Chapter 20: In the Palace
If it is daytime, it is easy for the Duke of Xuanyang, who has been playing in various palaces in the palace since he was a child, to sneak from the Fengyang Pavilion where he lives to the Chaofeng Palace, but at night, the keys will fall one after another at the palace gates, and the second princess does not know how to do light work, so she can only rely on the power of her own secret guards. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Before the death of the first emperor and the first queen, they each prepared two secret guards for the two little princesses to protect them secretly. This time, the second princess used the secret guard to take her to fly the eaves and walk the wall, all the way to avoid the forbidden army patrolling the palace, and when the second princess arrived at the Chaofeng Palace, the Hu family was already waiting there. The Hu family was originally worried that if the second princess couldn't reach the Chaofeng Palace, she would want to go to Fengyang Pavilion to find out.
Hu and the second princess discussed softly, three days later, Guigu Yanli would take the Hu family and them to leave the central capital, that night, the Hu family would take people to sneak back to the imperial city of Zhongdu, and then through the palace, and then swim to the Chaofeng Palace, when the second princess and the fifth princess were there, the Hu family would leave the palace with the two little princesses, and then leave the central capital. Of course, the two little princesses will ask the emperor to visit the first emperor in the imperial mausoleum during the day, and then the second princess will leave a book saying that she will take the fifth princess to the imperial mausoleum to find her father and mother, so that she can gain a little more time for a smooth retreat.
The royal family will definitely send people to the imperial tomb to see if the two little princesses really go to the imperial tomb. It would take six days to go back and forth. After six days, the two princesses could not be found. Zhongdu must wonder if someone really took away the two little princesses. But the people of the Guigu family have already left Zhongdu, and the two little princesses have just disappeared, and the people on the side of Zhongdu will definitely not suspect the people of the Guigu family, but will suspect the people of other families who are still in Zhongdu.
The second princess didn't agree with this plan very much, although the fifth princess had been living with the second princess recently, and it would not be difficult for the secret guard to sneak out of Fengyang Pavilion and come to Chaofeng Hall together. But the grandmothers and palace maids who have served the two princesses since they were children will be punished for this incident, and they are likely to die because of it. Thinking of this, the second princess couldn't bear it.
The Hu family is embarrassed, it's okay to take the two little princesses out of the palace, but if you want to bring a string, it's not easy to do. After discussing and discussing, I still can't find a good way. The Hu family had no choice but to go back to discuss with Guigu Yanli first, and agreed to come back the next night to discuss.
Unexpectedly, on the second day, martial law was suddenly strengthened in the palace, and the number of forbidden soldiers patrolling was increased. Especially around the Xuanzheng Palace, the Hall of Eternal Life, where the emperor lives, and the Fengyang Pavilion where the princess lives, there are five steps, one sentry, ten steps and one post. It turned out that Huangfu Qingyun had been unable to figure out the whereabouts of the second prince Minghua, and he was worried that this time he would send people from all over the country to Beijing to worship, and the people of the second prince would be mixed into the central capital.
Huangfu Qingyun is not worried about what these people who have mixed into the central capital can do, but he just hopes to prevent them from connecting with the emperor and princess, if they can catch people alive, it is naturally the best, they can take the opportunity to touch the melons along the vine, find out where the second prince Minghua is, and then think of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.
In the end, Guigu Yanli suggested that the Hu family tell the second princess that if the two princesses were willing to abandon the people who served in the palace, they would still follow the Hu family to leave the center of the palace by swimming in the water, and then be taken by the secret guard to Guigu Yanli to rendezvous. But if the two princesses insist on not doing it, then the two princesses can fight for the opportunity to go to the imperial tomb to worship the first emperor and first queen, and then rescue the two princesses. But it is necessary to wait for Guigu Yanli to go back and plan well with the second prince Minghua. When the time comes, it's better to exchange messages through the dark guards.
The second princess struggled for a long time, but decided to wait for the next time she had the opportunity to go to the imperial tomb to worship before thinking about leaving Zhongdu. Hu saw that the princess had made up her mind and had no choice, so she had to leave and pass the news back to Guigu Yanli.
Two days later, Guigu Yanli and his party left Zhongdu and went north, and after another five days, people from all over the country left Zhongdu one after another. Huangfu Qingyun still didn't know anything about the second prince, so he had to resume the usual guarding work of the palace.
The second princess breathed a sigh of relief and thought about it, she could no longer be an invisible person in the palace, lest something happen in the future, and these maids in the palace would harm her two sisters because of negligence. So he took the five princesses to the queen, Fu Guifei and the emperor's palace every day, but he didn't dare to go to Tai**.
Although the emperor has no special enthusiasm for his brothers and sisters, he still favors his own siblings after all; the queen is a sincere person and is very attentive to the two princesses; Fu Guifei loves the house and Wu even more, and loves the two princesses very much. With the protection of these three nobles in the palace, although the two princesses' days in the palace cannot be restored to their old favors, they are also better than other princesses.
After Guigu Yanli returned to Yunzhou, he informed Xingxi of what had happened. Xingxi was happy and sad in his heart, happy that his sister was so sensible, and sad that his sister was far away in Zhongdu, if something happened, he couldn't reach it.
Guigu Yanli also let people explore the surrounding terrain of the imperial tomb when he went to Zhongdu this time, so he took the initiative to discuss with Xingxi how to arrange it if he sent someone to the imperial tomb to pick up the two princesses at that time.
Xingxi took the map around the imperial mausoleum that Guigu Yanli had people describe, and went to Guigu Qianli to discuss, after all, Xingxi's current guardian is Guigu Qianli, and if you want to use a large number of people to go south, you still need to get the consent of Guigu Qianli.
When Guigu Qianli learned that the two little princesses were unwilling to affect others because of their own affairs, they nodded secretly, the former queen Jiang was really a great person, and she educated the two little princesses so sensibly, even Xingxi, who grew up with the Jiang family since childhood, was very good.
Guigu Qianli took this matter as an exam question, and let Xingxi come up with a foolproof plan by himself, and then come to him, and Guigu Qianli and Guigu Yanli judged whether Xingxi had made progress in his recent studies.
Xingxi was really overjoyed to go back to the courtyard where he lived with the map, and he took the time to read a lot of military books every day, preparing the imperial tomb rescue plan.
However, he said that the emperor of Zhongdu, who had newly ascended the throne, still issued a lot of decrees with great interest, hoping to reform and progress, but eight or nine times out of ten were blocked by Huangfu Qingyun. The emperor has also been pampered since he was a child, how can he endure it, and Huangfu Qingyun quarreled several times in the court, and finally was Huangfu Qingyun on the grounds that "His Majesty needs to recuperate", after being placed under house arrest in the palace for a few days, he became more tyrannical, and even after the queen persuaded him once, he pulled out his sword to kill the queen. Fortunately, Concubine Fu arrived in time to stop the emperor. But since then, the emperor began to hate the people of the Huangfu family, and even the queen mother and queen rarely visited the house.
The Queen Mother was sandwiched between Huangfu Qingyun and the emperor, and she was also very entangled, and she didn't want to see the Empress Huangfu Xueru, but because she had a common language, she got closer.
The queen is really virtuous, even if she was chased by the emperor and shouted and killed, she did not hate the emperor because of this, but she comforted the queen mother, "Your Majesty is in a hurry, it will be like this, and he regretted it afterwards, although he did not come to see the concubine in person, but he also sent someone to send something to the concubine." Your Majesty is also bitter in his heart, the dignified king of a country, my uncle said mercilessly that house arrest is house arrest, where does this make the royal face go?"
After hearing this, the Queen Mother patted the queen's hand, "Good boy, it's hard for you to still think about the emperor, I understand his difficulties, but he shouldn't favor the Fu family." If he treats you with half the heart of the Fu family, your uncle will not treat him like this. The queen mother is still partial to her mother's family, she thinks that it is because the emperor favors Fu Guifei and angers her younger brother.
The queen naturally knows that this is not the case, if the queen is the emperor's snow suit, it is still possible, but how can he, the uncle, do this kind of thing for the niece's favor?
In the end, it was for his own ambitions. The queen spoke for Fu Guifei, "Sister Guifei is very good, if she hadn't come that day, I'm afraid that I would have been really cut down by Your Majesty." The Imperial Grandmother was not there, so she didn't see it. Sister Guifei took His Majesty's hand holding the sword on the spot, and snatched the sword from His Majesty's hand. His Majesty's face was amused. ”
The queen remembered that the emperor's face was blue and red for a while, and she couldn't help laughing, and then felt melancholy, the relationship between the emperor and Fu Guifei is the relationship between husband and wife, just like her father and mother.
The queen mother is also a woman who survived in the deep palace, how could she not understand the queen's thoughts, she sighed, "In the future, you can accompany me as an old lady more, if Concubine Fu is a good one, she will naturally persuade the emperor to come to you, hum." ”
The queen only agreed, but what she thought in her heart was that Concubine Fu would not push the emperor out, she was not a queen, and she didn't need to say that she wanted to be a virtuous queen.
The second princess and the fifth princess have been with the two princesses since they were children, and since they heard that the emperor wanted to kill the queen, they didn't dare to let the two little princesses go to the emperor, for fear that the emperor would be unhappy, so they cut their sisters to death.
Although the second princess and the fifth princess didn't believe that their biological brother would do such a thing, they didn't want to be frightened by the people around them, so they also reduced the chance of going to see the emperor.
Huangfu Qingyun doesn't care very much about the emperor's exclusive favor of Fu Guifei, in his eyes, no matter who the emperor favors, as long as he doesn't toss the emperor's heir, it's fine. Besides, the current queen is not his biological daughter, so she is even more indifferent. As for Fu Guifei's brother Fu Lingzhen, he didn't take it seriously.
What made everyone in the palace even more surprised was that Empress Fu Xueru was so favored by Fu Guifei, and she didn't make trouble with the emperor at all, and took the initiative to restrain her mother's family, not to follow her uncle against the royal family, and not to confront Fu Guifei's brother. may also be for this reason, the second princess and the fifth princess still like to get along with their quiet imperial sister-in-law, and even the emperor, sometimes when he is in a good mood, will arouse the guilt of the queen and spend the night in the emperor's **.
Concubine Fu is also a wonderful person, when the emperor is in her palace, she will never talk about the emperor pushing out, but if the emperor goes to other palaces to spend the night, she will not pull the emperor away for various reasons.