Chapter Ninety-Seven: Waiting for an Opportunity
The night is vast, even if there are palace maids carrying silk lanterns in front of and behind, the road ahead is still pitch black, which makes people palpitate, and the road out of the palace is like a sea of books to walk several times a day, and he usually braves the night to give orders, but it does not make him nervous today. The wind at night was very rampant, and it was about to rain heavily, even if Shu Ruhai was tightly covering his clothes, the cold wind that penetrated through the gap between his walks still made him shiver a few times.
When he arrived at the palace gate, the guards saw that it was like a sea of books, and let him go without asking, letting him out of the palace.
Approaching the cold winter, most people are resting early, the road to the Qin State Mansion is dark, and there is no light at all.
Sou..................
It seemed as if the cold wind had swept up something and extinguished a lamp.
"Father-in-law forgives sins!"
The palace maid was stunned for a moment and knelt down.
"Get up! The wind is so cold tonight! Where is it to blame you for the lights out! Although Shu Ruhai said this, his face was full of coldness, and his hand holding his clothes trembled unconsciously.
He always felt that in the darkness, there seemed to be an eye watching him.
"Thank you, Father-in-law!" The palace maid got up and hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Sou..................
Another light went out.
If at first Shu Ruhai could comfort himself that it was caused by the cold wind, then now Shu Ruhai can no longer find a reason.
Sou.................. Sou............
All four lamps were extinguished.
The sky and the earth were silent, Shu Ruhai sighed in his heart, and grabbed the arm of a palace maid, shrunk behind the palace maid, and the four lights were extinguished, no wonder he was terrified when he left the palace, this is obviously someone who wants to harm him.
"Ah............h
A small cry came into Shu Ruhai's ears, although there was no visible object, but the sound of the bang made Shu Ruhai panic.
"Uh-huh......" snorted, and then someone fell again.
"Woo woo............ The heroes spare their lives, and the heroes spare their lives! The palace maid who was tightly dragged by the book like a sea of arms was already crying.
"Who! Don't pretend to be a ghost, my father-in-law will be afraid of you! Shu Ruhai said and immediately went to pull the arm of the other palace maid, in order to let the two palace maids block the black hand in the darkness for themselves.
"Books are like a sea."
In his ears, the breath was warm, and the thick male voice that spread made Shu Ruhai let go of his hand in shock, and it was not the palace maid he was holding, it seemed to be the black hand in the dark.
"Who the hell are you?" Without a light to take care of, Shu Ruhai didn't know anything other than knowing that the person around him was a man.
"Who am I, when you get to the Netherworld, ask King Yama again!" A thick male voice, accompanied by two sinister laughter.
The palace maid who was tightly held by Shu Ruhai screamed in panic and fainted, and a palace maid also screamed, and began to run towards the street where the front and back roads could not be seen clearly.
But the sound of Dongdong's footsteps was only three steps away, and Shu Ruhai heard the whoosh that seemed to be urging him to die.
"A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life!" With the thud of the palace maid falling, the defense in Shu Ruhai's heart also completely collapsed.
"Humph!"
The cold snort made Shu Ruhai shudder, but before he could shout for help, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he lost consciousness.
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The night is dark and the wind is high, and when Shu Ruhai wakes up again, he is already tied hand and foot in a pyre, it is still a dark room, so it makes no difference between opening and closing his eyes, but from time to time someone outside walks by with a torch, so that he can take advantage of the light to take a look at the place he is in, when he sees Shen Ke with his eyes closed on the pyre, those ominous thoughts in his mind have surfaced for a while.
Could it be that the house leak happened to rain overnight?
He whispered twice, but he couldn't answer, desperately squirmed towards Shen Ke and rolled over, hitting Shen Ke twice with his head, only to finally hear Shen Ke snort.
"General Shen, General Shen......"
"Father-in-law? How did you end up here? Shen Ke opened his eyes faintly, and knew the identity of the person in front of him by the glimmer of light that came in through the crack in the door and the voice he was familiar with.
"General Shen, the emperor is worried about your safety and let the old slave come to look for you! It turns out that you didn't enter the palace for a long time to resume your life, but you were also plotted by someone! General Shen, do you know who those people are? "Even Shen Ke is tied up here, and the unbearable ideas in Shu Ruhai's mind have come true, but now they are all trapped here, even if they know that someone wants to make trouble, they can't report it, except for lamenting, there is nothing to do.
"Father-in-law, as soon as the old lady died, the prince of Qin Guogong was sad and angry, and I couldn't persuade him to be locked up here, can father-in-law Shu have a way to send a letter to the emperor?" Shen Ke struggled to sit upright.
"It's already a blessing to have a life, where did you think that Qin Guogong would have such a rebellious idea! Isn't it very dangerous for the emperor now............" The book babbled like a sea, and he was very anxious.
A mocking smile flashed on Shen Ke's face, and he lamented like a sea of books.
In the mansion of the Duke of Qin, it is now heavily guarded, and in the study of the Duke of Qin, who did not dare to enter half a step in the past, there are several family guards who are tied up.
The emperor knows that eyeliner is placed around them, and they also know how to avoid these eyeliner, and now that they have torn their faces, these eyeliners naturally don't need to be left anymore! Just like the Qin State Mansion at this time, the lights are lonely and can no longer be heard Changchang Bo Chen Yin, who has also tied up these people, and before the Qin State Prince's men and horses arrived, this secret must not be known to the emperor. Therefore, these people must die, Chen Yin has waited too long for today, and this juncture must not be lost.
Yang Xiong of the Cangming Mansion has also caught the eyes of these emperors one by one, these people have passed their news to the emperor in the past and let themselves be clamped by the emperor left and right, since they are going to act today, these people must not be able to stay, Yang Xiong's family has been separated from Beijing in the evening, compared to the 50,000 horses of Qin Guogong and the nearly 30,000 men and horses of Changchangbo, his 10,000 men and horses are only the tip of the iceberg, he never expected that Chen Yin, who has always been obsessed with women and does not care about the government, still has such courage and determination, However, Chen Yin's heart is not bad in the end, today's Qin Guogong's words made him suddenly, the emperor has never thought of showing mercy to himself and others since the case of An Guogong, and he still thinks about the emperor and wants to get lucky is just a joke, since he has already gotten on this boat, there is no turning back, and there is no other way than to continue walking at the moment.
The Cangming Mansion was brightly lit, Yang Xiong sat in the lobby, a hot tea in his hand was already cold, the three generations of the Yang family were loyal to the martyrs, and now they were about to be ruined on their hands, and the restlessness of the wind and rain made his heart feel uneasy.
"Master, master, the prince and the second son are back!"
A middle-aged man dressed in a bamboo-blue shirt ran all the way through the lantern-lit corridor to the lobby.
And following him were the eldest and second sons of Cangming Gong.
It was the contemplative Yang Xiong who was shocked when he heard this, and before he could get up, as soon as he raised his head, Yang Shizi and Yang Huaijin ran in.
The light shone on the faces of the two people, and they could be seen in the dust.
"Why did you get back?" These two sons are the hearts and minds of Duke Cangming, and they are back at this critical juncture, isn't that ......
"Father, brother and I are not at ease, so come back and have a look." Yang Huaijin walked in front of Yang Xiong and slowly knelt down: "The emperor is ruthless, my father fights for the survival of the family, Huai Jin has nothing to say, but my father, if this was three years ago, maybe there was still a possibility of success, but now, where does my father have the confidence to recognize himself as an enemy of the emperor?" ”
"I knew you were coming back to persuade me! Hurry up! While the gates are still closed! Yang Xiong angrily lifted the tea cup in his hand and fell to Yang Huaijin's side.
Yang Shizi stepped forward and knelt down, stopping in front of Yang Xiong, who was about to leave: "Father, father and son soldiers, seeing that you are going to take this road, how can we leave you, father, our father and son fight together, I don't believe that we can't beat that faint king, the heavens are clear, our Yang family has three generations of loyal martyrs, why is this!" ”
"Who am I doing this for? Not for you! If today's success comes, you can come back, but if you fail, how can the Father pull you to death! Come on! It's too late! "Yang Xiong is very anxious, Qin Guogong's people will arrive before the city gate is closed, and no one will want to leave the city at that time, the success or failure of today's affairs is difficult to calculate, and the Yang family cannot be destroyed in his hands.
"Father, it is precisely because of this that we can't leave, a manly man, if you don't have any responsibility at all, how can you be the children and grandchildren of the Yang family." Yang Shizi knocked his head twice.
"Good! Yi'er, it is not in vain that your father teaches you earnestly! Yang Xiong leaned over and held Yang Shizi's shoulder, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Father, brother, do you really want to watch the Yang family fall like this?" Yang Huaijin is still unwilling, in the current situation, although the Duke of Qin is menacing, how can he compare to the emperor who still won the hearts of the people? If there is a bad pool, the name of the Yang family's loyal monarch is not there, the wealth is disillusioned, maybe even his life will be difficult to protect!
"What do you know, if I don't do it today, the emperor will do it tomorrow! Do you remember your Uncle Ann's family? Yang Xiong angrily pushed Yang Huaijin to the ground and called several guards outside: "Tie up Yi'er Huaijin and send me out of the city." ”
"Father, if the child doesn't leave, the child will defend the Yang family with his father!"
"Bastard! What kind of hero, the Yang family doesn't need you to defend it! ”
Yang Xiong's red eyes tightened, and his clenched fists turned into palms and hit the back of Yang Yi's head!
The sentence that was still stuck in his throat was impossible for his father to say again, and Yang Yi's body was crooked and fell to the ground.
Today, he is not sure of success or failure, this is his eldest son, and he will also carry the responsibilities of the Kuangxing Yang family in the future, and he must not die in the capital.
"Huai Jin, take your brother away! If I die! You don't need to avenge me! Live well, live well, let the children and grandchildren of the Yang family watch how the rivers and mountains of Dahe are destroyed, and how he Ning Shihong eats the consequences! Yang Xiong's eyes were full of tears, because of nervousness and excitement, the corners of his mouth kept twitching, this was his hatred, and it would not be clean if it was not washed with blood.
"Father, my brother is the eldest son in the family, he survived, enough for our Yang family to go on, I have always been an unfilial son in your eyes, and staying will only ruin the Yang family's style, this time, let me, an unfilial son, accompany my father to do a big job! Even if it's death! Our Yang family doesn't have a shrunken turtle either! Seeing that his brother was stunned by Yang Xiong, Yang Huaijin stood up and took two steps back, he didn't plan to leave when he came back, since his father had made up his mind, how could he, a son, not be accompanied!
"Nonsense! In the past, although I scolded you for not growing up, but for my father, I know that it is your temperament to be free and uninhibited, and you don't want to embarrass your righteous son, so you send love to the landscape, how can your father not know! Where are you the unfilial son of the Yang family, you are the father, you are the father! ”
Yang Xiong beat his chest in grief, and the dull sound of the thump was his silent telling.
"Father, it's not your fault that you rebelled! Erchen has written a letter to his mother, if he loses today, everyone in the world will know that the emperor persecuted our family, father, you are not an unfilial son of the Yang family, the descendants of the Yang family, they are all good! ”
"That's it! Your character, the Father will never convince you! Stay and seek justice for your father." ”
"Yes, Father!"
Yang Yi has been carried away by the guards, Yang Huaijin unexpectedly persuaded Yang Xiong to stay, the father and son of the Yang family, are waiting, just waiting for the beacon smoke to ignite and the army to attack the city.