In these storerooms, gold, silver, copper coins, jewelry, jade, grain, dried meat, wine, tea, fruits, cloth, silk, lint, wool and linen, beds, chairs, tables and cabinets, cups, bowls, plates and spoons and other daily necessities are stored.

Although it is troublesome to buy these things, Lin Chen knows that only by paying is rewarded, and if you don't do anything, you won't get anything.

When he came to the capital for the twenty-seventh time, it was already the beginning of March, and although the spring in the north was cold, what made people even more chilly was the form of the whole country.

In the first month, Li Zicheng founded the country in Xi'an, changed the Yuan Yongchang, and began to send troops to the east, all the way to break through the pass and go directly to the capital, obviously to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xianzhong, on the other hand, captured Wuchang in May last year, sinking the king of Chu to Yujiang, and proclaimed himself the king of Daxi, and began to establish an official system, while going up the river to prepare to attack Sichuan.

Lin Chen came to the capital this time and lived in seclusion in the palace, waiting for the arrival of the last day, and now the entire palace is full of panic, and people are constantly missing.

Among them is Lin Chen's credit, after a few months of selection, he has taken away more than a dozen palace maids with good roots, and at the same time, he has also taken many things in the palace, including the inner library.

In a palace room in Shouning Palace, the seventeen-year-old Princess Changping was worried and restless, and the palace maids beside her had disappeared several times one after another in the past few days.

She didn't want to tell her father that state affairs were enough to annoy him, and now the whole country was rotten, and his father worked hard all day long, looking haggard, and even his own marriage date was postponed again and again.

But today, Princess Changping went to ask Queen Zhou to come back, and on the way, she overheard the twelve-year-old Yongwang Zhu Cizhi complaining to her eldest brother, the fifteen-year-old prince Zhu Cihong. His maids have lost several in the past two days.

Princess Changping, like everyone else, has been in a panic all day these days. The Ming Dynasty is dying. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebelled against the army on two fronts, marching separately, and cities and pieces of land were occupied.

The entire capital, along with the people in it, trembled in the wind and rain of this change of dynasty, March 16, Jiachen Day. Li Zicheng's army captured the last natural barrier of the city of Beijing, Changping County.

Only two days later, on March 18, the day of Bingwu, the outer city of Beijing has been destroyed, and the princes and ministers of the inner city do not know what kind of fate they will face.

At this time, the palace was also a gloomy fog, Chongzhen and Queen Zhou barely cheered up their spirits and called their three sons to the front. Change them into coarse cloth clothes and let the eunuch send them out of the palace to escape.

Look at a couple of kids. Not knowing what their future holds, the couple cried together, sending their children out in the hope of escaping, but they also knew that there were no eggs under the nest.

The three children stood at the gate of the palace and looked at their parents, unwilling to leave even if the eunuchs pulled them, the cannon roared outside the Forbidden City, and Chongzhen's bloodshot eyes flashed with a touch of absoluteness.

He pulled out the sword he was carrying with him, and pointed at Queen Zhou's chest tremblingly, everything in the past between husband and wife flashed in his mind one by one, and he couldn't stab this sword.

The three children were stunned at first when they saw him draw his sword, and then when they saw that their father was about to stab their mother, they all cried and cried to rush in, and the eunuchs held them in tears to prevent them from rushing in.

Looking at Empress Zhou, who was tearful and calm, Chongzhen said in a difficult and choked voice: "On the fourth day of the first lunar month, I asked the sky for divination, but I got the sentence 'The stars go in the moon, and the country is ruined'. ”

"I thought, is the sky going to die? Sure enough, soon there was news of the founding of the Great Shun by Li Thief, and at the same time, a bad omen also happened in the Taizu Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing. In the middle of the night, there is always a terrible cry from the depths of the filial piety, the soldiers guarding the tomb are frightened to flee, and then, in the first month, the Fengyang earthquake, the same month, the Nanjing earthquake, and Beijing, there is a strange celestial phenomenon of "stars into the moon". This is the day to die, you and I are husband and wife, I know your virtue, you work hard for me, I am incompetent, I can't give you a stable home, make you happy. Now that the thieves have broken through the outer city, and the inner city cannot be saved, I, I, in order not to let the thieves insult you, send you away first, and then send the other concubines and two daughters on the road, you ......"

He couldn't say any more, he was ruthless, closed his eyes, and stabbed hard, and suddenly a strong surge came, and the sword in his hand was hit and flew out, and everyone was stunned.

A sigh came, the air in the hall trembled like water ripples, and a figure appeared, and the great eunuch Wang Chengen was the first to react, and he hurriedly shouted to the guards to escort him.

Looking at the man in white who appeared in front of him, Chongzhen and Queen Zhou were surprised, this man was just wearing a simple white robe, his appearance was ordinary, but he had an air of ethereal dust.

"Who are you? Dare to trespass on the palace? Chongzhen asked boldly, he was also scared, these strange things are always scary, although more often people scare themselves.

The man in white smiled faintly, ignoring the panicked eunuchs and palace maids, but looked at Chongzhen and said, "Lin Chen, a monk of the Poor Dao True Martial Sect, is here to save your family." ”

"Save my family?" Chongzhen asked in a difficult voice, he glanced at Queen Zhou, who was also amazed, and plucked up the courage to ask, maybe there could be any turnaround, no one wants to die.

Lin Chen looked at him with a look of pity, and said slowly: "Although you are not the king of the country, you have the luck of the country, and you lack the ability to turn the tide, and the death of the country is already an inevitable trend. What's more, the Ming Dynasty has been like a building about to collapse, the accumulated habits are heavy and difficult to return, and it can no longer be supported, even if you do your best, you can only let it take a few more breaths, and now, everything is going to end. Originally, I didn't want to care about the affairs of the world, but I didn't want to see the Han Dynasty end here, so I went against the sky, wanting to save your family, the country is dead, do you want your relatives to be buried together? ”

"Can you help me save this country? As long as you are willing to help me, I will never treat you badly, and I will promise you anything. Chongzhen asked hopefully as if he had suddenly grasped a life-saving straw.

"Stupid, I've already said it, I'm here to save your family, not your country, there is something wrong with this country's system, how to save it, if you don't want to go with me, let me take the child away."

Lin Chen scolded, he came here to show up to save the Chongzhen family, and at the last time, he also wanted to take away his two daughters and three sons, so as to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the future.

As soon as Chongzhen's words came out, he knew that it was his own wish, if these cultivators were willing to help, they would have helped a long time ago, and they would not wait until now, it was already a surprise that this person could come to save himself.

(To be continued.) )