7.11–7.12

7.11

Li Xudong was born to fight. His violent bloodthirstiness was fully released on the battlefield, while not having the delicacy of a royal son, and was even more able to endure hunger and hard work than a soldier from the poorest of origins.

From Supervisor to Vanguard General to Commander-in-Chief, he had spent only two short years and had established supreme prestige in the army. Gao Nian, on the other hand, became a companion and divine helper for him to win the goodwill of the soldiers. Gao Nian can’t write, can’t do martial arts, but the mouth is powerful and love to brag, the biggest hobby is to rob other people’s military achievements. Other people in the front line to kill the enemy, he hid in the rear shivering, other people back in blood, he immediately put up a knife to harvest the head of the dead body to take the credit, time and time again to make the sky angry people.

However, his last name was Gao, who could do anything to him? The others did not say anything, but they treated Gao Min with much less respect and admiration, no longer treating him as the Great Yan’s God of War.

At the same time that Li Xudong had mastered the 800,000 troops in the southern border, Li Jintian had also dismantled Gao Min’s one million troops and split them into several units, sending his contacts to the Sixth Prince one after another.

After three years of examination, there is no doubt that the sixth prince is the most suitable next emperor in his mind. In the capital in the trouble of several princes but he put up a few shield, before the reuse of the eighth prince, the ninth prince one after another by the high family assassination, now looks like the scenery of the seventh prince is also faced with impeachment by the group of ministers and then imprisonment of the next, only the sixth prince because of the mountain high and far away from the war, avoided a catastrophe.

Unable to get rid of the Sixth Prince openly and honestly, Gao Min authorized his inner circle in the southern border to assassinate the other party, and in the past three years, he made frequent moves, but none of them were successful. Li Jintian was well aware of this, but he had no way to completely tear his face off with Gao Min. He thought that when the Gao family collapsed, Gao Min would be at peace and would stay by his side and live with him, just like Qi Xiu Jie did.

That’s why he quoted but didn’t send out a message, and only added many manpower to protect the Sixth Prince.

Li Xudong was sitting in the tent with a big horse, and an exceptionally good-looking military doctor was preparing to unwrap the bandages on his back to check the wounds.

“You just bathed?” Li Xudong’s nose twitched slightly.

The medic pressed his head extremely low and muffled a yes.

“You always have a very distant and light fragrance on you, do you know it yourself?” Li Xudong has just turned eighteen now, but his height is eight feet and three inches, his bronze skin and robust and powerful muscles are hidden in his half-open undershirt, and his handsome and extraordinary appearance and stern and cold temperament add infinite charm to him.

He moved slightly closer to sniff the medic’s bare, snow-white neck, his expression seemingly intoxicated.

The doctor was startled, hastily covered his neck with his hand, his cheeks floated up two groups of flushed red, this is a clear-cut features actually brought a few points of color. It is said that when the military full three years, the sow race sable cicada, the doctor because of the appearance of the problem has not been less by the sergeant molestation.

Li Xudong laughed lowly and sighed as he tackled his arm, “What are you covering, last time when you bathed this marshal already saw it.”

The medic stared round-eyed, his expression horrified.

Li Xudong’s voice became more and more hoarse and low, “You deliberately lured this marshal to your tent to get medicine, isn’t it precisely to let this marshal see the vermilion sand mole on the back of your neck? This marshal is not that narrow-minded person, the same brother, Gao Min can kill the enemy in battle, why can’t you cure the disease and save the people?”

The military doctor’s dark eyes instantly lit up and looked at him gratefully, seeing him reach out to touch the vermillion mole in his neck socket, he actually forgot to struggle against it.

Li Xudong lifted off the layer of fake skin, slowly rubbed the bright red vermillion sand and sighed, ”How many favors did Gao Min give you to seduce this marshal? Are you still planning to steal military information from this marshal and sell it to the Yue Clan, so that this marshal can die in the southern border? Even abandoning the safety of the country and the people, Gao Min has really gone back to his old self. The guardian god of Great Yan? Joke.”

Not waiting for the military doctor to struggle, he snapped the other party’s neck with five fingers, tore off the skin imprinted with the vermilion sand mole, and threw it into the fire pot to be burned to ashes. Where to grow is not good, but in the neck nest.

His face gradually changed from grim to reminiscent and gentle. Jun’s father’s vermilion sand mole also grew in the nape of his neck, small, red, and very cute. Many times, when he hugged each other from behind, he couldn’t help but move over to suck, lick, and nibble. When he was fifteen years old, just thinking about it, he was so excited that he couldn’t fall asleep for a night, and that part of his crotch was hard and erect for several hours, making him feel both uncomfortable and excited that he couldn’t restrain himself.

Soon, in a short while, Jun’s father will be mine. He smiled with determination, and then he ripped off the gauze and dumped a pot of strong wine on the wound that was flaying out the skin.

Two guards walked in and skillfully dragged the body out to dispose of it.

On the following day, the war drums were beating as usual, Li Xudong killed his way into the South Vietnamese army and went straight for the head of the enemy’s commander-in-chief, noticing the sound of air-breaking coming from the back of his head, he swung his sword to block it, splitting a cold arrow in half, and then looked towards Gao Nian, who was not far away with an astonished expression and still maintaining the posture of shooting arrows.

A scout can’t assassinate a man without doing it himself? It’s hard for this coward.

Li Xudong smiled contemptuously and removed the large bow on his back to shoot an arrow at a gallop. Gao Nian hit his horse to escape, but he was killed by the streaming arrow that penetrated his brow.

—————–

Inside the Purple Chen Palace, Zhou Yunsheng was flipping through the family letter sent by the wolf cub. He actually shot Gao Nian in full view of everyone, the little cub is still the same as before, his methods are simple and rough. In that case, Gao Lang will not be able to hold back, why don’t I add another bundle of firewood?

He pondered for a moment and personally went to the Palace of Nourishing Heart to seek an audience, while sending an urgent letter to let the little cub lead the army day and night to rush back to the capital.

Li Jin Tian wanted to completely separate Gao Min from the Gao family. As long as Gao Min remained by his side, he did not care about the life and death of the Gao family and even the fifth prince. When he received the impeachment against the Sixth Prince for murdering the first son of the Gao Family from the court officials, he only took a glance at it and burnt it, he even ignored it.

The forces of the Gao Family and King Li had already been disintegrated eight-ninths of the way, and there was simply no need for him to endure any longer.

Then listened to Qi Xiu Jie intended for Qi family members to collect the bones of the request, he waved a brush and then allowed, but also picked a piece of feng shui land ordered a thick burial.

His every move made Gao Min angry, puzzled, and even disheartened. He could not understand why this man had become so fast.

Gao Lang was more perceptive than his own brother, and after avoiding Li Jintian’s many eyes and ears, he met with Gao Min at a temple in secret.

“Just like how he couldn’t tolerate the Qi family back then, the Emperor can’t tolerate my Gao family anymore. He has been laying out his plans since three years ago. I think the Sixth Prince should be his most favored candidate for the Crown Prince, Yan’er is just a shield.” Gao Lang spoke slowly.

“Impossible.” Gao Min immediately denied it.

“The Sixth Prince was already an invalid, but his legs miraculously improved when he went to the border, and he has also made many meritorious achievements. How do you think he escaped my Gao family’s surveillance and assassination? Without Li Jintian’s protection, he would never have survived today, and without Li Jintian’s promotion, he would never have his current position. Min Er, don’t deceive yourself anymore, Li Jintian has changed a long time ago. He wants to destroy the Gao family, you and I, and even Yan’er. An emperor is an emperor after all, there is no such thing as true love. Look at his behavior these days, when Nian’er died he didn’t even say a word of rebuke to the Sixth Prince, he even collected the bones for the Qi family, his heart is already completely biased towards that father and son.”

Gao Min was silent, only feeling a chill seeping out from his bone marrow, gradually spreading all over his body.

“Brother, what should Yan’er and I do?”

“Is the tiger talisman still in your hands?” Killing intent seeped out of Gao Lang’s eyes.

“Tiger talisman, the tiger talisman was returned to Li Jintian a long time ago.” Gao Min’s voice was hoarse.

Gao Lang’s expression twisted for a moment, but then quickly calmed down. Since Li Jintian had prepared for this, naturally he would not let his younger brother take control of the army. I’m afraid that in these three years, his brother’s men in the army have either been drawn in and subdued by him, or suppressed and polarized by him, and have turned into a scattered sand that will never be used by the Gao family again.

He pondered for a moment, slowly pulled out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve pocket and handed it over, “This is a soul-restoring pill, colorless and tasteless, which melts when it encounters water, the body will gradually weaken and die in January after taking this medicine, and any one of the doctors can’t test it. Although the border victory, the army immediately to return to the dynasty, but Li Xudong arrived in the capital needs at least two months, we still have time. You go back and give the medicine to Li Jintian, one pill every two days for a total of fifteen pills. In these thirty days, I will contact people as soon as possible to push Yan’er to succeed the throne, and then raise the strength of the country to hang the sixth prince. If he is still as tough as before and cannot be killed, then take Qi Xiu Jie as a hostage and force him to kill himself.”

A struggle appeared in Gao Min’s eyes. The education he received since he was a child prevented him from doing something like regicide.

“What are you still hesitating for? The situation now is either you die or I die. Don’t forget that I still have several hundred lives of the Qi family in my hands. With the Sixth Prince’s importance to Qi Xiu Jie, he will definitely behead you, me, and Yan’er to avenge Qi Xiu Jie.” Gao Lang couldn’t wait to slap his brother awake.

Hearing this, Gao Min gritted his teeth, took the porcelain vase and left in haste.

The duo’s conversation quickly appeared on Zhou Yunsheng’s desk, and he smiled with amusement.

He had anticipated today’s situation.

Although the Qi family is powerful, the head of the Qi family is prudent, low-key and restrained, and is very good at sizing up the situation. He submitted to King Xuan for the lives of his entire clan, and all he wanted was ‘peace and stability’, so he was a person with little ambition. Gao Lang, on the other hand, is the opposite, he is paranoid, ruthless and ambitious, the more he is in adversity, the more he wants to rise to the top, and he has a great desire for power.

The information transmitted by 007 did not mention the specifics of Li Xuyan’s ascension to the throne, but if Li Xuyan was indeed a wise and decisive emperor, it was inevitable that he would have to fight with this uncle of his, lest the foreign relatives sit on the throne.

Gao Min, as the youngest son, had a resolute side in his character, but still could not hide his weakness. At the critical moment, he always can’t take it or put it down, he is indecisive and easy to be compelled. His weakness is the fifth prince, for the sake of the fifth prince, he can give up all his insistence and principles, and do the most vicious things in the world.

Zhou Yunsheng grasped the dark side of everyone’s personality and then utilized it. The second dream was not made up on a whim, but a refraction of reality. Under the impetus of Li Jintian, everyone would follow his lead and stand in the appropriate chess grid, thus creating the situation today.

Life is like a chess game, whether it’s a fiasco or a great victory, it’s all between the rise and fall of your hand, and this is exactly where Zhou Yunsheng likes to fight with the sky, fight with people, and fight with the Lord God, and where the greatest pleasure lies.

7.12

The wolf cubs were already about to arrive in the capital, how could Zhou Yunsheng give Gao Min another month to prepare. Half a month later, he stewed a cup of chicken soup with a hundred year old ginseng and caused it to be sent to the Palace of Nourishing Heart.

Li Jintian is extremely suspicious, and there is a special person responsible for trying out the imported things. But the soul-restoring pill is a chronic poison, will not soon attack, and in the body of the accumulation of half a quarter of an hour will be automated to go, even the silver needle can not detect, not to mention try to eat. A month later Li Jintian onset, the toxicity has been dissipated, is the most experienced doctor in Great Yan can not diagnose abnormalities.

This day accompanied Gao Min had lunch, he went to the imperial study to deal with political affairs, just picked up the brush suddenly felt a stirring in the chest, and then a mouthful of black blood sprayed out.

“Your Majesty, what’s wrong with you Your Majesty?” The Chief Eunuch was scared out of his wits, and said in a trembling voice, “The color of this blood is extremely abnormal, could it be poisoning? Quickly, quickly go and summon the Imperial Doctor!”

“Don’t make a sound! Get Yuanzheng Xu here secretly, and don’t let anyone see it!” Li Jintian was an emperor in the end and understood the seriousness of this matter being known by outsiders. Before the truth was ascertained, it was absolutely impossible to scare the snakes.

Before the Eunuch-in-Chief could agree, the secret agent hidden inside the hall led the way.

Xu Yuanzheng walked into the study dressed as a chamberlain, knelt down and placed the Emperor’s hand on the pulse pillow, shaking his head a moment later, indicating that he could not detect anything. He had already spent two quarters of an hour on the road, and the strength of the Requiem Pill had long since dissipated.

“Check this cup of chicken soup.” Li Jintian pointed at the soup can on the table. The only thing unusual about today’s diet was the chicken soup sent from Zichen Palace. He didn’t want to suspect Qi Xiu Jie, yet he didn’t know who was more suspicious.

Xu Yuanzheng carefully examined, said the chicken soup put a hundred years old ginseng, is a great tonic, only good for the body absolutely no harm.

“The other dishes are all here, you continue to examine them.” Li Jintian leaned back in dismay. Except for this cup of chicken soup that came from Zi Chen Palace, all the other food was personally handled by Gao Min. It was either Qi Xiu Jie or Gao Min, the remaining guess made him burn internally, a thousand times more unbearable than swallowing the most poisonous poison.

If the pills have not entered the human body, the toxicity can be maintained for a long time in water or stirred with other food. Every day, Gao Min urged his attendants to dump the dishes and destroy them as soon as possible, but somehow, today, when the Chief Eunuch quietly went to the Royal Dining Room, these leftovers were still properly placed in the food box.

Checking into the Emperor’s favorite steamed sea bass, the Imperial Doctor was so creeped out that he got rid of the chopsticks in his hands. A crisp knocking sound came, causing Li Jintian to tremble violently for a moment. He clenched his teeth and asked word for word, “How is it?”

“Yes, it’s this dish, looking at the symptoms it seems to be a tranquilizer pill. Because the Emperor accidentally used a hundred year old ginseng today, it unintentionally catalyzed the toxicity, and that’s why he vomited blood. If you didn’t use this old ginseng, I’m afraid that in the end, you won’t even, even notice that you’ve been poisoned.” The subtext is that your old man will die an unknown death.

With a specific object of suspicion, the eunuch pierced the emperor’s fingertips, took a drop of blood with a specialized fusion agent to check, a few moments later kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, too scared to open his mouth.

Good, it’s finally come to this. Is this the so-called fate? Then what is the reason for God to let me be reborn? Perhaps it is to allow me to make amends to certain people, but never Gao Min. Li Jintian smiled bitterly for a while before speaking calmly, “Is there any salvation for me?”

The eunuch was reticent.

Li Jintian understood and asked in a different way, “How many days do I have left to live?”

Any more silence would have been fatal, and the eunuch could only reply in a low voice, “Perhaps, perhaps there are still four or five days left before His Majesty’s body goes down in full exhaustion.”

“Four or five days? That’s fast.” Li Jintian sighed tersely, but his mood was unexpectedly calm. He dismissed Yuanzheng Xu and secretly summoned the believers he had cultivated over the past three years into the palace one by one.

——————-

Five days later, the Emperor suddenly got an acute illness, he couldn’t even get out of bed, the situation looked critical. Gao Min and Gao Lang panicked when they heard the news, all of a sudden the preparation time was shortened by ten days, and they didn’t have time to deploy many things.

I thought Li Jintian can still delay a few days, which expected that he seems to store the will to die, even refused to use the medicine, but instead of a few cabinet ministers, princes and their mothers and fathers all invited to Yangxin Hall, seems to account for the aftermath.

Gao Min knelt at the foot of the bed along with the fifth prince, Qi Xiu Jie knelt beside the head of the bed, and all the courtiers, princes, concubines, and retainers knelt three meters away.

“I don’t have much time left, so I’ll explain the aftermath in front of everyone, Fushun, get a pen and paper and write it down for me.”

Fushun is the eunuch in charge, got the order busy to get a pen and paper, listening.

“I and the queen of the love, husband and wife love, after death also can not bear to be separated, with the queen of the martyrdom for me, the so-called life is different from the death of the same hole, is also considered that I seek benevolence.”

As the words fell out of his mouth he gasped for air, not bothering to look at Gao Min whose face had turned white in the slightest.

“I am also willing to be martyred.” Zhou Yunsheng kowtowed and spoke calmly, but his red eyes and trembling body made it easy to see his bitterly suppressed grief.

“You give me a good life.” Li Jintian waved his hand with a bitter smile. At this point, this person was still so demented. In his last life, he was not able to enjoy the honor and glory that he should have enjoyed, in this life, he must let him live the rest of his life in style, this is the only compensation he can give him.

“I am willing to be martyred.” Zhou Yunsheng kowtowed again.

Li Jintian but ignored, continued, “my seventh brother Li Wang life has not married concubines, knee desolate, I heart is really difficult to peace, special will be the fifth son of the emperor passed to the brother, for its grams of filial piety, old age to send to the end.”

Gao Min violently raised his head to look at the dragon bed, and his white face completely turned blue and purple. If it wasn’t for the Fifth Prince’s deadly pressure on his shoulders, he was afraid that he would have rushed up to fight with Li Jintian.

Passing his son over to King Li, could it be that his usual love for his son was all a lie?

Li Jintian stopped to catch his breath. Zhou Yunsheng, however, as if he was addicted, kowtowed again and said he was willing to be martyred.

“You give me shut up!” Li Jintian overturned the medicine bowl on the bedside table, viciously opened his mouth, seeing the other party finally quiet, slowly kneeling and bowing, burying his face between his palms for a long time, did not get up, thinking that he was shedding tears in silence. This makes Li Jintian remembered the last life in the deep palace, this person is also in this weak posture kneeling in front of their own tablet, even if the pain is beyond words, can only bury his head and cover his face, repress that despair and grief.

It made him more and more determined about his last dying wish.

“Bring the imperial decree, I will write the last wish myself.” He beckoned towards Fushun.

Fushun hurriedly handed over a blank imperial decree. Everyone looked towards him with burning eyes, except for Gao Min’s father and son. These two people, one was buried and the other was succeeded, as if the once grand favor and holy grace never existed. What was His Majesty thinking? It is true that the Heavenly Might is unpredictable!

Li Jintian wrote while reading, “the order of heaven can not be rejected, the divine weapon can not be absent for a long time, the group of ministers can not be without a master, the machine can not be without a unity. I know that the end of the day has come, view the virtues of all the sons, only my sixth son Li Xudong day watch Yingqi, talent pure beauty, filial piety and brotherly love, noble character, specially set up its as the new king of Yan, in order to re-unification of the ten thousand years, in order to tie the hearts of the four seas. I hereby inform heaven and earth, the temple, and the gods of heaven and earth.”

It’s the Sixth Prince? It really was the Sixth Prince. There were some people in the hall who were surprised and others who were calm, but to the princes, this was news that was not considered good and definitely not bad. Whoever ascended the throne was better than the fifth prince. Because of this father and son duo, how many concubines died in the palace to serve the king simply countless, a little talented royal son are high family suppression and framing, suffering.

Not on the throne are so ruthless, if you let this father and son duo to ascend to the throne of the Great Yan supreme, the next person where there is a way to live. On the other hand, the sixth prince, people are bold, funny, modest, and every brother’s relationship is very cordial, Qi Guijun is also a temperament is indifferent, do not want fame and fortune of the Lord. With these two in power, I thought that their days would be much better than when Father Emperor was around.

And the cabinet ministers, having gotten through to the emperor five days ago, naturally bowed down to their orders.

In the presence of courtiers, emperors, concubines, and retainers, Li Jintian tremblingly stamped the jade seal on the imperial decree, and then feebly closed his eyelids.

Fushun called out his name in grief, all of them took a few steps on their knees to check his condition, only Gao Min’s father and son and Zhou Yunsheng were still kneeling at the same place, one side’s eyes flashed with hidden killing intent, while the other side buried their heads in silence, not knowing what to think.

Li Jintian barely struggled back when he was on the verge of death, holding the hand of Fushun who stood closest to him, emphasizing again and again, “As soon as I die, I will immediately send down the Queen of the King, I can’t be away from him even for a moment!” Since I can’t get Gao Min’s heart, it’s the same to get his person, I have to pull him along with me even in death, and I will never let him double up with Li Wang.

Zhou Yunsheng ear tip slightly moving, heart sighs tersely: this is the so-called dead to love or love you to death? Li Jintian this person is actually quite difficult.

Fushun had long since cried uncontrollably, and could only nod his head repeatedly to show that he had heard.

Only then did Li Jintian close his eyes at ease. The eunuch stretched out his index finger under his nose and slowly said, “His Majesty has already died.”

Cries of grief resounded in the hall, and a eunuch was about to ring the funeral bell, but was stopped by the guards of Tian Chen Palace, and the friction of the steel sword sliding out of its sheath was chilling to the heart.

Gao Min slowly stood up, his face did not see any grief, only relief, exhaustion and liberation. He waved his sleeve, ordering the guards to surround everyone, while he himself carried the steel sword and slowly paced to Zhou Yunsheng’s body, and violently raised his hand to chop.

Zhou Yunsheng suddenly smiled, his face that was already stunningly beautiful was now overflowing with sharpness. His left hand’s fingers clamped off Gao Min’s blade, and his right hand made an ingesting gesture in the air to suck Gao Min close to him, tightly clasping the other party’s fragile neck.

Gao Min, who was known as the most fierce general of Yan, was not even a match for him.

Everyone was shocked and dumbfounded, except for Fushun, the head of the Great Household.

“Revenge, revenge, Li Jintian came back from rebirth to take revenge, Gao Min also came back from rebirth to take revenge, then Qi Xiu Jie naturally wants to take revenge as well. The so-called “When will injustice be avenged” says exactly that, doesn’t it?” He stuck to Gao Min’s ear and laughed in a low voice.

Gao Min, who was already horrified, even had his soul fly away as he asked in shock, “Are you also reborn?”

“Who knows?” Zhou Yunsheng replied nastily, then his eyes showed contempt, “In my previous life, Li Jintian would die because he was tyrannical and tyrannical, and you would die because of your foolish loyalty, so what does it have to do with the several hundred members of the Qi family? The head of the Qi family was merely making a choice to conform to history. You guys came back from rebirth and didn’t look for the reasons from yourselves, why did you vent your anger on the heads of others and brutally killed so many innocent people for it, at least when you died, they were innocent. A fainting king is a fainting king, even if you give another chance, you will still be a fainting king, if it were me, what kind of subjects can’t be managed.”

Gao Min was already too frightened to speak. The rest of the emperors, courtiers, concubines, and retainers hurriedly hid behind Your Highness Qi, just to find a trace of security. At this time, Qi Guijun was still able to smile so lightly, thinking that she should have been prepared for this.

Zhou Yunsheng never did anything he wasn’t sure of. He raised his jaw towards Li Xuyan who stood opposite him, “I’ll give you two choices, one, let us go and we release Gao Min; two, don’t let us go and we kill Gao Min. How do you choose?”

Gao Lang’s words about using him as a hostage to threaten the wolf cubs made him feel very unhappy. It was better to let them taste such a taste for themselves.

The imperial decree draws on the imperial decrees of Kangxi when he enthroned Yinreng as crown prince and Cao Pi when he ascended the throne, information from Baidu.