Devil’s Advent

Jingnan Palace,

The prince drove in slowly.

Before King Jingnan entered the capital, the House of Internal Affairs in the palace had already deployed enough well-trained maids and family servants in this palace, but they were all sent back on the first day that King Jingnan lived here.

In the palace, only some personal guards live, and they are responsible for cleaning.

so,

When the prince got off the car,

even,

No one in charge came up to lead the way.

The bloody smell left on the two stone lions on the left and right in front of the Laohou's Mansion in Litian City told people that King Jingnan's mansion had never been warm.

perhaps,

There is only one exception, that is Marquis Pingxi.

It may be difficult for outsiders to understand that as an outsider, Ping Xihou always receives preferential treatment in the palace, especially in the personal guards;

Because the guards could see that when his prince was with Ping Xihou, a smile would appear on his face.

When Qian Ren was most depleted of armaments back then, no matter how hard the military chiefs on the three sides drank the blood of soldiers, they would not forget to pay enough food and salaries to their exclusive servants and give them high enough pensions.

This is as a general, no, this is the basic instinct that the lowest generals can have. Children know that the candy in their hands should be given to the neighbors who have a good relationship with them;

And the real commander-in-chief of one side, the famous commander of the world, what he can do is, when his commander-in-chief stands up,

behind

Thousands,

tens of thousands,

One hundred thousand,

a few millions,

Willing to die for it!

The blind man once said that in this era, a truly powerful army is itself a religion, and then the blind man said that using religion to describe a truly excellent army is actually a kind of blasphemy. To be more precise, it should be ……Belief.

Faith, gather in the coach.

Along the way, from Cuiliu Fort, Shengle City, Xueguan and now Fengxin City, while the demon kings were building their characters on the guild masters, they had always had a very clear reference point, that is the Jingnan Army.

In the last battle against Chu, not only the main force of the Jingnan Army, but also the Zhenbei Army, the Jin Army, the Forbidden Army, and the local army participated in the battle. Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered, and the composition was extremely complicated.

But King Jingnan's military order is the most sacred iron law in the army.

When it was necessary to mobilize an elite team and hand it over to Zheng Fan to carry out the deep combat mission without affecting the designation and not being seen by the Chu people, none of the leaders of the various armies dared to falsify, and they all sent the most capable soldiers under their command The most elite soldiers of the war were handed over.

This is influence, this is belief;

And the personal guards who follow the prince are the masters of this belief.

The prince is their heaven, so they don't need to bow their knees to any dignitaries who come to their door.

After waiting for a long time, an old pawn with a broom walked over.

"See His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Fukang."

The prince asked gently:

"Where's uncle?"

"If you go back to Your Highness, the prince is in the back house."

"Um."

The prince nodded.

The old soldier got up, took the broom, and left;

Um,

and left.

Beside the crown prince, Li Yinglian stared at the old soldier's back, with disbelief all over her face, and wanted to scold that Qiu Ba for being unruly, but she just opened her mouth, but didn't dare to curse out loud.

He is the head of internal affairs of the East Palace, but here, he dare not make any mistakes.

The prestige of Great Yannan King not only suppresses the enemy country, but also has an extremely terrifying haze in Dayan.

The prince went to the back house by himself,

Li Yinglian, who was following behind, was carrying the food box, and waved her hand at the same time, signaling to the rest of the followers to stay put and stand by.

For a moment, the followers let out a long sigh of relief almost at the same time.

Just entering the gate of the palace already made them very depressed.

Dayan's House of Internal Affairs has always been a yamen that bullies the weak and fears the tough, but in terms of repairing the palace, it is believed that King Jingnan will not let people pay for money or make connections, but the House of Internal Affairs still dare not have the slightest negligence. Try your best, some of the principals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may not even pay as much attention to repairing the house for their own mothers as they do now.

But no matter how good the garden is, when there is no one in it, it will eventually give people a feeling of depression.

For the prince,

walk here,

It's like the Fengzheng Palace that I would visit from time to time.

"uncle."

When he came to the back house, the prince shouted.

At this time,

He saw a figure in a white python robe walking out of the room.

Uncle and nephew should be relatively close.

This is indeed the case. Ji Chenglang still remembers that when he was a child, his uncle used to take him to shoot arrows and ride a horse. At dusk, when his uncle took him back to the palace, he would be scolded by his mother:

You, you like to drive him crazy!

When the mother at that time said these words, there was often a smile on the corner of her mouth, and the uncle also had a smile on his face.

I don't know since when,

Those days suddenly disappeared.

It wasn't the day when Jingnanhou would destroy his family, in fact, it would have been much earlier.

Ji Chenglang looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face standing in front of him,

memory,

All of a sudden, I was pulled back many years ago.

that day

He was moping.

Because the father studied the homework of the princes and asked a few national policies, the performance of the sixth brother can be called perfect.

The father was overjoyed, hugged the sixth younger brother on his lap, and said that sentence:

"Hahahaha, Cheng Jue is exactly the same as when I was young."

then,

I and the boss, the third, the fourth, and the fifth all knelt down below.

Ji Chenglang admitted,

at that moment,

He is jealous.

He is jealous of his sixth younger brother who has shown amazing intelligence since he was young;

He was not angry with himself, why he was so much older, but still not as good as his sixth brother;

why why,

Why can't the royal father praise me?

I,

Obviously working hard.

The queen mother never told him that you are Dayan's eldest son.

The empress mother's character is calm and strong, but she has always been soft to herself.

She never said that she wanted to fight for the happiness and love of her father, let herself fight for the position in the East Palace, so that she could rule the world like her father in the future.

She never said it, not from the day she could remember.

But he himself has always known.

he,

Ji Chenglang,

He is the eldest son, according to etiquette, the East Palace will be his, and the dragon chair in the future will also be his!

his uncle,

It is the Marquis of Jingnan, the Great Yan, who is in charge of the 50,000 Jingnan Army's main army and the 50,000 rear battalion!

His grandfather is the head of the Tian family, and one of Dayan's highest-ranked family members!

His mother is the queen, the mother of Dayan!

but why,

I just can't compare with my sixth brother,

Why!

that night

When he was sleeping, he wet his pillow with crying. He was young and frivolous, but he had to behave politely. He had been very consciously maintaining the dignity of his eldest son.

Therefore, he could only cry secretly, alone, in the dead of night.

that night

He even beat the pillow with his fist and cursed his sixth brother, why didn't he die young?

Just can't die!

An hour before dawn,

he sat up,

He retreated the companions and court ladies who were accompanying the bed below,

sitting alone on the edge of the bed;

He was terrified, terrified of his previous hysterical thoughts;

he was ashamed

because,

He is still a brother.

He sat there until dawn, feeling remorse and frustration for his viciousness during the night.

It shouldn't be like this,

Own,

It shouldn't be like this.

It's not a matter of decency, it's not a matter of guilt or not, it's not a matter of hating or not,

as a brother,

can not be like this.

"this is not right………"

He cried over and over again.

Until Li Yinglian urged her a few times, the teacher is coming soon and going to class.

He got up, and wiped his face fiercely with the towel Li Yinglian handed over, not trying to wipe off the exhaustion from a sleepless night, but to wipe off the self from last night.

Then,

That day,

The sixth brother didn't come to class.

He was very strange, but he didn't think much about it.

When I went to pay my respects to my mother,

He saw his uncle standing at the gate of Fengzheng Palace.

Uncle was standing at the gate of the palace, wearing the gilt armor that he had always envied and thought was extremely heroic, and hanging around his waist was the kunshi bestowed by his father.

He ran to his uncle as usual, he wanted to ask his uncle if he was going to take him out to play again, he wanted to ride his uncle's Pixiu, he wanted his uncle to take him to archery, he wanted his uncle to take him to see The drills of those soldiers.

However,

When he was about to run to his uncle,

He heard his mother screaming in Fengzheng Palace:

"Why, why, Wujing, why are you like this, why are you like this, you do what he tells you to do, you do whatever he asks you to do!

Brother,

Brother,

How did you become like this,

Brother,

How can you………"

Ji Chenglang stopped in his tracks,

at this time,

The uncle seemed to sense his arrival, turned sideways, and looked at him.

Uncle is smiling at him,

But he suddenly felt extremely afraid,

Because there was blood on the armor in front of my uncle.

The blood, perhaps covered layer after layer, had already hung on it.

He obviously didn't notice it before, but after seeing the blood, he seemed to have smelled a strong smell of blood.

Ji Chenglang squatted on the ground and began to vomit.

"How do you let her live, how do you let her live, how do you let her live!

You and him, why are you so cruel, why are you so cruel, why, why! "

Ji Chenglang didn't know why his mother was so excited. He knelt on the ground, and through the palace gate, he saw his mother inside, also kneeling on the ground and crying. The maids and eunuchs around him wanted to help her up, but she pushed her away. open.

At this time,

Uncle spoke.

"Without a mirror, act according to the order."

"Killing the emperor's son and mother's family, there is no mirror. Throughout the ages, can those who do this have a good end?"

Uncle didn't answer,

He just nodded to his mother,

Then,

turn around.

The queen mother screamed:

"Brother, don't be like him, don't be like him..."

Uncle didn't turn around and didn't respond.

when you come to yourself,

bow your head,

He looked at himself again.

Uncle faced himself, stretched out his hand, trying to pull himself up;

At that time, Ji Chenglang was already scared and shrank back.

Uncle withdrew his hand and walked outside the palace.

Then,

Ji Chenglang knew one thing,

last night,

My uncle led three thousand knights from the Jingnan Army and wiped out the Min family.

From top to bottom of the Min family, chickens and dogs did not stay.

Blessed,

It is the will of the emperor.

The plasma on the armor in front of the uncle's body was coagulated, it was the blood of the sixth brother's mother's clan, which was splashed over and over again;

Why is there no back,

Because my uncle holds a knife,

Kill all the way forward.

"Ah ah ah ah ah………"

Ji Chenglang got up, his mind went blank, he only remembered to look for his sixth brother.

He found the sixth brother,

He is curled up in a corner of the bedroom,

hold your knees,

Sobbing there.

When he ran over, the sixth brother raised his head and looked at him with tears streaming down his face.

He has never seen the sixth brother like this, it seems that only when the sixth brother fell down at a very young age, would he cry and shout to himself like this;

"Second brother, it hurts to fall..."

Afterwards, the sixth younger brother showed intelligence beyond ordinary people, learning everything quickly, and seeing everything thoroughly.

But in this moment,

The sixth brother cried to himself again:

"Second brother...my mother concubine...my mother concubine...is gone..."

Concubine Min,

After learning what happened last night,

Hanged himself.

That, woman, is gone.

Ji Chenglang didn't hate that woman, and he also knew that his mother didn't hate her either. To be exact, there were very few people in the former palace, later the prince's palace, and the current harem who didn't like Concubine Min.

After his father ascended the throne, he practiced frugality.

Concubine Min used her family's money to buy food for the princes.

There are six younger brothers, and there must be several other brothers.

The queen mother once advised her not to be so extravagant.

She smiled and said:

Sister, I have already married into the Ji family. As a woman of the Ji family, it is only natural and right to subsidize our Ji family’s own brothers with some money from my mother’s house, isn’t it?

Your Majesty wants to save money, and what you save is the treasury money, which is for the foreign ministers to see. When the foreign ministers see that the expenditure of the internal treasury has decreased, they understand what it means. Even if our own family is really eating chaff and swallowing vegetables Yes, do foreign ministers really believe it? Do people really believe it?

So, why don't we continue to eat and drink well.

She is very bold and good at being a person. She never gave people a sense of hatred of the rich and gold and silver, but made people feel like a spring breeze.

Every time Ji Chenglang received ornaments, fans, and pendants from her, he would shyly and happily raise his head and say: Thank you, aunt.

Even if the father is enthroned and everyone lives in the palace, the princes are not willing to change this name for her.

She is the biological mother of the sixth brother and the aunt of all the princes.

Then,

she left.

Ji Chenglang knelt down and hugged his sixth brother.

"Second brother...my mother and concubine are gone...gone..."

The sixth brother is still crying,

But Ji Chenglang's hands were shaking.

He was very scared. He was afraid that it was his curse last night that caused today's bad results.

...

"Your Highness, Your Highness."

Li Yinglian's call interrupted Ji Chenglang's memory.

The man in the white python robe was still standing there, looking at him calmly without speaking.

Li Yinglian urged him, it's time to take out the snacks that my uncle likes, the food that my uncle would prepare for Fengzheng Gongmu every time he came to Fengzheng Palace, out of the food box.

The shoe samples should also be shown to my uncle.

at this time,

late autumn wind,

blow up,

It was already cold, but against the background of this unpopular palace, it was a bit... biting.

for a while,

Ji Chenglang was in a daze.

It seems that everything has returned to that day of that year;

He stood on the palace road leading to the gate of Fengzheng Palace,

Uncle, still standing there.

He seemed to hear his mother's cry again in the dark.

but this time,

Not crying for Concubine Min,

But... the Tian family.

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, and it seemed to fiddle back a round.

That day, the sixth younger brother who was crying in his arms became more laughable than before.

he is ridiculous,

He is free and easy,

He raised many singers and dancers in the prince's mansion and outer house;

He can tell jokes, he can make his brothers happy, and he is more comfortable than before when facing his father.

Like the relationship between father and son,

Because of the death of the concubine,

Getting closer and thicker.

He could feel that the sixth brother let go of something, such as... his pride.

The sixth younger brother back then was excellent and intelligent, but because he was still too young, he didn't know how to hide the pride deep in his eyes.

He is better than his father, he is better than his brothers;

Born in a commoner's family, he is called the proud son of heaven;

Born in an emperor's family, that's called...

But in the following years, Ji Chenglang never saw the word "proud" in the eyes of his sixth brother, not even once.

Is it lost?

Ji Chenglang didn't believe it,

It is more hidden.

The sixth brother told him that he met a very interesting school lieutenant named Zheng at the gate of the Zhenbeihou Mansion.

It was the one surnamed Zheng who saved him from the hands of the barbarians.

That barbarian, very powerful, is King Zuoguli of the barbarian royal court.

later,

Ji Chenglang knew that the school lieutenant surnamed Zheng was transferred to Yinlang County as a garrison from the Ministry of War.

Then,

I saw him myself,

In the prince's mansion.

To be precise,

The first thing I saw was my uncle who hadn't been home for a long time.

Uncle, you are back.

after come back,

Right at the prince's mansion, let the man surnamed Zheng abolish the third brother.

He was a little helpless, but also a little unbelievable;

Then, the uncle went home, and the queen mother also went home to visit relatives.

...

The autumn wind rolled up the fallen leaves and made a "rustling" sound on the ground.

Ji Chenglang took a deep breath,

He heard his mother shout again, calling "Adi", shouting "Wu Jing", shouting "Why" "Why" "Why" over and over again.

so,

Why?

Ji Chenglang raised his head,

Looking at his uncle.

King Jingnan's eyes remained calm.

Li Yinglian beside her was a little anxious.

Ji Chenglang knew what he should do,

It's time to talk about the past,

don't be so direct,

But be sincere, be genuine, and be revealing.

Mr. Zhu said that King Jingnan is not an inhuman monster. It can be seen from his overnight baldness, from his support and protection of Pingxihou, and from his arrangement for his son.

Ji Chenglang wanted to say,

I don't need you to help me see that,

I know better than you what kind of person my uncle is.

Ji Chenglang pursed his lips,

He started to walk forward, towards King Jingnan,

step,

step,

another step;

King Jingnan was standing there, as if waiting for him to come, watching his nephew running towards him as he did when he was a child.

Ji Chenglang crushed a fallen leaf on the sole of his boot.

Suddenly,

a little distressed,

Ridiculously distressed.

He once had almost everything, everything that the princes of all dynasties could dream of or even dream of.

Dayan Army God is his own uncle;

Dayan's other pillar of optimism is his own Mount Tai;

He is also the eldest son;

Everything should be logical, right?

But,

Why?

He stopped,

Looking at Tian Wujing from a not so far distance.

Myself, why?

What about him?

Where is uncle?

The eldest son of the aristocratic family, the young master of the Tian family;

Elder sister is the queen of the dynasty, her nephew is the candidate for the crown prince;

I am a pinnacle martial artist, can defeat a sword master, and even command thousands of troops to destroy the country and destroy the capital!

but he,

Why would you choose such a path.

Suddenly,

Ji Chenglang's "why" was beyond words.

Not because he couldn't find the answer from his uncle,

But he knew that there was an answer from his uncle.

And he, Ji Chenglang, was not afraid of not being able to find the answer, but because he was afraid... of facing the answer.

In an instant,

Everything, instead of becoming dull, became less important like the autumn wind blowing at this time.

There is no vitality of spring, no heat of summer, and no bitterness of winter, just a little bit of cold, just a little bit of cold.

He wants to say:

Uncle, I'm so tired.

But still can't say it.

The person in front of him will only be countless times more tired than himself.

He opened his mouth, took a few breaths, wanted to cry, but had no tears.

This damn autumn is so dry that it makes people suffer.

Ji Chenglang turned around,

without saying a word,

Under the gaze of King Jingnan,

He started walking back.

"Your Highness...Your Highness...this..."

Li Yinglian didn't know why.

This is the last chance and... the best chance.

Tomorrow's court meeting will be extremely dangerous!

But the prince came like this and left again.

The snacks in the food box were not taken out at all.

nephew left

Uncle stood there all the time and didn't stay.

The prince sat back in his carriage,

Said two words lightly:

"Go back to the palace."

Driving, slowly drove out of the palace.

Li Yinglian sat on her knees, obviously full of doubts, but she didn't dare to ask anything.

Inside the carriage, a charcoal pot was burning, flickering on and off.

The prince took out two shoe samples from his cuff, put them in front of him, and looked at them carefully.

Subsequently,

The neck is slightly tilted back,

take a deep breath,

Tonight's palace banquet, tomorrow's court meeting, and the upcoming offensive from the sixth brother,

He doesn't want to think about it now, and he doesn't want to care about it.

like a bird,

God gave me wings,

But who broke them off one by one?

"Wow!"

The shoe sample was thrown into the brazier by the prince.

"Your Highness!"

Li Yinglian let out an exclamation.

"Hehehehe..."

The prince laughed,

She raised her hand to signal Li Yinglian not to save the shoe sample,

Just quietly watching the shoe sample burn into ashes in the charcoal basin, and a puff of green smoke was emitted in the carriage;

this moment,

He thought again of the boy who was curled up in a corner of the bedroom and kept sobbing.

"Hehe, hahahaha...

The world is like chess,

You and I are both pawns, how can we talk about winning or losing?

Life is like a play,

All living beings are actors, where is the attachment? "

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I think this chapter is very well written, and it is worth a monthly pass.