Chapter 255: Play Cultivator
Under Li Banfeng's coercion, the actor sent away all the ghosts in the room and told about that past.
"Actually, back then, the one I wanted to marry was not Xiang Xiang Hongying, but Zhao Xiaowan. I said this and asked the Emperor to be the matchmaker, but Zhao Xiaowan didn't agree."
Li Banfeng asked: "What is your identity?"
The actor raised his hand and pointed around: "Just this courtyard of mine, just the furnishings in my house, can't you see what my identity is?"
Li Banfeng shook his head: "Can't see."
"I am a prince! Prince Chun!" At this point, the actor raised his voice, "What identity is a prince, you should know."
Although he didn't study history in college, Li Banfeng had some concept of a prince: "You are a prince, Zhao Xiaowan is a general from an actor background, and you want to marry her? She dares not to agree?"
The actor gave a bitter smile: "This depends on the time. If it were normal times, she wouldn't dare not agree. I could even tie her to the Prince's Mansion without even giving her a status, and I could take her.
But it didn't work at that time. They were fighting a war, and Zhao Xiaowan won battle after battle. The Emperor couldn't do without her, so this matter really had to be discussed with her properly.
In the end, it didn't work out. The Emperor gave me a step down and gave Xiang Xiang Hongying to me.
Xiang Xiang Hongying was from a proper general family. Her status was a bit worse than mine, but much stronger than Zhao Xiaowan's.
Although I wasn't happy in my heart, Xiang Xiang Hongying was also a peerless beauty, and the key was that she was willing to be with me, so I accepted this marriage."
Li Banfeng nodded: "Since she was willing, and you were willing, this matter was considered done."
"It wasn't done," Prince Chun shook his head, "At that time, Zhao Xiaowan and Xiang Xiang Hongying won many battles. For some reason, the Emperor summoned them back, enfeoffed Zhao Xiaowan as Cavalry General, and enfeoffed Xiang Xiang Hongying as Material Officer General.
They didn't need to fight anymore, and the Emperor sent the Wave-Subduing General Cong Shixiang to the front line to take over the military power.
One day, the Emperor held a banquet and called all the civil and military officials over. Zhao Xiaowan and Xiang Xiang Hongying followed.
At the banquet, the Emperor asked Zhao Xiaowan to sing a play, put on a helmet, put on makeup, and sing a proper big play!"
Li Banfeng frowned: "She was already a Cavalry General, why did she still have to sing a play?"
Prince Chun looked Li Banfeng up and down, smacked his lips and said: "Your idea is the same as Zhao Xiaowan's. She also felt that she was a general and shouldn't sing a play in front of the officials.
This matter is a bit shameful, but this is the Emperor's word, the golden mouth and jade words! Who dares to say half a 'no'?"
Zhao Xiaowan actually said a 'no'. The Emperor was furious and directly ordered people to lock Zhao Xiaowan up and send her to prison.
Xiang Xiang Hongying pleaded for Zhao Xiaowan, and the Emperor ordered people to lock her up together and put her in prison. This marriage ended from then on."
Li Banfeng didn't care about the marriage; he cared about this Emperor's thinking: "Just because of singing a play, two generals became prisoners?"
Prince Chun was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "If you ask me, it wasn't just because of singing a play. At that time, the Ministry of War received a report that they lost the battle at the front line. I don't know how they lost, I just heard the Minister of War scold secretly that Cong Shixiang was just a straw bag.
The Emperor might have been in a bad mood at the time, and Zhao Xiaowan just happened to hit the anger, went against the dragon scales, and suffered a disaster!"
"Nonsense!" Li Banfeng shook his head, "If you can't win the battle, you still clean up those who can fight? Is this Emperor crazy?"
Prince Chun sighed for a long time: "I also feel that this matter is unreasonable, but after thinking about it, I figured out the Emperor's mind.
Those who can fight don't listen, and those who listen can't fight. The Emperor might have wanted to use this matter to beat the officials, so they wouldn't be arrogant about their achievements.
These two generals suffered in prison. It is said that they didn't even eat a full meal, not to mention hunger and cold, and they suffered a lot of beatings.
Later, I heard from the Ministry of Justice that the Emperor wanted to kill these two people. Not only did he want them to die, but he also wanted them to die uncomfortably.
It's fine to toss his own generals, but the enemy troops on the Demon Land side really didn't give the Emperor face. They lost battle after battle at the front line, almost fighting to the capital.
In order to save the Dahuan country and the people, the Emperor had to put down past grudges..."
Li Banfeng waved his hand: "Don't talk about the country and the people, this has nothing to do with it."
Prince Chun pursed his lips and said: "In short, the Emperor released Zhao Xiaowan and Xiang Xiang Hongying. Xiang Xiang Hongying returned to her original position as Material Officer General, and Zhao Xiaowan only became a captain.
The Emperor asked them both to follow Cong Shixiang and go to the front line again.
Although Zhao Xiaowan was only a captain, Xiang Xiang Hongying listened to her. When it came to fighting, she listened to everything. The two were closer than sisters.
Even though Zhao Xiaowan and Xiang Xiang Hongying were both tossed into skeletons, they were still good hands on the battlefield. Victory after victory, all the civil and military officials in the capital were happy. The story of the two sisters spread in the capital.
Especially Zhao Xiaowan, her reputation was huge. Storytellers, actors, street vendors, performers, even the fortune-telling gentlemen on the street, before opening for business, had to tell two passages of Zhao Xiaowan's achievements."
Li Banfeng looked at Prince Chun up and down: "You are a prince with a lot of fireworks! You even know about fortune-telling and performing?"
Prince Chun laughed: "I like this. I have nothing to do, so I wear plain clothes and stroll around the capital. I like to see this folk..."
Li Banfeng pressed his palm down: "Don't talk about you first, talk about Zhao Xiaowan. What happened after winning the battle?"
Prince Chun sighed for a long time: "There is no after. The sisters won battle after battle, and the war situation was excellent. A report came from the front line that the enemy leader was surrounded at that time.
They were one step away from a complete victory, but who could have thought that the sisters would fight!
To this day, I don't know why they fought, and I can't understand why they struck so hard.
Zhao Xiaowan died in Xiang Xiang Hongying's hands, Xiang Xiang Hongying was seriously injured, and after a few days, she also left."
Li Banfeng was surprised: "You don't know why they fought?"
"Don't know," Prince Chun shook his head, "I didn't go to fight, how could I know?"
"What happened later?"
"Later, the battle was won. I don't know how it was won. I heard that the Emperor invited reinforcements. I don't know where the reinforcements came from. They fought for a few months, and they won anyway.
After winning, the Emperor summoned the civil and military officials and held a three-day banquet in the palace.
I remember those three days, the Emperor was particularly happy. He toasted cup after cup, and the ministers drank cup after cup. Even I didn't know how much wine I drank.
I was drunk, I didn't know how long I was drunk. When I woke up, I found that my mansion was no longer in the original place, and the group of people under my hand were no longer their original appearance.
They were no longer in the world, they told me, and I was no longer in the world. They told me the territory outside was called Puluo Continent, and this place was called Wuyou Terrace. They said this place could go anywhere, but we couldn't go anywhere.
I said the road is under our feet, let's go out and see.
They persuaded me, saying don't go out, they said once we leave Wuyou Terrace, whoever sees us will beat us to death.
These years have passed, and I have been staying in this place. I have nothing else to do, so I sing plays every day for my subordinates to listen to.
They listened day after day, year after year. At first, they still responded to me, pretending to listen with interest.
Later, they were really tired of listening and didn't want to listen anymore. Even if they were forced by a whip, they wouldn't listen.
If they don't listen, I find others to listen. Originally, pedestrians passed by and stopped at my place for a rest. I sang plays for them at night.
Later, there were no passersby all year round. My subordinates told me that this territory had become the Old Land, and it would be difficult to meet a living person in the future.
For ten whole years, you are the only group of living people who came to my place. That girl urinated in my courtyard, actually not a big deal.
I made things difficult for you on purpose, just to keep you here and listen to me sing plays.
I love singing plays, but if I sing and no one listens, how uncomfortable that must be."
"Just want to keep us to listen to plays?" Li Banfeng laughed, "Do you want to keep us for a day, a year, or a lifetime?"
Prince Chun was quite honest: "I really want to keep you for a lifetime, but you are too ruthless, not easy to keep. If I fight with you for a few more days, I'm afraid I won't have many people left under my hand.
Now that the matter is clear, I have given you what you want. This record..."
Li Banfeng took out the record from behind and handed it to Prince Chun.
Prince Chun held the record and rubbed it for a long time: "General Zhao, I really admire you. You said you look so handsome, I didn't pay much attention, but what I truly admire is your good voice.
Every time I hear you sing a sentence, I feel that half of my life's cultivation has been wasted."
Li Banfeng asked: "There is one thing, I won't force you if you don't want to say it. What sect are you?"
Prince Chun put away the record and said: "Logically speaking, this shouldn't be told to you, but I haven't said so many words for many years, and it feels refreshing to say it now.
I am a Play Cultivator, but it's not as simple as loving to listen to plays and loving to sing plays. I am a true cultivator. The true skill I used to pretend to be that mother and daughter just now was my true ability in cultivation.
But I saw this mother and daughter for the first time, and some trivial matters inevitably had some flaws.
I tell you this, if I pretend to be an acquaintance, I guarantee that even his own wife won't recognize him."
Li Banfeng sneered: "Just keep bragging!"
Prince Chun slapped the table: "How can this be bragging? When you recognized me for the first time, it should be because you saw I wasn't a person of the world.
When we met for the second time, I pretended to be that girl's mother. You put your hand on your heart and say, you didn't see any flaws at first glance, right?"
Li Banfeng nodded. This had to be admitted. From the appearance, Li Banfeng really didn't see any flaws.
Prince Chun was quite proud: "I also tell you, not only the appearance can't be seen, but the inside can't be seen either."
"How to see the inside?" Li Banfeng was very curious.
"As long as the cultivation of our sect is enough, no matter what disease this person has, what injury he has suffered, what poison he has taken, what medicine he has taken, it can all be disguised exactly the same!"
Li Banfeng lowered his eyelids: "That's too evil, right?"
"Why would I lie to you? You haven't seen the good hands of our sect. Even the blood type can be disguised exactly the same. The top-level Insight Cultivators and Medicine Cultivators were all deceived by him!"
Even the blood type is exactly the same?
Li Banfeng was half-believing. Is there really such an evil technique in this world?
Yuezhou Third Hospital, Xiao Zhengong was inquiring about He Jiaqing's condition.
The attending physician's reply was the same as before: the patient's vital signs are stable, but he cannot move easily.
Xiao Zhengong sent away the nursing worker, sat in front of He Jiaqing's hospital bed, and sneered coldly: "How the hell are you pretending? Such a big hospital, can't see you're pretending to be sick?
What are you doing in the Outer Continent? Are you really coming for me?
The wind is tight these two days, it's not easy for me to move you, but you must remember, as long as you are in the Outer Continent for one day, your little life is in my hands!"
PS: Who is lying on the bed?
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