Chapter 30: Stacking Show
I heard that the Seven Princes were amazingly talented and extremely favored, although their biological mother Concubine Lin died early, but their mother's family was Wei Yuanhou who guarded the Western Desert, and the current Hou Ye Lin Yousi was the uncle of the Seven Princes. There were rumors in the palace www.biquge.info that Concubine Lin's early death was caused by the queen's illness, overwork and postpartum disorder. Therefore, as soon as the seventh prince was crowned king, he and the prince formed a party to help each other. As the successor of King Xiao, he is really surrounded by strong enemies.
On the prince's table over there, sitting side by side with the prince is the crown princess Liu, but there are four or five other concubines beside the prince, Yingying Yanyan is sitting around, you feed the nuts and I persuade the lamp to be lively. At this time, the prince was reaching out to push away the pink-clothed beauty in his arms, and looked over with interest.
Looking at those nightmarish eyes, I felt as if I had returned to that night when the sky had changed dramatically: the surrounding torches and the ill-intentioned eyes of the soldiers unscrupulously illuminated a small courtyard full of servants of the house. Chifu tried to hide me behind me, her hair falling down and her face dusty,...... I shuddered involuntarily, and covered it up by lowering my head and arranging my belt.
King Wei, who was standing nearby, did not say anything for a long time, and at this time he turned around and bowed to the emperor in the palace, "Father, during the Double Ninth Festival, the sons suggest moving to Diexiu Mountain, climbing high and looking far away, so as to live up to this festival of respect for the elderly and the picturesque autumn scenery of the great rivers and mountains!"
The emperor on the throne was silent, as if he was groaning. The queen next to her glanced at the emperor slightly, and she was dignified and self-controlled.
However, a beauty on the second stage held a brocade handkerchief and fanned it slightly, turned around to look at the emperor with a charming posture, and bowed her head slightly, thinking that she was signaling with her eyes. Xu is beauty is pleasing to the eye, slightly coquettish, but the emperor quickly laughed. Looking at King Wei, "Yes." Let's go with me. ”
Diexiu Mountain is at the back of the imperial city, and everyone is going from the main hall, and most of the hours have passed. During the period, the cleanup was like a ritual, but it was also quiet. When I arrived at the bottom of the mountain, I windled up along a mountain road, and saw that the emperor brought the queen and all the beauties in front of me and laughed and laughed, and everyone talked in a whisper.
King Xiao and Ruan Liangdi walked unhurriedly in front, and Ruan Shuoren's voice came, "I heard that His Majesty's new favorite Lin family, Fang Feng Wanyi, I don't know if it has a relationship with Queen Wei's mother's family?"
King Xiao looked at the maple trees on the side of the road with a smile, "This forest is really not small, and the scenery is good!"
Ruan Shuoren was angry, but King Xiao immediately whispered softly to make her smile, I was behind, but I was cramped, so I had to learn from King Xiao to look at the maple forest.
But unexpectedly, a large flock of birds in the forest flew up, chirping and scattering in all directions. I knew something was wrong, and subconsciously looked at King Xiao. But I saw that he was still leisurely hugging Ruan Shuoren to look at the scenery, but I vaguely found a smile at the corner of his mouth, and my heart was a little settled.
I was about to stand close to Xiao Wang, but someone gently pulled my sleeve, and when I looked back, a cynical handsome face was in front of me, which frightened people - it was Yao Huatang. He was originally a child of a family, and he wanted to come to today's banquet and enter the palace to accompany him.
He bowed to me and said with a smile: "Mrs. Guan." Mrs. Guan should be the first time to visit this Diexiu Mountain? Do you know where this Diexiu came from?"
I turned sideways slightly, did not accept his salute head-on, covered my face with a fan, and said with a slight smile, "Your Excellency is Master Yao?"
Seeing that my words were alienated, he raised his eyebrows, showed a look of surprise on his face, and said softly: "It's a little abrupt." ”
I lowered my eyes to the side, but smiled silently.
Looking at King Xiao again, he had already led Ruan Shuo and the people to the woods gradually, and he was suspicious in his heart - how could King Xiao deliberately approach the dangerous place even though he knew that there were most ambushes in the forest?
Yao Huatang said softly at this time, "The prince has his own scenery that the prince wants to see. However, the prince instructed Xiao Ke to take care of his wife, although Diexiu Mountain is not a mountain with peaks and mountains, there are also many stories. Please also ask Mrs. to follow Xiao Ke and watch it. ”
I looked back in surprise and roughly understood, is King Xiao trying to be a bait? So I asked Yao Huatang to protect me as far away as possible. Grateful for King Xiao's intentions, his heart fluctuated, but he could only nod silently on his face, and walked forward with him, gradually distancing himself from King Xiao and his party.
Suddenly, a sentence came from behind him: "Which beauty is this?"
His heart froze suddenly, and he turned around slowly, and it was the prince who looked at him with burning eyes. The people next to him were already silent, took a few steps back, and saluted in unison. Even Yao Huatang couldn't step forward and say anything. However, the prince's inconsistency is extremely unfavorable to my name.
After enduring all kinds of hatred and fear, I calmly gave a gift, "Slave Xiao Wangfu Qu Clan, meet His Royal Highness the Prince." The prince of my family often said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has the style of a famous man of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and he is not informal, and now it seems that this is the case. ”
When the prince heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly stroked his palms and laughed. Then he looked at me deeply, and walked away without saying anything, followed by a trotting attendant. I looked up and saw the crowd around me, with different expressions, gesturing to each other to exchange guesses and conjectures, accompanied by almost inaudible whispers.
However, when the prince left, I still breathed a sigh of relief, and Yao Huatang next to me had already hurriedly come over to lead me to a less crowded place.
When he walked to the side of a large mountain rock, a cold arrow roared out of the maple forest and headed straight for King Xiao.
Yao Huatang, who was beside me, pulled me to avoid behind the big mountain rocks next to the road, and whispered, "Sure enough, it's here." ”
I didn't care about listening to what he said, King Xiao's side looked very urgent, and he was not allowed to wear a sword at the royal banquet according to the law, and he was unarmed at this time, so he could only hold Ruan Shuoren and fall to the ground sideways to avoid it. The arrow feathers sank into the trunk of a nearby tree, and they trembled.
The crowd around them dispersed in panic at this time, but at this time the accompanying team was in the middle of the ridge, and there was only a two-carriage gravel road up and down the mountain, and the terrain on the side of the road was steep, and the slightly flatter was the maple forest where the arrow shooter was.
The leader of the Praetorian Guards who accompanied him shouted at this time: "Escort!!
However, most of the Praetorian Guard soldiers were at the back of the line, but they were unable to move by the women who fled for their lives down the mountain in panic, and could not approach them for a moment.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the leader of the Praetorian Guard here led a dozen or so soldiers to surround the emperor and protect him, but the rest of the people could not be protected.
Seeing this, Emperor Wei pulled the queen into the protective circle. said angrily, "Who is a big rebel!"
What answered him was a rain of arrows, and the target was still King Xiao. King Xiao pushed Ruan Shuoren behind a chamberlain next to him, and shouted, "Stand farther away!" With his backhand, he pulled out the jade belt from his waist as a sword, and quickly swept away more than a dozen arrows that were approaching. Some of the arrows were diverted from the direction by him, but the strength did not decrease, and five or six people near King Xiao had been hit by arrows, and in an instant, the blood was filled, and the crowd was even more panicked.
I grabbed the handkerchief in my hand and involuntarily bit it into my mouth. Even though I knew he was good at swordsmanship, even though I knew he must have arranged something, but when it came to this situation, I admit that my heart was in turmoil. King Xiao is my only support at present, and if something happens to him, I will no longer be able to live in peace.