Chapter 198: Dawn
This night, the nobles of the Taiping Mansion lost the peace, the right prime minister Mingyu was the head, half of the ministers of the court gathered in the palace, waiting outside the emperor's bedroom, the emperor, it was already dying, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty was full of sweat, busy on the flat very gold brick ground several times almost fell, the emperor is going to be the first emperor, the new emperor is going to ascend the throne, Lin Xiang is begging for bones, tomorrow morning, does the eldest prince want to enter the palace? The officials of the Manchu Dynasty are going to be lined up againβ’β’β’β’β’β’ with the ministers of the Ming Dynasty who are busy like headless flies are all full of thoughts, some are happy and some are sad, but they are all with the same fear and anxiety, the face is nervous and depressed, which generation of new emperors is replaced, not in the bloody rain, but the rain and wind are big and small, this time it is impossible to be small, I just hope that my own family can survive in this bloody light, as for other people's families, who can take care of whom?
In front of the palace, Zuo Wansheng was not in the palace, he was busy mobilizing the forbidden troops stationed around the Taiping Mansion outside, busy garrisoning the Taiping Mansion and outside the palace at this special time, and busy with the stationing or guarding of each family, the most important thing, in addition to the majestic palace, is the Great Prince's Mansion.
The lights in the palace illuminated the homes of those famous families, the eunuchs, and the eldest prince sat behind the long case in the study, staring straight at the black silk in front of him, the half piece of golden chestnut paper with the word 'escape' written on it, and the white jade gourd. The eldest prince stretched out his hand to pick up the white jade gourd, and his slender fingers gently swiped the delicate 'Lin' character and the small and abnormal Lin emblem carved on the side of the gourd. Let him escape, yes, now there is only one word to escape, and it was Lin Xiang who persuaded him to lead the troops outside! It was his suggestion that now he has that place to stay, and his father really set up Xiaoliu? No way! Alas! Why do you bother to compare this truth? No matter who his father set up, it can only be Xiaoliu who is announced from the palace and from the hands of the Wu family! No matter who it is, it's Xiaoliu! What happens next? Inflict military disasters on Wu Land? If not, how can you be willing?!
The eldest prince sat upright, staring at the beating candle in a daze, and sat for half an hour before he moved, and ordered in a hoarse voice: "Please Mr. Yao." β
Mr. Yao, the most useful adviser of the Great Prince's Mansion, was sitting cross-legged and meditating in the outer wing, and when he heard the summons, he hurriedly jumped up, straightened his robe, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and entered the study with a calm and relaxed face. Mr. Yao took two steps forward, picked up the black silk, paper and white jade gourd and looked at them one by one, and sighed painfully: "God won't help me!" Lin Xiang really secretly fell in love with his master! Pity! Pity! The eldest prince frowned irritably, and Mr. Yao hurriedly turned around and said, "You have to leave quickly, go back to Chizhou Mansion, and then seek the future." β
"Well," the eldest prince nodded: "The fish is dead and the net is broken, this is a key fight, tonight the Taiping Mansion must be heavily guarded inside and outside, the city gate is also closed, and you can only get out of the city early tomorrow morning, this matter is naturally arranged by General Chen, you draft a letter of advice, provoke the Wu family to force Lin Xiang back, hide the emperor's illness, falsely pass on the holy order, and bring disaster to the country and the people, well, there is also collusion with Beiping, and I want to lose my Wu country!" A traitor! The more the eldest prince spoke, the more angry he became, the green tendons on his forehead jumped and jumped, Mr. Yao hurriedly agreed, looked at the eldest prince and suggested: "Not only us, Yushitai, but also the six ministries and our people in the Guozi Prison, we must also go to the book together, this matter is going to make a big fuss, the bigger the trouble, the better, it is better to let everyone in the world know the ruthless and cunning of the Wu family, the grandfather, the elder, and the virtuous are all Wu family's troubles!" β
"Well, tomorrow the fifth day will be presented earlier, all of them will be transcribed, so that the students and the imperial historians can make a good fuss, it's time to use them." The eldest prince thought about it and ordered, Mr. Yao agreed heavily, the eldest prince waved his hand and retreated him, called General Chen in, and carefully discussed the various things to leave Beijing and return tomorrow morning, this is the most important thing, no matter what, he must return to the army of Chizhou Mansion alive.
Lin Mansion is silent, even the red lantern, but also reveal a sense of loneliness and Liao Luo, swaying without the usual style and liveliness, Lin Cheng Xiang sat in the study, came back from the palace, he just sat here, not to say not moving, like a statue, the little guy made tea and served it up and down, and then offered it and then took it down, I don't know how many times it went up and down, Xi'an was hidden in the shadows behind the curtains, looking at the soulless Prime Minister Lin Cheng with disgust, no wonder the girl looked down on him, sure enough, but the withdrawal was poor, Can you look like a dead lady? Well, it's really dead Lao Tzu Niang, maybe it's okay, Xi'an moved into the shadows in annoyance, and waited for half an hour, he didn't eat or drink, is this medicine hard to pour in?
In the middle of his troubles, Prime Minister Lin moved slightly, when he sat too long, his arms seemed stiff and unnatural to hold on to the armrests of the chair, he shook his body and got up, dragged his steps step by step to the back of the Baibao Pavilion, looked up at a calligraphy and painting hanging on the wall next to the Baibao Pavilion, looked at it for a moment, moved half a step forward, shook his hand and held the scroll up, and slowly reversed the calligraphy and painting, the back of the calligraphy and painting is a portrait, the woman on the painting is beautiful and gentle, with a Qinghua temperament, holding a book in her hand, sitting sideways on a large bluestone, Tilting his head and looking at the outside of the painting, he pursed his lips and smiled, Xi'an's body shook slightly, this painting is extremely expressive, it is clearly Mrs. Xiao when she was young, but now she has become a living skeleton!
Prime Minister Lin stretched out his fingers, gently stroked the woman in the painting, suddenly cried sadly, and cried for more than a quarter of an hour, before he helped Baibaoge staggered out, and the little guy changed to hot tea and ginseng soup to come in, Prime Minister Lin Cheng's face was full of tears, waved his hand indiscriminately to rebuke everyone, sat down slowly, poured water and studied ink, lifted the pen, and slowly wrote the two poems that spread throughout the Taiping Mansion, it is said that it was the words of him and Mrs. Xiao, Xi'an twisted a fine needle, flicked his fingers and extinguished the lamp and candle, the little guy rushed in and lit it again, and Lin Chengxiang's eyelids did not lift, Finished the two poems one by one, stared at the two words for a long time, reached out to pick up a cup, and slowly drank a few sips, Xi'an breathed a sigh of relief, passed through the window, followed the shadow of the bushes under the corridor, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Wu Mansion is also sleepless all night, Wu Hou Ye entered the palace, Wu Shicheng followed the forbidden army on the order of his aunt, Wu Mansion ancestor Mrs. An Tai sat in the small Buddha hall, twisting the Buddha beads and reciting the Peace Sutra over and over again, Mrs. An Tai was restless, and the ladies and girls of the Manfu naturally had to accompany them, in fact, they couldn't sleep, and when it came to dawn, maybe the glory was monstrous, maybe the house was full of blood.
Li Xiaoqi crooked on the couch, dangling his feet to see Danyue and Begonia quickly writing on a piece of paper: "The prime minister is thin, the concubine is vicious", and complained while reading: "Your girl is really worried about her life, just finished helping one, and you have to help another escape, outside here at this time, there are three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, we have to think of ways to help him make some mess out, alas, girl, I am miserable!" Danyue and Haitang didn't care about Li Xiaoyi's muttering complaints, the girl asked the two of them to write at least 500 copies before the fifth watch, and the two of them couldn't even bother to raise their heads!
In the middle of the night, Lin Mansion suddenly screamed and panicked from the quiet, countless lanterns poured out of the mansion gate, rushing to the famous doctors in Taiping Mansion and the imperial doctors who could still be found, Lin Xiang suddenly died, and more than a dozen famous doctors and doctors of different ages surrounded the stiff Lin Chengxiang and talked in a low voice for a long time, and came to the conclusion that Lin Xiang was poisoned! The famous doctors and doctors who came to the conclusion cleverly speculated about the source of the poison, how dare they stay for a long time, and they didn't even dare to accept the consultation fee, and they left clean in the blink of an eye.
The dark late night seems to be more conducive to the spread of news, Lin Xiang's poisoned letter flew into the palace and all over the Taiping Mansion, Wu Guifei listened expressionlessly, without saying a word, at this time she didn't have the time to pay attention to such a trivial matter, there are priorities!
After the eldest prince was shocked, he only felt that a cold yin qi rose from the tailbone, she could poison Lin Xiang, and she could also poison herself! The eldest prince threw the teacup on the table to the ground in a panic, and urgently called General Chen to come in, as long as he hadn't escaped from the Taiping Mansion, he could only hide surrounded by dead soldiers and guards!
The sky revealed a glimmer of dawn, the wild goose was dragged by Nanning and rolled off the horse, lying on the grass by the side of the road, Nanning and the guards turned to the side to change clothes, and brought a black cloak to wrap around the wild goose, the wild goose grinned in pain, held the tree and looked at Nanning and begged: "Can you find a stick for me to post on, it hurts to death." Nanning signaled to the guards, while arranging the horse, and said with a smile: "This is the method that the girl came up with, most people think that the woman can't stand this suffering, naturally I can't think that we can run out of more than 400 miles overnight, the girl said, after running this night, you can sit in the car and hurry safely, let's go for two more days, to Yangzhou and wait for the girl." β
"Huh? Ran more than 400 miles? Luo Yan trembled and fell to the ground again: "No wonder, my body is like falling apart, why don't you go north and go to Yangzhou?" β
"That's what the girl commanded." Nanning turned his head to look at the wild goose who was paralyzed on the ground, motioned to the guards to give her the stick, and said with a smile: "Get up, the front is Wei County, it's time to open the city gate, let's go in and find an inn, you wash it, change your clothes, let's buy another car and set off." Luo Yan stood up with a stick, said nothing and didn't want to ride a horse again, a group of three people, mixed in the flow of people into the city into the comfort county, more than an hour later, two horses pulled a half-old paulownia calf cart, out of the city gate, all the way to Yangzhou.
The faint Taiping Mansion, in the palace, the emperor swallowed his last breath, from the emperor's bedroom, the white spread quickly to the surroundings, and in the blink of an eye, it became a white vast, and this white expanse spread from the palace to all parts of the Taiping Mansion.