Chapter 222: Suspicion Grows
Feng Wei, who was asleep, was suddenly woken up by the gradually noisy sound, and couldn't help frowning, Fang opened his eyes, and heard a hurried knock on the door outside.
"Overseer!"
Hearing the voice, Feng Wei sat up, turned his head to the outside and said, "What's the matter?" β
As soon as the words ended, the voice of the inner attendant trembled to the point of almost shrill sounded outside: "Overseer, the Fengxian Hall has gone to water!"
There was a bang in his head, and Feng Wei didn't react for a while, and at this moment, the rolling thunder was sandwiched with a dazzling lightning bolt that struck the sky, and almost shook the room trembling slightly.
"What did you say?"
Feng Wei shouted in disbelief, and the voice of the waiter with a crying voice immediately sounded outside the door.
"The back hall of Fengxian Hall was struck by lightning and went to water, and the momentum was extremely great, and this time it has spread to the front hall. β
As soon as the words fell, Feng Wei turned over and got out of bed, almost didn't even have time to stabilize his shoes, and directly reached out and tore off his robe from Nan Mu Shi, and hurriedly walked out while putting on his body quickly.
"Squeak-"
The door was slammed open, and Feng Wei saw that the waiter who came to report the news had a very bad face, obviously it was still spring, and the sweat on his face was like a dog, and he was trembling and pinching his sleeves to wipe the sweat on his forehead.
"Have all the waterwheels gone?"
Feng Wei asked aloud, and hurried towards the dormitory of the Qianqing Palace, and the chamberlain hurriedly followed him when he heard this: "The Imperial Horse Supervisor has already sent a few teams of people to pull the water wheel nearby, and the people of the Jinyi Guard are also there." β
When Feng Wei heard this, the apprehension in his heart still did not get rid of it, but became more and more uneasy, so that his feet became faster and faster, so that he finally ran up. Because his resting place was not far from the emperor, it was only a moment, Feng Wei ran to the Qianqing Palace out of breath, and he didn't have time to care about the respectful salutes of the people around him, so he only came all the way to the front of the dormitory, respectfully and carefully walked in, looking at the heavy bright yellow curtain in front of him, he tried to calm himself down a little.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"
Seeing that there was no sound inside, Feng Wei deliberately raised his voice a few points, and then he finally remembered the subtle sound in his ears, and the next moment he heard the layers of curtains and remembered Emperor Jianheng's slightly low impatient voice.
"What?"
As soon as the words fell, Feng Wei wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and replied without thinking: "Back to Your Majesty, Fengxian Hall - go to the water." β
"What!"
Emperor Jianheng, who was a little hesitant because he was disturbed by his sleepiness, almost sat up immediately when he heard the sound, and his eyes shot firmly outside the layers of tents, and the sound of the exit was almost a chill.
"Okay, how can you walk through the water?"
Feng Wei's elbow trembled slightly, and then he replied carefully: "The back hall of Fengxian Hall was struck by lightning, and this-"
"Change!"
Before Feng Wei finished speaking, the emperor's angry voice sounded inside, as soon as he heard this, he immediately called someone to come in and hang up the layers of curtains, and served Emperor Jianheng at the fastest speed to put it on, when he just straightened his waist, Emperor Jianheng in front of him had already walked out quickly, his face was dark and terrible.
Feng Wei hurriedly followed, when the emperor's Luan drove to the road that was about to reach the Fengxian Palace, the strong wind was still like a ghost crying, blowing everyone's robes up, and the stones hit the face almost painfully, but carrying the Luan sedan chair was still very stable in his hand, for fear that at this time, one accidentally touched the dragon's face, then he really didn't know how to die.
The rain was still crackling, and when the noisy voices were getting closer and closer, the scene in front of him made Feng Wei, who had always been calm, freeze there, almost losing his mind.
I could only hear the sound of glazed tiles breaking and exploding, and the beams of the palace collapsing and smashing down, although I saw the inner servants and brocade guards on the road running back and forth, transporting the water in the waterwheel into it, but the fire almost rushed straight up to the dark and dense clouds, illuminating the sky on the top of the Forbidden City was glowing with blood-like red light.
When Emperor Jianheng lifted the curtain and saw the scene in front of him, his brain was almost numb, and a strange coolness gradually rose from his back spine, at this moment he could no longer hear the noisy and loud exclamations and shouts around him, he only saw this Fengxian Palace, which had stood for four dynasties since the founding of Daxing, and the place where the ancestors and gods of his Xiao family were worshipped, surrounded by this huge and entrenched fire dragon, which was shattered, collapsed, and burned to ashes little by little.
"Stop the carβ"
Emperor Jianheng's voice suddenly sounded, so calm that people couldn't hear a trace of tone, the attendant who carried the sedan chair immediately fell down steadily, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Feng Wei hurriedly turned around and helped Emperor Jianheng out. When he walked to the front of the sedan chair, Emperor Jianheng's hands hidden under his sleeves gradually clenched, and he looked at the Fengxian Hall full of red light like this, and walked towards it step by step. Feng Wei just stretched out his hand to hold up the umbrella, but was blocked by Emperor Jianheng raising his hand, Feng Wei was stunned, only to see Emperor Jianheng walking in a daze, so he hurriedly handed the umbrella to the person next to him, and did not dare to hold it anymore.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty be careful. β
The voices of everyone sounded in his ears, and Emperor Jianheng suddenly turned his head, only to see that Empress Yuan and the East Palace were already standing in front of him, and he didn't know how long he had been here. When everyone came to salute, Emperor Jianheng only glanced at the past, Empress Yuan in a cloak, the prince who was supported by the crown princess Xu, until the end, Emperor Jianheng's eyes fell on Xiao Yi indifferently, his heart couldn't help sinking, and then turned his head.
Empress Yuan originally wanted to step forward to hold an umbrella for Emperor Jianheng, but who knew that Emperor Jianheng also refused indifferently, which made her stunned.
The tip of the nose is the pine and cypress, the spruce is the smell of being burned by the flames, now standing on the palace gate road of the Fengxian Palace, the fire that burns I don't know how many zhang high is almost full of strong heat, attacking the face, the red palace walls on both sides of the baking road are almost hot, and in the blink of an eye, one after another waterwheels are transported clean, and even the water in the gilded water tank set up a few meters on both sides of the road is also scooped clean.
Suddenly, there was a sound of "boom-", as if the sky was falling, and an extremely thick and long beam collapsed and fell to the ground, and the trembling sound made people feel as if it were an earthquake, and then countless glazed tiles slipped down, falling to the ground one by one, shattering into rubble, and the sound was endless, so that Emperor Jianheng was also afraid at this moment.
He looked at the front of him in shock, and suddenly, he had no intention of looking up to the sky, and then his pupils shrank suddenly, and at this moment he realized that the firelight printed in the sky above the Forbidden City was like a huge heavenly eye, red from anger, and looked at him deadly. Gradually, the sound of the fire in his ears gradually changed, as if it had become a fierce tiger, issuing a low and dangerous warning in his ears.
Zhao Guiren's nightmare did not arouse his vigilance, but made him feel a little out of order, so he snubbed him, but then Zhao Guiren was sick for three days, and even the imperial doctor couldn't tell the reason, and now, the Fengxian Palace, which worships the ancestral gods of their Xiao family, was even more struck by the thunder and burned to ashes in a blink of an eye.
Isn't this a warning from heaven to punish him for his indifference?
The sensitive and suspicious Emperor Jianheng gradually fell into uneasiness and vigilance at this moment, he couldn't easily treat all this as a simple coincidence, let alone treat this matter calmly.