CHAPTER 139/140 - LBY/HWS seeing SS after the massacre for the first time...
Google translation mainly and I made little edits...
Huo Budo knelt in front of the queen, and says he is sorry and willing to die and that he didn't expect to come back alive. Then the Queen says" You are mistaken, you are not talking about yourself and the crown prince. You were eight years old when you entered the palace. You are sensible and clever, eager to learn and humble, strong and less ill. I didn't worry about you much. I really want to talk about it. The grace of nurturing and the responsibility of teaching, you should thank Your Majesty. On the contrary, it was you who dealt with the prince back and forth and worked hard for the aftermath. If it weren’t for you, the reputation of the prince would have been ruined. Although, I know that you are actually For His Majesty's sake, I don't want him to worry about it."
Having said that, the emperor still could see that the queen was angry, so he didn't dare to interrupt.
"I'm talking about Shao Shang" The queen said coldly, "In the whole thing, His Majesty did not set up the reserve properly, the crown prince was mediocre and incompetent, the third child had great ambitions, you had a bloody feud, and I was a loving mother and a lot of failures... only Shao Shang. This matter has nothing to do with her, but she was dragged in innocently!"
Huo Bu Yi's face also faded a little bit of blood, his lips trembled slightly, unable to speak.
"What you said just now is straightforward, give up Xiaoqing, and love the world. Well, now I'll ask you, since you went to the Ling Family Courtyard and transferred troops privately, have you decided to give up Shaoshang? !" the Queen asked heavily.
Huo Budo/Huo Bu Yi pressed the wound in pain, and after a long while, he said with difficulty: "...Yes."
queen sneered: "That's good!" After saying that, she walked to the emperor's desk, which was half a foot high. The exquisite lacquered wood frame has a meniscus-shaped flat square copper frame hanging above it. The queen took out the small copper hammer on the shelf and hurriedly beat it.
When the emperor said it was secret, no palace servants and eunuchs were allowed to be by his side. They all stayed in the palace from a distance. To summon them, they had to ring this copper face.
Huo Budo was puzzled, and the emperor sighed.
The queen went to the curtain again, and felt a rope from behind the balustrade and pulled it hard.
The dense and dense brocade curtains were drawn from both sides like a waterfall, and in the inner room sat a slender girl with long hair covering her back and her cheeks slightly snowing. She knelt and sat motionless, with her back to Huo Budo.
When Huo Budo saw her, his blood surged.
He heard his heavy breathing, and his chest was beating violently. He felt that he had returned to the night of the massacre and the genocide. Unspeakable terror and pain poured into his body like a tide, but he was powerless.
After being seriously injured and falling off a cliff, he was lying in a cave waiting to die, cold all over, lonely and desperate, but as long as he thought of her, his heart was warm. He didn't know what heartache was like before, and he didn't feel much pain even when he was about to die. Now he finally understands that it is to wrap a thin wire around your heart in circles, and then slowly tighten it. Blood dripped down.
"Shao Shang!" He whispered like a dying beast, trying to pounce and hug the girl.
At this time, Cen Anzhi led two rows of eunuchs into the hall, and the empress shouted sharply: "Hold him down!" The empress has been in the number for ten years, and she has accumulated power no matter how kind and generous. Unsuspectingly pressing his hands and feet, Cen Anzhi hesitated, and the queen said coldly, "Cen Anzhi, are my words no longer useful?" Cen Anzhi was shocked, and hurriedly called the four eunuchs behind him to come up. If it was before, let alone eight eunuchs, it was eighteen, Huo Budo would have been able to overthrow them, but now that he has not recovered from his injuries and is weak and weak, he is firmly held in place.
"Shao Shang, Shao Shang, you turn around!" he shouted in a hoarse voice.
However, the girl remained motionless on her knees.
"Your Majesty, my concubine is going to ask Your Majesty to approve one thing today." The Empress bowed her head to the Emperor.
The emperor is so smart, he hesitated: "This..." Seeing the queen's eyes swept over, he quickly said, "Okay, you say." The queen said: "Zi Sheng and Shaoshang have been noisy (I think she meant dramatic as they would fight quite a bit) since the day they got engaged and they have no problem. It's been peaceful for a few days, and now it's like this again, I don't think it makes any sense for them to be husband and wife..."
"Niangniang!" Huo Buxuan looked at the queen with tears in his eyes.
The emperor embarrassed: "Well, it's better to let them make their own decisions..."
"Shao Shang" The Queen called, "Tell me."
The girl with her thin shoulders finally turned around, and her beautiful snow-white face showed a tortured silence - Huo Budo was dizzy. the pain struck. He remembered how the girl used to be, no matter how many harsh words and admonitions from the elders, she was so alive and full of dew, as innocent and fearless as a child running barefoot on a bluestone slab, even if the gravel hurt her foot , cried for a while and then passed.
But now, she was like a mule just unloaded from the stone mill, tired and haggard.
The Empress of the Shao Shang Dynasty respectfully kowtowed: "My concubine comes from a slightly cold background, has a shallow talent, and has an unruly temperament ". Shao Shang! Listen to me..." Huo Budo struggled hard, but he couldn't move when he was pressed, so he sank and tried harder. He was tall and his white shirt appeared empty.
"No!" Shao Shang suddenly raised his voice, "This time, please listen to me."
She took a breath and suppressed her trembling voice, "I told you, I have had bad luck since I was a child, let alone God It's a good thing, I don't even have what a little girl like me deserves. But it doesn't matter, there are many people in the world who are more difficult than me, and I can get down on my own. But, I met you..."
She Tears came to my eyes, "You made me like you, I like you. You made me depend on you, and I depended on you. You made me believe in you, and I believed--then you dropped me, headless. go back!"
I don't know who said that falling in love with someone means putting yourself in an unsafe situation, but it doesn't matter, now she has learned to be good - since then, she will never put her heart in danger again.
"If you are still thinking about the past, please let me go!" Shao Shang's tears fell on her face, but her arrogance and self-respect did not allow her to cry bitterly in front of the emperor, so she could only rudely run out of the palace.
Huo Buxuan couldn't say a word, he could only watch the girl kowtow to the Empress before running away. He let out a low growl and used his last strength like a wounded beast, the wound on his head burst open, and blood dripped down his white forehead.
The emperor stepped over in two big steps, knocked out his adopted son with a knife in his hand, and asked Cen Anzhi to carry Huo Budo out for the doctor to re-wrap his wounds, then he screened the others back and looked at the queen.
The queen looked back.
After a while, the emperor smiled bitterly: "Why do you do this?" The queen said sternly: "Since the beginning, Shao Shang was unwilling to marry Zi Sheng, but because of His Majesty's monstrous power, she could only bear it hard, and now there is trouble. At this stage of the field, it can be seen that the marriage is still a matter of course, and the twisted melon is not sweet, and it is difficult to become a husband and wife after all - just like me and Your Majesty." The emperor did not dare to look her eyes, and said to him: "Now After this incident, there was a crack in the hearts of the two of them. At this time, it would only make things worse for them to be in one place. It would be better if they were separated." The queen walked up to the emperor and looked straight: "Except for Shaoshang and Zisheng's. Marriage, what about the thing that the concubine told His Majesty before?"
Shao Shang was running in the dark palace alley, many palace maids and eunuchs saluted her along the way, she didn't dare to turn her head, just ran wildly. She felt that the wounds on her body were burning with pain, her headache was splitting, and she couldn't even breathe. But she knew she couldn't stop, and once she stopped, she would be overwhelmed by the sea-like heartbreak.
I don't know how long I ran, as if I passed the mirror lake and the garden, and saw the tall tower in front of me from a distance, suddenly a soft and strong hand grabbed her, she couldn't stop and almost fell.
"Shao Shang, Shao Shang! What's wrong with you! Wake up, what's wrong with you!" a familiar male voice shouted.
Shao Shang focused his eyes and saw Yuan Shensi's handsome and handsome face, he was asking anxiously, "I went to Fufeng County a while ago, and I only heard about Ling... Huo Buzhu, I heard that you are covered in clothes. The blood was carried away...Are you injured, where is the injury!"
He was sweating nervously, grabbing Shaoshang's shoulder with both hands but he didn't dare to use force, "Are you alright, you are talking... Shaoxing settled down, slowly brushed Yuan Shen's back away, and answered without interest: "Since I'm standing here, I'm naturally fine, thank you Mr. Yuan for your concern."
"No...this..." Yuan Shen was at a loss for words. When he came, he felt that he had something to ask the girl, but now he didn't know where to start. After searching for a long time, he could only say: "You don't have to worry about Huo Buxuan, your majesty must protect him. The army, the crime of the capital shaking is really not a small one, and I can't say that I should be punished..."
"You don't need to say, his future has nothing to do with me." Shaoshang said coldly.
Yuan Shen was stunned, his voice inexplicably raised a bit: "Could it be that you and him...?"
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