It was dark again, and the four red silk lanterns of "Rongguo Mansion" that were usually hung under the eaves of the gate of Rongxi Hall had already been replaced with white gauze lanterns with blue characters on a white background.

The gate is open, and at a glance, the courtyard is brightly lit.

A mother-in-law walked over with a lantern shining on Zhou Rui's house.

Outside the east room, two large pots of silver frost charcoal fire with green fire were burned early, and the incense tripod in the inner room was burned with sandalwood for an open flame, and the room was full of incense, warm as spring.

Mrs. Wang was sitting cross-legged on the couch, counting prayer beads in her hand and silently reciting Buddhist scriptures in her mouth.

Jin Chu'er lifted the copper kettle from the small stove, poured hot water into the copper basin, twisted a hot face towel, and walked to Mrs. Wang, "Madam, warm your face first, and go to be tired." As he spoke, he shook off the hot towel and wiped his face for Mrs. Wang, and couldn't help but say, "Madam, it's getting late, it's time to rest." ”

Mrs. Wang still closed her eyes: "Where is the master?" ”

Jin Chu'er turned around and poured another bowl of hot tea, and held it on the desk, "Just now, the little guy came to report, there is something in the military department, and the master will come back later." ”

"Simmer the lotus seed soup over low heat." Only then did Mrs. Wang open her eyes.

"Yes."

Mrs. Wang closed her eyes again: "Go ahead." ”

"Ma'am!" Zhou Ruijia's voice sounded outside.

"Come in."

As soon as the door curtain was lifted, Zhou Ruijia walked in and nodded to Jin Chu'er with a smile.

Jin Chu'er withdrew with a copper basin.

Zhou Ruijia stepped forward and whispered, "Madam! ”

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Wang opened her eyes again.

Zhou Ruijia: "The Qin family entered the palace and went to Cining Palace. ”

Mrs. Wang: "That's it?" ”

Zhou Ruijia leaned into Mrs. Wang's ear and said in a low voice: "After the Qin family came back, they went directly to Rongqing Hall, and the old lady ordered someone to call the eldest master, the second master Lian, Uncle Zhen, Grandma Zhen and Uncle Xiao Rong to the Rongqing Hall for discussion. ”

Mrs. Wang: "Go on." ”

Zhou Ruijia: "I heard that the Empress Dowager plans to marry our family!" ”

Mrs. Wang frowned.

Zhou Ruijia continued: "The girl in the second master's house can't enter the old lady's house anymore, this news is still Mama Li's going to take it seriously, and I inadvertently heard the second master Lian and Uncle Xiaorong talking. ”

Mrs. Wang's body moved slowly, and she was silent for a moment: "Check, you must check out!" ”

Zhou Rui's family wanted to cry, and had to answer: "Madam, on the way here, I thought about it carefully, will it be related to the fourth girl?" Otherwise, why would Uncle Zhen and Grandma Zhen be invited? ”

Mrs. Wang glanced at her, and said angrily: "Not to mention that the four girls are still young, just because the bones of the princess are not cold, the queen mother is no matter how confused she is, and it will not be like this." The Jia family is not one of those small families, this is not grace, it is a slap in the face, besides, give marriage, who will the four girls marry? King Fu has already set a side concubine, and he can't give Yizhong ......" trembled slightly, and then muttered: "..... No.... No..... This impossible ....." said as he picked up the tea bowl and suddenly called: "Zhou Ruijia." ”

Zhou Ruijia: "Madam." ”

Mrs. Wang was silent for a moment again: "You say, is this possible?!" ”

Zhou Ruijia was also silent for a moment, "Why don't you wait for the master to come back....."

"How so? Do you say that Mama Li eavesdropped on the old lady's house, or did you tell the truth? ”

Zhou Ruijia shuddered, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, and thought about it for a while, "Ming'er is the sixth year of junior high school, why don't my wife go into the palace to visit Niangniang and chat with Niangniang to relieve boredom!" ”

Mrs. Wang's eyes lit up, "Before breakfast tomorrow, you have prepared the carriage and horses." ”

"Yes."

Zhou Ruijia hesitated for a moment, "There is another strange thing." The third master has not returned to the house since yesterday afternoon, and people from the Chamber of Commerce and the Chongwenmen camp have come to look for him, and they may have gone out of the city. ”

"Oh?" There was a look of disbelief in Mrs. Wang's eyes.

Zhou Ruijia: "Really. Last night, Wang Shanbao's family didn't find the third master everywhere, and finally went to Mengyunxuan. Just now, the old lady had been waiting for the third master, and finally she had no choice but to disperse. ”

Mrs. Wang nodded, "It's hard for you to be so concerned!" He raised his head and shouted: "Jin Chu'er, take two boxes of internally made dim sum from the palace and bring them back to Zhou Rui's family, by the way, take two more cocoon silks." ”

Zhou Ruijia smiled: "Mrs. Xie's reward!" As he spoke, he kowtowed.

Mrs. Wang closed her eyes again, "Go ahead." ”

.........

Mengyun Xuan is also brightly lit!

Xue Yan glanced at the hands on the chiming bell, thought of Jia Jue's instructions, stepped forward to open the lid on the copper incense burner, and then extinguished the incense stick with tongs.

Daiyu sat on the couch, and Lin Ruhai's letter was placed on the small table, because Lin Ruhai said in the letter that the hibiscus flowers outside the study had bloomed again, so he thought, "If my mother is here, the scenery in the south, the spring flowers and autumn moon, the mountains and rivers, the twenty-four bridges, and the ruins of the Six Dynasties." Many subordinates serve, and everything can be arbitrary, and words can not be avoided. The incense car painting boat, the red apricot and the green curtain, I am the only one. Although it is not under the fence now, there are many cares, and you still have to pay attention to it. Ay! "While thinking, I don't know where my mind is going.

Zijuan walked in, saw such a scene, and thought that it must be the aunt's letter that touched Daiyu's heart, so she smiled and said: "It's November now, and the time is very fast, in March and May, the third master will accompany the girl to Jinling south when he has time, let's not rush." ”

"Who's in a hurry? Long-winded. Daiyu came back to her senses and didn't have a good breath.

Zijuan smiled, "The girl didn't eat much for dinner, and the fourth girl worked you for a long time." Just now I asked my wife to make a bowl of hot meat and cabbage soup for the girl in the small fire room, with a little shrimp and rice, and some green bamboo shoots and seaweed. The girl thought okay? I also boiled a little rice porridge. ”

Daiyu nodded, and said, "You can eat the soup and keep it for Qingwen." ”

Zijuan nodded and said to the outside world, "Snow goose, bring the porridge in." By the way, let my wife cut a little of the spiced kohlrabi from the south and mix some sesame oil vinegar. ”

Snow Goose agreed and walked out.

Daiyu said: "Porridge is fine, why bother." ”

Zijuan just nodded.

After a while, the snow goose came in with a tray, Zijuan hurriedly accepted the small letter, Daiyu ate most of the bowl of porridge, and ate some side dishes, and put it down.

Daiyu rinsed her mouth, brushed her hands, and took the towel handed by the snow goose and wiped her mouth: "What time is it?" ”

"It's the end of the unitary time." Mama Wang's voice came from outside.

Daiyu frowned.

Zijuan smiled, "Don't worry, girl, with Jia Fu and others to serve you, the third master will be fine." ”

Daiyu sighed lightly, "I just took two doses of medicine, I just saw that it was better, I didn't even take the medicine when I was busy, this year the weather is still extremely cold, and it is windy and snowy outside." ”

"Poof...."

Zijuan suddenly laughed, and Daiyu glanced at her, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Zijuan took the small table down, and Fang smiled: "I just remembered the second wife's sentence, Baoyu.... Still, it's just a kid....."

Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled, just because of this sentence, Baoyu's face was lost, in addition to going to ask Jia's mother for peace these days, she either went to the East Mansion to guard the spirit, or hid in Qianyunxuan and pretended to read, and was also caught by his second uncle Jia Zheng, and the little guy who bought him books was beaten up.

You don't learn well at a young age!

Thinking of the miscellaneous books that I turned out on the bookshelf in the small study not long ago, I couldn't help but curse in my heart, "Phew, I'm not a good person!" ”

Suddenly, Mama Wang's voice came from outside, "Mama Li, why did you come here on this snowy night?" ”

"I've got something to look for a girl."

This is the voice of Jia Jue's grandmother, Mama Li.

"Come in, Mama!"

Without waiting for Mama Li to speak, Daiyu said.

"The girl looks good!"

As soon as the door curtain was lifted, Mama Li walked in and said with a smile: "Jia Gui is back, there is a letter for the girl, I sent it." ”

"Mama has worked hard, sit and eat tea."

"Don't eat tea, the girl will see if there is anything else to order, Jia Gui is still waiting in the side hall of Zhongwu Hall."

Daiyu took the letter, tore it up and looked at it, it was Jia Jue's handwritten letter, and the letter said one thing, if someone inquired about his whereabouts, he said that something happened to the Chamber of Commerce in Tongzhou, and he would deal with it, and he would come back in a day or two.

Tongzhou?

Daiyu was stunned for a moment, and during the day, Zhang Qianyan told herself that Jia Jue went to Fangshan, which is too far from the west and the east.

Zijuan: "Girl." ”

Daiyu came back to her senses, folded the letter, and said to Mama Li: "Say to Jia Gui and them, 'It's hard work!'" I don't have anything to tell them, so let's rest! ”

"Yes."

Mama Li smiled when she heard this: "It's late at night, don't disturb the girl's rest." ”

Daiyu smiled: "Mama is okay to come over for tea." He also ordered Zijuan to send Mama Li out on his behalf.

Holding the letter and walking to the candlelight, he looked at the light carefully, and a few of the seemingly typos scribbled Daiyu's gaze.

Daiyu showed a blank look in her eyes, this was one of the code words Jia Jue told her, the other person had already entered Beijing, and he was in Xifu.

..........

Snowflakes are flying.

The lantern torches illuminate the snowy night.

In front of the noon gate, there was a dead silence, except for the crackling of torches in the night wind.

Chen Qiang stood at the noon gate with his head held high, Liu Fusheng stood on his left with his head bowed, and more than 100 officials stood behind them, the cold wind howled, rolling up clumps of snowflakes and hitting them in the face.

These civil officials did not leave, and the emperor did not speak, fearing that this group of people would freeze to death, and the general commander of the forbidden army ordered people to place braziers around the crowd, and dry wood was burned in the brazier, and the light of the fire dispelled the darkness, and the warmth dispelled the cold.

Like a wounded beast, the chief eunuch on duty at the noon gate walked back and forth in the duty room, walked to the side of the bookcase and stopped, slammed his palm on the case, and roared loudly: "Go!" Remove all those braziers, and I'll see how long they can hold out! ”

A "click" sound shattered the silence of the snowy night, and the huge city gate slowly opened.

Immediately, there was a rush of footsteps in the city gate, and before the vigilant forbidden army could calm down, they saw a team of eunuchs from the side gate pouring out.

On the castle tower, a voice shouted: "Lift all the braziers, not a single one will be left!" And those torches, all of them are extinguished! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of eunuchs rushed forward and kicked the brazier to the ground, and the charcoal fire in the brazier rolled all over the ground, and the snow melted.

Because of the orders, these eunuchs were not good at being rude to these officials, and they hated that it was a peaceful day but was disturbed by these civil officials, and they had to come out on an errand on a snowy night, so they deliberately kicked in the direction of the crowd when they kicked over the brazier one by one, and even some firewood smashed directly on the officials, "Presumptuous!" Several screams rang out almost simultaneously in several parts of the crowd.

The forbidden army didn't hear it, and slowly turned around, and they didn't like these civilian officials who only knew how to make trouble.

The eunuchs looked at each other, behaved more and more perversely, and began to throw the torches that had not been completely extinguished into the crowd, "Ah! The civil servants screamed and dodged the torches for fear of getting on them.

"Hahaha....."

"Run north!"

"Hahaha, it's wrong, it should be the south."

"Presumptuous!"

"Damn eunuchs! I will impeach you..... Ah, it's on fire, help me...... Ahh

"Ahh

Liu Fusheng and Chen Qiang screamed in surprise at the same time, and they both looked at Yushi Baisheng.

"Help!"

"Help!"

The eunuchs looked at each other, their eyes showed a trace of timidity, and they rushed forward to put out the fire, some people took off their clothes and threw themselves on Bai Sheng, several people tossed Bai Sheng into the snowdrift, and gradually the fire was extinguished, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a crisp sound, and something fell.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew suddenly, and a torture eunuch subconsciously shook his nose, his eyes suddenly widened, and he smelled a faint smell of wine from the cold wind.

Before he could come back to his senses, there were a few more crisp sounds, and some of them smashed into the crowd, and several officials wiped their faces with their hands and exclaimed: "Wine! It's wine! ”

At this moment, a little light suddenly lit up in the snow and fog on the city wall, which seemed to be a cluster of fire, and the great eunuch on the city tower seemed to have discovered something, and shouted loudly: "Run!" ”

An official who was drenched in strong liquor was instantly engulfed in flames, and out of instinct, he threw himself at the officials beside him, and a cluster of fire appeared under the noon gate, followed by three clusters, and then four clusters..... More and more, the fire became brighter and brighter, and in a short time more than a dozen officials were set on fire, they rushed to flee for their lives, pushed each other, trampled on each other, and screams, cries, and wails resounded in the night sky.....

..........

Liu Wenbin stood up abruptly and asked in surprise, "What?" The noon gate is on fire?! ”

Ding Yuanzhu asked anxiously: "Where is the fire at the noon gate?" ”

The little yellow door: "Yes.... Officials, officials ....."

Liu Wenbin seemed to understand something, his face turned pale instantly, and he strode out.

The officials looked at each other and hurriedly walked out.

When Liu Wenbin walked out of the cabinet duty room in a hurry, what he saw was a scene that made him desperate, the entire imperial city was in flames, and it was the apse of the Qianqing Palace where Emperor Tianyou lived.

"It's over, Daming is completely finished!"

Looking at the raging fire, Liu Wenbin let out a sigh.

Behind him, Ding Yuanzhu and the officials also followed in a hurry.

Everyone was shocked and looked at each other.

The air seems to be frozen!

In the distance, "Fight the fire!" Hurry up and put out the fire....." shouted one after another.

Liu Wenbin trembled violently, his cheeks flushed, he looked extremely excited, and shouted loudly: "Fight the fire!" If something happens to the Emperor, none of us will survive! ”

Liu Wenbin walked briskly towards the Qianqing Palace with the support of the two small yellow doors.

Ding Yuanzhu, Han Jun, and Wang Shaoguang followed behind breathlessly.

The gate of the Qianqing Palace is opened, at a glance, there are forbidden troops fighting fires everywhere, swept by the northwest wind, the fire quickly spread to the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, the flames are monstrous, and the heavy snow cannot extinguish the fire.

Han Jun's eyes were sharp, "Look, it's the Emperor!" ”

"It's the Emperor!"

"Heaven forbid! Ancestors bless! ”

Liu Wenbin took the lead, and Ding Yuanzhu and the three followed, walking quickly towards Emperor Tianyou.

In the distance, "Damn the wicked, he dared to kill his father!" How dare he?! Zhu Qinde's angry shouts came.

Everyone was shocked by Emperor Tianyou's words!

These words shocked Liu Wenbin's face to turn pale, only to feel that his legs were weak, his body trembled, and suddenly his eyes turned black and fell backwards.....

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