Chapter 18: The Wishful Knot (I)
The news of the general is not as well-informed as the coach, but he happened to see Xu Chenglin, the prince of Weibei, when he was in Beijing, and after listening to the coach's words, he immediately secretly speculated in his heart. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
offended the emperor, it seems that Xu Chenglin will probably be difficult to turn over this time.
Sister is the queen what, after all, it is a dead queen, although the emperor issued an edict never to stand again, but men are always forgetful and ruthless, with the passage of time, there will always be another beautiful woman in the world to replace the position of Empress Xiaoyuan in the emperor's heart.
"Does the general mean to take extra care?"
For the sake of caution, the general still asked his superior.
The commander who was over fifty years old and was named General Zhenxi shook his head: "No need, although I had some comradeship with Lao Wei Beihou back then, but these noble sons and daughters in Beijing should also be thrown here to polish and polish, just quietly tell their captain, don't let him die, I hope this kid can have a little talent, don't embarrass his grandfather!"
The general responded to the order, and there was no ripple in the Northwest Army about Xu Chenglin's identity.
Xu Chenglin has been here for nearly ten days, and he has been practicing with veterans every day.
The cold wind from the northwest howled past the camp, and Xu Chenglin sat on a weathered rock on the high ground, and had already begun to have a chapped face and looked in the direction of the capital in the direction of the cold wind.
I don't know if the letter sent to Beijing to report the safety of my parents has been delivered.
Xu Chenglin felt a completely different life in this bitter cold place that was completely different from the capital.
No one knows his identity here, and no one treats him favorably, everything is based on strength.
Fortunately, his father Wei Beihou has been strict with him since he was a child, his ancestral kung fu practice is not bad, and his skills are also considered to be among the powerful children in the capital.
The Shangsi Festival has passed, and it is already late spring in the capital, but here, only a little bit of green has emerged sporadically, and the desolation makes people desperate.
But Xu Chenglin likes such a place and such despair.
Cheng Huan was lying alone in the underground mausoleum, how could he live a bright spring?
Under the hard military uniform, the wishful knot hidden in the middle coat reminded him from time to time that Cheng Huan was dead. He can't help but think about how painful his weak and innocent sister will be when she is dying.
When so much blood flows out, how much pain will it hurt for my sister who is about to shed tears when she pokes her fingers with embroidery?
Brother, I'm leaving, this wishful knot is left to you, make a thought.
The innocent and happy sister seems to be still in sight.
The corners of Xu Chenglin's eyes were moist, and his clenched fists kept pounding the loose sand at his feet.
Why do you say let's go, why don't you say I'm going to get married, I'm going to be a queen, why do you say go?
So an inauspicious farewell!
The unvented pain is earth-shattering, like a fish in the throat, unable to spit out, unable to swallow, and can almost suffocate people to death.
"Ah............h
Xu Chenglin roared and ran along the winding and steep mountain road, and the place where the wishful knot was hidden was faintly hot.
Cheng Huan, I will never let you die like this! I must make that person pay!
Weibei Houfu, which is far away in the capital, has begun to really turn the world upside down.
All the people are looking for a wishful knot that Queen Xiaoyuan often tied to the skirt during her lifetime.
Wei Beihou stood expressionlessly in the Huanyi Pavilion where his daughter lived before her death, watching the attendants sent by the emperor toss around with people.
When Mrs. Wei Beihou arrived when she heard the news, the corners and corners of Huanyi Pavilion had already been turned over.
"Why are you churning so much in Cheng Huan's boudoir, what are you going to do?!"
Mrs. Wei Beihou was both shocked and angry.
Wei Beihou hurriedly supported her, and his voice was cold: "The emperor wants to summon the soul of the queen, and he wants to take a thing that the queen liked as a soul guide, and if we don't worry about finding it ourselves, I will order the chamberlain to come to find it on his behalf." ”
Mrs. Wei Beihou was so angry that she almost fainted: "Then what can these people turn into a happy thing?"
"It is said to be a wishful knot, which was tied to the skirt of Cheng Huan the day before his death, does Mrs. remember?"
Mrs. Wei Beihou's eyes widened: "Ruyi knot?"
"That was when Cheng Huan was a child, I specially went to Beishan Temple to invite her, she liked it very much, never left her, when she entered the palace, didn't she take it?"
Wei Beihou shook his head solemnly.
"No, the emperor said that he had already searched for all the things of Cheng Huan, and there was no wishful knot. The emperor asked me, and I couldn't tell the whereabouts of the wishful knot, and the emperor suspected that we were hiding it privately, so he ......"
Liu Defu, the chief eunuch in charge of the search, hurriedly brushed the dust and came over to salute: "Madam, please rest assured, our family is only looking for it, and we will never mess up the things of Empress Xiaoyuan. ”
The big eunuch beside the emperor was so respectful, but Mrs. Wei Beihou's anger did not disappear at all, pointing to the empty Huanyi Pavilion and reprimanding angrily: "Cheng Huan's wedding, so many things to be sorted out, a small wishful knot, except for the personal maid, who will know where to go? The people around Cheng Huan, the emperor can send them underground without leaving any stay, and now there is not even a personal maid who can ask, how do we know?
Liu Defu has already learned the tough style of the Weibeihou family after the death of the queen, and now he is reprimanded by Mrs. Weibeihou in person, and he doesn't care, he only feels sad in his heart, how to deal with it this time?
If there were one or two people who served around the queen before her death, then there would be someone who could ask, now that they are all dead, don't you ask who to go?
At this time, the whole house was mobilized to find the people who went to find the wishful knot, and they also came to report one by one, but there was nothing.
Wei Beihou's expression was still cold: "Gonggong Liu, you also saw it with your own eyes, it's not that Benhou deliberately hides it, it's really that I don't know where to go." ”
Liu Defu frowned: "Is it really that every corner has been found?"
Wei Beihou was about to speak, when he heard a sweet voice behind him rush ahead.
"Father-in-law, courtiers here, there is a wishful knot. ”
Everyone turned around together, only to see a curling figure coming from Tingting, like a flower girl smiling, it was Xu Chengyi, the second lady of Weibei Houfu.
Xu Chengyi was wearing a white jacket and skirt this time, and he didn't wear the wrong clothes, and as the saying goes, if you want to be pretty, you are filial, and this white dress is even more lined with Xu Chengyi, who has an outstanding appearance, is weak, and his eyebrows are picturesque, and his pretty appearance makes all the palace attendants blush and heartbeat.
"Chengyi, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Wei Beihou didn't believe that Cheng Huan's favorite thing would be in the hands of this sister who had never been on good terms with her, but she didn't know what her second daughter was thinking?
But Gonggong Liu was like a savior, and hurriedly stopped Wei Beihou, who was about to get angry, and looked at Xu Chengyi with a flattering face: "Who is this?"
"I am Xu Chengyi, the second sister of Empress Xiaoyuan, and I was very good with Empress Xiaoyuan when she was alive, and she gave me Ruyi before entering the palace. Xu Chengyi said unhurriedly.
"That's really thank you Second Miss, and please give the Second Miss the wishful knot to our family to bring back, our family will definitely give the emperor, and the emperor will be kind to the second miss." ”
Liu Defu's face is like a flower blooming, he is happy in his heart, and his promise is very sincere.
But what Xu Cheng wanted was never a reward.
"Since this wishful knot is very important and the emperor attaches so much importance to it, then I must personally face the saint and hand it over to the emperor in person to rest assured. ”
She smiled and said slowly.