Chapter 203: Forcing the Palace
Alui's eyes were still dark, but she was sure she was exposed.
After a brief pause, killing intent struck. Aluka was so frightened that he pulled out the scraps and ran around like a headless fly. Then there was a sound of swords all around, and bamboo arrows cut through her blouse, and soon there was a bloody mouth on Ah Lu's face.
Hey, no, it's so dark here, how did these people determine her location? Why did they shoot so accurately?
At this time, a person fell next to Ah Lu, and she stabbed back with her backhand, but was quickly blocked.
"Ah Lu?" was Dong Junqin's voice, "What's wrong with your eyes?"
Hearing a familiar voice and a familiar touch in his hand, Ah Lu finally breathed a sigh of relief: "My eyes?"
Dong Junqin took advantage of the moonlight to see Ah Lu's pupils gray, like a dead man: "Can't you see?"
"Can't see it?" Ah Lu was stunned for a moment, and at this time, an arrow flew in front of him, and Dong Junqin immediately pulled her behind him. He blocked the arrow cleanly, apparently by his eyes rather than his ears, "Could it be that it's not dark here?"
It's not that it's too dark to see anything, but it's that you feel dark because you're blind?
Ah Lu heard Dong Junqin scolding Gao Ting for hurting her. Although blindness is not a good thing, it may be because there are too many times in the dark, and Ah Lu himself is not too panicked, and besides, Dr. Dong is here, and the blind can be cured.
Alu: "But how do you know I'm here?"
Dong Junqin: "Xiahou Mansion." I can't break the forbidden magic array in Xiahou's mansion, you hold on to my clothes and don't shake them!"
Xiahou Mansion? How did she get to Xiahou Mansion? Gao Ting threw her over? What does Gao Ting mean?
Huh? Wait...... Ah Lu remembered in a trance that the last time she entered the palace and possessed her soul in Song Jiyue's body, it was Gao Ting who took her to the secret prison. At the door of the cell...... Gao Ting seems to be ...... It seems like...... seemed to know that she was in Song Jiyue's body, and then what Gao Ting said...... I can't remember it.
Hey, that's it, if you can't think of it, you can't remember it. It doesn't matter.
Ah Lu grabbed Dong Junqin and said to him: "Dong Junqin, Ningxi is here! ”
Dong Junqin blocked another arrow: "The prime minister's father, Xiahou Taifu?"
Ah Lu: "Yes, yes, yes, yes, and I listened to Ning Xi's words, in addition to half of his own Yuan Spirit, there were other people in the Creation Stone. What a stone creature. ”
Ah Lu deliberately didn't mention that Ning Xi said that she was part of Shi Shengling. First, no matter how this matter sounds, it is contrary to Ah Lu's actual situation, and second, she is afraid that if she wants to deal with the Shengsheng Stone in the future, Dong Junqin may have some scruples because of her.
But thinking of the stone creatures, Ah Lu remembered that every time she approached the stone or the cave, she could indeed hear another person talking to her, saying that she would not come back, and that she could also affect the spiritual power in her body......
Could it be that he is really a stone creature?
Dong Junqin found that they had no way to retreat, and in the face of a strong siege, Dong Junqin had no chance of winning.
"Xiahou Huai!" he suddenly stopped the sword in his hand and shouted to the front, "Tell your people to stop! I'm here to deliver news to you, not to see you in blood." ”
Ah Lu was puzzled, Dong Junqin handed the news to Ning Xi?
However, Xiahou Huai, who had been hiding in the shadows, walked out. His eyes were kind and calm, and there was even a hint of an unwavering sense of mission.
He hummed and motioned around to stop: "Young Master Dong is here to deliver the news?" ”
Then Xiahou Huai raised his hand and motioned for Dong Junqin to continue. But Dong Junqin has not seen Ningxi attached to Xiahou Taifu's body, and he will not tell Xiahou Huai the news about Yumeng so quickly: "The prime minister is polite." But before handing over the message, there is something I don't understand. Please give me an explanation. ”
Xiahou Huai snorted coldly: "Dong Junqin, is it interesting for you to delay time like this? Could it be that you think someone can save you?"
Dong Junqin: "Lord Xiahou, although you and I don't meet much. But this year, the number of times they have fought openly and secretly...... Don't you know that I'm not the kind of person who would stupidly run to die and wait for someone else to save me? Since I dare to break into your Xiahou Mansion alone, I am ready. Even if I die here today, I don't have to understand. ”
Dong Junqin is indeed not familiar with Xiahou Huai, but Dong Junqin has seen a lot of people like this. They are proud, they have no one in their eyes, and the more the other person thinks he is clever in procrastination, the more he likes to be fulfilled, and the more he wants to watch the other person use up the last bit of strength until he despairs.
Sure enough, Xiahou Huai said: "Okay, you ask." ”
In fact, Dong Junqin's question is very simple: "Why do you want to join forces with Ningxi?"
For the Xiahou family, Dong Junqin's impression has always been that he is conscientious and dedicated to serving the country. Even tonight, Xiahou Huai's calm and calm look still made Dong Junqin feel that what they did was justified and bitter.
Dong Junqin didn't know much about anyone in the Xiahou family, but he also sighed that the Xiahou Mansion, which had connections all over the Central Plains, had a rigorous family style and few achievements made by merit, which was really rare.
This is rare, even after they found out that Huangfu Li's rebellion was motivated by the persecution of Xiahou Mansion, there was still a part of it.
So he really didn't understand why Xiahou Huai had to obey Ningxi's orders. Could it be that he didn't know whether Ningxi wanted to manipulate him to control the world? Or was he brainwashed by Ningxi and had a blind obedience to him.
However, when Xiahou Huai heard this question, he said sarcastically: "Why? You ask me why? If I don't join forces with him, do I want to join forces with those treacherous villains, stupid pariahs? It's not that I haven't dealt with these people. But what about the result? Don't talk about anything else, your family has been in the medicinal herb business for so long, and you should know about the matter of the water hidden grass pressing the reservoir back then. People's hearts are unpredictable, Dong Junqin, don't you know?"
Dong Junqin: "I know. But there is originally good and evil in this world. Even if it is the nobles you favor, how many of them are honest and intelligent? People say that they do not avoid relatives if they are virtuous, but throughout these years, the imperial court has chosen people without virtue. What is the difference between such a person and a wicked villain, a stupid pariah?"
Xiahou Huai laughed when he heard this: "What a virtuous person does not avoid relatives." In this case, my Xiahou Mansion is the saddle of the royal family, and I have protected the century-old imperial industry of the Xi family, why can I only be a prince with a false name when I go to the old emperor!"
What do you mean?
Xiahou Huai: "What? Can't you answer? Or do you not know what kind of humble status Xiahou Mansion had back then?"
Most of the historical records that Dong Junqin has read are about medical skills and immortal methods, and he really did not carefully examine the court situation.
Xiahou Huai smiled bitterly: "Everyone in the world gave birth to a son and sent it to Xiahou Mansion, and my father taught three generations of kings and cultivated so many excellent pillars. But the more this is the case, the more the emperor guards against us. When the prime ministers were on the left and right, I was just a civil official with no real power. Anything, he discussed it with the Song family behind my back. And the people of our clan, although they have many connections, but if you think back and think about it, in the past 100 years, who has been able to be a supreme minister? You said that the virtuous do not avoid relatives, but the emperor has been suppressing us because Xiahou and the Xi clan are relatives and have the blood to inherit the great unification. He would rather rely on the Rong family's relatives, and would rather believe in the Huangfu family, but he will not believe us! Is this fair?"
Xiahou Huai's words made Dong Junqin have to think back about what he knew about the Xiahou clan.
Although there were two prime ministers and several important ministers in Xiahou Mansion before, they were all personally appointed by the emperor when the foundation of the Xia clan was just in charge of the Central Plains, and there were almost no military generals, all of them were civil officials.
Civil officials were originally talked about a lot, saying that they would only play with power and scheming, write articles casually to fool people, and still don't know how to pretend to understand the facial features that are really doing things. So...... Xiahou Mansion's evaluation among military attaches is not high.
If you think about it for nearly a hundred years, everyone said that there was Lord Xiahou everywhere, but the only officials who really reported their names were Xiahou Huai and Xiahou Zheng. Even their father, the third generation of the crown prince and the prince, Dong Junqin was not impressed by his people.
Dong Junqin does not deny that a person and a family are so loyal to the royal family, but they have always been wary of being deliberately weakened in power, and there will be resentment in his heart: "But this is not a reason for you to disregard human life. In order to pursue the fairness you said, you forced the Rong clan and the Huangfu clan to the point of forcing the palace to rebel, how many people were involved, is this fair?"
"Rong's Huangfu?" Xiahou Huai mentioned these two clans, and he was angry. But even more angry than him, Xiahou Taifu, who had been hiding in the shadows, "You arrogant people who cultivate immortals and cultivators, think that by stepping on the sword and hacking some demons and monsters to death, you can judge the world's affairs?"
Dong Junqin and Ah Lu didn't expect the elderly Xiahou Taifu to take the initiative to appear. He saw an old face full of wrinkles and neatly tied hair, and his back could not be straightened, but his clothes were meticulous.
If Dong Junqin had changed before, he would definitely not have been able to bear to say more, but when he thought that he was Ningxi, Dong Junqin still retorted: "Master Taifu, no matter how well the cause of the family rebellion is hidden, since we can find out, there will always be others who will know about it, and one day it will be dug up by others." Moreover, even if the Huangfu clan is a foreigner, they have also guarded Xiguan day and night, guarding your life in Beijing. The theory of juniors is not arrogant. ”
Xiahou Taifu: "No, what do you know? You know that I forced Huangfu into a corner, and you know that we don't let the Rong family take the throne? But you don't know that Huangfu Li's father has been trading with small countries outside Xiguan City for many years; you don't know that the Rong family is trying to help his unsuccessful son become the emperor for the sake of the Rong family. If they are really innocent, the Huangfu family can not want the title of Xiguan Marquis, they are the royal family of the country, is it not good to be a common man quietly? What family glory does it have to continue? The Rong family has produced so many harem favorite concubines and queens, and so many princes and nobles have the blood of the Rong family, but they are never satisfied, and they do their best to be able to govern. Do you know how much collusion the Rong family has in various parts of the Central Plains to accumulate wealth? All this money is for the purpose of entrapping court officials in the capital. It's also for the glory of their family.
For the glory of the family, ridiculous, ridiculous. Dong Junqin, you have wasted your life one by one, but think about it, how many people pursue glorious merits for the lives of your so-called sentient beings?"
If Dong Junqin still has a trace of sympathy for Xiahou Mansion, then his words now can only make Dong Junqin disgusted: "In this way, for the sake of Lord Taifu of Xiahou Mansion, what is the difference between you and them?"
"Of course there is!" "Mrs. Xiahou shouted, "I'm not for myself, not for Xiahou Mansion, I'm for the entire royal family, for the stability of the entire Central Plains!"
From ancient times to the present, how many dynasties, which one can compare with the current Xi clan? The Ji clan has been sitting on that dragon chair for nearly 500 years, dozens of generations of kings before and after, do you know how difficult it is to be this long time alone?
And during this period, it took hundreds of expeditions in exchange for the strongest country of the Central Plains in Kyushu today.
In addition to the rebellion of the family, have you ever heard of people with foreign surnames threatening the throne in the past 500 years? Have you ever heard of a mutiny or rebellion in the Central Plains? No! Not once! Is this not as good as the emperor's short decades?
Your Dao Emperor Fu clan guarded Xiguan, but the concubine they sent only used a few words to make the people of the entire Central Plains give up farming, forget their craft, do not think about reading, and the army is not martial, and they all run to cultivate. Back then, Dongli sent an army that knew how to spell to suppress the border, which was well known to everyone, but a few Xuanmen monks stood up to form an army to fight. In the end, the Xiguan Huangfu army had to be transferred. Dong Junqin, have you ever studied the art of war? Do you know how far it is from the northwest to the east? If the small countries outside the northwest pass raised troops at the same time, how dangerous would it be? But what did the imperial concubine say afterwards? She said that we should also learn from Dongli, and let everyone go to the Tao and learn magic. So that there is no fear of war.
What kind of bullshit is this talking about! Do you think I can't suspect that the Huangfu clan is plotting against each other?
This Central Plains is the world of your people, the world of the Hime clan, and the world that our Xiahou clan has been guarding with all their hearts and souls for dozens of generations! Why should he surrender to the country, a foreigner, and a noble concubine to abolish my hundred years of hard work, and put my world in danger! I don't accept it!"
Dong Junqin: "So you take the lives of people in the world as a lesson?!"
Xiahou Taifu: "This lesson is self-inflicted by the people of the world! In the entire Central Plains, seventy percent of the people are cultivating the Tao and cultivating immortals, but no one has discovered that Huangfu Li's cultivation is an evil art! Those celebrities, those who have attained the Dao, none of them have discovered it! What kind of Tao they have cultivated, what kind of immortals they have become, they are not blind and do not know their hearts!"
Xiahou Taifu's almost roaring voice made Dong Junqin completely chill: "But now the source of Huangfu's evil art is in your body, Huangfu is wrong, are you right?" ”
Xiahou Taifu: "Oh, how do I remember that the Venerable Master Xuanqing Immortal has a saying: The power of the world is right and wrong, only people's hearts divide good and evil?"
Dong Junqin snorted coldly, Xia Hou was not brainwashed and controlled by Ning Xi, he was cocooned and bound himself. Knowing what he had been wondering about, Dong Junqin didn't ask anymore, and only said coldly: "Yumeng is about to be born." ”
Xiahou Taifu's undulating chest suddenly paused: "What?"
When Xiahou Huai heard this, he summoned a person, who left quickly and quickly turned back, and appeared in the courtyard with Xiahou Zheng.
Xiahou Zheng was stunned for a moment when he saw Dong Junqin and Ah Lu, and then walked to Xiahou Taifu and whispered a few words.
Xiahou Taifu turned around and looked at Dong Junqin coldly: "Dong Junqin, the explanations you want have been explained." Now, let me introduce you to these heroes of our Xiahou Mansion, some of them are ordinary people who were expelled from the division due to lack of talent, and there are also orphans who were killed by the evil demons of Huangfu, or they were not allowed to be appreciated by the imperial court before, oh no, after the official eunuchs who were not appreciated by the Rong clan, they all knew about the existence of Ningxi. So don't think you know that you know much. Alright, now please die. ”
Dong Junqin took a deep breath and said to Ah Lu's heart: "They will definitely keep you, you will go with them." ”
Ah Lu refused, and grabbed Dong Junqin's arm: "What should you do?"
Dong Junqin: "I have my own way, Gao Ting forced me to risk death, and Xiahou wanted my life, then I will follow their wishes." ”
After speaking, Dong Junqin violently pushed Ah Lu away.
Ah Lu couldn't see, one stumbled and fell to the ground, she repeatedly shouted Dong Junqin's name, and finally only heard the sound of swords rising again, and the sound of the body being constantly chopped. Then she was tied up and taken away.
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