Chapter 762 Chapter 762: Brother to brother and (Part 1) [Asking for monthly votes]
Southeast of the mainland, Qu State, Qu Dian.
The predecessor of the so-called "Qu State" is "Shen State".
The ruler of the Shen Kingdom was debauched and violent, used traitors and sycophants, harmed loyal people, and preyed on the common people... For a time, the people were filled with resentment. Zhai Huan, the leader of the Qu Kingdom, lay dormant for several years, killed the tyrant lord, and established a new country, named "Qu". Although he was in power for only a short time, he worked hard to govern, cultivate civil and military forces, invigorate the people and educate them morally, improve people's livelihood internally, and defend neighboring enemies externally, which revitalized the sluggish country.
Although Zhai Huan came to power by killing his lord and gained the position unfairly, how can the common people care so much? They only know that after the new king came to power, the life of the whole family has improved visibly, and the public security is no longer as panicky as before. This is completely enough!
The king also led his troops to destroy the neighboring countries that had repeatedly harassed him!
When the news came back, the whole country cheered.
However, the situation in the southeast of the mainland is not something that a new country like Qu State can have the final say on. Facing the fierce situation of Qu State, several nearby countries developed a sense of crisis and jointly resisted the pressure. The leader of the country, Zhai Huan, had to reorganize his troops and conquer again.
This dozen lasted more than half a year.
The people of Qu State do not know the fighting situation on the front line, but judging from Qu State’s hard resistance for more than half a year, Qu State should not be destroyed.
The common people within the territory should do whatever they want.
More than a month later, the two sides ceased fighting and refused to invade each other.
Zhai Huan, the leader of the country, led his troops in triumph.
However, even a three-year-old child knows that this false calm is only temporary. It will not be long before a new country is established and an old country is destroyed. Countries change, political power rises and falls, but the only thing that remains unchanged is the land beneath their feet.
Da da da da——
A low-key team flew past the official road.
The leader is a young man wearing a loose purple round-neck robe. This young man has delicate and majestic eyebrows, a nose like a hanging gallbladder, and greased lips. The most outstanding thing about his face is his pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes that seem to be smiling but not smiling, and there is a natural smile on the corners of his lips.
However, the young man pursed his lips tightly at this time.
The peach blossom eyes were also slightly red for some reason.
“Drive——”
The young man controls the reins with one hand.
Running all the way into the capital of Qu Kingdom.
When entering the city, the young man raised his free hand high with the tiger talisman in his hand. The city defenders recognized the man's identity at a glance and opened the door to let the young man pass without saying a word. However, there were also new recruits among the guards who were dissatisfied with the young man's move.
Muttered: "Master, who is this person?"
Although the young man is dressed richly, he seems to be far from being a truly wealthy person. Furthermore, this is still the capital city, and the king has strict supervision over the children of noble families. Anyone who comes has to dismount and cross the city. I have never seen anyone riding into the city like this.
The veteran slapped the recruit on the back of the head.
Lowering his voice, he warned: "You weakling, who do you think he is? That man is the most trusted and respected brother of the king. The king knighted him as soon as he ascended the throne. He is the son of the same father. None of the brothers are treated like this. If you don’t keep your eyes open when you meet such a big shot, you may die without knowing it!”
The recruit was frightened by the serious warning in the veteran’s words.
If Shen Tang were here, he would recognize the young man just now. Isn't it his friends who had the experience of riding pigs with her - Zhai Le and Zhai Xiaofang? At this moment, Zhai Le has completely lost his youthfulness, his face is mature, and his eyes are firm.
He rushed back to the capital in such a hurry, all because of an edict.
[Xiao Fang, come home soon—brother stays here. 】
When Zhai Le saw these six words, his hands and feet almost went cold.
Regardless, he led twenty or thirty personal guards back from the military training school. For a time, countless thoughts that made him panic appeared in his mind. But he didn't expect that as soon as he entered the city, he would see the maid next to his wife constantly looking at the intersection.
The maid saw Zhai Le with sharp eyes: "Parents!"
Zhai Le tightened the reins urgently and controlled the horse to stop.
He said in a deep voice: "Why are you here?"
The maid said: "Madam asked the slave to wait for you here!"
"Go back and report to Madam first, and then say that I have something else to do. If you want to do it, you can return home from the palace in less than an hour."
The maid said nervously: "Parents, no!"
Zhai Le frowned and asked: "This is so. Why? ”
Unexpectedly, this maid hesitated to speak.
Zhai Le raised his head and glanced at the sun on the horizon, estimated the time in his heart, and said to the maid: "Go back home first."
The letter that his brother gave him, he It feels a little weird.
Although Zhai Le came back in a high profile, he did not go to the palace to see the king first, but went straight home. But he didn't expect that he would see his worried relatives in his own home. He looked at the man in amazement who was teasing a fat girl.
In just a few years, the man's hair has turned gray.
Only his face is still as young as ever, with no trace of time.
"Brother, why are you here?" Zhai Le strode into the main hall, and then doubted, "That letter..."
Zhai Huan sat on the mat and put his hand in his arms The fat and white baby girl sat on his lap, shaking a jade-handled rattle with his other hand, dong dong dong, firmly attracting the little baby girl's attention. She opened her mouth slightly, raised her chubby right hand and stuffed it into her bare mouth, and crystal clear saliva flowed. Zhai Huan took the trouble to wipe the corners of her mouth with a silk handkerchief, smiling gently.
This baby girl is the daughter Zhai Le gave birth to at the end of last year.
She is strong and strong, and she is very lucky at first glance.
Zhai Huan likes this niece very much and hugs and teases her every time he sees her. When he heard Zhai Le's voice, he raised his head and put down the rattle: "A Le, come and hug your fat daughter...She's so heavy after only five months..."
Zhai Le's daughter Recognize people at a young age.
Specially recognize people with good-looking faces.
When he saw Zhai Le reaching out to him, he smiled and opened his mouth, revealing his bare pink gums. He leaned into Zhai Le's arms and rudely smeared his saliva on the material on his shoulders. Zhai Le shook his head and said with emotion: "Second girl has indeed sunk a little."
He sat down at his desk and mentioned the question just now.
"Why did brother suddenly send such a secret letter?"
As he said that, Zhai Le's face darkened.
“Could it be that the letter is fake?”
Who knows, Zhai Huan said with a smile: “Of course the letter is true, but it’s not as urgent as you think.”< br>
Zhai Le breathed a long sigh of relief: "It was a false alarm! I thought it was my brother's old injury that recurred, which scared me."
Zhai Huan said: "The old injury has indeed recurred."
Zhai Le: "..."
"I asked you to come back just in case. If it weren't for the brothers and sisters secretly entering the palace to ask for an audience, they would be afraid of their brothers. It’s still being hidden.”
For a moment, Zhai Le’s thoughts were confused.
“Who dares to hide this from brother?”
Zhai Huan chuckled and said: "Things like power can really corrode people's hearts. Ah Le, you also know that since your sister-in-law passed away, my brother has abused the ways of being a scribe, causing his health to deteriorate... How much life has been spent in these years? Even my brother can’t remember clearly. A while ago, I felt cold. I have been ill for several days, and then someone...haha, I kept this news from you and me." The daughter in Zhai Le's arms secretly grabbed his sleeve, and her little fingers clasped the flesh of his hand. The pain was worse than a mosquito bite. Naturally, he didn't feel anything, and his whole mind was shaken by Zhai Huan's words. A pair of peach blossom eyes were full of confusion.
“Who is it?”
Why did he hide the news that his brother was sick?
Zhai Huan smiled bitterly: "Looking at the court, who else dares to do this? Of course they are your good cousins and my good brothers. Since your sister-in-law left, the post has been vacant. There are no concubines in the inner court... Ah Le, don't you understand? My brother has no heirs, and I have sworn that there will be no more. If something happens to me... I can only choose to have a brother or adopt a nephew."
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Zhai Huan is not an only son. He has a concubine, a biological brother, and several concubines, but he can't help but not being close to them. Compared with these biological brothers, Zhai Le is more like a brother from his mother. Zhai Huan also felt strange and could only blame it on fate.
Everyone in the court has already agreed that Zhai Huan is short-lived.
In other words, Zhai Huan has not many candidates to choose from.
These candidates also unanimously regarded Zhai Le as their formidable enemy.
Zhai Le was dumbfounded after hearing this, and then said in a funny tone: "Cousin and the others...do they doubt that brother will marry me? You can think about it with your toes and know that this won't work. My wife was injured in order to give birth to Erya. Regarding her body, even Xinglin Sage said that she would have difficulty in giving birth in the future. Even if she could give birth, she would have to take good care of her for five or six years..."
Zhai Le, he only has two fat girls.
After the fall of the Shen Kingdom, in order to help his brother stabilize the situation in the new dynasty, he married Sanniang of the Zhao family. Although Zhai Le didn't have much affection for his wife before marriage, after getting along with her and getting to know each other more deeply, his affection for her became much stronger.
With Zhai Huan as an example, Zhai Le also wants to guard someone. Since it was clear that he could not take a concubine and had only two daughters, he obviously posed no threat to his cousins. Why were they so wary of him? Obviously, they were very harmonious before.
Brothers of the same generation of the Zhai family help each other and are unanimous in dealing with the outside world.
Why has so much changed in just a few years?
Unexpectedly, Zhai Huan's words made Zhai Le completely dumbfounded: "It's not doubtful, I really belong to you as a brother."
Zhai Le, whose hands were covered with the eldest daughter's saliva: "..."< br>
His mind was buzzing and he almost stopped working.
Zhai Huan said firmly: "I choose you for my brother!"
Zhai Le said sarcastically: "But, this is not appropriate..."
Zhai Huan said: "To deal with the aftermath of the brotherhood, you only need to sit in that position and guard this land and water. As for them...they are full of vying for power and profit, and they are not worthy!"
Zhai Le frowned, a pair of peach blossoms. His eyes were full of hesitation.
He doesn't like the role of being the helmsman. He has always positioned himself as his brother's right-hand man, helping him conquer all directions and protecting what he values. Brother is the calming needle in his heart. With Brother here, he doesn't have to think.
Zhai Le still declined politely: "Brother, the Spring and Autumn Period is at its peak. If you are not satisfied with your cousins, you can adopt a good seedling from their knees and cultivate it well. There should be no war in the past few years. Once it is cultivated, I will assist him like I assist my brother!”
Zhai Huan sighed and touched his eldest niece’s prickly short hair.
When this child was just born, his hair was not as lush as that of a newborn. It took him a hundred days to remove the fetal hair, but only now has a short hair grown out. He looks like a heroic little boy. He regretfully said: "It would be great if it were a man..."
If it were a man, there would be no objection to directly establishing the crown prince.
Zhai Le poked his daughter's soft cheek: "If he were a boy, he might be able to practice protecting his wife and Da Ya..."
Women and children who have no ability to protect themselves are still too dangerous. Zhai Le likes to go to the battlefield, and generals who like to go to the battlefield will not live long. He didn't know if he would survive until his daughter grew up.
Then, he received a slap from his brother: "You are a father for the second time, and you still don't understand that a child's cheeks cannot move? Erya drools more than Daya, you must be the cause of the disaster .”
Zhai Le pursed his lips in grievance and touched the back of his hands.
Seeing his brother looking at his fat daughter, he mistakenly thought that she wanted to hug the child again, so he shamelessly offered his daughter to her.
But Zhai Huan had no intention of taking it over.
Just said: "Ale, you really don't plan to take a concubine?"
Zhai Le said quietly: "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. And when I married my wife, I borrowed her. Her mother's family promised her a couple, how could she ruin her promise for the sake of women?"
Zhai Huan said: "In this case, there is no other way."
Zhai Le thought that he had completely given up the idea of establishing himself.
“It’s destiny, I’m really not that good at it.”
Zhai Huan fiddled with her little niece’s little hand and said suddenly: “The big girl has no bones, but Erya’s bones, unexpectedly Not bad, the meridians are ethereal, it is a good seedling for cultivation..."
Zhai Le lowered his eyebrows and said: "No matter how good the talent is, but..."
Looking into his daughter's pure eyes, he couldn't say some hurtful words, even if she didn't understand anything.
"Earlier, I gave Erya a divination for my brother."
Zhai Le smiled and said, "How do you say the divination?"
Zhai Huan raised his head and looked at his brother. , word by word, gentle and firm: "Tiger father has no dog daughter, she can inherit your mantle."
Zhai Le was dumbfounded after hearing this: "Inherit my mantle?"
Zhai Huan's words shocked him: "When a literary scholar gets the national seal, a literary scholar of any grade can be promoted to the first rank, although this grade is useless. A brave warrior can also get the title of princes if he gets the national seal." "What about ordinary people? What about women with strong bones? I have read countless records of previous dynasties, but no one has ever tried it, but there must be an answer to this question..."
The two brothers looked at it blankly. The baby girl who doesn’t understand.
At this time, the chamberlain beside Zhai Huan reminded the two brothers in a low voice that it was getting late and it was time for Zhai Huan to return to the inner court.
Zhai Le looked at him, and he said calmly: "There are some eyes and ears in the inner court. I didn't want to remove them because I didn't want to alert the snake. If we can do it without bloodshed, I don't want to splatter the royal court with blood again. I'd better look for you when I see you this time. He asked his siblings for help and ran out secretly."
Zhai Le was anxious: "Brother!"
Zhai Huan waved his hand: "As long as they are not terminally ill, they dare not make any big move, after all - I really know how to kill them."
Even if he doesn't want to go to this step.
He asked Zhai Le to stay in the capital for a while and not go anywhere. After a few simple words, he disguised himself again and returned quietly.
Zhai Le was in a daze holding her daughter.
The barely suppressed panic and anxiety came to mind again.
At some point, the lady came to him, put a coat on him, and whispered: "Uncle, he vomited blood before."
Zhai Le trembled suddenly: "Vomited blood?"
Zhao The lady said: "I could vaguely see a basin of blood."
Thinking about the relationship between her husband and the child's uncle, there were some things she couldn't say out loud. The king was afraid... that he wouldn't be able to survive this month.
In the middle of the night on the third day when Zhai Le was at home, he received a secret edict and entered the palace. He looked at the palace in the dark night, which looked like a huge beast with an open mouth, and his heart dropped to freezing point. There was a voice in my heart that was resisting, but my body was guided by my brother's confidants and stepped into the palace gate.
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Next, one piece, one piece, one piece.
PS: It’s really easy to get the names of these brothers confused.
(End of this chapter)