The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 771: hit the ground running
Chapter 771: A Victory
When Emperor Liang heard his son’s words, he was so angry that he picked up the memorial on the table and threw it at the third prince. The third prince was so scared that he kowtowed repeatedly: “Father, please forgive me! Father, please forgive me!”
“You are worse than an animal! Qi Heng is your brother! He died tragically at the hands of the Jin army! A tragic death! You actually let me be humiliated! I cannot bear the humiliation! I want revenge!” Liang Emperor was filled with rage. He said this loudly and could not help choking and crying. Tears were like broken strings. “My poor Heng’er, he was pierced by thousands of arrows and died… His head and body were separated, and not even a complete corpse was left! You… want me to swallow this breath! I will take revenge someday! When will I take revenge someday?! Are you going to take revenge after you succeed to the throne?! By the time you succeed to the throne, I’m afraid you would have thrown your brother into oblivion! You will take revenge?! Do you think I don’t know who you are!”
As he spoke, the emperor picked up the incense burner at hand and smashed it at the third prince.
The Third Prince was heavy and had no time to dodge. He was hit by the incense burner thrown by Emperor Liang, and his head was bleeding. “Father, please calm down. I have absolutely no such intention! I have never coveted the throne! Please understand me, Father!”
“Your Majesty, please calm down!”
“Your Majesty, please calm down!”
In the hall, court officials knelt on the ground.
Emperor Liang wiped his tears with his sleeves, and stood up with a furious look on his face. He glared at the courtiers who were bowing their heads in the court and said, “If any of you want to talk about peace with me, then ask the State of Jin to send the heads of Liu Hong and Princess Gaoyi to me! Otherwise, no talk!”
There was complete silence in the hall.
Emperor Liang turned away, and the Third Prince knelt trembling in fear in the hall, not daring to stand up even though blood was all over the floor.
Zhao Sheng looked up and wanted to ask Emperor Liang whether he would let him go to the war, but seeing the emperor’s expression, he forced himself to hold back the question.
Until the emperor left, the old prime minister hurried forward to help the third prince up. Another court official took out a handkerchief and handed it to the third prince, shouting loudly for the imperial physician to come and treat the third prince.
The Third Prince, who had always been weak and afraid of Emperor Liang, pressed a handkerchief to his bleeding forehead. His body was still shaking, but he did not shed tears of fear like in the past. He just suppressed the sobs in his throat and thanked all the adults humbly and politely. While the imperial physician had not arrived yet, he comforted Zhao Sheng and said that he would go to the palace to persuade him again. If his father was determined to fight… he would definitely recommend Zhao Sheng again.
Zhao Sheng bowed to the third prince to express his gratitude.
The Third Prince looked at the gloomy sky outside the palace and said, “I don’t know if the spies we sent to Jin have obtained the prescription for curing the epidemic. If the prescription can be brought back quickly, Daliang still has a chance to win. If it drags on… Daliang’s population can’t afford it!”
Although the Third Prince was not as smart as his fourth brother Wei Qiheng, and was also stupid and dull, he also understood… the truth that the people are the foundation of the country, and the country will be stable if the foundation is solid. However, his father… the king of this country, went mad because of Wei Qiheng’s death, so mad that he didn’t even care about this country.
Although it may seem unfilial to think this way, if at this moment… the emperor passed away, even if it was not him… and another brother succeeded to the throne, as long as he could bow his head and ask for peace from the State of Jin first, and get the medicine to heal the people, in order to save the country, he could seek revenge in the future.
“Your Majesty… you are so obsessed with the death of the Fourth Prince.” The Minister of Revenue stood beside the Third Prince and shook his head.
The Third Prince, who was covering his forehead with a handkerchief, suddenly had red eyes and said, “Father is so obsessed with Fourth Brother’s death because of… the words Fourth Brother asked someone to bring back.”
The Third Prince did not blame Wei Qiheng for sending someone to bring back a message before his death, but those words hurt Emperor Liang too much.
Wei Qiheng asked his personal guard to pass on a message to Emperor Liang, saying that he originally wanted to listen to his father’s words and be a good prince, and become a good crown prince in the future. He was not fond of reading, and he did not want the position of crown prince, but he did not want to see his father disappointed, so… he had been trying hard to listen to the obscure history books taught by the teacher recently! To learn how to be a good crown prince, he said that he had never been a good son, because his mother died early, his father had always held him in his palm, and cultivated his fearless and reckless personality! He saw that his father’s hair was white and his back was hunched, and then he suddenly realized that he wanted to be a good son, a good son that his father was proud of, but who knew it was too late! If he had known earlier… that his life span was so short, he would definitely not travel around, and he would definitely stay by his father’s side to serve him and share the government affairs with his father. He said that he would still be his father’s son in the next life, and he would definitely be a good son who would not let his father worry, and serve his father well to repay his father.
These words deeply distressed Emperor Liang and almost cost him his life…
Wei Qiheng volunteered to go to the State of Jin for peace talks because he had made progress and because he saw his father’s hard work and wanted to share his father’s burden. However, he had just made progress when he was tragically killed by the enemy’s blade. How could Emperor Liang not hate him?
The sky above Hancheng was suddenly bright with dark clouds rolling and strong winds blowing. Thunder roared loudly and then there was a crackling rain. The sky and the earth suddenly became dark.
After the third prince was bandaged, he mustered up the courage to go into the palace and ask to see the emperor again.
That night, the emperor issued an order, ordering Zhao Sheng to lead the Zhao army to the front line to provide assistance.
Thunder and lightning tore through the sky. Zhao Sheng, wearing armor, rode his horse and galloped in the front, leading a large number of black-armored soldiers, marching in the rain.
The Zhao-shaped flags fluttered in the heavy rain. His eyes were firm and calm. This time he vowed to kill the Jin State’s killer, Princess Zhenguo, to comfort his brother and General Xun’s spirits in heaven.
May the spirits of his grandfather, father, younger brother and General Xun in heaven bless him with victory.
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On the first day of September in the seventeenth year of Xuanjia, the second prince of Dayan, Murong Ping, and the general Xie Xun led two groups of troops, divided into two groups and captured Guanjiu and Pingliu respectively, gradually approaching the capital of Wei, Changcheng. The emperor of Wei personally led the troops to personally lead the army to destroy the invading Yan army.
On September 12, the 17th year of Xuanjia, Zhao Sheng, who had reached the Qingxi Mountain Pass, knew that the Jin army must be exhausted after several battles between the Jin and Liang states in Qingxi Mountain. So he launched a surprise attack on the Jin army with lightning speed. The Liang army was in high spirits. Liu Hong saw that he could not win the fight, so for safety’s sake he ordered his army to retreat and retreat outside the Qingxi Mountain Pass.
Bai Jinzhi, with her arms wrapped in a piece of fine cotton cloth that was half soaked in blood, stood in front of the big wooden platform. She lowered her eyes to look at the heavy rain that was splashing water, then raised her head to look at the sky with rolling dark clouds. She felt as if the sky was torn apart. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and she didn’t know where her eldest sister had gone.
“Fourth Miss, the medicine has been left to dry for a while, now you can drink it…” Ji Langhua walked to Bai Jinzhi with the medicine bowl in hand. Seeing Bai Jinzhi taking the medicine bowl, she said, “It’s raining heavily and the wind is cold, Fourth Miss, you should go to the tent and rest first…”
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