Chapter 64: The Empress Dowager's Nightmare
Since the death of the little emperor, the empress dowager has been unable to sleep all night, a lot of hair has fallen out, people in their forties, most of their hair has turned white, and the grandmother who combed her hair wiped her tears: her poor young lady, what can she do without the emperor's grandson?
It's not that I'm not sleepy, but as soon as I close my eyes, I see her good grandson crying to her: Ancestor, I hurt so much, my mouth hurts, and my acne is itchy....
After a while, she could see her brother waving at her, his face covered with blood, telling her to hurry back, and her nephew, who had lost his head, and opened his mouth to call his aunt with his head on the ground.
Like an old monk, the Empress Dowager sat on the futon for three days and two nights, without eating or drinking.
The old grandmother who had served her all her life, at the risk of losing her head, found a strong palace maid, carried her back to the house, and poured half a bowl of ginseng soup.
"Niangniang, the old slave has trespassed, but if you continue like this, before Uncle Guo comes back, you will collapse, the more this happens, the more you can't fall, if you fall, the Xu family still has hundreds of people, and the old lady in the family can't stand such a fright."
Yes, she has never lived for herself, the mission of the family, the glory of the family, these are engraved in the bones, the responsibility of the descendants of the Xu family, what if there are no sons and grandchildren, which son of any family ascends the throne, she must be respected as the Queen Mother.
It's time to take a look at the women who are locked up in the royal temple, pinch them in your hands, these concubines are not obedient one by one, the Great Xia Dynasty, but the emperor who has to be filial.
No one knows the true situation in the capital, in the past few years, the King of Shu has spent a lot of money and power to buy off a few nuns from the Ganye Temple, and take care of the concubine in private, and there is no other way to keep communication with her. Such a small nunnery is actually guarded by thousands of soldiers.
The scouts scattered by the King of Shu finally found the island where Cuihua and the others docked before they disappeared. After gathering the government officials near the coastline and rewarding the fishermen near the sea, I got some information: it is said that someone's son has fled back from an island thousands of miles away.
When the scout vanguard officer arrived in the village with the government personnel, he found the man who had been captured by pirates and worked on the island for eight years.
The man recalled what happened in those years, and he was not very embarrassed: "Those pirates are not simple, they have lived on the island for several generations, there are pirates and pirates, but they mainly rely on boiling salt to make a living, I heard that there are gold mines on the island, and they are all fat and oily, and the general merchant ships do not look down on them." ”
"Our slaves who were captured are basically working in the salt works, and there are black slaves in them, they are rare black slaves, they work very neatly, just give them stuttering, no one wants to run."
"How did you escape?" The Scout Vanguard was curious.
"I have a high fever, they threw me into the sea to feed the fish, God willing, I grew up by the sea, and I am so good at diving and holding my breath. Later, I caught a piece of driftwood and floated for I don't know how many days before I arrived on a desert island, where I became savages, and was picked up by the fishermen who came to the desert island to fish. ”
"After I went ashore, it took more than two months to find my home, and my poor old mother thought that my eyes were blind from crying..."
After listening to this information, the scout reported the discovery to the king of Shu quickly.
After the king of Shu received it, he was amazed that it was broken, the salt field, the gold mine, he was very rare. Now the salt farms in Jiangnan are in the hands of those families, and there are salt wells in Shu on his side, but the country is so big, who will dislike it if there are more inputs?
ordered his brother-in-law Gao Huaiyu, brought 10,000 soldiers and horses, and bought ten large sea ships from Jiangnan Shipyard, the king of Shu has never had a naval configuration, and this time his brother-in-law also wants to train a team that can fight on the water.
He is not a person who just thinks about gold mines, after all, he has invested more than five million taels of silver in ten large sea ships, which is simply the most expensive thing he has bought in the past few years.
Gao Huaiyu raised his eyebrows when he heard the gold mine and salt farm that his brother-in-law had informed, can he still make some money by the way? I don't dislike fighting to save a village woman and cub anymore, the main thing is not to lose Mr. Fan, a celebrity, well, that's it.
The king of Shu also sent a message to Mr. Yuan Qian, so that he could build a cement mill with peace of mind, they had received the information that his daughter-in-law was missing, but they had already found clues, and they also sent their brother-in-law to lead the army to rescue Yunyun....
Heiwa looked at it and twitched: Just to save his daughter-in-law, he sent 10,000 people, say it, do you believe it? Anyway, I believe it!
Changed hands and put it on the desk in the study, how could Cuihua have time to go in and read the letters.
How many times has Dunyu Island been turned over, even in the end, the big bosses still deduced the process from the exit of the cliff and some traces of moss, but what they couldn't figure out was how hundreds of tons of sea salt, 20,000 catties of gold, and those weapons and seafood were stolen?
Monkey Island and Yellow Fish Island can be near Dunyu Island, and if a large ship passes by, it is impossible for thousands of people not to find it, so they are sure that these things have not been transported away.
"Big brother, do you say that the ancestors on our island will dig other basements?" Fifth, the brains of the masters are relatively open.
"Yes, big brother, there are so many things, how many people have to carry them, and there is no secret passage, who can transport them? If you bring all my people from the island, you won't be able to get away in one night! "The sixth master touched his head, he just didn't like to use his brain, what did the big brother say.
"Then call the brothers, let's look carefully in the basement, dig everywhere, and see where these things can go!" The big boss finally made a decision, and he still refuses to believe that his old bottom has been served to others.
It's really going to dig through the island!
Except for the indigenous people on the island, all the outsiders were centrally isolated, and they were raided and interrogated from time to time, and the women and cubs were okay and were not affected too much.
The workers of the salt works became the main targets of interrogation, and even the honest boss Li was beaten several times, and the air on the island was scorched.
In the capital, the Empress Dowager, who had just gone to humiliate several women in Ganye Temple, received bad news, her nightmare came true, and her brother and her nephews in the north were all heroic.
The spirit that had just been recovered from humiliating those women collapsed again, and God really gave her a dead end, all the men in her mother's family died, and there were no children and grandchildren left!
The old lady had a good job, and the Queen Mother hung the beam, but fortunately, it didn't take long and was soon hugged down.
Looking at the Queen Mother who was dying and lying on the bed lifelessly, the old lady couldn't wait to die for her.
The granddaughter of the Xu family, fourteen-year-old Xu Wan'er, was taken to the palace to serve her aunt and grandmother, and the old birthday star of the Xu family also suffered a stroke and collapsed on the bed.