"Jiang Shaozhao, you've been looking down on me for so many years! I'm no longer the cowherd I used to be. I'm the emperor of Daliang. I'm no longer Niu San'er, I'm Jiang Muyao!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole court was in an uproar.
"My God, this man is really not the emperor!"
"Did you hear that? He's just a cowherd boy, claiming the title of emperor!"
"Where is the emperor? Where is our emperor?!"
"Monster, where did you take our emperor?!"
The heckling from the entire court flowed down to the Sumeru Terrace along the ministers' faces, which were fuming with rage.
Jiang Shaozhao's eyes were also full of sarcasm, which was revealed through his silver hair. He seemed to be keeping out of the matter and looked at Niu Saner with a half-smile.
It turns out that everyone has infinite selfishness and desires.
He has been working with Niu Saner for sixteen years. This man has transformed from a dull cowherd who knew nothing except some martial arts skills into a scheming and cunning black-hearted person who knows how to harm him.
He really looks like a superior.
He really didn't have any expectations for him in the past. After all, he was completely disappointed with people's trust when he left Prince Ding's Mansion.
The only person he could trust was long dead.
But he didn't expect that over time, Niu Saner, who would be worried because of his fainting, and who he even felt was somewhat human at that time, would eventually become a person like Ji Xiangli.
Profits, all we pursue is profits.
Instead, it was he himself who seemed to be trying to prove something to someone.
But what does he want to prove?
What is meaningful to prove now?
There is nothing, only endless nothingness.
Niu Saner was shocked by what he said and quickly covered his mouth.
However, even though he covered his mouth with one hand, he couldn't control himself by using his other hand to pry it open. Every word he said was like thunder and lightning, making everyone in the hall shudder and fill with indignation.
At this moment, another voice, like the gurgling of a mountain stream, echoed through the hall: "This king would like to ask, Niu San'er, who are you exactly? How did you accomplish all this? How did you sneak onto the throne and deceive everyone for so many years? After all, relying on you alone would be difficult to accomplish all this."
Jiang Xing has always had some suspicions. Before Niu Saner was in the East Palace, besides Jiang Yuanfeng, there must be other accomplices.
Otherwise, how could he have killed his royal brother and sister-in-law without being noticed?
After Jiang Xing asked this question, Niu Saner's tears burst out like a flood. While crying uncontrollably, he answered without thinking.
"I'm Niu San'er. I lived in Dingjiagou when I was little. My family was very poor. My father was the strongest man in the village. He relied on hard labor to support the family..."
In the spring when he was ten years old, he picked up more than ten wild duck eggs in the ditch. He was so happy that he went to the market in town and exchanged the duck eggs for steamed buns.
He usually had a big appetite, but he was never full because his mother gave all the delicious food to his eldest brother and second sister, saying that he was just like his father, stupid and bloated, wasting food.
So at the age of ten, he looked only seven or eight, but he was stronger than his peers.
He exchanged for twenty steamed buns, ate his fill, and went home contentedly. However, on the way, he found two men in brocade clothes following him.
He was a little afraid that the two men would tell others that he had eaten twenty steamed buns and not left a few for his family, so he stopped and asked the two men in brocade clothes, "Why did you follow me all the way?"
"We have something to discuss with your parents."
Discuss something?
He didn't know what to discuss. Normally, his parents didn't have such a prominent relative. But he was afraid of being exposed, so after holding it in for a long time, he finally asked, "Will you tell anyone that I ate twenty steamed buns today?"
The two men in brocade robes were obviously stunned. After a while, they shook their heads and said, "No."
But the two of them looked at him with some disdain.
Fortunately, he didn't understand the expression at that time, and didn't think too much about it, so he led them home.
The courtyard wall of my house is made of cow dung. It becomes moldy and smelly when it rains, and some parts are peeling and leaking.
When he returned home that day, his father was plastering cow dung walls.
The two men in brocade clothes were well dressed, and the light reflected by the silk of their clothes looked brighter than that of the county magistrate.
When his mother saw this, her eyes lit up and she asked the two officials what they wanted to do.
Unexpectedly, the two officials pointed at him and asked, "Will you sell that boy for ten taels of silver?"
He thought that although his parents did not like him as much as their younger siblings, they at least treated him as a human being.
Unexpectedly, when his parents heard this, they all smiled and said in unison: "Sell it!"
After all, the family didn't have much money, and he and his father ate more than his younger brother, sister-in-law, and mother combined. His father could earn money, but he was useless.
The two men in brocade robes asked him, "Are you willing to come with us?"
He also asked, "Are there steamed buns for every meal?"
One of them scoffed, "I guarantee you'll have enough!"
He also said firmly: "Let's go!"
After riding for two days with the two adults, they arrived in the capital.
He thought that as long as he could eat steamed buns and wear warm clothes, he would be living better than the wealthy Wang in the village. But he didn't expect that when he arrived in the capital, those two people would take him to stay in an inn!
The two men washed him clean, changed his clothes, and prepared a large meal with meat.
Oh my God, to him at that time, those were days more beautiful than those of a god!
After a day of such a wonderful life, he was taken by the two men to a place that looked like heaven under the cover of night.
So there he met for the first time the man he had been most terrified of in his life.
Prince.
After meeting the prince, he finally knew why he was brought here.
The staff of the Eastern Palace were looking for a man with extraordinary strength to serve as a assassin for the prince. Because he was very strong and looked about 70% similar to the prince, he was chosen by the two men in brocade clothes.
The two men in brocade clothes were also subordinates of the prince.
The prince looked at him with great satisfaction. "You are someone who truly bears some resemblance to me. Please stay with me. I need a substitute. At the critical moment, you can die for me."
Others told him that he was lucky to be the prince's personal guard. The prince had been secretly assassinated five or six times, but he had always escaped danger.
They looked at the prince with hope and admiration, as if dying for the prince was a great honor.
He was infected by the crowd, and the way he looked at the prince was filled with humble and flattering submission.
The prince was like a god in heaven. Whether he was walking, talking, or eating, he looked so noble.
But he wants to be a substitute for the gods.
This matter is difficult just thinking about it.
If the prince is the moon and clouds in the sky, then he is the cow dung stuck on the wall by his father.
The prince was already twelve years old at that time, and there was a grand plan in his eyes that he could not understand.
If he wanted to follow the prince without being discovered, he could only live in a dark secret passage.
After all, he was a stand-in. If he was discovered, it would ruin the prince's plans!
There was a miracle doctor in the Eastern Palace who performed a major bone surgery on him every year from the age of eleven to seventeen. The main purpose was to make him grow like the prince, so that the two would become more and more similar.
The secret passage was very large, and someone would go in regularly to teach him martial arts, saying that they would be useful in the future.
At first, he didn't think there was anything wrong with being locked up in the Eastern Palace. At least he could eat his fill, and delicious food and drinks were delivered to him every day. He had no worries, which was pretty good.
And since he started eating well, he grew taller and gradually became almost as tall as the prince.
But after two years of this, he felt something was wrong.
Without seeing the sun, life seemed meaningless. One day, he even wanted to die.
He was terrified, so he quickly asked the prince if he could go out.
The prince looked at him in surprise, then thought for a moment, "Okay, you can come out for one day every two weeks. But the price is that you must compete with me in martial arts, and you must win."
The prince was very skilled in martial arts, and he was no match for him every time. It was common for him to have his bones broken.
The prince has too much power and everyone listens to him.
Sometimes if he disobeyed, the prince would just give him a look and the others would torture him for a long time.
He was beaten so severely by the prince that he no longer expected to go out because he didn't want to be beaten again.
But later on one occasion, the prince said, "If you can accomplish what I cannot do and give me a surprise, you too can come out of the underground."
He was moved.
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