Jia Cong, the God of Dancing Through the Red Mansion

Brother Cong has been waiting for news from the palace since he returned to the mansion. Concubine Zhen Gui could not have died for no reason. The Supreme Emperor in the palace has favored her for so many years, so it is impossible for her to be indifferent to her death. This is not to say that they There can be any earth-shattering feelings between them, but the dignity of being an emperor cannot be easily desecrated by others.

So even though it was just a few light words from a steward, the bloody turmoil in it can only be imagined by imagination. It is impossible to see Tu Sui immediately at this time, and even he cannot get exact information about him, but As long as he can get news from the palace, it is better than nothing for him.

On the surface, the palace seems to be the same as usual, but secretly, it has already been surrounded by the emperor like an iron bucket. Brother Cong sent his own manpower here, but of course he got nothing. How can you refuse to use it? In such an extraordinary period, acting so blatantly is just to arouse the emperor's suspicion.

Unable to calm down after tossing and turning, he simply called in several big butlers who are currently in charge of the mansion, repeatedly asked about some things in the mansion, and made sure that the servants of the family were still keeping themselves safe during this period of time. Don't worry, even so, I still let him go after a few more words of advice.

Tossing and turning throughout the night, he hardly ever closed his eyes. Occasionally, when he dozed off, he would still dream that Tuli was covered in blood. After waking up, he could only put on his clothes and sit up, and could no longer lie down.

Sitting on the edge of the desk with a paintbrush in his hand, for some reason, he thought of the song "Fixing the Storm" by Master Su in his previous life——

Don't listen to the sound of Chuan Lin slapping leaves, why don't you roar and walk slowly.Bamboo stick mango shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid?A misty rain for life.It is expected that the spring breeze blows and wakes up.Looking back at the place that has always been bleak, when I go back, there is no wind or rain.

Although the current mood can be said to be completely opposite to the free and easy expression expressed in the poem, and it is not the time to expect the chilly spring breeze, but the autumn is getting stronger, watching the stars outside, listening to the sound of the wind passing through the bamboo leaves, The sound of dogs barking in the distance, thinking about the not-too-distant Tusi who might be in danger in the palace, suddenly gave birth to the idea of ​​staying away from the world...

Sighing deeply, this night I can only sit alone in the study until dawn!

The emperor and Tu Sui in the palace also stayed up all night. Concubine Zhen Gui died during the day yesterday. The cause of death was suicide.

The cause was still in the Zhen family. Since the Zhen family was raided, Concubine Zhen no longer had the charm and affection of the past. She was so sad every day that she almost wore a filial dress to play the little white flower.

At the beginning, the emperor felt fresh, and after all, he was the concubine whom he had loved for many years. Although he gave birth to a disobedient son, this son was also loved by him after all. It can be said that the emperor's love for Concubine Zhengui was no longer temporary. Greed for beauty is a habit formed intentionally or unintentionally.

Such a noble concubine who had been pampered all this time suddenly almost lost her family and she shed tears every day, which naturally made him feel very distressed.

Not to mention, the Zhen family has always been his confidant, even if his behavior is now biased towards the four or six princes, the emperor also believes in the loyalty of the Zhen family, and if something happens, he will definitely stand up. behind him.

How can such a loyal minister feel comfortable when he was tricked by the cooperation of the third and fifth brothers?

The emperor's majesty was getting more and more serious, and it was not easy to beat and scold him, but the fifth child was just a pet raised by him, so he could not tolerate him disobeying him, so the fifth prince was almost sure to be scolded whenever he saw the emperor some time ago.

When he was in a bad mood, and Concubine Zhen Gui was building a bridge beside him to stir the fire, the emperor just cursed at him and was no longer relieved. Once he even moved the board directly, even the emperor's forehead was also flying over. There were bruises on the lamp, but fortunately there was a hat to cover it when he went up to the court, so the courtiers didn't see the joke.

However, after the tens of millions of silver and countless antique jewelry and gold copied by the Zhen family arrived in the capital, the emperor could no longer speak. Not only that, he also felt that he had been slapped in the face and slapped The sound of the beating is known to everyone.

His face was burning with pain, and his heart was dripping with blood. He thought he had worked hard all his life, and he had been sitting on the throne for so many years. He used "benevolence" as the criterion everywhere. Wan Lishu, after a hundred years, no matter how bad it is in the history books, it will be regarded as a generation of Mingjun, right?

But I didn't expect that before he died, the crown prince had the idea of ​​forcing the palace to seize the throne. Not only him, but also the other sons were not honest. After a palace change, one son died. One son, he was also so angry that he couldn't even review the memorials. In desperation, he could only hurriedly give the throne to the third son who he thought was the most filial and easy to control.

But he didn't expect that he was so naive. This son who he always thought was upright and pure and filial turned out to be a white-eyed wolf in sheep's clothing. Before, he didn't fight or snatch, and he didn't admire fame and power. It was all a disguise. Now once he got the power, he showed his fangs, and he refused to take him seriously as the emperor, forcing him to use all means to barely maintain his majesty as the emperor.

This is not the key point, the key point is that he has to admit later that he has lost, and the country is still the same, but it has really changed its master!

His face showed fatigue. After admitting this matter, he seemed to be ten years older overnight. Even so, he had the merits of being an emperor before and the great righteousness of the Zen position. These are enough for him to be listed in the history books. Leaving a reputation that is enough to compete with the great kings of the past dynasties.

But what is this now?

The minister he trusts is greedy for thousands of inks, but the concubine he loves comes from this family. If you think about it, you know what people in the future will say about him!

Thinking of this, the emperor is not only bored with Concubine Zhen, but also looks at the emperor with resentment, so his son can't see him, okay?

When the Zhen family can't move well, what if it's after Concubine Zhen dies, or after he dies?At that time, it will be concluded that the coffin will be closed, even if the flood is torrential, it will not affect him anymore!

The more the Emperor thought about it, the more he felt that this son was unfilial, but now that he had already grasped the position of real power in the court, he had hoped that the unfilial son of the fifth child would be useful, but he did not expect that he was also an unfaithful and short-sighted beast.

Like a trapped animal, the emperor is thinking more and more extreme now, and sometimes he even wants to kill all his sons regardless. Anyway, he has so many grandsons, he is not afraid of dying.

With this kind of mentality, he has been extraordinarily kind to his young grandsons during this period of time, and even called the eldest prince to his side to train him. Not only did he personally send the eldest prince there, but the remaining sons and nephews from the other brothers who were only six years old were all called to the upper palace, pretending to be his father's father. Filial piety.

However, the emperor obviously didn't appreciate it. Looking at the noisy little carrots in the room, he only wondered if the emperor's son had finally made up his mind to piss him off to death!

I'm in a bad mood, and I can't find fault every day, and I can lose my temper even for trivial things. If you want Brother Cong to say it, it means that menopause has arrived, and the endocrine system is seriously disordered, so what doesn't look good to me, and what I do doesn't go my way.

Fortunately, Tufu is a slippery guy, obviously he personally went to Jiangnan to copy the Zhen family, and he was the one who picked up the emperor's hardcore one by one, and even threatened and wooed them or got them back home, or got the emperor. In the camp here, he and Brother Cong wandered on the road for too long, so they were not affected by the emperor's anger in the first place.

Afterwards, the emperor looked for trouble everywhere, the fifth child was beaten up, the emperor and the fourth child were scolded, but he, the chief culprit, was never even seen.

Even if I go to the palace ten times or eight times a day, even stay overnight at night, and have time to chat with the empress dowager, but I don't have time to greet the emperor. No face at all.

For this reason, the emperor was so angry that he almost had a stroke again. He only felt that his well-maintained hands and feet would not work well after he abdicated. The number of times was too many, but he himself did not dare to go to his son's side to find anger.

It can be said that the emperor was full of anger and had nowhere to vent his anger. Just as he was looking for something to do, Concubine Zhen Gui, who had been left out for a long time, became fussy again. Her purpose was to get the sixth prince to become a vassal!

This dynasty started from the founding of the country, drawing lessons from previous dynasties, princes are only crowned kings, they can receive errands but cannot have fiefdoms, this is also because they are afraid that the princes will support themselves and threaten the imperial power.

Therefore, the princes who have a good relationship with the emperor have always held great power, and there are tens of thousands of people under one person, but those who have a bad relationship with the emperor can only be trapped in the capital with a salary, and they can only fight chickens and walk dogs every day After a few generations, the king's nobility will decrease, and it is unknown whether he has become a commoner.

This is not bad, how many people have been killed and circled, have never thought about such a leisurely life!

Concubine Zhengui knew in her heart that since the emperor was still here, the emperor dared to copy the Zhen family without any scruples, and the whole family killed and exiled the exiles.

As soon as the emperor left, she and the remaining two sons would never die and would no longer be free. Seeing that it was impossible to seize the throne, so after discussing with her son and those aides, the few of them whimsically proposed that they want to seal the land. Jingjiufan was originally an unreasonable thing to make trouble, but after the emperor was angry at this time, in order to make him feel uncomfortable, he didn't care about it, and he was moved.

So in the recent period, not only the court outside the palace was full of thrilling turmoil, but also the palace was very lively. Concubine Zhen Gui and the Sixth Prince cried in front of the Emperor every day, and the Emperor also contacted the courtiers and relatives to discuss the matter without any concealment.

Seeing that the situation on the outside is getting worse and worse, even the judgment of the Zhen family has come down. The person in charge was sentenced to beheaded after autumn, and the rest were exiled for men over 15 years old. , a prominent and powerful family can be regarded as romantic.

Concubine Zhen Gui is naturally heartbroken about this, thinking that it is impossible for the old and weak women and children in the family to stay in the capital, and they will be bullied when they return to their hometown. It can be regarded as having the capital to start, but it cannot be regarded as a complete defeat.

But the emperor has been reluctant to speak directly to the emperor for a long time, so how can he not be in a hurry?

After being in the palace for so many years, she thought that the emperor still had her in his heart, and she didn't see such a big mistake in the Zhen family, and it was only after neglecting her for a few days that she finally relented. Didn't the emperor still love her the same?

With this confidence, he naturally wanted to use his own life to persecute the emperor, but by accident, I don't know if it was an accident or man-made, Princess Zhen Gui who pretended to hang herself was really hanged!

Below the queen mother, everyone in the harem feigned grief, but they were all happy. After so many years, this shit-stirring stick is finally dead!

The emperor's face was calm, and he turned a deaf ear to the emperor's questioning. He really didn't understand that his own concubine wanted to die, what did it have to do with him as a son?I was really yelled at anxiously, and I only left one sentence, "It is a serious crime for a concubine to commit suicide. The father is soft-hearted, but the son wants to ask the sixth brother how he is filial on weekdays. Why did the concubine feel dissatisfied and rise up?" Have such thoughts?"

"You, you..." The whole body of the emperor was trembling with anger, but he couldn't find any doubts about this matter, and the only suspicious thing was that the princess Zhen Gui who was close to the palace lady had already hit the post when the incident happened suicide.

The emperor was so busy finding out the truth of the matter that he forgot about the funeral, the emperor was naturally not in a hurry, so after the body of Concubine Zhen Gui was untied from the rope, it was placed on the bed in her bedroom, and no one paid attention to it for a while.

Until the next morning, when the emperor completely controlled the entire forbidden area of ​​the Fourth Prince and the Palace of the Sixth Prince, not only did the army surround the several villages where the two men raised the dead, but also captured the confidantes of the two men in the capital one by one. Sent to prison.

This process was naturally full of blood and rain, not to mention other things, only [-]% of the people in the emperor's palace did not see the sun this morning again, and almost all the four or six people's houses were completely changed.

At this point, it can be said that the emperor's family has completely withdrawn from the stage of history, and there is no room for them to jump around inside or outside the court!

The emperor was very happy, and people became extra 'tolerant'. Before the early court, he issued an imperial decree, claiming that because the imperial concubine passed away, the emperor was devastated, so he would serve his filial piety for one day.

The death of a concubine is a national mourning. Not only are there royal family members ordered to attend the funeral in Beijing, but even the weddings and funerals of noble families have to wait for a year.

Because Brother Cong hadn't slept all night, he arrived at the palace gate early and waited for the court. Naturally, he was the first to see this imperial decree. In addition to being powerful, it can be considered to be calm and calm. It seems that the matter has passed and there is nothing to worry about.

Although I thought so in my heart, I couldn't help but feel a little worried because I didn't see Tu Sui. It's just that the court stopped this morning and His Majesty didn't summon him alone, so it's impossible to enter the palace at this time.

The gate of the palace is not a place to stay for a long time. Just as I was about to turn the carriage around and go to the Zhongshun Palace, I saw Fei trotting over from afar, saluted Brother Cong with a smile on his face, and then confessed, "Still Please forgive me, my lord, my lord ordered my servants to wait for you at the gate of the palace early in the morning. I was so clumsy that I got caught up in something at the moment, and I didn't free myself until this time. I'm afraid the third lord was too tired to wait for a long time. .”

Brother Cong knew that those of them who were with Tu Su on weekdays might have had a hard time these two days, how could he be blamed, so he quickly called him up after hearing this, "You must have worked hard these past few days. fine?"

"Returning to the third master, everything is fine at the prince's place, but I always miss the third master in my heart, but I can't leave the palace." He said respectfully and handed over a box.

Brother Cong opened it, but almost couldn't help laughing out loud. The box was full of things, but there was nothing precious, such as a fallen leaf with a unique pattern, a flower that was already withered, and a colorful flower. Especially the gorgeous glazed beads... There are even a few snacks inside a handkerchief...!

There was a box full of things, although there was not a single valuable item, but brother Cong felt warm in his heart, as if he finally drank a cup of hot tea after three or nine days.

After thinking about it, he took out the song "Fixing the Storm" that he copied last night and handed it to Fei, "Tell the prince to let him handle his business with peace of mind. I don't need him to worry about it here."

Sun Fei was the eunuch who served Tu Su personally, and he couldn't be more clear about his master's thoughts. He would rather suffer a little grievance himself than lose a little bit to the third master in front of him, so in their opinion, no matter what It's better than anything else to take care of the master in front of me.

Now seeing that the third master still has a gift in return, thinking that as long as the things are delivered to the master, he will definitely be able to make him happy, and the smile on his face will become brighter!