Autumn clouds and rain, haze.

When the application was handed in, the sky was already dark, and the Qingyi Hall in the palace had been lit with lights and candles, but it was still full of sorrow and panic.

A high-hanging bead curtain blocked, and the shadow showed the woman who was facing each other inside, with a phoenix crown and a high beard, and the momentum was compelling.

Zhang Xixi in the bead curtain hugged the five-year-old King Yue in her hands, aggressive, the emperor and the jade seal of the country are all in her hands, and the concubine who has gone through two dynasties insists on asking Empress Liu to bring out the King Lu who seems to be disgraceful, and even claims that the emperor has already planned to abolish the queen.

Outside the bead curtain, it was originally a group of ministers convened by Liu Renfu by Empress Liu to leave Emperor Taiye, who was still panting, to talk about the establishment of the reserve. was about to reach the final decision of the inner palace and the outer court, but Zhang Xixi broke in with a large number of palace eunuchs.

Gao Gong, who participated in the court meeting at the end of the court, was inexplicably excited, but he was also frightened, and he couldn't really deal with it calmly, and he only relied on years of qi cultivation to support it, but just like that, suddenly a thunderbolt exploded in his ears.

"Gao Gong! You come to draw up an edict, and the emperor will appoint his eldest son, Yue Wang Qi Jia, as the crown prince! Zhang Xixi's voice was high-pitched and sharp, revealing irresistible.

It's the son of Concubine Zhang who secretly voted for him to cause trouble!

Gao Gong trembled lightly and just got up, when he was forcibly dragged down by a red-clothed internal prisoner, and approached the bookcase with yellow silk step by step, weighing as much as a thousand catties under his feet.

King Lu occupies the throne, and the Liu family has heavy troops, and most of the ministers brought from Luojing are Liu Dang's henchmen. It is precisely because of this that Zhang Xixi, at the suggestion of his own family, handed over this errand to Gao Gong, who has been staying in Xiakou and is unfactional and unaffiliated on the surface.

Gao Gong rubbed the tip of the pen on the pen licking with hesitation in his hand, and secretly wondered in his heart whether to sprinkle the pen on this matter, or to put the pen on the case, and bow down and stubbornly resign.

The emperor can no longer serve the council, and Liu Renhe, who is in charge of the palace guards, and Hu Jin, the inner palace supervisor, are both Liu members. How could a woman who served in Israel have no fear? Thinking about the information that his son Gao Wei had reported, Gao Gong suddenly tightened his pupils, raised his eyes and looked at Liu Renfu, who was staring at him with a gaze like he was about to eat people, and his hands couldn't help shaking.

There was a flurry of panicked footsteps and the sound of armor clashing outside the palace, and Liu Renhe, who had a grim face, and led a team of neatly draped soldiers, shouted loudly to kill the demon concubine. He entered the temple gate without being summoned.

The screams of pain, the sound of soaring blood arrows and weapons striking each other were endless, but in two moments, the Qingyi Hall was immersed in a pool of blood......

Gao Gong knelt on the ground, holding above his head a scroll of paper that had already been prepared to be haode, and not far from him lay the corpses of several courtiers.

"Master Gao is really good at calligraphy and good heart. The edict of the matter here will be established, and this meritorious work will be remembered by the palace! Zhang Xixi, who sat on the phoenix seat, took the edict before the ink dried. I only saw the names on the volume, and I sighed from the bottom of my heart.

Gao Gong didn't have time to thank him, so he slumped down and sat down on his lap for a while.

Two of the expressionless gray-clothed palace eunuchs who stood around Zhang Xixi walked out and put him back on the chair, but it was no longer the first zuihou seat, but the middle one who had lost the original owner.

In the matter of the edict, Gao Gong risked his life to gamble on the right thing.

When Liu Renhe was killing the palace, he glanced at a young eunuch in red who was standing beside him and waiting for pen and ink. vaguely remembered that his person was Lu Zhenggan, who disappeared on the fifth day of the ninth month, and Lu Zheng was the first person to trust the first emperor.

"Look! This is His Royal Highness King Lu, who the queen has been hiding. ”

In the sudden reversal of the situation, the courtiers who immediately fell to the ground and begged for mercy had just caught their breath. I saw Concubine Zhang, who had already controlled the situation, get up from the phoenix seat and take over the child from the queen's palace.

Unwrapped in a thick package, the three-year-old child was skinny, with several foul-smelling sores on his body, looking like a hungry man on the side of the road, not an emperor.

Emperor Taiye, who was overly indulged in medicine, was simply unable to give birth to healthy offspring. Empress Liu tried her best to give birth to a child who suffered from fetal poison since birth.

Such a child who can't live long is really not as good as being chubby for nothing, at least looking at the comfortable Yue Wang. The ministers in the room, who had bent their knees under the threat of death, looked at each other and agreed with the intention that they had made the right choice.

"Liu Baoying, if you can let go of the hypocrisy of everyone's ladies, and give birth to a child according to what your father and brother taught you to borrow or exchange a child privately. It doesn't stop there. Zhang Xixi squatted down, put the thin child who was not in a wisp on Liu's hind arm, whose hands had been cut off, and then turned around and touched it as if unintentionally.

The woman's screams of pain and horror resounded through the palace again......

The ministers were detained in the palace, and the bodies of Empress Liu and her father and uncle were dragged out by the palace guards like dead dogs, without any respect for their lives.

The torture chamber was dark, and the lights were turned off.

Lu Shou, who was standing quietly in front of the door, gently stroked the amethyst in his arms and whispered to the eunuch bound on a walking staff execution bed: "Cooperate with Concubine Zhang, firstly, because the Son of Heaven is in her palace, according to the rules and grandpa's orders, we must only obey the emperor's orders." And secondly, it was because she promised me that she could take your life afterwards. ”

"Lu Shou! You are killing our family so cannibally, Lu Zheng will not spare you underground! Hu Jin, who was arrested because Lu Shou was poisoned in secret, scolded, "Do you think that all the people around Zhang Xixi are my subordinates who are anti-water or transferred from Jianyang?" Their origin is unknown! Those eunuchs have never recorded files in the Chen Palace, and some of them are still angry......"

Hu Jin, who was knocked on the mouth board, swallowed a few blood teeth, and couldn't make a sound in his mouth, only staring at Lu Shou with a pair of eyes that were as big as cowbells.

I know that Zhang Xixi may have borrowed some liliang that I don't know where I came from, but what can I do? In the sound of a crackling staff, Lu Shou kept his head down, his fingers lightly brushing the soft fur of Amethyst.

Chen Chaojiangshan has nothing to do with eunuchs like him who have no future. He only remembered that according to his grandfather's deathbed explanation, Emperor Taiye was the last emperor of the Chen Dynasty to protect, and only one day Emperor Taiye swallowed a breath of zuihou, he would leave with amethyst.

And if he hadn't ordered the cane to scold his grandfather today, maybe Lu Zheng, who was alive, would still be able to try to control the Son of Heaven's illness with poison, instead of letting him die as he is now......

The Ninety-Five Supreme was lying quietly on the dragon bed like a corpse still breathing.

Zhang Xixi, who was sitting sideways in front of Emperor Taiye's bed, did not have the slightest bit of his previous ruthlessness, only looked at Mother Jiang beside him with tears in his eyes, and said softly: "What you want me to do, I have done it, but you called someone to cure him!" ”

Those masters who rushed to the palace a few days ago, Zhang Xixi didn't know the origin at all, only knew that they should be controlled by Tianxiangyuan, who raised her.

"Even if you want to be governed, this Xiakou, who is about to come to the city, should not stay for a long time. The concubine Niangniang might as well make a plan as soon as possible and cross the river with Bixia and the prince, right? ”

Mother Jiang lovingly stroked Zhang Xixi's long hair and persuaded softly.

Not to mention that according to the results of the inspection, Emperor Taiye could not be saved, even according to their original purpose, this emperor had lived long enough, and his death at this moment made the Chen Dynasty as chaotic as possible.

It's just that Emperor Taiye is overindulgent and suddenly has a strange illness, or is it poisoned, and if so, is the poisoning related to the Zhou Manyun who left the palace that day? Jiang's mother crossed doubts in her heart, and she was ready to report this in the future.

"Do you want to cross the river?" , Zhang Xixi sobbed and whispered in his mouth.

The palace at the beginning of the chaos was silent, and the streets of Xiakou had become a pot of boiling porridge.

People were shouting, horses were neighing, and there was a chaotic rush of footsteps and the clashing of knives and guns.

Most of the soldiers and horses from all over the country who came to Xiakou Qinwang were rejected from the city gate like the Xiao family, and Liu Renfu, who was in power that day, was afraid that his authority would be lost, and he did not even pay the soldiers, but only forced the soldiers and horses from all sides to go to the land to eat.

And the 100,000 soldiers stationed in Xiakou City, most of whom are from the Liu family, are just mutations in the palace, which also caused a chain of roommates outside the palace.

As soon as he received the news that Liu Renfu's brother had died in the palace, Qian Guoguo, the nephew of the Liu family who had been receiving him outside the palace, was afraid of being convicted and surrendered, while the other lineage led by Liu Renfu's son Liu Cheng planned to escape from Xiakou to avoid the disaster of killing.

Xiakou, a fortified city built with several generations of manpower, was under the pressure of anti-thieves approaching outside, and started the chaos from the inside in advance.

The sky was still overcast on September 20, but the heavy rain had stopped all night, and the streets of Xiakou were full of stagnant water and mud, and the muddy water was littered with miscellaneous items such as flat shoulders, clothes and hats, making the streets look more and more messy.

Last night, Liu Cheng's team, who fled by night, protected the Liu family, temporarily robbed mules, horses, and vehicles from the homes of the people in the city, and involved the lives of many innocent civilians in the robbery and confrontation.

The fleeing Liu Jiajun not only grabbed mules and horses, but also rushed to the banks of the Tuojiang River and wantonly plundered and burned the boats on the river, with no purpose at all. At the East City Gate, in the end, a bloody battle broke out with the defenders of the city who had been attached to the Zhang Department, slashing the gate and swarming out.

The city of Xiakou was even more desolate and dilapidated.

At noon, silver rain arrows flew again between the heavens, making the city with many holes and holes even more ominous.

As soon as Gao Gong, who had been detained in the palace for a whole day, returned to the mansion, he rushed straight into the room of his eldest son Gao Ji, hugged his son who was slumped on the table and cried.

Tired of crying, Gao Gong confessed coldly to his second son Gao Wei, who rushed to hear the news, so that he lost the meaningless official business in his hand and left Xiakou City with his family.

If Gao Gong still had extravagant thoughts in the past, feeling that the thieves outside Xiakou City were tired from afar, the elite soldiers in the city were waiting for work, and the city was strong enough to hold on to King Qin's soldiers, then now he has given up this ridiculous idea.

The inner courtyard of the Gao family began to be packed up nervously and busily, just like the homes of many princes and ministers. The desire to escape is now sweeping every corner of Xiakou City like a tide.

But when it was dusk, the even more unbearable bad news quickly bombed Xiakou into a bleak dead city.

The Huangzhou army, which had been driven from Dengzhou as if it had entered a no-man's land, had set up its camp five miles outside Xiakou City, and the troops were approaching the city. (To be continued......)