Sealing Knife

On August 19th in the thirtieth year of Chongzhao, the Temple of Heaven prayed for the blessing of the dojo, and the emperor returned to heaven.

On August 20th of the 30th year of Chongzhao, the six Shangshu were put on joint play. Please set up the Crown Prince.

On August 23rd in the 30th year of Chongzhao, the emperor made the eldest son Sun Chuxun the emperor's grandson, and the tenth prince protested.

On August 27th in the thirtieth year of Chongzhao, Situ Guifei lost his court before the imperial concubine, and the king of Duan was called into the palace urgently.

On August 30th of the 30th year of Chongzhao, the tenth prince was sealed by the king of Ning'an, and was given a marriage to the Lu's daughter. After the marriage, he kept Jinzhou and returned to Tianjing without a call.

On the first day of September in the thirtieth year of Chongzhao, the Beiman Mission will be outside the chill.

On the third day of September in the thirtieth year of Chongzhao, eight imperial princes wrote a letter of reprimand, and asked the regent king as "the emperor's grandchildren's hardship to support the overall situation." Scolded as "the son of a barbarous unbearable orthodox", the Manchu Dynasty was in an uproar.

On the fourth day of September in the 30th year of Chongzhao, Princess Tang Chen lost his feet and fell into the water in the Royal Garden. He was seriously ill and Princess Yuning returned to the palace with his horse to attend the illness.

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On the seventh day of September in the 30th year of Chongzhao, the Beiman Mission arrived outside the chilling gate.

On the eighth day of September in the thirtieth year of Chongzhao, the war in northern Xinjiang began. Three days later, the expedited army was reported to Beijing. The emperor vomited blood and fainted, and the emperor Taisun was in danger.

On the 9th day of September in the 30th year of Chongzhao, Cheng Wang Chuyun was ordered to go to northern Xinjiang.

On the tenth day of September in the 30th year of Chongzhao, Cheng Wang Chuyun led his army out of the city, and the emperor Taisun went off to see him off.

When the rain is coming, the wind is full.

Gu Xiaogang "stealed" Chu Yao from the Jingwang Mansion.

The word "stealing" was not used excessively. Since the Jing Palace was scolded in front of the King's Palace, the entire palace was exposed to the eyes of the interested person. At first, some people disagreed. When the Northern Manchu War started, all kinds of eyes hated every one of the palace. People take apart bones and peel to see what happens.

No matter how naive or ignorant, Chu Yao could notice the clues from the whispers of the servants and the suddenly quiet hallway, but Chu Yan could n’t close the door, and the princess was busy with the housework, and had no extra effort to take care of a child. mood.

Seeing a chubby puddle of Zhuyuanyurun shrinking in just a few days, Gu Xiao finally could not help taking advantage of the dark wind of the moon tonight, and took him out of the backyard with a lot of light power, only in the room There was a pillow called a quilt wrapped into a spring roll, and no one was alarmed.

Chu Yao was touched by his bed when he was having trouble sleeping, and was pressed back with a finger before he screamed. The sound was familiar in his ear. He blinked and shoved into Master ’s arms, using his hands and feet. A slimy gecko.

They went out of the palace, Gu Xiao covered Chu Yao's head and face with his black coat, and walked away under the thick night, Chu Yao saw nothing in front of him, but in his ears he heard the wind .

It was not until Gu Xiao ’s speed slowed down that he made a small brain from the other party ’s robe, staring blankly at the crown of the roof underneath the master ’s feet, turning into a shadow of gray and autumn, everything seemed to be at rest in the world, only Both of them are still alive.

Do you practice martial arts and dance swords to make swords?

Chu Yao never understood and naturally there was no answer.

Until now, he saw that all the lights in the house had turned into dust under his feet, and he suddenly raised an unprecedented thought-

People always go high, isn't it just to see further?

Chu Yao lost his sight.

Gu Xiao has fallen into an old courtyard.

This place is located in a remote place in the south of the city, very far from Jingwang Mansion and the Royal Palace, surrounded by ordinary houses, and it is not at all conspicuous. At this time the night was quiet, no human voices were heard, and no figures were seen. Even the lights were not seen under the eaves in front of the door.

Chu Yao was a little afraid and subconsciously grabbed Gu Xiao's hand: "Master, what are you doing here with me?"

"Take you ... let's play a game." Gu Xiao patted his head, took out the firebreaker and lit a few lanterns under the promenade, adding a bit of vitality to this cold courtyard.

Chu Yao finally looked relaxed, and he laughed: "What are you going to do? Want to be so mysterious?

"When you celebrated your birthday, I forgot to prepare a gift for you. I made it up today, but ..." Without waiting for the little boy to smile and bloom, Gu Xiao turned around, "However, I hid the gift in this courtyard, You have to find it yourself. Only one night, if you ca n’t find it, do n’t blame Master for not giving it. ”

Chu Yao stunned, then hummed from his nose: "I will find it!"

After he finished speaking, he looked back a little hesitantly: "However, there should be someone living here, we are like this ... Won't it be good?"

Jing Wang seldom disciplined him, and Princess Jing was very petty to him but refused to bring up a domineering dude, so Gu Xiao always felt that although the child was born in the royal family, he was too cute and cute, and he was unwilling to get along after three years.

unfortunately……

Gu Xiao lowered her eyebrows and smiled: "I'm not afraid, the owner here is a friend who is a teacher. As long as you don't make any big noises, you won't blame you."

Chu Yao looked at him eagerly: "Then Master will help me find it together."

"You can find your things yourself. Master will go back to the house to help you look at the wind." Gu Xiao scraped his nose. "It's forbidden to run around. The teacher will pick you up before dawn, otherwise it will be bad if someone finds you. "

"Uh huh!" The little boy nodded his head like a chicken and ate rice, then rolled up his sleeves and began to search in the courtyard. He looked very carefully, even looking at a stone several times, lest he missed the clues.

Gu Xiao's eyes stayed on his busy figure, and he stepped back to the promenade, behind the red lacquered pillar, I don't know when there was another figure.

Yingxiu has handed over the Tianjing dark web to him, and naturally no longer needs the status of "red silk lady". Now she is wearing an ordinary mask and wearing gaudy clothes, like a lonely half-woman Xu mother.

She whispered: "The spy came to report that Emperor Chong Zhao was in critical condition and called all the princes into the palace. Now, in addition to the King Cheng who had left the army three days ago, even the Jing Wang Mansion also had a Chinese official to rush to notify"

Gu Xiao's voice was faint: "It seems that the big change is tonight."

"Since you know that a big change is going to happen tonight, why should you bring him over?" Ying Xiu's eyes were as bright as electricity. Although his voice was soft, he was so cold, "If someone is found to be missing at this knot, Yi Jing Wang's keen and suspicious will definitely count again, and then we will be broken ... "

"He won't find it." Gu Xiao finally turned his head. "Do you think it's an easy thing to bring out the son from the heavily guarded palace at this time, and it hasn't caused a commotion until now?"

Suddenly stunned.

"A Yao couldn't sleep tonight, the princess arrived in his yard, replaced the guards and servants with his maidservants who had followed for many years, and lived in next door to A Yao ... When I left, I saw her half open the window, A glance cast. ”Gu Xiao raised his eyes.“ I want to take my apprentice away from the land of right and wrong. She also wants her son to stay out of the limelight, so I can be so smooth. ”

There was a cold behind Yingxiu: "Jing Wang Langzi's ambition, is his woman credible?"

"Believable, but I can't believe it, so I have to go back as soon as possible." Gu Xiao shook his head, "A Yao will hand it to you, help me to watch him, I will not allow him to leave this step before I return, and no outsiders are allowed to enter step."

They brushed their shoulders and clenched their fists tightly: "If you never go back?"

The overall situation has moved, Tianluo closes the net, everyone becomes a chess piece, fighting in black and white, fighting each other, no one knows whether he will become an abandoned piece, and no one can be sure whether he can survive the end of the game.

Behind him, Gu Xiao silently said: "If I don't go back, you will take everyone away from Tianjing, and you will not turn back in ten years ... Take A Yao too, don't let him run back, I don't ask him to rejoice for life To be famous, just ask him to be safe. "

"I'm asking you! If you fail to come back, Ruan Feiyu and Chu Xun will lose if they miscalculate in one step, and you ... what do you do?"

Gu Xiao just smiled and glanced at Chu Yao, who was looking for something in the grass, and his eyes reflected a little light under the gallery, which was incredibly gentle.

The firelight blended into the pupils of the eyes, and the mixed tears blurred Ying Shou's eyes. When she looked up again, Gu Xiao's figure had disappeared into the haze.

It rained on the sky, lightning struck the night sky, thunder thundered and burst into my heart, and the gusts of wind rose from the ground and tore the flowers and trees in the courtyard, as if it had the power to destroy and wither.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty is dying, declare you to enter the palace quickly!"

The housekeeper couldn't care about the manners and rituals, and hurriedly knocked on the door of Jing Wang's room, kneeling on his knees, and said repeatedly: "The palace sent someone to call urgently, and the dark guard also came to the news that the Taiji gathered in the Liuhe Palace, this time , I'm afraid it won't pass this time! "

His voice was trembling, but not fear, but an unquenchable excitement.

After many years of planning, even if God is on their side, how can he not be excited?

Chu Yan's tea cup fell to the ground and his robe hem was splashed. He stood up and walked around the room quickly. Then he recovered: "What about Lin Chao and Gu Xiao?"

"Lin Xiaowei is standing by in the courtyard. Gu Weiwei just returned from the outside. The news of the Dark Guard in the palace was brought by him, not false!"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Chu Yan kicked off the broken porcelain cup, "Let Lin Chaosu send people to notify the deployment everywhere, gather troops as soon as possible, Gu Xiao entered the palace with the king!"

"promise!"

"Slow!" Chu Yan's cloaked hands suddenly stopped, "What about Princess and Shizi?"

The steward bowed: "Return to the lord, the son of the world is not in good spirits today. The princess moved to accompany her. Now she should have just fallen asleep. The little one has sent a maid to inform you, you ..."

"Master, concubine is here."

Princess Jing's voice came from outside the door. Her hem of the dress was also wet by the rain. Her hair was not covered with Zhu Cui. Obviously, when she got the news, she hurriedly came, just heard Jing Wang's question, and entered in time.

"A Yao was a little feverish, the concubine just coaxed him to sleep, and now she was not too disturbed, so she came over first." The steward retired and Princess Jing gathered her cloak. "The palace is in a hurry. It ’s good to go, all the concubines in the house take care of themselves, and only wait for the prince to return. "

Chu Yan's heart flashed an inexplicable feeling, but hesitated to grasp it at all. He didn't even think about it at this time. He took hold of Princess Jing's slightly cool hand and couldn't help smiling: "There is a princess here, this king is really at ease Now. "

Princess Jing smiled gently, and raindrops slipped from her forehead, like a tear on the Begonia flower.

She wore a cloak for Chu Yan, brought her sword in hand, and said warmly: "The wind and the rain are heavy. The prince should be careful. Regardless of the way forward, the concubine will walk with the prince."

Chu Yan gave her a deep look, and suddenly lowered her head and gently kissed her forehead. It was rare to relax her voice: "Princess and wait for this time, this king will be on top of ten thousand people in the future, let your mother be the world."

Princess Jing closed her eyes, her eyelashes twitched slightly, and her lips smiled: "Okay."

When she opened her eyes, Chu Yan had hurried away.

Slender and pale fingers wiped away a few tears from the corners of her eyes. Princess Jing heard the sound of closing behind her and said lightly, "What are you doing here without staying with the prince?"

"Some words want to ask the princess, otherwise there may be no chance in the future." Gu Xiao leaned back against the door. "The guards outside can be assured that the princess must have something to say about the low office."

Princess Jing gave him a fixed look: "You ask."

"People who don't want to follow Jing Wang's rebellion are either treated internally or cast out of their families. The princess is a Tang's daughter-in-law and has a deep feeling for Jing Wang. Why should we help us to deal with this storm? Your husband? "

Princess Jing shook her head and asked, "Lieutenant Gu, you were born as a man with lofty ambitions, but you know what to consider as a woman?"

Gu Xiao froze.

"When I was not out of the cabinet, I was the daughter of the Tang family, bearing the grace for my parents and caring for the family; when I got married, I was the wife of the prince, I took care of the housework for the husband, and managed the town house for the royal family; Take care of him now, and plan for him in the future. "Princess Jing sat in a chair, the high-door beauty in the dignified and ancient painting, revealing the grace of the atmosphere in the gentleness of the water, and the words were authentic." In addition, I It ’s the people of Dachu, who are very worried about Xiaojia and not dare to be a big country ... These are the things I have to do in my life as a woman.

Gu Xiao wanted to say something good, but now he can't say a word.

Princess Jing smiled slightly and asked softly, "Did you take A Yao to a safe place?"

Gu Xiao nodded in silence.

"That's enough." Princess Jing's smile is as soft as the moonlight, "After tonight, no matter how the prince and I are, don't let him come back, please take him far away, forget us, forget the heavenly capital, Never look back. "

Gu Xiaoshu said: "Why?"

"If the lord is lost, none of the Jingwang Mansion will be spared. I naturally want A Yao to live ... If the lord lord wins, although he became king, he is the sinner of the entire Central Plains of Chu. I will not let A Yao be pointed by the people of the world. The backbone of the spine lives for a lifetime. "

"……it is good."

Gu Xiao closed his eyes, and he made a willing salute to Princess Jing for the first time, then turned and left.

Princess Jing looked at his back disappearing outside the door, rubbing the armrests of the golden nanmu chair with her fingers, slowly tightening it, and had not let go for a long time.

She remembered the scene when she coaxed Chu Yao to sleep tonight. The child was clever and keen since childhood, almost aware of what she had been able to do, and couldn't sleep. When she came in, she pedaled and ran over.

—— "Mother, I'm afraid."

-"What is A Yao afraid of?"

—— "Recently ... I always feel that you are so weird, but I don't know anything, the concubine told me okay?"

At that time, her hand stroking her son's head paused, knelt down and picked up the little boy's face, and the corner of her mouth slowly raised: "Don't be afraid, A Yao looked at the mother princess, did she smile beautifully?"

Chu Yao carefully traced the smile on the corner of her mouth with her fingers, and nodded hard: "Well! Mother Princess is the best!"

"Then ... no matter what happens in the future, A Yao must live like this with a smile, don't be afraid, don't cry, okay?"

"……Ok!"