Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Trap
Greedy desires forced him to break the law that he should not have concubines in love. He looked at Lin Yuan eagerly and pleadingly, and said, "Niangniang, do you really want to help me?" β
"Lord Xiao has lived in officialdom for a long time, so he must understand that although the word "forming a party for personal gain" is not good, it is the most effective means...... Lin Yuan said and sighed: "Your Excellency, you also know that the father of this concubine is not a high-ranking official, and with such a background, he is beautiful on the outside but empty on the inside...... My lord, can you trust this concubine? β
"Oh, hehe, Niangniang's mind is not much different from the old decay......" Xiao Youxiang showed a clear expression, and then bowed down very reverently, and said: "Weichen begs Niangniang for advice." If it happens this time, Weichen will definitely repay Niangniang Yongquan in the future. β
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, but she was not completely relieved. She knew that this kind of old fox who had survived in the officialdom for twenty years was difficult to control, and Xiao Youxiang promised to cooperate with her, but An knew that he would not cross the river and tear down the bridge, so he turned his face and didn't recognize anyone after this incident.
But she wasn't worried. She had a lot of time to subdue this man.
"Then the concubine is going to tell the adults the most precious news......" Lin Yuan whispered, but it was enough for the other party to hear clearly, "My lord, the emperor's intention is to be executed for the crime of treason...... Do you understand, sir? β
"Although King Mu Wu is a domineering man and has private soldiers, this is all allowed by the first emperor. He didn't commit any sin. β
"That's why the emperor has to think about how to do such a crime, and the emperor doesn't want to fight." Lin Yuan's voice became deeper and lower: "My lord, there is another important thing you may not know, the emperor will summon Prime Minister Zuo and others to discuss politics in the easternmost study in the Golden Tent every day, and the record of discussing politics is in that room." What Ben Concubine just said is only a general level, if you want to understand the whole plan...... As the right prime minister, the adult also has the right to enter that place, and if you think of a way, it is not impossible to see the most important things. What you can do with this news for the emperor depends on your lordship. β
"The book house in the east ......" Xiao Zhen looked stunned. He found that he had underestimated the role of the concubine in the past, it turned out that the emperor's pillow person was really able to listen to the existence of everything, Lin Yuan served the emperor day and night, and unconsciously mastered the most core secrets, and even knew where the records of the discussion and politics were placed.
"Is there anything you don't understand?"
"Nope." Xiao Zhen's eyes flashed with a greedy gleam: "Thank you Niangniang, Weichen knows what to do." β
Lin Yuan didn't say any more nonsense, turned around and left.
Unexpectedly, there was a follow-up question behind him: "How did Niangniang know about ......?"
Oh, it seems that I still don't trust her.
"This concubine is the emperor's pillow person, so she naturally knows what the emperor wants and does." Lin Yuan didn't look back: "My lord, it's still the same sentence, what to do is only up to you." β
Lin Yuan didn't lie to the right prime minister, after all, she really hoped that the right prime minister would rise to the top.
Ever since King Muwu came to the enclosure, she had been stopping as much as she could in the places where King Muwu and Tuoba Hong had appeared at the same time. She spied out the emperor's general thoughts from the eyes that Tuoba Hong had been looking at King Mu Wu every time for the past two days, as well as the secret words of the emperor's close ministers who overheard.
One of the advantages of a place like a deer paddock is chaos. In the chaos, it would be easier for Lin Yuan to avoid people's eyes and do things that Tuoba Hong didn't like.
If she was in the capital, she wouldn't dare to listen to the corner of Jianzhang Palace if she had ten guts.
On the outer edge of the valley mouth, the palace maid Hatsuyuki was waiting anxiously. She has done a lot of wind for Lin Yuan, but this time she is more nervous than ever. Finally, she saw Lin Yuan come out, ran over and said hurriedly: "In case it is discovered, fornicating with foreign men and colluding with courtiers are capital crimes......
Lin Yuan did not answer.
All the dangers encountered so far have been enough to kill you...... If you can have your own power in the court, you won't die so easily in the future.
Lin Yuan said to Chu Xue: "You go back to the tent first, and I will go to serve the emperor." In the past few days, she has been pestering Tuoba Hong, in order not to make the other party suspicious, she can only entangle harder, and explain all her actions as competing for favor.
Chu Xue nodded: "Today is colder than yesterday, the slave will go and get a hood for you." β
Lin Yuan went around from the mouth of the valley to the path on the north side of the paddock, and from this road he went back to find Tuoba Hong, because this was the way to return to his camp from the birch forest.
Halfway through, Lin Yuan found that the road ahead was blocked. It was a boulder tumbling down the hillside, and I don't know what was going on, but it just blocked the path without leaving a gap. The rocks are piled up high, and it is impossible for people without martial arts to climb over.
In the seat of the royal family, anything unusual is an extremely dangerous sign. Lin Yuan's palms slowly clenched, and then turned around and ran.
She should be glad she was wearing a riding suit, but a person who is not good at sports can be so stupid to run. Before she could run off the road, there was another loud bang in front of her. She covered her eyes and squatted down, and when she looked up again, she saw that the circuit was also blocked.
Really. Someone is trying to take her life.
When she was in the capital, she was suspicious of Concubine Xiang every time this happened, but it was impossible for Concubine Xiang's hand to reach Beisai. So who is it? If anyone finds out that she has a private conversation with the right prime minister, he can report to the emperor and deal with her justifiably without using such a despicable and sinister method.
On the left side of the road is the Gobi Desert, and on the right side is the forest where wild animals are raised. However, the place where Lin Yuan is located is very remote, and if you go into the forest from here, you will still be several miles away from the place where the team is really hunting. Such a distance will not be far on the road, from the dense forest to wear...... Lin Yuan was quite familiar with Bei Ye in his previous life, and knew that he couldn't walk a few miles in a day in the dense forest full of wild beasts.
However, there was no time to hesitate...... At this time, the falling rocks only blocked her, but the sound of the mountain sliding still roared in her ears. Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and went into the forest, because the survival rate of the dense forest would be greater than that of the desert, and it would be closer to the camp.
The dense forest was dark, and Lin Yuan could no longer resist the fear in her heart. This is the very edge of the paddock, and the fir and coniferous trees block out the sun, so dense that it is not a place for royal hunting at all, but like a primeval forest...... Lin Yuan had been walking for two hours, from dusk to night. Her right leg was still bleeding, from a wolf trap.
Lin Yuan was physically and mentally exhausted, but his mind was extremely clear. She understood that since this kind of marginal area was not suitable for hunting, it was impossible to raise wild animals, so the appearance of animal traps was too unusual...... She struggled to break free after being caught in the iron clamp, which was lucky, if she took one more step to the right, what awaited her was a three-meter-deep trap pit full of thorns at the bottom. I'm afraid this is just the beginning, she has already lost her way, and she knows what awaits her in front of her...... She looked up at the sky to find the stars pointing north, but all she could see was the impermeable canopy.
The only thing Lin Yuan regretted was not learning to ride well. If there is a horse, it will at least run faster, and the horse knows its way in the woods.
Under the cover of night, Lin Yuan really understood what it meant to be unable to see his fingers, and in this ghost place, there was not even a trace of moonlight. Lin Yuan didn't dare to stay, the night was obviously more dangerous than the day, and if he found a place to sleep, he would be eaten by wolves in his dreams. It wasn't until dawn that she finally stopped at a muddy pond. She was already tired.
Fortunately, this is the forest in the paddock, and there is no shortage of water, which is not the same as the real forest of death. She gasped for breath, she was so right to think that wealth and danger were in danger, if she hadn't been greedy for fame and power, she wouldn't have run around the men's paddock all day long, and if she had stayed in her tent and practiced calligraphy, she wouldn't have encountered today's troubles...... How can you not get your shoes wet when you walk by the river, and you will lose money sooner or later if you play too much in the gambling game of fighting for power.
She leaned down and tried to scoop a sip of water with her hand. However, the originally calm water suddenly splashed, and Lin Yuan reacted extremely quickly, and his body fell backwards suddenly. In a moment of panic, she saw through the darkness a large mouth of blood filled with hundreds of sharp teeth, she screamed, and fled backwards.
Lin Yuan kept running, she knew that she would encounter more fierce beasts in the future, crocodiles were not good at running on land and were easy to escape, and the next time there was a leopard that ran fast and would go up the tree, she would completely explain. As she ran wildly in a panic, a sudden flash of swords flashed in front of her, and she instinctively fell to the ground, desperately waiting for the sharp pain to strikeβthe other party was bloody, beasts, traps, and assassins who were chasing and killing...... It's cornered.
However, the knife did not cut down. Lin Yuan, who was lying on the ground, heard another scream, and the fear and immaturity in that voice were even worse than his own. She opened her eyes and looked up, and saw a woman much thinner than her, or a child at all, lying on the ground in the same position, holding a dagger more than a foot long stuck in the trunk of the tree and unable to pull it out.
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that he was weaker than himself, and I am afraid that this child would be assassinated if he could come to this kind of place...... She patted her chest, stood up and picked the other up with one hand.
The girl's dagger was jammed, and she could only keep swinging her fists to resist. Lin Yuan grabbed her hand and gasped, "I'm not the one who wants to kill you...... Stop, if you want to stay alive......"
After the initial panic, the other party was finally able to calm down. She was a very young girl, and she tried to break her wrist away while looking up at Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan was also looking at her, this method of seeing through people's hearts practiced in the palace was not suitable in the wild, because the faces of both of them were covered with muddy water, and they couldn't even see their appearances clearly.