"You let them go, and I'll go with you until you leave Chang'an safely."

"Lang Jun! Cannot! He Jin was taken aback and hurriedly spoke out to stop him.

The words also came to the ears of Cheng Pingyu Wenzhi and others with the wind, and the audience was silent for a while, and everyone looked different.

Chen Sida lowered his head, as if he had been silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Pei Langjun has such courage and mind, I admire it very much." Well, I'll trust you once! After speaking, he ordered the envoy of Anguo and the others to be released.

These people tonight can be described as a calamity without a reason, they returned from the feast and fell asleep, from the tent they were confused and were held hostage by the neck with a knife, and they stayed up to this moment, one by one, they were already frightened, and they were free at this moment, and stumbled towards Pei Xiaoyuan.

Chen Sida stared closely, and when Pei Xiaoyuan did as promised, he dismounted, and threw away the knife and bow he was carrying, and even untied a urinal tied to the belt around his waist, indicating that he did not carry any weapons, and then glanced at the people around him.

His henchmen comprehended, and immediately rushed back with people, and surrounded Pei Xiaoyuan and the envoy Wang of Anguo, who had not gone far, at once.

In the exclamation and curse from He Jin and the envoy Wang and others, who had become prisoners again, Chen Sida looked up to the sky and laughed wildly.

"Pei Xiaoyuan! You're still too tender! Lao Tzu will tell you the truth, today I will not only ask for hostages, I will also kill you! It's your own death! Do you think I don't know? You haven't always wanted to kill me! ”

"You don't blame me, if you want to blame, blame your father for being too ignorant of current affairs and blocking people's road to prosperity! What's more, it wasn't me Chen Sida who didn't let them go back to Chang'an back then, but the current emperor-"

Pei Xiaoyuan has been standing quietly with a torch, at this time, his eyes suddenly turned sharp, and with a wave of his arm, the burning fire rod in his palm spun towards Chen Sida on the opposite side, bang, impartially, and the fire smashed heavily on Chen Sida's face and eyes.

Suddenly, the sparks splashed everywhere, and the fire rod burned his skin and blistered at the scene, and his eyes ached sharply.

He screamed, the knife in his hand fell to the ground, his hands covered his face, and half of his body staggered on the horse's back.

This scene happened too suddenly, and the people around him were all stunned, and before they had time to react, they saw that Pei Xiaoyuan had already pressed the Anguo envoy who passed by his side to the ground with one palm, leaned over and snatched the knife of the person who was detaining the envoy, and then, with a jump, the figure rushed forward like an eagle harrier, and rushed towards Chen Sida, raising his arm and turning his wrist.

With a cold knife light that swept through the air, with a dull sound, Chen Sida's head separated from his neck in a blink of an eye and flew out high.

In a burst of blood rain spraying from his broken neck, Chen Sida's half-body sitting on the horse tilted and fell to the ground with a bang.

Almost at the same time, his head, with two severed palms covering his eyes, also fell from the sky one after another, snapped a few times, and fell to the ground one after another.

After a few moments, the people nearby finally reacted and exclaimed.

He Jin rode his horse, rushed in like a fly, picked up Chen Sida's bloody head from the ground with a long lance, hung it high on the top of the lance, shook it in all directions, and shouted loudly in the wind: "Chen Sida has been killed by Pei Langjun!" The skull is here! Who will dare to resist again? ”

Pei Xiaoyuan jumped onto a nearby high ground and said in a loud voice: "Everyone, you are all soldiers of the Shenwu Army, and you are different from Chen Sida!" He has been ambushed, as long as you surrender, Your Majesty will not investigate deeply! ”

The ordinary guards who followed Chen Sida in the vicinity had already been stunned by Fang Cai's decapitated scene, and at this moment, listening to him say this, the fire was shining, and they looked like gods, and they all felt admired from the bottom of their hearts, and looked at each other for a moment, and they didn't know which leader it was, and suddenly waved their knives and cut them at those Chen Sida's henchmen around them. Soon, those people died and were injured, and everyone dropped their swords and knelt down towards Pei Xiaoyuan, praying for their lives.

When Pei Xiaoyuan returned to the camp with the hostages and the 2,000 Divine Tiger Army soldiers, the sky was about to dawn. The fire that burned in the camp in the second half of last night was gradually extinguished.

After the turmoil last night, at the insistence of Han Kerang and Su Yu, the emperor climbed a mountain beam on the mountain behind the camp, where he temporarily took refuge for the night.

At this moment, he was sitting on a makeshift floor in the company of Su Yu.

In the light of daylight, the emperor quietly looked down at the camp that was still emitting black smoke at the foot of the mountain, and listened to the complaints and discussions of the hundred officials who had returned to the camp from time to time faintly on the mountain with the wind, and his figure remained unmoved.

Han Kerang came up from the bottom of the mountain and told the emperor about the previous night's suppression of the rebellion.

The emperor closed his eyes, and the man remained motionless.

"Your Majesty, Pei Er made a miraculous achievement last night. Saving the hostages of Fanguo and killing Chen Sida came second. If it weren't for his timely guidance, the four guards would probably have suffered heavy losses. ”

The emperor still closed his eyes, as if he had not heard.

"Where is he at the moment?"

Su Yu glanced at Emperor Aye's expression and asked.

"Princess Qiyu, he promised to guarantee the soldiers of the Shenwu Army, and at this moment, with people, he is waiting at the bottom of the mountain, wanting to see His Majesty."

"Call him up."

Seeing that Aya still didn't react, Su Yu said again.

"Yes."

Han Ke ordered someone to report it.

After a while, Su Yu saw a familiar figure.

Pei Xiaoyuan walked on the mountain road shrouded in morning mist and dim light, climbed the steps, and came to the emperor and her.

When he arrived, Han Kerang and the others retreated and avoided the top of the mountain steps.

He was dressed in regular clothes, and a plain brass buckle belt was tied around his waist. It can be seen that before coming here, I should have deliberately tidied up my appearance. But on his sideburns and a patch of skin on the side of his neck, Suyu still saw some dried blood that had not been wiped clean.

He was still familiar with his usual unhurried and unhurried appearance, and after he arrived, he bowed down like a ritual, and then repeated what Han Kerang had said, to the effect that last night he had promised to exonerate those soldiers who followed Chen Sida in front of the saints, and hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would be magnanimous and forgive the sins of these two thousand people.

"Give me a reason to spare them."

The emperor said.

"The minister once heard a saying, it is better to make a meritorious person."

The emperor's gaze fell on the face of the young man opposite, looked at him for a long time, and said, "Accurately." ”

"On behalf of them, I have thanked Your Majesty for your deep kindness." Pei Xiaoyuan kowtowed.

"Young man, you made a great contribution last night, have you ever thought about how I want to reward you?"

The Emperor looked at him, and suddenly, softly, asked again.

"Everything the minister does is out of his own duty, and he doesn't dare to take credit."

When Pei Xiaoyuan said this, his tone was calm, and he never looked up.

The emperor stared at him for a long time, then turned to the rain beside him, and also looked at her for a long time, but in the end he didn't say anything, and his pale face showed a deep tiredness, and he slowly stood up and said in a low voice: "Sister, let's go with Aya-"

Before he finished speaking, he should have been dizzy, and his body suddenly shook.

Su Yu was startled, hurriedly stretched out his hand, and tried his best to hold Aya, feeling that his palms were cold, panicked, and was about to call Zhao Zhongfang and Yang Zaien and others to go down the mountain to sit down, and suddenly saw that Pei Xiaoyuan had got up from the ground, and rushed to her in front of her, and reached out to help her hold Aya firmly.

At the moment when the two of them looked at each other, she heard him say in a low voice: "I will carry Your Majesty down the mountain!" Hurry up and call the Imperial Doctor. ”

After saying that, he turned around, bent his knees slightly, and carried the weakened emperor with half-closed eyes on his broad back, and then walked down the stairs, carrying the man on his back, and walked steadily and quickly down the mountain.

Chapter 83

When Pei Xiaoyuan carried the emperor down the mountain, during the whole process, Su Yu followed closely behind.

Maybe she was dazzled, she saw that Aya was carrying down seven or eight steps of the mountain by him, her eyelids fluttered a few times, and then, he should have fully woken up, opened his eyes slightly, and looked left and right blankly, as if he understood what was going on.

He seemed a little uncomfortable with it.

Just when Su Yu thought that Aya was about to open his mouth and order him to put himself down, but he didn't know what Aya thought, his eyes fell on the back of the head of the person who was carrying him down the mountain at this moment, his eyes stayed for a moment, and then, without saying anything or doing anything, his gaze became gentle, and finally he slowly closed his eyes again, and the whole person seemed to relax and remain motionless, just like that, let him, a young courtier, carry him down the mountain, walk the entire mountain road, and finally carry him to the foot of the mountain.

There, the palace eunuchs had already brought the chariot and were waiting at the intersection, and when they saw this, they rushed up, and took over the emperor with all hands and feet and helped him to sit on the chariot.

Subsequently, the emperor went under the protection of Han Kerang and Cui Daosi, who rushed to hear the news.

Su Yu walked with him, walked forward, and glanced behind him.

Pei Xiaoyuan didn't follow anymore. He stopped alone at the intersection of the mountain road, saw her turn his head, and looked at her for a moment, but finally slowly lowered his head, and only saluted her.

Su Yu nodded in return and thanked her, and then she closed her eyes and accompanied the emperor back to the imperial tent.

The imperial doctor hurriedly arrived, and after some diagnosis and treatment, he said that the emperor should be fine, and he fainted, mainly due to blood and qi condensation, and suggested that he should return to the palace immediately to recuperate.

The rest of the doctors don't need to say anything more, if something happened like last night, this trip will definitely be interrupted.

In the short interval of waiting for the return trip, more information about the incident last night was also reported one by one.

In the first half of last night, after the end of that farce-like dispute in front of the Emperor, the Emperor, either out of his usual cautious habits, or, by sheer intuition, secretly ordered Han Kerang to stare at the people on either side to see what they were doing. Out of the emperor's constant wariness of Pei Xiaoyuan, this kind of thing naturally would not be known to him, so Han Kerang did not reveal the slightest rumor in front of Pei Xiaoyuan last night.

It was precisely because of the emperor's caution that after the incident, Siwei was able to react quickly and organize to block Chen Sida.

However, the emperor still underestimated the seriousness of the situation, and was not fully prepared, and although the rebellion last night was quickly quelled, the consequences were much more serious than everyone imagined.

After counting this morning, more than a dozen officials accompanying the car died, and in addition to a civilian official who fell off his horse and died when he was fleeing, most of the rest were people who usually had close contacts with Feng Zhenping in the DPRK and China. As for the officials such as Changshi and Dianjun who accompanied King Kang's Mansion this time, they were all killed, and none of them escaped. In addition, there were 20 or 30 injured officials, among whom not only suffered burns and knife wounds, but also those who accidentally fell and sprained themselves while escaping. Fortunately, there was no danger, and these people were also resettled one by one.

Among the injured, the most seriously injured one was Feng Zhenping. He was stabbed in the body, and if Cheng Ping hadn't arrived in time last night, he was afraid that his life would not have been saved. King Kang was fine, but he was frightened. It is said that last night, Feng Zhenping disregarded his own safety and asked his cronies to protect him, so that he was able to escape the pursuit, and finally hid in a mess of grass seven or eight miles away from the barracks.

Pile pile, pile, all bad news.

The only surprise that can be called an unexpected surprise is that Li Xu, the king of Xin'an, behaved very well last night, he was not afraid of danger, and immediately thought that the rebels might capture the envoy of the vassal king as a hostage, and immediately took his own guards, regardless of the danger, rushed into the barracks that had been on fire at the moment when everyone was only concerned about fleeing for their lives, organized the retreat of the vassal lord and the envoys who had not had time to escape, and took everyone to the mountains behind the camp to hide. He saved more than a dozen people.

When the emperor listened to Han Kerang and others report the rest of the news, he didn't have the slightest expression during the whole process, and it was only at this time that a faint smile finally appeared on his face, and he ordered someone to summon Li Xue in.

Li Xu, like the rest of the people, was waiting outside the emperor's imperial tent at the moment. Yang Zaien was about to go out to deliver the order, when he suddenly heard the emperor's voice behind him: "Wait a minute! ”

Yang Zaien hurriedly stopped and waited with bated breath, but when he saw that the emperor was alone for a moment, he changed his words: "That's it, there is no need to summon it alone." ”

"Spread my will, and return to the palace immediately. Injured people who have difficulty walking do not need to travel. Leave the imperial doctor here, diagnose and treat them, and it is not too late to return when the injury is healed. The Emperor commanded again.

The palace eunuch went out and passed on the emperor's order.

In the praise of thanking Tian's grace, the emperor ended his trip early and returned to the palace. Halfway through, he met King Ning, who hurried to hear the news, received the emperor, and returned to the palace that night.

However, after coming back, the emperor's health deteriorated from night to night.

It seemed like a suddenness. After all, from the first day when the emperor came to Cangshan and returned to the court with the princess, he showed a state of excitement that was rare in the past, receiving ministers and vassal kings and envoys of various countries every day, frequently participating in various banquets, and even, in the hunt, despite the dissuasion of his subordinates, he was full of interest, and personally rode into battle and shot a few prey.

The emperor's state is like being more than ten years younger, obviously, this is a new atmosphere brought about by the princess's return to the court. This surprised many ministers, but also delighted.

No one thought that after returning that night, the emperor suddenly became depressed again, and his condition was even worse than before, and it was useless for the imperial doctor to apply medicine.

The emperor's illness will naturally not be disclosed to the ministers, but fortunately this is the palace, which is just right to recuperate quietly. But in the blink of an eye, almost a month passed, and the emperor's body not recovered, when there were no ministers or outsiders in front of him, he often stayed alone in a daze, and even stayed awake all night and night, sleepless until dawn.

This kind of thing naturally cannot be concealed for a long time, and slowly, the news came out, and many speculations surfaced.

Some people say that the emperor was frightened by the mutiny that night. Although judging from the emperor's early experience, this statement is somewhat untenable, but today's emperor is indeed not as good as he was back then, that night the mutiny was raging, making people's hearts palpitate, the emperor was already ill, and it was completely possible to be frightened and sick.

Some people scoffed at this speculation, thinking that the emperor was fighting for the crown prince and King Kang, so he was so sad and sick.

This statement does sound more plausible. The crown prince and King Kang used to be at odds with each other, and since that night, they have completely turned their faces, and they are on the same page. Feng Zhenping, who was only better injured, has frequently asked to see the emperor recently, and he has done everything possible to please the princess in private, in addition to re-recommending subordinate officials for King Kang, he also mobilized people to take turns to make the table, accusing Liu Ceye and the prince of being Chen Sida's accomplices, hoping that the emperor can strictly investigate;

Of course, Liu Ceye would not be unresponsive, and also mobilized officials to defend himself and praised the prince for his meritorious rescue that night. Not only that, but recently, even the literati in the literary circles of Chang'an and Dongdu have begun to publicize the merits of the prince and ridicule Feng Zhenping for being jealous of the virtuous and jealous.

The emperor was recuperating in the Cangshan Palace, and outside, the two sons openly confronted each other to this extent, even affecting Chang'an and the Eastern Capital, and because the emperor favored the princess, who the princess supported was obviously very important. The combination of suspicions has forced many ministers who were originally neutral to get involved and start thinking about the future.

Don't say that it is a heavenly family, but it is an ordinary family, when you encounter such a thing, I am afraid it is also annoying, how can your body get better?

In addition to these two statements, recently, there has gradually been a new speculation that the emperor may also be worried about the princess's marriage.

In the past few days, marriage proposals from Xifan, Bohai and Xiping County have been delivered by fast horses, and it is said that the marriage envoys are also on their way to come. A woman, a family, a family, and foreign countries are involved, and the emperor can't respond to them all, so how to choose one, and how to refuse the remaining ones, so as not to cause possible conflicts, this is naturally also a science. It is also human nature for the emperor to be troubled.

All kinds of speculations outside the palace are flying all over the sky, but the years in the palace are passing day by day.

After returning from the hunting ground, Aya's physical state plummeted, and Su Yu was anxious when he saw it in his eyes.

She is not a good doctor, but she can see that after Chen Sida's rebellion, Aya's body was obviously affected by his heart, and his heart seemed to be much worse than before.