Concubine hates each other
Chapter 5
Are you willing to give up Xie Wenshan? "The emperor said, and then returned to the previous question, "The Xie family will not give up on Xie Wenshan.But as you can see, the power of the aristocratic family is intertwined, and I have always had to worry a lot about my actions. Have you ever seen that the Wang family has accumulated wealth for many years, and even acquired salt and iron mines?Have you ever seen that Xie's family has countless disciples, and the imperial court has become Xie's court? "
Xie Baolin said: "At the beginning when you came to power, you borrowed the power of the aristocratic family. It can be seen that one moment is another moment."
"That's true," said the emperor, "What if you were me? Xie Baolin, I can't say you're wrong, and you can't say I'm wrong, that's the reason."
Xie Baolin sat down by himself, poured a cup of tea, squeezed the teacup in his hands, shook it a few times, and said, "Since we've talked about it, you might as well ask one more question, how did you arrange for me to have an accident that day?"
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "You asked a good question, but I can't deny it. I just made the stirrups smaller, and put new tiger skins on the road that must pass. The horses naturally panicked when they smelled the tiger. It didn't work that time, so I gave up the idea. It's just that you know a lot, so I won't keep you any longer."
After all, the emperor called "Eunuch Zhang".
Eunuch Zhang walked in with his back arched, holding a roll of bright yellow cloth in both hands.
Xie Baolin had also seen this cloth when he received the order.
The emperor took it, spread it out casually, swept it briefly, and said: "I have suppressed this decree for a long time, but now I have to take it out."
"Madam Yuan will be the new queen," Xie Baolin said.
The emperor pointed to his head and denied it: "With you in front, the next empress will naturally not be too deep in the city."
This decree to abolish the empress followed the Xie family's enclosure of land, and everything was logical.The emperor has not yet decided on the treatment of the Xie family, but the Xie family has indeed collapsed.
Wang Lingyi sat in front of the window, with a slight smile on his face, and said softly: "I heard that when Xie Wenshan was five years old, the late emperor liked him very much, and often hugged him and let him pull his beard to play with. Thank you well, what should I say?" Just fall."
Seeing her laughing like this, He Jiang felt even more breathless in his heart: "The plaque of Fengyi Palace was removed, and the people inside were completely cleared, and only Rongxi and Yan Hua were at the empress's side. "
Wang Lingyi lowered his head, fiddled with his hands, and remained silent.
Seeing that she was silent, He Jiang was about to say something when he suddenly saw the tear on the back of Wang Lingyi's hand.She suddenly understood the pain of Wang Lingyi's smile.
"Your Majesty..." He Jiang knelt down and took Wang Lingyi's hand.
At this moment, Wang Lingyi's eyelashes were filled with tears, and he looked at He Jiang mistyly, and said softly, "What's there to do, Your Majesty? He Jiang, why did I enter the palace in the first place? It was just to give the emperor a reason to control the Wang family?" , She shook her head again, and said: "Xie Baolin is no longer a queen, what's the point of being a noble concubine?"
Outside the gate of Fengyi Palace, guards have been replaced to guard the palace gate.After night fell, Wang Lingyi went in again through the small hole in the backyard.
For some reason, perhaps because he knew the current situation of Fengyi Palace, Wang Lingyi felt that Fengyi Palace was much quieter.Not even the wind made a sound.
She was wearing a little girl's clothes, and she didn't hold a heater in her hand, so she breathed on her hands a few times, rubbed them back and forth a few times, and followed the path to the front hall.
He Jiang's news was indeed correct. Wang Lingyi even walked around Fengyi Palace without meeting a single person.
She gently pushed open the door of Xie Baolin's bedroom.
With a slight "squeak", Wang Lingyi took a step forward and asked softly, "Xie Baolin?"
There seems to be no response from the dormitory.With the help of the moonlight outside, Wang Lingyi could vaguely see the blurred outlines of the home furnishings, walked around the moon gate, and just now saw Xie Baolin lying on the table.
The candles were faintly shining with a dim yellow light, which seemed very warm.But the cold air in the sleeping hall is rising, how can a single candle dispel it completely?
Standing behind Xie Baolin, Wang Lingyi saw that she was wearing a big cloak and sleeping soundly, fearing that she would catch a cold, he couldn't help but want to push her to wake her up and let her go back to bed to sleep.But I couldn't bear it, how could Xie Baolin sleep these days and nights?Perhaps this was another rare light sleep for Xie Baolin.
Wang Lingyi retracted and retracted the outstretched hand, and finally stood there quietly. It was not until she felt the wind blowing in that she realized that the window was not closed tightly, so she tiptoed over.On the way, Wang Lingyi stepped on something and made a noise.
Wang Lingyi immediately stood still, turned to look at Xie Baolin, saw that she was only frowning and hadn't woken up, so she moved to the window more carefully and closed it tightly.
"Wang Lingyi?" Xie Baolin just smiled, then came to his senses, suddenly tore off the cloak on his body, stood up and said, "Why are you back again?"
Wang Lingyi looked at her amidst the flickering candlelight, his eyebrows and eyes were quiet, as if he had been hiding for a long time in winter.
Xie Baolin moved his lips.The next moment, she saw the beautiful woman in palace attire in front of her slowly loosen her belt.
Xie Baolin felt that she had lost all her strength, she couldn't move, she could only stay nailed in place, her eyes followed Wang Lingyi's hand.I saw her hand slipping over her collar, pinching the collar tightly with her index finger and thumb, and then slowly opening the skirt.So the scenery in front of Wang Lingyi gradually revealed.
"You...have no clothes on inside." Xie Baolin said with difficulty.
Wang Lingyi raised his eyes coquettishly and smiled, his voice was low and charming: "Didn't you see it?"
"How can you let me drive you away like this?" Xie Baolin walked towards her, and put the cloak on her body that she didn't even have.
Wang Lingyi's face was flushed, and she lowered her eyes, watching the woman in front of her put her arms around her, and then whispered in her ear: "This time, I'm going to bed once."
Xie Baolin slid down her arm before he took her hand and led her to his bed.
The bed curtain then fell quietly.
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☆, Assassin
As soon as this incident happened in the Xie family, there was an uproar in the first place, and Empress Xie's deposed aroused even more uneasiness in the aristocratic family.The former three thousand disciples of the Xie family knelt outside the imperial study all night long, unable to get up for a long time.
Sitting behind the desk, the emperor looked at the stacks of memorials on the table, and heard the shouts outside the door, "Please investigate this matter thoroughly", and became more and more disturbed. cup.This colored glass cup is crystal clear and worth thousands of gold, but now it was finally smashed to pieces due to the anger of the superior.
"It's the other way around!" The emperor stared, his canthus cracked, and he lost the bead string in his hand.
Eunuch Zhang hurriedly persuaded: "At this moment, the crowd is so angry, the emperor should think twice."
"They are forcing me!" The emperor sneered, because of worries recently, the imprint of the word "Chuan" had already appeared between his brows.While speaking, his face was a little distorted: "Xie Baolin himself doesn't know why the empress is abolished? But I still want face!"
Eunuch Zhang kept quiet and didn't dare to say another word.He didn't understand what Madam Yuan was talking to the emperor in the room that day, but the only sentence "the concubine has an affair" hit him on the head like a hard hammer.
How could the emperor spread the news about something like this happening in the palace?Naturally, how to suppress it.After listening to the emperor's words, Eunuch Zhang wished he could be deaf.
Because of this, later on, not to mention that Xie Baolin watched closely, even Huayang Palace was also on the list of guards.
Wang Lingyi had been trapped in Huayang Palace for three full days. He was so anxious that he nearly rolled up his sleeves and planed a passage to escape.
"The daughter of the Yuan family can't stop for a moment." Wang Lingyi held the hot water, and didn't want to drink it no matter what. "It's obvious that the daughter of the Yuan family told the emperor to treat me."
But this rule really stepped on Wang Lingyi's life.
Wang Lingyi asked He Jiang: "What does the family say?"
"The aristocratic family is not dealing with the emperor now, but they only work secretly, but they are worried about you in the deep palace, so they plan to find a time to let the servants take you out of the palace." He Jiang replied.
Wang Lingyi immediately threw the lid of the cup: "Where is Xie Baolin?"
He Jiang lowered his voice this time: "The family doesn't know about your relationship with the queen, so naturally they haven't considered it."
"I have to take her with me." Wang Lingyi rarely insisted.
He Jiang rubbed between his brows, she also wanted to take Rongxi away.
With the turmoil in the previous dynasty, Mingde and Li Jinghuan were naturally more cautious, as if they were sitting in the Qin | Palace every day, not asking about world affairs.
Playing against Li Jinghuan for many years, Mingde has already been familiar with Li Jinghuan's tricks.But today Mingde picked up a black stone, facing the familiar chess move, she was absent-minded and did not settle for a long time.She remembered Xie Baolin's words that day - "Nothing can be broken, nothing can be built, and the superfluous can be eliminated as much as possible".
Could it be possible that out of the three thousand students, all of them looked after the Xie family?
Not necessarily.
It was just fanning the flames and forcing the emperor to make mistakes.
Because of Zhang Jia's matter, the Zhang family and Xie's family are already on fire, wishing they could eat Xie Zhu's flesh and drink his blood.But where is Xie Zhu now?
Xie Zhu's matter was an introduction, seemingly subtle, but it finally triggered everything that followed.
Mingde thought about it, and made a move.
"Sister," Li Jinghuan asked, staring at the chessboard, "I haven't seen my mother for a long time."
Mingde picked up another bag, and this time surrounded Li Jinghuan's back without any hesitation, without raising his eyes, he said in a gentle but firm tone, "We'll see you soon."
Li Jinghuan thought for a while, counted the days, and said: "Xie Zhen's side should be settled."
"Should be back soon." Mingde didn't continue.
At this moment, the apprentice of the Chief Manager of Qin|Wang's Mansion rushed out of the courtyard, tidied up his appearance, and just now he entered the small courtyard steadily, and saluted the two of them: "My lord, princess, the emperor sent Master Shi over. "
Who is not good to send, you want to send Master Shi?
He had formed a relationship with the Shi family because of the death of another Master Shi before, but now he is really an enemy, and he is extremely jealous when they meet.Mingde asked: "Master Shi, did you bring the carriage?"
The apprentice hurriedly said, "I brought it."
Mingde and Li Jinghuan looked at each other, and they naturally understood that the emperor was still worried about the two of them, and had to be stared at by the palace.
to go, or not to go?Ming De was thinking, Li Jinghuan lowered his voice and said to her: "Sister, I have to go to the palace this time, but it must be extremely dangerous."
Mingde nodded.
"Sister, I have never been as smart as you. If...if something happens, sister will definitely run away." Li Jinghuan said word by word.
Mingde was stunned, as if she couldn't react to Li Jinghuan's words for a while, but she still said: "What about you?"
"Me," Li Jinghuan smiled, "It depends on whether I am lucky or not."
Mingde only reached out and patted Li Jinghuan's shoulder, and fell silent.
The two got into two carriages one after the other.
Master Shi took the initiative to help Li Jinghuan get on the horse, and just as Li Jinghuan stepped on the footstool, Master Shi kicked the footstool away suddenly.Li Jinghuan couldn't dodge it, and fell directly onto the car, his chin turned red.
Li Jinghuan frowned, and immediately turned around and kicked Master Shi to the ground.
Ming De heard the movement, got out of the car, did not help Li Jinghuan, and stood directly in front of Master Shi, condescending, staring at Master Master indifferently: "What did you do?"
Master Shi hated them so much that he gritted his teeth, sat on the ground, and said with a smile: "What do you plan to do, Princess? Hit me with your whip?"
Mingde's voice was not too loud: "Hit you? It's too light."
She took a step forward, bent over, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Do you know how that Master Shi died? He liked Huanliu. He took too much medicine that day, and he was in a happy mood. Jumped off the stairs."
"What the hell!" Master Shi was furious when he heard Mingde's confession. He stood up angrily, and shouted, "Venomous woman!"
Mingde stood upright, smiling to see that Master Shi couldn't control his emotions.
Master Shi finally suppressed it forcefully, gritted his teeth and said, "You will suffer retribution!"
"I hope." Mingde sat back in the carriage again.
Passing a sparsely populated street, Mingde held the small hand stove in his hands with downcast eyes, as if waiting for something.An arrow came from the sky, whistled, and nailed straight to the outer edge of Mingde's carriage, making a "hum" sound.
Mingde raised his eyes.
"There are assassins!"
The leader shouted loudly, and the guards immediately drew out their long knives and surrounded the carriage.
The next moment, more than a dozen masked people appeared in the front and back of the street. They were all about the same height and shape, and it seemed difficult to distinguish them.Everyone can't help
He looked up at the roofs of the shops on both sides, and saw many masked people standing on them.
The leading guard wanted to negotiate with the assassin, and as soon as he spoke a word, the assassin immediately set up his bow, aiming the arrow steadily at them, without giving the guard any room to breathe.Almost instantly, the assassin let go of his hand.
Wave after wave of arrow rain came one after another, and the guards were unable to resist.In addition, the horses were frightened, and the horses in front of Mingde's chariot suddenly neighed and rushed towards the assassin with the chariot.
The assassin quickly dodges away.
The guards took advantage of this interval to light the signal fireworks, and the flames shot straight into the sky, making a sharp sound.In less than a quarter of an hour, someone will come to help.
The assassin knew that he couldn't stay here any longer, so he gestured and retreated silently.
Master Shi is a civil servant, and he has never seen such a battle before. He was already so frightened that he rolled off his horse and fell to the ground. When the assassin left, he got up from the ground and ran to Li Jinghuan's carriage. Seeing that Li Jinghuan was terrified inside, curled up in a corner and trembling, the master felt at ease, and secretly spat in his heart: "Idiot!"
When this incident happened, Master Shi should return to the palace as soon as possible, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, and asked a few people to follow the direction of Cai Mingde's carriage, and the rest followed him back to the palace.Several guards were seriously injured, so they had to stay behind and go back slowly.
The carriage moved again, and the fear on Li Jinghuan's face faded away. He sat up and tidied up the corners of his clothes.
Master Shi followed the emperor's order to come out, and naturally he went back unimpeded. He knelt down in the imperial study and told all about what happened just now.
The emperor was furious: "Where is the princess!"
At this moment, Li Jinghuan suddenly said: "During the chaos, Master Shi stabbed the princess' horse with a dagger!"
"Is there such a thing?" the emperor asked in a deep voice.
The emperor did let Master Shi go to work, but he would never allow him to make his own decisions.
Master Shi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has learned from you, there is absolutely no such thing!"
The emperor had a headache, so he said first, "Jing Huan, you should go to your mother's harem to rest first."
Li Jinghuan was angry, and he didn't dare to argue with the emperor, so he could only glared at Master Shi angrily, and left with a flick of his sleeves.
Li Jinghuan looked outside the queen mother's palace, there were some palace people walking back and forth, but no matter how he looked at it, they were still Lianjiazi. Needless to say, the emperor not only guarded against the queen and the noble concubine, but also trapped Mingde and him in the queen mother's place before he would stop of.
At the other end, Mingde found a place, jumped off the carriage, and rolled on the ground several times before stopping.Some of the assassins who had just left came to find her and helped her up. Although the masks were not removed, they were very respectful.
"Let's go." Mingde patted the ashes on his body, describing that he was not at all embarrassed.
They went to a courtyard, disguised themselves, and drove out of town in another carriage.By the time the emperor's order came down, Mingde had already left the capital.
There are a few cottages hidden outside Gyeonggi, and because they haven't come out to kill or set fire on weekdays, and they have a good relationship with the government, the government just turned a blind eye to them.
Now Mingde's carriage drove to the smallest cottage among them, and went directly up the mountain from a hidden path.Listening to the call of the mountain wind, Mingde's heart seemed to be boiling like a basin of water.
Knowing that Mingde came, a person came out from the cottage to welcome him.
When Mingde saw the visitor, his expression relaxed almost invisible, and he smiled: "Xie Zhen."
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☆, accident
Xie Zhen was really different from what Mingde had imagined before.In the past, Mingde only thought that Xie Zhen was a child of a noble family, with handsome features and fair birth.Looking at it now, Xie Zhenhei has lost a lot of weight, and there is a faint taste of determination between his brows.
"Your Highness." Xie Zhen was about to salute, but was lifted up by Ming De.
Mingde said: "You don't need to be too polite, just go in and talk."
The people in the village walked steadily, and there was no confusion at all. Mingde was led by Xie Zhen to the main meeting hall. People along the way saw Mingde and saluted respectfully.Ming De also nodded one by one.
Seeing that everything was in order, Mingde said, "That's right."
After hearing this, Xie Zhen only said "it should be" to Mingde.Other than that, there was no more joy on his face.
Suffering has always made people grow rapidly, just like Xie Zhen, when the Xie family was safe and sound, he could not see the crisis under the prosperity, and with the pride of a family, he regarded everything as nothing.However, after he fell hard, he suddenly realized that the Xie family had never been peaceful.The splendor brought to him by those aristocratic families blinded him.
If the news of Xie Wenshan's death brought him the pain of losing his brother, then the collapse of Xie's mansion was his last chance.
Mingde spread out the defense map of the inner city of the capital, tapped his fingers lightly to the imperial study room, and said, "It's time to do it."
The southwestern region suddenly opened its city gates and threatened to accept refugees from the south of the Yangtze River. For a while, the names of Mingde and Li Jinghuan were spread in the south of the Yangtze River.At this time, when the rich businessman surnamed Chen inadvertently revealed during the banquet that the imperial court's disaster relief funds could not be allocated, it was Li Jinghuan and Mingde who secretly helped.
This is great news for the refugees who lost their homes and goals in Jiangnan. They began to flee to the southwest in batches overnight, hoping to seek asylum.
The emperor swept away the gentle policy when facing Jiangnan, and summoned the ministers to the imperial study room overnight to discuss, and finally issued a decree, saying that Mingde Li Jinghuan tried to establish himself as king, violated the destiny, and rebelled against the law. It is necessary to maintain the stability of the country, first take back the southwestern fiefdoms of Mingde and Li Jinghuan, and second deploy troops to encircle and suppress the southwestern rebels.
It was not until early in the morning that the ministers left the imperial study room one after another.The emperor rubbed the center of his brows, and in his spare time, he wanted to take a sip of tea from the teacup, but found that the tea was already completely cold.
Eunuch Zhang was talking to someone in a low voice at the door, and his voice came into the imperial study, disturbing the emperor.The emperor raised his voice and asked, "Who is outside the door?"
"It's Mrs. Yuan." Eunuch Zhang said outside the door.
The emperor frowned, what are you doing here at this time?The emperor said, "Let her in."
Eunuch Zhang pushed open the door, and the sachet on his waist swayed with the movement.
Madam Yuan had a big belly, and her eight-month pregnancy made her walk a little more cumbersome, but she still held a tray in her hand, with a small soup pot and two small bowls on it.Before she reached the round table on the west side of the imperial study, the emperor had already walked over quickly, caught Madam Yuan's tray, and said, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"
"The emperor hasn't had a good rest in the past few days, and my concubine is also sad, so I thought of sending some soothing soup." Madam Yuan said.
The emperor thought a little bit, helped her to sit down, lifted the lid of the soup pot in front of her, and a scent of ingredients came out.This soup looks like nothing, but the aroma is very strong, obviously it has been boiled for a long time.The emperor filled a bowl for himself, and then filled it for Madam Yuan.
Mrs. Yuan scooped it back and forth by herself, but she didn't drink it for a long time.
The emperor also put down the spoon and said, "Why don't you drink?"
"I'm worried about myself." Madam Yuan said bluntly.
It was the first time for the emperor to hear Madam Yuan say this, but now he also suffers from the fact that there is no one to confide in, and it seems that he has found an outlet for his long-suppressed mood, so he answered: "What are you worried about?"
Madam Yuan smiled bitterly: "Although the harem doesn't ask about the former court, but I have heard some rumors, and the former court must be very dangerous now."
"No problem," said the emperor.
Madam Yuan suddenly burst into tears, her eyes were full of tears, she choked up and said: "I am worried about the emperor, and it is troublesome season, I am afraid that the emperor will be plotted against."
The emperor's speech froze and he didn't speak again.
Madam Yuan picked up the bowl, drank a few sips of soup to calm down, and continued: "I may not be able to help you much, but I will definitely be by your side, and I will never hesitate to die."
At the same time, the Xuanzhi eunuch brought soldiers and directly surrounded the entire Taixi Palace.The palace people hurriedly reported to the nanny.The nanny knew that this matter was different, so she did not stop immediately, and ventilated with the maid in the empress dowager's bedroom, and the maid went in to wake up the empress dowager.
The queen mother lost all sleepiness, put on her clothes immediately, and went to call Li Jinghuan.
Li Jinghuan had already put on his clothes, and when the queen mother came over, she hadn't spoken yet, only to hear the queen mother's tone was anxious: "You go with Ai's family!"
"Mother's queen." Li Jinghuan said eagerly.
The queen mother closed her eyes tightly, and said in a deep voice, "Jing Huan, run away."
"Why did I run away?" Li Jinghuan calmed down at the moment, "Sister and I have been relying on others for a long time, won't we even be able to sleep peacefully in the future?"
"You are rebellious!" The queen mother said in a sad tone, and then she squeezed Li Jinghuan's hand, almost begging: "Jinghuan, my family raised you up to let you live smoothly, not to do other things."
Li Jinghuan said: "Mother, what is there to be afraid of death, instead of fleeing for a lifetime, it is better to fight. If you really die, you will be clean."
"Evil!" The queen mother slapped Li Jinghuan on the face, and the pain in her palm was burning, and the pain went directly to her heart along with the blood, "You have a chance of winning! Now the people who took you are outside, you follow them, How did you die, do you know!"
Li Jinghuan shook his head: "Mother, how can he feel at ease if he can't catch Sister? What's the point of killing me? It's Sister that he's always worried about."
The queen mother's back gradually became cold, she heard the trembling in her voice, she asked: "He wants to use you as bait to lure Mingde into taking the bait?"
"I'm here, sister will definitely come." Li Jinghuan smiled, "So, queen mother, let sister come."
The queen mother watched Li Jinghuan go out alone, her back was more calm than ever before.The Empress Dowager suddenly remembered when Li Jinghuan was first raised. He was still very young at that time, and he was not yet stable when running.In what seemed like a blink of an eye, he had grown so big.
Now he has become a young man, tall and tall, and he knows what he wants.
The queen mother let go dejectedly: "Go and open the palace gate."
Xuanzhi eunuch's slender eyes swept back and forth, saw Li Jinghuan standing in the middle, and said in a sharp voice: "Qin King Li Jinghuan, Mingde Princess Li Jingwen, intends to harm the country. Although I can't bear it, we must clear the court and put Li Jinghuan temporarily Lay down the prison and hunt down Li Jingwen at any cost."
Just when Li Jinghuan was about to be taken away, the queen mother suddenly shouted: "Jinghuan!"
Li Jinghuan turned his head and said, "Mother's queen?"
"It's cold inside, Aijia asked someone to bring you a quilt." The queen mother squeezed her sleeves tightly and said as calmly as possible.
Li Jinghuan nodded: "Thank you, Queen Mother, I think Brother Huang will not refuse."
That night, there was heavy rain, lightning and thunder, until early in the morning, on the street where people began to come and go, with a loud noise, the stone pillar of advice that had stood for more than a hundred years collapsed.People hurriedly gathered over to have a look, only to see that only the base of the stone pillar that had been blessed by Yixin Daoist remained.Among the crowd, a middle-aged man murmured: "Didn't Yixin Daoist say that if the imperial court is stable, the stone pillars will last forever?"
"Isn't it just a sign? There are troubles in the south and south of the Yangtze River."
In just one morning, there were more and more rumors about the stone pillars in the market, and more and more speculations about the affairs of the Ouchi. Those who cared could not help but think of the disturbances in the Xie family a few days ago.It is slowly confirming what Yixin Daoist said.
The news that King Qin became a prisoner and Mingde became a fugitive was released by the court, which once again caused an uproar. The court announced that the chaos in the south and south of the Yangtze River was the result of Mingde and King Qin's attempt to subvert the court. The evidence is conclusive.
Regardless of whether it is the public or the court, they are divided into two factions, and both sides hold their own opinions.It's just that the people in the court dare not speak out, for fear of offending the emperor at this time and causing blame.
Now that Mingde has not shown up yet, Southwest has not shown any weakness, and the whole situation is unclear.Everyone focused their attention on the former court, but gradually forgot about Xie Baolin, the abolished empress.
Only Wang Lingyi never forgot.
The control of Huayang Palace is relatively loose, so she found an opportunity to run out, and found it directly outside the Hall of Taixi Palace. However, the emperor has never relaxed the control in the Hall of Taixi Palace, even if Li Jinghuan is in prison now.
Wang Lingyi watched from a distance, knowing that the Queen Mother was in danger at the moment, and felt that there was no way to ask for help.So she went to Fengyi Palace in despair, thinking that she could find time to go in and have a look, but she ran into Mrs. Yuan and the others head-on.
When Wang Lingyi raised his eyes, Mrs. Yuan had already greeted her with a smile: "Hey, isn't this Sister Wang? How can you describe being in such a mess?"
Wang Lingyi took a general look. There were some new faces behind Mrs. Yuan, and they must have borrowed Mrs. Yuan's light now.Hearing Mrs. Yuan's words, Wang Lingyi didn't feel any disturbance in his heart. Does it matter whether he is embarrassed or not?
She is still a noble concubine, and her food and clothing expenses have been greatly reduced.Not to mention Xie Baolin, as an abolished empress, where is there a little bit of leeway?
"Oh, so it was to see Xie Baolin." Madam Yuan smiled and walked not far in front of Wang Lingyi, her chin slightly lifted, her face filled with a sarcastic smile, "Want to go?"
Wang Lingyi said, "I want to go."
"Say it again, louder." Madam Yuan made a gesture, raised her hand and moved her ears, "I didn't hear it."
Wang Lingyi looked at Yingying and Yanyan around him, and his head was slightly swollen.Now that their smiles have been poisoned, where is Xie Yuhua?It's clearly a group of piranhas!
Seeing that Wang Lingyi refused to speak, Madam Yuan suddenly stopped laughing: "It seems that you are not happy. If you want to see Xie Baolin, please beg me."
"Please." Wang Lingyi whispered.
Mrs. Yuan said to others: "Did I hear wrongly? The dignified concubine, you want me?"
"Yes, please." Wang Lingyi lowered her eyes, and she lowered her head even more as she watched Madam Yuan step up and walk towards her again.
Originally, she was used to Wang Lingyi's condescending appearance, so Madam Yuan gritted her teeth with hatred. Later, Wang Lingyi dared to hurt her. At that moment, she even wanted to tear up Wang Lingyi's mask of superiority.Now there is nothing that makes her more happy than Wang Lingyi begging her.
Just when Madam Yuan stood still, Wang Lingyi rushed to Madam Yuan's left side, raised his left hand and hugged her neck tightly, and pulled out the hairpin from Madam Yuan's head with his right hand, aiming at her neck artery, said coldly Said: "Take me there."
"You know what you're doing!" Madam Yuan's face turned ashen, and her voice immediately became sharp.
Wang Lingyi's beautiful eyes were as cold as ice, and she said in a deep voice, "If not, let's see if your emperor will come to rescue you."
"Wang Lingyi, you are really crazy!" Madam Yuan exclaimed.
Wang Lingyi pressed hard on the artery, causing Madam Yuan to cry out in pain, "I'll take you there!"
"Say it earlier." Wang Lingyi held her back and walked to Fengyi Palace step by step.
Even though the guards outside Fengyi Palace left and ran to report the news to the emperor, Wang Lingyi didn't look away. It wasn't until Mrs. Yuan was escorted into the side room that Wang Lingyi let her go and called out, "Rongxi."
It was Xie Baolin who came.
I haven't seen her these days, Xie Baolin is much thinner, when she saw Madam Yuan, she asked, "Why are you tying her up?"
"Otherwise, how can I see you?" Wang Lingyi turned around, stepped forward, and said in a low voice, "Xie Baolin, I'll fight this time, let's run away."
Xie Baolin raised his hand and pinched Wang Lingyi's face, and said, "When will the run be over? If I want to leave, I will leave openly."
After finishing speaking, Xie Baolin looked at Madam Yuan who was panting by the table, and said, "Madam Yuan, the emperor will come over later, you can rest assured first."
"The emperor won't come." Madam Yuan gritted her teeth.
Xie Baolin's expression was indifferent, and he didn't take it seriously: "The Yuan family is a loyal supporter of the emperor, it is not wise to abandon you at this moment, Madam Yuan must be clear."
Wang Lingyi reached out and pinched Xie Baolin's hand, and said, "Madam Yuan, would you like some tea?"
"You idiot, I don't have any tea here now." Xie Baolin glanced at her.
Wang Lingyi nodded: "I think so too. Drinking northwest wind all day, I didn't see you in a bad mood."
Madam Yuan saw that these two people turned a blind eye to her, and said to herself, feeling resentful in her heart, but she could only adjust her breathing, not saying a word, and refusing to show weakness.
The side room was small, so Wang Lingyi checked the room carefully to make sure Mrs. Yuan could not escape easily, so she was relieved to leave Rongxi and Yan Hua to guard the gate, while she and Xie Baolin sat under the plane tree in the courtyard, waiting for the emperor to come.
"It's strange, I'm not afraid at all right now." Wang Lingyi raised his head, looked at the still cloudy sky, and said.
Seeing that Wang Lingyi's complexion was not good, Xie Baolin got up and went over, hugged her lightly, patted her on the back lightly, and said softly, "You are fine, and I am fine, so don't be afraid."
Wang Lingyi pinched her waist, feeling lost: "Sneak thin again."
Gradually, the sky darkened again, and even the wind picked up again.
Xie Baolin suddenly looked at the palace gate.
With a creak, the palace door gradually opened, and a bright yellow figure stepped over the threshold and walked in with a gloomy expression.There were only five or six people following closely behind him, and it seemed that he planned to stay for a short time and then leave.
"Xie Baolin, I should have killed you." The emperor said, "Unfortunately, I was too kind to you."
Xie Baolin pointed to the side room and sneered, "You didn't want to come, did you?"
The emperor's gaze swept the side room first, and then fell on Wang Lingyi. He suddenly said, "Wang Lingyi, are you determined to advance and retreat with Xie Baolin?"
"Why don't you ask Mrs. Yuan first." Wang Lingyi said coldly.
The emperor glanced at the two of them indifferently, and walked towards the side room. The guards behind him hurriedly stopped him.The guard said: "I'm afraid there may be fraud."
The emperor waved his hand and said, "You stay outside."
As soon as the emperor went in to cover the door, the guards outside immediately started to move, rushing over and reaching out to grab Xie Baolin.Xie Baolin let out a strange whistle, and then more than a dozen masked men appeared, holding bows and arrows at the four or five guards.While the guard raised his head to react, Xie Baolin pulled Wang Lingyi past him and hid behind the plane tree.
How can the flesh resist flying arrows?After only two shots of arrows rained down, there were already several corpses in the courtyard.
Masked men surrounded the side room, and the leader kicked open the door.Xie Baolin pulled Wang Lingyi into the encirclement from the side, stood still at the door, and said coldly, "How is Mrs. Yuan?"
The emperor and Mrs. Yuan stood side by side, and came out from the door.The emperor looked at these people and said: "It must be these people who picked up Mingde that day. Xie Baolin, I still underestimated you."
Xie Baolin didn't say much to him, but raised his hand.
The masked man immediately aimed his arrow at the emperor.The first arrow shot straight at the emperor's neck with almost no pause time. The emperor subconsciously gave Madam Yuan a hand, but in the end the arrow was nailed to the door panel behind them.
The emperor said: "Not coming out yet!"
Immediately, a large number of soldiers armed with long knives rushed in outside the palace and surrounded them again, facing each other with sharp knives.A gust of wind came from nowhere, and suddenly rushed onto someone's knife face, making a "hum" sound.
"Take them down!" the emperor ordered immediately.
As soon as the words came out, the emperor suddenly felt palpitations and covered his heart.
Xie Baolin rushed forward, supported the emperor, and prevented him from falling.
"You..." The emperor wanted to speak, but his mouth suddenly failed, and he couldn't control it anymore.He wanted to push Xie Baolin away, but his hands lost strength.
Xie Baolin said loudly: "Take them down! Take them to the sky prison and ask the mastermind behind the scenes!"
Together with Wang Lingyi, Xie Baolin helped the emperor onto the bed in the room.After the fighting outside stopped, Xie Baolin turned around, looked at Madam Yuan who was staring at them, and said, "Madam Yuan, the emperor is not feeling well, you'd better stay and take care of them."
Xie Baolin said: "At the beginning when you came to power, you borrowed the power of the aristocratic family. It can be seen that one moment is another moment."
"That's true," said the emperor, "What if you were me? Xie Baolin, I can't say you're wrong, and you can't say I'm wrong, that's the reason."
Xie Baolin sat down by himself, poured a cup of tea, squeezed the teacup in his hands, shook it a few times, and said, "Since we've talked about it, you might as well ask one more question, how did you arrange for me to have an accident that day?"
The emperor was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "You asked a good question, but I can't deny it. I just made the stirrups smaller, and put new tiger skins on the road that must pass. The horses naturally panicked when they smelled the tiger. It didn't work that time, so I gave up the idea. It's just that you know a lot, so I won't keep you any longer."
After all, the emperor called "Eunuch Zhang".
Eunuch Zhang walked in with his back arched, holding a roll of bright yellow cloth in both hands.
Xie Baolin had also seen this cloth when he received the order.
The emperor took it, spread it out casually, swept it briefly, and said: "I have suppressed this decree for a long time, but now I have to take it out."
"Madam Yuan will be the new queen," Xie Baolin said.
The emperor pointed to his head and denied it: "With you in front, the next empress will naturally not be too deep in the city."
This decree to abolish the empress followed the Xie family's enclosure of land, and everything was logical.The emperor has not yet decided on the treatment of the Xie family, but the Xie family has indeed collapsed.
Wang Lingyi sat in front of the window, with a slight smile on his face, and said softly: "I heard that when Xie Wenshan was five years old, the late emperor liked him very much, and often hugged him and let him pull his beard to play with. Thank you well, what should I say?" Just fall."
Seeing her laughing like this, He Jiang felt even more breathless in his heart: "The plaque of Fengyi Palace was removed, and the people inside were completely cleared, and only Rongxi and Yan Hua were at the empress's side. "
Wang Lingyi lowered his head, fiddled with his hands, and remained silent.
Seeing that she was silent, He Jiang was about to say something when he suddenly saw the tear on the back of Wang Lingyi's hand.She suddenly understood the pain of Wang Lingyi's smile.
"Your Majesty..." He Jiang knelt down and took Wang Lingyi's hand.
At this moment, Wang Lingyi's eyelashes were filled with tears, and he looked at He Jiang mistyly, and said softly, "What's there to do, Your Majesty? He Jiang, why did I enter the palace in the first place? It was just to give the emperor a reason to control the Wang family?" , She shook her head again, and said: "Xie Baolin is no longer a queen, what's the point of being a noble concubine?"
Outside the gate of Fengyi Palace, guards have been replaced to guard the palace gate.After night fell, Wang Lingyi went in again through the small hole in the backyard.
For some reason, perhaps because he knew the current situation of Fengyi Palace, Wang Lingyi felt that Fengyi Palace was much quieter.Not even the wind made a sound.
She was wearing a little girl's clothes, and she didn't hold a heater in her hand, so she breathed on her hands a few times, rubbed them back and forth a few times, and followed the path to the front hall.
He Jiang's news was indeed correct. Wang Lingyi even walked around Fengyi Palace without meeting a single person.
She gently pushed open the door of Xie Baolin's bedroom.
With a slight "squeak", Wang Lingyi took a step forward and asked softly, "Xie Baolin?"
There seems to be no response from the dormitory.With the help of the moonlight outside, Wang Lingyi could vaguely see the blurred outlines of the home furnishings, walked around the moon gate, and just now saw Xie Baolin lying on the table.
The candles were faintly shining with a dim yellow light, which seemed very warm.But the cold air in the sleeping hall is rising, how can a single candle dispel it completely?
Standing behind Xie Baolin, Wang Lingyi saw that she was wearing a big cloak and sleeping soundly, fearing that she would catch a cold, he couldn't help but want to push her to wake her up and let her go back to bed to sleep.But I couldn't bear it, how could Xie Baolin sleep these days and nights?Perhaps this was another rare light sleep for Xie Baolin.
Wang Lingyi retracted and retracted the outstretched hand, and finally stood there quietly. It was not until she felt the wind blowing in that she realized that the window was not closed tightly, so she tiptoed over.On the way, Wang Lingyi stepped on something and made a noise.
Wang Lingyi immediately stood still, turned to look at Xie Baolin, saw that she was only frowning and hadn't woken up, so she moved to the window more carefully and closed it tightly.
"Wang Lingyi?" Xie Baolin just smiled, then came to his senses, suddenly tore off the cloak on his body, stood up and said, "Why are you back again?"
Wang Lingyi looked at her amidst the flickering candlelight, his eyebrows and eyes were quiet, as if he had been hiding for a long time in winter.
Xie Baolin moved his lips.The next moment, she saw the beautiful woman in palace attire in front of her slowly loosen her belt.
Xie Baolin felt that she had lost all her strength, she couldn't move, she could only stay nailed in place, her eyes followed Wang Lingyi's hand.I saw her hand slipping over her collar, pinching the collar tightly with her index finger and thumb, and then slowly opening the skirt.So the scenery in front of Wang Lingyi gradually revealed.
"You...have no clothes on inside." Xie Baolin said with difficulty.
Wang Lingyi raised his eyes coquettishly and smiled, his voice was low and charming: "Didn't you see it?"
"How can you let me drive you away like this?" Xie Baolin walked towards her, and put the cloak on her body that she didn't even have.
Wang Lingyi's face was flushed, and she lowered her eyes, watching the woman in front of her put her arms around her, and then whispered in her ear: "This time, I'm going to bed once."
Xie Baolin slid down her arm before he took her hand and led her to his bed.
The bed curtain then fell quietly.
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☆, Assassin
As soon as this incident happened in the Xie family, there was an uproar in the first place, and Empress Xie's deposed aroused even more uneasiness in the aristocratic family.The former three thousand disciples of the Xie family knelt outside the imperial study all night long, unable to get up for a long time.
Sitting behind the desk, the emperor looked at the stacks of memorials on the table, and heard the shouts outside the door, "Please investigate this matter thoroughly", and became more and more disturbed. cup.This colored glass cup is crystal clear and worth thousands of gold, but now it was finally smashed to pieces due to the anger of the superior.
"It's the other way around!" The emperor stared, his canthus cracked, and he lost the bead string in his hand.
Eunuch Zhang hurriedly persuaded: "At this moment, the crowd is so angry, the emperor should think twice."
"They are forcing me!" The emperor sneered, because of worries recently, the imprint of the word "Chuan" had already appeared between his brows.While speaking, his face was a little distorted: "Xie Baolin himself doesn't know why the empress is abolished? But I still want face!"
Eunuch Zhang kept quiet and didn't dare to say another word.He didn't understand what Madam Yuan was talking to the emperor in the room that day, but the only sentence "the concubine has an affair" hit him on the head like a hard hammer.
How could the emperor spread the news about something like this happening in the palace?Naturally, how to suppress it.After listening to the emperor's words, Eunuch Zhang wished he could be deaf.
Because of this, later on, not to mention that Xie Baolin watched closely, even Huayang Palace was also on the list of guards.
Wang Lingyi had been trapped in Huayang Palace for three full days. He was so anxious that he nearly rolled up his sleeves and planed a passage to escape.
"The daughter of the Yuan family can't stop for a moment." Wang Lingyi held the hot water, and didn't want to drink it no matter what. "It's obvious that the daughter of the Yuan family told the emperor to treat me."
But this rule really stepped on Wang Lingyi's life.
Wang Lingyi asked He Jiang: "What does the family say?"
"The aristocratic family is not dealing with the emperor now, but they only work secretly, but they are worried about you in the deep palace, so they plan to find a time to let the servants take you out of the palace." He Jiang replied.
Wang Lingyi immediately threw the lid of the cup: "Where is Xie Baolin?"
He Jiang lowered his voice this time: "The family doesn't know about your relationship with the queen, so naturally they haven't considered it."
"I have to take her with me." Wang Lingyi rarely insisted.
He Jiang rubbed between his brows, she also wanted to take Rongxi away.
With the turmoil in the previous dynasty, Mingde and Li Jinghuan were naturally more cautious, as if they were sitting in the Qin | Palace every day, not asking about world affairs.
Playing against Li Jinghuan for many years, Mingde has already been familiar with Li Jinghuan's tricks.But today Mingde picked up a black stone, facing the familiar chess move, she was absent-minded and did not settle for a long time.She remembered Xie Baolin's words that day - "Nothing can be broken, nothing can be built, and the superfluous can be eliminated as much as possible".
Could it be possible that out of the three thousand students, all of them looked after the Xie family?
Not necessarily.
It was just fanning the flames and forcing the emperor to make mistakes.
Because of Zhang Jia's matter, the Zhang family and Xie's family are already on fire, wishing they could eat Xie Zhu's flesh and drink his blood.But where is Xie Zhu now?
Xie Zhu's matter was an introduction, seemingly subtle, but it finally triggered everything that followed.
Mingde thought about it, and made a move.
"Sister," Li Jinghuan asked, staring at the chessboard, "I haven't seen my mother for a long time."
Mingde picked up another bag, and this time surrounded Li Jinghuan's back without any hesitation, without raising his eyes, he said in a gentle but firm tone, "We'll see you soon."
Li Jinghuan thought for a while, counted the days, and said: "Xie Zhen's side should be settled."
"Should be back soon." Mingde didn't continue.
At this moment, the apprentice of the Chief Manager of Qin|Wang's Mansion rushed out of the courtyard, tidied up his appearance, and just now he entered the small courtyard steadily, and saluted the two of them: "My lord, princess, the emperor sent Master Shi over. "
Who is not good to send, you want to send Master Shi?
He had formed a relationship with the Shi family because of the death of another Master Shi before, but now he is really an enemy, and he is extremely jealous when they meet.Mingde asked: "Master Shi, did you bring the carriage?"
The apprentice hurriedly said, "I brought it."
Mingde and Li Jinghuan looked at each other, and they naturally understood that the emperor was still worried about the two of them, and had to be stared at by the palace.
to go, or not to go?Ming De was thinking, Li Jinghuan lowered his voice and said to her: "Sister, I have to go to the palace this time, but it must be extremely dangerous."
Mingde nodded.
"Sister, I have never been as smart as you. If...if something happens, sister will definitely run away." Li Jinghuan said word by word.
Mingde was stunned, as if she couldn't react to Li Jinghuan's words for a while, but she still said: "What about you?"
"Me," Li Jinghuan smiled, "It depends on whether I am lucky or not."
Mingde only reached out and patted Li Jinghuan's shoulder, and fell silent.
The two got into two carriages one after the other.
Master Shi took the initiative to help Li Jinghuan get on the horse, and just as Li Jinghuan stepped on the footstool, Master Shi kicked the footstool away suddenly.Li Jinghuan couldn't dodge it, and fell directly onto the car, his chin turned red.
Li Jinghuan frowned, and immediately turned around and kicked Master Shi to the ground.
Ming De heard the movement, got out of the car, did not help Li Jinghuan, and stood directly in front of Master Shi, condescending, staring at Master Master indifferently: "What did you do?"
Master Shi hated them so much that he gritted his teeth, sat on the ground, and said with a smile: "What do you plan to do, Princess? Hit me with your whip?"
Mingde's voice was not too loud: "Hit you? It's too light."
She took a step forward, bent over, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Do you know how that Master Shi died? He liked Huanliu. He took too much medicine that day, and he was in a happy mood. Jumped off the stairs."
"What the hell!" Master Shi was furious when he heard Mingde's confession. He stood up angrily, and shouted, "Venomous woman!"
Mingde stood upright, smiling to see that Master Shi couldn't control his emotions.
Master Shi finally suppressed it forcefully, gritted his teeth and said, "You will suffer retribution!"
"I hope." Mingde sat back in the carriage again.
Passing a sparsely populated street, Mingde held the small hand stove in his hands with downcast eyes, as if waiting for something.An arrow came from the sky, whistled, and nailed straight to the outer edge of Mingde's carriage, making a "hum" sound.
Mingde raised his eyes.
"There are assassins!"
The leader shouted loudly, and the guards immediately drew out their long knives and surrounded the carriage.
The next moment, more than a dozen masked people appeared in the front and back of the street. They were all about the same height and shape, and it seemed difficult to distinguish them.Everyone can't help
He looked up at the roofs of the shops on both sides, and saw many masked people standing on them.
The leading guard wanted to negotiate with the assassin, and as soon as he spoke a word, the assassin immediately set up his bow, aiming the arrow steadily at them, without giving the guard any room to breathe.Almost instantly, the assassin let go of his hand.
Wave after wave of arrow rain came one after another, and the guards were unable to resist.In addition, the horses were frightened, and the horses in front of Mingde's chariot suddenly neighed and rushed towards the assassin with the chariot.
The assassin quickly dodges away.
The guards took advantage of this interval to light the signal fireworks, and the flames shot straight into the sky, making a sharp sound.In less than a quarter of an hour, someone will come to help.
The assassin knew that he couldn't stay here any longer, so he gestured and retreated silently.
Master Shi is a civil servant, and he has never seen such a battle before. He was already so frightened that he rolled off his horse and fell to the ground. When the assassin left, he got up from the ground and ran to Li Jinghuan's carriage. Seeing that Li Jinghuan was terrified inside, curled up in a corner and trembling, the master felt at ease, and secretly spat in his heart: "Idiot!"
When this incident happened, Master Shi should return to the palace as soon as possible, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, and asked a few people to follow the direction of Cai Mingde's carriage, and the rest followed him back to the palace.Several guards were seriously injured, so they had to stay behind and go back slowly.
The carriage moved again, and the fear on Li Jinghuan's face faded away. He sat up and tidied up the corners of his clothes.
Master Shi followed the emperor's order to come out, and naturally he went back unimpeded. He knelt down in the imperial study and told all about what happened just now.
The emperor was furious: "Where is the princess!"
At this moment, Li Jinghuan suddenly said: "During the chaos, Master Shi stabbed the princess' horse with a dagger!"
"Is there such a thing?" the emperor asked in a deep voice.
The emperor did let Master Shi go to work, but he would never allow him to make his own decisions.
Master Shi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has learned from you, there is absolutely no such thing!"
The emperor had a headache, so he said first, "Jing Huan, you should go to your mother's harem to rest first."
Li Jinghuan was angry, and he didn't dare to argue with the emperor, so he could only glared at Master Shi angrily, and left with a flick of his sleeves.
Li Jinghuan looked outside the queen mother's palace, there were some palace people walking back and forth, but no matter how he looked at it, they were still Lianjiazi. Needless to say, the emperor not only guarded against the queen and the noble concubine, but also trapped Mingde and him in the queen mother's place before he would stop of.
At the other end, Mingde found a place, jumped off the carriage, and rolled on the ground several times before stopping.Some of the assassins who had just left came to find her and helped her up. Although the masks were not removed, they were very respectful.
"Let's go." Mingde patted the ashes on his body, describing that he was not at all embarrassed.
They went to a courtyard, disguised themselves, and drove out of town in another carriage.By the time the emperor's order came down, Mingde had already left the capital.
There are a few cottages hidden outside Gyeonggi, and because they haven't come out to kill or set fire on weekdays, and they have a good relationship with the government, the government just turned a blind eye to them.
Now Mingde's carriage drove to the smallest cottage among them, and went directly up the mountain from a hidden path.Listening to the call of the mountain wind, Mingde's heart seemed to be boiling like a basin of water.
Knowing that Mingde came, a person came out from the cottage to welcome him.
When Mingde saw the visitor, his expression relaxed almost invisible, and he smiled: "Xie Zhen."
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☆, accident
Xie Zhen was really different from what Mingde had imagined before.In the past, Mingde only thought that Xie Zhen was a child of a noble family, with handsome features and fair birth.Looking at it now, Xie Zhenhei has lost a lot of weight, and there is a faint taste of determination between his brows.
"Your Highness." Xie Zhen was about to salute, but was lifted up by Ming De.
Mingde said: "You don't need to be too polite, just go in and talk."
The people in the village walked steadily, and there was no confusion at all. Mingde was led by Xie Zhen to the main meeting hall. People along the way saw Mingde and saluted respectfully.Ming De also nodded one by one.
Seeing that everything was in order, Mingde said, "That's right."
After hearing this, Xie Zhen only said "it should be" to Mingde.Other than that, there was no more joy on his face.
Suffering has always made people grow rapidly, just like Xie Zhen, when the Xie family was safe and sound, he could not see the crisis under the prosperity, and with the pride of a family, he regarded everything as nothing.However, after he fell hard, he suddenly realized that the Xie family had never been peaceful.The splendor brought to him by those aristocratic families blinded him.
If the news of Xie Wenshan's death brought him the pain of losing his brother, then the collapse of Xie's mansion was his last chance.
Mingde spread out the defense map of the inner city of the capital, tapped his fingers lightly to the imperial study room, and said, "It's time to do it."
The southwestern region suddenly opened its city gates and threatened to accept refugees from the south of the Yangtze River. For a while, the names of Mingde and Li Jinghuan were spread in the south of the Yangtze River.At this time, when the rich businessman surnamed Chen inadvertently revealed during the banquet that the imperial court's disaster relief funds could not be allocated, it was Li Jinghuan and Mingde who secretly helped.
This is great news for the refugees who lost their homes and goals in Jiangnan. They began to flee to the southwest in batches overnight, hoping to seek asylum.
The emperor swept away the gentle policy when facing Jiangnan, and summoned the ministers to the imperial study room overnight to discuss, and finally issued a decree, saying that Mingde Li Jinghuan tried to establish himself as king, violated the destiny, and rebelled against the law. It is necessary to maintain the stability of the country, first take back the southwestern fiefdoms of Mingde and Li Jinghuan, and second deploy troops to encircle and suppress the southwestern rebels.
It was not until early in the morning that the ministers left the imperial study room one after another.The emperor rubbed the center of his brows, and in his spare time, he wanted to take a sip of tea from the teacup, but found that the tea was already completely cold.
Eunuch Zhang was talking to someone in a low voice at the door, and his voice came into the imperial study, disturbing the emperor.The emperor raised his voice and asked, "Who is outside the door?"
"It's Mrs. Yuan." Eunuch Zhang said outside the door.
The emperor frowned, what are you doing here at this time?The emperor said, "Let her in."
Eunuch Zhang pushed open the door, and the sachet on his waist swayed with the movement.
Madam Yuan had a big belly, and her eight-month pregnancy made her walk a little more cumbersome, but she still held a tray in her hand, with a small soup pot and two small bowls on it.Before she reached the round table on the west side of the imperial study, the emperor had already walked over quickly, caught Madam Yuan's tray, and said, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"
"The emperor hasn't had a good rest in the past few days, and my concubine is also sad, so I thought of sending some soothing soup." Madam Yuan said.
The emperor thought a little bit, helped her to sit down, lifted the lid of the soup pot in front of her, and a scent of ingredients came out.This soup looks like nothing, but the aroma is very strong, obviously it has been boiled for a long time.The emperor filled a bowl for himself, and then filled it for Madam Yuan.
Mrs. Yuan scooped it back and forth by herself, but she didn't drink it for a long time.
The emperor also put down the spoon and said, "Why don't you drink?"
"I'm worried about myself." Madam Yuan said bluntly.
It was the first time for the emperor to hear Madam Yuan say this, but now he also suffers from the fact that there is no one to confide in, and it seems that he has found an outlet for his long-suppressed mood, so he answered: "What are you worried about?"
Madam Yuan smiled bitterly: "Although the harem doesn't ask about the former court, but I have heard some rumors, and the former court must be very dangerous now."
"No problem," said the emperor.
Madam Yuan suddenly burst into tears, her eyes were full of tears, she choked up and said: "I am worried about the emperor, and it is troublesome season, I am afraid that the emperor will be plotted against."
The emperor's speech froze and he didn't speak again.
Madam Yuan picked up the bowl, drank a few sips of soup to calm down, and continued: "I may not be able to help you much, but I will definitely be by your side, and I will never hesitate to die."
At the same time, the Xuanzhi eunuch brought soldiers and directly surrounded the entire Taixi Palace.The palace people hurriedly reported to the nanny.The nanny knew that this matter was different, so she did not stop immediately, and ventilated with the maid in the empress dowager's bedroom, and the maid went in to wake up the empress dowager.
The queen mother lost all sleepiness, put on her clothes immediately, and went to call Li Jinghuan.
Li Jinghuan had already put on his clothes, and when the queen mother came over, she hadn't spoken yet, only to hear the queen mother's tone was anxious: "You go with Ai's family!"
"Mother's queen." Li Jinghuan said eagerly.
The queen mother closed her eyes tightly, and said in a deep voice, "Jing Huan, run away."
"Why did I run away?" Li Jinghuan calmed down at the moment, "Sister and I have been relying on others for a long time, won't we even be able to sleep peacefully in the future?"
"You are rebellious!" The queen mother said in a sad tone, and then she squeezed Li Jinghuan's hand, almost begging: "Jinghuan, my family raised you up to let you live smoothly, not to do other things."
Li Jinghuan said: "Mother, what is there to be afraid of death, instead of fleeing for a lifetime, it is better to fight. If you really die, you will be clean."
"Evil!" The queen mother slapped Li Jinghuan on the face, and the pain in her palm was burning, and the pain went directly to her heart along with the blood, "You have a chance of winning! Now the people who took you are outside, you follow them, How did you die, do you know!"
Li Jinghuan shook his head: "Mother, how can he feel at ease if he can't catch Sister? What's the point of killing me? It's Sister that he's always worried about."
The queen mother's back gradually became cold, she heard the trembling in her voice, she asked: "He wants to use you as bait to lure Mingde into taking the bait?"
"I'm here, sister will definitely come." Li Jinghuan smiled, "So, queen mother, let sister come."
The queen mother watched Li Jinghuan go out alone, her back was more calm than ever before.The Empress Dowager suddenly remembered when Li Jinghuan was first raised. He was still very young at that time, and he was not yet stable when running.In what seemed like a blink of an eye, he had grown so big.
Now he has become a young man, tall and tall, and he knows what he wants.
The queen mother let go dejectedly: "Go and open the palace gate."
Xuanzhi eunuch's slender eyes swept back and forth, saw Li Jinghuan standing in the middle, and said in a sharp voice: "Qin King Li Jinghuan, Mingde Princess Li Jingwen, intends to harm the country. Although I can't bear it, we must clear the court and put Li Jinghuan temporarily Lay down the prison and hunt down Li Jingwen at any cost."
Just when Li Jinghuan was about to be taken away, the queen mother suddenly shouted: "Jinghuan!"
Li Jinghuan turned his head and said, "Mother's queen?"
"It's cold inside, Aijia asked someone to bring you a quilt." The queen mother squeezed her sleeves tightly and said as calmly as possible.
Li Jinghuan nodded: "Thank you, Queen Mother, I think Brother Huang will not refuse."
That night, there was heavy rain, lightning and thunder, until early in the morning, on the street where people began to come and go, with a loud noise, the stone pillar of advice that had stood for more than a hundred years collapsed.People hurriedly gathered over to have a look, only to see that only the base of the stone pillar that had been blessed by Yixin Daoist remained.Among the crowd, a middle-aged man murmured: "Didn't Yixin Daoist say that if the imperial court is stable, the stone pillars will last forever?"
"Isn't it just a sign? There are troubles in the south and south of the Yangtze River."
In just one morning, there were more and more rumors about the stone pillars in the market, and more and more speculations about the affairs of the Ouchi. Those who cared could not help but think of the disturbances in the Xie family a few days ago.It is slowly confirming what Yixin Daoist said.
The news that King Qin became a prisoner and Mingde became a fugitive was released by the court, which once again caused an uproar. The court announced that the chaos in the south and south of the Yangtze River was the result of Mingde and King Qin's attempt to subvert the court. The evidence is conclusive.
Regardless of whether it is the public or the court, they are divided into two factions, and both sides hold their own opinions.It's just that the people in the court dare not speak out, for fear of offending the emperor at this time and causing blame.
Now that Mingde has not shown up yet, Southwest has not shown any weakness, and the whole situation is unclear.Everyone focused their attention on the former court, but gradually forgot about Xie Baolin, the abolished empress.
Only Wang Lingyi never forgot.
The control of Huayang Palace is relatively loose, so she found an opportunity to run out, and found it directly outside the Hall of Taixi Palace. However, the emperor has never relaxed the control in the Hall of Taixi Palace, even if Li Jinghuan is in prison now.
Wang Lingyi watched from a distance, knowing that the Queen Mother was in danger at the moment, and felt that there was no way to ask for help.So she went to Fengyi Palace in despair, thinking that she could find time to go in and have a look, but she ran into Mrs. Yuan and the others head-on.
When Wang Lingyi raised his eyes, Mrs. Yuan had already greeted her with a smile: "Hey, isn't this Sister Wang? How can you describe being in such a mess?"
Wang Lingyi took a general look. There were some new faces behind Mrs. Yuan, and they must have borrowed Mrs. Yuan's light now.Hearing Mrs. Yuan's words, Wang Lingyi didn't feel any disturbance in his heart. Does it matter whether he is embarrassed or not?
She is still a noble concubine, and her food and clothing expenses have been greatly reduced.Not to mention Xie Baolin, as an abolished empress, where is there a little bit of leeway?
"Oh, so it was to see Xie Baolin." Madam Yuan smiled and walked not far in front of Wang Lingyi, her chin slightly lifted, her face filled with a sarcastic smile, "Want to go?"
Wang Lingyi said, "I want to go."
"Say it again, louder." Madam Yuan made a gesture, raised her hand and moved her ears, "I didn't hear it."
Wang Lingyi looked at Yingying and Yanyan around him, and his head was slightly swollen.Now that their smiles have been poisoned, where is Xie Yuhua?It's clearly a group of piranhas!
Seeing that Wang Lingyi refused to speak, Madam Yuan suddenly stopped laughing: "It seems that you are not happy. If you want to see Xie Baolin, please beg me."
"Please." Wang Lingyi whispered.
Mrs. Yuan said to others: "Did I hear wrongly? The dignified concubine, you want me?"
"Yes, please." Wang Lingyi lowered her eyes, and she lowered her head even more as she watched Madam Yuan step up and walk towards her again.
Originally, she was used to Wang Lingyi's condescending appearance, so Madam Yuan gritted her teeth with hatred. Later, Wang Lingyi dared to hurt her. At that moment, she even wanted to tear up Wang Lingyi's mask of superiority.Now there is nothing that makes her more happy than Wang Lingyi begging her.
Just when Madam Yuan stood still, Wang Lingyi rushed to Madam Yuan's left side, raised his left hand and hugged her neck tightly, and pulled out the hairpin from Madam Yuan's head with his right hand, aiming at her neck artery, said coldly Said: "Take me there."
"You know what you're doing!" Madam Yuan's face turned ashen, and her voice immediately became sharp.
Wang Lingyi's beautiful eyes were as cold as ice, and she said in a deep voice, "If not, let's see if your emperor will come to rescue you."
"Wang Lingyi, you are really crazy!" Madam Yuan exclaimed.
Wang Lingyi pressed hard on the artery, causing Madam Yuan to cry out in pain, "I'll take you there!"
"Say it earlier." Wang Lingyi held her back and walked to Fengyi Palace step by step.
Even though the guards outside Fengyi Palace left and ran to report the news to the emperor, Wang Lingyi didn't look away. It wasn't until Mrs. Yuan was escorted into the side room that Wang Lingyi let her go and called out, "Rongxi."
It was Xie Baolin who came.
I haven't seen her these days, Xie Baolin is much thinner, when she saw Madam Yuan, she asked, "Why are you tying her up?"
"Otherwise, how can I see you?" Wang Lingyi turned around, stepped forward, and said in a low voice, "Xie Baolin, I'll fight this time, let's run away."
Xie Baolin raised his hand and pinched Wang Lingyi's face, and said, "When will the run be over? If I want to leave, I will leave openly."
After finishing speaking, Xie Baolin looked at Madam Yuan who was panting by the table, and said, "Madam Yuan, the emperor will come over later, you can rest assured first."
"The emperor won't come." Madam Yuan gritted her teeth.
Xie Baolin's expression was indifferent, and he didn't take it seriously: "The Yuan family is a loyal supporter of the emperor, it is not wise to abandon you at this moment, Madam Yuan must be clear."
Wang Lingyi reached out and pinched Xie Baolin's hand, and said, "Madam Yuan, would you like some tea?"
"You idiot, I don't have any tea here now." Xie Baolin glanced at her.
Wang Lingyi nodded: "I think so too. Drinking northwest wind all day, I didn't see you in a bad mood."
Madam Yuan saw that these two people turned a blind eye to her, and said to herself, feeling resentful in her heart, but she could only adjust her breathing, not saying a word, and refusing to show weakness.
The side room was small, so Wang Lingyi checked the room carefully to make sure Mrs. Yuan could not escape easily, so she was relieved to leave Rongxi and Yan Hua to guard the gate, while she and Xie Baolin sat under the plane tree in the courtyard, waiting for the emperor to come.
"It's strange, I'm not afraid at all right now." Wang Lingyi raised his head, looked at the still cloudy sky, and said.
Seeing that Wang Lingyi's complexion was not good, Xie Baolin got up and went over, hugged her lightly, patted her on the back lightly, and said softly, "You are fine, and I am fine, so don't be afraid."
Wang Lingyi pinched her waist, feeling lost: "Sneak thin again."
Gradually, the sky darkened again, and even the wind picked up again.
Xie Baolin suddenly looked at the palace gate.
With a creak, the palace door gradually opened, and a bright yellow figure stepped over the threshold and walked in with a gloomy expression.There were only five or six people following closely behind him, and it seemed that he planned to stay for a short time and then leave.
"Xie Baolin, I should have killed you." The emperor said, "Unfortunately, I was too kind to you."
Xie Baolin pointed to the side room and sneered, "You didn't want to come, did you?"
The emperor's gaze swept the side room first, and then fell on Wang Lingyi. He suddenly said, "Wang Lingyi, are you determined to advance and retreat with Xie Baolin?"
"Why don't you ask Mrs. Yuan first." Wang Lingyi said coldly.
The emperor glanced at the two of them indifferently, and walked towards the side room. The guards behind him hurriedly stopped him.The guard said: "I'm afraid there may be fraud."
The emperor waved his hand and said, "You stay outside."
As soon as the emperor went in to cover the door, the guards outside immediately started to move, rushing over and reaching out to grab Xie Baolin.Xie Baolin let out a strange whistle, and then more than a dozen masked men appeared, holding bows and arrows at the four or five guards.While the guard raised his head to react, Xie Baolin pulled Wang Lingyi past him and hid behind the plane tree.
How can the flesh resist flying arrows?After only two shots of arrows rained down, there were already several corpses in the courtyard.
Masked men surrounded the side room, and the leader kicked open the door.Xie Baolin pulled Wang Lingyi into the encirclement from the side, stood still at the door, and said coldly, "How is Mrs. Yuan?"
The emperor and Mrs. Yuan stood side by side, and came out from the door.The emperor looked at these people and said: "It must be these people who picked up Mingde that day. Xie Baolin, I still underestimated you."
Xie Baolin didn't say much to him, but raised his hand.
The masked man immediately aimed his arrow at the emperor.The first arrow shot straight at the emperor's neck with almost no pause time. The emperor subconsciously gave Madam Yuan a hand, but in the end the arrow was nailed to the door panel behind them.
The emperor said: "Not coming out yet!"
Immediately, a large number of soldiers armed with long knives rushed in outside the palace and surrounded them again, facing each other with sharp knives.A gust of wind came from nowhere, and suddenly rushed onto someone's knife face, making a "hum" sound.
"Take them down!" the emperor ordered immediately.
As soon as the words came out, the emperor suddenly felt palpitations and covered his heart.
Xie Baolin rushed forward, supported the emperor, and prevented him from falling.
"You..." The emperor wanted to speak, but his mouth suddenly failed, and he couldn't control it anymore.He wanted to push Xie Baolin away, but his hands lost strength.
Xie Baolin said loudly: "Take them down! Take them to the sky prison and ask the mastermind behind the scenes!"
Together with Wang Lingyi, Xie Baolin helped the emperor onto the bed in the room.After the fighting outside stopped, Xie Baolin turned around, looked at Madam Yuan who was staring at them, and said, "Madam Yuan, the emperor is not feeling well, you'd better stay and take care of them."
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