Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Three Parting

Empress Dowager Liu was lying on the bed, staring blankly at the sunlight shining from outside the palace.The sun was shining brightly, but she was lying in a place where the sun could not shine. Where the light shines, there is flying dust surging, like a dusty memory.Empress Dowager Liu looked at Feichen, thinking about the past.Since Zhao Yunsheng's death, the big fire in the palace seems to have burned away the vitality of Empress Dowager Liu. Whether she admits it or not, she is old, so old that even her desire to ascend the throne has faded.The palace calmed down, and after the fire, all kinds of strange things disappeared.

Could it be that...it was really the first emperor who appeared and warned her not to act recklessly?Because she no longer acts rashly, so there are no more strange warnings?Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Liu shivered tremblingly. The five dragons are back, and the beauty is empty! Empress Dowager Liu thought of this, her eyes showed resentment, and she murmured: "You won't come back to life, no! You don't have five dragons." Suddenly remembered, before the dead ghost died, he solemnly said to her: "E'er , I have been thinking hard for many years, and I have collected many secrets of Shambhala. In my opinion, my Yongding Mausoleum is similar to Shambhala. I rest in the Xuan Palace. With the power of the five dragons, I will one day Will be resurrected! You have to believe me!"

The tone is faint, full of gloomy meaning. "If I live, I will tell you all the secrets, so that you can live forever. From then on, you and I, husband and wife, will create an eternal foundation." Empress Dowager Liu smiled coldly, smiling into the air, as if Zhenzong Zhao Heng was right in front of her.She wasn't afraid, in fact, she shouldn't be afraid of Zhao Heng, she was never afraid of Zhao Heng. She should have been grateful to Zhao Heng. Without Zhao Heng's persistence, she would not have reached her current position.She was originally a silversmith's woman, not a queen mother.This may sound unbelievable, but it is true.Many people in the court actually knew about this.

Back then, Liu E was born in poverty, and was sold by his family to the silversmith Gong Mei as his wife.Gong Mei took Liu E to make a living in the capital, and met Zhao Heng who was still the King of Han. It is really hard to figure out what "love" is. Zhao Heng fell in love with Liu E the first time he saw her.Seeing that Zhao Heng liked it, Gong Mei simply gave Liu E to Zhao Heng as his wife. Zhao Heng also accepted it.Since then, the humble silversmith woman began a life of struggle.Gong Mei felt that her status was not good, and she was afraid of affecting Liu E's future, so she changed her surname to Liu, became Liu Mei, and her husband became an elder brother, but she still loved her as before.My brother knew that she was afraid of being humble, so he was willing to do anything for her, even gave her to another man without complaining.

But my brother is definitely not greedy for wealth.Brother is the only man who sacrifices everything for her and has no other thoughts. Liu E likes her brother, not her husband.But she knew that if she wanted not to be despised, she had to rely on her husband.So she endured, she endured... The courtiers looked down on her, and Zhao Heng's wet nurse, Mrs. Qin, also looked down on her. Back then, Mrs. Qin even stripped her naked and drove her out of the Han Palace.If Zhao Heng hadn't protected her and came to look for her, she would have thrown herself into the river the night she was kicked out.

So she hates, hates why the sky is so unfair!I hate why some people are born superior!I hate why someone is born to be trampled underfoot!But she can only endure, and she has endured for ten years.She used the most beautiful time of a woman to learn forbearance, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, nobility and elegance, and everything a woman should learn. Zhao Heng changed from the king of Han to the emperor, and she finally came out on top, and she was extremely amazing when she came out.She still remembered the way Zhao Heng looked at her with more affection. But the courtiers still look down on her, look down on her humble background, look down on her having been with other men, look down on her inability to have a son.So she had no choice but to rob Li Shunrong's son—the son of that humbler woman.

In this world, the weak are preyed upon by the strong. Every time Liu E thinks of this, she feels a little apologetic, but she never regrets what she has done, and if the time comes again, she will not hesitate to grab it. She was terrified, terrified of going back to her former humble life, terrified.She is not afraid of death, only of being humble.So when she saw that her snatched son Zhao Zhen liked that coquettish beauty Wang, she broke them up without hesitation. From the humble status of Beauty Wang, she thought of Liu E's humbleness back then. She felt that Beauty Wang was like a thorn, and she was not happy.

There is a dead ghost father who likes prostitutes, and only then does he have a son who likes to search for flowers and ask willows.Every time Liu E thinks of this, she can't help being disgusted. She not only hates Wang Meiren, but also hates her own past.So she likes Zhao Yunsheng more, Zhao Yunsheng is very well behaved, but she never thought that Zhao Yunsheng would want her life. In this world, who else can be trusted?Maybe only the dead brother? Except for her dead brother, all the officials in the court who bowed down seemed to respect her on the surface.But Liu E knew that they looked down on her from the bottom of their hearts, and they would never look down on her, even if she was the queen mother.

Those people will never know how many bitter experiences she has endured from being a silversmith's woman to where she is today!As long as they read books and recite poems, they will be able to enter the Phoenix Pond with infinite glory, so they don't know her suffering. The more she hated, the more ruthless she became. So she found an excuse to execute Mrs. Qin, stripped off Mrs. Qin's noble clothes, cut her fat body hundreds of times and soaked it in the cesspit, making Mrs. Qin wailing and terrified, and slowly regretting what she had done past things. So she defeated Ding Wei, the number one person in the two mansions. Because Ding Wei wanted to seek her power, she found an opportunity to beat Ding Wei to Yazhou, and he was not allowed to return to Beijing for the rest of her life.

So she dismissed Cao Lili, the number one military officer, because Cao Lili was very disrespectful to her orphans and widowed mothers in the court. On the way Cao Lili was demoted, she asked Luo Chongxun to kill him. Therefore, she drove away Kou Zhun, the veteran of the three dynasties. Because Kou Zhun didn't approve of Zhao Hengli's empress, she demoted Kou Zhun to the sky. Even if Kou Zhun died, she would not let Kou Zhun's body return to Bianjing. Can be buried in Luoyang. A person's love may not last forever, but hate can be remembered for a lifetime. She, Liu E, is such a person. People who treat her well are good people, and she will never tolerate people who treat her badly.But in this court, there are fewer and fewer people who are kind to her. Her brother died early, and the descendants of the Liu family died and were injured. She was very lonely.

Although she is in a high position, she is lonely. She originally had an emperor who loved her, but that emperor has been a stranger to her ever since he became obsessed with immortality more than twenty years ago.That emperor only thought about immortality, but never thought about what good is immortality? Empress Dowager Liu looked at the silent palace alone, and smiled cruelly. With the power of the five dragons, Zhao Heng might be resurrected, but without the power of the five dragons, then Zhao Heng would definitely not be resurrected? Even if Zhao Heng is an emperor, he can't control what happens next.Liu E was still laughing, she didn't put the five dragons in the mysterious palace, she didn't put the five dragons in the hands of the faceless statue, she sealed the five dragons in the Maitreya Buddha statue in Daxiangguo Temple. She told Ye Zhiqiu that it was because of missing the late emperor, but she knew it was not. You won't come back alive, no!When Empress Dowager Liu murmured these words, she was somewhat cruel, somewhat joyful, and also unable to utter ridicule.What's so good about longevity?not good at all! When Empress Dowager Liu was reminiscing about the past, Yan Wenying entered the room and said, "Empress Dowager, the Eighth Prince is still kneeling in front of the palace and waiting." Empress Dowager Liu was startled, she didn't expect the Eighth Prince to be so stubborn.The Eighth Prince asked to see him, but the Empress Dowager Liu knew what he was going to do and refused him to enter the palace.The Eighth Prince has been kneeling outside the palace, from daytime to dusk. Liu E didn't want to see the Eighth Prince. She thought that the Eighth Prince was a lunatic, and only a lunatic would have such crazy thoughts.Zhao Yuanyan and Zhao Heng are brothers, both madmen. "No." Empress Dowager Liu said coldly. Yan Wenying hesitated and persuaded: "Queen Mother, I don't see you all the time, I'm afraid others will discuss it." Empress Dowager Liu's heart skipped a beat, and she shouted, "What are you talking about?" Yan Wenying said cautiously: "The eighth prince is sick, and also... his daughter suffered an accident, it is very pitiful. The empress dowager is so indifferent, is it unreasonable?" He originally wanted to say that the eighth prince also lost his daughter, but the palace Rumor has it that the woman is still alive. Empress Dowager Liu sneered, "Yan Wenying, when can you make the decision for me?" Yan Wenying hurriedly knelt down and said: "I don't dare. I just think about the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother doesn't like it, I can go and tell the Eighth Prince." Before he stepped back, the Queen Mother Liu had changed her mind and said: "Call the Eighth Prince. Come in. You stand down." When the Eighth Prince came in, his eyes were red and his face was haggard.All his nobility and cleanliness have disappeared, and he looks like an ordinary father who wants to save his daughter's life. As soon as the Eighth Prince arrived in front of Empress Dowager Liu's bed, he knelt down in the tunnel and said, "Empress Dowager, I beg you!" Empress Dowager Liu said coldly: "Zhao Yuanyan, do you have nothing else to say besides these words?" The Eighth Prince murmured: "I beg you, please save her." Empress Dowager Liu said leisurely: "The matter of entering the Xuan Palace is of great importance. You can talk about it in front of the courtiers to see who agrees with you? Let's see who dares to support you!" "I just beg you." The Eighth Prince said in tears, "I'm just such a daughter, you... don't you really have the heart to watch her go?" "Why can't I bear it?" Empress Dowager Liu said indifferently, with a cruel tone in her tone. The Eighth Prince burst out suddenly, stood up suddenly and shouted: "Don't forget, she is also your daughter!" Empress Dowager Liu was taken aback and scolded: "Zhao Yuanyan, are you really crazy?" The Eighth Prince smiled miserably: "Why am I crazy? I've never been crazy. Even if I was crazy, I was driven crazy by you. E'er..." "Shut up! What right do you have to call me by my name?" Queen Mother Liu shouted. The Eighth Prince's smile turned cold and became sarcastic, "I am not qualified to be called the Queen Mother, but I am qualified to have a daughter with you, named Yushang!" No one would have expected that the always obedient Eighth Prince would suddenly say such vulgar words.Is it because there are only two of them in the palace, so the Eighth Prince will be unscrupulous? He looked like he had put up with it for too long.Empress Dowager Liu breathed heavily, and she was silent for a long time before she said, "Zhao Yuanyan, do you really think that I won't kill you?" After the Eighth Prince went all out, he calmed down, "It doesn't matter if you kill me or not, is it better for me now than to die? Liu E, I have always acted very afraid of you, you don't really think that I Afraid of you?" Empress Dowager Liu said nothing, but the expression on her face was extremely angry. The Eighth Prince murmured: "I'm not afraid of you, I'm just afraid that you will be bad for our daughter. I haven't seen her since Yushang was born. Every time I think of this, I go crazy. I know you are torturing Me, you don't want me to die quickly, just to torture me. And I don't want to die quickly, just to dream of seeing her. " What he said was very desolate, and he continued: "The third brother believed in God back then, so he asked me to think about it together. He was really kind to me, and told me many things. He gave me tears and told me the magic of the five dragons. , and even painstakingly took two crystal coffins from the far sea of ​​Persia, and gave me one. He was really kind to me." The Eighth Prince is Taizong's eighth son, and Zhao Heng is Taizong's third son, so the Eighth Prince has always called Zhao Heng the third brother. "Yes, he is really kind to you, so he even wants to share his woman with you." Empress Dowager Liu said coldly. The Eighth Prince hissed: "That's not the case! You were the one who seduced me, and I knew you were lonely at that time." "Shut up!" Empress Dowager Liu snapped. The Eighth Prince shouted: "I am not afraid of death anymore. What are you afraid of? I know you actually want what I said. You remind me that you want to torture me and yourself too! I am so stupid to believe your words When Liu Mei died, the third brother was praying to God, you were very empty and lonely, so you deliberately seduced me while I was in the palace." Empress Dowager Liu was breathing heavily, but surprisingly she didn't say anything. "I'm so stupid. I thought you really liked me. So I cheated on my third brother and hung out with you. Later, I finally figured it out. You are not with me because you like me, but because you want to be with me." A son. Hehe, for the position of queen, you have really exhausted all means. You let me say good things about you in front of the third brother, let me support you as queen in front of the courtiers, and even wanted to use me, let me Help you give birth to a son, but you don't have me in your eyes from the beginning to the end." Empress Dowager Liu said coldly: "Yes, I just treat you like a dog, a male dog." No one would have thought that the noble Empress Dowager Liu would say such words. The Eighth Prince wasn't surprised at all. He laughed and laughed so hard that he burst into tears, "I'm a male dog, so what are you? Are you a bitch? You're a bitch, maybe you're worse than a bitch. A bitch is willing to sell anything for money, but you can give up everything for power. You first gave up your brother and climbed up to the third brother, and then seduced me. Later, when you saw that I was worthless, you dumped it like snot Me. Li Shunrong gave birth to the Son of Heaven, and you gave birth to Yushang. For the position of queen, you even cruelly discarded Yushang, saying that Zhao Zhen was born by you. The third brother didn't say anything, he also really loves you, his only hope The most important thing is that his own son can be enthroned. But for the sake of the throne, you and Zhao Yunsheng are going to plot against your son who has been raised for more than 20 years. It is a pity that the third brother has appeared, and you are afraid. You are not afraid of the living third brother, you are afraid of death My third brother, you are old and you are afraid. Liu E, what is your whole life for? Is it for the throne? But what have you got?" Empress Dowager Liu calmed down instead, and said coldly: "If I can't get it, you can't get it either. So what if I lose your daughter?" The Eighth Prince hissed: "Up until now, you have said that Yu Chang is only my daughter? Isn't she your daughter? In vain, I gave you tears. At that time, I was really blinded by lard! " "You haven't been blinded by lard, you're just a self-satisfied hypocrite." Empress Dowager Liu said ruthlessly, "In fact, you don't agree with the third brother you respect on the surface, don't think that I don't know your thoughts. You flatter me, shed tears for me, and pretend to be seduced by me. You just hope that after your third brother dies, you can get some sweetness from me, and even sit on the dragon chair for a few days. Hehe, I won’t let you Sitting on the dragon chair, what can you do to me? I asked the maid to take your daughter out of the palace, smashed the tears, put half of the tears on your daughter, showed you the other half, and then threw it in Yongding Go Ling. Do you think that I really want you to find her? Do you really think that I am in love with you? Haha, you are wrong, I just want you to be tortured for the rest of your life." "Yang Yushang is your daughter, don't you really have any affection for her? She has only the last chance of life left, and you still want to kill it? Are you still a human?" the Eighth Prince asked. Empress Dowager Liu smiled, and said slowly: "Do you really have feelings for your daughter? Then I will give you a chance. I can seal Yang Yushang in the Xuan Palace according to your wishes, and wait for you to find Shambhala." The Eighth Prince was stunned, and asked after a while: "What conditions do you want?" He really knew the woman in front of him very well, so he couldn't believe that Empress Dowager Liu would agree to him so easily. "I have no conditions, I promise you unconditionally." Empress Dowager Liu smiled with indescribable cruelty, "I don't believe that your daughter can have a miracle, but I can give you hope, because I really want to see you The appearance of dying while waiting in despair. I have a secret, a secret about Shambhala, but I won’t tell you. If you know this secret, I’m afraid you will smash your head against the wall.” She said, Haha laughed, there was an indescribably crazy and weird smile in the smile. The Eighth Prince trembled when he heard it, his face was full of horror and sorrow. The night is deep, the lights are dim, the moon is on the head, and tears flow from my heart. When Di Qing walked out of the Yang Mansion, the tears in the corners of his eyes were still wet, but his chest was already puffed up.He cried out all his thoughts in one breath, what he was going to do now seemed very clear, go to the northwest to find Shambhala, and rescue Yang Yushang. He is leaving Yushang, but the parting is for reunion! When walking through a long street, the restaurants on the street were noisy, as if someone was having a party.But the excitement belongs to others and has nothing to do with him. Di Qing didn't even go to look, just walked down the long street so lonely, he needed to get a good night's sleep, and then think about how to go to the northwest and how to start looking. At this moment, a person flew down from the second floor of the restaurant and landed in front of Di Qing.Di Qing looked up and said in surprise, "Wu Ying, why is it you?" The one who stopped him was Wu Ying, the guard in front of the palace who shared his troubles.Wu Ying is a taciturn person, but at this moment, she is full of enthusiasm. Wu Ying looked into Di Qing's eyes, with sympathy in his eyes, but suddenly said boldly: "I said upstairs that you were downstairs, but they still didn't believe it. Di Qing, everyone is upstairs, you go have a drink too, okay?" ?” Di Qing was about to decline, but Wu Ying said: "Tomorrow we are going to go to the northwest..." When Di Qing heard the word "Northwest", his heart trembled, and he asked in surprise, "Northwest? What are you going to Northwest for?" Wu Ying smiled and said: "I heard that the party members have been rampant these days, constantly harassing the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty. We feel bored these days, and we have long discussed how to show Yuan Hao some color. Today we I asked for orders to go to the northwest to help, but I didn't expect the Ministry of War and Sanya to agree on the same day." Di Qing thought to himself, Zhao Zhen kept everyone in the confinement at the beginning, although these people only escorted them afterwards and did nothing, but Wu Ying and Wang Gui probably knew that participating in the palace change would arouse the suspicion of the court, so they took the initiative to avoid disasters and asked to guard the border up.After thinking about it again, maybe they really want to defend their home and country, Di Qing, Di Qing, you don't have big ambitions yourself, don't think that everyone else is like this. Wu Ying said again: "Di Qing, if you leave this time, you may be separated from each other, and you will never see each other again. We know that you are not happy, but we can't help you. Why don't we all have another drink, and we will be happy in each other's world from now on. Enmity, okay?" A few people at the restaurant poked their heads out and shouted, "Di Qing, come up!" Di Qing was full of heroism when he heard Wu Ying, and when he saw the call of his brothers, he couldn't help feeling excited, and shouted: "Okay, let's get drunk to the fullest today!" He and Wu Ying went upstairs side by side, and found that there was only one table upstairs, and the table was full of acquaintances.There is the calm Wang Gui, the seasoned Li Jian, the mighty Zhu Guan, and the energetic Sang Yi... Zhang Yu and Li Yuheng were also sitting at the table.These people were all bodyguards who had fought side by side with Di Qing. They had all discussed and decided to go to the northwest, but they did not discuss with Di Qing.It's not that they looked down on Di Qing, it's just that they thought that Di Qing couldn't leave the capital. Seeing Di Qing go upstairs, everyone stopped drinking and looked at Di Qing.They all knew what happened to Di Qing, but there was no way to comfort them, and they also knew that comforting at this time would only cause Di Qing's heartache.But Di Qing said: "I'm going to get drunk today, if I don't get drunk, I won't return. I'll change it to a bigger bowl!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, changed their wine bowls and said with a smile: "Okay, if you don't get drunk, you won't return! Di Qing, we offer you a bowl of wine." These people all know that going to the battlefield is dangerous, and life is far more difficult than in the capital, but everyone Everyone has a passion and is fearless. Picking up the wine bowl, Di Qing looked at the turbulent faces of the crowd, and suddenly remembered that Yang Yushang had said before he fell into a coma, "Di Qing, in my heart, you are an unparalleled hero!" He almost forgot this sentence.But today, with a bowl of wine, the brothers' passion and passion suddenly reminded him of the past, and his eyes became moist.He suddenly realized why Yu Chang said this. Yu Chang had a deep meaning when he said this.Just because she knew Di Qing's character, she was afraid that Di Qing would die with her immediately.She wanted Di Qing to live strong, to be an unparalleled hero in the world, and let Yang Yushang see her in the sky. But he, a reckless man, didn't realize the deep affection of Yushang Ruhai until this time.Even if Yu Chang was going, he was still thinking about Di Qing. Thinking of this, Di Qing had a sore nose and a thousand needles in his chest. After a long time, he said, "Brothers, I will have a drink with you today. See you in the northwest." Everyone was a little surprised, Zhang Yu said: "Di Qing, are you going to the northwest too?" Di Qing finally made up his mind, thinking to himself that he was going to the Northwest anyway, it depends on fate, why not be as vigorous as these brothers? Yu Chang has always wanted to see him become an unparalleled hero in the world, even if he found Shambhala, he didn't want Yu Chang to wake up and see him still as confused as he is now.Brother Guo is right. If a person does not want to ask others for everything, he must have his own ability.Learn Taibao sword technique, run rampant in the world, the greater the ability, maybe the more opportunity. Thinking of this, Di Qing nodded heavily and said: "You all went to the Northwest to make contributions, how could I be missing?" Zhang Yu laughed loudly, then turned to Li Yuheng and said, "I said earlier that Di Qing is a man who can afford it and let it go, but you just said that Di Qing won't go." Li Yuheng said indifferently: "But he...won't just go like this?" Although Di Qing was also reluctant, but after thinking about it, if he went to the northwest earlier, he would have a better chance of rescuing Yang Yushang, so he said, "Good man, why bother mother-in-law? I will go ask the Holy One to allow me to go to the northwest , when the time comes, brothers will fight together!" Everyone was happy and said in unison: "Okay! When the time comes, brothers will fight together!" At that time, everyone put aside everything and drank to their heart's content. A son must become famous and must be drunk, and after drinking, he confides the truth.When Wu Ying was drunk, he suddenly hit the wine bowl with his chopsticks, and sang loudly through the alcohol: "Tianwei swept across the Yellow River, thousands of miles of Qiang people performed Han songs. Moyan Hengshan flows backwards, from the west of the teaching to become Enbo!" He Sing sonorously, like a soldier's armor, full of passion. When everyone heard it, their blood boiled, and they couldn't help singing along, only feeling that the singing was rough and full of pride. Zhu Guan said aside: "Wu Ying, I don't want you to be good at kungfu, more talented, and write a good poem. I can't do it. Apart from being able to type, I can't read a few words." Although these people have known each other not long ago, after the events of Yongding Mausoleum and Gongbian, they have long been like brothers. Wu Ying laughed loudly and said, "I don't have such talent. It is said that this poem was originally written by General Cao Wei, and it has been handed down. Thinking that General Cao Wei has been rampant in the Northwest for decades, the Qiang people never dared to write it." Half a step into the Song Dynasty. Although you and I do not have the prestige of General Cao today, we should not lose to General Cao in terms of ambition. I don’t know when I can return to Bianjing today, and I don’t know if I can return, but the man should be famous , laughing and killing Baitouyin, the wine is full, so let's go." He staggered to his feet, laughed and went downstairs, not forgetting to sing loudly: "Tianwei swept across the Yellow River..." The singing voice is bold and unrestrained and sad, full of a man's bloody ambition and lofty aspirations.The singing went far away in an instant, and Bianjing, who had been sluggish for many years, suddenly had a kind of chilling and tragic air. Everyone got up one after another and followed downstairs, laughing all the way. Di Qing watched the crowd's impassioned enthusiasm, and listened to the bursts of singing, and suddenly thought that after so many years, the wind and sand, and the dust condensed in smoke. I don't know how much blood and tragedy will be sprinkled on the green mountains and loess of the frontier. Those former friends, former relatives, and former brothers may become famous through the ages, or their bones may be buried in barren hills, but whether they die or live, it will be a hearty battle after all. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel sad, my blood boiled, and my eyes filled with tears! Although Di Qing was still sad in his heart, the hot blood had already diluted the sadness. I'm going to the Northwest!A voice shouted in his heart.Di Qing puffed up his chest, looked at the bright moon, as if he saw the smiling face and loving eyes, and said to him word by word: "Di Qing, in my heart, you are a unparalleled hero in the world!" At that moment, with the bright moon hanging high and his blood boiling, Di Qing was more determined than ever, and said to himself, "I'm going to the northwest." He is going to the northwest, for the promise of life and death that the love of his life has never said, but is engraved in his heart, and also for the mighty and mighty, eternal man's pride in the world!