Episode 37: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell (Part I)

In the large and bright hall, Fourteen Gege was kneeling on the futon, quietly reading a book. On the opposite side, Xiao Wu was lying on the coffee table, flipping through a Chinese literacy textbook, and was learning Chinese.

There was the rumbling sound of cannon in the distance, but the two of them seemed to be used to it, and they didn't care. It's just that one or two explosions are relatively close, and Fourteen Gege trembled slightly, and the book in his hand fell to the floor.

She didn't pick it either, but just turned her head away and stared out the window. After looking at it for a while, he turned around again and looked at Xiao Wu opposite with interest.

Xiao Wu looked at the textbook, and suddenly laughed out loud, immediately stopped laughing, and looked up at Fourteen Gege. Seeing that Gege didn't care, he smiled hesitantly.

Fourteen Gege laughed:

"You can laugh when you look at a textbook?"

Xiao Wu grinned and pointed to a word "mother" in the textbook to show her:

"Your Royal Highness Princess, it turns out that the word 'daughter' in Japanese means 'mother' in Chinese! Haha, their mother is our daughter, so much fun......"

Suddenly, her voice was lowered. She forgot that Her Royal Highness the Princess was not Japanese.

Fourteen Gege didn't care, and smiled:

"What's so strange about this, between China and Japan, not only words, but many other things, all look similar, but in fact they are very far apart......"

Another loud explosion came from the southwest, and the ground trembled slightly, as if it were only a few kilometers away. Fourteen Gege listened to the sound of the cannon, frowned, and a wave of irritability came up.

Since the start of the war in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the guards in the palace have looked at themselves quite unkindly. Although the maids were quite respectful to themselves, it was very polite to talk to Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu has already cried twice in anger.

But these are all psychological preparations for a long time. Since he was fooled by Xiang Xiaoqiang and chose to live, he must have the consciousness of "forbearance". "Forbearance" can also be understood as when the world does not adapt to you, you have to adapt to the world.

Fourteen Gege thought that there was no lack of cultivation in this area. When she was in Japan, the world was cruel, and she worked hard to adapt to the world. Later, when she returned to the Qing Dynasty, the whole world came to adapt to her. It was very comfortable.

But now, I'm going to readjust to the world.

……

Most of the imperial relatives in Nanjing were evacuated to Hangzhou, and originally Fourteen Gege felt that there must be their own in the first few batches of lists, and they didn't want to live here until the Qing army crossed the Yangtze River. Staying in the house all day long, although she is the princess of Daming, no one has come to interact with her, and there has been a war recently, and even Xiang Xiaoqiang is not coming. Fortunately, I was accompanied by Xiao Wu, otherwise I would really suffocate to death.

Fourteen Gege began to think that they were deliberately not arranging themselves, that they were observing themselves to see how they reacted. She had the courage to give Zhu Yourong a table and took the initiative to ask to withdraw to the south. But Zhu Yourong called that night and said with a smile that it was specially arranged to keep her in Nanjing, so that she didn't have to think too much. If Nanjing is really dangerous, I will invite her to live in the Purple Mountain Fortress together.

Fourteen Gege was even more suspicious, what arrangements did Zhu Yourong make for leaving himself in Nanjing, where the artillery was flying? When the fight is at its worst, take your own flag to boost morale? …… Probably not so stupid. She thought apprehensively.

……

At this moment, there was a commotion outside, and as it got closer and closer, Fourteen Gege was surprised to see several guards entering the hall from the outside, surrounded by a young girl and a wounded soldier covered in blood.

Xiang Xiaoqiang adopts a rotation system for the captain of the guard of the princess's mansion, and draws a henchman from the headquarters every month to serve as the commander, and the commander of the first month is Li Changgui, who is also an old acquaintance in the north.

Li Changgui was at the front, he seemed to know the girl, and he was full of respect for her, and he wanted to stop but didn't dare to stop him, and persuaded:

"Miss Shang...... You see, you're going to have to let me tell you about it, don't you? …… Hey, just broke in......"

The wounded soldier next to him was also wearing a People's Guard uniform, with his right hand in his pocket, clinging to the girl, his eyes staring at the guard next to him, looking nervous, as if he was going to jump up and beat someone at any time.

Fourteen Gege frowned and asked:

"Changgui, what's going on?"

Li Changgui hurriedly replied:

"Your Highness, this is Miss Shang, uh...... It's the ...... in the headquarters of the Lord Miss Shang, well......"

Fourteen Gege has never seen Xiuxiu. She had seen the other eleven people on the Grasshopper at the beginning, but she had never seen Xiuxiu. But now when she hears "Miss Shang from the Xiang Adult Headquarters", she immediately understands who it is. It's the Xiuxiu who pretended to be himself at the sticky pole in Pukou.

"I see,...... Shang Xiu, Miss Shang, have been looking up for a long time," she stared at Xiuxiu, then looked at Ha Feng'a next to her, frowned and asked, "This is ......?"

"This is ......" Li Changgui was embarrassed and introduced, "This is Miss Shang's uncle...... The two of them said that they had an urgent matter and asked to see His Highness......"

Hafona was almost crazy now, surrounded by a large group of guards, with a pistol in his bag and a grenade in his waist, and the point was that he was still confused and didn't know whether to go crazy.

When he was at the door, he felt a little wrong, but this little girl said that this was the villa that Xiang Xiaoqiang bought for her, and said that she would come here directly after being discharged from the hospital, and Xiang Xiaoqiang would come over to have lunch with her at noon and meet her alone. Ha Feng'a saw that this house was very quiet, not showing the mountain and not leaking, and there was not even a guard standing guard in the big iron gate, so he felt that it was not like a trap, and his heart came in as soon as he was horizontal.

Unexpectedly, after coming in, it was all soldiers of the People's Guard, Ha Feng'a immediately felt that he was in a trap, and just wanted to show his grenade, but Na Nizi opened her mouth and introduced to the guard officer that she was her uncle, and they wanted to see His Highness, and then pulled themselves inside. Hearing that this Nizi did not expose herself, and what else was "Your Highness", Ha Feng'a hesitated slightly, and followed her inside. The guard officer seemed to be quite afraid of this "Mrs. Xiang", and he didn't dare to stop him, so he kept breaking inside.

Ha Feng'a stared at the fourteen grids dressed in Hanfu, feeling very familiar, and couldn't remember where he had seen them.

Xiuxiu took advantage of Ha Feng'a's lack of reaction, grabbed the yarn with the grenade in his sleeve, didn't even take off his shoes, and rushed directly to the hall covered with sandalwood floors, threw himself at the feet of Fourteen Gege, and cried:

"Gege, help! Save Your Majesty! ”

This sentence stunned everyone.

Ha Feng'a suddenly remembered that the beautiful Hanfu woman in front of him was the fourteenth grid who defected to Nanming! Before participating in the attack on Nanming, each division commander was given a stack of photographs of important people who had to be arrested immediately after the invasion of Nanjing, starting with Zhu Yourong, to Shen Rongxuan, to cabinet ministers, to those writers and reporters who often wrote articles to scold the Manchus, and of course, one of the important people was Fourteen Gege.

These division commanders knew that at this time, they knew that the legendary Fourteen Gege had defected to Nanming. Fourteen Gege's defection to Nanming was certainly advertised as a political victory in Nanming, but it was a very shameful thing for the Manchus, so since that newspaper wanted Fourteen Gege, there has been no news of her. The persecution of the famous Manchu Gege, exile in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and canonization of the title of princess by the Ming court were a major event in the international community, but under the news barrier of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the common people of the Qing Dynasty had no idea what had happened.

The fourteen Gege in front of her were dressed in a pale yellow silk hanfu, and her hair had been left to shoulder length, standing slim in the hall, although it was far from the image of the sassy and arrogant in the photo, the look of shock on her face, and the look of feeling that she was offended, was the same as in the photo.

For a moment, Hafenga's mind was filled with all kinds of legends of the Fourteen Gege. The girl in Ming-style palace clothes in front of her is actually the supreme governor of the former sticky pole and the dignified character of the Qing Empire?

So what's the matter with "Save Your Majesty"?

Xiuxiu threw herself on the floor, pointed back at Ha Feng'a and cried:

"Gege, he'...... He is not my uncle, he is the commander of the Sixth Division of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, called Hafeng A......"

"Ahh

Everyone was shocked, and several guards immediately showed their box guns and pointed them at Hafon'a. Hafona lifted his coat at once, revealing a grenade, pulling the fuse in his hand, and shouted:

"If you want to die, fight here! Let's die together! ”

The guard immediately dodged a few steps away and shouted:

"What are you doing!"

"Be careful, everyone!"

"Protect Your Highness!"

"Protect Miss Shang!"

Xiuxiu raised her face and cried to Fourteen Gege:

"Gege, don't let him kill Your Majesty! He...... He sneaked into the city and kidnapped me, tied a grenade to me, and forced me to take him to Her Majesty the Empress, intending to assassinate her...... I think, he is a Manchurian, although you are a princess of the Ming Dynasty, you are also a Manchurian, and you are also Gege, and now there are only people in Nanjing who are qualified to reprimand him and persuade him! For the sake of Your Majesty, exhort him. ”

"Ahh

"Ahh

Ha Feng'a and Fourteen Gege were both shocked, each "ah" and looked at each other.

Although both of them were confused by the sudden change, they were not fools, staring at each other, and both staring at Xiuxiu who was kneeling on the ground, and they both understood: they were put into a bag by this little girl.

Ha Feng'a wanted to say: "Who wants to assassinate the empress, I just want to kidnap Xiang Xiaoqiang." But it's meaningless to say this, the hat of "plotting to assassinate the Empress of Nanming" has been buttoned up, and if you don't admit it, you will look like a bad seed. The words rolled in my throat and could not be spoken.

Fourteen Gege also wanted to say: "Who am I trying to provoke, who does he want to assassinate when he enters Nanjing, what does it have to do with me, he is a Manchurian, so take him to me?" ”

But she was eaten to death by Xiuxiu with a bite of "Save Your Majesty", there are so many people here, if you don't get it right, it seems that there is a problem with your position. The words of rebuttal rolled in his throat, and he couldn't say it.

Fourteen Gege glanced at Xiuxiu at his feet hatefully, and said lightly:

"Alright, it's none of your business, left and right, take her down."

When Li Changgui heard this, his heart suddenly let go of half of it, and he immediately stepped forward to pick up the future commander's wife, and several guards sandwiched her in the middle and was about to go out.

"Stop!" Ha Feng pulled the fuse and shouted without looking back, "No one is allowed to leave!" ”

"Let her go!"

Fourteen Geg stared at him and ordered.

Saying this startled her herself. She said to herself that since the matter came to the door and couldn't be hidden, it was better to just do it beautifully. Maybe this is still an opportunity to win the trust of the Ming court and improve his status.

Haphon held the fuse tightly, his heart beating wildly, his eyes glancing at the legendary Fourteen Gege, considering how to answer.

She licked her lips, crossed her heart, stared at Ha Feng'a, and said slowly:

"You are the commander of the Sixth Division of the Eight Banners? Your name is Haphona? ”

"Yes...... It's Haphona. ”

"Ha Feng, you are out of breath!" The corners of Fourteen Gege's mouth raised mockingly, "The dignified commander of the Qing Dynasty Major General and Division held the little girl hostage and scared people to tears...... Do you think this is glorious and adds luster to the Qing Dynasty? ”

Ha Feng'a was really uncomfortable by what she said, raised his head and hesitated slightly, fourteen Gege waved his hand, and several guards slipped out with Xiuxiu in their hands.

Li Changgui helped Xiuxiu to run quickly to the outer courtyard and hid behind sandbags for air defense.

Xiuxiu's legs were already all weak, and only then did she begin to tremble, and she muttered with a pale face:

"Finally...... Run...... Ran away...... She's really righteous......"