat, and the other someone in need of sacrifice, but in the end the battle still broke out.
It was Zhan Lubo who made it possible.
It was he who intercepted the news from the two countries or made false reports, which led King Lingzi to think that Dongpei did not want to make friends with him. In anger, he ordered him to lead the troops to go to war.
...No, Zhan Lubo can kill the Lingzi envoy, but he may not be able to keep the Dongpei envoy at bay.
It's Yin Shang...
It was jointly promoted by Zhan Lubo and Yin Shang.
Seeing his eyes widen slightly, Zhan Lubo knew that he understood something and said without hesitation: "Even Yin Shang treats you as a pawn, so do you think she will come to save you?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Jiang Yixue softened her expression, looked at him calmly, and said her first words in a long time: "Tell me, why did she treat me as a pawn?"
Zhan Lubo raised his eyebrows and said patiently: "She stopped the Dongpei envoy and helped Lingzi start a war against Dongpei. Not to mention what she wanted to do after her death. Now, Jiang Yixue, you are the excuse to start the war. The chief culprit of Dongpei’s destruction of the country.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yixue smiled, as if deeply aware of the absurdity of this statement, and said: "You started the war because of your ambition, what does it have to do with me? Yin Shang stopped Dongpei's envoy because he tried his best to protect me and didn't want me. I was sent to the royal family to be trained and chastened, which showed me how much I love you. As for the battle between the two countries, I also accept the victory and defeat, but if you want to say that I am the chief culprit of Dongpei's destruction, are you looking down too much? Me?"
Zhan Lubo frowned and said, "She helped me destroy your mother country. You don't hate her at all?"
"Hate her?" Jiang Yixue smiled, with a face so radiant that it almost eclipsed the world, and said, "Dongpei was never considered my motherland. I couldn't even love her."
Zhan Lubo's tone was unsteady, and he was already a little angry, and said: "Even if the royal family treats you badly, how can the people who are displaced by the war deserve it? What do the soldiers and soldiers who can only obey orders deserve? What do the palace attendants and guards deserve? You are Dong Pei. Wang Qing, don’t you care at all?”
Jiang Yixue frowned, looked at him with a confused look, and said, "Isn't this all your fault?"
"You!" Zhan Lubo was so angry that he raised the weapon in his hand and was about to stab him, but was stopped by his subordinate with sharp eyes and quick hands, who advised him: "Your Highness, this is the person the king wants, please think twice!"
Zhan Lubo turned around and broke away from his subordinates, pointed his sword at him and said loudly: "It doesn't matter what happened in the past. Now that you have fallen into my hands, don't even think about escaping easily. As for Yin Shang, who you miss so much." , my people have gone to Qihui to negotiate with her, she won’t come to save you, so just give up on this idea.”
However, after hearing this, Jiang Yixue still looked calmly and looked at him calmly. Zhan Lubo threw down his weapon angrily, turned around and walked out the door, saying hatefully: "Take him away!"
