Chapter 232 Burning the Forest Mansion
Cangyun Sihe, Emperor Xuwen took a nap in front of the imperial case, in a daze, as if there was a pair of red crisp hands behind him to cloak him, looking at him with gentle eyes, he unconsciously stretched out his hand, but there was a crisp sound of porcelain falling to the ground. Zhu Daguan walked a few steps forward, saw that his forehead was oozing with cold sweat, his eyes were red, and he hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, are you dreaming again?" "Why don't you go and lie down on the couch for a while?"
These days, Emperor Xuwen's illness is good and bad, except for the excerpts have been moved to the Sacred Heart Hall to annotate, he prefers to be alone, and there are many times, even Zhu Daguan can't come to him, so he can only wait outside the hall. Emperor Xuwen leaned heavily on the back of his chair, looked up at the roof beams of the dragon and the phoenix for a while, and then said: "People die like lights going out, but she has been gone for more than ten years, but I always feel that she has not left, and I will often come back to see." ”
Emperor Xuwen's heart was in turmoil, as if he had returned to the time when Ah Zhen was seriously ill, and his heart was getting better and better day by day. Since then, he has been thinking every day about how to keep his and hers' bloodlines. A sore spot suddenly rushed out of his heart, and he was dizzy. As an emperor, he is worthy of the court, but except for the court, he is ashamed everywhere.
Zhu Daguan looked at him, knowing what the terminally ill emperor in front of him remembered, and his heart tightened for a while. "Although Wang Meiren can't serve the king closely, the prescription for catching the medicine before is in the old slave, and the king goes to bed early after drinking the medicine. ”
Emperor Xuwen waved his hand, and Zhu Daguan hurriedly called someone to serve medicine. That medicine is tantamount to drinking to quench your thirst, but as long as you can survive until the Confucian King succeeds, Zhu Daguan watched him drink it silently, this can't be blamed for his ruthlessness, it's only blamed that this man can't keep her and dominates her......
"I was upset by Concubine Hui's crying today, and I couldn't calm down in my heart, which would be very irritable. Go out first, and don't come forward without my command. ”
"Yes, the minions are guarding the king outside. ”
Emperor Xuwen sent all the people in the Sacred Heart Temple, including Zhu Daguan. After drinking the medicine, he seemed to be in much better spirits, he stood up, his pale palm on an inconspicuous shelf in the Duobao Pavilion left and right, and the dragon bed that was originally lying on the ground suddenly moved away from the distance of a person's width. In front of him was a long and narrow dark path, and Emperor Xuwen picked a torch on the wall of the dark passage and skillfully lit it, just like many years ago.
The secret door behind him closed silently, Emperor Xuwen stood in place for a while, and secretly laughed at himself for being old, at that time Ah Zhen was pregnant, and he snubbed her in front of the old ministers, but at night there was always wind under his feet from this unknown secret passage to Chunwu Palace. This is the most proud but poignant secret in his heart.
The passage was unusually quiet, and Emperor Xuwen walked forward, but there was no girl named Ah Zhen waiting for her on the other side. Around the corner, a silent, slightly old woman stood there, "Your Excellency." ”
Emperor Xuwen nodded, "Senior Crane ......"
In Da'an Palace, everywhere is busy with the marriage of the county lord of Kangyang, and things are taken care of one by one tense and calmly. Outside the palace wall, there is still a waning moon shallow shining on all the high doors and low households in Shangjing, quiet and far away.
Anyuan Houfu, Lin Xiaoshan walked down from the verandah made of vermilion and jade, his brows furrowed deeply. This prosperous capital is full of murderous opportunities, and the Confucian king has become a seven-point climate, if he wants the Lin family to stand firm, he must first have an attitude. Lin Changfeng looked at his father's footsteps and paused there, and shouted, "Father." ”
Lin Xiaoshan looked back at his son, thought of the walking corpse-like daughter, and sighed: "Changjun she...... Alas!"
"It's no wonder that my sister is this thing, she should have both children and daughters, but because of the family's evil thief, she ruined her life, how can she not hate?" Although Lin Changfeng also disagreed with the Lin family's torture of Zhu Hanying in the secret room, he still stood on her side. "When I looked at her, I felt uncomfortable, and it made her hate to some extent. ”
Lin Xiaoshan is an official of the imperial court after all, and he has been extremely low-key for many years, and he really doesn't want the Lin family to leave such a scourge in the mansion, "Paper can't hold the fire, there is no impermeable wall in everything, and gossip will inevitably come out after a long time, our Lin Mansion is now walking on thin ice, and if it is spread out at that time, it will inevitably be impeached by the imperial history, and if the matter of Concubine Hui is not solved well this time, it will be endless trouble." I think it's better to take advantage of this time to kill that woman to prevent future troubles. ”
"Yes. Lin Changfeng replied cautiously.
"Have you done everything you were told?"
"It's all arranged according to the pre-discussion. Lin Changfeng knew that the matter was important, and he didn't dare to slack off, "My son didn't dare to fake his hands to others, he did it himself." ”
Lin Xiaoshan turned his head to the cold waning moon in the sky, "Changfeng, if you can, my father doesn't want you to carry so much, but our Lin family can't fall into the hands of our father and son." You are the son of the Lin family, and you should shelter the Lin family from the wind and rain, at least, you can't let the Lin family break its roots in the court. ”
Watching his father return to the study, Lin Changfeng straightened up and stood still, was silent for a while, and called everyone to order: "Tonight, none of you are allowed to sleep, cheer up and look at all parts of the house, and there must be no mistakes." The little guards also knew that there had been a lot of things in the house recently, and looking at Lin Changfeng's face, where did they dare to slack off, and they went down to do things one after another.
On the second day, the sky was blue, but something happened to the bluestone alley in the south of the city, and the Li Mansion got the letter early in the morning, and Mama Wang pushed the door into the house and said to Yao: "Madam, last night the bluestone alley suddenly ran out of water, and the burning was not finished, and it burned the whole street! ”
Since Yu Baochan's marriage went wrong, Yao's heart has been divided a lot, these days to run to her mother's house, her face has improved a lot, she listened to Mama Wang's words and jumped down, and stood up from the dressing table: "Why is it going to go out of the water? There was no wind last night, why is the fire so big? Let's not wait, just go and see." Far mountain, go and bring me a cloak. ”
While combing her hair, Mama Wang said over and over again: "Some people say that they heard the sound of cannonballs. The New Year is approaching, and the children of every family love to play some artillery battles, perhaps because the winter is dry, which leads to the fire. ”
Yao Shi packed up and was about to go out, Li Weiqing suddenly came in from outside, Yao Shi was stunned, his face became not very good-looking, he twisted his body to the side, and there was not half a word. Seeing her like this, Li Weiqing wanted to say something, but he just sighed: "Ah Jun, you are still angry with me." ”
The Yao family already knew the beginning and end of the Shen family's mutiny, Li Weiqing was a close minister of the king, of course, this kind of thing could not be separated from him, but that night she suffered the pain of losing her son alone, that kind of loneliness and helplessness, she still remembered that she was still in pain and cold, for a woman, her husband and child were everything, and she seemed to have lost both at that moment, how could she not despair?
Li Weiqing saw that she didn't speak, and she didn't even look at him, and her eyes gradually dimmed: "Yu Mansion is fine, don't worry, then I'll go first." ”
Li Weiqing sighed and went out, Yao's tears burst out of his eyes at once, Mama Wang watched from the side, and persuaded: "Madam, why are you suffering?" I know that you are wronged, but the third master is a man after all, I can't think of such details, the third master stays in the study every night, which shows that his affection for his wife has not changed, the court only knows much about our women's family, and the woman surnamed Qin can't really say that Mrs. misunderstood the third master!"
"Since it's a misunderstanding, why didn't he explain it clearly to me, and let me have such a pimple in my heart?" Yao's eyes were red and swollen, and the tears he had been holding back these days would all pour out as soon as the floodgates were opened: "I have been married to him for many years, whether he is with the king or with the Confucian king, will I go against him?"
"Madam! Don't talk nonsense!" Although everyone in the court now knows that the relationship between the king's favorite ministers and the Confucian king is inseparable, and the monarch seems to have a tacit attitude, but after all, the Confucian king has not yet ascended the throne, Wang Mama sighed and said: "The third master has bowed his head to his wife. Why don't you go down the steps and reconcile with the third master, and then ask something else?"
Yao remembered Li Shuci, who was put in the palace by the Queen Mother, and was even more upset: "Okay, anyway, let's go to Yu's Mansion first, if the mansion is burned, we can help take care of it." Amitabha, as long as people are fine, everything else is easy to say!"
At this time, Li Shuci, who was nagged by the Yao family, was in a dilemma, "The eldest brother is the eldest son of his father, and his father is in the limelight in the middle of the court at this time, and the eldest brother's every move is watched by others. In short, let him take it honestly in the house and protect his mother is more important than anything else. Word has already reached the palace about last night?"
"It burned last night, the fire was fierce and abnormal, spreading from the Lin Mansion to the entire alley, the Lin Mansion was burned to the light of several households around it, I heard that the Lin family burned two aunts, one of them was pregnant, and there were many people around the burns, and someone in the Yushitai was on the fold early in the morning, saying that this was by no means a fire for no reason, it was done deliberately, and the king was angry because of this matter!
"There is no such thing as the legendary purity in this Lin Mansion. Concubine Hui may have moved, but with her toes, she could figure out that this fire was inseparable from the Lin family itself, but it didn't matter how the fire burned, the important thing was that they had already calculated who would bear the consequences: "How is my uncle's family?"
"Yu's mansion burned half of the house, the princess of the county and the third girl Yu did not come back in the Bodhi Nunnery, I heard that the prince of the county was frightened, and he was sick at home, and he took leave this morning. Yan Yushi is also following Lord Qi to investigate the case. ”
"This fire is so fierce that it has burned people to death, and the government will definitely make every effort to investigate. Yan Yushi has an iron mouth, and the Lin family is not afraid of running away from Concubine Hui. Did you catch someone suspicious?"
Qingge said: "I said that I didn't catch anyone." Now I'm afraid that I still interrogate the families of those who have suffered from the disaster one by one. ”