Chapter 267: The True Murderer Revealed
On the second day, Chen Fu folded to Emperor Yinwen and asked to go into hiding. Emperor Yin Wen had mixed feelings in his heart, and the person in front of him could be said to have made great contributions to the stability of the imperial court, but he never thought that he was the murderer of his mother.
Emperor Yinwen agreed to his request in accordance with the voyage, and ordered him to return to his hometown two days later.
Early this morning, Chen Fu left the palace with only one carriage and a few black armors. Emperor Yin Wen stood outside the door of the main hall, watching him leave. A breeze blew over, blowing a strand of Emperor Yinwen's hair in front of his eyes, but he didn't stretch out his hand to brush it away, and kept watching the carriage disappear outside the palace.
Ten miles out of the back hall, there were not many passers-by on the official road, and the sound of the carriage creaking came, and Yuanhang put the repeater on the stone table, turned around and looked back from the pavilion.
The driver of the "......" was stopped by Dao Zi, who was standing in the middle of the road, and the four black armors beside the car escorted the carriage forward.
The curtain of the carriage was slowly lifted, and Chen Fu, dressed in civilian clothes, bent over and stood straight on the carriage. Yuanhang grinned, picked up the repeater and walked out of the pavilion.
"Envoy Chen told the old man to return to his hometown, how could he leave in such a hurry, and the official will not have time to send him off." He walked leisurely to his horse, his arms folded around his chest, his right hand still holding the repeater, and his head tilted up to look up.
Chen Fu saw that it was a long voyage blocking the way, and knew that the comer was not good. Snorted coldly and said: "Who am I, it turned out to be Lord Ye, how dare we bother adults to send them off when we are old and useless." ”
"Yes, yes." Yuanhang laughed, fiddling with the repeater without being annoyed or angry, and said with a smile: "If you leave, there will be no one to play with me, won't I be very lonely." ”
Chen Fu laughed, folded his hands behind his back and said, "Wealth and power are nothing more than smoke to me. Since there is such a pillar in the court, it is useless for me to stay. ”
"What Envoy Chen said is really heroic, it's a pity, you can't go." Yuanhang's eyebrows were raised, and his eyes became sharp, and even Chen Fu felt the murderous aura on his body.
"To go or not to go, follow me. Just a few of you, do you still want to keep me? Chen Fu didn't take the voyage in his eyes. But Yuanhang attached great importance to him and deliberately brought Dao Zi to deal with him.
"I know that your martial arts are very high, and you once beat Cang Xiangtian, but you still can't leave today."
Chen Fu's face became ugly. It seems that this guy knows everything, and originally planned to retreat like this, but he didn't give up, since you came to send him to death, no wonder me.
Chen Fu waved his hand in the carriage, and the four black armorers beside him turned over and dismounted, drew their weapons and rushed over. Shadowless and Ah Jin flashed out from both sides, each stopping the two black armorers and fighting.
Chen Fu jumped off the car and rushed towards the voyage. Dao Zi had been paying attention to him, and when he saw him make a move, he also stepped forward to block the voyage and took it with a fist.
Chen Fu saw Dao Zi make a move in the air, and he kicked directly without waiting for the landing, sweeping towards Dao Zi's head. Dao Zi's body flashed to the side, and one turned to land with his left leg, and his right leg lifted and kicked at Chen Fu's calf.
Chen Fu knew that Dao Zi was a master when he kicked in the air, retracted his right leg, and his body spun in the air in two full circles and fell to the ground, looking at Dao Zi with his hands behind his back.
With a knife in his hand, he blocked the two black armors, but he was still calm. Stabbing left and right, forcing the two black armors to keep retreating, they can only protect themselves. Ah Jin struck faster, and the soft sword swung towards the black armor in front of him, but it circled back from the left side of his head and hit the black armor directly behind him. The black armor didn't pay attention, and was about to attack behind his back, when he suddenly saw a flash of cold light, and the sword had attacked, and hurriedly blocked it with a knife. Who knows, Jin's move is a vain, but at this time, his body is short, his legs are staggered and half-squatting on the ground, and he turns around and waves his hand to pick it up from the lower right. The black armor had already taken out his sword to the left to block Ah Jin's sword, and the right side of his body was completely empty, and it was too late to retract the sword. Ah Jin slashed with a sword, and a foot-long hole in the black armor's chest broke, screamed, and fell to the ground after two turns.
Yuanhang stood aside, looking at the middle of the field, and seeing that Wuying and Ah Jin had the upper hand, he turned his eyes to Dao Zi, holding the repeater in his hand, ready to pull the crossbow at any time.
Chen Futui slapped his hand, and when he was halfway through, his hand shook, and a short sword slipped out of his sleeve, holding it in his hand and stabbing at Dao Zi.
Dao Zi kept an eye on him, and when Chen Fu came over, Dao Zi swept his leg and attacked him, and when he lowered his body, he pulled out a scimitar from his boots.
Chen Fu jumped up and slashed at Dao Zi's head with a sword. Dao Zi turned around and blocked it with his knife. With a sound of "dangchang", the swords collided, and the two of them were shocked and quickly separated.
The knife purple cat leaned over, and his left hand was on the ground, and he pounced again like an arrow. The scimitar in his right hand slashed horizontally, smearing towards Chen Fu's neck with a thick murderous aura.
Wuying and Ah Jin have already solved their opponents and watched the battle from both sides.
Chen Fu and Dao Zi fought for 100 rounds without a winner. It's just that Dao Zi is getting more and more confident, and he is more and more ruthless. Chen Fu's heart was half cold, he didn't expect that there would be such a master by Yuanhang's side. And there are two people standing aside, it seems that it is difficult for them to get out of the way today. Unless......
What you think in your heart, you move with your feet. Chen Fu used all his strength to draw out three swords in a row, knocked Dao Zi back a few feet, turned over, and rushed towards the long voyage. Seeing this, Wuying and Ah Jin rushed up from both sides at the same time, wanting to block Chen Fu.
In front of him, how dare he have a trace of carelessness. Seeing Chen Fu rushing towards him, he raised his hand to point the crossbow arrow at Chen Fu, immediately fired an arrow, pulled the left slider with his hand, and pulled the crossbow string to the second crossbow arrow.
Chen Fu had already seen that Yuanhang had something in his hand, which seemed to be a crossbow arrow or something, and he had already taken precautions when he rushed over. When the first arrow of the voyage came, Chen Fu blocked the crossbow arrow with a sword, stretched out his left hand and grabbed it towards the voyage.
"Ah......" A flash of light struck, and Chen Fu only felt a numbness in his right shoulder. When I looked down, I saw that a crossbow arrow was halfway into my shoulder blade. The body couldn't help but pause, but when he saw Yuanhang's hand move, with a "whoosh", another crossbow bolt hit him.
Chen Fu hurriedly stopped and turned to dodge the third crossbow arrow. After this delay, Wuying and the other three had already arrived in front of him, and each attacked him.
Chen Fu's right hand was weak, and the short sword in his hand was swept away by the shadowless long knife, and Ah Jin kicked him upside down and flew out. Dao Zi rushed directly forward, and when Chen Fu landed on the ground, he put the scimitar on his shoulder.
Chen Fu sat on the ground with his left hand covering his right shoulder, his hair had been scattered, and his cold eyes were staring at the thing in Yuanhang's hand, I don't know what kind of secret weapon this is, which can fire arrows continuously.
"I don't know what it is, do you? Hehe, this is a repeater specifically for you. Yuanhang saw Chen Fu's doubts, and walked over with a crossbow.
"If you dare to assassinate me, the emperor knows that he will not spare you." Chen Fu had no ability to fight back, stared at the voyage hatefully, and moved the emperor out.
"Then you don't have to worry about it." Yuanhang went up and kicked him, and instructed Dao Zi: "Tie him up and blindfold him." ”
Dao Zi tied Chen Fu firmly, and after blindfolding his eyes, he picked it up and threw it in the carriage, and several people turned around and drove towards the back hall.
Chen Fu felt that the carriage turned around, and it was bumpy for a while, and he was dizzy, knowing that it was excessive blood loss. I tried to sit up, but I touched the wound on my right shoulder, and my painful eyes turned black and I fainted.
When he opened his eyes again, Chen Fu saw that he was already in a room, his right shoulder had been bandaged, but he was tied to a chair and couldn't move.
Yuanhang sat at the table, still fiddling with the repeater in his hand.
"I think you should know this place, a place you know all too well." Yuanhang had a smile on the corner of his mouth, but his voice was cold.
Chen Fu naturally knew that this was his room in the palace. The reason why Yuanhang tied him here was nothing more than to tell him that what he had done, the emperor knew.
Yuanhang took a sip of the teacup and asked lightly: "I just want to know, who instructed you to kill Concubine Zhuang." ”
Chen Fu sneered, twisted his head to the side, and closed his eyes.
"I want you to say, because you said it, it's better than the other person said, at least sacrifice you, and you can still save her." Yuanhang was not afraid that he would not say anything, because he knew where Chen Fu's weakness was.
"How do you think I killed Concubine Zhuang?" Perhaps the words just now had an effect, Chen Fu opened his eyes and turned his head to look at the voyage.
"Because when Concubine Zhuang died, she pointed to a screen, which was the only thing she could do before she died, and the screen painted with the ups and downs of the angry sea actually hinted at your name, Chen Fu." Yuanhang was also watching him, and raised his voice appropriately.
Chen Fu sneered, "It's really a joke, just because of this, it was designated that I did it, will you believe it when you become the emperor?" ”
"And this." Yuanhang picked up the list of flowers that recorded Chen Fu on the table, shook it a few times, opened it and read: "Chen Fu, entered the palace in the eighth year. He glanced up at Chen Fu, pointed to the list, and continued: "You entered the palace in eighteen years, but you changed the cross to the word Yu, and advanced your entry into the palace by ten years. ”
"So what? It can't prove that I killed Concubine Zhuang. An imperceptible look flashed in Chen Fu's eyes, but he said disapprerovingly.
"Then why did you advance your entry to the palace? Because you were twenty-five years old when you entered the palace, you have long passed the age of entering the palace, and if you enter the palace in eighteen years, you will inevitably be suspected. If it is changed to eight years, it is to enter the palace at the age of fifteen, and you can cover people's eyes and ears. Yuanhang threw the flower catalogue on the table, got up and walked over, and asked slowly: "It's really difficult for you to go to the palace at the age of twenty-five." If it weren't for the fact that there was something big in the palace that urgently needed you, I think you wouldn't behave like this. Let me ask, what forced you to self-harm and enter the palace? ”
Chen Fu's face was expressionless, but his heart was like that screen, and the sea of anger was rising and falling. The past came to mind little by little, as Yuanhang said, in the eighteenth year of Chun'an, he lost the most precious thing in the screams one by one.
"How did you find out?" Chen Fu seemed to want to know how he could tell the events of many years ago so accurately in his later life, as if he had experienced it himself.
"People are not as good as heaven, you can only change the era, but you can't change the facts. The Lan Hall was destroyed by fire as early as the seventh year of Chun'an, and it took Chun'an ten years to repair, but I'm afraid you don't know about it, right? After the voyage was finished, the room became silent. The two looked at each other, calming and patient.
"What you said is good, but this does not prove that I killed Concubine Zhuang." Chen Fu still refused to admit it, and Yuanhang shook his head helplessly.
"It's for the sake of Princess Pingyao that I talk to you so carefully, according to the generation, I should still call you uncle." The voyage stirred up a thousand waves, and Chen Fu fought a cold war and became panicked.
"Although you have been hiding your background, you have forgotten that I am in charge of the dark spirits of the world. You are a native of Jeonju, surnamed Han, and the younger brother of the current Queen Mother......"
"Don't say it." Chen Fu interrupted the voyage, closed his eyes tightly, and the muscles on his distorted face kept trembling.
"Why not?" Yuanhang snorted and continued. "In the eighteenth year of Chun'an, a lot of things happened in the palace. You are the elder brother of the concubine, but you self-harmed into the palace, after entering the palace, you did not go to the Fengluan Palace of the concubine, but went to the Xian Guifei's Lan Hall to listen to the errand, if someone did not arrange it, can you go with the flow and enter the Lan Palace? ”
Sweat oozed from Chen Fu's head, and tears slowly flowed down, painfully reminiscing.
Seeing that the time had come, Yuanhang suddenly changed his tone and said, "The Ninth Princess is marrying me, and you know if you want to come." The Queen Mother is her mother, and I will leave her out of this matter. But since the emperor has an order and vows to find out, there must be an explanation, whether to say it or not, you can make up your own mind. ”
Chen Fu looked up, seemed to see hope, and asked, "Does the emperor know?" ”
Yuanhang shook his head and said, "The emperor doesn't know, and I don't want the emperor to know." ”
Chen Fu nodded his head and sighed: "Then I'll say, it's just the Queen Mother's ......."
"Don't worry, she is still the queen mother." Yuan Voyage assured Chen Fu.
Chen Fu nodded again, recalling.
In the eighteenth year of Chun'an, Han Shuting, who was twenty-five years old at the time, was concentrating on martial arts on Kunlun Mountain. Han Xuelu, the daughter of the Han family, has been in the palace for many years and was awarded the title of Shuguifei. On this day, he suddenly sent a letter saying that he was about to be in trouble, and hoped that his brother would help him. Han Shuting went down the mountain to the back hall, and after seeing Concubine Shugui, he learned that the concubines in the harem were sinister, and Queen Helan was dead, and he was afraid that he would not be able to escape his hands. In order to save his sister, Han Shuting resolutely harmed himself. Concubine Shu regretted it when she learned it, but it had come to this point, so she had to make arrangements to let him enter the palace of Concubine Xian and become a eunuch, and changed his name to Chen Fu.
Shortly thereafter, Han Shuting did several things for Concubine Xian one after another, which was noticed by Concubine Xian. Immediately, he designed to frame the consul eunuch of the Lan Palace, and the virtuous concubine promoted him to be the chief eunuch of the Lan Palace.
Another day, the virtuous concubine vomited bitterness in the palace, saying that the date of the emperor's establishment was approaching, but she was not favored, and her words were full of jealousy and hatred for Zhuang Guifei. Han Shuting took the opportunity to say that he would get rid of Concubine Zhuang, which made Concubine Xian very scared, so the matter was put aside for the time being.
After another period of time, Concubine Xian saw that the post-establishment period was approaching, but Concubine Zhuang was becoming more and more favored, and couldn't help but think of Han Shuting. Call it and tell it secretly.
Han Shuting knew that Concubine Zhuang was favored by the emperor, and if she was removed from Concubine Shu, she might be crowned queen, so she agreed.
On that day, he climbed over the wall and entered Yuxi Palace, came from the south courtyard to the window of Zhuang Guifei, and sneaked into the house in advance to hide under the bed. After Concubine Zhuang took a nap, Han Shuting came out from under the bed and covered Concubine Zhuang's mouth with his hand, wanting to suffocate her to death. Zhuang Guifei opened her eyes and struggled desperately after seeing him, Han Shuting was afraid that the sound would be too loud and alarm the outside, so he lifted Zhuang Guifei's neck with one hand, dragged her under the bed, and slammed her head to the ground.
After only a moment, Concubine Zhuang lost her breath, and Han Shuting stood by for a while, and after making sure that Concubine Zhuang was dead, she fled back through the window. It's just that he didn't pay attention to it, Concubine Zhuang had such a mind, and she left a clue for future generations before she died.
"So, it was the virtuous concubine who killed Concubine Zhuang to death?" Yuanhang asked in a condensed voice.
Chen Fu nodded and replied, "But it is the mastermind of the virtuous concubine, and it has nothing to do with the concubine." ”
"Even if it's not related, it's not to be blamed." Yuanhang sighed, the woman of the deep palace, you must not only compete for favor, but also beware of others. If it weren't for the cold lights, it would have been a loss of life. Pathetic, alas!
"How did Empress Helan die?" Yuanhang continued to ask.
"I don't know." Chen Fu shook his head and replied, it didn't seem like a lie.
"What about the virtuous concubine? And how did he die. "Yuanhang knew that Empress Helan's death had nothing to do with Chen Fu, and he hadn't entered the palace at that time. Just to foreshadow, and then asked about the virtuous concubine.
"This ......" Chen Fu was asked suddenly, and his words paused. Yuanhang immediately understood that Concubine Shu couldn't escape the death of Concubine Xian.