It is said that Liu Aiyun led his ticket friends to deliver meals to the ministers of the Son of Heaven who were trapped in the imperial tomb for more than ten days, and two more soldiers and horses rushed over, seeing that Cao Datong was surrounded, he was in a dilemma.

At dusk on this day, the fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy finally appeared among the people who delivered meals to Liu Aiyun's ticket club. When they returned from delivering their meals, one of the soldiers shouted, "Hey, that little fat man, can you climb trees?" ”

The young man rejoiced, "Yes! Hit the small will! Then he pouted, "I'm not fat!" You haven't seen my brother, he's fat. ”

The soldier said, "Come with me and get something for me." ”

The boy said yes and followed.

The soldier led him into the tent, only to see Cao Datong with a sad face, and looked up at him: "Sit." ”

The young man was not polite, but sat down on the stool in front of him.

Cao Datong asked, "Your surname?" ”

"Zhao."

Cao Datong nodded: "Zhao Gongzi." ”

Zhao Gongzi said crisply: "Hey! General Cao, do you have a little heart? Is there tea? ”

Cao Dadao: "Where did you get the dim sum in the army?" "He commanded tea to be served.

Zhao Gongzi muttered: "It's so poor!" Then he asked, "What did the general call me for?" ”

Cao Datong coughed and said, "I saw that the son had a good insight that day, and I wanted to ask for advice or two." ”

Zhao Gongzi waved his hand: "You don't have to be so literate, I also look forward to taking my father home as soon as possible, let's win the best." Dare to ask the general what is the current situation? No, you'd better tell me about it first, or I won't understand the cause. An unprovoked general will never rebel. But who has been pampered? If the general can trap the imperial tomb, he must also be a brave and resourceful person, didn't he think about what to do after the incident? ”

Cao Datong's face turned red and said, "I think about it...... Forcing the saint to write a decree for the forgiveness of sins...... I don't want him to live or die and refuse to agree. ”

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Zhao Gongzi choked on a sip of tea, and coughed for a long time before saying, "You, you...... Ahem, such a big general as you, general, actually believe that the saint will confess after writing the holy decree of forgiveness? ”

Cao Datong was stunned and said, "You have no jokes." ”

Zhao Gongzi rolled his eyes: "That's the Ancient Mingjun." Flip through the entire annals of history, how many ancient emperors are there? Besides, do you think this is the Emperor of the Ages? ”

Cao Datong was stunned.

Zhao Gongzi drank tea and waited for him to recover, and after waiting for a long time, he was still staying, but the black face became more and more red, and he said curiously: "Is this difficult to understand?" Since ancient times, the emperor has been like a tiger, and the emperor has no way to talk about faith, and everything is only controlled by the court. ”

Cao Datong held back a sentence for a long time: "Isn't it that since ancient times, there has been no joke about golden-mouthed jade teeth?" ”

Zhao Gongzi said: "That's the person who wrote the drama commentary and hoped that Jun would have no jokes, so he wrote it into the drama commentary." Because those who write drama commentaries are subjects. In the affairs of the emperor, the subjects have the final say or the emperor has the final say? ”

Cao Datong choked again.

Zhao Gongzi looked at him for a while and said, "Or, can you start with me from the beginning?" I'll help sort it out. ”

Cao Datong drank two bowls of tea in a row, and frowned again, as if he didn't know where to start.

Zhao Gongzi sighed: "Is it because the saint doesn't give you military salaries, grain and grass, or does he want to kill your whole family?" ”

Cao Datong raised his head and stared at him: "How do you know?" ”

Zhao Gongzi spread his hands: "Otherwise, who is idle and has nothing to do to rebel?" ”

Cao Datong hurriedly said: "Not bad, not bad! It's the government forcing the people to rebel! Then we talked about cause and effect.

It turned out that the saint had stopped his military pay for a while, but there was no shortage of food and grass. Until someone sued him in front of the last month, the old sage was about to die, and the sage was afraid that he would not be obedient, so he intercepted his military salary and sent people to his head to spread rumors that he had embezzled it. Originally, Cao Datong was just resentful in his heart, but he didn't expect the reverse word to come up at all. A few days later, he got another letter, informing him that the sage had collected all the evidence of his crimes, and also listed more than a dozen crimes, all of which were true, just waiting for the Emperor Taishang to return to the west to destroy him. That man, he had received the grace of General Cao's life-saving grace because of something at some time, and now he happened to know about it, and he came to inform him that General Wang would either flee early or try to seek amnesty.

Zhao Gongzi thought for a moment and asked, "The general's family has probably been settled." Wouldn't it be better to run away early? ”

Cao Datong had a hint of ruthlessness on his face: "Escape? If the faint king wants to kill you, where can you escape? I don't have one life, and even if I die, I will take the faint king. ”

Zhao Gongzi glanced at him: "With such a anxious temperament, no wonder people picked on you." That's it, it's come to this, what does the general think? Even if the saint forgives your sins, it will not be a real forgiveness, and it will definitely be settled later. ”

Cao Datong arched his hand and said: "Ask Mr. for advice!" ”

Zhao Gongzi said: "Of course, I only escaped!" It's just that you can't run away with so many people. My father and Liu's friends, princes and princes are useless. You only take one saint with you, and you take the Son of Heaven to open the way and escape to a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, or you will fall into the grass and become a bandit, or you will land on the island to become a bandit. As for how you will get out of danger in the future, it will be up to the saints. It is important to know that the country cannot be without a king for a day. As long as the saint is taken away from the capital by you, he will be afraid. He was afraid that the ministers of the court and the central government would appoint a new king, and that his younger brothers and sons would come to seize his throne, and the longer the time passed, the more afraid he became. At that time, he will promise you anything you ask him for, and he will make up your mind for you. Besides, you can also tell him that you can take this opportunity to see how many princes and princes in the court are loyal and how many are harboring ambitions. ”

Cao Datong's eyes lit up: "Yes!" What the gentleman said is very true! That faint monarch is most afraid of losing the throne! "Thank you, little gentleman!" ”

Zhao Gongzi pouted and said, "Fang Cai is still a gentleman, and after giving you an idea, he will become a little gentleman." ”

Cao Datong laughed and ordered someone to send him out.

That night, Cao Datong led people to rush into the imperial mausoleum, grabbed the Son of Heaven alone, and opened the camp to leave. Gan Lei led the troops to block his way, so he tied the saint to the front of the battle, and said with a cruel smile: "Whoever dares to block the way, I will kill him first!" "Gan Lei was afraid that he would hurt the jade bottle by beating the rats, so he had to temporarily let his people out of the encirclement.

Gan Lei immediately led the people to break off, still took the saint on the horse, pointed at Gan Lei and said: "You don't want to shoot arrows indiscriminately, otherwise you will have to rely on my head to kill the faint king?" Then he said to the sage, "Can you set up a prince today?" If it is established, this prince will kill his father in the name of a thief, and he will be able to ascend the throne tomorrow! ”

The saint was half frightened to death, but when he heard the words, he woke up and shouted: "No arrows!" No blades! ”

Gan Lei was overjoyed when he saw that Zhao Gongzi's plan was effective: "When we are safe, we will let you go, otherwise what will we do if we keep you?" I have to feed you. ”

The saint also didn't care about face, and hurriedly shouted: "Let them go, let them go!" Don't chase after me! ”

Gan Lei couldn't, so he had to stop the soldiers and horses, and naturally he couldn't let them go, so he only followed them from a distance.

As soon as Cao Datong left, the kings and ministers were safe. Some generals cut pine branches for torches, and regardless of the darkness, they helped the old and the young to rush down the mountain.

Trapped in the imperial mausoleum these days, Lin Hai and Su Zheng are mostly in one place. At first, they were quite anxious, but after Liu Aiyun's ticket club delivered food, they were much more relieved: only those stinky boys of the Jia family would do such a strange thing. Lin Hai also went to comfort the saint several times. After waiting and waiting, it was still the saint who was arrested. The old man was very discouraged, and helped Yang Songshen to walk on the mountain road with one shallow foot.

Suddenly, a long and a short whistle came, Yang Song was stunned and looked around. Except for the ministers who coaxed down the mountain and the female dependents who screamed from time to time, they never saw anything strange beside them. It's just that a few blue fireflies suddenly flickered in the bushes on the right. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Master, Master Su, there are a lot of people here, let's go to the side for the time being." Lin Hai and Su Zheng were easy-going, so they listened to him. The three of them led Mrs. Su and a few servants to the right.

After walking for a while, a shadow suddenly popped out of the darkness and hugged his fist at Yang Song: "But Yang Heng's brother?" ”

Although Yang Song has often received letters from Yang Heng over the years, he has never seen anyone once, and he misses it very much; Hearing this, he hurriedly said, "I am!" ”

The man could vaguely tell that it was a young man, dressed in the night clothes often worn by people in the green forest, and said, "Yang Heng came down to rescue his brother and Lord Lin." ”

Yang Song smiled: "Thank you, hero." It's just that now that the rebels have withdrawn, I think you can return to Beijing safely. ”

The man said: "I think that the Son of Heaven is hijacked by men, and the lords may not be safe on this trip." It's better for us to still escort the adults back to Beijing, and if there is an accident, there will be someone in Beijing to preside. I don't know what Lord Lin thinks. ”

Lin Hai was shocked: "Who still has the heart of disloyalty?" ”

The man sneered: "The crown prince has not been established, and the kings have different hearts, who is loyal?" ”

Lin Hai pondered for a moment and asked, "What do you know?" ”

The man said: "I don't know, I only came to save the adult according to Yang Heng's instructions." ”

Lin Hai snorted: "Don't make ghosts in front of me!" Your surname is Ge, isn't it? It's a kid from the Taiping Dart Board, isn't it? In the early years, you arrested me once in Yangzhou. Even though you've grown up, I remember what you looked like. ”

The man was dumbfounded, and after a while, he smiled and clenched his fists and said, "Lord Lin has good eyes." Kid Geqiao. ”

Lin Hai snorted again: "But Huan'er is a ghost? ”

Ge Qiao said: "Yes." The third master of Huan has already transferred all the people from the Taiping Dart Bureau, but we are just some dart masters, and we can only deal with a few bandits who are ordinary robbers, but we can't take the serious imperial army. I can only bring some food for the adults. ”

Lin Hai stroked his beard with a smile and looked at Su Zheng and said, "How?" I can't be wrong, they really got the food deliverers. ”

Su Zheng argued: "It's clear that I guessed it first!" ”

Ge Qiao and Yang Song looked at each other and smiled, and said: "It's just that these days we have also been in the military camp that came to rescue the driver, and we heard some strange words, although I don't know why, I'm afraid there will be an accident on the side, so I came to pick up the two adults to go down the mountain from the path, just in case." It would be better if it was safe. ”

Lin Hai and Su Zheng looked at each other a few times, and Su Zheng said, "What this kid said is also reasonable. Just Huan'er and his father? ”

Ge Qiao said with a smile: "There is an old dart master who has already found Master Jia, and this time he is about halfway up the mountain." So he led them down the hill by the side path.

These days, all the nobles are frightened, and they are about to escape, and they are still trapped, so no one has eyes to look at others. They didn't light the torches again, Yang Song and a young man who came to help sandwiched Lin Hai, Ge Qiao and another sandwiched Su Zheng, and Mrs. Su and her family also followed, and walked away in the dark by the vague starlight, without anyone knowing.

Bumpy to the bottom of the mountain, and climbed up another small hill, only to see a ruined temple in front of him, in front of the temple there are some young people wearing black night clothes guarding, Ge Qiao came and someone greeted him, "Ge Dart Master!" Ge Qiao bowed slightly: "Brothers, hard work." ”

Lin Hai saw that they were all in good spirits, and praised: "Who said that Jia Enhou's dart game is useless to spend money in vain?" I think these kids are doing well. ”

When they entered the temple, they saw that although they were small, they were very clean and neat, and it was obvious that they had been stationed here for many days. Jia Zheng had already been brought here, and he came back to his senses when he saw his son, and he was so frightened that he burst into tears, and Jia Huan comforted him by the side. At one point, the three old guys met. Although Su Zheng and Lin Haiping looked down on Jia Zheng, they also looked at him a lot after this predicament and reunion. Jia Huan pulled the two gentlemen to ask long and short questions, knowing that they were in good health and not hungry.

Mrs. Su looked around for a while and asked, "Didn't Lord Jia's wife come up the mountain?" ”

Jia Zhengdao: "We were suddenly taken away by the old dart master, and others don't know about it." ”

Jia Huan said: "The eldest wife, the second wife, Brother Zhen, Brother Zhen, and the daughter-in-law are all in a bunch, and there is no way to get so many people to go for the time being." ”

When Mrs. Su heard this, she knew that he was sincere and unwilling to save her mother-in-law, so she disapproved of it and glanced at him.

Jia Huan continued: "Besides, there are many people. Those wives and grandmothers are all pampered, completely different from their grandmothers. It would not be good to let them go down such a mountain road, in case there is a fuss and scream. Now that the rebels are gone, and there are so many maids and women serving them, there will be no trouble. ”

Lin Hai hurriedly asked, "What are the strange words you heard?" ”

Jia Huan said: "It's not a strange word, it's not a strange word." "Nai Dao," we heard the soldiers who came to rescue the driver whispering, 'The general said, since the prince is not established, then anyone can do it, why is it the second?' It is evident that this general is not loyal to the Holy Lord, and he does not know which prince it is. Since the saint is still in the hands of thieves, I am afraid that these princes will be dishonest and make some trouble, so I secretly took the two gentlemen here. Others didn't dare to be alarmed. ”

Lin Hai was shocked: "This matter must be tried to inform King Xian first!" ”

Jia Huan pouted and said, "Sir, spare King Xian for the time being!" He is the most difficult to do, it is not right to help any nephew, and he will be the first one to be repaired in the future - if he can't keep it, he will not be as good as the prince next to him. ”

Su Zheng glared at him and said, "How do I teach you on weekdays?" Loyalty to the monarch is the duty of a human servant, and since he knows that he is afraid that some princes will go astray, how can he ignore it? ”

Lin Hai shook his head: "King Xian has never touched military power. If the prince has a horse in his hand, he can't help it. It's just that he's always wise, and he can't keep it in order. ”

Jia Huan said with a smile: "Look at it again, we are tired for so many days, so we can rest for a while." Speaking of which, I am much more tired than the gentlemen, and you will have to give me less homework in the future. ”

The old men laughed together, and Jia Zheng scolded: "The little evil animal who doesn't know how to lift ......"

Before he finished speaking, Su Zheng didn't agree first: "No, this little evil beast, Lord Jia, you are still climbing one foot at a foot higher on the mountain!" ”

Lin Hai laughed.

Jia Huan also laughed, went outside to help carry a few cotton rolls, and said, "This is a sleeping bag, which is made by Cong'er according to the method of Westerners." There is a well behind the temple, the water is not bad, and firewood has been cut outside to boil the water. I'll fetch water for the old man, so let's rest early. ”

Lin Hai looked at the sleeping bag, but sewed the quilt into a big pocket to put the person in it, which was quite interesting and praised a few times. These days, the old man is really scared and restless. At this time, when I saw the disciples, and there were so many young dart masters outside to protect me, I suddenly felt calm, stretched out my arms and legs, and comfortably asked Jia Huan to fetch water to come over to serve, wash up and get into the sleeping bag.

Early the next morning, a young man inquired about the news that the princes had gone down from the imperial tomb to Xiaoci County last night, and they all stayed in the county seat for a night. At this time, Xiaoci County had already been surrounded by General Li Guopei from Hebei, saying that he wanted to escort him back to Beijing, but no one was allowed to enter and leave at will. No need to ask, all the princes have come out of the tiger's den and into the wolf's den. Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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