Chapter 13: The Birth of the Dragon
Kan Fang Pavilion
"What?!"
Receiving the news of the assassination of the Emperor of Baohe Palace, Gu Yunyao was stunned.
She had no intention of Emperor Xiao, so when she heard that something had happened to him, she didn't beat her chest and faint in shock, but her face turned pale with fright, and her body trembled as she sat on the stone chair.
Zhao An rushed forward and gently patted her back with a soft and warm palm, comforting:
"Master, don't be in a hurry......
Turning his head and asking Nagong E, "How is the emperor's dragon body now?" ”
"Several assassins were killed on the spot, but the emperor was unharmed."
Gong E just replied, but Gu Yunxi on the side of the stone table couldn't bear it, jumped up and rushed out of the pavilion in a few steps, stood in front of Gong E, and inquired anxiously:
"The assassin is dead? Can you find out who instructed you? ”
Gong E raised her head slightly, glanced at Gu Yunxi's Dongchang fanfu, and immediately opened her mouth in fright, as if she gasped, and didn't dare to say anything.
In the pavilion behind him, Zhao An said to Nagong E angrily:
"Let you speak, and you will say!"
"Yes...... It's the East Factory...... The Assassin was instructed by the Cold Overseer of the East Factory! ”
Xiao Gong'e trembled and closed her eyes forcefully, waiting for the Dongchang Fanzi in front of her to fall on her with a palm and chop her to death.
"This ...... It can't be ......"
Gu Yunxi only felt that the five thunders were booming, his eyes looked directly at Gong E, who was reporting the incident, and shook his head in panic and confusion.
Overseer, how could he instruct the Assassins to assassinate the Emperor......
Taking a few steps back, the six gods turned around and looked at Gu Yunyao, and Yunxi cried out aggrievedly:
"Sister......
Immediately, countless Venus stars appeared in front of him, and his body was weak, shaking from side to side.
"Hold on!"
Zhao An saw that the situation was not good, and gave an order, and asked the two little eunuchs to hold Gu Yunxi and help her to sit in the pavilion.
Gu Yunxi bowed his head in despair and repeated the same sentence:
"The Overseer wouldn't do such a thing...... The Overseer wouldn't do such a thing......"
Gu Yunyao stabilized her senses, came over to comfort her sister and said:
"Yunxi, don't worry, I'll go back to the Baohe Palace. Hurry up and go out of the palace with my people now! Don't delay! ”
There is a big incident in the palace, and the forbidden army will soon close the gates of the major palaces. Gu Yunyao pondered, how could she send her sister out of the palace, and she couldn't let her fall into troubled water
Seeing that she ignored her, Gu Yunyao instructed Zhao Andao:
"You have to think of a way to send Yunxi out of the palace safely."
"Yes, please rest assured."
Zhao An agreed, thought about it, looked at both sides again, pointed to a waiter casually, and ordered:
"Come here, go behind the tree over there first, take off the clothes of the waiter and change them for the little master."
And he said to one of the chamberlains:
"After a while, you take the little master and walk from the Yongshun Gate with the waterwheel out of the palace...... Bring this silver, use it to make some water, and find an excuse to leave the palace......"
Gu Yunxi suddenly grabbed Gu Yunyao's wide sleeves, and said sadly:
"Sister, take me, let me go to the Overseer......"
Gu Yunyao shook her head in panic:
"This is unacceptable! Now that something has happened, everyone else has to choose themselves, why do you still join in the fun? Hurry up and be obedient, don't say anything when you leave the palace! Father-in-law Leng, he will go back soon! ”
"......"
"Don't worry, I'm already in the same boat as him, and I won't let anything happen to him. It's just that our sisters have just met and are going to separate, goodbye...... But I don't know when......"
Gu Yunyao was reluctant, and there was wetness in front of her eyes when she spoke, Zhao An hurriedly urged:
"Master, hurry up! No matter how late it is, I can't get out of the palace in time for the waterwheel! ”
Then he waved to the group of palace ladies and said:
"Clean up the things on the table and escort the master of Zhaoyi back to the Baohe Palace."
Gu Yunxi stared at the top of the soap boots, suddenly turned his heart sideways, and reached out to knock over the food box.
There was a "bang", and the porcelain cup containing the wine suppression soup broke down, and the soup splashed on the ground.
Gu Yunxi put the fragments into the food box and said to Yun Yao:
"Sister, even if you don't take me there, I'll always find a way to see the Overseer!"
Gu Yunyao was secretly taken aback. I didn't expect that in less than a year, the "Ermu" who was bullied by everyone in the Gongyuan in the past would become so strong.
Now, her calm and excellent face can no longer see all the humility and weakness of the past, and her clear dark brown eyes are flashing with blazing light, confident and tenacious, which really makes Gu Yunyao envious and moved.
"That's it, I'll take you there......" Gu Yunyao shook her head helplessly and instructed her:
"When you arrive at the Treasure and Treasure Palace, remember not to speak out at will, and don't talk nonsense."
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Treasure and Temple
When Gu Yunyao arrived with people, the atmosphere was still tense and dignified.
“…… Concubine Xu gave birth safely, if one person loses, I will never indulge you."
As soon as he arrived outside the main hall, Gu Yunyao heard the emperor roaring like thunder inside.
As soon as the assassination occurred, the Spring Banquet could not continue. The table was removed, and the civil and military ministers stood on the east and west sides of the hall, all of them lowered their eyebrows, and they didn't dare to breathe more, anxiously waiting for the news of Concubine Xu.
Gu Yunyao tried hard to suppress the fear in her heart, supported her body, which had already collapsed and was soft, and walked towards the high platform of the dragon case, maintaining the dignified posture that Erpin Zhaoyi should have. Although, every step over the embroidered soft carpet, when I saw the mottled bloodstains on it, red and black, clung into crusts of different shapes, the shocking feeling was extremely strong.
Before she returned, the seven bodies in the temple had been carried out and examined carefully.
"Where have you been? How did you come back! ”
When Emperor Xiao saw Gu Yunyao, he asked in a deep voice with a blue face.
Now that something big is happening, he's in a bad mood. As soon as Yu Zhaoyi came back, he remembered that he hadn't seen her for a long time, and he was worried and complaining in his heart.
"The concubine is too strong to drink, so I wanted to go out to breathe, and go back to change into palace clothes by the way. When he heard that something had happened in the Baohe Palace, he hurried back. The concubine failed to accompany the emperor, and hoped that the emperor would forgive the sin. ”
Gu Yunyao bowed deeply in front of the dragon case, her tone was like a quiet orchid, and her words revealed the gentle and weak momentum of her stocks.
The evil fire in Emperor Xiao's heart was instantly extinguished by her tender tone, and he pulled her closer to her and said with pity:
"I'm worried about you. Tell me where to go next time. ”
"The concubine knows ...... wrong"
The great eunuch Hu Gonggong was interested, so he asked the chamberlain to carry a chair and put it next to the dragon case, and Emperor Xiao asked Gu Yunyao to sit next to him.
Gu Yunyao saw that the emperor looked depressed, and persuaded:
"The emperor is at ease, Sister Xu is the concubine of the Son of Heaven, and she is under the care of the gods, and she will turn evil into good fortune and give birth to Lin'er safely."
When Emperor Xiao heard this, his face softened a lot, and he took her jade hand and patted it:
"Borrow the auspicious words of the concubine."
The imperial concubine Wan Yuyao stood beside her, watching Emperor Xiao and Gu Yunyao whispering intimately next to each other, and unconsciously gritted her teeth. In an instant, an indescribable resentment, like a flood of angry waves, rolled wantonly in her heart.
On the side of the side hall, several grandmothers and palace ladies were still hurrying in and out, and bursts of heart-rending wails were irrepressibly coming out of the brightly lit side hall.
Gu Yunxi followed Zhaoyi's chamberlain into the main hall, and at a glance saw Leng Qingtang kneeling next to a large area of blood.
Once, the blue figure was like the color of the sky, falling and heroic, but now curled up and prostrate, weak and desolate.
The heart seems to be torn apart by something, shattered all over the ground, and the pain that penetrates into the bones......
Gu Yunxi's mind was blank, so he forgot about the palace rules and Zhaoyi's instructions.
She rushed forward with the food box in her arms, knelt beside Leng Qingtang, and cried out miserably:
"Overseer......"
Leng Qingtang turned his head slightly, shocked, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you come here?" You shouldn't come! ”
Minglan on the east side had already noticed Gu Yunxi who had slipped into the field, and the corners of his lips were hooked obliquely
Out of a gloating sneer.
Hey! She's coming too? It's good to come, I'm not afraid that the drama will not be lively......
Wan Yuyao stood on a high place, and soon found that there was a small guard next to Leng Qingtang, so she frowned and said unhappily:
"Yu Zhaoyi, who did you bring in? At present, there is chaos in the palace, and the emperor's ill-intentioned people have not yet been investigated, so you can lead people casually! ”
Gu Yunyao knew that the imperial concubine was looking for fault, so she hurriedly got up and walked back, gently blessed herself, and replied without hurry:
"Back to the imperial concubine Niangniang, this little fan guard was met by the concubine on the way. Because he was in a hurry to deliver things to the Baohe Palace, and he didn't remember the way, the concubine asked him to come with the honor guard. ”
"Sending something? What to send? Minglan, you go and ask him! ”
Wan Guifei was violent, and it seemed that she had finally caught a reason for the crime of treating people casually, and glared at Minglan viciously.
"Weichen, obey the order."
Minglan grinned, right in the middle. Pacing over leisurely, facing Gu Yunxi's eyes, he asked in a strange way:
"If the mother asks you, answer quickly and truthfully. What are you doing running into the palace as a young guard! ”
"When the slave entered the palace, he actually came to bring wine suppression soup to the lord of Leng Duke."
Gu Yunxi lowered his head and said, he really didn't want to look at Minglan's bewitching and pointed face.
"Sake soup?"
Minglan raised his eyebrows suspiciously, looked at it for a moment, and lifted the food box on the ground and opened it.
It was wet inside, with only a few pieces of sweet white porcelain.
Minglan's face immediately changed color, and he buckled the lacquer cover hard, and asked sharply:
"Bold! You said to send the wine suppression soup to Lord Leng, where is the wine suppression soup? Where is it! You're clearly lying! Father-in-law Leng is not good for the emperor, so he sent you to do the internal response, isn't it? ”
Gu Yunxi was so angry when he heard this, he wanted to turn his face and have a seizure, but he had to endure it, so he had to answer expressionlessly:
"The slave returned to the palace, and when it was dark, his feet were unstable, and he lost his hand and dropped the food box. The porcelain cup shattered, and the wine suppression soup was gone. ”
That's a good reason! Minglan couldn't find a reason to refute it for a while
Gu Yunyao, who was sitting next to Emperor Xiao, had already sweated for her sister, and when she saw that she was entangled by the commander of Xichang, she hurriedly grabbed the words:
On the way back to Xiaoyexuan, Bengong met him crying sadly, so he stepped forward to ask about the situation, and knew that he was lost again, so he persuaded him a few more words.
There is also a wine suppression soup in the palace, thinking that he will hand him some errands to deal with, and he will not have to be blamed by the governor of his family, which is also a good thing. was about to take him to Xiaoyexuan to get soup together, when he heard that something was wrong here, and hurriedly brought him over. ”
"Yao'er, you are kind-hearted."
Hearing Gu Yunyao's reasonable explanation, Emperor Xiao immediately thought of the fact that she took the lead in donating money when Jiang An was in the White Disaster, and praised it beside him.
Minglan had a slap on his face, and it was not good to ask anything more.
At this moment, the wailing voice from the other side of the hall was lowered. The crowd in the hall began to panic again.
Gu Yunxi knelt on the ground, for a long moment, she was in a trance, she couldn't tell the time, and she couldn't tell where she was at this time.
Finally, a hearty baby cry pierced the misty night sky.
The civil and military officials were instantly relieved.
Queen Qian was sweating profusely, and her makeup was embarrassed and ran all the way into the main hall, and before she had time to walk to the bottom of the high platform, she stood in front of the door excitedly, and said aloud impatiently:
"Congratulations to the Emperor! Sister Xu gave birth to a dragon son for the emperor, and now the mother and son are safe."
Emperor Xiao was stunned, sitting on the dragon chair without moving, his eyes looked at Queen Qian tightly, surprised and suspicious.
Gu Yunyao quickly got up and bowed down at his feet, smiling charmingly:
"Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor!"
At this time, the civil and military officials knelt down in unison, and said in unison:
"Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to Xu Niangniang"
In the excitement and joy in the sky, only Wan Yuyao's face was gloomy. The sharp and vicious eyes quietly confronted Minglan and Wan Li, and the three of them were silent.