A sigh came from Song Qiang's mouth, and then he took a big step, he had already left Fengming Palace within a breath, and his shadow was gone.
Rong Chang'an walked up the city wall and looked far to the north. About two hundred miles away, the army of the feudal town was rolling towards the capital like dark clouds. She seemed to have seen the banner of the feudal town, with gold and iron horses, and swords like forests. The smoke and dust that rose up mixed up half of the sky.
She walked back and forth on the city wall until the bloody setting sun dyed the palace red. Perhaps, in a few days, even if there is no sunset, this piece of ancient city wall will turn into a tragic bright red.
"It's getting cold, empress, it's time to go back to the palace!" Chun Tao put a cloak on Rong Changan, the cloak fluttered in the evening wind, making hunting sounds, Rong Changan looked so lonely at this moment, so weak. She is a woman, and women should weave brocades in the boudoir. Why does God let her take care of these things that belong to men
Back in the palace, Rong Chang'an knelt in the Buddhist hall for a long time, begging Guanyin Bodhisattva's forgiveness: "It's not that I, Rong Chang'an, are ruthless, all of this was forced by Li Hai!"
At this time, not only Rong Chang'an was worried, but many officials from the Ministry of War, Ministry of Officials, Ministry of Rites, and Ministry of Industry were also looking for Li Hai, but Li Hai could not be found in either the Palace of Qinzheng or the Shangshufang. In the evening, Eunuch Liu appeared in the Shang Study Room. When all the officials saw Eunuch Liu, they crowded around him.
"Eunuch Liu, where is the emperor?"
"Something has happened now, hurry up and get the emperor back!"
"The current situation is already imminent!"
The mixed voices made Eunuch Liu overwhelmed.
"What happened? You are in such a hurry!"
The official of the Ministry of War said: "If we still can't come up with a solution tomorrow, we will become prisoners! We may even lose our heads!"
Eunuch Liu's heart skipped a beat, his face filled with horror: "What happened, why did you lose your head?"
The official of the Ministry of War said: "The foreign relatives united with the feudal town, and now they have taken down the Huaqiao officer, and they are coming to the capital in a mighty way, and they will arrive at the root of the imperial city about the day after tomorrow!"
Eunuch Liu was taken aback, and was at a loss for words for a long time, "Why... how could such a thing happen?"
Eunuch Liu knew about the Queen Mother being poisoned to death, but none of the court officials knew about it, so the officials really couldn't figure out why the foreign relatives joined forces with the feudal town to invade.
"We don't know either! Now we have to get the emperor back immediately and discuss how to defend against the enemy!"
Eunuch Liu suddenly realized: "Yes! Yes! Yes! I will call the emperor back immediately."
Eunuch Liu knew where Li Hai was. Regardless of his old age and frailty, he called two eunuchs and a team of imperial guards out of the palace together. In the dark night, Eunuch Liu drove for an hour before arriving at the place where Li Hai was playing.
That is a garden of the emperor, Li Hai and Zi Yan will spend the night here tonight, and they don't plan to go back to the palace.
When Eunuch Liu arrived, Li Hai and Zi Yan were still drinking upstairs and watching the dancers dance.
"Your Majesty, something is wrong!" Eunuch Liu came to the side, and it was only when Li Hai found him.
Li Hai was unmoved by Eunuch Liu's anxiety, and said with a smile: "Eunuch Liu, I asked you to go back to the palace to help me cope with tomorrow's morning court, why are you here again? What you said is not good, you mean what?"
Ziyan raised the sleeve of the blood-colored skirt, pinched a glass of wine with two fingers and handed it to Eunuch Liu, smiling like a flower: "Eunuch Liu, you have had a hard journey, drink a glass of wine first to relieve fatigue!"
Eunuch Liu waved his hand: "No more, no more!"
Zi Yan felt that Eunuch Liu was neglecting him, so he blamed him: "Eunuch Liu, are you being shameless?"
Li Hai was also a little unhappy: "Eunuch Liu, the noble concubine let you drink because she respects you, why don't you give the noble concubine face?"
Eunuch Liu swallowed his saliva, turned his Adam's apple, and suppressed what he wanted to say first: "This old slave is a little anxious, and I hope the imperial concubine will forgive me."
He took the wine in Zi Yan's hand, poured it into his mouth, and drank it with a gulp.
Eunuch Liu used to be able to drink alcohol, but now that he is old, he quit alcohol a long time ago. When he was asked to drink suddenly, he couldn't adapt to it for a while. It's like coughing up your lungs.
Seeing that Eunuch Liu looked funny, Ziyan laughed. Giggling and giggling, the laughter was light and sweet, like a woman who has not experienced the hardships of life.
Zi Yan smiled beautifully, and showed her white teeth, like shells lined up. Li Hai couldn't help laughing either.
The two laughed for a long time before Eunuch Liu had a chance to speak: "Your Majesty, something big is happening to the country now!"
Li Hai's eyes were on Zi Yan, and he asked indifferently: "What big things can happen to the country?"
"Ahem... When the slave returned to the palace, many officials gathered outside the Shang's study and said to the servant... cough, the joint town of foreign relatives has... cough, it has been beaten to Waqiaoguan!"
Bang!
Li Hai loosened the hand wearing the jade spot finger, and the glazed cup fell to the ground. The green liquor stained Ziyan's bloody skirt, but Ziyan didn't scream because she felt sorry for her good clothes. I was stunned by Eunuch Liu's words.
"Eunuch Liu, can you repeat what you just said?" Li Hai thought he heard it wrong, and he didn't believe that such a thing would happen.
"Ahem..." The glass of wine just now made Eunuch Liu sweat on his forehead. He wiped it, and then said, "The ministers said that the feudal town has reached the Waqiaoguan, and the day after tomorrow it will be at the root of the imperial city." The ministers asked the emperor to go back and discuss the military affairs!"
Li Hai froze, his face suddenly turned into a blank sheet of paper. Why is there no sign at all, the feudal town is about to reach the root of the imperial city? What do the guards at Huaqiaoguan do for food? Are his good days coming to an end
"Is there no one who can withstand the attack of the feudal town?"
Eunuch Liu shook his head: "Waqiaoguan is the only barrier. Now that Waqiaoguan has been captured, there is no barrier that can prevent them from coming to the capital, and the town came suddenly. If the notice is issued now, let all people come to the capital to serve the king. , it's too late!"
Li Hai's whole body was cold and trembling, and the soaring crown on his head was like a square object about to fall, swaying.
"Could it be that I just admit defeat and let the town enter the city? Why are they here? Is it to seize my throne?"
Eunuch Liu thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, I guess it's because of the Empress Dowager..." Because of the presence of Zi Yan, Eunuch Liu couldn't tell about the fact that the Empress Dowager had been poisoned to death.
Li Hai suddenly understood. It was the relatives who lured the feudal town to Beijing because of the death of the queen mother. If they don't give them an explanation, they will definitely capture the capital. The person who poisoned the Queen Mother was Rong Chang'an, maybe if Rong Chang'an was killed and handed over to relatives, then they could stop fighting and go back.
"Eunuch Liu, you arrange a car immediately, I want to go back to the palace immediately!"
Those dancers didn't hear the conversation between Eunuch Liu and Li Hai, and they were still dancing happily. Li Hai was troubled in his heart, and shouted: "Stop dancing! Get out of here!"
Li Hai's words frightened the dancers, they left the dance hall one after another, and the atmosphere was dead quiet for a while.
"Your Majesty, what's the matter with the Empress Dowager?" Zi Yan followed Eunuch Liu's words and asked.
It was because of the queen mother that today's disaster was caused!
"What's wrong with the Queen Mother?" Li Hai looked at Zi Yan angrily, and sneered, "It's because of your old woman's cousin that the town came to attack my city!"
Suddenly flicking his sleeves, he said sharply to Eunuch Liu: "Let's go, let's go back to the palace!"
Zi Yan lowered her eyes and thought: What does the rebellion of the feudal town have to do with the Queen Mother? Why did the emperor blame her? And follow back to see what is going on. To put it bluntly, she can also push the rebellion of the feudal town on Rong Changan's head, so that Rong Changan can't bear it!
So Jiao Didi shouted: "The emperor!" and said, "Wait for my concubine! You can't leave me here alone."