Chapter 15: Change of Dynasty (1)
Two years ago, he was forced to swallow a piece of human flesh and went crazy for three days, but Qian Dashun handed in good luck because of this. General Zhang not only fulfilled his promise and made him the captain, but also transferred him from the East Palace to be his own soldier before leading the army, and taught him the skills of battlefield fighting. Within a few months, Tokyo was recovered, the general was promoted, and he did not forget to bring the brothers who licked the blood with his hob, Qian Dashun turned into a forbidden military captain from the seventh grade.
Because Luo San'er belonged to the left prison guard, and Qian Dashun's Qianniuwei was the emperor's guard, so Lai Xing'er first came to Qianniuwei to find Qian Dashun.
Qian Dashun was on duty outside the Zichen Hall last night, and returned to the barracks to sleep soundly, when Lai Xing'er broke in, lifted the quilt, and pulled it up from the pillow, he barely opened his sleepy eyes, and saw that it was Lai Xing'er standing in front of the bed, and scolded angrily: "There is no **** thing, who borrowed your boldness!" I'm going to play with Lao Tzu and come back in the evening. As he spoke, he fell asleep again.
Lai Xing'er knew that he had a lot of itchy flesh on his body, so he reached out and stabbed him under the ribs twice, Qian Dashun immediately sat up and chuckled: "Don't, don't, say something quickly, let go if you have a fart." ”
"Just became a broken lieutenant, just such a big temper, in the afternoon, Lord Li Jinzhong is going to the stable to check the horses, I will tell him what you said, I don't know how he will react?" Lai Xing'er has always been used to being casual with him, and intends to scare and scare him.
"Come on, knowing that you eunuchs are powerful, you can keep your mouth shut." Qian Dashun's sleepiness had disappeared by half, and he sat on the bed and looked at Lai Xing'er and asked, "You came to disturb my good sleep in broad daylight, wouldn't it be because you were full of food and had nothing to do?" ”
"Count yourself smart, get up and take a walk into the palace." Lai Xing'er picked up the robe on the low stool next to the bed and threw it to Qian Dashun, "My mother-in-law heard that the prince returned to Beijing and entered the palace today, so she sent me to inquire about the news after the prince entered the palace." ”
"Your mother?" Qian Dashun put on his robe and teased, "I said that the nine products are for the envoy to come to Xing'er, you are no longer on an errand in the East Palace, may I ask who your mother is?" ”
Lai Xing'er was not in a hurry or annoyed, and said leisurely: "It's the daughter of General Jingda, who was in charge of the handsome seal not long ago." I heard that a while ago, General Zhang Da was eager to use his strength to fight for this deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, but in the end, the emperor still trusted General Jing even more. Do you want me to say a few kind words in front of Concubine Jing and transfer you to serve in front of Marshal Jing's account. ”
"Don't play with you," Qian Dashun finished his outfit, and Zhengse said, "The news that the emperor has sent the prince back to Beijing is well known in the palace, so why do you need to ask me, is something wrong?" ”
Lai Xing'er pushed Qian Dashun out of the house, and begged in his mouth: "I don't know the specifics, good big brother, you just need to go into the palace and walk around, just ask where the prince is now, I'll wait for your news here." Another day, I'll ask you to ride a horse outside the city. ”
Qian Dashun pointed at Lai Xing'er's head with his hand, and said angrily: "Since I made you a 'crazy friend', I haven't been born in peace." Well, just stay here and wait for my news. With that, he called two jailers and hurried away.
But he left until noon, but there was no news at all. Lai Xing'er waited anxiously in the barracks, and was about to go out to Qingning Palace to find Luo San'er to find another way, when he almost collided with a sergeant. The sergeant rushed to Xing'er out of breath and shouted, "Quick, go back quickly." ”
Lai Xing'er was confused when she heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Do you make it clear?" Who told me to go back, and where did I go back? ”
The sergeant opened his mouth, gasping for breath, and after a while, Fang said: "General Qian wants you to ride the horse back, and specially instructed you not to ask anything else, everything will be known when you go back." ”
Lai Xing'er knew that there must be something wrong in the palace, and vaguely guessed from the sergeant's words that Qian Dashun wanted to return to the stable courtyard immediately, he didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly thanked the sergeant, went out and turned over his horse, and galloped towards the stable courtyard.
Although the alley where the stables are located is remote, there are always two or three small vendors selling soup cakes and groceries setting up stalls at the entrance of the alley on weekdays, and the people are quite lively. Today, when Lai Xing'er rode the "Snow Green" into this street, the long alley was deserted, and there was no one in sight. Lai Xing'er dismounted in front of the door of the courtyard of the stable, and when he saw that the two courtyard doors were closed, he stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker, but even if he knocked on the door knocker loudly, there was still no one in the courtyard to answer. Helpless, Lai Xing'er had no choice but to lead the horse to a big tree growing next to the wall, stand on horseback, hold a branch of the tree and stretch out to the courtyard, slip onto the courtyard wall, and then jump into the courtyard.
The courtyard of the stables was still quiet, and even the neighing of horses could not be heard, Lai Xing'er ran towards the duty hall, but not far away, he was stunned by the tragic scene in front of him: beside the path leading to the duty hall, in the grove where Su Fuzhong and Wu Xiaozhong often drank and played chess, and in front of the door of the duty hall, there were corpses of the guards in the idle yard everywhere, and one corpse was still bubbling with blood bubbling out. For the first time, Lai Xing'er witnessed the scene of corpses strewn after the massacre, and was so frightened that he turned his head and wanted to run out, but his legs were so shaky that he couldn't take a step, and the whole person fell to the ground with a "plop". He felt his chest churning, and he couldn't help but vomit on the ground.
When Lai Xing'er couldn't vomit and began to vomit sour water, his mind gradually cleared up. He struggled to get up, trying not to make contact with the crooked corpse, called out to Master and Uncle, and rushed towards the duty hall.
There was not a single body in the empty duty hall. Lai Xing'er relieved himself a little, he held back the fear in his heart, his limbs trembled and he identified the corpses in the courtyard one by one, and finally, when he confirmed that the master and uncle were not among them, he collapsed to the ground again, and began to cry bitterly.
"Is it Xing'er?"
Suddenly hearing a familiar voice behind him, Lai Xing'er suddenly realized, out of nowhere, he jumped up, looked at it, but saw the prince dressed as a guard standing in front of him with a steel knife in his hand.
In an instant, Lai Xing'er understood Qian Dashun's intention to rush back to the stable by himself.
"It's really you, that's great!" After two years of not seeing him, the prince became dark and thin, and seemed to be much older, he put down the knife in his hand, pulled up Xing'er, bypassed the duty hall, and went straight into a side room in the backyard where the duty man lived.
"Did you kill those people, Your Highness?" Lai Xing'er asked timidly.