Born short-lived

The so-called feng shui turns, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, when Dongsheng changed the clothes for the banquet and followed Eunuch Gao out of the East Palace, he happened to see the sandalwood and gilt walking chariot of the princess and the concubine passing in front of him, thirty steps away from him In the distance, the eight people in front and behind were carrying the copper censer bestowed by the emperor, and the light blue smoke enveloped the walking chariot like a mist.

The princess was wearing a very delicate gown with moon white satin and lotus flower embroidery. Her petite figure made the bulge of her abdomen more obvious. She leaned quietly on her husband's shoulder, looking gentle and pleasant, who It's also unexpected that such a little girl who is a small bird and a person is the most likely person in the Dong clan to replace Dong Sheng in the East Palace.

Judging from the current situation, Dong Li is obviously very convincing—Dong Sheng has been under house arrest in the East Palace for half a month, and has been stripped of all powers in the court, but Dong Li has been innocent from beginning to end. In people's eyes, she won a place in the cabinet by virtue of her own efforts, and she has a deep affection with her husband and wife, and they have the same eyebrows, which makes countless people envious.

There are two dwarf trees in front of the gate of the Eastern Palace. They have been left unattended for so long, and they have long since dried up. Through the cracks in the branches, you can clearly see the princess and his wife walking on the white marble road leading to the main hall of the imperial palace. , just like heaven and man.

Logically speaking, when the princess meets the prince, she still has to stop and salute no matter what, but at this time, I don't know whether she didn't see it or what, the group of people just swaggered past him in such a mighty way, they didn't even look straight. give him one.

Eunuch Gao was also embarrassed, and carefully retracted the little feet that had just stepped out. He looked back at Dong Sheng with an expression of not knowing whether to cry or laugh, and twitched the corners of his mouth dryly: "Your Highness... we ...?"

Dong Sheng didn't react too much, looked down at him and smiled, and said casually: "Wait for them to pass first."

"Hey," Eunuch Gao responded with a bow, and then turned back silently, having nothing to say.

The road from the East Palace to the main hall is a bit far, the empress specifically told him not to let him take the past with him, and he didn't even have a talking partner along the way, so it was a bit boring, so he chatted casually with Eunuch Gao sentence.

This old eunuch is indeed a person who has served the Queen for many years. He is a man of his own. Whether Dong Sheng intends it or not, as long as the topic touches on what happened when Dong Sheng was not in court, he will change the conversation with a smile.

Dong Sheng just smiled, and didn't speak any more after that.

He always felt that the stone steps in the main hall were too long, and he had to look up his neck to see the door plaque with the words "Jinluan Hall". The snow on the steps had just been swept away, and soon a thin layer fell again.At this time, Dong Sheng seemed to catch a glimpse of some movement in his peripheral vision. He glanced sideways and saw a wild eagle parked in a shadow under the corner of the long steps, pacing in front of a grotto in the corner with its head bent, Like a hunchback waiting to be collected.

Eunuch Gao saw that he stopped suddenly in front of the stone steps, and thought that he was seriously injured and unable to climb the steps, so he rushed forward with small steps, as if to help him: "Your Highness, come, walk slowly."

Dong Sheng laughed, pushed his hand away gently, shook his head and said: "It's okay, it's not too late."

Then he lifted the hem of his heavy winter coat, and stepped up as if nothing had happened, and he seemed to be walking at a very fast pace. Before Eunuch Gao could react, this person had already climbed up for a long time.

"Oh, Your Highness, please slow down, eh..."

Eunuch Gao was still panting halfway up the long steps, and Dong Sheng had already climbed to the entrance of the main hall, surrounded by a screen. He glanced at the guard with a knife on the right side of the entrance, and the young man just happened to look up at him.Dong Sheng paused for a moment, then turned his feet and walked towards the side door on the right side of the main entrance.

"Your Highness, I've offended you." The little guard took a step forward to do a routine body search. When he bent down to fumble for Dong Sheng's belt, he quietly stuffed something into his belt, then stepped back, stood back to his original position, and turned sideways. Make way, "Please."

When Dong Sheng walked around the screen, he turned it out and took a quick look, and couldn't help frowning.

——What the guard stuffed in was a note with eight words written on it, "It's like walking on thin ice, like walking on thin ice".

This piece was made by Qiu Cangyang. In short, it means that I don't know the bottom line, so you should be careful.

However, most of the guards in the palace are under the influence of the Jiang family. It is not easy for Qiu Cangyang to replace the guards of the main hall on such an important occasion.

Even so, including Jianghuaikong's connections, it is impossible to figure out how deep the water is this time.

Dong Sheng's worry was not groundless, after all, no one knew Sha'an people better than him, and no one knew Jiang Kun better than him.

The empress bothers him and wants to protect him, so she has 1 reasons to keep him in the East Palace, but there is only one reason to drag him out of the East Palace before his injury has healed.

In fact, being grounded to the Eastern Palace may not be a bad thing, but right now there is only one person who most wants him to come out.

The eunuch in charge of ceremonies proclaimed the salute while pinching his throat. Just as Dong Sheng was sitting in a daze on his table after serving the dishes, he was suddenly pulled back to his senses by a voice.

"His Royal Highness," the envoy of Sha'an spoke a very poor Hua Xujin Wen, stood up from the opposite side with a cup in his hand, and said word by word with a smile on his face, "I have long admired your name... I wonder if Your Highness would like to drink with this villain?" A glass."

After the first music and dance, the dancer who was still wearing gauze in the cold weather bowed her back and retreated, leaving only the big brass stove with gluttonous patterns burning coals in the center of the main hall.

From the hole in the copper furnace, Dong Sheng could just see Jiang Kun who was sitting opposite. The red flame twisted the scorching air, and Jiang Kun was also looking at him from the hole with a half-smile, his face distorted by the fire, looking like Totally weird.

"Prince?" The queen raised her eyebrows, "The envoy is toasting, why are you in a daze?"

The envoy of Sha'an smiled like a peacemaker.

"Your servant is impolite," Dong Sheng nodded, picked up the wine glass on the table and stood up to pay homage, "I have seen the envoy."

The glass of wine was drunk in a friendly manner, Dong Sheng made a posture of flipping the wine glass upside down, raised the bottom of the empty glass at them, and was about to sit down, but was stopped by the Sha'an envoy: "Wait a minute, Your Highness, the villain has a gift, and I want to give it to Your Highness."

Everyone seemed to be immediately interested. After all, foreign envoys visiting, in order to avoid suspicion, it is relatively rare to give gifts to the emperor's heir alone.All eyes were focused on Dong Sheng. Dong Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then smiled politely, cupped his hands and said, "The envoy is being too polite."

The envoy of Sha'an smiled and waved his hands, looked back at the queen, and after seeing the queen's acquiescence, he clapped his hands outside the hall: "Bring it in."

Two figures approaching faintly appeared behind the screen, and in a blink of an eye, two tall and burly Sha'an attendants walked in step by step from behind the screen carrying a large red-lacquered wooden box.

The two attendants were as tall as mountains, and their forearms were as thick as their calves. Holding their breath, they stretched out all the veins like earthworms on their arms, and their footsteps were so heavy that they wanted to smash the floor out of a hole. Come.

That box is not something that ordinary people can lift.

The two tried their best to handle it gently, but when the bottom of the box hit the ground, everyone still felt the floor shake.

"What is this?" the queen asked curiously.

The envoy of Sha'an smiled mysteriously, and walked over to lift the lid of the box himself.

As soon as the contents inside were revealed, there was a sudden silence in the hall, Dong Sheng's hand holding the wine glass couldn't help trembling, the empress stared, and stood up abruptly: "This... this?!"

——There were eight bronze weapons lying inside, each of which was embedded with a black jade bead without exception.

Eight pieces, the last eight pieces left outside, heaven would have thought that they would be returned to the country in this way.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and Dong Sheng was also a little confused.

Eunuch Gao was standing outside the Golden Luan Hall on behalf of the palace people who came in and out of the wine serving room. He was offering gifts inside, so he had nothing to do. He could only listen to the movement inside while blowing the cold wind.

It was quite lively at first, but just after two strong men from Sha'an carried a box into it, there was no sound. Eunuch Gao was puzzled, but there were soft rustling sounds from behind.

He looked back and saw hundreds of silver-armored guards gathering on the square in front of the Golden Luan Hall.

What's going on here?

Eunuch Gao glanced back at the Golden Luan Hall in disbelief—everything is fine, what’s the matter again, can’t it be possible to perform martial arts for foreign envoys to see?

A small eunuch with a wine jug came over and saw that there was a long row of other eunuchs waiting at the door with wine like him, so he knew it was not time to go in, so he also stood beside Eunuch Gao and waited.

"Director Gao," said the little inner official, "the eagle is digging through the wall again, can you catch up?"

"Whatever it is doing," Eunuch Gao stared at the guards on the square, not in the mood to talk to him, he flicked his sleeves and walked a few steps outside with his hands behind his back, "What are those soldiers doing? They swarmed."

The little internal officer shrugged: "I don't even know."

The people in the hall were ignorant, and the Queen's attention was all on the eight pieces of Tiangang Lingwu, and she couldn't help asking: "Is this... all true?"

The envoy smiled and said, "Your Majesty can test it yourself."

Dong Sheng's heart moved slightly, with some bad premonition.

Although according to the rules of etiquette, there is nothing wrong with letting the empress inspect first, but after all, he is the black spirit, so let him inspect it no matter what.

The queen smiled: "Why not call him the crown prince?"

The envoy said kindly, "That's fine."

Then he took a short knife from it, and brought it to Dong Sheng.

Dong Sheng raised his eyes and glanced at the envoy, who was still smiling meticulously. Jiang Kun quietly took a sip from his wine glass, and looked at him without blinking.

The moment his hand touched the blade, he knew it was indeed true.

"Well, this one is real." Dong Sheng said.

As soon as the queen was amused, she immediately became interested, and raised her hand at the envoy: "Bring me a handful and show me."

"According to the order," said the envoy, nodding his head, took another crossbow, and directed another person to offer it to the queen.

There is a pair of crossbows in Tiangang Lingwu, one is singing the wind and the other is playing the moon.

If this is really a moon crossbow...

The queen happily took the crossbow from her attendant, weighed it in her hand, and was groping for the body of the crossbow, wanting to see the arrow's mouth.

Just as she turned the crossbow, she happened to meet the stern eyes of the attendant in front of her case.

The Queen's heart suddenly turned cold.