Chapter 23 Undercurrent (at the request of readers, add a 4,000-word chapter)
Late at night, Hu Fu.
In a warm pavilion in Hu's mansion, the lights had not yet been extinguished, Hu Changren's wife knelt beside Hu Changren, carefully medicating Hu Changren, Hu Changren's back was bare, and his back and arms were swollen. Suddenly, he was careless, and the strength was not well controlled, Hu Changren gasped, turned around and scolded: "Stinky girl, lighten up!" I always tell you to be lighter, why don't you start lightly?! ”
Hu Changren's wife glanced at him and said, "Your back is injured too badly, Lang Zhong said that you can't get up for half a month, how can you push away the bruises on your back and hands if your hands are not heavy?" ”
"Gotta do it, you can do it yourself, and pay attention to it...... Oh, my old waist, I almost tossed and broke, dozens of miles, a whole dozen miles of road! I carried a box weighing more than 140 pounds and circled the imperial city! The road was slippery again, and I almost didn't fall and fell to my death! Oops......"
Hu Changren groaned, on the one hand, he was physically devastated, on the other hand, he was humiliated mentally, and today on the streets, the people of the city pointed at him, and he Hu Changren's face was lost! Thinking about it, Hu Changren can't wait to dig a hole and plunge his head into it, don't come out for the rest of his life, or simply hit his head to death, so as not to walk on the street and be poked in the back in the future.
Of course, that's just thinking about it, so he Hu Changren won't die for such a little humiliation.
What is it in ancient times, King Yue or King Wu Goujian? Regardless of him, in order to survive, he gave his wife to the enemy to warm the bed, and personally went to taste the stool of his husband's errand, and he was embarrassed to lose face, no one died, he lived strongly, and finally got revenge, why did he Hu Changren want to die?
This mental struggle does not mean that Hu Changren has the courage to create a rebellion against Gao Wei, this is just one of the reasons that Hu Changren found for himself to "live bravely". Hu Changren only felt that every word was fine, and even he himself was moved......
"Shhh...... It's a pity that Lao Tzu's gold and silver treasures, which Lao Tzu finally saved! ”
Thinking of the confiscated money confiscated by Cushman & Wakefield, Hu Changren was heartbroken.
Hu Changren's wife glanced at him speechlessly, and said fiercely: "Money money, money, you know money with all your brains, this time for this money, you were almost slashed by Your Majesty, why can't you change it?" ”
Hu Changren was speechless and said, "What do you know about a loser?" What do you eat and drink for nothing? If you are not in charge, you don't know that oil and salt are expensive! ”
Mrs. Hu asked rhetorically: "Let me ask you, is money or life important?" ”
Hu Changren hesitated, but said resolutely: "Life ......"
"Huh......" Hu's wife just wanted to praise him a few words, but heard the next words; If you lose your next life, you can come back again...... I haven't made any money in my life, and I'm not willing to die! ”
Hu's wife turned angry after hearing this, and she slapped him on the back a few times, and scolded: "You will hold your money to hell in your life!" ”
Hu Changren screamed in pain, and suddenly heard the housekeeper report outside the pavilion gate: "Lord, His Royal Highness King Langya has come down ......."
Hu Changren and his wife were both stunned, Hu Changren and his wife glanced at each other, both puzzled, Hu Changren's wife ordered softly: "Please come in." The housekeeper bowed down, and Hu Changren's wife helped Hu Changren up.
Hu Changren slowly picked up the clothes scattered on the ground and put them on, his face full of confusion: "King Langya, what is he doing here?" ……”
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At this moment, in a small firewood room in a remote cold palace in the imperial city, the little girl pinched some old bedding and asked the picturesque sister in front of her suspiciously: "Why can't I go to play with them again in the future?" ”
The tone was full of reluctance, Yuan Yun sighed, and coaxed her softly: "Yuanyuan doesn't understand, there are many bad people in this world, once they know the secret of Yuanyuan and her sister, then neither of us sisters will survive, understand?" ”
Yuanyuan was also a little scared by Yuan Yun's nervous appearance, and said, "Then, will Xiaoweizi and Xiaoluzi be like this?" ”
Xiao Weizi is naturally the name that Gao Wei coaxed the child to be blind, Yuan Yun's eyes changed, he lowered his head and quickly covered up a trace of hatred in his beautiful eyes, and then said calmly: "Yuanyuan is good, although they may not necessarily harm us, but they are not necessarily safe, if someone knows about our existence through them, it is not only us, the two of them will also suffer, Yuanyuan must not want the two of them to be innocently implicated, right?" ”
Yuanyuan thought about it and nodded a little sadly, "Then I won't play with them in the future......"
"The pastries given by Xiao Weizi and Xiao Luzi are so delicious......"
Yuan Yun's eyes were inexplicably a little sour, nodded, and said with a smile: "As long as Yuanyuan likes it, my sister can go and get some pastries for Yuanyuan to eat." ”
Who knew that the little girl shook her head sensibly and said, "It is very risky to go to the imperial dining room, and the people there are so fierce......"
Yuan Yun quietly wet her eyes and said, "It's okay, for the sake of Yuanyuan, you can do whatever you want my sister to do......"
"Sleep well...... Yuan Yun covered her with a quilt, kissed her little face, blew out the oil lamp, and turned to lie down.
After a long time, when the children around him fell asleep, Yuan Yun put on his clothes again, quietly pushed open the door and went out. The night was deep, the clouds were thick, there was not even moonlight, and it was dark all around, but Yuan Yun walked very flat, and he was not afraid of falling in the dark night at all.
She kept walking to the west, which was a rare desolate place in the Imperial City, even more so than the Cold Palace. The cold wind howled, blowing through the eaves of the small broken Buddha hall like a ghost crying, Yuan Yun stood still in front of the small broken temple, looking at the desolate broken bricks and tiles, and pushed the door in.
The small ruined temple is extremely dilapidated, with only one Buddha, one lamp, and one person.
The woman in the simple gray monk's robe stopped the wooden fish in her hand, slowly turned her head, and said plainly: "......Are you here?"
Her face was still beautiful, but the corners of her eyes had been carved with some wrinkles, and there was no light in those beautiful eyes, which were as heavy as dead ashes.
"Today, Yuanyuan was playing with the little eunuch near the cold palace to build a snowman, and she had a great time...... Yuan Yun said.
"Hmm," the woman lowered her head and slowly tapped the wooden fish, the light was too dim for Yuan Yun to see her expression.
"She's happy and ......" There was a hint of joy in her tone, a hint of exhaustion, and a deep sense of guilt.
"One of the two little eunuchs is pretending, I have carefully observed it, and that person is Gao Wei."
The wooden fish in the woman's hand almost didn't hold it steady, and suddenly turned her head, and her voice trembled: "Gao Wei...... Emperor Cushman & Wakefield?! ”
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The night was deeper, and the magnificent Taizhao Hall was still brightly lit, and Gao Wei was on the throne to review and reciprocate, and his face was shrouded in faint anger.
There is a book lying quietly on the case, this is the joint impeachment of Prime Minister Zhao Yanshen and Captain Gao Rui, impeaching them for "nepotism" and "conspiracy", in fact, this is the impeachment of Zhao Yanshen and Gao Rui? This is Xungui Group expressing dissatisfaction!
"I just purged some corrupt officials and summoned some capable Hanchen, and they weren't happy?"
Cushman & Wakefield's dark eyes were sharp.
After nearly a month of purge, the courtiers with serious corruption and dereliction of duty were pulled off their horses one after another, except for the men and horses under He Shikai, Hu Changren, and Lu Lingxuan, most of the rest were people arranged by the nobles of the six towns.
And the most important thing is that the nobles found that more and more Hanchen poured into the court, and most of those vacancies were filled by the power of the Han people, and the power of the Xianbei lords was suppressed, and the balance of power in the court had been faintly tilted towards the side of the Hanchens, how could the Xianbei lords tolerate it?!
Xianbei people must be high!
Here's what they think. did not take the fact that the royal family was actually Han Chinese in the slightest.
So they began to struggle with the emperor, trying to force the emperor to bow to them......
It's too much of a deception!
Is this yours or mine?!
Cushman & Wakefield almost couldn't contain his anger, and then slowly suppressed it. A trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, why are the nobles so united this time? Almost every one of them has been co-branded, and it must be known that Xunguili is not monolithic, and if you want to do one thing with a unified voice, it is absolutely impossible under normal circumstances!
He always felt that someone must be behind it. So he has ordered Liu Taozhi to check, and he is still waiting for news here.
"Your Majesty......" Xiao Luzi handed over two notes, which were the news that the secret spy of the Yiluan Division in front of the palace had just discovered.
Gao Wei opened it to look at the first one, raised his eyebrows, and said, "King Langya? Sure enough, it was him......"
He opened the second one again: "King Langya sneaked to Hufu when he was a son, and it seems that there is something important to discuss. ”
Gao Wei sneered: "He finally couldn't help it......"
Then Xiao Luzi slowly stepped forward and said respectfully: "During the day, His Majesty wants the slave and maid to inquire about it......
"Say."
Xiao Luzi's face turned pale, and he said softly: "The little girl Your Majesty met today should be ...... It is the bloodline left by the first emperor. ”
"What?" Gao Wei's face couldn't hide his shock, "The bloodline of the first emperor, why don't I know?" ”
"Because, her biological mother is the empress of Emperor Wenxuan, the Li family's ......"
"As for the palace maid, the origin is even more strange, the slave and maid used all their eyes and ears, but they couldn't hear any news, and they are still investigating......"
"Empress Li......" Gao Wei sighed and muttered to himself, "No wonder ......"
He waved his hand and said, "You go down first." ”
Sitting alone in the main hall, the bright candle flame could not illuminate the gloom between his brows.
"No wonder I have an inexplicable sense of closeness when I see that little girl, it turns out that she is really my sister......" Gao Wei's mind flashed Yuanyuan's cute little face.
Li Zu'e, the queen of Emperor Wenxuan Gaoyang, can be said to be a very sad woman.
After Gao Yang's death, her son Gao Yin was overthrown by Gao Yan and Gao Zhan, and after Gao Zhan ascended the throne, he forcibly occupied Li Zu'e out of hatred for Gao Yang.
Originally, Li Zu'e tried her best to refuse Gao Zhan's non-share request in view of her uncle's and sister-in-law's status, but Gao Zhan's words made her give up resistance, "Do you still want your son to live?"
Li Zu'e only has her last son, Gao Shaode, left.
So Li Zu'e became Gao Zhan's de facto concubine, Gao Zhan hugged her sister-in-law, a stunning beauty, and the spring was boundless every night. It didn't take long for Li Zu'e to become pregnant, her belly swelled day by day, and she gradually became unable to move.
For the nameless child in her belly, Li Zu'e was both shocked and afraid. She closed her door all day, and she didn't allow others to step into Zhaoxin Palace. Gao Shaode missed his mother and came to visit, but was stopped by the guards outside the palace gate.
The son couldn't understand his mother's distress, so he stood outside the palace gate and scolded loudly, "Don't you know that my son doesn't know that my mother's belly is big, so I refuse to see my son." Li Zu'e was so ashamed that she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Li Zu'e and Gao Zhan's daughter was born, and it is recorded in the history books that Li Zu'e "gave birth to a daughter", and the baby girl was probably strangled to death by Li Zu'e.
Gao Zhan was completely furious, he didn't expect this woman to dare to kill his daughter.
He immediately ordered someone to escort Gao Shaode to Zhaoxin Palace, and in front of Li Zu'e, he shouted hoarsely, "If you dare to kill my daughter, I will kill your son", and beat Gao Shaode to death with the handle of a knife on the spot, Li Zu'e tried his best to stop it, but he couldn't save his son's life.
Gao Zhan heard Li Zu'e's cry, and became even more angry, he stripped Li Zu'e of her clothes, and beat her naked body with a whip, beating her flesh and blood into a blur, screaming and fainting to the ground.
Later, Gao Zhan felt that he was still angry, so he asked someone to put her in a silk bag and throw her into a ditch, and the silk bag was dyed with blood by Li Zu'e. It took a long time for Li Zu'e to wake up, and at this time, she was already disillusioned.
I heard that Gao Zhan later asked Li Zu'e to become a nun...... No one ever saw her again......
"It turns out that my sister is still alive in the world...... Gao Wei felt both sad and sad in his heart.
Gao Cheng's death was strange, Gao Yang killed his siblings, Gao Yin was abolished by his uncle, Gao Yan fell off his horse and died, and Gao Yan, the prince of Gao Yan, was beaten to death by Gao Zhan for a hundred years...... Now Gao Wei's younger brother Gao Yan also wants to overthrow his brother and sit on the dragon chair.
Gao Wei closed his eyes tiredly: "The emperor's family...... Oh, I hate the emperor's family in this life! ”
"Relatives are enemies, lovers kill each other...... It turns out that this is the royal family, this is the emperor! ”
Then he thought again: "Yuanyuan and Yuanyun...... Why did those two weak women survive in the palace for so long and no one ever mentioned them? Someone is sheltering them...... Who is it? Empress Li doesn't have this ability...... Who is it? ”
"Lu Lingxuan!" Cushman & Wakefield opened his eyes, and his dark eyes were full of anger.
Conceal the whereabouts of the princess and hide a woman of unknown origin and apparently very large origin...... Lu Lingxuan, you old dog is really brave!
"Langya King ......"
"Lu Lingxuan ......"
After a long silence, Xiaoluzi was not at ease, and quietly took a look.
I saw that under the candlelight, Gao Wei's eyes were as deep as a pool. Muttering to himself:
"I'm going to see ......, you're all playing those tricks!"
Every sentence is like a knife, every word is bloodthirsty, and Xiaoluzi shuddered violently......