Seventeen years of Chongzhen

March

Spring

Fang Yuan, Chigutai, Shi Lang, and 6,000 Xuanjia troops, after an interval of five months, finally returned to Tianjin Wei through Lushunkou.

After three or four months of expedition, the Xuanjia sergeants were all in rags, but they were also in good spirits.

When a large number of fleets sailed to Tianjin Wei, Liu Sheng, the commander of Tianjin Wei, was stunned when he saw that Fang Yuan had returned safely, and said hesitantly, "Fang Junmen, you, are you still alive?" ”

Fang Yuan had already learned from Shi Lang that the commanders of Tianjin Wei and Weihai Wei had escaped from the battle, and he didn't have a good face for Liu Sheng, so he responded lightly, "Thanks to the blessing of Commander Liu, he hasn't been buried in Phi Dao yet." ”

Liu Sheng's face was bloodless, and he found an excuse to stay away.

Because Tianjin Wei was the barrier of Gyeonggi, Fang Yuan and his party did not get Chongzhen's permission to enter the capital without authorization, so they could only stay in Tianjin Wei for the time being.

Fang Yuan and Chigutai took a hundred soldiers to escort the captured 100 old Manchurian nobles, and rushed to the capital overnight to restore their lives.

Arriving in the capital a day later, Fang Yuan ordered the accompanying Xuanjia sergeants to guard the captives and station them outside the city, while he and Chigutai entered the city alone.

As soon as he entered the city gate, he saw that the streets and shops were covered with long white silk, and at a glance, the entire capital was a pure white sea.

Fang Yuan was secretly frightened when he saw it, and moved the city to mourn, this is already the treatment of a state funeral, who died? He had an ominous premonition in his heart, "Could it be that Your Majesty has died?" ”

Fang Yuan walked out along the main street of the capital, found a teahouse in the market, got off the horse to find the shopkeeper and asked, "Shopkeeper, this, Baiyan in the city, who has died?" ”

The shopkeeper looked him up and down, looking back and forth, his expression was quite weird, and he invited another insider, pointing at Fang Yuan, and the two whispered.

In Fang Yuan's astonishment, the two of them changed their faces abruptly, and immediately flinched back to the backyard, saying again and again, "I don't know, I don't know!" ”

The behavior of these two people was too strange, Fang Yuan grabbed the shopkeeper who was about to hide in the backyard and asked, "Little Er, who died in the end?" ”

The shopkeeper was caught by him, his face turned pale with fright, he struggled desperately, and fled in a hurry, "Ghost! ”

Fang Yuan watched everyone dodge themselves like a plague god, and the second monk couldn't figure his head, and grabbed a foot merchant from other places and asked, "This boss, what's going on in the capital?" ”

The footman who was drinking looked at Fang Yuan and said, "I heard that a governor died, and His Majesty held a state funeral and personally wrote a eulogy. I heard that sixteen altars will be sacrificed in the imperial temples of the past dynasties, and each altar will be sacrificed for seven days, which is very grand! ”

The temple of the emperors of the past dynasties is the temple of the Ming Dynasty to worship the emperors of the past dynasties, as well as the temples of the virtuous ministers and famous generals, and the courtiers can enter the temple of the emperors of the past dynasties, and there are only more than 70 such as Jiang Shang, Xiao He, Zhuge Liang, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, etc.

Fang Yuan secretly thought, what kind of governor can be so valued by Chongzhen and enter the temple of the emperors of the past dynasties to worship? Could it be that Sun Chuanting is gone?

He hurriedly asked, "Which governor is it?" ”

The footman thought for a while and said, "I don't know who it is, but I've heard a little bit of the eulogy, and it seems to be the "Mourning Governor Fang Wen", it should be a Governor Fang who has become a horse!" ”

Fang Yuan was startled, almost unstable, who else could the Governor of the Horse Fang have besides Fang Yuan? He has sent back the news from the Korean state, why did Chongzhen hold a state funeral for him?

Chigutai grabbed him by the collar and scolded angrily, "Bastard! He is Fang Yuan, a concubine, live well, bury your mother's shit! ”

As soon as these words came out, not only the footman was slightly stunned, but everyone in the teahouse was stunned.

The footman said with a smile, "I read the sacrificial text at Fangkou, nonsense!" Nonsense! ”

Fang Yuan suddenly realized, the shopkeeper couple, why would the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper be afraid of him like a tiger, because Chongzhen had held a state funeral for Fang Yuan in front of the whole day, Fang Yuan had been on a tour in the capital before, obviously the shopkeeper couple and the shopkeeper regarded themselves as ghosts.

Fang Yuan ordered Chigutai to let go of the foot merchants, went out of the teahouse, and went straight to the bulletin board at the entrance of the fang, and sure enough, there was a "Mourning for the Governor of Ma Fang" written by Chongzhen himself, the content was full of grief, and he also conceived out of thin air that Fang Yuan was surrounded by 100,000 Tartars in Liaodong, and he was unyielding before he died, and scolded the Tartars endlessly. He also praised Fang Yuan as 'martyrdom is heavier than Mount Tai, blue blood turned into Changhong, following Wu Mu in history, and passing on the name in ten thousand years'.

Fang Yuan was moved when he saw this passionate eulogy, and his heart fluctuated, Chongzhen held a state funeral for himself, did he misunderstand that he really died, or did he have another deep meaning?

Chigutai asked in a low voice, "Fang Junmen, what's going on?" Let's go to the palace and ask the emperor for clarification. ”

Fang Yuan shook his head, the scene in front of him was too weird, if someone did it on purpose, wouldn't he go to the palace to fall into the net?

He stood in front of the bulletin board and muttered for a moment, and said to Chigutai, "Isn't the temple of the emperors of the past dynasties holding sacrifices? Let's take a look. ”

Fang Yuan took Chigutai directly to the imperial temple of the past dynasties, and the temple was also crowded with people, and hundreds of brocade guards surrounded the imperial temple.

Chigutai found an onlooker and asked, it turned out that a dojo ceremony was going on in the imperial temple, and Princess Kunxing, Chongzhen's daughter, was summoning the soul of her husband's concubine Ma Fangyuan.

Fang Yuan's nose was slightly sour when he heard this, and tears filled his eyes.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to etiquette, and none of the princesses who married married remarried after their husbands died, and they had to be widowed for life. Princess Kunxing and Fang Yuan were originally a verbal marriage contract, and they had not yet passed the door, so they could overturn this marriage and find another son-in-law.

But now she is willing to admit that Fang Yuan is a concubine and her husband in front of the world, and she insists on keeping a guard in the Imperial Temple, that is, she has made up her mind to 'widow' Fang Yuan.

The princess's affection moved Fang Yuan spontaneously, and tears couldn't help but cross his cheeks, if he has a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?

Fang Yuan didn't say a word, and when he and Chigutai arrived at the gate of the Imperial Temple, they were about to break in.

The brocade guard guarding the door and Fang Yuan looked at each other face to face, their faces turned pale with fright, and they shouted again and again, "The master of the horse has borrowed the corpse to return his soul!" Resurrected! ”

Fang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to these panicked brocade guards, and went straight into the Imperial Temple, and came to the side hall of the Jingdechong Temple, which was dedicated to worshipping important ministers of the past dynasties.

As soon as he walked to the door, a group of eunuchs and palace maids saw that Fang Yuan had come back alive, and they all thought that they had seen a ghost, and their faces were bloodless with fright.

Princess Kunxing, dressed in filial piety clothes, came out of the side hall and faced Fang Yuan, both of whom were stunned on the spot.

As the saying goes, if you want to be filial piety, Princess Kunxing, who is wearing filial piety clothes at this moment, has red eyes, and she has just cried; Yurong was haggard, but with a heart-warming pitifulness, Fang Yuan stayed there for a while.

Princess Kunxing did this dojo just to summon Fang Yuan's spirit, and now that she saw Fang Yuan appear in Jingdechong Temple, she thought that the dojo had manifested her spirit.

"Protect the princess!"

A group of brocade guards and eunuchs stood in front of Princess Kunxing.

"Get out of the side hall for me!"

Princess Kunxing was afraid that her popularity would be too heavy, so she scared away Fang Yuan's ghost, and hurriedly scolded everyone to leave the side hall, and in the courtyard of the entire side hall, only she and Fang Yuan were left.

Instead of being the slightest frightened, Princess Kunxing took a few steps closer, "Fang Yuan, are you here?" ”

Fang Yuan couldn't hold back his passion, so he rushed up and hugged her warm delicate body in his arms, and said softly, "Fool, of course it's me." ”

It was the first time that Princess Kunxing was held in Fang Yuan's arms, although she was a 'ghost', she was still so shy that she buried her head in his arms, and cried again, "Fang Yuan, I miss you so much, I miss you day and night." ”

Fang Yuan was so moved that tears came out of her eyes again, and they fell on her hair and cheeks, "Kun Xing, I miss you too." ”

Princess Kunxing felt his broad and warm chest, and was slightly surprised, shouldn't ghosts be cold?

She looked up at Fang Yuan with teary eyes, and when she saw Fang Yuan's face full of tears, she was even more suspicious, and the ghost would shed tears, which was unheard of, and she asked hesitantly, "Fang Yuan, is it your ghost?" ”

Fang Yuan wiped the tears on her face for her, and then grabbed her warm jade hand and put it on his cheek, "You touch it, am I a ghost?" ”

Princess Kunxing clearly felt the warmth on his face, retracted her head in surprise, and looked at him incredulously, "Fang Yuan, are you still alive?" ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "I'm not dead at all, where can it be a ghost?" ”

Princess Kunxing almost couldn't believe her ears, she kneaded his face again and again, and confirmed that it was correct, and then she was overjoyed, "Fang Yuan, you are not dead, you are really not dead!" ”

Fang Yuan hugged her tighter, approached her white little ears, and blew softly, "Fool, I'm really not dead." ”

Princess Kunxing was emotionally moved before, and hugged Fang Yuan's 'ghost' in public, but at this time, she suddenly remembered that the two were not married, how could she hug and hug in public, not to mention that she was still a royal princess, her face was flushed with shame, and she hurriedly pushed him away and took a few steps back, and said coquettishly, "Fang Yuan, you are not dead and you came to lie to me, you big liar!" ”

Fang Yuan showed an innocent smile, "My little princess, I have a sentence that says I'm a ghost, it's all your thoughts. ”

"Fang Yuan, my father thought that you died in Liaodong, and held a state funeral for you."

Princess Kunxing burst into tears and smiled, bowed her head shyly and said, "I'm so happy, I'll go and change out of my filial piety clothes, and then go into the palace with you to meet my father." ”