Chapter 24 Cleanup
"We can escape from here!" The women next to her were all whispering in suppressed voices.
"Hmph, get out? With no one to answer us, how can we escape from this heavily guarded prison, do you think King Yi can't think of it? The use of officers and soldiers to escort us here, just because he didn't want to create a bloody case in Yuecheng now, caused panic, Gu Xi He was not worried about this, and didn't want his own power to attract the attention of others in Yuecheng, so he used the hand of King Yi and the hand of the government to deal with us. If we are lucky enough to break out of this prison, we can only throw ourselves into the net opened outside, and his subordinates will naturally have all kinds of methods of 'waiting' people, pulling out other strongholds from our mouths and waiting for him to liquidate them one by one. Qingwu said in a deep voice, the calm light in his eyes made others feel desperate.
They are now in a situation where they are meat under the knife, fish on the anvil, and trapped beasts in a cage.
"The people in the other strongholds must know that something happened to us, so won't they come to meet us?" Some people are especially unwilling, and everyone has the instinct to survive.
"Even if they know that the current situation in Yuecheng can't allow them to come to meet us, they also know that Gu Xi is eyeing us here, waiting here to wait for the rabbit." Qingwu exhaled lightly, how could Gu Xi's tricks not be continuous?
For a while, it was so quiet that people felt suffocated.
Only the breath of chaos rose and fell with each other, and the thunderous heartbeat of each person buried in their chests.
Compared to the overall situation of the young master, their sacrifice, their lives, are too insignificant.
In the silent atmosphere, Qingwu's voice sounded again, bringing everyone the last glimmer of hope: "What we can hope for is to live and wait for King Jing to get up as soon as possible, and the stakes in the palace can delay the dawn for us, and then take advantage of the chaos to pick us up and escape." ”
But she knew in her heart that this was very slim, but she didn't want the people who had been comfortable all these years to collapse early. said it so clearly, and I also hope that everyone understands their situation and doesn't let the other party take advantage of the loophole.
Gu Xi is now breaking his wings, unloading his minions, driving the dog into the poor alley, and forcing the pressure on King Jing from all directions. It's just that I don't know right now, does King Jing choose to fight, or retreat?
Heng Wang's Mansion, in the secret room of the Upper Garden.
Yun Yanjin was alone, silently lit the oil lamp in front of the Buddha statue on the offering, solemnly brought a stick of sandalwood and lit it, respectfully bowed three times, and then put his hands upright in the incense bowl in front of a delicate tablet.
He got up, raised his eyes, looked at Mei Fanjing's spirit card, pursed the corners of his lips slightly, and said faintly: "Mother, no one would have thought that Concubine De, who was the most obscure back then, would be the final big winner." The first emperor also praised her for being pure in heart and low desire, and virtuous and benevolent. Unexpectedly, she was a femme fatale woman with the most honey-bellied sword, and her scheming was so deep that the world could not predict. the bloody collapse of the former emperor Chu Shufei; the difficulty of the first queen's childlessness and illness; the crime of rebellion against the former emperor Yan Guifei; Mother, the mystery of your hemoptysis; The blood stasis and cold disease of Erchen's legs, as well as those many palace secrets and cases of mysterious human life, how many of them are related to this benevolent and sensitive concubine? ”
He squinted slightly, his eyes revealing a hint of resentment and disgust. There are also these two sons raised by this woman, one is narrow-minded, self-serving, suspicious and suspicious, but he is a great treasure and sits on the country of Ul; A ruthless, vicious, arrogant, conceited, selfish, but sitting on a prosperous corpse vegetarian meal. He smiled coldly, wondering why the fortunes of the Ul Kingdom were so decaying? Ended up here?
"Mother, if King Jing wins, with his background and temperament, I am afraid that he will not treat Wei Guo well?" In the curling green smoke, his expression was flustered, and his voice was low and indecipherable: "Although the current emperor is not very open-minded, he still has some talents. At least he is a veritable, complete Ul country bloodline, the heir of the Yun family's royal family, and he will not use the Jiangshan Sheji of the Ul Kingdom as a child's play? ”
After a moment of silence, there was a hint of firmness in his whispered tone, "Do it knowing you can't do it." Mother, you believed in Buddhism and Zen during your lifetime, and now you are in the dark, you must bless me with great peace in the country! ”
Yun Yanjin's eyes were faint, but she sighed. Even if he has been hiding the jade Yunzhu for so many years, and he has done nothing, he may not be able to protect himself wisely, and he will finally be able to survive. Over the years, if he hadn't relied on external forces, judged the situation, and used people's hearts, how could he have survived to this day?
I remembered that in the past few days, I have been with him and the false and wronged snake, and I have wanted to test him and the virtual confidante in the "Weiyun Garden" several times, and I should be sent out of the Hengwang Mansion in a few days.
Yun Yanjin put her hands together again, and bowed respectfully and reverently towards the Buddha statue and the spiritual seat. The thumb was gently moving the watery topaz Buddha beads hanging between the fingers, and the black jade-like eyes were full of eyes, and it was bound to be obtained.
Three days later, the sky was blue and clear, and there were no clouds.
Gu Xi was mixed in the ranks of the forbidden army, and was led by Chu Ruirong, the commander of the forbidden army, through the forbidden palace of the imperial city, and secretly arrived at the study of Qinzheng.
When Gu Xi took off the guard uniform of the forbidden army and stood in the palace hall in white, in the eyes of others, he was like an independent immortal. The transcendence in his quiet eyes, and even the silent flow of his whole body, seemed to override everything, turning the colorful palace into black and white and colorless, and becoming a background for him.
Even Chu Ruirong, who had several relationships with him in King Heng's Mansion, was surprised by the elegance he showed at the moment, and in the past, he only felt that he was a weak scholar. Although he is knowledgeable, has a deep understanding of the art of healing, and is bold, his speech and demeanor are calm and elegant, and his actions are somewhat unexpected by ordinary people, but in his identification of talents, Gu Xi can be regarded as a talent who is arrogant and arrogant.
And the demeanor that appears today seems to be beyond his control.
The space in the diligent study is open, and the emperor Yun Yanlong is wearing a crown and sitting on a high position in a dragon robe, looking at the person in front of him from a bird's-eye angle through the carved and exquisite dragon bookcase. This young man is about not more than ten years old, but the silence in his eyes is like an abyss, and even he has no way to visit. His attitude is not so wild and uninhibited, but the calm and calm bearing on that face, even Yun Yanlong, who is the emperor, can hardly tolerate it, and people can't help but be subconsciously vigilant about his identity origin.
Dozens of pairs of eyes involuntarily stared at the white-clothed man standing in the middle of the hall, as if as long as he found the slightest ill-intentioned towards the emperor, countless sharp swords would pierce his seemingly weak body in an instant.
Gu Xiwu smiled lightly, when he entered the main hall, he had already understood the breath hidden in the dark in his heart. For those who were a little fluctuating because of him, he only had an innocent smile left except to slander these people as a little frightened.
It's just that this person has solved the mystery of the blood characters in Dali Temple, and Chu Ruirong boldly recommended it, saying that this person does have some abilities, and may be able to crack the strange phenomena that have repeatedly occurred in the palace. Yun Yanlong was especially gracious to him in a cloth cloth and was able to enter the palace to meet Tianyan, but at this moment, not only did he not see his gesture of gratitude, but he was naturally like an ordinary person, and met an ordinary person, which made the emperor unhappy, but also gave birth to an expectation, such a person may really have some strange abilities.
Yun Yanlong was slightly tolerant, but said solemnly: "Gu Xi, before coming here, I must have heard about the strange things in the palace recently, and I don't know if there is a solution. ”
Gu Xi didn't say anything more, and said bluntly: "Hearing is false, seeing is believing, can Your Majesty let you go down to the palace to investigate a little?" ”
"It's really an ignorant child, the ancestors have always said clearly, how can Your Majesty's bedroom allow outsiders to enter and exit?" Standing beside the emperor, the white-haired old eunuch, who had been like a carved wax figure, suddenly screamed angrily, and then turned to the emperor and asked: "Your Majesty, this person's heart must be different, and the crime can be punished." ”
Yun Yanlong raised his hand to stop the old eunuch from continuing to scold, and said slowly: "Although Gonggong Xu is reasonable, but in recent days, there have been frequent ghosts and strange things in the palace, and it is when people are panicking. ”
Gonggong Xu wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was trying to try to stop him, but after coming into contact with the emperor's fierce eyes, he finally died down, and returned to the old man like a walking corpse, and under the emperor's instructions, he obediently shouted loudly: "Your Majesty drive!" ”
In addition to the attendants who were always on duty by the emperor's side, there were also Chu Ruirong and Gu Xi, who were authorized to follow. The two of them followed behind the emperor together, but they didn't even meet their eyes for a moment. Chu Ruirong was thinking about Yun Yanjin's oath to him, but in fact, he was half-convinced in his heart, although the matter of Dali Temple could not be said to be Gu Xi's luck, but it couldn't be every major event that made him find out the flaws?
The group walked through the Forbidden Palace Liyuan and stopped in the exquisite pavilion and beautiful courtyard outside the "Purple Cloud Palace". A small chamberlain had already come to report that the place in the huge gorgeous harem had already forbidden others to enter and exit, and there was no figure on the way. The door of the dormitory was open, and everything was cleaned spotlessly inside and out, except for a new circle of scaffolding on the grassy field fifty paces away, and the ground was covered with futons in a circle.
Gu Xi's face did not move, but he sighed lightly in his heart, this must be to invite a monk to chant scriptures to exorcise ghosts at night. The emperor in his eyes is only thirty years old, and there is no resemblance to the appearance of Yun Yanjin and Yun Yanzheng he knows, and his appearance is quite handsome and majestic, and his bearing is also extraordinary, but his eyes are too yin and fierce, and he has ambitions and ambitions, but it is difficult to tolerate people.
As for letting the monk recite the scriptures, wouldn't it show that he does have a "ghost" in his heart, and this "ghost" is probably the concubine of the previous dynasty.