Cover The Sky With One Hand, Beat The Ground With The Other Chapter 57: (complete)

With Nie Guang's rebellion, the entire Daqing began to fall into a kind of panic. Although the capital looked orderly on the surface, it was actually a surging tide. All forces were waiting for the situation, ready for the next step. And make plans.

In just three months, the rebels took advantage of Yizhou, Lizhou and Hengzhou. At the same time, King Erfan of Jingxi of Shaanxi and King of Runing of Henan also raised the flag of rebellion and responded one after another. For a time, the situation was extremely favorable for Nie Guang.

Of course, the lions dispatched by the imperial court were also strong and brave. When the two sides fought at Tongguan, the three armies of the DPRK and the central army stood upright, attacked mainly from the belly, attacked from the front and back, and the rebels were defeated. It is to recapture these three important military positions facing the river, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The key to the decisive victory in that battle was the ingenious tactics during the battle. General Huo Chuan said that General Song was resourceful in this battle, and his contribution was indisputable. After the father received the good news, the solemn appearance of the past few days was also slightly relieved. .

Song Langsheng's general talent shocked the whole court. Who would have thought that the gentle and elegant Dali Siqing could be so heroic on the battlefield? Although I am quite surprised by this, the concubine once said that when Song Langsheng was very young, Jun Jinzhi liked to force Song Langsheng to read various military books. Thaumaturgy, which has been fascinated over time, is also quite rewarding.

King Rui of the previous dynasty was a rare general in a hundred years. I think he taught Song Langsheng that he hoped that he could restore the rivers and mountains for himself one day, but how could he think that Song Langsheng would use it before confrontation after many years Towards the top of the old department?

Sometimes I also find it a little strange. Back then, Song Langsheng was extremely reluctant to agree to his father's false surrender to Nie Guang. Why would he easily compromise this time? In any case, if I were him, I would definitely not be willing.

Hesitating and puzzled, he can only continue to wander. Perhaps fundamentally, in Song Langsheng's eyes, Guotai and Min'an are more important than other egos. However, there is another person who shines because of the war, that is Lu Lingjun.

Originally, Lu Lingjun was assigned to the western border. Later, due to the outbreak of war, the border city was about to be captured, and their troops were temporarily transferred to the battlefield to act as human shields to advance the battle. Unexpectedly, the conscripted soldiers and horses that numbered only 5,000 actually made a **** road. Not only were they not defeated by the enemy, but they reversed the situation and defended the border city. What is even more unexpected is that several consecutive battles. In the siege battle, their bravery played a great role.

This situation has attracted the attention of the DPRK and China. After careful research, I found out that the army and horses were led by Lu Lingjun. On weekdays, Lu Lingjun taught them martial arts and the use of weapons. When they arrived on the battlefield, Lu Lingjun Charge ahead, seize the opportunity to capture the leader of the enemy army, thereby boosting morale and turning the war situation into peace.

When I heard the news, Jing Yan and I were in the study room to discuss matters. He sighed with emotion: "Sister Huang, these two men of yours are really hidden..." /

I was choked, "What do you call my man, Brother Lu is my good brother..."

Jing Yan spread his hands and smiled, "You don't need to say, I understand, I understand..."

I glared at him: "Lu Lingjun has made such a feat, how can he be forgiven?"

"That's natural," Jing Yan nodded slightly, "I have ordered people to go down and arrange a thousand households to be dangdang for him. If he makes another military exploit, he will have an unlimited future..."

I said: "I still have great confidence in Brother Lu."

Jing Yan turned the brush noncommittally, and then paused again, "By the way, Huangjie, did you find the genius doctor in your house later? The emperor's condition is so ill that even the imperial doctor can't do anything... Maybe... …”

My father's condition has been worsening in recent days, and the spirit of the sudden awakening has long been gone. Although he has not fainted, his complexion and pulse are even weaker than when he was in a coma. It has little effect, only a chronic illness, and there is not much time.

I shook my head lightly, and a cloud of sadness clouded my heart again, "Zhou Wenyu is someone Nie Ran sent by my side, he had already escaped before the truth came out, how can he be found? Besides, he is like this. It is difficult to distinguish between friends and enemies, even if I find him, I would not dare to let him diagnose and treat the emperor..."

However, when it comes to Zhou Wenyu, I think of another person.

Zhou Wenyu's apprentice and brother, a close disciple of Yaowanggu, and Kang Lin, the shopkeeper of Tong'an Church.

I went to him twice because of Forgetfulness. He once told me that there were two Forgetful Souls sold from him, one fatal and one non-lethal. His words that day also misled me, making me think that there were only two poisons, but in fact, there are far more than this number in the world.

Kang Lin didn't know anything about the relationship between Zhou Wenyu and Nie Ran. He really only developed two Forgetting Soul Powder and nothing else.

I finally believed his words. There was such a big mess. He has been doing his business and never left the capital. If he was with the party, he would have fled.

"Apart from you, who else can make Wanghunsan? Could it be Zhou Wenyu?"

Kang Lin was stunned for a moment, "There is a possibility...but if he is a drug maker, why did he bring the princess to Caomin to find out the truth?"

There is a bit of truth in saying this. I thought about it for a while and asked, "Ben Gong asked you at the time if you had any medicine that would make you forget part of your memory overnight, and you all insisted that there was no such possibility. Boss Kekang, why don’t you tell this palace truthfully that if you take the antidote, you will most likely forget everything during the amnesia overnight?”

Kang Lin knelt down in shock and said, "When my junior brother came to me that day, he told me that the princess was poisoned by the poison of forgetting soul powder, and it was very likely to be a deadly poison. If you let the princess know about this Poison has an antidote, and the grass people will definitely be deployed..."

"So what?"

He said with sincerity and fear: "An antidote is made by refining the same amount of poison in the opposite order when preparing the poison. One more point will not work, and one less point will not work. San, must not let others decipher the method of detoxification... Then Caomin destroyed the prescription of the medicine, made a unique antidote and sold it together... Caomin was afraid that the princess would know, and Caomin could not prepare the antidote, which would lead to death. This is the reason why I... beg the princess to forgive the grass people's death penalty..."

In this way, most of the two made by Kang Lin were bought by the father and the younger brother of the prince, respectively. As for the forgetting soul powder that Nie Guang gave to Song Langsheng and Feng Li, it did not come from Kang Lin.

Although, I haven't been able to guess where Feng Li got a non-lethal Forgetting Soul Powder to consume, just as I still can't figure out why Feng Li wanted to let me die.

It's over, I don't want to.

Thinking of my father's condition, I ordered Kang Lin to enter the palace to diagnose and treat my father. His medical skills are on a par with Zhou Wenyu's, and there may be a chance for a turnaround.

Kanglin's opinion is no different from that of the Taiyuan Hospital. I asked him: "Isn't the Valley of the King of Medicine famous? Is it really lacking in recovery?"

He shook his head and sighed: "The Valley of the King of Medicine is famous for its strange medicines and remedies. The emperor's illness was neither an acute illness nor a strange poison. It was caused by an old disease that had accumulated over a long period of time.

Even though he was prepared, he couldn't help but cry when he said this.

My father may have had a hunch about this, and since the day he woke up, he was planning for Jing Yan to succeed him, consolidate his power and win people's hearts for Jing Yan. Today, he finally didn't have the strength to get out of bed. Instead, he said to us with a sigh of relief: "Daqing will depend on you in the future."

Jingyan seems to have grown into a real prince overnight. He is no longer as indecisive in handling government affairs as he used to be. I have always felt that the meaning of my custody is to wait for the day when Jingyan can be on his own. As of now, I just want to accompany the father and emperor on the last journey, and wait at home for the return of the concubine. But ask about the tumultuous scheming fights.

However, there are many times in this world, when you don't want to call the curtain, you can successfully call the curtain. It is easy to join the world, but it is difficult to be born.

In fact, that day, I originally just brought the herbal incense prepared from Kang Lin, and wanted to put it in the palace of the father, so that he could calm his mind and get a better rest. So when I saw that the maids outside the bedroom had retreated ten paces away, and they said that the empress was talking to the emperor, so they turned away from everyone, I didn't worry too much, I just wanted to knock on the door and put down the smoker to leave. .

But when I stepped in front of the door and set aside one hand to knock on the door, I heard the mother's anxious voice from the back room: "Your Majesty loves Tanger and doesn't want her to be wronged, this is my concubine. How can you not understand? But she is not His Majesty's biological daughter after all, so how can you entrust this heavy responsibility to her?"

I thought I was hallucinating.

Boom, the mother's voice is clear, although it can be heard, but it can't reach it. My thoughts were empty for a long time, and then I heard her say: "Does your Majesty remember what you said when you drove away Jing Lan? Your Majesty said, 'If it is not my blood of the Xiao family, his heart will be different', so he had the heart to banish him away. ...Your Majesty treats Lan'er like this, so why treat Tanger..."

I heard the royal father sigh, and he said slowly: "Men are different from women after all. Jing Lan has fame and ambition. With him in the royal family for a day, it would be difficult for Jing Yan to be in power... But Tang'er is not. The difference is that she always thinks about Jingyan, but as a female, she can make all court officials respect her, not only because of the authority I have given her, but also because of her assistance, I can rest assured a lot... "

"Your Majesty..."

The mother was about to speak, but I pushed the door open.

My mind goes blank. I knew in my heart that no matter what kind of shocking thing I heard, I shouldn't trespass at this moment. There are thousands of step-by-step methods to find the truth. Open, what catches the eye is the father emperor and the mother queen full of stunned faces.

I stood in front of them dazedly, placed the incense burner in my arms on the table, knelt down, and trembled: "My son... I just wanted to send a smoker to the royal father, but accidentally... I heard the conversation between the father and the mother..." I tried my best not to shake my body too much, "I heard the mother say that Tang'er and the eldest brother... are not the father's own son, the father should not tell Tang'er. , it's Tang'er... did you hear it wrong?"

I wish my father and mother could smile and say to me "you heard it wrong".

Then, can I pretend that I have never heard of it and continue to be this princess by pretending to be unaware.

However, the expressions of the father and mother gave me the answer, even if the truth is absurd, it is the truth after all.

Not to be ignored, not to be questioned.

The emperor said that the cause can be traced back to the beginning of Daqing's establishment.

At that time, not long after he ascended the throne, the military power was not unified, and all the forces were covetous. At these times, it was extremely necessary to give birth to a prince to consolidate the regime. But at that time, although there were many beauties in the harem, not even a single belly moved, and the queen mother suddenly became pregnant at that time.

The father was overjoyed and regarded his mother as a treasure. However, he did not know the article behind it.

The mother is very weak since childhood. Due to the family's chronic illness, she is not suitable for having children. Even if she conceives, it is difficult to give birth to a healthy baby. She was just a little concubine at that time, received holy favor and cherished the dragon vein, how could she have the heart to give it up?

She concealed her illness, persisted day by day, and finally gave birth to a dragon child under the waiting of her father and the expectations of the ministers.

What she didn't expect was that the baby was withered and emaciated as soon as it was born, and even the cry was extremely weak.

The royal father was shocked.

If the much-anticipated Dragon Son dies soon, wouldn't it mean that the gangsters are going to say that the ruler of this country is not the real Dragon King?

The royal father was furious. He suddenly remembered that his sister, Princess Yongan, was about to give birth. He had this idea in his heart, and he recruited Princess Yongan into the palace overnight, secretly ordered his sister to take the birth-promoting medicine, and the second Days and nights, Princess Yongan gave birth to a baby boy in the cries of hiss and lungs.

"That baby boy...is the first emperor?"

The royal father nodded slowly, with a look of remorse on his face, "It was a healthy baby, but my royal sister died of blood loss due to taking medicines that night... ..."

That year, Princess Yong'an's concubine was fighting against the enemy in the far north. He was devastated when he heard the sad news of his beloved wife's death in childbirth. It didn't take long for the news that the concubine died in the battle from the north.

Since then, people in the world only know that the princess passed away in childbirth, but they don't know how many hidden secrets are hidden behind the scenes.

The emperor said that he felt extremely guilty about the death of Princess Yongan, and told himself that he must treat the child well, so the elder brother grew up in the middle of the stars and the moon since he was a child, and he is the established prince in everyone's eyes. choice.

However, those who are not biological are not biological after all. With the birth of other princes, the father's love for the eldest brother gradually diminished. No matter how outstanding the eldest brother was, that past became a part of his heart after all. thorns. He tried to find a reason to dethrone the crown prince, but the elder brother was loyal and filial to the emperor, with both intelligence and virtue, and he could not find any reason at all.

Until the first emperor fell in love with a folk woman, he deliberately obstructed it in every possible way, and he spoke out against each other, and it was only logical that the thorn was pulled out of his heart.

When I said this, the charcoal stove in the house clicked, and the burning crumbs were scattered.

The warmth of the house will not drive away the cold.

I knelt on the ground, only to feel that what I heard was too absurd, I wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, "...What about me? Where did I come from?"

The father looked at the mother and sighed: "...Tang'er...until seven years ago, I... always thought you were my biological daughter..."

The meaning of these words is to say that the mother has kept the father and father for thirteen years.

That naturally happened after the death of Princess Yongan.

The queen father's concubines began to scramble to conceive the dragon seed, and the "eldest prince" born by the mother queen was a fake. She could almost see her own confused future - if she could not give birth to her and The father's child will one day be abandoned because the father is tired of it.

However, her body has become more fragile after one delivery, not to mention having a child, even if she wants to be pregnant, it is difficult.

She heard that there was a famous doctor in the folk, who was the daughter of the Valley Master of the King of Medicine, named Lin Danqing, who was quite successful in treating women with infertility and dystocia. Yue, her body really recovered a lot.

However, Lin Danqing is a person from all corners of the world. He has been practicing medicine all year round. It is impossible for his mother to stay in the harem for three years and five years. In order to keep Lin Danqing, her mother secretly made a connection to create opportunities for the youngest hospital The imperial physician Xu Liufang contacted her to diagnose and treat herself together.

These young men and women are both people who love medicine very much. They are similar in age and like-minded. They quickly met the eyes and fell in love. The two were inseparable. Lin Danqing was willing to stay for Xu Liufang. The queen mother also made a favor by pushing the boat along the river, so that they got married early and settled down in the capital.

Since then, Lin Danqing has also sang along with her husband, and devoted herself to taking care of her mother's body. According to Lin Danqing, the mother's chronic illness is congenital and needs to be adjusted for a long time, and it must not be rushed. But when the queen mother saw the prince walking around in the palace garden, how could she still be calm? She did not listen to Lin Danqing's dissuasion, and was pregnant with the dragon seed again.

Coincidentally, at the same time, Lin Danqing was also pregnant.

The long and short October pregnancy was spent by the mother in the service of decoction.

However, the good times didn't last long. The moment the mother's second child was born, she lost her breath.

The queen mother almost went mad when she saw the dead baby. At that time, the father was on the road, and she thought that if the father knew that she had given birth to a stillbirth again, how would she look directly at her from now on.

When she was in a panic, she thought of Lin Danqing who was expecting to give birth at home. In an instant, a thought flashed in her mind——

The trick is repeated.

"So...the mother...you...recruit...Lin Danqing into the palace and take her child as your own..." I asked slowly, like a thirsty fish, unable to lift my eyelids Come on, "That child, is that me?"

The answer is self-evident.

Fortunately than Princess Yongan, Lin Danqing did not fall into the yellow spring during the induction of labor, and she survived.

How could the queen mother risk her father's discovery of the truth to let her continue to live in the world.

Just as he was about to die, Xu Liufang rescued Lin Danqing from the tiger's mouth. They escaped from the palace overnight, trying to find the truth of the father and the emperor, but the killer sent by the mother and queen was still one step ahead. In the end, they both fell off the cliff on the way to escape, and they disappeared, and their life and death were unknown.

Later, when my father returned to the court, to my mother's surprise, when my father picked me up in the swaddling clothes, my eyes widened and my eyes widened. My father loved me very much. She came to play with me in my mother's bedroom.

My birth was like a lucky fruit to my mother.

In the second year, the queen mother ascended the throne of the queen, and in the fourth year, the queen mother gave birth to a feast, and the status of the palace has been unshakable since then.

Things in the world are so ironic. The reason why the mother was able to give birth to her younger brother safely was all because she continued to follow Lin Danqing's prescription to recuperate her body and followed the doctor's instructions step by step.

The queen mother thought that the scar would never be opened, but unfortunately she was wrong that Xu Liufang and Lin Danqing were both cut off by a tree between the cliffs, and the branch could only carry one person's weight. Dan Qing, he jumped into the abyss and saved the life of his sweetheart.

When I was thirteen years old, my father met Lin Danqing on the way to the mosque.

The emperor's father naturally recognized Lin Danqing. On that day, her marriage to Xu Liufang was also given to her by the queen mother. Later, the queen said that the two of them were very sorry for their husband and wife's failure to climb the mountain. He was also very surprised to see her suddenly appear. .

Lin Danqing told his father exactly what happened.

There are no airtight walls in the world. When people are kept in the dark, they are unaware. Once they are pointed out, all clues become traceable.

My father was furious. What made my father more unacceptable than his anger was that I was not his biological daughter.

And he put too much fatherly love and care on me.

After he returned to the palace, he went to find his mother and asked him about the crime. The mother was both exposed and confessed. The queen mother said that she had been tortured by her conscience all these years, she could not sleep at night, and she was afraid that her father would know the truth. She had nothing to do but ask her father not to take anger on Jingyan, he was the father The only blood.

The queen mother said it right. Over the years, due to wars, struggles for power, or diseases, the father's sons have passed away one after another, just like the curse of God punishing the father for the cruel death of Princess Yongan. . In the end, Jingyan was the only child left, and the emperor's body was not as good as before. Not to mention the fact that he was pregnant with a dragon child, the mountains of government affairs and the national conditions of internal and external troubles were about to make him unable to support him.

My father thought of me.

He thinks that I am talented, intelligent, decisive, and has the style of the royal family. With just a little help, I will definitely be a strong right-hand man for Jing Yan. Another point, and also the most important, is that I am not the real daughter of the royal family, and this evidence is in the hands of the queen mother. If he one day plans to do something wrong and take over the power for his own selfish desires, it will be very easy to overthrow me.

For the sake of the banquet, for the sake of the overall situation, the father and the queen did not make the mother and queen's crimes public, but since then she has been neglected. From that day onwards, my mother never heard about the troubled affairs of the harem, and devoted herself to fasting and worshipping the Buddha, taking this as a precept. As for the emperor, he gave me government affairs and power, and finally put me on the cusp of the temple.

To this day, Jing Yan finally lived up to their expectations and became a real heir. However, my concubine suddenly had a lot of troops in his hands. After all, my mother was afraid of me. She was worried that she would be alone after the father left. The words can't compete with me, so I beg the father and emperor to cut off my authority, so that Daqing Jiangshan can sit back and relax.

But the royal father did not agree.

Actually, when I heard this, I just felt like I was in an ice cellar. The familiar people and things in front of me suddenly became extremely unfamiliar, and everything in the room turned into a trance-like phantom, and fell apart in an instant.

This is the House of the Emperor.

When they quietly tell the **** truth, they may show remorse, or regret or guilt, but after that, they are more concerned about power and interests.

My father saw me kneeling for a long time without saying a word, and sighed: "Tang'er, I... I could have told you all this today, but..."

I interrupted him, "Does the emperor still want Xiangyi to be grateful for this honesty?"

My father was speechless when I asked this question.

Speechless, either from me to them or from them to me.

I stood up silently, wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes with my sleeves, no more salutes, no more glances at them, and just left.

When I was young, I often wondered why my queen mother was not very close to me, and why I couldn't be like other princesses, when something went wrong, I would get into my mother's concubine's arms and act like a spoiled child. I thought it was because I didn't like her, and I worked hard and fought for it. My mother always treated me lukewarm. I guessed many possibilities. Until today, when I heard the real answer, I felt that the past scenes were just like the same. It's a joke, but I can't laugh at all.

It turned out that the Qing aunt who healed my leg injury in the village and town and locked me in the epidemic house at the order of Nie Guang was my biological mother.

At that time, I always wondered why she didn't follow Nie Guang's order to kill me, and why the epidemic poison she gave me was just a common drug to hide people's ears. Thinking about it, she probably learned from Nie Guang that I was Princess Xiangyi. I am her daughter, so this is how I escaped.

In this way, the person who rescued her when she was fleeing should be Xia Yanghou Nie Guang.

However, why didn't you tell me she was my mother, even though there was no chance?

I returned to the Princess Mansion like a corpse.

He raised his head and looked at the "Princess Xiangyi's Mansion" on the gold plaque in front of the door, and felt that every word was ironic.

I laughed sadly. Up to now, even this mansion that I regard as home is no longer where I belong.

——End of this chapter