Chapter 1 Power
Liang Dynasty, the second year of Kangping.
The catkin-like snowflakes covered the glazed tiles in the palace, but made the red wall even brighter.
A carriage drove to the entrance of the palace, attracting the people around to stop and watch.
Xie Yuyan opened the curtain and got out of the car, raised her head and looked at the majestic palace gate, which made her feel like she was in another world.
The Qi army went south, and the capital and capital of Daliang were captured. The Qi people supported Wang Huai to ascend the throne as the pseudo-emperor, and Daliang almost destroyed the country. It was not until Qi Ren left and after many twists and turns that the capital was returned to Daliang's hands.
"The Demon Queen."
The harsh voice brought Xie Yuyan back to her senses. A woman rushed over with a dagger. The imperial guards guarding the Queen Mother immediately stepped forward and chopped the woman to the ground with one knife.
Before the war, there would never have been killings at the gate of the palace, and the people would have looked panicked. However, in the past four months, countless people have died in the war. Everyone is used to seeing life and death. Attracting more people to stop in the distance.
"Mom." A seven or eight-year-old girl ran out from the crowd. The girl cried and rushed towards the woman. Halfway through, she suddenly changed direction, got out from between the two guards, and put her hand in her hand. The wooden stick tied with broken porcelain stabbed Empress Dowager Xie fiercely.
Warm blood spattered on the back of Xie Yuyan's hand.
Blood gurgled out from the young lady's neck, and her young face was soon stained red with blood. However, there was no fear in her eyes, only full of hatred. When the woman saw this, she screamed , tried his best to climb to his daughter's side, but was nailed to the ground by the imperial guard next to him.
In the blink of an eye, two lives were lost.
Xie Yuyan wiped off the blood drops on the back of her hands with a handkerchief, and continued walking towards the palace entrance without looking at the mother and daughter on the ground.
"As soon as the Qi people left, the sages of Daliang ordered the officers and soldiers to go around robbing people's property and killing hundreds of our clansmen. The officers and soldiers were more ruthless to the people of Daliang than the Qi people and the bandits. If they didn't kill these people, Evil woman... there is no way for us to survive.”
"Fight..."
As soon as he finished speaking, more than thirty people appeared. Like the mother and daughter, they inquired about the whereabouts of Queen Mother Xie and wanted to assassinate her here.
These people swarmed up.
While the imperial army was having difficulty parrying, an arrow flew and hit the leading rebel.
A group of cavalry rushed over. The man at the front was wearing armor and had a handsome face. He was the pseudo-emperor Huai who once ascended the throne.
After the fall of the capital, Xie, who had been deprived of the title of Queen Mother and became a Taoist priest, secretly had an affair with the pseudo-emperor Huai. Under her charm, Wang Huai agreed to return power to Daliang, and Xie used this to restore her position as Queen Mother.
In these days in the capital, Empress Dowager Xie did all kinds of evil, indulging her soldiers to plunder property and killing anyone who disobeyed. The people who were already caught up in the war fell into an even more miserable situation. Abandoned corpses could be seen everywhere on the road.
The people were resentful. So many royal family members and concubines had been arrested. Why was the Queen Mother Xie left out?
"The Demon Queen...you will be punished..."
In a moment, all the mob was killed, and Wang Huai dismounted his horse and personally escorted Xie Yuyan into the palace.
Ci'an Palace had been packed up a long time ago. When the Empress Dowager Xie entered the door, palace attendants came forward to serve the Empress Dowager and put on her clothes.
The dark blue sleeves are embroidered with colorful Zhai patterns, and the clouds and dragons woven from red rugs seem to be ready to rise into the clouds at any time. Cui Shangyi used his fingertips to smooth the clothes carefully to prevent them from having any wrinkles. Go and straighten the leather belt wrapped in green luo around Queen Mother Xie's waist.
The Queen Mother Xie is so luxuriously dressed, as if she has returned to the time when Daliang was in its heyday.
Wang Huai opened the curtain and walked in, his eyes falling majestically on Xie Yuyan. As a foreign minister, he can now enter and leave the Queen Mother's palace freely without anyone stopping him.
The ends of Xie Yuyan's slender eyes were slightly raised, and her face was bright and gorgeous against the backdrop of this dress.
Wang Huai's heart moved. Queen Mother Xie had already reached the age of late spring, but in his eyes, she was still no different from when she was young.
The Xie family has good relations with the Wang family, and he and Xie Yuyan grew up together as childhood sweethearts. He had secretly made up his mind to ask his parents to make the decision to marry Xie Yuyan for him after he was crowned.
It is a pity that the late emperor suddenly selected Xie Yuyan into the palace. From then on, he could only carefully hide his love.
I thought this would become a lifelong regret, but I didn’t expect that Qi Ren would help him sit on the throne and make the decision to make Xie Yuyan his queen.
This approach is extremely absurd, but it has some benefits and fulfills his long-cherished wish.
The palace servants brought cakes, and Xie Yuyan poured tea for Wang Huai.
"The Qi people have mobilized troops again," Xie Yuyan said, "Erlang once joined the Qi people and had soldiers and horses under his command. Now he is walking in the capital. When the soldiers guarding the city see him, they may have dissatisfaction and unwillingness. Fight to the death."
"I want to use Erlang's head."
Only when Wang Huai surrendered to the Qi people would he be promoted as a false emperor.
Wang Huai is here, and the other generals will inevitably feel lucky.
Wang Huai thought for a moment and drank all the tea in the cup. He looked at Xie Yuyan: "I have said before that as long as you are happy, I will do whatever you ask me to do."
"So "Thank you very much, Erlang."
Xie Yuyan brought the cake to Wang Huai, but Wang Huai held his hand.
Wang Huai's eyes were burning, and when Xie Yuyan was looked at by him like this, he remembered many things about the past between the two of them.
After Wang Huai returned to Daliang and handed over all his troops and horses to the court, he knew that this day would come. However, he still looked forward to the hesitation and struggle in Xie Yuyan's eyes when he told the result.
But no...this is her, as decisive and cruel as ever.
"My cousin said back then that you are smarter than me. Unfortunately, I have never made any progress and can't help you much."
Wang Huai is talking about Wang Yan, the man who is said to have Zaifu, who had been taught by an immortal. During the Xuanzong Dynasty, Daliang was brought to its heyday. It is a pity that after his death, those new policies could not be implemented in Daliang, otherwise Daliang would not be what it is today.
Wang Yan also became obsessed with Taoism because of his encounter with immortals, and never married a wife in his life.
Xie Yuyan met Wang Yan twice. Once when Wang Yan was sleeping peacefully in the pavilion, the butterfly she wanted to flutter happened to land on his lapel. She hid aside and watched in rapt attention. She always felt that there was something about Wang Yan's appearance. It looks familiar, but I can't remember any resemblance to any of my elders in the family.
The second time, still in the pavilion, Wang Yan distributed the cakes to her and Wang Huai.
"Ayan," Wang Huai said, "my cousin has long said that there will be great chaos in Daliang within fifty years. If this is true, it would be great if he is still alive. Maybe there will be a way."
Wang Huai raised his hand to smooth Xie Yuyan's hair, then reached out to take her into his arms in full view of everyone. Xie Yuyan did not struggle, but stretched out her arms to hug his waist.
After a long while, he let go and said: "Ayan, I hope your future life will be safe and smooth. The thousands of people under my command are at your disposal."
Wang Huai picked up a piece of pastry. Putting it in his arms: "You made this with your own hands, let me keep it in mind!" After saying that, he stood up and walked out of the hall.
A moment later, the imperial guards entered the door holding a human head: "Wang Shilang committed suicide."
Xie Yuyan turned to look, Wang Huai's eyes were closed tightly, and there seemed to be a smile on his face.
"Ayan, I will go back and talk to my father right away. Maybe I can think of a way to prevent you from entering the palace."
The young man had a sincere look on his face. Only then did she know that she liked someone What is the human gaze like?
She didn't like Wang Huai, so in order to achieve her goal, she was willing to let him enter the curtain.
For her, it is an exchange of interests.
Cui Shangyi next to him couldn't help but said: "The Queen Mother...if she is sad..."
Xie Yuyan said: "Actually, Erlang doesn't know that the thousands of people under his command have long been under my control. He If you refuse to die, someone will take action."
"Before entering the palace, my grandmother said that if others want to survive in the palace, they have to spend a lifetime learning how to scheming, but you only have to learn how to fight. You need to do one thing. Don’t let anyone know what’s going on in your heart.”
If people are born with good and evil, she is the latter.
She also pretended to be virtuous and virtuous, and relied on this reputation to be named empress by the late emperor. Unfortunately, she was no match for the late emperor's beloved wife and was deposed.
Later, she returned to the palace and took the position of queen again. Those who didn't know would think that she had learned some tricks during the fierce palace battles, but they didn't know that she only showed a little bit of her true temperament.
The second time he was deposed was because of the dispute between the crown prince.
The late emperor tried every means to pave the way for his beloved son, but his beloved son had only been on the throne for two years when the capital city was breached.
She watched the emperor and his beloved wives and princesses being kidnapped with her own eyes. When Wang Huai appeared next to Qi Ren, she knew the opportunity had come.
She encouraged Wang Huai to become a pseudo-emperor, so that after the Qi people left, she could return the capital to Daliang.
In such troubled times, everything should be done, and the most important thing is to control your life in your own hands.
Xie Yuyan re-covered the box containing Wang Huai's head.
"Give the head to Lieutenant Xie."
With the puppet emperor's head and sufficient military resources, there is no need to worry about fighting the Qi army for the time being.
... When the capital was besieged again, Xie Yuyan had just woken up and was asking Cui Shangyi to comb her favorite hairstyle.
Only half of her long hair is tied up in a hairpin, and the rest hangs down on her waist like a crow.
Exuding a sense of unrestrained looseness and ease.
It makes people forget about the tense war outside.
The imperial court's 100,000-strong army was defeated as soon as they encountered the Qi people. Emperor Daliang, who had just ascended the throne, lost the confidence to fight and fled south under the protection of a group of officials and generals.
"Lieutenant Xie also led his men to surrender the Qi people."
The eighty-four-year-old Taiwei Xie has long been unable to fight, but his status and reputation are a pillar of the beam. spine.
"Mother, the Taiwei will not only become a surrender, but will also help the Qi army go south."
After saying this, the eyeliner paused and said: "The Taiwei said..."
"You are not the blood of the Xie family. You should be rewarded for raising you for these years. When he and the Qi people came to the city, you ordered the city gate to be opened to help him make his first contribution to the Qi State. In the future, the Xie family will be crowned king. The fiefdom is naturally the Queen Mother's support. "
"As the Queen Mother, you can have a good future if you go to Qi State."
"Just rely on the Queen Mother twice. She was deprived of the title of Queen Mother and regained her identity twice. It can be seen that... with that method, she went to Qi State to give birth to an heir, and she might become the Queen Mother of Qi State one day. "
Xie Yuyan suddenly smiled, her face changed. She was naturally charming, but at such an age, her grandfather still wanted to take advantage of her.
“Are you trying to persuade me to marry for the third time?”
The atmosphere in the room was tense.
Xie Yuyan said calmly: "There is nothing wrong with marrying again, as long as he can be like Wang Huai and let me take charge of the capital."
Xie Yuyan clasped her hands. Her father passed away before she was born. , her mother was in poor health and died after giving birth to her. She grew up next to her grandparents, who always treated her very well. She was named queen, and the Xie family also followed suit, pushing her grandfather to the rank of captain in one fell swoop. On the seat.
She knew that for her, the Xie family was more of an exchange of interests, but...how could she not be the blood of the Xie family? The mother is the wife of the father, so how could she have someone else's child in her belly?
She had no time to find out what the truth was.
...
The shouts outside the palace gradually began.
After the city was broken, Qi soldiers and people clamored to capture Queen Mother Xie.
Tearing the Queen Mother out of the palace, who had brought disaster to the country and the people, not only allowed her to vent her resentment and anger, but also handed her over to the Qi people to receive rewards.
Xie Yuyan stood in Ci'an Palace, watching her junior brother busy in the courtyard. When she was deprived of the position of Queen Mother, she went to a Taoist temple to practice Taoism, and this silly junior brother was right next to her.
Until now, the junior brother still believed in some so-called heaven-defying formation, so he took her to the center of the formation to arrange it, and then activated the formation in a serious manner.
The result... naturally will not be of any use.
The imperial army could no longer hold on, and the palace door was knocked open. Soon those people would be able to find Ci'an Palace.
The palace and the chamberlain all picked up sharp weapons.
Yang Qin, a veteran with white hair and beard, walked up to her.
The real talent of this veteran lies in studying. Unfortunately, he was born as a merchant and could not take the imperial examination. He finally entered the military camp and won military honors. However, because he deviated from the clan, his official rank was repeatedly suppressed, and he was simply kicked out to patrol Taoist temples.
All your talents are wasted.
Yang Qin said: "The saint is waiting here, or is he going to fight out."
Kill out instead of fighting out of the encirclement.
It's impossible to escape right now, but it's better than waiting here.
Xie Yuyan and Yang Qin rode together.
General Yang opened the way, and Xie Yuyan waited for the opportunity to draw his bow and shoot an arrow.
Seeing the Xie family from a distance, Xie Yuyan shot out the arrow decisively without any hesitation, and immediately killed a cousin.
"The Empress Dowager Xie is here."
The people of Qi did not expect that the Empress Dowager Xie could actually shoot an arrow with a bow. They were caught off guard and suffered some losses for a while, but they soon reacted Come over, more people gather around.
Sharp spears stabbed at them without hesitation.
“Kill the Demon Queen.”
The spear sank into his heart, and Xie Yuyan felt pain.
Old General Yang who was standing in front of her had already been pierced by five or six spears.
Xie Yuyan took a deep breath.
There were cheers in his ears, just to kill her.
The empress dowager Xie, who was vicious, scheming, and extremely sophisticated, was finally going to die.
Xie Yuyan looked at the jubilant crowd, and the people who broke in wanted to eat her up.
Her whole life, from the moment she entered the palace, she was like a caged bird.
Fortunately, she has never been tamed by her family or imperial power.
In the last days, she was above the imperial power and had to reach the end by herself even in desperate situations.
If there is a next life, I hope to be born in a prosperous age, free from restraints, and never get involved in the game again.
As for getting married...
Empress Dowager Xie, who has been married twice, really doesn’t want to do it again.
Xie Yuyan smiled slightly, so be it!
The junior brother's shout came from behind. Xie Yuyan didn't hear what he said clearly. His eyes, which were about to close, suddenly saw a flash of light, and then everything sank into darkness.
......
I don’t know how long it took, Xie Yuyan had a dream in a trance, and all the past events gathered and dispersed in her mind like fog. She was ups and downs in it, until she gradually began to feel again. .
Hearing a rustling sound in her ears, she felt the tight collar being untied. A hand touched her neck and rubbed it for a moment. As if it was not enough, the hand continued Go down.
Xie Yuyan frowned, did she not die and fell into the hands of Qi Ren?
Frightened and angry, she suddenly opened her eyes, and her eyes happened to collide with the person next to her.
Contrary to what she thought, the person in front of her was not Qi Ren, but a boy.
About seven or eight years old, with a childish face, and his facial features look somewhat similar to Yang Qin.
Could he be a descendant of General Yang?
The two people just looked at each other quietly, as if neither of them had recovered from the current situation.
"You..."
After a while, Xie Yuyan made a voice, and the boy's expression became even more horrified. When Xie Yuyan stretched out his hand, he rolled his eyes and fainted.
Is she that scary?
Xie Yuyan looked at her with confusion. She was wearing a bright red wedding dress and was sitting in a coffin at this moment.
Without time to think too much, shouts came from outside the house.
"Brother Qin, Brother Qin, are you in there?"
Brother Qin...?
Xie Yuyan looked at the boy again, and a name subconsciously appeared in his mind:
Yang...Yang Qin?
The new book is here with you, two months later than expected. During this period, some adjustments were made to the heroine’s character. This version is more in line with my expectations for the heroine.
I hope the new story can bring joy to everyone.
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