Chapter 423 I...I am your woman
"Even if I owe you something, I have already paid it back just now, why don't you let me die?"
Concubine Shu was trembling all over, fierce Biting his lip, a stream of blood trickled down the corner of his mouth.
Chu Pingsheng frowned. He didn't expect that Concubine Shu, looking soft and weak, would not fight or snatch, but she would have such a strong temper.
“You are preventing me from committing suicide today, but you cannot keep guarding me and watching me day and night, day and night, because I will eventually die.”
"..."
"I only ask you one thing. After my death, give this house full of ancient books to a worthy book lover. Don't give it to Chengze, he is not worthy. "
Chu Pingsheng's heart moved. He picked up a blanket and wrapped it around her. He held her in his arms and jumped away from the palace, flying away like a flying peng soaring in the wind.
Many palaces retreated quickly below; teams of guards patrolled back and forth; the Tai Chi Hall was brightly lit; the eunuchs on the Bell and Drum Towers were yawning...
Concubine Shu's whole body was filled with excitement. Numb.
Now she knew how Chu Pingsheng got in. This kind of ability to control the wind, the light skill of not falling for a hundred feet, the high walls of the palace, the guards inside, and the dense sentinels... were just like decorations to him.
"How many years have you been away from the palace?"
The man's voice hit her ears, and her delicate body trembled. Counting it carefully, the life of living in Shujing Palace was over. For more than ten years, and in the early years, she often saw Chengze. However, since the emperor asked his son to move out of the palace and open a mansion in the south of the city, it was no longer easy to see his son. Without the company of those ancient books to relieve loneliness, she really didn't know how the palace was. What's the point of living here?
"Is this the city of Kyoto?"
She saw a man from an aristocratic family hugging him on the bank of the Liujing River where flower boats were plying back and forth, and asked his followers to light a wishing lantern in the open space.
She saw Yingyan from the brothel sticking her head out of the window, ogling and saying hello to the passers-by on the street.
She saw actors singing and musicians playing the harp in the crowded Goubai, while in the casino across the street, the crowd was bustling with excitement. Those who had won money cheered and entertained generously, and those who had lost money were cheering. He walked away dejected and lonely.
She also saw a blindfolded child chasing his companions in the yard along the street; a porter carrying an empty pole to finish work and go home; a landlord carrying meat in his left hand and wine in the right, who had guests to entertain; Bamboo ladders, middle-aged women collecting clothes on the roof...
She has never seen these scenes since she married into the palace.
“Is the night view of Kyoto Castle nice?”
"..."
"I don't have time today. I will take you to the streets to play in two days."
Concubine Shu thought he was using these to tempt her to live, but the scenery was so She still has common sense that things can get boring if you see them too much.
"..."
At this time, she realized another situation. The height of Chu Pingsheng's wind control was getting lower and lower, and he slowly landed on the roof of a big house.
As far as she knew, the emperor gave Chu Pingsheng the house where Princess Ningyang once lived, thinking that this would be his home. Could it be that... this guy wanted to imprison her here in order to prevent her from committing suicide? ?
But soon, this idea was forgotten by her, because a few feet away from where the two landed, a figure flashed behind the handrail of the waterside pavilion. The light of the lantern dispersed the darkness, reflecting the person's face. The face was clearly that of her son Li Chengze.
It turns out that this is not the Chu Mansion, but her son's Prince Duan Mansion.
"Yes Cheng...um..."
A hand covered her mouth.
"Don't talk, watch carefully, and listen attentively."
At the same time, Li Chengze, standing barefoot behind the railing of the waterfront platform, wearing a thick brocade robe, glanced behind him with surprise, but found nothing suspicious. Then he looked back in front of him.
"Xie Bian, did you hear anything?"
"No."
"Really not?"
Xie Bian, who was sitting on a low couch covered with quilts, wiped his sword with a white cloth and said, "Your Highness, I did not hear any suspicious movement."
Xie Bian is a ninth-level master. Since he said There was no suspicious movement, and Li Chengze was relieved.
"Have the arrangements been made for everyone going north?"
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will lead the team this time, and He Chun, Zhang Xia, Xu Qiu and Cao Dong will each lead the way. Killer, when we reach the border between the two countries, all we need is Ku He to lure away Xihu Grand Master Bai Feng, and Lang Tao and Begonia Duoduo to hold back Bai Yuan. All we need is Chu Pingsheng himself..."
"Remember, The identity must not be revealed.”
"Don't worry, Your Highness, as long as there are no problems with the heavy information, even if Bai Feng returns safely, he will never doubt us when he sees the scene where his apprentice was killed. He will only think that it was Uesugi Tiger and Sean."
“Do you want Fan Wujiu to go with you?”
“Your Highness, there is no need.”
“I am thinking whether to keep Fan Xian in Qi State as well. .”
“Your Highness?”
Judging from Xie Bian's expression, it was obvious that killing Fan Xian was not part of the previous plan.
"Didn't Chu Pingsheng say that at the Four Kingdoms Night Banquet? He even dared to kill the prince. Where do you think this courage comes from?"
"The great master of Xihu, Bai Feng!"
“So when Bai Feng saw his disciple being killed, isn’t it normal for him to become so angry that he killed Fan Xian?”
“Your Highness, Fan Xian... is your brother after all, and Based on the current situation, we have a common enemy with him. Will doing this..."
Li Chengze put his hands deeply into the sleeves of his robe, and a wisp of wind blew by, raising the naughty hair on his left temple: "You think my father asked Fan Xian to go to Northern Qi just to exchange prisoners, and rescue Yan Bingyun to prove it. Didn't he betray the country by leaking secrets?" Xie Bian stopped wiping his sword and looked at his master with a puzzled expression.
“The inner treasury has been in the hands of the eldest princess for too long. My father no longer wants her to continue to control the inner treasury. It’s just that the previous arrangement was disrupted by Chu Pingsheng and had to go out. A dangerous move, let Fan Xian go to Northern Qi to search for clues and collect evidence of the eldest princess' crime. I think... in order for things to go smoothly, he should have promised Fan Xian that as long as the matter is settled, he will change the finger-marriage between Chu Pingsheng and Lin Waner. "
"Isn't Princess Chen already betrothed to Chu Pingsheng by Your Majesty? "
Xie Bi'an felt more and more confused.
Li Chengze stomped his slightly red feet: "Who stipulates that His Majesty the Emperor must keep his word? If Chu Pingsheng can return safely, Lin Wan'er will be married to whoever is more valuable at that time."
Xie Bi'an was speechless. He didn't expect Emperor Qing to have such complicated thoughts, nor did he expect that Li Chengze, a son, would miss his biological father so badly.
"Your Highness, aren't your feet... cold?"
"It's cold."
"Then you are still standing outside."
"Because I need to calm down."
"This can help you calm down?"
"Don't believe it? You can try it."
"It's better not to." Xie Bian shook his head reject.
Neither of them noticed that a black shadow left quietly on the roof not far away.
...
After a cup of tea.
In Shujing Palace.
The Luo quilt is fragrant and damp, with a fine wind and bitter cold.
The candlelight illuminated two black shadows, one long and one short, one male and one female.
Chu Pingsheng stared at Concubine Shu with dull eyes and said nothing for a while: "Did you hear the conversation between Li Chengze and Xie Bi'an?"
"You...you...what do you want to do to him?" ?"
"It depends on how you treat me." Chu Pingsheng stuffed the "Jin Ping Mei" that he had thrown on the ground before, and threw the few palace poems that had not yet been burned into the brazier. Watch the paper turn into ashes.
"Let me tell you a secret. In fact, there has never been Bai Feng, the great master of Xihu, in this world, only Chu Pingsheng."
The scene where he takes her flying over the palace; listen to it from Hong Zhu To put it bluntly, Bai Feng's deeds of destroying the palace with one palm; the scene of Xie Bian, a ninth-level master, being unaware of the two sneaking into Prince Duan's Mansion; the rumors that Chu Pingsheng dared to offend Emperor Qing in public. These pieces of information flashed through his mind several times. The imperial concubine understood.
"You...Bai Feng is you, Chu Pingsheng is also you..."
"You can say that."
Concubine Shu slumped on the ground, her son provoked someone he shouldn't have provoked people.
“Please, don’t hurt him. Chengze is actually a very good boy, but it’s a pity...it’s a pity that your Majesty...”
“The emperor asked him to be the prince’s whetstone. Right? ”
"Yes."
Concubine Shu sighed, as if she already knew her son's situation.
"It is Li Yunqian's business to use Li Chengze as a whetstone or not, and it has nothing to do with me. The problem is that he wants to harm me now. I believe you have heard that Lai Mingcheng has read my book, so I will He killed Lin Youdao. Not only did he marry me, but he also asked Emperor Qing to kill me. I killed his whole family. Fan Xian was clever, so I asked him to worship the real dead. Yuan Hongdao dared to lynch my woman, and finally ended up in Lingchi. If I am punished by death, do you think I am an easy talker?"
The death of the Queen Mother is proof of how strong the Grand Master is.
"As long as you are willing to let him go, I can do anything you want."
"So, are you still looking for life and death?"
She lowered her head, looked at the floor and shook her head slightly.
"So, from now on, whose woman are you?"
"..."
She hesitated for a long time, until the atmosphere in the palace gradually turned cold, then she spoke softly Said: "Yours."
"In this way, I will give your son a chance to escape unscathed, but the people around him..."
"I know that as long as I can save Chengze's life, I will be satisfied."
"Since I am your man, at this moment, I want to stay here for the night, what should you do?"
Concubine Shu raised her head and looked at him for a few times, endured the shame and got up, went to help He took off his clothes and went to bed together.
At the same time, in Tai Chi Hall.
Li Yunqian was playing with firecrackers, the kind that can be placed on arrows. As a result, when he hit the firecrackers, the gunpowder exploded, leaving him with a black face, fluffy hair, and a very miserable look.
He set off firecrackers in Tai Chi Hall.
Chu Pingsheng set off firecrackers in Shujing Palace.
It seems like the two of them are quite destined.
(End of this chapter)