Jiaohua Growth Guide [Rebirth]
Chapter 154
Now that Zhao Yaotang showed his face in front of King Nan'an and all the officials, his every move would be under the nose of others.Gu Ci followed the man in black out of the Yiqing Palace, and then went to the Changxin Palace near Qin Fengjun to meet up with the people who rescued Empress Kang Jin. Taking advantage of the chaos in front, they took Le Jia's preparations and left the palace. Token, out of the palace one step earlier.
Empress Kang Jin is still unconscious, and now she can only help people relieve the gu.After leaving the palace, Gu Ci changed into eunuch uniforms in the palace with two hidden guards, and together they rode in a carriage to the gate of the city, this time taking Qin Fengjun's token.
After leaving the city, the carriage didn't stop, and they turned around a few times outside. After finally confirming that there would be no shadow left, Gu Ci handed over the person to Chen Li who had been waiting for a long time. Two of them were responsible for protecting Empress Kang Jin's secret guards. He also changed into the caravan's bunt uniform, and drove to Yushu with a wizard from the southwest.
After watching the carriage go far away, Gu Ci didn't go to the inn to stay, but sat down leaning against a big tree not far from the gate of the city. It took a quarter of an hour before her heartbeat stabilized. When the night wind blew, she felt a little cold, only to realize that she was already covered in sweat, and the clothes inside were a little wet.
Gu Ci took out the handkerchief from his arms, looked at the small cute characters on the handkerchief, and was reluctant to use it to wipe his sweat. Since the family moved to a new house in Yunxia Town, the little girl I embroidered some handkerchiefs for the family members, which are usually used to wipe the mouth or sweat.
"I don't know if I'm going to spend a few more days with myself this time." Gu Ci wiped his sweat with his outer sleeves, said to himself, folded the veil again, and put it in his bosom .
At the same time, the little girl who hadn't waited for Gu Ci to come back lay on the bed and sneezed twice in a row. She couldn't sleep at all, so she simply sat up when she sneezed, threw the pillow she was holding under the bed, Hearing movement outside, she quickly lay down again.
After a while, when the outside became quiet, he tiptoed out of bed again, picked it up, beat the ashes, hugged him again, and looked at the position around him with his eyes open.
Although I know the news of Gu Ci's safe departure from the palace, people are like this. Most of the people they care about are so cautious, and seeing is believing.
The little girl is like this at the moment, if she doesn't see Gu Ci with her own eyes, she probably won't be able to sleep tonight.
Gu Ci sat leaning against a tree outside the city for a whole night, and saw the city gate from a distance commotion for a while, then the lights were brightly lit all night, and the inspection of passing pedestrians became stricter the next day, so she did not enter the city in a hurry, but It was only at [-]:[-] that he lined up far away among the pedestrians. He deliberately brought something to an old lady beside him, greeted people warmly, and entered the city with ease.
Guards with knives were everywhere in the city searching from house to house. Gu Ci sat down at a wonton stand, ordered a bowl of wonton, and listened to the whispers of the three people next door.
"...You guys don't understand. A lot of things happened in the palace yesterday. You didn't look at the city gate. The security is so tight that even the carriages of the big families can't get out."
"Brother-in-law Cao, tell us, the nephew of your third son-in-law's second cousin's sister-in-law's nephew is not working in the palace. Why did so many troubles happen at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet yesterday..."
"Did you see the guards searching the restaurant? They were not only catching assassins, they were also looking for someone. Last night, the assassin stabbed one of our emperor's favored noblemen, and even took away the new students. The next prince..."
"Uncle Cao, why did I hear something different?"
"Uncle Wang, tell us quickly, what's that like?"
Gu Ci watched the old man with the gray beard glance at her, she quickly turned her head away, and saw that they didn't look this way from the corner of her eye, only to see that several people at that table gathered together, Gu Ci's ears moved , I can still hear you clearly...
"Didn't you hear that General Zhao led the army back to Beijing? You don't know that General Zhao returned to Beijing to save our Empress and Concubine Lan Gui..."
"I'll be good, that...that's not..."
"Last night, I heard that General Zhao went to the palace to face the saint. It is said that our... was also rescued..."
"My God... but if the late emperor... I would rather live the old life. Today, disasters continue and taxes increase. Life is hard."
"That's right, you don't know about the riots in the south of the Yangtze River. I heard that people there are spreading rumors that it's us... God's punishment..."
When Gu Ci heard this, he stopped listening. He ate the wontons brought by the boss, paid the money and left.Now she and the little girl are the low-ranking maids of the Zhao family, and they will not attract too much attention when they communicate with each other on weekdays.
After returning to Zhao's Mansion, the little girl gave her a cold face, but the situation is urgent now, and it is impossible for the two of them to really be as angry as usual.
"My mother is safe." Although the little girl looked a little awkward, she still took Gu Ci to check around, and she didn't see any scars on her body for a while, so she felt relieved, "The person yesterday said , you went to see my concubine mother, what happened last night?"
"My Majesty, I have already been taken away by Chen Sanshu, and I will send it to the capital after the detox is cured and I wake up." Gu Ci squeezed her hand comfortingly, "Concubine Xi doesn't want to go with us, she told you not to worry about her, Now that traitor trusts her, she can still have someone to take care of her if she stays in the palace."
"What belongs to the emperor's noble concubine Xi, that is also your mother's concubine..." The little girl muttered dissatisfiedly, and then thought to herself, "Why did the concubine hurt herself at that time?"
"Xi..." It's really hard for the mother and concubine to say something, Gu Ci looked a little shy, "If I guessed correctly, it was to gain the trust of that person. At that time, she left me alone in the room. If she was not injured and I ran after her, I would probably suspect that the imperial concubine was with us, and her previous efforts would be in vain. But if she was injured, then there would be more things to say..."
The little girl lowered her eyes. Based on her understanding of Concubine Lan Gui, Gu Ci probably said, "Then the concubine mother was seriously injured?"
"We were walking in a hurry at the time. I didn't look carefully, but I saw blood oozing from the concubine's shoulder." Gu Ci was a little embarrassed, thinking that it was because he had gone that the situation had arisen. When the little girl was brought back, Concubine Lan Gui was injured.
After all, we have been together day and night for so many years. The little girl can tell what she is thinking just by looking at her expression, "The concubine mother seems to be a kind person, but she is also stubborn, and my sister doesn't have to blame herself."
Hearing the little girl's words, Gu Ci heaved a sigh of relief. He felt that his little wife was really caring, and subconsciously wanted to go over to kiss her, but when he saw Zhao Yaotang and others from the corner of his eye, he was embarrassed again. Pretending to cough, she straightened her expression, "The imperial concubine also said that the man had an old department in the southwest, and he knew that the general led the army back to the capital, so he let the old department come to the capital... We'd better do it as soon as possible, and catch him by surprise? "
Zhao Yaotang frowned when he heard this, "No wonder this traitor has taboos about my return to Beijing, but he dares not do anything to my Zhao family. Could it be that he doesn't have enough soldiers and horses in the imperial city now... "
"Yes, the noble concubine said that there are only 25 troops in his imperial city now, and the old troops in the southwest are estimated to be a few days away from arriving in Beijing. The noble concubine also guessed that that person is probably waiting for us to do it on the [-]th."
When Gu Ci finished speaking, the people in the room were not in a hurry to speak up.Right now, there are all kinds of news, false and true, and everyone doesn't know how to make a decision.The road to power is no different than any other, and if there is a slight mistake, it will be a river of blood.
In the end, everyone looked hesitantly at the little girl who was also silent, "Princess?"
"We'll see in two days." It's not that the little girl doesn't trust Concubine Lan Gui, but because of King Nan'an's cunning and cunning temperament, it is absolutely impossible for her to trust her concubine mother easily. Such a private matter can let her concubine get news.
That day, the guards who searched the streets never stopped, and the entire capital was enveloped in such a dull and depressing atmosphere.In the evening, a notice was suddenly posted. In less than a day, Dali Temple found out that Gong Yong had swallowed 9 taels of silver for disaster relief. Prison, choose a day to beheaded.
The common people read this notice, no one expressed sympathy for the Gong family, and all spit and scolded the Gong family for what they deserved.
As the news of the Gong family embezzling disaster relief funds spread, the people sang about what happened in the palace on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, and the rumors about the foolish emperor in the south of the Yangtze River also spread. At this time, Gu Ci asked Chen Huan to organize everyone in Chenjia Village to take the grain from the grain storehouse to Jiangnan for disaster relief, in the name of Princess Anping and the son-in-law.
Before King Nan'an received the news from the south, at midnight on August 24th, the little girl and Gu Ci both changed into military uniforms and entered the palace with [-] elite soldiers.
In the midst of shouting and killing, Concubine Lan changed into her old imperial concubine clothes, dressed up, and looked down at the powerless King Nan'an, "The Southwest Golden Silkworm Gu is the most poisonous, the Qilin Gu is the second, and the cartilage powder is the most poisonous." How about something that is not popular, didn’t you think of it?”
"You... have been lying to me so?" King Nan'an was not surprised after being surprised, his brows were a bit lonely, "I thought... thought you were really..."
"I really like you?" Concubine Lan Gui took the following words for him.
"For so many years, although I have imprisoned you, I have never hurt you. After giving birth to the emperor's son, I see how loving you are to the emperor's son..."
"Shut up, don't mention that bastard." Concubine Lan Gui suddenly became angry, and raised her hand to slap him, "Do you think this is hurt? You humiliated me so much, you might as well give me a good time. You can't live, you can't die pain, I will let you taste it too."
The sound of soldiers and horses outside became louder and louder. King Nan'an closed his eyes, knowing that his situation was over. He didn't lose to Zhao Yaotang, nor did he lose to Anping who was still alive, but he just lost to himself. Those who like this woman are right, but they should not indulge in the false tenderness she gives, trust her.
"I lost. But you didn't win either. Ah Jing, you gave birth to my prince, no matter whether Feng Ningjue will be the son or Anping will be the son, there will be no room for you in this palace. Dajin has no place for you anymore, without my protection, how should you deal with yourself?"
Concubine Lan Gui's almond eyes, which are the same as those of a little girl, are more powerful than the little girl. She sneered, seductive and ruthless, "Don't you understand? This is the price you pay for underestimating me. Now that you are free, you might as well Be mentally prepared for the future life would be worse than death."
King Nan'an's muscles and bones were so weak that he couldn't move, looked at her face with difficulty, and laughed again after a while, "Ah Jing, you don't understand... now you are no longer the Nalan Jing who dominated the battlefield in the past. After leaving this palace, you are just an accessory under the imperial power, do you think Feng Ningjue can still want you? And you are just Anping's aunt, do you think that Anping can keep you who gave birth to my child?"
Seeing that Concubine Lan had stopped talking, King Nan'an said proudly, "As long as I don't want Feng Ningjue to die in this round, I won't be considered a loser."
"what do you mean?"
"Back then, my uncle looked down on me. He would rather pass the throne to his daughter Feng Ningjue than to my nephew. In order to prevent me from threatening the throne, he sent me to the southwest. Although Lin Rou from the southwest There are few villains, but everyone from eighty-year-old women to young children can use poison to kill people invisible." King Nan'an smiled, "So what if the imperial doctor diagnosed it as Gu poison, there are hundreds of insects in the production of Gu, and the phoenix There is no cure for the poison in Ning Jue's body except me."
Concubine Lan looked at him and curled her lips.
"Ah Jing, you don't believe me?" King Nan'an also laughed, "The Gu poison in her body is the Gu insect that I spent five years raising with my heart and blood. All the wizards in the southwest know that the Gu master puts his heart and soul into her body. Blood-fed Gu worms and Gu poison can only be controlled, there is no cure. In other words, unless I die."
"is it?"
"You don't seem to believe it."
"No, I believe it." Lan Guifei looked cold, "So, I won't let you die."
She was too calm, but King Nan'an panicked, as if remembering something, "What did you do to Huang'er?"
"Back then, you let me watch that A Jue couldn't survive or die. Now, I'm going to let you have a taste of it. If you want that bastard to live a good life in the future, you'd better settle down."
"You...he is your child too."
"No, he's just an evil breed." Concubine Lan Gui clenched her fingers and turned her face away, "If you want to blame, I can only blame him for casting the wrong baby."
"You... are so cruel."
Concubine Lan Gui stopped talking, and walked out quietly, standing at the gate, among the bewildered guards, with her head held high, waiting for the gate of Yiqing Palace to be broken open, to see that Anping came to pick her up.
In this life, she will only have this daughter, Anping, because only Anping was born with her and that person's wishes, and it is their common daughter.
General Zhao's [-] elite soldiers and General Huangcheng Wu's [-] guards joined forces inside and outside. The whole journey was like a broken bamboo, and the King of Nan'an was powerless to parry.
The big picture is set.
The gate of Yiqing Palace opened, and the little girl sat on the horse. Seeing the well-dressed woman in the courtyard, she rubbed her eyes repeatedly in disbelief, and was finally staggered down by Gu Ci, "Concubine Mother..."
She was brought up by Concubine Lan Gui herself since she was a child. Compared with the serious and rigid mother emperor, the little girl loves and admires this mother concubine the most.
"Anping." Concubine Lan Gui hugged her into her arms with a smile, closed her eyes, and tears fell quickly, "Seeing you grow up in peace, Concubine Mother... I'm so happy..."
Then, it was really worth it for her to bear the burden of humiliation and survive.
"Mother Concubine..." The little girl was indeed crying like a child who hasn't returned home for a long time.There are thousands of people you meet in the world, but some people always appear in your life to tell people what is irreplaceable.
Those grievances that can be expressed in the arms of the mother concubine can only be comforted in the arms of the concubine mother, no one else can do it, even the elder sister.
After this night, everything settled down, which was easier than imagined.What remains is the investigation and liquidation of the usurpation of King Nan'an.
Qin Fengjun had expected the ending from the moment he knew that Princess Anping was still alive, but he was still unwilling to accept such a reality. In the end, when Le Jia accompanied the eunuch to deliver Jiujiu, he still wanted to fight to the death.
"Princess..." The accident happened so quickly, no one thought that Qin Fengjun would suddenly put the dagger on Le Jia's neck.
"Go ask Feng Ningjue and Anping to come see Ben Gong, otherwise..."
"Father." With a calm expression, Le Jia interrupted him with a heavy mouth. With a movement of his throat, the white and tender neck was scraped against the dagger, and a thin thread of blood immediately flowed down.
"Princess." The eunuch was in a hurry, and hurriedly knelt down, "Feng Jun, don't be impulsive."
"It's been so many years, haven't you understood? You don't have this fate." Le Jia closed his eyes, "Sometimes there must be fate, and there is no time in fate. Don't force it. Father, when you were fighting with the king of Nan'an that day, You should understand that today will end."
"No, it's all about you, a slut who eats inside and outside, and it's a good thing that you ruined my palace."
"Feng Jun, you have wronged the princess. If the princess hadn't knelt outside the imperial study for a day and a night, the entire Qin family would have suffered. Today is not just rewarding you with a pot of dove wine..."
"Elder-in-law, don't talk about it." Le Jia took a deep breath, "If Father wants to use me to blackmail Queen Mother today, not only will you not be able to leave the palace, but the entire Qin family will be implicated, and then the Qin family will become the entire Qin family. Talk between the Dajin Winery. If Father insists on doing this, just do it. Besides, Father must have forgotten what position I have in the heart of the Empress, do you think the Empress will let you go because of me?"
Qin Fengjun looked slumped, and put the dagger on Le Jia's neck fiercely, "It's all the mud that you can't live up to..."
"Yeah, I'm useless, I let my father down..." Le Jia closed his eyes, even though he had recognized the fact that he was a chess piece, he still couldn't help crying.After so many years, she thought that besides using him, this father should treat her with some sincerity. It turned out that no, not even half of it. The pain piercing her neck was so real that she couldn't deceive herself.
"Feng Jun... Please let the princess go, the princess is also a poor person..."
Qin Fengjun looked down at the blood on Le Jia's neck, and suddenly remembered Le Jia's childhood in his mind.Le Jia was only raised under his name when she was one and a half years old. At that time, her biological father died of illness. At that time, Fengxian Fengjun was not dead, but his health was not good. The empress handed over the princess to him to raise.
Little Lejia was like a glutinous rice dumpling at that time. When the palace man brought her over for the first time, she hid behind the palace man. He teased him for a long time before showing her little face. Seeing him smile, she also showed it to him The few small teeth were probably taught by the palace people long ago, so they quickly tilted their heads and called him in a low voice: "Father."
This call, father, has been called for almost 20 years...
Qin Fengjun came back to his senses, the dagger in his hand fell to the ground, and hurriedly covered the blood on her neck, "Le Jia, I'm sorry, father doesn't want to..."
"It's okay." Le Jia smiled at him, "Father, you may not love me, but the love of nurturing me for so many years is true, and Le Jia will always remember it."
"I'm sorry..." Qin Fengjun looked at her face and stretched out his hand to wipe her tears, but the blood on his hand withdrew again. He was fascinated by this magnificent palace, and his heart was smoked, and he couldn't see what was close The love and happiness that are close at hand.Unfortunately, he didn't understand until now.
Qin Fengjun took two steps back, bent down and picked up the jug on the table and poured it straight into his mouth.
"Father..." Le Jia finally couldn't help crying, after nearly 20 years of being together, time is still true.
"Le Jia, I'm sorry. In the next life, if... in the next life...you can still be a father and daughter, your father will definitely..." Qin Fengjun clutched his stomach and sat slumped on the ground. Looking at Le Jia, who was crying and crying, all the unwillingness was over. , "Le Jia, don't cry. Eunuch Li, take the princess away... Bengong... I don't want Le Jia to see..."
"Father..."
In the last year of Jian'an, on August 24, Princess Anping and her son-in-law Gu Ci led [-] elite soldiers to lead the battle. Zhenyuan General Zhao Yaotang led an army of [-] soldiers, and then, together with Concubine Lan Gui, who had always endured the humiliation, invaded the palace and took down the usurping traitor King Nan'an in one fell swoop.
On the fourth day of September of the same year, the empress returned to the palace safely and regained control of the government.
On the ninth day of October, Princess Le Jia personally tried the conspiracy of the King of Nan'an, and put all those who participated in the conspiracy into the prison, and executed them on the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
On October 24, the Lu family donated another 15 taels of silver to celebrate the return of the empress.
On October 28, Qin Fengjun passed away.
For the common people, now that everything is settled, they can finally live in peace.
However, in the court hall, it was not peaceful.The reason is that Qin Fengjun passed away, and the Feng position in the harem was vacant. Emperor Kangjin wanted to make Concubine Lan the queen, but all officials refused.
Because Concubine Lan had served the two lords and gave birth to a rebel child, the position of concubine should be abolished and thrown into the cold palace.If the imperial concubine is a chaste one, she should die to prove her loyalty.
"You old bastards, the rebels sat in this position in the past, and you were still used by him. At that time, why didn't you bang your heads on the pillar to prove your innocence?" The empress was so angry with these old bastards, One day, she will use these shitty things to expose her scars.
"If the emperor insists on doing this, then the old minister will bump his head against this pillar today..."
"Old man, just go, if anyone else wants to stop me, I might as well go and have a good time today, I will order someone to collect your corpse once..."
"emperor……"
"No one of you should persuade me today, and no one should drag these old things who want to die, and I will just watch their blood splash this court..."
As soon as the Empress finished speaking, the senior minister in charge was about to hit the pillar, and as soon as he was about to hit it, a long rope flew in from the outside, wrapped around the senior minister, pulled the senior minister back, and threw the senior minister to the door .
The court was in an uproar, and before everyone could react, a clear female voice came from outside, "I, Na Lanjing, entered the military camp at the age of 14 instead of my elder brother, and was stationed at the border for ten years. I have made countless military exploits, large and small."
While speaking, Concubine Lan walked into the hall proudly in her crimson royal attire, her almond eyes swept across the faces of the court ministers one by one, and finally stopped on the face of the Empress sitting on the throne.
"In the past, the emperor accepted me as a concubine. I was grateful for the friendship between the emperor and me, and entered the palace. I have been in the palace for more than ten years. I believe that I abide by the etiquette rules of the harem, and I have never done anything beyond the rules, but what have you done? Every now and then, I write to me that my conduct is not good."
"I, Nalanjing, let me tell you today that in my whole life, everything is worthy of my Nalan family, worthy of the royal family, and worthy of the entire Dajin. You say that I have no virtue of a queen... Hmph, the whole Dajin, if anyone is still qualified to sit on this phoenix seat and share the Dajin with Feng Ningjue, only I, Nalanjing, have the qualifications."
For that joy, she changed her military uniform into red makeup, and personally destroyed her favorite crape myrtle gun... But in the end, it was still not justifiable, she was fed up with the rules and regulations in this deep palace.It imprisoned her freedom, but failed to release her joy.
She spoke so loudly and forcefully that the entire hall could be heard quietly, and no one made a sound for a while.
Concubine Lan lowered her eyes, gave a wry smile, raised her hand and tore off the jade plaque at her waist, and threw it in the middle of the hall. The jade plaque symbolizing her status as a noble concubine was instantly shattered.
"But, I don't care about it. Whether it's the imperial concubine or the phoenix, I, Nalanjing, don't care. Feng Ningjue, you should let me go."
"orchid……"
"Feng Ningjue, you said that when I entered the palace, I was still the free Nalanjing. However, I didn't. An aboveboard husband and wife. However, no, you are the king of Dajin, and you are my husband. For so many years, I have been with you in this deep palace, and I have gained nothing except bondage and shackles."
The empress was silent. She hadn't fulfilled any of the promises she had made in the past, and she was speechless when faced with questions from the audience.
Concubine Lan Gui didn't want to see her slumped and lonely look, she didn't blame the people behind her, she understood her powerlessness, that's how life is, there are gains and losses, enjoying the worship of thousands of people, correspondingly she has to abandon some ordinary people s things.
She turned around and walked out step by step, "So, let me out of the palace."
Gu Ci and the little girl stood outside, watching her straighten her back and walk away step by step.
"Jiao... Anping, shall we persuade the concubine mother?"
"For the concubine mother, it will be happier if she leaves the palace." The little girl shook her head and looked at her again, "Let's go, the concubine mother is strong and doesn't need our comfort."
Gu Ci looked at Concubine Lan Gui's back, then scanned the four high palace walls, and suddenly thought of what the Empress said to her that day.
"You saved me this time, which is a great kindness to me. You saved Anping, which is also a great kindness to Anping and me. Anping repays the favor and marry you. However, in my eyes, Gu Ci, you You are not worthy of my Anping. Although Anping is unwilling to take over my position, she will take over the position of Dajin's monarch sooner or later. You are a powerless person, what can you do to block the mouths of many people? How do you let me believe that you have the ability to protect Anping? I heard from Zhao Yaotang that you used to be her soldier... The Southwest is the den of the traitor, and now the old department is still in the southwest. Support that evil species as king."
"Gu Ci, would you like to take a gamble with me, if you settle the Southwest matter, then I will recognize you as a son-in-law..."
The little girl was right, Youyou couldn't stop talking.
However, the Empress must be silenced so that she can take the little girl to play freely in this world in the future.
Empress Kang Jin is still unconscious, and now she can only help people relieve the gu.After leaving the palace, Gu Ci changed into eunuch uniforms in the palace with two hidden guards, and together they rode in a carriage to the gate of the city, this time taking Qin Fengjun's token.
After leaving the city, the carriage didn't stop, and they turned around a few times outside. After finally confirming that there would be no shadow left, Gu Ci handed over the person to Chen Li who had been waiting for a long time. Two of them were responsible for protecting Empress Kang Jin's secret guards. He also changed into the caravan's bunt uniform, and drove to Yushu with a wizard from the southwest.
After watching the carriage go far away, Gu Ci didn't go to the inn to stay, but sat down leaning against a big tree not far from the gate of the city. It took a quarter of an hour before her heartbeat stabilized. When the night wind blew, she felt a little cold, only to realize that she was already covered in sweat, and the clothes inside were a little wet.
Gu Ci took out the handkerchief from his arms, looked at the small cute characters on the handkerchief, and was reluctant to use it to wipe his sweat. Since the family moved to a new house in Yunxia Town, the little girl I embroidered some handkerchiefs for the family members, which are usually used to wipe the mouth or sweat.
"I don't know if I'm going to spend a few more days with myself this time." Gu Ci wiped his sweat with his outer sleeves, said to himself, folded the veil again, and put it in his bosom .
At the same time, the little girl who hadn't waited for Gu Ci to come back lay on the bed and sneezed twice in a row. She couldn't sleep at all, so she simply sat up when she sneezed, threw the pillow she was holding under the bed, Hearing movement outside, she quickly lay down again.
After a while, when the outside became quiet, he tiptoed out of bed again, picked it up, beat the ashes, hugged him again, and looked at the position around him with his eyes open.
Although I know the news of Gu Ci's safe departure from the palace, people are like this. Most of the people they care about are so cautious, and seeing is believing.
The little girl is like this at the moment, if she doesn't see Gu Ci with her own eyes, she probably won't be able to sleep tonight.
Gu Ci sat leaning against a tree outside the city for a whole night, and saw the city gate from a distance commotion for a while, then the lights were brightly lit all night, and the inspection of passing pedestrians became stricter the next day, so she did not enter the city in a hurry, but It was only at [-]:[-] that he lined up far away among the pedestrians. He deliberately brought something to an old lady beside him, greeted people warmly, and entered the city with ease.
Guards with knives were everywhere in the city searching from house to house. Gu Ci sat down at a wonton stand, ordered a bowl of wonton, and listened to the whispers of the three people next door.
"...You guys don't understand. A lot of things happened in the palace yesterday. You didn't look at the city gate. The security is so tight that even the carriages of the big families can't get out."
"Brother-in-law Cao, tell us, the nephew of your third son-in-law's second cousin's sister-in-law's nephew is not working in the palace. Why did so many troubles happen at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet yesterday..."
"Did you see the guards searching the restaurant? They were not only catching assassins, they were also looking for someone. Last night, the assassin stabbed one of our emperor's favored noblemen, and even took away the new students. The next prince..."
"Uncle Cao, why did I hear something different?"
"Uncle Wang, tell us quickly, what's that like?"
Gu Ci watched the old man with the gray beard glance at her, she quickly turned her head away, and saw that they didn't look this way from the corner of her eye, only to see that several people at that table gathered together, Gu Ci's ears moved , I can still hear you clearly...
"Didn't you hear that General Zhao led the army back to Beijing? You don't know that General Zhao returned to Beijing to save our Empress and Concubine Lan Gui..."
"I'll be good, that...that's not..."
"Last night, I heard that General Zhao went to the palace to face the saint. It is said that our... was also rescued..."
"My God... but if the late emperor... I would rather live the old life. Today, disasters continue and taxes increase. Life is hard."
"That's right, you don't know about the riots in the south of the Yangtze River. I heard that people there are spreading rumors that it's us... God's punishment..."
When Gu Ci heard this, he stopped listening. He ate the wontons brought by the boss, paid the money and left.Now she and the little girl are the low-ranking maids of the Zhao family, and they will not attract too much attention when they communicate with each other on weekdays.
After returning to Zhao's Mansion, the little girl gave her a cold face, but the situation is urgent now, and it is impossible for the two of them to really be as angry as usual.
"My mother is safe." Although the little girl looked a little awkward, she still took Gu Ci to check around, and she didn't see any scars on her body for a while, so she felt relieved, "The person yesterday said , you went to see my concubine mother, what happened last night?"
"My Majesty, I have already been taken away by Chen Sanshu, and I will send it to the capital after the detox is cured and I wake up." Gu Ci squeezed her hand comfortingly, "Concubine Xi doesn't want to go with us, she told you not to worry about her, Now that traitor trusts her, she can still have someone to take care of her if she stays in the palace."
"What belongs to the emperor's noble concubine Xi, that is also your mother's concubine..." The little girl muttered dissatisfiedly, and then thought to herself, "Why did the concubine hurt herself at that time?"
"Xi..." It's really hard for the mother and concubine to say something, Gu Ci looked a little shy, "If I guessed correctly, it was to gain the trust of that person. At that time, she left me alone in the room. If she was not injured and I ran after her, I would probably suspect that the imperial concubine was with us, and her previous efforts would be in vain. But if she was injured, then there would be more things to say..."
The little girl lowered her eyes. Based on her understanding of Concubine Lan Gui, Gu Ci probably said, "Then the concubine mother was seriously injured?"
"We were walking in a hurry at the time. I didn't look carefully, but I saw blood oozing from the concubine's shoulder." Gu Ci was a little embarrassed, thinking that it was because he had gone that the situation had arisen. When the little girl was brought back, Concubine Lan Gui was injured.
After all, we have been together day and night for so many years. The little girl can tell what she is thinking just by looking at her expression, "The concubine mother seems to be a kind person, but she is also stubborn, and my sister doesn't have to blame herself."
Hearing the little girl's words, Gu Ci heaved a sigh of relief. He felt that his little wife was really caring, and subconsciously wanted to go over to kiss her, but when he saw Zhao Yaotang and others from the corner of his eye, he was embarrassed again. Pretending to cough, she straightened her expression, "The imperial concubine also said that the man had an old department in the southwest, and he knew that the general led the army back to the capital, so he let the old department come to the capital... We'd better do it as soon as possible, and catch him by surprise? "
Zhao Yaotang frowned when he heard this, "No wonder this traitor has taboos about my return to Beijing, but he dares not do anything to my Zhao family. Could it be that he doesn't have enough soldiers and horses in the imperial city now... "
"Yes, the noble concubine said that there are only 25 troops in his imperial city now, and the old troops in the southwest are estimated to be a few days away from arriving in Beijing. The noble concubine also guessed that that person is probably waiting for us to do it on the [-]th."
When Gu Ci finished speaking, the people in the room were not in a hurry to speak up.Right now, there are all kinds of news, false and true, and everyone doesn't know how to make a decision.The road to power is no different than any other, and if there is a slight mistake, it will be a river of blood.
In the end, everyone looked hesitantly at the little girl who was also silent, "Princess?"
"We'll see in two days." It's not that the little girl doesn't trust Concubine Lan Gui, but because of King Nan'an's cunning and cunning temperament, it is absolutely impossible for her to trust her concubine mother easily. Such a private matter can let her concubine get news.
That day, the guards who searched the streets never stopped, and the entire capital was enveloped in such a dull and depressing atmosphere.In the evening, a notice was suddenly posted. In less than a day, Dali Temple found out that Gong Yong had swallowed 9 taels of silver for disaster relief. Prison, choose a day to beheaded.
The common people read this notice, no one expressed sympathy for the Gong family, and all spit and scolded the Gong family for what they deserved.
As the news of the Gong family embezzling disaster relief funds spread, the people sang about what happened in the palace on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, and the rumors about the foolish emperor in the south of the Yangtze River also spread. At this time, Gu Ci asked Chen Huan to organize everyone in Chenjia Village to take the grain from the grain storehouse to Jiangnan for disaster relief, in the name of Princess Anping and the son-in-law.
Before King Nan'an received the news from the south, at midnight on August 24th, the little girl and Gu Ci both changed into military uniforms and entered the palace with [-] elite soldiers.
In the midst of shouting and killing, Concubine Lan changed into her old imperial concubine clothes, dressed up, and looked down at the powerless King Nan'an, "The Southwest Golden Silkworm Gu is the most poisonous, the Qilin Gu is the second, and the cartilage powder is the most poisonous." How about something that is not popular, didn’t you think of it?”
"You... have been lying to me so?" King Nan'an was not surprised after being surprised, his brows were a bit lonely, "I thought... thought you were really..."
"I really like you?" Concubine Lan Gui took the following words for him.
"For so many years, although I have imprisoned you, I have never hurt you. After giving birth to the emperor's son, I see how loving you are to the emperor's son..."
"Shut up, don't mention that bastard." Concubine Lan Gui suddenly became angry, and raised her hand to slap him, "Do you think this is hurt? You humiliated me so much, you might as well give me a good time. You can't live, you can't die pain, I will let you taste it too."
The sound of soldiers and horses outside became louder and louder. King Nan'an closed his eyes, knowing that his situation was over. He didn't lose to Zhao Yaotang, nor did he lose to Anping who was still alive, but he just lost to himself. Those who like this woman are right, but they should not indulge in the false tenderness she gives, trust her.
"I lost. But you didn't win either. Ah Jing, you gave birth to my prince, no matter whether Feng Ningjue will be the son or Anping will be the son, there will be no room for you in this palace. Dajin has no place for you anymore, without my protection, how should you deal with yourself?"
Concubine Lan Gui's almond eyes, which are the same as those of a little girl, are more powerful than the little girl. She sneered, seductive and ruthless, "Don't you understand? This is the price you pay for underestimating me. Now that you are free, you might as well Be mentally prepared for the future life would be worse than death."
King Nan'an's muscles and bones were so weak that he couldn't move, looked at her face with difficulty, and laughed again after a while, "Ah Jing, you don't understand... now you are no longer the Nalan Jing who dominated the battlefield in the past. After leaving this palace, you are just an accessory under the imperial power, do you think Feng Ningjue can still want you? And you are just Anping's aunt, do you think that Anping can keep you who gave birth to my child?"
Seeing that Concubine Lan had stopped talking, King Nan'an said proudly, "As long as I don't want Feng Ningjue to die in this round, I won't be considered a loser."
"what do you mean?"
"Back then, my uncle looked down on me. He would rather pass the throne to his daughter Feng Ningjue than to my nephew. In order to prevent me from threatening the throne, he sent me to the southwest. Although Lin Rou from the southwest There are few villains, but everyone from eighty-year-old women to young children can use poison to kill people invisible." King Nan'an smiled, "So what if the imperial doctor diagnosed it as Gu poison, there are hundreds of insects in the production of Gu, and the phoenix There is no cure for the poison in Ning Jue's body except me."
Concubine Lan looked at him and curled her lips.
"Ah Jing, you don't believe me?" King Nan'an also laughed, "The Gu poison in her body is the Gu insect that I spent five years raising with my heart and blood. All the wizards in the southwest know that the Gu master puts his heart and soul into her body. Blood-fed Gu worms and Gu poison can only be controlled, there is no cure. In other words, unless I die."
"is it?"
"You don't seem to believe it."
"No, I believe it." Lan Guifei looked cold, "So, I won't let you die."
She was too calm, but King Nan'an panicked, as if remembering something, "What did you do to Huang'er?"
"Back then, you let me watch that A Jue couldn't survive or die. Now, I'm going to let you have a taste of it. If you want that bastard to live a good life in the future, you'd better settle down."
"You...he is your child too."
"No, he's just an evil breed." Concubine Lan Gui clenched her fingers and turned her face away, "If you want to blame, I can only blame him for casting the wrong baby."
"You... are so cruel."
Concubine Lan Gui stopped talking, and walked out quietly, standing at the gate, among the bewildered guards, with her head held high, waiting for the gate of Yiqing Palace to be broken open, to see that Anping came to pick her up.
In this life, she will only have this daughter, Anping, because only Anping was born with her and that person's wishes, and it is their common daughter.
General Zhao's [-] elite soldiers and General Huangcheng Wu's [-] guards joined forces inside and outside. The whole journey was like a broken bamboo, and the King of Nan'an was powerless to parry.
The big picture is set.
The gate of Yiqing Palace opened, and the little girl sat on the horse. Seeing the well-dressed woman in the courtyard, she rubbed her eyes repeatedly in disbelief, and was finally staggered down by Gu Ci, "Concubine Mother..."
She was brought up by Concubine Lan Gui herself since she was a child. Compared with the serious and rigid mother emperor, the little girl loves and admires this mother concubine the most.
"Anping." Concubine Lan Gui hugged her into her arms with a smile, closed her eyes, and tears fell quickly, "Seeing you grow up in peace, Concubine Mother... I'm so happy..."
Then, it was really worth it for her to bear the burden of humiliation and survive.
"Mother Concubine..." The little girl was indeed crying like a child who hasn't returned home for a long time.There are thousands of people you meet in the world, but some people always appear in your life to tell people what is irreplaceable.
Those grievances that can be expressed in the arms of the mother concubine can only be comforted in the arms of the concubine mother, no one else can do it, even the elder sister.
After this night, everything settled down, which was easier than imagined.What remains is the investigation and liquidation of the usurpation of King Nan'an.
Qin Fengjun had expected the ending from the moment he knew that Princess Anping was still alive, but he was still unwilling to accept such a reality. In the end, when Le Jia accompanied the eunuch to deliver Jiujiu, he still wanted to fight to the death.
"Princess..." The accident happened so quickly, no one thought that Qin Fengjun would suddenly put the dagger on Le Jia's neck.
"Go ask Feng Ningjue and Anping to come see Ben Gong, otherwise..."
"Father." With a calm expression, Le Jia interrupted him with a heavy mouth. With a movement of his throat, the white and tender neck was scraped against the dagger, and a thin thread of blood immediately flowed down.
"Princess." The eunuch was in a hurry, and hurriedly knelt down, "Feng Jun, don't be impulsive."
"It's been so many years, haven't you understood? You don't have this fate." Le Jia closed his eyes, "Sometimes there must be fate, and there is no time in fate. Don't force it. Father, when you were fighting with the king of Nan'an that day, You should understand that today will end."
"No, it's all about you, a slut who eats inside and outside, and it's a good thing that you ruined my palace."
"Feng Jun, you have wronged the princess. If the princess hadn't knelt outside the imperial study for a day and a night, the entire Qin family would have suffered. Today is not just rewarding you with a pot of dove wine..."
"Elder-in-law, don't talk about it." Le Jia took a deep breath, "If Father wants to use me to blackmail Queen Mother today, not only will you not be able to leave the palace, but the entire Qin family will be implicated, and then the Qin family will become the entire Qin family. Talk between the Dajin Winery. If Father insists on doing this, just do it. Besides, Father must have forgotten what position I have in the heart of the Empress, do you think the Empress will let you go because of me?"
Qin Fengjun looked slumped, and put the dagger on Le Jia's neck fiercely, "It's all the mud that you can't live up to..."
"Yeah, I'm useless, I let my father down..." Le Jia closed his eyes, even though he had recognized the fact that he was a chess piece, he still couldn't help crying.After so many years, she thought that besides using him, this father should treat her with some sincerity. It turned out that no, not even half of it. The pain piercing her neck was so real that she couldn't deceive herself.
"Feng Jun... Please let the princess go, the princess is also a poor person..."
Qin Fengjun looked down at the blood on Le Jia's neck, and suddenly remembered Le Jia's childhood in his mind.Le Jia was only raised under his name when she was one and a half years old. At that time, her biological father died of illness. At that time, Fengxian Fengjun was not dead, but his health was not good. The empress handed over the princess to him to raise.
Little Lejia was like a glutinous rice dumpling at that time. When the palace man brought her over for the first time, she hid behind the palace man. He teased him for a long time before showing her little face. Seeing him smile, she also showed it to him The few small teeth were probably taught by the palace people long ago, so they quickly tilted their heads and called him in a low voice: "Father."
This call, father, has been called for almost 20 years...
Qin Fengjun came back to his senses, the dagger in his hand fell to the ground, and hurriedly covered the blood on her neck, "Le Jia, I'm sorry, father doesn't want to..."
"It's okay." Le Jia smiled at him, "Father, you may not love me, but the love of nurturing me for so many years is true, and Le Jia will always remember it."
"I'm sorry..." Qin Fengjun looked at her face and stretched out his hand to wipe her tears, but the blood on his hand withdrew again. He was fascinated by this magnificent palace, and his heart was smoked, and he couldn't see what was close The love and happiness that are close at hand.Unfortunately, he didn't understand until now.
Qin Fengjun took two steps back, bent down and picked up the jug on the table and poured it straight into his mouth.
"Father..." Le Jia finally couldn't help crying, after nearly 20 years of being together, time is still true.
"Le Jia, I'm sorry. In the next life, if... in the next life...you can still be a father and daughter, your father will definitely..." Qin Fengjun clutched his stomach and sat slumped on the ground. Looking at Le Jia, who was crying and crying, all the unwillingness was over. , "Le Jia, don't cry. Eunuch Li, take the princess away... Bengong... I don't want Le Jia to see..."
"Father..."
In the last year of Jian'an, on August 24, Princess Anping and her son-in-law Gu Ci led [-] elite soldiers to lead the battle. Zhenyuan General Zhao Yaotang led an army of [-] soldiers, and then, together with Concubine Lan Gui, who had always endured the humiliation, invaded the palace and took down the usurping traitor King Nan'an in one fell swoop.
On the fourth day of September of the same year, the empress returned to the palace safely and regained control of the government.
On the ninth day of October, Princess Le Jia personally tried the conspiracy of the King of Nan'an, and put all those who participated in the conspiracy into the prison, and executed them on the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
On October 24, the Lu family donated another 15 taels of silver to celebrate the return of the empress.
On October 28, Qin Fengjun passed away.
For the common people, now that everything is settled, they can finally live in peace.
However, in the court hall, it was not peaceful.The reason is that Qin Fengjun passed away, and the Feng position in the harem was vacant. Emperor Kangjin wanted to make Concubine Lan the queen, but all officials refused.
Because Concubine Lan had served the two lords and gave birth to a rebel child, the position of concubine should be abolished and thrown into the cold palace.If the imperial concubine is a chaste one, she should die to prove her loyalty.
"You old bastards, the rebels sat in this position in the past, and you were still used by him. At that time, why didn't you bang your heads on the pillar to prove your innocence?" The empress was so angry with these old bastards, One day, she will use these shitty things to expose her scars.
"If the emperor insists on doing this, then the old minister will bump his head against this pillar today..."
"Old man, just go, if anyone else wants to stop me, I might as well go and have a good time today, I will order someone to collect your corpse once..."
"emperor……"
"No one of you should persuade me today, and no one should drag these old things who want to die, and I will just watch their blood splash this court..."
As soon as the Empress finished speaking, the senior minister in charge was about to hit the pillar, and as soon as he was about to hit it, a long rope flew in from the outside, wrapped around the senior minister, pulled the senior minister back, and threw the senior minister to the door .
The court was in an uproar, and before everyone could react, a clear female voice came from outside, "I, Na Lanjing, entered the military camp at the age of 14 instead of my elder brother, and was stationed at the border for ten years. I have made countless military exploits, large and small."
While speaking, Concubine Lan walked into the hall proudly in her crimson royal attire, her almond eyes swept across the faces of the court ministers one by one, and finally stopped on the face of the Empress sitting on the throne.
"In the past, the emperor accepted me as a concubine. I was grateful for the friendship between the emperor and me, and entered the palace. I have been in the palace for more than ten years. I believe that I abide by the etiquette rules of the harem, and I have never done anything beyond the rules, but what have you done? Every now and then, I write to me that my conduct is not good."
"I, Nalanjing, let me tell you today that in my whole life, everything is worthy of my Nalan family, worthy of the royal family, and worthy of the entire Dajin. You say that I have no virtue of a queen... Hmph, the whole Dajin, if anyone is still qualified to sit on this phoenix seat and share the Dajin with Feng Ningjue, only I, Nalanjing, have the qualifications."
For that joy, she changed her military uniform into red makeup, and personally destroyed her favorite crape myrtle gun... But in the end, it was still not justifiable, she was fed up with the rules and regulations in this deep palace.It imprisoned her freedom, but failed to release her joy.
She spoke so loudly and forcefully that the entire hall could be heard quietly, and no one made a sound for a while.
Concubine Lan lowered her eyes, gave a wry smile, raised her hand and tore off the jade plaque at her waist, and threw it in the middle of the hall. The jade plaque symbolizing her status as a noble concubine was instantly shattered.
"But, I don't care about it. Whether it's the imperial concubine or the phoenix, I, Nalanjing, don't care. Feng Ningjue, you should let me go."
"orchid……"
"Feng Ningjue, you said that when I entered the palace, I was still the free Nalanjing. However, I didn't. An aboveboard husband and wife. However, no, you are the king of Dajin, and you are my husband. For so many years, I have been with you in this deep palace, and I have gained nothing except bondage and shackles."
The empress was silent. She hadn't fulfilled any of the promises she had made in the past, and she was speechless when faced with questions from the audience.
Concubine Lan Gui didn't want to see her slumped and lonely look, she didn't blame the people behind her, she understood her powerlessness, that's how life is, there are gains and losses, enjoying the worship of thousands of people, correspondingly she has to abandon some ordinary people s things.
She turned around and walked out step by step, "So, let me out of the palace."
Gu Ci and the little girl stood outside, watching her straighten her back and walk away step by step.
"Jiao... Anping, shall we persuade the concubine mother?"
"For the concubine mother, it will be happier if she leaves the palace." The little girl shook her head and looked at her again, "Let's go, the concubine mother is strong and doesn't need our comfort."
Gu Ci looked at Concubine Lan Gui's back, then scanned the four high palace walls, and suddenly thought of what the Empress said to her that day.
"You saved me this time, which is a great kindness to me. You saved Anping, which is also a great kindness to Anping and me. Anping repays the favor and marry you. However, in my eyes, Gu Ci, you You are not worthy of my Anping. Although Anping is unwilling to take over my position, she will take over the position of Dajin's monarch sooner or later. You are a powerless person, what can you do to block the mouths of many people? How do you let me believe that you have the ability to protect Anping? I heard from Zhao Yaotang that you used to be her soldier... The Southwest is the den of the traitor, and now the old department is still in the southwest. Support that evil species as king."
"Gu Ci, would you like to take a gamble with me, if you settle the Southwest matter, then I will recognize you as a son-in-law..."
The little girl was right, Youyou couldn't stop talking.
However, the Empress must be silenced so that she can take the little girl to play freely in this world in the future.
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