Chapter 20: The Court Massacre
The prince's birthday is nothing more than a family banquet, but the coming-of-age ceremony is more solemn, and occasionally important officials are present, such as the national teacher. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info National Teacher is responsible for important royal ceremonies, such as the new emperor's accession to the throne, the Mid-Autumn Festival state banquet, the year-end celebration, and of course, the forecast of the rainy season, wind and snow and other abnormal weather, Yang Ming is the emperor's favorite prince, and his coming-of-age ceremony is also understandable for the National Teacher to attend, but today he also has to surprise everyone. However, there is more than this thing that surprises everyone today, because there is also Zhang Yingyu from the Prime Minister's Mansion today, and the daughter of a foreign minister and a concubine is naturally not supposed to attend the royal family banquet, but she can come today I am afraid that everyone knows the reason except for Yang Ming, and what is surprising is that the emperor will choose this day to announce, which is somewhat noisy.
The National Teacher also gave Yang Feng a name a few days ago, called Tingfeng Courtyard, which has been engraved outside the main courtyard of Yang Feng's new palace, and many things in the house are from the hands of the National Teacher, with a novel and unique appearance. Yang Feng sat next to Yang Xin, and he found an opportunity to tell Yang Xin to invite her and Yang Ming to go to his palace together later. Although Yang Xin was surprised that Yang Feng would take the initiative to invite her, she was just overjoyed with such a gesture, so she agreed without thinking about it. It's just that before everything had time, an earth-shattering event happened.
When the banquet is nearing the end, the emperor will always say some kind words to indicate the end of the banquet, but this time there is a big announcement, such as the long-awaited Princess Nanming. Unfortunately, the emperor was about to speak, when suddenly a hundred and ten masked people came from all directions, they seemed to have been lurking for a long time, some jumped from the roof, some broke in from the door, and some rushed from the backyard. They raised their swords, or spears, or swords, and they were all fierce and vicious, and they ran to the front of people without saying a word, and they raised their hands to cut down. Yang Xin had never seen such a situation, and he was so frightened that he couldn't move for a while, and he only watched people kill and kill.
Yang Ming was blocking the thieves who were constantly killing, and on the other hand, he looked at Yang Xin, and he pulled Yang Xin behind him, "Xin'er, don't be afraid, stand behind me." ”
Yang Xin looked at him in a daze, and could only do it mechanically. She hid behind Yang Ming, seeing that he snatched the enemy's sword was even more powerful, and slashed two at the rushing enemy twice, one sword tip pierced through the chest, and the other sword blade cut the throat and broke, and the blood splashed was sprinkled under Yang Xin's feet, and it was still steaming.
The scene was chaotic, someone raised his sword and rushed to the emperor, but the emperor did not move on the high seat, and when the thief ran closer, a tea cover flew away, and the thief held the wrist of the sword, and the sword fell in response. When the prince saw this scene, he shouted "help", and a group of people poured in from all directions, but they were still black-clothed men with weapons in their hands. Suddenly the scene became even more chaotic, the screams of women, the cries of women, the crackling of weapons, the cracking of tables, the sound of imperceptible sounds.
Yang Xin was still stunned, his body did not move, but he used his afterglow to see all this, and not far away, a man in black raised a knife and slashed at Weng Meiren, the knife left her neck, and the man in black followed another massacre. Yang Xin saw Weng Meiren's distorted face with wide eyes, and a large amount of blood flowed from under her skirt to the ground, staining the three inches of ground under her feet in the blink of an eye.
Before Yang Xin could find himself from this shocking scene, he saw Weng Meiren's head fall to the ground with a thud, and rolled to Yang Xin's feet with a few grunts, the distorted appearance became clearer, and the scattered hair half-wrapped his face became more and more weird, Yang Xin stared at it in a daze for a few seconds, couldn't support it anymore, and fell to the ground.
When she woke up, she found that she was still on her own bed in Nanming Wangfu, Yang Ming stared at her without blinking on the side of the bed, she opened her mouth to say something, but her voice was hoarse, and she almost couldn't hear the sound she made, "Xiao Ming."
"Xin'er, you've finally woken up, is there anything wrong?"
Yang Xin shook his head and asked, "How long have I been asleep?" ”
"It's been two days", Yang Ming looked at Yang Xin's expression, and felt that there was nothing unusual, but it was like this Yang Ming was more worried in her heart, if she hugged herself and said, "Xiao Ming, I'm so scared", maybe nothing would happen, but she didn't say anything, it would be worse if she just pressed it in her heart, "Xin'er, if you're afraid, cry out, it'll be fine." ”
Yang Xin still didn't speak, shook his head again, and finally said, "Xiao Ming, I'm so thirsty." ”
"You wait, I'll get you water". Yang Mingsan ran to get water in two steps, and Yang Xin felt that his hand was empty for a moment, only to know that he had been holding his hand. Her eyes followed Yang Ming back and forth, watching him stumble down before standing firmly, looking at his blood-stained clothes, looking at his tired posture, black and blue eyes, feeling his full care, Yang Xin's heart also hurt badly.
Yang Xin had never allowed herself to be cowardly so strongly as at this moment, she struggled to sit up, and just took the water handed over by Yang Ming.
"Why are you sitting up, lie down."
"I'm fine, I'm just hungry, shall we eat together?"
When Yang Ming heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, you wait, I'll let you set the meal," he staggered to the door of the hall and called someone, commanded a few words in a low voice, and then turned back and asked, "Xin'er, do you want to wash up first." ”
Yang Xin nodded, sat up and blasted Yang Ming away first, Yang Ming was free and hurriedly went to wash, and when he came back, except for the bruises under his eyes, he was refreshed. After the two of them ate, Yang Xin let Yang Ming go to sleep, Yang Ming saw that she seemed to be really back to normal, and he was relieved, this was relieved, and he was full of food, so he felt sleepy, and he didn't bother to go back to Mingxinyuan, so he slept in the dark on Yang Xin's bed.
The next day, Yang Ming had something to do and left the house, Yang Xin was going back to the palace to live, but something like that happened in the palace, and she didn't want to go back to the palace for a while. The days seem to have returned to peace, she is still bored and has nothing to do, but her heart can no longer be calm, and the scene of Weng Meiren's tragic death is rooted in her mind like a cancer. Yang Ming said that the emperor had decreed that Weng Meiren would be buried as a concubine, and he also gave her a title, but she was all dead, what is the meaning of some false rites and false names, not to mention the child in her belly.
Yang Ming also said that on the day of the incident, the fifth prince Yang Cheng brought the emperor's secretly trained cavalry to stop the killing in time, but Yang Xin knew that the so-called timely was just that the emperor was still alive, and the number of dead and wounded was as high as 400, and the entire Changle Palace was only a few thousand square meters in visual inspection, probably the corpses were all over the field.
Yang Xin spent the whole day in the back garden today, looking at the lotus flowers in the pavilion for a day, and had the heart to find the gate of time and space, but without Yang Ming, it seemed that he didn't even have an idea, and he really had nowhere to start. She remembered that she used to hate this lotus flower, and now she looked at their outstanding decadence, but she felt a little regretful, maybe she would never feel that it was this lotus that she could not understand.
In the evening, Yang Ming returned to the Nanming Palace, and when he saw that Yang Xin was not in his yard, he came directly to the back garden. He saw Yang Xin snuggling on the armrest of the pavilion from a distance, still looking at the lotus flowers in the pool, his eyes were a little sad, different from before, he walked over and shouted, "Xin'er".
Yang Xin turned her face away, but she was laughing, but Yang Ming's heart was entangled together, and if she couldn't smile enough, it should be Yang Xin's appearance at the moment, it turned out that everything had not passed, and she was still scared.
Yang Ming thought about how to comfort Yang Xin as he walked, but after thinking about it, he removed the sentence "Xin'er, don't be afraid" as if he couldn't say anything, he stood in front of Yang Xin's eyes, but he could only squat down and hold her hand.
Yang Xin stood up with his strength, lowered his head and shook his hand vigorously, wanted to say something but opened his mouth silently, and then plunged into Yang Ming's arms, Yang Ming noticed that the clothes on his chest were wet in a blink of an eye, a little heartache but also relieved, "Cry, just cry, don't be afraid, we kill all bad people, all damn people, don't be afraid." ”
Yang Xin cried in Yang Ming's arms until dark, and the maid in the middle came to call for dinner, and Yang Ming just waved her hand to let her go away. His clothes hadn't dried since they were wet until they were separated, and he could feel the feeling of being soaked before he went to bed.