Chapter 187 Liyang and Gao Cheng (the subjugated princess and the shady powerful official)
The name Gao Cheng sounded familiar, as if she had heard it mentioned by the emperor’s grandfather and father, but her mind was too confused at this moment. So much so that I couldn't think of anything, I just felt so helpless and pinned all my hopes on the man in front of me.
"Will you take me away?" she asked begging, her eyes dizzy and ready to cry, very pitiful.
The man couldn't help but be tender on her for a moment, kissed her tearful eyes, and said in her ear: "Yes, but not now, don't be afraid, I will definitely come to pick you up when my things are done. "
"And... I hate Hou Jing more than you do. His sons have been castrated, killed, and even boiled by me. Even he himself has been crippled by me. He probably can no longer be humane, so don't be afraid. He...I will help you kill him!"
"Also, in order to ensure the progress of the plan and let me successfully kill him, don't tell other people my name first, and don't let anyone know that you have seen me!"
Liyang was very scared at the time, but besides the man in front of her, she didn't know who to trust. Even her father had abandoned her, so who else could she trust?
I just hope that the man she gave her first time can cherish her, love her, and cherish her!
She obeyed all his arrangements and just waited quietly.
But the passage of time soon made her taste the pain of waiting. She looked forward to his arrival every day in the cage set by her father, until this hope was emptied from her heart bit by bit, until Hou The scene is coming!
That was the first time she saw Hou Jing. All the guards and slaves in the palace had been beheaded. Their corpses were spread out on the floor. There was blood everywhere, and they kept laughing. This ugly man was seeing her. At that moment, her eyes were gleaming, and her mother was stabbed through the chest with a knife while trying to protect her. This rude man who called himself the Temple General broke into the palace with a group of soldiers who burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of evil, and even openly He lived in the palace and held her in his arms every day, drinking and having fun. Although he was inhumane, he used various means to torture her.
If she doesn't obey, this beast will kill a member of the Xiao clan in front of her, and even threaten her with her father and grandfather.
Only then did she realize that her father and grandfather had been trapped in Taicheng and had been starving for many days. This beast didn't even ask anyone to bring them a bite of food.
Thinking of her grandfather's love and affection for her, she gradually gave in, and gradually realized that the person she was waiting for would never come again! The innocence of youth finally disappeared in the face of the cruel facts!
Gradually, she also learned to flatter, and forced a smile every day to charm and coax this ugly man, so that he would relax his guard and reduce the killing of Xiao clan members.
Sure enough, Hou Jing gradually became obsessed with her gentle beauty and gradually neglected his political affairs. After that, more and more princes from all walks of life attacked Hou Jing. However, because of her bewitchment, some of Hou Jing's confidants advised him not to do so. He is obsessed with beauty and becomes hostile and wary of her.
On the 130th day of Hou Jing's siege, she heard the news of the death of her grandfather, Emperor Wu Xiao Yan, and died of starvation in the Wende Hall. After that, Hou Jing asked her father Xiao Gang to succeed him as emperor, but within a year, he deposed him again. and kill.
Her brothers, Crown Prince Xiao Daqi, King Xunyang Xiao Daxin, King Wuning Xiao Dawei and more than 20 princes were killed one after another.
At this moment, she was completely desperate. Her grandfather, father, mother, and brothers, everyone who had loved her were all dead. She became a subjugated princess with nothing, and she had to surrender to her enemies every day.
But she did not forget revenge. She still hid all her hatred in her heart and looked for the right opportunity until a man named Chen Xu came to her. She cooperated with all his plans and led Hou Jing into an ambush. In the Wengcheng, he was ambushed, forced to flee by the rebels, and finally killed by his subordinates.
After Hou Jing died, his body was salted and eaten by all the people in the city. She also had a piece of meat brought to her and swallowed it hard.
At that moment, the tears she had held back for a long time burst out, and all her hatred was vented.
The revenge was over, and she felt that the burden and responsibility on her body had been completely lifted off her body. She became relaxed, but at the same time she also lost the courage to live.
When she came to the Qinhuai River where she met him for the first time, she wanted to jump off the Suzaku Bridge, but someone held her back.
This person is Chen Xu.
He told her that someone who cared about her wanted to see her!
She laughed.
"All my relatives are dead, do you think there will be anyone in this world who cares about me?"
But Chen Xu didn't care and actually forced her to say: "No matter what you think, he wants to see you, and I also want to get what I want, so I can only exchange it with you!
He wants to live, so you must live for me! "
After she was knocked unconscious, she vaguely felt that she was being taken on a ship. Later, in order to prevent her from committing suicide, Chen Xu stayed by her side every day and personally fed her until the ship sailed to the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
At that time, the political affairs of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were already controlled by Gao Cheng. He was already serving as prime minister and general, but the news spread throughout Jinyang that he was going to be conferred a royal title and a special gift of Jiuxi.
This is a precursor to conspiracy to usurp the throne!
When they arrived in Jinyang, Chen Xu took her to a villa, where the awe-inspiring Xianbei army stood.
Gao Huan was originally the Xianbei military and political force headed by the Lou family who conquered the Gao family, and the other capital of Jinyang can be said to be the stronghold of the Xianbei warlords.
The Xianbei people are all tall, and an army of hundreds of people can easily overwhelm the heroes, let alone an army of thousands or tens of thousands of people.
It was the beginning of spring that day. Standing at the front of the army, a man dressed in noble clothes and a large cloak looked particularly eye-catching. He had a handsome appearance and a commanding presence, with the demeanor of a king looking down on the world. From a distance, he looked like a king. It's even more out of reach.
Liyang recognized him at a glance. If she could still lie to herself in the past that the Gao Cheng she knew was not the powerful Eastern Wei official Gao Cheng she had heard from her father, then at this moment, all such self-deceptive illusions were gone. collapse.
His father said that it was Gao Cheng who wanted to organize a Hongmen Banquet to kill Hou Jing, but the astute Hou Jing discovered it, so Hou Jing fled to Nanliang. Originally Hou Jing wanted to cooperate with his imperial grandfather Xiao Yan, but Gao Cheng came up with the plan. Xiao Yuanming exchanged Hou Jing's bargaining chip to seduce the emperor's grandfather. This was a counter-measure used by Gao Cheng. The purpose was to break the cooperative relationship between Hou Jing and the Nanliang Emperor and force him to rebel.
In order to test the sincerity of Emperor Nanliang, Hou Jing, who was suspected of being seriously ill, wrote a letter to the emperor's grandfather in the name of Gao Cheng, saying that he would immediately exchange Xiao Yuanming with him. The emperor's grandfather did not notice the discrepancy in the letter and immediately agreed. terms of exchange.
As a result, Hou Jing completely rebelled, raised his troops to attack the city, and marched all the way into Jiankang.
If we really count, the chaos in Nanliang is inseparable from Gao Cheng!
When she thought about it, she completely understood that the first meeting with him, and even the confusion of her heart caused by him, were actually not accidental. All of this must have been part of his conspiracy!
He was a very lustful person, and he only acted on occasion to satisfy his desire to conquer and have some fun with her.
When she was thinking like this, she heard Chen Xu say to him: "I have brought the person you want. What I want, please King Bohai not to break his promise, otherwise..."
Chen Xu pushed her forward and strangled her neck with his hands.
"I will kill her!" he said.
Liyang closed her eyes, thinking that she could finally be freed!
It turns out that Chen Xu brought her from Nanliang to Jinyang in the Eastern Wei Dynasty just to use her to threaten this man who just wanted to play with her body and didn't care about her at all. How ridiculous this is!
But she heard the familiar voice say: "Okay, I have prepared the coffin. You can take it away immediately. At the same time, you must send her over immediately!"
Immediately afterwards, she saw a carriage carrying heavy goods approaching. Chen Xu sent someone to inspect the goods, and then pushed her towards the man.
"Go, you will live the life you want by following him, don't seek death and survival any more!"
"There is still hope when you are alive, but there is nothing when you die!" Chen Xu finally whispered to her.
She sneered.
"Why do you decide my life and destiny? Life and death are my own choices!"
"I don't know him, why should I follow him?"
"Besides, I don't want to be a bargaining chip anymore!"
After saying that, without even looking at the man, she ran towards the city wall with all her strength. At the same time, she also heard the man yelling in fear: "Stop her!"
Although she exhausted all her strength, she was still entangled by a long rope and pulled back. Finally, she fell into someone's arms!
"I told you, stop seeking death and survival, she hopes you live well!"
She heard Chen Xu speak angrily in her ear, but she didn't know who the "she" in his mouth was?
At this time, Gao Cheng came over and said to Chen Xu in a very fierce tone: "Give her to me, she is already my woman, you have no right to touch her!"
"Then I hope you can treat this little princess of Nanliang well!"
After Chen Xu said something, he threw her hard into Gao Cheng's arms.
"Thank you!"
After Gao Cheng thanked her, he carried her towards the palace in Jinyang. At the same time, he ordered his soldiers to let Chen Xu go and there was no need to pursue him!
She didn't know when Chen Xu left. She just wanted to try her best to break free from Gao Cheng's arms, but the man held her tighter and tighter until she was exhausted and finally had to give up.
Gao Cheng brought her into a gorgeous palace. In early spring, it was still a bit cold, but the palace was very warm, and there were budding peach blossoms hanging on the branches outside the palace.
"Liyang, I said I would take you to my country. Look, I didn't break my promise, right? You don't have to be locked in that cage anymore!"
She chuckled, as if she had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world, and said sarcastically: "Don't you think this sentence is ridiculous? What you said about coming to pick me up and rescue me from the prison is to wait until our country After my family was ruined and all my relatives were lost, when I was so insulted by my enemies that I no longer dared to hope for revenge against anyone in the world, you came to pick me up.
I feel that at this time, I have no one to rely on, and I can only beg for even a little bit of love from you, and you will be very happy, right? "
Maybe she smiled too hard, but she actually saw love and care in this man's eyes.
"I'm sorry, Liyang, I didn't know you would suffer so much? I actually went to find you, but..."
"I won't believe what you say anymore, and I'm not the ignorant girl you once tricked into sleeping with with just a few words. I've learned a lot in the past year, more than you can imagine..."
"And I can guess what you have done in the past year. A person who dominates the court of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and can be so arrogant that he directly scolds and scolds the king. You will not be able to save such an insignificant person like me. ?
If you don't go, it only means that you haven't thought about it at all. You must be taking advantage of the fact that Nanliang is falling apart and are busy competing with the Western Wei Dynasty for the territory of Nanliang? "
Gao Cheng did not answer her words, but just hugged her tightly and said, "I will be good to you in the future, Liyang. It is true that I like you. I can give you whatever you want!"
"Really? Then...can you let me be the queen?"
She just wanted to make him feel disgusted by making this request. After all, in Qi State, the legitimate wife was innocent, and there was no way to depose the legitimate wife. What's more, she was a princess who had subjugated her country, and she was once a nominally married widow. It is more difficult to give a proper title.
Moreover, being a queen also changes the direction and forces him to rebel quickly. Maybe he will die if the rebellion fails?
But she didn't expect that he would actually do it, but the result was still within her expectation.
She was so disheartened that she didn't care at all about the outcome. Perhaps in her mind, the only thing she cared about was life and death.
But from the first day he brought her to the palace in Jinyang, she was closely guarded. Almost every day, except for court affairs, he spent all his fun time with her and pampered her.
He said that he wanted to give her a new home. After having a child, she would have something to worry about, so she would no longer have random thoughts!
And sure enough, three months later, she became pregnant. At first she didn't want a child, but as time went by and she felt the beating of life, she slowly began to look forward to it.
Wei Qi also advised her to give birth to the child and live a good life.
Under Wei Qi's sincere persuasion, she finally began to slowly accept the current life until the child was born.
Everyone said that the child was very beautiful and looked 70% like her. When she held the child, she felt a warmth in her heart and felt a sense of happiness that she had never felt before.
But Gao Cheng's mother, Bohai Princess Lou Zhaojun, disliked her very much, saying that she was a seducing evildoer. She once bewitched Hou Jing into oblivion, and finally ended up being quartered and eaten.
Because he didn't like her, Gao Cheng was not allowed to give her the position of concubine, not to mention the position of queen, and even the historian was not allowed to leave her surname.
She became an abandoned person again. Gao Cheng was busy wooing courtiers to usurp the throne, and gradually he didn't have much time to take care of her. Gradually, the conflict between her and Gao Cheng became deeper and deeper, and she felt a sense of suffocation. She wanted to escape, but she endured it for a few years for the sake of her child. When the child grew older, she wanted to escape to Jiankang with her child, but she would eventually be found by Gao Cheng.
In the end, she simply left the child behind and found an opportunity to completely escape from Gao Cheng's control. First she went to the Western Wei Kingdom to find a place to hide, and then she took Wei Qi back to Jiankang in the Southern Dynasty to learn business and find a way to do it together. Some of Xiao's old friends slowly established their own connections.
Later, I had better luck. I started doing business and had more of a foundation for my own livelihood. I no longer had to be controlled by anyone, no longer had to rely on the protection of others, and I could live a good life.
"When Gao Cheng died, the princess actually came back. It's strange to say that the princess used to wish that he would die early, but when he really died, he died on the eve of his Zen ceremony. It was like the curse in his heart finally came true, and the princess came back again. Cried a lot."
"Even all these years, she has been investigating the real cause of Gao Cheng's death, because everything was too coincidental. It was such a coincidence that as soon as Gao Cheng died, his second brother Gao Yang rushed over immediately, took over all his power, and directly replaced Wei Cheng. Emperor, founded Northern Qi."
At this point, Mrs. Wei sighed again: "You see, people are so strange sometimes. They obviously hate someone to death, but in the end this person is completely gone, and they can't help but think of his goodness..."
"Are you saying I regret it now?"
Suddenly a voice interrupted, Madam Wei trembled, and in a blink of an eye she saw Princess Liyang standing outside the side hall at some point, and now she had walked in!
Xiao Jinyu looked at her, and it was complicated for a moment. She didn’t know how to call her?
(End of chapter)