Chapter 296: Beyond the Lights, the Man Sitting Alone at the Head of the City

In the middle of the night, the Western Chu Capital was ablaze with lights. Some people are happy and some people are sad.

Already night ban on the locked palace city of a door in turn open, an unruly and unseemly carriage slowly into, down a withered old man not wearing official robes, the new Director of the Palace Supervisor of the seal eunuchs just want to go forward to help, was the old man shook his hand and raised his hand.

The old man followed the eunuch who somehow became the first eunuch of Chu to take charge of the seal, the latter’s mood is apprehensive, I do not know why the old eunuch insisted on visiting the palace to see his majesty overnight, and even more so, I do not know why his majesty wants to meet this minister of the central minister in that taiji hall.

The door of Taiji Hall was open, Sun Xiji strenuously walked up the steps one step at a time, the lights inside the hall swayed, the old man could vaguely see His Majesty the Emperor’s silhouette.

The eunuch in charge of the seal felt a kind of stormy and heavy atmosphere, because His Majesty the Emperor of Chu neither sat in the dragon chair and waited for the old man, nor did he come out of the hall to greet the sea pin of the Chu dynasty.

She stood behind the threshold of the great hall, wearing a dragon robe.

With her hands behind her back, she was surprisingly arrogant in a manner that rejected others.

Sun Xiji stopped a dozen paces away from the entrance to the grand hall and gazed at her, the old man’s vicissitudes of life growing more and more bitter. Not only because of today’s Chinese Minister’s residence appeared a sinister assassination, more is in front of the woman for the first time so bluntly revealed resistance, let the old man both discouragement and guilt.

Sun Xiji slowly said after the eunuch in charge of the seal bent back away from the hall, “Your Majesty, the Song family is so guilty of being a disgrace to Great Chu, so guilty of being a reader in Great Chu, the old minister Sun Xiji’s eyes are so dim that it is hard for him to absolve himself of the blame ……”

The woman with her back to the lights in the hall, her face obscure and unknown, interrupted Sun Xiji’s words, “To meet the king of a country, as a subject, shouldn’t you kneel?!”

The old man whom even the late Emperor of Liyang treated with respect did not get the slightest bit annoyed, instead, his heart was somewhat relieved, only to see Sun Xiji patting his hands on each other’s sleeves for a moment, kneeling down without hesitation, “I, Sun Xiji, the Central Secretary of the Central Secretariat Province of Great Chu, kowtow to Your Majesty!”

She laughed coldly, “Lord Zhongshu Ling entered the palace to meet the saint this evening without wearing his official uniform, I will not blame you for this as I am mindful of your advanced age. If you have something to say, I’m all ears!”

Sun Xiji kept his head lowered and said in a deep voice with all his breath, “Your Majesty, the Song family is not to be trusted, the many civil officials at the center of the court are not to be trusted, and even the old minister Sun Xiji is not to be trusted, but I implore Your Majesty to believe the 200,000 generals and soldiers at the front line, and I implore Your Majesty not to take it out on all of the martyrs who have gone to their deaths for the Great Chu, and not to … …”

For the second time, Empress Jiang Si nonchalantly interrupted the old man’s words, “Anger? Don’t forget that I’m standing right in front of you now, just ten paces away! If I really wanted to take my anger out on you, do you really think you’ll live past the time the sun sets?”

She raised her voice, “The Song family is blind with their eyes open, but I can tell you Sun Xiji, even if there’s no Cao Changqing in the capital and no imperial guards loyal to me, I’ll be just as capable of killing all of the rebellious officials who dare to betray the Jiang Clan of Great Chu!”

Sun Xi Ji’s palms of both hands were pressed against the cold ground, his hands were cold and his heart was even colder.

Silent for a moment, the old man only heard her words of endless sadness, “I have one person with 100,000 swords, originally used to kill the Liyang army, not to kill the subjects of Chu, and even less ……”

The vague whispers afterward, the aged old man has not heard clearly at all.

Sun Xiji knelt there, speechless.

The gate suddenly closed, and through the gate, the Empress of Da Chu sneered, “You go, please Sun Xiji, please rest assured, please rest assured Da Chu, since I am the daughter of the late emperor, I will die in the palace just like the late emperor!”

The old man got up with difficulty and looked at the gate.

After the rejected Lord Zhongshu Ling turned away and walked down the steps along the dan ayi, which was carved with golden dragons and auspicious clouds, the low-browed eunuch of the Secret Service stood quietly like a night owl, having waited there for a long time.

This year in the weak crown will be able to be among the center of the Chu old man, this time to realize that they have been so many years, take the initiative to talk to the eunuchs only a few times, the old man laughed to himself, this night still did not open polite pleasantries, so without a word to leave the palace.

In the darkness of the lights, in a quiet courtyard, she was wearing a dragon robe sitting alone on the threshold, feet neatly placed a pair of barbaric brocade boots, her knees were placed across the knife, she lowered her head, pulled out a treasured for many years of copper coins, from the sheath of this end of the knife to the other end of the arrangement.

She was seen as sitting on the throne of Chu, but she had never felt only that the family belongings that truly belonged to her were in fact these copper coins.

The two seniors she trusted the most in her life, the old man in sheepskin fur and Uncle Chess Tendency, both regarded her as a swordsmanship genius that would be hard to come by in a hundred years, but she was always reluctant to practice swordsmanship under Li Chun Gang during the last and only time she traveled the rivers and lakes with him; how many of the rivers and lakes patriarchs of sixty years ago longed to be able to receive three words of instruction from the God of the Sword, Li, and she felt that she didn’t know why, perhaps she had seen the That person’s practice sword, think too hard and too terrible, so do not dare to practice sword, she only know her own so small, small guts for so many years, bullied for so many years, why obviously can be easy to study and make money, but also to practice sword still have to go to fight and kill? In fact, at that time she did not dare to admit one thing, that is, if there is really a day, she practiced sword into a land god, is really going to stab him to death?

Today, the old bastard Song Wenfeng tore through the gentleman’s skin, no matter how rebellious behavior, one of the words, after all, said a lot of the old man of Chu’s heart, that is, even if the Northern Liang is the place where she Jiang Nai’s habitat, but also will never be the place of her peace of mind.

The Xu family and the Jiang family, is not an ordinary neighborhood that kind of ordinary elders bump, but the Xu family iron cavalry stepped through the mountains and rivers of Da Chu, is Xu Snapdragon personally forced the death of the first emperor of Da Chu and the empress of Da Chu, is Xu Fengyen’s father personally killed the father and mother of the new emperor of Da Chu, Jiang Si.

However, if that was all, it was not impossible for her, who had long ago blurred her memories of Da Chu and was used to hiding when things went wrong, to leave the capital.

Sandwiched between Liyang and Beimang, Beiliang is already so difficult, then that guy who took over the burden from his father, he not only needs to face the millions of troops of Beimang, but also behind him is the wary Central Plains and the imperial court, if he takes her today? If he takes her away today? If he takes away the emperor of Chu, how will he face the world?

How will the world scold him?

The first battle, the Northern Liang iron horsemen have already died more than 100,000 people, just because she is such a scourge of the country and the people of the vixen, we have to die a lot more originally can be a great death in the battlefield of Liangmang Northern Liang iron horsemen? Could he really not feel guilty about it?

She is a very afraid to take responsibility for the coward, before is a in the washing clothes will secretly curse the maid, even if she can be heartless regardless of the, stay behind you pretend to be at ease, but you Xu Fengnian’s peace of mind, will not have.

She knows that in the whole of Chu, in these twenty years, many people privately said that the reason why the demise of Chu, is that she has long been unable to remember the face of the mother of the harm, otherwise the great Chu, the king is wise, the civil ministers, military generals good war, the people are happy, how will lose to the north of the barbarians who don’t even know the etiquette of the courtiers and ministers, away from the sun? She didn’t want to believe this, but there were times when she was still afraid, afraid that she would become his redoubt.

If it was her three years ago, a she who knew nothing, a she who only felt that a pair of man and woman under the sky should be together as long as they liked each other, then she would have gone with him.

But after entering the Guangling Road, although those world’s great situation she does not understand, but think about it, thought of countless times to meet again after a long time, in the end they all found that they do not dare to go, can not go.

I don’t know how many times she hid in the quilt and secretly cried, I don’t know how many times her palms were sweaty when she met with her ministers, I don’t know how many times I wanted to fly with a sword straight to the northwestern pass to see him, or take a look at Qingliang Mountain from afar, and take a look at the small vegetable garden in the Wudang Mountains.

She covered her heart, but it still hurt.

She missed him when the lights went out.

He came to her, she was actually very happy.

She wanted to tell him that she regretted stabbing you.

In the years to come, you can hate me.

But don’t you dislike me.

She raised her head, her face full of tears, and softly sobbed, “Even if you don’t like it, you can only dislike Jiang Si of Western Chu, not Jiang Nai.”

Looking from the top of the city, all the houses were lit up.

There was a young man who was like a lonely soul with nowhere to go, sitting quietly on the city head, his back to the outside of the city, facing the inside.

Every once in a while, his body would shake a little, and some blood would ooze out of the scribbled and bandaged chest wound.

A tall white-clothed woman hesitated for a long time, but finally came to his side and said sentimentally, “What a pain, you’re fighting a country on your own.”

The young man was silent.

The tall but extremely beautiful woman sighed, “Although there is not much of Western Chu’s Qi left, it is still not something that can be easily fought by one’s own strength, especially since you were already injured earlier when you fought Chen Zhi Bao to the death on the Guangling River. Since things have come to this, why do you need to stay here to add insult to injury?”

It was only in the eyes of the Grand Master Qi Practitioner of her that she could see the giant pillar of qi that stood in the center of the Western Chu capital, constantly branching out into a white auger dragon that swooped straight down and crashed into him.

This was Western Chu’s own true killing move against the Land Immortals, and as for those two city guards, they were not worth mentioning at all.

The young man still looked at that palace city from afar, and blandly said, ”Tantai Calm, I actually know that according to the destiny, the person whom the Heavenly Dao is averse to winning against me, Xu Fengyin, is actually two people, apart from Xie Guanying, who is raising the scaly dragon in the bowl, there is also this Guanyin Sect Patriarch of yours. Only the battle of the Chintian Supervisor, Xie Guanying was beaten into a falling dog, not to be a heavenly immortal to be an earthly immortal Lv Zu then returned to his soul and appeared, the result is very unfortunate, Hong Zaixiang is still unwilling to accept the second recruited of the celestial beings, so I also know that, Xie Guanying qi after the great injury, the worldly person who benefits the most, is actually you. That’s why I’m waiting for you to make a move, rather than waiting until you and I turn against each other in the future, rather than worrying about you spoiling my Bei Liang’s qi in the future, it’s better to have a clean end between you and me right now.”

Tantai Calm’s face was complex.

Xu Fengyen coughed a few times and slowly said, “Before you decide to strike, we have some friendship, accompany me for a chat?”

Tantai Calm nodded, “Good.”

Xu Fengnian, whose feet were hanging outside the wall, smiled, “Guess who I envy the most after meeting so many Jianghu people?”

Tantai Calm pondered for a moment and asked rhetorically, “Could it not be Li Chun Gang?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head, “No.”

Tantai Calm hesitated for a moment, the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, “Huishan Xuanyuan Jingcheng?”

Xu Fenian suddenly turned his head, a bit exasperated, and scolded with a laugh, “You’re looking for death! Admiration is admiration, but I don’t want to be Xuan Yuan Jing Cheng!”

Tantai Calm would smile.

Xu Fengyen looked afresh into the distance, the city was dotted with lights, as if he was looking up at the bright starry sky of summer and fall, “I envy Teng Tai’a the most, I don’t care about the tides of the rivers and lakes, I don’t care about the treacherous clouds of the temple, and I don’t have any more enmity after I left the Wu family’s sword mound, I’m unattached, all alone, and I’m riding a donkey to look at the mountains and the rivers. I believe that if one day, this Peach Blossom Sword God suddenly fell in love with a certain woman, he and she could definitely get away with it.”

Tantai calmly lamented, “I really didn’t expect it to be Deng Tai’a.”

Xu Fengnian folded his hands on his knees, “Yes.”

Tantai Calm sat beside him, actually a bit taller than him, “Why didn’t she leave?”

Xu Fenian thought for a moment, “Probably because she’s grown up, I’m actually not as sad as you think.”

Tantai said calmly, “That’s still sad. Giving your beloved a sword as if it were a sword in the heart, it would be strange not to be sad.”

Xu Fenian snorted coldly, neither refuting nor admitting it.

Tantai calmly narrowed her eyes and said softly, “In this life, people have their own destinies, some people are always lucky to be able to do what they are willing to do. Some people can always do what they like to do, very happy. And some people, can only do what they should do, and even some people, can only do what others feel he should do.”

Xu Fenian was dumbfounded and pulled his wound again, coughing heavily for a few moments, Tantai Calm hesitated for a moment, seemingly wanting to raise her hand to help him knock on his back for a few moments, but in fact, she didn’t even move her fingers, while inwardly, she was in heavenly battle.

Xu Fengnian was suspiciously self-satisfied as he gently shook his head and laughed, “I didn’t expect you to be able to comfort people, will the sun come out of the west tomorrow?”

Tantai Calm’s face was expressionless, but it was estimated that even if she wasn’t angry, her mood wasn’t much better.

So she had only sat down for a short while before she got up again.

Xu Fenian looked up with some curiosity.

She didn’t have the good sense to say: ”Hungry, go eat a snack. Only when you’re full will you have the strength to fight.”

Tantai calmly swept from the top of the city into the city.

Xu Fengyen laughed softly behind her, “Silly big one, although the memories left behind by your master are very fragmented, I can tell you one thing, he cared about you a lot, at least when he left this world, he was still worrying that you would go hungry.”

Tantai Calm instantly reddened his face and almost crashed directly into the ground.

When she left, he continued to look at that palace city.

Looking at her.

Wanting the earth and the sky to end.

It seemed like a Taoist sage had said that it was better to be together than to forget each other in the jianghu.

I don’t know how long he sat there, the drowsy Xu Fengnian stood up violently and stood on the top of the city between the outer city and the inner city.

The next day, there was a man lying on a large beam dozing off, leisurely and not too fast.