Chapter 384, Trapping the Palace
Chu Huaixian, who had the key in his hand, was about to leave, when he heard King Liang muttering and cursing behind him: "One, two, three, four, five, you will have no ass, all add up, you will not have an ass." ”
After reading it, the people leaned forward and fell back with laughter, and Chu Huaixian scolded angrily: "Get out!" You madman! King Liang stared at his two eyes, and still said: "One, two, three, four, five, all add up, the one who has no ass is you." ”
Chu Huaixian, who walked back, thought about these two sentences under the dark moon, there were too many beams in the Taihe Palace. One, two, three, four, five add up to a lot, and there are not so many plaques, which can only be beams. No ass? In the middle of the beam?
When he saw the sky, Chu Huaixian didn't want to move again tonight, so he returned to the place on duty, and saw that two more palace maids had slipped away. The rest of the people talked and laughed together, and then went out to patrol again.
In the morning, when the sky is light, it is even colder, and they are all shaking their hands and feet waiting for the shift change. The people who changed the shift came first, bringing a shocking news: "Take Xiao Zhao Wangye, he is conspiring with others, and he has been taken into shape." ”
Chu Huaixian listened quietly, his heart pounding. After changing shifts, I didn't dare to contact anyone when I went home, and called Gong Miao'er: "It's time to use you, and I don't dare to send my little guys." You go to inquire, pretend to have relatives with the Zhao family, and see if Xiao Zhao is locked up in the palace or outside the palace? ”
Gong Miao'er came back from a day's trip, and her face was so tired that she looked tired: "I was locked up in the criminal department at the beginning, and in the afternoon, someone went to rob the prison, and two people died, I saw it with my own eyes, and escorted him to the palace in the car." I followed him all the way to the palace gate and saw him get out of the car and be escorted in. ”
"Which two people died?" Chu Huaixian asked in a deep voice, and Gong Miaoer also inquired clearly: "One is called Liao Huayong, and the other is Qian Zhongnan." ”
Chu Huaixian cried again, these two people, who also knew him, were close generals under Zhao Cunzong.
What Zhao Cunzong said to others, Chu Huaixian knew. On the day of Chan Rang, these people conspired to rescue the emperor on the spot and take down Prime Minister Zhang. Zhao Cunzong, like Chu Huaixian, is a false attachment to the great uncle, just to keep his prince. Zhao Cunzong's kung fu is strong, he is willing to surrender, and the uncle of the great country is also overjoyed, originally wanted Zhao Cunzong to serve as the guard of Chan Rang on the day, but now it seems that there is a traitor!
Things are imminent, and you can't wait a day. Zhao Cunzong didn't come out, and on the day of Chan Rang, there were still a group of people who went to die. This group of people are all in contact with Zhao Cunzong alone, and they are a group of assassins who Zhao Cunzong is afraid of having a traitor and refuses to let others know.
As for Chu Huaixian, he knew that Zhao Cunzong had two preparations, and he didn't know how to contact these people. At the moment, we can't wait any longer, that is, take out the edict and rescue Zhao Cunzong. If it's too late, I'm afraid that Xiao Zhao's life will be in danger.
Under the stars and moon, Chu Huaixian sighed in the room, feeling that his own strength was too thin. It's just that at this time, there is no one else to use.
Let Gong Miao'er go back to rest, Chu Huaixian walked alone under the moon, and let out a long sigh from time to time. When he felt the cold, he turned around, and saw Duofu Duoshou and Jinxi Jincai standing behind him, and said in unison: "May the son advance and retreat together." ”
"I know, if I don't go to save Xiao Zhao, I need more people." Chu Huaixian thanked the little guys for their loyalty, and revealed his true thoughts.
From rescuing people in the palace to getting Xiao Zhao out of Beijing again, this is a big deal.
When I went to bed that night, I was still thinking about it in my dreams, and when I woke up the next morning, I still had this thing in my mind. At breakfast, people replied: "Lord Wu, the guard on duty with the prince in the palace, comes to worship." ”
Chu Huaixian said, "Please." "My heart was pounding and I brought it up. The sky outside the room is just the morning light, this is not the time to visit the guests, so Chu Huaixian, who is in Cao Ying's heart, is extra vigilant.
Guard Wu came in with a look of idleness. Seeing Chu Huaixian's exquisite breakfast, he smiled and said, "I just changed shifts, and I haven't eaten yet." ”
"Blessing, bring a pair of bowls." Chu Huaixian asked Duofu to set the dishes and chopsticks again, and asked the Wu guards to sit down. looked at the look on his face, as if he was fine, and he was at ease at the moment.
Wu Guard drank three bowls of porridge in one go, and he was a big-bellied person. Watching his family take down the dining table, Wu Guard smiled at Chu Huaixian and said, "Eldest son, you have such brocade clothes and food, I don't know who gave it to you?" ”
Chu Huaixian, who had something in his heart, heard it and lowered his face: "If you talk nonsense again, I will send you to the prime minister." Wu Guards smiled: "Eldest prince, there is nothing to do at night, go to the Queen Mother's Palace?" ”
Although he had a smile on his face, he was speaking seriously, Chu Huaixian got up and made a move, that is, he pulled out the sword hanging on his bookshelf, and the Wu guard jumped back a step and said with a wry smile: "I have something to say, Xiao Zhao asked me to come to you." ”
"Really?" Chu Huaixian was suspicious, and Wu Guard took out Zhao Cunzong's token: "I guarded him last night." The little prince was tortured, but he could still struggle. The thief has no way, so he locked the little prince in the water prison, and if he didn't save him quickly, his injuries would be very serious if he was flooded again. ”
Chu Huaixian was still holding the sword in his hand, and after checking Zhao Cunzong's token, he put away the sword in disbelief and looked at the Wu guards fiercely. Wu Guards hurriedly reported to their homes: "I came out of the Little Prince's army, and I was selected to enter the palace ten years ago." ”
"Is there anyone else in the palace?" Chu Huaixian was most anxious to ask this: "How many people can be used?" Wu Guards said: "There are still twenty or thirty people, and a few of them are on duty in the Taihe Palace." ”
Chu Huaixian was overjoyed: "This is good, I have discussed with Xiao Zhao Wangye, I will go to the Taihe Hall to pick up things tonight." Take it out, it only makes sense to save Xiao Zhao Wangye. ”
"Okay," Wu Guard thought for a moment and said, "There are two brothers on duty at night, and Gongzi is going, just tonight." Chu Huaixian planned carefully with him: "After the palace gate is under the key, I will go to the Taihe Palace, take out the things and go to save Xiao Zhao Wangye, here in the palace you can let him rest and change clothes, change the clothes of the guards for him, and go out early the next morning." ”
Guard Wu said categorically: "No! When the little prince comes out, he will leave the palace. We went out of the palace, there were people outside the palace gate, the general on the city gate was under the account of the little prince, he opened the city gate, and we left together tonight! ”
"The Queen Mother, the Emperor, and King Liang are still in the palace, and I can't go." Chu Huaixian said resolutely, and the Wu guards took a deep look at him: "The Chu family is a loyal martyr, and sure enough, this sentence is true." Childe, where you are, we have to go. But I advise my son, it's better to go together. Even if Taifu informs the princes everywhere to enter Beijing, it will be a month later. ”
The two of them didn't make sense on this, they talked about everything else and made an appointment to meet in the evening.
That night, Chu Huaixian arrived at the Taihe Palace, went in unimpeded, climbed up to the head of the beam according to the number of Liang Wang, and saw that it was empty, and there was nothing.
At this moment, Chu Huaixian was in a hurry. It was night, and I couldn't go far to light the lamp in my hand, and I couldn't see all the beams in the whole temple at a glance. Where is this edict?
Jumping off the beam and being anxious about the tablet under the beam, Wu Guard was still urging on the side: "Hurry up," inadvertently looked at the tablet and the head of the beam again, Chu Huaixian thought in his heart, this beam was facing the tablet of the emperor.
No ass? Chu Huaixian picked up the tablet of the emperor in his hand, and the Wu guards were startled: "You? Seeing Chu Huaixian's hands on the tablet, he really unscrewed the wooden seat under the tablet.
In this wooden seat, there is a small flat box, which is opened with two keys in his hand, and it is an apricot yellow holy decree.
Both of them were overjoyed: "There it is." The Wu guard, who was holding the lamp in his hand, blew out the lamp with a "poof", and by the afterglow, Chu Huaixian, who unfolded the holy decree, only saw: "If there are two hearts in the ......., there is no forgiveness for killing......." He was not in a hurry to look again, knowing that this was. Lock it up at the moment, stuff it into your arms, and go out with the Wu guards.
When he went outside, he was on the way, and when he saw Chu Huaixian, he smiled: "Are you on duty today?" Chu Huaixian wanted to vomit when he saw him, and he had to endure kind words to him, and goosebumps rose all over his body.
The prince held Chu Huaixian's hand in his hand, kept stroking it, and pointed his voice with pity: "Ouch, my child, look at your hand, it's a man's hand......."
The Wu guards hurriedly walked away, and the prince peeked at the eldest prince of Chu, which had been spread all over the palace.
After waiting in front for half an hour, when he saw Chu Huaixian coming over in a hurry, he couldn't bear to bear the look of the prince and didn't want to mention it again. Wu guards didn't dare to ask, and rushed with Chu Huaixian to save Zhao Cunzong.
The water prison is a secret place, and there are not many guards, and half of them are willing to go with Zhao Cunzong. It didn't take much effort to get Zhao Cunzong out, and when he was about to leave, a scream came from behind him: "Someone has robbed the prison!" ”
A small eunuch who appeared out of nowhere shouted at a sharp voice. After shouting, he burrowed into the grass, and no one was gone.
"Let's go!" Wu guards carried Zhao Cunzong, who was covered in water and covered in bruises, and Chu Huaixian led people to open the road in front and back, and went along the route agreed during the day.
A small palace door opened, and a few anxious faces poked in from time to time. Seeing them coming, he was overjoyed to take Zhao Cunzong, and saw that the chasing soldiers behind him had arrived.
When Wu Guards saw it, they hurriedly urged: "You guys send the little prince out of the city!" He turned back and drew his sword to meet his pursuers. Zhao Cunzong opened his eyes and shouted weakly: "Huaixian, follow me." ”
Although this voice was weak, Chu Huaixian, who was walking to Zhao Cunzong's side, heard it clearly, he burst into tears, stuffed the key in his arms and the small box containing the holy decree into Zhao Cunzong's hand, and then ordered the person who escorted him: "You go, I will break off!" ”
Before Zhao Cunzong could speak, seeing that the sword light was shining, Chu Huaixian also turned around and sent it up, and then turned around and stomped his feet and shouted: "Go!" ”
The person carrying Zhao Cunzong put Zhao Cunzong on the horse, got on the same horse as him, and said loudly: "Let's go." The sound of horses' hooves was extraordinarily loud in the quiet night, and in the palace behind him, the lights were bright, and the shouting and killing were continuous: "Don't go Zhao Cunzong!" ”
Zhao Cunzong's group walked very smoothly, and arrived at the city gate in less than half an hour. When the general guarding the gate saw them coming, he asked the gate to be opened early. Then he went down to the city, and abandoned the gate with the soldiers.
Zhao Cunzong, who was extremely injured, woke up from the fast horse outside the city, stopped the group, and asked first: "Where is Huaixian!" He was powerless to lie on his horse, and then said the second sentence, "What about Huaixian?" The man did not know where the energy came from, and sat up straight on the horse. I couldn't see Chu Huaixian before and after, and I heard someone reply bitterly: "Master Chu, trapped in the palace." ”
Zhao Cunzong straightened up all of a sudden, he couldn't feel the pain on his body at all, he was immersed in worry and pain, facing the sound of chasing and killing in the night, Zhao Cunzong hissed like a madman and shouted frantically: "Where is Huaixian?" ”
"Little prince, it's not safe here, we have to go quickly!" Persuade him with the people who followed. Only then did Zhao Cunzong understand that he calmed down, he looked at the torches behind him hatefully, and said angrily: "Let's go." ”
At that moment, the horses were like flying, and the group galloped away.
There were a hundred miles away from the escape, and Zhao Cunzong dismounted to rest. Let people light torches and take the holy decree in their hands and take a look: "Three hundred miles outside Beijing, the Shenji Battalion can be called." Zhao Cunzong jumped to his feet and was overjoyed: "Let's go, there are soldiers!" ”
There was no rest for a moment, and the group ran until dawn, stopped to drink water, ate breakfast, and got back on their horses and galloped away.
When the morning light shone in the palace, Chu Huaixian was locked in a room in the palace. With a pen and paper in front of him, the prince was just persuading him: "Write, as long as you are willing to write a letter to let your father come to Beijing, it is still a great achievement." ”