By decree and pro

The bright moon was slanting to the west, and the night was full of dew. The large group of people and horses meandered among the jagged rocks. The rough sand and gravel made the people's steps make harsh friction sounds, except for that, there was no other sound.

Saha has neither shackles nor other burdens.He walked closely behind Usman's mount, but he walked with a stooped back and a staggering gait.

Saha was followed by Jinayali, who was sitting high on the camel, seeing Saha's distraught appearance, filled with emotion for a moment.

They came to Junshang's side almost at the same time to serve him.The difference is that Saha is in the dark, a secret work that cannot be seen, but in the light, she is a Xiliang female general who responds to everyone.

It’s not that her ability is better than Saha’s, but that the mission requires it. At that time, Prince Yonghe was only 15 years old, and he was a steadfast and righteous master. Dear nobles.

To get close to him with the beauty of a woman is obviously "there is no way".

Only Saha, who is used to hiding his heart and is good at pretending to act, can get close to the prince, gain his trust, and even become his confidant.

At this point, Saha did it without bloodshed, and he succeeded immediately.

So when the prince knew that he had misguided his confidant and made a big mistake, the shock and hurt were extreme.

Jinayali can understand the prince's sorrow and anger, but she can't understand why Saha betrayed the king?

Your Majesty is not only a life-saving grace to him, but also a virtue of regeneration. Even if he falls in love with Prince Yonghe, he must not speak out what is in his heart.

Like the person Jun Shang likes, does he not want to live?

Jinayali originally thought that His Majesty would order Saha to be executed immediately after leaving the Swan Palace, but His Majesty did nothing, not even saying "take it down", and just took Saha back home.

But this atmosphere...Jinayali didn't dare to let out the atmosphere, as if she was trapped in the enemy camp with thousands of troops and could do nothing.

This was originally a joyful proposal, regardless of whether the prince would agree or not, but your majesty was indeed full of joy and left with anticipation in his heart, but now... your majesty's expression of neither joy nor resentment, neither sadness nor sigh is really true Make her upset and sad.

Jinayali didn't even know how she got back this way. When she returned to the palace, she dismissed the team, and the king went back to the study to sit quietly. Saha followed step by step, and finally knelt down in front of the desk. All said nothing.

Jinayali brought an exquisite charcoal stove to the king, on which was placed a rectangular tin-carved wine jug. The rice wine had just heated up, and the aroma was slowly spraying out from the pointed spout, pouring the white jade The case surface was all wet.

Soon, a topaz wine glass rested lightly under the spout, filling his bosom with the hot mist.

Jinayali backed away without a sound, and closed the door of the royal study.

Usman held the jug in one hand and poured the wine alone. After half a cup of hot wine, his pale fingertips had a little bit of blood.

"Your Majesty," Saha kowtowed as if waiting for this moment, "The guilty minister deserves to die, the criminal minister has no face to face you..."

"When this king pretended to be a traveling businessman from Xiliang and deliberately approached him," Usman muttered to himself, "I once told him that only the strong are qualified to dominate the world and get everything they want. Unexpectedly, he immediately retorted that not only the king of a country is strong, but those who are 'not humble, not weak and small' are also strong."

"Saha, I know why you like him, he is not the same as anyone we have ever met," Usman gently shook the wine cup, "He is upright and kind; and we... no, yes Me, I hide my scheming and seek skin with a tiger. He and I are strangers, but we met halfway. Whether it is God's will or man-made, no matter what, I will forget him and mine. My heart will change because of him, and I should be proud of the consequences, so I let you go."

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Saha raised his head suddenly, as if he couldn't understand the meaning of Usman's last words, let him go?Where is he going?Where can he go?

He was born on the day when Tiangou eclipsed the moon, and was considered unknown by the assassination tribe. His parents decided to kill him, but they failed in the end. They hid him in the cellar and raised him secretly until he was 20 years old. Parents and brothers were hacked to death.

When the patriarch wanted to sacrifice him to the moon god, Prince Usman, who was visiting the tribe, came forward to save him.

Not only did the prince save his life, but he also took him by his side, hired a teacher for him, and taught him to read and write as well as martial arts.

Even if his ability is only superficial, the emperor still gave him the status of a decent prince's bodyguard.

As long as he has this identity, the tribe has nothing to do with him.

Saha has always been grateful and amazed by this prince who is much younger than himself, but is mature and unfazed by humiliation.

He once said to the prince that he hated himself for not being able to hide well and killed his family, but the prince said: I admire you very much. You have been hiding in a dark cellar for 20 years.

The prince liked his ability to endure humiliation and decided to train him.Together with the martial arts genius Jinayali, he became His Highness' right arm and right arm.

Your Highness doesn't like people who are good-looking but useless. Talents are always the scarcest before His Highness crushes other brothers and sisters.

Saha has long been used to being used by "His Royal Highness" in the past, and now being used by "Jun Shang". If it is his heart to like Prince Dayan, then it is his mission to serve the Jun.

But now he is unfaithful to the king, behind the king's back, he fell in love with the prince, and even privately revealed some of the king's plans to the prince, which made the prince furious.

He did this to curry favor with the prince, completely violating the order of "no disclosure" given to him by the emperor.

On the Junshang's side, he kept leaking the Prince's every move, so that the Junshang who was far away in Xiliang could know the Prince's affairs like the back of his hand.

This is an injustice to the prince, and Saha knows it very well in his heart.

He is unfaithful and unrighteous, and he has long been a double face.

Saha knew that it was a big mistake for him not to take a firm stand, whether it was "loyalty" or "righteousness", he should always choose a path, but he had selfishness.

He not only wants to be reused by the emperor, but also wants to be favored by the prince... He is really too greedy.

The result is that the relationship between the emperor and the prince is becoming more and more tense. Perhaps the emperor should not lie to the prince that Xiliang will send troops to help him defeat Jing Tingrui, but if the emperor does not do so, the prince will seek With the help of other forces, those thieves who would sacrifice the prince alive at any time have long been waiting for the prince to come to ask for help.

Your Majesty pretended to help the prince to save the life of the prince. Saha knew about this all along, but he never told the prince.

The only thing he revealed to the prince was the "fact" that the emperor planned to deceive him in the early morning. When the prince learned that the king of Xiliang had never thought of sending troops to help him, and even made an ally with Jing Tingrui, he was naturally hurt internally. Also vomited blood.

Your Majesty never knew that the Prince's resentment towards him had his own reasons for fueling the flames.

Why do you want to take the opportunity to smear it? It's probably... Jealousy. Jealousy that the King came to the prince so naturally, got his attention, and drugged the prince's wine so badly, so he got the prince as a matter of course...

And the prince is ignorant of these things, because he will not be wary of those around him, let alone people he considers to be "good brothers", being kind to people and employing them without suspicion - this is probably the biggest flaw of the prince.

The prince is a good person, but not a perfect person. Sometimes even Saha thinks that the prince is too stupid, can't he see that he is a meticulous worker?Sometimes he scolds himself desperately, how can he be worthy of the prince's sincere treatment all the time?

At the end of the entanglement, he neither managed the emperor's errands nor pleased the prince, he failed, a complete failure.

Now the emperor wants to drive him away, he doesn't even have a place to go.

I don't know if it's because Saha has been kneeling there, Usman said again: "No, you don't follow this last order, do you?"

These words greatly irritated Saha, his face was flushed with guilt, his cheeks were covered with tears, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't speak, but knelt down and kowtowed three times.

Saha's forehead was scratched, and his face was covered with blood. He got up and left the imperial study, and ran into Jinayali who was guarding the door. It was obvious that she was guarding herself, fearing that she would be disadvantageous to the emperor.

Seeing that his former colleagues no longer trusted him, Saha felt very painful, but he also felt that he deserved it.

In addition to vigilance, Jinayali has another expression on his face, which is "disgust". Saha is not surprised by this, because once he is regarded as an abandoned pawn by the emperor, he will be disgusted by everyone and go on. Totally forgotten.

This is commonplace in the palace.

Saha smiled faintly at Jinayali, who was pretending to be cold, and suddenly seemed to understand, raised his head and chest, changed his sluggish posture when he came, and walked out with his head held high.

Jinayali couldn't help being stunned, but still raised her hand, signaling the guards to "escort" Saha out of the palace.

It was almost dawn, and the jug in front of Usman was already empty, only half a cup of sake remained in the glass.

He held his wine glass and watched thoughtfully. The morning sun cast mottled shadows on the imperial case through the high-hanging flower windows.

Even in the cup there is such a curved shadow, like... the shadow of a snake bowed in a cup.

Usman muttered silently in Yan language: "The shadow of a cup bow and a snake..."

It is not difficult to explain everything to Yan, but the difficulty lies in whether Yan, who was betrayed by Saha, can regain his confidence and trust another person—the one who designed and manipulated all this.

"Yanyan, I'm afraid your heart is as cold as the wine in the king's cup." Usman smiled bitterly, holding the rim of the cup tightly with his right hand, and he didn't even feel the wine spilled.

"Your Majesty!" Jinayali broke in suddenly, breathless, and fell to one knee directly, "Sahata... jumped off the corridor and committed suicide."

Usman was startled, then frowned and said, "Saha, is this the place you finally chose..."

"That's all." Usman gently put down the wine cup, "Since everyone is dead, Jinayali."

"The end is here."

"Have someone go to the porch to clean up." Usman got up from the imperial case, looked at the golden glow outside the window and ordered, "Prince Yonghe is not allowed to know about this matter. Anyone who dares to reveal a word will be killed without mercy."

"The general will understand!" Jinayali went down to clean up the aftermath and further blocked the news. She thought that the king wanted to keep this matter secret because he didn't want the prince to think that the king was a heartless person.

Although the king is a ruthless person, he still has affection for the prince.

So it's not surprising that Jinayali wanted to cover up Saha's death.

Usman stayed in the study, and Shuangfang came, yawning big, lying down at Usman's feet with a lazy look.

Usman leaned over and stroked its head and said: "He just thinks it's over once he dies. Whether it's love or debts, it's all cleared up. But Yan will remember his whole life, feel sorry for him, and regret whether he What he said and did wrong led to his death. But Yaya, these things were never Yan’s fault, and he didn’t need to feel sad about it.”

Shuangfang was touched comfortably, and she tilted her head, wondering if she understood Usman's words.

"This king will not let his heart be hurt again. With this king, no one can hurt him." Usman said to himself, and suddenly called out, "Yalta."

"Humble position." Yalta pushed open the door and walked in respectfully.

"Urge Princess Mingyue to leave the Swan Palace today." Usman continued to rub Shuangya's forehead, "Let Shuangya go see her off."

"Today?" Yalta never questioned Usman's orders, but Princess Mingyue has always been friendly with the royal family, no, with the king. She has not seen the king's people when she visits the house, so she will be driven away Walk?

"Yes, let's say that the king is in poor health and cannot see her, and that her parents miss her, so let her return to the tribe." Usman opened his eyes and said nonsense, "Also, let Feralas come."

"Yes..." Princess Mingyue is not an arrogant and unruly person, Yalta remembered that the emperor admired her intelligence.Of course your majesty has no other intentions for the princess, otherwise he would have proposed marriage a long time ago.

But why did your majesty suddenly avoid the princess, like seeing a plague god, Yalta still couldn't figure it out.

Could it be related to His Royal Highness who lives in the Swan Palace?Yalta had a whim, but felt that it was impossible.

"Anything else?" Usman asked.

"No, I will immediately summon Lord Feralas." Yalta realized that he was in a daze in front of Usman, and was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he quickly backed away.