259 Fleeing
Empress Dowager Cixi looked at the grief-stricken Emperor Guangxu, waved at him and said, "Get in your car!" Close the curtain so that no one will recognize you as the emperor. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Before Emperor Guangxu got into the car, he looked back at the well where Concubine Zhen was pretended, and his face was filled with infinite grief and indignation. Later generations have a poem describing the death of Concubine Zhen.
A leaf of the golden well fell, next to the desolate Yao Palace.
The stumps are not scattered, and there is a glow in the sun!
The ditch water is empty and hateful, neon clothes and broken intestines; Bao Ruze grass, still have to stay in the mandarin duck?
Concubine Zhen was executed, and the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered King Qing and Ronglu to preside over the peace in Beijing, so she took the emperor and the eldest brother to ride the three mule carts that were temporarily found and rushed to Deshengmen.
Along the way, there are many people who are in a hurry to get out of the city, and it is also very chaotic, the mule cart is not easy to walk at all, and the accompanying Duanwang, Gangyi, Zhuang Wang, Zailan and others had to pull out their guns and shoot dozens of people at the crowd, so they opened a bloody road and arrived at the Desheng Gate.
Out of the Desheng Gate, met the old minister Wang Wenshao, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered him to find Ronglu and King Qing, pass her decree to let the two of them in the capital to make peace, and then rushed to drive, Wang Wenshao went as ordered.
The Empress Dowager Cixi and her entourage arrived at the Summer Palace, repaired it slightly, and rushed to the north.
At that time, Li Lianying was not with him, he was ordered by Cixi to lead a group of little eunuchs in the palace to bury silver and other things. As for his family's precious things, the silver, they had already been collected a few days ago.
The Empress Dowager Cixi and her entourage arrived at Houchang, which is directly north of Wanshou Mountain and Yuquan Mountain, and is the last waist station in the north to enter Beijing. Although there were many people who fled when they left Deshengmen, there were quite few people who arrived at the Summer Palace.
Because most of these people just wanted to escape from the city, take refuge in the suburbs and villages for a while, and wait until the limelight improved before returning to take care of their property, they scattered in all directions as soon as they left Deshengmen, and naturally there were very few people going north.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi and her entourage arrived at Dehou Factory in a panic, there were not many refugees on the road, only their group. Three mule carts, tightly closed, slowly and leisurely on the road.
Emperor Guangxu was thinking about Concubine Zhen, Concubine Zhen's voice and smile, and Concubine Zhen's love all came to his heart. And now, Concubine Zhen has gone to another world, and she is still living in this world vilely and helplessly, this bumpy mule cart must be proof.
Just because of the Restoration, he was placed under house arrest to win the stage, and Concubine Zhen was beaten into the cold palace, since then, the two rarely meet, and when they meet today, they are goodbye!
Emperor Guangxu cried out in pain in his heart, and a line of sad tears flowed down his thin cheeks.
Duan Wang and Gangyi, who were riding on horseback, were also thinking about their own children: they advocated using the Boxers to fight foreigners, but now it is good, the foreigners have not finished fighting, and they have run away first, and if they are held accountable in the future, they are afraid that their lives will be difficult to protect.
Therefore, Gangyi and Duanwang were worried in their hearts, and Zhao Shuqiao, who was traveling with them, was also thinking about the same thing, and he also seemed uneasy.
The palace maids who accompanied them also had their own thoughts, so everyone seemed relatively silent. Walk slowly and silently along the way.
The Empress Dowager Cixi seemed to think of Li Lianying, and Ling waited for Li Lianying's arrival here.
Not long after, a man in his fifties who looked like a cropper led a group of people to the back factory, which frightened Duan Wang and others who accompanied the escort hurriedly ordered everyone to gather in front of the queen mother's car, and when they got closer, they recognized that this group of people was Li Lianying, who they were waiting for.
"Lafayette, the minions are late." Li Lianying came to the Empress Dowager Cixi.
"You're here, so let's go?" The Empress Dowager Cixi said calmly, not excited, really calm.
"Galeries Lafayette, where are we going?" Li Lianying, who was driving beside her, asked the Queen Mother in the car.
"Let's get out of Juyong Pass first." The Empress Dowager Cixi said it very categorically.
So a group of people scattered, panicked, taking advantage of the moonlight, hurriedly left the back factory, neither to the north, nor to the west, but on a gray river misty avenue, to look at the northwest walk, straight to Juyong Pass.
After walking for a day and a night, because they had not brought anything with them before fleeing, there was no water, and all the villages along the way were ruined, and there was no smoke or sound in the village, and there was a dead silence.
I couldn't find clear water here, and I couldn't find food, so the Empress Dowager Cixi and the escorted King Li, Duan Wang, Su Wang, Na Wang, Lan Gongye, Ze Gongye, Ding Gongye, Di Beizi, Lun Beizi, Zai Zhen, Gang Zhongtang, Zhao Shuqiao and other people on the side were hungry and dizzy, and Li Lianying, Cui Yugui and other attendant eunuchs were also hungry enough.
On the outskirts of the capital in August, it also looks depressed and cold. Because there were very few clothes before leaving, and there was a little rain in the sky from time to time, it naturally seemed extremely cold, and the Empress Dowager Cixi could only sit back to back with Guangxu in the car at night to keep warm.
The sons, young ladies, and ladies who usually stretch out their hands in the palace and open their mouths for food have never suffered so much. Not to mention the bumps, eating without eating, drinking without drinking, sleeping without a place to sleep, and sweating but not finding a place to wash, it is really uncomfortable.
Because her mouth was too thirsty, Li Lianying could only collect the straw on the side of the road and suck the dew in it, although this was a drop in the bucket, but for the Empress Dowager Cixi, it was no worse than the taste of the imperial water in the palace, and she drank it with relish.
Along the way, there were dead bodies everywhere, mourning everywhere, and the village was silent, infinitely desolate.
And an empty stomach is even more uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Li Lianying had a nephew who was very scheming, and before leaving, he baked three cakes, and at this time took them out to Li Lianying, Li Lianying gave him one, ate one for himself, and gave another to Lafayette.
The Empress Dowager Cixi was so hungry that her eyes were blooming, and at this time she got such a tempting pancake, regardless of whether it was delicious or not, she ate half of it in one go, and gave the other half to the emperor and others to eat.
"Little Lizi, where did this pancake come from?" The Empress Dowager Cixi filled her stomach a little, and then wiped her mouth and asked.
"It's Li Futing, the nephew of the slave."
"I will reward him again when I go back in the future, but I can't reward him now."
After a little bit of food, the Empress Dowager Cixi came to her senses, but when she saw the listless guards, ministers and soldiers who were following her, she couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in her heart.
Comparing the majesty of the past with today's embarrassment, the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help but shed tears.
"Lafayette, don't be sad, it's important to flee now. The foreign soldiers have gone far and will not catch up. When they arrived in Deguan City, the minions wanted to get some food and drink, or they should rest there before leaving. Li Lianying comforted through the curtain.
It turned out that Wang Wenshao had already caught up, and he was seventy or eighty years old. I didn't eat a grain of water or anything for another day and a night, and it seemed very wilting, and the Empress Dowager Cixi felt like that. (To be continued.) )