Chapter Forty-Eight: Love and Care (2nd Watch)
Chu Lan asked for someone from the emperor's hands and hurried out of the palace.
Wan Meiren shouted coquettishly in the curtain, "Your Majesty! ”
The Emperor turned around and lay back on the bed, giving a tired "um".
Wan Meiren took the initiative to pilllow the emperor's arm and moved her body to lie beside him, her fingers drawing circles in his heart, "Your Majesty, you are so good to King Jing." ”
The emperor grabbed her hand, rested it in his palm and rubbed it, "He is well-behaved, obedient, filial, and knows how to please me, so I will naturally be a little nicer to him." ”
Wan Meiren said coquettishly, "King Jing doesn't have a princess yet, right?" ”
"Huh?" The emperor turned his head to look at her, his eyes sank, "What, you have a crush on my son?" ”
Wan Meiren glanced at the emperor with disgust, "Your Majesty, what did you say?" Concubines are your people. The concubine asked King Jing because the concubine had a younger sister. ”
"Oh? Do you have a sister? The dark color in the emperor's eyes receded.
"Yes, the concubine has a little sister who is the same age as King Jing, and has an excellent temperament." Wan Meiren said tentatively, "Your Majesty, look ......"
The emperor nodded, "Let her enter the palace another day, I'll see." My princes have grown up, and it's time to choose a concubine. When my sons reach the age of starting a family, I am getting old. ”
"Your Majesty, you're not old." Wanmei hurriedly hugged the emperor, "You are still young." ”
"You don't have to coax me, I know I'm old. My sons were looking forward to my death and began to fight for the throne. "The emperor has just come to Chu Lan to ask for someone, and he has a sense of vicissitudes in vain.
Wan Meiren pouted, "No, the concubine just thinks you're still young." ”
The emperor was coaxed by the beauty to be happy, "Okay, good, I'm still young." ”
The secret guard of the Nanyang Palace, who followed the old Nanyang King into Beijing, also received the news as soon as possible, and reported to the old Nanyang King, "Old Lord, King Jing and the four princes and the fifth princes are afraid that it will be unfavorable to the Seventh Highness." ”
The old Nanyang King put down the scroll, "Is the news true?" ”
The secret guard nodded, "King Jing, the fourth prince, and the fifth prince gathered in the Mingyue Tower, and then King Jing entered the palace, and the secret guards in the two princes' mansions seemed to move. ”
The old Nanyang King's face changed slightly, "Send someone to keep an eye on it and see what King Jing is doing when he enters the palace?" ”
The dark guard bowed, "The subordinates guessed that King Jing didn't have many manpower in his hands, and he didn't want to miss the opportunity to kill His Royal Highness the Seventh this time, so he must have entered the palace to ask His Majesty to borrow someone." ”
The old Nanyang King was immediately furious, "It's the same son, why does he think that His Majesty will definitely help him?" ”
The Dark Guard was silent.
The old king of Nanyang stood up, walked back and forth on the ground twice, and suddenly sighed, "What about the same son?" There's always a favorite to be happy with. Chu Yan is not pleasing to His Majesty, and His Majesty may not really be interested in respecting the king. After all, we settled in Beijing to hold him back. ”
The secret guard immediately said, "His Royal Highness Seventh has never felt that our settlement is a hindrance to him, old prince, don't think like this." It is a top priority to enter Beijing, and my subordinates want to ask the old prince, can we send our people to Wufeng Mountain to help His Highness the Seventh? ”
"Huai'an is going to Wufeng Mountain with him, he is ......" The old Nanyang King shook his head halfway through his words, "No, Huai'an will not get involved in the fight between their brothers." He is the heir of the Gu family, and he can't stand in line if he wants to plan for the future of the Gu family. ”
The Dark Guard bowed, "The subordinates feel the same way. ”
"Let's check first, see if Your Majesty will give it to the King Jingren, if Your Majesty will give it, you will go to Wufeng Mountain to support. Your Majesty shouldn't have interfered, he was also a son, but it was too unfair to one, how much it hurt Chu Yan's heart! He protects King Jing, and I will protect my grandson. "The old Nanyang King made a decision.
"Yes." The Dark Guard immediately went.
Not long after, the secret guard came back from inquiring about the news and told the old king of Nanyang, "Your Majesty has given King Jing a hundred inner secret guards. The fourth prince and the fifth prince jointly sent out 800 secret guards, and King Jing himself sent out 250 secret guards. Combined, there were more than 1,100 people, and the Seventh Highness left Beijing with only 500 guards. Although he also brought a group of secret guards secretly, the Taoist priest who escorted Wufeng Mountain escorted the gold and silver to Nanyang, and it should have taken a few people's hands. ”
"Go, you take the secret guard of Nanyang Palace, go and help him." The old Nanyang King made a decisive decision.
"Yes!" The Dark Guard immediately took the people with them.
There are three hundred secret guards in the Nanyang Palace's palace who followed the old Nanyang King into Beijing, although the number is not large, but they are all first-class masters who have been trained since childhood, and the An family has its own set of special methods for training secret guards, so the trained masters, not to mention one enemy and ten, are almost the same, otherwise, when An Huajin took Chu Siyan into Beijing, he would not have wiped out a large number of dead soldiers raised by Zhang Chengze unscathed.
The old king of Nanyang is loyal and patriotic to the Great Chu and the emperor since he was a child, but now His Majesty, he is really not as good as the emperors, and he has no room for people.
He was originally a stubborn person, and he never thought of helping his grandson fight for the throne, but now, he had to make this decision. After all, Chu Yan is really a good boy. The An family dragged him down, and the An family naturally wanted to help him.
The secret guards of the Nanyang Palace's movements were fast, and they were super short, but they arrived at Wufeng Mountain faster than the four princes, the five princes, the king of Jing, and the hundred inner guards.
At the foot of Wufeng Mountain, the secret guard saw Chu Yan.
Chu Yan was a little surprised, "My grandfather sent you?" ”
"Yes, the old prince got the news, His Majesty gave King Jing a hundred internal guards, King Jing united the four princes and the five princes, there are more than 1,100 secret guards, come to deal with you, the old prince is afraid that something will happen to you, so he sent me and others to help."
Chu Yan was silent.
Although he also expected that the emperor would agree to Chu Lan, after all, he really hated him and loved Chu Lan very much, but he was still vaguely disappointed, after all, it was his father.
Now, the father-son relationship in the depths of his heart has been completely cut off.
The emperor personally told him what it means that the heavenly family has no father-son and brotherly affection, and if you want to sit in that position, you have to step on the white bones of your brother, and there is no one who wants to sit on the throne who is not ruthless.
"Your Highness the Seven?" The dark guard looked at Chu Yan for a long time and was silent, and tentatively spoke.
Chu Yan can refuse Gu Qingyan, but he will not shirk the old Nanyang King's love for him, Chu Lan has the support of his father and the emperor, and he has the protection of his grandfather, so there is nothing to be sad about.
He nodded, "Okay, thank you guys. ”
The dark guard breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that this Seventh Highness was too dead-eyed, so it seemed that the Seventh Highness was not such a person, fortunately not.
Chu Yan's manpower is indeed a little insufficient to deal with the joint efforts of the four parties, if he copes, he can only be reluctant, and he will definitely pay a heavy price, but with the help of the secret guards of Nanyang Palace, it is enough, at least, he will not pay a heavy price.
So, when the Quartet forces came to Wufeng Mountain together, there was no one at the foot of Wufeng Mountain, and the leaders of the Quartet glanced at each other and felt that Chu Yan was fixed in Wufeng Mountain, so they all went up to Wufeng Mountain.
The last batch of gold and silver has not yet been transported, so Wufeng Mountain has not been blown up yet. It also happened that Chu Lan had a crooked mind, so Chu Yan took people to wait for this group of people in Wufeng Mountain.
As soon as the Quartet forces went up the mountain, the secret guards of the Seven Princes' Mansion, who had already been prepared, and the secret guards of the Nanyang King were in unison with the strength of the Quartet.
Chu Yan stood at the highest peak of Wufeng Mountain, looking at the people who were mingling below, his eyes were compassionate.
He once thought that as his son-in-law, he was afraid that one day he would inevitably face blood and blades, whether he fought or not, this identity was destined to be impossible for him to dodge, but he never thought that this day would come so quickly.
It took two hours for this bloody battle to stop.
Chu Yan's secret guards injured 100 people and killed 30 people, and the secret guards of Nanyang Wangfu did not suffer any casualties.
And the hundred internal guards all died, the secret guards of the Four Princes' Mansions, the secret guards of the Five Princes' Mansions, and the secret guards of the Jingwang Mansion, all of whom were spared, and all died.
That is, not a single person escaped from Wufeng Mountain.
Chu Yan just wanted to leave the scene he witnessed with his own eyes in Wufeng Mountain, where no one knew except for him, the secret guards in the mansion and the secret guards of the Anyang Palace. Including King Jing, including the fourth prince, the fifth prince, including his father and the emperor.
He didn't need to leave a living mouth to report the news, he just needed to bury and forget about the day.
And although King Jing, the fourth prince, and the fifth prince felt very sure, they were inevitably still nervously waiting for the news. After all, if they kill Chu Yan, they will usher in a new situation.
So, the three of them got together and waited for the good news to come.
But from noon to sunset, to the sky was completely dark, to the dead of night, to the middle of the night, the three of them still did not wait for the news to come back from Wufeng Mountain, even if one person came back with the news, even if a carrier pigeon flying eagle delivered the news back, there was nothing.
King Jing's face gradually turned white, and in the end, it became whiter and whiter.
The fourth prince and the fifth prince also felt that it was not good, and Qi Qi looked at King Jing in horror, "Eighth brother, the person we sent out, there is no news so far, it won't be ......"
It's all folded, right?
These words, they came to their lips, afraid of bad luck, and did not want to ask.
Chu Lan pursed the corners of his mouth tightly for a long time before he spit out a sentence, "Wait, wait until tomorrow, if you haven't ...... tomorrow"
That's all folded!