Qinse is in the imperial court, forgetting both favor and disgrace

The man was strong and fast, he was obviously someone who had practiced martial arts, Zhao Rang dodged to dodge, when the man looked old and his movements were a little sluggish, Zhao Rang took advantage of the opportunity to bully him and slammed his legs down on the man Disk sweep away.The man had no time to turn around, but was struck by force at the knee joint, and immediately fell to his knees with a cry of surprise.

Zhao Rang stepped forward and grabbed the man's arm, took a look, and couldn't help being stunned: This is a young man with delicate features and a young man who is not as old as a weak crown!

And in his hand, it was not a weapon, but a jade flute.

In the forbidden area of ​​the deep palace, apart from the eunuchs who are physically disabled and inhumane, there are only princes and grandsons who are still children, who can barely be regarded as men, but this young man is already in his teens. Taking a closer look, the boy's upper lip has faint fluff, and it is unlikely that he is the servant who has been tortured.

"Who are you?"

The boy's peach blossom eyes blinked slightly, and he said coldly: "You let me go, I'll say it."

Zhao Rang thought, even with the boy's skill, he couldn't escape his palm, so he let go and stared at the boy intently: "You are a man, how can you break into the harem?"

"Aren't you a man too?" The young man smiled with his hands behind his back, his words were full of ridicule, "Why do you stay in the harem? Could it be that you were favored by the emperor and made a male concubine? You don't look special, you really have a unique skill because of?"

Without waiting for him to laugh ambiguously, Zhao Rang cut the boy's arms backwards again, put them under control, and said with a smile, "Whether I am special or not has nothing to do with you, but if you don't answer, I will take off your two arms." down."

The young man still wanted to be brave, but after a while, beads of sweat the size of soybeans covered his entire handsome face. Only then did he realize that Zhao Rang was not joking, and he was frightened immediately, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I said, I said—— I was entrusted by my mother to invite General Zhao to have a talk!"

Zhao Rang frowned, the answer was nonsensical, no different from not explaining: "Who is Lingtang? How did you sneak into the harem?"

"We'll just live here," the boy replied with a sad face, "let go, it's really going to be broken!"

Zhao Rang was even more surprised by this answer, he let go of his hand and stared at the young man: "Why did Lingtang invite me?"

He changed his mind to guess several identities of the boy's mother, the most likely being the emperor's concubine, then wouldn't this boy become Li Lang's brother?

But Zhao Rang had never heard that the emperor had other siblings. It was really strange that the prince was born in the palace and grew up without being known to the outside world. How much strength would it take to hide it?

The young man rubbed his shoulders and smiled wryly: "You will know if you go. Mother said, if General Zhao suspects that it is a trap of the Xie family again, I will give you this jade flute, and I want to ask you, has the general forgotten?" Blood feud?"

When the words fell, the young man held the jade flute in front of Zhao Rang's eyes. The shakuhachi was exquisitely carved, and a tiny dragon hovered between the six holes on the pipe, with its head raised above the mouthpiece.

Zhao Rang couldn't help but turn pale with shock when he saw this thing. The biggest regret in his life was related to Yu Xiao. This is clearly the musical instrument at that time, exactly.

But after all he was cautious by nature, after a shock in his heart, he calmed down and looked at the shakuhachi over and over again in his palm. Although the night was dark, he could still vaguely discern the inscription at the end of the jade flute by the moonlight. The character is actually "卍五", not "卍LU" as he saw at that time.

Seeing Zhao Rang's concentration and silence, the young man urged, "Are you going or not? You have to come back before dawn."

How can you get a tiger without entering the tiger's den?

Zhao Rang returned the jade flute to the young man, nodded slightly, the young man was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly led the way ahead.

He seems to be a real resident of the harem, leading Zhao Rang to the remote and unattended roads in the palace. Zhao Rang knows nothing about the layout of the palace, so he can only let him take the lead. People travel quickly, and it takes less than half a cup of tea to arrive at a very remote place. There is only a small palace alone, and there are no other buildings around it adjacent to it.

The young man stopped, turned his head and grinned at Zhao Rang and said, "General Zhao condescends, this is the cold palace."

Leng Gong?Zhao Rang was even more suspicious. Could it be that this young man is actually the concubine of the Empress Dowager?

It's just that all doubts about seeing the boy's mother were temporarily put aside. Zhao Rang had never met such a beautiful and graceful woman in his life.

Since she is the mother of a ten-year-old boy, she will not be too young in the future. In addition to her beautiful face, she is a good woman with a gentle gesture. When she saw Zhao Rang, she bowed gracefully and said with a sweet smile: " I have met General Zhao before. General Lao came here in the middle of the night, and I was deeply guilty, so I specially prepared some rough tea and snacks, I hope the general will not dislike you."

Naturally, the living room of the Leng Palace is not so beautiful, and it is even inferior to the Jinghua Palace where Zhao Rang temporarily lives. Zhao Rang invites the woman to the upper seat. The person is dressed in a thorn hairpin cloth skirt, which is not even comparable to the personal maid who serves the concubine, and it is even more puzzling that the beauty of heaven and country has fallen here.

The young man saw his mother, so he didn't know where to hide. Only Zhao Rang and the woman were left in the hall. Zhao Rang couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Are there other servants?"

What he meant was to avoid lonely men and widows, but the woman smiled sadly: "The general thinks too much of concubines, abandoned women in cold palaces, can you still have maids in the palace? It is a gift from God to ask for food and clothing every day. "

She was already extremely beautiful, but this weak and mournful attitude was enough to make any hard-hearted person intolerable. Zhao Rang couldn't say anything more. He lowered his head and picked up the teacup. Varieties of tea.

"Please excuse Zhao Rang's frank inquiries." After the etiquette, Zhao Rang looked at the woman and said, "Who is the empress? I sent my son to invite you late at night. Fortunately, Zhao Rang has a sense of restraint, otherwise he will hurt your son. How to apologize to the empress?"

He really couldn't figure out the identity of this woman, although he saw that she accepted the title of "Niangniang" without a doubt, but calling herself a servant would be abrupt and self-deprecating, so she simply called herself by her first name.

The woman frowned slightly, but she was a little surprised: "What? That child..."

Before she finished speaking, she heard the boy's laughter from the inner room behind her: "Mother, General Zhao was joking with you, the boy was just having fun with him."

When the young man walked out of the hall from the inner room, Zhao Rang was so shocked that he was speechless. This was not the young man he had fought with just now. He was clearly a graceful girl with bright eyes and bright lips and white teeth——

But listening to the voice and the content of the words, it was clearly that boy just now!

After the young man saluted, he sat down generously. Seeing Zhao Rang looking at him from time to time, he raised his eyebrows. The boss said bluntly, "What are you looking at? When you become a concubine, you may be forced to wear a skirt!"

Zhao Rang smiled, but the woman sternly scolded: "You are rude! Why don't you apologize to General Zhao?"

"Boy, it's just..." The young man still refused to accept, the woman taunted coldly, "Are you still lying? You must have intended to show off your skills in front of General Zhao, and you must have been taught a lesson by General Zhao. You know Emperor Guan quite well. Dancing with a big sword in front of you - you are overestimating your capabilities."

These words came from his mother, how could the boy dare to refute, his face flushed red, he sat down stiffly, and kowtowed to Zhao Rang stiffly.

Zhao Rang knew that the young man was just competitive, and he didn't necessarily have any malicious intentions, and he didn't want to be ignored, so he smiled at the woman: "Your Majesty, let's get Brother Xiao up quickly. The business is important, isn't it?"

The woman was delighted when she heard the words, and she winked at the boy. The boy got up obediently, not daring to do it again, and sat upright without saying a word.

"General, please forgive my concubine's blunt words. Does the general want revenge?"

Zhao Rang remained expressionless, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't even want to tell you her real body, but how do you want Zhao Rang to reply?"

The woman's eyes fluttered, showing a coquettish attitude that was very different from her previous appearance: "It's not that I don't want to tell you. I'm afraid the general will have unnecessary doubts when he knows who I am. I only ask the general. The matter is actually the mastermind of the Xie family, but how does the general treat it?"

"The mastermind of the Xie family?" Zhao Rang repeated these four words unconsciously, and his thoughts turned sharply. Judging from what he has seen and heard in the past few days, it is not impossible.

The woman signaled the young man to present the unique jade flute to Zhao Rang, and said: "There are only two flutes made of these flutes that contain a mechanism. This one is a coincidence, and it was given by others. The other one may have been given by the general. Is it ruined?"

Zhao Rang has seen with his own eyes how powerful this jade flute is.It has hidden reeds and built-in poisonous needles. If someone who doesn't know it just plays it as an ordinary instrument, the mechanism will be triggered after a few sounds.

The poison quenching on the needle is also extremely domineering, the throat is sealed with blood, and the poison still exists within a day.If you accidentally leave a wound and touch the poisoned person, you will also be poisoned, but the toxicity will be diluted, and it will not kill you instantly.

Zhao Rang didn't answer, but asked instead: "The Xie family doesn't hesitate to waste everything, there is always a purpose, right?"

"Naturally." The woman nodded and said, "The general's reputation spreads far and wide, and even Jinling has heard of it. The South Vietnam garrison is only followed by the general. It's not surprising that people with a heart are jealous."

"Even when the South Vietnam Army was at its peak, there were less than [-] troops, and the Jinling Imperial Army had nearly [-] troops. What is there to be afraid of?" Recalling the past, Zhao Rang sneered.

The woman shook her head: "Don't forget, General, Min County and Hangcheng County are still separated from Nanyue and Jinling Jingji. How about the garrison in Min County? The general knows better than the concubine. How can you not be afraid if the two are superimposed?"

Zhao Rang was silent, and at the same time, he was even more curious about the identity of this woman. She lived in the cold palace, but she had the insight that the world is in her hands.

What she said is true. Min County is also a new county that was included in the pocket after the Eastern Chu crossed the river and established the country. Like Nanyue, it is different from Yi and Xia, and its folk customs are very different.

After the Eastern Chu conquered Min County, some troops were stationed there, and even a lot of property was allocated from the luggage, specially for the soldiers to settle down in the local area.At that time, the general who commanded the army was Zhao Rang's late father. He took the lead in rewards and punishments, and was very popular among the tribes.

If Zhao Rang really took advantage of the fire and robbed Jinling when the northern bandits invaded in the past, and raised troops in South Vietnam to counterattack Jinling, there must be many people in Fujian County who responded.

But shouldn't the people who are afraid of his betrayal be the royal family of Eastern Chu, so what's the matter with Xie's family?

Zhao Rangzheng was puzzled, the woman seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and said with a light smile: "The general's thinking is wrong, not because you are worried about your mutiny, but because you are afraid that you will be king, forcing you to take care of yourself so that you can complete the succession of the throne smoothly. "

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