Chapter Seventy-One: Destiny
Zhang Ce endured it for ten years, Rong De planned for ten years, Ji Ying worked hard for ten years, and the court also fought openly and secretly for ten years.
In the early morning of the first day of August in the thirtieth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the second queen of the emperor, Li Shixu, mourned throughout the country. In order to pray for the queen, the emperor granted amnesty to the world. In order to show respect and filial piety, the prince proposed that 81 senior monks and 81 Taoist leaders take turns to recite scriptures for the queen, for a total of 7,749 days. In addition to a few people in the palace, the Taoist priests also widely solicited from the people, and the monks used the "Taoist monks" of the Dafa Temple.
The Taoist priest doesn't care, just the monk.
Although Dafa Temple is the largest temple in the capital, it needs so many monks that it can't be extravagant for a while, but everyone who has no hair basically goes. Master Cause, who had broken his left arm, was naturally among the invitees.
But here's where things go bad.
Zhang Ce, who has become a monk, does not have the slightest understanding that can break through the dust, and he has only one thing in his heart for ten years, that is, to restore the truth of the year and return the innocence of the deceased. He thought that this was God's arrangement, so that he could meet the Holy One face to face and state his grievances.
It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes. At the beginning of August, when Zhang Ce entered the palace in the crowd, he did not see the emperor, because the emperor was extremely sad and sick the day before, and there was no way to come in person, so he had to let the crown prince Zhou Xuan and the king of Chu Zhou Yan do it for him.
Both Zhou Xuan and Zhou Yan quickly noticed the one-armed monk, as his expression seemed to be a little nervous.
Zhou Xuan remembered that ten years ago, he sent Li Xingzhi and Duanmuen to hunt down Zhang Ce, but later Duanmuen reported that Zhang Ce was hit by a poisoned arrow in his left arm and fell under a mountain stream. Duanmu En asked a few words on the side, and the two children didn't agree with each other, but he couldn't do anything to the two dolls, so he had to give up. Zhou Xuan was sure that Zhang Ce was still living in a secret somewhere.
Was you hit by a poisoned arrow in your left arm?
Could it be the person in front of you? Zhou Xuan was a little incredulous, after all, he felt that this matter was a coincidence. But he has always been cautious, so he secretly recruited his right-hand man and asked him to investigate the identity of this master.
On the same day, Zhang Ce left the palace in a huff, he thought, hoping that His Majesty would be present tomorrow.
But as soon as he left the palace gate this time, he never had a chance to come in.
Zhou Xuan's subordinates immediately found out that because the master's identity before becoming a monk was fake, and the person who created this fake identity was Rong Shi's eldest brother Rong Zhen.
Zhou Xuan's heart immediately pinched. He immediately ordered his men to secretly kill the cause so that no one could find out.
But what Zhou Xuan didn't expect was that Zhou Yan, who should have been immersed in the pain of losing his mother, actually paid close attention to every move in the East Palace. Zhou Yan's attention shifted to Master Yin because of Zhou Xuan's relationship.
When he was assassinated that night, he was rescued by Hanying Division, and after that, the seriously injured Yin was forced to come to Zhou Yan's Chu Palace.
Zhou Yan never dreamed that it would be an extremely delicious bait, and he could catch a big fish that had surprised him for many years. Liyin told Zhou Yan about his identity and purpose, as well as the events of the year. Everyone knows that this is a great opportunity to hit Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Yan would not give up this opportunity, and he sent dozens of shadowing killers to protect Zhang Ce's safety. After he comes up with an excellent way, he will arrange for Zhang Ce to face the saint to present his feelings.
Zhou Xuan heard that the assassination of Zhang Ce had failed, and even that Zhang Ce had fallen into Zhou Xuan's hands, so he was angry and panicked. He gave an order to Duanmu En.
A few days later, the queen was buried in the imperial mausoleum, and the emperor's dragon body gradually improved, so he said that he would personally preside over the queen's funeral. The palace was filled with mourning, and the cries shook the sky. And among them, Zhou Xuan and Zhou Yan, who showed the most sorrow, had their own hearts.
A carriage drove out of the back door of the Chu Palace, followed by another one, but after half a pillar of incense, another one drove out, and in this way five carriages drove out in a row. All the five carriages were the same except for the coachman, all of them were green cloth tents, thick curtains and no windows.
Zhou Yan thought that he could fish in troubled waters, but he didn't expect to underestimate the cautious Zhou Xuan. Zhou Xuan first sent An Pengyue to lead troops to inspect various streets, and to maintain law and order in the capital during the mourning period, he inspected every passing vehicle in a grand manner. Of course, every car arranged by Zhou Yan is not without Zhang Ce, and An Pengyue, who had long expected this result, was just making a show.
Soon, Zhang Ce, who was dressed as an inner eunuch, entered the imperial tomb from the corner gate surrounded by Hanying Division, but was caught by Duanmu En, who was ambushed here.
This is a contest of Jianghu people, although behind them are the most noble princes.
In this fight, the masters of both sides gave strict orders that no one should be alarmed. Because whether it is the crown prince or the king of Chu who has just lost his mother, on such an occasion, once the emperor finds out that they are fighting in private, it will not end well. The crown prince hoped that Zhang Ce could die quietly, and the king of Chu hoped that Zhang Ce could naturally appear in front of the emperor. In short, no action can arouse the emperor's suspicion.
On the narrow road, there was poisonous powder everywhere, hidden weapons were scattered everywhere, and the corpses that fell in a row were quickly and quietly disposed of, except for the tiny blood spots on the ground like falling petals, no one could imagine what kind of cruel battle had been experienced here.
The results were soon revealed. Although the dead soldiers of the Prince's Mansion led by Duanmu En were killed and wounded, they still killed Zhang Ce in the end.
Poor Zhang Ce has all his skills, righteousness is thin and cloudy, he endured it for ten years, and finally died with hatred.
How sad!
Hearing about this result, Zhou Xuan felt sorry for the dead soldiers he had carefully cultivated, but he was still relieved, after all, people can be raised again, but he has only one position as the crown prince. And Zhou Yan's reaction can be imagined, his hard work for so many days was all in vain, and he also caught up with more than 20 killers of the Shadow Division. He was extremely angry, and secretly swore that he must find something unhappy for Zhou Xuan.
He arranged for the Hanying Division to track down Duanmu En's identity, and asked the Hanying Division to destroy Zhou Xuan's Jianghu forces in one fell swoop.
There is a way to lose the east corner and harvest the mulberry elm. Zhou Yan soon found out that Duanmu En was the head of the Cloud Dart Bureau, and he had been concealing his identity and training dead soldiers for Zhou Xuan.
You must know that people like dead soldiers are extremely rare, money alone is far from enough, the most important thing is connections, and the people who can really collect and train dead soldiers are also one in a million talents. In other words, killing Duanmu En is equivalent to cutting off Zhou Xuan's hand that can reach out to the distance at any time.
Zhou Yan is a doer. He immediately ordered Hanying Si to kill Duanmu Eun. Zhou Xuan didn't expect Zhou Yan's counterattack to be so fast and fierce, and he had almost no way to protect himself from the assassination of Hanying Division. Duanmu En and Zhou Xuan's six sect leaders who specialized in training dead soldiers were all killed in just ten days, and Zhou Xuan couldn't do anything except be angry.
Before he died, Duanmu En tried his best to return to the dart game, and when he saw his son for the last time, he wanted to remind Duanmu Lingfeng to flee for his life quickly.
Duanmu Lingfeng, who didn't know anything about the affairs of the court or even what Duanmu En had done recently, didn't know what was going on, let alone those fierce killers, why they wanted to kill him and then hurry, he could only hide under the protection of his brothers.
Duanmu Lingfeng originally wanted to go to Hebei and defect to an uncle, but there were chasing soldiers along the way, and he was seriously injured in a panic, but fortunately he saw a small village called Huaiyang Village, and he casually picked a simple courtyard and hid in it, and happened to meet the incognito Ji Ying and the kind Fang Miaoju.
This is indeed the arrangement of fate.
Since then, in order to repay Ji Ying and Miao Cut for saving their lives, Duanmu Lingfeng protected them all the way to Beijing to catch the exam, and achieved a good marriage with Miao Cut.
Ji Ying was ordered to investigate the serial murder of the minister. In the battle of wits and courage with Zhou Yan, the king of Chu, Duanmu Lingfeng recognized that Hanying Division was the person who chased and killed him in the first place, so he followed and investigated all the way, and then together with Ji Ying, he brought down Zhou Yan, who wanted to cure Ji Ying to death, and destroyed the entire Hanying Division. It can really be described as a cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is unpleasant.
I don't know if Duanmu En has a spirit in the sky, whether he should be happy or sad.
As early as when Zhang Ce was summoned to the palace to pray for blessings, Rong Zhen expected that this would be the ending. He originally sent a few henchmen to Dafa Temple, wanting to quietly bring Zhang Ce out, lest Zhang Ce act rashly and spoil the big thing, but Rong Zhen was a military attache after all, and he was slow to know the news, not to mention that the opponents were two princes who were in power and the opposition, so he lost the opportunity, and saw that Zhang Ce was seriously injured and was brought into the mansion by Zhou Yan.
At this point, Rong Zhen has no ability to rescue Zhang Ce, he even hopes that Zhang Ce will be killed, so as not to affect the Rong family, and it will be even more difficult to overturn the case in the future.
Zhang Ce really died, died in the court battle, and he didn't see the emperor until he died.
In order to protect himself, Rong Zhen wrote his resignation and asked to return to his hometown to serve his father. The emperor didn't know the inside story, and seeing that he insisted on doing so, it was not good to force him to stay, so he had to agree, and gave him some money and silk to show his hardships for many years of military service.
Zhou Xuan and Zhou Yan thought that although Rong Zhen had resigned, the foundation of the Rong family was still there, and the court was as old as a cloud, so they didn't dare to chase and fight, so they had to give up. The Rong family was saved.
The cold wind of autumn blew in from outside, making Ji Ying shiver.
The mystery has been revealed, and Ji Ying has mixed feelings in her heart. Because of a drawing, how many families have been lost, how many people have lost their lives, and I don't even know how many families and how many people will be about to disappear because of it.
Every inch of stone in the palace is buried with countless bones. Politics has always been so cruel.
There is also Duanmu Lingfeng, he is naturally innocent, but if he insists on finding out the truth about his father's killing and the slaughter of the dart game, should she say it? How should Duanmu Lingfeng deal with himself at that time?
Rong De's face was a little lonely, he picked up the teacup and cleared his somewhat hoarse throat, and said, "It's been almost fourteen years, and you little dolls are so big." I know, you're going to the Northwest soon. The things of the world are like a mountain, and there are twists and turns in it, and you have to go back to the beginning no matter what. ”
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