Chapter 12: The Past Is Like Smoke
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was called the emperor of the Mengyuan Tatars, unified the Chinese Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty rose strongly, leading the Quartet to worship!
Emperor Zhu was born poor and often remembered the suffering of the people, but he was extremely repulsed by his subordinates and famous generals, and the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty were handled by Emperor Zhu, and countless heroes were killed.
Emperor Zhu twenty-five years, the eldest prince Zhu Biao toured the ancient city of Chang'an to the west, and appreciated this thousand-year-old capital.
However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and the eldest prince Zhu Biao soon felt the wind and cold, and he died for a while, and left the west, leaving Emperor Zhu heartbroken, and the matter of moving the capital was put aside and not asked. Chang'an, a thousand-year-old city that carried the history of China, also lost its hope of becoming the capital for the last time.
The eldest prince Zhu Biao was humble and kind to others during his lifetime, and he was born as the eldest son and treated his younger brother benevolently and lovingly, and often reconciled the mistakes of his younger brothers in front of Emperor Zhu, so that they would not be suspicious of Emperor Zhu when they were outside the domain.
As the crown prince, he studied Confucian classics under the famous Song Lian since he was a child, and he was very fond of his officials and colleagues in the court, and often worried about the people of the world. When the first prince of the Ming Dynasty unfortunately passed away, the people who were officials in the world for a hundred years and the second dynasty did not hide their pains and miss their exploits during his lifetime.
August!
State funeral!
The eldest prince Zhu Biao was hidden on the east side of the filial piety tomb, accompanied by his biological mother, Empress Xiaoci of the Ming Dynasty!
A year later, Lan Yu, a general who was good friends with Zhu Biao, was killed by Emperor Zhu for treason, implicating no less than 10,000 people, and the case involved a wide range of people, almost slaughtering the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty.
The fragrance of flowers and birds, the breeze and the willows, this is the situation of Jinling City in April, every place looks intoxicating, in this world is peaceful, when the people live in peace, Jinling City is a different scene. Everyone who is an official is in danger, every morning is the beginning of facing death, whether you can go home alive, no one can do a package ticket, it all depends on how your past achievements are, if you are a great meritorious, you will definitely die, this matter is ridiculous and ridiculous, it is really a subversion of the historical view, but if you stand by the side of Emperor Zhu, but you feel that this must be done.
Red walls and bricks, green water and blue sky, a prosperous scene.
A man dressed in eunuch clothes, with a thief's head and a rat-eyed cat leaning against the red wall, moved quickly forward, and he looked around from time to time, as if he was afraid that someone would see his slightly ugly appearance.
Castration!
He couldn't erase the pain in his heart even after many years, and the distortion in his heart was as terrible as the distortion of his appearance. Rao is like this, he finally remembers a trace of kindness, remembering that there was once a man who looked like an officer who helped him when he was most down, and he remembered this friendship, although he still failed to escape the 'pity' of fate and entered the palace that everyone envied, but he finally did not forget the kindness of the nobleman, thinking that one day he would have to return it.
Who would have thought that when this opportunity came, it was more than ten years later, and this time to return the favor was really not the right time, this is a matter of losing his head directly, he wandered around the room all night, not knowing how to choose. Affection, Cheng, he is worthy of his heart, defeated, he is in a different place like an officer surnamed Zuo, and he may be even more miserable, after all, this Emperor Zhu is trying his best to suppress the eunuchs, and he will not leave any mercy at all.
He has seen those colleagues who have been ordered to deal with, almost unable to die of pain, all the criminal laws that people can suffer can be used on eunuchs, this is not acceptable to normal people, whether it is mental or physical unimaginable, he is in the ranks of eunuchs and knows that the hearts of these colleagues and normal people can not be tired at all, they have the viciousness of women and the cruelty of men, these two together, make eunuchs a dark representative, despised by the world.
Wandering all night, the idea of treating nothing as if nothing had happened shrouded in his heart and mind, after this incident passed, which officer surnamed Zuo would definitely not survive, and who in this world knew that he owed such a favor, no one knew...... Nobody knows......
When the first light of the morning came into view, his bloodshot eyes stared directly at the light outside the window, and all his thoughts were put into his mind, he turned around and picked up a plain suit that had been prepared yesterday from the cabinet, and went out without looking back.
Things are really a little tricky, he relied on more than ten years of experience in the palace left and right, smoothly out of the palace, and along the way without any difficulties came to the mansion of an officer surnamed Zuo, this officer he had asked earlier, this person is the right-hand man under the general Lan Yu, the battle of 'fishing in the sea' defeated Yuan Ting, he is the vanguard general, can be described as a famous general! It's just that the most unlucky people in this season are these heroes and famous generals, the general Lan Yu was directly executed for treason yesterday, how could this general Zuo, who has been close to Lan Yu for many years, be spared from this catastrophe.
As expected, as expected, just after he stepped into the gate of Zuofu, he heard the sound of the footsteps of the Jinyi guards behind him.
In a hurry, General Zuo was born as a soldier after all, and he was not messy, he just ordered everything in the family, just begging not to harm the lives of his family, and there was really no way to do this kind of luck in his heart. But how did he know that the art of power scheming was more tragic than the battle on the battlefield, and how could a person who was on top of him let go of his family.
The eunuch voiced his worries or the truth! The whole Zuo Mansion was flustered for a while, and General Zuo sighed: "Pity me, these children have been showing up outside for many years, and no one can hide them at this time!" ”
"And what about her?"
The eunuch asked, pointing to a little girl who was being held in Mrs. Zuo's arms.
General Zuo was stunned.
"Yun'er really hasn't been out of the house, but she's so young and a girl, it's ......"
"Bang Bang Bang"
As the general spoke, he had already heard the doorman slamming the door, and the brocade guard had already arrived at the door.
"By order! General Zuo, open the door! The anti-thief Lan Yu has been ambushed yesterday, and you remnants don't want to leave. ”
Outside the door, Jinyiwei shouted deeply, shaking the bricks and tiles up and down the Zuo Mansion to a loud sound, and General Zuo scolded angrily: "If you want to kill, you will kill clearly, why do you give people an charge of rebellion, I don't accept it, Anqingji has a kind of you come in and we have a comparison of the exercises." ”
The eunuch trembled with fright when he heard the sound outside, and he grabbed the corner of General Zuo's clothes and didn't dare to say a word, but this General Zuo's body was as strong as an ox, and where did he drag the master, he was dragged away all the time.
"Kindness always has to be repaid!"
He muttered something in a low voice, then spread his hand and ran directly to Mrs. Zuo, showing a strange smile to the little girl in her arms, and then asked in an extremely ugly tone.
"Tell me, how old are you and what's your name?"
As soon as the little girl saw this ugly-looking man, she was a little frightened in her heart, and when she saw him so close to herself, she buried her little head in her mother's arms, and did not show it.
Seeing this, Mrs. Zuo hurriedly lifted her daughter's little head and comforted: "Quickly tell this adult how old you are and what your name is, be obedient and not afraid, this adult is a good person, not afraid!" ”
The little girl looked at her mother's face, then turned around and glanced at the eunuch in front of her with her big clear eyes, and whispered.
"My name is Zuo Qinyun, I'm five years old, my mother, my father, and my two brothers all call me Yun'er, I'm done."
Then he buried his little head in his mother's arms again, still not wanting to look at the person in front of him more.
The eunuch slowly stood up, looked around, and pointed to one of the servants.
"Take your clothes off!"
"This?"
The servant looked at Madame Zuo in surprise, as if he didn't understand what this meant.
Mrs. Zuo was also confused, she didn't know what this father-in-law was going to do, but she could only take a look at it first, so she nodded to the servant.
The servant took off his shirt and handed it to his father-in-law with a confused face, and then before Mrs. Zuo asked the reason, he snatched his daughter directly from his arms, Mrs. Zuo panicked and grabbed the corner of her father-in-law's clothes that had turned around, and hurriedly asked: "What is my father-in-law doing, why did he snatch my daughter!" ”
"Confused! If you don't take her away, you Zuofu won't even have a single survivor, I can't take your two sons away, and I will take this girl away to repay General Zuo's friendship. Don't worry, I promise you here, even if I give up this cheap life, I will also protect the female doll, you and the general and the Zuofu up and down, just look at it from the sky. ”
After that, he picked up Zuo Qinyun, who was crying, with the clothes taken off by the servant, and ran directly towards the back door of Zuo Mansion with his armpits.
"My daughter! Ahhh ”
Behind her, Mrs. Zuo suddenly woke up and cried and fainted directly in the hall.
Immediately next to the city wall, he avoided the inspection of the Jinyi guard all the way, risking his life to bring out the 'relics' of the Zuofu, the little girl doll did not stop her tears along the way, he really had no choice but to cover her mouth with his hand, until the bottom of the palace.
Gently pushed open a vermilion lacquer door hidden in the corner, and slipped in directly when no one found it, and when he closed the door and was about to leave, he suddenly heard a cough behind him.
"Ahem, ahem! Yo, Grandpa Chen has come back from outside with something, can I take a look? ”
Chen Huaqing was stunned, standing in place for a while and didn't know how to deal with it, this little girl was indeed too obvious under her armpit, he was stunned for a while before he slowly turned around and looked at the person sitting on the bench in front of him, and said with a smile: "Who should I be, it turned out to be Gonggong Liu!" What are you doing here today? ”
Gonggong Liu got up violently and shouted respectfully in the direction of Fengtian Palace.
"The emperor's holy grace, this time the traitor is rampant, and it is bad for me to be a Ming society, although I am not among the nine kings, but I must always share my worries for the emperor, in case someone hides the traitor privately, or leaves a thief seed for the traitor."
As soon as Gonggong Liu's words came out, Chen Huaqing was shocked by a cold sweat, and he was worried in his heart: 'Could it be that the matter has been revealed?' Someone told me? But when I think about it, I don't show any horse's feet at all! What's going on here. ’