The dark clouds covered the moon, and the branches rustled.
Empress Dowager Chu took a seat in the Nuan Pavilion of Chunxi Palace, took the tea brought by Eunuch Zhang, took a sip and said, "How is it going outside?"
Zhang Gonggong bowed and said to the Queen Mother: "Reporting to the Queen Mother, it can be said that people are turning their backs on the outside. Then Xue Shangshu not only arrested nine important officials in the court, including Zeng Hening, the young minister of Guanglu Temple, and Zuo Zhengyu, the minister of Taichang Temple, but also investigated and dealt with them. Xue Erlang…”
Empress Dowager Chu frowned and couldn't believe it: "You said that Xue Xiangyang took Xue Erlang, do you know why?"
Eunuch Zhang shook his head and said, "The people in the Ministry of Punishment avoided talking about this matter, and the servants didn't listen."
All avoided.
The Empress Dowager Chu looked at the flickering candlelight in front of her, narrowed her eyes, smiled suddenly, and murmured, "It seems that this fire has been planned for a long time..."
The Empress Dowager Chu asked again, "How is the emperor's place?"
Zhang Gong said: "Sheng Kanghai has closely guarded the Changning Palace, and the people in the Imperial Hospital can't enter. The servants estimate that His Majesty is indeed injured."
Empress Dowager Chu nodded and said, "Where's Changning?"
Zhang Gong said: "The princess has always been in the bedroom with Fu Erlang, and has never gone out."
The Empress Dowager Chu leaned on the couch, circled the Buddha beads in her hands, closed her eyes and pondered, and only after a moment said: "The map of Mount Li, bring it to Aijia."
"The repair fee sent by the Ministry of Works last time will also be brought here." Empress Dowager Chu added.
The Tianshan Mountains outside the window were the same color, and the lights in the hall were bright. The Empress Dowager Chu looked down at the map.
The south is the palace, the east and the west are the hunting grounds, only the north is deserted.
North, north.
The Empress Dowager Chu repeatedly tapped the north-facing cliff in the picture.
Zhang Gong said: "Does the queen mother suspect that Su Huaian is hiding in Beishan?"
The Empress Dowager Chu said: "Aijia watched Changning grow up. She has not been down the mountain for three years, and she is absolutely inseparable from Su Huaian."
Eunuch Zhang persuaded in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager, that account book will be a problem sooner or later. Your Majesty is injured now, and Mount Li is closed. If you don't force the eldest princess to return, she will return to Beijing."
The Empress Dowager Chu was silent for a while, then slowly counted the beads in her hand, and said softly, "Just tonight."
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In Kuiye, the Empress Dowager summoned the concubines on the grounds that the emperor was seriously ill, and everyone gathered in the main hall of Chunxi Palace.
The Queen Mother sat on the Furong couch, sighed and said, "Your Majesty was seriously injured and has not woken up yet, but fortunately, his life is not in danger. I called you here today to give you some insight."
Concubine Liu said: "Your Majesty is injured, and the concubines and others are really having trouble sleeping and eating."
After everyone nodded and agreed, the Queen Mother and Concubine Liu talked about praying for blessings, "It's not a trivial matter for the dragon to be ill. When I return to the palace..."
Before this nonsense was finished, suddenly, the little eunuch pushed in the door and hurriedly said: "Qi to the Empress Dowager, the big thing is bad!"
Empress Dowager Chu raised her eyes and said, "What's wrong?!"
"North, there's a fire in the north!"
Xue Lanyi's thin eyebrows almost overlapped, "Why is there a fire again! Isn't this Lishan a place to escape the summer?"
He Shuyi couldn't help but agree: "Yes, besides, it's been a long night, how could there be a fire again..."
Xiao Lianyu heard the words, stood up in vain, and asked again, "Where did you say the fire just now?"
The little eunuch said, "Reporting to the eldest princess, it's the north side, and there's a fire in the north side."
"How is that possible..." Xiao Lianyu said to herself, pushing open the hall door and walking out.
The concubines followed the steps of the eldest princess and walked out of Chunxi Palace one after another, and looked north together—
I saw clusters of fire from the north, and the thick black smoke spread everywhere in the night.
The eldest princess's hands trembled violently under the gorgeous long skirt, and she suddenly turned around and shouted: "Fu Xun!"
Fu Xun came leading the horse and said with a heavy face, "I just went to prepare the horse."
Chang Ning said in a trembling voice, "Come on, we have to go to the north."
As soon as the voice fell, there were rustling footsteps around, and soldiers surrounded Chunxi Palace.
Blocked the way of the princess.
"Changning, how long are you going to make a fool of yourself!" Empress Dowager Chu said in a cold voice, "Aijia asks you, what are you doing in the north?"
Hearing this, Princess Changning suddenly understood that the fire tonight was the Queen Mother's intention.
The Empress Dowager Chu took a document from Duke Zhang and said with a stern expression: "This is the cost of repairing the Lishan Garden in the past three years. Aijia asks you, you will use the extra rammed earth and glazed tiles for where is it?"
"Who are you hiding in Lishan!"
There was silence all around, the concubines looked at each other, and at the same time a name sounded in their hearts - Su Clan's remnant, Su Huaian.
"If you can't answer it, don't even think about leaving tonight. Ai's family has to take a look. Who do you want to save?"
Princess Changning laughed out loud, and immediately, she pulled out the long sword from Fu Xun's waist and lay it on the soldier in front of him, "Get out of the way!"
She suddenly raised her voice and said, "I said get out of the way!"
Zhang Gong said: "What are you still doing! Start!"
The wind passed by her ears, Qin Jie looked at the little princess with scarlet eyes, and suddenly remembered the kite in the north.
Scene after scene flashed before my eyes—
When she came, the little princess was holding Xiao Yun in the carriage and said, "It's time for a three-year-old child to grow up."
Last night, she effortlessly dragged Xiao Yun with one hand and said, "Auntie will teach you to play."
…
Qin Jie looked at Chang Ning's figure, her heart kept falling.
The concubine let her not go to Lishan for three years, and even when her life was in danger, she refused to send news to Lishan. Is it because...
She had long guessed that the willful and arrogant little princess made a mistake that she could never look back on in her life.
At this moment, everyone's attention is on Xiao Lianyu.
Qin Xun looked around and stopped at the platform closest to Chunxi Palace. She ran over, trembling hands, rummaging through the double drawers for the bowstring, stood up, drew the bow full, and fired three arrows in a row toward the dark sky.
The arrow cut through the sky and exploded with a "bang", and the blue smoke filled the surroundings.
Qingyan is like a military order in Da Zhou, and within a moment, the surrounding cavalry will arrive.
"Who shot the arrow!" Zhang Gong said in a fair way.
In the middle of the night, wind and bamboo, thousands of leaves and thousands of sounds.
But after a while, I heard the sound of horses' hooves.
Eunuch Zhang looked at Qin Xie not far away and said, "Qin Zhaoyi knows the consequences of issuing military orders without authorization!"
The Empress Dowager Chu stood in the dark night, her eyes were bright, and she said, "Ms. Qin, do you dare to meet Aijia?"
Qin Jie walked up to the little princess, took out the token, and said word by word, "Seeing this order is like seeing Your Majesty, all today, the concubine will bear it all."
Empress Dowager Chu looked at her with a flickering expression.
Mount Li is a dense forest, and the fire spreads so fast that no one can wait.
Qin Jie got on the horse and said to the little princess, "Changning! Get on the horse!"
Princess Changning was also stunned when she looked at her. She stepped on the stirrup lightly, and her whole body fell on the horse's back.
Eunuch Zhang waved his hand, and the guards near Chunxi Palace immediately greeted him. He stopped Qin Yan's horse and gritted his teeth: "It is a big sin to disobey the Queen Mother, and the servant advised Qin Zhaoyi not to rely on being favored for a while, so he is arrogant."
Pampered and proud.
Qin Ye pulled the reins, smiled suddenly, and said in a low voice, "Then today I will teach my father-in-law how to be a favorite concubine."
The cavalry had arrived, and the governor of Yuzhou, He Zichen, looked at the token in front of him and said loudly, "Last commander He Zichen, wait for the order!"
The moment Qin Ei turned back, He Zichen's eyes were full of stunned words, "A Ling..."
He Erlang is twenty-five years old this year, and has a handsome face that is not in line with the frontier soldiers. However, because he has lived outside the frontier for a long time, his complexion is no longer as fair as before, and his dark eyes seem to be covered with a layer of sand, and his armor seems to match his tall physique. fused together,
After a few years apart, Qin Jie never imagined that she would be able to see each other like this.
Looking at each other, she said, "Please also ask the Governor to lead the army with me to the north to save people!"
He Zichen returned to God and said, "The minister takes orders."
After speaking, Qin Yu and Xiao Lianyu looked at each other and nodded, "Let's go!"
The two of them whipped their whips at the same time and rushed towards the thick smoke—
He Yuru looked at Qin Zhaoyi's back and couldn't believe it: "Isn't she not good at horseback riding?"
Concubine Xue and Concubine Liu looked at each other, and their hearts were horrified.
Is that person just now really Qin Zhaoyi
Ye Feng got into his sleeves, his clothes rattled, he rode too fast, his hair accessories couldn't stand up to him, golden hairpins and pearl hairpins fell on the ground one after another, black hair poured and fluttered in the wind.
Xiao Lianyu is very good at horsemanship. She walked through the rugged mountain road and went straight to a temple under the cliff.
There was a fire in front of him, and the wind was blowing, and the walls, corridors, and windows were all set on fire, and then the building collapsed.
The two mothers and sons fled with a child in their arms.
Surrounded by soldiers with bows and arrows.
Running with hooves, the eldest princess tightened the reins, turned over and dismounted, and ran towards the child staggeringly.
They were only three years old.
Seeing the eldest princess, she cried and shouted, "A-Niang, A-Niang..."
Mammy quickly put the child down.
Xiao Lianyu had already burst into tears before she knew it. She knelt down, hugged her two children tightly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't be afraid, A-niang is here..."
Qin Jie guessed at a glance that the two in front of her were her brother's children...
Looking at the little princess, she gasped and said in a hoarse voice, "What the hell... what's going on?"
Yuehua is training under the eyes of all the eyes and Guigui, and the dew is shining in the morning, and the fog is blooming.
The palace concubine, Jinyiwei, and officials who heard the sound, the cavalry guarding Mount Li arrived one after another, and they couldn't help being stunned when they saw the ruined temple and the people in front of the temple.
No one would have thought that the secret in the forest burned by a fire was not Su Huaian, but his pair of sons and daughters...