Myth: Heaven and Earth

Chapter 95 The Darkness Under the Lights

Jin Quan has been paying attention to Lu Heng's movements.The more recent years have passed, the tighter he is.

When Lu Heng sent his family to the south, Jin Quan knew that Lu Heng was about to attack.time is limited.Maybe Lu Heng will come to Yuan Mansion to find him as soon as he returns from Tianjin.

For Yuan Gongbao, the existence of Lu Heng is definitely a good thing in some respects.acted as an urging force.

It was precisely because of Lu Heng's persecution that Jin Quan and Yuan Gongbao accelerated their growth and did not dare to delay.

Jin Quan sent someone to guard the city gate, keeping an eye on Lu Heng's whereabouts.Seeing Lu Heng coming back, the stalking horse galloped back to Yuan's house and informed Yu Jinquan.

Jin Quan then said to Wang Pinqing: "Within three days, Lu Heng will definitely attack. I have to drag him out."

Wang Pinqing couldn't help but said, "I'm afraid I can't hold it back."

"If you can't delay it, you have to delay it." Jin Quan said firmly: "As long as you can delay it. Send the news to Shandong as soon as possible."

As he was talking, someone had already taken his coat.Jin Quan took the coat and put it on, and said, "I'll leave immediately. If Lu Heng comes to look for me, you can tell him that I have something to do, at least seven or eight days, as long as ten and a half months. Ask him to wait. , I will tell him the truth when I come back.”

Wang Pinqing nodded slightly: "Yes."

Jin Quan immediately went out of Yuan's house and climbed into a carriage.

Say, "Go to church."

The driver silently threw off his whip, and the carriage left.

It was almost dusk, it was getting dark quickly in winter, the sky was dim, and there were few pedestrians on the road.

The carriage walked unhurriedly on the streets, passed through several streets, drilled many alleys, and stopped at the back door of the church.

The sky has killed the darkness.

Jin Quan lifted the curtain and got out of the car, and instructed the driver, "Find a place to settle down by yourself, and come pick me up here tomorrow morning."

"Yes." The coachman replied, driving the carriage again and leaving.

Seeing that the carriage was sinking into the darkness, Jin Quan stood for a moment, looking around, but no one was seen.Then he turned around and knocked on the back door of the church.

After a while, a man dressed as a priest opened the door and let Jin Quan in.

Jin Quan said, "Where is Eunuch Zhao?"

The priest is not a foreigner, he said, "Eunuch Zhao is not here."

Jin Quan paused and said, "Send someone to call him immediately, it's urgent."

The priest said, "I'll send someone right away."

The priest sent Jin Quan to a room, turned and left.Jin Quan sat alone, waiting patiently.

About an hour later, the door opened, and the priest walked in with a hunched old eunuch.

Jin Quan stood up: "It's really cold."

The old eunuch put his hands in his sleeves and nodded when he heard the words: "It's very cold."

Said: "You called me so quickly, why is it so urgent?"

Jin Quan said: "It's a matter of life!"

He said: "The person who wants to kill the Queen Mother can't bear it anymore. I have to avoid him and delay for some time."

Eunuch Zhao was taken aback: "Then what do you want our family to do?"

Jin Quan said, "I want you to take me to see the Queen Mother."

Eunuch Zhao stared at his old eyes: "You want to see the queen mother?!"

He paused: "It's not that our family underestimated you. You are afraid of that person, but the queen mother is not bad. If she knew what you and I did, she could kill you and me in one face."

Jin Quan said: "I only know one thing - the Empress Dowager West fears Lu Heng like a tiger, and treats me like a lamb. The tiger is in front of me, and I can make a deal with her with confidence."

Said: "Don't worry. Even if the Empress Dowager West wants to kill, I will accompany you to die. Your family and relatives have been sent to Shandong, and the palace guards will take care of them. What else is there to be afraid of?"

The old eunuch was silent for a moment, then sighed: "Yes, our family is seventy-eighty, and there is nothing to worry about. Let's go, I'll take you there."

Just go.The two went out from the back door of the church, got into the old eunuch's sedan chair, and disappeared into the darkness all the way.

In the sedan chair, Jin Quan looked relaxed.He said: "As of now, I still don't know where the Queen Mother is hiding."

Eunuch Zhao smiled, and his goose-skinned face was full of gullies: "Don't worry, you'll know when you get there."

The sedan chair went up and down for half an hour.Stop suddenly.The old eunuch lifted the curtain, glanced at it, and said, "It's here."

The two got off the sedan chair, and Jin Quan looked up, surprised and inexplicable: "The Summer Palace?"

There were already two little eunuchs waiting, and Zhao Gonggong said: "The front of the lantern is according to the road."

Then he said to Jin Quan, "Yes, it's the Summer Palace."

Jin Quan was stunned for a while: "It's really dark under the lights!"

Jin Quan felt a chill in his heart for a while.The Queen Mother's thoughts are really unfathomable.How many people have been deceived by just going to such a move!

Along the Kunming Lake, walk all the way.The Summer Palace was deserted, like a huge tomb.The cold wind blowing from the lake pierced into the cuffs and placket like a knife, Jin Quan couldn't help shivering.

All the way through Yulan Hall, to Paiyun Hall, and finally to Foxiang Pavilion.

The door of the Buddha Incense Pavilion was open, but it was dark, like a beast lurking in the dark with a bloody mouth.

Sen Han chills.

Eunuch Zhao took the lantern from the little eunuch and said, "Let's go."

Step by step, I climbed the stairs and walked into the dark door of the Buddha incense Pavilion.

Jin Quan took a deep breath and followed.

The old eunuch was at the front, walking around in a twisted manner.It was dark all the way.There are neither eunuchs, palace maids, nor guards or attendants here.

The cold wind blew from the aisle one after another, making people feel numb in their hands and feet.

According to his thoughts, Jin Quan followed the old eunuch into a Buddhist hall.

The old eunuch stepped forward with a lantern and lit an oil lamp.Then he put down the lantern, fell to the ground, and kowtowed: "Lafayette."

Jin Quan followed and saw a dry figure sitting in front of the Buddha statue, motionless like a statue.

The oil lamp on the desk gradually brightened.Reflected a pale face like a ghost.This face is covered with white greasy powder, and only a pair of sunken eyes can be seen, like two inlaid holes.

Empress Dowager West.

Jin Quan raised a heart in his throat.At this glance, he shuddered and almost couldn't stand.

Those hollow sunken eyes stared at him, as if a poisonous snake sprang out, got into his heart, and gnawed at him, making him tremble and unable to control himself.

"This, which is it?"

Cixi's voice was like an old man in the middle of the night!

Eunuch Zhao whispered: "He is Jin Quan and Jin Bingjun, the staff of Yuan Gongbao, the governor of Shandong."

Cixi Road: "Shandong Governor Yuan Gongbao"

She seemed to be a little sluggish in her thinking. After thinking for a while, she said, "Is that Yuan Gongbao who trained the new army in Tianjin?"

"Lafayette is wise." Eunuch Zhao replied.

"Oh." Cixi nodded slightly, blankly, like a machine.

"Yuan Gongbao? The person Li Zhongtang values. It's him. Li Zhongtang said that he is the pillar of the country. Please Aijia give him a promotion. The one who is promoted is the governor of Shandong."

Her thinking gradually became alive, her speech became smoother, and her tone became more and more vivid.

(End of this chapter)