Chapter 243: A General with Ulterior Motives
At the exit of the Liansheng Kingdom Royal Mausoleum, in the afternoon.
At this moment, the sun is shining, the temperature is pleasant, and a golden eight-lift sedan chair is waiting there, next to a neat row of Royal Forest Army soldiers.
Next to the sedan chair, there was a commander of the Imperial Forest Army who was looking anxiously, and the direction he was looking at was the direction in which the goddess and the queen mother had left, that is, the direction in which Yanyu left.
While anxiously waiting, he also fell into memories excitedly......
Since he got Yanyu's consent, he sent a hundred thousand urgent flying pigeon heralds to the palace to inform the saints, and ordered his subordinates to carry the eight-lift sedan chair that had been prepared long ago, and quietly waited for the goddess Empress Dowager to return after worshipping the ancestors, and then he could return to the palace with him.
He knew in his heart that as long as he safely sent the goddess Empress Dowager to the gate of Fengwu Nine Heavens Palace, his task would be completed, and he would completely end the duty of guarding the royal mausoleum, and from then on, he would be the auxiliary general who guarded the palace.
And entering the palace on an errand is one step closer to his plan.
The reason why I say this is because this Lin Hai is none other than the commander of the Imperial Forest Army who made the fox charm incarnate into a humanoid pretend, and it is also the black shadow that secretly followed Yanyu and Phantom Lotus and Meng Ling when the palace maid cleaned the cemetery before.
During the fifteen years of ice, he happened not to be in the Black-tailed Leafhopper Country, but in the ruins of the Lotus Kingdom, so he escaped the crisis of destroying the Black-tailed Leafhopper Country without regret and survived.
Later, when he woke up after fifteen years of ice, he found himself in a swamp near the royal mausoleum, but fortunately he was not a mortal, but a black-tailed leafhopper incarnation, so after transforming into a black-tailed leafhopper, he successfully escaped from the miasma-filled swamp.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he rushed out of the swamp, before he had time to change back into his human form, he happened to meet a recruit of the Royal Forest Army who came to report at the royal mausoleum.
But how could this recruit who lacked combat experience be the opponent of the black-tailed leafhopper, and he was quickly exterminated.
After incarnating into a human form, Ling Hu Mei simply put on the armor of this recruit, and found a small bamboo tube from the armor, opened it, and inside was a letter of recommendation for recruits, after reading the content of the letter, he knew that with this letter, he could successfully enter the royal mausoleum.
Looking at the letter in his hand, Ling Fox was inspired to throw the corpse of the Royal Forest Army recruit he killed into the swamp and sink it, and then pretended to be this recruit named Lin Hai to report to the royal cemetery.
Although this royal mausoleum is far away from the palace, and he may not have the opportunity to actually enter the palace in his life, Ling Fox Mei is not discouraged.
Because he knows that the opportunity is to be won by himself, that is, to find a way to make himself promoted, and when he is promoted from an ordinary soldier to a commander, if he has made any great achievements, he will naturally be transferred to the palace as an errand.
So for this goal, Ling Fox Charm deliberately turned into a black-tailed leafhopper at night to make trouble near the swamp in the cemetery, and beat the commander who led the troops to hunt him down and fainted with serious injuries, and then killed the other soldiers, and then deliberately made himself look like he was covered in bruises, turned back into a human form and carried the commander back to the barracks.
When the Commander woke up, he lied that although the black-tailed leafhopper had been injured by everyone and had gone into the swamp, his brothers had all been killed, and only he and the Commander had survived.
When he learned that it was Ling Fox Charm who desperately carried him back to the barracks, the commander was also grateful, and naturally quickly promoted him to captain.
After that, Ling Fox Mei concocted the same method several times, and when he completely gained the approval and trust of the commander, and was promoted to deputy commander, he finally made a black hand, and after transforming into a black-tailed leafhopper in one night, he killed the commander, and decisively cut off a useless claw when he became a black-tailed leafhopper, as evidence that he had killed the black-tailed leafhopper, and won the recognition of the saint again, and was officially appointed as the commander of the royal mausoleum.
Since then, he has won the trust of the saint, and unexpectedly received a secret letter from the saint, saying that the goddess Empress Dowager may be resurrected, and promised that once the goddess Empress Dowager is resurrected, he can safely escort the Empress Dowager back to the palace, and he will be promoted to an auxiliary general, and from then on he will guard the palace.
Originally, Ling Fox Mei didn't have much hope for the resurrection of the goddess and empress dowager, but when he encountered smoke and rain during the monthly cemetery cleaning days, he knew that his opportunity had come.
is also convinced that the resurrection of the goddess Empress Dowager is likely to be related to Yanyu, and in the following three days, he took the initiative to patrol the cemetery, secretly paying attention to Yanyu's every move.
After eavesdropping on the conversation between Yanyu and Phantom Lotus, and knowing that Yanyu was also trying to sneak into the palace, he knew that everything was expected by him, until he quietly followed Yanyu and saw her go to the palace of the Empress Dowager alone, he was even more sure that Yanyu was very likely to enter the palace pretending to be the Empress Dowager.
And then the cemetery withered overnight, and after the death of more than a dozen soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army, the goddess Empress Dowager was really resurrected in public, when he received the captain's report, rushed to the entrance of the cemetery, and witnessed the goddess Empress Dowager floating in the air, he was naturally ecstatic to bow down to the Empress Dowager.
Although he didn't know how Yanyu successfully pretended to be the goddess Empress Dowager, it didn't matter, as long as he knew that the goddess Empress Dowager was Yanyu, and that he and Yanyu could live in the palace in the future, it was enough.
Because his purpose is to infiltrate the palace, and then secretly stir up the situation, sabotage His Royal Highness the Prince's accession to the throne, and even do not rule out assassinating His Royal Highness the Prince, and then assist a prince who has no opinions, and is timid and afraid of things, to inherit the throne and become his puppet emperor, then the entire Liansheng Kingdom is under his control.
Just when Linghu Mei, who was pretending to be Lin Hai, was waiting for the goddess Empress Dowager and fell into memory, he saw a distortion in the air in front of him, and then a woman with an elegant temperament and a lotus mask appeared out of thin air.
"The last general will meet the goddess Empress Dowager, may the Empress Dowager be blessed and safe." The moment the woman appeared, Ling Fox Mei and the other Royal Forest Army soldiers immediately knelt down and shouted respectfully.
"Get up, let's go back to the palace." Putting on the mask again, Yanyu said casually when he returned here.
After finishing speaking, he walked to the eight sedan chairs, and Ling Fox Charm hurriedly went over to help Yanyu into the sedan chair, and then set off.
Along the way, Ling Fox Mei vigilantly watched the surroundings, asking all the Imperial Forest Army to work up to protect the Empress Dowager, because as the prince of the black-tailed leafhopper prince, he was too familiar with the open and secret battles in the court, and he was also very sensitive.
He had a premonition that the resurrection of the goddess and the empress dowager this time would naturally be happy and sad for the court vying for power.
There are ministers who sincerely hope for the resurrection of the goddess and empress dowager, and there are also ministers who hope that it is better for her not to enter the palace alive, because the heartfelt masters are different, and the purpose is different, so the ideas are diametrically opposite.
Therefore, the fox charm has reason to believe that the road back to the palace must not be peaceful, and it is inevitable that there will be killers in ambush, wanting to put the newly resurrected goddess and empress dowager to death.
For Ling Humei, there must not be any mistakes along the way, otherwise his desire to enter the palace as a town guard general will be disappointed.
Therefore, after arranging the three layers of the Imperial Forest Army and the three outer layers to protect the eight sedan chairs of the goddess and the queen mother, in order to be foolproof, he rode alone and rushed to the front, opening the way along the way back to the palace, and brought the unique super keen perception of the black-tailed leafhopper to the extreme.
Just wanted to discover the killer in ambush in advance, and then quickly kill him, lest the killer alarm the sedan chair of the goddess and the queen mother, and then spread it to the saint, it would be his dereliction of duty.
Then his wish to be promoted to the general of the auxiliary country was frustrated, which was not a result that he could accept, so he would be so deliberate to protect the goddess and the empress dowager when she returned to the palace.
When he was halfway through the walk on the official road back to the palace, Ling Fox Charm really sensed that there was an ambush in the woods on the right in front of him.
So he rushed over quickly, and when he was about to approach the ambush location, he decisively transformed into a black-tailed leafhopper, rushed into the ambush killer, and opened a killing spree.
Although those killers are quite good, they are only relative to mortals, and they have no ability to resist against the black-tailed leafhopper bloodline Linghu Charm.
In less than a quarter of an hour, dozens of killers were reduced to a pile of shattered corpses.
Then Ling Fox Charm changed back into his human form again and rode back to the official road, he knew that there could be no more killers in ambush behind, after all, it was impossible for the mastermind behind the scenes to think that the top killers he sent would be wiped out.
Therefore, Ling Fox Charm waited for a while, and when the eight-carried sedan chair of the goddess Empress Dowager, who was guarded by the Imperial Forest Army, caught up, he continued to personally escort him to the palace.
After that, he didn't encounter any trouble all the way, and he came to the gate of Fengwu Nine Heavens Palace smoothly.
From a distance, Ling Fox Mei saw that both sides of the official road were full of royal forest troops, and the saint at the gate of the palace with all the ministers of civil and military affairs had already greeted him.
When the eight-lift sedan chair of the goddess and the empress dowager stopped, the smoke and rain in the sedan chair heard a holy voice outside: "Grandson has no regrets to meet the goddess and the empress dowager, may the empress dowager be blessed and safe!" ”
This was followed by a neat shout: "Ministers and others pay homage to the goddess Empress Dowager, may the Empress Dowager be blessed and safe!" ”
After hearing the shouts outside, Ling Hu Mei hurriedly came over and opened the curtain of the sedan chair, and walked down the sedan chair with Yanyu. ”
After finishing speaking, Yanyu also bent down and helped Jun Wuregret to stand up with his own hands.
"Empress Dowager Xie." Jun Wuregret and the ministers thanked in unison.
"Empress Dowager, next, will you go directly to the palace, or will you ...... Ahem, cough, cough, cough, ......" Just as the ministers stood up one after another, Jun Wuregret respectfully asked again, but halfway through his words, he coughed and stopped.
When she heard Jun Wuregret's words halfway through and began to cough, Yanyu knew that she was quietly testing her!
Fortunately, in the royal mausoleum before, the real goddess Empress Dowager had told Yanyu in advance about her past hobbies, living habits, and etiquette details that she usually paid more attention to, that is, she was worried that Yanyu would not show her feet in the future palace life, and the saints or ministers would see through her fake identity.
Therefore, Yanyu, who was already Bing Xue and was smart, instantly understood that Jun Wuregret deliberately pretended to cough, just to let Yanyu say what he wanted to do before entering the palace.
Because all the hobbies and habits of every emperor and queen of the past dynasties have been recorded in the annals of history, Yanyu knows that the saint and the minister will definitely read the annals again before meeting her, and use the content recorded in the annals to test whether she, the resurrected goddess and empress dowager, is really resurrected.
"Of course, it's an old rule, before entering the palace, the mourning family wants to hold a ceremony to worship the sky according to the etiquette of the Langyue Wollman clan, I wonder if the grandson has prepared it in advance for the mourning family? This is what the mourning family must do every time they go out for a long time and return to the palace, although this time the mourning family has passed away for thousands of years and has been resurrected, but some habits can never be changed. Yanyu said calmly to Jun Wuregret.
After listening to Yanyu's words, Yanyu noticed that Jun Wuregret and the skeptical eyes of those ministers finally became extremely respectful......