[Qing] If you don't work hard, you will be forced to inherit the throne

"His Royal Highness!" Suo'etu was almost frightened crazy by this accident, he rushed over to squeeze away the guard who saved Yinrong, and his men grabbed Yinrong's shoulders tightly, wishing to rub him into his arms.

After checking up and down that Yinfeng was unharmed, Suo'etu heaved a sigh of relief.

The guard who was pushed aside by Suo'etu looked at his empty palm, and when he heard him calling His Royal Highness Prince Yinfeng, the surprise on his face flashed away.

So this child is the prince?

Who was the child that was taken away?

Yinfeng pulled Suo'etu and said loudly: "Third Grandfather, hurry up and send someone to arrest them and rescue Ah Zhen!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, there are [-] and eight banner troops outside, and they will be hard to fly." Suo'etu was choked by the billowing smoke, coughed twice, and quickly said to Yinfeng: "Your Highness, it's chaotic and dangerous here, let's go first." Move the place and meet Prince Gong."

Yinfeng was dying in a hurry: "Ms. Wu said that she gave the uncle the sweat medicine, and the thief said that he wanted to burn the uncle to death. The third grandpa sent someone to rescue the uncle. Compared with the uncle, Ah Zhen is now His life is in danger, he was seriously injured, he must be rescued quickly and sent for medical treatment."

"They thought Cao Zhen was the prince, so they would definitely send someone to heal him." Compared with Yinreng's safety, Cao Zhen's life was not important at all. Suo'etu just wanted to take Yinreng to a safe place surrounded by the imperial army, and then A doctor was sent to examine the frightened prince.

"Third Grandpa, Ah Zhen was taken away by them because of saving the orphan," Yinfeng said loudly: "If something happens to him, Gu Gu will never forget that he was involved in the accident because of Gu Gu."

"The Royal Forest Army is outside, and those of them riding out like this, there is no way to escape."

"They still have people from outside to support them. They made this place so chaotic, and there are secret passages underground." Yinfeng has a system map, which can pinpoint where Cao Zhen was taken.

Suo'etu had no choice but to call Madam Xu to protect Yinreng. Madam Xu, who had lost His Royal Highness for a whole day, went crazy. Seeing Yinreng again now, she was tearful and slapped herself The two big ears scratched their heads, crying bitterly: "The old slave should not have left His Highness the Crown Prince's side, it was because of the old slave's negligence that His Royal Highness was taken away by them!"

At that time, even if Mother Xu didn't leave to investigate, she would still be hacked to the end by Wu's men.

"Half of the servants in His Royal Highness's courtyard died, and half were seriously injured. When the old slave found the jade pillar, he was still alive. He told the old slave that His Highness the Crown Prince was kidnapped." Mother Xu explained to Yinfeng. , she said sadly: "Of your three haha ​​beads, only Echu is still alive, and the others have been killed."

Yinfeng was stunned, and finally said sadly: "Take away the corpses for them, and go back to care for their relatives. After all, they also died because of being orphaned."

Suo'etu told Yinfeng: "I would also like to thank Mother Xu for rushing to rescue the old minister in time, otherwise I'm afraid I will be seriously injured by someone's conspiracy. The thing will develop to the point where it is now, because the defense is too lax, and it is also our Because I trust Chang Ning too much."

Suo'etu's eyes were cold, and he immediately ordered Chang Ning to be closely guarded and monitored.

Yinfeng tugged at him, insisting that they go to rescue Cao Zhen first.He saw the green dot representing Cao Zhen leave the range of the map, he was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, but the third grandpa who had always listened to him no longer indulged him, and no matter what he did not agree with him leaving the safe range again .

At this time, the servant next to Prince Gong came to report: "His Royal Highness, the prince sent a villain to look for you, saying that he knows where the enemy may hide Cao Zhen."

Yinfeng immediately dragged the third grandpa and Nanny Xu to Prince Gong's place. Because the house he lived in was burned down, he was currently living in a guest room outside the post station.

When Yinreng saw him, he felt that the whole person of the emperor's uncle was different. If we say that before that, he saw that the emperor's uncle was stable and self-sufficient, as tall and straight as a pine and cypress, then now the emperor's uncle is like a withered yellow sycamore tree. The green leaves are full of vitality, but they stand upright and face the storm with bare branches.

"She likes drama, and often joins the biggest troupe here, and has a close relationship with Huadan here."

"The imperial guards guarding outside did not catch the group who sent Cao Zhen away. The gate of Zunyi City is now under martial law. They can't leave the city now. They must find a place to stay here."

Suo'etu said: "I'll send people to surround the troupe!"

"My lord will go with you," Prince Gong said as he stood up, clenching his fists.

"Prince Gong, you are also guilty of this matter, whether you are connected with the bandit party or not, you still need to investigate," Suo'etu said coldly: "When you go there and see that person, then you will soften your heart and save her life? "

Suo'etu's mocking words cut Chang Ning's heart like a knife, and Yinfeng grabbed Suo'etu's clothes and said firmly, "Gu also wants to go."

Chang Ning could only smile wryly, no amount of explanation would be of any use now, how could he have thought that the girl he watched growing up had become so unrecognizable.I didn't expect that good fortune would trick people, God made a huge joke with them, and they were destined to part with each other and suffer for the rest of their lives.

"Your Highness, you must not be willful, your safety is the most important thing!"

"Ah Zhen suffered for Gu." Yinreng looked directly at Suo'etu stubbornly: "If the third grandpa doesn't let Gu follow, Gu can only be a willful bad boy and follow him secretly."

He didn't want to threaten the third grandfather with his own safety, but in the end it was Cao Zhen who was anxiously injured, so he tried his best to go with him.

"As soon as you get to the place, Gu will be able to find Ah Zhen, and you can find it faster if you bring Gu. Did the third grandpa forget that Gu was taught by the immortal?"

Yinreng, who had never verbally admitted that he was bestowed by heaven, finally let go of his face and bit the words "given by heaven" clearly.

Suo'etu couldn't hold back him in the end, so he summoned all the imperial guards, and ordered the guards who were with him before to protect Yinfeng.

"His name is Chen Mengqiu," Suo'etu explained, "He is physically strong, capable of both literature and martial arts. Although he comes from a poor background, he is very talented. He was picked up by a veteran. His Royal Highness can use him with confidence."

Yinfeng nodded indiscriminately, waiting for someone to report, he was not surprised that only dozens of anti-Qing people who fled on horseback were caught, but the mastermind was not caught.

"Those people hid under the shadow of the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, hiding in the three caves of the cunning rabbit, and hiding in Tibet, all of which are the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty. Unbelievably, the situation in the world is stable now, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but they come to destroy all of this," Suo'etu sneered, "Is this a vain attempt to restore the country or satisfy your own selfish desires?"

They surrounded the theater troupe tightly, and only the main entrance could enter and exit. Chang Ning stopped Suo'etu's movement and said sincerely: "This time, can I let the king go in first? This is the last time that the king troubles the prime minister."

Suo'etu was displeased with everything about him now, and was unwilling to even talk to him, and only snorted coldly to express his unexplained dissatisfaction.

Chang Ning stepped into the troupe first, and it was quiet there, only the original troupe gathered there waiting anxiously for the officers and soldiers to search.

Yinfeng told Suo'etu categorically, "Azhen is right here, in that direction, with Mrs. Wu."

Suo'etu nodded, waved coldly, and someone broke into the door immediately.

The ruthless officers and soldiers rushed in directly, making everyone in the troupe feel as if they were facing an enemy. They only saw that Prince Gong Changning was the closest to them. In order to escape, he broke the decoration on the ceiling and smashed it down, just right on top of Chang Ning's head. His head was bleeding in an instant, and he fell back on the ground without making a sound, and everyone let out a cry of astonishment.

The officers and soldiers searched from room to room in the direction Yinfeng pointed out, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, but found nothing.

Wu's woman, who is like a mad dog, had a quarrel with Sheng Yinghua after staying here, and insisted on asking them to go to the capital on the grounds that she had helped them snatch the crown prince.

"I don't want a future." Wu Shi scrubbed Cao Zhen's face, her smile was full of fantasy: "I want to kill Xuan Ye's beloved son with my own hands in front of Xuan Ye, so that he can also taste the feeling of losing a dear one. My elder brother and my younger brothers were all executed by his order, and now even my mother has been imprisoned to death by him. Is the child innocent? If so, my younger brother is younger than him!"

Sheng Yinghua sternly shouted at Wu: "Don't drag us if you are crazy. It has been agreed before that the crown prince will be brought to Taiwan to be presented to the chief rudder to claim credit. Aren't you going to be the right protector of my Tiandihui?"

Wu laughed loudly: "I have nothing left, what am I going to do as a protector? I betrayed the person I love the most and lost the person I love the most. I am alone now. What is there to do?" How about taking revenge before death and dragging this precious child to hell to atone for the sins of parents, how good would it be?"

"Don't even think about it!" Sheng Yinghua immediately called on his own people to snatch the "Prince" to his side.

"You think I don't have any manpower?" Wu laughed madly, and recruited all the dead men he had cultivated through so much effort.

"Just because you still want to snatch the crown prince with me?!"

Sheng Yinghua's anger gradually condensed, he calmed down, looked at Wu Shi who was completely crazy and only wanted to take revenge, knowing that he couldn't explain it to this crazy woman, so he simply followed her meaning and said coldly: "You have to fight in front of the Tartars!" Kill the prince in front of the emperor? Then you have to treat him well now, he almost lost half his life after being kicked by me, even if he is alive, he will be a eunuch in the next life."

Wu's face turned pale with fright, and she screamed and asked him, "I got kicked by you? What kind of kick did you get kicked by, and what did you do!"

Sheng Yinghua said indifferently: "It's just that he resisted fiercely, and I kicked him in the crotch in a fit of anger."

Sheng Yinghua claims to be a righteous man of the Tiandihui, a righteous person who is more righteous than Yuntian, and specializes in "robbing the rich and helping the poor" and "assassinating corrupt officials". He kills what he thinks are "heinous" bad people, but he has never done such things to his children. matter.

At the beginning, there was inevitably a trace of guilt in his heart, but once he thought that he was the heir of the Tartar emperor, received the education of the Tartars, and would become the next emperor to continue to enslave the Han people, Sheng Yinghua felt nothing but hatred in his heart. guilt.

Wu was silent for a moment, and finally found a maid who knew medical skills, and took off Cao Zhen's pants to check the injury.

Wu said: "It doesn't matter if the eunuch is not a superintendent, don't let him die now."

The maid pulled Cao Zhen away with trembling hands, only to see the shocking scars on the child's body, all of which were bruises from the hemp rope during the kidnapping.

With a cold heart, Wu asked her with his arms folded across his chest, "How is he?"

They heard the footsteps of officers and soldiers above their heads, and they only heard someone shouting loudly: "There is a tunnel here, be more careful."

Wu's face changed slightly, and she cursed secretly: "I found it so quickly, could it be that Chang Ning woke up?"

She heard someone shout again, "No, they smashed the prince to death, catch them quickly."

Wu Shi shook, his face changed drastically.

At this moment, the maid exclaimed with trembling lips: "Ge Ge, we made a mistake, this is not the prince!"

Wu was completely stunned: "What did you say?!"

People who rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty are used to hiding in the dark like stinky rats in the gutter, but they don't know that there is nowhere to hide under the map.Following Yinfeng's command, the Imperial Forest Army searched and found the place where Mrs. Wu was hiding. They pried open the floor and saw only the dark passage. They immediately shouted loudly and sent people down one after another to hide Mrs. One of them was caught.

Cao Zhen clutched her ribs and woke up crying, and found that she was not wearing any clothes, her face turned pale, she hurriedly grabbed her rag-like trousers and put them on, and grabbed a piece of tablecloth, using it as a "cassock" wrapped in himself.

Too bad, the secret that he is a eunuch will be lost!

Seeing Prince Gong lying motionless on the ground and someone beside him "containing the corpse", the Wu family who was caught in the tunnel was even more stimulated and went crazy on the spot.

"Who hurt him, who hurt him?!—"

She twisted her shoulders, one arm was grabbed by the officers and soldiers and slipped up, she took out her dagger with the other hand, and chopped off the grabbed arm viciously!

The blood sprayed straight to the foreheads of the officers and soldiers. Panting for breath, like a Shura crawling out of hell, Wu asked them viciously, "Who killed him?"

"It's from the troupe."

"People from the theater troupe, people from the Tiandihui, hehe..."

No one knew who answered, which completely touched Wu's nerves. She grabbed the dagger, and while the officers and soldiers were stupefied, she stabbed the dagger into the abdomen of Sheng Yinghua, who was also arrested, and then fell to the ground and was crushed. Can't move.

The loss of blood has dyed her pure white dress a bright red, just like the red makeup she firmly loves to wear, waiting for the person she loves to come to pay homage to her...

Yinreng called A Zhen anxiously from above, instructing people to go down quickly to save her: "It's right under here, right here."

When the guards carried Cao Zhen, who was in good spirits, up from the ground, they burst into tears with excitement, and rushed forward to hug him.

"Your Highness, I'm fine!" Cao Zhen laughed, and limply hammered Yinfeng's chest with her fists: "Look, I scared you, they didn't do anything to me, and you didn't live up to my expectations, so You'll find me soon..."

As he said that, he couldn't laugh anymore, instead he hugged Yinrong and cried loudly: "I was scared to death, I thought I was going to die this time, I will have nightmares and can't sleep in the future, wow!"

Hearing this angry cry, Yinreng's hanging little heart finally fell down.

He patted Cao Zhen, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of Wu's bloodshot eyes.

She wept blood every word, and wailed desperately to Yinfeng like coming from the abyss.

"The princess of the Qing Dynasty deserves to be sacrificed for marriage?"

"It turns out that you are the crown prince, the future emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Will you let your older sister and younger sister, and your future daughters, follow the same path as my mother?"

Before Yinfeng could answer Shang Wu's mournful questioning before she died, she had already cut off her life and died.

Xiaomei made a mosaic for Wu's bloody arm, but did not make a size for her blood-stained clothes.

Wu's words are like hot magma impacting Yinreng's heart. Just thinking about this question for a while will make people feel suffocating helplessness and sadness...

Did the princess deserve to be sacrificed?

No one can answer this question, perhaps even Kangxi cannot give a clear answer.

The Tibetan cave that Tiandihui stayed in Zunyi City was severely damaged by the Qing army. Because of Wu's hysterical madness, I don't know how many rebels lurking under the water surface were exposed.

After rescuing Cao Zhen, Suo'etu contacted the governor of Zhili, appealed to the emperor to report the truth, impeached Prince Gong Changning who was seriously injured, and asked for additional manpower to further search and eliminate the remnants of anti-Qing and Fuming.

As for Yinfeng, he has new troubles.

Ah Zhen seems to have been kicked in the most serious part, but he is so sick that he can't see a doctor, and he doesn't want a doctor to see him!

"You can't do it like this," Yinfeng persuaded him earnestly: "If it really rots, it's safer to cut it off like Tom did for the sake of life. Ah Zhen is suffering for the orphan, and even if she becomes a father-in-law in the future, the orphan will not I won’t despise you. Gu still treats you as a companion, and let you do business with Gu in the future, okay? If Khan Ama knows that A Zhen is so brave, he will definitely not despise you. A Zhen, you can’t escape from reality, this It’s time to be brave.”

Cao Zhen was wrapped in a small quilt, facing the wall autistically, and said sullenly, "I'm really fine, he just kicked my ribs and broke them, and the ribs will be fine after a while."

"I'm talking about that place!" Yinfeng was anxious.

"I was originally a little eunuch," Cao Zhen said sullenly, "I haven't since I was a child. My grandma told me that I was a born eunuch."

"Ah?" Yinfeng was dumbfounded: "No? Nothing?"

"Is there anything else that men have? When I was five years old, I saw my elder brother taking my nephew to take a bath. I felt that I was different from them, so I went to ask my grandma." Cao Zhen Sadly, he said: "Your Highness, you can treat yourself as a little eunuch to relieve your boredom, and I won't do this as a companion."

Yinfeng took a breath: "My God, does your father know about your situation?"

"My father doesn't help me take a bath. How can he know that it's too late for grandma to hide this matter! I'm afraid I will embarrass her," Cao Zhen wiped her sad tears as she spoke: "I have been serving you since I was a child. The maids here are all arranged by my grandma, my mother arranged one for me before, she found out that I was a eunuch, and was beaten to death by my grandma."

"Your Highness, don't force me to treat you. I'm really fine. I feel sad when you mention this. Do you think I can grow into a man after this?"

Yinreng saw that Cao Zhen had thin arms and legs, and her appearance was still fair. Looking at this child, the longer she grew, the thinner she looked. With such a body with no muscles at all, Yinreng couldn't say out of conscience what he could do in the future. If you grow up to be a man.

"Probably, can you?"

Cao Zhen was completely disappointed, and burst into tears: "Then I can't be a man, so I will rush to be an 'Eunuch of the East Factory' from now on?"

The chief eunuch of the former East Factory was the chief eunuch who held real power. He specialized in supervision and spy work. He was another sharp knife in the emperor's hand besides Jinyiwei.

"Don't be so pessimistic, let's keep this little secret in our hearts, and don't tell anyone. In the future, you will be able to do business normally, and then you can be a high-ranking official. If you become a high-ranking official, others will not laugh at it. is you."

Yinfeng can only comfort him in this way, he vowed: "Gu promise not to laugh at A Zhen, keep it a secret for A Zhen!"