Chapter 9 Departure
Out of Zhaochun Palace, walking through the palace corridor, Bai Guang strode forward, Yue Rong'er lifted her skirt, and trotted to barely keep up with him.
The carriage of the palace stopped at Tai'an Gate, from Zhaochun Palace to Tai'an Gate, it must pass through Lanxing Yuntai, just after passing the turn of the Yuntai Covered Bridge, the figure of white light suddenly disappeared from Yue Rong'er's sight, Yue Rong'er hurriedly walked a few steps, almost collided with someone head-on, couldn't help but look up, and saw Wu Yi standing with his back to her, he was tall and broad, and Yue Rong'er's sight was blocked by him tightly.
"You've been in there for so long, I'm dying. Wu Yi let out a sigh of relief.
"Your Highness won't stay here forever, will you?" asked him with a smile.
"Yes, yes......" Wu Yi stepped forward and grabbed Bai Guang's hand, "You don't know, I originally wanted to look for the prince in the East Palace, but he wasn't there, I saw your carriage at the gate of Tai'an when I left the palace, and I knew that you were still in the palace of the concubine Niangniang, and I didn't see you come out for a long time, and I was really anxious in my heart, I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I thought of coming here to wait for you." This is the closest way out of the palace, and if you are so lazy, you will definitely pass by here...... Haha, lo and behold, I guessed right?......"
Wu Yi babbled, Bai Guang looked at him quietly, suddenly reached out and punched him in the chest, glared and asked, "You say I'm lazy?"
"Why? I don't want people to say that I'm too lazy? I remember the big banquet in the palace that year, it should be ...... I want to think about it......" Wu Yi turned to look at Yue Rong'er, and was glared back by her for a while, "Yes, yes! In the twelfth year of Changxi, you came back from Zhongnan Mountain, and your father picked up the wind for you, and specially arranged for the imperial dining room to prepare the crabs you like to eat, are you too lazy...... I want to eat it, but it's hard to peel it, and it's not difficult to peel it even though you have tools, but you hold it with your hand, and secretly put it under the table and ......pinch it with your hand."
"I want you to take care of it, it's just a different way, and I didn't let others help me......," Bai Guang looked at him angrily.
"How did he pinch it? What happened later?" Yue Rong'er leaned over, a pair of wonderful eyes shining brightly, and looked at Wu Yi with expectation.
"Later, let me think about it......" Wu Yi frowned and thought hard, and after a while, he spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "Hey, I'm sorry, I don't remember." ”
Seeing that Yue Rong'er was so angry that she rolled her eyes, she couldn't help but smile and gave her ideas with a serious face, "Generally speaking, you know what you do best, you ask your son-in-law and let him tell you ......"
"Alright, alright. Let's go, I have a stomach full of wine, and it will turn into a wine bag and rice bag after a long time. Bai Guang interrupted him and urged him to get out of the palace quickly.
"Are you really okay? don't you feel uncomfortable?" Wu Yi became nervous again when he heard him say this.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Bai Guang pushed him forward, "The palace is neither Longtan nor a tiger's den, is Your Highness still afraid that the concubine will not be able to eat it, what kind of heart are you?"
But unexpectedly, this time, His Royal Highness King Kang did not follow him nonsense, but just lowered his head and walked forward, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, Bai Guang had to hurriedly divert the conversation, "Your Highness is in such a hurry to find the prince, is there anything important?"
"It's not important. Wu Yi said as he walked forward, "I just think that your research and judgment of the situation in the eastern realm is very reasonable, and seeing that he has been worried about this matter recently, I want to tell him as soon as possible, and there are many ideas." ”
It turned out that after leaving the Dingbei Palace, Wu Yi remembered the situation in the east analyzed by Bai Guang, and felt that it should be very helpful to the prince. Because regardless of whether this analysis is really the true intention of the Gao Li Mission, it can at least provide a reference and train of thought for the crown prince. The crown prince is ten years older than Wu Yi. For a long time, the prince has been very kind and caring for his little royal brothers, and the princes also respect him very much, at least Wu Yi loves his eldest brother from the bottom of his heart.
The three of them went out of the palace together, and when they arrived at the gate of Tai'an Gate, Bai Guangtui said that he was sleepy and drunk, and sent Wu Yi, who wanted to go to his house, away.
Back in the house, Bai Guang went straight into the study of the south courtyard, and told Yue Rong'er that he needed to rest for a while, and after instructing his subordinates to bring in a large bucket of water, he locked the door of the study from the inside. He took out a precipitated sheepskin pouch from his wide sleeves, untied the taut pouch, and poured the contents into the tea trough in the corner of the study, which was filled with a strong smell of wine, and then he poured all the water from the bucket into the trough, and opened the south pane .......
The aroma of wine in the study gradually faded, but Bai Guang's eyebrows gradually frowned, Concubine Yue's actions today were in his expectation, but they were also unexpected. Unexpectedly, Bai Guang never expected that she would win herself over in such a despicable and extreme way. No, rather, it's not a co-optation but a trap, then, the next ...... What else would she have?
Two hours later, the aroma of wine in the study had completely dissipated, and when Bai Guang opened the door, Yue Rong'er walked in from the outside almost at the same time, holding a twig color disc in her hand, and handed a cup of chrysanthemum tea with just the right temperature to Bai Guang from the saucer.
"Childe......" Yue Rong'er held the color disc, lowered her head and shouted.
"Something?" Moonlight asked as she sipped tea.
"Childe, don't you have anything to ask Rong'er?"
"You mean the concubine?"
"Exactly, doesn't Childe want to know?"
"What she said to you, I can guess some if you don't say it......" Bai Guang gently placed the teacup on the case, his eyes fixed on Yue Rong'er, "However, what I want to say to you is that no matter what she says, you don't have to take it to heart......"
This sentence was not finished, but it seems to have been finished. The meaning of these words may not be understood by others, but Yue Rong'er understands it. She didn't dare to look up at Bai Guang, she was not a shy and cowardly woman, even if she was as noble as King Kang, she never felt how humble she was. She was as fierce as fire, and in the face of Xing Zhen's obscenity in the Spring Lanfang that day, she was ready to die rather than obey......
But the young man in front of him, sometimes cold and sometimes hot, sometimes near and sometimes far away, was obviously smiling at himself just now, but in the next second, he could become as cold as an ice sculpture. When he said this now, his tone was flat, but Yue Rong'er listened to it in her heart, but she was so cold that she forgot to breath......e.
"Ming, Ming...... White. Yue Rong'er's voice was lower than just now.
Does she understand? Actually, she doesn't understand, there are many things she doesn't understand, such as why he drank so much and didn't get drunk, why Concubine Yue had to deal with him so recklessly, and why didn't he tell Wu Yi?...... She couldn't understand any of these things, and none of them dared to ask the man in front of her, who was so easy and kind, and so cold and arrogant that he was difficult to approach.......
In his mind, maybe he was just saved by accident by accident...... A weak woman in desperation...... If you feel pitiful, give a little mercy...... When I feel annoyed, I talk coldly...... A burst of unspeakable bitterness filled Yue Rong'er's heart, and finally turned into a long silent sigh.
"Have you just been there?" Tong'er is okay?" Bai Guang's gentle voice floated over, interrupting her thoughts.
"Much better......"
"You go and bring him over and let him walk slowly, without hurry...... I'll show him again. Bai Guang's soft admonition was filled with concern.
Yue Rong'er's heart suddenly brightened, her fast-moving little feet were as light as butterflies, and she swept away the grievances and self-pity just now...... It turns out that happiness can be so simple, all it takes is a word from the man in front of you, as long as his tone is slightly better when he says it...... Just one point, it's enough.
The next few days were peaceful. In addition to the previous dynasty, Emperor Yi seems to have one thing left, that is, to wait for Bai Qi to return to Beijing. When Wu Yi was fifteen years old, he was awarded the adult crown ceremony, and he had already opened his teeth to build a mansion, and Emperor Yi loved this son, and ordered the inner court to build King Kang's mansion for Wu Yi according to the prince's specifications. During this period, Wu Yi held a banquet for Bai Guang in King Kang's mansion, and the people who participated in the banquet were all the sons of Wu Yi's usually good families, and Yue Rong'er and Xiao Tong were also invited to participate in the banquet together, which was specially entertained by His Royal Highness King Kang, and Bai Guang did not dare to disobey. During the banquet, everyone was respectful to Bai Guang, and they were much more casual to Wu Yi, His Royal Highness King Kang, and when they saw Yue Rong'er, they all showed an expression of envy and jealousy, and kept praising the two Tanlang and Jade Girl, which were a pair made in heaven and earth, Bai Guang smiled lightly when he heard this, and did not explain much. Yue Rong'er was stunned and shy, and the expressions of the two at the moment were more like agreeing with everyone's statements......
March 20th.
The sunshine in spring is just right, and the warmth is sprinkled on people, which is both comfortable and peaceful, as if there will be an illusion of quiet years.
Bai Guang sat in the study, quietly looking at the spring sun outside, the sun shining on him through the panes, and he couldn't help but move his body to the shadows next to him.
I can't tell you what day he began to hate the sun, maybe it was that day when the sun shone on the snow and stinged in the eyes...... He looked through the tunnel of time, and returned to the winter day of sixteen years ago, when the sun was as ......good as it is today.
A violent knock on the door interrupted Bai Guang's thoughts, and then a middle-aged man's thick voice sounded, "Lord Shizi, someone in the palace is in a hurry!"
Bai Guang Huo Ran stood up from the circle chair, he could hear the voice of the old guard guarding the palace gate, he couldn't wait to change his clothes, and hurriedly walked out, and when he arrived at the door, he saw a person in eunuch clothes kneeling on the ground, and hurriedly asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter with my father-in-law?"
The person who came lowered his head and said in a sharp voice, "According to the emperor's command, the prince Hutouling was ambushed, life and death are uncertain, and the special slave came to pass the letter to the prince......"
"Where ......?!!!"
"Hutou Ridge. ”
Bai Guang's eyes froze, and he didn't have time to think about it, he quickly ran into the stable, took out the red flame horse, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, and shouted at the old guard who came in a hurry, "Quick, go and tell King Kang!" Before the words fell, one person and one horse had already jumped out of the mansion and left.
Hutouling is about 50 miles away from the north gate of the imperial city, and it is the only place for Bai Qi to return to Beijing. The red flame horse is the royal horse of the 12th year of Changxi, the emperor gave it to him when he returned to Beijing from Zhongnan Mountain, the red flame horse was very fast, and the white light whipped all the way to urge the horse, about half an hour later, the white light rushed to Hukou Ridge.
There are more than a dozen dead bodies lying on the side of the road, a few flags are scattered down, the word "white" surrounded by cloud patterns on the flag is eye-catching, a broken carriage fell at the foot of the mountain, Bai Guang glanced at the overturned carriage, a hand suddenly stretched out slowly from the side of the wheel, his hand was stained with blood, trembling and weakly pointing to the high mountain tip .......
"Quick...... Hurry up and save ...... Save the king!" the voice behind the wheels carried the weakness of the dying moment.
Bai Guang's heart shook so much that he didn't have time to think about it, so he rode his horse and galloped towards the mountain.......
The ridge of Hutouling is gentle, the grass and trees are sparse, and only the main peak in the center is shaped like a tiger's head. When the white light jumped off the horse's back, staring at the winding moat, the panic in his heart receded like a tide, followed by an instinctive sense of crisis that swept over his heart.
This is a dead end, there are attack points in all directions, once you enter it, as long as you block the front and back, you can have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and you will not escape the end of being suffocated.
The deathly silence made Shiro's final choice. He let out a long whistle from his mouth, and the sound came far away, and then he struck with a force under his feet, and his body shook, and the man was already on the horse's .......
The sound of locust-like arrows breaking through the air came from behind him, and after Bai Guang blocked a few arrows empty-handed, he leaned down, and the whole person was attached to the horse's belly, and the red flame horse spread its four hooves and galloped down the mountain, and the arrows fell ...... behind the horse's hips.
Dense figures swept out of the shadows, fanning in the direction of the horses descending the mountain, approaching ...... without hurry.
Although the Red Flame Horse was as fast as the wind, it was still shot by a few stray arrows, and its speed gradually slowed down, but it still rushed down the mountain ...... desperately.
The broken flags beside the official road were still there, and the broken carriage was still lying quietly, but the corpses that had been frozen in the grass just a moment ago, and the bloodied hands were gone, and they formed a well-armed team with bows and arrows together with the people who were lying in ambush around them, and they blocked the intersection in the same fan-shaped, waiting for the white light from the horse's belly to enter their en......circlement.
The Red Flame Horse finally couldn't hold on, it bent its hind legs, and with a long neigh, it fell to the side of the road six or seven feet away from the team, and the stray arrows densely covered its whole body, prostrate on the ground like a huge cactus, and the front row of people carried weapons and quickly surrounded .......
The royal famous horses that had accompanied the prince of Dingbei Wangfu for six years were turned over by these people with black scarves in their abdomen, but they were empty underneath .......
Bai Guang hid behind a half-man-high rock, surrounded by lush vegetation and wrapped him tightly, he loosely clutched a few gravel in his hands, and listened attentively to the movement around him......
The mountain breeze blew on his cheeks, and after about half an hour, the sound of the rustling gradually became clear, occasionally mixed with the sound of swords hitting stones, and the white light could even hear the sound of approaching breathing, he looked up at a tall pine and cypress not far ahead, and raised the stone ...... in his hand.
At this moment, a sharp horn suddenly came, two long and one short, which was actually the order of the palace to hunt down the assassins, and then the sound of killing was heard all over the mountains.......
"Withdraw!" someone shouted an order, capture the thief and capture the king first! Bai Guang was a little at his feet, and rushed towards the sound, a gray figure was like a sudden wind, flashing behind the rock, and the white light swept on the mottled and weathered stone top, only the wind and grass were low, and there was still half a figure .......
"Xiaoguang ......", "Shizi ......" are full of voices calling him, the voice is very regular, shout and then stop and then shout again. Bai Guang curled his index finger and put it to his lips, the sound of "chirping" suppressed the noise of the mountain, and when Wu Yi's figure appeared, Bai Guang was leaning against the rock, looking at him casually.
It was still Bai Guang's imaginary reaction, Wu Yi first examined him carefully, and then reached out to explore whether there were any wounds or bruises or something like that on him, to confirm whether what he saw was consistent with reality, but Bai Guang hurriedly jumped away.
"What are you hiding, are you injured?" Wu Yi felt incredulous.
"Does Your Highness want me to be injured?" Bai Guang raised his eyebrows not far from Wu Yi and asked him with a smile.
"You're still in the mood to joke when something like this happens, when Rong'er came to report the news, I was going crazy......" Wu Yi said and glanced at him.
Bai Guang put away his smile, and his expression gradually became cold, if he hadn't been alert in time, once he stepped in, or His Royal Highness King Kang would have taken a step late...... The consequences will be very serious.
"Your Highness, the Prince. Nie Bei greeted the two of them from a distance with a person in his hand, threw the person on the ground when he got close, and hugged the two of them with a fist, "Everyone has run out, and if you catch one, you are still a fool." ”
After this person was thrown on the ground, his buttocks hit the ground first, he looked at the commander of the Praetorian Guard, his eyes were full of fear, and he quickly raised his hips and bent his knees, changing to a kneeling posture.
"After suffering a little, now I finally learn to be a little more obedient, and I can kneel. Nie Bei smiled bitterly.
The kneeling captive looked at Wu Yi curiously, and then at Bai Guang, and suddenly grinned and smirked, Nie Bei coughed, and the laughter immediately stopped, the fool was obviously afraid of this commander of the forbidden army, he must have beaten him during Nie Bei's interrogation just now.
"It seems that he is really a fool...... Wu Yi sighed, ignored him anymore, and turned to Nie Beidao, "Your Majesty is still waiting for news in the palace, will Commander Nie send someone to report safety?"
"Your Highness, rest assured," Nie Bei arched his hand, "Wei Chen has just sent someone back to the palace quickly." ”
Wu Yi nodded with satisfaction and said politely, "The Great Commander is hard. After saying that, he was about to summon Bai Guang to go down the mountain with him, when he glanced at him and saw that he was staring at the fool.
"Let's go, let's go! Father is still waiting to see you, what is there to see in a fool. Wu Yi urged repeatedly.
"Wait......" Bai Guang waved his hand at Wu Yi, "Your Highness is right, he is indeed a fool, but look at the clothes on his body......" Bai Guang pointed at the captive.
A somewhat torn robe, with a striking "white" character surrounded by moire on the chest, with deep dust marks on the journey, .......
"Clothes...... What's wrong with his clothes?" Wu Yi looked at the prisoner's clothes carefully, and asked puzzledly, "Since it lured you to the bait, shouldn't you put on the robe of the 'white' army?" ”
Bai Guang ignored him, approached the captive, squatted down in front of him, touched his robe with his hand, and asked with a pleasant face, "Don't be afraid, you tell me, where did this come from?"
The fool looked at Bai Guang in a daze, then looked at Nie Bei, who was standing not far away and watching him, shrank his head, and did not speak.
Nie Bei glanced at the white light in confusion, walked a few steps away, and slowly turned his back.
"You tell me, I'll give you something to eat. "White light whispers gentle induction.
The fool looked at the Commander of the Praetorian Guard, who had turned his back far away, turned his head and "stared" at the white light in a daze...... Vomiting blood, fast ...... Hurry! Ten Thousand Flowers Forest...... Rajah...... He's dead...... It's fun!" The expression of the fool was sometimes frightened, then excited, and then dancing with his hands and hands in a very playful .......
Bai Guang listened attentively, and then pondered for a moment, and suddenly grabbed the fool who was still yelling, and rushed down the mountain, Wu Yi and Nie Bei looked at each other, and had to follow him down the mountain for some reason.
Wu Yi received an urgent letter from Yue Rong'er, and hurriedly entered the palace to see Emperor Yi, who was in a hurry and immediately ordered Nie Bei to personally lead the Praetorian Guards to rescue him. This time, Nie Bei was ordered to go out of the palace to rescue and bring three hundred elite horsemen, twenty horsemen had been ordered to return to the capital, and the remaining two hundred and eighty horsemen had already lined up beside the official road and waited for the three of them to go down the mountain.
"Did you find anyone else?" asked Bai Guang loudly as soon as he got off the mountain.
Someone walked a few steps out of the queue, "Back to the world, I found one, but I'm already dying." After speaking, he pointed to a dead body hunched on horseback beside him. Bai Guang approached and turned over the corpse, and at this time, Wu Yi and Nie Bei also came to him.
"It's Gong Bo! how could he die here?......" Wu Yi exclaimed.
The deceased was dressed in a gray middle coat, with several stab wounds on his face, except for the mud and dead grass on the middle coat, there was no blood stain, and his eyes were round and .......
Wu Yi recognized it at a glance, it was impossible for Bai Guang not to recognize it, the deceased was Gong Bo, his father's personal guard, who had followed his father to fight in the north for more than ten years, and had never left him half a step. Now that he was alone here, it just confirmed Bai Guang's conjecture just now, he quickly reached out and touched Gong Bo's eyes, and turned his head to face Nie Bei.
"Commander Nie, can you transfer a hundred elite cavalry for my use?"
By now, Wu Yi and Nie Bei had already seen some troubles, seeing that the situation was urgent, Nie Bei didn't think about it, and said very simply, "Don't say a hundred, all the horses present can be dispatched by the prince!"
"Thank you so much, Great Commander! A hundred horses are enough!" Speaking of this, he stepped onto the horse that the Praetorian Guards had just prepared for him, whipped his whip sharply, stepped off his mount and galloped north, the first two rows of just a hundred Praetorian Guards followed, and in the dust, the words of white light came from afar, "Your Highness, please tell Your Majesty, Weichen will definitely bring his father back safely!"
Wu Yi jumped on his mount and rushed to Nie Beidao, "Commander Nie, please return to Your Majesty, this king will bring the prince back safely!" After speaking, he hurriedly waved his horsewhip and chased after Bai Guang.
Nie Bei stared ahead, and after a while, the chaotic sound of horses' hooves dissipated in the air, and Wu Yi's figure also disappeared into the sky, and even the last speck of dust from the horse's hooves had long since fallen on .......
But Nie Bei's heart is still tumbling and stirring, he is not a dull person, otherwise Emperor Yi would not be able to trust his life to him, and the palace of Dayi would not be so peaceful under his escort for more than 20 years, this is not something that can be done with good skills alone, but also has the eyes of an eagle falcon, the wit of a spirit fox, and the insight to know the whole leopard at a glance, he feels that he has all these for a long time, but after seeing the prince of Dingbei Wangfu today, he suddenly realized how slow his reaction was.
Before he saw the white light after receiving the will, the white light he imagined was dying in the siege, this is still the most ideal scenario, he has already died on the spot, and he and Wu Yi are in such a hurry to come over, it is just to collect his body earlier. When Emperor Yi ordered him to dispatch the forbidden army out of the city to rescue him, the anxious tone and desperate eyes told him that His Majesty's expectations should be similar to his own, and of course, Wu Yi, who had a friendship with Jinlan, the eyes that were full of flames and intertwined with grief, and the appearance of longing to fly to Hutouling with wings, the premonition in his heart was not like this.
But the premonition is the premonition, Emperor Yi, Wu Yi, Nie Bei, everyone is the same, all they want to do is to shatter this premonition and miraculously rescue Bai Guang. Emperor Yi did this mostly to set the king of Bei, Nie Bei to fulfill Emperor Yi's will, and only Wu Yi was really for Baiguang.
But no matter what it was, they didn't want anything to happen to Bai Guang, but at the same time, they all agreed that Bai Guang must be dead. When he saw Bai Guang still standing in front of him neatly, not even missing a single hair, Nie Bei felt like he was in a dream, which was too unbelievable, and then what was even more unbelievable was that Bai Guang, who everyone thought was a fool, noticed something strange at a glance, and quickly found the most critical information from the few words of this fool and effectively connected them ......together.
What kind of reasoning power is this? This is not a closed door that allows you to carefully consider and deduce slowly in the ring of calm ...... water, but an instantaneous reaction made in a situation of multiple interferences and a hundred thousand urgent.
Nie Bei was right. When Bai Guang saw the fool, he first saw the fool's robe, which carried the traces of many days of rolling and wind and dust, and he could detect it if he looked closely. Also, since he wants to put himself to death, the other party will definitely pick some shrewd and strong skills, and it is impossible to find a fool to come over and make up the numbers...... Therefore, the most reasonable inference is that the fool is not from their gang, and the robe he wears was ripped off the body of a dead man, and this dead man is Gong Bo ......, who returned to Beijing to report the news. Of course, those fake dead people who lured Bai Guang to be fooled didn't know that the people lying next to them were not their accomplices, because they were imitating Bai Jiajun's clothes, and Gong Bo was exactly the same as them. When the order came from the mountain, these people listened to the order and got up to surround Bai Guang, at this time, the fool happened to be here, and at this time, only Gong Bo was left on the ground, and when he was picking Gong Bo's clothes, the rough movements just woke up Gong Bo, who was fainting deeply. When people are dying, what they think about is to seize the last glimmer of hope and complete the wish they want to complete but can't fulfill, and the fool in front of him is Gong Bo's last hope. So, Gong Bo tried his best to tell him about the attack on the prince Wanhualin, of course, the fool didn't know what to do, when he saw the black crowd in front of him, he thought it was fun and quietly squeezed in, and when others heard the order, they quickly withdrew, only he was still stunned and waited for the Praetorian Guards to arrest ....... Because of this, the first thing Bai Guang asked after going down the mountain was "Did you find anyone else, when he saw Gong Bo on horseback, he completely confirmed his inference."
When Nie Bei returned to the palace, he didn't forget to bring the Red Flame Horse that had died honorably and the fool who had worked hard, and he was ready to fulfill the promise of "giving him good food" for Bai Guang.
After listening to Nie Bei's report, the panic, worry and anger in his heart became even worse, and he even said a few words, "Rebel thief! Rebel! Reversed! I want to cut them with a thousand knives!" and rarely reprimanded Nie Bei, blaming him for not handing over all the horses to Bai Guang's dispatch, and ordered him to immediately personally take two hundred Praetorian Guards out of the city to Wanhualin to respond.
Wanhualin is in Cangzhou, about 500 miles away from the capital, and it can be arrived in one day. After Nie Bei went out of the city, Emperor Yi sat in the Yangyuan Palace, and kept walking around in the inner hall, anxious as if he had tripped something under his feet, and a stumbling man fell to the ground, frightening Li Defu's seven souls out of his body, and hurriedly rushed over to help him. As soon as Emperor Yi stood firm, he violently pushed Li Defu to the ground, pointed at the eunuchs and palace maids inside and outside the gate of Yangyuan Palace, and scolded, "Get out! Get out! I want to kill my brother Wang! Get out! Get out!"
The eunuchs and palace maids all knelt on the ground, trembling all over, for fear that bad luck would befall them if they moved. Li Defu stepped forward on his knees, knelt at the feet of Emperor Yi, and cried, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... Take care of your dragon's body! The prince is blessed by His Majesty's grace, and he will be fine, Your Majesty!"
Emperor Yi was about to raise his foot to kick him away, when he suddenly felt dizzy in front of him, his feet were weak, and his body fell backwards, Li Defu hurriedly got up and held it, and while moving to the dragon couch, he loudly ordered to pass on the ...... of Imperial Doctor Liu. When it was a mess of porridge, the queen came, and after a while, Concubine Chen came again, and then Concubine Yue also came, and when Liu Wen and Imperial Doctor Liu arrived, Concubine Yue urged repeatedly, and seemed to be more anxious than everyone present.
Liu Wen knelt on the ground to check the pulse of Emperor Yi, the three maidens stood in a row behind him, and the queen in the center looked at Emperor Yi on the dragon couch with her eyes closed, and the expression on her face was unpredictable. Concubine Yue's eyes wandered, first at Emperor Yi, then at the queen, and finally locked her eyes on Li Defu, who was already standing far away in the shadows, and said coldly, "Father-in-law Guigeng this year?"
Li Defu didn't know what he meant, and hurriedly replied, "Back to the concubine, the slave is just not confused this year." ”
"Oh, this palace still thinks you're old and confused!" Concubine Yue snorted coldly.
Li Defu knelt on the ground with a "plop" when he heard this, and said in a trembling voice, "The slave is stupid, please make it clear to the concubine!"
"You're so stupid! from last night until now...... You told Hongu that His Majesty had fainted a few times?"
"The slave does not serve the emperor well, please punish the concubine!" Li Defu kowtowed again and again.
"Tell Hongu that there are a few ......"
"Okay, can you be quiet?" the queen interrupted Concubine Yue in a deep voice, "Isn't it messy enough?"
"Ouch, the queen mother is also feeling messed up now? Tsk! Isn't the matter of the six palaces that you have been taking care of the queen mother? Why is it that the concubine is to blame now?......
"Enough!" the queen scolded coldly, "Yue Ping'er, do you still have palace rules and etiquette in your eyes?"
"Queen Mother, don't always use a big hat to oppress people! The concubine is just a slave, is it possible that she has violated the palace rules? Why is there no condescension?"
"Yueping'er, why did the emperor faint, you understand it best in your heart," the queen said coldly, "At this time, what the emperor needs most is quiet, you are making such a fuss, what are you thinking?"
"It's ridiculous, I don't know if it's the queen or the concubine?"
Concubine Chen lowered her eyebrows and lowered her head, standing quietly on the right side of the queen, indifferent to the verbal battle between the two, as if she had meditated.
Emperor Yi slowly opened his eyes at this time, Liu Wen was about to speak, but Emperor Yi stopped him with his eyes and signaled him not to make a .......
"Since the day I married Your Majesty, this palace has always regarded Your Majesty as the sky, even if you die for Your Majesty, you will not hesitate at all!" The corner of the queen's eyes caught a glimpse of Emperor Yi's eyes quietly closing again, secretly happy, and her tone suddenly became sad and desolate, "Yue Ping'er, in the past 20 years, what Your Majesty has been thinking and thinking, have you felt it with your heart?
Concubine Yue saw that she suddenly showed her loyalty to His Majesty, and her tone became sad and mournful, so she secretly became vigilant, more than 20 years of open and secret fighting, she knew this queen mother too well, she was scheming and not to say, she acted steadily and ruthlessly, and her expression and tone were always the same in front of the emperor.
"Over the years, the emperor's bitter ...... Do you know? Of course you don't know! But this palace knows! Maybe you know that the prince of Dingbei is the emperor's favorite person, but you will never be able to understand the emperor's affection for him!" The queen said sincerely, and tears broke down, "But what about you? Yueping'er, you are here to reprimand Gonggong Li, if you really understand him, you should understand that this is not about Gonggong Li at all, is it possible that this palace said that you made a big fuss, had bad intentions, and wronged you?......"
Concubine Yue's eyes were fixed on Emperor Yi on the couch, forgetting to refute. She suspected that the emperor was pretending to sleep after waking up, and was noticed by the queen, otherwise this slut would not have been able to change his voice so quickly, but at this moment, the eyes of the person on the couch were closed, and he was still the same as when he first came in, Liu Wen still knelt there motionless, and his posture had not even changed .......
Concubine Yue didn't dare to be careless, and after taking a deep breath, she said, "Your Majesty and the King of Dingbei, who doesn't know about the love between the Manchu Dynasty and the Manchu Palace? But who is sincere, who is false, Your Majesty is like a mirror in his heart. You are the lord of the six palaces, of course the concubines dare not trespass, but they will never allow you to slander wantonly!" Yue Guifei met the queen's eyes that seemed to be on fire, and continued to sneer, "How many times a day has the emperor fainted? The queen mother didn't let Gonggong Li say, why don't the queen mother say it herself? Do you have to faint if you are worried and anxious? Isn't the servant serving a little wrong? Is it okay for the concubine to ask a few words?"
Li Dequan, who had been prostrate on the ground, saw that the two of them were arguing more and more, and the fuse that lit this war was still himself, he couldn't help but become more and more frightened in his heart, so he had to kneel a few steps closer, kept knocking on the ground with his forehead, and hissed in a trembling voice, "The two mothers are angry, it's all the slave's fault! The slave should die! Please punish the slave, punish the slave!"
"You and I have served the emperor for a long time, you have been bullying the concubines for a long time, you are the queen, the respect of the six palaces, who dares to do anything to you? You said that other concubines have endured it, but you have destroyed the concubines' sincerity to Your Majesty, and the concubines will never be able to bear it!"
"Really, what have you done over the years, don't think that this palace doesn't know, this palace doesn't expose you, it's also for the sake of the overall situation and for the sake of Your Majesty......"
"The Queen's Mother...... You have come up with evidence, don't talk nonsense all day long, screaming and biting!" Concubine Yue fought back, "You find out the evidence, and the concubine is at your disposal! Otherwise, the concubine will have to wait for the emperor to wake up and uphold justice." ”
"You wait...... It won't be long ......"
"The Emperor, the Queen...... The emperor, the emperor woke up, ......" Concubine Chen, who had been silent, suddenly reminded the queen.
"The Emperor's ......" Queen and Concubine Yue almost rushed to the bed, Concubine Chen looked at Emperor Yi, her eyes were full of joy and tenderness, but she didn't move half a step forward, just stood quietly and watched.
Liu Wen stood up and quietly stepped aside.
Emperor Yi tried to lift his upper body, the queen quickly stuffed a soft pillow behind him, and after Emperor Yi sat down firmly on the couch, he motioned to Li Dequan, who was still lying on the ground and kowtowing, to get up, and then said to the two, "It's enough to quarrel, let's go back to the palace to rest." After speaking, he slowly closed his eyes and .......
The queen glanced at Emperor Yi who had "fainted" again, knowing that he was uncomfortable, and couldn't help but regret what he did just now, but regret is regret, things are repeated, she will still do this, because this slut is less and less in her eyes, she has endured her for more than 20 years, and she no longer wants to endure .......
When the three of them walked outside the palace gate, Emperor Yi behind him suddenly spoke, "Ruji, you stay with me ......"
Almost at the same time, the figures of the queen and the concubine Yue froze in front of .......
After the two left, Liu Wen also went out of the hall to fry the bait. Concubine Chen sat on the edge of the couch at the signal of Emperor Yi and looked at him quietly.
"You haven't talked much for a day, what are you thinking?" Emperor Yi asked lightly.
"Your Majesty knows, the concubines have always talked little, and they haven't thought about anything. Concubine Chen replied in a low voice.
"I know you're worried about Yi'er, right?" Emperor Yi sighed.
"Own children...... Don't worry about it being fake, but Yi'er is the prince, and there will always be some scruples when the thief starts, and the concubine is not too worried about him......"
"Yi'er is a good boy, don't look at his usual big grin, in fact...... He knows my mind best. Emperor Yi sighed sincerely.
"Your Majesty knows that Yi'er doesn't have any big ambitions, but he is honest, and he does things all by his own heart, and the concubines have always been worried that he will not grow up and cannot share his worries for His Majesty......"
"What did you say," Emperor Yi interrupted her, motioning for her to speak closer to him, "What is Changjin? ”
"Your Majesty's son, if you don't like Your Majesty, don't you want to be like someone else?" said Concubine Chen.
Chatting and chatting, the emperor's mood was better than at the beginning, and when he heard Concubine Chen say this, he stared at her thoughtfully and asked, "Yi'er came back safely this time, I want to arrange something for him to do, do you think it's okay?"
"Your Majesty, is this asking for the opinion of the concubine?" Concubine Chen said the first half of the sentence jokingly, but then her expression returned to her usual light and dignified, "The concubine is a woman in the deep palace, she doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand the affairs of the court, Yi'er has also grown up, and it is up to Your Majesty to decide how to arrange it." ”
At this time, Liu Wen walked in from outside with the bait, Li Dequan hurriedly took it, and brought it to the front of the bed to serve Emperor Yi to take medicine.
"Let this palace come to ......" Concubine Chen took the silver bowl from Li Dequan's hand, and said softly, "I wronged Gonggong Li just now, I went outside to wipe my forehead, I want to use warm water, and then let the imperial doctor prescribe some medicine to disperse stasis and reduce swelling, if I accidentally get infected, how can I serve the emperor?"
Li Dequan knelt for a day and knocked for a day, his knees were already sore and unbearable, his forehead was broken again, and he was bruised and swollen, he felt something, but at this moment, when he heard Concubine Chen's soft words of concern, his eyes immediately turned red, and he was stunned in place, shedding tears.
"Don't you want to thank you and get out?!" Emperor Yi laughed and scolded loudly when he saw him.
"Yes, yes! Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Niangniang!" Li Dequan, who reacted, knelt down and retreated.
Liu Wen had already withdrawn, and at this time, only Emperor Yi and Concubine Chen were left in the inner hall.
"I like your temperament, quiet and quiet, virtuous and kind, which can't be pretended. Emperor Yi took a sip of the decoction and praised Concubine Chen.
"The concubine was born in a small family, and she can't compare to the noble court of the queen and the sister of the concubine, the emperor does not dislike the concubine, and the concubine is grateful to Dade. Concubine Chen whispered softly while feeding the emperor medicine.
"Hmph, Concubine Yue is okay, she has always been like this, but when did the queen become so unbearable? Emperor Yi drank the last mouthful of the decoction, stretched his waist, and said with a long breath, "It's better for you to serve me comfortably, and Old Man Liu's medicine doesn't feel bitter." ”
Concubine Chen put the empty silver bowl on the small table next to the couch, put Emperor Yi's leg on herself, and gently pounded it .......
"You are here with me, waiting for the news of the prince's safe return to Beijing......" Emperor Yi finished speaking, turned his head sideways, and soon his snort gradually became heavier.
Concubine Chen gently removed his leg from herself, pulled the brocade quilt to cover him, and looked at it again before gently walking to the pane, looking at the iron-blue sky to the north, and worry gradually overflowed her ......eyes.