Yanlouchun

Chapter 16
On rainy nights, the strong wind wets the leaves, and the sound disturbs people's dreams.The rain curtain under the palace wall is thin and dense, supporting a thick barrier.

Accompanied by a few lightning flashes and thunder, the sleeping people couldn't help frowning, and panic spread.

The capital city was shrouded in the quiet night, so quiet that it was a bit bleak.

The wind and rain have come, and the sound of horseshoes is crisp.

The mud was splashed and puddles of all sizes were splashed.

At the gate of the palace, someone drove a fast horse and shouted, "Open the palace gate! Open the palace gate!"

The man in black who was chasing after him rushed towards the gate of the palace desperately, trying to stop the man on horseback.

Feathered swords were displayed in unison on the palace gate tower, and the leader of the forbidden army raised his hand and ordered, "shoot the arrow—"

Several arrows were fired, and suddenly pierced into the chest of the man in black.

A mouthful of red blood was sprayed on the gate of the palace, soaking through the director's silence in the dark night.

The palace gate opened, and a group of guards rushed out to fight the man in black.

Swords collide, clang clang accompanied by the sound of rain getting louder,

The heavy rain washes away the mottled blood.

On rainy nights, the lights in the palace were lit up one by one.

The fast-legged internal officer ran to Funing Hall repeatedly, rolling and crawling.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

The inner guard at night was about to stop him, but the inner officer shouted, "Someone is assassinating at the gate of the palace!"

The whole hall was lit up, and the emperor put on his clothes and got out of bed.

In the Palace of Shou'an, the Queen Mother learned of this, and the palace people bowed their heads and waited.

The Empress Dowager dressed and sat on a high seat, looked up to the direction outside the hall, and sighed.

"It's raining really hard this night."

At the gate of the palace, swords meet, the rain falls on the reflective blade, and when it splashes again, it has turned dark red.

The men in black were wounded and retreated, and two teams ran out from the gate of the palace to give chase.

The sound of horseshoes was crisp, crushing the breath of the night rain.

The gate of the palace opened, and a line of people and horses ran out, and put the spear on the neck of the rider. The man had exhausted all his strength, and unexpectedly slid straight down and fell on the stone ground at the gate of the palace.

Open your eyes and sleep forever, and die with peace in your eyes.

A guard dragged the horse rope into the palace gate, and Wei Shudong, the leader of the forbidden army, stood inside the palace gate with his sword in his arms.

At this time, the voice of the heavy rain became more wild, and the voice of uneasiness in his heart became louder and louder.

When he approached the horse, Wei Shudong saw it clearly.

A dying woman was tied to the horse's back.

His long hair fell loose, his lips were pale, and his clothes were ragged.

But the gold-encrusted jade plaque on the horse's back made him unable to ignore it.

Royal nameplate.

"Zuo Yang!" Wei Shudong shouted.

"Here!" Zuo Yang came out.

"You continue to guard the palace gate at night, you guys, follow me to bring this woman to face the saint." Wei Shudong ordered.

"Yes!"

A moment later, rows of inner prisons knelt at the entrance of Funing Hall, and their clothes were wet in the rainy night, and water stains flowed at the entrance of the hall.

"Emperor Ding can't do it, call Huang Imperial Doctor Zhang Imperial Doctor Li Tai Physician!" The emperor was furious and broke several porcelain bottles.

"No! Call me all the people in the Tai Hospital!"

"Your Majesty, it's late at night, and there are many imperial physicians..." An old servant said tremblingly.

The emperor kicked him to the ground.

"Those who are resting, sleeping, and other reasons, I don't care about them all, call them all!"

"If there is a difference between Jing and the eldest princess, I want you to be buried together!"

The emperor turned around and went to the inner room again.

The woman lying on the bed is exactly the woman tied on the horse's back.

At this moment, her body temperature was frighteningly high, her lips were chapped and pale, her face was blue and red, her eyes were closed tightly, and the maid was kneeling beside her to feed her water.

Can't even drink a sip of water.

Seeing His Majesty coming in again, Imperial Physician Ding wiped the cold sweat from his forehead in fear.

Kneeling and reporting, "The minister has already prescribed a prescription to reduce fever, nourish blood and prolong life. Her Royal Highness is in critical condition, with multiple stab wounds on her body, and she was exposed to rain again. The wound festered, causing fever. If you can wake up after tonight Come, it will be an auspicious person, if you can't wake up, then..."

Physician Ding said so much that his body was trembling, he bit the bullet and reported.

He was dragged by the inner prisoner in his sleep, and his body was also dripping wet.

The emperor waved his sleeves, furious, his eyes were covered with a layer of frost, "If the eldest princess can't wake up, you don't have to wake up either."

A court lady was so frightened that the washbasin fell to the ground with a bang, and the water in the basin spread to the emperor's feet.

The maid quickly knelt down and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty, calm down... Your Majesty, calm down..."

Everyone else in the entire hall was as peaceful as death.

The emperor raised his eyelids and looked at the court lady with a stern expression, "Come here, drag her down to me, anyone can serve the eldest princess!"

Two inner eunuchs came up and dragged the woman out.

At this moment, the queen mother rushed over with the inner eunuch supported.

"Emperor, Emperor!" The old queen mother almost tripped while helping the inner eunuch up the steps.

The palace maids behind her stared cautiously in fear, for fear that the Empress Dowager would fall down, and they couldn't bear it.

"Mother." The emperor came out from the back room to support the queen mother.

"Is it really Qiong'er?" The queen mother was always solemn, but her voice trembled at this moment, her pearly yellow eyes were full of disbelief.

His Majesty nodded heavily.

The Empress Dowager burst into tears, and grabbed the emperor's sleeve, "Is Qiong'er inside now?" Her voice trembled, as if shed tears.

As he said that, he was about to go to the inner hall. The emperor stopped the queen mother, "The queen mother must be prepared, the situation of the emperor's sister is not serious."

The Queen Mother wept even more in her heart.

This child has been delicate since she was a child. She has a son and a daughter. The eldest son drowned in the imperial flower pond, and the second son is the current emperor.

But since ancient times, the emperor and his subjects first, and then the mother-child relationship, she and the emperor could not let her enjoy the feeling of being a mother like a folk mother and child.

There is only Song Qiong, her youngest daughter, Jing and the eldest princess.

She held Qiong'er in her hands for fear of falling, and held it in her mouth for fear of melting, she was reluctant to suffer even a little bit of pain, and she tried to find Qiong'er whatever she wanted.

Her Qiong'er is a princess of the royal family, with golden branches and jade leaves. Even if they are married, other princesses are sent to the outside of the Great Wall, to the Fan Kingdom. Only her daughter is the best married, and she is sent to the Qing Kingdom, which is comparable to Dasheng.

These days, the old emperor of the Qing Kingdom passed away, and the court was arguing over whether to send troops to Hanhai. While thinking that this was a good time to recover Hanhai, she was also afraid that Qiong'er would suffer from the war and be threatened and humiliated by the Qing Kingdom. .

In addition, the speech officer always remonstrates, saying that she hangs behind the curtain, controls the government affairs, and refuses to delegate power to the emperor.

So I haven't made a sound all the time, just wait and see what happens.

Unexpectedly, before the imperial order came down, Qiong'er ran back to the capital from so far away from Qing Kingdom, how much suffering she had to endure along the way!
The emperor helped the empress dowager into the inner hall, when the empress dowager saw the dying person on the bed, she couldn't help exclaiming, "My child!"

The Queen Mother sat on the edge of the bed and took Song Qiong's cold hands and rubbed them. Although her body and head were scorching hot, her fingertips were icy cold and frighteningly cold.

The court lady knelt aside to wipe Song Qiong's face, and the queen mother wiped Song Qiong's forehead with a towel herself.

"My child, why are you so thin? You're no longer human. You can only see skin and bones." He wiped away his tears.

Said sadly, "You used to be the most beautiful, like a butterfly in the palace, why are you suffering so much now, Qingguo is so far away, how did you come back!"

"With so many wounds on your body, it's like cutting flesh on your mother's body!"

The queen mother was crying so hard that the emperor ordered the maid to take the towel from the queen mother's hand and help the queen mother to the bench beside the bed.

"Mother, don't worry too much, your body is the most important thing! If the imperial sister wakes up and you fall ill, what should you do?"

The maid brought the decoction to the side of the bed and helped Song Qiong to feed her mouthful, but she couldn't finish a mouthful.

The Empress Dowager became even more sad when she saw it, and asked Doctor Ding, "The eldest princess can't drink the medicine, is there a way?"

Imperial Physician Ding replied, "Reporting to the Empress Dowager, there is an ancient method of acupuncture. Acupuncture into acupoints can rectify qi and blood and continue a person's life. I dare you to allow the eldest princess to practice the ancient acupuncture technique."

The Empress Dowager lamented, "Then I will be your doctor, you can give it a try."

"Yes." Imperial Physician Ding stood up, knelt for a long time and staggered, not daring to neglect, took out the needle bag from his medicine box and unfolded it. Rows of silver needles shone and reflected under the candlelight, which was shocking.

The queen mother couldn't bear to watch it any longer and called the emperor.

"emperor."

"Mother's queen." The emperor responded.

"Aijia has something to say to you." The queen mother supported the emperor to stand up.

The two left the inner hall.

dismissed the people.

The Empress Dowager sat on a bench, and the Emperor stood in front of her.

"Those people outside who want to break into the palace tonight are here to hunt and kill Qiong'er?" The Queen Mother asked coldly.

The emperor nodded, "I have already sent someone to investigate, the queen mother does not need to worry."

The Queen Mother snorted coldly, "How can you not be worried? Qiong'er is lying in the inner hall now, life and death are uncertain, how can you tell Ai's family not to worry!"

The empress dowager slapped the handrail several times, and the emperor quickly persuaded, "Empress mother, take care of your body."

The queen mother gritted her teeth and pointed at the emperor, "These days, in order to avoid suspicion about Hanhai, have I ever participated in the court?"

"No." The emperor was a little embarrassed, because the queen mother did not express his position, he was hesitant and didn't know how to make a choice.

"You are the emperor! Whether you want war or peace, whoever dares to disobey an order! After all these days, you have not dealt with it well, so someone with a heart takes advantage of Qiong'er!" The Queen Mother's hands trembled violently.

The emperor was a little embarrassed, "The queen mother calm down, the emperor's sister may not be being used by others, maybe she ran out because she felt that the situation was wrong."

The queen mother was furious for a moment, and threw the cup on the table to the ground angrily.

"What an obvious situation, the emperor, how can you make such a hypothesis!"

The emperor bowed his head and dared not speak.

"Let me ask you, how many factions are there in today's vast sea?" the Queen Mother asked directly.

"The Shoufu faction advocates mutual markets, and the ministers of state affairs advocate war." The emperor replied politely, like a student being tested by a teacher.

"Then which faction do you prefer?" the Queen Mother asked again.

The emperor couldn't help breaking out in cold sweat, "I think that the mutual market can make use of trade, and the war can recover the vast sea."

"Emperor, I'm asking you how to choose, not the pros and cons."

The emperor wiped his sweat, "I ask the queen mother to speak frankly."

The queen mother sighed, "Trading is a temporary benefit. Only the peak season can promote trade every year, but it is safe. Taking advantage of this opportunity to go to war can recover the vast sea, but it lacks the name of justice."

"Right now, Qiong'er has been so wronged that she has been chased to the gate of the palace. If we want to be on the safe side, we will be cowards!" The queen mother said Yu Zhong in a tone of voice.

The emperor responded, "The queen mother is right."

"No matter who killed Qiong'er behind this scene, it must be the Qing Dynasty. Emperor, do you understand?" Although the Queen Mother is old, her eyes are still sharp.

"The queen mother said that we sent troops to the vast sea on the grounds that the Qing country killed Jing and the eldest princess and took the initiative to destroy the covenant." The emperor said.

The queen mother nodded, "That's right, no matter which courtier obstructs this matter, don't bother with it, and let them go regardless of life or death, bullying my royal family members has come to the gate of the palace, such arrogant behavior, how can you swallow your anger!"

The emperor didn't know, "But the people who attacked the palace tonight are not necessarily people from the Qing Kingdom. How could they have the leisure to kill the princesses of the allies?"

The queen mother sighed, "Emperor, of course the person who comes here will not be from the Qing Kingdom. They hope that the Eldest Princess will stay in the Qing Kingdom. If there is a war in the future, she can also be used as a hostage to threaten us. But our princess married the past, but they did not." It is their responsibility to protect them. There is so much movement tonight, and the news will spread to the capital tomorrow morning. At that time, if we are calm and peaceful, we can carry out the mutual market with the Qing Kingdom, so that other allies will think that we are the long-term boss of Dasheng. Is the princess just a random decoration!"

The emperor nodded, "Okay, I will now call the cabinet into the palace to prepare a memorial."

"Wait." The queen mother stopped the emperor again.

"What else is the mother doing?"

"Emperor, in the case of Shen Zhiyun and Gu Hanshu, I think the evidence is too much to be counted. As for the criminals caught from the Gu family, just put her in prison for review. As for Shen Zhiyun and Gu Hanshu two One is the second assistant of the cabinet, and the other is the prince's son. If you put them both in imperial prison, who do you think will be in charge of the government affairs of these two people?" said the Queen Mother.

"Yes, Empress, tomorrow I will ask Shao Xi to release the two of them, and suspend them for investigation." The emperor said.

"Emperor, the emperor's prestige is not manifested by punishment or imprisonment. In the future, we must not be so impulsive and cause turmoil in the court." The queen mother leaned on the armrest and wanted to get up, and the emperor hurried forward to caress her.

"When you tell the rain to stop, no matter whether Qiong'er is awake or not, people will have Qiong'er moved back to Yuxiu Palace, and the eldest princess cannot be allowed to recuperate in Funing Palace. Funing Palace is the emperor's residence," said the Queen Mother. .

"Yes, queen mother." The emperor responded.

The emperor called the inner eunuch maid in, and the old eunuch supported the queen mother.

"Aijia originally wanted to accompany Qiong'er until she woke up, but unfortunately, she is too old and can't bear it anymore, her muscles and bones can't bear it." The empress dowager's eyes were a little moist again as she spoke, but her body didn't allow it.

Now in the middle of the night, she was woken up by the attack on the palace, and because of Qiong'er's troubles and injuries, she also exhausted her mind and mind discussing government affairs with the emperor. Now her legs and feet are weak, and she can't walk without being supported.

Sad, sad.

Why is she just a girl, who can only spend half of her life in the harem, wasting her study of scriptures, when she was young, she was full of intelligence and wisdom, and had nothing to do.

Now that she is very old, behind the curtain, she is afraid that officials will say that she is a dictatorship, her son is not decisive enough to be an emperor, and her daughter risked her life across the two countries to return to the palace. How can I protect this great country for the first emperor.

　Tell everyone, I don’t know where the problem is in today’s article. The system locked it for me. I will see if I can unlock it tomorrow.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)