Lintai Storm Record
Chapter 1 is also saved. (17)
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"Protect Your Majesty!" Chief Eunuch Sun Xiu covered the bleeding wound.
Yubayashi Weiru woke up from the dream, a guard stepped forward and stabbed Liu Yun's body, and then several times.
Li Yeyuan fell to the ground, knelt down towards Fu Mingshao, and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty is frightened."
Fu Mingshao's eyes were full of confusion, he put his hand on his forehead, stepped back a few steps, and wrinkled his brows forcefully. He lowered his head and faced the empress with twisted neck and death. The red veil and golden headdress made the empress's face even darker.
Not far away, Liu Yun, who fell to the ground, was covered in blood.
"Stop it all." Fu Mingshao murmured, his footsteps were weak, his whole body was shaking, and he was supported by Li Yeyuan.
Fu Mingshao's face was full of shock, doubts, and fear. He froze for a while, and waved away Li Yeyuan's hand, as if bitten by a poisonous snake, he quickly retracted his hand and backed away.
The bright colors of red and black intertwined in the whole hall flickered in front of Fu Mingshao, and the world was spinning. He sat down on the ground, opened his mouth, and yelled hoarsely at the Habayashi guard who was still stabbing Liu Yun: "Everyone! Stop! Do you think I'm dead? I tell you to stop!"
The guard cut his eyes full of blood.
Meng Honglin stepped forward quickly, grabbed the guard's knife-holding hand, and slapped him twice.
The guard was completely woken up and knelt down in panic.
"Li Xiang." Fu Mingshao roared in a deep voice.
Li Yeyuan stepped forward and knelt down.
"Let people thoroughly investigate whether there are drugs in my diet and spices that disturb the mind and drive people crazy. We must find out the murderer." Fu Mingshao rubbed his eyes vigorously with the palm of his hand. When he looked up, his eyes were blood red, and tears dripped from the corners Wu, Meifeng trembled submissively, "I will block the news about today's affairs in the palace, and don't allow it to be leaked out. Two days later, the empress will be mourned, and it will be said... that the empress is weak. Before getting married, she had contracted an illness and unfortunately died of illness."
Fu Mingshao glanced at Liu Yun and waved his hands, feeling extremely tired.
Li Yeyuan hurriedly said: "I know how to deal with it, please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will not let the people discuss it."
Fu Mingshao raised his head and stretched out his hand to Meng Honglin.
Meng Honglin helped the emperor up with fear and sincerity.
As Fu Mingshao walked out, the Imperial Army gave way, and Fu Mingshao walked up to Duo Qiduo in a vain footsteps. With a pale face, he said in a deep voice: "The eldest prince came from a long way, and he is in the palace. Stay for a few days." Fu Mingshao's voice trembled.
The people from Chu beside Duo Qiduo whispered to him.
Duo Qiduo's amber eyes looked around, her thin lips curled up, and she cupped her fists and said, "The palace has undergone great changes, if the Emperor of Chu needs our help, please come forward."
Fu Mingshao waved his hand, shook his head and said, "Tonight the eldest prince will rest first, and tomorrow I will invite you to enjoy flowers and drink tea."
Duo Qiduo didn't say any more, and went out with his subordinates. Sun Xiu ordered people to take this special group of envoys to live in Yingchun Garden tonight.
The Imperial Army searched the entire palace for the eunuch who shot and killed Liu Yun until the third watch, when Meng Honglin returned to Chengyuan Hall to return.
There were fierce voices in the hall, Meng Honglin bowed outside the hall, and raised his voice to ask for instructions: "Your Majesty, my minister Meng Honglin asks for his return."
A man rushed out, his head was covered with blood, and the iconic eunuch said softly, "Commander Meng, please come in." Sun Xiu wiped the blood from her forehead with her backhand, took a step forward, and swayed , almost fell to the ground, but fortunately was helped by Meng Honglin.
Sun Xiu's bloody hand tightened on the sleeve of Meng Honglin's black robe. Panting for breath, he glanced at Meng Honglin inexplicably, and said softly, "Your Majesty is in a bad mood. Commander, please be more cautious when answering."
Meng Honglin looked at Sun Xiu gratefully, and wanted to help him further away, and let Sun Xiu sit down before entering the hall.
Fu Mingshao's voice came from the hall: "Meng Honglin, get out!"
Meng Honglin frowned, and immediately went to see Sun Xiu. Sun Xiu was lowering his head. He had injuries on his body and his face was ashen. Meng Honglin thought that he was thinking too much, and Sun Xiu probably didn't notice his expression.
"Director Sun, I won't send you off." Meng Honglin let go of his hand, and entered the Chengyuan Hall with a look of sincerity and fear.
Behind Meng Honglin, Sun Xiu raised his head. His complexion was very bad, but his eyes were bright, as if he was thinking of something.
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The door of the sleeping hall was pushed open, and a woman in a white dress rushed in, staring with panicked eyes, with a hint of red at the end of her eyes.
She slammed the door shut and took off her veil under the man's icy gaze.
Lu Guanjin frowned: "Why are you?" He pulled out the dagger hidden in his sleeve and threw it on the table with a clang.He was wearing a big robe, below his open chest, his waist was wrapped in layers of gauze, and his gaze was fixed on Liu Suguang.
"I..." Liu Suguang swallowed hard, tears leaked from the corners of his eyes, "Lord Lu, please save me."
Lu Guan frowned more and more tightly: "What did you do?"
"Li Mingchang wants to kill me to silence him."
"Li Mingchang?" Lu Guan hadn't had time to ask if Li Mingchang was far away in the Royal Court of Amodanjung, when he heard hurried footsteps outside the bedroom, he grabbed Liu Suguang's shoulder, and pushed her out with great strength. Liu Suguang rolled into the corner of the bed, and the curtain fell down.
There is a window in the hall, and the breeze blows outside the window.
Along with the knock on the door, a man's voice sounded: "Amodanjung envoy asks to see the Secretary and Superintendent."
Lu Guan glanced at the couch, only a pile of quilts could be seen on the couch behind the gauze curtain.
The door opened, and a gloomy man's face appeared in the door. His eyes were like the eyes of a bird of prey. His robe was wide open and his waist was wrapped with a bandage. He should have been injured recently and has not yet healed.The chest and abdomen muscles are extremely strong, and there are thick calluses of warriors visible to the naked eye on the hand pressing on the door frame.
Li Mingchang withdrew his gaze, lowered his head, and said respectfully: "Master Secretary Supervisor, I am the envoy of Amodanrong. I have important matters to discuss. I wonder if it is convenient for you."
Liu Suguang was lying face down on the couch, four or five lumbar pillows and quilts piled up to block her frail and slender body.The gauze curtain hanging by the side of the couch was translucent, and Li Mingchang could be seen indistinctly. He followed Lu Guan into the room and closed the door.
"Let's not close the door." Lu Guan raised his head and pointed his mouth in the direction of the door.
Li Mingchang was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's because I didn't think carefully. Don't worry, my lord. I came to see you tonight with the consent of our eldest prince."
A few days ago, Lu Guan had heard that Duo Qiduo had arrived in the capital, but he never expected that Fu Mingshao would invite Duo Qiduo to the palace to observe the ceremony.
"I heard that four of your jockeys have already arrived outside Beiguan. I don't know what the eldest prince asked you to come to me, what do you want to say?" Lu Guan paused, took a sip of tea, and didn't ask the visitor if he would like to drink or not. Take a look at him from the teacup: the person in front of me speaks standard official speech, and he was born with a Chu face. If it weren't for Duo Qiduodai's translator, there would be only one person in the entire Amodanjung court with this status and courage , Walking in the unfamiliar Dachu Palace thousands of miles away.
Li Mingchang put his sleeves in his arms, and glanced at the side of the couch calmly.
Lu Guan drank his tea with downcast eyes, as if he didn't notice anything.
Li Mingchang smiled on his lips, and said with a pleasant face: "The eldest prince heard that the Secretary Department is directly under the Great Chu Emperor, and plans to establish an institution in the Amodanjung court that is only loyal to the royal family. Let me learn from your lord. "
Lu Guan sneered and said: "Raising a bunch of lackeys and traveling thousands of miles to other countries to learn Buddhist scriptures is unheard of. Let the Prime Minister personally ask about trivial matters. Duo Qiduo is not so stupid."
Li Mingchang was stunned for a moment, the corners of his mouth curled up, and then he laughed loudly.
"I can't hide it from Mr. Lu." Li Mingchang said, "It's because I treated people dishonestly that made Mr. Lu laugh. To be honest, I went to Mr. Lu to give him a big official hat."
Lu looked at the teacup in his hand, raised his head, raised his eyebrows and looked directly at Li Mingchang: "Speak."
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The two night-duty eunuchs guarding outside the Queen Mother's bedroom were sent away by Jiang Meng. He stood outside the door in person, just at the place where the moonlight slanted down. If he took a step forward, he would be bathed in the clear silver light inside.
The eunuch's shoes did not protrude half an inch, and he stayed in the darkness all the time. He turned a deaf ear to the quarrels in the hall, and even closed his eyes contentedly. He didn't know what he was thinking, and there was a satisfied smile on his lips. .
In the palace, the Empress Dowager Zhou took off her hairpins, rings, jewelry, and heavy and cumbersome court clothes, like an ordinary woman, with a little powder and black, and a long smoky blue dress.
The fish soup splashed by the spoon just dropped, with fine oil droplets, stayed on the back of her hand.
"Why are you so angry? Is it because I don't want to come to the palace to see you? I dream of staying in this palace every day, but is it possible? Unless I have a heart of disobedience!" Li Ye was extremely energetic, his beard straight trembling.
Empress Dowager Zhou sneered: "Is the girl in your other courtyard pregnant with wild dogs?"
"You..." Li Yeyuan's expression froze, and he let out a breath. His stiff and cold expression was as if the spring breeze had thawed. , I have no successors in the Li family, right?" He raised his eyes, his eyes full of warmth, which is also the helplessness of an old man, "For you, I am willing to have no descendants, I know that you only love the late emperor in your life."
The Empress Dowager Zhou wanted to say something, but Li Yeyuan pressed her lips with her index finger.
Li Ye raised his eyes in vain, hissed softly like coaxing a child, stroked the loose and straight black hair of the Empress Dowager Zhou with one hand, and said lightly: "It's you who are using me, and I will admit it. A woman like you Well, where is there any man in the whole Great Chu who is worthy of him? The first emperor was just lucky. I quarrel. I am not angry with you. When have I ever been angry with you? Even if you are self-willed, unreasonable, quick-tempered, and not thoughtful enough in doing things, with me, no matter what you do, I will give you Going around. Tell me, who else is as cowardly as me, so not a man? "
"What nonsense are you talking about?" the queen mother dissatisfied, "the more you talk, the more ugly you are. I forgot what my father told you before he left?"
Li Yeyuan laughed, filled a bowl of soup for the Queen Mother, pushed it in front of her, and coaxed: "I didn't eat anything tonight, drink some more, you are so sick, your face is out of shape, I feel distressed seeing it .”
The Empress Dowager Zhou glanced at Tang with a weary look.
Li Yeyuan rolled up his sleeves, blew the fish soup just right, without burning his mouth, and fed her spoonful by spoonful.
After drinking the fifth spoonful, Li Yeyuan wiped the queen mother's mouth with a handkerchief, and focused on the soup spoon, which was full and would not overflow.
"Since you didn't do anything, where did you hide the medicine I gave you? It's a forbidden medicine in the palace, and you can't handle it properly. Fu Mingshao is a bit dull, and he is still the emperor. He said it once, and you said it again. The two contradict, who do you listen to when you say people in the palace?"
"Give me a slice of bamboo shoots." The queen mother did not answer.
And Li Yeyuan gently fed her vegetables and food as she ordered.
The Empress Dowager Zhou had almost finished eating, she let out a long breath, and looked at Li Yeyuan with a complicated expression. She raised her hand and touched Li Yeyuan's face. Li Yeyuan was getting old, which made her feel uncomfortable, and she held her breath in her nasal cavity for a long time , the nostrils trembled slightly, letting the breath out without showing any trace.
"Fu Mingshao can't die yet. The road leading to Qizhou is completely blocked. My order cannot go to Dongming Palace, and I don't have a reliable person to handle it. The Amodanrong people are ready and will pounce on them at any time. , Fu Mingshao must wait for Dongming Queen's mother and son to enter Beijing before Fu Mingshao can die, otherwise he will be gone, and Dachu will be gone, so what is there to fight for?" The queen mother said, "There is only one chance, and once things fail, you will become king." Defeat, Fu Mingshao is not my own son. Just as I can kill him cruelly, he will never be merciless to me. He can even kill his biological father and married wife, let alone me who has no relatives A related aunt?"
A worm crawled into Jiang Meng's neck. He frowned, raised his hand and pressed lightly near the collarbone. Under the fabric, the worm's small body protruded a little, and it bit when it was pressed down.
Jiang Meng's brows deepened, and she stretched her hands, and after a while, she opened her eyebrows.
He reached in to catch the dead bug. The bug had been crushed, and Jiang Meng's fingers were stained with black pulp mixed with human blood. He endured nausea and flew the bug bullet into the night.His brows were wrinkled and wrinkled, and his collarbone always felt hot and itchy. After scratching it a few times, a lump swelled inside instead.
☆, Qianlong in the deep (land)
Li Yeyuan looked at the Empress Dowager Zhou with a complicated expression, pondered for a moment, and said: "But this medicine is kept in the palace, once it is found out..."
The Empress Dowager Zhou frowned: "Who dares to search my place?" The corners of her lips were pulled down in displeasure, and she said calmly, "Even if it is Fu Mingshao, he would not dare to let the Imperial Army search my palace. Besides, I have my own plans. You just need to do one thing for me."
Li Yeyuan sighed, with fondness in his eyes, put down his chopsticks, and said softly: "Isn't it just to send someone to Qizhou to pick up King Dongming to Beijing? I'll do it."
"Of course I don't worry about you doing things, but you have to be careful." The queen mother thought for a while and said, "You are acting too rashly today. Liu Yun is in the way, but you can also restrain Bai Guyou. Now Liu Yun is dead. I'm afraid it's not easy to tidy up his old department, and those soldiers and ruffians may fall apart and fail to achieve great things."
"You mean the eunuch who shot Liu Yun to death?"
When the queen mother heard the way, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Isn't it someone you arranged?"
"I thought it was your arrangement." Li Yeyuan paused, "So it's not yours, could it be Amodanjung?"
The queen mother was silent and didn't speak, and perfunctory Li Yeyuan a few words, let him go first, and ordered Jiang Meng to see him off in person.When the people walked away, all the things that should be removed from the hall were also removed. The Queen Mother Zhou called people in, and at first glance, it was Jiang Meng's apprentice.
"Go and invite Eunuch Sun." The queen mother ordered.
Jiang Meng's apprentice knew the rules very well, bowed back, and ran out of the courtyard quietly with small steps until he exited the door.
The Empress Dowager Zhou pulled out the golden hairpin that tied her hair, threw it into the jewelry box with a clang, leaned on the couch, and asked the maid to come in and beat her scalp and legs.
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"Probably not." Facing the coercion of the emperor, Meng Honglin's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and beads of sweat flowed down his cheeks to his chin. He maintained the posture of kneeling on one knee while replying.
"Have you seen the eunuch's face clearly?" Fu Mingshao asked.
"I don't see clearly..."
"Since that's the case, how can you be sure that it's not the person Duo Qiduo brought in? Or are you covering someone?"
Meng Honglin hurriedly raised his head, then touched the ground with his hands, and kowtowed heavily, his upper body lying extremely low.
"Duo Qiduo and others arrived in the capital a day ago and lived outside the palace. I really didn't see the man who escaped. I don't have conclusive evidence. I dare not slander the envoy."
Fu Mingshao looked down at the commander of the imperial army on the ground, and after a long time, he asked, "Did Zhou Xian come back?"
"He doesn't look like that. This person is much shorter than Zhou Xian." Meng Honglin said, "After Song Qianzhi escaped from the city that day, the number of guards in the capital has increased to [-]. The defense is impeccable, and it is impossible for the rebels to sneak into the city. .”
"It's neither Amodanjung nor Zhou Xian. According to what you say, people from outside the city will never get in. That is, people in the capital want me to die." Fu Mingshao said, his voice getting louder and louder. Lower, as if afraid of disturbing something, "In the capital, they are all my subjects."
"His Majesty!"
Meng Honglin's call awakened Fu Mingshao from his nightmare-like cranky thoughts. He swallowed nervously, calmed down, his eyes flickered, as if he was in An Chen's heart, and he said to himself as if he was in An Chen's heart: "In the capital city , except for that one person, they are all reliable. No one will be so bold, I am the son of destiny, and it is God who wants me to sit in this seat."
Meng Honglin didn't dare to speak, but just knelt down neatly.
Fu Mingshao's sharp eyes swept across Meng Honglin, and he knew in his heart that Meng Honglin would think that "that person" he was talking about was Song Qianzhi who had already defected from the capital.In fact, Fu Mingshao had already turned thousands of thoughts in his mind, including all the senior officials above the third rank in the court, all the officials who had the opportunity to enter and leave the inner palace, and the chief servants of the palace.Not knowing where the enemy is is the scariest thing.
And if it's a person in the city, compared to Li Yeyuan, there is another person who has a better chance of quietly injecting chronic poison that disrupts one's mind into his diet.The food in the palace has to be inspected layer by layer, especially after that incident happened, Fu Mingshao became more cautious.
"His Majesty?"
Fu Mingshao came back to his senses, and his face became more and more gloomy: "I order you to find out this eunuch within five days. He must still be in the palace. I will issue an order to Sun Xiu that you have the right to enter and leave the palace at any time." , enter any palace to search."
"The Queen Mother..."
"You can also search." Fu Mingshao said, "You need to focus on the search, do you know how to do it?"
Meng Honglin nodded quickly: "I know, I know." It is necessary to search things from the Queen Mother's palace, but not to reveal too much traces, which will arouse the Queen Mother's vigilance and even resistance.Meng Honglin was not afraid of Queen Mother Zhou, as Liu Yun gained power, he was promoted step by step, kicking Lu Lin down was nothing to Meng Honglin.He made people stare at Lu Lin, and later learned that Lu Lin had been drunk at home all day long since he was stripped of his title of Commander of the Forbidden Army.From Meng Honglin's point of view, they were all too young. Most of the people led by Lu Lin were the sons and nephews of the border guards who stayed in the capital. It was not so much to give these high-spirited young people a chance to get a job in the imperial army system. Decent, it is better to say that it is a pension given by the imperial court, so that those border generals can feel at ease. If someone dies, he will still end up with a good name as a benevolent and righteous king.
Based on the few historical books Meng Honglin has read and the discussions he has heard around Liu Yun, this simple truth is more or less understandable.
Meng Honglin issued a verbal military order to his emperor, that the eunuch who assassinated Liu Yun would be arrested within five days.
Stepping out of the Chengyuan Hall, Meng Honglin straightened his helmet and glanced at the bottomless sky.This night was actually a rare and clear night, the world was unkind, and all things were treated as dogs.
The unprecedented chaos of the Empress Licensing Ceremony only stopped within the palace gate.
Meng Honglin exhaled with a complicated expression.
Not far away, a person came out from under the tree. It was Sun Xiu who was limping, with clean and new gauze wrapped around his head.Sun Xiu seemed surprised, and immediately greeted him with a happy face, and invited Meng Honglin to his residence for a drink or two.
Meng Honglin thought it meant his residence in the palace.
But Sun Xiu shook her finger and laughed: "Our family also has a kennel outside the palace, His Majesty allows our family to rest at home for an hour or so if we feel unwell in the past two days. Right in Laoque Alley.”
Before Sun Xiu finished speaking, Meng Honglin hurriedly said: "I know this, but I didn't think about it at first. Today is really too messy. Then I will wait at the father-in-law's place. Eat with a glass of wine, and sleep well after eating."
Sun Xiu also said that he could rest at his house when he was drunk, and Meng Honglin was very grateful.Originally, the only person he could rely on in the capital was the old general Liu Yun. Now that Liu Yun had died suddenly, Meng Honglin was also thinking about finding a new way.If there is no one in the palace, his position as the commander of the imperial army will not be secure.
So Meng Honglin resigned first, and Sun Xiu sent her up for nothing and was scolded by Fu Mingshao.
Sun Xiuben was biting the bullet and heading into the Chengyuan Hall, but Fu Mingshao was amiable, as if he wasn't the one who got angry earlier.He wrote and drew on a piece of paper, all of which were people's names, among which was Lu Guan's name, next to it was "Lintai", and Zhou Xian's name was marked in a big big box on the lower left and lower right of Lintai. "×", the domineering strokes showed Fu Mingshao's uncontainable anger.
"Sun Xiu, what kind of poison did the imperial doctor say I had?"
Sun Xiu respectfully followed the imperial physician's words and said, "It's a foreign chronic poison that can disrupt people's minds. When it was introduced into the palace, it sounded like Sirui according to Dr. Fanbang's pronunciation."
"Yizheng also said that this medicine did not come from Amodanrong."
Sun Xiu replied "yes".
"That's not the envoys and Liu Suguang." Fu Mingshao pursed his lips tightly, and finally circled the names of the two people on the paper, "Go and find out where the empress Zhou fought with the first emperor, and where they passed. Except Amadanjung and Heidi, did they pass by other little-known tribes?"
Sun Xiu's eyebrows twitched, his eyes were lowered, and Fu Mingshao couldn't see his expression.
"Yes." Sun Xiu said.
Fu Mingshao was too tired, he leaned against the dragon chair, his whole body was very thin, as if he had put a robe on the chair.
Just when Sun Xiu was about to withdraw quietly from Chengyuan Hall, he heard Fu Mingshao ask: "After Song Qianzhi leaves the capital, who will he go to? If you were him, who would you go to?"
Sun Xiu panicked and said, "How can this slave know this..."
With a slap, Fu Mingshao slapped the table with his palm, and said angrily, "I told you, you just need to tell me what you think in your heart!"
"If... If it's a slave, maybe it will be scattered everywhere."
"Aren't you going to find Bai Guyou?" Fu Mingshao asked in a panic.
"General Bai is loyal to the imperial court. Now that Song Qianzhi is a traitor, everyone in the government and the public knows it. General Bai should have got the news. Going to General Bai is not a way to kill himself."
Fu Mingshao was silent for a moment, then said, "Go ahead."
Sun Xiu thought for a while and replied: "The generals in the court do not have strong troops. If you want to fight against your majesty, the enemy of the enemy is the one you can win over. Therefore, if the slave is Song Qianzhi, he will go to the south to find Sun Yi. After all, Sun Yi has already established himself as a king and is directly against the imperial court. Anyone who establishes himself as a king and cannot be recognized by the mandate of heaven must be punished by heaven. Sun Yi must also know that being king is only an expedient measure. Now Song Qianzhi I have Li Xuan in my hand."
A cold light flashed in Fu Mingshao's eyes.
Sun Xiu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty knows that the servant is the old man in this palace."
In the palace, Sun Xiusheng was the child of a court lady and a guard who had a secret relationship. He was destined to be a slave for the rest of his life at birth, with no roots and no heirs.No one knows better than Sun Xiu that the way to survive in the court is to close their eyes and cut off their ears.The more you can hold back, the more stable and long your life will be.
"It's just a lunatic." Fu Mingshao didn't take it seriously, but heard the eunuch's soft voice saying it.
"Emperor Rongzong is not a descendant of the Fu family."
Fu Mingshao's pupils shrank, and he gasped in disbelief. His heart was beating so fast that he felt dizzy for a moment.
"What did you say?"
"In order to win the position of empress, the late emperor's mother was also a god-given opportunity. When Emperor Ruizong was not in Beiguan to inspect the barracks when she gave birth, she secretly replaced the princess she gave birth with a baby boy outside the palace. Emperor Ruizong's heir Rare, there are only three princes who were born safely, one of them was born with a deficiency, and the other accidentally slipped and drowned when he became an adult."
Fu Mingshao listened in fear, his hands clenched into fists, and cold sweat broke out from his palms.
"You mean, among us, none of us has the blood of the Fu family running on us?"
Sun Xiu dared not speak out.
Fu Mingshao's eyes were empty, and he floated towards the upper part of the main hall. The carved beams and painted pillars all turned into blurred reflections and fell into his eyes.
"Then why is Li Xuan important...everyone is normal." Fu Mingshao's words came to an abrupt end. There is a possibility that Rongzong would care about this prince, even if he was already insane, he would still let the court officials take him away from the court .
"Li Xuan is an illegitimate child, but his mother, the princess who was secretly replaced from the palace, was fostered in the Lihua Nunnery. Rong Zong often visited the Lihua Nunnery and gave birth to Li Xuan."
"Shut up!" Fu Mingshao was furious.
Sun Xiu knelt down with a plop.
The entire Chengyuan Hall fell into dead silence.
Fu Mingshao couldn't help panting, what he saw was absurd, and what he heard was lies.How is this possible?He leaned weakly in the chair, and suddenly thought of the will mentioned by Lu Guan.
Fu Mingshao suddenly laughed strangely, tears leaked from the corners of his eyes, his index finger was bent, and his knuckles touched the corners of his eyes, slightly soaked.
"Where's Lu Guan? Bring him here." Fu Mingshao thought it was too funny, as if a piece of his chest had been taken away by someone. The guesses he had trusted were pretentious, and the royal family was so fucking funny.If the first emperor was not from the royal family of the Fu family, and had been the emperor for a lifetime, what would the people of the world submit to?The name is not right, but his father was just lucky to build a palace in the sky above tens of millions of people, and it was only after his death that this matter surfaced.
And the Zhou family daughter, who was indomitable and favored all over the world, left a seed for the lowly blood that she didn't know where she came from.
How funny and ironic? !
Regardless of the queen or concubine, Rongzong's harem is all women of high status. Behind them stand the famous families who support the rule of the Da Chu Fu family. The descendants of the unknown person in the hand bowed their knees and knelt and surrendered.
The more Fu Mingshao thought about it, the more amusing he became, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.
Amidst the laughter, Sun Xiu put his head on the ground and bowed respectfully, letting the eerie laughter invade his ears.
Fu Mingshao let out a long breath, looked away, touched the ginseng soup on the table with trembling hands, and forced himself to take a sip.
"What are you still kneeling on? Go call someone." Fu Mingshao's tone was calm and his voice was hoarse.
Sun Xiu's legs were numb from kneeling, and she couldn't help shaking when she got up.
Fu Mingshao was stunned, and when Sun Xiu walked to the door, he suddenly stopped him.
Sun Xiu stopped immediately.
"Forget it, you go back to rest first, I will go in person. Where is your godson?"
Sun Xiu was overwhelmed with flattery: "Your Majesty..." He showed just the right amount of panic, quickly cast a glance at the emperor, and said in a low voice, "Thank you Lord Long for your kindness."
Fu Mingshao strode out of Chengyuan Hall, waving his robe sleeves back and forth, as if he didn't hear what Sun Xiu said at all.
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"Let's go, come out." Lu Guan sent Li Mingchang away, lifted the veil hanging from the side of the couch with one hand, but didn't look at the couch, but watched the doors and windows vigilantly, in case someone came over suddenly.
"Thank you, Mr. Lu." Liu Suguang breathed a sigh of relief, the face powder she had applied on her face was completely soaked in sweat, making her complexion not only white, but also a little transparent and clear.
When Lu Guan first looked at her, his eyes didn't stay there. When he turned his face away, he didn't know why, so he turned around and took another look at Liu Suguang.
Liu Suguang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Have Master Lu recovered from his injuries?"
Lu Guan touched the bandage on his body, and said calmly: "It won't be complete for a while, but it doesn't matter."
"Then, my lord, when are you going to take action?" Liu Suguang said.
Lu Guan glanced at the door and window again, and said indifferently, "What action? No action. I'm recuperating in the palace, and I'll talk about it when I recover."
"What Li Mingchang said, is your lord not at all tempted?"
The corners of Lu Guan's mouth curled up, and he said contemptuously: "Great Chu has been a country for hundreds of years, and its territory is larger than that of Amodanrong and Hei Di combined. Chu became a vassal state of Amodanjung, I did not directly reject Li Mingchang, because I took into account his face as an important envoy."
"How does your lord know that?"
Lu Guan: "This is impossible."
Liu Suguang remained silent, her beautiful eyes moved her eyeballs slowly and tremblingly, stared at Lu Guan, and said calmly: "I am a gift from Li Mingchang to Fu Mingshao, not as a beauty, but as a meticulous work, to be a tool for him to use. A precious sword. Li Mingchang's family has never traded at a loss."
That is to say, Fu Mingshao and Li Mingchang have a deal.This thought sent chills down Lu Guan's heart.It is not right for a monarch to make deals with the prime ministers of other countries. What Li Mingchang can give to the monarch of a country, and what Li Mingchang intends to get from the monarch of other countries.
Fu Mingshao is already the emperor, what he lacks is only two things: real power and crown prince.
In this short moment, thousands of thoughts turned in Lu Guan's mind, and he asked the question he wanted to know the most: "Why did you tell me?"
"Because I figured out one thing." Liu Suguang said, "I just lost a child. I owe the Li family a life. It's fair to pay it back with my life."
Lu Guan didn't ask who the child belonged to, he flapped his nostrils lightly and made a decision.
"What's your plan? Also, why did Li Mingchang chase you here? Why did he stare at you? Tonight is the Empress Liberation Ceremony..." Lu Guan stared at Liu Suguang with sharp eyes, "Did something happen during the ceremony?"
"The queen and Liu Yun are both dead."
Even though Lu Guan had expected it long ago, this answer still made his heart skip a beat, and he asked with a bad face, "Who did it? It was you?"
"Yes and no."
Lu Guan: "Speak directly."
"Liu Yun's daughter was killed by the emperor himself, because of me. Liu Yun was shot to death in disorder. I don't know who it is. It may be the Queen Mother, or Li Xiang, or even Qin Yuning."
Lu Guan was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Bai Guyou is a loyal minister, everyone knows it, but in the past six months, almost all the military power in the court has been taken into his hands, the court is afraid of him, Liu Yun is in power It is necessary, not only Fu Mingshao wants to use Liu Yun. Fu Mingshao is suspicious, and one more person enters his field of vision, but it is not bad for the Queen Mother and Li Yeyuan. Qin Yuning will not engage in assassination."
Liu Suguang wanted to say something, but he held back.
Lu Guan said: "You can't stay here anymore." He suddenly changed his expression, pulled Liu Suguang up, and pushed her towards the entrance of the hall, "Don't come to me these few days, when the person who assassinated Liu Yun is caught, Go find Jiang again..." Lu Guan suddenly fell silent, and pushed Liu Suguang to the window.
Liu Suguang didn't understand why, just when she was about to fall out of the window, Lu Guan straightened her upright.
At the same time as the door opened.
Lu Guan grabbed Liu Suguang's arm very hard, making Liu Suguang stabilize his figure.
Fu Mingshao was alone, he opened the door and came in, glanced at Lu Guan, and then coldly glanced at the woman halfway behind Lu Guan.
Lu Guan saluted Fu Mingshao.
Liu Suguang also knelt down.
Fu Mingshao didn't tell them to get up, until the boots appeared in Lu Guan's field of vision, he helped Lu Guan who was kneeling on the ground with his own hands, and calmly said: "Why don't you lie on the couch and have a good rest? Does it make me feel bad?"
Liu Suguang didn't dare to raise her head, she felt a faint tingling in her scalp.
"I can't sleep all the time. I heard from the palace people that Miss Liu can make incense. I want to ask her to make a soothing incense for me."
"Next time, let Sun Xiu handle such trivial matters."
Lu Guancheng said in fear, "Eunuch Sun belongs to His Majesty."
"You can use all my people."
Lu Guan breathed very slowly, he lowered his head, his eyebrows were hard and protruding, and his eye sockets were extremely deep. After Fu Mingshao helped him up, the shadow cast by his tall body completely enveloped Fu Mingshao.
"Your Majesty, I will take my leave first." Liu Suguang looked flustered and embarrassed as he did not dare to disturb the emperor's good deeds.
Fu Mingshao didn't make a sound to stop her resignation, which made Liu Suguang sweat all over his back. However, just as Liu Suguang was about to leave the dormitory, Fu Mingshao pressed his forehead with one hand and said, "Stop."
Liu Suguang thumped in his heart, then stopped, and looked at Fu Mingshao in a flustered and timid way.
"What else does His Majesty order?"
"The singer at the Empress Liberation Ceremony, is that you?" Fu Mingshao even had a smile on his lips.
Liu Suguang settled down in his heart, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice, "Return to Your Majesty, tonight's singer is Qin Meiren."
The smile on the corner of Fu Mingshao's mouth widened, and he raised his voice, "Come here."
After a while, a palace attendant entered the room, and heard the emperor order: "Let someone check who is the singer arranged at the empress ceremony."
The palace servant was about to leave.
Fu Mingshao held Lu Guan's hand with one hand, and looked at Liu Suguang casually: "No matter who it is, take it to the prison and stick it to death, don't let me know."
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Fu Mingshao didn't stay in the bedroom for too long that night, just as he was about to say something to Lu Guan, Qin Yuning entered the palace at night because of the military emergency, and Fu Mingshao had to go back to Chengyuan Hall to deal with business.
Fu Mingshao left, and then Lu Guan asked someone from Jiang Meng to inquire.
In less than half an hour, he learned the news that Qin Mingxue was killed with a stick.
When Lu Guan got the news, he sent people away, and sat in the hall wearing a robe, thinking about what happened all day.
The emperor killed his own empress at the empress ceremony. The empress' father became violent because of the sudden murder of his daughter. He wanted to assassinate the emperor, but was killed by an unknown eunuch.
The eunuch had a chance to shoot Liu Yun, but Liu Yun rushed to kill him.
"Protect Your Majesty!" Chief Eunuch Sun Xiu covered the bleeding wound.
Yubayashi Weiru woke up from the dream, a guard stepped forward and stabbed Liu Yun's body, and then several times.
Li Yeyuan fell to the ground, knelt down towards Fu Mingshao, and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty is frightened."
Fu Mingshao's eyes were full of confusion, he put his hand on his forehead, stepped back a few steps, and wrinkled his brows forcefully. He lowered his head and faced the empress with twisted neck and death. The red veil and golden headdress made the empress's face even darker.
Not far away, Liu Yun, who fell to the ground, was covered in blood.
"Stop it all." Fu Mingshao murmured, his footsteps were weak, his whole body was shaking, and he was supported by Li Yeyuan.
Fu Mingshao's face was full of shock, doubts, and fear. He froze for a while, and waved away Li Yeyuan's hand, as if bitten by a poisonous snake, he quickly retracted his hand and backed away.
The bright colors of red and black intertwined in the whole hall flickered in front of Fu Mingshao, and the world was spinning. He sat down on the ground, opened his mouth, and yelled hoarsely at the Habayashi guard who was still stabbing Liu Yun: "Everyone! Stop! Do you think I'm dead? I tell you to stop!"
The guard cut his eyes full of blood.
Meng Honglin stepped forward quickly, grabbed the guard's knife-holding hand, and slapped him twice.
The guard was completely woken up and knelt down in panic.
"Li Xiang." Fu Mingshao roared in a deep voice.
Li Yeyuan stepped forward and knelt down.
"Let people thoroughly investigate whether there are drugs in my diet and spices that disturb the mind and drive people crazy. We must find out the murderer." Fu Mingshao rubbed his eyes vigorously with the palm of his hand. When he looked up, his eyes were blood red, and tears dripped from the corners Wu, Meifeng trembled submissively, "I will block the news about today's affairs in the palace, and don't allow it to be leaked out. Two days later, the empress will be mourned, and it will be said... that the empress is weak. Before getting married, she had contracted an illness and unfortunately died of illness."
Fu Mingshao glanced at Liu Yun and waved his hands, feeling extremely tired.
Li Yeyuan hurriedly said: "I know how to deal with it, please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will not let the people discuss it."
Fu Mingshao raised his head and stretched out his hand to Meng Honglin.
Meng Honglin helped the emperor up with fear and sincerity.
As Fu Mingshao walked out, the Imperial Army gave way, and Fu Mingshao walked up to Duo Qiduo in a vain footsteps. With a pale face, he said in a deep voice: "The eldest prince came from a long way, and he is in the palace. Stay for a few days." Fu Mingshao's voice trembled.
The people from Chu beside Duo Qiduo whispered to him.
Duo Qiduo's amber eyes looked around, her thin lips curled up, and she cupped her fists and said, "The palace has undergone great changes, if the Emperor of Chu needs our help, please come forward."
Fu Mingshao waved his hand, shook his head and said, "Tonight the eldest prince will rest first, and tomorrow I will invite you to enjoy flowers and drink tea."
Duo Qiduo didn't say any more, and went out with his subordinates. Sun Xiu ordered people to take this special group of envoys to live in Yingchun Garden tonight.
The Imperial Army searched the entire palace for the eunuch who shot and killed Liu Yun until the third watch, when Meng Honglin returned to Chengyuan Hall to return.
There were fierce voices in the hall, Meng Honglin bowed outside the hall, and raised his voice to ask for instructions: "Your Majesty, my minister Meng Honglin asks for his return."
A man rushed out, his head was covered with blood, and the iconic eunuch said softly, "Commander Meng, please come in." Sun Xiu wiped the blood from her forehead with her backhand, took a step forward, and swayed , almost fell to the ground, but fortunately was helped by Meng Honglin.
Sun Xiu's bloody hand tightened on the sleeve of Meng Honglin's black robe. Panting for breath, he glanced at Meng Honglin inexplicably, and said softly, "Your Majesty is in a bad mood. Commander, please be more cautious when answering."
Meng Honglin looked at Sun Xiu gratefully, and wanted to help him further away, and let Sun Xiu sit down before entering the hall.
Fu Mingshao's voice came from the hall: "Meng Honglin, get out!"
Meng Honglin frowned, and immediately went to see Sun Xiu. Sun Xiu was lowering his head. He had injuries on his body and his face was ashen. Meng Honglin thought that he was thinking too much, and Sun Xiu probably didn't notice his expression.
"Director Sun, I won't send you off." Meng Honglin let go of his hand, and entered the Chengyuan Hall with a look of sincerity and fear.
Behind Meng Honglin, Sun Xiu raised his head. His complexion was very bad, but his eyes were bright, as if he was thinking of something.
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The door of the sleeping hall was pushed open, and a woman in a white dress rushed in, staring with panicked eyes, with a hint of red at the end of her eyes.
She slammed the door shut and took off her veil under the man's icy gaze.
Lu Guanjin frowned: "Why are you?" He pulled out the dagger hidden in his sleeve and threw it on the table with a clang.He was wearing a big robe, below his open chest, his waist was wrapped in layers of gauze, and his gaze was fixed on Liu Suguang.
"I..." Liu Suguang swallowed hard, tears leaked from the corners of his eyes, "Lord Lu, please save me."
Lu Guan frowned more and more tightly: "What did you do?"
"Li Mingchang wants to kill me to silence him."
"Li Mingchang?" Lu Guan hadn't had time to ask if Li Mingchang was far away in the Royal Court of Amodanjung, when he heard hurried footsteps outside the bedroom, he grabbed Liu Suguang's shoulder, and pushed her out with great strength. Liu Suguang rolled into the corner of the bed, and the curtain fell down.
There is a window in the hall, and the breeze blows outside the window.
Along with the knock on the door, a man's voice sounded: "Amodanjung envoy asks to see the Secretary and Superintendent."
Lu Guan glanced at the couch, only a pile of quilts could be seen on the couch behind the gauze curtain.
The door opened, and a gloomy man's face appeared in the door. His eyes were like the eyes of a bird of prey. His robe was wide open and his waist was wrapped with a bandage. He should have been injured recently and has not yet healed.The chest and abdomen muscles are extremely strong, and there are thick calluses of warriors visible to the naked eye on the hand pressing on the door frame.
Li Mingchang withdrew his gaze, lowered his head, and said respectfully: "Master Secretary Supervisor, I am the envoy of Amodanrong. I have important matters to discuss. I wonder if it is convenient for you."
Liu Suguang was lying face down on the couch, four or five lumbar pillows and quilts piled up to block her frail and slender body.The gauze curtain hanging by the side of the couch was translucent, and Li Mingchang could be seen indistinctly. He followed Lu Guan into the room and closed the door.
"Let's not close the door." Lu Guan raised his head and pointed his mouth in the direction of the door.
Li Mingchang was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's because I didn't think carefully. Don't worry, my lord. I came to see you tonight with the consent of our eldest prince."
A few days ago, Lu Guan had heard that Duo Qiduo had arrived in the capital, but he never expected that Fu Mingshao would invite Duo Qiduo to the palace to observe the ceremony.
"I heard that four of your jockeys have already arrived outside Beiguan. I don't know what the eldest prince asked you to come to me, what do you want to say?" Lu Guan paused, took a sip of tea, and didn't ask the visitor if he would like to drink or not. Take a look at him from the teacup: the person in front of me speaks standard official speech, and he was born with a Chu face. If it weren't for Duo Qiduodai's translator, there would be only one person in the entire Amodanjung court with this status and courage , Walking in the unfamiliar Dachu Palace thousands of miles away.
Li Mingchang put his sleeves in his arms, and glanced at the side of the couch calmly.
Lu Guan drank his tea with downcast eyes, as if he didn't notice anything.
Li Mingchang smiled on his lips, and said with a pleasant face: "The eldest prince heard that the Secretary Department is directly under the Great Chu Emperor, and plans to establish an institution in the Amodanjung court that is only loyal to the royal family. Let me learn from your lord. "
Lu Guan sneered and said: "Raising a bunch of lackeys and traveling thousands of miles to other countries to learn Buddhist scriptures is unheard of. Let the Prime Minister personally ask about trivial matters. Duo Qiduo is not so stupid."
Li Mingchang was stunned for a moment, the corners of his mouth curled up, and then he laughed loudly.
"I can't hide it from Mr. Lu." Li Mingchang said, "It's because I treated people dishonestly that made Mr. Lu laugh. To be honest, I went to Mr. Lu to give him a big official hat."
Lu looked at the teacup in his hand, raised his head, raised his eyebrows and looked directly at Li Mingchang: "Speak."
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The two night-duty eunuchs guarding outside the Queen Mother's bedroom were sent away by Jiang Meng. He stood outside the door in person, just at the place where the moonlight slanted down. If he took a step forward, he would be bathed in the clear silver light inside.
The eunuch's shoes did not protrude half an inch, and he stayed in the darkness all the time. He turned a deaf ear to the quarrels in the hall, and even closed his eyes contentedly. He didn't know what he was thinking, and there was a satisfied smile on his lips. .
In the palace, the Empress Dowager Zhou took off her hairpins, rings, jewelry, and heavy and cumbersome court clothes, like an ordinary woman, with a little powder and black, and a long smoky blue dress.
The fish soup splashed by the spoon just dropped, with fine oil droplets, stayed on the back of her hand.
"Why are you so angry? Is it because I don't want to come to the palace to see you? I dream of staying in this palace every day, but is it possible? Unless I have a heart of disobedience!" Li Ye was extremely energetic, his beard straight trembling.
Empress Dowager Zhou sneered: "Is the girl in your other courtyard pregnant with wild dogs?"
"You..." Li Yeyuan's expression froze, and he let out a breath. His stiff and cold expression was as if the spring breeze had thawed. , I have no successors in the Li family, right?" He raised his eyes, his eyes full of warmth, which is also the helplessness of an old man, "For you, I am willing to have no descendants, I know that you only love the late emperor in your life."
The Empress Dowager Zhou wanted to say something, but Li Yeyuan pressed her lips with her index finger.
Li Ye raised his eyes in vain, hissed softly like coaxing a child, stroked the loose and straight black hair of the Empress Dowager Zhou with one hand, and said lightly: "It's you who are using me, and I will admit it. A woman like you Well, where is there any man in the whole Great Chu who is worthy of him? The first emperor was just lucky. I quarrel. I am not angry with you. When have I ever been angry with you? Even if you are self-willed, unreasonable, quick-tempered, and not thoughtful enough in doing things, with me, no matter what you do, I will give you Going around. Tell me, who else is as cowardly as me, so not a man? "
"What nonsense are you talking about?" the queen mother dissatisfied, "the more you talk, the more ugly you are. I forgot what my father told you before he left?"
Li Yeyuan laughed, filled a bowl of soup for the Queen Mother, pushed it in front of her, and coaxed: "I didn't eat anything tonight, drink some more, you are so sick, your face is out of shape, I feel distressed seeing it .”
The Empress Dowager Zhou glanced at Tang with a weary look.
Li Yeyuan rolled up his sleeves, blew the fish soup just right, without burning his mouth, and fed her spoonful by spoonful.
After drinking the fifth spoonful, Li Yeyuan wiped the queen mother's mouth with a handkerchief, and focused on the soup spoon, which was full and would not overflow.
"Since you didn't do anything, where did you hide the medicine I gave you? It's a forbidden medicine in the palace, and you can't handle it properly. Fu Mingshao is a bit dull, and he is still the emperor. He said it once, and you said it again. The two contradict, who do you listen to when you say people in the palace?"
"Give me a slice of bamboo shoots." The queen mother did not answer.
And Li Yeyuan gently fed her vegetables and food as she ordered.
The Empress Dowager Zhou had almost finished eating, she let out a long breath, and looked at Li Yeyuan with a complicated expression. She raised her hand and touched Li Yeyuan's face. Li Yeyuan was getting old, which made her feel uncomfortable, and she held her breath in her nasal cavity for a long time , the nostrils trembled slightly, letting the breath out without showing any trace.
"Fu Mingshao can't die yet. The road leading to Qizhou is completely blocked. My order cannot go to Dongming Palace, and I don't have a reliable person to handle it. The Amodanrong people are ready and will pounce on them at any time. , Fu Mingshao must wait for Dongming Queen's mother and son to enter Beijing before Fu Mingshao can die, otherwise he will be gone, and Dachu will be gone, so what is there to fight for?" The queen mother said, "There is only one chance, and once things fail, you will become king." Defeat, Fu Mingshao is not my own son. Just as I can kill him cruelly, he will never be merciless to me. He can even kill his biological father and married wife, let alone me who has no relatives A related aunt?"
A worm crawled into Jiang Meng's neck. He frowned, raised his hand and pressed lightly near the collarbone. Under the fabric, the worm's small body protruded a little, and it bit when it was pressed down.
Jiang Meng's brows deepened, and she stretched her hands, and after a while, she opened her eyebrows.
He reached in to catch the dead bug. The bug had been crushed, and Jiang Meng's fingers were stained with black pulp mixed with human blood. He endured nausea and flew the bug bullet into the night.His brows were wrinkled and wrinkled, and his collarbone always felt hot and itchy. After scratching it a few times, a lump swelled inside instead.
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Li Yeyuan looked at the Empress Dowager Zhou with a complicated expression, pondered for a moment, and said: "But this medicine is kept in the palace, once it is found out..."
The Empress Dowager Zhou frowned: "Who dares to search my place?" The corners of her lips were pulled down in displeasure, and she said calmly, "Even if it is Fu Mingshao, he would not dare to let the Imperial Army search my palace. Besides, I have my own plans. You just need to do one thing for me."
Li Yeyuan sighed, with fondness in his eyes, put down his chopsticks, and said softly: "Isn't it just to send someone to Qizhou to pick up King Dongming to Beijing? I'll do it."
"Of course I don't worry about you doing things, but you have to be careful." The queen mother thought for a while and said, "You are acting too rashly today. Liu Yun is in the way, but you can also restrain Bai Guyou. Now Liu Yun is dead. I'm afraid it's not easy to tidy up his old department, and those soldiers and ruffians may fall apart and fail to achieve great things."
"You mean the eunuch who shot Liu Yun to death?"
When the queen mother heard the way, she raised her eyebrows and said, "Isn't it someone you arranged?"
"I thought it was your arrangement." Li Yeyuan paused, "So it's not yours, could it be Amodanjung?"
The queen mother was silent and didn't speak, and perfunctory Li Yeyuan a few words, let him go first, and ordered Jiang Meng to see him off in person.When the people walked away, all the things that should be removed from the hall were also removed. The Queen Mother Zhou called people in, and at first glance, it was Jiang Meng's apprentice.
"Go and invite Eunuch Sun." The queen mother ordered.
Jiang Meng's apprentice knew the rules very well, bowed back, and ran out of the courtyard quietly with small steps until he exited the door.
The Empress Dowager Zhou pulled out the golden hairpin that tied her hair, threw it into the jewelry box with a clang, leaned on the couch, and asked the maid to come in and beat her scalp and legs.
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"Probably not." Facing the coercion of the emperor, Meng Honglin's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and beads of sweat flowed down his cheeks to his chin. He maintained the posture of kneeling on one knee while replying.
"Have you seen the eunuch's face clearly?" Fu Mingshao asked.
"I don't see clearly..."
"Since that's the case, how can you be sure that it's not the person Duo Qiduo brought in? Or are you covering someone?"
Meng Honglin hurriedly raised his head, then touched the ground with his hands, and kowtowed heavily, his upper body lying extremely low.
"Duo Qiduo and others arrived in the capital a day ago and lived outside the palace. I really didn't see the man who escaped. I don't have conclusive evidence. I dare not slander the envoy."
Fu Mingshao looked down at the commander of the imperial army on the ground, and after a long time, he asked, "Did Zhou Xian come back?"
"He doesn't look like that. This person is much shorter than Zhou Xian." Meng Honglin said, "After Song Qianzhi escaped from the city that day, the number of guards in the capital has increased to [-]. The defense is impeccable, and it is impossible for the rebels to sneak into the city. .”
"It's neither Amodanjung nor Zhou Xian. According to what you say, people from outside the city will never get in. That is, people in the capital want me to die." Fu Mingshao said, his voice getting louder and louder. Lower, as if afraid of disturbing something, "In the capital, they are all my subjects."
"His Majesty!"
Meng Honglin's call awakened Fu Mingshao from his nightmare-like cranky thoughts. He swallowed nervously, calmed down, his eyes flickered, as if he was in An Chen's heart, and he said to himself as if he was in An Chen's heart: "In the capital city , except for that one person, they are all reliable. No one will be so bold, I am the son of destiny, and it is God who wants me to sit in this seat."
Meng Honglin didn't dare to speak, but just knelt down neatly.
Fu Mingshao's sharp eyes swept across Meng Honglin, and he knew in his heart that Meng Honglin would think that "that person" he was talking about was Song Qianzhi who had already defected from the capital.In fact, Fu Mingshao had already turned thousands of thoughts in his mind, including all the senior officials above the third rank in the court, all the officials who had the opportunity to enter and leave the inner palace, and the chief servants of the palace.Not knowing where the enemy is is the scariest thing.
And if it's a person in the city, compared to Li Yeyuan, there is another person who has a better chance of quietly injecting chronic poison that disrupts one's mind into his diet.The food in the palace has to be inspected layer by layer, especially after that incident happened, Fu Mingshao became more cautious.
"His Majesty?"
Fu Mingshao came back to his senses, and his face became more and more gloomy: "I order you to find out this eunuch within five days. He must still be in the palace. I will issue an order to Sun Xiu that you have the right to enter and leave the palace at any time." , enter any palace to search."
"The Queen Mother..."
"You can also search." Fu Mingshao said, "You need to focus on the search, do you know how to do it?"
Meng Honglin nodded quickly: "I know, I know." It is necessary to search things from the Queen Mother's palace, but not to reveal too much traces, which will arouse the Queen Mother's vigilance and even resistance.Meng Honglin was not afraid of Queen Mother Zhou, as Liu Yun gained power, he was promoted step by step, kicking Lu Lin down was nothing to Meng Honglin.He made people stare at Lu Lin, and later learned that Lu Lin had been drunk at home all day long since he was stripped of his title of Commander of the Forbidden Army.From Meng Honglin's point of view, they were all too young. Most of the people led by Lu Lin were the sons and nephews of the border guards who stayed in the capital. It was not so much to give these high-spirited young people a chance to get a job in the imperial army system. Decent, it is better to say that it is a pension given by the imperial court, so that those border generals can feel at ease. If someone dies, he will still end up with a good name as a benevolent and righteous king.
Based on the few historical books Meng Honglin has read and the discussions he has heard around Liu Yun, this simple truth is more or less understandable.
Meng Honglin issued a verbal military order to his emperor, that the eunuch who assassinated Liu Yun would be arrested within five days.
Stepping out of the Chengyuan Hall, Meng Honglin straightened his helmet and glanced at the bottomless sky.This night was actually a rare and clear night, the world was unkind, and all things were treated as dogs.
The unprecedented chaos of the Empress Licensing Ceremony only stopped within the palace gate.
Meng Honglin exhaled with a complicated expression.
Not far away, a person came out from under the tree. It was Sun Xiu who was limping, with clean and new gauze wrapped around his head.Sun Xiu seemed surprised, and immediately greeted him with a happy face, and invited Meng Honglin to his residence for a drink or two.
Meng Honglin thought it meant his residence in the palace.
But Sun Xiu shook her finger and laughed: "Our family also has a kennel outside the palace, His Majesty allows our family to rest at home for an hour or so if we feel unwell in the past two days. Right in Laoque Alley.”
Before Sun Xiu finished speaking, Meng Honglin hurriedly said: "I know this, but I didn't think about it at first. Today is really too messy. Then I will wait at the father-in-law's place. Eat with a glass of wine, and sleep well after eating."
Sun Xiu also said that he could rest at his house when he was drunk, and Meng Honglin was very grateful.Originally, the only person he could rely on in the capital was the old general Liu Yun. Now that Liu Yun had died suddenly, Meng Honglin was also thinking about finding a new way.If there is no one in the palace, his position as the commander of the imperial army will not be secure.
So Meng Honglin resigned first, and Sun Xiu sent her up for nothing and was scolded by Fu Mingshao.
Sun Xiuben was biting the bullet and heading into the Chengyuan Hall, but Fu Mingshao was amiable, as if he wasn't the one who got angry earlier.He wrote and drew on a piece of paper, all of which were people's names, among which was Lu Guan's name, next to it was "Lintai", and Zhou Xian's name was marked in a big big box on the lower left and lower right of Lintai. "×", the domineering strokes showed Fu Mingshao's uncontainable anger.
"Sun Xiu, what kind of poison did the imperial doctor say I had?"
Sun Xiu respectfully followed the imperial physician's words and said, "It's a foreign chronic poison that can disrupt people's minds. When it was introduced into the palace, it sounded like Sirui according to Dr. Fanbang's pronunciation."
"Yizheng also said that this medicine did not come from Amodanrong."
Sun Xiu replied "yes".
"That's not the envoys and Liu Suguang." Fu Mingshao pursed his lips tightly, and finally circled the names of the two people on the paper, "Go and find out where the empress Zhou fought with the first emperor, and where they passed. Except Amadanjung and Heidi, did they pass by other little-known tribes?"
Sun Xiu's eyebrows twitched, his eyes were lowered, and Fu Mingshao couldn't see his expression.
"Yes." Sun Xiu said.
Fu Mingshao was too tired, he leaned against the dragon chair, his whole body was very thin, as if he had put a robe on the chair.
Just when Sun Xiu was about to withdraw quietly from Chengyuan Hall, he heard Fu Mingshao ask: "After Song Qianzhi leaves the capital, who will he go to? If you were him, who would you go to?"
Sun Xiu panicked and said, "How can this slave know this..."
With a slap, Fu Mingshao slapped the table with his palm, and said angrily, "I told you, you just need to tell me what you think in your heart!"
"If... If it's a slave, maybe it will be scattered everywhere."
"Aren't you going to find Bai Guyou?" Fu Mingshao asked in a panic.
"General Bai is loyal to the imperial court. Now that Song Qianzhi is a traitor, everyone in the government and the public knows it. General Bai should have got the news. Going to General Bai is not a way to kill himself."
Fu Mingshao was silent for a moment, then said, "Go ahead."
Sun Xiu thought for a while and replied: "The generals in the court do not have strong troops. If you want to fight against your majesty, the enemy of the enemy is the one you can win over. Therefore, if the slave is Song Qianzhi, he will go to the south to find Sun Yi. After all, Sun Yi has already established himself as a king and is directly against the imperial court. Anyone who establishes himself as a king and cannot be recognized by the mandate of heaven must be punished by heaven. Sun Yi must also know that being king is only an expedient measure. Now Song Qianzhi I have Li Xuan in my hand."
A cold light flashed in Fu Mingshao's eyes.
Sun Xiu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty knows that the servant is the old man in this palace."
In the palace, Sun Xiusheng was the child of a court lady and a guard who had a secret relationship. He was destined to be a slave for the rest of his life at birth, with no roots and no heirs.No one knows better than Sun Xiu that the way to survive in the court is to close their eyes and cut off their ears.The more you can hold back, the more stable and long your life will be.
"It's just a lunatic." Fu Mingshao didn't take it seriously, but heard the eunuch's soft voice saying it.
"Emperor Rongzong is not a descendant of the Fu family."
Fu Mingshao's pupils shrank, and he gasped in disbelief. His heart was beating so fast that he felt dizzy for a moment.
"What did you say?"
"In order to win the position of empress, the late emperor's mother was also a god-given opportunity. When Emperor Ruizong was not in Beiguan to inspect the barracks when she gave birth, she secretly replaced the princess she gave birth with a baby boy outside the palace. Emperor Ruizong's heir Rare, there are only three princes who were born safely, one of them was born with a deficiency, and the other accidentally slipped and drowned when he became an adult."
Fu Mingshao listened in fear, his hands clenched into fists, and cold sweat broke out from his palms.
"You mean, among us, none of us has the blood of the Fu family running on us?"
Sun Xiu dared not speak out.
Fu Mingshao's eyes were empty, and he floated towards the upper part of the main hall. The carved beams and painted pillars all turned into blurred reflections and fell into his eyes.
"Then why is Li Xuan important...everyone is normal." Fu Mingshao's words came to an abrupt end. There is a possibility that Rongzong would care about this prince, even if he was already insane, he would still let the court officials take him away from the court .
"Li Xuan is an illegitimate child, but his mother, the princess who was secretly replaced from the palace, was fostered in the Lihua Nunnery. Rong Zong often visited the Lihua Nunnery and gave birth to Li Xuan."
"Shut up!" Fu Mingshao was furious.
Sun Xiu knelt down with a plop.
The entire Chengyuan Hall fell into dead silence.
Fu Mingshao couldn't help panting, what he saw was absurd, and what he heard was lies.How is this possible?He leaned weakly in the chair, and suddenly thought of the will mentioned by Lu Guan.
Fu Mingshao suddenly laughed strangely, tears leaked from the corners of his eyes, his index finger was bent, and his knuckles touched the corners of his eyes, slightly soaked.
"Where's Lu Guan? Bring him here." Fu Mingshao thought it was too funny, as if a piece of his chest had been taken away by someone. The guesses he had trusted were pretentious, and the royal family was so fucking funny.If the first emperor was not from the royal family of the Fu family, and had been the emperor for a lifetime, what would the people of the world submit to?The name is not right, but his father was just lucky to build a palace in the sky above tens of millions of people, and it was only after his death that this matter surfaced.
And the Zhou family daughter, who was indomitable and favored all over the world, left a seed for the lowly blood that she didn't know where she came from.
How funny and ironic? !
Regardless of the queen or concubine, Rongzong's harem is all women of high status. Behind them stand the famous families who support the rule of the Da Chu Fu family. The descendants of the unknown person in the hand bowed their knees and knelt and surrendered.
The more Fu Mingshao thought about it, the more amusing he became, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.
Amidst the laughter, Sun Xiu put his head on the ground and bowed respectfully, letting the eerie laughter invade his ears.
Fu Mingshao let out a long breath, looked away, touched the ginseng soup on the table with trembling hands, and forced himself to take a sip.
"What are you still kneeling on? Go call someone." Fu Mingshao's tone was calm and his voice was hoarse.
Sun Xiu's legs were numb from kneeling, and she couldn't help shaking when she got up.
Fu Mingshao was stunned, and when Sun Xiu walked to the door, he suddenly stopped him.
Sun Xiu stopped immediately.
"Forget it, you go back to rest first, I will go in person. Where is your godson?"
Sun Xiu was overwhelmed with flattery: "Your Majesty..." He showed just the right amount of panic, quickly cast a glance at the emperor, and said in a low voice, "Thank you Lord Long for your kindness."
Fu Mingshao strode out of Chengyuan Hall, waving his robe sleeves back and forth, as if he didn't hear what Sun Xiu said at all.
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"Let's go, come out." Lu Guan sent Li Mingchang away, lifted the veil hanging from the side of the couch with one hand, but didn't look at the couch, but watched the doors and windows vigilantly, in case someone came over suddenly.
"Thank you, Mr. Lu." Liu Suguang breathed a sigh of relief, the face powder she had applied on her face was completely soaked in sweat, making her complexion not only white, but also a little transparent and clear.
When Lu Guan first looked at her, his eyes didn't stay there. When he turned his face away, he didn't know why, so he turned around and took another look at Liu Suguang.
Liu Suguang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Have Master Lu recovered from his injuries?"
Lu Guan touched the bandage on his body, and said calmly: "It won't be complete for a while, but it doesn't matter."
"Then, my lord, when are you going to take action?" Liu Suguang said.
Lu Guan glanced at the door and window again, and said indifferently, "What action? No action. I'm recuperating in the palace, and I'll talk about it when I recover."
"What Li Mingchang said, is your lord not at all tempted?"
The corners of Lu Guan's mouth curled up, and he said contemptuously: "Great Chu has been a country for hundreds of years, and its territory is larger than that of Amodanrong and Hei Di combined. Chu became a vassal state of Amodanjung, I did not directly reject Li Mingchang, because I took into account his face as an important envoy."
"How does your lord know that?"
Lu Guan: "This is impossible."
Liu Suguang remained silent, her beautiful eyes moved her eyeballs slowly and tremblingly, stared at Lu Guan, and said calmly: "I am a gift from Li Mingchang to Fu Mingshao, not as a beauty, but as a meticulous work, to be a tool for him to use. A precious sword. Li Mingchang's family has never traded at a loss."
That is to say, Fu Mingshao and Li Mingchang have a deal.This thought sent chills down Lu Guan's heart.It is not right for a monarch to make deals with the prime ministers of other countries. What Li Mingchang can give to the monarch of a country, and what Li Mingchang intends to get from the monarch of other countries.
Fu Mingshao is already the emperor, what he lacks is only two things: real power and crown prince.
In this short moment, thousands of thoughts turned in Lu Guan's mind, and he asked the question he wanted to know the most: "Why did you tell me?"
"Because I figured out one thing." Liu Suguang said, "I just lost a child. I owe the Li family a life. It's fair to pay it back with my life."
Lu Guan didn't ask who the child belonged to, he flapped his nostrils lightly and made a decision.
"What's your plan? Also, why did Li Mingchang chase you here? Why did he stare at you? Tonight is the Empress Liberation Ceremony..." Lu Guan stared at Liu Suguang with sharp eyes, "Did something happen during the ceremony?"
"The queen and Liu Yun are both dead."
Even though Lu Guan had expected it long ago, this answer still made his heart skip a beat, and he asked with a bad face, "Who did it? It was you?"
"Yes and no."
Lu Guan: "Speak directly."
"Liu Yun's daughter was killed by the emperor himself, because of me. Liu Yun was shot to death in disorder. I don't know who it is. It may be the Queen Mother, or Li Xiang, or even Qin Yuning."
Lu Guan was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Bai Guyou is a loyal minister, everyone knows it, but in the past six months, almost all the military power in the court has been taken into his hands, the court is afraid of him, Liu Yun is in power It is necessary, not only Fu Mingshao wants to use Liu Yun. Fu Mingshao is suspicious, and one more person enters his field of vision, but it is not bad for the Queen Mother and Li Yeyuan. Qin Yuning will not engage in assassination."
Liu Suguang wanted to say something, but he held back.
Lu Guan said: "You can't stay here anymore." He suddenly changed his expression, pulled Liu Suguang up, and pushed her towards the entrance of the hall, "Don't come to me these few days, when the person who assassinated Liu Yun is caught, Go find Jiang again..." Lu Guan suddenly fell silent, and pushed Liu Suguang to the window.
Liu Suguang didn't understand why, just when she was about to fall out of the window, Lu Guan straightened her upright.
At the same time as the door opened.
Lu Guan grabbed Liu Suguang's arm very hard, making Liu Suguang stabilize his figure.
Fu Mingshao was alone, he opened the door and came in, glanced at Lu Guan, and then coldly glanced at the woman halfway behind Lu Guan.
Lu Guan saluted Fu Mingshao.
Liu Suguang also knelt down.
Fu Mingshao didn't tell them to get up, until the boots appeared in Lu Guan's field of vision, he helped Lu Guan who was kneeling on the ground with his own hands, and calmly said: "Why don't you lie on the couch and have a good rest? Does it make me feel bad?"
Liu Suguang didn't dare to raise her head, she felt a faint tingling in her scalp.
"I can't sleep all the time. I heard from the palace people that Miss Liu can make incense. I want to ask her to make a soothing incense for me."
"Next time, let Sun Xiu handle such trivial matters."
Lu Guancheng said in fear, "Eunuch Sun belongs to His Majesty."
"You can use all my people."
Lu Guan breathed very slowly, he lowered his head, his eyebrows were hard and protruding, and his eye sockets were extremely deep. After Fu Mingshao helped him up, the shadow cast by his tall body completely enveloped Fu Mingshao.
"Your Majesty, I will take my leave first." Liu Suguang looked flustered and embarrassed as he did not dare to disturb the emperor's good deeds.
Fu Mingshao didn't make a sound to stop her resignation, which made Liu Suguang sweat all over his back. However, just as Liu Suguang was about to leave the dormitory, Fu Mingshao pressed his forehead with one hand and said, "Stop."
Liu Suguang thumped in his heart, then stopped, and looked at Fu Mingshao in a flustered and timid way.
"What else does His Majesty order?"
"The singer at the Empress Liberation Ceremony, is that you?" Fu Mingshao even had a smile on his lips.
Liu Suguang settled down in his heart, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice, "Return to Your Majesty, tonight's singer is Qin Meiren."
The smile on the corner of Fu Mingshao's mouth widened, and he raised his voice, "Come here."
After a while, a palace attendant entered the room, and heard the emperor order: "Let someone check who is the singer arranged at the empress ceremony."
The palace servant was about to leave.
Fu Mingshao held Lu Guan's hand with one hand, and looked at Liu Suguang casually: "No matter who it is, take it to the prison and stick it to death, don't let me know."
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Fu Mingshao didn't stay in the bedroom for too long that night, just as he was about to say something to Lu Guan, Qin Yuning entered the palace at night because of the military emergency, and Fu Mingshao had to go back to Chengyuan Hall to deal with business.
Fu Mingshao left, and then Lu Guan asked someone from Jiang Meng to inquire.
In less than half an hour, he learned the news that Qin Mingxue was killed with a stick.
When Lu Guan got the news, he sent people away, and sat in the hall wearing a robe, thinking about what happened all day.
The emperor killed his own empress at the empress ceremony. The empress' father became violent because of the sudden murder of his daughter. He wanted to assassinate the emperor, but was killed by an unknown eunuch.
The eunuch had a chance to shoot Liu Yun, but Liu Yun rushed to kill him.
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