Chapter 48: Back to Kyoto
"Miss Zhen, do you have any plans?"
Although it was not clear what Zhen Rumeng had to do to make himself ascend to the throne, Chu Xuan was a little moved at this time. This Great Zhou Kingdom was originally left to him by his father Chu Yan, but it was just taken away by Chu Mo, and now it is taken back by him himself, which can be described as justified.
When Zhen Rumeng heard this, he slowly walked up to Chu Xuan and whispered in his ear. She was very tall, about the same as Chu Xuan, so she didn't have to bend down to the other party, she could also reach his ear.
After listening to Zhen Rumeng's plan, Chu Xuan nodded and said: "It's indeed a good idea to capture the thief and capture the king first, but this time to force the palace, although the shadow guard has suffered a lot of losses, Chu Dan is afraid that there will still be many master guards around him, especially that Xue Wuchang." ”
Zhen Rumeng smiled faintly: "It's all up to the son, and the slave family can't help." ”
After formulating the detailed steps, the first thing the two of them had to do was to dress up in disguise. Needless to say, at this time, the whole city of Zhou must have been plastered with notices to arrest the two, and if the two of them went back like this, their whereabouts would be exposed.
However, for Chu Xuan, there is no need to dress up in disguise, these days when he returned to Zhou Kingdom, he had already acted in the mask of Lin Xuan, and now he just needs to restore his true appearance.
As soon as they said they would do it, the two of them immediately drew two buckets of water from the well in the backyard of the inn.
Zhen Rumeng took off the veil, first lowered her head and washed her face, then untied the hair ornament on her head, scattered her hair, and then opened the dressing box she carried with her and put on makeup for herself.
After a long time, she finally dressed herself up as a handsome boy, and was about to disguise Chu Xuanye, when she turned her head, but in front of her there stood a beautiful young man who had never seen before, with bright eyes and bright teeth, and as warm as jade.
"You, you're ...... Young Master Chu?" Zhen Rumeng asked tentatively in disbelief.
Chu Xuan scratched the back of his head, this was his habitual action, "What's the matter, Miss Zhen, scared you?"
"No, no, is this what you are, Childe?" Zhen Rumeng shook her head, still a little incredulous.
Chu Xuan ignored her surprise and smiled, "Okay, now we can enter the city." ”
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Kyoto, at sunset.
Because the city gate checkpoint was very strictly checked, Chu Xuan and Zhen Rumeng flew in directly using their body methods, and Xue Wuchang and his shadow guards did not notice it.
The two came to the city, and sure enough, every few steps they could see the documents posted everywhere to arrest the two people, and a large number of officers and soldiers and catchers could be seen everywhere along the way, and they were searching around with the portraits of the two.
To be honest, Chu Xuan didn't understand what the use of doing this was, even if these people really found themselves and Zhen Rumeng somewhere, what could they do? With their own skills, who could stop them in this Kyoto? The reason why he and Zhen Rumeng changed their faces was just to make things more convenient.
According to the original plan, the two went separately, one went to investigate the whereabouts of several important generals of the forbidden army, and the other went to the palace to find out the truth, before dark, the two met outside the gate of Su Xintang's house.
Chu Xuan chose to explore the truth of the palace, and before that, he went back to the mansion first.
As soon as he came to the roof of his house, he leaned over and saw that many officers and soldiers had rushed in, killing and driving all the slaves of the Chu Mansion, and the rest were ready to be taken back to the prison. Chu Xuan looked carefully, and Leng Er was also among them.
He originally planned to kill these officers and soldiers and save the slaves, but after thinking about it again and again, he endured it, and if he couldn't bear it, he would make a big plan, and he had more important things to do.
Leaving his mansion, Chu Xuan moved to the imperial city one by one. The palace was well guarded, full of border soldiers in armor and guards in official uniforms, patrolling everywhere with open fire. Zhen Rumeng's idea was right, it seemed that Chu Dan and Xue Wuchang were really very jealous of themselves.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Chu Xuan came to the gate of the Su family as agreed, and Zhen Rumeng, dressed in men's clothes, was already waiting for him there.
"Childe, how is it in the Imperial City?"
"It's pretty much the same as you said, what's going on your side?"
Because he was worried that the conversation would be heard, Zhen Rumeng moved to Chu Xuan's side and muttered.
"Childe, according to the slave family's inquiry, Xue Wuchang was afraid that someone would rob the prison, so several generals of the forbidden army were actually not locked up in the prison, but under the dungeon of the Su Mansion in front of them. ”
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the Su Mansion behind her, and continued: "The third prince, Chu Dan, is the husband of Su Xinmo, the eldest lady of the Su family, and now he wants to be the emperor of the Great Zhou, how can Su Haochen, who is the father-in-law, object?"
Maybe it was because she was too close, Chu Xuan felt very uncomfortable, and subconsciously wanted to stay away from her, but she didn't care, and continued: "According to the slave family, Gongzi has to find a helper this time. ”
"Who's the helper?"
"The righteous sister of the slave family, the apprentice of the son, and the second lady of the Su family. ”
Chu Xuan knew that she was talking about Su Xintang, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I'm afraid that she won't help me, if I become the Son of Heaven, her sister won't be the queen, and her father won't be the ruler." ”
"That's not simple, as long as the son marries her, she will become the queen, and her father will be the ruler. Zhen Rumeng said, and got a little closer to him.
"Nonsense, how could I ......"
At this time, Chu Xuan realized that Zhen Rumeng was too close to herself, and the breath she exhaled when she spoke made Chu Xuan feel warm.
Chu Xuan's face immediately turned red, and he had the intention to push the other party away, and felt that it was inappropriate for her to help her so much, so she took a few steps back and whispered: "Miss Zhen, please respect yourself, you are wearing men's clothes now, but you are so close to me, aren't you afraid of passers-by pointing at you?"
Zhen Ru dreamed that he was still so repulsive about himself, sighed, took a few steps back, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.
"You... What's wrong?" Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Chu Xuan was a little ashamed.
"It's okay, it's okay. Zhen Rumeng raised her head and said with a forced smile: "Don't worry, Childe, I have already secretly met with Sister Tang, and as soon as she heard that she was helping you, she agreed without thinking about it." ”
"Really, did you ever tell her that I wanted the Son of Heaven?"
"No, I told him that there were a few friends that Gongzi had met when he was a guard in the dungeon of Sufu, so she foolishly promised the slave family to steal the key to the dungeon to Gongzi. ”
Chu Xuan smiled: "It's really a stupid girl, I hope she won't blame me afterwards." By the way, what about her?"
"Inside, Childe, go in and see her, the slave family has gone to help you. ”
Zhen Rumeng said, turned around and disappeared into the crowd. According to the original plan, she also had to find the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops who were imprisoned and persuade them to cooperate with Chu Xuan and overthrow the third prince Chu Dan.
When Chu Mo was in retreat, the crown prince Chu Bai burned a fire in the northwest corner of the imperial city, tricking most of the forbidden army into fighting the fire, and he himself took the opportunity to lead the rebels to the back mountain, trying to force Chu Mo to abdicate. It's just that the praying mantis catches cicadas, the yellow finch is behind, Chu Bai has a plan to transfer the tiger from the mountain, but in the end it is his younger brother Chu Dan who is cheaper.
After Chu Dan killed Chu Bai and forced Chu Mo away, he immediately led the army to surround the forbidden army who went to put out the fire, the forbidden army was Qiu Ba who ate a bunch of imperial grain, and it didn't matter who was the emperor. So under Chu Dan's coercion and temptation, everyone turned against Chu Dan and surrendered to Chu Dan.
However, the forbidden army would never have thought that as soon as Chu Dan accepted their surrender on the front foot, he would send someone to divide them into several parts and detain them in a centralized manner. As for several leaders of the forbidden army, they were secretly imprisoned in the dungeons of Su Mansion and tortured. Xue Wuchang even proposed to Chu Dan to dig a few big pits and bury all the forbidden troops who surrendered alive.
Chu Dan agreed to Xue Wuchang's proposal. The personalities of the two are somewhat similar, and the best way to deal with people they can't trust is to physically eliminate them, which is why the two can work together.
After Zhen Rumeng left, Chu Xuan also quietly infiltrated the Su Mansion.