Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 64
Xuanzong hurriedly handed Concubine Yang Gui to Yongxin and Niannu to support him, and he walked to the gate of the post in person with great strides.At a glance, General Chen was bleeding all over his face, his helmet was hanging upside down, and he was holding a sword in one hand, standing with all the soldiers.The sergeants came very fiercely, and Chen Yuanli retreated in battle.It wasn't until they saw Emperor Xuanzong standing upright in the door that all the soldiers retreated straight out of the door like a tide, saying "Long Live", and then bowed to the ground together, saying: "Long Live Lord, send Yang Guifei to heaven!"

At this time, Wei E, Jingzhao Silu, was driving beside him, and played in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I beg you to bear the pain and cut off love, so as to save the country." When the soldiers saw the emperor's decree, everyone changed their faces, and everyone's hands touched the swords and guns again. When Chen Yuanli saw it, he hurriedly stood at the door and shouted: "Soldiers must not be rude, the Lord Long Live is about to issue an order!" As he spoke, he protected Xuanzong and retreated into the courtyard.

Xuanzong walked to the north wall of the horse road, stomped his feet and sighed: "I am the son of heaven, with nine levels of respect and riches in the world, but I can't protect a woman. Tell me what face to see her!" , Yongxin and Niannu supported Concubine Yang from the horseway to welcome her out. Concubine Yang knelt down on the ground, weeping bitterly and said: "The concubine has received the emperor's great kindness, and it is hard to repay her death; the situation is critical now, and I hope that the concubine will commit suicide." , to calm the mind of the army. Your Majesty will be safe in Shu, and the concubine's soul should follow your Majesty, even if you die, you will still live!"

Just at this moment, a loud huh-la-la was heard outside the door, and then the ground shook.Everyone was so shocked that their faces turned pale. Gao Lishi rushed in and said out of breath: "The soldiers outside didn't see the imperial decree, so they couldn't bear their temper, so they rushed over and knocked down the wall outside the door. The situation is extremely critical. I hope the Lord Long Live will pass the decree quickly and immediately It is a blessing for the country to grant my mother suicide!" Then the left and right ministers and Chen Yuanli also knelt down and said: "Long live Lord is smart and wise, and make a decisive decision. Don't hesitate any longer. If you are late, you will change!"

At this time, Xuanzong looked to the left and right. After a while, he paused and said, "Come on! Since the imperial concubine insists on doing this, and all the ministers and workers come here, I can't do it. Gao Lishi, send your mother away. Let's go!" As he said, he raised his hand and covered his face with the sleeve of his robe, but the tears rolled down from the edge of the sleeve.

Concubine Yang Guifei immediately held Xuanzong's boot toe and sobbed bitterly, refusing to let go, instead of begging to kill herself just now with Ning Junxin's mouth, she yelled Long live save me!The words were so harsh that the emperor couldn't help but feel pain in his heart and lungs. Concubine Yang Guifei was about to spit out a ray of life from His Majesty's trembling lips when the ministers saw the emperor's decree and immediately shouted: "Long live! "Then Chen Yuanli hurried out of the post gate and said loudly to the soldiers: "All the troops don't need to make trouble anymore. The Long Live Lord has an order to give Yang Niangniang to commit suicide." The three thousand soldiers immediately shouted in unison: "Long live, long live Long live!" Gao Lishi, who was inside, went forward resolutely and swiftly, half-supporting and half-dragging Concubine Yang to another room, and then handed over a white scarf, and Yongxin and Niannu replaced Yang Guifei. The imperial concubine took it in her hand.

A pear tree in the courtyard was in full bloom. At this time, Yang Yuhuan was stunned, like a puppet at the mercy of the crowd. Gao Lishi was afraid that something would change, so he hurried up and said, "Slaves deserve death, my lady, please go on the road." ", put the scarf on Yang Yuhuan's pink neck, and then violently overturned the small stool she was stepping on.

Although the sergeants outside the door shouted long live three times, they were still uneasy, and of course they were even more unwilling to retreat. Until Chen Yuanli led dozens of sergeants into the courtyard, Gao Lishi displayed Yang Guifei's body covered with a brocade quilt in the courtyard. In Ting's heart, he wrapped his arms around Concubine Yang's neck. Seeing that Concubine Yang was indeed dead, the soldiers all shouted long live and retreated, and then escorted them forward.

Gao Lishi went to the ridge of Daobei Road, one mile west of Mawei, to bury his 38-year-old noble concubine Yang Taizhen.

21. Yang's final death gate
In a few days, I went to Chencang, where the people are rich and the country is rich, and the city is prosperous. Yang Guozhong bought a lot of land and houses in this place. Po was a ghost, so he was not allowed to come here to enjoy the wealth of his beloved concubine Ji, so he gave it to Xue Jingxian, the county magistrate of Chencang.

Xue Jingxian was originally a confidant of Prime Minister Yang, and he had been a member of the Prime Minister's family for ten years. Because Yang Guozhong had property in Chencang, Xue Jingxian was specially sent here to take care of it, so he was given a county magistrate. Now, what will Prime Minister Yang do with the farm? Where the houses are built, where the money is hidden, and even which Ji people are the youngest, which Ji people are the most beautiful, and which Ji people are the most coquettish, only Xue Jingxian knows.The fair-skinned and charming wife of Yang Guozhong, Pei Rou, was originally a prostitute in Sichuan. Xue Jingxian has been tempted for a long time. Coming from a house, the lithe posture and coquettish character of this romantic woman made Xue Jingxian even more fascinated.So he hurriedly sent a team of soldiers to fetch the wealth, farmhouses, concubines and maidservants of Yang Guozhong, as well as Mrs. Pei and Mrs. Guo, which had been saved by Yang Guozhong all his life.

Mrs. Guo Guo was sweeping her brows lightly on the makeup building, when she suddenly saw her young son's emblem, she ran upstairs in a panic, crying, "The robbers have come in!" Mrs. Guo Guo threw down the thrush pencil, and pulled her son away , grabbed her daughter with one hand, and hurried downstairs.Hearing the shouting in the front yard, he turned around and ran towards the back garden, and walked past the study in the west, only to see Yang Guozhong's wife, Pei Rourou, and her daughter standing at the door of the study, crying to each other. Mrs. Guo said hurriedly: It's important to escape! This is not the time to cry." Pei Rou paused on her feet and cried, "Where do you want me to escape?!"

Mrs. Guo Guo didn't have time to say anything in detail, she just rushed forward, grabbed Pei Rou's hand, and ran towards the back garden gate. run.Just at this moment, there was a sound of Hula, and the two back doors fell to the ground together.A large group of strong men came in with swords in their hands.Mrs. Guo Guo yelled badly, took her children, and ran to the other side of the lake desperately, and ran into a big bamboo forest.

Seeing that Pei Rou had no choice but to cry, Mrs. Guo Guo didn't feel sad and shed tears. She heard shouts of killing in her ears, mixed with the sound of the wall collapsing. Pei Rou wept and said: "I miss our young woman , once it falls into the hands of thieves, what good can there be? Why don’t you find someone to kill yourself now.” Before she finished crying, she saw Mrs. Guo Guo taking off a sharp knife with horns from her skirt and closing it. Eyes, wipe away towards the pink neck.Her son and daughter were quick-eyed, and hurried up to grab the mother's arm, crying: "If the mother dies, who should the child rely on?"

One sentence made the mother and son cry together, and suddenly Mrs. Guo Guo opened her eyes wide with tears in her eyes, gritted her teeth, and sent the tip of the knife to her son's chest, and then to her daughter's throat. With one touch, two "Ah yo" in succession, this pair of Yuxue-like sons and daughters fell to the ground to die together.Pei Rou was so frightened that her body trembled and her legs became weak. She squatted down and sat on the ground, crying, "Madam be merciful, please send my poor daughter to heaven!" There was no word left Well, Mrs. Guo Guo, who had blood red eyes, rushed forward and stabbed the innocent girl into the waist and eyes with a single knife. The pink girl immediately fell to the ground, and she just yelled "Mom", then rolled her eyes, and passed away. .When Pei Rou saw it, her heart was pierced like a knife. She jumped up, hugged her daughter's body, and cried loudly: "Retribution! Retribution!"

At this time, Mrs. Guo Guo was completely in a state of madness, her eyes were fixed, her hair was scattered, she looked at the corpse lying on the ground, she just laughed, and when she had laughed enough, she suddenly raised her head to the sky and yelled, He took a knife and wiped it vigorously on his neck.The bright red blood gushed out like spring water.Then Mrs. Guo's delicate body also fell to the ground, and the soil was also stained red.Pei Rou didn't cry at this moment, she rushed forward to snatch the sharp knife from Madam Guo Guo's hand, and then stabbed at her jade-like chest.But it was too late, a group of strong men rushed in outside the bamboo forest, snatched sharp knives from her hands, each with a jade arm, pulled them away.Poor Pei Rou was sent to be Xue Jingxian's concubine.

As for Mrs. Guo Guo, because the trachea had not been completely severed, she woke up again after a while, and the blood flowed all over her neck, face and chest, and it was delayed until the next day before she died.Xue Jingxian ordered that the bodies of her and the three children be carried to the poplar tree in the north of Dongguo, more than ten miles away, for burial.

On the third day, Chen Yuanli's imperial army arrived, and searched for Yang Guozhong's fourth son Yang Xi from the deep mountains to kill, and killed Yang Guozhong's fellow Hanlin scholars Zhang Jian and Dou Hua, Song Yu from Zhongshushe, and Zheng Ang from the official department. .Although Yang Guozhong's fifth son, Yang Xiao, fled to Hanzhong at that time, he was finally captured by Wang Yu of Hanzhong and beaten to death.

22. The heartbroken king weeps
All of the Yang family has been killed, and the morale of the army and the people are greatly improved.Only Emperor Xuanzong felt desolate, and he sighed and sighed along the way, reluctantly going one way and another way, all day long he forgot to sleep, and he forgot to eat and drink in a trance, all he remembered was Yuhuan's name, and he had to call it at least three hundred times a day .No matter how exquisite and rich the imperial meals at the post stations along the way were, Xuanzong only made a little progress.There is no need for concubine singing and dancing. He also called Gao Lishi to summon the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army, saying that something is going wrong now.Today, the catastrophe is over, the traitor has been eliminated, and you are far away from your hometown, who doesn't have the thoughts of parents, wives and children?The road to Shu is as difficult as going to the sky. I can't bear to wait for you to leave your wife and children, so you can go home today.Waiting for me to walk slowly to the middle of Shu with my children and grandchildren alone.He also specially distributed the [-] spring colors sent by the envoys sent by the Chengdu Jiedu envoy to the soldiers as a fee for returning home.

When all the soldiers heard it, they burst into tears together, and said in unison: "Long live God's edict is here, and my heart is cut! Since ancient times, the army has been raised for thousands of days, and it is used in one dynasty; the ministers cannot prevent traitors. It is a crime worthy of ten thousand deaths to cause His Majesty to be dusted. Now the ministers and others are here to protect His Majesty, and they are willing to follow even if they die." Xuanzong said: "Although your loyalty is deep, I really can't bear it, so I still go back to you. Let's go home."

Chen Yuanli couldn't help but said: "Is it because of the death of the noble concubine that the Lord Long Live despises the ministers and others?" Xuanzong said: "No. It's just because I have been dusted this time, and the elders of Chang'an are very anxious; you go back and tell the legend For a moment, I only said that I am safe."

After hearing this, all the soldiers said in unison: "Long live Lord, don't say such a word, and the ministers are willing to accompany you, and you will have no second thoughts!" Xuanzong nodded and sighed: "It's rare for all the troops to be loyal, but it's getting late today, and tonight is just right. Just stay there, and leave early tomorrow.” Then the sergeants led the order and retreated.

The next day, Gao Lishi still helped Xuanzong mount his horse, and the sergeants lined up first.Xuanzong was on the horse, looking at the surrounding mountains, he couldn't help sighing and said: "For this, the birds singing and the flowers falling, the water is green and the mountains are green, it is nothing more than helping me to feel sad!" Persuading: "Long live Lord, please take care of yourself, look away, don't be so sad that you hurt your dragon body of ten thousand gold."

A group of banners, spears and halberds slowly walked up the plank road on the mountainside.Gao Lishi hurriedly rushed forward to hold the bridle, for fear that Xuanzong would make a mistake.At this time, a gust of wind carried the raindrops and rushed towards him, and the rain became heavier and heavier.It just so happens that there is a tall pavilion in front of it, built against the mountain wall.Gao Lishi played and said: "The rain is coming, please long live to go to the Jiange temporarily to avoid the rain." Xuanzong said: "Quickly tell the soldiers to station temporarily until the rain stops." Put up a tent to shelter from the rain.

Looking up from the Jiange, the mountain wind is cutting the face, and the cold rain is knocking on the window. The scene is very miserable.The sound of rain, and the bells on the eaves, rang out with the wind into a heartbreaking whimper, the cloud was dark and dark, the mourning ape screamed heartbroken, and Zigui cried blood. It was scary to hear, especially Xuanzong. Listen, in front of this desolate Emei Mountain with few people walking, the rain is cold and the wind is blowing obliquely.Xuanzong was startled secretly, one drop after another, one drop after another, Xuanzong turned to recall the deserted tomb, the poplars were bleak and rainy, and the lonely soul was bleak and cold, and the ghost fire was shining It is cold, and the grass is wet and chaotic.

(End of this chapter)