Chapter 95 – Chen Pingping’s Revenge
The imperial study was quiet again. From the darkest moment before dawn, to the sunrise leaping out of the earth, to the warm morning light being covered by dark clouds, and the pattering autumn rain falling like flakes, during such a period of time, the voices in the imperial study, just like the weather, were sometimes big and sometimes small, sometimes violent, and sometimes as quiet as an iceberg, and the atmosphere of the room was even more so, at one time tense and mean, at another time silent and ironic, at another time remembering the past and perplexed, at another time Saying old things and cold.
Qing’s emperor and Chen Pingping is not a general ruler and minister, the war between these two people, and the general war has too many differences in form. Until this moment, Chen Pingping was only words, or perhaps just the heart represented by words, where she held up the straw and stabbed and stabbed, looking forward to stabbing the other party’s naked and delicate heart for blood, stabbing fresh wounds.
A touch of unhealthy pallor hovered under Emperor Qing’s cheeks for a long time, refusing to dissipate, his eyes were empty, no, I should say that they were very hollow, and his slightly thin cheeks, matched with his look and eyes at this time, appeared to be extraordinarily cold.
Who also does not know what kind of shocking waves in the heart of Emperor Qing at this time, he just quietly looked at Chen Pingping, and slowly said after a long time of silence, “On what basis do you come to monitor …… me?”
He spoke indifferently, “I have given up everything in the world, what is it that I am after, how have you ever understood?”
This was a kind of disdain for the old black dog as an emperor. However, Chen Pingping’s hands naturally rested on the armrests of the black wheelchair, looking at him faintly, with nothing but indifference and disdain in her eyes. The coldness of the two monarchs and ministers towards each other and their disdain for each other just permeated the entire Imperial Study Room.
“Your majesty, how powerful you are, how powerful the Kingdom of Qing is, but you still can’t change a fact, a fact that you are most unwilling to recognize.” Chen Pingping slightly lowered her eyes and said, “The power of the Kingdom of Qing ultimately relies on her legacy, if she didn’t leave behind the inner treasury to constantly deliver the blood that the court relies on, if she didn’t leave behind the Supervisory Court to help His Majesty control the balance in the court, and our Great Qing has been in consecutive wars for many years, how could you have allowed the Kingdom of Qing to sustain itself up to this point?”
“You want to prove that without her, you are just as capable of doing things to the best of your ability, even better than when she was still alive.” Chen Pingping slowly raised her head and said in a hoarse voice, “You want to lift the piece of sky that she has covered over your head, yet in reality, you have only proved that you must rely on her.”
“You are much inferior to her.” Chen Pingping’s very calm and natural words pierced the deepest part of the emperor’s heart.
The emperor suddenly thought of that thunderstorm night three years ago, when he was in the Guangxin Palace not far from the rear, he had once personally pinched Li Yunrui’s throat and said to that most beautiful sister, “You are not as good as Ye Qingmei in any way.”
His heart moved slightly, his face turned slightly white, his thin and emotionless lips pursed extremely tightly, and he said indifferently, “After all, history should be written by the living, I am alive, and she is dead, and that is already enough.”
“So why do you need to still explain anything, Your Majesty? You only need to admit your cold bloodedness, heartlessness, hypocrisy, and inferiority ……,” a hint of a smile surfaced on Chen Pingping’s face, “This is enough.”
“Is she really a fairy? Not eating earthly fire, great compassion?” The Emperor suddenly opened his mouth in a slight mockery, “Or is it that in your mind, you only allow yourself to visualize her as such a figure? No, it’s not just you, including Fan Jian, including that loser King Jing, and I’m afraid that includes An Zhi, all of you think that I’m cold and heartless, yet you indulge in portraying too many golden edges on her body by your own imagination.”
“She is not a person, nor a fairy, nor a god who came to fight to save the world.” The emperor sighed quietly, his brows gradually frowning extremely tightly as he slowly said, “She is just a figment of the imagination of you people, no, in the past, including me as well, she is just a figment of the imagination of us people. I tend to wonder if this woman has never appeared at all, but only allowed our imaginations to converge together to condense into such a person?”
Chen Pingping coldly shook her head, “You know this is not the truth.”
“But it is still imagination!” The Emperor’s face turned cold, the corners of his lips curled slightly as he looked at Chen Pingping and said, “You losers, you have bet your imaginations of all the beauty in the world on her, so she shines brightly and brightly in your hearts, and you can’t even find a hint of a dark shadow.”
“Ice smart, but without the scheming heart, compassionate, but not a childish woman who is impervious to the world’s affairs, but a practical person who has the actual means to do so.” The emperor’s eyes coldly continued, “What kind of person is this? A person without any shortcomings and loopholes, such a person …… is still a person?”
He suddenly laughed, sadly and hostilely, “Unfortunately, there was no such person in the world originally. She is just as much a mortal, an ordinary person with joy and anger and luster and darkness and heart and intrigue, in the end, what difference is there between her and me?”
“Your Majesty.” Chen Pingping slowly shook her head, “If she was really the kind of person you imagined, how could she have died at your hands?”
“Is that so?” The pupils of the Emperor’s eyes shrunk slightly, and he laughed out strangely, “Hahahahaha …… everyone becomes their own king? What a wild idea. The Supervisory Yuan was originally monitoring me …… I did not know until today that you, the old black dog, was actually left by her to monitor me! If she didn’t suspect me back then, if she didn’t guard against me, would she have left such a sentence behind?”
“Wrong, Your Majesty.” Chen Pingping said with a wooden face, “Regardless of who sits on the dragon chair, I, the Supervisory Yuan, will supervise over him, and this is not evidence that she was wary of you and wanted to deal with you from the very beginning.”
“What about the Hegemony Kung Fu Technique!” For some reason, the emperor’s tone suddenly became extremely dark and deep, and although his voice was a bit higher, it did not allow people to feel the slightest bit of warmth, and his voice was like a sword that had been soaked in the Nine Underworlds water for hundreds of millions of years, stabbing straight into the surroundings of the Imperial Study Room.
The emperor’s face did not distort, just a hint of chilling color flashed in his empty eyes, and he said word by word: “Back then, when she passed on my Hegemony Kung Fu Know-how, I thought that she was thinking that there was a great master in each of the two places of Northern Qi and Eastern Yi, and that she had made this decision, and I am grateful to the depths of my heart……. With this Hegemony Kung Fu Know-how, I am taking you with me, and I’m taking Ye Chong, with Wang Zhikun, across the sands, sweeping the four, rare a defeat, but who would have expected, this so-called supreme skill, behind the hidden supreme woe!”
The emperor’s voice in out of anger after, become unusually cold, “when the first northern expedition, I will notice the body of the hegemony of the true qi some stupid, restless up, but things in the must for, I lead the army and into, and war Qingfeng in the northern mountains in the continuous battle, but at this time, the hidden trouble erupted, I body … … . the meridians were broken!”
Chen Pingping was silent, he was one of the people who knew this history most clearly, back then, the northern expedition was difficult, Master Battle Qingfeng used his troops with veteran skill to the extreme, Wei’s soldiers were especially abundant, Nan Qing ventured northward with tens of thousands of divisions, and it was really a choice of nine deaths and one life. However, Wei is already rotten, the people do not want to live, if you want to change the world situation, so as to create a new situation and future possibilities, South Qing’s army is inevitable.
Emperor Qing, who was the Crown Prince at the time, led the troops to the north, while Chen Pingping was left in the first set up in the Supervisory Yuan, on the one hand, to ensure the safety of the Kyoto, and on the other hand, is also to keep a distance from the battlefield, to ensure that the calm vision of the decision-making. Originally is the enemy’s strength and our weakness, just in the most intense battle, war Qingfeng rate army in the Banshan Mountain periphery surrounded the Qing army when the commander of the Qing army, the Crown Prince suddenly suffered serious injuries, the whole body meridians broken, lying in the marching camp in the stiff can not move!
Although the vice general of the Ye Chong, as well as the battalion’s young officer Wang Zhikun, in the most critical moment to come forward, but on the battlefield South Qing is in a weak position, the commander-in-chief is suddenly unable to see things, in a flash, the war Qingfeng army advancing, the South Qing army was broken in pieces, and the Prince is also trapped in the mountains.
It was at that time, Chen Pingping with the black cavalry of the Supervisory Board completed their first thousand-mile raid that shocked the world, and tore a big hole in the net woven by the Wei army, and risked endless risks to save the crown prince, who is now the Emperor of Qing.
Needless to mention the hardships along the way, the Black Riders almost wiped out the entire army before saving His Majesty the Emperor today. At that time, Chen Pingping had a doubt in her mind, just what kind of strange injury did His Majesty suffer? There were no major wounds on the outside, but the meridians on the inside were all shattered, turning him into an invalid.
Over the years, Chen Pingping had guessed something, and as Fan Xian had also once faced the danger of nearly having all his meridians severed, he naturally knew where His Majesty’s strange and terrifying injuries had come from that day.
It must have been the dangerous juncture that would inevitably occur after the Hegemony Technique had been practiced to a certain point.
“I can’t move my body, I can’t see with my eyes, I can’t speak with my mouth, and in my body, if there are countless thousands of sharp little knives, they are constantly cutting into my internal organs, my flesh and bones.” The emperor’s eyes were empty, said indifferently, “That kind of pain, that kind of despair, that kind of loneliness, that kind of darkness, is not something you can imagine. I have always been strong in mind, however, at that time, but also can not help but give birth to the idea of self-exhaustion …… However, I can not even move a little finger, want to die …… actually can not die.”
The corners of the emperor’s lips curled slightly, smiling self-deprecatingly, “What a pathetic and miserable end this is.” He lightly glanced at Chen Pingping, “If you had not saved me at all costs that day, perhaps I would have died then.”
Chen Pingping was silent, not sneering, not responding.
The emperor’s nose twitched slightly, indifferently taking a deep breath, “However, the heavens have not abandoned me, after months of such agonizing pain, I finally woke up, and not only did I wake up, I also finally broke through that barrier of the Hegemony Kung Fu Technique.”
The emperor’s voice trembled slightly, it had been decades since then, and his strong heart still couldn’t stop shaking a little when he thought of that terrible, non-human being able to bear its torturous pass.
He lowered his head and looked at Chen Pingping with a slight mockery and said, “What exactly is she trying to do by passing on this life-threatening gong skill to me?”
“I have asked her how she could break through the barrier, and she said she did not know.” The emperor suddenly laughed out loud, his eyes narrowing slightly, chilling through the cracks, “She doesn’t know! She created the Bitter Lotus, created the Four Gu Swords, created me, and she actually said …… she didn’t know!”
“She wants to take this key point of me and ask me to listen to her and answer to her for the rest of my life.” The emperor’s lips curved up strangely, said mockingly, “But …… how am I such a person, I have passed this life and death pass, but also will see everything in this world as light, but also finally understand that this glorious woman in your eyes, in fact, there is also that part of her that is the most cruel. Since Heaven does not abandon me, how can I be willing to abandon myself?”
After listening to Emperor Qing’s words, Chen Pingping smiled faintly. After sighing, she continued to show that slightly astringent smile to its fullest extent, shaking her head and laughing dumbly, she said, “Doubtful ah Doubtful …… Your Majesty, you have probably never been able to get rid of this in your life.”
Chen Pingping’s laughter was very vicissitude, very sad, he quietly looked at the emperor and said, “Excuses are always just excuses, perhaps your majesty you thought so back then, however Fan Xian has practiced it now, if not for Hai Tang helping him, I’m afraid that he would have fallen into that hellish pass as well.”
“The Heart Technique of the Heavenly Dao was originally in her hands.” The Emperor slowly closed his eyes.
“But that has the potential to stay in the realm of the Ninth Grade forever.” Chen Pingping said with a slight sneer, “Are you willing to do that?”
Not waiting for the emperor to answer, he gently waved his hand and sighed, “There is no need to bring up the past, since you can even suspect her, you can naturally suspect everyone under the sun, it s just …… that this kind of suspicion also does not seem too ridiculous.”
Since it is ridiculous, of course, you have to laugh, so Chen Pingping laughed, laughed in the black wheelchair, muddy tears are about to squeeze out from the cracks of his pale eyes.
“I just want to let you old dog know before you die that what you remember is just a vain illusion.” The emperor opened his eyes and got rid of the memories, looking coldly at Chen Pingping, “You are my dog, yet you want to ask me on her behalf. I want you to know that the mistress you faithfully guarded is not an immaculate fairy either.”
Chen Pingping stopped smiling, shoulders slightly sunk, silent for a moment and then responded, “The old slave is not a saint who takes the world as his own, and is not qualified to be a saint, and the previous accusation of your majesty is not for the sake of the world’s living beings, and it is not that the heart has any pity for the living beings, it is just that this is her last wish …… Yes, your majesty. When we meet today, it is not for the world’s living beings, it is just a private grudge.”
He raised his head, calmly looked at the emperor: “You killed her, I will avenge her, this is a personal vendetta, not what bullshit righteousness, this is just a very simple thing, do not need to carry what other meaning, I simply do not care what kind of person she is, in the end, it is a fairy banished to the mortal world, or a small witch that has a different plan inside, what does it matter? ”
“Her name is Ye Qingmei, that’s enough.” Chen Pingping looked at the emperor and said slowly.
The emperor looked at his old comrade in the wheelchair, and after a long, long time, he sighed softly, a smile surfaced on his face, however, this smile represented a deeper meaning, in his eyes, this old black dog was already dead.
“This is a very monstrous and desolate emotion.” The emperor said indifferently, “Monitoring the king of a country, a eunuch who can’t get enough of a woman, it turns out that you were already insane many years ago.”
“Of course, I must admit that I have been hoodwinked by you for many years …… Supervisory Court in the hands of your old dog, it is indeed a bit tricky, the entire Supervisory Court to this day, only know that there is Chen Pingping, but do not know that there is me as the emperor. This is the result of my indulgence in you, but also your ability. Just I don’t understand, on what basis do you raise the knife of vengeance to me, and what ability do you have?”
The emperor looked at Chen Pingping with faint disdain, picked up the cup of cold tea from his side that he had not drunk for a long time, and slowly took a sip.
Chen Pingping also from the front of the wheelchair armrests to pick up the cup of tea is still warm, moistened his dry lips, a moment later softly answered: “I think the words of Bingyun at this time has been in the purging of the Supervisory Yuan for his majesty.”
The Emperor’s gaze looked at the clear yellow tea in the teacup and condensed slightly before returning to its naturalness.
“Since I’m single and returning to the capital, naturally I’m not willing to have the entire country of Qing plunged into turmoil because of the old slave’s revenge.” Chen Pingping said, “So where Yan Bingyun is concerned, I do not pay any attention to it.”
“Lamentably coming to your death just to scold me a few times?” The corners of the Emperor’s lips spread into a rather elusive smile.
“Your Majesty understands me, that’s why you accompanied me, who is destined to die, to gossip for so long.” Chen Pingping smiled and said, “Because you also don’t know what my final backhand is, so you must accompany me until I finish what I want to say.”
“At this time the words have been said, I want to see what bottom card you have yet to lift.” The emperor smiled gently, at this point he had long since gotten rid of the emotions brought on by the earlier mental shaking and past events, reverting back to his calm and powerful imperial appearance.
Chen Pingping did not reply, but only looked meaningfully at His Majesty the Emperor, and suddenly opened his mouth to ask another question, “I have already done so much in these twenty years, could it be that you still do not understand now, Your Majesty?”
The Emperor’s fingertips slowly twirled the celadon teacup, but his gaze slowly fell to the ground, on the ground by the feet of the black wheelchair calmly lay several dossiers, all of which recorded how Chen Pingping had driven all of the Emperor’s loved ones around him step by step in these years into his antagonism.
“The fire at Hui Chun Hall was set by the courtyard, that eunuch was sent by the old slave to kill him, and that state relative also ended up like that. As for the medicine used by His Highness the Crown Prince, it was dispensed by Fei Jie himself. Of course, Fei Jie has long since left this continent nowadays, so even if His Majesty wants to punish him to death, I’m sure there’s nothing he can do about it.” Chen Pingping looked at the Emperor coldly and mercilessly, and spoke out word by word, “The matter of the Eldest Princess and the Crown Prince’s fornication was something that I watched from the sidelines with cold eyes and a little bit of help, yet I tried to do everything I could to let Your Majesty know about it.”
The emperor’s fingertips that were turning the tea cup stopped.
“That night there was a thunderstorm, His Majesty should have lost his temper in Guangxin Palace, although the old slave didn’t see it with his own eyes, as long as I think of this, the old slave feels comforted by his old age.” Chen Pingping’s face was full of wrinkles that melted away, looking extremely comforted, “Your Majesty, the eldest princess fornicated with the crown prince, why are you so angry? Is it because you have always felt that this sibling should belong to you? Yet in the way of the self-torturing idea of a bright ruler in your heart, you only kept suppressing it?”
“Who knew that the Crown Prince did it instead.” Chen Pingping laughed in a low, shrill voice, “The things that you could not do, could not do, were done by the Crown Prince, how could you not be angry? How can they not die?”
“The Crown Prince is dead, the Eldest Princess is dead, the Empress is dead, the Empress Dowager is dead, and the Second Elder is dead.” Chen Pingping’s stern gaze stared at the emperor, “All of your loved ones around you are waiting to die under you, you are the most selfish and ruthless monarch under the heavens, so I will let your loved ones die because of your selfishness.”
The fingertips of the Emperor’s pinched teacup trembled slightly, gently striking the body of the cup and emitting a crunchy, clear sound.
Chen Pingping’s voice was even more brittle, colder, and more biting than this voice: “The old slave doesn’t have any cards, the old slave just has to come back to the palace to let you know, you let her die alone so coldly back then, so I can let you also smell that loneliness, and then just die in the midst of this torment……. Perhaps I could not kill you, yet would it not be a most wonderful maneuver of revenge to let you live like this?”
“I still have a few good sons.” The emperor slowly said, “You actually even want to kill the oldest three that kid, I …… have to marvel at the chill and hatred in your heart.”
Chen Pingping indifferently opened her mouth and said, “As long as it is the person surnamed Li in this palace, they all deserve to die.”
“What about An Zhi?” The emperor’s fingers tapping on the celadon teacup suddenly paused, frowning and slightly mocking, “He is the son of me and Light Eyebrows, and you are so loyal to her, so how could you have tried to kill him three or four times? I’m afraid that An Zhi, who until today thought that you were the elder who loved him the most, did not even think that, including the sniping in the valley, including the follow up of that Hanging Temple incident, where he nearly lost his life under the dagger, all of them were things that you had arranged.”
After Chen Pingping was silent for a moment, she said in a low tone that was hostile and cold to the core, “Fan Xian is just a bastard …… What qualifications do you have to be the father of her son? Fan Xian’s existence is a brand of shame to her, and I feel a sting when I look at him.”
The emperor laughed, his laughter full of resentment, “Very well, you really are a perverted eunuch …… Wouldn’t it be too much to your liking if I were to kill you just like that?”
“How to die is never a question.” Chen Pingping looked at the emperor mockingly and said, “I only know that my revenge has been successful, and that is enough.”
The emperor’s hand holding the cup hovered in mid air, and after a long time, he said quietly, “I still have three sons ……”
“But since I have returned to the capital, I am afraid that none of your three sons can be your sons anymore.” The pupils of Chen Pingping’s eyes gradually shrunk, and she pointedly laughed with a hint of cold pleasure, “If I die in your hands, Your Majesty, what will Fan Xian think of you? How will the General Assembly look at you? How can you explain this to Fan Xian? Could it be that I was trying to avenge her mother’s death? Then how can you explain to him what happened back then?”
The coldness in Chen Pingping’s shrinking pupils was great, and his face grew pale, not knowing if it was due to excitement or some other emotion, as he stared at the emperor and said word for word, “Your Majesty, you will surely be a traitor to all, and in loneliness, look at the land under the sky but …… have nothing to show for it.”
Looking at the land of the world, but nothing. What kind of vicious curse and hatred is this! The emperor’s body slightly shook, his face gradually paled again, he looked at Chen Pingping with a devouring gaze of might and said in a chilling voice, “How dare you!”
When the emperor uttered these two words, it meant that he already knew that Chen Pingping’s revenge, which had stretched out for twenty years, had finally and gradually stepped onto an irreversible path of success at the end. Both Fan Xian and the eldest prince were extremely close to Chen Pingping, and if Emperor Qing wanted to explain anything to these two sons, he would have to touch on that Tsubaki story from many years ago, and would not be able to open his mouth at all.
Could this world’s strongest monarch only gradually grow old and die under the gaze of his sons with anger and hatred?
Emperor Qing’s face was pale, his heart felt endless coldness and anger, he looked at Chen Pingping’s equally pale face and knew that the other party had already calculated everything that would follow, he was using his own death to send out the last and darkest strike to this imperial palace.
The imperial study was plunged into a silence like dead silence. Outside the autumn rain is still slowly falling, wetting the palace had some dry land, and those cracks in the green stone plate. The imperial study was fitted with glass windows produced by the inner treasury, and those carvings on the windows, which resembled a human face, were looking at the last conversation between this pair of kings and ministers of Qing.
“You begged for death, but I am unwilling to let you die an easy death.” The emperor’s face pale, pupils empty, such as a strong suppression of ten thousand fury of the god, cold and calm said: “I want to escort you to the noon gate, I want to let you naked in front of ten thousand people, I want to let the world know, you this old black dog is a phallus without a eunuch, is a disgrace to the ancestors and forefathers of the monstrous goods …. …I will let the eyes of countless people stare between your thighs to see how you, a spiteful eunuch, have constructed these vicious plots with that mess of rotten flesh between these legs.”
Emperor Qing’s words were very soft, but they were laced with infinite resentment, endless humiliation, and unceasing anger, as he said indifferently, “I’m going to kill you by a thousand cuts and lynch you, and I’m going to let the entire people of the Kingdom of Qing, bite by bite, tear the flesh off of you, and then bury your skull next to the Three Great Halls, so that you can watch with your eyes as I see how I first killed her, and then you, and then utilized the what she left behind to kill the rivers and mountains, unify the world, and achieve an unparalleled foundation.”
“I want to let you, let you know that I can kill you, I also want to let you watch all of this but have no way at all, so that you can cry, struggle, and regret in the underworld ……”
The emperor’s face was getting paler and paler, but his words were getting calmer and calmer, and the pupils of his eyes were getting emptier and emptier, less and less like a living person.
Chen Pingping, who was sitting on the black wheelchair, also looked pale, he knew that the genes of madness also flowed in His Majesty the Emperor’s bloodline, and he also knew what kind of tragic and unimaginable end he would face under His Majesty the Emperor’s insane rage.
The two of them, the ruler and the minister, cut each other’s heart with each other’s words, cutting each other bloody, without a single intact place on their bodies, just like two pale ghosts, devouring each other’s souls.
Chen Pingping slowly and painstakingly stooped down and put the teacup on the ground, and then held the front of the armrests of the wheelchair with both hands, with both elbows as the axle, and the two small arms resting calmly and comfortably on top of the black and smooth armrests, and he didn’t think about anything but just repeating the habitual action that had been repeated countless times over the years.
His gaze once again skimmed over His Majesty’s pale face, thin and powerful shoulders, and looked straight at the wall behind the imperial study, seeming to see through this wall, directly to that small building in the harem, to that portrait. The back of that yellow-shirted woman on the portrait was incomparably depressed and lonely, looking at the scene of ten thousand people repairing the embankment of the big river at the foot of the mountain, speechless for a long time.
Chen Pingping was speechless for a long time, he thought to himself in his heart, this is good, this is good.
“Little Ye?” The corners of his lips spread into a wry smile, and he seemed to see that the little girl’s appearance was floating in the air behind the imperial study.
That little girl looked at herself bitterly and asked, “Are you really a eunuch? Then are we going to call ourselves sisters, or what should we do?”
His Majesty the Emperor heard these three words uttered by Chen Pingping, Little Leaf …… This name has been hidden in his heart for many years, this name is like a curse, always letting him not be relieved of it, although it can be a long time and a long time without remembering it, however, once he realizes that he hasn’t forgotten it, that face, that person will appear out of thin air, with a hint of doubt, a hint of sadness, a hint of disdain looking at himself.
He subconsciously followed Chen Pingping’s gaze and slightly sidestepped his head, then he heard a loud bang.
A loud boom! The wind was blowing furiously in the imperial study, and two raging air currents mixed with powerful and powerful gunpowder, iron sand, and steel beads violently blasted at Emperor Qing’s body.