Chapter 446: Casual VS Emperor Yongyu
These 100,000 people then followed the instructions, pulled out the elite of the three thousand, dispersed and drove away, tracking Yan Sui Wenzhen's whereabouts.
Another 30,000 people returned to the Huzhou area, preparing to get stuck before the Tang family's pass out of Dingyang.
The rest of the people were divided into seven battalions, walked between the mountains and fields, and headed towards Qingzhou, where Yansui used to be the place where the iron smelting was located.
The large-scale baggage of the Huzhou army, Wen Zhen improved it through Yan Sui's I-shaped team in Huzhou in three years, all of which could be disassembled, and they were also disassembled separately to follow the army.
All the arrangements came from Yan Sui's hands, and the agreement with Ji Huaiyuan had been made three years ago. On the same day in Liushan, the two agreed that if there was a change in Dongtang in the future, Ji Huaiyuan would be responsible for inciting Ji Ji's ambitions, luring out Ji and Ji Jiajun, and dividing half of Ji Jiajun to Yan Sui. Afterwards, Yan Sui guaranteed that he would be safe at all times, and that Ji would die, and that he would be able to take over the head of the Ji family smoothly, and that he would have the strength to suppress the Ji family but not enough to win the world. But he must also ensure that the Ji family does not unite with the Zhumen valve.
Ji Huaiyuan felt that this business was done, and the strength of the Ji family was not enough to compete in the Central Plains, at most, he would be the king of southern Xinjiang in a corner of peace, which was not far from now. If you want to unite with the Tang Yi family, the territory is very far away, and it must be a lonely battle in the early stage, and it is easy to lose strength to make a wedding dress for others, even after the matter is completed, the Ji family, which has suffered heavy losses, will definitely not be able to take the dragon chair at that time, and in the end, it will not be a king of southern Xinjiang at most? If you can't cook the rabbit and the dog directly, judging from the hearts of the heirs of the Tang Yi family, this possibility is very great, and it is even worse than now.
Therefore, the Ji family has always wanted to mix with those two families, but the strength is not enough to directly fight for the world, and it is not enough to completely maintain their position after the war, they are not up or down, and the previous efforts with the eldest prince were destroyed by Yan Sui Wenzhen, and the strength was consumed again, and seeing that it will decline again, the future of the family is bleak.
In this case, the Ji family held a lot of family meetings, half of them were radical and wanted to fight, and half of them said that they wanted to find another way out, Ji Huaiyuan was the latter, because he understood how accurate Yan Sui's calculations were, especially after he claimed that something had happened but quickly handed him the news, he was even more sure that it was better to be honest in front of Yan Sui. Ji is very unwilling, and what Yan Sui wants is that he is unwilling, so he instructed Ji Huaiyuan not to be clear so as not to arouse suspicion, but he volunteered to go to Beijing on behalf of Ji, so that there is no suspicion, second, he shows loyalty, and third, this is actually a more powerful agitation, and sure enough, as Yan Sui guessed, Ji personally went to Beijing.
Ji Huaiyuan saw that the Ji family had stepped into the set designed by Yan Sui step by step since Tang Xianzhi got married, and he didn't dare to come out of the moth even more in the cold.
He is different from Ji Huaiqing, Ji Huaiqing has been the heir of the internal determination for many years, has never suffered setbacks, and has no scruples. He has been subservient to others for many years, and it is easy to get ahead, so he naturally cherishes it extraordinarily, not seeking merit, but just keeping the glory of this place.
Yan Sui saw his psychology very accurately, and now he naturally didn't worry about him, because as long as Ji Huaiyuan went to Beijing in person, he had to rely on him to go on step by step.
The arrival of the representative of Cangnan Thorn Shi in Tianjing is big news, it is Ji Huaiyuan, the current heir, so Tianjing also attaches great importance to it, after determining that the Ji family is very regular and does not carry a large army, the city gate is wide open to welcome the first gate valve representative who came from afar.
The Gyeonggi camp also set up camp and approached Cheonjing City, staying outside the city gate.
After the last oolong fight between the Gyeonggi camp and Jin Wuwei, it ended in a misunderstanding afterwards, and the new emperor had no choice, could he still not have the army guarding Tianjing? Even if you want to change the defense, it is not a matter of half a moment.
However, after King Yong heard about the Gyeonggi camp, he once went out of Tianjing at night and had a private meeting with the commander of the Gyeonggi camp, but no one knew what he said.
Ji Huaiyuan entered the city overnight, and the Ministry of Rites planned the process overnight, probably a few days later, Tang Xiaocheng is said to be coming, as for Yi Ming, the court and the central government understand that they can't wait for this, so they plan to wait for Tang Xiaocheng to arrive, and arrange for the representatives of the two gate valves to go to Jingren Palace to worship Emperor Zigong of Daxing. After that, it was time to move Zi Palace to the funeral palace.
That night, in the underground secret room of Jingren Palace, Emperor Yongyu opened his eyes.
He woke up many days later than expected, and woke up very strangely, there was no limb disorder of a person who had been sleeping for a long time, and as soon as his eyes opened, he sat up sharply, startling the sleepy Qingming and the master.
But looking at Emperor Yongyu, his eyes were burning, his face was slightly red, and his complexion was too good, and the two of them were also surprised, and then Qingming smiled and said, "Your Majesty is really good!" ”
When the emperor heard the sound, he turned his head to look at him, and Qingming was suddenly shocked by the burning gaze, and he didn't dare to speak, but then the emperor smiled, regained his former kind expression, and said, "Thank you for your hard work." ”
The emperor who was tolerant and merciful in the past is back, Qingming and the master's expressions are a little more natural, and they all hurriedly salute and thank you, the master showed the emperor the tongue and pulse, and after looking at it carefully, he said with a smile: "Your Majesty, thanks to many years of poisoning, refining the medicinal power is smoother than the old monk thought." ”
Emperor Yongyu smiled: "I also feel like I have a lot of ropes in my body, and I am a lot more relaxed." ”
Qingming asked, "Your Majesty will eat the next one next, or will it ......?"
Emperor Yongyu said: "What's going on above? ”
Qingming told everything that had happened in the past few days. The emperor's smile gradually faded, Qingming's eyes were not good, and he hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty: "Your Majesty, they are all minions are not good, and the minions are not skilled enough......"
The emperor waved his hand, "You can't be short of skill, I watched you order those two death holes, you should definitely die...... This only shows that they are prepared...... Unexpectedly, a foolproof plan, but there are so many people with ill intentions, the Queen Mother intervened, Concubine De actually had an iron worm, and Wen Zhen dared to hit the palace! Yan Jin, that idiot, didn't even arrange an army to guard Wen Zhen early! What's even more stupid is that it can be given by the will that is nothing......"
He stopped, his face pale, obviously there were too many unexpected things, and the mask of the good old man could no longer be worn. However, after this shock, a faint fear and fear arose again. Why did the Queen Mother let Yan Sui go? Why is Shang Palace being remodeled? Did she and Concubine De guess something? And he didn't expect that Yan Sui would be able to use the will that deceive him to deceive Yan Jin, and let Yan Jin slap him in the face!
He recalled it carefully, but he couldn't remember the situation at all. When he attacked Yan Sui at that time, he didn't notice the whereabouts of the will at all, and Yan Sui even remembered hiding the will at that moment!
Where is he hiding? How did you get it afterwards?
The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became, the more cold I became, and Emperor Yongyu suddenly got out of bed, "I want to go out for a while." ”
Qingming was shocked: "Your Majesty, it's dangerous outside." ”
"I'll take a look at Jingren Palace." Emperor Yongyu was afraid that Yan Sui would also do something in Jingren Palace, so he would not be at ease if he did not see it in person.
"Your Majesty, Jingren Palace is not safe, the steward Lao Sun died inexplicably a few days ago, and the corpse was also lifted into the secret passage, we had to urgently seal the entrance passage......"
The emperor's face changed slightly.
The plan, which was thought to be fully controlled, now seems to be sliding towards uncontrollable places little by little under the impetus and accidents of all parties.
He was even more uneasy in his heart, glanced at Qingming and the master, and thought to himself Although these two people were controlled by their own medicine and did not dare to betray, they did not know if they did their best?
smiled at the moment: "The power of the medicine is too fast, and now my whole body is swollen, and I also want to go out to evacuate and evacuate, don't worry, I wear a mask." As he spoke, he looked at the two of them.
Qingming understood, and immediately said, "The slave will go and pour you tea." ”
The master blinked and looked at Emperor Yongyu and said, "Why, isn't it good for Your Majesty to take a mask?" Do you want the old monk to help? ”
Qingming gritted his teeth and smiled: "Master, help me see how the tea leaves are in condition!" "Dragged people away.
Only then did the emperor reach out to the couch to touch it, and when he touched it, his face changed.
With his fingers forced, he pulled out a piece of something, and when he looked closely, his face turned purple.
The jade seal has been replaced!
Outside the house, Qingming saw through the crack in the door and quietly took a few steps back.
Before, he accidentally discovered that a hole suddenly appeared under the emperor's bed, and he felt bad at the time, someone had come in and stole an important thing that the emperor had hidden here!
Thinking back to the size of that place and the original pattern, Qingming immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
He can't afford it!
Qingming quietly carved a piece of wood of the same size afterwards, painted it with gold paint, and stuffed it into the hole.
At this moment, seeing Emperor Yongyu find out so quickly, his heart jumped slightly.
Emperor Yongyu sat on the couch, his face was bruised and purple for a while, and then he returned to normal, took out a mask from the cave, put it on, and stuffed the wood back.
Qingming walked in with tea and the master, and smiled at Emperor Yongyu as he walked: "Your Majesty, you just said that it is hard, and the slave does not dare to be it." If you want to say that it is hard, it is still the master's hard work, not only to protect the Dharma for you, but also to drive the slave away at night, so that the slave can rest, he guards you day and night, this heart, the slave feels ashamed! ”
The master blinked.
Have it?
Obviously, he is a lot of Qingming, and he only protects the Dharma and refines medicine.
The master immediately said, "Not really. It's all the hard work of the eunuchs. ”
Qingming had no opinion on Eunuch Qingming this time, and smiled gently.
The more you deny Your Majesty, the more you don't believe it.
Emperor Yongyu glanced at the master and said with a smile: "It's all hard." In this way, I will come when I go. ”
Wearing a mask, it was the face of a deputy chief eunuch of Jingren Palace, Qingming calculated, the one who was not on duty tonight, and couldn't help but secretly wonder in his heart, could it be that this emperor even remembered the schedule of eunuchs in his palace?
Seeing that the emperor was out of the door, Qingming hurriedly ordered the organ to close the secret passage and open it, but saw that the emperor himself closed the mechanism all the way out smoothly.
Qingming stared at the emperor's back, thinking to himself how many hidden skills this scheming old emperor still has?
For no reason, another vest sweat broke out.
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Tonight is inexplicably not very cold, and there is no frost, Mama Zhang did not go to bed very early, when she passed under the window of Concubine De, she deliberately glanced at it, and saw Concubine De lazily lying on the couch smoking, and the clever little eunuch was learning to burn cigarettes with Juya on the side.
The air was filled with the characteristic smell of cigarette paste.
Mama Zhang sneered and walked away.
As soon as she left, Juya came over and closed the window, got up from the couch casually, and stretched out her hand to Concubine De, who reluctantly handed the cigarette stick to his palm, but sighed again: "It's not real cigarette paste, the more you smell it, the more you think about it." ”
Laugh casually.
The cigarette stick is burned with a kind of herb, I have been looking for a long time, and finally found a drug that smells close to the smoke paste and is harmless to the human body, the only effect is that I am sleepy, but it is more like an addict.
Concubine De is also willing to sleep, life is better than death when the addiction occurs, and it is also a blessing to be able to sleep. Sometimes when people are awake and uncomfortable, she will drive Juya and Random out of the house, throw things in the house by herself, and mumble and curse Random things.
Juya turned around the door worriedly, casually didn't turn, and didn't get angry when she heard her grandmother scolding, she sat under the wall in the cold, gossiped with Juya, said how the godfather changed from stupid to shrewd, said that Uncle Pan Hang once fell in love with Uncle Lin Feibai, said how he taught Aunt Yiyuan Zhi face-to-face, and said that the seven gourd babies of the Li family were all spoofs, Concubine De listened and listened inside, and gradually forgot about those uncomfortable things, and she had a lot of ability to do it casually, and gave her a steady stream of snacks in the kitchen of Ciren Palace, and kept chewing in her mouth, casually told her Grandma Zhang, saying that Grandma Zhang's cigarette paste was helped by her mother to quit, and during that time, her mouth was itchy and gnawed on snacks to eat her teeth, and she said that Grandma Zhang loves beauty, and the smoker looks yellow, thin and haggard, so she has a pig's trotter every day. casually encouraged his most beautiful milk to quit, and went to the rich Grandma Zhang to take a turn, and asked her to see, what makes people more beautiful than you, richer than you, better than your skin, and faster than you to quit.
Concubine De: "...... Burst. ”
I couldn't help but mutter: "Little rabbit cub." ”
After scolding, he stared at the wall in a daze, but he didn't throw anything anymore, sat for a long time, touched his face, and sighed leisurely. "I didn't expect people to be old and have such blessings."
After a few days like this, he flickered around Ciren Palace, quitting in private, and casually watched Concubine De's resistance gradually fade, and he really didn't want to smoke anymore, so he let go. I slept well that night, and suddenly got up, remembering that the snacks for milk seemed to be running out, so I went to Ciren Palace at night to steal some more.
But I didn't think that the kitchen of Ciren Palace was stolen again and again, and it was brightly lit and guarded tonight, so I couldn't see it casually, so I turned around and walked out of Ciren Palace.
He was going to Gyeongin Palace.
This is the palace with the least number of people at present, but there are also guards and supper for the guards, and because there is no master for the time being, no one cares about the kitchen things, so it is easy to take advantage of loopholes.
The kitchen of Jingren Palace is in the outer hall of Jingren Palace, a little far away from the main hall, and there are few people who usually come, so it is easy to mix in casually, the huge courtyard is empty, the kitchen that has served supper has turned off the fire, and the cook yawns and locks the door.
casually waited for someone to leave, slipped in, picked and wrapped a large bag of snacks, carried them in his arms and left.
He lowered his head and hurried all the way, ready to climb over the wall, when he suddenly saw a pair of black boots in front of him.
The boots appeared suddenly, and I casually remembered that I was still looking around just now, and there was no abnormality in my field of vision.
The black boots stood quietly in front of them, and the blue robe of a eunuch hung above the boots, gently blown by the night breeze.
There was a faint strange smell in the wind, a little medicinal, a little like the smell of rotting earth.
I sniffed casually, but I didn't smell the peculiar smell of urine belonging to eunuchs.
His hair exploded.
At midnight, in the side hall of the palace with corpses, people wearing eunuch clothes but not eunuchs were waiting quietly in front of them.
But he didn't stop, he didn't lift his head, like any little eunuch who had just stolen something and was in a hurry to escape, and rushed in that direction.
While rushing, the left hand in the sleeve has already buckled the dagger, and the right hand has selected the medicinal powder.
He was ready to strike immediately the moment he collided!
The next moment he crashed into those boots and fell forward!
Move your sleeves casually.
Left knife right medicine!
But at that moment, a hand held him, and then he heard a soft voice above his head, and said softly: "Hey, be careful." ”
After a casual pause, I looked up and saw a pair of slightly smiling eyes.
The owner of those eyes is no longer young, but the eyes are extremely soft and compassionate, and there are fine lines at the corners of the eyes, which at a glance can be seen as the laugh lines that only people who smile all year round. The corners of his lips were slightly curved, staring at the little eunuch in front of him, a trace of love flashed in his eyes, he held him up, squatted down and looked at him levelly, and said, "Three watches in the middle of the night, reckless, where are you going?" ”
casually withdrew all the tricks in his sleeve in an instant.
He looked at the old eunuch in front of him.
Just now, his sentence of "be careful" reminded him of the hand that his cheap father put on his back before he entered Tianjing, and the last sentence that was so light that he could barely hear "Be careful." ”
The general softness, even the tone is a bit similar.
And looking at this old eunuch at this moment, he also vaguely felt that the outline was familiar and kind.
He was a little soft at heart.
But for some reason, I feel that there is still something different between these two sentences of "be careful".
He remembered that at that moment, his father's eyes were still quiet, but there were faintly surging emotions that he couldn't understand, reflecting the stars and moon in the sky at that moment, and he couldn't tell what was more thorough.
At this moment, the old eunuch's eyes, which were quiet and soft, had a vague kind of something that made him uneasy.
He blinked, his big eyes were suddenly full of panic and fear, and he hurriedly stepped back to let go of the old eunuch's hand, and trembled and went to his arms to get something.
The old eunuch stared at his hand and his eyes shrank.
When he took it out casually, he opened a small package in his hand, and the dim sum that he had deliberately crushed just now fell down.
The old eunuch's eyes immediately relaxed.
casually shook his hand and handed the package up: "Big big companion...... I'm not stealing...... I'm just so hungry...... You, you, you spare the slaves......"
The old eunuch held his shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, which palace are you from?" ”
"Incense...... Shang Palace......"
The old eunuch was stunned for a moment and said, "When did the Xiang Palace enter your young palace?" ”
"The slave maid is a ...... who has just been selected"
The old eunuch smiled, and helped him wrap the snack with his own hands, and stuffed it back into his arms, casually feeling his cold fingers touching the skin around his neck, and the spirit shivered, and it looked like a shiver.
The old eunuch said gently: "Don't be afraid, child, I don't care about this. Shang Gong is bitterly cold, you must be hungry...... But there's nothing good to eat in this big kitchen, why don't you go to the small kitchen there and get some hot food? As he spoke, he pointed to the small kitchen in Jingren Palace.
glanced at it casually, a greedy light flashed in his eyes, and he said softly: "That's the emperor's palace, I heard that there is a lot of gold and silver in it......"
The old eunuch's eyes flashed with a smile.
The eunuchs in the palace love money, even if it is so small, it is no exception.
After being greedy for a while, he still shook his head and played a greedy and cowardly little eunuch very well.
The old eunuch didn't say anything, and after looking at him for a while, he inexplicably felt that this child was amiable.
He also has countless children and grandchildren, so many that sometimes he can't remember the name, and he likes it very much, but he really doesn't have many ideas in his heart, after all, there are too many things to worry about.
However, at this moment, before it was time to worry, looking at the cute Yuxue in front of him, the child with pure eyes, for no reason, there was a little more real joy, after a long sleep, after listening to countless depressing news, he suddenly met such a child, his mood was slightly better, he reached out and took a casual hand, and said, "I'll send you back." ”
casually noticed that his voice was normal and not soft, that he had stubble, and that he called himself "I", instead of the self-proclaimed "miscellaneous" used by the great eunuchs.
Notice that between his steps, between the cyan eunuch robe and the black boots, the bright yellow pants flashed.
Noticing the faint golden light between the sleeves of his robe, ordinary children don't recognize it, but he who was born in the Assassin Mansion and often goes in and out of the Huzhou camp, but he knows that it is a golden silk soft armor against knives and arrows.
Noticing a faint black shadow flashing around him, he followed the person silently.
Noticing the man's excessively long nails, the tips of the nails were slightly red.
His eyes fell on that nail, thinking about the truth about the murder of the king in Jingren Palace that Uncle Chinese told him one night in order to save the precarious relationship between himself and his cheap father.
remembered that his imperial grandfather was in this palace, with a pair of hands with long nails, trying to dig out the heart of his own son who traveled thousands of miles back to Beijing for him.
remembered the night of the accident and the night talk with my mother, and my mother's evaluation when she talked about her grandfather.
Now, the man who was as kind and kind as the legend had been, had indeed taken up his hand, with long nails and cold fingers.
It's a little cold on my fingers.
Fortunately, it was cold.
He stuffed his cold little hand into the big hand with long nails, raised his head and smiled innocently and cutely at him: "Thank you, big friend." ”
Emperor Yongyu stared at him, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and said gently: "At my age, I can be your grandfather." ”
casually follow the kindness: "Thank you, grandpa." ”
Emperor Yongyu snorted, only feeling that this sound sounded very comfortable.
One old and one young, one tall and one short, they held small hands with such big hands, picking up the secluded road and moving slowly in the cold and lonely court under the moon.
casually found that this cheap grandfather was very familiar with the roads in the palace, the habits of the guards, the time of shifts, etc., and he could even use the light and shadow of the moonlight to avoid the sight of the staggered guards, and many of the roads he walked were very hidden.
He was led by those hands, looking at the long shadows dragged out by the two under the moonlight, but his heart became more and more anxious.
He didn't know if the old fellow was sending him back on a whim or for another purpose.
He was afraid that the old fellow would be detrimental to his grandmother when he followed the Shang Palace.
He also regretted that he came out by himself, and did not bring the kind of medicine that can kill people, for fear that if something happens, the corpse will alarm the palace confinement, which are all short-term drugs, short-acting drugs such as temporary blindness and pain, itching, etc.
Gu also carries the kind that confuses people's minds.
What's more, this old guy has secret guards to follow, once anything goes wrong, can he escape the killers of those secret guards?
When he thought so, casually the hideous scars on his cheap father suddenly swept in front of him.
Skimming over the knife that was so deep that I could see the bone.
It's all done by this old guy.
Both, yes, this, one, old, home, guy.
The casual little finger hooked slightly, and a small bead rolled out of the sleeve, and then fell silently on the tip of Emperor Yongyu's boot.
The beads the size of black sesame seeds, falling on the tips of black boots, are really invisible.
You can't see that the bead has been moving slowly, from the tip of the boot to the shaft, and then into the boot.
casually prepared to control the mother Gu and not attack for the time being.
Wait for this Gu to move slowly, until it moves to the old guy's heart.
And that's not all.
Cheap dad is not a wound on his body.
His little fingers hooked again, this time a small bag entered the palm of his hand, his nails poked lightly, the bag broke, and the powder in it was scattered, this was the hand that was held, he didn't dare to move casually, he knew that he was guarded, and under the shroud of countless eyes, his little fist was always clenched, and he was quietly wrapped in the man's big palm.
He's waiting.
Emperor Yongyu didn't realize it, after all, the encounter was an accident, after all, no one would have thought that when he met a four- or five-year-old doll on the road, he was the enemy of fate, and he was full of murderous and harmful things.
He was really full of kindness and tenderness at the moment, holding the child's hand, walking in the palace under the moon, in a trance, as if holding Yan Sui, who was still a toddler.
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