4-55 The city is full of golden armor

After receiving the report of Hongze County, Huai'an Mansion did not dare to slack off, the prefect ordered the garrison to gather troops and horses to Hongze County, and the governor of Caoyun Yamen stationed a battalion of sailors near Hongze County, led by Xia Jinfeng's brother Xia Jinbiao, who heard that there was something in his brother-in-law's county, immediately beat the drum and gathered troops, and took a few clippers along the waterway to go straight to Hongze County.

Hongze County is nearly 100 miles away from Huai'an Mansion, and this back and forth plus the rectification of soldiers and horses, it takes a lot of time, and it is not as fast as the water army of Caoyun Yamen.

The duty of the Caoyun Navy is to protect the safety of the canal channel, investigate the smuggling of salt, and collect fishing money, which is somewhat similar to the meaning of the water police. I heard that there was a chaotic party in Hongze, the sailors were very excited, they could catch a few chaotic parties and send them to Beijing to ask for credit, that was a great merit, and they hurriedly swayed the oars to the dock but were surprised that today's Hongze Pier is very different from the past.

The official ships of the Yangtze River Naval Division of the Imperial Court are moored at the wharf, and there are steam express boats with the flag of Nanchang, the whole wharf is busy, the sky is nearly dusk, three unusually bright arc lights are hung on the mast of the largest ship, the wharf is illuminated by a snow, groups of eunuchs, palace maids, and soldiers are carrying various honor guards from the ship, it turns out that after the capital received the telegram, Song Yingxing immediately entered the palace and told Zhu Youxiao the news, Zhu Youxiao didn't even go to the morning court, and transferred the airship to rush to Hongze, At the same time, Wei Zhongxian was ordered to rush over by boat with a full guard of honor.

Wei Zhongxian just went out yesterday to order to find the old people in the palace ten years ago, and the people who asked them here were not even called, the southern factory had already found the imperial concubine and the eldest princess, which was too much, and it was too late to complain now, only to do the errand assigned by the emperor as soon as possible, the imperial concubine's honor guard palace was not prepared, but the queen's honor guard was indeed brand new, this was still purchased when the emperor got married, according to the ancestral system, the queen's honor guard and the queen mother, the queen mother's honor guard is the same, and now the queen mother has fallen, The new concubine's ascension to the throne of the Queen Mother is almost a sure thing, so there should be no big problem with a small trespass. Now it was too late to make clothes for the concubine and the princess, so I had to take out more than a dozen sets of satin clothes of different specifications from the library.

Wei Zhongxian drove the eunuchs and palace maids around like a ghost, moved the queen's guard of honor out of the library, and put together a set of princess's guard of honor. ”

The strength of the people is great, with the help of thousands of royal forest troops, these honor guards were quickly moved to the Shuiximen wharf to load, the East Factory people and horses all dispatched, the various civilian ships on the wharf were driven away, the warships of the Yangtze River Navy Division and the steam ships of the South Factory rushed to help, after the honor guards and the men and horses boarded the ship in a mess, they quickly took anchor and rushed to Hongze, along the way the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division held a loudspeaker on the bow of the ship and kept shouting, so that all the ships on the waterway avoided giving way, those merchant ships and passenger ships saw that it was the warship of the sailor, and the ship fluttered with the big silk of the East Factory, which dared to block the way, Hurried all the way, and finally arrived in Hongze County in the evening.

The people of Hongze County have lost interest in the dragon in the sky, because there are several of the same dragon in the next 6 times, and the officials who have come down from above have been all over the streets and alleys of Hongze County, the airship that the emperor took arrived in the afternoon, Zhu Youxiao hurried to the door of Nanfei's house under the guidance of Liu Ziguang, who came to pick up the car, and it has been completely martial law, the dirt road is sprinkled with water, and the red felt is paved, Zhu Youxiao looks nervous, standing at the door of the firewood and does not dare to go in, his lips tremble and he doesn't know what to say.

"Your Majesty, the concubine is waiting for you inside." Liu Ziguang reminded softly.

Zhu Youxiao sorted out his emotions, picked up his dragon robe and knelt at the door, and said in an excited slightly hoarse voice: "Erchen meets his mother." ”

"The Emperor's ....." With a crying cry, the door was opened, and a woman with her eyes so familiar with her hands spread had risen from her chair and ushered in the door. Behind him, a timid girl followed.

"Mother~~" Zhu Youxiao couldn't control his feelings anymore, and threw himself over and hugged the woman, the mother and son hugged their heads and cried, crying heartbreakingly.

Liu Ziguang beckoned, and the others in the small courtyard quietly retreated, and carefully closed the chai door, so that the hard-working mother, son, sister and brother could cry well.

"My lord, why are your eyes red?" Ma Saiyou asked Liu Ziguang very blindly.

"It's okay, the wind is blind." Liu Ziguang took out two cigars, threw one to Ma Saiyou and said: "Ruthless may not be a real hero, how can a poor son not be a husband?" Pony, where's your mother? ”

Saying this, Ma Saiyou's eyes were also a little red, and the two of them squatted at the door, smoking cigars while pulling a homely meal against the backdrop of crying in the yard.

After crying for a while, the mother and son finally stopped their grief, and Zhu Youxiao said: "Mother, today is a good day for our mother and son to reunite, let's not cry, we should laugh." ”

Concubine Nan wiped her tears and said, "Yes, let's not cry." Orange, move a chair for your brother. ”

In the end, it is the sister and brother of a mother's sibling, Zeng Cheng didn't have a strange feeling about this brother who suddenly appeared, and quickly moved a chair over for Zhu Youxiao to sit on, and asked with concern: "Brother, are you hungry?" My sister will serve you a meal to eat, and there are noon dishes here, all of which are good dishes with meat. ”

"Sister Huang, you sit, my brother is not hungry." Zhu Youxiao saw that his sister's hands were covered with calluses and blood blisters, he was distressed and wanted to shed tears, he walked to the kitchen, looked at the low shack, the black stove, opened the big iron pot, there was still gruel left over from the morning, and then looked back at the coarse cloth clothes sewn and mended on his mother and sister, the young man's heart seemed to be pricked by needles!

These are the two most noble and golden-branched women in the world, the biological mother and sibling sister of today's great tomorrow, who are actually living such a poor and miserable life in this poor and remote place, they are useless as sons, although they are the sons of heaven, they can't protect their relatives......

"Mother, you and your sister usually eat this?" Zhu Youxiao asked in a trembling voice.

"These are still borrowed by my mother at the neighbor's house, and our family doesn't even have food overnight." Zeng Cheng hurriedly answered.

Zhu Youxiao was even more speechless, and said in silence for a long time: "I'd better drink a bowl of porridge and taste the hard life of my mother and sister." ”

When Wei Zhongxian and his gang arrived, the emperor had already gone to bed, and stayed in the dilapidated courtyard where the southern concubine lived, and now this is the palace of the Eight Classics, the inner guards, the south factory, and the people and horses of the east factory surrounded the palace, and the imperial kitchen that came with the ship stepped up to make supper for the emperor, and it was one thing for the emperor to eat or not, the key was that the rules could not be messed up, and the royal tailor modified the clothes overnight in order to be more suitable for the concubine and the princess to wear.

There are at least 5,000 people in the small Hongze County, and there is still an endless stream of people on the dock to get off the goods, and all of them are well-dressed people in Beijing, their eyes are full of brocade python robes, flying fish suits, the people don't know what happened, they only dare to stand at the door and watch curiously, this kind of pomp and circumstance is not only the people have not seen, the county government has not seen a group of people, so many people have come to the capital, except for some who live on the boat, the rest of the people have requisitioned all the inns in the county is not enough, and simply occupy the county government.

Xia Jinfeng was kicked out of the backyard of the yamen by the fans of Dongchang, although he was angry, he didn't dare to say anything, after all, the prestige of Dongchang was too great.

Xia Jinfeng took a group of mothers-in-law and servants out of the courtyard, and ran into her brother Xia Jinbiao.

"Sister, what's wrong with the county? There were so many official ships on the wharf that our ships from Caoyun Yamen had nowhere to dock. Xia Jinbiao asked.

"There is a big man in the capital, and he arrested your brother-in-law alive, and now I don't know if he is alive or dead, brother, you should quickly lead the troops to rescue him."

"I see that there are not only flags from the East Factory but also flags from the South Factory on that ship, could it be that those two big men are here?" Xia Jinbiao hesitated and didn't dare to agree.

"What kind of uncle Zhen Wu arrested your brother-in-law, and this earl is not the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate, why did he arrest the county?" Although Xia Jinfeng knows some things in the officialdom, after all, she is a woman, and she understands the power of Nanchang.

"Was it really Zhen Wubo who caught him?" Xia Jinbiao gasped, "Sister, let's not save this person." ”

Early the next morning, the soldiers and horses of Huai'an Mansion also arrived, the prefect raised troops to come, he did not expect a scene in front of him to surprise him, the entire Hongze County has been taken over, the city head fluttering is the golden dragon flag on behalf of the dignity of the royal family, standing on the city wall, standing at the gate of the city, are the golden helmets and golden armor of the Han generals, the small city is full of yellow cover, red umbrellas, pheasant fans, letter flags, leopard tails, feather bao, gold festivals, candle cages, these emperor's royal honor guards.

"Good boy, this is the arrival of the Holy Driver." The prefect of Huai'an said to the guards who came with him.