Chapter 421: A Grim Moment
The news of the imperial concubine's insaneness soon spread in the capital. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In order to prevent her symptoms from worsening, the emperor arranged for her to live in Mingyue Villa, and sent special medical staff to cook, and also arranged for people from the opera troupe and dance troupe to take turns to perform for her.
Sometimes, the imperial concubine is sober-minded, no different from ordinary people, but most of the time she is dull-eyed and emotionally unstable, whenever she is emotionally unstable, she will yell at the palace maids, throw everything she can see on the ground and trample, sometimes tear her clothes and hair, in short, she looks crazy.
In order to prevent her from accidentally injuring herself, the palace maids hid all sharp things, and even the mirror did not dare to leave in her bedroom.
After listening to Shen Hu's report, the emperor sighed heavily with a gloomy face.
"What did the Imperial Doctor say?" The emperor asked.
Shen Hu said: "The imperial doctor said that it may be difficult to return to normal. ā
The emperor held his forehead, and after a while, he waved his hand to let Shen Hun retreat.
In Kunyi Palace, Queen Jingzhuang and the crown prince sat opposite each other.
"I didn't expect things to turn out like this." Empress Jingzhuang sighed.
The prince said, "This is not necessarily a bad thing for you. ā
Empress Jingzhuang nodded silently, but there was not the slightest feeling of happiness in her heart.
"Liang'er, I've been feeling faintly uneasy lately." Empress Jingzhuang said softly.
"Does the queen mother have something on her mind?" Prince Zhao Yuliang hurriedly asked.
"It's just that I'm inexplicably uneasy in my heart, but I can't say what the specific thing is." Empress Jingzhuang lowered her eyes and said.
Her worries not only come from the handle held by the imperial concubine about her and King Ling, but also from the heavenly family, and many things that even she can't explain.
In the past few days, she suddenly wanted to go back to her birthplace. That homeland, she has never been back since she married the emperor, and now it has been a full twenty-one years. In the past, she only occasionally remembered that homeland and her relatives there, but recently, she remembered almost every day that she wanted to set foot on that homeland again, to see her relatives, to relive her childhood memories.
She seemed to hear the call of her hometown, which made her return to her heart like an arrow, and she was not willing to give up, but Guangxi Mansion was too far away from the capital, and she was afraid that it would not be safe on the road, and she was afraid that the emperor would not agree.
"Liang'er, I want to go back to Guangxi Mansion." Empress Jingzhuang told the prince what she thought.
The crown prince looked at her and said, "The road is too far, my father probably won't agree, and the sons and daughters don't worry about you going back." ā
"I know, but if you travel in casual clothes, it shouldn't be dangerous to send more people to escort you." Empress Jingzhuang insisted.
She was a little hesitant before she said the idea, but after she said it, she was firm in her belief.
The prince thought for a long time and said: "The queen mother's mood is very understandable, but at the moment, the situation on the Xiliang side is very unstable, and the father is also very disappointed because of the death of King Jin. ā
Although Empress Jingzhuang's mind was already in her hometown, thinking of the current situation of the Heavenly Family, she still decided to follow the prince's advice, so she nodded and said, "It's okay, I'll wait a little longer." ā
She looked out the window at the scorching sun and retracted the arrow-like heart.
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In the afternoon, the sun was still shining hotly on the earth, so the people sent by the king searched along the mountains under the scorching sun.
King Ling asked them not to spare even a single grass plant, so they were now conducting a carpet search.
It was undoubtedly extremely difficult to carry out a carpet search in the mountains, but since there was an order from above, and someone was sent to supervise it, they did not dare to be negligent in the slightest.
Because of the difficulty of the task, the process is also relatively slow. They searched the deep mountains for two whole days, and they had already checked more than two-thirds of the total area of the deep mountains, but they still found no trace of Shen Zhu and his party.
But they didn't give up and still searched meticulously.
When the sun was about to set, they came to the cave where Shen Zhu and his party were hiding, and soon someone found a big stone blocked outside the cave.
"Look, there's footprints down there." Someone said excitedly.
The team leader's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "Push away the stones and attack it." ā
Immediately, ten men stepped forward and pushed the stone away.
The team leader arranged: "Thirty people go in, thirty people watch the movement outside, and the rest go to see if there is another exit from this cave, and if there is, immediately go to the entrance of the cave to guard." ā
The three groups then proceeded separately according to the instructions of the team leader.
Inside the cave, the two people who were listening at the end of the cave heard the movement outside and immediately ran to report to Shen Zhu.
Shen Zhu has discovered a hidden exit through careful investigation in the past few days, which is a circular passage made of stones, and people can only climb out.
After learning the news that the cave had been discovered, Shen Zhu immediately asked everyone to escape along this circular passage, and he came to clean up the aftermath.
After the nine companions left, Shen Zhu entered the circular passage and sealed the passage mouth with stones.
The king's men lit torches and walked slowly into the depths of the cave, and when they walked nearly twenty feet, they did not see a single person, but because they had seen the footprints of people before, they were sure that there were people hidden in it, so they kept going.
"Don't forget to check the walls around you." The team leader reminded.
The king's men went forward and inspected the walls of the cave around them.
When they were about to reach the circular passage where Shen Zhu and his party had left, Shen Zhu's people had already escaped from the ground and were running quickly towards the grass on the side.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "There's movement over there." ā
Immediately, dozens of people pounced on the grass where Shen Zhu and his party had fled.
was discovered.
Shen Zhu immediately made a decision and said to everyone: "Hide in the tree." ā
Everyone immediately climbed up the tree easily and quickly.
Soon, the king's men chased after him and stood still in the grass.
"It's strange, I saw two black shadows running this way just now." Someone muttered.
"Maybe it's a fox." Another said.
There were eight people chasing after me.
"No, the fox isn't that big, let's keep looking." The man who muttered earlier.
So the eight men split up along the grass to look for them.
Shen Zhu and his group took advantage of the situation to quietly flee from the tree, and soon fled to another mountain.
When the sky darkened, Shen Zhu and his party left the deep mountains and walked quickly towards a small village in front of them.
What now? Returning to the crowd, it is estimated that he will be discovered soon, but he can't stay in the deep mountains, Shen Zhu thought as he walked.
The gates were closed, and the gates were heavily guarded, so it was unlikely that they would leave the city at this time.
However, Shen Zhu knew very well that he had to find a way to live no matter what, and only by living could he have the possibility of completing the task.
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