Chaos in the Chu Palace

Chapter 43 The Palace Gate Transformation (3)
The man just looked at him with a smile, Su Yanqing only felt that his smile looked so dazzling, but she couldn't hold it anymore, her eyes darkened and she fainted on the ground.

Ouyang Ruo screamed and rushed forward: "General Su, General Su!" She shook his body vigorously, hoping to wake him up.Lin Shi and Wan Hui also stepped forward nervously.Ouyang Ruo just felt confused and really didn't know what to do.How did their carload of old, young, women and children move in this wilderness?

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she couldn't help sobbing: "General Su, wake up quickly..." Just when she was at a loss, a lazy voice sounded beside her: "Don't shake, he's exhausted Just give him some water and rest for a while."

Ouyang Ruo raised his head, under the dark night, the man's profile reflected the moonlight, outlining his chic and unrestrained outline.He knelt down, felt Su Yanqing's pulse, and nodded: "I'm just saying, he just fainted for a while when he lost his strength. Hehe, he can really do it, and he is not afraid of death when he fights one against a hundred."

Ouyang Ruo heard him speak bluntly, and said slightly angrily: "He couldn't bear to leave the four of us behind. Only fight to the end. Who are you?..."

"My name is Zhan Fei. I promised to assist Zhang Ziming in restoring Huaguo." The man stared at her face with great interest, and said with a smile: "But now it seems that those so-called rebels are just mobs, don't they? became a mob."

His tone was loose, seemingly careless: "I respect General Su as a man, I won't hurt you today, you go."

Seeing that he didn't kill them, Ouyang Ruo breathed a sigh of relief. She wanted to drag Su Yanqing to the carriage, but she couldn't even lift his arm.Zhan Fei saw that she was holding her breath, dragged Su Yanqing vigorously, stretched out her long arms, and lifted Su Yanqing into the carriage.

He took out the fire pleats from his arms again, looked carefully at his wounds, and said, "It's okay, just find a remote place and bandage him up. Let's go, come up."

Seeing that he was willing to help, Ouyang Ruo felt relieved, and said that she didn't have much ill feeling towards him, so she nodded and asked Mrs. Lin to wait to get in the car.Lin is a person who has no idea, as long as she can leave this place, she has no objection.Lin Xiang in Wan Hui's arms could no longer hold on to sleep, and Ouyang Ruo felt relieved when he saw that Lin Xiang was sleeping soundly.Zhan Fei sat in the car by himself, identified the position below, and drove forward with a whip.His driving posture was very sophisticated, and he walked to a clearing in the forest after a while.

He identified the location and got out of the driveway: "This place is relatively remote, it is already far away from the official road, and they dare not catch up, and they will not be able to catch up. You should rest here for a while, and get up early tomorrow morning."

Although Ouyang Ruo was scared, he couldn't help it.Zhan Fei had a lot of experience in camping in the wild, and after a while, a bonfire was built, and Su Yanqing was brought down to bandage him up. Lin did not dare to get out of the car, and Ouyang Ruo didn't force her, and just let her lie in the car to rest.The forest is silent, and it seems that even the grassworm and nightingale have disappeared.Ouyang Ruo leaned on the wheels of the carriage and breathed a sigh of relief.Not far away, Zhanfei went back and forth, busy.And Su Yanqing, who was lying on the grass next to her, looked silent, without any expression of pain, just blindly sleeping.Zhan Fei said that he was out of strength and lost a lot of blood, so he needed to rest more, so he didn't need to use internal force to wake him up.

The night wind blew past, and it was as cool as water.Ouyang Ruo thought for a while, and gently covered Su Yanqing with the clothes she was wearing.His eyebrows, his lips, sharp edges and corners, as firm as a sword...

Ouyang Ruo stared blankly at him with the faint fire light.Suddenly, there was a warm light in his arms, which shone through under the firelight.She became curious, and quietly touched it out from his arms. Layers of clean plain veils were opened, and it was a jade pendant.Ouyang Ruo took a closer look and was stunned.This jade pendant was given to him when she begged him to help find Ling Yudiji that day, but unexpectedly, he would hide it next to his body every day...

Holding the jade pendant in Ouyang Ruo's hands, he felt his hands trembling involuntarily, and the inexplicable thoughts in his heart seemed to overturn the five seasonings, and they came to his heart forever.

Su Yanqing... she said silently over and over again in her heart, tears dripping quietly, dripping on his body, smudged with wetness.If life was just like seeing each other for the first time, what a wonderful encounter it would be.However, she was the emperor's concubine a long time ago, and now she is the concubine of Chu Dinghou.She drifted with the tide all her life, and could only struggle to survive in the cracks, living with the simplest and simplest beliefs.So she was doomed to fail him in this life...

A sleepless night.The next day, when Ouyang Ruo woke up, Zhan Fei had disappeared, thinking that seeing them escaped, he left impatiently.Ouyang Ruo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and woke up Lin and the others.When she left the palace, she also brought water and pastries, and everyone ate them.Lin was much calmer and no longer panicked. She only looked at Ouyang Ruo's body covered in blood, hurriedly took the clothes in her bag and told her to change, and then sat down on the side of the car boldly, letting Ouyang Ruo lean on her. Rest in the car.Ouyang Ruo was frightened all night, glanced at Su Yanqing who was still asleep, and had no choice but to rest.

She was in a daze and didn't know how long it had been. In her daze, she just felt that the car was staggering, as if she had returned to those days when she just left Huadi and went to Chujing, flickering, driving towards the unpredictable future...

After a long time, Ouyang Ruo was shaken awake and opened his eyes, but the carriage was really moving.Lin was pleasantly surprised on the side: "You finally woke up."

Ouyang Ruo looked through the gap in the curtain, and saw Su Yanqing's upright figure standing on the shaft of the carriage, beating the horses.Ouyang Ruo heaved a sigh of relief, looked at the Northwest camp that was not yet visible, and said calmly: "Finally out of danger..."

The yellow dust raised by the carriage obscured the way it came from. In the distance, the Northwest camp gradually appeared under the outline of the day, like a huge crouching tiger, lying lazily resting under the sun.The carriage drove for a while, and there was a horse in the distance billowing in smoke and dust.

Su Yanqing was overjoyed: "Someone is here to welcome you!" All the people in the car were very excited.

Li Jing came to greet the group after they were taken to the Northwest Camp. He said with half worry and half joy, "Thank God, fortunately, the two ladies are safe. The Marquis is very worried. He invited General Su to pick up the two wives early on, oh... You can rest assured now."

As he spoke, he led them to the simple guest room and settled down, while arranging clean water and dishes. It was late in the evening, and when the dusk fell, Ouyang Ruo changed into a piece of dry clothes, loosened her hair in a bun early, and lay on the kang.From a distance came the soldiers' horns calling for them to return to the camp, interspersed with the neighing of horses, like a pot of porridge boiling.Ouyang Ruo smelled the slight smell of wood emanating from the bed, and felt that the day and night were just like a dream.I was so tired that I couldn't fall asleep.Ouyang Ruo lay on the bed, letting her thoughts spread, unknowingly, she was a little drowsy when Jingyue was already in mid-heaven.Just as she fell asleep in a daze, suddenly the door was hurriedly opened, and before she could open her eyes, she was hugged into a warm embrace.

Ouyang Ruo didn't open his eyes, but he heard a low voice calling in his ears: "Ruo'er..." With just one sound, Ouyang Ruo's tears flowed down.She hugged him back, buried her head in his arms, and sighed: "Huo Lang..."

His body has the pungent smell of horse leather, as well as the mixed smell of grass and sweat.But Ouyang Ruo's trance-like heart has since settled down.Through the moonlight, she saw his tired face, with blue stubble all over his jaw.His eyes were still as deep as the sea.But against the backdrop of the moonlight, there were waves.

"It's good that you're here," he sighed.

Ouyang Ruo looked at the wrinkles between his brows and sighed deeply.

"It's all my fault, which hurts you." Chu Huotian said slowly.

Ouyang Ruo covered his mouth, under the dim candlelight, her face was as beautiful as a night elf, more like a fairy who stole the mortal world: "There is no good or bad, Huo Lang still has a way out now?"

Her smile was as light as water, but the words from her concubine-colored lips penetrated deeply into his heart.

Chu Huotian stared at her, but his hands gradually wrapped her cold hands tightly.

retreat?Has he ever had a way out, and when did he think about it?Chu Huotian narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at her expression seriously, and said in a low voice with a trace of confidant joy: "You are absolutely right, there is no way out."

He found a pen and ink, and carefully drew a sketch on the table to show her. The mountains and camps were all marked with small marks on the map.He moved the brush very quickly, and he drew very clearly in just a while.

Ouyang Ruo glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Master Hou, why do you show this to my concubine? This is a major military matter, and it is reasonable for me to not see it. Master Hou should go to Mr. Zhao or a few other gentlemen for advice."

Chu Huotian pinched her nose and said with a smile: "What's the matter if I show you, you are talented and intelligent, just able to help me sort out my thoughts. Besides, what can't you and my husband know?"

Ouyang Ruo's heart moved, his expression was solemn under the candlelight, not like a casual joke, so he listened carefully to his detailed explanation, where were the soldiers and horses he deployed, and where were the places beyond his reach.The more Ouyang Ruo looked at it, the more frightened he became. Chu Huotian secretly hid several powerful troops in the hundreds of miles around Chujing.

"In order to find a shortcut in the forest, Mr. Zhao went in and out of the surrounding forest several times, and finally he found several places where he could station troops. So the Northwest Camp seems to be only one distance away from the capital, with less than 1 troops, but In fact, soldiers and horses were deployed secretly as early as a few months ago. The total number is much more than they imagined." Chu Huotian sneered and said: "Mr. When a person is convicted and imprisoned, he is forced to rebel against him."

"But now it seems that those people are eager to take that position. Once they gain power, there will be no place for me to stay." Chu Huotian's sharp eyes were full of sinister.

"And the emperor is in their hands now." Chu Huotian looked at the picture on the table and frowned.Chu Jing in the painting is like a hard bone that cannot be chewed.

Ouyang Ruo suddenly asked: "Now they have the minister's family members and the emperor in their hands. They can coerce the emperor to order the princes. The time and harmony of people are in their hands. The prince only occupies the land. If a false edict Now, Lord Hou still has to go to Beijing, but now the capital is full of their troops, not to mention the Jingji Guards have more than [-] people, and the Imperial Forest Army... I am afraid that the things that Lord Hou has deployed will not be able to quench the thirst."

Chu Huotian nodded and said with a smile: "You are right. If the Marquis is right, there will probably be an imperial decree tomorrow. They can't wait for that long."

Ouyang Ruo asked with doubts on his face, "Then, is Lord Hou going to Beijing?"

Chu Huotian folded up the map on the table, put it on the candle and burned it, and the jumping flames reflected his calm expression: "Go! If there is no foolproof arrangement, how could this Marquis be so stupid to die. Besides, I also want to see how they manipulate the country of Chu."

The red candle flickered, and finally flickered a few times, then the wax tears were shed, and the room returned to darkness again.And the sky is faintly revealing the whiteness of the east.

Sure enough, at noon on the second day, Chu Huotian received the imperial decree from Beijing. As expected, the imperial decree stated that the second prince has both talents and virtues, filial piety, respect and humility, and he will be the crown prince.Chu Huotian was in the northwest suburb of Beijing, so he naturally didn't know how the ministers in Chujing who heard the news reacted, but it was conceivable that there must be one group cheering and one group daring to speak out. After gaining power, they naturally suppressed the Qingliu faction. In the imperial decree, several officials of the Qingliu faction were demoted, saying that they opened up the river of speech privately and confuse the people.Chu Huotian just sneered in his heart.

The eunuch who sent the message said with a smile: "Now that the second prince has just reached the crown prince position, Lord Hou must go back to Beijing to watch the ceremony."

Chu Huotian also said with a smile: "Of course, I would like to ask my father-in-law, how is the emperor's dragon body recently? This Marquis is really worried about rectifying military affairs here."

The father-in-law's face remained unchanged, and he clasped his hands and replied: "The holy dragon's body is getting better gradually, it's just a little startled, rest for a few days and it will be fine. Please don't worry about it, Lord Hou."

Chu Huotian nodded and sent him out respectfully.

Zhao Qingling turned from the screen at the back, shook the paper fan and said with a smile: "I can't help it, the eldest prince is now under house arrest in Beijing, and the concubine Xian is still trapped in the Jingguo Temple. Now only Lord Hou is left."

Chu Huotian looked at the imperial decree in his hand, threw it away, clapped his hands and said, "How is Zixuan? He was seriously injured yesterday, but he was still ordered to go out. He still needs to watch over there." Okay, I don’t feel at ease if I change to someone else.”

Zhao Qingling gave him a sideways look, and said with a smile: "Yes, I think General Su is a hard-working man, and he needs to go in person to pick up the two wives, and he needs to go in person for this important military event."

When Chu Huotian heard that he was talking about Ouyang Ruo again, he couldn't help being a little embarrassed, Zhao Qingling laughed, spread out the map and said, "Look at it again, don't worry, this is the first time to cooperate with that yellow-haired kid from Qin State, it's really careless."

Chu Huotian restrained the smile on his face, and lowered his head to take a closer look together.

(End of this chapter)