I am a cat in the palace

"Jiangui, let's go, I'm afraid the capital won't be able to hold on anymore." Concubine Duan eagerly grabbed Jiangui's sleeve.

"Let's go?" Jian Gui looked at Concubine Duan incomprehensibly.

"Yes, let's go, let's go together," Concubine Duan said while pulling Jiangui to look at the gold and silver she ordered the maid to pack up, "Didn't you say that as long as you are with me, you can go anywhere? We can go to a place where no one knows us, open a small shop, a small business, and we can start over."

Jian Gui looked at her steadily.

"You said these words to me back then, don't you remember?" Concubine Duan saw Guigui and just looked at her without speaking, a little anxious, grabbed Jiangui's sleeve and shook it vigorously like a spoiled child.

Seeing her eyes that were still beautiful but no longer clear, Jian Gui slowly but firmly pulled her hand away from his sleeve.

"I remember, but since you also remember, you should also remember that it was 18 years ago when I said this."

Concubine Duan looked down at Jiangui in surprise as she pulled her hand away from his sleeve, raised her head, and suddenly showed a sad and sad smile on her face: "So... this sentence is no longer counted? "

Jian Gui was not moved by the mournful expression on her face, but said lightly: "What I said will always count, but there is no turning back when you shoot the bow. Don't you understand that even if you know that there is a broken head in front of you now We can only walk down the road, because you, me, Shang Xuan, your family, and my family are already on this road, and we must share life and death with them."

"Why? After all these years, haven't I done enough? Back then, knowing that we were in love, my father insisted on sending me into the palace in order to keep his official position."

"And what about your family? Do they treat you as a human being? Just because you are a concubine, as soon as Xuan'er was born, they eunuched you and sent you to the palace without any distress. They were simply afraid that things would be revealed. , implicated them, that's why I want you to be a real eunuch, and completely cut off other people's suspicion!"

"This kind of family is such a family. Now, why should we accompany them to death?!" Concubine Duan waved her hand and swept the table full of porcelain. The habit of things, these years, the broken porcelain in her palace can be piled up like a hill, it seems that only the sound of the broken porcelain can express her emotions.

When Jian Gui heard the word bastard, the corners of his eyes and brows trembled slightly, but it only took a moment for his cold face to return.

"You are wrong. Now, we are not accompanying them to die, but they are accompanying us to die." After saying this, he showed a faint smile and looked at Concubine Duan's expression slowly. Becoming gentle, he took Concubine Duan's hand and gently stroked it: "Zhu'er, go and call Xuan'er over. Tonight, the three of us will have a reunion dinner."

On the main street of the capital, the sound of killing was everywhere, and Duan Zhenghong was running around among the chaotic army with blood all over his face, but it seemed that the sound of killing from the Yanwei army was approaching from every direction.

He hid in an alley dejectedly, struggling to catch his breath. Tonight, the Yanwei army attacked the city. He thought he had fully grasped all the movements of the Yanwei army in the dark part of the capital. , he realized how ridiculous his previous arrogance was, and it was only at this moment that he realized that the army that could fight for four years with 30 strong horses against Yu State with all its strength, and his men who spent most of their time just fighting How different is the Janissaries running horses and guns on the training ground?

The capital couldn't hold it anymore.

Is it too late to run now?

Duan Zhenghong began to seriously think about this question that he hadn't seriously thought about before tonight.

And at this time, a very distant bell suddenly sounded in the relatively quiet alley...

bell?

bell?

Daxian's ears stood up straight.

"Hush—" Daxian patted Shang Xin on the shoulder suddenly, signaling him not to speak.

Shang Xin, Ling Wuzheng, and Wei Yin stopped talking at the same time, and looked at Daxian with some puzzlement.

"There are bells."

Daxian's words made everyone's expressions change.

"Quick! Enter the palace!"

An hour ago, the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

Under the urging of the palace staff, the flushed pseudo-emperor impatiently entered the empress dowager's bedroom. On a cold winter night, he was only wearing a thin jacket, and his forehead was still slightly sweaty, obviously he had eaten five stone powder again.

"Why did you ask me to come here? I'm busy with business, you two can just enjoy yourself, what are you doing here to trouble me?" The false emperor waved his hands impatiently, and looked at Jiangui who was sitting next to Concubine Duan with disgust.

Concubine Duan and Jiangui looked up at the false emperor at the same time, their eyes were unprecedentedly gentle, which made the false emperor feel a strange feeling inexplicably.

"Xuan'er, come here." Concubine Duan raised her hand towards the false emperor, the false emperor was in a trance for a moment, it seemed that it was many years ago that the person he called his mother called him so tenderly last time.

Subconsciously, he actually walked up to Concubine Duan obediently, seeing Concubine Duan beckoning him to sit down, he also sat down obediently, just sitting between Concubine Duan and Jiangui.

Concubine Duan raised her hand and stretched out towards the false emperor's face, as if she wanted to caress his cheek.

The false emperor seemed to be frightened, his eyes were fixed on the delicate but sharp nail cover on Concubine Duan's hand, his head was thrown back suddenly, and he hurriedly avoided, Concubine Duan's hand stopped in mid-air awkwardly.

"Xuan'er, it's the empress mother who hasn't taught you well these years, and the empress mother is sorry for you." Slowly letting go, Concubine Duan no longer tried to get close to the false emperor.

The false emperor frowned, looked suspiciously at Concubine Duan, and then at Gui, "Do you want something again? Don't you have all the imperial seals? You don't have to do this with me."

Concubine Duan smiled helplessly when she heard the words, "Xuan'er, do you know what kind of situation we've reached now?"

The false emperor raised his hand impatiently to cover a yawn, "What's the situation?"

"The Yanwei army has already attacked the capital, and they may break into the city at any time." Jian Gui said coldly at the side.

The false emperor turned his head to look at him with dissatisfaction, "Is Duan Zhenghong a waste? Doesn't he have a hundred thousand forbidden troops? With such a high and thick city wall, how could it not be able to stop tens of thousands of Yanwei troops? Didn't Shun Wang's army yesterday Did you lose badly?"

Jian Gui looked at the 17-year-old boy in front of him who was short and thin because of his bad habits, and suddenly felt that he couldn't see the shadow of his youth at all on his face.

Is this boy really his son?

His gaze slowly moved to Concubine Duan's face. She had been favored by the emperor for a long time after entering the palace, so how could she be so sure that this child must be his?This question, which he had never suspected before, suddenly jumped into his mind, and he could never get rid of it.

"Xuan'er." Jiangui suddenly opened his mouth and called the false emperor's name.

The false emperor was taken aback by his call, and then he was furious: "Baby maid, who allows you to call me by my name?"

While scolding angrily, he stood up and made a gesture to attack Jiangui.

Concubine Duan became anxious when she saw it, and quickly hugged the false emperor, "Xuan'er, he is your biological father!"

The false emperor was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, then kicked away the concubine Duan who was hugging him, and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, my father is naturally only the first emperor, how could it be this dead eunuch!"

"No! Your father is really him, back then..." Concubine Duan was about to elaborate on the past, but was ruthlessly interrupted by the false emperor.

"I know what you want to say, isn't it just that you had an affair with him back then, and he entered the palace halfway, I already knew about these things." The false emperor sneered.

Concubine Duan and Jiangui were the ones who were shocked.

"At first, I thought I was the illegitimate child of you and this lowly servant girl, but ever since I entered Tianyuan Palace and saw the portraits of Taizu and Emperor Taizong, I knew that I had the blood of a real dragon. It is exactly the same as the Taizu Emperor Taizong! Also, there are my fingers, my father's middle finger and index finger are almost the same length, and mine is the same. If you look at this lowly maid again, how does he resemble me? "

Concubine Duan never expected that the false emperor would say such a thing.

Seeing Gui was also shocked, but in addition to being shocked, he seemed relieved as expected.

His eyes slowly turned to Concubine Duan, who was also looking at him in horror, he didn't ask Concubine Duan again, but from her panicked and ashamed expression, he could still see that what the false emperor said was true.

"No wonder..."

He suddenly understood why Concubine Duan didn't like Shang Xuan so much, she lost her temper a few times and didn't even care about Shang Xuan's life or death.

Originally, he only thought that it was because the life in the palace was too oppressive, which changed her temperament drastically, so she was so impatient with the child, but who knew it was because this child was not what she wanted at all, and Shang Xuan was not at all. his kind.

He was suddenly in a trance... He suddenly felt that nothing was meaningful, and he didn't even know what he had done in his life?He seemed to give his all, but in the end he seemed to get nothing.

"Jiangui, don't listen to his nonsense, he is still a child, what does he know? Those portraits are all beautified things that have been beautified so many times, they are not even remotely similar to real people, Jiangui, you believe me, Believe me, he is really your son, he really is, he must be...he can't be his seed, he must be yours..." Concubine Duan rushed over and hugged Jiangui tightly, tears streaming down her face Trying to explain to Jiangui with a full face.

Jian Gui struggled to break free from her embrace, but Concubine Duan hugged him tightly, refusing to let go no matter what.

Seeing that Gui Jian was struggling, he gave up after a long while.

Then, he suddenly turned his head to look at the false emperor, "Your Majesty, the capital is in danger. Your mother and I plan to leave the capital. Do you want to go together?"

Both the false emperor and Concubine Duan were startled, and Concubine Duan stopped crying suddenly, "Jiangui, you...do you really want to take me away?"

"The city is about to fall, if you don't leave now, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave again." Jian Gui said very calmly.

"Okay, okay, let's go right away, we'll go right away, look, I've packed all my things." Concubine Duan hastily wiped away the tears on her face, let go and saw Gui turned around to count the things she was going to take away.

And the moment she turned around, a muffled groan came from behind her——

She stood stiffly and turned her head, but what she saw was a blushing...

"This child is not mine, so it shouldn't exist." Jian Gui coldly pulled a short sword out of the puppet emperor's belly.

The false emperor curled up on the ground, struggling to speak, but when he opened his mouth, only a stream of blood gushed out, and there was only the sound of gurgling water in his throat, but he couldn't make a sound.

Concubine Duan's legs softened and she fell to the ground. The false emperor's blood flowed slowly to her feet like a fine spring. She tried her best to retract her feet, but she couldn't move. The blood seemed to still have the temperature of the false emperor. , Instantly wet her shoes and socks.

Shaking, she let out a last scream with all her strength, and passed out completely.

"The false emperor died. It seems that the eunuch named Jiangui killed him. He also committed suicide on the spot."

"Where's the traitorous concubine?"

"He's still alive, but he seems to be crazy. No matter who he sees, he only has one sentence: He is your son, he is really your son. I don't know what it means."