Chapter 33: Some Confusion
After Zhang Yan heard Wei Zhongxian's words, she was immediately frightened.
"How could Your Majesty be missing? Hurry up and find it".
"The queen mother, please rest assured, the old slave has mobilized the internal officials in the palace, looking for His Majesty, and the Jinyi guard has also surrounded the palace tightly, and will never let the slightest news leak out, now can only let the queen mother stabilize the harem, don't make anything else go wrong."
Zhang Yan could only nod, at this tense juncture, Zhang Yan could only let go of his personal grudge with Wei Zhongxian and fully cooperate with Wei Zhongxian.
"Oh, by the way, Niangniang, remember that there is an assassin, not that Your Majesty is missing."
Wei Zhongxian hurriedly reminded Zhang Yan again, and Zhang Yan responded softly with a calm face.
Zhang Yan opened her mouth and shouted out the door, "Xiao'e."
"Slave maid see queen mother".
"Pass on the decree of the palace, let all the harem concubines stay in the palace safely, and they are not allowed to leave the palace for half a step."
"Niangniang, the old slave will take people to continue to search."
"Wei Zhongxian hopes that you can find Your Majesty as soon as possible, you and Your Majesty are grasshoppers on a rope, if something happens to Your Majesty, you will not be able to escape."
Wei Zhongxian's expression remained unchanged, and he saluted Zhang Yan again.
The first thing the little eunuchs in the palace asked after meeting was, "Have you found the Assassin?"
For these little eunuchs, the disappearance of the emperor is a big deal, and for these low-level little eunuchs, they have no right to know. What's more, these little eunuchs are of different compositions, and there may be anyone who colludes with officials outside the palace, so Wei Zhongxian can only claim to be looking for assassins.
It's just that there is no impermeable wall in the world, and if you don't want people to know it, you can't do it unless you don't do it. The news of the emperor's disappearance spread to everyone inside and outside the palace after two hours.
The performance of the two major parties in the court is also different, for the members of the eunuch party, the emperor is their reliance, and if there is no emperor, they can only scatter monkeys.
"Ancestor. Cui Wenxiu, a member of the cabinet and a secretary of the military department, all sent people to ask what the ancestor should do next."
The little eunuch who came to report tried his best to be well-behaved at this time, for fear that Wei Zhongxian would be overstimulated at this time, causing him to suffer an unwarranted disaster."
"Just let them take charge of the outer court, and don't make any mistakes for their father-in-law."
Wei Zhongxian looked disgusted and stared at the little eunuch.
"By the way, you let the cabinet members and all the six Shangshu go to the council hall and wait, and don't let them contact outsiders without permission, especially the eastern leader."
Wei Zhongxian, a member of the eunuch party, is still sure in his heart, and he is afraid that the Donglin party will do something again.
"Yes, Ancestor."
When the second day gradually brightened, the exhausted Wei Zhongxian walked into the council hall with a disgraced face. As for the members of the 6 ministries and the cabinet, they are all waiting anxiously in the council hall with dark circles.
When everyone saw Wei Zhongxian, they hurriedly stepped forward to surround Wei Zhongxian and asked one by one.
"Has His Majesty Gonggong Wei found it?"
Wei Zhongxian heard everyone's inquiries and did not answer, but turned around and ordered a little eunuch behind him.
"You go to Changchun Palace to invite the queen mother."
The officials also knew it when they saw Wei Zhongxian's expression, and their faces remained unchanged, but their hearts were overturned.
After a while, a voice came from outside the council hall, "The queen has arrived."
The officials and Wei Zhongxian hurriedly got up, stood in the council hall, and bowed down one by one when they saw Zhang Yan.
"Ministers, old slaves, see the queen's mother."
At this time, Zhang Yan no longer had her usual dignified posture, and her face showed a tired look.
"Where did His Majesty Wei Zhongxian go? You are the head of the celebrant and follow Your Majesty inseparably."
"The old slave is incompetent".
Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt on the ground, his heart revealing infinite desolation. For Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian can be said to want to find it more than anyone here, after all, he and Zhu Youxiao are life and death together. Maybe the eunuch officials in the court will escape, but it is a dead end for him, the head of the celebrant eunuch. After all, I don't know how many bad things I have done over the years, if my backer once falls.
"Incompetent, now Your Majesty, you can't see anyone in life, you can't see a corpse in death, how did you do it, the celebrant of ceremonies."
Zhang Yan was very rare to get angry, and casually threw the teacup on the table directly in front of Wei Zhongxian, and the tea saw Wei Zhongxian's clothes, and the fragments also scratched his face.
Blood trickled down Wei Zhongxian's face, drop by drop. It's just that Wei Zhongxian didn't have any intention to wipe the blood on his face at the moment.
At this time, a burst of white light flashed in the Warm Spring Pavilion, and Zhu Youxiao was lying on the chair like the one who disappeared before.
After a while, Zhu Youxiao slowly adapted to the impact of white light on his vision.
Seeing that there was no one in the Nuanchun Pavilion, he hurriedly changed the modern clothes he was wearing into the regular clothes he wore before.
After changing his clothes, Zhu Youxiao walked in the Nuanchun Pavilion with a relaxed expression, and suddenly found that the Nuanchun Pavilion seemed to be a lot messy, as if many people had come.
Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao felt that something was wrong, Nuanchun Pavilion was a place where only the emperor could stay, who dared to walk in Nuanchun Pavilion at will, and even made Nuanchun Pavilion so messy.
Especially now that I have traveled through time and space, I don't know what the proportion of time is. After all, there are many records of the history of the afterlife, and you may only spend a few minutes in other dimensions, but the time on Earth has passed for decades.
Zhu Youxiao looked around the Nuanchun Pavilion and turned his gaze to the chair he had made before, where there was a stack of musicals.
Chasing after the invalid hurriedly ran to the table, picked up the pieces and looked through them one by one, and found that the content was the pieces before he left, and he was immediately relieved.
Zhu Youxiao walked to the door and slowly opened the door, and found four or five little eunuchs leaning on the pillar next to the door with tired expressions.
Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help frowning, and found that things seemed to be different from what he thought.
I remember that when I first came in, two little eunuchs were waiting in front of the door. Now the two little eunuchs have disappeared, but they have turned on several people they don't know.
Several little eunuchs heard the door behind them ringing, and they couldn't help but turn their heads, and saw Zhu Youzheng, who was dressed in regular clothes, looking at him with a frown, and was suddenly frightened.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty ......".
While several little eunuchs spoke, they looked at the Nuanchun Pavilion behind Zhu Youxiao, but they were extremely surprised in their hearts, Nuanchun Pavilion didn't know that under their search, they searched several times, and even Gonggong Wei personally led people to search in the Nuanchun Pavilion, but now His Majesty came out of the Nuanchun Pavilion, which is really not reminiscent of Pianpian.
"Why is it so messy in the Warm Spring Pavilion? Which of you will come and tell me".
Zhu Youxiao looked at several little eunuchs who were kneeling on the ground with a displeased expression.
One of the eunuchs who belonged to the level of a young eunuch bumped into his courage and crawled a few times in front of Zhu Youxiao.
"Since Your Majesty mysteriously disappeared yesterday afternoon, Gonggong Wei led the little ones to look for His Majesty's ...... in the Warm Spring Pavilion."
Zhu Youxiao felt a little uneasy in his heart after hearing the little eunuch's words, after all, he had mysteriously disappeared for more than ten hours as an emperor, how could he not be worried. What's more, if the ministers in the court know, wouldn't it be a matter of not knowing much.
"Where is Wei Zhongxian now"?
"Your Majesty, the ancestor is in the political court with the elder of the cabinet and the 6 Shangshu ......."
"Swing the Chamber".
Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said that now that the cabinet and the six Shangshu all know the news of their disappearance, they must show up and let them see him in order to make them feel at ease. Among them, there was also a little eunuch who ran in the direction of the council hall first.
In the council hall, Empress Zhang Yan was furious, roaring at Wei Zhongxian, who was kneeling on the ground.
"Your Majesty is about to arrive at the council hall."
The little eunuch ran to the door of the council hall and saw Wang Tiqian waiting in front of the door.
The voice of the little eunuch was also heard by everyone in the council hall, and Zhang Yan hurriedly walked to the door of the council hall.
Zhang Yan had surprise on her face, "How is Your Majesty now?"
"The slave sees the queen mother, Your Majesty has just come here from the Nuanchun Pavilion, and the slave ran in advance to inform the queen mother and the adults."
The members of the Eunuch Party led by Wei Zhongxian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, while the members of the Donglin Party were a little disappointed, but they did not show it on their faces, and everyone all showed happy smiles.
Queen Zhang Yan was even more crying with joy, and suddenly fainted when it was dark in front of her, but fortunately, Xiao'e, the personal palace maid, and several little eunuchs hurriedly supported Zhang Yan with sharp eyes.
And this scene was directly seen by Zhu Youxiao, who rushed over, and hurriedly walked in front of Zhang Yan.
scolded the little eunuch loudly, "Don't hurry up and send the imperial doctor over."
In Changchun Palace, Queen Zhang Yan was lying on the bed with a pale face. Zhu Youxiao stood in front of the bed with a concerned face.
"Your Majesty, the queen mother's blood pressure has increased due to extreme mental tension and lack of sleep, so she only needs to rest a little, and the old minister can prescribe some calming medicines."
Zhu Youxiao breathed a deep sigh of relief after hearing the words of the imperial doctor, and instructed Xiao'e to take care of the queen, and turned around and left to go to the council hall, after all, he still needs to show up in person about the affairs over there.