Chapter 3: Troubled Times

How can a woman be an emperor!

Zhan Changfeng suddenly was not worth it for the imperial aunt and for himself, and the already withered country was even more distorted in her eyes.

What is the use of such a world?

For the first time, Zhan Changfeng had an idea that did not fit her status as a prince.

"What should I do if I summon the Imperial Aunt back?" she asked again.

The old emperor was shrewd and wise, "She is not married and is already out of line, and she will choose a good one among the disciples of the family for her, and then she will have a husband to control her, and the children will pester her, so naturally she will not have the energy to march and fight." ”

Speaking of this, the old emperor pondered for a moment, "But recently, there has been a rampant bandit in Qushan, and there are many rebels, so you may let her rectify it first." ”

"The grandson was taught. Zhan Changfeng bowed his head and hid her expression.

"You still have a lot to learn," the old emperor said again, "In the future, the world of the Yi family will be yours, and the bloodline of the Yi family will also depend on you." ”

Zhan Changfeng did not ask Yi Shangsheng's son if he could inherit the throne, and the answer was obviously obvious, no.

The child of the daughter of the Yi family is not the Yi family, even if he/she sheds half of the Yi family's blood.

Just like, the daughter of the Yi family's man, spilled the water.

At the beginning of the forty-sixth year of Chengming, the old emperor issued eight edicts to let the emperor and the general of the south return to the capital, but unfortunately none of the eight envoys went to Xifeng City smoothly, and the edict could not reach Yi Shang.

It wasn't until more than half a year later that Ling Huaizhi became the ninth messenger.

He raised his eyes and looked at the city in the distance, and he was a handsome and elegant man, but he was now covered with wind and frost.

Xifeng City is located on the southern border, near the Yidi tribe.

The civil strife in the three southern states subsided, but the external troubles just started, fortunately, Yi Shang had the foresight to build a city on the border between the two tribes a few years ago and set up a defensive line.

Xifeng City means to stop fighting, but in fact, wolf smoke is frequent, and even the city wall is a dull color, as if it was brushed up layer by layer with blood.

There was a row of long poles in front of the city, and on each pole hung a shriveled or fresh human head, like a series of black lanterns, Ling Huaizhi didn't dare to look at it, only stared at the closed city gate.

The soldiers behind the female wall stood upright, looking down at him with sharp eyes, but no one said a word.

Ling Huaizhi is a noble son in the imperial city, known as a talent, but where has he encountered such a battle, holding back his heart, he insisted on adding two scarlets to his face that could not see his complexion.

There was a guard on it who spoke, and a loud and evil voice forced him, "Who is the Wuna, sneaky, report it quickly, otherwise don't blame me for shooting mercilessly!"

As he spoke, dozens of arrows were already aimed at him.

What else could he do, he had to lose the reserve of the prince of the family, and shouted at the top of his voice, "I am the emperor's envoy Ling Huaizhi!

The poor noble boy waded through the poor mountains and rivers for three months, was robbed, lost his horse, ran away from the servants, died of the guards, his black hair was knotted, his mouth was cracked with half of his face, and his voice was broken, and he knew what he was shouting.

The guard waved his hand impatiently, "Go away, the refugee camp is three miles away, go by yourself!"

Ling Huaizhi's eyes widened, and he wanted to debate with him, but as soon as he took half a step, an arrow was nailed in front of him, full of murderous aura!

"Get out!"

"You, you!" Ling Huaizhi threw his sleeves away angrily, and didn't go far before he was planted on the ground due to hunger.

... What is this called!

The noble prince has been tormented by months of suffering and has no temper, and it is already very lucky that he can come here, instead of being in a different place like his predecessors, thinking of this, he can only sigh, reluctantly get up, go to find a water source, and then wash his face, comb his hair, and come to the city gate again.

"I'm the Emperor's envoy!" he shouted over and over again, waving a bright yellow decree.

The guard said something to the people beside him, and after half a ring, a crack was opened in the city gate, and a soldier came out, "Give me the holy decree for the general to distinguish between the truth and the false." ”

Stronger than people, Ling Huaizhi had to bow his head and hand over the holy decree, he just wanted to enter the city with the soldiers, but was stopped.

"You can't get in yet, and you're waiting here!"

"Don't deceive people too much!" Ling Huaizhi finally said angrily.

As if looking at a fool, the soldier did not argue with him, and directly closed the city gates. There are so many spies, who knows if you are a good person, and you really think that Fengcheng is a vegetable market.

Ling Huaizhi was dizzy, leaning against the city wall to recuperate, but he couldn't resist the smell of rot and weirdness that got into his nose, he touched the wall, it was damp and cold, and when he opened his palm, there was a faint amount of blood.

He was a little farther away from the wall, and stood drowsily, for three or four hours, snapped, and fell to the ground.

When he woke up again, he saw the curtain of the bed, and suddenly he felt a sense of it.

It just so happened that there was a knock on the door, "Envoy Ling, the general wants to see you." ”

He found that he had been cleaned up, and he just needed to put on his clothes and organize his description, but as soon as he stepped out of the threshold, he couldn't stop hesitating, and after all, he was still a little afraid.

He wouldn't be naΓ―ve enough to think that Emperor Ji would be able to settle down and return to the capital with him.

"Ling Huaizhi, see Your Highness. He bowed his hands and looked at his feet.

"There is no His Highness here, only a general. ”

Double ten women, red robes and black armor, stand upright, at a glance, lonely and indifferent. Ling Huaizhi almost thought that he had recognized the wrong person.

β€œ... Checkmate. "He made up his mind, although the holy decree has reached Yi Shang's hands, he also has to fulfill his mission," the minister was ordered to come, asking the general to hand over the affairs of Xifeng, and return to the imperial city with the minister. ”

"Okay. Yi Shang seemed to be answering an inconsequential request.

"Your Majesty misses you very much, besides, Qushan needs you..."Ling Huaizhi suddenly paused, a little incredulous, she agreed, she actually agreed so easily?!

Ling Huaizhi retired in a trance, and things went smoothly to make him uncomfortable.

Yi Shang chuckled, picked up the cloth and wiped the spear, the shiny spear head was poured with thousands of lives, and the lonely cold light of winter fell on it, colder than ice.

This is the deep pool, which carries the worldly love, hatred, and hatred, and this is the abyss, before which everything important or small will become insignificant.

This is the end.

A white plum blossom floats down the branches, the breeze is swaying, and the gentleman is tall.

Seeing the smile on the corner of her mouth, Mei Yichi frowned slightly, and once again proposed her invitation, "Follow me back to the mountain, the road is open." ”

Her laughter is the indifference and desolation after seeing through the red dust, which makes the younger generations desperate for no reason, and her peers sigh and sigh with relief, which is the feeling that only people who are experiencing this era of life and soul understand.

But Mei Yichi doesn't understand, he was born in the spring and snow, grew up in the arc of Hao Mountain, immersed in the Taoist precepts, everything in the world is like seeing the water across the mountains to him, he can't understand the entangled love of the world, and doesn't understand their pursuit of firewood, rice, oil, salt or power and wealth.

Of course, he didn't intend to understand, but he met Yi Shang, a woman who was still up and down in this world.

The Dao heart trapped in the world made him seem to see the pearl that had been thrown into the tattered pile.

However, she only admits that she is a general.

"You're going to die. Mei Yichi saw her future.

"Of course I'm going to die. ”

"Come with me. ”

Yi Shang pursed her lips, "I don't know what you keep saying is, and I don't know what reason I have to leave with you, I only know that the reason why I am who I am now is because of my choice and perseverance." ”

"Is there such a nostalgia in the mortal world?" Mei Yichi was puzzled.

"Nostalgia?" Yi Shang thought amused, "On the contrary, I hate it. ”

"I hated war, I hated the stupid and cowardly people, I hated the calculations of the court, and I even wanted to abandon this endless life, but I never flinched. ”

Yi Shang said, "War is for the sake of the family and country, the stupid and cowardly people will try their best to survive, there are loyal people in the court, such a life may not end one day, they didn't make me despair, how dare I let them down." ”

Mei Yichi was silent, he wanted to say a word obsessively, but he couldn't say anything.

Human affairs are much more complicated than the morality of the scriptures.

Ling Huaizhi knew that it was not that simple, he went to ask when he would leave every day, and the reply he got was always a lot of things, and he hadn't handed over yet.

Except for the first time, he had never seen Yi Shang's figure at all.

He also recalled the palace banquet of the Zhongyuan Festival, when the Yin Dynasty was still peaceful, she was a graceful and luxurious emperor on the high platform, with a dignified demeanor and admiration.

Could it be that staying in the palace and being a serving emperor is worse than such impermanence of life and death?

She's not a man.

Ling Huaizhi spent more than a month in the heavily guarded General's Mansion, and finally squatted at the gate and arrested Yi Shang.

When it was, Yi Xiang's armor was stained with blood, and a strand of hair next to her sideburns brushed her cold cheeks, bringing the smell of blood.

Ling Huaizhi couldn't help but take a step forward, "Your Highness, I am pleased with you!"

So... His Adam's apple rolled, and the rest of the words were swallowed up by her clear and indifferent eyes.

So can you go back to the capital with me, and I'll give you a stable home.

Yi Sheng glanced at him and strode towards the study, followed by the generals behind him.

The generals looked at the "little white face" inexplicably, shook their heads, and ignored them no more.

Yi Shang and his generals rearranged their troops around the topographic map, and just an hour earlier, their grain and grass troops had been robbed by the Yidi tribe, and later they had an encounter on the southeast trail.

Recently, there have been too many small movements of the Yidi tribe, and I am afraid that there will be a war.

After the discussion, a general joked, "The one in the imperial city has used beauty tricks to let you go back, it's really interesting." ”

"Hey, how can such a little white face be worthy of our general. ”

Someone touched his beard, "The case is full of children and grandchildren, and the old man is extremely envious." ”

The atmosphere was quiet.

Yi Shang is as immobile as a mountain, "The national disaster is at the head, and the others are not enough to mention." ”

"The general is right. ”

The generals were relieved and retired one after another.

"I'll just say, how could the general abandon us. ”

"It's no wonder I'm worried, women are always slow about stability, content with three meals a day, if the general is tired for a while and suddenly wants to go back to get married, what should happen to this side of Xinjiang?"

Everyone has no good color for Ling Huaizhi who is hovering at the door of the crescent moon, and a man knows that his children are long.

Mei Yichi has been following Yi Sheng incognito, and sighed as if nothing at this time, "He is sincere to you, and he is reluctant to let you suffer." ”

Yi Shang didn't react to who he was talking about for a while, and when he reacted, he didn't feel anything, "I heard that the son of Youcheng is a talented and virtuous person, and it turns out that there are always deviations in the words of the world." ”

If her impression of Ling Huaizhi before stayed on the son of Youcheng, now she can't help but look down on it a little more.

Ling Huai went all the way from the imperial city to Xifeng, full of embarrassment, he experienced the cruelty of this era, but for more than a month, he didn't care about the displacement of the people, didn't ask about Yidi's disputes, he was bent on bringing her back to the capital, and even went to the kitchen to cook soup to please her, I really don't know whether to say that he has a big heart, or ignore current affairs.

"Shouldn't you be moved?" Mei Yichi felt that human beings were really complicated.

"What am I touched?"

Mei Yichi solemnly took out a notebook from his arms, "I look at the story in my view, whenever there is 'may you have a stable life'." Avoid you from being displaced', the heroine will be thrilled and find a lifelong home, which I think is the key to the relationship between men and women. ”

Yi Sheng twitched the corners of his mouth, looking at his natural appearance, he couldn't help but sigh a little, how could a good flower go astray so quickly.

She threw away the notebook and said earnestly, "Novels and stories are all lies, don't be gullible." ”

"You want to get a taste of the world?"

Mei Yichi nodded.

He was very frustrated that he failed to bring Yi Shang back to Arc Hao Mountain, and he was a little more curious about the world, so he wanted to know more.

Yi Shang thought thoughtfully, "No matter how much you see, it's better to experience it yourself." ”

She said, "How about I lend you an identity?"

"Huh?"

"Didn't you say that Ling Huaizhi was sincere to me, why don't you pretend to be me and go back with him and experience his sincerity, anyway, I don't know him, and you don't know him. ”

This idea is absurd, but Mei Yichi is not a secular person, so his thoughts are naturally different, so he actually thought about it seriously.

"It's possible, but..."Mei Yichi thought clearly, "so you owe me a favor." ”

"If you owe it, you can get it back when you want it. Yi Shang laughed.

Mei Yichi felt a trace of melancholy, "Do you have any other wishes, since you owe it, just owe a few more." ”

Yi Shang thought for a while, "What I want, I can achieve it, and what I can't achieve, you can't help." ”

She pressed her eyebrows, her tone suddenly became a little heavy, and she said thoughtfully, "If one day the Yin Dynasty is broken, and you happen to be there, take my nephew and leave a trace of blood for the Yi family." ”