Chapter 39: The Capital
Hurry up the horse, want to rush to the capital before the Lantern Festival, but the road behind the snow is slippery, the horse can't run, day and night, and finally arrived in the capital after thirteen days. At this time, it was the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and I was worried that King Yan had returned to Beiping today, so I decided to enter the palace tonight. So I found an inn, rested for a while, and planned to enter the palace at night.
The people in the capital have not yet come out of the joy of the Spring Festival, and there are acquaintances in the inn, still sending blessings for the coming year.
That night, I put on my night clothes, covered my face, and looked repeatedly in front of the mirror, feeling a little excited and worried. Excitedly, this year may find Zhengyan, worried that the palace masters are like clouds, and the houses are even more like cow hair, if you are not careful, you will fall into the siege, although it is not difficult to get out, I am afraid that it will be alarmed once, it will be difficult to find Zhengyan again.
At that time, there was no moon and wind, which was just right for night walking.
I climbed up the roof from the inn window and walked all the way through the house in the direction of the palace.
When I came to the palace, I looked around from a distance, the palace was surrounded by a moat, and there were four gates, each of which faced a stone bridge, and there were soldiers patrolling the stone bridge. There are watchtowers at both ends of the gate, and there are men and horses patrolling the moat and the road along the wall.
How to get into the palace is a problem.
After observing for an hour, I found that there was always a moment when no one patrolled the corner of the northeast courtyard wall.
We waited for the patrol to walk around the corner, and before the soldiers from the other direction could arrive, they rushed over.
To the side of the moat, take up the heart and step over, the person floated up, this span directly crossed the moat and the corner of the courtyard wall, and saw the lights in the wall in the air, fortunately there were large trees in the corner, and I thought that God would help me. If the venue is empty, I will stand out in the dark.
I landed among the trees, and in a moment I heard people passing by outside the courtyard walls.
It's useless to think about it, so it's better to go south along the courtyard wall first.
After touching a stick of incense, he met two eunuchs.
The eunuch complained as he walked, saying that the prince was really sick like this, and he still needed a woman. It's almost time, and I'm being urged to sleep well.
The other eunuch said don't say it, if you don't cut it, don't say you're sick, or you're dying, I'm afraid you'll have to touch the woman's hand.
The eunuch who spoke before said angrily, I said that you are also jealous of this, and if you talk about me like this again, I will ignore you.
Another eunuch hurriedly said, it's just a joke, why are you angry. Good brother, I'll let you incense one, count me as an apology.
I listened to the sound of the two eunuchs kissing my mouth, my whole body was furious, and my stomach was tumbling, and I wanted to vomit.
The two of them hid in the woods, no more than three feet away from me. It took a lot of effort for me to suppress the urge not to kill them.
After the eunuch left, I thought that the palace in front of me was probably the prince's bedroom. But I don't know where the four princes live.
I walked lightly out of the woods, leaped lightly, and landed on the roof of the palace next to me. I guessed which direction was the residence of the four princes, and I jumped two halls in a row, and suddenly saw a few black shadows in the distance carrying lanterns, jumping high and low on the roof, jumping towards me. I was startled, I didn't expect that there were also people patrolling the roof, and with nowhere to avoid, a harrier rolled over and jumped to the ground.
Looking down from the air, I almost lost my soul, but it turned out that it was another patrol team, and it happened to go to the bottom of my feet. If I fall directly, I will definitely be seen by them, I hurriedly slapped down, the figure slowed down in the air, looked at the wooden pillar under the eaves, stretched out my hand and touched the column, I grabbed my fingers, fell into the column, slightly borrowed strength, twisted my body, and hid behind the wooden pillar.
The palm wind blew the patrolmen below to stagger, and many of them fell to the ground. The roof patrol heard the movement, stood on the eaves and looked down and asked, "What's the matter?" Why did you fall so many people?
Someone at the bottom replied that a gust of wind came from nowhere, and a few of us almost didn't break our legs.
The people above said to be careful patrols and don't make any mistakes.
When the two teams of patrols walked away, I felt a cold sweat, jumped lightly, and stood on the ground.
I walked a few steps forward and came to a window, where I stopped, and when I heard someone warm my hands in the window, I leaned over to hear if there was any movement inside. I didn't know that the window opened suddenly, I didn't have time to dodge, I was so shocked that I stood in front of the window and didn't know what to do.
My mind raced, and I thought that as soon as this girl opened her mouth to catch the assassin, it would not be easy for me to get out. I hurriedly raised my palm, stared at her lips, and secretly thought that as long as she opened her mouth, I would immediately stun her, but she reached out, grabbed my hand, and whispered, crawl in.
I was dazed, and climbed in as she said, and the maid closed the window. She lit a lamp, held it in her hand and whispered, "You follow me." I nodded, mentally up and down, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in this palace maid's gourd.
I followed her slowly upstairs, and from time to time she turned her head to see me pursing her lips and snickering.
When I got upstairs, I came to the bead curtain. The palace maid said you wait a minute. After saying that, he went in.
Then he came out and said to me, "Go in."
I asked, "Who is inside?" The maid just laughed, did not speak, and pointed to the beaded curtain with her hand.
My heart was beating wildly, I didn't know whether it was evil or good to go in, and I secretly used my internal strength to protect my whole body.
I cautiously walked in, the smell came to my nose, and when I looked closely, there was a boudoir in the beaded curtain. Directly opposite is a big bed, surrounded by a light Luo tent, vaguely see a person lying on the bed, I walked to the light Luo tent, want to open it to see who is on the bed, but I heard someone on the bed whisper, why not come in?
I heard the delicate voice, and thought to myself, it turned out to be a woman, and I was afraid that it would not be good to ask me to share a bed with her. I turned around and wanted to leave, but the woman on the bed suddenly sat up and pulled me in.
I pushed her away, rolled into the back bed, and asked what you wanted.
The woman said that the prince has been fond of Bichun's slut for a few years, don't worry, the prince won't come. Today you accompany me.
By the candlelight outside the tent, I saw that this woman was beautiful and beautiful, thinking that it should be the prince's concubine, so I hid inside, saying that I couldn't help it.
The woman smiled and said, I have never seen a eunuch like you. We're just doing fake things.
I said I'm not a eunuch, you see, I'm not wearing a eunuch suit.
The woman said that the only men who appeared here were eunuchs and patrol officers and soldiers, and it was impossible for other men to have them. In the middle of the night, I thought that no eunuch came, and Ah Xiu finally caught you after guarding for me for half a night.
I said in a hurry, saying that you misunderstood, I sneaked into the palace, and I came to find someone.
Did the woman say I'm ugly? Are you so afraid to accompany me? The palace can't fly in even a fly, and you can sneak in?
I'm honest, I'm really not a eunuch, what do you want me to say before you believe it.
The woman said it wasn't easy. As soon as I said that, I stretched out my hand and grabbed it, and I trembled. I said you believe it.
The woman's eyes lit up, she gasped, her chest heaved and she pounced.
I clicked on the woman's acupoint, the woman couldn't move, she opened her mouth to shout, I covered the woman's mouth, and said don't shout, it's easy for me to kill you, don't force me.
The woman nodded, I let go of my hand, and the woman whispered You are so bold, do you know that I am the crown princess, even if the prince does not like me, the prince will ascend the throne in the future, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, I will still be crowned as the queen. Are you not afraid of losing your head if you threaten the future queen like this?
I said I wasn't forced by you, you had to sleep with me. I ask you, where is the palace of the Four Princes?
The crown princess said nervously, what are you looking for King Yan for?
I said I was going to get revenge.
The crown princess was overjoyed, and said that in the northwest corner of the palace, it is called Yan Wangfu, although the Lantern Festival has passed, Yan Wang has not returned to his fiefdom. Are you going to assassinate King Yan? It's not easy, and the Master Cheng Yan under him is very good. Are you awesome?
I said I'm very good, sorry, I'm leaving.
The crown princess said that you are too risky like this, and I asked Ah Xiu to take a eunuch suit. You can't hide when you go, and you can pretend to be a eunuch.
After saying that, the crown princess called Ah Xiu, and after Ah Xiu came, the princess asked her to get her clothes, and Ah Xiu glanced at me when she left, and her face turned red.
I looked down and realized that the princess was still clutching. Solving the acupuncture points for the crown princess, the princess retracted her hand, glanced at me, and said Do you know what my mood is now?
I asked what it was, and the crown princess sighed, the white clouds are in the blue sky, and they are out of reach.
After speaking, the crown princess stared at me intently, and my hairs stood on end.
I hid all the way and finally touched the Yanwang Mansion. There were too many patrols in Yanwangfu, and Yanwangfu was almost besieged.
I thought about it for a while, and came up with a way, I was about twenty zhang away from Yanwang's Mansion, and when I stomped my foot, the person quickly jumped up diagonally.
Hearing a "boom" under his feet, the nearby patrols drew their knives and rushed over with torches. At this time, I had jumped into the air and fell into the Yanwang Mansion.
When I arrived at the sky above the Yanwang Mansion, I looked at my feet, and secretly screamed badly, and saw that the lights in the courtyard were brilliant, and a group of people surrounded the ring, and there was a person wearing Rong armor and holding a big knife standing in the ring, and the person was shouting: Who else dares to go on stage?
As soon as he finished saying this, I was neither early nor late, and I happened to land in the ring. I was momentarily embarrassed and didn't know what to do when I stood on the stage.
The man was stunned for a moment, and said that you, a eunuch, also want to compete with me for the county lord?
I hurriedly shook my hand and said I didn't dare, I didn't dare, I didn't dare, I was in the wrong place. I'll just go down.
After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave.
But I heard someone shouting "slow" from afar, I stopped, looked at the person who spoke, and found that there was a high platform in the distance, and there were three people sitting on the high platform, on the left was a girl, wearing a big red robe and covered with a red scarf, and in the middle sat a middle-aged man wearing a four-clawed dragon robe, and on the right was an old monk wearing a robe with a bare head. The middle-aged man thought that it should be King Yan, but he discussed a few words with the old monk, stood up, and said loudly: It doesn't matter if the eunuch wins, as long as he wins General Huang, no one dares to challenge him anymore, and the little girl still marries him.
Someone next to him struck the gong and shouted, and the contest continued.
General Huang snorted coldly and said Is it because your parents died early, and no one has taught you that you can't marry a wife?
I wanted to find a chance to lose and retreat, so as not to win and be asked by everyone which palace was the eunuch, listening to his mouth insulting his parents, all of a sudden he was angry, and he raised his arm to receive a knife, General Huang saw that I was just torn clothes, and my hands were not bleeding, so I was stunned for a while, and I picked up the knife technique and cut it in all directions, I simply got lucky all over my body, and I was stabbed by him dozens of times.
When General Huang saw that the knife could not hurt me, he was angry and anxious, and used all his strength to slash at my head, only to hear the sound of "dang", and the knife broke. General Huang held the hilt of his sword and looked at me stupidly. I rolled out a palm and shouted, go down!