Love Like the Galaxy - Chapter 138

    Changqiu Palace is like a crystal fortress deeply embedded in the reef on the seabed, silently watching the changes of the surrounding water, but as always quiet and peaceful. Seeing that Shaoshang was tired and scarred, the queen really didn’t ask anything, just called the doctor in an orderly manner and asked Zhai to arrange bathing and changing.

      of light flickering in his mind. Shao Shang felt as if he had dreamed about something very important, but it seemed like nothing had happened.

    It was mid-afternoon when she woke up again.

    The queen still didn’t ask any questions, just concerned about her diet and forced her to use more porridge and soup.

    Shao Shang took a bite without appetite, looked at the queen, lowered his head, and took another bite.

    The queen’s heart was transparent and she said softly: “Don’t worry, Zisheng has already been lifted up, injuries are inevitable, but they are not important, you can take care of them. It’s you, you only have a few days of hard work. I lost a lot of weight. It’s better for women to be plump, otherwise how to have children, you and Zisheng in the future…”

    Shao Shang suddenly raised his head with tears in his eyes, his expression absolutely incomparable.

    The queen was startled, if she knew: “You, you and Zisheng…”

    Looking at the Queen’s loving face, Shao Shang was too ashamed to say: “Madame, he transferred the army privately, which really hurts His Royal Highness! I even defended him in front of His Majesty…”

      A married man, you have to marry a married man. No one ever asked me if I would like it. Their men work outside, and it is up to women to control them. Young businessman, how could I not know about your suffering.”

    Shao Shang’s eyes were wet, and he silently lowered his head to drink porridge.

     Everyone was arrested and interrogated, and the old princess was so angry that she shouted to sue the imperial court…”

    Short business.

    “…But it didn’t work. Two hours later, the third prince found the iron proof that Ling Yi had cooperated with the enemy and treason 16 years ago.” The queen added the second half of the sentence.

    “So fast!” Shaoshang almost dropped the spoon – she thought that coercion would take at least ten days and a half months.

    “Has the Third Highness used a severe punishment?” This was her first reaction.

    The queen smiled: “I never used torture.”

    Young Shang’s admiration came spontaneously: “Wow, I really didn’t see the eloquence of the Third Highness.”

    “The third child didn’t talk nonsense with Chunyu.” The queen smiled slightly.

    Although the third prince is impetuous, he is not careless, on the contrary, he is keen and perceptive – when Shaoshang pointed him in the direction of Chunyu, he took action like an arrow.

    First, he asked Chunyu if he had evidence of Ling Yi’s crime. The sudden change in Chunyu’s face gave the third prince a little more confidence. He immediately started searching for evidence.

    The clueless search for evidence seems to be looking for a needle in a haystack, but in fact there are traces. Chunyu’s mouth was strict, but her servants were not necessarily.

    In just an hour, Chunyu’s behavior and behavior revealed clues – except for the blockbuster marriage case many years ago, Chunyu was just an ordinary high-class woman in every aspect. . Ling Yi has neither given her a lot of money nor allocated her many people to call on, so it is impossible for her to extend her hands and feet like Madam Xiao, extending in all directions.

    Although there are a few good women, but because of the cold background and the relationship of the Hof people, Chunyu and them are not very close; for more than ten years, the only one who is really close to Chunyu is The old princess of Ruyang.

    At this time, the three princes made a final decision – no family, no power of her own, where would such a woman with little to rely on hide her life-saving secrets? Must be within reach! But they can’t hide in Ling’s house, because Ling Yi is meticulous and will be found sooner or later.

    So everyone turned their attention to the old princess who was going to meet Chunyu ten times a month. However, the Ruyang Palace already occupies a huge area, plus other courtyards, manors, and Taoist temples, it takes almost two months to carefully check all of them.

    “Then why did you find it so quickly?” Shaoshang was puzzled and curious, “Where did you find it?”

    The queen said: “It’s in a statue of Nuwa in the old princess’ room.”

    When everyone was at a loss, it was still the third prince who had insight into people’s hearts.

    Although the Ruyang palace has a large mansion, the Chunyu clan can’t be stuffed everywhere. What if it is lost by the servants of the palace. Therefore, the evidence must have a clear path in front of the old princess, and it can’t be just an ordinary flattering gift. What if the old princess didn’t take it seriously and turned her head and gave it to others

    So, among the mountain-like gifts that Chunyu’s family had sent to the palace over the years, the third prince noticed the statue of Nuwa.

    First of all, when the old princess was seriously ill more than ten years ago, Chunyu did not know which shrine to invite her to pray for the princess; Like a god, he burns incense and worships every day, and he is inseparable; again, Chunyu’s grandfather is a mason, and there is a pottery furnace in his home…

    The three princes ignored the old princess’ heart-wrenching struggle and cries to fight for their lives, and resolutely grabbed the one-foot-high pottery statue of Nuwa and threw it to the ground – there was a thick layer inside. A scroll of silk letter is the iron proof of Ling Yi’s contacts with the enemy and bandits back then!

      “

    Shao Shang heard what the Queen meant, and looked up at her: “Niangniang, Lord Zisheng is not loyal to the prince, have you noticed it long ago?”

    The queen looked at the void and said lightly: “I can’t say that I noticed it, but I have seen it a lot – the so-called phoenix must live in the sycamore tree, Zisheng is the phoenix, but the prince is not the sycamore tree. The second child, just Not much more, the third child is…”

    Shao Shang felt sad in his heart, so he told the story of Dongbai Cemetery, and said, “Actually, Lord Zisheng and the third prince got acquainted earlier, so he is loyal to His Royal Highness…”

    “So it is.” The queen fell into memory, “I was a little suspicious at the time. If I accidentally fell into the water, why would Zisheng only have a small clothes on him? Going into the water. But I know that Zisheng is young and old, and he will not take unnecessary risks. Even if he does not know water and has to go into the water, he will be watched by others, or a rope will be tied to his body… Alas, the prince is like this, on insight into people’s hearts , to be decisive in case of trouble, and it is far from the third child.”

    Shao Shang said in a low voice: “Don’t talk about the prince like that, the prince is kind and kind, just…”

    “The most important thing for a ruler is not benevolence and kindness, but clear rewards and punishments.” The queen said decisively, “What is the way of rulers and ministers. Most importantly, shelter and reward.”

    “In the past two days, the third child ran around without any hesitation, walking around Tingwei, examining army soldiers, rushing into the palace, forcing uncles, and even speaking for Zisheng in front of the imperial court without any hesitation. How much gossip has been provoked, saying that the third child and Zisheng had colluded for a long time… But I know that in the eyes of caring people, such a lord is a good lord. If it were me, I would also sacrifice for a lord like the third child. die.”

    “Like the Qian’an Palace back then, my uncle’s reputation was far better than His Majesty’s, but in the hearts of many courtiers, His Majesty is the wise king who deserves to serve. Half of the counsellors and generals are unwilling to follow.”

    Shao Shang knew that what the Queen said was the truth, and felt even more sad.

    In the early spring, the cold weather had not passed, and the sun had set early, so I said these few words, and it was pitch black outside. The queen can go.

    Seeing the doubts on Shaoshang’s face, the queen said, “I told Your Majesty that when Zisheng wakes up, let me go. You can go too.”

    Shao Shang did not want to go, he hesitated: “Lord Ling…”

    “His surname is Huo now. His Majesty originally wanted him to change his real name to Wuhu, but Zisheng insisted – to comfort the deceased Huo people and the one who died for him Poor child.” The Queen said.

    Shao Shang was disappointed for a while – Ah Li stole Ah Xie’s name, Ah Xie escaped death because of this, and continued to live in this world under Ah Ru’s name. She calmed down and said softly, “Is His Royal Highness not going?”

    The queen said: “I told him to stay in the East Palace for the past few days and don’t come out, don’t interfere with anything… Sigh, he can’t get involved either.”

    Shao Shang was sitting in the phoenix with the queen, and the dark palace alley was full of lights and shadows. She felt like a dream, and this scene was as bizarre as she imagined. Tonight’s palace seems to be extraordinarily solemn and quiet, with palace maids and eunuchs shuttled between silently, without expressions or voices.

    The emperor’s bedroom was filled with a strong medicinal aura, and a large group of physicians gathered in the outer hall, waiting to be summoned at any time.

    The queen did not enter through the gate of the main hall, but was led by a small yellow door to detour from the side hall. After walking for about half an hour, they came to a delicate and quiet inner room, The ground was covered with a thick fleece blanket, so there was no sound.

    The queen sat on a harness on the side of the brocade curtain and beckoned to Shaoshang, who sat down and followed the queen’s finger to look, between the densely hanging brocade curtains There just happened to be a gap, allowing them to see the situation outside.

    Shao Shang stared from the gap, and there were two people sitting outside, one was the third prince, the other… She was dizzy and could hardly sit still. Empress Shicai said that she lost a lot of weight. She had never looked in the mirror, so she didn’t know what it meant to be thin. Now she knows.

    The third prince was talking, and Huo Budo listened slightly sideways.

      The crow-feather-like long hair was only held by a pure white suet hairpin without any pattern, and the thin and pale face was a bit cold and blue against the temples.

    “…Ji Zun found more than a dozen doctors to compare the handwriting, Ling Yi was not a scholar, and could not write several kinds of handwriting, it was easy to compare – it was Ling Yi’s The handwriting is correct!” The third prince was extremely disdainful, “Those who are blind have nothing to say now. Hmph, they were the ones who patted their chests to guarantee Ling Yi, and now they are the ones who hide and disappear!”

    “Last night, the father and emperor clearly confirmed Zisheng’s identity, but those **** are still chattering, talking about ‘such a big city, how can Ling Yi only have a few people, how to destroy the city and destroy the family’. Nonsense. , the so-called embankment of a thousand miles is destroyed in one go, and there is a way to do it!” The third prince sneered.

    The emperor also seemed to have aged several years overnight, with a sad expression: “Ah, did your father say anything before he died? … Did he die immediately? You, you should talk about it carefully. “

    Huo Budo’s heart was numb and numb, and the scene of his father who was as tall as a mountain suddenly collapsed.

    “We had been besieged for a long time at that time, and the city was short of everything, not enough to feed the stomach or keep out the cold. Fortunately, it was backed by Xunyang Mountain, and the water source in the city was still there. At noon that day, Ah Li took two apricots to show off, saying that he wanted to change my clothes and go out to play, because my aunt kept him locked up—I hadn’t eaten fresh fruit for a long time, so I agreed to him.” Huo Budo’s voice became more and more intense. lower.

    The emperor had a dull pain in his chest.

    The Huo family in Fengxian County was originally a rich family. No matter what natural disasters and man-made disasters happened outside, the Huo family was ever in short supply.

    In a trance, the emperor remembered what Huo Chong asked himself before leaving.

    “Your Majesty is going to meet the Canghu Army, how long does it take the ministers to block the barbarian thieves?”

    “One month on the road, one month on the road, half a month in the formation, and three months is enough!”

      If you can take the 300,000 brave Canghu army for your own use, your majesty will make the foundation of the world!”

    “…then it will take half a year less.”

    “The minister will guard for half a year!”

    Huo Budo continued: “I and Ah Li are very similar, he wore my clothes and went to the martial arts field to play. I ate an apricot, thinking of my mother saying that my father is also I love to eat apricots, but I didn’t eat the second one. I sneaked into my father’s study and put the apricots on his table, but as soon as I put them down, I heard someone’s voice outside. I panicked and got into the dark cabinet behind the bookshelf. went.”

    “Father and Ling Yi came in. After listening to them, I realized that Father was injured on the top of the city the day before yesterday. Father said it was a minor injury, but in fact the injury is not light, but for the sake of Afraid of shaking the army’s heart, and to avoid my mother’s worries, my father didn’t say anything, only let Uncle Li cover him up secretly, but Ling Yi found out. “

     “Father was very impatient with Ling Yi, and told him to take people to the top of the city quickly, don’t keep hiding behind, Ling Yi complied. I watched him standing behind Father’s back, He stitched up his father’s wound with stitches…” He showed a look of pain, “Then Ling Yi flicked his sleeve and slipped out a dagger—he cut his father’s throat with one slash, and his father couldn’t shout, he could only He looked at Ling Yi while covering his throat, and then fell into a pool of blood.”

    The emperor cried out in grief, covering his face and crying.

    ” Ling Yi didn’t go out immediately after he got it. He rummaged in his father’s study for a while, then cut off his father’s head, hid it in his arms and slipped away. Before leaving, he set a fire in the study I hid in the dark pavilion, thinking I was going to be burned to death. Fortunately, it was rainy and humid in those days, and Ling Yi didn’t have any kerosene on him, so only half of the study was burned.”

      , there are corpses everywhere.” Huo Budo remembered that night of nightmare—

    Why did the little guard in the barracks lose half of his head, and his stomach bleeds all over the place… As for his grandmother, three sisters, yes, and two brothers, they are young heroes and will never be captured.

    I don’t know how long I ran, when the little Ah Xie heard the sound of fighting from the other end, he turned around and saw Huo Junhua looking for his son everywhere under the protection of a group of guards, she shouted ‘Ali , my Ali, where are you…’

    At this time, Huo Junhua saw his nephew who was wearing Ali’s clothes, and he also saw his aunt who was not very friendly. A guard shouted, “Madam, the young master has been found!”

    Little Huo Budo was about to shout ‘Uncle killed my father’, Huo Junhua suddenly shouted, jumped up and hugged him tightly, then cried and laughed again and shouted ‘Ah Li, mother finally found you, let’s go, the city has been broken’!

    He stayed there at that time, even if the whole world admits him and Ahri wrong, his aunt will never! He didn’t know why, but he understood that he must not cry out at this time, so Huo Junhua took him away.

    “Ling Yi is a bastard, he can’t fight, his conspiracy and tricks are brilliant.” The third prince sneered, “I really should tell those who blindly look at Ling Yi’s silk letter and learn what it means. ‘It’s a no-brainer’!”

    How many people and how much authority is needed to calculate a strong defensive city? In fact, many people think wrong, as long as no one is preventing you, it is enough to pour some poisonous juice at the key points.

    —From the respective narratives of Huo Budo and the third prince, Shao Shang gradually restored the truth of the year.

    Huo Chong originally only brought the army, but the city was just taken from the enemy, and people were unstable, so he could only bring the whole family, young and old, to the city to show The determination to live and die together. After two months of rectification, looking for detailed works, counting the population and food, and berating profiteers, everyone in the city admired Huo Chong’s character skills.

    As the half-yearly agreed period is coming to an end, there has been no news of the reinforcements. The soldiers and horses in the city were exhausted, the soldiers were injured and sick, and more than half of the 200,000 barbarian armies outside the city had been damaged. At this time, both sides were red-eyed. So Ling Yi was moved.

    The isolated city has four gates, and is guarded by four generals under Huo Chong. One of the lieutenant generals, Li, happened to be injured and not healed, so Huo Chong revealed that he wanted Ling Yi to be on top. After assassinating Huo Chong, Ling Yi took Huo Chong’s talisman and went to take over the city gate, and the original guard gave up without any doubt.

    At this time, Huo Jiading just put out the fire in the study and found a headless corpse. The corpse was burnt, the clothes and the body were difficult to identify, and the soldiers of the government decided not to think that their heroic hero was assassinated, so they went to ask Mrs. Huo Chong to be the master.

    Just as everyone’s attention in Huo’s house was drawn to the study, Ling Yi opened the door to let the thieves go, and at the same time set fire to many places in the city, shouting ‘Huo Chong abandoned the city and absconded’! The barbarian soldiers were several times larger than the army in the city, and after entering the city, they were like wolves entering the flock.

      The barbarian armored soldiers drove straight in and slaughtered the Huo clan!

    Huo Budo whispered: “My aunt took me to hide in Xunyang Mountain, and when I escaped from the city, I saw my father’s head stuck on the city wall, and there were clothes on the side. Ali in my clothes. My aunt also cried when she saw it, and then told others that I was frightened, weak and sick, and could not see people. When Ling Yi and General Wu were out to kill the enemy, she took me with me Run away in chaos.”

    Huo Junhua obviously noticed that they were husband and wife. She was really looking for her son, but she finally understood everything when she walked outside and saw the corpses in Huo’s house. Under the ‘protection’ of the guards of the Ling residence, she recognized Ah Xie.

    But these Ling Yi didn’t know, he always hid in the dark, and only let go of his heart after seeing the Huo family being destroyed.

      Army is fast.

    Ling Yi saw the opportunity quickly, not only returned to Xunyang Mountain immediately, but also pretended to be timid and grieved to General Wu who had just arrived, and at the same time expressed his determination to **** thieves. So he helped General Wu to close the three city gates and block most of the barbarian armies in the city…

    Speaking of this, the third prince twitched the corners of his mouth, “Wu Cheng, the father knows, no one can stop him. I usually kill too much, and I’m afraid that people will say that he massacred the city unjustly, This time, it was revenge and hatred, so you can open the slaughter. In short, the barbarian soldiers who entered the city were all killed, even those who surrendered. On the second day, General Wu chased after the barbarian soldiers outside the city and won a big victory. .”

    The affair with Ling Yi is a secret, and there are not many leaders who know about it, so there is no time to make other arrangements. It was also Ling Yi’s luck that General Wu killed anyone he saw, and after he killed the barbarian army’s baggage tent on fire, no one could point out his guilt.

    At this time, Ling Yi knew that his wife and children were lost in the chaos of the army, and he was terrified. In order to avoid the emperor’s anger, the Ling brothers made a plan overnight – not one of the Huo family would die and the Ling family would not be damaged.

    So, while General Wu was still fighting in front, they pushed some of their ‘own family’ into the chaos, including the uncle’s family who was attached to the Ling family, and Ling who came to seek refuge The whole family of the second wife’s family, the whole family of Ling’s third brother’s righteous brothers…

    In short, apart from the three brothers of the Ling family, the children who stayed in Xunyang Mountain, and the wife of the third youngest Ling who was lucky enough to give birth in the countryside, the Ling family can also be regarded as a ‘full of loyalty’.

    “Why didn’t you come to me at that time!” The emperor slapped the table hard.

    Huo Budo smiled miserably: “Your Majesty, if the minister was not only five or six years old at that time, he would definitely come to the imperial court.” – If the little Axie at that time had Huo Budoubt now Resourceful and courageous, you naturally know that there is no need to talk nonsense, just report it directly.

    But he is not.

    He was only five or six years old at the time, frightened and helpless, Huo Junhua was his only support.

    Huo Junhua thought that neither the emperor nor General Wu would believe her words, and if Ling Yi insisted that Ah Xie was his son, the emperor would definitely ignore her unreasonable troubles. Once Ling Yi took back his son, wouldn’t Ah Xie fall into the hands of a thief? If Ling Yi wanted to plot against Ah Xie, he would definitely be hard to guard against.

    After Huo Buxuan entered the palace, he gradually realized that he and Huo Junhua had lost the best chance of redress.

    —His appearance has changed, no one can prove whether he is Ah Xie or Ah Li; those ‘confidants’ who knew Ling Yi’s collaborating with the enemy also gradually ‘disappeared’ in two or three years .

    He could only endure hard and secretly search for the evidence that Ling Yi left out.

    In sixteen years, Huo Budo and Ling Yi seemed to be in a game. Huo Budo grew up desperately, increasing his power year by year so that he could investigate secretly, while Ling Yi contracted his minions, checked and filled the gaps year by year, and made up for all the mistakes of the year.

    Finally, Huo Busu lost.