serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 23

Beijing camp resident.

The Jingying Daying Camp is located in the southwest of Beijing, less than five miles away from Guang'anmen. There are three battalions stationed with nearly 20 elite troops.

Fifth Army Battalion, inside the large tent of the Chinese Army.

Liu Fang, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army Battalion and the first-class son of Li Guogong's mansion, closed her eyes slightly, and sat in front of the table in the middle.

The generals of the Fifth Army Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion sat silently on both sides.

The sound of horseshoes sounded, and then a sentry came running in, and knelt down to Liu Fang: "Report! Everything inside and outside Guang'an Gate is normal!"

Liu Fang still closed her eyes: "Explore again!"

Sentinel: "No!" He ran out again.

"You are conspiring against me!"

All the generals turned their heads and glared angrily at Wang Ziteng, the military governor of the capital who had already been tied up.

Wang Ziteng first glanced at Liu Fang, and then raised his head and said, "King Zhongshun took the military power of Marquis Jingtian under the orders of the Ministry of War. As for the siege of the Ningguo Mansion, he also followed the orders of the Clan Mansion. It involves the secrets of the royal family, sorry for the inconvenience, and you will understand in the future. Now that I rein in the precipice, I can pretend that nothing happened, after all, we are all our own people."

All the generals were angry, and many shouted:

"Bah! Who is your own person!"

"Shameless villain, if I hadn't looked at the old man, I would have killed you alive!"

At this moment, a soldier rushed in: "Commander, Xicheng Flying Pigeon is passing the letter."

Liu Fang opened her eyes suddenly, snatched the wax pill, crushed it, and took out the secret letter to display, her eyes were straightened, and after a while, she finally uttered five words: "Ningguo Mansion is broken!"

The expressions of the generals of the Fifth Army Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion all changed.

Wang Ziteng, who was tied up, was even more frightened at this moment, sweating profusely.

Dead!

A dead silence!
The deputy general of the [-] Battalion stood up: "Commander, we can't wait any longer!"

The generals shouted again:

"I told you a long time ago that he won't let us go!"

"That is, without his will, King Zhongshun would dare to lead troops to break through the Ningguo Mansion?"

Ma Shang, the governor of the Zuoye Army of the Fifth Army Battalion and the hereditary third-rank Weiyuan General of the Zhiguo Gongfu: "The liquidation is here, this is the first call."

Liu Fang was startled and stunned.

Shi Guangzhu, the commander of the Right Sentinel Army of the Fifth Army Battalion and the first class commander of Shan Guogong's mansion, coughed, and said, "It's impossible to say that the Liaodong Army has already entered the customs."

Everyone was shocked, and all eyes were on Liu Fang.

Liu Fang stood up as soon as she clapped the case: "Pass my military order to immediately close the camp. No one can enter or leave without the commander's order. And send a few people who have father and brother in the camp to go to the city to find out the news."

Herald: "No!" Da Bi hurried out.

Shi Guangzhu: "Be safe, hand over the firearms from the Shenji Camp first."

Liu Fang hesitated for a moment, "You go in person."

Shi Guangzhu stood up: "The generals of the right sentry army follow me out!"

Immediately, more than a dozen generals stood up.

Wang Ziteng shouted: "Slow down!"

Everyone was startled.

Wang Ziteng looked at Liu Fang, then at Shi Guangzhu, and asked the generals, "Think about it, you will punish the nine clans for treason!"

Shi Guangzhu's face darkened: "You should still worry about yourself." After saying that, he waved his hand and led the general of the right sentry army out.

Wang Ziteng shouted to Liu Fang again: "It's still too late to rein in the cliff!"

Ma Shang: "When the time comes, take your sacrificial flag first!"

Prince Teng swallowed his saliva. At this moment, his heart was already clear. Either he was deceived by Ma Maocheng, or someone made a hindrance and deliberately provoked disputes. He only hoped that the palace could react before the situation became more and more unmanageable.

In Ning'an Hall, there was deathly silence!

Dozens of pairs of fierce eyes were staring at each other, each with a tense face, holding the long knife in his hand tightly, as if ready to fight the opposite person at any time!

The ground was stained with blood, and the wounded infantry battalion soldiers had been carried away.

King Zhongshun came in and stopped in the courtyard. The door of Ning'an Hall was open. In front of a big basin of charcoal fire, Jiamu was sitting on a chair with a fox fur blanket covering her knees, and Jia Amnesty stood beside her to serve.

King Zhongshun stared closely at Mu Jia who was sitting there: "Mrs. Tai?"

Jia Mu didn't talk to him, but sat there, watching him from a distance.

King Zhongshun: "Everyone go out."

"No!" The infantry battalion officer waved his hand and led the group of soldiers back.

The twenty officers of the Yongwei Battalion were still standing in front, motionless, all focused on guard, staring at the soldiers of the palace behind King Zhongshun.

King Zhongshun frowned. The infantry battalion was his headquarters, and he was very clear about the strength of the battle. As a result, more than [-] people from the two banners were defeated by these twenty wounded soldiers. Fortunately, the opponent kept his hand.

These people were born in the Liaodong Army, and the emperor even ordered them to praise them, so they can't be moved.

Thinking of this, King Zhongshun smiled: "Please let me go, I have a few words to say to Madam Tai face to face."

All the officers didn't even look at King Zhongshun, they still kept their eyes wide open, staring closely at the soldiers of the palace.

A cold light flashed in King Zhongshun's eyes, and he sneered: "Well, if I don't go in, I will take two steps forward."

"Let him take three steps." Mother Jia said.

All the officers standing in front of them took three steps back neatly, allowing King Zhongshun to talk to Mother Jia.

King Zhongshun suppressed the breath in his heart, strode forward, and said with a smile on his face, "Don't blame Mrs. Tai, this junior is also following orders, and I didn't mean to offend you."

"Our two families don't have friendship, so you can speak up if you have something to say." Jia Amnesty interrupted him.

King Zhongshun looked at Jia Amnesty, then at Jia Mu, and heaved a sigh of relief. Then he took out the document from his sleeve and read it aloud: "The son of Qin Ye, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, reported that the Ningguo Mansion has violated the heaven and earth. According to the article, after verification, the ironclad evidence is as solid as a mountain, and King Zhongshun took the criminal and sent him to the clan mansion for custody."

Jia She frowned, "Mother."

Mother Jia sat there silently, glanced at King Zhongshun, and then at the documents in his hands, then removed the fox fur blanket, stood up, and walked out with Jia Amnesty's support.

The corners of King Zhongshun's mouth finally revealed smile lines. He watched Jia Mu walking towards him, straightened his robes, and respectfully stepped forward to salute Jia Mu. Then he continued: "Mrs. , just take that woman away."

Jia Mu: "It seems that you know everything."

King Zhongshun smiled and said, "Yes. The juniors know about it."

Mother Jia let out a long sigh: "If the old man's calculations are correct, you are trying to use the incident back then to force the old man to sign the so-called petition booklet."

King Zhongshun was guessed by Jia's mother's words, and became a little angry from embarrassment: "What is counted and not counted! This king is ordered to run an errand, so I don't understand what you are talking about. As long as you hand over that evil seed, this king will leave immediately."

Jia Mu smiled now: "The emperor's granddaughter is indeed in Ningguo Mansion, but you can't take her away."

King Zhongshun's eyes lit up: "You are responsible for saying this."

Jia Mu: "Looking at you like this, you still want to take the old body with you."

King Zhongshun: "This king didn't say that. But, if someone dares to obstruct this king's work," he stopped here.

Mother Jia made a serious face: "You are going to the Qin Mansion without telling the palace. Do you know why Qin Ye was able to move three times in one year? book office"

King Zhongshun became irritable: "Stop talking!"

An officer ran in in a panic: "There are a lot of imperial troops here, and they circled our people."

King Zhongshun was surprised: "Who is so bold?!"

Under the protection of a group of black-armored guards, Dai Quan came in wearing a big red python robe. He first glanced at the blood on the ground, and then he walked quickly to Mother Jia and bowed to salute, "My maidservant greets Mrs. Tai."

Jia's mother immediately understood that the Jia family had passed this hurdle, and quickly smiled at Dai Quan: "The inner minister is joking."

King Zhongshun was in a hurry: "Director Dai"

Dai Quan withdrew his smile: "The sage has an oral order, and the loyal king obeys the order."

Zhongshun Wang Yilin knelt down.

Dai Quan: "What is the relationship between Prince Yizhong and you?"

King Zhongshun: "Returning to my father, Prince Yizhong is the elder brother of my minister."

Dai Quan then asked: "What do you call the 'evil species' you are talking about?"

King Zhongshun was startled, and replied, "Respond to the words of the father, the emperor, the emperor's uncle."

Dai Quan: "Then what are you?!"

King Zhongshun was surprised, and it took him a long time to reply: "I am the son of the emperor."

Dai Quan went on to say: "I don't have a son like you! Now that your wings are hardened, I can't control you anymore. If you think you still have a little bit of filial piety, you can copy the eighteen chapters of the "Book of Filial Piety" 99 times, and you will be defeated." Your money, Sanren."

A trace of unhappiness flashed across King Zhongshun's eyes, but he had no choice but to kowtow: "Your minister leads the order."

But Dai Quan had already seen it, his face darkened, and he smiled again when he turned to Jia Mu, "Mrs. Tai, I have good news here. Ma Maocheng, Xu Yao, and Chen Lin are gangsters, and they are persecuting Zhongliang. Your Majesty decrees Immediately detain Caishikou for execution! Even Wang Hetang was suspended from his post as minister of the Ministry of War and awaiting review at home."

This surprise and joy was no small matter, Mother Jia smiled, and then solemnly said: "This is the emperor's great grace, thank you for the inner minister, I will let the second child enter the palace to thank you."

Dai Quan smiled all over his face: "The sage said, let Uncle Jia send a round of firecrackers to Beijing, and then stay in Beijing to protect Jia's ancestral hall."

Jia's mother, Jia She and others were all taken aback. At this moment, there was a loud noise outside the gate of the ceremony.

"What's going on?" Dai Quan's face sank.

Qiu Liang walked in quickly, followed by two men with tired and haggard faces after a long journey.

As soon as those two people saw the old woman standing in the middle of the crowd, they knew it was Jia Min's mother, the old matriarch of Jia's mansion, Jia's mother.

"Mrs. Tai, our wife is dead!" The two fell to their knees and wept.

Jia's mother didn't even realize that Jia Min died of illness until Qiu Liang handed over the funeral letter.

Jia Mu was already old, and the joy and sorrow hurt people the most. Suddenly, the world was spinning, her eyes went dark, and she fell down.

"Mother!"

"Mrs. too!"

(End of this chapter)