Chapter 123: The Emperor is Sober
Xiao Jiwei smiled: "You gave Zhang Yuan to me, I should make good use of it." ”
Wen Xun'er understood.
Zhang Yuan, as a representative of the bandits, is quite a deterrent among the bandits, if he rebels, there will be bandits to follow the vassals, after all, these bandits have been doing things all the year round, and they all have the heart to establish themselves as kings, if they can take advantage of this to ask for a little benefit, they will naturally not miss the opportunity!
Besides, the gun shoots the first bird, they are just a small force, they can see the wind and rudder anytime and anywhere, as long as they can get some benefits from the rebellion, it is not a loss!
It's just that in this way, there are bound to be casualties!
"Compared to the common people after the great prince ascended the throne, everything now is only short-lived, besides, the current situation cannot be without sacrifice!" Seeing Wen Xun'er's thoughts in his heart, Xiao Jiwei reminded.
Wen Xun'er sighed.
If there is war, there will naturally be sacrifice, and now this is the best way to stumble on Gu Qiang's footsteps, only by taking this opportunity can they make a difference!
"The guards of Yuehua Palace, in the next few days, I will change a wave, as for the queen's side, you don't have to worry, she is now plagued by headaches, and she can't take care of this, what you have to do is to take care of the emperor here and let him wake up early!"
"The queen has a headache?" Wen Xun'er's eyebrows jumped and she raised her head.
She always felt that everything was going too smoothly, with Xiao Jiwei's current ability, could he do this?
"Well, she has always had a head disease, and she will have seizures several times a year, this time unfortunately, it happened at this time, so now the palace is empty, if you can let the emperor wake up and get the jade seal, then everything will be easy!"
Wen Xun'er's eyes lit up: "I know!" ”
After sending Xiao Jiwei away, Wen Xun'er returned to the palace, looking preoccupied.
Concubine Yue was puzzled: "What's wrong?" Did he do something bad to you again? ”
Wen Xun'er spread her hands.
The injuries on his hands have all healed, but he has two scars, and he has to take medicine on time every day.
"No, I just don't understand something."
"Tell me about it?"
looked at Concubine Shangyue's expectant gaze, but Wen Xun'er didn't know where to speak.
Her relationship with Xiao Jiwei is complicated, and it is impossible to say that Xiao Jiwei is the villain in the book, they are all her characters in the book!
"Forget it, I'll think about it later!"
She went inside to see the emperor, and the emperor's face was much better, and he looked like a normal person.
At this moment, Bicao came to spread the word, saying that the emperor's medicine had been delivered.
The person who delivered the medicine was Yin Su.
I don't know if it's because of the queen's headache, the grandmother who usually sends medicine didn't come in the past two days, and Yin Su brought the medicine bowl.
The moment she saw her, an idea quickly flashed through Wen Xun'er's mind, but she rejected it for a while.
Xiao Jiwei said that he would change the guards outside the Yuehua Palace for her, if it was the person arranged by Xiao Jiwei, it should not be difficult to enter and exit the Yuehua Palace in the future.
But the people next to him are easy to do, only this Yin Su!
She and Wan Laifu are a group of people, Wan Laifu followed the eldest prince out of the palace, and now the emperor has this Yin Su an eyeliner left.
Therefore, if Yin Su is solved, then the entire Yuehua Palace will be under the control of her and Concubine Yue!
This matter is not difficult, with her and Concubine Yue's skills alone, it is enough to control this Yin Su, but it will have to wait until the evening.
It wasn't until Yin Su left with the empty medicine bowl that Wen Xun'er told Concubine Yue what she thought in her heart.
"What is there to stay? Kill it! ”
"Auntie!" Wen Xun'er was a little stunned, "She's just doing things for others, we just need to tie her up and watch her!" ”
Concubine Yue shook her head: "Then if she runs away and goes to ventilate and report the news, isn't everything over?" ”
She touched Wen Xun'er's head: "Xun'er, if the matter is revealed, we will die, the moment she stands in line has already decided her fate, becoming a king and defeating a villain, since ancient times!" If we fail, we won't be able to escape either! Even worse than her! ”
Wen Xun'er met her gaze and didn't speak again.
"By the way, do you mean that now that the eldest prince is out of the palace, the queen is disturbed by a head disease, and there are only some old departments left in the entire palace, right?"
Wen Xun'er nodded: "What is my aunt going to do?" ”
A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Concubine Yue's eyes: "It seems that our opportunity has finally come!" ”
Wen Xun'er's eyes were a little dazed, but she saw Concubine Yue suddenly grab her hand: "Xun'er, you go to the Nine Emperors and let him pick us up!" ”
"Pick us up?" Wen Xun'er was even more confused, "Is my aunt going to leave the palace?" If I want to leave, I can find a way! ”
"No!" Concubine Yue shook her head, "What can we do if we leave, we have to take the emperor away with us!" ”
Wen Xun'er was taken aback: "What do you mean......"
Concubine Yue beckoned to Wen Xun'er and led her to the emperor's dragon couch.
Under Wen Xun'er's puzzled gaze, she gently lifted the emperor's head and pulled the futon open, revealing the carved patterns on the bed board.
I only heard a crisp sound of "click", as if the lock was unfastened, and then Wen Xun'er heard the sound of wood pushing, but it was not close.
The sound came and went so suddenly that it didn't even catch where it was coming from.
Just as Wen Xun'er was looking around, Concubine Yue pulled her to a mural where there was a niche on the wall with a Buddha statue in it.
Concubine Yue took the Buddha statue away, stretched out her hand and pushed it against the wall, only then did Wen Xun'er find that the inner wall of the alcove was actually empty.
Then, Concubine Yue took out something.
That thing was contained in a jade box, and when it was opened, it was the jade seal that everyone wanted to get when they squeezed their heads!
"This ......"
Concubine Yue put things back in their place.
"Since ancient times, the jade seal is related to the great position of the country, so it is naturally necessary to hide it tighter, even if others find here, they can't find the mechanism under the dragon bed, then this place is just an ordinary alcove, but because the mechanism in the niche is hidden inside, even if someone finds the mechanism under the dragon bed, they may not find here!"
When Concubine Yue said this, she was quite moved: "The queen mother has been calculating for so many years, and she must not know that the emperor has told me about this life-threatening matter, and people like her will never believe that the emperor will put his heart in the hands of a woman!" ”
The relationship between the emperor and Concubine Yue, Wen Xun'er naturally won't doubt it, because she is the one who set it!
It's just that this stubble was not mentioned in the original book, but I didn't expect that the way the characters in the book developed their feelings was even more affectionate than Jin Jian than she imagined!
"The emperor told his aunt such an important thing, but didn't his aunt accompany him regardless of her own comfort? It's just supporting each other, husband and wife are of the same heart! ”
Wen Yue suddenly looked at Wen Xun'er: "Now you know, why did my aunt insist on pointing you to the Nine Emperor Princes in the first place, right?" ”
Wen Yue lovingly combed her sideburns: "Because my aunt hopes that Xun'er can also get such a true feeling!" ”
Wen Xun'er was stunned.
"The daughters of our Wen family are born different from ordinary women, for them, it may be the task of this life to find someone who is good to them in their lives, but I don't think so!" Wen Yue walked forward slowly, "If you think about the glory and wealth of the first life, our Wen family has a big business, wouldn't it be better to stay at home, why do you need to marry out and find yourself angry?" ”
"Not to mention how much you are controlled by others as someone else's daughter-in-law, once you become a woman, you will be restrained even when you go out, what's the point of living like this for a lifetime?" She took a sip of the tea handed over by Bicao, and seemed to be extremely satisfied with her decision, "If we want to marry, we will marry someone we love, even if the other party's heart is not hot, it is a big deal to get married, and the Wen family does not have this capital, but at least, we have it, and there will be no regrets in this life, right?" Instead, watch your favorite person just miss it out! ”
She looked at Wen Xun'er with burning eyes: "Since you like it, you have to get it!" Instead of complaining for a lifetime, it is better to hold it in the palm of your hand and decide for yourself! Men can fight for their careers and women will do whatever it takes, why can't women? You tell me? ”
Wen Xun'er didn't expect Concubine Yue to have such an ideological awareness, and for a while, she couldn't help but be shocked.
"My aunt really deserves to be a tiger girl!"
"What is the Tiger Girl? I'm a bandit's daughter at best, if you really talk about the general, you are! ”
Before Wen Yue entered the palace, she did have the reputation of being a bandit's daughter, but Wen Xun'er was different, she grew up in the Wen family, at that time, the Wen family had already returned to the imperial court and was a famous general!
"Mother, girl, something happened!"
Just then, someone hurried in outside the door.
Concubine Yue and Wen Xun'er came to the outer room together: "What's the matter?" ”
"Aunt Yin is dead!"
Both of them were shocked at the same time.
In Yin Su's room, she was bleeding from the corner of her mouth and fell on the table, and there was a medicine bottle on the floor, which looked like she had committed suicide by taking poison.
At this moment, someone from the palace had already picked up the medicine bottle, and after smelling it, his face changed greatly: "This is ...... Arsenic! ”
Bicao hurriedly took the medicine bottle, and after checking it, confirmed this statement.
"Can anyone enter Aunt Yin's room in the afternoon?" She asked the palace people, and all she got was a negative answer.
Bicao looked puzzled: "Could it be that Aunt Yin committed suicide, but why did she commit suicide?" ”
"My aunt must have been forced!" A palace maid suddenly cried out in panic, "Yesterday, Gonggong Wan quarreled with Aunt Yin before leaving the palace, and the slave didn't know why, but she saw Gonggong Wan leave Yuehua Palace very angrily at that time, and let Aunt Yin do it herself, isn't it, because of this, my aunt committed suicide?" ”
As soon as she said this, the faces of the other palace people showed expressions of understanding.
Wan Gonggong voted for the eldest prince, Yin Su originally disapproved, but she was promoted by Wan Gonggong, and she had to stand on his side, thinking that this time it must be Wan Gonggong who wanted Yin Su to do something, Yin Su did not agree to cause such a situation!
Just when everyone was sad, someone stood up: "Do you want to inform the queen?" ”
"It's just a maidservant who died, and you don't need to disturb the queen? Besides, she is suffering from a head disease at this time, if you touch your brows, don't blame this palace for not reminding you! As soon as Concubine Yue spoke, the palace people were immediately silenced.
There was a big prince in charge before, and these people could still refute one or two, but now that there is no master in the palace, they naturally dare not refute Concubine Yue.
"Bicao, you go and deal with it!"
After instructing the green grass, Concubine Yue pulled Wen Xun'er back to the house.
But Wen Xun'er was suspicious of Yin Su's death: "Auntie, according to the maidservant, Father-in-law Wan quarreled with Miss Yin yesterday, but when she delivered the medicine in the morning, her expression was not unusual, this Aunt Yin is afraid that she did not commit suicide!" ”
Concubine Yue looked at her: "Even if it wasn't suicide, she wouldn't be able to live, so why bother to investigate the cause of her death?" ”
She didn't care, and Wen Xun'er didn't say anything more for a while.
The views of people in this era on human life are naturally different from those of modern people, coupled with the high position and power of Concubine Yue, I am afraid that there are not a few people who have been stained with blood on her hands for so many years, how can she care about the affairs of a maid.
But Wen Xun'er always felt uncomfortable.
When she came out of the hall, she just saw the palace people carrying Yin Su's body away.
Someone walked up to her, and Wen Xun'er turned her head to see that it was the guard who handed the handkerchief.
"Madame, are you worried about Aunt Yin's death?" And the man called her that.
Wen Xun'er rolled her eyes: "I just think she died strangely, and her heart is not very peaceful." ”
When the guard heard this, he immediately smiled: "Madame don't have to worry, the prince said, the current Yuehua Palace is too peaceful, and Madame can do what she wants!" ”
Wen Xun'er suddenly turned her head to stare at the guard.
The guards just bowed and left.
Xiao Ji is in danger!
It's him!
"Girl! Girl? ”
Bicao called twice in a row before waking Wen Xun'er.
"What's the matter?"
"Niangniang asked the girl to clean up."
Wen Xun'er's heart froze, and then she remembered something, and hurriedly entered the hall.
The sky had completely darkened, and the remnant sun shone on the hall red, and in the glow, she saw Wen Yue at the door of the inner hall.
She changed her clothes, and wore a red dress to make her face particularly beautiful, in fact, carefully calculated, she was only in her thirties, and with good maintenance, she still looked youthful.
Wen Xun'er greeted her: "Auntie." ”
"Go change your clothes, then squint for a while, there's action tonight!"
Concubine Yue has her own people, Wen Xun'er naturally knows.
It's just that she has been trapped in Yuehua Palace during this time, and she has not let others act, but now that Her Royal Highness has left the palace, the queen has a good chance of illness, so she naturally wants to take action.
"Tonight?"
"Well, on the side of the Nine Emperor Princes, I have already informed him, and he will come to pick up people at that time!"
Wen Xun'er nodded, took her clothes and went out.
I didn't sleep well this night, and I actually dreamed of the scene when Wen Jia died, the two armies fought, and the battlefield was full of fighting sounds and corpses, which was shocking.
When she was awakened by Bicao, she found that it was dark outside, and it had been dark for a long time.
"What time is it?"
"It's just past the hour!"
Wen Xun'er put on her clothes and got up, only to see that the courtyard was brightly lit, and someone was carrying the sleeping emperor into the carriage, and Concubine Yue beckoned to her: "Xun'er, hurry!" ”
Wen Xun'er walked up to him, only to find that the leader standing in the courtyard was Gu Yunzhi.
He was wearing a suit of armor, he looked quite handsome and handsome, and the cold iron aura of the armor came to his face, and there was an inexplicable hint of murderous aura.
Seeing Wen Xun'er, he greeted him: "Miss Wen, I'll pick you up, get into the carriage!" ”
Wen Xun'er looked at everyone: "If you bring people to kill with such fanfare, won't the people of the eldest prince stop you?" ”
Gu Yunzhi smiled slightly: "If there is an obstacle, kill it, things have come to this point, there is nothing safer than protecting my father!" ”
Wen Xun'er heard this, and then got into the carriage.
Although everything seemed to be natural today's actions, she always felt that something was not quite right.
At first, it was Xiao Jiwei who led away the eldest prince and the queen who happened to be sick, then the Yuehua Palace, which was so easy to control, and then the Nine Emperor Princes, who were now able to bring so many people into the palace so smoothly!
The eldest prince and queen in the book are definitely two treacherous and cunning foxes, their scheming is no worse than others, especially the queen, who has lived in the deep palace for so many years, has already practiced a sophisticated and calculating skill, even if it is a head disease, it will not let everything be so out of his control.
Seeing the wheels rolling over the bluestone pavement, the uneasiness in her heart grew more and more.
Concubine Yue handed her a package: "This, you take it!" ”
Wen Xun'er held it for a while, and then knew what it was, and was suddenly shocked: "Auntie? Why did you give me something so important? ”
Concubine Yue looked at Wen Xun'er: "Everything you have done, my aunt knows, thank you for saving Xiao Yun and saving him from prison!" ”
Wen Xun'er was stunned: "You know everything?" ”
Concubine Yue smiled, but her eyes were red: "Silly girl, my own son, how could I not inquire about his news?" In fact, I entered the palace, on the one hand, because of the emperor, and on the other hand, because of him. Me and Xiaoyun, as long as one of them is in their hands, the other can be safer, what they want is nothing more than containment! ”
"And in the matter of finding the jade seal, it is more useful to keep me than Xiao Yun, so before entering the palace, I begged the Nine Emperor Princes and asked him to protect Xiao Yun!"
Wen Xun'er didn't expect her to do this step in private, no wonder after entering the palace, she didn't say a word about Xiao Yun, she thought at that time that she simply thought that Xiao Yun was safe, but she didn't expect that she knew everything.
"Auntie, I'm sorry!"
At that time, Xiao Yun was imprisoned and suffered so much, but she didn't dare to tell Concubine Yue, for fear that she would worry!
Concubine Yue shook her head: "I know you are for my good!" So my aunt absolutely believes in you! ”
She pushed the jade seal in front of Wen Xun'er: "Actually, the one who said I was sorry should be my aunt!" ”
Wen Xun'er was stunned: "What does aunt mean?" ”
Concubine Yue looked at the white-haired old man beside her, and her eyes turned red again.
"Actually, the emperor, woke up! It's just that I didn't tell you! ”
This time, it really shocked Wen Xun'er: "How come? ”
Concubine Yue looked at her: "One of his legs is unconscious, I asked the imperial doctor, and they said that even if the emperor wakes up, he will not be able to walk normally for the rest of his life!" ”
"So, the emperor also knows about this?"
Concubine Yue nodded: "I told him everything that happened in the palace recently, and after he learned about it, he didn't say a word, but I can see that he is very sad!" ”
"The eldest prince has always been entrusted with important tasks by him, and even because of the eldest prince, he has never established a prince, but he didn't expect that the person he had been waiting for so long would lead the troops to force the palace and murder him when he was unconscious!"
Speaking of this, Concubine Yue couldn't help but clench the emperor's hand, and at this moment, the emperor who was in a coma actually opened his eyes.