Chapter 10: The Plan of Revenge
Before I knew it, the next day had quietly arrived, with the first rays of sunshine in the morning, the prince opened his eyes, got up from the bed, put on his clothes and pants, got out of bed and put on his shoes, slowly walked to the door, and pushed the door open...
At this time, what caught his eye was the strong man General Shen who had been kneeling on one knee for a night, after the wind blew his body all night yesterday, he was completely frozen, like a wax statue, kneeling motionless in front of the prince.
The prince was stunned by this scene...
"Hurry up, hurry up and someone will help General Shen up from the ground!" After a while, the prince reacted, and shouted loudly around.
It didn't take long for several of his personal bodyguards for many years, and Sun Fan's butler, who was closest to him, to the prince from not far away, and helped General Shen, who was already a little unconscious, from the ground, and then the prince used gestures to instruct several of them to help General Shen to the hall opposite to receive VIPs, and beckoned the other remaining people around him to prepare today's breakfast and tea for General Shen and him, and he hurried back to his bedroom after finishing speaking, and carried out a series of washing and changing workγ
The entourage of the prince slowly helped General Shen from the steps of the prince's bedroom to the reception hall of the prince's mansion, and very quickly asked the general to sit down on a mahogany chair, and then one of the prince's attendants respectfully handed General Shen a cup of hot tea that he had prepared not long ago, and asked the other person next to him to carefully open General Shen's mouth with his hand...... After drinking the cup of hot tea, General Shen slowly came to his senses.
"What about the prince, has he woken up?" General Shen asked a little weakly, but also very anxiously.
"General Shen, please rest assured, the prince has already gotten up, and now he is washing and changing, he asked me to arrange for you to rest here for a while, when he opened the door this morning, he found that you had been kneeling on the ground all night, and your whole state was very bad at that time, so we asked us to adjust you here a little first. He'll be coming to meet you shortly. Steward Sun, who was standing beside him, patiently persuaded.
"No, I want to discuss something important with him now!" At this time, General Shen looked very impatient, and quickly stood up and prepared to leave his seat.
"No, General, you are very weak now, and you should sit in your seat for a while. Steward Sun anxiously persuaded General Shen, who was anxious in front of him, and motioned to the entourage around him to press General Shen back to the seat he was sitting on, but General Shen's own figure was very burly and powerful, and he was very anxious to see the prince, so he didn't seem to use much strength to break free from the entourage around him who had been holding his arms and upper body with their hands, and intentionally or unintentionally threw them to the ground.
"What's going on?" With a loud question, the prince slowly walked into the hall from outside the door.
"See the prince, ask the prince for peace and sin, and ask for the prince's forgiveness. When General Shen saw the prince coming, he immediately knelt down on one knee and bowed to the ground as if he was in a condition, and the entourage around him who fell to the ground saw the arrival of the prince and quickly got up from the ground, and then immediately knelt on the ground and asked the prince for peace.
"Ah, General Shen, why do you bother? Didn't you kneel enough after kneeling outside my bedroom last night?" The prince joked as he stepped forward to lift General Shen up from the ground.
"The matter you have in Guangxi, when I got up this morning, Steward Sun had already told me roughly, he said that he saw you kneeling in front of me outside my bedroom for a long time last night, so he stepped forward to ask you why, and you just told my housekeeper about that matter, so he closed his mouth and continued to kneel and wait for me to appear. Why do you bother?"
The prince said with some distress.
"Lord Qiqi, I just think that this matter is very serious, and only by explaining this matter in detail with you alone can you be very clear about this matter and give me the corresponding remedy. General Shen replied very sincerely.
The prince frowned, thought for a few seconds, and then said to General Shen: "Let's sit down and have breakfast together now, and discuss it together while eating." After speaking, he motioned for General Shen to follow him. General Shen looked a little reluctant. The prince was a little impatient: "You will make me very embarrassed like this, and there is no way to explain to the emperor when I enter the court in the future." Only then did General Shen move away and follow the prince to the private dining room....
When he came to the dinner table, the prince motioned to General Shen to casually enjoy the sumptuous breakfast that had been prepared before, but at this time, General Shen was not in the mood to accompany the prince to eat breakfast together, which made the prince a little sullen: "General, if you don't enjoy the breakfast with me now, you don't need to come to see me again in the future." β
At this time, General Shen realized the seriousness of the situation, and only then began to move the dishes and chopsticks..."General Shen, I know that because of a momentary negligence, you not only escaped the Taiping Army feels who were imprisoned before, but also lost your original group of officers and soldiers who have been working hard with you for many years, which I feel very uncomfortable and disappointed, but what can we do, can we go back to the past time period and avoid making this serious mistake?" At this point, I think the only thing we can do now is not to make this mistake even bigger and make it completely irreparable in the future. In a few days, I will go to the imperial court to attend the emperor's meeting, and ask the emperor to mobilize more than 300 officers and soldiers for you, and also ask him to give you sufficient salaries, I only hope that you will not be immersed in the grief of your previous mistakes, and quickly regain your strength, and hope that when you come to see me again in the future, you will be able to bring me good news, instead of stupidly kneeling down and pleading while I am asleep as you did yesterday. The prince was very kind to educate General Shen, who was sitting next to him, and kept holding the breakfast on the table and sending it to his bowl.
At this time, General Shen burst into tears, and his heart was full of gratitude to the prince, which was beyond words.
"Please rest assured, I will immediately start a revenge plan when I go back this time, and I will definitely annihilate the group of Taiping rebels who have been arrogant in Guangxi for a long time in a relatively short period of time, and I promise that I will not disappoint you and the emperor again, and I will definitely do my best to make my Qing Dynasty regain its glory." At this time, General Shen burst into tears, and said to the prince beside him with a solemn oath.
Seeing that General Shen no longer seemed to be the sluggish and prime-aged man he was a few minutes ago, the prince felt relieved and nodded silently.
"Don't rush, don't hurry, we'll talk about it early when we're done eating. Wang Ye smiled while helping General Shen hold the breakfast on the table, at this time General Shen was also very obedient to the prince, and ate the breakfast that the prince put in the bowl for him...