Great Summer Palace, Wuying Hall.
Helian Mingzhu listened to the sounds of running, shouting, and swearing outside. She just covered her nephew's ears with both hands, and resisted the fear in her heart. Dare to make a sound.
As she had expected, after her brother beheaded her brother's family, the entire palace and city were in turmoil. The day was brightly lit, and the ministers were left to discuss countermeasures day and night, and there was no possibility of leaving the palace.
Just at noon today, there was a sudden turmoil in the palace. Some people shouted "King Khan has run away", some people shouted "King Khan has gone out to go on a personal expedition", and some people shouted that the Wei people have already conquered Tongwancheng...
Originally, she was not afraid of death at all, even if she was really caught, when she revealed her identity, as the princess of the Xia Kingdom, at most she was given a hero as a wife and concubine.
But now, she can't die, and she can't have an accident.
Because she has a nephew alive.
A few days ago, she entered the Wuying Hall, but was shocked by the headless corpse in the first hall, and she fainted with fright. Come and cover the bodies of her sister-in-law and nephews.
She was still a girl in the age of cardamom. When such a change happened, she didn't know whether she should hate Wei Renhao, who had ruined her country and family, or the one who had always been afraid of her brother's talents, and even let her brother's whole family be killed in different places. Brother Wang is fine.
Just when she was covering her family with curtains, she found that her eldest brother's eldest son, Helian Zhishui, who was ten years old this year, was missing.
Helian Zhishui grew up in Zhang Yuan's mansion, and he didn't return to Pingyuan's mansion for a long time, so he was completely different from his younger brothers in terms of habits and tolerance. The remains of all of his brother's relatives were there, but Helian Zhishui, who was ten years old, was missing.
Originally, everyone had no head. It was not easy to recognize this nephew, but Helian Zhishui was different from everyone else. He was bigger and taller than other nephews. More importantly, this child was The left hand has six fingers...
Knowing that her nephew is alive and her brother still has blood, Helian Mingzhu is both happy and sad, sad that she doesn't know where this child is now, happy that there are still people who are willing to hide this matter, which means that there are still people in the palace who remember it His brother was good, and he left a bloodline for him.
On the night she entered the hall, because the main hall was full of corpses, she only dared to secretly find a corner in the side hall and wrapped herself in the bed for the night. The night in the deep palace was maddeningly silent. Helian Mingzhu was favored since she was a child. She has always been a star holding the moon. She never even slept alone at night. In this pitch-dark place, she could not even hear the sound of her own breathing. You could hear that, such fear made her unable to sleep peacefully, so she could only think wildly while hugging the quilt.
In the middle of the night, a small opening suddenly opened in the wall of the side hall, and a small shadow ran out. Helian Mingzhu shouldn't have found out, but when the shadow fell, it just stepped on her feet, and in the dark night when they couldn't reach five fingers, they were both startled and screamed in shock.
With this call, Helian Mingzhu found his brother's last blood.
When the accident happened in Wuying Hall, Helian Zhishui was punished to kneel in the side hall.
His biological mother died early, and his stepmother was the daughter of a big family. He never got along with him for a day. Because he grew up in Han and was born with six fingers, neither his stepmother nor his younger brothers liked him, even if they were together in this deep palace. Suffering, from time to time, will suffer for various reasons.
Helian Zhishui was at a naughty age, and even if he was punished for kneeling, he would not be at ease. He sat on his knees facing the wall in his idle time, and when he was playing with the corner, he discovered this moving wall.
This wall is a typical Xiongnu painting wall. There are flower and grass patterns everywhere on the wall. If you don't look carefully, you can't see this dark room at all. There was a quilt in the dark room, and the space was small. I thought that this was not a dark room at first, but just a place where the quilts and sundries were placed by the palace servants in the side hall. spare.
Since Helian Zhishui discovered this darkroom, he regarded it as his "secret place". He not only secretly put some food and water in it, but also threw in a lot of clothes and necessities. One day, if the stepmother wanted to make things difficult again, she simply made a "disappearance" to scare them.
The Wuying Hall was where his father lived when he was the prince. The old palace people had already left the house with his father. The Wuying Hall had been vacant for so many years, so there was a utility room here, but most people didn't know it.
That day, a palace guard rushed into the hall aggressively, and there were cries and shouts outside. He grew up beside his great-grandfather, and he was quite courageous. The quilts and other objects block the door, so that when others open the dark room, they will find the quilt inside, thinking it is just a closet for quilts.
Fortunately, no one found him, and no one found him. When night fell and there was no movement outside, he secretly ran out of the dark room and saw the same scene as Helian Pearl.
It's just that what he saw was even more miserable than Helian Mingzhu, because Helian Mingzhu already knew that her brother's relatives had been beheaded, and when he saw those headless people, he had to endure the fear in his heart, To find out who they are...
The palace people heard that there were women and children crying in the Wuying Hall at night, and the sound of weeping blood was not really a ghost, but from Helian Zhishui, who was already grief-stricken.
No matter how much Helian Zhishui's stepmother didn't like seeing her, she never beat and scolded him, didn't let him eat or learn his homework, and only made him kneel when he behaved frivolously. He is the eldest son, with an embarrassing status, and he is ready to suffer some grievances, but no matter how resentful he is, he will not be so resentful that he will let the other party die.
And now they are all dead.
In a huge Wuying Hall, only the self who is worse than death is left.
The two aunts and nephews sympathized with each other. After holding each other's head and crying, Helian Mingzhu gathered all her energy, determined to take care of herself, and thought of sending this nephew out of the palace.
But an accident happened in the palace the next day. The old palace man who had promised to come to give her something did not come, and Helian Mingzhu did not dare to take her nephew to run out like this, so the two of them still hid in Wuying Hall. Inside, relying on the preserved food and water to prepare to survive this period of time.
But now that I think about it, it would be good to run away when the commotion just happened, maybe at that time, he would have already run away.
Helian Mingzhu held her nephew's hand and kept shaking. She heard the footsteps outside getting closer, but she didn't know whether the other party was an enemy or a friend, and what identity she was.
Now the people in the Great Summer Palace do not dare to come to the Wuying Palace, and they will run here, and it is impossible for them to be from the Xia Kingdom.
"Auntie, don't be afraid." Although Helian Zhishui was covering his ears, he could feel Helian Pearl's trembling. "Wait for you to hide in the closet, I'll hide somewhere else."
"Don't talk nonsense! How can aunt hide in such a small place! You go to hide first, I will find a place to hide. Wuying Hall is so big, there is always a place to hide!"
Seeing that he was still being comforted by his young nephew, Helian Mingzhu felt inexplicable grief in his heart. He covered his ears and touched his head instead.
"It's useless for your aunt. You must take care of yourself. Your father didn't surrender and didn't die. If it really doesn't work, you can go to Zhang Linggong. He will be fine!"
The night that Helian Zhishui was most afraid of has passed, and now there is almost no such emotion as "fear", what remains is the endless hatred for Helian Chang and Wei Ren.
The hatred for Helianchang is still higher than that of the Wei people.
Helian Mingzhu had already painted her face sallow, her eyebrows were thick and black, and her beauty had lost seven points. In addition, she was wrapped in a thick strip of cloth on her chest, dressed in a large eunuch to serve, and when holding Helian Zhishui, even Helian Zhishui would forget that this was his aunt who was famous for her beauty.
The sound of footsteps outside was getting closer and closer, and Helian Mingzhu was relieved that the sound of these footsteps only sounded to two or three people, and they would definitely not be the soldiers of Wei State.
The two aunts and nephews looked at each other, Helian Zhishui pulled out the dagger from his boot, unsheathed it, and held it in front of his chest.
The Huns had the habit of hiding sharp blades in their boots. When Helian Mingzhu went out, Yucui also put one of them into her boots. When Helian Mingzhu saw her nephew, her first reaction was to take out a weapon, not like her. General heaved a sigh of relief, and felt even more ashamed of his cowardice. He also drew his dagger, held his breath, and waited to find out what they were doing.
Those people were all eunuchs in the palace, and Helian Mingzhu seemed to think that one of the voices was familiar. Those people sneaked into the Wuying Hall, and after closing the door, a shrill voice said, "Huh? Who covered the family of Duke Pingyuan?"
They thought they would see a headless corpse when they came in, and they were already prepared to be startled. Whoever wanted to look back found that the corpse had been neatly arranged and covered with most of the curtains, and finally felt a lot more at ease.
"Probably the Princess Pearl sent someone to do it. Except for that one, no one in this palace would dare to do such a thing under His Majesty's eyelids."
Another shrill voice called in a low voice: "Stop chatting, while there is still chaos, no one will notice that we will run away, just find something valuable to take out! And clothes, where can I find them in the palace now Ordinary people's clothes, take off the clothes of these dead people, let's change them, let's go out of the palace!"
"Do you really want to do this? Princess Pearl gave me a plate of dim sum last year, and now I'm a little..."
"We are all ignorant people, you are really pity Xiangxiyu! If you don't run now, we won't be able to run away when those evil spirits from Wei Kingdom come in. If it weren't for the sake of you all being fellow countrymen, Why should I bring you guys, I can run faster by myself!"
The other two voices stopped talking, and then there was the sound of the curtain being shaken, and the sound of Xixi Soso's clothes being flipped.
"This woman has a gold bracelet!" A voice exclaimed in surprise: "There is a gemstone ring on her finger!"
An angry look appeared on Helian Zhishui's face.
What these people are doing is self-evident.
The beheading people sent by Helianchang were all his confidants and guards from the Xiongnu nobles. These people left after completing their tasks, without looting any property at all. Later, Helianchang was in a bad mood, and the guards patrolling the palace always wandered around Wuying Palace. Even Helian Mingzhu was knocked out when he went to Wuying Palace, and no one dared to enter Wuying Palace.
Later, the situation in the palace changed drastically, and Helian Mingzhu sneaked in. Today, even a few ordinary eunuchs dared to step into the Wuying Hall to make a mess!
"Don't take the big ones, the big ones are too conspicuous on your body, pick the small ones, gold rings, gems, jade pendants, etc., which are easy to carry and sell." The older one was obviously teaching them to pick life-saving things. "There are also clothes, don't choose too good clothes, or you will be robbed as a dignitary, so choose the worst!"
Helian Zhishui heard that even his clothes were about to be stripped, his hand holding the dagger tightened, and he jumped up to go out to kill.
Although he was raised by a Han Chinese, he was born with the violence of the Huns. Seeing that he couldn't help but want to go out, Helian Mingzhu hurriedly hugged him and whispered in his ear:
"Zhishui, don't go, don't go, auntie scared them away..."
Helian Zhishui glanced at his aunt and shook his head sharply: "You're not as good as me!"
Seeing Helian Zhishui struggling desperately and burying his head in his shoulder, Helian Mingzhu said angrily, "If you go out, I will kill myself. They are all dead, even if the clothes and jewelry are taken away, and there are others. What matters? It's the people who are alive that matter. You're still alive, but when you go out, the three guys shout, or take the risk, and you might die. You wait, they'll get their retribution..."
Suddenly, louder footsteps rushed towards Wuying Hall, and there were hundreds of people listening to the sound. These voices were heavy, obviously they were all grown men, and occasionally there were sounds of weapons and armor rubbing against each other. Helian Mingzhu was overjoyed at first, and then thought that no matter who was coming, Helian Zhishui was a slap in the face. die, and immediately push him against the wall.
"Hide in! It's Helianchang's people who are here, I'll be fine!"
Helian Zhishui was also obedient. Seeing that the situation was not right, he didn't say much. He slipped the wall panel and the cat's waist burrowed into it.
The side hall is not a place to sleep, but Helian Mingzhu only moved the quilt here when he saw that there was a window to see the moon here. Now that time was running out, he immediately put the quilt on the wall and ran out.
Not to mention, Helian Mingzhu heard the sound outside, and the three eunuchs also heard it, and their faces changed greatly.
Helian Mingzhu ran out of the side hall and was confronting the eunuchs who were running behind. Both parties were shocked. The three eunuchs saw that she was also wearing eunuch clothes, and when they remembered what they were here for, their faces immediately turned on their faces. Showed ruthless, going to catch her.
Helian Mingzhu showed the dagger in his hand, got close to a eunuch, stabbed a man in the arm, and then ran back desperately.
Although she can also use two or three tricks to save her life, but after all, she doesn't take this as a long-term goal. After a hit, she will run immediately. She grew up with Helianchang since she was a child. of no shadow.
"There's really no one in here. It's strange. Everyone in the entire Great Summer Palace panicked. We ran all the way, and there were people running away in every hall. Why is there no one here... scare!"
He Mulan was taken aback as soon as he entered the door. Tuoba Tao led Yue Ying and followed him into the Wuying Hall. He frowned when he saw the headless corpses in a mess in the hall, as well as the ruffled clothes.
"No wonder no one is there, this is where Helianchang committed sins." Tuoba Tao glanced at the clothes on the ground. "There are still clothes that have been taken off here. We didn't see anyone when we came in. These eunuchs should still be hiding in the palace. Hua Mulan, you bring a dozen of the guards and search all the palaces. The others are in Protect me here."
"Yes. Your Majesty... Mr. Du Shou, you have to be careful yourself."
After He Mulan and Tuoba Tao entered the Grand Summer Palace, naturally they could no longer call him His Majesty, but they could not call him by his first name either. ”, so after He Mulan expressed her worries, Tuoba Tao told her in a bachelor’s manner that his Xianbei name “Foli” was louder than “Tuoba Tao” among the various countries, and he used a pseudonym outside the capital. It's "Du Shou", tell her to call him Du Shou.
This made He Mulan suddenly think of "He Guang". Can she say that these two are worthy of being father and son? Even the pseudonym style is the same. Tuoba Tao's mother's surname was "Du". Tao is composed of Shoushui, so he changed his name to "Du Shou".
His son's mother's surname was He Lai, and he took the pseudonym "He Guang".
He Mulan knew that there were still people from the Xia Kingdom hiding inside, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect, and led a dozen of the dormitory guards to search from room to room, and finally found three trembling eunuchs in a palace room.
They didn't talk too much, just stuffed the three eunuchs' mouths and took them away like chickens. The three eunuchs were weak and pitiful among the tall, strong and handsome Su Wei in Tuoba Tao Yishui. They didn't even struggle a few times, and were immediately taken away.
The Su Guards threw the three eunuchs in front of Tuoba Tao, and pulled out what was in the mouth of one of the eunuchs. The eunuch kowtowed and begged for mercy. Among the crowd, only Tuoba Tao could speak the Xiongnu language. , and asked Su Wei to kill them.
He Mulan watched Su Wei pull out his sharp blade and kill two eunuchs. The other eunuch shouted something. Tuoba Tao continued to wave his hands expressionlessly. The rest were also killed.
For a while, the eunuch's muffled screams were still echoing in the hall, and Yue Ying, who was brought into the hall by Tuoba Tao, seemed to think that he was noisy and snorted.
After entering the Grand Summer Palace, it was inappropriate to ride a horse around, including He Mulan, who put the horse in a remote place. Only Yueying was unwilling to stay no matter what, it was screaming and jumping. Tuoba Tao had no choice but to drag it around the palace. Seeing that no one fled in the direction of Wuyingdian, he came to Wuyingdian.
Yueying is quite human. Knowing that he can't be willful at this time, he doesn't hesitate to go up and down the stairs. He also drills when he should bow his head. He hasn't even issued the iconic "hee hee hee" once. I snorted in this hall, the first abnormal sound made in such a long time.
Tuoba Tao touched its nose and said to the inexplicable He Mulan: "You don't understand the Xiongnu language. All the people who died here are the family members of Duke Pingyuan of the Xia Kingdom. They want to escape from the palace. They came to scavenge the remains of the dead..."
Tuoba Tao seemed to remember something bad, and said with a cold face: "I hate people who betray the master and forget righteousness the most in my life. Although Helianding is not the monarch, he has worked for the country for many years, and he has been killed for a long time. The reason is good placement. A few villains, kill them if they kill them, and I don't want them to do anything, but keeping them would add trouble."
He said to the guards again: "Before the old eunuch died, he said that there was another person in the Wuying Hall, who was a monk guarding the corpse. Go and find him."
He Mulan was immediately surprised.
These three eunuchs are about to die, and they have to bite others. What kind of vicious heart is this
Anyway, if you want to die, can't you live one
Seeing He Mulan's stunned expression, Tuoba Tao laughed dumbly: "You little pawn, what kind of environment did you live in before? I don't know how many people with sinister natures in this world. I want others to live a happy life. There are also people who have to pull others into the water when they are in danger. There is no reason for it. When you experience more, you will not be surprised. "
He Mulan shook her head and turned to go with the rest of the guards to search. Tuoba Tao stopped her softly: "Hua Mulan, you don't have to go."
He Mulan stopped and returned to Tuoba Tao's side.
"We are hiding in the Great Summer Palace, and we always need someone familiar with the Great Summer Palace to explain the situation. It's just that my identity is different, and I can't let the Xia people know my identity, so I have to pretend to be a pseudonym, and I can't be seen by others. identity of."
Tuoba Tao pointed to He Mulan.
"Now you are the general of our group of 'Wei Bing', and I am your lieutenant. You dress better than us, and try to show the bearing of the leader. When the palace people are caught, act according to chance."
"Me?" He Mulan pointed to herself. "How can I look like a general? Even the guards around you, Lord Du Shou, whoever pulls out is more imposing than me!"
Su Weijun's selection criteria are good appearance, good image, and excellent physical strength. Otherwise, no one would be surprised when a "beautiful" like Di Yefei in his previous life was selected as Su Wei. In a sense, the emperor also hoped that he would be surrounded by handsome and temperamental followers, not a bunch of arrogant men who spoke rudely and slobbered.
"You don't understand, it's because we are all beautiful men..." Tuoba Tao boasted shamelessly, and the guards next to him laughed lightly, "So you, the most inconspicuous among us, look like a general instead. ."
"Uh?"
He Mulan thought about it and felt that what he said made sense, but she was speechless.
"You are wearing black hammer armor, which is also a rare treasure. We are all in leather armor, and you look like a general. Hey, I'll give you the shadow, you must pretend to be a general. Ah." Tuoba Tao probably thought this was also very interesting, and he patted the shadow with a smile.
Yueying stood there like a real shadow, as still as a real shadow.
The dozen or so guards waited for Tuoba Tao to finish his instructions, and immediately continued to search Wuying Hall lightly. The rest of the resident guards guarded the gate to prevent someone from breaking into the Wuying Hall like the few eunuchs who had made a fortune just now.
After a while, the guards grabbed a sallow-faced eunuch and entered the main hall. When they saw the disfigured corpse that had been rummaged through in the main hall, the eunuch's eyes showed grief, and the guards asked him to kneel down. , he didn't kneel until the death or the death, and the few suweis bent his legs and kicked him, and the eunuch fell forward with his entire body and fell to the ground, but he didn't even say a word.
A few "great figures and good looks" Su Wei bowed to He Mulan with a smile, and then reported, "General, this eunuch has been caught."
He Mulan looked at the eunuch lying on the ground with a strange expression. Although she only glanced at it casually, she was 100% sure that this person was a girl.
But so many people, including Tuoba Tao, who must have "read countless women", did not see that this eunuch was a woman in disguise, and really regarded her as an ordinary eunuch.
In the end, were the eyes of ancient people lame, or were they really simple
He Mulan coughed, and in the expressions of several Su Wei's smiles deeper, she opened her mouth in surprise.
"I said... what are you doing here?"
The Xianbei words of the visitor made the female eunuch raise her head in surprise. When she saw that there were still horses in the hall, her face suddenly turned pale, and she uttered a series of Hun words in a hoarse voice.
Tuoba Tao touched his chin.
"General, this eunuch said that he was the eunuch in the Palace of the Fourth Princess, and was ordered to take care of her brother's body."
He Mulan glanced at the messy corpses, clearly showing a suspicious look of "that's how you take care of them".
When the eunuch saw his eyes, he immediately lowered his head, not knowing whether it was anger or fear, his shoulders twitched.
"Du Shou, this general is tired, you can ask him for me."
He Mulan was frightened by the Xiongnu words, leaned on Yueying's body and pointed at the female eunuch.
"Yes!"
Tuoba Tao gave He Mulan a wink of "You are really good" and began to ask.
The eunuch didn't look up from beginning to end. What did she say when others asked her? Tuoba Tao asked a lot of questions in the Xiongnu language, nodded, and said to He Mulan:
"He said that there is a way to go out after Wuying Palace. He can take us out of the palace, but he wants us to spare his life."
He Mulan was dumbfounded again.
Your Majesty, you made me pretend to be a general.
But this kind of decision, what am I saying? Still not good
I don't have the ability to light up the "heart connection" with you!