Chapter 30: Fire and Water

The winter of this year and the spring of the following year were the official crumbling demarcation line of the Zhuluo Dynasty, and a catastrophe originating from the town of Qingyang in Yongzhou spread across the Central Plains, and at the instigation of Huangfu Qingyun, the emperor had to send expeditionary forces to Yongzhao and Zhao in batches to find out the truth. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 However, as long as these expeditionary forces entered Yongzhao and Zhao, there was no response.

The emperor once thought of sending an army from the camp on the outskirts of Beijing, but Huangfu Qingyun repeatedly blocked the emperor's decree on the grounds that the camp on the outskirts of Beijing was responsible for defending the central capital.

However, in just half a year, half of the expeditionary force has been dispatched, and the palace prince persuaded the emperor to keep the other half of the expeditionary force outside the central capital anyway to protect the safety of the imperial family.

Huangfu Qingyun had another plan, claiming that the second prince Minghua was now in the snowy region, and asked the emperor to send an expeditionary force to bring the second prince back, first, to ensure the safety of the second prince, and secondly, to put pressure on the Guigu family in the snowy region to prevent them from detaining the second prince and refusing to let him return to the central capital.

The emperor didn't believe his words, and he didn't say anything, after the empress dowager knew the news, she personally went to persuade the emperor to take the imperial brother back to Zhongdu, and the emperor has been avoiding the prime minister and the empress dowager on the grounds that he needs to consider carefully.

Because the emperor was worried that someone would be unfavorable to his beloved concubine, Imperial Doctor Chen, who usually asked Fu Guifei for pulse, was a person from the emperor's side.

The entire palace, including the Imperial Hospital, is covered with Huangfu Qingyun's eyeliner, and it is an impossible task to quietly protect the fetus for Fu Guifei in the palace. The emperor was also well aware of Imperial Physician Chen's worries, he temporarily put away Imperial Physician Chen's resignation, saying that he needed to consider it, and asked Imperial Physician Chen not to prescribe any tocolytic medicine first, but just let him leave some houses for dietary therapy, and let the people of Penglai Palace prepare meals for the concubine according to the prescription.

For example, if the people are panicking today, and there are people from the Huangfu family in the central capital, Fu Guifei wants to give birth smoothly and safely, but I am afraid that it has become a luxury. The emperor summoned Fu Linghui to the palace to discuss, hoping to find a good way to solve this matter.

In the end, the emperor and Fu Linghui made a plan, and came up with a way to steal the sky and change the pillar, exchange Fu Lingyi out of the palace, and wait for the production before returning to the palace.

Half a month later, Huangfu Qingyun urged the emperor again to send the remaining expeditionary force, after the emperor returned to Penglai Palace, he didn't know what conflict happened with Fu Guifei, he didn't stay in Penglai Palace that night, and returned to his bedroom alone in anger.

For a while, everyone in the palace knew that the emperor and the concubine had a temper, the emperor and the concubine Fu had a deep relationship in recent years, although there were some small conflicts in ordinary times, but they had never tried to rise to the point of letting the emperor go away. So everyone in the palace bet privately on when the imperial concubines would begin to reconcile this time.

As a result, there was an upset the next day, and the emperor actually ordered the concubine to move to Nangong to live there. Although the scenery of Nangong is very beautiful, after all, it is far away from the palace, which is equivalent to being exiled by the emperor, which is only a little better than being banished to the cold palace.

Fu Linghui, the elder brother of the concubine in this compartment, handed over a card to ask to see the emperor but could not, and the concubine in the compartment had been rushed to live in Nangong.

Huangfu Qingyun was also shocked, originally wanted to find out the inside story in person, but the emperor summoned him to the palace to discuss the matter of sending the expeditionary force to the snowy region, he weighed it, and felt that the expeditionary force was more threatening, so he just ordered a capable person around him to follow up on the inside story of Fu Guifei's move to live in the palace, and he went to the palace to discuss with the emperor.

Although Nangong is a royal courtyard, the royal family rarely lives in Nangong, firstly, because everyone is in the same capital, there is no reason to live in Nangong to escape the heat and cold; secondly, Nangong is less noble after all. Therefore, Huangfu Qingyun did not install people in Nangong.

Most of the errands in Nangong are the old palace maids and old chamberlains who have retired from the palace and have nowhere to go, so Fu Guifei was ordered to live there and not to see the monarch again, which is really the most cruel punishment for a palace concubine.

The palace maids who followed the concubine to the South Palace were all the concubine's henchmen, so for a while, the people on Huangfu Qingyun's side couldn't find out any inside information, but they knew that Fu Guifei might have quarreled because the emperor wanted to send all the expeditionary forces to the snowy region. This is an understandable reason, because Fu Linghui now also holds a management position in the expeditionary force, and if the expeditionary force needs to go north, Fu Linghui must go along.

The emperor meant that he would send the remaining expeditionary force north, but he planned to make an adjustment between the expeditionary force and the generals of the camp on the outskirts of Beijing. Huangfu Qingyun thought about it, as long as the expeditionary force was sent out, his wish would be achieved, and as for the adjustment of several middle-level generals, it was not very important in Huangfu Qingyun's eyes. So Huangfu Qingyun agreed to the emperor's request.

In Nangong, Fu Linghui, who was about to leave for the north after receiving the order, was persuading Fu Guifei, "You have a child now, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the child in your belly, if you continue to stay in Zhongdu, not to mention your child, even you may not be able to live long." ”

Fu Guifei said angrily, "The emperor is the lord of the world, can't he even keep his own children?"

Fu Linghui couldn't help but stroke her forehead and sighed, her younger sister is sometimes very smart, sometimes she is a little stubborn, her family didn't want her to participate in the draft, but she tried her best to qualify. originally thought that she was just going through the motions, but she first became the prince Liangdi, and then became the concubine. In the end, he had to go to Zhongdu to help, anyway, he had already taken this boat, and if his family didn't make a move, he would become a thorn in the side of the Huangfu family.

"The emperor is only afraid that he will not be able to protect himself, how can he protect you again? Listen to me, it is the emperor's will to let you come to Nangong this time, he wants to save you and the child in your womb, if it is a boy. Fu Linghui touched his sister's hair.

Fu Guifei cried, vented the annoyance in her heart, and gradually figured it out. So he discussed with his brother how to behave. Fu Linghui arranged for a woman to pretend to be Fu Guifei and continue to live in Nangong. Fu Lingyi will follow the expeditionary force to the north, and Fu Lingzhen will personally escort them to the snowy region to find a place to live in seclusion, and give birth to the child first.

Taiyi Chen, who helped Fu Lingyi diagnose the pulse before, went smoothly, and would meet Fu Linghui halfway, and then help take care of Fu Lingyi along the way.

After Fu Guifei was sent out of the palace, the Empress Dowager once thought about choosing a few virtuous and virtuous women from outside to accompany her in the palace, but the emperor refused, but the relationship with the Empress gradually eased, and the Empress Dowager was also happy to see this, so she no longer mentioned the matter of choosing people to enter the palace.

Huangfu Qingyun only felt that everything had been going very smoothly recently, except for the eldest son Huangfu Qinghe and Wu Bailun, there had been no news for nearly three months. Therefore, Huangfu Qingyun also sent people to follow the expeditionary force to the north to find out the specific news, for this reason, Huangfu Qingyun gave a group of carrier pigeons to the expeditionary force to the north.

Fu Linghui was worried that Fu Lingyi would be discovered by Huangfu Qingyun's people, so he could only change his plan and send Fu Lingyi out of Zhongdu with Imperial Physician Chen, and they would slowly follow the expeditionary force together, and when they were far away from Zhongdu, Fu Lingzhen would think of a way to integrate them into the team.

Since the fetus in Fu Lingyi's womb was not yet three months old, Imperial Physician Chen suggested that she postpone it for a month before leaving, but Fu Linghui had a military order in his body and couldn't wait for another month, so he could only wait for everything to leave the central capital, and then think about returning to Fu Lingyi. If the prediction is good, when you get to Yongzhao and Zhao, I am afraid that something will happen, and you can find a reason to leave the team for a period of time at that time.

When Fu Lingyi left Zhongdu, the emperor also sent two people from the secret guards around him to follow her. Huangfu Qingyun asked the empress several times about the real reason why the emperor belittled Fu Guifei, but the empress also said that she was puzzled. Huangfu Qingyun couldn't let go, and sent people to infiltrate Nangong to monitor Fu Guifei. The palace maids who were sent to Nangong didn't know what news they wanted to know about the concubine, so they thought that as long as they reported how miserable the current situation of the concubine was, they reported every day that Concubine Fu was crying every day, and the whole person was a lot haggard, even if the emperor saw the concubine again, he would not like her again.

Huangfu Qingyun didn't intend to waste energy on these ** women, as long as he confirmed that the chess pieces lurking in Nangong found that Fu Guifei was not pregnant, it was enough.

Besides, when Huangfu Qinghe received a secret order to go to the snowy region to inquire about the news of the second prince, he separated from Wu Bailun. Wu Bolun continued to stay in Yongzhao and Zhao. Huangfu Qing and this time he took fifty guards to the north, but from the beginning of Anxian County, these people under him began to gradually have accidents, or disappeared inexplicably, or went crazy inexplicably, or had a tragic accident, and when he arrived in the snowy Yunzhou, there were only more than ten guards left around him.

Originally, Huangfu Qinghe also brought carrier pigeons with him, so that he could pass on the news with Zhongdu, but I don't know why, and I don't know what day it started, these carrier pigeons never flew back after they were released, and the news was cut off from Zhongdu. Huangfu Qinghe is also a person with some ability, he is not in a hurry, thinking that he will inquire about the news of the second prince in one go, and if he returns to Zhongdu, he will definitely be appreciated by his father.

Huangfu Qinghe has been followed by a strategist, but he has been persuading Huangfu Qinghe to return to Zhongdu as soon as possible, "I see that the master has his own hills and valleys in his heart, and I am afraid that after the master leaves Zhongdu, if the master succeeds in his big event, it will be the second master who has robbed the first prize." ”