Chapter 60: The Struggle for the Throne
The black clouds overwhelmed the city and wanted to destroy it, and the entire Prince Mu Mansion was shrouded in low dark clouds, and the rooms in the mansion lit up with yellow light. Now that it's so dark, why doesn't the wing room on the west side light a candle? Then he asked, "Is there anyone living in that wing now?" ”
Qianxue looked in the direction she was looking at, and replied, "It's the dancing lotus girl who lives!" ”
Hearing this, she stopped and asked Qianxue's girl to go back to Xianyun Palace. She lifted her feet and walked towards the black black house to the west, and the thunder seemed to tear the sky apart, and she was so frightened that she held Sizhao's hand tighter.
I saw that the doors and windows of the wing room were closed, as if no one was living in it. She gently clasped the closed door: "Dancing Lotus Girl! Except for the whistling wind and the roaring rain, no one responded.
She slammed the door a few more times, but no one answered. Looking at Si Zhao beside him, he whispered, "You wait here, I'll go in." ”
She pushed her hand open the door, and there was a dull "squeak" as she cautiously stepped into the threshold, and the room was empty. She whispered to the inner room, "Dancing Lotus Girl! ”
She faintly heard a small sound from within, like a snake spitting letters, and like something crawling. She lifted the curtain of the inner door, and saw many pairs of shining eyes staring at her in the dimly lit room. "Boom" Another thunderclap swept by, and lightning lit up the dark room.
She saw the scene in the room clearly, there were many poisonous snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other things entrenched on the couch, and a long snake with a silver glow swallowed a black snake beside her into its belly.
She suppressed the surprise in her heart and lowered the curtain quietly. The strings in her heart tightened when she stepped out of the door, and she grabbed Sizhao's hand and said hurriedly: "Let's go!" ”
When she returned to the Xianyun Palace, she sat on the chair, her chest rose and fell rapidly, Sizhao handed her a cup of hot tea to her hand, and asked in a low voice, "Miss, what dirty things did you see?" ”
She drank the hot tea in her hand and whispered, "The farther away from that person in the future, the better." ”
The poisons seemed to be killing each other, and she had read about this phenomenon in books. There is a saying in the book: Take a hundred insects into the urn, and after years of opening, there will be a worm that eats all the insects, that is, this is called Gu. Could it be that Wulian is raising Gu!
On second thought, the poison was scattered on the couch and not placed in the urn. The more she thought about it, the more furious her heart became, and her head hurt faintly. In the past few days, it hurts a lot when I think about it, just that, since Wen Yan brought her back to the mansion, he has his own plans.
It's just that the rain seems to be cross-hearted, endlessly underground, mixed with terrifying lightning and thunder. I don't know if he has come back, she said worriedly: "Sizhao, you go to the study to see if the prince has returned!" ”
She picked up the peach comb on the dressing table and smoothed out her hair, and then Sizhao came back, she patted the rain on her body and said, "Miss, the prince hasn't come back yet!" ”
The hour had passed, and he hadn't returned, and her head was aching even more. He said to the outside world: "It's not too early, you go and rest, I'll rest." ”
She picked up the scissors on the table and cut off the burning wick, and the red wick that fell on the candle burned to the end and turned into a roll of ashes. The rain outside the window was still beating relentlessly. In this situation, the candles in the west window should have been cut, but the long night was lonely, and the faintly aching head no longer allowed her to be sad. She rubbed her aching temples and covered her brocade quilt and fell into a deep sleep.
She slept very unsteadily that night, perhaps frightened by something in the Dancing Lotus House, or perhaps for other reasons. The noise outside the house woke her up, but she had a splitting headache, and she couldn't get up in a drowsy state, afraid that she had suffered from the cold wind blowing yesterday.
Qianxue outside seemed to hear the movement and came in to help her up. She opened her lips and asked, "Who's talking outside?" ”
Qianxue lowered her head and replied: "Someone came to the palace, saying that His Majesty was critically ill and summoned the princess to serve the sick!" ”
"In this case, then you need to take a shower and change your clothes quickly!" She opened her lips anxiously, she suddenly turned her head to look at Qianxue standing on the side and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Hearing this, Qianxue raised her eyes to look at her, and said timidly and softly: "The slave maid's name is Qianxue, and she has been serving the princess since yesterday. ”
In fact, she only felt that it was the first time she had seen this girl, and her memory was getting worse and worse. It's just that this girl is smart and smart, and she likes it too.
She changed into a water-colored palace dress, with a few hairpins diagonally inserted in her sideburns. Qianxue helped her weakly, she walked out of the door but didn't see Wei Wenyan, didn't he come back last night. She asked Qianxue on the side: "What about the prince?" ”
Qianxue replied: "The prince was in the palace last night. ”
After the rain, the weather was much lighter, and at this time, Sizhao came over with a cloak, and she felt cold. Her head hurt even more, and she walked briskly into the sedan chair, not caring about the headache.
Sizhao had to wait for her outside the Guangwu Gate with a sword, Qianxue helped her to walk towards the Yonghua Palace, and the little eunuch outside the door shouted: "Prince Mu and Princess Mu have arrived!" ”
A eunuch led her into the hall, only to see a person kneeling in the hall, and the entire Yonghua Hall was shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere. At this time, Chen Hai bowed and stepped forward and said, "Niangniang, please inside!" ”
She nodded slightly and followed Chen Hai into the hall, only to see a person lying in the bright yellow silk curtain, even if she couldn't see her face clearly, she could feel the majesty of an emperor. She knelt on the ground and said, "Prince Mu and Princess Dugu ask Father Wang An!" ”
Emperor Wei's low voice came from the curtain: "Come forward and take a look!" ”
She moved to the front of the collapse and raised her chin slightly, only to see Emperor Wei in the curtain saying angrily: "There is a beautiful person, clear and graceful." Lao Qi has a good vision, although she is an ordinary woman, she has a luxurious temperament, which is better than many official women. "Ahem, ahem!" After that, Emperor Wei coughed heavily.
The candle flame next to the dragon collapsed flickering, and the clear yellow light gradually weakened, and it will not stop. "Prince and Princess Mu, please!" Chen Hai's shrill voice came from her head.
She bowed to the ground: "The concubine retires!" He bowed and turned around and retreated into the main hall. She didn't have much affection for the person on the dragon's collapse, and it was only the first time she had seen the dragon's face today. Zuo is Wei Wenyan's father, and she respects him very much.
She also became one of the kneeling people in the hall, and she bowed her head slightly, not looking at the few people beside her. I don't know how long she knelt, her head hurt more and more, dragging her body down heavily, and the soft numbness at her knees made her unable to support it. At this time, a sharp voice pierced the silent Yonghua Palace: "The emperor has died!" ”
At this time, there were many crying sounds that seemed to be true and false in her ears, and the entire Yonghua Hall instantly became lively. The crowd threw her head down to the ground, and her eyes began to faint.
At this time, there was the sound of soldiers and killings outside the hall, and all the cadres who were kneeling in the hall fled in all directions. She struggled to prop herself up, and when she stepped out, her feet floated lightly, as if she were stepping on cotton.
At this time, she saw a large number of soldiers pouring into the temple, and suddenly a cold knife was placed on her neck. The man's eyebrows were fiercely murderous, she didn't know the person holding the sword, but judging from the person's attire, it should be from the royal family.
Wei Wenyan, who was dressed in military uniform, swept into the hall with the blood qi from outside, and his face was stained with blood. The fierce murderous aura in his eyes caused the man to press the sword closer to her neck again, only to see a trace of blood moisten the cold sword. A hot and tingling sensation suddenly came from her neck, which cleared her already groggy brain a lot.
"Seventh brother, as long as you don't know anything, otherwise, your princess!" The man gritted his teeth and wrapped his arms around her neck, his voice as cold as a sword around her neck.
Although Wei Wenchu is the storage position, the power of the third brother in the DPRK and China occupies most of it. As long as he goes in now and takes out the edict forged in advance to let King Kang succeed to the throne and abolish the crown prince, he can let the third brother sit on the throne at that time. He is a hero, glory and wealth are indispensable, and no one will dare to trample him under his feet again. It's just that he didn't expect Wei Wenyan to install a large number of people, and now this woman is his only chance of winning.
Wei Wenyan's heart rose to his throat, and he hurriedly threw the sword in his hand to the ground, not daring to take another step. The deep eyes seemed to gouge out two holes in the man: "Fourth brother, take a woman as a hostage, this king is ashamed of you!" ”
"Go get the edict!" The fourth prince roared angrily at the people beside him.
The soldier behind him looked like he was about to move with the blade in his hand, and the deputy general Li Rui took a step forward. The fourth prince was forced to be in a hurry, and pushed the sword deeper into her neck, and suddenly more bright red blood flowed down her white and tender neck.
"Stop it!" He drank them loudly, his eyes bloodshot red. He glared angrily at the crowd in the hall: "What are you doing! She is the princess of this king, if she has three long and two short, this king will slaughter this imperial city for her burial! ”
A warm current slipped through her heart, smiled at him, turned around and twisted off the fourth prince's hand, and snatched the sword from his hand. With a cry of pain, she stabbed her cold-glowing blade straight into his shoulder blade.
Wei Wenyan killed the remnants of the hall, and quickly stepped forward to pull her over, with a faint anger between his eyebrows. staring into her eyes and whispering to her, "Are you crazy! ”
She wiped the stained blood from his face with her sleeve and whispered, "Aren't I fine!" ”
He pulled a piece of cloth from the hem of his clothes and tied it around her neck, which was still slightly bleeding, and his tone was reproachful: "If you don't succeed, you are now one of the many dead, the archers are ready, why are you so anxious!" ”
"I don't want to drag you down." She collapsed into his arms as she said that.
He hurriedly supported her falling body and hugged her horizontally, only then did he touch her forehead, which was already very hot. He roared angrily at the many soldiers on the side: "Doctor Xuan! ”
She blew so much cold wind yesterday, and was announced into the temple again in the morning, and he didn't have to think that he knew that she had not eaten for a day, and had knelt down for another day. And the catastrophe in her body has not been removed, and he walks quickly with her in his arms. In the palace where the bonfire was lit, a man in military uniform held a weak woman in his arms, pursed his thin lips, passed through the layers of palace walls, and stepped into the Changhua Palace.