2. Self-immolation
85_85279 Zhu Di hesitated and replied, "It is said that raising one more niece means that you will all go to this king's mansion, and this king will never be ambiguous, but it will continue to develop as it is now, who will be next, this king doesn't know, maybe my Yan Wangfu will be subverted soon......"
Princess Xiang was also gloomy when she heard Zhu Di's words, but she still said, "Whatever, it's good that the Yan Palace's mansion is still in good condition." The jade chopsticks were handed over to the uncle, and if there are any variables in the future, it will be her creation. ”
Seeing that Princess Xiang had made up her mind like this, Zhu Di couldn't do it, so she had to nod her head and agree, and I was still persuading her on the side, always saying that things would not be too bad.
A few days have passed, and some people in the capital have already come, and they heard that they have stopped at the local political envoy's mansion, and they don't know when they will come to pronounce their guilt. The Xiang Wang couple had closed their doors as early as when Zhu Yunwen gave the order, and did not receive any guests, and Zhu Di and I were the only outsiders in the Xiang Wangfu during this time.
This night, Princess Xiang held a small family banquet and brought me Zhu Di in, in addition to the two henchmen in the house, it was their husband and wife, and several side concubines, and a six or seven-year-old little girl, who thought it was the jade chopsticks in the mouth of Princess Xiang. Princess Xiang probably saw my kind face and trusted me very much, so she blindly pushed the jade chopstick to me and said, "Yuzhen, do you like this aunt?" ”
Jade Chopper looked at me twice, and shyly retracted into her mother's arms, "I like it, but Jade Chopper likes her mother the most." ”
This child looks very well-behaved and sweet, and her temperament is a bit like her mother, such a scene, if it is usually Chenghuan's knees, but now that I see it, it makes people feel sad. Even Princess Xiang's eyes were sparkling, she and Zhu Bai looked at each other, and then said softly to Yuzhen, "Good, you sleep with this aunt with the nurse tonight, okay?" ”
The jade chopstick glanced at her nurse, then at me, grinning at the missing two front teeth, "Okay." ”
Princess Xiang had tears in her eyes, trying not to let them fall, "Then you go and eat with your aunt." The mother is here to watch you behave or not. ”
In order to show his mother's well-behavedness, this half-grown child came to my side and obediently ate a large bowl of rice with all the soup. Even her nurse praised the child for his good appetite today. Princess Xiang's tears somehow fell little by little. I dragged the corner of Zhu Di's clothes under the table, and his expression was also very painful. It wasn't until the end of the meal that he frowned and said to me, "What do the twelfth brother and his daughter-in-law want to do?" I don't think it's good to look at it. ”
I didn't dare to say too much to Zhu Di, so I said, "The prince has been paying more attention to them and his wife these days, and he always handed them over to the people sent by the emperor, so that he can return to Beiping with confidence." ”
Zhu Di nodded and said no more. I thought that Princess Xiang and the jade chopsticks said that it was a joke to come to me with the nurse to rest tonight, but I didn't expect that after the palm lamp, the nurse really came with the jade chopstick. I've been with Mingyue for a few years, and I'm already very experienced, and the jade chopsticks quickly mingled with me, and I slowly fell asleep. I thought that Princess Xiang might want Yu Zhen to have more contact with me, and when we took her away, she would be more familiar with her and not cry too much. He sat on the edge of the bed and stroked the little face of the jade chopstick, stroking and caressing, and he was also confused, and lay down beside the jade chopstick.
Suddenly, I heard someone shouting, "It's going crazy!" It's going off! ”
I jumped up in fright, and hurriedly walked out, and when I went out, I was shocked! It turns out that the upper room is already on fire!
I always thought that the Xiang Wang couple would only make a move when the people sent by Zhu Yunwen arrived in the mansion, but they took action in the middle of the night, spread their feet and ran to the place where the fire broke out. Zhu Di also followed, and when he got closer, he found that the big room where we had dinner was on fire, and as soon as he got closer, he smelled the pungent smell of fire oil, and a few inconsequential family members kept pouring water into the fire with buckets, but the fire oil burned too much, and a few buckets of water did not help at all, and the fire became more and more skyrocketing.
Zhu Di pulled a family member and asked, "Where is your master?!" ”
At first glance, the family Ding was a rough envoy outside the second door, saying that it was Zhu Di, it was Zhu Bai, he was afraid that he rarely saw it, and today he was able to enter the upper room to fight the fire because of the water, as soon as he heard Zhu Di's question, he wrinkled his brows and said, "I don't know!" The prince is gone, the princess is gone, and even a few side concubines are gone! All the girls in the upper room can't be found, so after the fire, no one notified us outside, we still saw the fire rushed in to put out the fire, and it was rare for us to come in in these two doors in normal times! I hope the fire is saved, don't blame us for running around. ”
Zhu Di's face sank, "You hurry up and put out the fire, the fire is pressed, you prince only thank you a lot, how can I blame you." ”
The family Ding listened to Zhu Di's words, although he didn't know Zhu Di's identity, he finally got a reassuring pill and worked hard to save the fire. Zhu Di walked up to me and suddenly grabbed my hand. He used a lot of strength, and even his face was a little red, just looking at the fire, he suddenly froze. I didn't dare to say anything, and my body trembled uncontrollably.
Zhu Di suddenly snatched a bucket of cold water from someone else, poured it on himself, and was about to rush into the fire immediately. I grabbed him while crying, "This fire has become a burial ground, why should the prince take his own life again?" ”
Zhu Di froze and looked straight at me, "You also think they are all inside." You knew they were going to do that, didn't you? ”
My eyes were even hazy, and at this time the nurse came with the wake-up jade chopstick. As soon as the jade chopstick saw this fire, he was so frightened that he cried, and Zhu Di shouted to the nurse, "What are you running to make a fuss about!" It's good to bring the county lord here, don't you want to die! Take the county lord back! ”
The nurse was also very frightened, her body trembled like chaff, she knelt on the ground with a grunt, and cried, "At night, when I hugged the county lord from the upper room, I also heard the prince and several princesses talking about what I had seen so many ministers who had been convicted at the hands of the first emperor did not want to be humiliated and committed suicide, and I was the son of the first emperor, how could I be insulted by the jailer, at that time, the princess and the side concubines were not good-looking, and they were in tears one by one, I didn't dare to stay longer, and I came out with the county lord in my arms." Now that this nameless fire has started, wouldn't the prince be buried in the fire with the princess! ”
Although the nurse was crying, several of the family members had already come over to hear her words, and all of them were like kites that had lost their hearts, slumping and crying. Zhu Di's reputation is ugly, I am afraid that he will do something out of the ordinary when he witnesses such a tragedy, and he has been holding the corners of his clothes tightly. It was at this time that there was a sudden thunder in the air, rain fell, and the fire was suppressed after half a cup of tea. I couldn't stop Zhu Di anymore, so I had to carry the lantern and go into the fire with him. Just looking at the fire and guessing outside, I already feel miserable, but when I go inside, it's really shocking. In the evening, the luxurious mansion was carved and painted with gold and lacquer, but now it has become a puddle of ruins that cannot be picked up. Everywhere there were burnt black walls, fallen broken wood. It was easy to walk to the main house, I said "ah", I couldn't help but cover my mouth and hide my head behind Zhu Di, I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, several charred corpses fell in the middle of the room, the burn was already unsightly, and the rain washed away, it looked even more miserable.
Zhu Di immediately rushed forward, took out half a jade dragon card on a corpse, and knelt beside the corpse and was stunned motionless. I moved to his side and snatched the sign in his hand, "Lord, the matter has come to this, someone will come to check here soon, no one knows that we are here, if someone finds out, it is a big crime, and there is a jade chopstick, only take advantage of this chaos to take her away quickly, the revenge of the king of Xiang, let's revenge later!"
Zhu Di looked at me, but he didn't mean to leave at all, and I couldn't care too much, so I pulled him up with brute force, left from the other direction, and took advantage of the fact that everyone was still busy, and hugged the jade chopstick. Jade chopsticks were originally scared to wake up, seeing that scene, although I didn't know that I didn't have a father and mother, but I was so frightened that I cried for a long time, and no one cared about her, at this time it came to my hands, and after a while, I fell asleep tired.
Zhu Di took the jade chopsticks into his hands and took me out of the side door, and sure enough, hundreds of officials had gathered at the gate, and they were about to enter the Xiangwang Mansion, Zhu Di glanced at them fiercely, "Okay!" Good! Good! ”
On the second day, we circled around the Xiangwang Mansion, and learned that the Xiangwang Mansion had been occupied by all the officials sent by the imperial court, and even the Xiang Wang's humiliation and closed his home**, and he was officially convicted of "self-suicide in fear of crime", and the remaining servants in his house were still all arrested, when we went, we saw two officials standing at the door of the Xiangwang Mansion, one counting, one counting in the book, and from the house, there were a family women with shackles, their hands and feet locked, and they came out.
Zhu Di was indignant, "No matter what, the twelfth brother has already left, regardless of the affection of an uncle and nephew, just bury him, and after the death of a person, he will be convicted of such a big crime, and he will be so insulted to his family!" Yun Bing, Yun Bing! There is such a means! ”
Zhu Di's eyes were already on fire, I didn't dare to say anything to him, for fear that he would be instigated by me again, so he would rush over and reason directly, and said, "The new emperor is young, maybe the rebels and thieves around him are making a difference, don't be too angry, Jingzhou is not suitable to stay for a long time, let's go back to Beiping and think about it in the long run." ”。