Empress Chu

Xiaoman stretched out his hand and rubbed his brows, curled his lips, turned his head away and stopped talking.

Zhong Changrong was stunned for a moment, smiled, and nodded: "That's right, we can't live this in vain, this matter can't be left alone!"

Chu Zhao looked at Mu Mianhong again, she didn't speak from the beginning to the end, she just smiled at the side.

"Mom," she asked, "do you have anything to say?"

Mu Mianhong smiled and shook her head: "Of course I don't, what does my son want to do, do you need an explanation and reason for my mother?"

Zhong Changrong and Xiaoman snorted at the same time.

Chu Zhao was amused, and nodded: "Mother is right, there is no need to ask, if I lift the knife, Mother will kill people, it is only right and proper."

Mu Mianhong smiled, and said: "Then I'll go sharpen the knife." After saying that, they greeted Xiaoman, and they turned and left without saying a word.

Zhong Changrong thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go and scatter my sheep."

Chu Zhao was amused again, watching Zhong Changrong stride away.

Looking at the night outside, she never expected when she was reborn that she would raise the banner of crusade in the end, announcing the elimination of the evil minister Qingjun.

This time the villain was the Xie family, and she, the queen, became a traitor.

Someone behind him coughed, interrupting Chu Zhao's trance.

"Zhu Er." She turned her head and saw that Deng Yi was still in the room. He didn't leave or speak before, just sitting in front of the table, "Why don't you hurry up and get busy?"

Deng Yi said, "What am I busy with?"

Chu Zhao raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course I took your students to write the crusade notice."

Chapter 9 Homecoming

The spring in the Northwest is very short. It was no different from winter at the beginning, but the cold wind turned into a dust wind, which hit people's faces with pain and eyesight just like the cold wind.

Then blowing to and fro, the wind stopped, and the sun in the sky became vicious.

One moment she was wrapped in cotton clothes, and the next moment she was drenched in sweat.

The soldiers standing on the fort couldn't help taking off the cotton robes that hadn't had time to change into single clothes, and put them on their heads to shade them from the sun.

Since the defeat of the King of Xiliang, the people of Xiliang have moved away. Strictly speaking, they are no longer border guards.

There is another party guarding in the west.

There are many rumors about the troops there. Some say they are the Longwei army left by the late emperor, and others say that the Zhongshan King’s rebels were punished for crimes and meritorious deeds. Although there are different opinions on their identities, it is certain that they attacked the Xiliang royal court and killed Xiliang. Prince Liang belongs to these people.

Based on this alone, the frontier soldiers are in awe.

Those people were not incorporated into the army. Now that the war is over, they seem to have settled there. There are women and children. Soldiers on patrol have seen that the village has taken shape, and merchants go to the market regularly.

However, they are not real villagers. There is a martial arts training ground in the village, and both men and women carry weapons, and they go in and out without concealment.

The thought flashed, and a group of people appeared in the soldier's sight.

There are men and women, wearing gray clothes, some wearing bamboo hats, some wearing straw hats, and some simply holding branches. Overlooking from a high place, it is a standard wild goose array.

They carried swords, and they would wrap them in cloth perfunctorily in the past, but this time they didn't even perfunctory, letting them shine coldly in the sun.

The soldiers didn't look like they were facing a big enemy, nor did they stop drinking from a distance with a sullen face, and waved the semaphore to let them go without waiting for those people to approach.

"Brothers, let's go to the city."

When the group of people approached, he warmly greeted them and even gave pointers.

"Go further in, there will be a three-day temple fair in Luocheng."

The leading man under the earthen wall nodded with a smile and said hello, but he didn't pass by like before, but motioned to the soldier: "Brothers, come here, I have something to tell you."

Have something to say?The guard on the fort was stunned for a moment, but he didn't think too much about it. He said hello and walked down.

There are more than a dozen people stationed here, and they were all called here at this time.

"Brothers, what's the matter?" Chief Jia asked, looking at the man wearing a bamboo hat in front of him.

But the man didn't speak, but stepped aside, and a woman came up behind him.

The woman wears a straw hat and takes off the hat. She is eighteen or nineteen years old with bright eyes and white teeth.

"I want to tell you," she said, "we have taken over this fort."

Chief Jia and the soldiers behind him were stunned for a moment, as if they didn't understand.

"Take over, what do you mean?" He couldn't help but blurt out.

The girl smiled slightly: "That is to say, we snatched this place."

Robbed?Chief Jia was startled, the soldier's instinct allowed him to hold down the knife, but it was still a step too late, the surroundings were shimmering with cold light, and the knife was pointed at them one after another.

"Put down your weapons."

Accompanied by shouts and weapons taken away, the chief armor and the guards finally came to their senses with cold knives pressed against their necks.

"What are you going to do!" Chief Jia shouted.

And the guards on the wall of Shicai Fort were red-eyed, angry and wronged: "We treat you as our own! How can you treat us like this!"

Chu Zhao looked at Xiao Bing with kind eyes: "It is precisely because I am one of my own that I treat you like this."

Otherwise, when you get close, you will shoot the arrow directly, wanting a fort but not a person.

"Your Highness." One person shouted, "We have already taken over here, please move on."

Chu Zhao nodded, put on his hat, turned and mounted his horse.

"Your Highness?" Chief Jia heard it, and couldn't help asking again, with a surprised expression, "Who are you?"

Chu Zhao immediately smiled at him: "I am Chu Zhao, and I am also the queen of Daxia."

After speaking, he urged the horse to gallop away.

The soldiers and guards who had their weapons confiscated were left in a state of confusion.

"Miss Chu!"

"Miss Ah Zhao!"

"The Empress!"

Not everyone has seen Chu Zhao, but this name is known to everyone in the frontier army. Apart from the daughter of General Chu and the status of queen, she is also a female general who has fought side by side with them.

real or fake?Why is the empress here?

The next moment Chief Jia came back to his senses and remembered, as if he had heard the news earlier that the queen conspired to abscond——

However, this news was immediately discarded by everyone, no one discussed it, let alone spread it, what a joke, how could the Empress conspire against her!It must be Xiliang spies or Zhongshan King Yu Nie spreading rumors.

Now it seems that the Empress really absconded here?

"Yes, the empress is here." More than half of the previous dozen or so people followed Chu Zhao, and the rest took their place. A true traitor."

Conquering the real rebels, the guards no longer struggled or resented, and obediently followed the man's command to stand against the wall, distracted.

Suddenly the ground shook, and the guards turned their heads to look, and there were more people coming in the distance, like dark clouds covering the sky.

As the dark clouds approached, one could see the strong banners in the formation, the Chu character flag, the Phoenix flag, and the Zhong character flag.

bell?The guards froze again.

This time there was no introduction from the men guarding the fort, they couldn't help shouting excitedly.

"General Zhong—"

"It's General Zhong—"

By the way, except for the queen, it seems that General Zhong has disappeared, but the frontier army forbids talking about it, so that everyone does not know whether General Zhong is really missing or just a rumor.

Zhong Changrong, dressed in commoner clothes and holding a knife in one arm, came down here surrounded by the flags of soldiers and horses, looked at the soldiers and guards standing under the wall, and shouted in a deep voice: "The queen has been framed, I'm handsome to follow, and I will accompany the queen at this time." Crusade against Xie's traitors, protect His Majesty, and restore the Qingming of the Great Xia, will you follow me and the Queen to punish rape and eliminate evil?"

The soldiers nodded excitedly and shouted loudly: "I am willing!"

In fact, I didn't quite hear what Zhong Changrong said, and I just followed the queen and Zhong Shuai. They have been punishing rape and eliminating evil all along.

"Divide the troops into three groups." Zhong Changrong said loudly, "Enter Yunzhong County."

The people behind him echoed in unison.

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……

When night fell, in a mansion in the county, Liang Ji was still busy in the study, and there were piles of piles on the table.

"Thank you, General." Someone laughed and walked in.

Liang Ji raised his head, saw the person coming, paused the pen in his hand, and said, "Don't dare to do it, just do my best."

The person who came was Li Fang, his personal entourage.

Li Fang put the soup aside and put it on the table: "The general will use some for supper."

Liang Ji got up and walked over, picked up the soup, while Li Fang sat down at the desk, saw that Liang Ji hadn't finished reading the document, and at the same time picked up a pen to write and draw.

Liang Ji didn't feel that there was anything wrong, it had always been like this, from nervousness, embarrassment, and self-ashamedness at the beginning, to numbness later, now it was a matter of course.

"Would it be inappropriate for me to take over the army here?" Liang Ji hesitated and asked.

"What's inappropriate?" Li Fang smiled, "Your daughter has become a queen, of course you have to take control of the military. This is the tradition left by the previous queen. If everyone is dissatisfied, if you want to curse, then curse the queen first. .”

Liang Ji followed suit with a smile, always feeling that these words were not very consoling, but had a bad meaning—they would not end up like Queen Chu in the future.

Naturally, he didn't dare to ask this question. He could have said that he didn't know who was behind it before. He had guessed Deng Yi, the King of Zhongshan, and even the people of Xiliang. There is only one person left in Daxia, and the fool knows who it is.

"Of course I don't care about this." He changed the subject and said, "But General Wu was in charge of the frontier army before. No matter in terms of qualifications or achievements, he is the most suitable candidate. I'm afraid he will feel unhappy. The army started a dispute—"

Li Fang waved his hand before he finished speaking: "That's my own."

My own, Liang Ji said: "That's good, that's good." Speaking of this, he couldn't help asking, "Is Third Young Master Xie in good health?"

Xie Yanfang and Empress Chu were fighting in the hunting ground. Now that Empress Chu had run away, another son of the Xie family presided over the court affairs instead of the third son. The Xie family did not hide that Xie Yanfang was injured, but no one knew how bad it was.

Li Fang smiled and said: "I don't know about this, I'm just a servant, I only know how to do things according to orders, and don't ask about other things."

This is also talking about him, so what about the general?So what if the daughter became a queen, she is still a servant and has no right to ask about the son's affairs. Liang Ji looked slightly hot, but he didn't feel ashamed—what's there to be ashamed, everyone in the world is the emperor's servant, and now The emperor was Xie Yanfang's puppet, so it was only right and proper to be Xie Yanfang's servant.

"I will do my best to repay my son's kindness." He solemnly said.

Li Fang smiled and wanted to say something when footsteps came from outside.

"General." Bingwei asked for instructions outside.

Liang Ji came in with a solemn voice.

The military guard was not surprised to see Liang Ji eating supper and accompanying Li Fang to sort out the table, he said: "The four generals have arrived under the command of the commander."

Liang Ji was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously looked at Li Fang: "They came to see me?"

He didn't order it.

Li Fang also frowned, but he didn't either.

Who is that?Can you use the command?

"General Liang—" There was another noise outside the door, someone rushed over and shouted, "Report—General Zhong is here."

Liang Ji didn't react for a while, who?Besides Zhong Changrong, is there anyone among the four generals whose surname is Zhong?The thought flashed across that the person outside the door had already entered.

"Zhou Xiaoshan?" Liang Ji recognized this soldier, because he was from Zhong Changrong's own barracks, so he still had the impression, "What are you doing here?"

Xiao Shan didn't speak and didn't look at him, he turned sideways to make way, and someone came in behind him.

Seeing this man, Liang Ji stood up in shock.

"You—" he said, "Chu—"

Before he finished speaking, Chu Zhao raised his hand, the bowstring buzzed, and a cold light flashed across.

Accompanied by a muffled cry, Li Fang, who was standing in front of the desk, fell backwards clutching his throat.

Chu Zhao took the arrow again, aimed at Liang Ji, and said, "Liang Ji, when you see me, why don't you kneel down to greet me?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Liang Ji knelt down and said loudly, "The sinful minister kowtowed to the queen!"

Chu Zhao put away her bow and arrows and looked at Liang Ji who was kneeling on the ground. It was really funny. In her last life, why did she think that Liang's father and son were brave, comparable to her father and Uncle Zhong?