Deep ice

The eunuch of the Yumajian looked ashen, thinking that if he really hurt the emperor this time, he would lose his head.

Squeezing forward desperately, the eunuch managed to squeeze past the guard's knife point, and was about to pull the horse, but saw a tall man coming forward with the knife, drew the knife and cut his throat cleanly.

The emperor was dragged by that person, although his face was a little too pale, he was quite calm.

It's just that Eunuch Xi's face is almost unreadable, his face is covered with blood from the horse, and he is currently wiping his eyelids with his hand, staring fiercely at this place.

The Yumajian knelt on the ground with a plop, and kowtowed repeatedly,

"The servant deserves to die... The servant deserves to die... Your Majesty, spare your life."

But the emperor didn't hear it, looking at the people around him, his eyes were cold.

The guards swiftly dragged the dead horse away, and the pale concubine was also carried on a sedan chair and sent back to the palace.

General Xi Lian didn't care to wipe his face clean, so he turned around to look at the emperor,

"The slave will die... The escort is weak... I hope the emperor will make amends..."

Yuan Jing regained his senses with Xilian's voice, pushed Huai Huai away, and said indifferently, "Go back to the palace."

Xi Lian responded, and then said: "Your Majesty, then this eunuch..."

Yuan Jing waved his hand, "Drag on."

Hearing this, Xilian turned her head and raised her voice,

"Come here—send this eunuch to the violence room and wait to be punished."

Huaihuai stretched out his hand unconsciously, wanting to pull Yuanjing, but in the end he put it down and let Chunbao hold him.

"Huaihuai, why don't you agree to me, just accept me as your apprentice."

Huai Huai watched Yuan Jing being escorted into the nearby palace, and he opened his mouth, but he didn't answer the question, "Where is that place?"

Chun Bao observed it carefully for a long while, "The Imperial Study Room is the place where the emperor summons ministers all day long to critique papers."

Huai Huai said: "It's so close to Weiyang Palace."

Chun Bao said: "Isn't it, it's really convenient to climb the wall."

Huai Huai said, "Why don't you and I come over tonight?"

Chun Bao pulled Huai Huai back, "I'll go back with you to prepare."

Huaihuai reluctantly turned his head three times, "What are you going to do?"

Chun Bao frowned and said: "When you are the emperor's bodyguards, they all drink porridge? To climb the emperor's wall is to climb up with the tip of a knife. If you make a mistake, you will lose your head. You must be well prepared. yes."

Huai Huai also felt that the words were reasonable, so he asked again: "Then what should we prepare?"

Chun Bao stopped in his tracks, but couldn't think of a clue, so he murmured: "In short, it must be right to prepare things..."

Huaihuai stood still, glanced sideways at Chunbao, "It's not that you don't have any ideas either?"

Chun Bao was very afraid that Huai Huai would look down on him, so he said: "To climb the wall of the emperor, you must prepare a stick."

Huaihuai thought for a while, "Why do you need to prepare a stick? Could it be used when you break through?"

Chunbao pretends to be mysterious, but lacks confidence,

"You'll know then."

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into the night,

The wax shines on a half-cage of golden jadeite, and the sandalwood slightly embroiders dragons.

Yuan Jing sat behind the dragon table, dipped his brush in red ink, picked up a memorial book, and the neat lowercase letters appeared on the paper.

The red characters were stained through the thin paper, blood red.

Xi Lian stood quietly on the side, and saw the chief inspector from a distance bring a tray over, stopped in the outer hall and was staring at him.

Then look up at the emperor on one side,

His brows were as black as ink, and he was full of hostility, frozen like ice.

Xi Lian hesitated a little, but still nodded to the eunuch, tacitly allowing him to enter the palace.

Seeing this, the chief inspector raised the tray above his head, his waist arched extremely deep,

"Your Majesty, the empress who is serving the bed today..."

Yuan Jing didn't raise his head, the coldness in his eyes became heavier,

"No need to go to bed."

Hearing the words, the head of internal supervision responded, and stepped back respectfully.

Xi Lian lowered his eyes, thinking that the country's situation is not good, the emperor is so anxious, after a few days of leisure, it looks like he may have to stay up for a few more nights.

Just as he was thinking about this, Xi Lian suddenly heard an indifferent voice beside him,

"Go, call Tian Chongguang, Shangshu of the Ministry of War."

"Slave complies with the decree." He roared respectfully, Xi Lian hurriedly turned around and went to the hall, and sent the little eunuch outside to deliver the edict.

Although the little eunuch looked tired, he didn't dare to delay, wrapped his clothes tightly and ran outside, looking for a fast horse, took a few eunuchs out of the palace to deliver the decree to the Ministry of War Shangshu's Mansion.

In order to facilitate the emperor's summons, all the ministers' mansions above the second rank were built near the imperial palace, and it didn't take long to go there, about a stick of incense, and the people would arrive.

In the second watch, the snow is fine and the wind is strong and cold.

The two shadows in the snow, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, didn't even turn on the lights, and walked softly towards the palace not far away.

Huaihuai's eyes widened, "Chunbao, it's cloudy today, there's no moonlight, how can I find a place for this black light?"

Chun Bao shrank his neck and put his hands in his sleeves, "The two of us are going to climb the wall. If you are visiting a garden, do you still have to carry a lantern to illuminate it?"

Huai Huai nodded, "That's true, but it's too dark, do you remember the way?"

Chun Bao was silent, and hurried forward, "Hurry up, if you go late, you won't be able to catch up."

The long stick tied behind Huai Huai's back was more than three feet above his head, "Chun Bao, is this stick a little longer?"

Chun Bao didn't turn his head back, "The leftovers from the last time we made the flag, fortunately, the imperial dining room didn't use it as firewood, otherwise you and I would have to come here empty-handed."

Huaihuai stopped talking, and walked behind Chunbao for a long time before his eyes got used to it. When he stared at the palace not far away, he always felt that something was wrong.

There were no guards around, only an old eunuch pushed the door out, poured a pot of soup on the stone slab in front of the hall, and steamed like mist.

Huaihuai frowned, staring at the palace hanging sign, "Chunbao, this is the imperial dining room, not the imperial study room."

Chun Bao said, "But it's not too much..."

Huai Huai was a little annoyed, and pulled Chun Bao back, "Although the name is only one letter away, the place is far away, but you think about how the emperor will be in this imperial dining room. You and I have been frozen out this time, isn't it?" In order to see the emperor."

Chun Bao held Huai Huai by the collar, and muttered in a low voice, "It's been a long time in vain..."

The long stick on Huaihuai's back was very uncomfortable, "This is not all the way you lead."

Chun Bao said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, if you want to climb the wall of the imperial study, you have to wait until the dead of night, when the guards are tired, before you can climb over the wall."

Huaihuai quickened his pace, "It looks like it's going to be three o'clock, if you and I go later, I'm afraid it will be dawn."

After finishing his speech, he started to run with his stick on his shoulders. Chun Bao behind him pouted when he saw this, but didn't say anything. He threw off his sleeves and ran behind.

The two ran for quite a while, and finally arrived at the imperial study room. Seeing a group of guards from a distance, they all stopped and leaned against the base of a palace wall to rest.

Huaihuai looked at the guards and lowered his voice, "There are so many soldiers, how can you and I get there?"

Chun Bao said, "Maybe they all sleep standing up."

Huai Huai stared intently for a long time, "You all keep your eyes open..."

"So...it's not easy to handle..." Chun Bao looked up at the palace wall on one side, "Why don't you just climb this one, there's no one here."

Huai Huai's face trembled, "Chunbao, this wall is too far away from the imperial study."

Chun Baodao thought for a while, "Why don't you and I make a detour to the back, where there should be no guards."

Huaihuai nodded, and was about to go with Chunbao, but saw a group of people coming with lanterns from a distance.

The leading man was dressed in black uniform, with a jade hairpin and a rhinoceros belt, with a dim yellow candle color reflected on his face, he was a bit scary.

Tian Chongguang's brows were furrowed, thinking that the emperor's night call was probably for the sake of the southeast bandits attacking two cities in succession.

As Minister of the Ministry of War, Tian Chongguang hasn't slept soundly for a long time. He is so anxious all day because of the turmoil of foreign thieves and internal turmoil, he hangs his head around the court all day, dealing with the monarch. This time, he hopes that the emperor will dismiss him. Can also end up a leisurely.

Just as he was thinking about this, he saw two eunuchs standing beside the palace wall, and something abrupt stood up behind him, which was really strange.

Tian Chongguang couldn't help taking another look.

But this one glance almost killed him.

The little eunuch who led the way walked a few steps, but when he realized that the man hadn't followed, he stopped, bowed and turned around, "Lord Tian..."

Tian Chongguang didn't move, he stared blankly at the taller shadow, and after a long silence, he waved his hand, "Here comes the lamp—"

Huaihuai's whole body was stiff, and he pursed his lips tightly, squeezing a little movement from between his teeth, "Chunbao...is broken..."

Chun Bao drooped his head and said in a very low voice, "Shut up..."

The eunuch's raised lantern reflected the man's face, although his eyes were downcast, he couldn't hide his fierceness and determination.

Tian Chongguang was dumbfounded, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly covered his forehead.

"lay down!"

Hearing this, Huai Huai hurriedly threw the stick behind him to the ground with his backhand, and looked up at Tian Chongguang, "Put it down."

Tian Chongguang took a few steps back, his face was pale, as if he had seen something terrible, he pointed at the eunuch tremblingly, "Light... put down the light, don't shine it."

The little eunuch stepped forward to support Tian Chongguang, "My lord, what's the matter?"

Tian Chongguang wiped the cold sweat off his face, kept silent, turned around and hurried towards the imperial study.

But I thought in my heart that I must have seen a ghost.

When the emperor ordered He Yan to die, he had heard it with his own ears, and it was obvious to all that He Yan's body was carried out of the court after he drank the poisoned wine.

Why has it only been a year, and this person reappeared in this deep palace, still dressed as an eunuch.

Could it be that he became a lonely ghost and came to the emperor to ask for his life.

But when he glanced back just now, the man's complexion was ruddy, he was alive, not like a dead person at all, and the white breath that came out of his mouth when his face was speaking was real.

If this is the case, then what the emperor said...

The more Tian Chongguang thought about it, the more frightened he became, to the point that Xilian didn't realize it when he came out to declare himself in the hall.

Xi Lian called again, "Lord Tian?"

Tian Chongguang's face was full of death, and he came back to his senses, "Elder-in-law?"

Xi Lian slightly bent his waist, "The emperor told you to go in."

Tian Chongguang took a deep breath, and then said again: "Eunuch Lao leads the way."