Chapter 36 The emperor's daughter's decision, the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the sad farewell (5)(1/2)
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King Jingyang rebelled and fell silently. King Jingyang and his son were killed in the urn city. General Chen Guofeng, the imperial guards, led the imperial guards to rush into the formation in a surprise manner, defeating the Le family army blocked outside the city in one fell swoop. The people ran around and told each other, and all of them celebrated each other. If it were not for the national mourning period, they would not celebrate, and the people would set off firecrackers.
The good news came again in the afternoon, and the empress's will was announced to the world. The seventh prince Helian Rongruo succeeded to the throne and became the new emperor of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
On the second day, the empress was held and sixteen princes, including the new emperor, helped the souls.
The days of continuous clearing turn into gloomy drizzle. The people crossed the road, the city was covered with white mourning, crying bitterly, and bid farewell to the empress's coffin with tears in their eyes. The scene was once chaotic, and the army had to be dispatched to maintain it.
Later, the new emperor added the posthumous title to the Empress Zhuang Wusheng.
In the gloomy sky prison, the new emperor Helian Rongruo walked slowly forward. There was a prison guard in front of him, and two eunuchs were following behind, each holding a pallet covered with yellow cloth.
At the deepest part of the prison, the prison guard opened the prison door and retreated aside. Helian Rongruo walked in.
One person has been imprisoned in this cell, with disorganized hair, dull eyes, stubble, and blood all over. It is the defeated King Jingyang.
"Uncle Emperor!" Helian Rongruo greeted him.
"Ha!" King Jingyang sneered, "I have nothing to say, why, is the nephew here to show off to me? He is really noble in the dragon robe!"
"Uncle Emperor misunderstood, my nephew is here to send you the last journey!" Helian Rongruo was still calm.
King Jingyang opened his mouth, but couldn't spit out a word for a long time. After a long time, he sighed, "I really don't understand. I was already dead when the war in the city was defeated. Why did I still save me and imprison me in the heavenly prison, but now I'm coming to send me my last journey! Do you like to play with others so much in the applause?" King Jingyang was a little hysterical.
"This is the will of the late emperor!" Helian Rongruo said slowly, giving an instruction. A eunuch behind him immediately stepped forward, put the tray on the ground, and removed the yellow cloth. There were three imperial edicts inside.
"What does this mean?" King Jingyang was puzzled.
"The emperor's uncle will know at a glance!"
King Jingyang's hands trembled a little, and he opened the imperial edict one by one. His confused eyes gradually became unbelievable, and finally became desperate. Three imperial edicts, one from the former emperor of Le, and the content of the imperial edict was to massacre the royal family of Le, and the other two were two imperial edicts left by the empress.
"Hahaha!" King Jingyang laughed loudly, looking crazy and burst into tears, "So I've been wrong all the time! I've been wrong all the time!"
"The old emperor once said that he did not want the royal family surnamed Le to be ruined by her, so he naturally could not let the emperor die under the arrows." Helian Rongruo was still calm.
"It turns out that I have always blamed her wrongly!" King Jingyang recalled the empress. In the past, even if the whole world was begging her to her beauty, he still felt that she was hateful and had a scorpion-hearted heart. But now, he felt that this woman was so beautiful that she dared not be looked at by people. King Jingyang was silent for a long time and said slowly, "I know that I can't escape death penalty, but Yi'er... Rong Ruo, I beg you, I am willing to bear the blame alone and let him live a life!"
"Uncle Emperor, don't worry, Brother Le Yi has already arranged it. Zhang Lao used his magical power to erase his memory of the Le royal family. He is now just an ordinary civilian with the Le surname and will live a stable life in the future."
"That's good! That's good!" King Jingyang felt comfortable for no reason. It was a peace that he had never lived in his life. He sorted out his clothes, combed his clothes, knelt on his knees, bowed piously, but not towards Helian Rongruo, but towards the place where the empress was sleeping. "If you allow me to see you not worship, I have never worshipped you in my life. This worship is the first and last time. You will be kind! Long live my emperor!" Then he kowtowed nine times, and when he got up, his forehead turned red.
"Rong Ruo, come on!" King Jingyang said, unable to express his freedom.
Another eunuch behind Helian Rongruo brought up the tray, and after removing the yellow cloth, he drew a glass of wine and three-foot white silk.
"It's thoughtful, Bai Ling is so sissy, I don't like it!" After that, King Jingyang picked up the wine glass and drank it all, smashing it to pieces, "Good!"
"Uncle Emperor!" Helian Rongruo turned around and walked out of the cell without looking back.
King Jingyang shouted to Helian Rongruo's back, "Rongruo, Yi'er, please give you!" After that, he died of anger.
"A generation of heroes! A happy life is buried!" Helian Rongruo said, and someone agreed.
Later, there were two additional tombs without words in the Leshi Imperial Tombs.
In a remote town, there was a young teacher named Le. He wrote well and tied a knot with a virtuous girl. He had a happy marriage, a family of children and grandchildren, and died without success.
In the world of cultivation, the Moon Worship Sect, which is both righteous and evil, was destroyed by the Tianshi Taoist Sect. It is said that the leader was a young woman with a beautiful appearance.
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In a blink of an eye, it was more than a month, Su Mansion and Huxin Pavilion.
Dugu Jue was still like when he met Xiao Qinxuan, sitting alone in the pavilion and drinking. A slight sound of footsteps came from behind him, accompanied by a crisp ringtone. Dugu Jue's eyes turned black, his eyes were covered by a pair of small hands, and a petite body was added to his back.
"Guess who I am!" The voice was weird, deliberately making the original voice squid.
"Well, I can't guess!" Dugu Jue said with a smile.
"Remind you, I am definitely not Sister Butterfly!" the voice said again.
"Well, I still can't guess!" Dugu Jue still smiled.
"I'll remind you again, I'm definitely not Sister Zhi!"
"Well, I still can't guess who it is, but I know this is a little greedy cat. My saliva has wet my back at this moment!" Dugu Jue said with a smile.
"No!" Xiao Qinxuan took off her hands, got down from Dugu Jue's back, sat opposite him, folded her hands in her chest, looking angry.
"Tell me, what do you want to eat again today?" Dugu Jue looked at Xiao Qinxuan with interest.
When Xiao Qinxuan picked up the food, she immediately became energetic and took out an oil-absorbing paper packaging from her arms, and the thing tied with a hemp rope. After carefully opening it, there were two pastries with golden brown crusts inside, which looked extremely delicious.
"Wife's cake! Xiaopang gave it to me! This one is for you!" Xiao Qinxuan picked up one and stuffed it into Dugu Jue's hand, picked up the other one by himself, and ate it with relish.
Dugu Jue picked up his wife's cake and bit it. It was crispy and delicious, sweet but not greasy. The outer skin was crispy, and after one bite, the surface debris fell, which was so shocked that Dugu Jue hurriedly caught it with his hands; the inner inside was glutinous, sweet and sticky, and the taste was excellent. Even he, who had always been picky, did not stop nodding.
"How is it, how is it!" Xiao Qinxuan leaned on the table with her hands on her chin, her eyes wide open, as if she had done a good deed and hoped to be praised by her parents.
"Not bad! If it's just released, it's a little warm and it's probably better!" Dugu Jue commented.
"Yeah, I feel that way too!" Xiao Qinxuan narrowed her eyes and bent into two small crescent moons. "Dugu, let's go buy some hot ones and come back! This is a long way to say that the ones sent to Xiaopangdun's house have been around for a long time. Although they can still be eaten, the taste is still a bit bad!"
"Okay, where?" Dugu Jue smiled and touched Xiao Qinxuan's head.
"The south seems to be called 'Minyue'!"
Dugu Jue stood up, Xiao Qinxuan stepped on the stone chair, jumped into Dugu Jue's arms in three or two steps, and the two disappeared into the pavilion in a blink of an eye.
Xiao Qinxuan had a strange feeling for Dugu Jue, and she couldn't tell her debut. She always felt that she had known him a long time ago, but she couldn't remember it no matter how she thought about it. Her closeness to the Su family and Butterfly was because they hugged themselves when they were sleeping, and she could vaguely sense their figure and breath, but Dugu Jue also had the same feeling, but it was just a feeling, no image, and no breath. When she first met, Xiao Qinxuan was afraid that Dugu Jue would fight with Butterfly and Su An, but later proved how stupid her worries were. Except for Su An who was a little unfamiliar with him, the rest seemed to know him, and no one around mentioned this matter by her side, which made her feel a little puzzled.
Although Dugu Jue has many doubts, Xiao Qinxuan felt extremely at ease when she stayed beside him. She felt that even if the sky collapsed and the earth broke, she was not afraid at all.
After flying and hiding, Xiao Qinxuan bought a lot of wife cakes as she wished. In addition to the Su family, she also sent them one by one to the servants of the Su family, her little followers, Helian Rongruo and Chen Xuanyi, who were already the emperor and queen in the palace, etc.
During dinner, Dugu Jue said goodbye to the Su family at the dinner table.
"Ah? Young Master Dugu, are you leaving now?" Su Zhi was extremely reluctant.
"Yes, stay for a little longer!" Su Ting also said hurriedly, and his elbow hit Su An, which understood.
"Well, I want to practice sword skills with Mr. Dugu more!" Su An said, squeezing his eyes at Su Ting, and Su Ting slapped his forehead in a hurry.
Su Wanxin and Mei Ruolan didn't say anything, feeling a little disappointed. They glanced at Su An who was eating like a voracious person. They were extremely helpless. Su Wanxin couldn't help but curse in his heart, "This elm-wood lump!" Mei Ruolan even wanted to go up and grab Su An's ear and scolded her.
It is good for Su An to like butterflies, but the problem is that he is like a dull gourd, but he just refuses to speak. Butterflies are their daughter's family after all, and they always look gentle and quiet, with a signature smile on their faces, and they can't tell the mood. Others in the Su family can't figure it out, for fear that if Yilang has feelings or unintentional, the group will become a mess, which will be more awkward at that time, so they are all anxious in their hearts.
When Dugu Jue was leaving, the Su family naturally felt reluctant to leave. However, the legs were on others and he could not force it. Now Xiao Qinxuan has grown up and there is no reason to force it to stay. They are people from two worlds.
The Su family didn't say it, but they had long regarded Butterfly as their daughter-in-law. Butterfly was smart, well-educated, and had excellent cooking skills. They were simply a perfect daughter-in-law model. Not to mention Xiao Qinxuan, the Su family regarded her as her own, cared for her carefully, and said that she was a thousand pampered ones. In Su Zhi's words, it was even more close than her daughter. Now, the Su family seemed to lose two daughters at the same time. The more they thought about it, the more they felt uncomfortable.
"Well, it's time to leave!" Dugu Jue said.
With a "click", everyone looked at the sound and found that the butterfly's chopsticks fell to the ground. The butterfly quickly picked them up and stood up. "I'll pack my bags for my master!" Butterfly turned around and walked a few steps, and found that he was holding the chopsticks in his hand, turning back and putting them on the table. He accidentally knocked over the bowl again. He was a little embarrassed, so he hurriedly helped him and walked out quickly.
"Well, what's wrong with the butterfly!" Su An looked puzzled. Su Ting and Su Zhi rolled their eyes and almost fainted because of anger. Mei Ruolan and Su Wanxin looked at each other with joy on their faces. Xiao Qinxuan bit the chopsticks and stared at Dugu Jue.
"Then when will you come back!" Xiao Qinxuan asked.
"I don't know, maybe I'll find time to come back, or maybe I won't come back!" Dugu Jue touched Xiao Qinxuan's head and picked up a dish in her bowl.
"Well, that's it!" Xiao Qinxuan took a bite of the meal, "Are you alone?"
Dugu Jue glanced at Su An and said with a smile, "Maybe!"
The Su family was a little confused. What does "one person" mean? Could it be that Xiao Qinxuan and Butterfly neither left?
After eating a meal, everyone had their own thoughts, except Su An, they were not satisfied enough.
Early the next morning, Dugu Jue's carriage and horse were ready at the gate of Su Mansion.
Everyone was really surprised to see the carriage. Dugu Jue himself came and went without a trace and did not need these tools from the world to carry. He felt strange when he heard what Butterfly said last night to pack his luggage, but he couldn't think of something wrong for a while. When he saw the carriage, he realized that it was Dugu Jue who was going to drive the carriage? But no matter how strange it was, the cultivator acted a little differently than ordinary people. He was not easy to speak, so he had to keep his curiosity in his stomach.
Su Wanxin, Mei Ruolan, Su An, Su Ting and Su Zhi gathered at the gate of Su Mansion, but Xiao Qinxuan was not seen.
"Where has this girl gone? Could it be that she went out to play with those little kids again? I really can't tell you the time!" Su Wanxin frowned.
"I was gone when I woke up this morning!" Mei Ruolan was a little worried and wondered. Mr. Dugu did not ask or mention taking Xiao Qinxuan with him.
The few of them said goodbye to Dugu Jue respectively, but they were reluctant to part with them.
"Hey, Mr. Dugu, are the copper plates I gave you before still there?" Su Zhi asked Dugu Jue with a smile.
"Well, are these?" Dugu Jue had four copper plates in his palm. It was the reward that Su Zhi of Canglongling asked Dugu Jue to remove the four demons.
Su Zhi took out one from Dugu Jue's hand, held it in his hand, and carried it behind her back, as if she was not planning to return it. She looked like she had a plan and said with a smile, "Young Master Dugu, if I encounter danger in the future, I will still be a copper plate. You must come to save me!" After that, she ran into the Su Mansion without looking back and disappeared at the corner.
Mei Ruolan felt a little distressed when she saw Su Zhi running away with tears.
Dugu Jue was also stunned for a moment, smiled bitterly and took back the copper plate, clasped his fists to the Su family, then got on the carriage, and the butterfly also sat on it.
"Hey, butterfly is leaving too!" Su An finally realized that something was wrong.
Su Ting sighed and thought to himself, "Brother, brother, are you stupid in martial arts practice? Why are you just reacting now?" Then he kicked Su An on the butt, making him stagger.
"Miss Butterfly, do you want to walk with Mr. Dugu?" Su An approached the carriage and asked.
Butterfly still smiled like that, "Yes, Young Master Su!"
"Ah, that's how it is!" Su An felt something broken in his body, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He wanted to say something to keep him, but the words he said were, "Precaution... take care!"
"Well, Mr. Su, take care of her!" Butterfly smiled, and in a daze, Su An felt a ray of crystal clear light flashing across the corner of her eyes.
To be continued...