Chaos in the Chu Palace

Chapter 42 The Palace Gate Transformation (2)
Eunuch Sun had no choice but to wipe his old tears, go into the inner hall, and took out a jade box.Emperor Chu took the jade seal and covered it.The queen stared at his every move, with ecstasy on her face.Emperor Chu finished covering with great difficulty, without looking at it, he threw the roll of brocade on the ground, and the thin brocade fluttered to the ground like a butterfly that had lost its life.The queen rushed forward and picked it up like a treasure in her arms.As soon as she raised her head, the smug smile on her face had become extremely embarrassing and inexplicably ashamed.I saw that Emperor Chu and Eunuch Sun looked at her with extremely pitiful eyes.That look clearly looked at a useless and poor beggar who was picking up steamed buns that others would not eat.

She opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but found that she couldn't say a word.

"I just want to ask you a question, is Concubine Xian still there?" Emperor Chu asked.A pair of old eyes stared at her face.

The hostility on the queen's face flashed past, and she endured for a while before saying: "She is praying for the emperor in the Jingguo nunnery. The emperor really values ​​her the most. Even at this time, he still misses her."

Emperor Chu said indifferently: "If it was her who forced me today, I would ask the same question. You have been fighting with her for more than ten years, and in the end I hope you will show mercy."

After Emperor Chu finished speaking, the three of them fell into silence again, and looked at each other for a long time. The queen finally snorted coldly: "Okay, okay, the emperor should rest early. The concubine will leave." With a wave of her long and luxurious sleeves, she again Walked out as proudly as when he came.

The heavy palace door slowly closed again.Emperor Chu fell on the dragon bed as if he had lost his supporting bone.

Eunuch Sun knelt beside him and wept, "It's the old slave who is useless. He can't hoe the emperor for the emperor and punish those slaves in the harem who don't have eyes. So much so that the emperor is controlled by the queen and a woman today. The old slave is really useless. With…" His cry was old and sad.

"It's not you who are useless, it's me...I'm not the material to be an emperor. What kind of benevolent government and love for the people, what kind of generosity and goodwill? In the end, I'm too soft-hearted and too hesitant. The centuries-old foundation of the Chu Kingdom is passed into my hands. Wrong. Cough cough... In fact, what the late emperor wanted to pass on was..."

Emperor Chu seemed to be caught in the memory of the past, and his expression became more and more dazed.After a long night of silence, he finally fell into a deep sleep, and Chu Jing, and even Chu State will start to feel uneasy...

Heavy palace gates separate the worlds on both sides. Beside the northwest gate of Chujing, the lights are brightly lit, and the sound of swords and swords can be heard endlessly.Su Yanqing stood on the carriage with a whip in one hand and a long sword in the other. The guards who came to defend the city were separated by more than ten feet.The torch is flickering, revealing the shadows of people, and I don't know how many soldiers are guarding the city.

Ouyang Ruo hugged Lin Xiang tightly in the car, and Lin who was beside her kept leaning over, tremblingly said: "Ouyang... Sister Ouyang, can't you leave? Master Hou... why didn't Master Hou come to save us..."

Ouyang Ruo was annoyed by her crying, but she could only endure it and said: "Hurry up, isn't General Su sent by Lord Hou?"

Su Yanqing yelled at the enemy in front: "This is the family of the Hou family. The Hou Ye will send them out of the city at the end of the special order. If there is any obstacle, the Hou Ye will be ordered to kill without mercy!" Although he said so, the opposite city wall But there was an angry shout: "The emperor has an order that no one is allowed to leave the city, and no one is allowed to enter the city. Does General Su want to resist the order?"

Su Yanqing remained silent, turned her head and said to Ouyang Ruo who was in the car: "Ma'am, please bear with me, the soldiers of my subordinates will arrive soon. The subordinates ordered them to divert the Jingji guards in front of the Hou's mansion and come over quickly." This door meets."

There was no sound in the car, and after a while, Ouyang Ruo's resolute voice came out: "It's hard work for General Su to open the way for me. I'm not talented, but please don't worry about us, general. If the situation is critical, General, please abandon the car to save your life!"

Abandon the car to save your life? !Su Yanqing's heart was shocked, her bloodshot eyes looked at the drooping curtain, as if she wanted to see her beautiful and firm face.

"Madam, don't worry, Su Yanqing swears to protect Madam to the death!" he said.The clear and bright voice has become hoarse with bloodthirsty.

He is a majestic seven-foot man, how can he be weaker than a weak woman when he licks blood with a knife on the battlefield?With a long whistle, he waved the long whip in his hand like a dragon, and the sword in his right hand shone brightly, pulling out sword flowers one after another. With the sound of shouts above the city gate, the soldiers under the city began to rush forward.Ouyang Ruo sat in the car, her heart beating like a drum, but she tried to calm herself down.Su Yanqing couldn't bear to abandon them, and they couldn't cause him any more trouble.

Lin's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she was about to cry again.Ouyang Ruo yelled: "Mrs. Lin, don't cry anymore. Crying any more will only lead the soldiers to our side. Mrs. Lin is still pregnant with Lord Hou's flesh and blood. One day in the future, Mrs. Lin's child will be born. I don’t want to know that his mother is so cowardly!”

When Lin was drank by her, she burst into tears immediately.I had to sit down reluctantly and stop crying.

Wan Hui's face was ashen, listening to the shouts of killing outside, it took a long time to ask lightly: "Madam, do you think General Su's soldiers can come?"

Ouyang Ruo listened attentively for a while, boldly opened a corner of the curtain, and looked to the southeast, only to see a faint light of fire over there, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: "Hurry up, as long as General Su can last for a while, we will It is saved. No matter how bad it is, it is still taken, and there is no danger to life."

Just as I was talking, the window on the side of the car suddenly opened, and a soldier guarding the city poked his head in. Everyone in the car was startled, and the soldier suddenly cracked his mouth and said with a smile, "Haha, sir, I can stand up this time." It's a great achievement!" As he said, he was about to climb in.

Ouyang Ruo's mind went blank for a while, Lin Shi was so frightened that she forgot to scream, Wan Hui was also blindfolded, holding Lin Xiang motionless.Ouyang Ruo saw that half of his body had already leaned in, and she shivered suddenly. After she realized it, she had already pushed him out. go.The soldier screamed fiercely, put his hands on his shoulders, and fell out of the carriage screaming like a pig being killed.The sweet and strong fishy smell immediately spread in the compartment, making people want to vomit.

Su Yanqing turned her head abruptly, her face paled in shock. He focused on protecting the front of the carriage, but missed the rear of the carriage.The soldier fell out, and the soldiers on the side who were about to move did not dare to move forward easily, wondering if there was some powerful figure hidden in the carriage.For a while, the stalemate reappeared.Ouyang Ruo pinched the blood-stained hairpin in her hand, and some blood dripped on the car and on her clothes... She was a little dazed. When she came out of the Hou's mansion, she only changed out of the complicated palace dress and her hair But the ornaments on it didn't come in time to be replaced.The four long green sword-shaped hairpins inlaid with cat's eyes were not removed either, and it was not expected to be used in such a way.

Ouyang Ruo tightly pinched the long hairpin in his hand until his knuckles turned white.Wan Hui was the first to come back to her senses, holding Lin Xiang who was a little drowsy and said softly, "Madam, Madam... put it down, put it down..."

Ouyang Ruo suddenly came to his senses, shook his hand, and with a clang, the blood-stained hairpin fell on the carriage, and under the flickering fire, it shone like a cat's eye green.

Seeing more and more soldiers besieging, Su Yanqing felt anxious, not to mention what was going on inside the carriage.With a long drink, he took out the bombs from his bosom and flicked them into the air one after another, making a crackling sound.Seeing him send out the signal, the guards on the city hurriedly sent more people forward.For a while, the sound of weapons being handed over continued, and Su Yanqing's arms were numb from the killing. In order to save the lives of innocent soldiers, he did not use killing moves. Seeing that there were more and more people, he no longer cared about his subordinates. show mercy.With a flash of rainbow light on the long sword, the three soldiers rushing forward lost their lives without a sound and fell limply to the ground.The pungent smell of blood irritated the soldiers with swords around them, and they all shouted and moved forward again.

Su Yanqing shouted loudly, the long whip in his hand was rolled up, the sword light was blown out, the cold light burst out, and the wailing sounds all around became louder.Seeing more and more people falling around him, his heart became more and more anxious.He mobilized his skills in anticipation of his last fight, but he didn't know if he could last until the last moment.His internal organs were on fire, and out of the corner of his eye he looked at the small carriage behind him, feeling sore in his heart, that woman... I'm afraid he can no longer protect her.

When he was distracted, there was a sharp pain in his hand. It turned out that the soldier next to him took advantage of the gap and chopped off his arm.Immediately, blood flowed profusely.He looked at the ferocious face of the soldier expressionlessly, and the sword in his hand cut sideways, and a puddle of blood sprayed out. The soldier showed surprise and fell down slowly.There were more and more soldiers around him, Su Yanqing stood in front and had to pay attention to the back of the car, her mind could not concentrate, and she suffered a lot of injuries one after another.The sound of shouting and killing, the sound of swords and swords, he stood in front of the car, one man guarding the gate and one man guarding the gate.Raising the sword in his hand, he didn't know how many people he had injured. The long whip flew, and several people who tried to approach the carriage again were swept out.There were more and more injuries on his body, and he could no longer lift his arms. He looked towards the dark and motionless southeast corner, and despair surged up like a tide.The figure in front of him became more and more blurred, and the oncoming soldier slashed at him with a grinning grin. Just as he was about to raise the sword in his hand, his arm went numb, and he lost his strength.

Su Yanqing stared at the swiftly slashing sword, and closed her eyes calmly. With a sound of "Hugh", there was a scream, but it didn't come from his body.Su Yanqing looked forward in surprise.An ordinary long-feathered arrow was stuck in the soldier's heart without any errors.He looked around in surprise, but he couldn't see the man who shot the arrow.The surrounding soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, and someone wanted to step forward again, "Hugh", and the arrow seemed to have eyes, and it was nailed to the man's heart again.The soldiers who wanted to rush forward were all suppressed, Su Yanqing was overjoyed, raised his long sword, and leaned against the carriage, gasping for breath.The archer seemed to understand his thoughts, as soon as the hesitant soldier stepped forward, several deadly long arrows were shot at him, and immediately everyone was too frightened to move rashly.The angle of the arrows was tricky and changed from time to time, and the soldiers in front of the city gate couldn't figure out where the deadly cold arrows came from.

After a little while, the sound of killing finally came from the southeast corner, Su Yanqing stood up, and said to the carriage: "Madam, we are saved..." After speaking, he quickly jumped on the horse, patted the horse and rushed forward.The long sword gleamed, and the man who was shooting arrows in the dark kept firing. He almost rushed to the gate, and the soldiers of the Hou Mansion who rushed over immediately fought with the guards at the gate. The 1000-man army, with awe-inspiring killing intent due to years of fighting, took down many guards standing in front of them, and quickly rushed to the side of the carriage.

"Open the city gate! Northwest battalion join us!" Su Yanqing shouted.Then the soldiers of the Hou Mansion quickly lowered the iron bolts of the city gate, and several people opened the heavy city gate together.Su Yanqing let out a long cry, and slapped the horse with a whip. The horse was in pain, neighed, and ran forward with all its strength.

The night wind blew past, Su Yanqing only felt the blood in her chest, her long curly hair was already disheveled, and was blown to the back of her head by the wind, where the wind blew, the wound was burning hot, but it couldn't extinguish the anxiety in her heart .The heavy city gate was left far behind the carriage.They finally escaped Chu Jing.

The carriage was jolting, and everyone in the carriage was silent, except for Lin Xiang crying once or twice, and occasionally deliberately suppressing the sound of comfort.Su Yanqing pursed his lips tightly and beat the carriage mechanically with his hands. When he arrived in a forest, the horse could no longer move, so he stopped slowly.

"Ma'am, get off the horse and rest for a while, they won't be able to catch up." Su Yanqing said to the inside of the car as she got off the horse's shaft with difficulty.After a while, Ouyang Ruo helped Lin Shi get out of the carriage, and Wan Hui also came out with Lin Xiang in her arms.

"Ma'am, you are shocked." Su Yanqing wanted to salute, but the wounds all over his body were suddenly affected, and he couldn't help but fell limp to the ground.

"General Su!" Ouyang Ruo and Lin Shi were shocked.

Su Yanqing felt a burning pain all over her body, and was about to say something, when suddenly a faint and imperceptible voice came, and her already drowsy mind suddenly woke up.

He shouted angrily: "Who is it! Come out to this general!"

Both Ouyang Ruo and Lin were startled and looked around nervously.Suddenly, a lazy smile came from the roof of the carriage: "The famous General Su in Chu is really extraordinary." After he finished speaking, a black shadow floated down.

As soon as he landed, Su Yanqing immediately grabbed the long sword beside him, trying to gather the little internal energy in his body.The man laughed and said: "Don't be nervous, I didn't come to harm you. If it was, I wouldn't help you just now."

Su Yanqing stared at the figure, and suddenly sneered, "Your Excellency is good at arrows. If Su is right, you must be the one who shot me when we left Huadi in the valley."

"Yes, I am right here." The man smiled, "General Su has good eyes, I am the person you mentioned, but this time, I really took advantage of General Su's help to leave Chujing in the chaos. I helped You, you helped me, I owe nothing to you."

It turned out that he shot the arrow to help himself because he wanted to take the opportunity to leave Chujing. He wanted to come to the capital to arrest the rebels, which was already a dangerous place for them.Su Yanqing's heart relaxed, and the condensed internal force began to dissipate again, and his eyes gradually blurred, but You Ziqiang held on and said, "Okay, now you and I have what we need, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)